Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas and what a beautiful day it always is!
Dems take one Georgia seat with the second being too close to call. Good thing Georgia’s state government took absolutely no actions regarding the mass voter fraud.
About those midnight ballot dumps.
Dominion planning “imminent” lawsuits against Powell, may also sue media outlets and Trump.
Trump hits 450 mile border construction goal.
Rittenhouse pleads not guilty.
And the cop who incited the Kenosha riots will not be charged.
Church suing Proud Boys for stealing and burning a banner.
Last Civil War widow dies at 101.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
I’d like to personally extend a giant middle finger to Trump and McConnell (and an extra one to Brian Kemp for nominating Loffler in the first place). Last night is squarely on them.
I take it you voted straight line red in the general then? Because otherwise, you would accept the idea of team blue controlling some or all of the government.
‘Splain?
Sure, as libertarians we regard both parties as evil, hence we generally split to third party. Because it doesn’t matter which one wins. If you argue that one side is so bad that they shouldn’t have control, than why on earth would you adopt the pox on both your houses. Think of it this way, the allies regarded both Stalin and Hitler as bad, you didn’t simply leave things alone, they backed the person they thought was less evil at the moment.
Yeah, your analogy is seriously flawed, because you pretend there is a viable third party (the allies) to fight the two evils…
No I am counting us as the allies, Hitler the Dems, and Stalin the gop. If both are the same, adopt the Truman proposal of let them kill each other, and do nothing. If there is a difference, than back the one you regard as better, while understanding you are still supporting evil.
That’s the pragmatic way of doing it if your backing actually matters.
As Dean said, regardless of what has happened in the courts, 2020 has cast a shadow of illegitimacy over the electoral institution. Whether or not the Dems cheated Biden into office, and even though I’m wholly convinced that the GOP sucks substantially less than the Dems, I’m not going to lend credence to a system that is so open for manipulation. 2020 was my last time voting. I’ll find other ways of protecting myself and my family from Fedgov.
My thoughts precisely.
My thoughts precisely. But I didn’t want to make the argument it doesn’t count, since that isn’t a universal opinion here. As for self reliance, that should be the default, and I agree.
I’m not going to lend credence to a system that is so open for manipulation. 2020 was my last time voting. I’ll find other ways of protecting myself and my family from Fedgov.
This is where my wife and I have landed too.
I have to admit that I have suspected for at least 2 decades that our votes really didn’t matter, but never could prove it till this election. Our system was lauded as being secure when it was blatant it was designed from the start to allow for fraud. Those that also saw it always explained it away with the argument that if it happened it was so small it wouldn’t matter or affect the result. The elections we see now only serve to show me that the fraud is massive and always enough to overcome the real will of the people. Our mandarin class wants us to believe we have a say to keep us docile. Trump’s win in 2016 was a real disaster for the mandarin class. Look at what they forced upon not just us, but the world in the last year. And they will now make sure that us serfs never challenge their racket again.
The same assholes telling us that wanting people to have a valid picture voter ID is vote suppression will now go to work to make sure they can lend a veneer of legitimacy to their criminality, but nothing will change. I too am done with the whole voting thing except at the local level. And even that might be bunk.
Stalin was right that the only thing that matters is what the vote counters say. We were just stupid enough to think our system was somehow immune to this shit. Reality is exactly the opposite.
Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas and what a beautiful day it always is!
I put cumin in my coffee this morning instead of cinnamon 🙁
Cinnacumin?
You store your spices alphabetically?
Wait till he uses curry powder instead.
No, just shoved into a cabinet.
I blame this tragedy on my misplaced comment as well.
*cum in
Applauds
Bukoffee – patent pending
I had never really considered what could make me swear off coffee.
I at first read that somewhat differently than you intended.
Other than for the inheritance, why would you marry a 93 year old at 17?
So…
I’m stumped.
His daughter threatened to out her to her friends and family if she ever actually took the pension.
Also, her “undated photo from her youth” is more than a bit scary.
That doesn’t explain the rest of it. Why bother going through with the marriage if there were literally none of the associated elements?
She was a lesbian, and this kept her “off the market” so she wouldn’t have to explain why she was rejecting suitors?
^^
Unless they were bull-daggers?
I’m guessing the daughter came into knowledge of this scheme after the nuptials.
Why bother going through with the marriage if there were literally none of the associated elements?
Maybe in 1936 she bet someone that she’d get a story in the Daily Mail in 2021? Could be a mighty big payout.
I’m assuming it’s some antique lens/forced perspective thing that is making her hands look larger than her head?
Looking at the modern photos, there doesn’t appear to be anything different about the size of her hands.
But there is an optical illusion caused by the dress and its pattern in the older photo.
Yeah, her age would indicate she was born in 1919/1920, but her picture appears to have been taken in 1879, when she was a middle aged spinster.
It’s possible that the Daily Mail may have made an error.
Some people like to sniff hair so it stands to reason that other people enjoy being the sniffee?
Not terribly uncommon. My great grandfather married a young-un when he was in his eighties.
I was gonna joke but honestly—legal reasons, I’d imagine. Hospital stuff, attorneys, inheritance/property/etc. But also add in visiting rights and family standing in court. Or just actual physical comfort/closeness that may be psychologically magnified by whatever ceremony/jewelry they attached to the bond.
But I imagine/hope mostly money and whatever sexual favors can be mustered. A no-shit, everyone-wins situation. Both are gonna have a great time!
Hey Evan! We never seem to cross paths on these boards but know that I’m rooting for your continued success.
Hey, wait, ’til you’re 93, then you’ll understand. Getting married at that age makes you Bossman in the nursing home. Given the opportunity I’m going for it. My new young bride will get her 15 minutes and all the other geezers will know I’m a stud.
Oh, I understand his perspective.
She’s the one I have difficulty understanding.
Sweet but not attracting any suitors. An old maid at 17. Geezer felt like he had one last good thing to do in life and it probably wasn’t boning a teenager. I read it as if he wanted to provide for her future.
Good Morning All
While i feel that is all lost for the U.S.A. I do not think all is lost for us.
Get out of the cities.
I think we picked a really, really good time to move to rural Alaska.
Alaska has always been its own special place. From a survival position, its always been sub optimal. But 6 months out of the year, you will never have rioters.
I’d say for 12 months out of the year, we’ll never have rioters. Maybe, just maybe, a few people in Anchorage will kick up their heels, but out in the Valley? Nah.
well if Russians can thrive in that weather under communism, I would think you and your family will prosper.
Yep. Even here those pathetic “protests” usually draw about 50 or so of the usual suspects. They are far more likely to get the Finger or just be casually ignored rather than elicit honking horns of support. People up here just want to work and play and feed their families.
Yeah, they have plans to make that not be enough already if I recall correctly…
My state already started taxing those of us that don’t live in the failed cities that team blue has been running for decades to pay for the failures and people leaving.. And that is just the beginning…
Was it you who recommended the Jack Spirko podcast? If so, thanks!
Are we there yet?
“There” being our new socialist Paradise…
I’ve got a five year plan to get us there.
Sounds great! Those always worked so well before.
Is the plan to beat the previous body count?
What you suggest is a goal, not a plan. You don’t want to know the plan.
Here is the plan…
So does this mean that the Civil War pensions have finally stopped being paid?
She wasn’t collecting one.
Looks like the pensions stopped getting paid back in 2020. So… thanks 2020?
I’d like to personally extend a giant middle finger to Trump and McConnell (and an extra one to Brian Kemp for nominating Loffler in the first place). Last night is squarely on them.
This.
Osoff is on right now, promising to SPEND SPEND SPEND to make America a better place, and tear down everything evil white men have built.
SCIENCE! has triumphed.
I really wish I could understand the mentality of people who vote for this shit.
Or vote for a vapid trustafarian whose major point of experience was being an aide to a retard who thinks Guam might tip over and sink into the ocean.
They know how to feel but not how to think.
Much like a sea star. If you cut an arm off it regenerates and vice/versa. The Borg of feelings.
It isn’t that hard. Just take everything the average religious person believes about god, and apply that to govt instead.
Honestly, if I was McConnell, I’d be figuring out what it will take to get Manchin to cross the aisle.
I have no idea how Manchin has managed to hold his seat as long as he has. But it would be useful to the Rs to have him officially on their side. Not sure how much it would be in his interest, though. He’d have to stop playing both sides.
No way, there are tremendous advantages to being the one moderate in a party who can be perceived of as flipping with the right pressure. The “campaign contributions” must be immense, why do you think the gop has a number of people including mittens seeking that role.
great minds and all that
Yep, or greatly insane, take your pick.
They’re calling the election, apparently, and the front end loaders full of Democrat votes haven’t even been counted yet.
They were smart enough to pre-load them this time to avoid the suspicious ballot dumps.
Is…is it really smart when, the sos outright said he would do no investigations, and that people should default trust him and the media saying it is fair. I mean that is so easy even most of Congress could do it.
Good thing Georgia’s state government took absolutely no actions regarding the mass voter fraud.
This claim about the election is disputed. The electoral college has confirmed Joe Biden as the president-elect. States certify results after ensuring ballots are properly counted and correcting irregularities and errors. We are the Borg. Lower your critical thinking and surrender your freedoms. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Report Shows EVERY Midnight Ballot Dump Boosted Biden
And the military voted 90% for Biden. ///honkhonk
Please tell me Rittenhouse has a competent attorney working for him and not just Lin Wood.
Blah blah blah people supporting TRUMP. TRUMPISM.
What if it’s not actually a cult of personality? What if those people have distinct but overlapping political beliefs? What if they think the election was bullshit and would have been so no matter whose name was on the Republican ballot?
Nope. NPR told me that this was Sciencetific Proof that everyone hates Trump. Why there was a Republican that won last night for some office… and Trump didn’t campaign for him! Check-MATE trumptards!
So they started with the result they wanted and found “facts” that allowed them to back from that conclusion into some semblance of logic? That’s what they call sciencing, so yeah, sounds right…
Despite having higher in-party approval than Reagan…
Of course not everyone knows he is a meany, and all voters should instead rally behind the bushites.
So I caught a morning news blurb that showed a couple of people asking Romney if he was going to vote against accepting the election results. He did the usual Mittens response, but here’s what got me: they fired back “Trump is a juggernaut, and you’re an absolute joke”.
So you’re telling me that isn’t a fucking cult attitude? This is regressing to a level lower than a junior high cafeteria.
Which news?
I don’t know, wife had it on when I got out of the shower. I really don’t watch if I can avoid it; I think it was NBC, that’s the one with Hoda, right?
Anyway, the next segment came on about COVID!!!! And the blond reporter was talking about how terrible it is in L.A. right now. I responded by singing “she can tell you with bad news with a gleam in her eye”her eye”.
No idea, I haven’t has a television feed since the time I realized that I was spending all of my entertinament time playing World of Warcraft.
Yup… Lowest common denominator idiots respond to TDS by sainting the guy.
I’ll admit to never really ever having crossed paths with anybody who unreservedly likes Trump. Everybody I’ve encountered has been “yeah he’s an asshole, but…”
Actually I have a neighbor who was unreserved, but he also never voted for president until ’16 – so someone that really never gave a shit about politics.
What kind of people unreservedly like any politician?
It is a cult of personality. However, had the GOPe even considered the plight of many of their ‘lost’ constituents, it would have never happened.
I called 2016 the Hunger Games election. Sure, Trump is an asshole of the nth degree, but he gave voice to many who felt entirely left out of the political process. Now, we go back to being Panem and being told by our ‘elite’ betters about how we are not good enough for them.
‘An astonishing $36 billion has been lost to fraud in pandemic unemployment benefits, the Department of Labor reports. To put this figure in context, the entire unemployment system only paid out about $26 billion in 2019.
That’s right: Bureaucrats lost to fraud more than is usually paid out in an entire year. The $36 billion lost—and that’s just the fraud we know about—amounts to an average of roughly $1,894 lost per current unemployment beneficiary.’
Ha! What a fucking clown show.
Remember, these people are our betters and should be trusted implicitly in all things.
How much was “lost to fraud” and how much was embezzled by the bureaucrats.
This is just another system built to allow this kind of fraud which was defrauded. We seem to have a ton of those when it comes to government work, by design, and people still act surprised when they hear piss-poor systems rife for abuse get abused…
Dominion planning “imminent” lawsuits against Powell, may also sue media outlets and Trump.
A certain famous/infamous defamation lawyer is not included on this list?
Trump hits 450 mile border construction goal.
Just in time for Biden and co. to tear it down.
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
Hiring illegal aliens to do the work would be an epic troll, to be honest.
So what I’m getting from this mess is that the U.S. just bought a collective time share in Caracas for every Man, Woman, Child and Otherkin. Outstanding.
Good thing Georgia’s state government took absolutely no actions regarding the mass voter fraud.
Votes were counted.
Rittenhouse pleads not guilty.
Because he isn’t.
And the cop who incited the Kenosha riots will not be charged.
Time for BLM to burn
a Wendy’san apartment complex?And the cop who incited the Kenosha riots will not be charged.
Isn’t this the one where the guy resisted arrest with a knife and then tried to get into his car? Because that cop shouldn’t be charged.
Yes, although that isn’t how the media reported it. But now that their side has won, expect them to do what they can to limit riots.
I don’t know, the WP was still strangling Democracy in Darkness by declaring him unarmed even yesterday.
Eh, it was really awful police work that lead to Blake (not an innocent angel) trying to get the knife from his car in the first place.
And of course, Sheskey has not been fired.
I haven’t dug into the meat yet but I heard from more than one person yesterday that statements and testimony from multiple people on both “sides” of this actually confirm that Blake did in fact have the knife in his hand before walking around to the door.
Also he was violating the TRO his baby-momma had. The media is very careful to never mention that part. If only she had been armed and capped his ass.
Woman who married 93-year-old cavalry soldier when she was just 17 passes away at her Missouri nursing home
I was questioning that math…
Clearly the man couldn’t leave the army at such a young age.
It was a lot harder to qualify for apension back then.
Heading out for another three hour therapy session..one of the nurses is smoking hot….and it’s not a big deal. In a weird way I’m actually getting paid to do this shit by my family so I am more than happy to eagerly and actively go along with the program. (It’s complicated and not a big deal nor interesting.)
Georgia: Holy SHIT is this going to just keep getting funnier. I love it. Popcorn abounds.
Biggest news for me: Woke up to messages from my theoretical new boss and….the work plan moves along nicely. First class is supposed to be March 2…this is confirmed and just details need to be verified before flights are taken care of. Must investigate further, but a fantastic start.
Bit of Big News moving into the day, and hopefully by the end of the day I’ll know a skotch more. Skotch. Can only think of Dan Akroyd when I hear that word.
What the hell were Georgia GOP officials expecting? There was pretty obviously rampant voter fraud just a month and a half ago. Not only did they not push to stop it, they actively campaigned to protect it. In a sane world, this would spell the absolute end of Brad Raffensperger’s career. Given the GOP, I expect he’ll be their gubernatorial candidate next time around.
If I keep trying Lucy won’t lift the football again?
I fear they were hoping that the “era of Trump” was a one time thing, and the two party system will take its proper place after this election.
Appears so.
There’s a massive documented money trail going into private election “consulting” companies that appear connected to Kemp and the SoS in a similar way to Hunter’s consulting company being connected to Joe. More directly, that Sterling guy personally collected 10 million for this election in his dummy company he set up while running logistics for the election as a government official.
Much of the money is coming from lobbyists. The question is where is the ultimate funding source. The money from China being funneled to Joe through Hunter surely has discredited the notion that China buying influence in our politicians is some sort of ridiculous conspiracy theory. Is there any reason that we should expect other State Actors to only target Dems for corruption and bribery?
I think the Georgia GOP officials got exactly the result they were expecting… and were paid to achieve.
You know, some people actually do deliberately vote for Democrats. What should be done with those people? Obviously this is an intolerable situation, so what is the solution? Something final perhaps?
How about those that tell us that requiring a picture voter ID and laws that prevent ballot harvesting being told to fuck off for a start as we implement that? Those two things alone would cock block this racket practically immediately (for a while, until the mandarins vote to create new ways to cheat us)…
What good is that going to do – it won’t stop people voting for politicians dedicated to destroying everything we hold dear!
So you are saying we should just stop letting people vote, huh?
I just want elections to be honest if that is how we are told is the only way we are allowed to pick our leaders. If the people, in an honest election, choose politicians that will kill us all, then that’s not a flaw of the system but of the people. A completely different argument should be had on that, but the fucking people that let the marxists and fascists take over our education system and media already won that fight, and in the age of dumbed down social media morons making up the majority of every country’s population, short of going radical and implementing something like Islam’s Sharia, this ship has sailed.
I have advocated for a while that we should just have a lottery system for elected officials, because this would prevent people from using time in place to create the very things that cause us problems today. But the mandarin class would never go for something like that because it would deprive them of the ability to steal, cheat, and abuse their power.
‘I just want elections to be honest if that is how we are told is the only way we are allowed to pick our leaders. If the people, in an honest election, choose politicians that will kill us all, then that’s not a flaw of the system but of the people.’
Pretty much my take as well. You can’t save a person from themselves and you can’t save a nation from itself but you can at least try to keep everyone honest about what they’re doing to each other.
But the mandarin class would never go for something like that because it would deprive them of the ability to steal, cheat, and abuse their power.
So you’re verging on the same kind of trap as Chomsky set for himself – the contest for power will always result in the power-hungry getting power.
I don’t see a way out. The Republicans lie about smaller govt, every time they get power they never cut anything. The Democrats of course believe that govt is God, and that all things are possible therein. How do you make peace with that?
Did you miss my comment that we had already lost the government battle because we let the marxists/fascists take over the education system, the media, and social networks, because that allowed them to dumb down the majority of the population?
I suspect this sort of thing is why nature has that “survival of the fittest” thing built in. When the stupid runs rampant and takes over eventually it corrects for it by slamming a big rock into the planet or issuing a ton of Darwin awards. I think we are heading for the later…
Thomas Jefferson answered your question quite clearly:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
So no you don’t kill people for voting Democrat, you secede. Then you kill the people who come to try and stop you.
Wow! Some people vote for Democrats! I guess we can just do away with elections and let the Democratic party leadership just select our leaders from here on out! Clearly free and fair elections were just a formality. I mean, it’s not like we can be bothered to let people badvoting interfere with their sense of wellbeing.
Considering the Democrats are intent on destroying this country as we know it. Why allow them the opportunity. Let them seize control and then violent struggle – and kill off all of their supporters. Is there really another way?
Or is there some proposal that might be a bit more modest that you’d suggest?
No, we’re still not going to eat babies.
I’ve been completely unimpressed with veal.
Yeah… It’s getting a little long in the tooth, Juris. Maybe we should just start calling you Donation Not Taxation. Hyperbole is asshole but he’s my kind of asshole. He’ll listen to a counter-argument and weigh the evidence. I’m sorry but you’ve been nothing but a recalcitrant dick to anyone that questions the eminently questionable.
The situation cannot be reversed. History shows us that. Anywhere democrats get total control like they did in NY and CA, never goes back. Once they’re entrenched they just rig the elections if they have to, but they truly do not have to, because the same dumb people will just deep voting them back in. So there’s another new permanent blue state, right after VA. Blue voters just spread out all of the country, infest all the cities and just outnumber the rural populations. I think we’re done here.
Democrats once controlled TX (and the rest of the South) as thoroughly as they control NY, IL and CA now. Hell, VA is returning to it’s Dem legacy, it isn’t like it was a long-held Republican state.
I’m not big on the demographics-is-destiny thing, and I strongly suspect that the ’22 mid-terms will be a huge rebuke to the Dems in DC. If, on the other hand, we’re absolutely convinced that elections are now meaningless, then we have a different problem.
The Ds will ultimately fuck it up and then the pendulum will swing back the other way. Look at the downballot races.
The issue is the GOP isn’t much of a viable opposition even when they do win.
That’s the problem right there – the GOP is really only an opposition party. They won’t govern according to their own principles.
Why can’t those assholes vote the right way? *goes back to playing with Star Wars Lego*
In today’s further proof that DeWine (Shitbag – OH) is a cunte:
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine won’t issue variance to keep bars open for Browns’ playoff game, College Football Championship Game
So… first time in 18 years the Browns have been in the playoffs, game gets scheduled for an evening game, and the bars get screwed.
How old is DeWine? I’ll bet he clapped his sticky little hands with glee when “Heidi Bowl” happened. CWAA!
Good morning, Banjos!
The Civil War story was great! I clicked thinking someone made a mistake, but that’s fascinating!
As to GA, Dominion and out of control cops – fuck ’em all.
GnR was a good choice. Here’s another flavor of Civil War.
I hope y’all have a great Wednesday!
Whining moneygrubbers
Governor Jay Inslee’s new roadmap is called “Healthy Washington.”
It’s a regional approach to reopening in phases, instead of the previous county-by-county plan.
Our state is split into eight regions based on their health system resources. Right now, there are two reopening phases and every region is starting in phase one.
Starting next Monday, a few restrictions will be relaxed for indoor gyms and entertainment in phase one.
Gyms can take hold indoor sessions with very strict limits –only one customer per 500 square feet. Indoor dining at restaurants remains banned until a region moves into phase two.
Some struggling business owners said this new plan forward is not helping them recover at all.
They just want to get people inside their businesses so they can murder them.
They just want to get people inside their businesses so they can murder them.
That’s what unregulated capitalism does! /things they really believe
How bad is the plague in Africa? Who gives a shit?
Cuomo won’t get any votes by standing on those bodies.
Andy doesn’t need votes, he has the ballot-printing machines.
Yes but those votes need a name, I am sure all those dead bodies won’t mind if he borrows theirs.
They probably achieved herd immunity months ago.
Going to be a long haul for the next two years, especially as regards gun control. Dems have all three “Houses.” They’ll pass some sort of registration/ban/confiscation and it will be up to the courts to decide, assuming it doesn’t get hot before then, which I sincerely hope we can avoid.
Not that I think the Reps would really have much fight in them.
The main thing going for the 2A crowd in the next few years is all the new gun owners that have been minted have a chance of actually caring and making their voices heard. Not a given though.
I guess that is why he is running off after.
“The bottom line, David, the president believes the vice president has a power that he just does not have, and it’s a power that the vice president himself knows that he doesn’t have. While Pence has said nothing publicly. I am told by people close to the vice president that he intends to defy the president on this, that he intends to follow the rules, which means that at the end of the process tomorrow, it will be Vice President Pence who is the one announcing Joe Biden officially, formally, and finally has won the Electoral College and won the presidency.”
The GOP is full of useless cowards, which is ironic considering it founding and actions immediately after first taking power.
If someone doesn’t use that “Downfall” meme with Trump pinning all his hopes on Pence’s divisions coming to rescue D.C. I am gonna be sorely disappointed.
that would be funny.
I guess we can all laugh together as we are collected to the shower stations.
I’m one of the lucky ones in the New Normal. I’m merely being worked to death. No need for the Zyklon-B when you keel over from a stroke.
As a government employee, I’ll be one of the last people pushed onto the train-car.
So I got that going for me.
Lincoln was one of those damn moderates – he didn’t want to punish the South for her sins like the good Radical Republicans did. Almost like they were woke or something.
So what do Glibs think about the future of physical media? Will we be thankful for hard-coded CD’s, DVD’s, books, etc. in the maybe-near future? Will today’s $1.00 bin DVD’s be $10 or $20 in a few years?
I’m thinking about buying and hoarding such stuff for future resale. It would require a big commitment in $$$ and storage space, though. So, I’d like to hear what others think.
Well they can’t edit physical media once you have it, so assuming pc gets worse, having unredacted media would be good. So I have a cabinet full.
Make sure you have a player that can’t have updates pushed to it.
Or just don’t connect them to the internet, and since nobody buys new physical except for niche stuff, there should be none buried in the disks.
I didn’t connect the one I have. The remote came with an Xbox Huge “Netflix” button on it that I cut off. I just figured I’d make sure the warning was in the conversation.
Yep, I get that, mine doesn’t because I still use my old game consoles as my players, most of them have never even been connected to the network, and have now wireless function.
It’d be nice if consoles were 100% standalone (moreso if you buy the disc) but all the 2nd generation and above ones need connectivity just to play some things.
Which? I never ran into that problem with my ps3 or earlier. I have one for the ps4 that needs a network but it is an mmo so, I knew what I was getting into.
I recently acquired my first physical media in years and found unskippable ads in front of the content.
I should be able to skip anything on the damn disk. Stupid player should ignore any “disabled function” flags.
Too bad Oppo stopped making disk players.
The issue is that you need the equipment to be able to read the media as well, as well as media hookups that are compatible with the modern inputs.
There’s plenty of $1 media that will always be 100% crap. But yeah, some stuff is just infuriating – why won’t Disney put stuff on disc and make extra money – how much “control” do they gain or “piracy prevention” from keeping stuff on streaming? (a la the Mandalorian).
I’m thinking about just picking up a few more DVD titles even though I know remastered film versions exist since I’m not seeing any updates on HD disc releases…. However, when I do upgrade my discs, I tend to give the DVDs away (although plenty of fancy collected editions still on the shelf).
I do need to buy a replacement/back-up HD-DVD player since I assume my 12 year old Xbox 360 player won’t last forever. (picked up 40-50 titles dirt cheap when they lost the format war).
Re Disney – If you have to maintain your subscription to see the media, it means you’re constantly paying them instead of a one and done transaction. Printing Discs has a lower potential profit than making people keep paying forever.
A $30+ up front payment for discs would sell like hotcakes and the vast majority of subscribers would stay subscribed for everything else.
That’s not what their numbers appear to show. The only way they’re keeping people subscribed is by making that the only option for their content. If people could buy the content once and ditch the subscription, they would.
The availability of physical media may chance once Disney+ collapses in a few years.
I’ve stopped consuming new media at all. I don’t care about watching new TV shows or movies or anything enough to pay a subscription to stream it. The stories aren’t compelling enough to get me to waste my time. The only time I have TV or movies on is via physical media (or digital copies on physical media I control) as background noise while I’m doing something else.
The storytellers of the modern media have entirely lost me. I’d rather do something else productive, or if I need an escape, read a good book.
There’s a reason I write books.
Probably Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
“Will today’s $1.00 bin DVD’s be $10 or $20 in a few years?”
More likely than not it will be considered illegal and dangerous disinformation propaganda material requiring the state to make an example of anyone that has these.
“RELINQUISH THE FORBIDDEN TECHNOLOGY IMMEDIATELY! … And then, we’ll all play Balderdash.”
YOUI CAN TAKE MY COPIES OF MEL BROOK’S “BLAZZING SADDLES” OUT OF MY DEAD HANDS!
Where the white women at?
I think that this is a very good idea. I’m buying a few hardback books and DVDs every month, for as long as I can get away with it.
The main thing going for the 2A crowd in the next few years is all the new gun owners that have been minted have a chance of actually caring and making their voices heard. Not a given though.
This is a faint, but real, source of hope. Suddenly, it really does matter to those people when the state and/or federal government tries to turn gun ownership into a crime.
I’ll see if I can find the audio posted online, but at the last Cuomo
worship serviecovid zoombrieifing, Cuomo made a speech about how the reason NY is so behind on their vaccination is because (of course) Trump isn’t giving him enough vaccines.And then some Republican county commissioners went off on him. Because there have been county mass-vaccination plans put in place ever since 2002, but Cuomo decided that those would not be used and instead his new state-run tiered plan would be implemented. And at least two (republican led) counties have been allowed zero doses of the vaccine. Remember that if these counties went around his imperial majesty to get supplies, they’d be fined $1M and the doctors/nurses would have all of their state-issued licenses revokes.
Yglesias is still an asshole in 2021.
Yglesias has no idea what a libertarian is.
Freedom, means free shit right?
In Matty’s case free [to be] dumb, which of course he doesn’t get.
Yup.
I wanted to win the Ga runoffs as much as anyone.
But here’s how you automatically lose them.
1) Rep Party abandons Trump.
2) Rep Party does ZERO to address voter fraud.
3) Absolute dumbass Mitch McConnell and RINOS sign Porkulus bill, screw America, then brag about it.
Why not now McConnell and the others get to do their favorite thing, say gee we would love to oppose the radical agenda, which spoilers for the most part won’t go anywhere, because the Dems do the same to their supporters, but we can’t because we don’t have the majority, so please give us money. They hated 2016-2018 having control means people expect you to do things, and unlike the Dems. A lot of their voters actually want smaller government which means less “donations”.
Trump is the best President of my lifetime, for no other reason than he kept that odious cunt Hillary Clinton (and her swarm of flying monkeys) out of the White House.
Nothing can change that.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9118351/Demi-Rose-poses-14-bottom-flashing-sheer-thong-bodysuit.html
“All four US intel agencies issue joint statement to say that huge cyber hacks targeting federal agencies and businesses WERE committed by Russia”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9116421/Russia-likely-SolarWinds-hack-US-intelligence.html
I thought there were seventeen.
If foreign intelligence agencies, including those of our allies, are not continously trying to gain access to our nation’s data resources, they probably aren’t doing their jobs. Of course Russia has been cyber attacking us, as have China, Iran, North Korea, etc., etc., etc.
Seems to me that the inclusion of “likely” and “probably” in your statement invalidates the definitive nature of it.
Once they were burned on declaring exactly when the Soviets would get the bomb (and were wrong), they moved into percentages.
THIS is CNN.
TMITE
The differing takes are revealing.
DeSantis comes off as a dick. He should’ve let her ‘finish’ her question and then pressed her on the concept of investigative journalism.
The gaslighting about Florida is ridiculous though.
Maybe, but these interviewers never let folks like DeSantis finish their answers.
A month or so, I linked to an interview about how the port of Auckland was having problems getting cargo unloaded. Sounded like an interesting story. But the interviewer kept interrupting the PR guy, and the one time he started to answer a question before she was finished, she said, “Hear me out”, even though she wasn’t doing that herself.
“China has denied entry to a team of World Health Organisation (WHO) experts who were due to arrive in the country to investigate the origins of the coronavirus.
The news comes amid growing suspicions of a cover-up in the country where Covid-19 is believed to have originated at the end of 2019, although its origins remain bitterly contested as China remains determined to control the narrative.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9116715/China-denies-entry-team-experts-investigate-origins-Covid-19.html
Truth and reconciliation
“Donald Trump furiously claimed Tuesday night that Mike Pence can overturn the election result in Congress Wednesday – and denied the vice president had told him he could not.
The president issued a statement after the New York Times reported that Pence had told him over lunch that he had no constitutional power to ‘decertify’ states’ slates of electors when he presides over Congress to certify the election result.
But Trump called that ‘fake news’ then outlined an extraordinary plan to either get Republican state legislatures to send Trump electors – or turn the election to Congress under the 12th Amendment, which could then vote for Trump.
ABC News’ White House Correspondent Jon Karl reported that Trump was ‘prepared to go after Pence and go after him hard’ if he does not get in line and overturn the election at the special session of Congress which begins at 1pm Wednesday. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9116997/Furious-Donald-Trump-claims-Mike-Pence-DIDNT-tell-overturn-election-result-Congress.html
So does Pence listen to the Hat or the Hair?
Eh. He fights. I’ll give him that.
Maybe Trump was reading the FYTW clause?
Trump’s an asshole. A rat fink. The lowest of the low. A stain on America’s great tapestry of hope and uplift. The worst of the worst. Keep telling yourself that.
He never left anybody to de while he went home to sober up and get his alibi squared away. Did he?
That is why he is the lowest of the low dc regards corruption as virtue, the worse it is the better.
Yglesias has no idea what a libertarian is.
Self ownership is slavery.
Prickly, bad feel slavery, the toilet paper is scratchy one-ply and there is never anyone there to spare a square!
Is there any good news anymore?
How the heck do American calculate it’s smart to give the batshit insane DNC MORE power? Now the continent is ruled by Biden and Trudeau! China wins. I may literally have to drop out of life because I refuse to believe I live among such stupid people. I sound like those Democrats when they lose but what in the hell?
And to make matters worse, for no apparent reason, ONE YEAR later, the incompetent criminal and spectacularly stupid premier Legault is set to lock down the province – with a curfew. People are stunned. They all know and see none of these measures have worked in Europe and California. All because this idiot is terrified, so he says, of the hospitals over whelming. We’re at an average of 75% across the board. Some hospitals are at over capacity but the system is broken. They ‘claim’ it WILL get over whelmed in the next three weeks hence lockdown for ‘three weeks’. Except it won’t be. He has been lying through his teeth for months now and the scary part is the entire National Assembly has fallen into line. No dissension. Legault is a complete dictator now. And no one knows where this buffoon is getting his information or advice because Sante Publique (public health) doesn’t seem to be on board with certain measures. What a mess.
May he rot in hell. Literally.
Not sure i can take much more of this irrational insanity!
I agree with you on the DNC. It does scare me. We’ve seen how vicious these people are, and the lengths they went to when opposing Trump. That’s still fresh in their minds, and I’m afraid they have their mind set on putting down those deplorables once and for all.
Someone ( Urthona in the previous post) hit the nail on the head. It’s the combination of mass mail in voting allowing the dems to harvest an enormous amount of voters who normally wouldn’t bother to get off their asses to go to a polling place and the $2,000 “stimulus checks” that the Dems were able to imply were a guarantee if they won. At least in the Senate runoffs in GA, this is pretty plausible. For the overall Presidential election, it’s the same without the $2k.
de Tocqueville had us nailed two hundred years ago.
It is weird. Voting out Trump but putting checks on Biden at least made some degree of sense. Now what Americans will get is more Antifa, more media bootlicking, more CRT, more scientism…
Perhaps they’ll learn their lesson like Brits did after 1974. Until then they’ll get more of what they’ve rewarded.
I’m having a hard time with it myself. If a midwit like me can see what’s happening in real time, and compare/contrast historical equivalencies, and come to some ugly conclusions about the not so distant future (hell, recent past as well), then I suspect a whole lot of people can. It just boggles my mind that so many people are this gullible (weak?).
There are tens of millions of disaffected people out there. They don’t have the ability or temperament to hold down a career. They were raised a half a step above a feral animal. Their primary parental figures growing up were their teachers and the TV/computer. Those who eventually get their shit together end up in do nothing jobs where their lack of competency is always discovered 6 months after they jumped ship for the next offer, and there is never a reckoning for the fact that they’re unproductive, irresponsible louts. If and when the reckoning comes, it’s easy to blame the system, as they’ve never been taught personal responsibility, shame, or humility.
I think acknowledging that you don’t know every single thing in the universe precludes being a midwit.
One of the defining midwit features is that they believe they’re the greatest supergenius in history.
The Americans beat Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championship. That’s good news.
Kind of funny in a bitter way that people thought they could vote harder in the completely corrupt system that is GA and get a different result.
I’m sure a ton of stories and evidence of voter fraud will emerge over the next few weeks – and all the usual media outlets and juris will explain that it’s all false or doesn’t matter.
We aren’t voting our way out of this.
If only Trump had told Raffensperger about the evidence of fraud he had, instead of the rumor of it.
Wasn’t it Raffensperger’s job to find the evidence?
I am all in favor of returning to a system of thief-takers, but that isn’t the system we have.
Admitting to a fraudulent election would be him tacitly admitting to his own incompetence so of course he was going to deny it. It’s just a spineless Republican taking the least bold route once again in an effort to save his own skin.
Yep, exactly. It was his job to prevent any shenanigans in advance. He surely isn’t going to investigate and prove he did a crappy job.
When rumor and innuendo are the best you’ve got, that doesn’t quite rise to probable cause, does it?
Honestly, I’m sick of the Trump couldn’t lose argument. If the system is so corrupt then you have no choice but to be prepared to kill everyone that supports it.
It’s not that Trump couldn’t lose, it’s that the appearance of impropriety needs to be meaningfully and openly investigated.
You don’t need probably cause to investigate. Rumor and innuendo are more than enough. You need probably cause for criminal warrants. Voting data and records and ballots are in the hands of the people doing the investigating. It should be standard ops after an election to investigate any oddities.
And this is the big red flag for me. Our voting system actually has some ridiculous rules to make any investigation nigh impossible, and that is by design. A system designed with the gaping holes ours has that would allow cheating is a system designed to foment cheating. If you don’t get that by now, you really don’t care. And team blue people have already shown us that they don’t care. As long as they are in power the morons will keep them in power no matter how much they get abused and taken for granted.
They benefit more from it and they have no principles other than maintaining power, of course they don’t care
Hasn’t Raffensperger argued that he HAS investigated? Maybe he has, maybe he hasn’t – that I don’t know, but the blanket assumption that he is incompetent or compliant with Democratic fraud seems to be predicated on he didn’t deliver a Trump victory.
Maybe, just maybe, the investigation was a self-serving whitewash conducted by an individual that had every motivation to cover things up. Regardless of whether the conclusion drawn was the correct one it looks fishy as fuck.
“Hasn’t Raffensperger argued that he HAS investigated?”
He argued that having the same people that robbed us during this election being asked to do the same thing they did before, and producing the same results, was somehow investigating. Did they verify that the ballots actually matched real people? Or that the lie we got told that it was just a mistake that the observers went home before they counted some 200K ballots that broke by 99% for Biden? Or the fact that some 30K Georgians all seem to live at the same address (one that we were told conveniently was issued to people without an address so they could get the right to vote)? And so on.
I am sure you believe the claims that the Mueller investigation was above board as well, and since it didn’t exonerate Trump, he had to be guilty still….
Not saying this is the case in this specific instance, but it’s way too easy to ask election officials, “Hey guys, you did everything right, right?” And get a “Yep sure we did, Boss” answer and call that an investigation. Seems like it happens all the time when police internal affairs orgs “investigate” their own.
Funny you mention the Mueller investigation – as it did NOT satisfy those convinced of the FUCKING collusion narrative.
IIRC, he investigated one claim related to Cobb county. Which if I was going to pick a county in metro Atlanta to investigate, would not be my first, second, or third choice.
Yeah, I see that great logic of yours at work again. I will do nothing until you give me evidence… Evidence that only me investigating the system (for real) can confirm or deny your allegations, but I refuse to do anything of the sort…
And note that nobody has spent actual time trying to do real investigations so that they can come back and say there was no fraud. The only people to say there was no fraud are the ones that refused to look for it or investigate anything seriously, when presented with evidence that indicate it might have happened. What I have repeatedly seen these people basically do is to ask the fraudsters to do the exact same thing they did to certify the fraudulent votes, and then claim they investigated and found nothing. In fact, the last few years has been a giant circle jerk where the criminals in the mandarin class are always “investigating” their own crimes or those of their peers, and finding there was never any wrong doing…
The good thing is that it no longer is in doubt that the mandarin class is not just corrupt, but downright evil. And that gives me hope, because eventually people will have enough of them, and then we will do some cleanup.
Yesterday I linked a video that showed Trump / Biden vote counts literally being flipped in a county. The publicly reported vote counts in a Republican county had Trump up 12k votes. A few minutes later they reported exactly the same vote totals, but the names were switched and Biden was up 12k (a 24k change in totals). But that isn’t real evidence… nor the video of votes being pulled out of suitcases after hours, truck-loads of printed absentee ballots, etc. Believe whatever you like.
The reason why they try to make this shit so blatant is to sap the will of the opposition. If you’re resigned to the fact that your vote doesn’t matter, sooner or later you’ll stop voting altogether. Demoralization is a useful tool until people feel that the only way they can be heard is through violence.
Yep – only time will tell if it’s brilliant or a deadly blunder.
I can’t really tell if that covid bill they just passed is them getting back to normal graft and corruption, or grifters realizing the system is collapsing and getting all they can before the lights go out.
‘Demoralization is a useful tool until people feel that the only way they can be heard is through violence.’
I have to admit, I’m pretty much at that point. Not the violence, but demoralized. I can only take solace in the fact that I didn’t procreate. Not that I’m doing anything as stupid and self-absorbed as shitting on “breeders”. Far from it. I’m very much pro humanity, despite hating a majority of us on a philosophical level… A Specist, if you will.
I’m just saying that I have an overwhelming sense of dread in regards to the next 20-30 years.
Maybe my batshit crazy, Evangelical Christian father was right, I will live to see Armageddon.
Tribulation Saints, FTW!
Um. Has anyone heard about this?
https://lacrunadellago.net/2020/12/29/italygate-is-the-italian-government-directly-involved-in-the-us-election-fraud-against-trump/?lang=en
If true, this is the ‘big one’. Wow.
I don’t know what is true and all, sounds very conspiracy theory.
But, as the saying goes, just because you are not paranoid, doesn’t mean THEY are not after you.
Life is but a conspiracy. People conspire all the time.
There are big conspiracies and there are little conspiracies.
And there are many.
The assertion that there was a violent battle between two armed contingents of US officials in Germany during a raid on secret servers that were altering election data seems…suspect.
Yeh. That was never confirmed. But neither denied?
I recall the assertion that it happened. Nothing else though.
It is bizarre that the CIA Director has not been seen since the election.
According to Johnson, basically Italy was directly involved in the manipulation of votes in the US elections.
The intelligence analyst partially confirms the story regarding the US special forces raid to recover Dominion’s servers hosted in the CIA Frankfurt station.
Other sources confirmed the authenticity of the story and apparently the raid was successful in retrieving the servers, which constitute an irrefutable evidence of the fraud.
General Thomas McInerney claimed that after the raid a violent fight had ensued between the CIA paramilitary called in from Afghanistan to defend the station and the US special forces group.
Five military members would lose their lives in the harsh battle.
Johnson offers another version, even more shocking if possible. The former CIA agent doesn’t deny this operation but he claims that the hacked data had been moved from Frankfurt to Rome, in the US embassy located in the central street of via Veneto.
According to Johnson, Frankfurt servers only hosted partial tracks of the hacking, but the real main protagonist of the attack would have been Rome.
During the election day, something unprecedented in the history of US election occurred.
Suddenly, the vote counting in the key states was simultaneously halted in the middle of the night, when in Italy was already morning.
The hacking operation was in course, but the perpetrators realized that there was something wrong.
“Trump was taking a record number of votes” says Johnson, and the switching of votes from Trump to Biden was not enough to definitely deliver the “victory” to the democratic candidate.
So are we at war or what?
All that aside, why the fuck is our election data being sent over the internet, much less to other countries?
People have this notion that the voting machines are “air gapped”. If that were true, then how does the media get such detailed second by second updates?
Precincts report as they tally.
But the other stuff in that article is very bad if even remotely true. The Dominion machines have been proven to 1) be internet connected and 2) have had foreign actors invading them. The whole thing is fucked.
“Precincts report as they tally.”
I can’t believe people could report changes that quickly.
It was our own people, you know, members of the mandarin class, doing this from Italy. Not the Italians… We might not see it, but there is definitely a war being perpetrated on the American people by our own mandarin class. And I suspect it is on behalf of the country they sold out to: China.
I stopped at Zionists.
Zionists are those chicks that look like Gal Gadot, right?
Yeah, I stop for them all the time.
Baseball birthdays: HOFer Early Wynn, then it falls off quick. #2 and #3 are Don Gullett and Ralph Branca.
Gullett, in limited innings due to injury, had great 1975 and 1976 seasons. He went a combined 26-7. Of course, its hard to lose when you have that line up batting for you. He is yet another example of throwing too many innings at too young of an age.
I do not for an instant doubt there are enough people in this country dumb enough to elect Joe Biden to the Presidency in a free and fair election.
Me either. I also don’t doubt there are enough people dumb enough to elect Donald Trump.
It’s been 40 years and Rap music is still a thing.
Stupid must be a contagious disease because it seems to be especially virulent in cities. Look at the GA county totals. In all the counties that Atlanta metro area is in, the stupids voted 85% democrat. GA may as well be California now.
Because of the stupid rules in place for visiting government offices, I was forced to use the online services to renew my registration which expires on the 29th of this month.
In the confirmation email, the DMV sent me a certificate of temporary registration – with an expiration date of 1/16.
*shakes head*
Since none of the info changed, there’s no point in a temporary registration certificate which expires before the sticker on the car does.
That’s odd. I did mine online and I printed out the temp cert, but there’s no expiration date on it, my sticker still did not arrive and it’s expired. I hope I get them before I get pulled over and harassed about it.
You’re not in New York. I assume there will be differences state by state.
The King’s men will still collect the fine if they catch you. Guaranteed.
The registration is still valid, neither one has expired yet.
You’ve never dealt much with cops I take it. Most of them are dumber than dog shit and great proportion of the rest spent childhood Saturday afternoons bullying siblings and pulling wings off of flies.
If I don’t put the temporary one on the dash, they don’t know it exists.
That’s where mine is at.
I’m not even going to print it and waste the paper.
we’ll see if the new sticker arrives before the 29th.
Trump should have fired Fauci.
He still has 2 weeks.
It would be symbolic but it would feel good and be fun to watch.
Just another threat that he never intended to flow through on. Once people figured out the bluff behind the art of the deal Trump lost his mojo.
Once people figured out the bluff behind the art of the deal Trump lost his mojo.
Why I never bluff, in a nutshell. Once a bluff is called, your credibility is zero, and its hard to negotiate with zero credibility.
Also, bluffing is lying, and I try not to lie.
Except in poker. You want to get caught bluffing every so often. Not very often. One caught bluff will pay itself off many times over against mediocre players.
You have to lose a little to win a lot. Fact.
Perhaps the cost/benefit tabulation of firing Fauci wasn’t worth it prior to the election.
What I mean is, Trump will get pilloried for anything he does in the media, but firing people left and right does leave an impression on even those who aren’t totally following the media narrative.
I sound like those Democrats when they lose but what in the hell?
As the government expands its power and control over us, who holds the reins really does become a life or death matter. Give them a little more time, and it really will mean the end of the world as we know it.
Meh, who holds the reins only sets the time table. A little faster with the Ds, a little slower with the Rs.
Trump is truly the Rosetta stone of contemporary politics – nothing can be interpreted without reference! At least the next two years can move on from that, not that I expect it to get any more mature or rational. Just different.
The new Trump-free era! The Dragon has been slain! Now to divide the spoils…
If Trump is the Rosetta Stone, then Biden is a tabula rasa.
Etch-a-sketch – give him a little shake and it all goes away.
‘Just different.’
It’s going to be hilarious listening to the media explain away all the incoherent argle-blargle spewing out of the front of Joe’s face whenever he’s forced to address the public in a live setting. At least we have that to look forward to over the next couple of years. Dark humor will save our sanity yet. Or at least, make the insanity entertaining.
Trump was The Mule – the short-lived outsider who exposes everything and throws the system into disarray.
Both parties will try to “move on” from the big reveals of their corruption. It won’t work.
Both parties will try to “move on” from the big reveals of their corruption. It won’t work.
Sure it will. The populace has a very short memory, and those few that don’t will be thoroughly demoralized in a year or so, realizing nothing they can possibly do makes a damn bit of difference.
I was at the gym last night with a half-dozen normal working guys. A few years ago they were middle-of-the-road conservatives. We started talking politics – they all took “the red pill”. The local conspiracy guy walked in and it was like Norm walking into Cheers. He was right about everything.
There is no un-taking the red-pill. No unseeing how the whole system is corrupt. There are people just waiting for the first shots to be fired.
Aw, aren’t you adorable!
I thought it would happen anyway, but the Ds taking the Senate (maybe, McConnell has two weeks to convince Manchin to vote “Present”) guarantees the Rs take the House in 2 years. The Senate will be more difficult, I think the Rs have a lot of people up for reelection in 2 years AND state-wide voting shenanigans don’t work as well on the House level. Plus republicans control redistricting in most of the country.
BTW, if you are Manchin, how hard ball do you play? I might walk into Shumer’s office with a measuring tape. You know, to let him know who the new Majority Leader is gonna be.
By 2 years from now, the Ds will have fixed things to where there is no way they can ever lose another election. Adding 2 states and VA and GA are already blue now, TX will be next. We’re done, elections no longer matter. We’re fucked.
GA is still run by the GOP, they can do like Ohio and Florida did and fix their election laws. They are the stupid party, but not usually the entirely suicidal party.
the entirely suicidal party
That would be the CA GOP.
Yes. But did they really have any say, I think they got overrun by demographics. At a certain point, when both houses have super-majorities, you don’t exist as a party anymore anyway.
Oh they were entirely complicit in the redistricting that doomed them – opting for safe seats over competitive ones.
To Juris upthread repeating the canard that the CA GOP fucked themselves over with redistricting so the survivors could, for the time being, hang onto safe districts:
The redistricting did not doom the CA GOP. Demographics did that. There is no redistricting plan that can result in majority status to a party that has these kinds of numbers:
Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D)
63.5% 11,110,250
Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R)
34.3 6,006,429
I did not know that insanity was a demographic! I keed, a little.
That is the result of the CA GOP making itself irrelevant for close to 30 years. I’m part of the exodus from CA of people that would vote Repub.
GA is still run by the GOP, they can do like Ohio and Florida did and fix their election laws.
They won’t. What we have seen since November indicates they have zero desire to do so. I still can’t figure out why the Repubs holding state-wide offices (Governor and SecState, to name two) don’t care that not fixing their elections ends their political careers.
Bought and paid for by CCP money.
Yep.
don’t care that not fixing their elections ends their political careers.
They don’t see it. They think this is all hinging on Trump, and that 2022 will go back to “normal”.
Relying on coming out on top of a truly compromised voting system is a fool’s errand. Until that’s addressed, and it never will be, the Reps are screwed. National breakup is the only way out of this soup sandwich.
That’s one of the reasons why there’s been a push by some on the Left to make the Senate based on population. An acquaintance was pissing and moaning about how unfair it was that Wyoming had the same representation in the Senate as California and it should be based on population. I pointed out that the House is based on population, which means that California has more reps than Wyoming.
It’s like…do you even Civics bro?
The Senate is explicitly designed to be the representatives of the states. I’m not sure whether they know this and don’t care because it doesn’t suit their purposes, or whether they are actually just that stupid.
They want to be in charge. They don’t care about principles. Tomorrow belongs to them anyway so they don’t have to worry about the boot being on the other foot.
The Senate with proportional representation is just the House with better perks.
I simply ask those idiots – “why would Wyoming remain a member state of the U.S. if they were simply to be ruled by NY and CA?”
That was the deal that got the smaller states to join the federation and kept them in it. Break that deal and the country quickly disintegrates.
Break that deal and the country quickly disintegrates.
Nope, secession is not allowed, per the events of 1861.
There will be no national breakup without a level of violence unseen in this country, probably ever, including the Civil War.
I’m not sure I agree with that statement. Even if it true, it doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
I don’t know that I believe that. The typical American is much less familiar with or capable of violence than they were two centures ago. Plus with the glorification of the victim over the victor, there’s much less social expectation to be competently violent.
The typical American is much less familiar with or capable of violence than they were two centures ago.
People learn very quickly.
One of the combat vets would know whether homicide is as big of a deal to the psyche as it’s portrayed.
If it is, people who haven’t killed a vertebrate before might not engage in the kind of violence RC Dean is proposing.
Then again, child soldiers in Africa suggest that all you need are a shipment of hatchets and you can massacre indefinitely.
From what I’ve read on child soldiers (I got the book back in college, so the title eludes me) there’s still a good deal of conditioning done to break their minds before they function as weapons. It’s just easier to do than with adults.
On the other hand, it also shows anyone can be desensitized to the act and eventually hack away with whatever coping mechanisms they develop. “They’re not really people we’re dismembering” being common.
I do not my doubt my capacity to kill.
I might not want to, but I am fully capable of it.
So far, I’ve not shot anything bigger than mice, but I can see how I could become detatched from the act with other creatures.
Once hate and revenge take over, people lose that inhibition. See the Missouri-Kansas Border War for reference.
Right, and in the 19th century, people were more likely to have killed their own meals themselves, destroyed unwanted pets and/or attended some sort of bloodsport.
And all of their friends and neighbors would have done likewise, and considered drowning a sack of kittens the right thing to do. It was their normal.
victim over the victor
So we will separate based on Olympic level whining?
…yes? What do you think Intersectionality is?
I figured at least one side didn’t give a shit about victim rheeeee-ing.
It may take two to tango, but it does not take two sides to separate.
In all the counties that Atlanta metro area is in, the stupids voted 85% democrat. GA may as well be California now.
CNN (I think) had an absolutely gleeful article up a few says ago with this exact premise.
“Lots of people are moving to Atlanta, and they’re DEMOCRATS! They are going to stick it to those backwoods hillbillies something terrible. YAY!”
They’re going to stick it to themselves too, but they seem too dumb to know that. There won’t be anywhere to escape to this time.
As I tell the died-in-the-wool Dem* gf, they are going to get what they voted for good and hard. It is just unfortunate that the rest of us have to as well. Perhaps she will understand when I am taxed into poverty for daring to try to earn a living and can no longer afford to buy her jewelry.
*It is really kind of sad. She is not alone, of course. Too many people lack critical thinking skills and a desire to seek out different viewpoints, especially concerning government and philosophy. All she knows is TEAM. So she gobbles up anything and everything that is fed to her by the likes of CNN/Salon/etc. (every lie and puff piece that insists that *insert Dem pol/candidate* is just a humble public servant looking out for the average Jane/Joe…) and thinks everyone that diverts from that is “ignorant”.
Oh, well. I hope there is beer in our coming
DystopianGreat Reset.As I tell the died-in-the-wool Dem* gf, they are going to get what they voted for good and hard.
Every TEAM supporter doesn’t want that to happen to their own side – it is all about fucking over all of those other terrible people on the OTHER team.
That earlier question about do I think we should all just stop voting. Sort of. We need to get ALL of these people out of the voting booth. I’m not sure how we can do that, but there is no point in voting when this is how people do it.
This is going to be a very interesting twist in the usual fighting.
The big divide is between rural and urban areas. That is how it is here in Minnesoda. The last election proved that the big city areas can vote for Dems for any statewide races and there isn’t much the hicks can do about it.
When I visit my dad out in the sticks, the thing that really is pissing them off is that the state is using general fund $$ to pay for Minneapolis to rebuild after the riots. The rubes don’t get why they need to be paying for shitty DFL governance. But there really isn’t any way for them to avoid it if we stick to representative government.
At some point leftists will have to figure out the hard way where their food comes from.
Arrest warrant for Trump.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-arrest-warrant-interpol-b1782723.html
They’re going to have to get in line behind New York and a few others.
I can’t stand Stacy Abrams. I wish she would shut the hell up and fade into obscurity but she won’t though.
That’s all I have to contribute.
Runway Model, Noted Author, Statesperson, Governor, Sassy Black Herman and also People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive 2021”!
Tank ain’t going anywhere. She hand-delivered Georgia and will get her rewards.
She’ll be GA’s next governor and maybe even our first actually elected female black President. They owe her big and I’m actually impressed by her effectiveness.
I think the best part about all of this is how the Left are complaining that the MAGA crowd and GOP need to accept the results of the election and are being unpatriotic by not doing so….even though their poster child was a Georgia gubernatorial nominee who couldn’t except the results of the election for Georgia’s governor.
It’s the boldness in which they lie and obfuscate that bothers me the most. It’s like you handing me a shit sandwich disguised as peanut butter, I call you out on it, and then you get upset that I won’t accept your shit sandwich.
Has #notmypresident been scrubbed from the Internet yet?
Not scrubbed, just flipped from symbol of goodthink to badthink. Much more efficient that way.
It helps to have nearly complete control of the narrative via the msm and an opposition party that is completely feckless.
That’s the point they are doing it on purpose the lies are brazen. It’s straight out of the playbook of the soviets, it’s meant to demoralize you.
We’ll soon have a real Ministry of Truth. Twitter and Facebook with be given total control of he internet, so they can control bad think and make sure only the truth can be told, get rid of all the hate speech you know.
Anita Hill is still raking in the victim-bucks and it has been what, thirty years? Yeah she is going to be around for awhile.
The Emperor’s New Clothes just seems to have echoes every day.
Trump is truly the Rosetta stone of contemporary politics – nothing can be interpreted without reference!
If Trump did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. He is the Great Shiny Object, the “Hey, look over there!” around which American politics orbits.
Sure, whatever. If that’s what helps you sleep at night.
Right now, Brian Setzer is on, singing “Fishnet Stockings”.
Sometimes you just have to step back, take a deep breath, let it out slowly, and contemplate the truly important and meaningful things in life.
When I get to the bathroom, I go back to the top of the slide
Where I fart, and I turn, and I go for a ride
‘Til I get to the bottom, and I CNN!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Now, Helter Setzer
Helter Setzer
Helter Setzer
Yeah
Woo!
You’re right. I’m going for a walk.
I pointed out that the House is based on population, which means that California has more reps than Wyoming.
Not
good
enough!
All agreements are open for renegotiation. Sure that was the agreement then, but now the agreement should change. Pray we don’t alter it any further.
How long before the dems start falling apart.? Human nature being what it is I can see dissension amongst the troops coming fairly quickly. I want my fair share! We know about honor the non existent Honor Among Thieves, Them versus Us, etc. The Dem Party will fractionalize, the big city/big state will find that other blue tax payers are reluctant to bail them out and the merry go round will break down.
Hyenas will band together until the kill is made, then the fight continues for a fair share . People are the same, fair meaning my share is bigger and better.
They’ll fall apart eventually but expect at least a few years of being united by their hatred of people like, well, us and the policies that flow from that.
That is a good point. To pass Obamacare, they threw some of their party under the bus. They knew that some of the newer members would lose their next election if they voted for it, but that was a sacrifice they were all willing to make. Would they be able to get that kind of compliance this time? There seems to be a rift in the party few people are talking about.
I posted an article yesterday on exactly that – the two WA reps who’s districts touch, but who represent distinctly different wings of the party.
OT – Nice tale yesterday 4×20! I didn’t get to read it until after sleep time. Clever premise!
The question is how long until the Dems get a no-shit strongman in charge of the party.
Pray it doesn’t happen. They’ve still got infighting right now.
Before the next presidential election and they won’t be leaving. We’ll be an English speaking CCP, only with shitloads of wokeness. I think by that point, moving to China will look like a good idea. There, as long as you don’t piss off the CCP, you’ll pretty much be left alone. We’ll have the same situation here, only you will never be left alone by the the woketard technocracy.
You know how to avoid the woketard technocracy? Opt the fuck out. No one forces you to Google or FB.
The CCP will never be a better alternative. When it even appears to be, it is time to shoot, not talk.
Yet.
The IRS allows you to submit your taxes elextronically via their e-forms, or by paper if you prefer. NYS does not. You have to electronically file, and they do not provide an option for doing so. You must use a third party software to do so. If you’re already using an accountatnt, or TurboTax or whatever, NBD right? I have an irrational hatred of having to pay someone in order to pay someone else. By my third year here I found someone that was acceptable to the Great God Excelsior that I didn’t have to pay for (creditkarma.com).
There’s nothing stopping the Feds from going a similar route wiht an electronic version of RealID that goes through their favored tech donors.
“No one forces you to Google or FB.”
Won’t matter. If you post anything on the web, Google, and Facebook, and Twitter will be able to ban you. And it will get worse, posting bad think online will get you up on federal charges. Hate crimes. They’ll be the new internet censors, because we can’t have bad think. It adds to systemic racism, which is almost as bad as global warming.
Consider Airstrip One where the local constabulary spends their hours policing online speech.
They can fall apart all they want to now, doesn’t matter. It’s impossible to vote them out.
But the end of this year we will get all of the following:
socialize healthcare at a massive cost to tax payers
draconian restrictions to free speech on the internet
hard left changes to the education system of our children
gun confiscation
Who’s going to stop them?
“hard left changes to the education system of our children”
Pretty sure that’s already been done.
It all has. We’re not exactly jumping from unicorns and rainbows into sludge and thunderstorms. The ratchet turns a little bit faster is all. The bolt gets tightened either way.
Oh, it’s going to get a LOT worse.
It can go further. Ireland a priori determines that girls will do better than boys and adjusts test socres to ensure that outcome happens.
I’m reading through that article and all i can think is… What is the point? Are you cargo culting it so bad that you think saying someone is better and fudging the score will magically make them smarter?
That’s the point. It’s a breeding program for dumbed down voters. We don’t need to invent or make anything anymore, so why do we need smart skilled people? That’s what we have China for.
What the fuck?
It’ll be more and harder with leftist federal mandates. Your children will be taught to hate themselves because they are white, and all other manner of leftist tropes, along with growing up as children of the Great Reset.
Not quite, the establishment uniparty is corrupt. They don’t want those because it ends the graft, just like how I shake my head at the libertarians who freaked out over abortion. They have outright admitted they don’t want those changes because if they do it they can’t grift. You will see stupid changes, but not a takeover. Think of it this way, even with the sc refusing to take gun cases for years, and Cali having its own swamp circuit, they didn’t do all that… why? Because power is the end, claiming they will make changes is the means.
Now that’s an interesting point, much like the NRA is more known for fundraising and the votes of its members than for actually fighting gun laws.
Bingo, we realize the right does it to us, yet we seem to forget it does that to the left as well. The establishment is a hydra, ignore the heads and note it is the same monster.
I’m with you to a point. There comes a time when the left and right do not need to play off each other to grift. Once solid enough control is implemented, the hydra can simply step forward out of the darkness and take whatever it wants without the pretense.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship…the object of power is power
The question is when will the United States reach that point that seems to be the default ruling state of Man.
Time to move to WV. (assuming is is not on the same track as the rest of the country.)
‘Who’s going to stop them?’
Nobody. Guns apparently mean jackshit while you still have bread and circuses.
The only question is: Can the state confiscate the guns before people get truly hungry? Not the bullshit “Oh, man! I haven’t eaten in eighteen hours!” kinda hungry. I mean the “Holy shit! My family and I are slowly dying of malnutrition!” kinda hungry.
I’ve been there a few times in my life, it ain’t pretty. You…devolve in that situation. Sociopathic urges become more reasonable, more acceptable for basic survival…civilization is an illusion when faced with immediate death.
My point being: If the printing press going brrrrr!!! outlasts the right to bear arms, game over. We’ll be nothing more than cattle by then and too weak to fight back, no matter how hungry we get.
This little vignette just occurred to me. It deserves to be fleshed out, but I’ll just outline it.
Store owner wanders into the stock room, where his faithful long term best employee is at the back door busily loading the trunk of a running car with cases of beer. Owner scratches his head and asks, “What gives?”
Employee says, “Hey, there’s sketchy guy up front. I think he’s trying to boost a donut and a cup of coffee. You had better keep a sharp eye on him.”
Owner scurries off.
Best Employee chuckles, shoves ten pounds of prime steaks in back seat, signals accomplice to drive off.
The End.
—-
Store Owner played by- The People
Faithful Employee played by- The Deep State
Who do you suppose plays the role of Sketchy Guy?
Well, who’s Store Owner and who’s Faithful Employee?
And was Faithful Employee always faithful and this is a one-off, or was he stealing all along?
Is Sketchy Guy really sketchy or is he waiting to pay someone for his food? Also, is there really a Sketchy Guy out front?
My bad. I read a little closer. I see who Store Owner is but Faithful Employee is still a mystery. See my questions above.
Shit, now I’m actually thinking about this.
Is Faithful Employee the kid of one of Store Owner’s friends and he was doing him a favor? Is FE someone he hired via application? How long has FE been with SO?
Here I feel this explains my perspective,
https://www.bitchute.com/video/I-61gqkERBA/
Previous post seemed to not go up, if it finally does, please disregard. Here is a bit of clarity on the situation I would say.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/I-61gqkERBA/
Hey I tried posting a bit chute link and it seems to not be showing up.
Let’s try rumble, as I said previously I feel this will provide some clarity
https://rumble.com/vche7y-neocons-and-the-msm-quick-to-blame-trump-for-presumable-georgia-senate-loss.html
Rumble as well, this seems like a problem. Fine I will put the googletube version up, as I tried saying this should provide clarity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-61gqkERBA
I’ll save it for today’s afternoon “ritual”. I’m a Clanker, too!
I’m pretty sure in the very near future, you will have to pass a fact check through the Ministry of Truth and wait 2 weeks to get the approval. Of course YOU will not be getting one, deplorable.
Wonder how long until we get the social credit score, since the CCP will now basically be running the election.
All your link is belong to us.
We already have one, remember the patriot act. The thing is like in China they don’t care about much, disliking the government isn’t enough unless you act against them you won’t notice.
Testing:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/I-61gqkERBA/
And was Faithful Employee always faithful and this is a one-off, or was he stealing all along?
Faithful Employee is the Deep State. Pilfering and abusing the trust of The People from day one.
Sketchy Guy is Bad Orange Shiny Object.
I said it needed to be fleshed out.
Asking questions is how it gets fleshed out. Usually the question is “Why?” but we know why.
Science: Trans women retain athletic edge after a year of hormone therapy, study finds
Clearly that is hate, not SCIENCE!
NO FUCKING WAY!?!?!?!?!
Men, in general, are stronger than women. Other news at 11.
Don’t worry a handicapper general will bring everyone down to the accepted level.
This is why you need boys to transition as early as possible.
Well, shit.
My application to work the LOCAP nationals was denied. Now I’m wondering if I fucked up Factory Gun Nationals so badly that my file’s been flagged.
Of course, I was really surprised that with my complete and utter lack of experience they put me on that crew, so maybe conditions were weird for that match and the pool of applicants so tiny that they had to take me then and now the normal order is being restored?
Or maybe Talledega is just more popular than Frostproof?
Or maybe Talledega is just more popular than Frostproof?
It is for NASCAR.
Downtown Frostproof is (and I swear I am not making this up)
A Dollar Tree, a Dollar General, A Family Dollar, a grocery store and a McDonald’s.
Does the McDs only have the dollar menu?
I didn’t stop there.
I did stop at the grocery store to pick up laundry detergent. They only carried knockoff brands.
OK, time for something positive you freaks:
GIRL ON BICYCLE! (its a little slow for the first minute, but picks up nicely)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB3qTVg3hhs
I’ll be in my bunk.
I think the “A pox upon both their houses” crowd is about to get a lesson in why false equivalency is a stupid game. Unfortunately I will be getting it along with them. I’ll probably check in here from time to time but I am going to try to avoid the news and political arguments for a bit. It is not having good effects on me.
See ya over in the forum?
I’m about to do the same thing, by the way. I’ve gone from angry to depressed to just not giving a shit anymore. Politics is a stupid thing to waste my mental and emotional energy on. I’ll probably spend a majority of my Glib time in the forum going forward. All this current events BS isnt good for my mental state.
The forum is new and different. It confuses and alarms me!
“I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was… Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what is IT seems new and scary!”
huh, I thought the forum got trashed a day after it opened. guess I missed something
Resurrected from the dead.
https://www.glibertarians.us/community/
Ironically, the profileration in means of contacting people makes it harder to stay in touch.
I haven’t got the time to check all of them.
Agreed.
I don’t do Discord. It’s too discordant for me.
I feel the same, but it was inevitable.
One thing that has taken me years to learn in both the workplace and at home is that for many people just talking about things is cathartic. For me discussing in great detail something that I have no control over and isn’t going the way I want is exercise in rage inducing frustration.
I’ll still check in over here and skim things, but depending on how the conversation is going may wait for another post. That’s what I did during the presidential election.
There are a lot of posters here who have good insights about a variety of topics both political and non-political that I value.
Is Sketchy Guy really sketchy or is he waiting to pay someone for his food? Also, is there really a Sketchy Guy out front?
Trump is Sketchy Guy. He’s just an opportune distraction, while the real back door looting continues unabated.
I have a question about GA – how can they run a general election that doesn’t produce a winner? Isn’t the fucking purpose of a primary to get to the two major party candidates for the general?
There was no primary for the Loeffler-Warnock race because it was a special election (I don’t get it, but apparently dem’s da rules). For the Purdue-Ossoff race, there was also a libertarian candidate running in November who got 2.3% of the vote. Purdue got 49.7% and Ossoff got 47.9%.
For the main race, the LP was on the ballot. What I don’t understand is why they don’t do IRV or ranked choice? If you are going to require a majority, why not do it all on the same day?
My distinction between IRV and ranked choice is that IRV only takes two votes, so on your 2nd vote, you should pick someone you think will be in the top 2. Its a simple version of ranked choice (which is technically IRV) where you don’t have to rank down to n-1 (where n is number of candidates).
For the special election, it was basically the primary on election day. They hadn’t had a primary so it was a free-for-all. I think there were 9 or 11 candidates on the ballot. I don’t even think the LP had a candidate, it was all Rs and Ds.
Because they wrote election laws that say if you don’t get 50.0001%, you get a runoff. * shrugs *
If you’re a cheerleader for the a Top Two Democrat run state election, sure. Everyone else recognizes that there is more than two political parties.
Because they wrote election laws that say if you don’t get 50.0001%, you get a runoff.
Wondering what era that comes from? I mean, if you assume the duopoly, then by definition it will be 50%+1 to be the winner.
I can’t stand Stacy Abrams. I wish she would shut the hell up and fade into obscurity but she won’t though.
That’s all I have to contribute.
[insert clueless outrage]
But she looks quite smart in a pantsuit that is 2 sizes too small for her.
Public schools in my area have pulled the football again from reopening. They were going to start phase reopening this month, that has been canceled until all the teachers have been vaccinated and I have a feeling that will get changed again to until all the kids are vaccinated. I’m beginning to suspect we are going this way till the summer and won’t resume to the fall or at all. We are seriously going to ride this thing till the paychecks stop Thelma and Louis style it’s fucking insane. It would be hilarious if it didn’t affect all of us.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/keltec-announces-the-p50-a-50-round-5-7x28mm-pistol/
I can think of better ways to burn through money.
“Keltec”
I hope you like clearing jams and frustration because that’s what you’re gonna get with that thing.
I don’t know about the above pistol, but the only problems I’ve ever had with my Kel-Tec sub2K can be reliably attributed to operator error. Shame I lost it in that tragic boating accident.
Too bad .22 WMR is so terrible in semi-autos.
Be that as it may, I find more widespread use of that magazine to be a good thing. I saw something on the twits that I don’t know if it was real or not, but a 12ga varaint of it.
It looks like it would be slow to reload.
“Metros w/ Highest Moves OUT, 2020
on @unitedvanlines
1/ Nassau, NY (81%)
2/ Bergen, NJ (81%)
3/ Trenton, NJ (76%)
4/ New York, NY (72%)
5/ Newark, NJ (72%)
6/ Chicago, IL (69%)
7/ Bremerton, WA (69%)
8/ Bridgeport, CT (69%)
9/ Middlesex, NJ (69%)
10/ Lake, IL (68%)”
https://twitter.com/michael_hendrix/status/1346234223439568896
“Trump hits 450 mile border construction goal.”
I’m sure this will be a good thing now. The dems will be using it to keep the immigrants from getting back out. Those votes aren’t going anywhere. And even after there is no more voting, who’s going to pick that lettuce and mow our yards?
https://twitter.com/gretchenwhitmer/status/1346819096160186370
OFFS!!!!!
Man, some of the responses are, umm, disheartening.
Holy shit are we in trouble.
Now they can get on with the business of modeling a national lockdown on Whitmer’s model and passing it in both houses before the Pres happily signs off on it and pulling money from the states that don’t comply.
I detest idol worship.
This person gets it.
iterally Stormed
@JurisNaturalism
More drone strikes, yay! More foreign wars, yay! More money to Wall St and the defense companies, yay!
Public education really worked.
I can’t say Trump supporters are much better in that regard. Still weird as hell.
The hardcore Trumpists are as cultish as the left, that’s for sure.
But you have to admit that painting SF had on his hat and hair article was epic.
Cultish, but epic.
I don’t want to share a country with these people anymore.
A country is not all you’re going to have to share with them.
Christ, the 3rd Amendment is going away too??
They are not going to let you leave…
You can leave me in peace, or let me leave in peace, but you can’t force me to accept to braindead religion.
Juris — this is what a Cult looks like. Trump has one, but this is absurd.
What has happened to this country?
I keep seeing headlines and stories up here that refer to Ukraine Int’l 752 as a “plane crash”. Do you think if one of the Proud Boys fired a bazooka at a major highway it would be referred to as a “car crash”? 😉
Whelp, I’m out. Work is acting like that crazy Ex who cut your brake lines that one time just so that you would pay attention to the real issues in your relationship. Best wishes to all!
“In 2006, Newt Gingrich cited the threat of Islamic radicalism to insist that the First Amendment had to be “revised” to limit free speech.
Now, a growing number of Harvard & Yale law professors are arguing the same, citing the dangers of Trumpism:”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1346824295234859008
Newspapers against a free press.
Well, we can just say goodbye to the 1st and 2nd amendments. Those were both DOA as soon as the dems got the senate.
So i was watching the CinemaSins reveiw of the new Mulan and had a bit of an epiphany (don’t be to excited, it’s a leon level epiphany, so like a moderatly interesting thought), and wanted to bounce it off here.
Essentially in the new Mulan, Mulan is already amazing. As a child she has the power of the Chi and genuinely amazing. But everyone frowns on it because it isn’t ladylike etc. Zoom forward to where she is in the army and she saves the day, but it is found out she is a woman. She is cast out, despite everyone knowing she is amazing. Etc. Etc. You probably know the story.
My thought was this. The point of making these female superheroes/protagonists “perfect” is that in the minds of the writers the struggle against societal bias against women being the heroine is not only necessary, but sufficient. It is the only struggle they need to have. In short they are saying “Even if there was this amazing person, they would still be discounted because of the cultural bias against them”. Of course i think this seems off because that is clearly not the case. Sure there are biases, but historically it seems that they were not insurmountable. I mean Mulan _is_ a legend from China. Joan Of Arc is a story we are all very familiar with.
You know how you can tell that we as a society hate women? By the fact that any depiction of a women that is less than perfect is not tolerated…
/sarc
Same people who wrote the Star Wars Rey character and every other Betty Sue character. It’s sexist to think that female hero characters have to work for their abilities and gradually level up.
Rey is a joke, and emblematic of why the new woke Star Wars are terrible. She’s instantly amazing at everything she does the first time she does it. At least Luke had to train, struggle, and fail a few times.
I mean, look at The Mandalorian – he’s pretty badass, but he still almost dies and has to be saved by a droid, gets his ship looted by jawas, and only survives his encounter with the ice spiders because two X-wing pilots rescue him.
Haven’ see the Mandalorian. Probably never will.
I refuse to give any money to the fuckers at Disney.
If the DVD shows up in my library I’ll watch. Otherwise, no.
Working for your abilities suggests two completely unacceptable things:
-you have control over your life
-merit is earned
In the sciencetific consensus of reality, one’s success or failure is entirely determined by luck and/or by systematic societal forces. To the extent that an individual even exists, the only acton they can take to improve themselves is to give power to Top Men who can adjust society. In that way, each cluster of interesctional identities along oppressed/oppressor axes might have a subjective impression of a better life.
Well, I’m writing a new movie where Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor show up at Disney studios and kick everyone’s ass.
Ching Shih says hi.
I’ve never heard of her before. Just fascinating.
I wanna see Disney make a movie about HER.
I don’t. They would butcher it completely. It would have to be a different movie house.
You’re right. I was thinking more, “I want to see Disney do this one right!” but of course, that would assume they could.
It’s paticularly egregious in Mulan because the animated version didn’t do that. There’s a great YT video by a Chinese (canadian? I think) woman who rips on the new Mulan movie for that reason and others.
But yes these writers are in such thrall to the hashtag feminists that no heroine is allowed weakness or growth or much personality. Or even kindness (Belle in liveaction is missing most of the compassion shown by the animated version). She gets everything handed to her. It’s a terrible trend.
I had the exact thought when my kids were watching the new Mulan.
Really? A society discriminates against women fighters that are unstoppable killing machines? Does that seem likely?
Giving her insane magical powers completely undermines the story.
How about making her an actual women that is physical weaker and must overcome this somehow? wouldn’t this make a better story?
Only deplorables think women are physically weaker, vile shitlord.
Buffy says hi.
I was so disappointed with Mulan, and I love the animated one.
Monocle isn’t working for me right now. I have Tampermonkey installed as a Chrome extension. How do I access monocle again? The FAQ/Resources sidebar link doesn’t go anywhere. Thanks.
Lol, wut?
I seem to recall seeing the exact same chart about two months ago.
I was just about to post an image of that.
That can’t be real, can it?
JFC
Here’s a video of 5,000 votes suddenly being removed from Purdue’s count. Goes from 2,130,XXX -> 2,125,XXX. It’s the exact same play they ran on Trump.
https://twitter.com/Antifearmnger/status/1346677102561652736
Unreal. Not the least bit subtle about it at all.
I swear I saw that happen a couple times on DDHQ last night. Tim Pool had the FNC coverage up and he noticed the same thing.
Looks edited, but the strange part is the 95% reporting to 96% reporting — that should go the other way, should it not if the guy cut the video together?
Nevermind. It’s 2 different races at 2 different percentages. This video looks edited, but there are more in the thread that do not.
It’s not edited. Thousands saw it in real time.
I’m just curious if there’s an explanation for it. Because it happened in a few places in the last election too.
Is there a legitimate explanation for this?
*shocked face*
BREAKING: Matthew Yglesias Is An asshole
“For various reasons it’s probably better for the $2,000 to arrive in April when more stuff will be open rather than January, which would mean plenty of time to print them all up as giant novelty checks with huge Joe Biden signatures on them.”
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1346824758034395136
Some PA Repubs learn to not play nice.
With all of our resident hockey fans – how the hell did this escape notice?
I seem to recall seeing the exact same chart about two months ago.
I have no idea what that is supposed to be showing me.
VoteBallot dump when it looked like Dems were losing.I’m sure the courts have already prerejected any resulting challenges for lack of standing. I’d say Georgia deserves their shit sandwich but we’re all going to have to take a bite.
That ballot dump was normal and known to be coming the whole time and so Democrats were never really losing.
What I’m curious about is how totals for one candidate can drop. What’s the explanation for that?
A random observation. Protein companies purchase offal and refuse from broiler chicken producers. They also purchase spoiled or rejected chicken products.
A company I used to work for would deliver cooking oil to McD’s and other fast food restaurants. They’d also haul off the old used cooking oil.
When gas prices were super high, the used cooking oil was used as biodiesel. But normally the biggest market for used cooking oil were poultry farmers. They would mix the oil with the feed so that the birds would really fatten up.
So that protein company is just selling organically filtered french fries.
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1346808749911142401
Buckle up indeed…
fuck fuck fuck
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nearly-3-out-of-4-dc-police-officers-ready-to-leave-the-force-washington-police-union-poll
At least they’ll get to enjoy one last hurrah teargassing Trumpers today before they go.
My understanding is that witch of a mayor has been giving them explicitly political instructions to ignore rioters and/or do things to make Trump look bad like be overly aggressive when he was going to the St. Johns church. There were some leaks back in the summer of such.
Placebo Kabuki
Two conservative lawmakers got into a contentious exchange with House staff Tuesday over rules requiring members to wear a mask on the floor, which prompted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to get involved and order them to follow the chamber’s rules.
The two lawmakers, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Chip Roy of Texas, were voting on Tuesday when the exchange occurred.
CNN witnessed Roy not wearing a mask and engaging in an animated exchange with floor staff. Roy would not comment to CNN after he left the floor.
Asked for comment, Greene’s office said the congresswoman is “perfectly healthy and tested negative for COVID yesterday at the White House.”
“Speaker Pelosi directly addressed the Congresswoman and demanded she put on her mask while on the floor,” the spokesperson said to CNN in a statement.
The spokesperson then accused Pelosi of allowing “a COVID positive Democrat to waltz around the Capitol complex and on the House floor,” referring to Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore, who announced she had tested positive for Covid last week and later voted in the House just six days after announcing her Covid-19 diagnosis.
Moore, who wore a mask on the House floor Sunday, said in a statement Tuesday she was followed the guidance of Dr. Brian Monahan, the Attending Physician of the United States Congress.
Arrest those refuseniks for attempted MURDER!
The redistricting did not doom the CA GOP. Demographics did that. There is no redistricting plan that can result in majority status to a party that has these kinds of numbers:
Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D)
63.5% 11,110,250
Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R)
34.3 6,006,429
As I noted above, the redistricting in question was 30 some years ago. It was the start of the decline. The GOP was willing to cede their relevance, and they did. What you are talking about now is the culmination of the Republican abdication there way back then. I’d be very willing to bet that the out-migration from the state has had a very distinct partisan slant.
It sure has, but not in the way you apparently think it does. NV, AZ, and CO say hi. Yes, there are a lot of GOPers from CA, but they’re almost certainly outnumbered by Team Blue migrants. There are more GOP voters in CA than there are in TX.
I live in a housing development that is still under construction, and I’m observing the license plates of new homeowners before they switch to TX plates. Maybe 30% to 40% from CA, and a bunch of other Blue states like NY. Zeus knows how many of the TX plates are Blue state migrants who had to rent a while and register their cars here, before their house was built. Even though these houses are expensive by TX standards, they are dirt cheap compared to Blue state cities. One of my neighbors from CA bought TWO houses here, one for themselves and one for their parents.
In a totally unrelated development, the county I live in recently flipped from Red to lite Blue. I’m guessing what happened to AZ and GA is just a few election cycles away from happening to TX, in which case the GOP can kiss off winning any presidential elections for a while.
Everyone makes their first mistake by going back in time and killing Hitler.
The first target should always be Ted Turner just before he launches CNN.
Killing Marx and Engels would make killing Hitler unnecessary.
Someone would think of the same crap with different words.
If it wasn’t Hitler it would have been someone else, Weimar Germany was ripe for the picking in 1932.
This. Anti-semitism wasn’t fringe in 1923 Germany. Most of their prominent philosophers were anti-semites. Someone else would’ve taken up the mantel (mantle?) that Hitler did.
I would have went for Marx and Lenin instead.
Gretchen Whitmer has a Stacy Abrams dildo?
What will they think of next?
Thicc!
I for one look forwards to the forthcoming Buchannan err… Biden… oops … pre-Harris administration.
Why hasn’t Disney put the inspirational and heartwarming tale of Lucretia Borgia on the animated screen?
So many competent women, so little regard for them.
Lizzy Borden smashing the patriarchy.
Samantha Stephens went from twinkling her nose to swinging an ax.
Took the kids to the dentist then dropped XX off at school. I had forgotten that they are handing out food every day. There was a long drop-off line and I’m like, WTF? It’s 10 a.m. Then I saw the food. They’re handing out a week at a time, so I said, “Fuck it, I’m getting some.” Well, they give you a bag for each child, but I wasn’t thinking and said just one.
It’s a fucking week’s worth of groceries for one person! With a 1/2 gallon of milk! And enough apples for a pie! (Probably Red Delicious, though.) I had totally forgotten they were doing this and so I was shocked. I’m half appalled and half trying to decide whether to go get more tomorrow.