Hello and good afternoon. It’s wonderful madness at the L compound this week. School starts Wednesday, and even today, I’m taken even money bets on whether I will have 4,3, or 2 sons who survive until school starts. Mama is grumpy, and the older boys are too damn thick to know to run away and lay low. I guess Nature will solve that problem one way or another. It’s meet the teacher night at school so, I’ve also been threate, errr, had the outcome Mrs. L wants carefully explained to me. Second son has the same first grade teacher as his older brother. Why anyone would choose to have another one of my sons in their class, I don’t know. Maybe she used up all her strikes on even less appealing choices.
It’s a lot easier to beat someone up when he’s being held. (Audio is NSFW)
I don’t know if this is necessary, but using a laser to make coffee? Sounds like the future I want to live in.
Hmm, first private astronaut EVA supposedly coming in December. I wonder how the FAA will deny astronaut wings to these folks.
News that may be useful to Glibs Zoom callers.
Good song, cool place to play it.
I have had many people ask me what happens to Firsting when I am retired or no longer in this realm. I have long been at work putting together my autobiographies, and novels that will guide the next generation of Firsters who will, Great Firster willing, take the craft to new heights. My disciples will spread far and wide. But these works can only be given to the world posthumously. A First In The Night is my fourth work. I may share some snippets of it in audio form for the Glibertariat, though I have not yet decided.
America has a long way to go to catch up to the Euros in the field of sports hooliganism.
New Yorkers are certainly doing their part. There was a similar incident during NHL playoffs.
https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/rangers-fan-charged-with-assault-banned-from-madison-square-garden-for-punching-lightning-fan/
Classy. Nice suckerpunch.
Sucker punches should be a felony.
Agreed.
They should also be re-named to “coward’s punch.”
Maybe the guy was a student of Mr. Kove.
I hate to break etiquette by posting a link before 30 minutes have elapsed, but I have to go in just a little while. Olivia Newton-John is dead
Ouch RIP
Cue Ted’S. I await an awful, ancient link. Xanadu perhaps?
Cue Ted’S. I await an awful, ancient link.
Xanadu perhaps?FIFY, now you can use it again and again and again.
Couldn’t escape if I wanted to.
Oh heck.
You tried to hold me back but I was stronger.
Happy 42nd anniversary Xanadu.
I think Ted was cued a couple of hours ago.
They beat you with a stick?
Correct. You posted in the now deceased former post. I believe that makes you… first?
How about a more recent link?
You could have posted it in the previous article.
Researchers in Germany have created a laser-powered extraction system that pumps out cold-brew about 300 times faster than traditional methods. Arguably superior in flavor, aroma and caffeination, cold-brew coffee may soon be convenient too.
Interesting.
Not sure there’s a lot of argument. Cold brew has it’s uses but I don’t find it to be superior to regular-brewed coffee, especially the aroma.
Mustang gets it.
Temperature has that effect. Warmer things will have a stronger aroma then cold ones. But when it’s over 70 degrees outside, cold brew can be damned tasty.
This is why I prefer cold. I don’t enjoy the taste of coffee, it’s just something I drink to get through the day.
“Laser brewed” coming to a Starbucks near you.
At 3x the price of regular coffee.
Will it taste like ass, as well?
*paging HM to the brown courtesy phone*
I’m with Mustang and Chafed WRT the relative merits of cold brew. But I think German researchers have more pressing issues to deal with. Like figuring out how to heat German homes this winter for starters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDWjSr0cjWU
She’s doomed!!!
“The researchers took a neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) laser, tuned to 532 nanometers, and created 125-picojoule pulses lasting just 10 picoseconds. They pulsed it through a solution of ground coffee mixed in with water, some 80,000 times per second, for three minutes”
I bought a stainless steel kettle for $5 about 30 years ago. It even has a whistle that still works.
Lol.
One of the places I stayed this week had a $300 Moccamaster coffee maker.
My $29 Aeropress is better.
You’ll never get an NSF grant with that thing.
$5/qt cold brew is ready and makes no mess.
I work with idiots. Asking me the same question over and over again will not get you a different answer, especially when it’s something I don’t control. Go talk to the actual engineers and don’t expect me to engage in mathematical engineering to solve your problem. If you ask me that question one more time I’m gonna have to put a cap in your ass. Or maybe not, since that’s where your brain seems to be, and I don’t want to actually murder anyone.
/rant over
Are they actually asking for what they want, or for something they mistake for what they want?
It’s like you’ve worked with generals.
Are they actually asking for what they want, or for something they mistake for what they want?
What the…
Whoa.
Finkel is Einhorn! Scruffy is UCS!
I’m too sober for this right now.
Good excuse to start drinking.
No way, Man, there’s only one UCS.
Scruffy stole UCS’s posting gloves.
I told you. Stop asking me the same question over and over again.
Oh, by the way — are they actually asking for what they want, or for something they mistake for what they want?
Dude, don’t make me reach for my revolver. https://youtu.be/PpTKcv-SmR0
That was exactly what I expected before I clicked.
Thanks.
Same same.
Jaime’s got a gun!
Reach for your rubber soul instead
I prefer rubber biscuits.
I also like this funky rubber band, man.
rubber band
JR gets it.
There’s a glitch in the tulpa!
GPT-3 ain’t ready for primetime.
It’s Tulpas all the way down.
Obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HiDOMuhpqUo
Is that the guy from Yellowstone singing that song?
Yes, Ryan Bingham.
If you really wanna know, go talk to the actual engineers.
We call them croakers for a reason
Kimbrough-Hilson’s family’s experience isn’t uncommon, according to a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Among households that had a serious illness in the past year, one in five respondents said they had trouble accessing care during the pandemic.
That’s a “staggering” number of people unable to access care, says Mary Findling, the assistant director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program. “From a health and a good care standpoint, that’s just too high.”
Other recent studies have found significant delays in cancer screenings, and disruptions in routine diabetes, pediatric and mental health care. While it’s still early to know the long-term impacts on people’s health, researchers and physicians are concerned, especially as the disruptions continue with the country’s health care system struggling to bounce back from the pandemic.
Pompous blowhards don’t really give a shit about patients?
You could knock me over with a feather.
“Had trouble” =/= “unable”.
The government reaction to the pandemic is responsible for most of that. Ask me how I know.
Howww diiiid youuuu knoww?
American Health care, 1958:
Call doctor. Doctor asks about symptoms. Cough and fever. Doctor makes house call.
American Health Care, 2022:
Call doctor. Doctor asks about symptoms. Cough and fever. “No office visit for you. Can you do telemed?”
Seriously. I had a poison ivy rash that my doc had prescribed a cream for a year prior. I called to see if she could re up that prescription and she wanted me to do a tele health call. I said I don’t need to pay 200 dollars for you to confirm what I already know, and hung up. Dealt with it with OTC drugs.
Had to do a telemed call to get motion sickness prescription for wife. They were annoyed lol
I had a post-surgery check not too long ago, but had covid at the time of the appointment. Called to reschedule, but had a major hassle doing that even when they said “call if you have covid.” Eventually, they agreed to telemed. The surgeon was annoyed, I was annoyed, and when he told me not to do anything for the next six weeks, my wife was annoyed.
Telemed is the new house call.
For prescription refills, or ‘hey this bump looks weird?” Etc they are great
“Why anyone would choose to have another one of my sons in their class?”
‘Cause the other teachers have seniority? Puttin’ ya on, Brett L. It’s ’cause #1 son was so much fun or kids are assigned by lot, alphabetically or something or it’s an unexplainable mystery.
“You’re not like your brother”. I heard that growing up
I did not attend any of the various schools my three older brothers attended, now that I think about it. They even went to three different high schools. They might have shared one or two elementary schools but that was before my time.
Ha – I avoided high school band because the band director had had my older brother. Oh no, I wasn’t going there.
I was the older brother. I still tell my siblings that I was the reason all the teachers loved them. Someone has to break the trail.
That band director hated my brother, I wasn’t going to subject myself to him.
I got the “oh, your J—–‘s brother” excitedly. And after about two months I got, “you’re nothing like your brother.”
I had my first post-military job interview today. I think I nailed it. Initial interviewer said I was “great” and is setting up a second interview to meet the facility HR, hiring manager, and one other person within a week. Really hope I can get all of this knocked out before I start my terminal leave.
Go you!
I hope it works out.
Good luck, Mustang!
👍 Keep us updated.
Good luck!
So what’s it gonna be: pony tail, beard or pierced ear? Congrats on a flying start!
Prince Albert.
Beard. Definitely beard.
Obey the Beard!
I had an appearance fanatic as NCOIC at my last duty station so I was often subjected to weekly haircuts. As a bonus the Separation Station when I got out would not give me my papers without one more haircut at the on-base barber and that guy gave me a Basic Training “rainbow” head-shave. I swore that I was not going to cut my hair or beard after that.
That promise lasted about three years. My curly hair became impossible to manage and I finally decided to cut it off. This was around the end of October so I made it into my Hallowe’en costume. I shaved my head and beard, put on a suit and tie, and carried a briefcase into the Hallowe’en party. Won first prize.
Good luck, Mustang, enjoy civilian life.
Excellent! Go get ’em,
tigerMustang!Fingers crossed for ya.
“A former Colorado police officer who did not stop another officer from being rough with a 73-year-old woman with dementia was sentenced Friday to 45 days in jail and three years of probation.
Heartless Daria Jalali earlier pleaded guilty after the violent arrest of Karen Garner in Loveland, about 50 miles north of Denver, in June 2020. The officer was placed on leave in 2021.
Former officer Austin Hopp arrested Garner after she left a store without paying for about $14 worth of items – including a candy bar, a can of Pepsi and a t-shirt.
The callous officers were seen celebrating after leaving the disheveled woman suffer in a jail cell after snapping her arm while they cuffed her…
Hopp was sentenced in May to five years in prison for his treatment of Garner. He had faced a mandatory prison sentence of between 10 and 32 years under an original, more serious assault charge”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11086137/Ex-officer-sentenced-rough-arrest-woman-dementia.html
Well, that’s something, at least. Would rather have had Hopp serve 10+ and Jalali serve at least a year plus a day (IIRC, the threshold for serving time in prison vs jail).
When your name is Heartless Daria, that kind of behavior is expected.
Maybe the wheel is starting to turn.
“January 6 committee gets Alex Jones’ text messages: Lawyer of Sandy Hook parents hands over two years of messages after he was ordered to pay almost $50million in damages”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11092799/January-6-committee-gets-Alex-Jones-text-messages-Sandy-Hook-parents-lawyer-Report.html
He’s on video telling people not to enter the capitol.
There is no limit to how far they’ll take this.
Watch the mental gymnastics from “He peddles in misinformation and should not be believed” to “look at these texts! Believe them!”
“I think that the toll of this delayed care is tremendous,” she says.
I’d say it exposed grotesque incompetence on multiple levels.
Okay, regarding the commenting weirdness. WebDom updated the site last night and we are now running WordPress 6.0.1. Previously we were running on WP 5.8,x. I think the comments are the last thing to be moved, reindexed, whatever and that could still be going on.
So you’re not saying it was aliens?
He never said it wasn’t either!
It was Trump and Alex Jones
So…Glibception?
Doo doo doo ah ah ah ah dum dum dum doo doo doo (mysterious music noises)
I thought it was Darude – Sandstorm
Eh, close enough.
If my Firsts have been lost, do you know what sort of loss this would be? It is incomprehensible.
You haven’t had any firsts to lose.
Not single one of you wished me godspeed as I went off to pay taxes. I don’t think you’re Real LibertariansTM
I just assumed you were going to turn in your “fuck off” remittance slip
We don’t want to get on the radar of those 80,000 new agents. But good luck.
A Real Libertarian™ would have refused to pay, pamphleted the tax office, and been hauled off in handcuffs shouting at the top of their lungs “AM I BEING DETAINED?!?!”
I feel your pain.
I assume you paid in pennies.
Get this…they have to run your card twice – once for the tax bill and a 2nd time for the “convenience fee”. Because they use two different credit card processors. Of course.
Government…we can fuck up anything
Government is the fuck ups we do together.
Because of course.
“Favoritism”
Any company in the world that made you do that would get laughed outta business but they don’t get to hold a gun to your head like our benevolent governments do
Paying taxes is one thing the government makes easy here. You don’t have to leave home. It’s not so easy when you want something from them.
Were you wearing your Gadsden blouse?
Did the IRS people get home safely?
Have the 7K newbies started yet? My under standing is that they will all be security
87K newbies
Can I say that, the ‘N’ word
Are you the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan?
Yeah, just feigning ignorance.
JaneKK you ignorant….There are no real libertarians!
In the past few days – Congress decided to hire an additional 87,000 IRS enforcers and send another $4.5billion to the Ukraine. Meanwhile Zelensky invited China to help rebuild Ukraine once the war is over.
We must be the most despised losers in the world.
We are the dad that is trying to buy their step-kids love
I’m sure China is more than willing to “help”.
Be afraid
After Amazon on Friday said it acquired iRobot, the company behind Roomba vacuums, data-privacy experts and antitrust researchers quickly raised alarm, saying the tech giant could use the purchase to vacuum up personal information from inside users’ homes.
Advanced Roomba vacuums have internal mapping technology that learns the floor plan of a user’s home. The devices can also “adapt to and remember” up to 10 floor plans “so users can carry their robot to another floor or a separate home, where the robot will recognize its location and clean as instructed,” press releases by iRobot say. Some models have low-resolution cameras to avoid obstacles and aid in mapping.
“People tend to think of Amazon as an online-seller company, but, really, Amazon is a surveillance company. That is the core of its business model, and that’s what drives its monopoly power and profit,” Evan Greer, the director of the nonprofit digital-rights-advocacy organization Fight for the Future, told Wired. “Amazon wants to have its hands everywhere, and acquiring a company that’s essentially built on mapping the inside of people’s homes seems like a natural extension of the surveillance reach that Amazon already has.”
Ron Knox, a senior researcher and writer for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance — a nonprofit that gives tech assistance to community businesses — said in a series of tweets after the acquisition was announced that the $1.7 billion deal, the fourth-largest acquisition in Amazon’s portfolio, “may be the most dangerous, threatening acquisition in the company’s history.”
Amazon will soon be doing murder for hire, by having your floorbot put roller skates at the top of your stairs.
Will I get discounts with my Prime membership?
Only if you aren’t wearing panties
😒
I thought it was odd that my robot vacuum seemed to be watching me undress.
You know who else has a floorplan of your house? Every registry of deeds.
(I say that but maybe that’s only Mass? I dunno, I haven’t owned a place elsewhere)
I’ve not had to do that in NoDak.
“Confidentially, it’s a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff. But he doesn’t have to know that.”
+ yikes and away
Yep. It’s right there with the county tax commissioner.
That’s just great, I just bought one a few weeks ago. I should give it a racist name and see what happens.
Even before this I would hope anyone I liked wouldn’t use one. Are you willing to return it?
Under what grounds? “You people are STASI!”
If it’s not Amazon, it’s Google.
“Changed my mind / Didn’t fit / Didn’t get along with pet”?
IOW, make up something suitable.
I am not terib fond of the external cameras, much less the internal ones.
terribly
Colonoscopys are right out
No thanks!
Google probably live streams those to employees and anyone willing to subscribe.
No.
Some things just don’t need to be on the “Internet of Things.”
These include vacuum cleaners and instant pots.
Remember keeping government out of your bedroom? Now “teledildonics” is a word.
Amazon Echo, Key, Ring, and Roomba … we know your house and have access.
What would a rat know? Oh.
Not as much as a fly.
“Liz Cheney’s Husband Is Partner At Law Firm Representing Hunter Biden”
https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/08/liz-cheneys-husband-is-partner-at-law-firm-representing-hunter-biden/
Because being married to Liz Cheney wasn’t bad enough already?
Wait, I thought she was a lesbian.
I was confused for a while too, but I think that is her sister.
I thought it was the spawn of the lesser satan, McCain.
87,000?
That’s scary enough. Now consider they’ll be coming from the same pool of applicants as what the TSA hires from.
Hopefully at least half of them will be “diversity specialists”.
The move, Knox told Insider, is uniquely dangerous for a few reasons: First, Amazon will be acquiring an established market share, not a startup, which he said would cut off competition in a market that already wasn’t competitive and could further Amazon’s reach. Second, because of the massive amount of data that comes with accessing iRobot’s established data sets, Amazon can collect new information through the robots, he added.
“I think this feels really intrusive to people — and it should,” Knox told Insider. “Like, when people buy a Roomba, it’s because they want clean floors. They don’t buy a Roomba to have a little robot inside of your house spying on the layout of your home and whether or not you have a crib in your house or whether or not there are pet toys and a pet bed in a room of your house. So then it can funnel that information to Amazon, and Amazon can push whatever dog-toy ads to you the next time you log on.”
It’s looking up your dress to see what kind of panties you wear!
“Why am I all of a sudden seeing ads for bikini wax and razors?”
I can tolerate marketing because I can understand greed. But when you are selling info to those who want not money, but control that’s a problem.
Who moves faster than Richard Pryor down the street? Why it’s a blue Mini!
Researchers warn bachelorette parties in Provincetown are destroying LGBTQ+ safe spaces
“Just as a gentrifier is able to exercise their financial prowess to seduce a seller, a hetrifier is likewise able to buy space in a queer venue,” the researchers said. “Many gay and lesbian spaces were the result of white gentrification of neighborhoods that were primarily Black and Latinx. But hetrificaiton, unlike gentrification, is an appropriation not just of space, but of culture. According to our LGBTQ+ interviewees, the women suffer from a ‘Will and Grace’ complex. They think they can shout Cher lyrics and yell ‘Yaaaasssss, Queen!’ because they are welcomed into gay culture. Our research shows otherwise.”
“hetrifier”
GTFO
hetErifier, no?
I am dumber for even having read that.
Agreed. It’s making me go back to work instead of continuing to read.
Gosh, maybe we should all just keep to our separate (but equal) spaces.
Gay dudes don’t want a bunch of loud women rolling into their party scene? The deuce you say!
A friend told me that modern bachelorette parties often feature a dancing bear. Something like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J75tUrmNvD8
Our bears are more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c6m3GQdJN0
It works more like this.
Oh, yeah.
That’s the good stuff.
Funky bears!
I thought tango was Argentine.
Finnish, in fact>/a>
I like the Finns, but that ain’t right.
Miguel Zotto shows how it’s done.
https://youtu.be/hRP2_IzQlsQ
Wonder how that article would be received if it was about how businesses are complaining about ‘gaying the place up’
OFFFS.
Go be a hater somewhere else.
No one wants WOO girls in their bars. No one.
It depends. Are they easy?
They may be. But they will blast your ears with their warning as they scream “Woooo!” at the top of their lungs. There will be one or two among them who are the bouncers to keep the group safe from the predation of interested men. They will also be beyond the point of reasonable intoxication.
Those “bouncer” types are usually the DUFF- Designated Ugly Fat Friend.
Not only do they provide security, but they elevate the 4s and 5s to 7s or 8s.
My experiences weren’t quite like this, but close enough.
I must admit, being the bartender at my fraternity’s parties was a great way to meet the ladies, at least compared to finding them at a student dive. And if the object of my affection had a DUFF to run interference for her, I had eighty of my mates to distract the DUFF while I spirited my new friend upstairs.
Seconded.
Seconded. I’ve seen a bachelorette party full of WOO girls completely destroy the vibe of a bar crowd a few times.
I call* them Woo ‘Tang Clans.
Not really. That just popped into my head.
Just lure them out into the parking lot with White Claws and Chardonnay
And then…? There “ain’t no laws when you’re drinking Claws” they say…
When I was single, I used to actively seek out the WOO girls (never heard that term before, but it’s apt) except that you didn’t want the bachelorette parties.
You wanted the divorce parties.
Start buying them drinks, and you’d get laid nine times out of ten, by some member of that group.
Oh god this is hilarious 🤣😆
I read that first as heiferfier.
Pretty close in reality I’ll bet
It’s different when it happens to us!
Some things just don’t need to be on the “Internet of Things.”
These include vacuum cleaners and instant pots.
Oh, come on! Everybody needs a bluetooth toaster.
Only if it looks like Tricia Helfer.
No idea what this is in reply to, but I endorse this message.
Robot sandwich maker.
Superman takes on inflation
Slow Joe is getting slower.
Almost painful to watch.
Almost.
I mean…its windy…and I’ve struggled with getting a jacket on…but it all adds up, so ya.
Looks like he just starts wandering off at the end.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the leader of the free world!”
I can’t even muster much of anything but pity for the guy at this point. He’s clearly lost it, and his family, staff and other people around him are all guilty of elder abuse, just to keep their ill-gotten gains and undeserved influence. What horrible people.
^^THIS.
Every time I start feeling pity for this fuck, I think about how he’s been grifting Americans for as long as I’ve been alive. He is surrounded by horrible people because he is/was one.
👆
Eh, I’ve done almost the exact same thing and yes, it was embarrassing.
The jacket thing…yep, many of us have been there, but it was all in such slow motion. And then the whole thing with the sunglasses, and the shuffling feet, and then appearing to wander off at the end. He should be relaxing at home, enjoying retirement and all his ill-gotten gains, not leading the US.
MF’er. One consult with a pediatric gastroenterologist and the bills already top $2k.
All for an office visit and some basic blood work.
Fucking thieves. I’ll never use CHKD again.
CHKD?
Children’s Hospital of the Kings Daughters
Every interaction I’ve ever had with them has been next to useless and very expensive. I’m done. If I’ve got to cart the kids multiple hours away for an appointment , I’ll do it.
That’s healthcare – an absolute clusterfuck.
Maybe take a look here. Lots of real docs bailing on the retarded systems.
Thanks, I’ll take a look
Shit, sorry man.
It’s enraging that they’ve so screwed up the medical system and their answer is always _more_ governmental involvement.
They’ve bought up almost all of the pediatric practices in the area and most regular doctors will not see a kid under 18.
Holy crap, that sucks.
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters? I guess they can afford it,
Sorry.
Thanks.
I’m mostly pissed at myself because I know better.
Yikes!
The Bro is always The First at everything and does so in an honest manner, except paying taxes. In that game, if you aint cheatin’, you aint Firstin’.
“She” is the Foreign Legion.
That is all.
I thought that, but it was French regular Army that rode to the rescue.
Looking into that deepfake software, might be fun to play around with. Although, my face structure probably doesn’t match too many celebrities.
That seems kinda large. What about my 32GB of RAM with a smaller page file?
my face structure probably doesn’t match too many celebrities
Use it like Autotune.
Im not on Windows.
Should be I’m, of course.
Off coarse.
VMWare, KVM, QEMU, there are multiple free options.
John Candy? WC Fields?
Victims.
Freedom of choice is what you got.
Freedom from choice is what you want.
Chris Pratt trolls ‘woke critics’ not happy with new show, ‘The Terminal List’
Fuck the critics. I loved every second.
Also…there was no political messaging at all, which is bad, I guess? There’s good and bad guys at every level of the show, in both government and corporations. You know…just like real life…
The left has killed fun. There’s no room for escapism.
And the actions of the lead character were in a morally gray area. I thought the show made that clear.
Yeah, I thought it was a solid B+.
They needed to make the lead black and if not full trans, at least gender non-conforming in some way. Left the service under Trump when he stopped paying for gender reassignment surgeries only to be called back to the fray when duty called and the adults returned to office.
*starts scribbling notes for new pitch *
I guess Taylor Kitsch is in it? He played a closeted gay in True Detective #2, and all the PMC types couldn’t understand why anyone would be closeted at this point. I tried to point out to them that most working-class people were still not down with the lifestyle, and that there was a reason DL exists, but they could not understand that.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlj0UXh3hGQ
Whoa. This is some banana republic shit right here.
Here we go!
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3593418-fbi-raids-trumps-mar-a-lago/
Do we officially qualify as a banana republic yet?
And I have to imagine that Trump’s personal safe is not insignificant. They probably destroyed it getting in.
Fall of Rome stuff.
Yeah, this is taking the gloves off.
Everything is fair game now. It’s going to get much, much uglier.
Good! They all need to go murder each other and leave me alone.
If I remember right, they did the same thing to Giuliani a few months back, and nothing came of it. Even so – these are intimidation tactics, nothing but.
And they let Hillary decide what emails to turn over but for Trump and friends, they go in without warning.
They also let her turn over electronics to a private company for analysis.
Giuliani wasn’t elected president.
Aggressive political prosecutions of previous leaders is considered verboten for a reason. You’re signaling to everyone else that you would expect the same treatment from them and therefore you cannot cede control. The tacit gentleman’s agreement between opposing parties is coming apart at the seams and all bets are now off.
And what is publicly available with Hunter and his father would make it easy to return the favor if a Republican gets elected again.
Exactly. This goes one of two ways.
1. The Republicans get elected, return the favor and then the Democrats do and so on until it erupts into civil violence.
2. The Democrats seize total control with the help of the RINOs and do not let go, period.
The stakes are getting too high and the worst natures of the worst people on the planet are going to start showing themselves.
Hah! The Republicans get elected and emphasize bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle.
Games without frontiers. War without tears.
Maybe, but I think this is going to doom the RINOs. The reactionary wave is going to get a head of steam over this and it will become a litmus test for support.
Have they released a reason yet?
“Because fuck Trump AND you, that’s why.”
I’d like to see that warrant and who signed it.
Should be very illuminating.
In the words of Joe himself, “This is a big fucking deal.”
The remarkable execution of a search warrant at a former president’s home comes as the Justice Department has accelerated its investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and further examined the actions Trump took to overturn the 2020 election results to remain in power.
It was not immediately clear what was examined during the search, but Trump said the law enforcement officials “even broke into my safe.”
Land of the free.
Home of the brave.
Land of the bananas.
Land of the fat
Home of the knave.
The tacit gentleman’s agreement between opposing parties is coming apart at the seams and all bets are now off.
This is what comes of allowing your political organization to be hijacked by feral children.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
Animal gets it.