STEVE SMITH SAY “IT OK, HIM HELP WITH LINKS!”
STEVE SMITH WANT HELP OUT. HIM DO LINKS THIS MORNING. THEM GOOD LINKS! HOPE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE LIKE. STEVE SMITH KNOW ALL FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE WILL READ LINKS AND COMMENT ON LINKS. DID STEVE SMITH TELL THAT THEM GOOD LINKS? THEM GOOD LINKS.
- WANT FUN? LOOK PAPERS IN FUNNY LANDS.
- AUSTRALIA DANGEROUS. STEVE SMITH WORRIED HOOMANS WILL NOT BE OK.
- MAYBE STEVE SMITH START HIM OWN STORY LINE – “THE SWISS SANCTION!” STEVE SMITH NO FORGET LAST SUMMER.
- STEVE SMITH LAUGH – LOOK LIKE “BETO” BAD NAME WIN ELECTION.
IF NO LIKE LINKS…
HIT ON HEAD WITH BIG ROCK!
FREE CASCADIA!
WANT FUN? LOOK PAPERS IN FUNNY LANDS.
Little sympathy for ISIS brides wanting to come back. That’s just trouble waiting to happen. Sorry honey that you decided to go run off with some batshit fundamentalists, but don’t want you back. That is one bed you will have to sleep in for the rest of your life.
That said, the news was wondering if the US will follow suit. I didn’t think that the Government could just “Revoke” citizenship. I get it’s different in the UK being what it is, but the US…
I think it can revoke naturalization for certain offenses – like lying on the immigration forms. I don’t think natural born citizens can lose it for being dumb or criminal.
^This. You are definitely correct about native born citizens.
Found some data
Looks like in general naturalized citizens have 5-10 years where they can have their citizenship revoked for certain offenses, though lying on the immigration form has no expiration date.
Thanks. And that’s a wise policy.
But the form asks if you are a Nazi. What if you vote Trump in 2020?
Then you’re not even human. Problem solved.
I wondered that too – exactly how is citizenship removed? Sounds like something from a Heinlein book…
There are large numbers of stateless persons worldwide resulting from the games that nations play.
By leaving your country and joining ISIS aren’t you self revoking citizenship?
I’m not sure if renouncing citizenship works implicitly. I think you have to be explicit about it.
Yeah. OT but related, Australia won’t let you renounce citizenship without showing proof of citizenship in another country
I should think that would constitute a renunciation of your citizenship. In effect, “we didn’t kick you out – you left.”
We have this issue in Canada. I see it as renouncing because not only are you willingly leaving but you’re going to an enemy: ISIS.
Trudeau is letting really bad people back into the country thinking they’ll be fine.
So for me, this Alabama woman needs tp face justice for her actions:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/slain-journalist-james-foleys-mom-alabama-woman-who-joined-isis-should-face-justice
That’s an interesting legal question. ISIS functions as a low-level nation state but is not recognized by anyone as such.
Maybe let them come back, arrest them, try them for treason, and execute them if convicted. With that hanging over their heads they won’t want to come back.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1481
(a) A person who is a national of the United States whether by birth or naturalization, shall lose his nationality by voluntarily performing any of the following acts with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality—
(1) obtaining naturalization in a foreign state upon his own application or upon an application filed by a duly authorized agent, after having attained the age of eighteen years; or
(2) taking an oath or making an affirmation or other formal declaration of allegiance to a foreign state or a political subdivision thereof, after having attained the age of eighteen years; or
(3) entering, or serving in, the armed forces of a foreign state if (A) such armed forces are engaged in hostilities against the United States, or (B) such persons serve as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer; or
(4)
(A) accepting, serving in, or performing the duties of any office, post, or employment under the government of a foreign state or a political subdivision thereof, after attaining the age of eighteen years if he has or acquires the nationality of such foreign state; or (B) accepting, serving in, or performing the duties of any office, post, or employment under the government of a foreign state or a political subdivision thereof, after attaining the age of eighteen years for which office, post, or employment an oath, affirmation, or declaration of allegiance is required; or
(5) making a formal renunciation of nationality before a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States in a foreign state, in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State; or
(6) making in the United States a formal written renunciation of nationality in such form as may be prescribed by, and before such officer as may be designated by, the Attorney General, whenever the United States shall be in a state of war and the Attorney General shall approve such renunciation as not contrary to the interests of national defense; or
(7) committing any act of treason against, or attempting by force to overthrow, or bearing arms against, the United States, violating or conspiring to violate any of the provisions of section 2383 of title 18, or willfully performing any act in violation of section 2385 of title 18, or violating section 2384 of title 18 by engaging in a conspiracy to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, if and when he is convicted thereof by a court martial or by a court of competent jurisdiction.
I have no idea how any of this plays out IRL.
2, 3 and 7 are looking like strong contenders.
except that “with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality” is going to require some explicit renunciation to prove.
Ah, I missed the clause (a) at the top.
I find it odd that you can (actually, “shall”) lose citizenship by becoming a citizen of another state while an American citizen, but not that you can become an American citizen without renouncing any foreign citizenship. Maybe the dual citizens are all birthright citizens who are born here from foreign parents? It seems like we should either allow dual citizenship, or not (I vote not).
I also wonder how often people actually do lose US citizenship after becoming a citizen of another state. The statute says “shall”, so it seems like it should be automatic.
It is not automatic. once again, the list of ways to lose citizenship are all subject to the limitation “with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality”
It takes some effort to intentionally renounce one’s citizenship.
And of course, the IRS may want to take a bigger bite than you planned in the exit tax…
It is not one which inspires confidence in the candidate.
You were so close to being first that both my and your comment are highlighted as “new”. I’ve never seen it where my newest comment isn’t at the bottom of the page.
Darn lag.
‘Still challenging Sawant will be neighborhood activist Pat Murakami, Hashtag Cannabis head Logan Bowers,…’
Could be worse.
Forget the pothead, it could not get worse than “community activist”.
Always vote for the pothead. He won’t be too ambitious.
I think the photographer in the red coat had the right look of appraisal.
A british army re-enactor? *clicks link* Oh, a windbreaker. But I agree with regards to the expression.
An idiot Sawant?
Paging Swissy…
Snitch.
*narrows gaze*
>>AUSTRALIA DANGEROUS
What is STEVE SMITH’s Australian cousin’s name?
Not sure any of the SMITH family every went to Oz. It seems dangerous enough that it might even be inconvenient for them. They might be pals with the Bunyip or such.
Not sure about Australia but I hear STEVE’s German cousin SCAT SMITH makes a real mess of things.
Wouldn’t that be Scat Schmidt?
Touche.
JA, SCAT SMITH MACHT EINE MITTEILUNG UND MIT “MITTIELUNG” BEDEUTUNG VON VERGEWALTIGEN!!!!
That’s not a RAPESQUATCH…this HERE’S a RAPESQUATCH
Very…tropical.
Seems to be missing a rapenis.
DROPBEAR SMITH KEEP IT ROLLED UP IN MARSUPIAL POUCH.
HELP KEEP OFF GROUND.
YOU EVER GET AUSTRALIAN SPIDER BITE?
Crocodile Smith?
DROP SMITH?
‘OUTBACK SMITH’?
OZZY SMITH
DROPBEAR SMITH
BRUCE
I have heard a number of times that, in Australia, men are raped more often than women. So it’s possible that there are a bunch of very active DOWNUNDER SMITHS.
Downlow Smith’s Adventures in the Outback?
That’s the Thunder Down Under.
If you take into account prison rapes, I’m pretty sure that’s true in the US as well. By a wide margin. Particularly if you count each incidence of rape rather than each victim, since many of the victims in prison are serially raped.
In most cases, “pulling out” is good advice. Good move, Beto. Seattle needs more small business and you da man. Just kidding…
The decision to pull out comes at an odd time.
So they are saying it was too soon?
Switzerland avalanche: 1 dead as police call off rescue at Crans-Montana
We had a guy die recently to an avalanche. I feel bad, father of 4, but he was out snowmobiling early in the morning and hadn’t told anyone where he was. That’s just asking for trouble.
If I croaked in an avalanche, I’d be happier if they didn’t pull my body out of the snow. Let me get mummified in the snow to be found 1000 years from now. Ice Man 2: Electric Boogaloo.
The only avalanches in Minnesoda happen in grain bins?
Too true. Actually knew a guy this happened to.
I lost a second cousin, and had a great uncle who loaded his arm into a grain excavator?
Let me get mummified in the snow to be found 1000 years from now.
Yeah, that’s not going to happen. We can’t risk you becoming the type specimen for the current version of the human race. Future scientists might think we were all Minnesotans.
It could be worse – they might think we were Florida Men.
I’m banking on Global Warming flooding Florida to wipe out all trace of Florida Man.
Did you see the Daily Telegraph has a pic of the Isis Bride not in a burka? Damn shame…
Now this is news we can use!
Yeah, but leon can’t post the pics for another 20 minutes or so to avoid the Q Sanction.
I mean i could but then i’d get the STEVE SMITH treatment for reposting one of his links.
The blonde in that pic is the gropee in a separate story. Not the Isis bride. She remains in the UK and is apparently gropable.
The ISIS bride looks like a Lucasfilm cantina creation.
FUCK SNOW. That is all.
That’s cold.
It’s a good way to get frostbite.
Too much shrinkage.
I’m playing hooky:) Had actually been thinking about it before the forecast. Getting behind on to-do list at home.
They’re calling for a possible dusting here in the high desert. It’ll be the first trace of snow I’ve seen in about 6 years if it happens.
*narrows frosty gaze*
White out this morning, with temps supposed to get up into the 40’s by the afternoon. Working from home to avoid the clusterfuck of idiot drivers in low visibility snow. It’s not even that heavy of snow, just blowing around.
I got into work and there were a bunch of posters up about “focus hours” or some other buzzword bingo bullshit. Not going to be a good day.
There are advantages to being just a tech resource. I’ve already been warned by my company if the company I’m supporting tries to get me to go to any of their company initiatives, to back away and look for exits.
Definitely the best part of being a contractor. No All Hand’s meetings for you!
Instead you can sit in your cube working on stuff without being interrupted.
At least the office I work in does invite me to better things, like free food days and such. I’ve heard my co-workers in the corp HQ aren’t taken care of in such ways.
Pfft, brag about it when you get the support job at Stratton Oakmont and the company initaitives involve free $1000/hr call girls and coke by the pound.
That is cool. There are definitely places where being a contractor is a complete second class citizen deal.
Usually those are the places where you find out that the full time employees are making peanuts in salary, but instead get “perks”.
Never understood people who would trade salary for perks. Maybe because no company offers the perks I’d personally like best?
It is almost impossible to fire me.
Today is one of those days that make me so happy I live a mile from work. The office is nearly empty and I can work in peace.
Snowing hard out there and it isn’t going to get nicer this afternoon. We’ve got about an inch on the ground now, and they are predicting from 6-9″ today.
Altar Boy #2 has no school and the Girl is working from home today, so the office is definitely the place to be.
Just beginning to snow here, not very much yet. Did you bike in this morning?
No. The paths aren’t shoveled between work (like 3 ft of show still) and my house. I don’t dare get out on the 500 yards of busy road to cross the interstate.
Also bike is temporarily broken due to being clipped by a distracted driver a few weeks ago.
Tundra?
I wasn’t distracted, I missed.
Uffda. If you hit me with your Triumph, you’d walk away with more damage than I would.
Nope, a young gal hit my back tire as I was crossing an intersection. I managed to get a leg out, so nothing bad happened to me at all. The back brake caliper got broken and I haven’t fixed it yet.
Hard to explain how that happened, but in short she was waiting to take a right turn and looking left at oncoming traffic and didn’t see me coming from the right. Normally, I wouldn’t have tried to cross without seeing her see me. There was so much traffic coming though, that I figured that there was no way she’d be taking a right and I could get through.
I guessed wrong. Still no idea what gap she was aiming for. She pulled out and hit my back tire and kicked it out.
Have you considered a fat tire for the winter? One of the guys at the office has one and it goes through the snow pretty well.
I have some studded tires that have been working very well. With the ice we had earlier this year, I bet the studs worked better than the fat tires would have.
No, if you drive down Bass Lake Rd, you can see that they haven’t gotten around to plowing the sidewalk/path yet. And that they are also covered with the snow from the plows.
No bike is making it through that mess. And I’m not willing to take a chance with the commuters on that busy road in the morning.
Here in West Michigan, we’re supposed to be getting snow turning into rain. High of 36F.
FUCK SNOW.
SNOW SMITH – well, you know. . .
Snow is no big deal.
We’re allegedly about to get our third ice storm in three weeks. Now that shit suuuuucks.
Was required to come to DC for supervisor training that we have to get every three years. Training consists of hour long presentation after hour long presentation by various HR groups telling us all the ways we can get sued.
Not only did they schedule it to start the day after a federal holiday (so comp time for the travel up), now the government is closed. So I’m getting paid my regular salary, plus per diem, to sit in a hotel watching tv.
Yeah, nothing to cut in government…
It’s too soon to drift OT.
Another using controversy as a marketing ploy campaign.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/burberry-apologizes-for-hoodie-with-noose-knot/1794721034
My wife say that last night and just looked at me and said “Some people get upset by the stupidest things”.
At least the first person to get upset about it made it about suicide rather than trying to act like nooses have only ever been used to lynch people.
Collectible already
STEVE SMITH WEDNESDAY MORNING LINKS
This seems a bit off. It is too early in the day and in the week for rape.
And the weather is shitty. It was snowing around 2:30 this morning, sleeting when I got up at 6 and raining on the way to work, but with the temp at 30-32. It is supposed to be 65 with thunderstorms tomorrow morning (and 70 on Saturday!). Welcome to VA, where you get to experience all of the seasons in the span of a week.
My weather for this morning is 3 inches of snow, freezing rain, sleet, and rain. Because of this, I don’t have to go into work until lunch.
STEVE SMITH EARLY RISER. BY RISE EARLY, MEAN…
IT NEVER TOO EARLY FOR RAPE!
STEVE SMITH LAUGH – LOOK LIKE “BETO” BAD NAME WIN ELECTION.
#BeToo?
Apropos the Alt Text:
Searching for the best Sausage in Vancuver
What does Steve Smith think?
HIM HAVE BEST “SAUSAGE” IN CASCADIA!
Enter Sandmann
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/19/nick-sandmann-files-250-million-defamation-lawsuit-washington-post/
I’ll bet you 251 million it gets dismissed.
I don’t know, since the kid was not a public figure, the bar for winning against the WaPo is considerably lower. “Actual malice” is not needed.
That’s going to be the bone of contention though. This is what typically happens in these types of cases: the media goes into hyperdrive and blows up a story overnight, then by virtue of having turned the victim into a media sensation, they argue that the victim is now a “public figure” and must meet the actual malice threshold. I think the only person who’s succeeded in suing a media outlet for this type of shit in my lifetime is the guy they ran up the flagpole for the Olympic Park bombing.
Then they really don’t want it in front of a jury, because only a lawyer would accept “Our libel made the guy we were lying about a public figure, so you have to let us go.”
Looks at fellow Americans…. Are you sure? The idea that anyone of the people you live around could be called to judge weather or not you were guilty of some crime should terrify you.
Compared to the judges I know, I’ll take the average idiot.
Something something, first 200 names in the Boston phone book…
Well, maybe not Boston.
Well to be fair, the control group was Harvard faculty. (and it was apparently 2,000 not 200)
^This. There will probably be a fat settlement, but that will serve as a warning to the other jackals. And someday they will encounter someone who doesn’t care about the money but wants to destroy their reputation.
And that person’s name will be Peter Thiel.
Yeah, he was not even remotely a public figure at the time of their libel.
The judge is the one giving the jury instructions though, or possibly even granting summary judgment (which I think is what happened with George Zimmerman, for example).
Ken White says you can’t make someone a public figure that way. He may be a highly partisan, self-serving, pompous pearl-clutcher, but I trust his legal opinion on 1A issues.
He’s demonstrably wrong. It may be that the specifics of this case differ such that the same won’t happen here, but it’s certainly not an open and shut issue.
I suppose you can always get a highly-biased judge, but that’s not actually the law.
They’ll settle for a much smaller amount I’m guessing.
Saw that last night. Good luck to him, the best i see them getting is a settlement.
Were I involved, I’d insist that part of the settlement be a front page appology from the media outlets – as loud and visible as the initial libel.
No, that’s why you pay a settlement – to make the thing go away quietly. To be worth anything morally that apology would have to be an admission of malice which they do not want to go on record as having done because that makes it easier for others to prove malice in future cases. Given that choice they would probably take their chances with a jury trial and drag out the process and the appeals for as long as possible. They have deep pockets for legal representation.
They might not want the discovery process to get going… can you imagine their internal communications on this?
I’m sure you could uncover some “Actual Malice” in that…
“Mr. Sandmann!”
“Yes?”
“Dream me a dream….”
Sadly, they didn’t learn anything as Smollett shows.
Short attention spans (and TDS…) I suppose. Still, I thought it was odd how they ran with this so soon after the Covington fiasco.
They had to double or nothing to make up for it. And lost again.
Always bet on black?
Dang. I need to find a way to get libeled and defamed by major media corporations. I’d be set for life, even with a considerably lower settlement.
I’d be pretty happy adding a million to my retirement account.
Go to an event wearing a MAGA hat and wait for some lefty idiot to get in your face.
Watch out you don’t get Pearl Harbored by an asshole with a bike lock.
^This.
and now that you have posted this you are pretty much barred from ever winning such a case.
1. Buy MAGA Hat
2. ??????
3. Profit!
Alabama mother begs to return to US, says moving to Syria and marrying ISIS fighters was ‘a big mistake’
Did you read some of the things she said? She’s not all there to begin with if you say such things.
If I thought she was sincerely contrite and ready to be an American, I would maybe not be oppossed to letting her come home assuming there were consequences for her actions. Only because she’s a kid. The concern of course is that she’s faking it which is highly possible.
Just have to wait until the next TEAM BLUE Prez.
/Bowe Bergdahl
Interesting that the word “citizen” is not used anywhere in the article. I’d be interested to know her status.
If she is a US citizen, particularly a native born one, I’d say we’re stuck with her. But that doesn’t mean we can’t prosecute her on criminal charges. I think a brief (3-5 year) jail term followed by lifelong revocation of passport and voting rights would be appropriate. And a friendly hint to keep a very low profile.
I feel that we should be able to revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens who engage in treason against the US. But we’d need to find someone else to take those people as citizens to avoid being a creator of stateless persons.
If ISIS had actually prevailed and she ended up having a few conquered slaves to cater to her every whim while living a life of relative luxury, she’d be singing a completely different tune right now. Fuck this bitch. If she so desperately wants to return to the US she should feel free to try swimming over.
I tend to agree with this sentiment. She damn well made her decision of free choice.
They all say they were ‘brainwashed’ which is suspect to me.
Claiming to be brainwashed doesn’t help their case. Why would we want to invite brainwashed sleepers with known terrorist ties into the country.
Something something Charles Darwin.
Prior offender.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/20/cbs-chicago-smollett-wrote-hate-crime-letter/
Hey the kid can act, and has motivation, what more do you want from a young actor?
He could say he was just practicing for a future role in the movie Al Sharpton : Race Hustler.
[golf clap]
He also lied to police and said he was his brother in an earlier DUI case, so he obviously had acting in his blood from an early age.
I had a friend whose brother did the same thing to get out of a speeding ticket. My friend didn’t know till he went to the DMV to get his license renewed and the worker told him he had a warrant out for his arrest for an unpaid ticket.
My brother did that to me once. I spent the hight in jail because of it. I got him back with two tickets. This was back in the eighties.
*points & laughs – Nelson style*
The new stat going around is ‘hate crime is up 17%’.
If I understand correctly, it’s a new statistic and not one to be relied upon.
Smells like 1 in 5 rapes.
STEVE SMITH SAY THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS
Well falsely accusing wypipo of hate crimes in order to smear them would be a hate crime and those incidents seem to be up, but I doubt they’re counting those.
It’s so awful that those homophobic, racist Trump supporters made Smollett write that
And I was totally convinced by the “black fag” slur – that sounds to me just like what a MAGA Nazi would say.
So you’re saying that this fraudster is going to jail?
Ha.
The left are mad at Jussie now, so he’s screwed. Keep it in perspective, though. They’re not mad at him because he lied and did things that many people (non-lefties) would consider wrong. They’re mad because he didn’t get away with it.
For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One’
There were the reports from students in his department at Purdue University that a white professor had warned them not to work with him.
This is so aggravating to me about modern “journalism”. Its not just the fact that they are reproducing hearsay, that they don’t actually quote anyone, nor even get the supposed kids who said this on record. No, you could grant all that, and there is still no curiosity into WHY the professor warned them not to work with him. Nope it’s just that the other professor was white, so obviously it is because he’s a racist. Not because the guy had some personality conflicts with Prof. Goins, or some inter-office academic fighting.
If we just say something enough times, the plebeians will believe it anyways even if we don’t give them any corroborating evidence or details. /MSM
The hostilities he perceived were subtle, the signs of disrespect unspoken. – I cannot help but think that in the US racial environment at least part of these perceived subtle signs were not there at all
It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy when you’re being trained to see racism everywhere.
And then there’s John Urschel…
Do not fuck with him.
Farrakhan defends Ilhan Omar for comments against ‘wicked Jews’. A known racist she pals around with and Trump’s a (KKK!) racist?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/02/19/louis_farrakhan_praises_ilhan_omar_you_have_nothing_to_apologize_for.html
Her campaign manager would be making a large contribution to Farrakhan’s organization contingent on him never mentioning her publicly again if he had a brain in his head.
Why? Think of who her actual constituency is.
To be fair — her Tweeted comments basically said that AIPAC bribed politicians to be pro-Israel. I’m guessing AIPAC has in fact made campaign contributions to some politicians.
AIPAC claims not to contribute money to any candidate. I have no idea if that’s true or not. That’s not exactly her first foray into anti-Semitic tropes though.
AIPAC has PAC in their title. They are spending money to influence policy, and trying to make some political positions untenable for a politician to say out loud. Dunno if they are directly contributing to any politicians, but money is fungible, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they ran ads targeting things Ilhan Omar said.
This is pretty weak tea, attacking statements that are arguably factually correct, considering all the dumbass things AOC has said in her short tenure.
In their acronym, PA stands for “Public Affairs,” not “Political Action.”
My understanding is that they do not donate money, but rather take politicos on trips to Israel.
defends Ilhan Omar for comments against ‘wicked Jews’
Farrakhan: It wasn’t wrong or anti-semetic cause those damn Jews really are the worst!
“You’re not helping!”
In other news Hitler defends KKK attitudes toward Jews.
Belgian Nazi collaborators still receive pensions for ‘loyalty’ to Hitler
I’m surprised Germany didn’t cancel the payments. What are the Belgians going to do? Sue them? I’m sure they want their names out in public record as being collaborators.
Well, there’s the real crime – not paying the appropriate taxes!
say what now?
Shannon: Schultz could use a little caffeine
The libertarian contends it’s possible to build a fiscally sound and individually responsible society on a foundation of capitalists, drug users and sexual reprobates
Weed, Messicans and Butt Sex.
hybrid political philosophy – I don’t see it as hybrid because it did not appear as a mix of other ideologies
sexual reprobates – I blame HM
Libertarians support all the social pathologies – is support really the word?
Libertarians believe that it’s possible to have a country where the personal lives of its citizens are a riot of dissolution, yet somehow their fiscal life is supposed to be positively Swiss in its probity. – you leave Swiss out of this he is just as reprobate as the rest of us
Libertarians believe that it’s possible to have a country where the personal lives of its citizens are a riot of dissolution, yet somehow their fiscal life is supposed to be positively Swiss in its probity.
Some no doubt believe this. Some believe that personal probity, temperance and responsibility are necessary for a sound fiscal life, and that probity, temperance and personal responsibility are best inculcated in a society which does not legislate these purely personal matters.
I’m in.
It’s difficult to argue her point when you have libertarian missionaries like Reason tripping over their own dick to prove her right. Even so, not even Gillespie can pitch a libertarian tent big enough that Howard Schultz can fit inside.
Pitching a tent? Go on …
Is this standard fare for this writer? If so, there is nothing to rebut – stupidity is its own reward.
It’s boilerplate anti-libertarian screed. Note the major flaw – libertarians don’t promise a shining city on a hill, we promise opportunity and freedom. But hardcore statists can’t wrap their heads around it so they always make this mistake.
” their fiscal life is supposed to be positively Swiss in its probity”
Hmmm…
*waggles eyebrows*
I though probity was STEVE SMITH’s job?
Full of holes? Margins as skinny as their cows? Founded on French art stolen by and then from the Nazis?
pathologies currently facilitating our cultural decline
Freedom is fucking everything up!
That seems familiar.
It’s all those educational institutions run by libertarians. What are you gonna do?
oooooo…. classic socon anti-libertarian fare
Nice break from the prog criticisms.
Straw-man is made of straw.
Watch me pull a bunch of unsupported assertions completely out of my ass in rapid succession!
Yeah, because no one who smokes pot or has ass sex with Mexicans also makes a lot of money.
No one.
“capitalists, drug users and sexual reprobates.”
I fail to see a problem here.
“Instead he appears to be a libertarian.”
When you have no idea what that even means, everyone can be libertarian.
Say what you want, but Libertopia’s food trucks will be the envy of the world.
But where would these libertopian food trucks drive? – you have no ROADZ!
No worries. They’re all based on Unimogs.
Hi. I’m a libertarian. I’m going to take over the world and then leave you alone.
McCabe on Rosenstein: ‘The Entire Country Owes Him a Debt of Gratitude’ for Mueller Appointment
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Tuesday night that he thinks “it’s possible” President Trump could be a Russian asset, adding he’s “really anxious” to see the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
McCabe, on a media tour promoting his new book The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, told CNN that “things we had perceived through these series of odd interactions with the president, that Director Comey had had and other things that we had come across during the course of our investigation of Russian meddling in the campaign and the potential Russian involvement with people associated with the Trump campaign” were “the very concerns that led us to the point to believe we think it’s time for us to open an investigation.”
“If the president is in fact that dangerous — I mean, as a lifelong public servant, as someone who took an oath to protect the Constitution, didn’t you have a duty to come forward before now, before writing a book?” host Anderson Cooper asked.
“We thought that a potential threat to national security might exist — that being that the president of the United States may have attempted to obstruct justice in his efforts to thwart and impede our investigation of Russian influence, and if he had done so, why? Why would any American president try to stop the FBI from investigating what the Russians might have done to our election?” McCabe replied.
“Certainly, you’re limited in the way that you can speak out while you are an FBI official. I left under adverse circumstances,” he added. “And in my estimation, the best way to speak out, the best way to present the way my thoughts about how I think this president is undermining the role of law enforcement, undermining the role of our intelligence infrastructure, and negatively impacting the men and women of the FBI and across the intelligence agencies’ ability to protect this country on a daily basis, that’s something that — an argument that I felt like I had to make in a thoughtful way in that book.”
So much bullshit, so little time.
For an agency that will butt rape you if you state the littlest mis-truth, they do seem to have a penchant for exposing each other as liars.
Day of the Rope when?
Did J Edgar Hoover write a tell all book? I’d read that.
This shit makes birtherism look scholarly.
McCabe is a sack of shit and a self-serving snitch which makes him even more of a sack of shit.
“McCabe on Rosenstein: ‘The Entire Country Owes Him a Debt of Gratitude’ for Mueller Appointment”
Would a punch in the face be an acceptable substitute for that debt of gratitude?
Perhaps he’s trying to capitalize on his crimes before it’s illegal for him to do so.
Trump signs Space Force directive, laying out plans for new branch of US Armed Forces
Nuke em Rico!
I would like to know more!
Welcome to the Space Force Academy
No you mean this Space Force bootcamp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlyNiXPA47M
R.I.P R. Lee Ermey
Murika, fuck yeah! Now in space!
So how many flag officers do the existing services give up so the SF can have it’s generals/admirals?
/sarc
Libertarianism is a hybrid political philosophy based on a faulty premise. The libertarian contends it’s possible to build a fiscally sound and individually responsible society on a foundation of capitalists, drug users and sexual reprobates.
NAILED IT!
I have a strong feeling that the writer is behind one of those “I’m not a libertarian anymore and here’s why” articles that Salon vomits up several times a year.
Neanderthals Were Alpha Predators, Study Shows
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/neanderthals-were-alpha-predators-study-shows-1.6948588
I approve.
STEVE SMITH ALPHA-ALPHA PREDATOR. RAPED NEE-ANDER-THALLS ALL DAY LONG
If they were so alpha then why are they all dead? Yeah, that’s what I thought beta neandercucks!
That made me larf
Howard Dean is still around?
Former Gov. Howard Dean (D-Vt.) predicted that there is going to be a “contested” Democratic convention in the 2020 presidential election.
“The party should move wherever they are comfortable moving and there’s going to be a process for that. I’m not very worried about where the party is going to move – too far to the left or too far to the right or any of that. I mean, we have a pretty open party and there’s going to be a vote and it’s going to be a contested convention and the party will move where the party thinks it should move,” Dean told PJM after speaking at a recent Washington Campus event at the National Press Club in Washington.
“We were pretty damn successful in the last election and I think, I don’t know Alexandria [Ocasio-Cortez] but I think she’s terrific to have on board.And I also think people like Conor Lamb are terrific and they’re not going to vote the same all the time, and I don’t have any problem at all with that. I think that’s the way it should be. It would be better if everybody didn’t agree on everything all the time and did what they thought was right for the country,” he added.
But were you? And is she? And don’t you realize that leftists are expected to vote in lockstep with the party? I did chuckle at that last part.
HeeeeYaaaaaah!
Related: The MSM-DNC Unsheathes the Long Knives for Tulsi Gabbard
This is what happens when you are not ideologically pure enough, Howard.
Having grown up in the Bush years, it is crazy to me that conservatives love a democrat because she seem’s to be Anti-War, and that her Anti-War stance is what is sinking her in the eyes of ‘Progressives’.
It is an interesting development isn’t it? It’s almost like the left isn’t antiwar unless it benifits them politically.
I’d bet there are some anti war folks on the left still out there. It takes time to shake them out of the party. They purge the top, people like Gabbi, and wait for the rank and file dissenters to realize they aren’t welcome. Self deportation.
Sure, there are some. I enjoy watching Jimmy Dore because of just that even though he’s spectacularly wrong on just about everything else.
Just look at the GOP. As was mentioned, it was filled with “Fwar fer duhmocracy” types just a decade ago. Go back to WW2 to have a GOP so war reluctant?
Go back to WW2 to have a GOP so war reluctant?
Rather, just go back before the Bushes. Reagan got the US involved in a lot of little skirmishes, but it was always with the attitude of win quick or go home, none of the long-haul slow burn or escalate into full war popular among the neocons. Nixon ended the Vietnam War and the draft, and Eisenhower ended the Korean War and is famous for his warning about the “military-industrial complex”.
When glory is on the line, party matters most!
My friend countered that Trump’s base remained solid, and his fellow Democrats would probably do something foolish, like nominate an extreme progressive. In 2020, he expected another 1972 McGovern-style blowout.
He might be right — but I’m not sure. The Democrats seem much smarter than that. Potentially.
LOL. Your know-nothing junior representative from Queens just scotched a massive deal championed by a couple of your biggest voices. Most or all of your 2020 candidates stumbled over one another to get behind her incoherent first-draft climate change communism melodrama. She’s leading your party around by the nose.
The Green New Deal in the resolution supported by the Dem candidates is not what’s in Ocasio-Cortez’s abortive FAQs. Those are probably her deal points going into the negotiation, where a lot of the really crazy stuff was watered down or obfuscated.
Still, if you sign onto the Green New Deal resolution, you aren’t a moderate Dem. They do seem to be replaying the McGovern blowout. He ran in 1972 against an incumbent Nixon; not too bad an analogy to running against an incumbent Trump. Much has changed in the last 47 years, of course.
That’s incredible. She’s fully on board with the Green New Deal and otherwise seems to be a party-line progressive on domestic issues.
“…I don’t know Alexandria [Ocasio-Cortez] but I think she’s terrific to have on board.”
He must sniff glue. Let him walk on the sunshine a bit more.
This moning’s temperature: 18 degrees.
30 degrees warmer than yesterday morning.
It was mid 50’s today. I’ll take it.
Up to mid 60s today and sunny.
But you’re in the Mediterranean. No fair.
Mid 60s Celsius is not something to envy, everyone in the Med uses metric.
At least I typed 60 instead of the first line on the sign. It actually caught me by surprise that Eastern Arabic numbers are routinely used in Egypt.
It’s boilerplate anti-libertarian screed. Note the major flaw – libertarians don’t promise a shining city on a hill, we promise opportunity and freedom. But hardcore statists can’t wrap their heads around it so they always make this mistake.
“I cannot promise you a shining city on a hill. But if you build one, I won’t come pillage it. Go now. Go and build your city.”
Statue of WW2 kiss vandalised after US sailor’s death
However, in more recent years some have suggested the photo depicts an act of sexual assault, given the fact Mr Mendonsa did not have Ms Friedman’s consent to kiss her.
Sigh….
What is the saying “Missing the forest for the trees?”. Not sure if it’s quite appropriate. People can’t understand the joy someone felt that a War that had consumed the country for 4 years was over. And i mean consumed the country in almost every meaning of the word. Man power, Production, Political and Daily life. The idea that someone would kiss a stranger on hearing news is strange but then put it into the context of the joy of knowing that the war was over…
But no lets focus on something else and miss the historical meaning of the picture.
the fact Mr Mendonsa did not have Ms Friedman’s consent to kiss her.
That’s a fact? Did she say so? Not even implied consent, because she sure doesn’t seem to be resisting in any way?
Greta Zimmer Friedman said it wasn’t her choice to be kissed and that Mr Mendonsa “grabbed” her.
However, she made it clear the kiss was a “jubilant act” and “it was just an event of ‘thank god the war is over.'”
Thanks for the nutpunch, Pat.
To be fair, I did predict it in yesterday’s morning links.
I was just looking at that statue while having breakfast this morning. My guess is that a couple of womynists from up the road at New College (think Evergreen State on the Gulf) were feeling frisky.
The vandalism was cleaned up within hours of being noticed, so while there’s two purple-haired fat chicks high-fiving each other in a dorm room, everyone else went on with their day as usual.
The real question is who got the thousand bucks to spent an hour painting it over.
I had to laugh reading this, since just prior to this I had been reading a story on a local news site about a school board meeting about tranny bathroom policies which featured this photo.
OT: A recent picture of the dog, who is still mostly EF’s companion. Emma is getting better with me and LH Jr, but it’s been a slow time getting her to trust us.
Cute.
Maryland scarf. Nice.
Local high school colors which, for some odd reason, almost look like U of M colors. Historically lots of U of M grads here, apparently. Even the HS football teams looks like mini-Wolverines.
They get third in the division after paying a mint for their coach?
Emma is getting better with me and LH Jr, but it’s been a slow time getting her to trust us.
Maybe the smell of guzzoline and burnt animal makes her skittish?
“Be still, my dog of war”
Cute pup! Any idea how old she is?
Emma is supposed to be three years old. Birthed some puppies down in Arkansas – where she was living under a shed. Puppies taken from her by the animal rescue; and somehow Emma ended up in Michigan; was a fostered for a few months before we adopted her.
I think she’s a Blue Lacy – based on looks and the shape of her body. It was Suthenboy who said that – instead of the “Lab Mix” that everyone up here thinks she is.
Interesting. She has more white on her muzzle than I would expect from a three year old.
Anyway, an older dog will take longer to acclimate. Bribery always works!
She has more white on her muzzle than I would expect from a three year old.
True. My beard didn’t start turning white until I was 7.
Ya – everyone thinks she is older because of the white. Appears to be rare but not uncommon with the breed.
SJWednesday: The Great Airline Oppression of Non-Binaries Finally Cracks
If you’re so fucking neurotic that you need to go about making a spectacle of your gender identity, something tells me you probably don’t go in for much air travel, but you do you.
Let TSA do their thing and check the box.
When the GameStop Empress shows up and demands a female to pat it down, it will be entertaining to say the least
Standing ovation for straffinrun.
It’s been all narrow gazes for a while. Yeah!
I’ll join that ovation.
So this means the female TSA workers will get to grope biological males, and the male TSA workers will get to grope biological females. Did the activists think that far ahead, or is that what they want?
I guess they don’t understand that the only reason airlines care whether you’re a boy or girl is to be able to identify your remains in the unlikely event the pilot has to drop it into the drink.
What does this have to do with flying?
Nothing.
I don’t remember having to pick a gender the last time I flied. I have a boarding pass from United saved in my emails and there’s no gender on it, either. Perhaps I forgot and brushed it off. Is it possible that my gender privilege makes me a shitlord?
Champion’s league last night showed superiority of European football. You can have two entertaining games both finishing 0 0.
Sure, Pie…keep telling yourself that.
*Looks around to see if sloopy is here*
I’m just glad Liverpool got a bad result.
He’s not the only one you have to deal with. ?
Dortmund win aside, you can laugh at me for being a derpy Tottenham supporter.
Europeans play football? When did this happen?
Well, there WAS the WLAF/NFL Europe, but that’s been gone for a long time now.
They were so entertaining that I fell asleep on the couch in front of TV.
Tard Tuesday: Special Belated Strawman Edition
It’s a cartoon, so you Neanderthals can understand it more better.
Tu quoque is only a valid form of argument when ROADZZZZZZ are involved.
One of the comments in reponse:
“I rely almost entirely on human power to get where I go (walk, bike, rollerblade.) And why? Because that level of change is necessary. It isn’t enough to lobby a far away invisible government to make change for us — it needs to begin at home. It isn’t enough to buy a hybrid car or a Tesla, as enormous CO2 emission is required to make these things — a lot of people need to seriously think as to whether a personal vehicle is even appropriate.”
Holy shit, someone’s telling the truth about what they think is necessary. Also, fuck this guy.
If my palanquin bearers and rickshaw runners could get me where I needed to go in time, I’d rely on them too. But they protest being required to run at top speed in snow.
At least he’s consistent…
Nuclear power releases huge amounts of CO2?
Good point.
I’m surprised you cut out the top half of his comment. He really takes it to the guy:
This is a rare misfire, Matt.
There is something to the complaint when people drive or fly to a climate protest. It is a pet peeve of mine listening to fairly bourgeois writers demand that society make changes while deeming that it is others, and not themselves, that need to make this change.
I didn’t want to copy and paste such a big chunk but, you’re right, he does. The part I found particularly interesting, though, is that he actually is telling the truth about the sacrifices that would be required to achieve his desired ends, whether they’re imposed by top down force or by personal choice, rather than claiming it’ll be a painless and empowering process.
Whatever. He’s misguided.
Maybe for an urban granola going to work to the local second hand or coffee shop within a few miles of where they live this is possible but the vast majority of the economy is simply not like that
Take me. I’m in and out and out and in across three cities picking shit up for my business.
How the frick can I lug around a 50lb toy I pick up at a garage sale 20 miles from me on my bike?
Or groceries or anything. They respond ‘public transit!” Aside from the grossness of being around people in tight quarters, that’s not practical. I can’t stand around at a bus stop waiting. Time is money.
Tell us more about your affordable living situation in the city when you make living in the suburbs and exurbs impractical for anyone but retirees.
I lived only my first four years in Montreal. Then it was all suburbs. Then I went even further north of Montreal.
So we need our transportation to be what it is: Practical.
I had an internet-audio friend sometime back in the 90s. He would tell me stories of balancing a tube amp or putting a pair of speakers in his bike basket and cycling a few miles from the train station to his digs. Yipes.
Oh, I’m not arguing he’s right, just that he’s clear-eyed about what he wants and about the hypocrisy of the chattering class that clearly expects everyone else to sacrifice while they continue living their lives of comfort and luxury.
If you killed off the federal leviathan, I bet the death of the FAA would lead pretty quickly to a ton of drones flitting around doing local delivery.
And hopefully drone killer laser turrets to shoot any that cross my property.
lug around a 50lb toy
You are kulak, or hoarder?
Hoarder. Probably even has every issue of Canukistan Today stacked in a back room.
People are getting soft. In the ’40s my mom rode the street car and carried 2 bags of groceries home a block from the street car line. Did she complain? You bet your butt she did. When my folks got a second car she was a happy lady.
Haha!
And these fuckwits want to go back to that golden age.
Hunkered down up there, Fourscore?
Ha!I I remember my mother taking me around to shop for food when I was 3 or 4 and we walked everywhere. She was the happiest woman when my father bought her a car.
a far away invisible government
What country does he live in? Somalia?
The Left cannot cartoon.
I’m not sure if it was a lefty cartoon, but I did spot one good wall joke from a source that tended left. It was buried in a looney tunes retelling of the trojan war with Elmer Fudd as Priam, wearing a red cap and talking about the big beautiful wall he built to keep the greeks out.
SJWednesday: Web Seminars for the Brainwashed Edition
If we confess our sins, Xe is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
So… You Have White Guilt. What Now?
No.
Seems strange that we should feel compelled to have a segment of the population feel inferior or bad about themselves because of their skin color.
White people are the white people of white people.
…whoa.
“So… You Have White Guilt. What Now?”
If you aren’t being racist, stop being guilty. If you are being racist, stop doing that.
Unchecked white guilt? ✔️
I think this is fairly old made the rounds a few times before
If you believe in and promote the concept of ‘white-guilt’ you might be a
redneckracist.The clitoris is a gift, so why is there an ingrained fear of talking about it?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/20/clitoris-gift-ingrained-fear-fgm-tackle-outdated-mysogynistic-views-sex
The Guardian, asking the tough questions.
If we want to make progress with FGM, we need to first tackle our outdated, misogynistic views on sex – or you know punish FGM
I have no fear of the clitoris. It’s the crazy lady attached to it.
Relevant – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uLzZVSIo1U
Also relevant: https://youtu.be/qFts4RORGzI?t=217
Is a London Pride worth ¥1100 ($10) a pint? Never had before.
Damn. Pricy, but that is a delicious pint.
It’s not bad t. Worth depends on other prices plus your income I suppose…
All the beers at this bar range from ¥800 (Asahi) to ¥1200 (Brewdog IPA). The LB seemed a good choice.
Asahi is kinda not great though I would pay the extra for London Pride I guess
Fully agree on the Asahi. Most overrated Japanese beer. Sapporo is much better.
Assuming that’s the Punk IPA? That’s a pricey pint, sells for ~$10 a sixer here in the US, and is usually in the $6/pint range at bars. Of course they have a production facility in Columbus, OH.
It’s the Punk IPA. They have quite a few domestic craft beers in bottle, but I hate rolling the dice at these prices.
NO.
Three Tory MPs have resigned from the party to join an independent group, set up by former Labour MPs.
Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen wrote a joint letter to Theresa May to confirm their departure.
The PM said she was “saddened”, but her party would “always offer… decent, moderate and patriotic politics”.
The three criticised the government’s “disastrous handling” of Brexit and said it had undone “all the efforts to modernise” the Conservatives.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47306022
modernise… right… well not right obviously …
Grifters gonna grift…
https://medium.com/@ltthompso/the-congresswoman-loves-the-swamp-d33296ec251e
::rummages in his closet for his used and abused shocked face::
Damn the poor thing is broken after all these years.
Someone makes an interesting point about her Twitter handle:
https://twitter.com/ToddHildebran/status/1098223455781224449
I’ve been wondering the same thing. The last time a three letter handle was in the news that I can recall was when a tech journalist had his stolen. Speculation at the time pegged the value of these at around $50K.
https://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/
Just wait until she mentions open government or transparency in the future. This will come back to bite her.
Truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Why vote for Sanders when you can have Elizabeth Warren instead?
Moira Donegan
Progressives don’t have to choose between macho socialism and corporate feminism. Elizabeth Warren offers a third way
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/20/sanders-elizabeth-warren-feminism-identity
Macho corporatism?
Man bad. Woman good.
I remember Macho Corporatism….
Good in the ring, but that gimmick grew stale quick.
NYT: Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday called for the Supreme Court to reconsider New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 ruling interpreting the First Amendment to make it hard for public officials to prevail in libel suits.
The author should be congratulated for showing enough restraint to not actually write out the words “house nigger” in the article.
Thomas can be really, really right or really, really wrong. There’s no inbetween with him.
This is one of those really, really wrong things.
Not my wheelhouse. Why?
There’s a viewpoint that no amount of outright lies, leading to the ruination of innocent people by the media, is too high a price to pay. Basically, that smirking kid with the MAGA hat getting branded as a racist and getting death threats is the price we pay for having a free press. The people who get fired because the media makes them the Goldstein of the day is the cost of free speech.
Personally, I don’t think the press wasn’t free prior to 1964, and I don’t see how its some kind of death knell for the 1st Amendment to return to an era where private citizens could actually file suit against liars who buy ink by the barrel and sometimes win.
Can you imagine if the other amendments were treated so absolutely?
The case against Sullivan begins with the fact that it is an entirely judge-made doctrine, created out of whole cloth. There is no basis in the Constitution for dividing defamation cases into two classes. You either say that any defamation case is a restraint on freedom of speech, and ban them altogether, or you say that they are not (provided ordinary due process is applied). Hamstringing some plaintiffs seems like a due process issue in and of itself, but the basic problem I have here is that this is judicial legislation.
Seems very consistent with his approach to similar issues, whether or not you like the outcome of the precedent. IMO, the minimal gains from the “public official” part of the ruling have been more or less obliterated by the “public figure” part, which effectively makes it impossible to sue for libel if you become famous, even through no effort of your own.
I was wondering about that – public official vs public figure.
Thanks.
Really Really right you mean. Sullivan is an abomination. It completely insulated the press from consequences for smear campaigns and the press has become increasingly openly partisan and deceit filled ever since. The first amendment does not guarantee the press the right to libel, any more than the right to contract freely includes a right to defraud.
Area man proves that he is not the greatest economic thinker in the world.
A Minnesoda Man who needs insulin is on a crusade to bring down the cost of insulin. Of course, he completely blames the price of insulin on Big Pharma. Not a glance at all in the direction of Big Insurance or Big Govt.
Any Glibs have the actual numbers on what insulin costs to make? My guess is it is right around $40 (given that that seems to be the floor). If so, and this guy gets his wish and the US passes a law to limit the price of insulin, do you think this guy will understand why now he can’t even get any insulin? Will he have to go on a crusade to pass a new law to force Big Pharma to manufacture more insulin even if they make no money (or lose some)?
Any Glibs have the actual numbers on what insulin costs to make? </em
Not sure, I do it in house.
Check out the pancreatic privilege on this shitlord!
Then again he may be pissed at subsidising the rest of the world if that is the case
Cut out the middle man, pass a law requiring pancreases produce more insulin.
Diabetes solved!
It’ll still cost an arm and a leg.
Actually, the feet are usually the first to go. Well, the toes, anyway.
I’m not 100% sure the guy doesn’t have a legitimate grievance. There are laws against drug re-importation. The government actually plays a role in helping drug companies segment the market to Americans’ disadvantage.
It has been a while, but when I did not have health insurance, I was able to buy insulin for cost from the University clinic (which also functions as the Medicaid provider of last chance for Eastern Kentucky.) In the late 1990s, it was $7.60 a vial (about a months worth for me at the time.) A few years after that, a situation arose that forced me to have to buy a vial in a Rite-Aid on vacation in Louisiana, and the retail price was $127.
So the 2019 wholesale price of $40 and the insurance mark-up of $350 tracks fairly well. (Insulin price also varies wildly by type and brand.)
Uffda. I guess that is one way to look at it.
The journalos who wrote the article are also SHOCKED that Trump would try to install allies of his in key roles in his administration. Imagine! Does Trump know no decency? Everyone knows that traditionally Presidents have hired random people off the street to staff their administrations without caring whether they supported the President or not.
When they do it, it’s called “reform.”
Google admits error over hidden microphone
Oops, sorry about that minor oversight on our part. We promise we haven’t been using this feature for all of the things we’ve been busted on in the past 5 years though, for realsies. Don’t be evil xDDDDDD
I actually drank the kool-aid at one point. It was probably around 2012ish, and I just thought they were the greatest thing ever. Course I was still a progressive at the time, so make of that what you will.
Here’s your roll of tinfoil and a hearty handshake.
Thanks!
*Strips down naked, puts on hat*
What caused you to quit being a progressive?
Others mentioned an article, and maybe I’ll do that because in my case I think it’s a confluence of a lot of things. I guess if I could summarize it, it would be:
-Me holding to what I thought were progressive principles while they ditched the pretense of caring about free speech, among other things.
-Me having stepped away from a career as a journalist at the last minute, valuing those professional ethics, and watching the 2016 election play out.
-GamerGate. As stupid as a lot of it was, I was finally primed to see the censorious nature that had always been there (remember the Clintons wanting to put censorship chips in TVs? I *think* I do). Google somehow cottoned on, and put a Sargon of Akkad video in my recommended Youtube videos. Then I found Dave Rubin, then Milton Friedman, then Thomas Sowell. Then Reason (but really the comments).
There’s a whole bunch of other stuff, and the crazy thing to me is that a lot of it mirrored what made me a progressive in the first place.
Article.
Seconded. I’d definitely read a “coming out” article or two from our fellow Glibs.
And no joy on having a one sentence “article” saying the TSA was created.
If that’s interesting to people (and the Glibennati!) then maybe I will. I’ve been thinking about it a bunch recently, and I do owe the site an article because I offered a review of Racist Sandwich that I never delivered on.
Actually I can make good on that now, because I did listen to it. My review: Don’t waste your time. Not stupid enough to be fun.
Google is just a terrible, terrible company. The alternatives aren’t necessarily that great but, good lord, stay away from Google products if you at all value privacy.
This might’ve been covered elsewhere here and I didn’t notice it, but Out Magazine is against Trump trying to do away with anti-gay laws in Iran because Orange Man Bad.
https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2019/2/19/trumps-plan-decriminalize-homosexuality-old-racist-tactic?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news-opinion
Or, it could be because THAT’S WHERE THE COUNTRIES ARE THAT CRIMINALIZE HOMOSEXUALITY.
Acting in “true altruism”. That’s quite the self serving bar you’ve set.
“true altruism”.
Stealing from some to give to others?
That sentence alone should set off several alarm bells. First of all, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean are huge geopolitical entities. Attitudes toward gay people differ greatly among countries and regions within those entities and attempting to gather a room of European activists on how to deal with queer issues in those regions is the definition of paternalism.
I mean there’s one relatively free democracy in the middle east where homosexuals aren’t persecuted…
Also, the continental USA is more geographically and politically dispersed than, say, Trinidad and Tobago. I guess we’re against national injunctions and federal supremacy now too, or nah?
Trump turned Out Magazine into homophobes; is there nothing he can’t do?!
Indeed. His greatest gift is his ability to make people even dumber than he is. It is a marvel.
Mentioned yesterday, but bears repeating. The progs on my FB feed were starting to whine about this, but without saying why. Now they are strangely silent.
“Mentioned yesterday, but bears repeating.”
What you did has been seen.
It will be hard to top this as an example of principals vs principles.
The only thing that could compete really is when the CDC reveals that their researchers came up with a cure for cancer during Trump’s administration but sat on it so he didn’t get any credit.
They are literally incapable of doing anything other than principals over principles. They presumably support in principle the abolition of laws criminalizing homosexuality, but oppose this push to do exactly that because the principals are all white.
How are they not saying it is better to be thrown off a rooftop by Muslim POCs than live your gay life in peace?
There are several signs that this decision is denoted in a colonial sense of paternalism rather than any true altruism.
I’m all about doing the right thing for the right reasons, because it means you will continue to do the right thing, but i’ll also give a hand to people for doing the right thing…
When people ask me why I don’t participate in typical community™ affairs, I can point them to stuff like this. The community™ was hijacked by leftists a couple decades ago.
The cognitive contortions are fairly astounding.
There is nothing that TDS can’t do if it can make supposedly gay-friendly leftists against the notion of even rhetorically trying to help homosexuals in countries in which they are oppressed.
is the definition of paternalism.
Since when are leftists against paternalism?
And no it is not “paternalism”. It is an attempt to effect cultural change because not all cultures are equal.
Martina Navratilova dropped by LGBT group over trans athletes row
An LGBT group has cut ties with tennis great Martina Navratilova after she said it was a form of “cheating” for transgender women to be allowed to compete in women’s sport.
New York-based Athlete Ally, which supports LGBT sportspeople, called the comments transphobic and removed the 18-time Grand Slam winner from its advisory board and as an ambassador.
Navratilova wrote in The Sunday Times that it was “insane” that transgender athletes who “decide” to become female had achieved honors “that were beyond their capabilities as men.”
“Martina Navratilova’s recent comments on trans athletes are transphobic, based on a false understanding of science and data, and perpetuate dangerous myths that lead to the ongoing targeting of trans people,” Athlete Ally said in a statement.
I love all the quotes CNN uses to COTA.
The irony being that Navratilova hired Renee Richards as her coach.
Huh, and would you look at this:
“Having lived for the past 30 years, I know if I’d had surgery at the age of 22, and then at 24 went on the tour, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me. And so I’ve reconsidered my opinion.” She adds, “There is one thing that a transsexual woman unfortunately cannot expect to be allowed to do, and that is to play professional sports in her chosen field. She can get married, live as woman, do all of those other things, and no one should ever be allowed to take them away from her. But this limitation—that’s just life. I know because I lived it.”
Maybe she doesn’t want to see women’s sports crushed by people who have a Y chromosome which is just what will happen.
So it’s just coincidence that athletes who were nobodies prior to transitioning now dominate their profession? That’s what we’re going with?
Tigress Woods?
It’s apparently a question of testosterone: https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/47283833
based on a false understanding of science and data
Someone is failing at science here, and it is not Ms. Navratilova.
Related to this, Tucker had a lesbian chick on recently who is advocating against the trans nonsense on the grounds that T in LGBT does not jive with the LGB because the latter are based on sexual orientation as opposed to some fantasy about your birth sex.
Related to this, Tucker had a lesbian chick on recently who is advocating against the trans nonsense on the grounds that T in LGBT does not jive with the LGB because the latter are based on sexual orientation as opposed to some fantasy about your birth sex.
I mean, the B sort of implies binary gender, which sort of contravenes the T as well.
I mean, the B sort of implies binary gender, which sort of contravenes the T as well.
How so? The B stands for Bisexual not binary gender,
The use of the prefix wrt sexual attraction would logically implicate binary sex, which is at the very least problematically entangled with gender and contrary to modern trans rhetoric in either case since the rejection of biological sex has come into vogue.
If you are making that argument so would the L and G as homosexuality also refers to attraction based on binary sex.
True, that’s been a source of friction (ha!) for the trans community as well. If you’re a gay dude and you aren’t attracted to a woman who identifies as a man, or vice versa.
Exactly, Pat. That is the TERF argument in a nutshell. Lesbians don’t want to have sex with people with penises, no matter what they call themselves.
Wait, the ‘B’ isn’t for Butch? I thought the whole thing was just different kinds of lesbians.
Because bi means two. To show that you’re attracted to people of all/any genders (not just male and female) you say you’re “pan.”
I have always said that the cluster of letters is just a convenience to group together everyone who isn’t “normal”. They may play at working together for appearance’s sake but in reality they fight each other all the time.
Yep. There are the acceptable sexual minorities (QUILTBAG) and unacceptable sexual minorities (PANZIES)
Pedophiles would be the P and I guess zoophiles the Z, but what are the others?
N would be Normals?
No, they’re not included in the inclusive acronym.
Necrophiles.
Ok so:
P edophiles
A ?
N ecrophiles
Z oophiles
I ?
E ?
S ?
Fill in the perversion crosstics!
Necrophiliacs
Fill in the perversion crosstics!
Rule 34, don’t fail us now!
I = incest
E = ephebophlie
A = Anime
S = Symphorophilia
Isn’t it romantic.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11890
Other organizers at the consent fair encouraged students to avoid using emojis because they can be “unclear and interpreted in different ways.” One example was the peach emoji. Students had the option of tallying whether the emoji represented a peach or a butt.
Shitlord that I am, if it has a stem and leaves, I’m pretty sure it ain’t a butt.
Gosh.. Way to other Peach-Kin
Funny, I’ve always interpreted the peach as a vulva.
Does that make me a double shitlord?
Sometimes an eggplant is just an eggplant.
+1 squirt emoji
If your penis looks like an eggplant, get off your phone and go to the doctor.
I had a dream the other day where all the glib overlords were being rounded up. One by one, the guards pulled the glibs out of the holding cell to line up against the wall. We couldn’t hear so well with our ears pressed to the cold cement wall, so when the guard asked you if you had any last words, we couldn’t make out what you said. That the firing squad put the barrel’s of their rifles into their own mouths and blew their heads off leaves one giant question: What did you say to them?
Autobukkake
The money is in the …
Never let us down, do ya? Don’t say I never set you up, though.
I live to serve.
It disturbs me that navel-gazing assholes such as that have the funds to propagate their bullshit.
Johnson stressed that students should frequently check in with their partners during sex to make sure consent is still present.
Hawt…
I am pretty sure you’ll no when consent is revoked because she will say ‘stop’ or ‘get out of me’.
Ah but that is just it. They want to give her the option of saying nothing and then deciding after the fact whether consent had been withdrawn and she was just too traumatized to say stop
Scroll down to the 2nd picture and look at the thing with the pink hair. Not even Steve Smith would try to rape that.
*segmentation fault*
IFLS!
Also, obligatory
Looks at URL… Hmmm not sure if i want to see an image.
It’s a 4chan screencap from KnowYourMeme, but it’s safe for work.
I suppose they would be offended if you pointed out the Humpty-Dumpty nature of their rhetoric.
Call it what you like.
You don’t get to tell me what I can call it, nor do you get to tell me that I can’t judge you as being clinically disturbed.
That’s not how biology works.
Call it a “shenis”.
Well there’s a bell I won’t be able to un-ring.
Your innate ability to come with portmanteaus is unsurpassed
a punk rocker?
If a woman has a penis,
Well, first you have to get to the point where something surgically constructed to look like a penis is actually the same as something with very different structure and capabilities.
I vote for “shenis” for the F2Ms (genius, straff) and “mangina” for the M2Fs.
For some reason I think “mangina” and “shenis” miss the point of what they’re trying to do.
Trying to do something doesn’t make it possible.
To employ an overused (and almost always incorrect) word: This is gaslighting.
-Hoffer
Krugabe say- Print, Baby, Print!
So, first off, investment – typically spending on infrastructure or research, but there may be some room at the margin for including spending on things like childhood development in the same category. The defining characteristic here is that it’s spending that will enhance society’s future productivity. How should we pay for that kind of outlay?
The answer is, we shouldn’t. Think of all the people who say that the government should be run like a business. Actually it shouldn’t, but the two kinds of institution do have this in common: if you can raise funds cheaply and apply them to high-return projects, you should go ahead and borrow. And Federal borrowing costs are very low – less than 1 percent, adjusted for inflation – while we are desperately in need of public investment, i.e., it has a high social return. So we should just do it, without looking for pay-fors.
Much of what seems to be in the Green New Deal falls into that category. To the extent that it’s a public investment program, demands that its supporters show how they’ll pay for it show more about the critics’ bad economics than about the GND’s logic.
Yes, yes, of course. Society will reap such vast economic benefits from that Green New Deal it would be stupid to refuse to throw unlimited amounts of government paper at it. All you have to do is put some numbers in your spreadsheet, make a few assumptions, and Viola! we’ll be rich beyond our wildest dreams.
Would anyone be surprised to learn that Krugabe keeps a dacha somewhere outside the country where he plans on retiring if his advice is ever taken up?
I mean, the success of public housing and subsidized sports arenas pretty conclusively proves his point. No wonder he’s a Nobel laureate
So you are saying “you just pay for it”.
if you can raise funds cheaply and apply them to high-return projects, you should go ahead and borrow.
demands that its supporters show how they’ll pay for it show more about the critics’ bad economics
I can’t decide if he contradicted himself here (going straight from “high return should be borrowed for” to “how dare you ask how they’ll pay for it”) or a category error (the source of funding and the return are two different things). Either way, he’s an idiot.
High return projects have this high correlation with high risk projects that cause the investments to vanish.
Good point. Borrowing to invest in a high-risk project is a well-trod path to bankruptcy.
If a woman has a penis, her penis is a biologically female penis.
I find it… disconcerting… that anybody spends more than two seconds in any ten year period thinking about this. From any point of view.
Are you throwing shade at guys who like to spank it to chicks with dicks pr0n?
To be fair, if a female to male has a fake dick constructed from its skin and tissue I suppose you could call it biologically female dick. If male to female has OEM parts, wouldn’t apply which is who I think she’s talking about.
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/chicken-and-rice-soup-with-garlicky-chile-oil
This was dinner last night. Quite tasty. I used spinach instead of kale, and I didnt have a lemon or dill, but it turned out just fine. Used breasts instead of thighs too.
And macaroni instead of rice?
SCOTUS just decided Timbs v. Indiana. UNANIMOUS ruling that the 8th amendent’s excessive fines clause is incorporated against the states.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1091_5536.pdf
Gorsuch/Thomas (this is one of those times Thomas is really, really right) filed a concurring opinion saying it’s incorporated because of the privileges and immunities clause of the 14th.
Gorsuch, by the way, has quickly become my favorite justice.
Asset forfeiture thieves everywhere have a sad.
How is it even a question that the 8th applies to the states? Unlike, say, the 1st, it doesn’t say congress, it says “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” That on its own applies to all levels of government.
That on its own applies to all levels of government.
Post-14th amendment anyway. It’s so patently obvious that it’s positively shocking the supreme court managed to not only decide it correctly, but by unanimous assent.
I mean to be pedantic, the Constitution is the Constitution of the United States. As a compact it would make sense that any provisions that aren’t explicit would automatically apply only to the Fed Gov. But your point stands that after 14th amendment it makes sense that this should have been incorporated. As should the 2nd Amendment…
I read it differently. Any clauses which are not explicitly limited to either the states or the fed apply universally, since the constitution is defined as the supreme law of the land, and taking precedence over local legislation.
It is the supreme law establishing the federal government and leon is correct that it is interpreted as a compact between the States and the limitations it incorporates only limit the Feds unless explicitly stated otherwise. The only limitations it placed on the States before the XIVth Amendment were the enumerated powers granted to the Feds and the requirements that the States maintain republican forms of government and grant full faith and credit to each others laws.
“That on its own applies to all levels of government.”
So does “shall not be infringed” but I doubt Ginsburg will write an opinion incorporating the 2nd.
it doesn’t say congress
Likewise for 2A, 4A, 5A.
On page 12, of his concurrence, Thomas talks about how black men in post-civil war Mississippi were given extortionate fines for “vagrancy”, i.e, not being visibly employed, and if they couldn’t pay, were sold by the state into temporary slavery to pay off the debt — and how the civil forfeiture in this case was a lineal descendant of this law.
Thomas also traces the right against excessive punishment all the way back to 1101, shortly after the Norman conquest of England.
An actual privileges and immunities opinion, even if its just concurring?
I’ve always thought SCOTUS using the due process clause instead of the privileges and immunities clause to apply the BOR to the states was historically and intellectually incoherent.
There are several signs that this decision is denoted in a colonial sense of paternalism rather than any true altruism.
*Dudley Do-Right comes upon Nell Fenwick, tied to railroad tracks.*
Dudley: Sorry, Nell, I cannot untie you, because that would be a indicator of my deeply rooted paternalistic misogyny and lack of respect for your womanly selfdetermination.
Nell: Dudley, you imbecile, untie me. The train’s coming!
Dudley: Sorry, Nell. I must facilitate your development as an empowered female….
*train roars through, squashing Nell like a bug and splattering guts and gore all over Do-Right*
The End.
Snidely Kavanaugh: Did someone say a train was coming?
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I like how the Guardian’s take on the Isis Bride story is framed against the Tories: “Javid faces legal threat after move to strip ISIS recruit of citizenship”. Never change, Guardian.
More Krugabe:
You can argue that most middle-class families would be better off in the end, that the extra benefits would more than compensate for the higher taxes. And you’d probably be right. But this would be a much heavier political lift. You don’t have to be a neoliberal tool to wonder whether major system overhaul should be part of the Democratic platform right now, even if it’s something many progressives aspire to.
My main point now, however, is that when people ridicule progressive proposals as silly and unaffordable, they’re basically revealing their own biases and ignorance. Investment can and should be debt-financed; benefit enhancements can be largely paid for with high-end taxes. Howard Schultz won’t like it, but that’s his problem.
“As much as it pains me to admit this, a candidate who goes all in on this stuff probably hasn’t a snowball’s chance in Hell of getting elected. So we had better keep this stuff on the down low until later. But just remember, only ignorant fools and neoliberals don’t believe in unicorns.”
There are dozens of historical examples, even recent ones (Venezuela), that prove his position to be patently absurd and wrong.
middle-class families would be better off in the end, that the extra benefits would more than compensate for the higher taxes
Is he factoring in the economic and social collapse?
One day in the near future, Krugabe is going to show up as ‘Paula’ in an attempt to regain some former legitimacy from the distant past. Man, that is going to be one fugly woman. It will often be spotted arguing with Karla Marx over economics in some seeky DC backwater, with an audience of winos and has been prostitutes.
The winos and prostitutes have a much clearer view of economics. The wino knows that he doesn’t have a dollar, needs a dollar to buy wine and therefore wants you to give it to him or else he gets no wine. The prostitute knows that Daddy wants his money and she chooses the lower opportunity cost course of letting people screw her to make the money over the higher opportunity cost of Daddy setting her on fire in a dumpster.
Wait I thought it was a euphemistic reference to out of work solmiliers and ‘games developers’.
Man accused of pulling gun on couple wearing MAGA hats
Victims wrong type.
It was Self Defense, they were violently attacking him with their presence.
Someone’s going to need to update the lyrics
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
To live down in Bowling Green
Bowling Green folks treat you kind
They let you think your own mind
A man in Kentucky
Sure is lucky
In Bowling Green you walk your own line
The Everly Brothers are good, but I like this cover better
https://youtu.be/5QY4g9oXxBw
I’ve been there. It’s not a bad place.
told police he made the gesture at the man and a woman with him because of the MAGA hats they were wearing
And he thought this would help his case? JFC, TDS is some powerful shit.
wanton endangerment
Like he spilled it? ///alcoholabuse
Speaking of wantons, I have a sudden craving for Chinese.
I always liked when Andrew Sullivan would post “View from my Window” pics from his readers.
As part of that. View from conference room at work. The snow didn’t show up too well, but trust me it is there.
That reminds me. I played hooky today so I could get stuff done, so guess I should go something.
“We all as people contribute to rape culture, whether we realize it or not,” the STRIVE supervisor said. “So that means what we hear in music…it’s in the media. It’s everywhere and so what happens is we all see it and we take it in and that catchy tune is in your head and you’re singing it and you’re going along with it, but the problem is it’s normalizing these behaviors.”
That’s just nuts.
I guess that means they’re going to take hip-hop culture head-on?
Gangsta rap made me do it
I’m pretty sure the supervisor is talking about “Baby it’s Cold Outside.”
Something else to ponder on the tree of woe: Smollett was willing to sign complaints against two men arrested for the attack, until police revealed that the two men were the Nigerian brothers.
He’s a real class actor
SOB should go to jail.
He was actively trying to railroad any poor schmucks who got picked up until he realized that if he signed the complaint against the brothers they would turn on him.
What a piece of shit.
Yea, fuck him.
Consistent with how he used his kid brother’s name when he got arrested for a DUI. What an asshole.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez moves into a luxury apartment complex that boasts infinity pool, Steinway piano and nearby Whole Foods, but has NO affordable housing units – and sits at the center of a neighborhood ‘gentrification’ fight”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6722955/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-moves-luxury-apartment-complex-NO-affordable-housing-units.html
Bet she keeps hit her head on the end of the infinity pool.
A Marxist who is a hypocrite? *faints*
AOC’s official response
Fantastic
In that one video where she is OWNING congress, she’s also rocking an apple watch.
More than one congressman has actually lived in his office.
Yes, and the Dems are trying to get that banned.
174k and didn’t tax herself at 70%?!
Lol. It’s a MARVEL she has fans.
“Beth
@TruthTeller315
Jan 10
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Replying to @AOC @AP
Never have I’ve been so impressed by a politician. I pray you never change. Make us proud. Make us heard
264 replies 17 retweets 318 likes”
smh
My sentiments are close. I have never been so impressed by the ignorance of a politician.
She was spotted shopping in the Whole Foods in her new D.C. neighborhood on Thursday night, Politico’s Playbook reported.
*Lets comment linger in the air*
She’s shopping at the business of a mega billionaire who paid zero taxes for 2018. No hypocrisy, no siree, none at all.
She’s gay for pay, as far as progressivism is concerned. She’s a Soros cutout. She doesn’t believe a word of what she repeats.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez moves into a luxury apartment complex”
To be fair, Manic Pixie girl said YOU can grub roots for subsistence, she didn’t say anything about her royalness needing to do so.
nearby Whole Foods
I thought she didn’t like Amazon.
Fellow Map Geeks:
I just discovered USGS has a new site for finding maps. It’s pretty dandy. You drop a pin in a location and it will pull up all the maps USGS has on record that have that location, going back to 1880’s.
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#4/40.01/-100.06
That’s useful. The previous system had me trying to pull my hair out figuring out which maps covered the ground I cared about.
Thanks.
Oh wow. I’ll be back in a couple days…
Thanks. I love their maps for doing historical research on abandoned railroads, etc.
Slick!
Thanks, leon!
Thanks, dude
This is America
I’ve seen a bunch of those recently.
I want moar. They’re trying to pile all the blame on Jussie without taking any blame for themselves. He was screaming and you gave him the megaphone.
“.@instagram has just censored this Jussie Smollett meme from my account.”
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1097954922593570816
Fort McMurray hockey team forfeits season after backlash over ‘disrespectful’ video
I seem to recall in the “Added information” part of that incident, the primary dancer was in fact metis, and had dyed his hair blond.
Isn’t that the team where Oggie Ogglethorpe got his start?
Evidently Smollet is going to get truly screwed because he sent that hate letter through the UPS. The thing that is going to hoist him on his own petard is that he used the UPS to perpetrate his fraud? Fuck the guy, but that is not how I want to see him go to the clink for a long stint. The state is making sure you know why you don’t mess with them.
Getting locked away for filing a false police report, fine. That’s a valid offense.
Getting locked away for mailing himself a letter he later used in his false polce report is bullshit.
It had a suspicious powder on it, so I get why the Feds are pissed. However, why is it so much worse than if FedEX had been used?
There’s a lower chance fedex would have delivered it to the wrong address and exposed another member of the public?
You put it that way and…lock him up.
Using the US Mail in the furtherance of a crime is also a crime — see mail fraud. And the US government pursues those cases aggressively. Smollet is really fucked if he sent the “threatening letter with white powder” — which would be terrorism — through the US Mail.
There are many things that are technically a crime that are bullshit – ie, loading 11 rounds in a magazine in new york. The delivery of his fake letter to himself is technically a crime, but still a bullshit one.
Yes. The Feds don’t like that. My question is: Why is that worse than using a private delivery service? They’ve made it so you can’t discriminate based on all these criteria they’ve established, so what exactly is the big difference?
You mean USPS, right?
I assumed as such.
I’ve been having begevages.
Cold begevages?
Bevfefes
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“People are generally confused,” another editorial employee said, adding that the decision to hire a partisan operative for an editorial position comes off as “very bizarre.”
I can see my pituitary gland my eyes rolled so far back.
“I mean, we already have plenty of partisan editorial staff. We don’t need more, especially of the ungoodthinkful variety.”
They have both kinds of music. Country and Western.
CNN staffers are upset and confused about the network’s decision to hire a partisan political operative to oversee its 2020 campaign reporting.
I don’t see why. They already have plenty of political partisans in their employ.
This could tarnish the spotless reputation of the most trusted source in news. Say it ain’t so.
OK, then.
“fact-free invectives”
Sounds like she’ll fit right in.
Will no one rid us of this troublesome piece of paper?
Clearly Howard Schultz wishes to be seen on the side of Lincoln rather than Douglas, Truman rather than Strom Thurmond and Nixon rather than Wallace. (The choices are not always attractive!) But third party candidacies, in real history rather than fantasy, are condemned by the harsh logic of the 12th Amendment to undermine democracy.
One hopes we will soon we will find a way to disarm this grenade, perhaps by implementing the National Popular Vote strategy. But until we do that it is important to understand, as Ralph Nader demonstrated in 2000 (and as Gary Johnson and Jill Stein arguably did in 2016), that third-party candidacies unwittingly empower the darkest forces in our society. Howard Schultz should study history carefully before he makes his choice.
Hysterical shrieking about how the twelfth Amendment guarantees Trumphitler’s second term if some “spoiler” (whose initials are Howard Schultz) splits the Salvationist vote.
Democracy is doomed.
I shall probably laugh myself into a brain embolism if Public Enemy Number One wins the popular vote, next time around.
Schultz is doing nothing more than positioning himself for the democrat nomination. There is nothing more to see here.
National Popular Vote
They are still running with this when no one in the last presidential election won a majority of the votes cast.
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1096535537899302912
Be careful. It’s retarded out there.
Oh lordy I just can’t take more
Mmmm the amendments protect the citizens from the likes of Ye, Alyssy
That’s why you’re not ‘practicing’ your constitutional right to bear arms w/ a pipe bomb or sarin gas or a Huey.
None of which are arms, and thus not under the protection of the 2A. Also, um, does she know what a Huey actually is? Because I’m pretty sure ordinary citizens can own helicopters if they can afford them.
Even if she mistook it for a dedicated attack helicopter instead of a general purpose vehicle, there’s no reason why private citizens shouldn’t own those if they can afford them.
Why is she so bigoted against people who identify as attack helicopters?
Counting down the days until I can afford an Apache!
In her defense, Huey Lewis and the News should be considered weapons of mass destruction.
Take it back.
Featuring Stan Getz
Fantastic good!
From the replies:
“When the 2nd Amendment was written in 1791, these weapons didn’t even exist.
Our Founding Fathers couldn’t have predicted how powerful guns would become. There is a difference between bearing arms and bearing weapons of mass destruction.”
Goddamn, what a brilliant statement, I might have to rethink my position. How in the hell are these people winning?
There are more constitutional carry states than any time in… well I have no idea when. I’m not convinced they’re winning.
Uh, given that at the time it was written the 2a was understood to include private ownership of CANNON and even WARSHIPS I am reasonably certain that this statement is provably false
“But….there’s nothing in 2A that prevents sensible regulation.”
Shall NOT be infringed. Is that not clear cut enough for you? It doesn’t say “Shall not be infringed (unless it’s just sensible regulations)”
Militia, militia!
What is the militia but the body of free citizenry?
Damn, you got me. Where do I turn in my guns?
Here, this faithful government employee will process them for you.
Sounds good. Just got to take the boat out for a quick spin. Hope I don’t have any unfortunate boating accidents! What a shame that would be
I think I’ve finally reached a point I thought I’d never experience.
*deep breath*
Wouldn’t.
Stupid people on Twitter. “Molon Labe” is nine characters long.
yeah and “fuck off, slaver” is only like 16
Jesus Christ. I don’t even know where to start.
Also, still would.
There’s a whole bunch of other stuff, and the crazy thing to me is that a lot of it mirrored what made me a progressive in the first place.
Haha, I bet you actually thought Progressives believed in people as free individuals capable of growth and self-awareness. They sure pulled the wool over *your* eyes.
In so many ways it’s defined by what it isn’t rather than what it is. Specifically, it isn’t evil Republicans and Christians. There’s a lot of talk about compassion, freedom and condemnation of intolerance, but not really much action (thankfully). There’s really no talk about growth, self-awareness or any of that. You also do a lot of parroting talking points, but that’s hardly unique to progressives. Luckily I got out of being a prog before social media activism really hit its stride; it’s made things a lot worse.
I think like a lot of people on the left in the last ~5 years, I watched as I suddenly was right-wing even though nothing had changed about me. Of course, then I started asking questions, learning and clarifying my principles, which made me the shitlord I am today.
The left left you, man. Now you’re stuck here with constitutional conservatives, paleocons, libertarians and ancaps (Can a brother get a shout out?). The one thing that could pull a group like that together is a severe hatred of bullies and make no mistake about who the bullies are now.
(Can a brother get a shout out?)
All hail straffinrun, hentai kamen extraordinaire!
Uhh, that’s “heil”. I worked hard for this PhD.
|The left left you, man
That might be what started at, but as many people here have often illuminated, the left is no picnic. It may have started our breakup, but I ended it. Its proponents are in love with immoral delusions that can only worsen human existence and cheapen the value of life. That’s a hard pass from me. I’ll consider my transformation finally complete when I scrape together the gumption & money to get my first gun.
I don’t personally own any guns.
I’m in favor of other people owning tanks, howitzers, machine guns, flame throwers — whatever they want, have at it.
You don’t have to do something to be in favor of it as a right — in fact, someone who only defends rights they personally enjoy, arguably doesn’t actually believe in rights at all.
Completely agree with you. I just want to buy a gun 🙂
I plan to continue not smoking weed or having mexican ass-sex.
Our Founding Fathers couldn’t have predicted how powerful guns would become. There is a difference between bearing arms and bearing weapons of mass destruction.”
If they had predicted the internet, they would have made it illegal for idiots like you to spew nonsense into the aether willy nilly.
From link above:
CNN staffers are upset and confused about the network’s decision to hire a partisan political operative to oversee its 2020 campaign reporting.
She’s “a partisan political operative” from the wrong TEAM. That’s their only objection. If CNN had hired Barack Obama to oversee political coverage, that would have been perfectly reasonable and legitimate.
Why couldn’t they hire someone like George Stephanopolis, like ABC did?