Jezebel keeps fucking that corpse. And defending the hag that first stuck her dick in.
Of course, Sonmez’s tweet clearly wasn’t timed to comfort aggrieved fans, nor was it a referendum on Bryant’s character. Sonmez just posted the link without additional commentary—no chiding of Bryant’s fans or characterizing those grieving as rape apologists, both Twitter takes you can find with little effort. Sonmez merely posted a link full of legal information. The reaction, as Sonmez later tweeted, was a torrent of abuse: “To the 10,000 people (literally) who have commented and emailed me with abuse and death threats, please take a moment and read the story – which was written 3+ years ago, and not by me.” She added, “Any public figure is worth remembering in their totality even if that public figure is beloved and that totality unsettling.”
She totally wasn’t doing anything to shit on a fresh corpse (and splatter some on his dead daughter.) It’s SO obvious.
Journalists just can’t understand why people don’t like them.
This man lit a marijuana cigarette in front of a judge during his court appearance for a simple marijuana possession charge https://t.co/eFBCIYCR29
— CNN (@CNN) January 29, 2020
HERO
That guy IS a hero.
Ooops.
!
So…is today going to be SugarFree all day?
Fuck a duck.
So he says.
So… wednesday is going to be sugar free all day?
We have stocked extra air-sickness bags in your seat pockets, and a calming anti-nausea mist is being pumped through the ventilation system.
Why does the mist taste like fentanyl?
Must be a faulty flavorant packet.
Don’t mind the staff’s decorative gas masks.
Four twenty reference, dude.
It would have taken a galucoma mention for me to clue in at my current coffe consumption level.
I was referencing this
I better not wake up with a head and ass ache!
STEVE SMITH MAKE NO GUARANTEE.
DOH!
That”s what i feared about this…
STEVE SMITH NOT GIVE HEAD! STEVE SMITH NOT FRENCH.
So… wednesday is going to be sugar free all day?
TPTB are just being considerate, helping out the GlibFitters by making this a diet day.
That didn’t take long
Some ammunition has a half-life. It had to be fired before it became old news.
This one is pretty bad.
The contempt is frightening.
Know how many times I’ve been told by friends or acquaintances who either buy the mainstream narrative or are progressive who tell me to ‘stop reading’ or ‘reading books because life is not black and white!’ (whatever that means)?
Matthews stealing Limbaugh’s ‘low information’ line pissed me off. You’re a line thief Chrissy.
I’ve seen progs use it too.
Trump will win big this year as a giant “fuck you” to these people.
I don’t know.
Maybe I’m losing my game, but some of the points brought up in the comments aren’t wrong. I get the part ‘think of the victim having to listen to all the nice talk about him’ too!
I do think there’s simply too much hero worshipping and even some whitewashing of people we like.
I know I’ve thought to myself ‘fuck them’ whenever someone I disliked died.
That being said, decorum matters and not sure if public figures are shielded from how people react both positive and negative.
It’s not the first or last time we’ve/we’ll see this.
Am I wrong Dear Zardoz?
If the Jezzie also tweeted about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne on the day Teddy K died, I’ll give her a pass.
Very good point. Tinge of hypocrisy.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONE. ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT ANOTHER BRUTAL IS GONE, NO LONGER TO PLAGUE THE EARTH AS IN TIMES PAST. DECORUM MATTERS NOT. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
/bows head.
Turns and walks away.
Is there a victim? Because I am not sure of that.
BELIEVE ALL (convenient for the Cause) WOMEN!
This was the jist of my comment in the local rag. There was an article that summarized a string of tweets from famous people falling all over themselves over Kobe. I made a crack about how we suspend #believeallwomen if you rack up enough points, assists, and championship rings. An asshole responded that it wasn’t clear what happened, it was a long time ago, etc. I replied “Great. Now do the same for a 17 year old making a failed attempt to get to second base.” Set off a small shitstorm. Mission accomplished.
Kobe paid big time for his philandering – $4 million ring. And after that he became a much better family man and father. So he made some mistakes and got better. Not unusual.
I always rooted against him, but let’s not kid, he was a great player.
That’s true. I think it was more ‘sticking it in crazy’. I forget. I don’t follow these stories close enough.
How many Roethlisbergers did it get?
She’s dabbing her tears with a giant stack of hundred dollar bills from her out-of-court settlement.
Too me, the problem is that they are not commenting on his death. Reminding everyone of a 17-year-old sexual assault accusation is not a memorial.
They can do what they want, of course, and I am free to find them huge shitbags for it.
The additional issue is the common Twitter-era tactic of saying something shitty designed to make people angry and then when they get angry, the anger is then used to justify the original shitty thing.
I did it to shove the hypocrisy of the own thinking in their face.
Re: Kobe
Don’t know what je did or didn’t do.
a) the lady who tweeted the news link without comment, she got the shaft.
b) I see no need for decorum when a public figure passes. What I see is people who liked him get outraged at any hint of indecorousness and people who don’t like him hate all the fawning.
John McCain was not treated kindly around these here parts before or immediately following his death, and neither will RBG when she passes.
And that’s okay, but let’s not call for decorum just because the dude turned over a new leaf. He did something and half the comments here are “He did it” or “He didn’t do it.”
Decorum. Pfffftt.
But can we agree that the whole Kobe thing is tiresome?
All agree? That is indeed a tall ask for us.
We live to disagree and to argue.
But yes, I am tired of hearing about someone I’ve never met and barely even heard of before just because they’re gone.
I disagree.
He’s not wrong.
Jeremy Clemetson has owned East of Chicago Pizza for 14 years and has been affiliated with the chain since 1995.
Over the last year, he started using humor for his outdoor advertising.
“I scour the internet for different signs that people had,” Clemetson told WJW. “Sometimes I use them and sometimes I re-invent my own.”
“Fat people are harder to kidnap,” is a slogan that has been used for years on popular t-shirts sold on the internet.
“I discussed the sign with a few people and everyone thought it was funny, so I threw it up on our front sign and no one said anything,” said Clemetson.
After its success, he then placed the slogan on a billboard..
But Clemetson said he took it down from in front of his store after corporate headquarters received a complaint.
The complaint said the sign was “rude” for mocking people who are fat. It also said the kidnapping reference was in “poor taste” considering January if National Human Trafficking Awareness month.
“I never even thought about it as the kidnapping aspect, I just meant it to be funny,” said Clemetson.
People can’t take a joke anymore.
If you take their reasons to its logical end, there would be no humour or comedy.
A couple of years ago I would reply with ‘yo momma’ jokes in my hockey pool. Over the top stupidity. 11 of 12 guys either laughed or said nothing.
ONE guy – a sensitive type – took offence.
His mother died…..
…..five years before….
Like i’m supposed to know or even keep in mind.
Not only are ‘Statues of limitations. apparently are in place, we have to consider every possible reaction.
It’s bananas.
If that be the case, we may as well stop speaking our minds freely.
“If that be the case, we may as well stop speaking our minds freely.”
So you understand, comrade.
Guess what happens?
To avoid problems, people just stop.
It makes for boring exchanges because no one wants to be on the wrong end of that shit.
I notice that when he’s not part of the thread, people are more loose.
If my hockey pool is a microcosm of society at large (and I think it is because I’m in it), imagine how this kind of censorship corrodes free speech and expression.
When I approached him about how many times he complains, I asked a poignant question and got to the source of it all. He thinks ‘free speech ends at someone else’s offence’.
And this guy ain’t no dummy. He’s a doctor.
There you go.
I’m offended by Quebeckers’ use of French.
Dummies come in different shapes and sizes.
My best friend is a doctor. Smartest guy I know. Has degrees in geology, math, teaching and medicine. Can’t manage money worth shit.
I doubt he actually believes “at someone else’s offense”. If you had tested it by telling him that his statement offends you, do you think he would never repeat it? Or would he explain (indirectly) was that he means “at my offence”?
Tell him your a conservative and all this talk of Trump being evil and Obama being great are highly offensive. Or vice versa if he votes the other way.
That’s the point.
“His mother died…..
…..five years before….”
EVERYONE’S momma dies sooner than later. Mine passed away last month. If you told me momma jokes, I would come back right at ya with more. The issue here is that the one guy that felt bad was being an attention seeking asshole. I hate this sort of people that claim they feel grief/offense at any form of humor. They are doing it for attention. Screw them.
Sorry 🙁
Don’t be man. She lived 42 years longer than anyone thought she would. She lost both her kidneys in her 30s to a genetic disorder that was not diagnosed for what it was until a decade later and lived on borrowed time and the 2 kidneys she managed to get. I was on my way to donate one of mine when a young man on a motorcycle had an accident and ended up brain dead, and she ended up getting that kidney. Was one of the first times they transplanted a kidney that was not from a familial donor back when. 17 years later some idiot doctor forced her to take a flue shot and killed that kidney. She spent another year on dialysis but was lucky to get a second transplant, and she milked that for all it was worth. In the end she passed from the damage & complications that the anti rejection medication caused on her system. She was in a terrible state and we all are glad she went quick and didn’t have to suffer long.
Wow. Rough and sad. Sounds like you’re handling it with grace and understanding.
It’s the best way to grieve I reckon.
Glad you had her around for so long. Tough loss, though. Sorry.
Sorry to hear. I’m the same way.
But yeh. I did find it a bit weird he was still touching about it.
Norman Bates-ish.
touchy.
I almost pointed out that I felt this sort of shit was Oedipal creepy, but avoided it. I am glad you saw it too.
My momma died 1 year ago to the month. Fell and hit her head… brain bleed and coma followed. We even had to have the “when do you pull the plug” conversation. It was rough…. but she was 80 and she is gone.
Yo Momma jokes are not about your mother. Get over yourself. Remember the lady who raised you as you like, and get on with life.
I understand lingering pain. In 1998 my first child was stillborn – placental abruption a couple of weeks before the due date. My wife had blood pressure of 225 over 180. Full on pre eclampsia. Then severe postpartum depression on top of the loss of a child. Then over a year of hormone therapies and surgery related to that….. and then fertility treatments and multiple miscarriages. Finally she completely broke. Full on mental breakdown. By 2000 I lost everything, and it was 3 years of twisting the knife in the wound before she was gone.
It still hurts thinking about it 20 years down the road. So I know about pain and loss. I still can’t watch movies about kids with leukemia or parents who can’t have kids.
But you know what I don’t do? Shove it in other people’s face. My pain is not their problem. A joke is just a joke. So when someone posts a dead baby joke, I don’t go all SJW about my issues. Because I’m not a crazy narcissist.
Well said.
And sorry.
Well said cyto. I have never understood this need to make others know that you have had tragedy in your life: we all do. And believe me, when I hear someone complaining about being triggered, especially by humor, to me it is more about them demanding attention than anything else. If someone tells me a joke that causes me to have a reaction other than laughter because of some personal issue/feelings, it is mine to deal with. I have never felt compelled to demand they not tell their joke. Hell, I am far more offended by people that make excuses for their cultish adherence to marxism/fascism and a need to force me to give up a large part of my earnings to an inept government that will just piss that money away, and do this shit all so they can feel like they care about others. They hate when I point out charity must come from you, not you giving government a green flag to rob Peter to pay Paul.
ONE guy – a sensitive type – took offence.
Unless the jokes were directed at him, he had no right to take offense. The polite thing in this situation would be to leave his mom out of it, but continue ragging on the 11 other dudes and if Mr. Stick-in-the-Mud can’t handle it he should leave.
I want to be some kind of asshat and I want you to not make fun of that!
/douchebag
Hell, I knew a fat guy who had a shirt that said that. Of course, I’m entertained that T-Shirt Hell put out a “Fly Like Mike, Not Like Kobe” shirt last night.
Man, that’s ghoulish dark humour. I like.
The thing is, that tragedy could have been completely avoided it sounds like.
Humorless people are the devil’s workshop.
I’ve had my share of grief over the last 6 months. Just because you’re grieving doesn’t mean the whole world has to grieve with you.
Humorless people are Democrats.
Almost missed the Bee links.
I think it’s safe to say they are aware of us, specifically you. Too many coincidences over the years. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
The most logical conclusion is that SF writes for the Bee under an NDA. He highlights the similarities here to throw us off the scent. In the forensics world, this is the principle is known as “he who smelt it, dealt it.”
WHYCOME IT NOT MAYBE STEVE SMITH WRITE FOR BEEEE?
The capitalization speaks for itself. And there’s just not that much rape in BB’s articles for it to fit STEVE SMITH’S oeuvre
Bees have poisoned pointy things above their STEVE SMITH access port. No SMITHS allowed!
If it is one of us, I assume that person is keeping mum about it out of concerns for his own privacy, and for the relative privacy of glibs.
But would he really be able to dial down the weird enough to write for a Christian satire site?
Fuck that, I would have sold out in a second if they wanted me. I’d have that sweet Bee money and I’d parade it around.
The three B’s of Bee money? Booze, Blow, and Bitchez!
Bingo!
Wait, they’re Catholic satire?
No, Neph. He means I got it wrong and there are 4 B’s.
SF makin’ it rain!
*swigs from Krystal bottle*
At the risk of offending everyone here, most of our jokes are pretty obvious given a pro liberty bent and the insanity of the left.
Are not!
*throws temper tantrum*
I don’t know, as I’ve seen too many people come up with the same shit without having any contact with each other.
That’s also true. There’s a lot of stuff from the wider internet that I first (or ever) encounter here. Like HM’s cummies chain letters.
DON’T SAY THE CUMMIEBOT’s NAME!
Parallel humor is real thing when the topic is intersectional.
While I agree similar ideas pop up from time to time, the consistency is what sticks out here.
When I was job searching I did send them a resume, with the cartoon listed, as well as a link. So if they weren’t familiar they now are.
I knew you were the mole.
So it is my manager’s birthday and I had 2 wine glasses and now I am back at the desk with a third. I don’t think I will get any more work done.
I thought that glass was blood.
“Wine” is slang for wino blood.
This one time, I saw a wino eating some grapes. I told him “hey, you have to wait!”
/Hedburg
It’s not lunchtime, Lord Nightshade.
South Park itself couldn’t have come up with a better VampireKids-name.
Now do if he was a goth kid.
I am not jealous of that at all. Nosiree.
*chokes back sobbing*
““To the 10,000 people (literally) who have commented and emailed me with abuse and death threats,”
Bullshit.
“I disagree” is abuse, and “You’re wrong” is a death threat.
Yeh that smells like a combo of embellishment, hyperbole and bull shit.
Reminds me of one Trump’s assertions that qualified as a lie.
I’m going from memory but it went along the lines of the economy is growing at 4% GDP! And politifact rated it a lie because it was actually….3.8%.
Wouldn’t surprise me if someone politely pushing back with a reasoned response qualifies as ‘hate’ for these idiots.
If you are in disagreement with them and what their cult peddles, even if that shit changes hourly, then YOU are the evil hater….
Embolishit.
10,000? I blame Natalie Merchant fans.
*maniacally narrows gaze*
寒い
チキンスープ
Different character!
風邪
It’s her truth.
Harvard’s chemistry chair charged with lying about China contract
Federal agents allege the professor violated U.S. law by not disclosing the money he received to the Defense Department.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-s-chemistry-chair-charged-allegedly-lying-about-china-contract-n1124646
Not as cool as the one heading back to China with all the test tubes wrapped in plastic and hidden in their socks…
Which brings up the commentary I heard that this Corona virus they have going on in Wuhan might be weaponized since China’s bio weapons division main lab is stationed in said city….
I know we all commented about this and joked that “The Stand” was just playing out in real life…
Just want to know what the Chinese equivalent of Boulder Colorado is for my girlfriend. I will be heading to whatever passes for the Chinese Vegas. Is that Macao?
Macao is Chinese Vegas. Correct.
I’m pretty sure Chinese Vegas is just Vegas.
Beijing has fewer commies than Boulder.
Way to ruin this with these sad facts dude…
He isn’t just a liar, he’s a traitor. Should be treated like the Rosenbergs if found guilty.
The real issue is that he is but one of many doing this and owned by the Chinese whom have made this an SOP practice on how to get access to steal a ton of U.S. intellectual property (practically always for military or military related uses). But we keep worrying about democrats not being able to steal elections and wanting revenge on orange man by accusing him of the very conspiratorial and corrupt behavior they are engaged in.
Lemon: I’m sorry I got caught being honest.
“This is personally important to me to address this,” Lemon said at the end of his show on Tuesday. “I don’t believe in belittling people, belittling anyone for who they are, for what they believe, or where they’re from. During an interview on Saturday night, one of my guests said something that made me laugh. And while in the moment I found that joke humorous, I didn’t catch everything that was said… I was laughing at the joke and not at any group of people.”
These asshats hate the fact that they have to apologize to the unwashed rubes for making fun of the rubes, using horrible stereotypical garbage that if used by the rubes to make fun of them would require nuclear bombing of the rubes to appease their demands for blood, and getting called out on it….
To Don Lemon,
In the immortal words of Mike Ditka, “who you crappin’?”
I’m sure he meant it.
Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.
“I was laughing at the joke, not at any group of people”
Uh…. that’s the only joke there. Laughing at a group of people. A group of people that you clearly believe you are better than. In other words, you believe yourself to be elite….
Worse, it only took you morons 2 sentences to completely flip what had happened 180 degrees. One of your “elites” didn’t know where Ukraine was on a map. Within two sentences that got switched to “these idiots in flyover country don’t know anything and they are super-jealous of us elites because we can read and use a map and do math (and they can’t)”
They think when people talk about “the elites” they are talking about people who are intellectually superior to them. They just don’t get it. It is about people who think they are intellectually superior to everyone else. You know… people like the 3 talking heads on that clip.
1934 Diagram of the Hymen
From “Picture Story of Woman’s Sexual Life,” 1934.
https://twitter.com/historicsex/status/1221269681492750337
Which set off a strange cascade of memories for me, and landed me here:
Remember way back when there was a controversy about “the female orgasm”? It was definitely still going on in the 70’s. Now, I was just a kid, so I didn’t really understand the whole thing. So maybe I took something seriously that was really tongue in cheek. But I’m fairly certain that there was serious academic talk about whether women could have an orgasm… and further talk about how such things might be achieved. There was also much talk of “frigidity”.
Now, this makes no sense. Not just from a “have you never actually met a woman?” point of view. But also from a medical profession point of view. In the early days of medical practice in the US (and elsewhere, I’m sure), medicine was not that far removed from the quackery that we belittle today in “Alternative Medicine”. One of the more popular treatments for patients was a treatment for “hysteria”.
Women would visit the doctor and he would massage certain bits to cause “hysterical paroxysyms.” In some circles this treatment proved to be quite popular. So much so that apparently some doctors were getting a bit of carpel tunnel. So one dude invented a table with a sort of pole to put between a patient’s legs. The whole table shook. This eventually was refined into one of the first two common household electric appliances – along with the electric iron….. the vibrator.
So…. how the hell was there any sort of “controversy” in medical circles a hundred years later? Was this an elaborate troll? Inquiring minds want to know!
“Every generation thinks they invented sex.”
I invented “The Houdini”!
That’s when you do your girl doggie style while she is facing a window, and you switch with a buddy so you can run outside and wave at her!
SugarFree told me to say that…
Well, when I was a kid, we definitely thought we invented curse words. I didn’t hear an adult curse until I was 12. So we all just assumed that we invented everything.
So I’ll assume that this is true.
Speaking of kobe headlines
Kobe Bryant’s wife Vanessa ‘can’t finish a sentence without crying’:
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1222273950677458947
Like no shit…
Some people handle grief differently. They might go silent and withdrawn.
Nice. A STEVE SMITH backstory.
Like no shit for real.
I’m not even paying attention because a) I don’t want to. What’s the point? I know she’s in pain and b) it’s voyeurism for its own sake.
Some people get off on watching famous people grieve I guess.
Metoo on each point
“Later, Lemon and the geese went out for lattes and studied geography.”
This line is just absolutely perfect.
I’m almost certain these two nit-wits would fail a hard geography test.
Projection I’m betting.
Grandpa escaped the nursing home again.
“Yeah, I would, but I don’t think he’d do it,” Biden said in response. “He’d be a great Supreme Court justice.”
When the voters clarified that he had not stipulated which member of the first family he was referring to, Biden asserted he meant the former president, since he had other plans for the former first lady.
“Well, I sure would like Michelle to be the vice president,” Biden said to laughter from the crowd. “They’re both incredibly qualified people. I mean and they’re such decent honorable people.”
Just… go away, gropey joe.
Pray, do tell me of Mrs. Obama’s “qualifications”.
1) Black
2) Vagina
I believe that’s more then enough Swiss.
I’m sold.
Swiss likes chocolate.
Jungle fever is a good thing yo..
But in this case I am worried it might be a furrie thing since what he wants is to hit the Wookie..
“2) Vagina”
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Only Crytid in race. Top of woke totem pole, Shrewbacca (credit goes to one Jarflax).
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Same as HRC’s when she ran for the Senate, and after one term was ready for SoS, then became the Most Qualified Candidate Ever.
Batty and The Beast.
Meanwhile, Shmoobz, not to be bested by old Joe.
JUST MAKE SHIT UP, THERE’S NOTHING ELSE LEFT!
What has Christianity ever done for us?
https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2020/February-2020/What-has-Christianity-ever-done-for-us
You need to post this, whenever you get a “what has ____ done for us?” article.
Perfect.
“REVEALED: Kobe Bryant’s helicopter was MISSING key warning system that would have alerted pilot he was close to the hillside and may have avoided crashing if they’d been 30ft higher”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7940969/Kobe-Bryants-helicopter-did-not-warned-pilot-hillside.html
Whatever…
I don’t need a warning system to keep me from flying into the ground. I just need to not make stupid decisions.
A map and altimeter should suffice, it’s not like he was trying to avoid enemy radar and anti-aircraft weapons.
All he had to do and should have done is say “No, it’s too risky in these conditions. I will not unnecessarily endanger myself and my passengers.” and then land the helicopter.
I guess ATC telling him he was too low wasn’t convincing enough?
The too low was for effective radar tracking, not terrain avoidance.
Ah, gotcha.
Still, I’d have taken that as my clue.
Also – when driving a car there aren’t too many alternatives for dealing with fog…. slow down, low beams, fog lights, pull over and wait….
But in a flying craft….. fog is low. Near the ground. If you go high, you are above the fog and you can see for quite a long way.
Often even hilltops are above the fog, and you can see the rolling clouds below you.
Which all just goes to prove – hindsight is always better. Mistakes are pretty easy to make. We usually get away with them. But sometimes you don’t.
Usefulness of Routine Periodic Fasting to Lower Risk of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002914908009016
Mormons have lower CVD rates when they fast. Don’t know if it carries over to non Mormons
Buddhist monks seem healthy….they fast a fair bit, yes?
And all that kung fu is excellent exercise.
Indeed.
It’s only real Kung-fu if the people talking’s mouths move at a different cadence than what the speech you get is. Otherwise it is fake!
Unlike you, I speak the language the dub is in.
“Because, unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent.”
Damn. All these years I read that as routine periodic farting.
I’ve got some apologies to make.
“Donald Trump slams John Bolton claiming former national security advisor ‘begged me for a job,’ wanted to get in to ‘World War Six’ and has written ‘a nasty and untrue book’ as Republicans wrestle over calling him as a witness”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7942653/Donald-Trump-slams-John-Bolton-claiming-former-national-security-advisor-begged-job.html
I guess if Vanity 6 only had three people.
“wanted to get in to ‘World War Six’”
World War 3, Donald, we haven’t had World War 3 yet. /in Hair’s voice
There have been other world wars… but the numbering still doesn’t work.
1. Nine Years’ War
2. Queen Anne’s War
3. King George’s War
4. The French and Indian War
5. The Napoleonic Wars
6. WWI
7. WWII
What about “War on Poverty”? Most expensive ware ever and the thing will never end.
One of these years, we’ll defeat those anti-poverty bastards!
The War On Drugs
The War On Terror
The War On Poverty
If you start at WWI, the next one will be WWVI
I think you can add several wars of conquest to the list – you’ve got the Romans and Genghis Khan, for example.
Looks like Cocaine Mitch isn’t gonna get enough votes and we’re getting witnesses.
The Democrats voting for this must not be worried about their jobs in November?
Speaking of which, if Hilary announces how does she think she can win? Let’s say she goes and campaign in places she ignored (assuming she realizes that was part of the reason why she lost) like Wisconsin, how does she overcome the cynical baggage that may come with it?
It seems to me there’s quite a bit to overcome?
I don’t think she’s running. The left’s Commie base has become too large and she knows that they’d sit out if she got the nod.
There will be a compromise. The establishment gets what the want, old Joe. The commies also get what the establishment wants when old Joe picks Warren as VP.
He needs to nuke this. Team red is a bunch of cuntes and they are just spineless. If team blue is allowed to keep this fucking circus going, we are doomed as a republic.
I don’t know. Never underestimate the ability of the democrats to fuck up even worse when you think they can’t fuck up any more. I think Turtlehead gets this.
I don’t understand any republican voting for witnesses.
They all know how it ends.
And they all know that this is simply the Democrat’s gambit for continuing a free negative campaign ad worth more than they will possibly raise for this entire elections cycle.
They have to be amazingly short-sighted and probably extreme narcissists to go for this. I wonder what favors they extracted? No DNC funding for their opposition?
meh. let Bolton testify. i assume it will go over exactly like it did with Morrison, Taylor, Vindman, Yavonovich, and Sondland, i.e. a big nothing burger after subjected to cross examination.
but then put Schiff or Ciaramella or Clinesmith on the stand and give it back to them good and hard.. and raw. (too much?)
Don’t forget the Bidens, maybe Pelosi’s kid, and the Ukrainian Prosecutor Biden got fired.
I doubt they’ll go there. They don’t have to give responsive or straight answers – what are you gonna do, hold them in contempt of congress? So this isn’t a forum to do anything… probably not even lay a perjury trap to set up the real investigation by the justice department.
While the democrats did open the door to all of that by claiming there was ‘no foundation’ for an investigation, I think it is a fools errand.
The point is – this is a nothing-burger. Even if you stipulate the allegations as true…. still a nothing burger.
This is how summary judgement works, isn’t it? You assume all the facts alleged are true… and then you say “even with the best possible interpretation for your case, you still don’t have enough. Case dismissed”.
So that’s the route they should take. Don’t need witnesses or documents for that.
I agree. But the weak/stupid Repubs sounds lie they are going to try to kick the football again. Because they are weak and stupid. We’ll get more witnesses, and the only question is whether the weak/stupid Repubs totally sell out and only approve Dem witnesses, or also approve Repub witnesses.
Weak/stupid Repubs are weak and stupid, so there’s no telling. A timely reminder that, while the Dems are currently pretty much evil, the Repubs are pretty much useless.
And so the ratchet turns.
I cannot fathom how they have not learned from Trump’s example. They are never going to like you. They will only use things to their advantage. So don’t play their game.
He doesn’t even acknowledge that their game exists. They trot out their labels – racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic…. he doesn’t ever apologize for offending their sensibilities.
But Romney thinks if he stands up as the “principled Republican, a bulwark against Trump’s dangerous insanity!” he’ll win some sort of bipartisan support.
Sorry, it doesn’t work like that. You’ll earn the enmity of the GOP and the Democrats will know you are weak and they’ll never respect you again.
Keeping quite and never sticking your head up as a swing vote was the smart play this time. Usually it makes everyone kiss your butt trying to win your vote. But this one is different. There’s no horse-trading because there are no horses to be traded. There is only political points to be scored. And every move you make is an own goal.
They’ll never have the guts to do that.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the whole “we don’t want witnesses” schtick from McConnell was a Testudinal version of “Please don’ throw me in dat briar patch”. The Democrats already had their chance at witnesses; they found none who could provide any evidence of wrong doing and are just hoping that some of the next handful of mud they throw will stick. If the Senate allows witnesses Trump’s team gets to call people as well.
Team Blue is feeling TheBern!
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is on the rise in New Hampshire, surging past his closest competitors by double-digits, according to an American Research Group poll released Tuesday.
The socialist senator is experiencing a surge in his neighboring state, garnering 28 percent support — 15 points more than former Vice President Joe Biden (D), who garnered 13 percent support. Pete Buttigieg (D) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) followed closely behind Biden with 12 percent and 11 percent, respectively.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) came in fifth place in the Granite State with eight percent support, edging out Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who saw seven percent support. Andrew Yang (D) followed with five percent support, and the remaining candidates saw two percent support or less.
RCP has him up as well.
Do they still have super delegates? Then it doesn’t matter.
Democrats love democracy.
“Democrats love democracy”
Only when they win, though…
If they don’t then it is election tampering.
Just like they love science.
Yes, but…
So the Dem party still has Super Delegates, however they changed the rules for them in 2018, largely due to people being pissed off over how Bernie was treated. So Super Delegates are no longer allowed to vote on the first ballot. This means that if someone can outright win 50% of the delegates in the primaries then they will be the nominee regardless of what the party or the Super Delegates think.
However, if no candidate outright wins a majority on the first ballot then you go to a contested convention, the pledged delegates (the ones awarded in the primaries) are released from their pledges and allowed to vote for anyone and now the Super Delegates come into play.
So yeah, for Bernie to be the nominee he would pretty much have to dominate the primaries sufficiently to win 50% of the Delegates.
Realistically right now I don’t see any way that anyone except maybe Biden gets anywhere above 40% of the delegates and I think even Biden will have a hard time getting to 50% so the odds of a contested convention are very high and one important fact about a contested convention, after the first round of ballots the delegates can literally vote for ANYBODY, they are not restricted to voting for those candidates who stood in the primaries.
Bernie is not getting the nomination. Biden is.
“Bernie is not getting the nomination.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7FHkAM-x60
I am not sure Biden can make it to the convention. His wires seem to misfire rather frequently when he speaks in an extended format.
The share of women in top incomes
Anne Boschini, Jesper Roine 29 January 2020
While the rising income share of top earners has received enormous attention in recent years, the share of women at the top has not been examined as closely. This column analyses income tax data from Sweden, where taxes are filed individually regardless of marital status. It finds that while the share of women among the wealthiest groups has steadily increased over time, women remain a clear minority, especially at the very top. Unlike top-income men, top-income women are much more likely to have partners who are also in the top of the income distribution.
https://voxeu.org/article/share-women-top-incomes
While the rising income share of top earners has received enormous attention in recent years, the share of women at the top has not been examined as closely – really? cause I keep hearing about it
Unlike top-income men, top-income women are much more likely to have partners who are also in the top of the income distribution. – shocking. who’d ev thunk it
That’s because high-earning women generally won’t be seen with a kept man. They’re just a shallow as men, only in different ways.
Wait, you mean that high powered fortune 500 CEO isn’t marrying Joe the Plummer?
*Shocked Face*
It isn’t just super-high earning women. How many female doctors/cpas/lawyers go to the company Christmas Party with their husband, who is the greeter at Chili’s. See they met when she went there for a business meeting and got there early. They struck up a conversation, and she went back every day for a week before getting the courage to see if he wanted to go out on a date. It is a rare exception that a woman “marries down”. They may make more money than their husbands, but they don’t marry down.
There is actually a genetic basis for this.
I used to work with some people at the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta who worked on primate sexuality.
You know how we say “you like what you like”? Well, that’s kinda hard wired. Life experiences can affect it some, but by and large, our desires are pre-programmed.
So guys like signs of fertility. For examples of what that means, see instagram.
Women are more complex. For their first mate they seek a safe provider. Someone who will provide a nest for them to raise their children. No conscious thought goes into this equation, any more than a dude looking at cleavage is calculating the body fat ratio and potential for carrying healthy children to term. That’s why you can take any average looking dude in average shape and dress him up with signs of wealth (good grooming, expensive clothes and things, etc) and he’ll get plenty of attention.
But there’s a nasty twist. After she has that nest, she’s gonna want to hedge her bets. This is common across many primate species. They’ll have a few kids with another dude. An “alpha male” type.
And how that plays out in humans is that the woman’s feelings change. “He just isn’t romantic anymore” is a symptom of this. Her brain is telling her to go hook up with someone else so she can hedge her genetic bets.
There’s a ton of study on this topic…. and things that women (and men) find attractive are stable across all cultures and even to some degree across primate species. Some things are culturally specific – like clothes, jewelry, etc. – but the basics are remarkably consistent.
And so is the rate of infidelity. And the time schedule of infidelity. They have the name “7 year itch” for a reason.
Women won’t “marry down” because they are wired to not marry down. Just like any random guy is going to find a Victoria’s Secret model more attractive than “an octogenarian who was no better than a 3 even when she was 19, but she’s a really good conversationalist. ” It isn’t a conscious decision, it is built in to the wiring. That’s why you can take one look and say “would” or “no”. You don’t even have to think about it. It is part of our pattern matching circuitry.
We don’t need facts, logic and a measured response here.
We’re looking for outrage! Preferably something that can be communicated in Twitter sized bites.
I thought we preferred boobies. So, on-topic.
We are shallow and sophomoric, aren’t we? Or did I get confused?
Women want to fuck the alpha, but when they decide to procreate, they will go for a beta of higher status. It’s about security for the offspring with them. It’s fucking instinct. Women rarely marry down, and when they do, that marriage is gonna be a doozy with a high probability of failure/infidelity.
When the differences between men and women came up when I was in college, my response was: “Plumbing is different; wiring is different.”
SJWednesday: Enact Your Own Labor, Whitey
I am going to get a lawyer and sue you Scruffy for making me read that drivel. I lost some 30 IQ points – at least – and now suffer from irreparable drain bamage. WTF was that screed about?
No one forced you to read.
Quick, scroll down and read the latest one I posted. Then you’ll be too dumb to dial a phone and I’ll get off scot-free.
fUcK MeH!!!1eleventy!
I nowZ iS tOO duMb to tyPe…
To then demand that people of color educate you on your own ignorance
I am pretty sure this is not a thing.
How it really goes:
Activist Makes absurd claim.
Other (white) person asks “How does that work?”
Activist : “I’m not going to enact your labor! Educate Yourself!”
Don’t believe it? Here is a real-life example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICVuTmuFeWI
*drops mic*
SJWednesday: You Cannot Take My Pain, I Need My Pain!
Association of egg intake with blood lipids, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 177,000 people in 50 countries.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31965140/
In 3 large international prospective studies including ∼177,000 individuals, 12,701 deaths, and 13,658 CVD events from 50 countries in 6 continents, we did not find significant associations between egg intake and blood lipids, mortality, or major CVD events. The ONTARGET and TRANSCEND trials were registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00153101. The PURE trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT03225586.
People are idiots. It’s about dosage. Everything that you do to much off can be bad for you. Even too much water kills.
Of course, but the study says go ahead and eat your damn eggs.
How long do you think it will be before someone runs a study where they feed people a dozen eggs a day (along with a ton of other unhealthy shit) then come back and tell you eggs are bad and you need to eat a shit ton more carbs instead?
Oh, I’m sure someone at NAWG is selecting ‘scientists’ as we speak.
Probably getting a little co-funding from The Sugar Association.
Please note the mailing addresses of each of these fine, humanitarian organizations.
Pie is another one of those Egg Council creeps.
And now, an important public safety announcement from our President
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1222445807464566784
SJWednesday: The Superiority Complex Is Strong With This One
They sound cheerful.
Can I hate both of them?
I would. Just to play it safe.
The funny part is the guy’s an anti-natalist, but he’s getting a history major. What’s the point?
An actual anti-natalist should be out getting stoned and partying while waiting for the world to end.
He needs to make a living, man. So he is studying something worthless – while getting stoned and partying while waiting for the world to end – and borrowing a ton of money from idiots to pay for it!
Which we’ll be paying back.
Bernie & Liawahata already promised they will do so if they win.
“So he is studying something worthless”
Come on, man. I’m right here!
So much this.
Although I pretty sure I prefer the over sharing professor. But why would you share anything other than my wife is expecting and my office hours may be erratic, please make an appointment.
Huh… I didn’t know Nikki was still in college.
Apparently the little victim of life’s about 24-25 weeks along, and it’s due right during the semester’s end and finals week in May. So it’s too late to abort the pregnancy.
Because a worthless piece of paper is more valuable.
I don’t think the prof should be blathering about his personal life. BUT, drop-in office hours (assuming the post-er meant long-lasting office hours) are generally a waste of time (as are scheduled office hours most of the time TBH).
Really? Spawn 1 made copious use of them in one of his Physics classes last year. It made a humungous difference for him.
Yeah, definitely go talk to your professors.
College is largely about figuring out what the professor wants. There’s a lot of material in all the classes…. so winnowing it down a bit can be really valuable.
Plus, if there is any subjectivity, you want the benefit of the doubt. Personal connections help with that.
Hard, hard disagree.
Yeah, I should have been clearer: depends on what is meant by “drop in office hours.” If it means regularly scheduled office hours (say 3-4 hours/week) then, yes, it is helpful and something every faculty should be doing. If it means, “the professor should be sitting around his office M-F 9-5 in case I feel like stopping by” then, no.
When I was in college I had profs who:
Was going to cancel class so students go attend a political rally; after I had driven 1.5 hrs to get there and it was my class that day. Ended up the rally was cancelled so we did have class.
Wouldn’t excuse me to serve jury duty. (pretty sure that’s illegal)
History prof who didn’t know rifles existed concurrently with the American revolution.
History prof who didn’t know Napoleon was aping Charlemagne.
Dropped my grade from 3.5 to a 0 for not doing one paper, that was never stated to be a pass/fail paper.
…
But yeah, complain about people having babies. That’s what is ruining education.
Good morning, SF and thanks for pinch-hitting.
And thanks especially for the Russian hottie! I haven’t listened to her in a long time – she is excellent!
Have a great day!
I’m filling in for Brettly for the afternoon links as well. And I have the 8pm slot as well. SUGARFREE IS ALL!
Good to know.
*increases Thorazine dose*
I might hit you for some after the Hat & Hair episode man…
Those have a tendency of causing some serious mental degradation just like looking at Cthulhu mythos entities does…
I wonder why I’m not effected.
Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
Are you sure it’s wise to take such a big hit of Glibs? Especially for someone in your delicate condition.
jack russell terrier gets loose in the halls of Congress.
“Joe Biden’s Sister Valerie Sent Millions of Joe’s Campaign Dollars to Her Own Consulting Firm
Valerie Biden Owens, the sister of former vice president Joe Biden (D), who served as the campaign manager for his past presidential campaigns, directed $2.5 million from “Citizens for Biden” and “Biden for President Inc.” to her own consulting firm during her brother’s 2008 presidential bid alone, Breitbart senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer’s investigative blockbuster Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite reveals.
Biden’s political tenure, as Schweizer’s book extensively details, has largely remained a complicated family affair, resulting in little-known financial benefits for not just his son Hunter Biden, but for his sister Valerie.
Her role as a senior partner in the political messaging firm Slade White & Company coincided with her participation in Biden’s various political campaigns. She was only one of two executives – the other being Joe Slade White – at the firm and has remained the Executive Vice President for 15 years.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/28/joe-bidens-sister-valerie-sent-millions-of-joes-campaign-dollars-to-her-own-consulting-firm/
Nothing to see here. Joe’s got the right letter next to his name – a (D) – so this is fine. Now if he had an (R), then we would be looking at criminal behavior.
Journalists just can’t understand why people don’t like them.
It’s not their job to be liked, they’re clear eyed Tellers of Truth. They’re better than we are.
I can’t wait for Jezebel’s take on Herself’s departure from this vale of tears.
Impeachment Ratings Skyrocket After Introducing Agitated Horde Of Honey Badgers
Producers had reportedly met to come up with ways to get viewers. They discussed everything from holding the proceedings in the middle of a monster truck rally to having Adam Schiff strap himself into some water skis and jump over a shark. But finally, they settled on the honey badgers.
“Americans aren’t interested in the ins and outs of a technical trial like this, but they’ll tune in to watch politicians fight for their lives against honey badgers,” one executive producer of the program said. “Vicious little guys. If Firefly had only introduced a horde of honey badgers, it would probably be on its 18th season by now.”
The honey badgers left no survivors, causing Congress’s approval ratings to increase sharply.
I can get behind amending the constitution with honey badgers.
For the reloaders
Don’t expect your usual dnc operative with bylines to speak about this, because it portends bad things for them. They were all hoping it would go the other way so they could then claim that the criminal activities of team blue were necessary and doing what was needed to bring down orange man. Now they will pretend this never happened.
Buried in the trash heap. On to the next outrage. /CNN
The fact that there assholes think more Americans care about transgender bathrooms than the economy and well being of their own family says all there is needed to know about the media.
Stay classy, Democrats.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!! pt. 11894375723894,
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/01/29/quarantine-time-wuflu/
*puts on Jazz Shaw commemorative fedora*
I’m safe.
I blame badorangeman.
/insert the Doom song from Invader Zim here
Doomy doomy doom doom…
Gir?
The Wuhan virus ain’t nothin’ to fuck with!
“(empty egg carton) ??”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNi0egotQ-w
I’m not a trad con, but this shit is still funny.
Wow. That’s how you step across the line!
Only made it a minute or two, but I laughed. “There’s a party in my…” Great song, from a group that looked like there hadn’t been much partying in there….
I love Rockets! they caught a fairing that just fell from space, in a net on a ship at sea,
and land rockets on barges, cool stuff,
Chandler teacher’s lesson on fascism in WW II blasted on Twitter
What began as a lesson on World War II at a Chandler high school has turned into a viral social media photo that’s attracted condemnation and even attention from Donald Trump Jr.
Corey DeAngelis, with libertarian think tank Reason Foundation, tweeted a picture of a marked-up dry-erase board: A diagonal line links the word “Republicans” with “fascism” and “nationalism.” Underneath nationalism, is the word “genocide,” among others.
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, retweeted the photo to his 4 million followers.
DeAngelis wrote that the photo was from a world history class at Casteel High School in the Chandler Unified District. District spokesman Terry Locke later confirmed the source of the photo to The Arizona Republic.
Public Skools.
Looking at the tweet, it reads like an EverydayFeminism critique of politics.
In other words, a simplistic, moronic view that only serves to validate one’s personal political leanings.
I have long wondered how they can come to the conclusion that fascism, a collectivist big-government ideology, can possibly be on the small-government side.
Simple, big government/little government isn’t something they think about in those terms.
It’s “this label is bad, thus is must be associated with things we don’t like”
^^^This^^^
Remember that the people that wanted you to know the evils of fascism labeled it as “right wing” because they were mostly marxists themselves, and to them, everything is “right wing” and evil. Note that I am not excusing fascism here either. It is another evil collectivist ideology where government abrogates the power to decide who wins and who loses, again creating a master class and making the rest of us serfs. It is marginally better than marxism because it is less destructive economically or socially, but it is evil collectivism at it’s best and repressive as fuck.
China, once a marxist nation, survived the inevitable fall all marxist nation are doomed to experience because of the economic and social strains the evils of marxism cause, turned seriously fascist in its newest incarnation. The country is now run by a band of oligarchs that are far worse than any of the usual people that the left loves to demonize and call robber barons. these people are powerful and wealthy beyond belief, and they have done this and keep power because they have allowed close to a 1/2 billion Chinese people to prosper (and we can discuss the fact that this happened through a campaign of deception, stealing of intellectual property and other items, and false Keynesian bullshit policies that are not resulting in an unavoidable implosion). The fact that over 1 billion other Chinese citizens live in what amounts to 19th century conditions escapes many of those that pine to have the same government system (primarily because of its absolute control by the credentialed leadership class which has profited immensely and shame the worst of the old time robber barons), including such horrible ideas as the recently enacted “social score”.
People that tell you capitalism are bad and fascism is right wing, tend to neither understand what real capitalism is nor admit that fascism is more left wing totalitarian practice. More importantly, they lay blame at the feet of capitalism for practically every ill created by the fascist system that allows government to collude with industry to pick winners & losers. Fucking idiots the lot of them.
And yet podcast superstar and historian Dan Carlin had a whole hour podcast talking about how fascism is a rightist philosophy. While I like most of his stuff, he (and Danielle Bolelli who joined him on the podcast) revealed they are leftists. They must tag the other side with fascism or work to separate themselves from it.
BTW – example 1 for modern fascism is Obamacare.
Their definition of fascist is retarded and ahistoric. Both major parties meet most of the requirements for being labeled fascist.
That said, the really stupid part of it is including the Tea Party and the Constitution Party in that analysis.
Our best and brightest, teaching our children.
You mean indoctrinating, right? Cause telling people falsehoods and lies should not be considered teaching…
Everybody hates Tulsi
CNN plans to host numerous town halls with the Democratic candidates before the New Hampshire Primary on Feb. 11th. While Deval Patrick, Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang all received invitations from the network, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was passed up.
And still, to this day, Gabbard has no idea why she was excluded from the line-up.
“We have reached out, I think more than once and we received no explanation and I don’t even think we’ve gotten a response to date about why they’re excluding the first female combat veteran ever to run for president, the only woman of color in the race,” she said.
According to the Democratic candidate, her campaign is still waiting for an answer.
“it’s really a disservice to voters in New Hampshire and across the country to not allow them to hear from, myself included, with the other candidates as we head into Election Day,” Gabbard said. …
“Not only that but, the New York Times and CNN have also smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime change war,” Gabbard said during the debate. “Just two days ago the New York Times put out an article saying that I’m a Russian asset and an Assad apologist and all these different smears. This morning a CNN commentator said on national television that I’m an asset of Russia. Completely despicable.”
She is wrong on a lot but she seems to be principled. Someone send her a copy of ‘Economics in One Lesson’ and/or ‘The Law’.
Look, I get it: Tulsi has two nice points. But if she looked like Janet Reno, or Eleanor Roosevelt or Hillary, and took the same positions, would some libertarians be slobbering all over her?
I would use pillow-talk to teach her the ways of limited government and freedom.
Anyone Hillary hates this much is probably a pretty OK person.
Then why isn’t she dead??
Hitpeople are expensive, and funds have been tight since losing the election, so she had to prioritize – Epstein or Gabbard, and Gabbard was the lesser threat.
Lesser threat = useful idiot
They have to wait a bit after the whole Epstein hit, DUH!
To this point she at the very least appears to be honest, sincere in her beliefs, and unlike every other progressive politician those beliefs are not rooted in a deep hatred for America and the ideals it was founded on. More importantly she consistantly rejects the extremism Democrat purity tests usually require for example taking a sensible and nuanced position on issues like abortion and open borders.
As far as her actual policies as bad as they are in some areas, looking over the field of all candidates for both of the 2 main parties going back to say 2000 Tulsi might be as high as the 3rd most libertarian of them after the Pauls and is absolutely the best candidate the Democrats have had from a libertarian perspective in my lifetime.
This does not actually make her a great candidate, just the best we could ever really hope for from the Democratic party
She threw her support behind Bernie. She’s a commie. She may be honest, but she’s a damn fool, and all the more dangerous for her sincerity.
Name a better Democratic candidate from this century
JFK
Whoops. Can we call it the last 100 years?
No
Vengeful retribution
NPR is asking the State Department to explain its decision to deny an NPR reporter press credentials to travel with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on an upcoming trip to Europe, NPR President and CEO John Lansing announced Tuesday.
“We have sought clarification from the State Department regarding Michele Kelemen being dropped” from the trip, Lansing wrote in an email to employees. He added, “We have also asked what it means for future trips.”
Saying the State Department has not responded to NPR’s initial attempts to communicate, Lansing added, “Our SVP of News Nancy Barnes and I are now sending the attached letter to the State Department demanding answers.”
NPR will continue to pursue the issue, Lansing said, adding that access to people in power is fundamental to “the role of journalism in America.”
The First Amendment clearly states the government is obligated to do what NPR wants.
I don’t like excluding any of the fuckers.
But I would defund them.
No nation with publicly run media can be regarded as civilized.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
stupid fingers.
After Kelemen was denied a spot on Pompeo’s plane, NPR’s Lansing said via Twitter on Tuesday morning, “I stand behind the NPR newsroom, which has some of the most respected, truthful, factual, professional and ethical journalists in the United States.”
Let no one doubt their fealty to the true rightful President, Hillary Clinton. They will redouble their efforts to unseat the fascist pretender. Trump.
So I click on this video and say to myself, “WTF?” OK, lets see the full context and I find this video. USA Today decided to go to a white screen for the moment Moobs is tweeking out. Why would you cut out the best part?
“BÉRNIÉ LOVE EAU SO SWEET
Live the sweetness of democratic socialism with the new Eau de Toilette for not me us.”
https://thepeoplesperfume.com/
We’re living in a simulation.
Nobody needs this many types of perfume.
Also, I’m guessing it’s satire, but I can’t be 100% sure.
A simulation of hell?
Seems kindof bourgeois.
It’s just patchouli.
No one needs more than one choice in perfume.
In an opinion piece published in The New York Times on Tuesday, Kelly defended her actions in the interview with Pompeo. She wrote that “people in positions of power — people charged with steering the foreign policy of entire nations — [need to] be held to account.”
“The stakes are too high for their impulses and decisions not to be examined in as thoughtful and rigorous an interview as is possible,” she said.
“Journalists don’t sit down with senior government officials in the service of scoring political points,” Kelly added. “We do it in the service of asking tough questions, on behalf of our fellow citizens. And then sharing the answers — or lack thereof — with the world.”
It’s like she’s crawling around in the mud behind enemy lines, with a knife clenched in her teeth.
Now do Hillary Clinton
Phrasing. I want to eat again in my lifetime.
^^^THIS^^^
My vision of hell is being told I have to do Clinton for the rest of time. Either of them.
Eight years of Obama beg to differ.
The 4 years of the TDS chaser also begs to differ.
Premature egg arithmetic
Democrats are bracing for the possibility that if President Donald Trump loses the 2020 election, he and his aides will bungle a smooth handover of power – and maybe even try to outright sabotage the transition.
At least one outside group that works with the 2020 Democratic campaigns has quietly launched a transition-related effort designed to offer an early look at the landscape that awaits them if they oust Trump.
Separately, a prominent good government organization, the Partnership for Public Service, is openly appealing to Trump and his Democratic opponents to start thinking early about transition planning, even if it comes across as “presumptuous.”
And one leading Democratic presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren, just days ago unveiled a plan that, among other things, describes how she would move quickly to staff the government if she wins the White House.
In the plan, Warren voices the fears of many Democrats. “This will be no ordinary transition between administrations,” she states. “Unlike previous transitions, we will not be able to assume good faith cooperation on the part of the outgoing administration.”
Next, they’ll accuse him of being unwilling to accept the results of a legitimate election. They should probably just add that to the Articles of Impeachment. The sooner he can be dragged, kicking and screaming, out the side door of the White House, the better.
His evil minions will have to be rooted out of government as quickly as possible, to prevent any attempts to sabotage the new Democratic government’s attempts to restore justice and freedom. We can call it “de-Trumpification”.
Projection.
It’s like they don’t even irony.
It will be like purging the Ba’ath members in Iraq after the topple of Hussein.
Will they remove all the W’s from the keyboards in the White House?
Unless we get ‘Xe’ and ‘Xer’ hot keys on all keyboards soon, humanity is doomed anyway.
These wannabe tyrants can’t stop projecting.
They’re only resorting to tyranny to stop the tyranny.
Thanks, Edit Faerie!
Just read your article last night Ozy. What a kick in the teeth. Was that the final installment?
Nope. You get one more splender-riffic nut-punch to end it, Leap!
Speaking of that, since it’s a dead-thread, let me answer Chafed here, as well:
Yes, I know Jane Siegel. We tried a case together in Okinawa during the time of the events in the book. Over the course of my years in the Marine Corps Defense Bar we crossed paths a number of times.
Yeah I’m still smarting from that one.
Thanks Ozy!
Well, what do you know?
And that’s all if Trump accepts the election results and agrees to leave.
“This could be the most hostile, least professional transition in American history,” a former senior official in the Barack Obama administration said. “And the new administration will have to spend the early period – when it should be hitting the ground running – unearthing buried bodies.”
One center-left organization, National Security Action, is already coordinating more than a dozen working groups focusing on specific areas — such as climate change, China, and defense policy – with the goal of producing transition-related information for the eventual Democratic nominee.
The organization, which is led by former top officials in the Obama administration, declined to give many details about the initiative. But its leaders say the goal isn’t to endorse particular policy positions for a future Democratic president; each candidate running now presumably already has those.
Rather, what the nominee can hope to get from the working groups is a layout of what awaits them: for instance, compilations of various regulations rolled back under Trump; paths to recommitting to international pacts that Trump has abandoned; and what options – executive order? legislation? nothing? — a new president has to overturn other Trump moves.
The initiative is called “FP21” – as in “foreign policy in 2021.” Each working group is led by a “true expert,” a representative of National Security Action said. The idea is to be “nominee-agnostic” — offering something useful to whoever winds up challenging Trump during the general election.
They just want to re-establish their control over direction of policy, regardless of who the actual President is. But don’t you dare talk about your crazy “deep state” paranoid fantasies.
All those former to0p Obama officials are motivated solely by their love for the country and what it stands for. It has nothing (NOTHING!) to do with grabbing money out of the cash register and stuffing it in their pockets with both hands, a la Clinton Foundation and the Biden family business.
There people left reality a long time ago. They’re now nothing more than a room full of toddlers playing make believe all day.
Well, Obama is trained in the fine art of Chicago politics.
“This could be the most hostile, least professional transition in American history,”
Luckily we have at least 4 more years after the next election.
“This could be the most hostile, least professional transition in American history,”
You can tell this person never lived south of Pennsylvania.
Add some new words to your vocabulary!
https://quillette.com/2020/01/29/an-orwelexicon-for-bias-and-dysfunction-in-psychology-and-academia/
Emotional imperialism: The strange belief that your feelings should dictate someone else’s behavior.
nice
Briefing books Obama aides had prepared for their successors gathered dust. Some nominees for top positions -— such as Rex Tillerson, the man Trump named as his first secretary of State -— barely interacted with the people they were replacing.
The handoff proved deeply unsettling for Obama political appointees, as well as career staffers at the National Security Council and elsewhere.
They noted that the outgoing Democratic administration was already laying the groundwork for the transition by early 2016. In preparing so far in advance, Obama was echoing the president he succeeded, Republican George W. Bush.
Yeah, all those briefing books which started, “Dear President Clinton.”
“The handoff proved deeply unsettling for Obama political appointees, as well as career staffers at the National Security Council and elsewhere.”
Poor swamp rats.
I was hoping for more blood and guts. These people deserve to be punished for what they did/do.
BITCH, I’M IMPORTANT!
laying the groundwork for the transition
By spying on and sabotaging the incoming admin.
Have ya’ll heard that climate change is not going to even get time to kill us? The telecoms and Musk are going to fry us all like poodles in a microwave with 5G and Starlink. All the bees are already dead, birds are falling from the skies, and like one million animals are going extinct every day. /science
Was nice knowing all of you.
Heh…
Trump said Bolton “begged” him for a job in his administration that did not require Senate approval because he believed he would never get it. He acknowledged he hired Bolton despite many in his administration advising against it.
“[F]rankly, if I listened to him, we would be in World War Six by now,” Trump wrote, criticizing Bolton for “IMMEDIATELY” writing “a nasty and untrue book” about his time in the Trump administration.
“All Classified National Security,” Trump said. “Who would do this?”
Trump said Bolton should have brought up his concerns while he was in the White House.
“Why didn’t John Bolton complain about this ‘nonsense’ a long time ago, when he was very publicly terminated,” Trump said. “He said, not that it matters, NOTHING!”
He just copies and pastes this for everyone who leaves his administration, just replacing the name.
But he’s right about Bolton.
“[F]rankly, if I listened to him, we would be in World War Six by now,” After a re-read, I do think trump is correct to say that. It seems he’s implying Bolton would have gotten into 3 world wars, and I don’t think he’s wrong.
Middle east… far east (North Korea, with China, Russia, Japan, South Korea all in the wings to globalize that one)….
I wonder where else?
Yep. Made perfect sense to me.
It seems he’s implying Bolton would have gotten into 3 world wars, and I don’t think he’s wrong.
That’s how I read it.
4 actually. Still not wrong. And I’m sure that still wouldn’t have appeased the Stache o’ War.
I don’t know if we already addressed this… but Trump is playing “carrot and stick” again. He has laid out a really aggressive position with respect to Israel/Palestine. Going to recognize Israeli control of a big chunk of the west bank. Something that should have happened immediately after Arafat rejected the best deal they were ever going to get. Or any number of times in between when they walked away from a potential full-on two state solution.
So now he’s done it. “You get these scraps. Keep at it and you might get nothing.” He’s offering billions in exchange for Palestinians taking the deal. They should very quickly negotiate a two state solution and take what territory they can get. Trump will make all manner of concessions if they simply play their cards right.
Unfortunately, they won’t understand this negotiating tactic. They’ll simply call it a non-starter and start shooting rockets at kids. This coulda been over with 30 years ago. Nice job, Arafat.
+1 Nobel Peace Prize
Yes, Yassir got exactly what he wanted – perpetual war against the Jews.
I love this quote from El Trumpo: “Without (the Palestinians), we don’t do the deal and that’s okay,” he said. “If we do, it’ll be a tremendous tribute to everybody. And if we don’t, life goes on.”
Not woke
A person briefed on Barstool’s business estimates the company generated between $90 million and $100 million in revenue last year, with the majority coming from podcasts, merchandise sales, and gambling deals.
It’s a stunning deal for the digital media industry, coming as many publishers are retrenching after a round of ultimately disappointing Facebook-fueled optimism and investment. And it’s a big payoff for the Chernin Group, which had reportedly invested some $25 million to buy controlling stakes in Barstool in 2016 and 2018; people familiar with Barstool estimate that Chernin owned around 60 percent of the company prior to today’s deal.
How can this happen? That Barstool guy is an asshole who won’t even let his contributors write about social justice. Who would buy a website focused on content its subscribers want, instead of what the writers think they should be worried about?
I don’t really get the popularity, but whatevs. I mean the guy who started it does a pizza review, released almost daily, and I know a guy who will stop whatever he’s doing to watch the review when it drops. Everyday. I just don’t get it. But whatevs.
I’ll listen to the Spittin’ Chicklets podcast on occasion and I’ve seen some of the pizza reviews (of local joints), but I suspect I’m not their target demo.
You know, I think it’s funny. Donald Trump has been accused very regularly of “destroying America’s institutions of public trust. I think the people pushing this line have it backwards. America’s institutions of public trust had largely discredited themselves. Donald Trump is just the logical result. The institutions of public trust rely on a reservoir of “social capital”, the extent that the public trusts them and considers them competent and working in their best interests. But, these institutions have failed, somewhat spectacularly on that front over the last decade or three. And rather than address that failure, the institutions have responded, more than anything, simply through naked assertion of authority. Trump’s attacks on these institutions would not have fallen on the ears of a receptive public in earlier eras. They do now, not because Donald Trump has created distrust in these institutions, but because that distrust existed before Donald Trump came on the scene to amplify the public’s already established disgust.
So the progs-in-power goal is to entrench the institutions of public trust into people’s daily lives. They have spent the last 130 years doing that and then they got impatient.
And now they’re pissy that the rubes aren’t falling for it. More, that the rubes who USED to agree and go along and help now also feel aggrieved.
They have no play left. If they don’t have any means to power because the rubes are going to vote against power’s interests, they have to have SOMETHING to get a toehold back.
And the only thing they have is propaganda and mockery, which might work in their social circles but it doesn’t work anywhere else.
If Warren and Biden and whoever else is the best they can come up with, they’re losing ground.
It’s just that those institutions of trust are messing with people’s livelihoods (HR firing for wrongspeak and wrongthink) and when it comes to people’s personal bank accounts, watch out.
Add some internet to that mix and that seems about right. Imagine the YouTube videos that would’ve come out during Teapot Dome or Gulf of Tonkin.
“Trump’s attacks on these institutions ”
I’d be curious of what the definition of “institution” is. Outside of Treasury, Justice, Defense, and State/Interior, I consider most of the other executive-level departments to be unconstitutional creations of Congress perpetually shirking its duties so as to deflect criticism in order to maintain electability – especially so since the asinine change of the Senate into elected offices rather than state-appointed ones. The EPA, FBI, ATF etc. were born of distrust – Congressional representatives distrusting the fellow sitting next to them in the Capitol. Trump is the logical result and unfortunately the resistance of these unnecessary “institutions” is also a logical result.
Honestly, the various parts of the government are only a small part of the set of institutions I’m talking about. I’d include the the legacy press, much of academia, much of the financial community and non-trivial portions of the scientific community.
All of the mentioned institutions should be looked at with some level of distrust. It’s healthy to do so, and dangerous not to do so.
The “legacy press” figured out in the 40’s that their “trust” went up during war. So they now have a vested interest in perpetual war and now have something in common with bureaucrats. The public has slowly caught on.
I would argue that academia never had much public trust as it was generally a haven for the upper classes, even at the land grant colleges. Being a safe haven from the Viet Nam draft created a credentialism in society that I think most people resent that they are stuck playing the game.
The public has usually had a healthy distrust of the financial community – and historically tried to minimize their interaction with it. Government has increasingly required people to interact with it and if anything the trust of the financial community is larger than it should be. We now are in some weird place where the public demands low-cost loans and more regulation of finance – makes no sense. Sound money was the greatest regulator but the average person doesn’t want THAT much regulation.
The institution that has suffered the most distrust – some deserved, some not – is religion. Government has done a fantastic job of putting itself ahead of God in most people’s minds,
Nattering nabobs of negativity.
Anybody else remember that?
The effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as “intellectuals” are still around.
I don’t really get the popularity, but whatevs. I mean the guy who started it does a pizza review, released almost daily, and I know a guy who will stop whatever he’s doing to watch the review when it drops. Everyday. I just don’t get it. But whatevs.
I cannot recall ever looking at anything on barstool sports, but I have become aware of the “feud” between that guy and Deadspin. He trolls them mercilessly, I guess. They are face down in the ditch, now, and he’s headed for the pay window.
Is this a great country, or what?
I’m not a big sports fan. But, anybody with a clue can see why they’re making a go of it. Deadspin is part of the Gawker media empire more interested in social posturing than meeting the interests of its market. Barstool Sports pays attention to who is reading their articles.
Ha! Drink specials at the Bolero in Jersey for the Trump Talley. Love the “Sanders”.
https://twitter.com/asheborn57/status/1222182504305696768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1222182504305696768&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
America’s institutions of public trust had largely discredited themselves.
Yes, exactly. I think there are a lot of people out there who may not be able to articulate it explicitly, but have come to realize that a lot of the problems we have now are the result (koff,koff, college debt) not of too little government guidance, but of too much.
My micropanther does not like to be held and cuddled. ?
We have one like that. Card-carrying tomcat who deigns to accept bed and board but damn little affection (I have the scars to prove it). Misquoting Heinlein, we’re in charge of rations, quarters and weather; he’s in charge of everything else.
Mine wants LOTS of attention, jist not being picked up.
His sister is a little tetched in the head. She has a bobbed tail (don’t know why) and often hops around like a bunny. She will escape your hand if you try to pet her and forget about picking her up. She has claimed XX as her exclusive human, but she does not want to be alone, so she will seek someone out to hang with in the same room.
For me, she flops over on her side and wants to be scrubbed. Now, she is a long-haired tortie and you mist scrub her hard for her to feel it. Apparently I scrub best. She will let me know exactly where she wants scrubbed.
My Meep wants to be next to me at all times. She has her own ottoman that is next to my recliner. And whoa betide the human that tries to sit there. She’ll nestle against my calves at night, and will request pets by patiently tapping a paw against my forearm. She even lets me pick her up without much protest, asks for tummy rubs (from me), but she does not sit in laps, ever.
She’s a Torti and she too likes the firmer scrubs I give than the wife. She’ll even drool when she’s purring. Greets me at the door each day, and has even learned to “beg” for raw chicken or steak scraps. She also follows some instructions. I think Tortis are part dog.
when it comes to people’s personal bank accounts, watch out.
When you look at the “interest earned” line on your bank statement, and it’s less than what it cost to generate and mail the goddam thing, eventually you might begin to realize how badly savers are being misused by government policy.
How many people under the age of 40 even GET a bank statement? These are people who happily have their bills paid automatically without even looking at their accounts and their bills. Any bad result from their lack of self control is somebody else’s fault.
Why should I wait to the end of the month to check activity? I watch more regularly to make sure nobody’s made off with my numbers.
You are proactive about looking at your account. You really think you’re in the majority?
Of course not. I’m crazy, not delusional.
<em.My micropanther does not like to be held and cuddled.
Some do, some don’t. Give him time, and he(?) might come around.
Naw, we’ve had him 2 years. Got him and his sister when they were kittens.
He is VERY affectionate and loves to play fetch, he just doesn’t like to be picked up.
The other day I was not paying attention to him and he bit my leg.
New Kitteh (working title “Snot” – not my idea) loves laps, especially mine (though Mr. GT’s will do in a pinch) and seems to like being held for as long as my arms will hold out. I’m in luuuv! <3
Wow, someone else has a cat that plays fetch!
Yep. Sadly, often in the middle of the night. I’m asleep. He brings me his toy and starts playing with it violently right next to or on top of me.
I wake up, take his toy and put it under my pillow. There are evenings we can’t find it to hide it for the night.
The other day I was not paying attention to him and he bit my leg.
Nice.