We’re already preparing for the four day weekend. Large delivery of alcohol from Total Wine (I love living in 2019 America!), including a few bottles of Feteasca Neagra in honor of the Glibs’ favorite vampire, and the spiritous components of dbleagle’s egg nog. I found some delicata squash, and am about to do some ambitious grocery collection. Mom keeps asking us if she’s eaten yet (she just put away about a football player’s ration), then tells us she’s not hungry. We’ll give her a couple of glasses of vodka (“It’s local Artesian water! Good for you!!!”) to quiet her a bit. Maybe give some to Wonder Dog as well. I should lay off because after I drink, I start tweeting.
Then again, there’s birthdays to celebrate, including the greatest horror actor ever– EVER; a guy who makes you wonder why anyone ever paid any attention to Marcel Marceau; the fattest pitcher with the shakiest windup; and a horrible cultural appropriator (who taught me everything I know about Mexican cooking).
Oh yes, news.
In the ongoing circus, “mistakes were made. But don’t worry, not by anyone powerful or famous.”
The downside of automatic bill payment.
Let Joe grope Lindsay. Problem solved. Everyone wins.
In local news: this is impressive. Thank god he passed all of his drug tests.
I have an alibi. The absolute lack of any regard for criminal defendant rights by the people quoted in this article is sadly expected.
Basically, we fucked them into extinction.
I’m not sure of how to get snarky about this.
Old Guy Music continues my trend of highlighting traditional Jewish musi… fuck it, let’s listen to the Jimi Hendrix of country music.
I’m not sure of how to get snarky about this.
Me and you and a dog named Bo….
Meh. Another Tuesday in Destin.
Alternatively, the snark could have been this….
Good find.
Holy cow, she looks like 80
Yeah. That’s the roughest 46 yo I think I’ve ever seen.
I was about to say the same thing.
My 75 year-old mother looks better than that.
Freud nods in agreement.
“mistakes were made. But don’t worry, not by anyone powerful or famous.”
We’ve just got to stop letting the government investigate itself.
Ooh, love the sidebar!
What hump?
Gotta love the edit fairies….
/rolleyes
The first ever link to Eau Claire and … I couldn’t be prouder.
The report is also expected to conclude that Page was appropriately targeted for surveillance and that the FBI appropriately disassociated itself from Christopher Steele, the former British spy and author of the infamous “Steele Dossier” about President Donald Trump, after leaks and contacts with the media were uncovered.
CNN first reported that a former FBI lawyer is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document related to the 2016 surveillance of Page.
People familiar with the report told the Times that while it characterizes the pursuit of the FISA request as careless and slapdash, the report discredits major conspiracy theories that Trump has advanced about the investigation — finding, for example, that the FBI met the legal evidence threshold to open the probe.
Something something parallel construction.
It’s not illegal when the government does it.
So how long was Page under surveillance? How long before they knew he wasn’t a Russian agent? They never even have to say, “Oops, our bad” when it turns out their entire basis for the warrant was wrong. But they’ll offer up some peon on a paperwork mistake and we’re supposed to be all thrilled that heads rolled?
Oh shush you, just bend over and take it like a good serf.
People that were expecting this report to be a bombshell were fooling themselves. Who didn’t expect this investigation to be more or less a whitewash?
I like to do my proofreading after my posts go up. It brings a sense of adventure to Links.
I always figured you were enacting our labor to proofread for you….
Hey, he is busy with important pursuits! Do you know how long it takes to weave 11 Barbie sized t-shirts and then print them with cat butts? How much effort it takes to search each of your
victim’sgirlfriend’s rooms for the perfect souvenir Barbie?Its particularly difficult since Barbie was outed with promoting an unreachable standard of beauty and replaced by Bratz…
…but mostly it was replaced by Snapchat.
On Thursday, Graham — the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee — sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting the release of any documents related to contacts between Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Graham’s letter, which was released as the final day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry into Trump wrapped up, asked Pompeo to release a series of documents and transcripts of conversations in 2016 between Biden and Poroshenko in relation to an investigation into the Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma Holdings.
Burisma – specifically, Hunter Biden’s role on the company’s board of directors – has become one of the main talking points from Trump and the Republicans amid the impeachment inquiry into the president.
In his interview with CNN, Biden said he is “quite frankly… angered” by Graham’s move.
“He knows me. He knows my son. He knows there’s nothing to this,” the former Delaware senator said.
“Have you no shame? No decency? Desist, sir, from this odious and detestable witch hunt. Desist, I say!”
Lindsey should respond with “Yeah, I know your cokehead son. He’s not qualified to be a dogcatcher.”
But they’ll offer up some peon on a paperwork mistake and we’re supposed to be all thrilled that heads rolled?
*points at clerk, shrieks*
What hump?
What knockers!
“Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he’s going to regret his whole life,” he said, going on to address Graham directly: “Lindsey… I’m just embarrassed by what you’re doing — for you — I mean, my Lord.”
Phrasing…
https://giphy.com/gifs/the-simpsons-what-a-time-to-be-alive-u99fFT1YBzyco
Now I want moon pie.
Notably, the people said that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz did not find evidence of politically motivated actions by former FBI Director Jim Comey, subsequent acting Director Andrew McCabe — now a CNN analyst — or former senior official Peter Strzok, who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team after an internal investigation revealed text exchanges that could be read as exhibiting political bias.
Noble, selfless civil servants, merely doing the job they’re paid to do: defend America from all threats, both from without and within. Utterly dispassionate and apolitical.
“Noble, selfless civil servants, merely doing the job they’re paid to do: defend America from all threats, both from without and within. Utterly dispassionate and apolitical.”
And overturn elections that they don’t like, don’t forget about that.
Karloff? … Karloff does not deserve to smell Lugosi’s SHIT!
I was looking for a clip of Lugosi in the comedy Broadminded, but unsurprisingly I kept finding Joe E. Brown instead.
I know they’re not to everyone’s tastes, but Johnny Depp and Tim Burton made an excellent team.
Junior Brown’s guitar has been MIA for several days now.
There’s no market for it. Whoever stole it didn’t think it through. No pawn shop is going to touch it; no one can play it; you can’t hang it on your wall. So they’ve figured all that out and threw the thing out a window going down the Brownwood highway.
So he’s fucked. Anyone can whittle out another one for him, but the layers of nuance and differences are going to be a high hurdle. I’m sure he’s touring with a straight-up Tele for now, but that’s not what you go see Junior for.
better detail: some Masshole stole it, so it’s not in the desert; it’s been dumped in Cape Cod. ‘Twas stolen in early October
“Bo, however, was not charged. Police issued him a warning for the theft.”
Was it a written warning?
Bernie taking a shot at Joe during the debate.
Blind squirrel?
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-pledges-to-end-weapon-sales-to-saudi-arabia/
Even though I know this is not a principled stand, it’s refreshing to have someone call out how awful RSA is.
So will extra taxpayer money be slushed to Northrop and Lockheed to make up for the blocking of their sales?
Natch. Can’t have his buddies’ stock going down can he?
We’ll just jump into another pointless war to soak up those excess weapons.
We’ll sell planes to Venezuela and Cuba to make up for it.
Silicone Saturday heralds the future of enhanced humanoids.
http://archive.li/UkD2p
Underboob is best boob. It is known.
“Alaska man, 71, arrested for ‘trying to smuggle $400,000 worth of heroin and meth hidden in frozen goat intestines through airport customs'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7716097/Alaska-man-arrested-drugs-spoiled-goat-guts.html
aka The Luke Skywalker Gambit
What a doofus. Gee, let me stick it in something that’ll get taken at the Ag inspection station. Next he’ll try to import it in Kinder eggs.
Worth a read.
https://newwesthavens.com/2019/11/18/the-hordes-of-the-invisible/
Where are the titties?
“Every author reading at every “local” bookstore – nota bene: everything is local, people. Absolutely everything. it only depends on where you’re standing ”
But can it be too local?
There was a box of raspberries at the supermarket that had “local” printed all over the label. If I transported that box out of the state, has the manufacturer now committed fraud?
Hoffer looms large.
Thanks.
“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.” – Hoffer
belief in a devil
Victimhood, the same energy that exist severywhere just usually more quietly.
Other oppression motifs: overtaxed, can’t pray in school, queers are taking over. Sit around with the Boy Scouts enough in a Dallas suburb and you get an earful of recycled, amped up Rushchat. Same shit.
There’s enough of this stuff to go around: always someone who gets their jollies beating the oppression drum instead of living their best life, sometimes while living their best life.
You’re correct, however at this moment only one side is claiming that the mere existence of the other is oppressive and that words are violence.
Of course. But it usually can’t be any other way. The majority tend to the conservative: they like being the majority and see the world as a fixed pie zero sum game and don’t want to give up a yard (in fairness, this sort of microeconomics is natural and endemic to most cultures/institutions/individuals). Conservatives seldom feel the need to post flyers in windows . . . because they already hold sway, they built/own the significant institutions. It’s their statue to their god in the foyer of their courthouse; it couldn’t be otherwise.
I’m just saying that the formation of #Resist couldn’t really be any other way. It would have been odd if Charlie had dropped nukes on Saigon; he would if he could. #Resist is naturally asymetrical: we don’t expect the dean to call a sit-in at the dorm.
As long as it’s posters on the one hand and sniveling church ladies on the other, I’m good . . . and I’m fairly ignoring both sides. If we get to intifada / Kent State, that’s another kettle o fish.
Conservatives seldom feel the need to post flyers in windows . . . because they already hold sway, they built/own the significant institutions. It’s their statue to their god in the foyer of their courthouse; it couldn’t be otherwise.
Don, this hasn’t been true in decades, unless you mean that now the progs are conserving their victories over the last half century. The significant institutions are almost all aligned with the left at this point. Media, Banks, Universities, Mainstream Churches.
hasn’t been true in decades
That’s a great point. There’s not really one way or one place or a broad brush that can characterize it all. Federal district courts vary; so do states, towns.
I live in flyover country and forget that the Ten Commandments statues have come down already in other places.
We’re firmly in the fanatical phase of a mass movement and past the “men of words” phase. The next one is “men of action” and that is when the real pain comes.
That’s a great article that I’ll need to go back and fully digest later on.
Seattle sucks ass. Everytime I visit I’m struck by what an insanely insular bubble of fart sniffers live there.
The good news – three Tests going simultaneously. The bad news – two are absolute ass kickings.
And yet they don’t call the limited overs games Quiz Matches.
I’ll be surprised if Pakistan makes it to tea tomorrow. It seems like they’ve been mediocre for quite a while now. Of course, not being able to play at home probably contributes to that.
It’s a massive handicap, for sure – even their “domestic” leagues are played in front of empty stands in the UAE. But their whole structure seems to be chronically mismanaged. (Ditto Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, West Indies, South Africa – have you seen the ratfuck going on there?)
In other (((news)))
More than 100 House Democrats condemned on Friday the State Department’s recent decision to state the U.S. position on Israeli settlements as being in line with international law.
The move by the State Department is being criticized as a reversal of more than four decades of U.S. policy on the status of communities built by Israel on the West Bank, territory it seized from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War.
In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Democratic representatives wrote to express “strong disagreement” with the State Department’s decision to abandon a 1978 legal opinion that viewed the Israeli settlements as “inconsistent with international law.”
“The State Department’s unilateral reversal on the status of settlements, without any clear legal justification, therefore has offered a tacit endorsement of settlements, their expansion, and associated demolitions of Palestinian homes,” the lawmakers wrote.
Golly, I wonder who those Democrats were. Just like I wonder who was in the White House, supervising the State Dept, in 1978.
Oh I know! I know! It was that same guy who had his thumb up his ass when Pol Pot was creating killing fields, when some ragtag Iranian Republican guards took over a US embassy , and when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.
Again, Hoffer looms large (1968):
Good morning, Old Man! And good morning to the rabble!
I trust everyone slept well.
Fuck, though, am I getting tired of the ‘peachment drama. CNN writes a lengthy load of shit about the contents of a yet-to-be released report and the little girls in DC are sniping at each other. Clearly, there is enough malfeasance to shut down Slow Joe and his merry band of fuckwits, but we all know how it will end. Posturing, scapegoating and more liberty lost.
*shakes*
Whew. Enough of that.
RIP, Mr. Pollard. I will always remember you like this.
Love the musical selection. Even if it ain’t my kind of tune, it’s always fun to watch a master.
I’ve been listening to these guys lately. Argus is a great album and, as if it were even needed, proof that people who say the ’70s suck have no clue what they are talking about.
I hope you all have a great day. I think I’m gonna smoke some ribs and work on the old car.
Didn’t sleep well, but I rarely do. Got up early enough to make it to the morning ass kicking spin class (called performance, as we keep getting pushed to go higher on power and RPM). Then treated myself to my favorite cultural appropriation breakfast (Rosemary sea salt bagel with chipotle chorizo cream cheese). Made it to the West Side Market and picked up the last items I needed to prep everything for Thanksgiving.
My legs are still feeling it from the Tues/Thurs “Cycle & Sculpt” sessions. It gets easier, right?
That’s one of the reasons I like the place I’ve been going to, they provide stats which will let you see how you’re progressing (or not). I pushed too hard early in the class today, so I was pretty much out of gas at the tail end of the class.
But it does get easier, or you push yourself harder and do more. 🙂
I have seen Junior Brown live at least three times. he’s awesome. I hadn’t heard about the git-steel. That sucks.
First came peak oil supply….now it’s peak oil demand:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4308760-peak-oil-plateau-close?ifp=0
“I believe we need to keep that in context, even as the fossil fuel age ends.”
And no one has any idea how this happens without killing off a few billion poor folk. Feature, not bug?
If Africa and most of Asia ever get their shit together, Fossil Fuel Age II: Electric Boogaloo will make the first one look like a flickering candle.
On this Russia investigation thing – they have created a new and bizarre standard with this one.
Now we have to be able to document intent – in writing or via direct testimony.
They had “intel” that the Russians were trying to “infiltrate the Trump campaign”. The response was not “Oh, crap! Let’s get in touch with them and make sure that there are no Russian spies infiltrating the Trump campaign!” It was “Let’s spy on Trump and see if we can set his associates up for process crimes! That way we can get them to spill dirt on Trump!”
You don’t need any smoking gun email that says “Hey, let’s use this for political purposes because I am so biased against Trump and I know that you are also so very biased against Trump!” Their actions say everything.
If they were honestly concerned about Russia and Russian attempts to infiltrate the Trump campaign, they would have made a call. Instead, they sent spies to set them up.
There is absolutely zero chance that they were earnestly going about their duties. For anyone who doesn’t believe it, just do this thought experiment:
It is 2008. George W. Bush has his FBI and CIA wiretapping and spying on Obama campaign officials. They send spies from the FBI and foreign governments to set up various advisers for process crimes so they can pressure them into giving up dirt on Obama. As Obama is taking office, Bush administration officials take classified information and distribute it to friendly government officials for the purpose of being leaked the moment Obama takes office, with the expressed intention of sparking an independent counsel and impeachment proceedings.
Is there any doubt at all about what the reaction of the press would have been to that? Is there any ambiguity about the intent of the officials taking those actions? Do you need a memo from Bob Mueller that says “Hey, minions! We Washington types don’t like Obama! So let’s all stick together and get rid of him with a fake investigation!!”? Or can you just conclude intent from the actions taken?
And that is all that “the deep state” is to me: the prevailing attitude among bureaucrats that they will overlook some wrongdoings if done by the right people and will highlight, magnify and exaggerate perceived wrongdoings by the wrong people. Same with the media. It’s systemic selection bias.
Except that with the media it isn’t just selection bias. They openly and proudly collude with team DNC, and have done so for at least 2 decades.
The first time I was publicly aware of a well-documented and widespread act of partisan collusion was in the 2000 election. Drudge had a little blurb announcement – “In two weeks, Kerry, media to focus on Vietnam”. The brief story mentioned that they had divided up coverage, with each of NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS and CNN getting one night to focus on one in-depth story from Vietnam for the Kerry campaign. At the same time, the Kerry campaign was doing a week long buy on national TV of campaign ads focusing on Vietnam.
This was Matt Drudge original reporting.
Well, that should have been a national blockbuster. But then the Tuesday story kinda blew up on them. It seems that Dan Rather’s team that was tasked with painting Bush as a deserter for going AWOL was using fake documents. Oops!
So the whole subversion of the media and illegal campaign contributions of hundreds of millions of dollars in air time was kinda lost to history. But the fact that Drudge called it two weeks in advance and had the days that each network was running their story was rock-solid evidence for me to know that this couldn’t be explained away as “well, they are all just following the story”. You don’t “just follow the story” on Thursday, two and a half weeks from now – because Wednesday is NBC’s day and Thursday is PBS.
Since then we’ve seen plenty of similar incidents – and many other suspected ones. Like Savannah Guthrie and other national media figures meeting with Chuck Schumer at his penthouse the night before the Blasey-Ford letter got leaked to the press – and covering it as if it was all just a mystery and not a plan from top Democrats to smear a person’s name for political reasons.
You could explain away 1980’s media coverage with “bias”. We are way, way beyond anything explainable by simple bias. Journolist got exposed, but it didn’t go away. It has clearly morphed into a much tighter organization.
George fricken Stephanopoulos has a journalism job at ABC. That’s all you need to know how corrupted it all is.
How anyone can watch him and conclude they’re getting ‘objective’ journalism is beyond comprehension.
Jinx. That one is so obvious that anyone who watches that and thinks they’re getting fair news is crazy.
And he is one of the more objective voices…. ridiculous as that sounds.
There are plausible, but unlikely explanations for the incidents you laid out. Then you get to George Snufflewhathispuss being chosen as chief anchor of ABC news. It’s ridiculous to think that the guy somehow is an unbiased journalist. That’s why the internet is great. The spin they try to put out is immediately challenged and the challenge is seen by more people (in some cases) than the spin itself. The days of Walter Cronkite telling everybody what to think are over.
The outrage should be that they can legally justify any of those actions.
^ this. Of course people will use the levers of power to support causes/people they like and attack causes/people they don’t. That is what levers of power are for! Calling one use legitimate and another use illegitimate always misses the point. The problem is not how these rules and laws, and regulations, and agencies, and processes ad nauseum are used. The problem is that they exist to be used at all!
It’s roughly akin to the “drone process” Obama was fond of. As long as the right boxes are checked and paperwork filed, nothing is legally unacceptable behavior.
I really can’t understand this compulsion people have about the solution to abuse of government power always being “more government power”.
How is the right answer not obvious?
When you have a kid, you tell them if they misuse their toy’s you’ll take them away.
When you have a teenager, you say if you abuse your privileges, we’ll take them away.
But government? Abuse your power… you clearly need more power!!
Makes no sense at all.
at least the Patriot Act was struck down
Democrats were out of ideas. Mueller failed them. No one can find the pee tapes. The bimbo, no one even remembers here name now. So it was off to impeachment and now they have to find the crime. Gone are the days of finding the crime first. Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime. It’s just leftist doing what they’ve always done.
Thing that is shocking to me is how surprised people are by any of this.
Corruption like this is de rigueur all around the world; to think that the US would somehow be exempt is naive. Bureaucrats, pols and the media crave power and the easiest shortcut to power, if you don’t have any real skills, is through big government bureaucracy. That’s why they so consistently favor Team Blue; not that Team Red is small government, it’s just that Team Red drives the speed limit and Team Blue’s got a lead foot.
Well Glibs I’m off to cut firewood to keep my mansion warm this winter as all my orphans have unionized and are on strike until slave labor becomes more diverse and inclusive. Have a great Saturday all!
I might do that today because its good bonfire weather.
Well, I know it sounds weird, but now that I don’t have to go do that, I miss it. So I’m kinda jealous. Especially if you have one of those cool log splitters. One of the greatest moments of my life was when a buddy bought a big hydraulic log splitter. We went out to some of his property in the north Georgia mountains and cut a few trees – and that thing ate them and spit out logs like it was nothing with absolutely no work required. Just sit a log on it and out comes fully split logs.
Plus, he had the big chainsaws, so turning a big tree into firewood was pretty quick work.
If you’ve never split a cord of wood by hand, it really is hard to appreciate, I suppose. But doing a month’s work in an afternoon with just two guys is amazing if you’ve done it the hard way.
“We are a uniquely dangerous species. We hunted wooly mammoths, ground sloths and moas to extinction. We destroyed plains and forests for farming, modifying over half the planet’s land area. We altered the planet’s climate.
But we are most dangerous to other human populations, because we compete for resources and land.”
Way to go adding fuel to the population control and climate change folks. Kill all the Homo….Sapiens!
#Randymarshwasright
It is my personal belief that we as Homo Sapiens won out over the other hominoid species because we he created a symbiotic relationship with canines which made us much more efficient hunters and probably even posed a more substantial direct threat to those hominoids. I suspect that we just were more efficient at killing off all the larger megafauna and quite probably were more dangerous in a stone age skirmish after the point in time when we had paired up with wolves.
I have about 3% neanderthal DNA (although I admit I am somewhat skeptical about what that even means given the degree of commonality humans have even with chimps). Did we ‘win out’ or are humans today a blend of all these ancestors? Would it make sense to say that your double paternal Great Grandfather won out over the other 7 coequal contributors to your DNA because you have his name?
Don’t we share 50 some odd per cent DNA with bananas?
I know some folks pushing 60%
I always assume that people who have this mindset and winge about it in long winded screeds rather that off themselves are full of ehit. Suicide is really the only way they can be consistent with their stated principles.
“But we are most dangerous to other human populations, because we compete for resources and land.”
No other species have ever competed for resources. Science!
No worries though, we’re pretty much doomed. The smart innovative ones walked out of Africa and then evolved to be even more innovative through struggle against harsh climates, etc. But now, there’s no way to eliminate the dumb ones out of the gene pool. We won’t even let them take drugs. We won’t even let them eat tide pod, fer fuck sake. And those are the only ones reproducing. And we make them even dumber through public education. Soon enough, 90% of the population will be too dumb to tie their own shoes, let alone work and earn a living. We’re fucked, we’ll just continue devolving until we all just starve to death or succumb to the elements, being too dumb to feed ourselves or get proper shelter.
*Buys Brawndo stock*
This guy gets it.
And less than a generation after the current generation gets to voting age, there won’t be a single member of Congress with an IQ over 50. There’s probably not more than a few in the House right now with an IQ over 70.
Humans are terrifying.
I’m surprised OMWC didn’t link this:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/world/fifth-force-of-nature-scn-trnd/index.html
If there is a fifth photo-phobic force of nature, I recommend we call it the Vampiric Force
Were midichlorians involved?
No, but Mila Jovovich was.
Damn honky ass mother fuckers always coming up with new kinds of force to oppress the world.
We destroyed plains and forests for farming, modifying over half the planet’s land area. We altered the planet’s climate.
You say this as if it is a bad thing.
We should have just left the oil in the ground. Then we’d all be living in mudhuts in the same conditions that existed a hew hundred years ago. 30 years would be the avg life span. 30 years of hard labor just to survive day to day. Paradise!
https://abc7ny.com/pets-animals/dog-left-alone-in-car-drives-in-circles-for-an-hour/5713108/
For an hour?
I was listening to the Reason Podcast and the Fifth Column the other day and it amazes me: even in the fringe press, they just can’t see it. They all are in uniform agreement that “the press just doesn’t work that way” with respect to having some widely held bias, agenda or groupthink. It kinda drives me nuts – because this isn’t 1992 and we aren’t arguing about obvious bias that results in calling it 60/40 instead of 50/50. That ship sailed decades ago.
The new publicly agreed upon method of “honest coverage” is to “honestly label” Republican claims as either “asserted without evidence” or as “widely debunked”. I saw a glaring example earlier as an NBC story was talking about Ukraine and the various players involved in the investigation and described it thusly: “Trump dredged up old conspiracy theories about servers in Ukraine and asserted without evidence that they were in Ukraine. Then he repeated widely debunked claims about the Bidens. ” Less than 30 seconds later they were talking about allegations about one of Trump’s associates “There continues to be a cloud around him as Democrats have made serious allegations about him, which he has denied. He says he intends to file a lawsuit for defamation.”
I’ll note that all of the “debunking” of claims about the Bidens amounts to a blanket denial of any wrondoing.
On the topic of the Biden thing – the Reasonites don’t seem to get it at all. The prevailing take seems to be “they offered junior a bunch of money for a no-show job.. what’s he supposed to do? He took the job. Trading on daddy’s name might be gross, but it isn’t corruption.
How mind-numbingly stupid do you have to be for that to be your analysis? It isn’t about Junior’s calculus in whether to take $8 million bucks. Of course he takes the money. The question is, why would Barisma want to give it to him? Clearly, they think $8 million is a bargain. Why? The Reasonites think it is because of daddy’s famous name. Yeah, no. For some reason they thought they needed influence in western governments, and they paid lots of money to get it. Biden is the key man for the US in Ukraine, where they are based.
But….. you can’t connect those dots? You can’t turn the problem around and ask, what are they buying for all those millions? Nope? Just… well, his dad is famous, so they are gonna give him free stuff…. that’s the best you can come up with? Holy crap, motivated reasoning really drives me insane.
Reason has been supremely disappointing the last three years.
I think that’s why all their commentariat ran away.
This just underlines all the reasons why I haven’t even clicked on that site for months. JEEBUS! Host your own cocktail parties. Find some people to invite who actually have something worthwhile to say, who actually think about stuff rather than posture and regurgitate popular political crap. Who cares about those obvious political hacks who are simply angling for the next scheme to keep their hands on the reins of power?
My thinking is if they’ve lost their lustre for freedom and liberty or just want to toe the ‘let’s not be overly libertarian to attract more people’ editorial dance, maybe it’s time the powers that be step aside and let in a new crop of libertarians ready to push the envelope?
Wishful?
Yet, foreign leaders staying in a Trump hotel is a violation of the emoluments clause.
Get ready for a Biden/Warren ticket, because that’s what we’re getting. I can’t even imagine the awfulness of that administration, we’ll be looking back at the Obama admin as the good old days.
I’m still skeptical that Slow Joe makes it all the way to the convention. The ‘Peach Foty-Fie show has really screwed him by putting Ukraine shenanigans front and center and there is just no good answer at all to the massive coincidences around Biden Jr’s million dollar a year no-show job, Biden’s position as the Ukraine policy boss, and his demand that the prosecutor investigating Burisma get fired or else.
The establishment is going to push Biden across the goal line, just like they carried Hillary across with one shoe off. It’s the only thing that even makes any sense for them. The establishment wants that ticket, all of the others are just way too far left and they know it. So Lieawatha at least placates the crazies a little, because vagina, and Biden gets a few black votes by talking about old Corn Pop, he was a bad dude.
If they’re going to foist a candidate on the primary, why settle for Biden and not push for the genuine article Herself?
Yeah, it’s not yet obvious whom the DNC/MSM complex is going to throw their support behind. If we start seeing a lot more supportive stories about tuff-gai Biden bravely fighting back against his corrupt accusers, that will be telling.
“RC Dean alleged, without evidence.. a widely debunked conspiracy theory.”
“Debunked” is one of those words like “fact-check” that has been thoroughly debased of meaning.
Much as ‘refuted’ has replaced ‘rebutted’.
The press has suffered a critical loss of credibility among the public in the past decade and, since then, they’ve done absolutely nothing to try to earn that trust back. There’s a handful of fringe outlets on the right and left (and elsewhere) that are at least semi-consistently honest and hardworking, but they are few and far between. Few careers in journalism are made nowadays by being anything other than a dishonest hack.
“The press has suffered a critical loss of credibility among the public in the past decade and, since then, they’ve done absolutely nothing to try to earn that trust back.”
It’s all about creating a narrative and creating reality from that narrative. You just want to let orange bad man win?
This trend started before Trump was anywhere near political office. Hell, it started before Obama too but it got a lot worse while he was President. I’m getting pretty tired of partisan morons telling me what I should know and think instead of reporting on what happens in the world, meanwhile no matter who wins their stupid tribal games the government grows in power.
Newsweek telling us yesterday that three-year-old trans kids are “living their identified gender” really pushed it over the top for me. They report stuff like this with a straight face and expect everyone to just nod and smile along with it.
I get it with Welch and Moynihan. See they traveled to Europe and lived there in the 80’s. Europe! He fucking lived abroad. In another country. Accordingly, they were perpetually in fear that Soviet tanks would roll in and start breaking shit unless NATO was there. The second Trump said bad things about NATO, he was dead to both of them.
They both claim to be big government skeptics but by golly if anything is anti-establishment they go to the mattresses to defend it.
Rednecks in the Mist, ch 582
Through the ’80s and ’90s, Idaho voters were still pretty evenly split between liberals and conservatives. But shifting loyalties — largely due to Republicans successfully painting Democrats as environmentalist villains responsible for the decimation of the state’s mining and timber industries — meant that by 2014, Idaho had become of the reddest states in the country. Out of 105 seats in the state legislature, Republicans held 84 of them.
Since 2008, the rise of the tea party had pushed the Idaho GOP further and further to the right. All over the state, sitting GOP lawmakers, county commissioners, sheriffs, and county clerks were primaried from the right, defeated by candidates promising to uphold “truly” conservative values. But even with more and more “liberty-minded” lawmakers in office, Pruett looked at the legislature and wondered: If it was truly filled with Constitution-loving conservatives, then why hadn’t they passed constitutional carry?
Gun nutz.
Whycome them no want liddle chirrinz be safe?
“We’re different up here,” Wheeler said.
That is an excellent article: it really shows how people are wired, where the lines are drawn, and how utterly disinterested in freedom most conservatives are.
Notice the energy from “we.” It’s identity politics: guns and carry are associated with the good guys . . . kinda. But this freedom thing: let’s not get carried away. It’s all about Harleys and fitting in; that’s the real energy and symbolism.
That’s how the Tea Party works, too; that’s how populism works. A bit of energy, fears aroused, and everyone gets to project their own meaning onto it all. We’re for our brand of freedom. But I dare Rajneesh to buy the coffee shop in that town.
Everyone’s mad, but freedom is not advanced. Minding your own business is not in style.
Go team! Go!
“how utterly disinterested in freedom most conservatives are.”
People are in general disinterested in freedom. They’re interested in the freedom they like, IOW freedom for them, they’re just on interested in your freedom. I gots muh guns and muh beer… see that hippy over there! He’s smoking some funny stuff, throw him the dungeon!
Pretty much every so called ‘conservative’ I know, is exactly like that.
True, but as pointed out earlier, one side has control of the corporations, universities, news, and entertainment industries. The other has 2 channels on AM radio and a cable news show with 2 million viewers a night.
You could run a dodecaplex with that much projection.
Republicans successfully painting Democrats as environmentalist villains responsible for the decimation of the state’s mining and timber industries
Well, weren’t they?
I love the way nearly anything critical of non-leftists is just tossed out there these days as if it goes without saying, and anything critical of leftists is ignored or deflected. Of course, the best is when these are combined, as here, with the “Republicans pounce” framing.
“Well, weren’t they?”
Yes. And republicans, outside of a few, like Rand Paul, want to lock people up over a plant. Both teams suck, it’s just that democrats have went so far left that they are now worse, by far. Republicans still suck, because there has to be some ‘sin’ those other guys are engaging in, and that’s why they’re bad people, so let’s lock em up.
“meant that by 2014, Idaho had become of the reddest states in the country.”
No worries, the outflow from Cali will fix all that shortly.
No worries, the
outfloweffluent from Cali will fix all that shortly.Let Joe grope Lindsay. Problem solved. Everyone wins.
How does Joe feeling up Lindsay Lohan fix anything?
::clicks link::
Oh, THAT Lindsey. Never mind.
Have you seen Lohan recently? Hell, I might prefer to wake up naked next to the other Lindsay as well.
Nonsense. David Wells was significantly fatter.
What no love for Fernando Valenzuela? He look up to the lord before every pitch.
The jerkiest pitcher that was the thinnest?
Kent Tekulve. He made me try to pitch side armed and wreck my elbow as a 12 year old.
My French-Canadian friend growing up LOVED Tekulve’s wind up and would emulate him when we played baseball.
He loved anything that was eccentric. Pascual Perez was a favourite too.
Ugh. Triple linked if one of you lovely mods provide me release.
IYNWIM
Got it.
Grazie!
Ah ha! Wondering where it was….
“In the early 1970s, Pollard befriended members of the English rock band Traffic and planned to make a film with drummer Jim Capaldi.
During a session of lyric writing and brainstorming, Pollard scribbled the phrase “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” in a notebook. The movie never materialized, but Capaldi turned that phrase into a near 12-minute song on Traffic’s 1971 album of the same name.”
Cool story Love (and own) that album. Bought it when I was 15.
It was weird watching Steve Winwood open for The Police (I think? I forget. I’ve seen so many concerts I forget who opened for whom). Not sure people – most likely the younger part of the crowd – even appreciated it because it was an ‘opening act’. He was fantastic.
Traffic remains one of my faves. Such a talented band.
*hits Spotify*
Eggs Benedict of the day at the diner this morning was roast turkey and stuffing (instead of the ham). It was quite delish.
In a couple of hours, going to set up the courses for tomorrow’s 2×4 match.
Saturdays are good.
Wait, what? Hollandaise sauce (should be a beverage) over turkey and dressing?
Yes. (And poached eggs and English muffin, ‘natch)
One have was Hollandaise, one half was gravy. I preferred the Hollandaise, their gravy was a bit salty.
It also came with home fries and cranberry sauce.
Another chunk of that Buzzfeed thing about far right lunatics in Idaho:
Across town from the sheriff’s office, in the cozy coffeehouse that serves as a de facto meeting place for most of Sandpoint, the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force was finishing up a meeting where they shared art, music, and poetry advocating for political change. The town’s mayor, Shelby Rognstad, was there to observe. Some had been members of the group for well over two decades — helping launch it back in the late ’90s, when Richard Butler and the Aryan Nations first aligned North Idaho with white supremacy in the public consciousness.
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At the coffee shop, Rognstad dragged a chair up to the table. He’s tall, thin, soft-spoken, very at home in a thick, cowl-neck sweater. He was also recently reelected, with a healthy margin, to his second term. “For 37 years, this has been the premier arts and culture event of the area,” he said. “And in 37 years, there’s never once been an issue with the festival not allowing open carry.”
Rognstad grew up three hours south in Lewiston, attending the University of Idaho before moving to Sandpoint to start a local bookstore and restaurant. He’s watched as the area has continued to transform before his eyes. “Up here, I think there’s been a whole shift around gun culture,” he said. “It used to be you just kinda grew up around it, your family went hunting, you learned gun safety at a young age. No one needed to brandish their guns when they went to work or to the supermarket.”
“When my kids were going to high school, I remember going through the parking lot, there were guns in the parking lots, in the racks,” the task force’s president, Brenda Hammond, interjected. “They’d gone hunting before school.”
I remembered that, too, from growing up in North Idaho. Gun use was normalized, but I have no memory of anyone in my life open carrying. This was before Columbine, which happened during my senior year of high school, and before the election of former president Barack Obama, which ratcheted up the fear that gun rights would be eroded. Before anyone in North Idaho had ever heard the phrase American Redoubt.
What changed, then? Sure, there’s the perception that even the most seemingly safe places — church, concerts, garlic festivals — can become instantly dangerous. But thousands of people had moved to the Redoubt area because they believed it was everything the places they were fleeing were not: a conservative, Constitution-minded place, free from liberal incursions. The reality is that North Idaho was never that way — and, regardless of the influx of far-right politics, it’s still not. But the suit is the latest attempt to return North Idaho to a land of wholly unfettered freedoms — to re-create a libertarian utopia that, like all utopias, never actually existed.
Nobody wants to take your guns away, you paranoid crackpots.
Those nice people in that coffee shop are trying to save you from yourself. Beat your swords into plowshares. Do as you’re told. Accept transgenderism and coexist.
Gun use was normalized, but I have no memory of anyone in my life open carrying.
Incredible. I guess he never saw a cop.
You’d think these proto-Marxists would be familiar with the dialectic, with the way action begets reaction. Sure, guns used to be normalized. But then they started to be demonized, so it should be no surprise that the reaction was to promote them.
But the suit is the latest attempt to return North Idaho to a land of wholly unfettered freedoms
The horror.
“far-right politics”
Freedom = far-right Naziism.
Got it.
Warning: your blood will boil.
They were told that the judge said, and this is a quote from what they were told – ‘I’ll be damned if I’ll be the first Crow judge to let a white couple adopt a Crow child.”
That story needs a few empty brass cartridges to finish it off.
The first story that broke this heinous crime described the murder of this innocent child in gruesome detail. It made me want to bring back public hangings.
E very time I’m positive of my strong stance against the death penalty, I read something like this, and start wondering if some mad dogs shouldn’t just be put down.
Like I’ve said before, adoption will soon be illegal. Like homeschooling, the government hates competition. Better for the kid to die in foster care than be adopted by wrongthinkers/wrongcolors.
(Read: I get in this case that the foster parents were the good guys, but giving him back to his DNA donors was akin to giving him over to an uncaring “system”)
Gotcha. And I agree. Moreover, the individual child was sacrificed on the alter of identitarian collectivism (i.e., tribal “integrity”). What a garbage philosophy.
Further: At least he was murdered by righteous individuals preserving their ancestral culture.
One more and then I’m done: This is why I’m vehemently against finding the “real” parents in adoption cases. In my experience, it never seems to go well.
DNA testing has pretty much put an end to anonymity in sperm donations and adoptions. We hear more and more about people sending in their sample, and the report back identifies their biological parents. People chuckle when its a married couple and the mailman pops up on the DNA report, but its no joke when its a donation or adoption.
Based on highly-publicized cases from years ago of adoptees returned to their DNA donors, regardless of the ethnicities involved, if I’d ever been in the market to adopt, I’d have demanded to see the dead bodies of both birth parents. Then I’d poke ’em with a pin, just to be sure.
Actually, this case involved a white couple who wanted desperately to adopt an Indian child from his criminal parents. They even raised him from the time he was a few months old (after both parents went to prison) until he was five, when they were ordered to return him to the parents for the crime of being white. That child then died a horrible death at the hands of his piece of shit parents within a few months.
Procedures were followed. Move along citizen!
Hadn’t visited TOS in a while, but being badly hungover, I wasn’t going to be doing much of anything else.
Good god. They’re really all in on the impeachment angle. Which, I optimistically thought, could possibly help me understand what exactly the pro impeachment side is going for other than “Orange man bad”. No such luck. At no point could I find an answer to a simple question that I’ve had throughout the whole affair…what exactly is it they’re claiming is against the law? Even if every partisan swamp dweller is telling the truth, what’s going on other than some bad diplomacy?
It’s not like he was using the FBI to spy on a campaign, or sending pallets of cash to Iran, or selling guns to the cartels.
It’s not a situation where he was using intelligence agencies to justify, under false pretext, a never ending war.
It’s not that he was selling weapons to Iran to fund a revolution in central America.
Hell, it’s not even a matter of lying under oath in a court case….and Reason was, rightly, against the impeachment farce back then.
To our benevolent overlords on this site, thank you for creating the Glib community. TOS sure as hell isn’t a place I would have been happy to read every day.
I’m still shocked at Pelosi’s miscalculation.
Hindsight is 20/20 and all, but looking back now to 2016 and did we really expect anything other than basically what we’ve gotten? Nobody is in control and that includes Nancy.
It’s what happens when you play angry. You forget fundamentals and start making stupid mistakes.
Yeah, we’re pretty much exactly where I expected us to be. It was obvious from the start. The only surprise is how long it took to get here.
Peliosi lost control when she caved to the mores of the “squad” et al and when team red grew something resembling a spine and called their bluff the lunatic elements and rank opportunists like Schiff had painted her and the whole of team blue into a corner.
As I once said when, as an adult, I visited the all-but-abandoned shopping mall in which I’d spent many happy childhood and adolescent hours, “Sometimes the reality doesn’t sink in until you see the body.”
Ah, THAT mall. So many hours after school and wasted weekends there.
The 80s were awesome.
+1 Adam Ant
Why did my brain immediately connect the stereotypical mormon image with “Goody Two Shoes” ?
” … don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do ya do … “
Counterpoint: 80’s malls
https://youtu.be/w6Q3mHyzn78
LOL I knew it
(Close to) actual quote from the first Mr. (future Rev.) GT early in our relationship in the mid-’80s: “Let’s go to the mall & watch people & pretend we’re in a Fellini movie.”
At no point could I find an answer to a simple question that I’ve had throughout the whole affair…what exactly is it they’re claiming is against the law?
As the pro-impeachment-of-Trump side is quick to remind us, impeachment is a political, not legal, determination. Two things, though:
1. The Constitution expressly lays out the standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” which plain-meaning analysis suggests the President must have committed a crime; and
2. Even accepting that impeachment is just political, why didn’t, say, Obama’s numerous abuses of executive power warrant impeachment? Yeah, I think Judge Nap called Obama’s DACA actions impeachment-worthy, but he was a lone voice there and in any event did not pound the impeachment drum with anywhere near the furor he is over Trump. Did that brave libertarian soul Justin Amash call for Obama’s impeachment after he murder-droned that American or blame the Benghazi attacks on some nut’s video and had him detained? Where was Gene Healy, who now sees impeachment as an indispensible remedy, when Obama was doing all of this and more? How are Trump’s ill motivations with wanting to dig up dirt on Biden (especially when there is a prima facie evidence of Bidens’ conflict of interest vis-a-vis Joe’s position as Vice-President and Hunter’s well-paid position on a major Ukrainian corporation’s board) just so unbecoming of the office that Congress, and not the public, most dispose of him?
The Democrats are a fucking farce, but we all knew that. What’s disturbing is to see fellow libertarians jump so willingly and uncritically into the clown car.
Assumes facts not in evidence?
Meh, I am trying to avoid the “no true libertarian” argument. Those individuals I cited all have a strong history of holding libertarian principles (with Healy doing much to advance scholarship on executive power abuses). I just can’t understand the vociferousness of their position on Trump when compared to the actions of prior presidents. It almost objectively doesn’t make sense in light of everything that has happened. Do they not see how Democrats have been trying everything, *anything*, to remove this duly-elected president from office since they found out Hillary lost? Why are they so convinced by career bureaucrats’ suppositions and innuendos? Do they not take umbrage with how these bureaucrats (looking at you, George Kent) have largely testified to how they don’t like the way Trump conducts policy and how he has undermined the way the Department of State has conducted foreign policy for years, as if career civil servants, and not the elected president, decide this country’s policy? Do they not realize how a successful impeachment and conviction would (rightfully) show the public that these permanent bureaucrats control the government, and not the public?
Maybe I am being overwrought. But I just can’t understand how impeachment of Trump, given the current context, would possibly advance libertarianism, freedom, classical liberalism, or limited government. Impeachment and removal based on who, and not what, is completely arbitrary.
Trump is undoubtedly sleazy, inept, ignorant, and immature, and his policy positions are, at best, mixed. Yet, I think impeachment on this basis alone, especially compared to the lack of voices for impeachment of past presidents for worse behavior, is elevating form over substance. The law, and this country, should not work that way.
I could live with “self-proclaimed libertarians”.
advance libertarianism
no opinion
Q: would Pence sign the Patriot Act into law?
A better question is: what pol wouldn’t? It’s a control freak’s wet dream.
McAfee, maybe? Gabbard, possibly?
Every other one of them wouldn’t hesitate except maybe to broaden the definition of terrorism to include more Americans who disagree with them.
Please, Gabbard is about as pro-liberty as Bernie. Just because she’s cute and said nice things about reducing our footprint in the ME is no reason to think she wouldn’t drop the hammer on domestic freedom in a heartbeat.
I think some of it is desire to be the permanent outsider. I may get dogpiled for this, but I think most of libertarianism is akin to the hipster kid who won’t like anything that is perceived as popular. Trump gets elected, which makes him “popular”. Additionally libertarians older than 30 have a strong anti-republican bent. Never mind talk about small government, Republicans = Nixon and Reagan = the war on drugs and the cold war and therefore libertarians hate them. I came to libertarianism later, and frankly think the cold war was a good thing, which is why I tend to be less “no foreign adventures” and more “no nation building”, and also why I find it very hard to side with the Dems on anything. Socialism is so much more dangerous than the so cons that I just can’t play the game the way someone like the jacket can.
Welch is a cold warrior.
Couple of thoughts:
i) ““high crimes and misdemeanors”: based on the language of the day, this is a far more nebulous term than it would be today. That is, it was a political statement rather than a legal one.
ii) Gene Healy: although his book on impeachment came out in 2018, he has been banging on about impeachment for a number of years.
iii) “Obama’s impeachment after he murder-droned that American”: yeah, this, for me, is the crux of the matter (and, I understand it is not an absolute, just my personal interpretation). BUT, if you’re not going to impeach a president for a warrant-less assassination of an American citizen, then it’s hard to see what you would impeach someone for. That said, I could see impeachment for a long series of corrupt behavior even if one incident didn’t rise to a high level. Keep in mind that the Dems (& a lot of others) actually believe the Russian interference narrative (including someone at CATO who’s name I can’t remember right now), actually believe Trump is violating the emoluments clause; but they just haven’t been able to prove it (hell, one conservative argued that Trump paying off Stormy Daniels BEFORE he was president was an impeachable offense). In some ways, the Ukraine thing is Trump’s equivalent of Al Capone and tax evasion.
Having said all that, I should stress that I agree with your overall take.
i) ““high crimes and misdemeanors”: based on the language of the day, this is a far more nebulous term than it would be today. That is, it was a political statement rather than a legal one.
My understanding is that is the language Parliament used when it impeached one of its members. I tried to follow the thread of whether there needed to be something actually illegal, but couldn’t be arsed to actually run it down, as that when mean cross-checking actual Parliamentary impeachments 250 years ago against actual crimes in England 250 years ago.
My general impression is that “high” crimes were meant to be crimes involving an abuse of power of some kind, and while “misdemeanors” didn’t necessarily mean an actual crime in 1600s and into the 1700s, at some point, by the mid-1800s at the latest, it came to mean an actual crime. IOW, what it meant when the Constitution was ratified is not entirely clear.
All the past 10 years has shown is that our elected officials are much more venal, corrupt and stupid than even I thought was possible.
more?
From Joe McCarthy to Rostenkowski to the Keating Five to Traficant to Durenberger to Abscam . . . I’m running out of ink over here.
malicious, self-dealing bastards from stem to stern
Well, you *are* older than me…
Keating Five gets some of the names lost. Hi John McCain! And John Glenn!
and John Kerry!
Those fuckers had a 40% presidential nomination rate.
i) “Obama’s impeachment after he murder-droned that American”
And Trump got the sister, never forget.
I agree it’s very much a political thing. And given who controls most of the “deep state” and the media, it’s obvious why Obama gets a pass and Trump doesn’t.
Two questions remain outstanding:
(1) What is the crime? This one periodically has at least a partial answer from time to time – “collusion” isn’t a crime, but “bribery” is. The reason you can’t get a definitive answer is:
(2) What is the evidence of the crime? And no, gossip amongst career bureaucrats, which is pretty much all we’ve heard in the hearings, is not evidence. Whenever the witnesses are pressed for direct evidence, there either is none, or what there is directly contradicts the supposed crime.
Pelosi originally wanted the vote by year end. I think they will vote on it, based on the blatant misrepresentations and outright falsehoods published by the DemOp Media.
And then off to the Senate. Which will be interesting. Will McConnell dispose of it with a quick “motion to dismiss”, or will they hold hearings? My plan would be to hold hearings, but not call any of the witnesses from the House hearings – why bother? We already have their testimony. Call the people frantically trying to hide behind the curtain – Schiff, the FusionGPS crowd, hell, call Strzok and Page and anyone else involved in the original Russia hoax, just to hear them the plead the Fifth over and over again.
“(1) What is the crime?”
Patience, they’re going to find it soon! Just one more witness who knew someone who overheard someone who thought they knew something!
“It’s not like he was using the FBI to spy on a campaign, or sending pallets of cash to Iran, or selling guns to the cartels.
It’s not a situation where he was using intelligence agencies to justify, under false pretext, a never ending war.
It’s not that he was selling weapons to Iran to fund a revolution in central America.”
These things were done by the right people for the right reasons you backward, racist hater.
I, personally, enjoy the way the people who are saying maybe we should cut back on killing POCs are the racists.
STEVE SMITH BEG TO DIFFER, THOUGH HIM THINK IT NOT BAD STRATEGY.
BUT, if you’re not going to impeach a president for a warrant-less assassination of an American citizen, then it’s hard to see what you would impeach someone for.
Don’t worry, we’ll be back to “If the President does it, it’s not illegal” as soon as the Democrats regain control of the Oval Office.
Regarding the dead Navy Vet story (which is sad); with a name like “Ronnie Wayne White”, in Texas I was expecting someone with a redder neck. But that’s just my racism showing.
It has been a source of amusement to me how many black people are named “White”.
Sad story, indeed. Makes you wonder why absolutely nobody thought the guy just totally disappearing was strange enough to follow up on.
Ever played RDR2? There’s a side mission involving a Mr. White (a black man) and a Mr. Black (a white man). Kind of amusing.
RDR2 is full of unwokeness and toxic masculinity. Probably banned in Australia.
Which is funny, because the following woke message abounds: white man bad.
I knew lot’s of black folk named “White” when I was growing up in a very “diverse” area, it was the “Ronnie Wayne” part that seemed out of place.
You’d think these proto-Marxists would be familiar with the dialectic, with the way action begets reaction. Sure, guns used to be normalized. But then they started to be demonized, so it should be no surprise that the reaction was to promote them.
Suddenly (INEXPLICABLY!) there arose a newly militant and vastly more expansive interpretation of the Second Amendment. Gun owners, without evidence, began to fear the erosion of their crazy outdated so-called rights.
It’s telling that following the Constitution as written is now equated with pushing the GOP “further and further to the right”.
Theory of relativity in action. Are you careening leftward and the Constitution’s standing still or are you standing still and the Constitution’s careening rightward?
When I was a kid, I never heard the legitimacy of the Constitution questioned. We even learned about it and the great men who created it, in school. Now those guys were racist and the Constitution is outdated and all about white privilege. Accomplishment is now punished and victimhood and mediocrity are rewarded. We’re totally done if we don’t nuke public education from space and start over.
“if we don’t nuke public education from space and start over.”
*begins packing up office and planning new career*
How do you tell which girls need to be boys and which boys need to be girls and which ones should just identify as non-binary? Well, I guess the last one is pretty obvious by the blue and pink hair and androgynous appearance, yes?
I could live with “self-proclaimed libertarians”.
“identify as”
I identify as a fire breathing dragon, but that won’t keep from busting my ass if I climb up on the roof and jump off.
I identify as a multi-millionaire (too humble and modest to go full billionaire).
Just get yourself a new BMW and plan on sleeping in it, because now you can’t afford rent or a mortgage. Do it the Balmer way!
Um …
I could live with “self-proclaimed libertarians”.
I prefer “soi-disant libertarians”. Its got just the right French sneer to it, and nobody sneers like the French.
Virtually anything you could or would have done in the 1600s would be a crime today.
The one Parliamentary impeachment I tried to run down had something to do with the MP giving a sermon. Now, that sermon could well have been illegal in some way back in the day, but damned if I was going to try to winkle out whether it was.
You know what they say:
“Anything worth doing is worth making illegal.”
And many things vice versa.
“Virtually anything you could or would have done in
the 1600s1960 would be a crime today.”https://youtu.be/ZmohTr20npk
A bit long and rambling to get to the point, but fuck the FTC and their unconstitutional “for the children” machinations. Heads should be on stakes right next to the ones from the FBI/NSA/CIA.
Basically, FTC shook down Google for a large sum of money for ads targeted towards children and is now looking to shake down individual video posters. $42,530 per video, if in the FTC’s view, it appeals to children.
Now, that sermon could well have been illegal in some way back in the day, but damned if I was going to try to winkle out whether it was.
Probably speaking on behalf of the wrong god.
a horrible cultural appropriator (who taught me everything I know about Mexican cooking)
And how to interact with the longer generation too, no doubt.
I… uhh…. wut?
https://www.thecollegefix.com/judge-approves-title-ix-suit-against-university-for-saying-women-cant-consent-to-threesomes/
https://external-preview.redd.it/-WVxOzY_J98EkaLPqXr7K5HKPyBZl3YkAw7vxL3fcQg.jpg?width=640&auto=webp&s=63fc5cdde81bf0d750fe36ba0d34993348ddba91
Appropriate for this time of year.
Someone has to keep the Puritanism afloat. But as far as I am concerned, as long as all three parties sign all the correct consent documents and get them filed and wait for the state to grant them their ‘threesome’ permits and the threesome is properly overseen by a state certified threesome officiating officer from the wokeness bureau, then it should all be OK.
Go Bucks!
So, Marco Silva probably gets sacked today.
Ya’ll and all yer fancy foozball friens!
I had to look that up. I can’t keep up with the musical chairs this year.
*begins packing up office and planning new career*
The world needs ditchdiggers, too.
You know what they say:
“Anything worth doing is worth making illegal.”
Most excellent.