This has been quite the eventful week Chez SP/OMWC. We’ve had wall-to-wall excitement. I wish I could remember some of it, though I do have some fleeting memories of a Gray wielding an anal probe, as well as a delightful football game which ended with a heartwarming moment. Eventually I’ll remember where this tattoo came from.
There are, however, some birthdays that I haven’t forgotten, including the Dr. Frankenstein of the utility monster; the One True Penguin; the voice of many childhoods; a fantastically over-rated singer who would even fuck Elvis Costello; and the Father of the Blues, definitely NOT over-rated.
News is next.
Here’s how judges can manage to shred two constitutional rights at once. Of course, we already posted those plans, as have many others. You want to do impeachments? Start with Robert Lasnik. Really, a woodchipper would be more appropriate, but getting gross abusers of the constitution like that asshole off the bench is a reasonable compromise, if not as viscerally satisfying.
A veritable creampie of sincerity.
A class act, all the way. Not that he’s wrong, of course.
“And I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for that meddlesome mother-in-law!” I do sincerely hate both of them.
OK, I was wrong. But I have the consolation of sweet, sweet salty tears.
Really, this is a strategy that needs some serious re-thinking.
After all, the fourth “F” is “forget ’em.”
UPDATE: Goddammit, they found my orphan stash.
Old Guy Music features the winner of the Greta Thunberg Lookalike Contest. Ripping up the fretboard, though.
Ugh. Hangovers were bad enough when I was young. They’re worse now.
That’s because you drink more now.
Maybe, but I drink better stuff. Shouldn’t that make a difference?
That’s exactly what encourages increased consumption.
?
That’s exactly what encourages increased consumption.
The math checks out.
Well, that merits some contemplation.
Pickle juice, my friend. Pickle juice before bed and you’ll be right as rain the next morning.
Water and aspirin usually does the trick for me. Lots and lots of water.
I used to go that route. Clausen has changed my life for the better. At least Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Better than Gatorade. And even mixes well with vodka.
The guy in the mouse ears gets it.
…and Keto-friendly!
You’re a genius.
Jugsy is taking a swipe at low-carb (again). Its not been pleasant.
I’m trying to drop about ten. And then one of our three best bakers brought peanut butter brownies to work yesterday. And they were in honor of a co-worker’s and my birthday (which is sometime next week,) so how could I refuse??
Peanut. Butter. Brownies.
Thankfully (I guess) I only got one before the rest of them disappeared.
I feel ya, Tres. Bacon, steak, sausage, pork chops, wings, etc. all day. Sucks, don’t it?
R C Dean:
But no beer, potatoes, or rice.
And none of half the sauces, or the simple pleasures of fresh baked bread.
That reminds me, I need to bake a new loaf of beer bread.
I’ll eat maybe 3 carbs today and drink 15 beers while watching football.
It’s all about moderation.
Oh, yeah.
My Saturday morning indulgence is toast made with this stuff. Mighty tasty, and kind of a cool story behind the company. Ex-con gone straight and giving others the same second chance.
GT:
We’ve got a French restaurant up here that helps ex-convicts get back on their feet again. They’re also currently working on opening a butcher shop as well.
That’s cool, Neph! Both outfits seem not unlike Denver’s Women’s Bean Project, which I’ve linked here before. Which reminds me – soon it’ll be time to make sure we have enough Ten Bean Soup mix for our New Year’s Day variation on Hoppin’ John.
Hoppin’ John has tomatoes. Wikipedia is wrong as usual.
True fact! The tomatoes are de rigueur as far as we’re concerned.
Bean project?
Really?
/thread fayul
Yup, and the last time I mentioned the organization is when I learned what “flicking the bean” means.
This site is so educational for me!
We’re better than an “After School Special” up in this piece.
Could a reverse gang bang be referred to as a “ten bean soup”?
Obligatory
Sloopy, as long as there are enough hands “on deck.”
Good morning Ya’ll.
The 3D printed cow has left the barn. The judge is exercising a futile gesture from the bench and potentially hurting people for the crime of having information.
Harris is just as awful of a human as she is a candidate. I await an X over her pic.
The guitar player is great but the “Willie” look only works on Willie.
Trivia: Willie Nelson was nominated for an Oscar for writing the Old Guy Music song.
And the Nobel Prize in Lack Of Self-awareness goes to …
SecretaryPrivate citizen Hillary Clinton.?
Pic coming.
Usually a pic but occasionally a link. I still need the editor because I’m not a HTML nerd.
Nerd: noun, Meaning someone who can do things I can’t.
Actually, that’s exactly the meaning I was using. I know my limitations. But I didn’t want to call myself incompetent.
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Comments are great.
There’s some really good memes in there.
Indeed. There’s 30 minutes gone.
Wow. These are going to go for some serious bucks.
Based on the description, it’s already gone after some bucks. For forty years!
That’s like discovering you had the real Wright Flyer sitting in your garage and had been using it as a kite for decades. Incredible.
Holy crap.
*faints at that pricing*
That’s incredible. As in, hard to believe. I mean, I don’t think it’s fraud, it’s just . . . Wow.
Right? I’m buying something like this at Christie’s not Gunbroker.
Maybe it’s just advertising, since there is less expectation that the users of the site will meet the reserve.
You might be surprised. People sell high end arms like Perazzi or H&H on Gunbroker regularly. I’m just skeptical when something like this pops up on the internet.
It’s not advertised as a reserve sale so that opening bid being met means a sale is happening.
I’d have opened it at $500k and set a reserve if I wanted $1.75m. At least then you’d capture bidders you can do a post-sale negotiation with. And the platform can act as a go-between to ensure they get their commission.
Not sure this seller is getting good advice on how to sell at auction.
Yeah, if I was selling a 7 figure item I’d drop a few bucks getting the best advice I could.
Yep. I’ve told people to take an item elsewhere when I thought it was out of my depth. Or I’ve enlisted an expert to help market it for a cut of the commission. It serves the best interest of the seller and that’s the best way to help your reputation.
Gunbroker should have begged Sotheby’s or Christie’s to partner on this one and to do the provenance. Everyone involved would have benefitted from it and people would bid with a lot more confidence.
It’s not even listed as an auction, just a straight sale.
That’s right up there with a Luger I heard about on the market once upon a time. An original Luger in 45 ACP – one of the 5 made for the US Army trials which lead to the 1911. Talk about rare AND historic.
Number 1 popped up about 30 years ago, I think in a pawn shop in Montana. At that time the shop owner took one look and offered, according to American Rifleman, “six figures” on the spot. Not too surprised to see it going for this much, especially if it has #2 in tandem.
Don’t know what’s going on this year, but the turkeys are Yuuuuge!. Easily trice the size of a hatebird.
No swine flu this year either. Turkey birds are gonna be cheap as hell in a couple weeks. I’ll be stocking up for sure.
“Abuse of power is not necessarily a concept that most Americans run around thinking about,” said Rep. Jim Himes, a Connecticut Democrat who sits on the House Intelligence Committee. “The point is we are all working to try to make a fairly unusual concept to most Americans — abuse of power — understandable.”
And they wonder why people despise them.
“The point is we are all working to try to make a fairly unusual concept to most Americans — abuse of power — understandable.”
Oh you make it understandable every time you dickheads convene Congress, Jimmy.
we are all working to try to make a fairly unusual concept to most Americans — abuse of power — understandable.
Well, that IS true.
Dammit, sloopy!
Sorry. I should have realized your old brain worked slower than my young brain and held off posting for a few minutes.
“ fairly unusual concept to most Americans ”
He obviously doesn’t know any average Americans.
Unlikely to shift….but there’s collateral damage:
“I think the American public needs to be reminded that countless people have been convicted on hearsay,” the Illinois Democrat said. “Because the courts have routinely allowed and created needed exceptions to hearsay. Hearsay can be much better evidence than direct as we have learned in painful instances, and it’s certainly valid in this instance.” Dem. Rep. Mike Quigley
https://pluralist.com/mike-quigley-impeachment-democrat-hearsay-better-than-direct-evidence/
Beccaria shakes his head in solemn disappointment.
Quigley Down Under had an incredible score. (But not as good as Jaws) And it was also a decent film. (Also not as good as Jaws)
That’s the only thing positive I have to say with the word Quigley in it.
The best part about QDU: Tom Selleck, unlike most Hollywood types, is actually a shooter and knows something about how to handle a rifle. The gun handling in most movies is cringe-inducing.
Kinda like Lee Marvin in “The Big Red One”. Not only did he play a leading role but he was a technical advisor showing the rest of the cast how troops used the gear at the time – like having a Garand clip “clipped” on the jacket for a fast reload.
Laura San Giacomo’s breasts were excellent in that film.
Can confirm.
Better than in “Under Suspicion” where she got full-frontal?
No, not that Under Suspicion. The other Under Suspicion. With Liam Neeson.
*googles*
Oh man, that’s really a quality film. Highly recommended.
Adds to list, moves to top.
You won’t regret it. I haven’t watched it in years, but it’s an excellent thriller.
Best LSG – Sex, Lies and Videotape
Witness intimidation is a crime, no matter who does it. Full stop.
???
Yes Hillary, FULL STOP. As in go away. Take your shitty family and just go the fuck away! Plus, take Zero and the Wookie with you. Dammit these shitbags exceed the limits of my medications.
Good news NJ residents, your shitty state wants to get worse.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2019/11/black-nj-leaders-want-to-explore-reparations-over-slavery-in-the-state.html
That’s pretty stupid of New Jersey.
And this is plain evil of them.
Note: do not read the comments, whatever you do.
Makes me happy that, while I am temporarily in New Jersey, I’m not of New Jersey.
I am perfectly fine with slavery reparations. No problem. I will pay reparations to any and all slaves I personally had owned previously.
Do orphans count?
Asking for a friend.
Orphans get paid daily with gruel and beatings.
Be careful, I think Democrats are going to start taxing gruel & beatings.
Pedant on: Slavery does not mean work without pay. Slaves have often been paid. Slavery doesn’t even necessarily mean work. Many slaves were allowed to live out their final years without any assigned tasks. Slavery means that the slave is owned and has no choice about whether, or how, or for what pay they will work.
Pedant off.
Your Orphans are slaves, face it.
That sounds exactly like a conscript military.
I don’t remember who said it but: “You can only have two types of standing armies: Slave Armies, or Mercenaries”.
That was an exchange between Milton Friedman and Westmoreland.
*sigh*
That moment when you enter your debit PIN into the microwave.
*looks for caffeine*
What were you planning on microwaving for 12 minutes and 34 seconds?
Remind me to change the combination on my luggage.
Ok, President Skroob!
His ATM card, clearly.
BOSCO
We did think Morher might have had an affiar with that Costa Rican houseboy….
Good mor her.
Aides describe a bleak environment in which workers have started to openly question the judgment of managers after seeing colleagues marched out the door. During a recent meeting, aides pressed Rodriguez and Maya Harris for answers about campaign strategy. At one point during the more than two-hour discussion, Maya Harris herself turned to Rodriguez and challenged him in front of about 20 staffers, and several more listening in by phone. Rodriguez seemed unprepared for the exchange, according to people present. They walked out with little consensus about how to prioritize upcoming events and strategy around advertising.
Backstabbing losers. Eminently qualified to run the country.
Well, Harris fucked her way into politics, and then went from one sinecure to the next. At no point was she ever required to learn any skills or show any competence, so it’s no surprise she flopped.
Isn’t ‘flopping’ how she moved up?
I thought she sucked her way up…
I thought that was ‘fluffing’…
I had no idea her sister was running the show. That sounds like a bad decision on Kamala’s part.
Better for us, though. Can you imagine the constant sister-drama if she won?
She would’ve appointed her sister AG, just like a Kennedy, amirite?
Good morning, Old Man and the rest of you early risers!
I remember sleeping in on weekends. Good times.
Holy shit what a collection of lynx. I have to give the nod to the Harris one as the most entertaining. This cracked me up:
Sounds like proggie world in general, to me.
That kid is a helluva guitar player. Here’s what I’ve got on this morning.
It’s gonna be beautiful here today. I may actually get the Christmas lights up in relative comfort.
I hope each and every one of you has a fantastic day!
Christmas lights before Thanksgiving? What kind of monster are you?
I don’t turn them on until Thanksgiving. Relax.
The festive kind, Scrooge.
Top of the mornin’ to ya, Tundy! You’re always so delightfully cheerful – you remind me of this guy. Although for your sake, I do hope you have at least one arm and at least one leg. Although if you didn’t, I bet you’d still be cheerful.
Nice tune. Thanks!
Hiya GT! I’m glad you like the song. Band is named for a local street that does indeed have quite a few dives.
And speaking of GT, anyone up for a little Elephant poop infused gin?
Holy shit!
IIIIIII’m just gonna nope right on outta here…
No thanks, I’ll just have a gender neutral cocktail.
So… fowl feathers?
Yo – that’s racist, straight up.
I think. ::wanders off in confusion::
White Negroni
I was gonna make a “Shaun King’s favorite drink” joke, but I won’t.
I was expecting the article to morph into “whites won’t order a drink with Negro in it”. Maybe it did, I didn’t bother finishing.
Meanwhile, blacks are too niggardly with their money to order drinks with fancy names.
I am not allowed to view videos having Rachael Price in them.
That’s a pretty harsh restraining order.
I remember when I explained the concept of Celebrity Waiver List to SP. She gave me The Look (anyone who knows her IRL knows what I’m talking about here) and quietly started sharpening the edges of the rusty tin can lids.
Yikes!
You can still listen, though, right?
As long as I do not display visible wood.
She hasn’t gotten you the electric sex pants? (Amazingly SFW).
a leaderless structure at the top that’s been allowed to flail without accountability.
and yet a large chunk of the population thinks these slime should have more control over our daily lives…
In contravention of Hong Kong’s mini-constitution the Basic Law, People’s Liberation Army garrison takes the initiative to deploy to clean up student protest debris for a video recorded propaganda campaign. Hong Kong SAR acknowledges that it did NOT solicit the PLA to deploy, as is required by the Basic Law.
https://twitter.com/demosisto/status/1195627953515839488
There goes the neighborhood.
How many British troops are left in Hong Kong? I think it’s approximately zero.
How, exactly, did Thatcher expect this to work?
Thatcher simply washed her hands of it and left it to the Chinese. The UK has no presence in Hongkong other than the odd merc hoping to pick up a contract for something or other.
Heck, as far as the UK is concerned there’s even a little backwash – Chinese enlisting into the UK military as Hongkong citizens and feeding intel back to the PRC.
Well, at least on paper, there’s a 50-year guarantee of HK’s quasi-independence. That is the part I meant. Of course, you’re probably right that it was just a fig-leaf.
I can picture Thatcher partially restraining a giggle as she first reviewed the text of that 50-year guarantee. The UK wanted to be able to claim they were shut of the colony business and couldn’t have cared less how many non-white souls burned in the process.
Unfortunately, though delayed a few decades, the flight of Hongkongers to Vancouver and Toronto was instinctually correct.
Commies always lie.
Commies and gun-grabbers, one and the same.
Wasn’t Hong Kong’s Fate sealed when the Brits signed a a 99 year lease back in 1898?
Then in the 80s China said they’d chosen to opt out of renewal.
Even then Hong Kong is only guaranteed to continue being free market for 50 more years.
Everyone signing the treaties thinks that 99 years or 50 years will be after they’re dead, so who cares?
2047 sounds pretty close at hand to the younger Hong Kong residents.
The UK had permanent claim to HK Island and Kowloon. The New Territories were under a 99 year lease with the Qing Dynasty.
It is worth noting that the Republic of China government in Taiwan is the true legal successor to the Qing Dynasty. As the ROC government hasn’t been extinguished, the PRC is a usurper force that has used the might makes right prerogative to engage in this 1984 negotiation with the Brits.
I’m sure this surprises exactly zero people.
College Gameday is in Waco for the Oklahoma/Baylor gmae.
Baylor has a female bear mascot in a cheerleader miniskirt dancing around.
I don’t know what to feel
Ask Animal. He’s probably less conflicted.
Pics required.
They’re at The Bedpan On The Brazos?
Also, isn’t dancing illegal in Waco?
The kids with the signs have some pretty good memes. Someone’s holding up a giant photo of the whistleblower
Any “Epstein didn’t kill himself” signs?
Now there’s a mash-up waiting to be made.
Conspiracy nut
“In waging a scorched-earth, no-holds-barred war of Resistance against this administration, it is the Left that is engaged in a systematic shredding of norms and undermining the rule of law,” Barr said in a speech to conservative lawyers at the Federalist Society’s convention in Washington.
Barr went into detail as he assailed the self-described “Resistance” to Trump, accusing them of adopting “dangerous” and “incendiary” language by implying the sitting government is illegitimate.
“This is a very dangerous and indeed incendiary notion to import into the politics of a Democratic republic,” Barr said. “The fact is, that, yes, while the president has certainly thrown out the traditional beltway playbook and punctilio, he was upfront about what he was going to do and the people decided that he was going to serve as president.”
Every goodthinker knows Trump is an illegitimate usurper who is destroying democracy. The Democrats are heroes.
I hope Barr salts the political earth.
Can he, though? Jarflax yesterday had a pretty astute observation:
That permanent bureaucracy is pretty fucking powerful. How on earth will Barr get enough support?
By getting groups of 12 “people” to convict several of them after their underlings turn on them to save their own skin. And for the rest to run for cover like cockroaches when the lights come on.
We aren’t voting our way out.
The closest I can envision is Trump getting impeached and removed by the Senate. He wins reelection next year in a landslide and comes close to going full Pinochet. Maybe to the point of pardoning people who murder Deep State players.
If the Senate can get the two-thirds vote necessary to remove him, I don’t think they’ll have much trouble getting the simple majority necessary to ban him from office.
Too bad Melania couldn’t run if that happened. That would be epic.
How about Ivanka?
I’m sure the Democrats will pass some “Barring of Blood” law that bans any Trump family member from running for office henceforth and into eternity.
He needs to appeal to the underlings who seek power and are willing to murder their overlords, Sith style.
(Assuming this is metaphorical)
Why would you help a President who will be gone in a maximum of 8 years (now 5.5) when you’ve otherwise got a guaranteed job and the implicit support* of a million-plus coworkers for 20-30 years? Plus, of course, that sweet double-dip potential from contracting/consulting.
* = In the abstract, unionized “not necessarily you, individually” sense
Why would you help a President who will be gone in a maximum of 8 years (now 5.5) when you’ve otherwise got a guaranteed job and the implicit support* of a million-plus coworkers for 20-30 years?
To avoid a lengthy prison sentence? That’s why I said I hope Barr salts the political earth. Anything short of that and this entire “drain the swamp” exercise will have been a blip on the radar of leviathan expanding.
The most that will get drained is a pimple on leviathan’s ass.
Because a federal prosecutor with a grand jury is giving you the “We can do this the hard way or the easy way” talk?
Said federal prosecutor is part of the same system.
Ron Paul was also part of the system. Yet he worked hard to change it.
Change can come from within. Especially when the reformer has the power to prosecute deep staters who have gotten so brazen they don’t even hide their criminal behavior anymore.
Ron Paul was elected. William Barr is appointed. The people who need to take action are civil servants. Right, wrong, or indifferent the system has not been set up to allow elected and appointed officials to truly get their way unless they have an overwhelming and enduring majority, or their interests align with those of the civil service (see: Obama). Both of those criteria are necessary: an overwhelming majority to consistently get the law changed, and an enduring majority to keep the holdouts from availing themselves of the next election.
Appointees come and go, the civil service is forever.
Bear in mind w/r/t what I said above that this is how FDR won. The government before FDR took over was still alternating between control of the progressives and proto-libertarians, and had been for 40 years, and neither faction had an entrenched majority. FDR swept all of that away by having more votes and getting to hold on to them longer than anyone who came before him.
It’s probably more accurate to say “classical liberals” than “proto-libertarians”, but you get the idea.
So Barr isn’t necessarily the one that any hack inside govt should fear – Durham is that guy. He cleaned up the FBI mess on Whitey Bulger.
He has to appeal to the worst in the underlings’ natures. They need to turn on each other as the lefties have a knack for doing. Scorch the earth, and then salt it. If a few entrenched statist bureaucrats get Clintoned, I’m okay with it.
Ever hear of the term “We Bees”? It is how the civil service views elected or appointed officials. As is “We be here when you got here, and we be here when you gone.”
Nice, not!
I read that too. Good stuff right there.
Every now and again it hits me – how in the past when there was a change from one party to the other in the White House that there would be low grumblings and the occasional outburst for a few months until things settled down and each party found its place. But here we are 3 years later and team blue just can’t get over it. The party of “Move On” just aint movin’ on to anywhere.
Silicone Saturday arrives just in time!
http://archive.li/Y1gmH
23 is a loser.
That’s all I got.
TTUN= Those Tits Up North?
If I ever get another kitty, I want it to be #6.
Fuck you Goodell for making me agree with Burfict.
Vontaze is an animal. In a sane world he would be kept in a cage, fed copious amounts of raw meat and released on Sunday for 3 hours. I’m not a shrink, but anyone who has that complete a lack of impulse control is somewhere in the socio-psychopath realm. That playoff loss he and Adam Jones managed to give us, purely by being incapable of even a tiny trace of self control was the most ridiculous, idiotic, pitiful thing I have ever seen in sports. Your team is winning, time is running out, the Steelers have been entirely unable to move the ball, and you go head hunting to give them 15 yds on an INCOMPLETE pass. Then, because even that wasn’t enough, you stand around cursing screaming and attacking the refs to give them another 15 yds, on the same damn play. I talk about how I am no longer a football fan, that 30 seconds of despicable behavior was the final straw for me.
Thought Mojeaux and other writers might find this interesting.
https://twitter.com/RickyDelFuego/status/1195567262792441858?s=09
Karma’s a bitch.
This is where I stopped reading.
…and where Tres starts reading.
Somebody shut this guy the fuck up!
-Queen Elizabeth II
Another ‘car accident’ on the horizon?
Wow! Men CAN have periods!
Never hesitating to go after the obvious, low-hanging fruit (phrasing?) since the mid-’70s.
No fair! You have an edit fairy, and I don’t, so now I look stupid(er)!
Don’t worry, we know some posters cheat.
Who you calling a “poster”?
You don’t post anything? Huh. I could have sworn you did.
Would you just call Jack Dorsey a “tweeter”? I don’t think so.
Poster? Ha!
Does he even use the platform?
Did anyone else hear ominous meowing?
As a founder, he uses it all the time.
You don’t post anything? Huh. I could have sworn you did.
Do you even caste system, bro?
Nope, Sloopy. I adhere to the “multiple descriptors can be applied to a single individual without being inaccurate” philosophy.
You’re the kind of guy that would have called Barbara Boxer “ma’am”.
It’s shameful.
You’re right, I should have said “Citizen”.
You’re right, I should have said “Citizen”.
Oh, and now you’re slurring our lurkers.
Citizen Boxer lurks here?
psst I heard from my cousin’s wife’s manicurist’s hairdresser that UCS is actually a Schembechler.
Psst I heard from my brother’s father in law’s gardener’s immigration lawyer that sloopy wants to ban gloves and mandate heavy hopping of all beers.
Worth recalling that his great-uncle had to be sent to Bermuda because he was too stupid to realize Hitler was the bad guy.
…and now to reply to the EDITED comment…(grrrr!)
I know what I mean when I say “honorable,” Andy…
(and dang, he’s gotten old!)
Frustrating, isn’t it? That nonsense has gotten me before, too.
If Swiss or Sloopy post a period it means something is incoming. If OMWC does it it means another one has aged out. If SP does it, it probably means the site is going away.
There isn’t (wasn’t) always a place-holder period, and I’ve had text in comments change after replying to them. Or even flat out disappear.
Justice!
Stone, a political operative and Trump’s friend, was found guilty of all seven counts brought by the Justice Department, a victory for special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Stone was found guilty of five counts of lying to Congress, one of witness tampering and one of obstructing a congressional committee proceeding. Among other things, he misled Congress about his communications with Trump campaign officials in 2016, the jury unanimously decided.
The verdict out of Washington marks a stunning conclusion to one of the highest-profile prosecutions to emerge from the Mueller investigation — a case that began with one of Trump’s most vocal supporters arrested during a predawn raid as the special counsel’s investigation wound down and since then has gradually revealed new information about the Trump campaign’s positive reception to foreign interference in the 2016 US election.
Mueller is vindicated. Russian collusion and interference confirmed.
Stone was found guilty of five counts of lying to Congress, one of witness tampering and one of obstructing a congressional committee proceeding
These are crimes? /half the people in DC
Now do Schiff.
Oh, Trump beat me to it. ?
Hey CNN, why don’t you have a comments section under each of your “articles”? LOL.
I’m torn between joking that it would show no one visits their site, and joking about them being talking heads unused to the concept of feedback.
Thirty minutes after the jury delivered its verdict, Trump tweeted about his displeasure with it.
“So they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come. Well, what about Crooked Hillary, Comey, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, Shifty Schiff, Ohr & Nellie, Steele & all of the others, including even Mueller himself? Didn’t they lie?” the President wrote on Twitter, citing his political foes who either worked on or contributed information to the Russia investigation. “… A double standard like never seen before in the history of our Country?”
Whataboutism.
Betrayal
“I want proposals that are bolder with respect to reducing inequality and giving people more opportunity and allowing us to make more investments in our infrastructure and our education systems and others,” Obama continued, to applause from the group.
But he also offered a note of caution: “We also have to be rooted in reality and the fact that voters, including the Democratic voters and certainly persuadable independents or even moderate Republicans are not driven by the same views that are reflected on certain, you know, left-leaning Twitter feeds. Or the activist wing of our party,” Obama said.
Obama is turning his back on the believers. He’s hanging then out to dry.
Why hast thou forsaken them, O Lord?
Not as stupid as I thought.
Low bar, though.
The nutters and radicals are implicitly and explicitly criticizing him and his legacy. Naturally, His Egoness is compelled to respond.
True Believers: He was a false prophet!
He was a man of his time. A time when everyone in the press an the deep state kissed his ass. The only objectors were a few disgruntled bitter clingers.
OK, boomer
What he means is, muzzle the openly commie voices long enough to win power.
Then do your socialist things quietly once in office.
Exactly, nothing wrong with lying to gain power as long as you gain power.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joy-behars-guns-second-amendment
^this, when he made the earlier comment about SJWs everyone took it as him saying he thought the SJWs went too far, but it was pretty clear to me he was saying don’t just talk about socialism and pat yourself on the back for your activism, get out there and bash those fash where it counts! He ain’t on our side.
Bring on the mobocracy
The United States may soon find itself in the uncomfortable position of having a Supreme Court whose ideological majority is at odds, on a number of key issues, with well more than half the country. Depending on the outcome of the next election, it may be similarly at odds with congressional majorities and a new president. Anticipating the potential impending crisis of an activist Court reshaping American law and striking down legislation, many of the current Democratic presidential candidates have suggested restructuring the Court, and advocacy groups are pushing to expand its size to allow for the appointment of additional justices.
These ideas for structural reform (some of which I have proposed) get a lot of attention. But there is another way to rein in the Court’s power. Congress could pass a Congressional Review Act for the Supreme Court, which would enable it to overturn Court decisions on legislative matters with greater speed and ease.
Something similar already exists for executive-branch decisions. The Congressional Review Act (CRA), passed in 1996, allows Congress to review federal-agency regulations and overturn them through a “fast track” process, in which both houses of Congress pass a resolution on a given regulation through an expedited process and the president signs it. The idea behind the CRA is simple: Congress makes the laws, and agencies implement them. If Congress doesn’t approve of how an agency has implemented a law, it should be able to review and reject the agency’s approach.
A Congressional Review Act for the Supreme Court would be similar, but it would apply to Court decisions that interpret legislation. Such a law would be constitutional, because Congress already has the power to overturn these decisions, by simply passing new laws.
So much here that pisses me off, I don’t even know what to highlight.
The Congress cannot “overturn” Court decisions by simply passing new, even more un-Constitutional laws.
Unless they amend the Constitution.
The United States may soon find itself in the uncomfortable position of having a Supreme Court whose ideological majority is at odds, on a number of key issues, with well more than half the country.
Yeah, it’s how the rights of the minority are upheld, you malignant fuck.
Soon they will be decrying the SCOTUS stance on Slavery being illegal.
I can’t imagine a time when the court’s ideological majority was at odds, on a number of key issues, with well more than half the country.
The republic would never survive such a time.
https://www.weblinenews.com/supreme-court-justice-charts/
*guffaws*
Do they even read this shit before pressing “Send”?
Courts are Activist when they strike down unconstitutional laws.
Rupolph was pretty damn lucky he was hit with the padded part of the helmet, it that had been turned around the other way, he could have been killed.
“Rupolph”? Cross-dressing QB in the NFL, right?
Pure essence of Truck. And no reserve!
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1957-willys-jeep-fc150-forward-control-4×4/
That’s so cool. I will be watching that one – it looks like it will fetch a pretty penny.
Did you happen to notice this one?
I think it’s fair to call it ‘sublime’.
A friend of mine in Denver has a ’52 XK120 that he spend 20 years restoring. Sublime is good start. Then roll out the really good adjectives.
Jag XK120 roadster is best Jag.
My life’s biggest regret. In HS I paseed on on at $200 I think. My practical Dad talked me out of it. It was pretty sorry but still……
Lovely.
I bought my Helaey from my best friend when the AF sent him overseas (Libya FTW). When he got back he bought one those. Really nice but a bit big and heavy maybe. The penultimate XK.
I’d love that. Of course, Mrs. Dean would be driving it, not me, but still.
That reminds me – this truck commercial has reared its ugly head again. I hate that commercial. Dude is so whipped.
Dude shouldn’t’a assumed what she’d want to drive. He got her a pansy car.
She apparently likes pansies.
Indeed.
“I like red…it matches my panties.”
So he should’ve gotten her a red truck.
Ummm….he did? And then she asserted her dominance by demanding the black one.
No he got her an SUV crossover aka 2019’s Mom Minivan equivalent.
So basically he did not find her worthy of a truck.
Oops! Not a truck. My bad. Not obvious to me from the angle at which it’s shown.
Patronizing cunte. He deserved to be topped and pegged.
Re: yuppies in trucks in general – I guess I don’t get why folks who probably never haul anything more than a few bags of groceries from Whole Foods need a pick-em-up truck. Same for urban & suburban dwellers in general. Why do you want THAT much truck? Compensating? Besides – you’re just going to be asked to help your friends move every weekend.
Maybe my opinion is colored by the fact that I do the delinquency and charged-off loans report at the financial institution where I work. So many trucks for so many big bucks.
No idea. I needed a truck to run to Home Depot, and once we’re out of this house, I won’t need it at all, but I’ll be damned if I get rid of it.
It is a beater truck that doesn’t look quite like a beater, but that’s a Dodge Ram for you.
My dream car is a Dodge Ram diesel with manual transmission, not dually.
Oh god I hate that commercial. Insufferable pretty things in their modernist mansion. *blugh*
I like their house.
In our house, we ironically chirp “I love it!”
The commercial did its job. We’re talking about it right now. My household mocks it. We all know the brand associated. Well played, ad firm. Well played.
I had to go back and see what the brand is. FAIL
You went back to look, didn’t you?
Only for the purposes of my comment. Otherwise I couldn’t care less since I’m not in the market for a vehicle.
Agree. I was too annoyed to give a damn. Until Mojo pointed it out, I didn’t even notice the red one was an SUV either.
I guarandamntee you if the red one was a truck. she would’ve chosen red.
The one advertisement that is really annoying me is from Tom Steyer, which I’m seeing about 5 times every hour. The only saving grace is that it isn’t working. He is still polling really low — lest than 1% I think.
One of the pleasures of living in machine-politics land is I hardly get any political ads, on TV or in the mail.
Positive Note of the Day:
Say what you will about Chic-Fil-A’s Board de Faire, but they run a tight ship.
The parking lot was full and the car line was wrapped around the building twice. They had two girls taking orders outside, one verifying orders, one running the orders to cars, and a dude directing traffic. I was gone in 6-7 minutes.
I could have just went across the street to the much less crowded McD’s, and been served in 4-5 minutes. But then, I would have to eat McPoop,
I just don’t get the Chik-Fil-A exuberance.
It sucks less than McD’s or Burger King? Fast food is a pretty low bar, I guess.
Hey, I had a hankering for a chicken, egg, and cheese bagel, and I was too lazy to make my own.
Yeah, I don’t find it any better than Wendy’s. I’ve never eaten anything chicken at a McD’s or BK so I can’t compare.
I didn’t know Wendy’s did breakfast. They a few more miles away, but I might check them out.
They don’t. It’s a trap!
One would hope the slowness isn’t due to progs holding up the line while trying to give grief to the drive-thru staffer and videoing the exchange. Maybe that one guy’s job loss and downfall taught them a lesson. (I know – assumes they’re capable of learning.)
I hate the fucking iPads. I want to look at the menu board. Size your ordering stations back an appropriate distance. Had Chikfila the other day and at last this time the chicken was crisp not soggy, but the drive through time was long because the cashier was chatting with the woman in front of me. Enough with the BS pleasantries.
Having said that, Popeyes is circling the drain. Out of sweet tea and hot sauce packets (how does that happen??). The chicken sandwich is awful, and subpar to the chicken or shrimp po’boys it replaced. They were making sandwiches in advance and had a whole tray of them under the warmer but someone how still took twenty minutes to add red beans & rice and put it in a bag (despite ordering it for dine in- good thing, because the tables were all dirty).
Pure essence of Truck.
A guy I went to high school had one of those. Not quite as nice as the one for sale. Flat out was about 48mph, I think.
That’s what I remember. The 90MPH speedometer in the photos was very optimistic.
A neighbor back in the early 60’s used to drive a pair of them from NM to Alaska. The Alcan at the time was mostly gravel and pretty much a true adventure.
I just don’t get the Chik-Fil-A exuberance.
Trump’s America, man. It’s baffling.
Guess I’ll walk home tonight. Can sake from the convenience store: ?
You’ll die listening to a sound like angels screaming
Better than a Tesla
*sniffs, wipes cheek, waddles away*
Don’t go, BP! You’re our True Penguin!
Don’t go, bud. We need you! Zenu comin’!
Love you guys, too. But I wasn’t going to let that line go without some comment.
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Spraking of shotguns …
Still purging, which includes my armory of an ancient .410 double barrel side-by-side break-open single-trigger shotgun. I have 0 idea what it is or how much it’s worth, so my first order of business today is finding out.
I also have an antique longbow I can’t shoot anymore because my shoulder is not strong enough to do it. Speaking of shoulders, I hit it on my car yesterday as I was getting in it and it killed me. I think I banged it right on one of the anchors holding it to my humerus. The bow was apparently mass produced in the 50s. I need to superglue the branding medallion back on it.
I also have that little Ruger purse pistol I have buy’s remorse over, but less so since y’all talked me down out of the trees.
/ramble
Which Ruger, if you don’t mind my asking? LCP? My CCW pistol of choice is…umm…was before the boating accident… a 9mm semiauto. Been so long since I carried I forget the model number. Just renewed the permit, though.
Ruger 380 NOT .380. Learned that the hard way and now I have a huge box of wrong ammo (no, can’t buy the gun to go with it) I can’t use.
Thicc
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/fitness/inspiration/australian-bikini-model-praised-for-sharing-real-bikini-photos/news-story/c0bd048030631d239326635475f25f79
“Real.”
But still airbrushed.
Too skinny for my tastes.
She may be an overrated singer, but I like her. Elvis Costello ruined her.
Ouch
She goes better than she stops, I reckon.
Be a nice project for someone with the time.