The first night of Passover is behind us. A private seder featuring the four cups of wine, the Four Questions, and the parable of The Four Sons. As a good modern American Jew, I of course lamented the desecration of America by the anti-semite in the White House and the massive rise in homophobia, racism, and income inequality in Trump’s America. We are complicit, sadly, because we had no wheelchair-bound lesbians at the table.
Today’s birthdays include noted clock and safety expert Harold Lloyd; the greatest vibraphonist I ever saw, Lionel Hampton; racist piece of shit George Takei; a childhood fantasy for me, Veronica Cartright; and Catalonian surrealist Joan Miro. And you know who ELSE has a birthday today…
Please please please please please! (didn’t we do this yesterday?)
Next, we need to consider the effectiveness of anti-witchcraft programs.
Mittens is sickened, SICKENED! And in response, Huck is sickened by Mittens.
How can people say that TV and movies have lost all originality?
And here’s Uncle Joe, he’s a-gropin’ kinda slow at the junction.
Why France is the respected world power it is today.
Never apologize for trolling. NEVER.
Phys.org, spreading ignorance one post at a time.
OK, second night of Passover coming up, let’s do it all again! Hope things are cooler where you are than they are here.
Old Guy Music shows the kick I’ve been on recently- rock violinists from my youth. And this time, a band that had its following, but should have been much bigger than it was, The Flock. And here’s an example why.
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Good Morning fellow Glibs. Happy 4/20.
So time for the bitter herb?
That’s a Passover reference, right? Hope you had a nice observance.
Very nontraditional celebration, but we did have the four cups of wine.
Tonio, something I asked yesterday but I think the thread was already on life support- what years were you in MD?
Let’s do this via email.
Tonio (numeral four) Liberty
(at) protonmail
Who ever thought those deplorables would get tired of the racism and discrimination, er, the diversity and inclusion?
“Touch your toes, Montag!”
That’s where this is all heading.
Mueller says that “Congress has the authority to prohibit a president’s corrupt use of his authority.”
Corrupt to fight the corrupt. That’ll work.
How does that explain Obama?
A loony bin, with typewriters
In 2017, a brilliant visual effects expert created a video montage called “It’s Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending.” Set to the crooning of the 1963 song “From Russia With Love,” it shows F.B.I. agents rounding up the central figures who brought us Donald Trump’s presidency, culminating in Trump himself being led away with his hands behind his back.
I’ll admit to having watched this over and over again; it’s one of the most satisfying bits of wish fulfillment I’ve ever seen. Wish fulfillment is all it was, though. It’s a national disgrace that Trump sleeps in the White House instead of a federal prison cell, but it has been a while since I had any expectation that the special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings, many of which were finally released to the public on Thursday, could set things right.
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There are a lot of reasons Trump’s election remains a festering wound. It was a horrifying shock to many of us and, given his decisive loss in the popular vote, an insult to democracy.
Reality is subjective. Obey the voices.
“Typewriters” is rapidly becoming obscure as a reference.
Word Processors?
“It’s a national disgrace that Trump sleeps in the White House instead of a federal prison cell, ”
What crime did he commit to get to the Whitehouse? Also is it Irony that this person laments a criminal on the WH, most likely voted for HRC?
A) He beat the most qualified candidate in history who ran the perfect race. He must have cheated.
B) No.
“Trump’s election remains … an insult to democracy”
Do you need any more proof that democracy just means “something I think is good”
From the NR article –
No. It is equally bullshit.
“he was “sickened” by its findings.”
Mitt’s got a weak stomach, good thing his finger isn’t on the button. ‘Course he might like pushing that, just to see the reaction, like a kid with a jack in the box.
Site seems a bit goofy today, so may as well do a Caption Contest
Who is that?
It ain’t Mitt! Trump’s entourage is a wonderful sight for old eyes with thick glasses (discounting Mnuchhin and other cabinet members).
“Good thing I had my asshole bleached last week”
(you decide who’s saying that)
I once told my ex I thought she should bleach her asshole. Then she poured clorox on me.
/be here all week
Sean and Fourscore, absolutely fuck Romney. Neocon pricks are sickened by lies that hurt no one, but gobble up the whoppers that lead to piles of dead bodies.
Fuck Romney. He’s the new McCain
Look we gave you Mike Lee. It’s only fair that Hatch got to hand pick his successor to be someone even worse than himself.
And back in my Utah days, Barfin’ Jake Garn.
https://qz.com/1598345/microsoft-staff-are-openly-questioning-the-value-of-diversity/
Who knew Microsoft was a Haven for racists and sexists?
Huh. The commenting madness caused a Gilmore rather than Brooks.
For SP: I had clicked reply to this but decided not to. Later I was going to post something new (the above) but didn’t click reply at the bottom. So it makes sense why it Gilmored
When you decided not to reply, did you hit Cancel Reply?
No
“If you like your plan you can keep your plan”, “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor”, and “You will save money under Obamacare” are apparently AOK with Mitt.
Ofcourse. Obamacare was a bailout of Romneycare the Massholes voted for.
If you don’t like your reply press cancel reply
(((they))) are always complaining about anti-Semitism but then they go on and attack the holiest of Christan holidays by celebrating Passover during Easter.
[golf clap]
Fortunately there is always St Patrick’s Day
Jesus is Risen!
The matzoh, not so much.
Your guide to Spring holidays.
Jesus rose from the dead on 4/20.
Coincidence? I think not.
Jesus did have help from a few buds.
First he had to weed out a traitor.
Was it a joint effort?
It did, however, take him around 40 days to get high.
Lol.
The heavier the load, the more fuel is needed and the higher the carbon emissions.
Ban fat people.
Ban
fatpeopleMore like what they want.
Those physicists are behind the curve. I can get boiling water to I’ve with no external energy by simply putting it out side in the snow.
Only works during winter tho.
“I felt a great disturbance in the DNC, as if millions of candidates suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced”
It was probably naïve to think that Mueller could cut through such a thick web of falsity. But if anyone could have, it would have been him, the embodiment of a set of old-fashioned virtues that still ostensibly command bipartisan respect. Over the months of the investigation, he came to represent for many an ideal of manliness that rebuked Trump’s insecure machismo. He was a war hero, Trump was a shirker. He was a public servant, Trump a venal con man. He was honest, Trump a liar. America doesn’t have a Walter Cronkite anymore, a person whose word is trusted implicitly across the political spectrum. Mueller was as close as we were going to get.
We should memorialize him, on the Mall. Name a day in his honor. Write songs to trumpet his glory.
He is a GOD. Let us worship him.
Fucking personality cultists. I hate ’em.
Just me or is the reply button not working?
It’s acting a little strange. When SP is awake, I’ll ask her to take a look.
It is not working normally.
Worst case, everybody Brookses threads.
Oh my. One small deviation from normal and y’all freak out. What are you guys a bunch of Comment Alarmists? There is no Man Made Comment Change.
#whitewashedfromhistory
” Walter Cronkite anymore, a person whose word is trusted implicitly across the political spectrum. ”
Is this the same Walter Cronkite who refused to cover Ed Clark’s 1980 campaign because he believed “Libertarians are evil?”
The left adores teleprompter readers.
“The Tet Offensive was totes successful!” -Walter Cronkite
Re: Trolling BBQ
Seems to me that they aren’t targeting the woke crowd. Of course expect someone to sue for discrimination. I think it’s funny that the left gets bent out of shape over small businesses doing this when the majority of big business is on board. I guess you can’t make your masterpiece without buffing out the small imperfections.
Personally, I think it’s a stupid shirt and not truly good for business.
Just me or is the reply button not working?
I’m probably the wrong guy to ask.
Just me or is the reply button not working?
This very amused me.
Jebus. I’m probably the wrong guy to ask.
You’ve trained your whole life for this moment.
Me too.
Okay, I’ll bite. What was Sulu’s sin, I know he’s an idiot prog but I must have missed the racist stuff.
Not sure. He might have said something deemed anti-semetic but I really don’t know.
He had a great cameo in Psych.
There have been quite a few (the usual racially-charged Leftist attacks on people who have contrary opinions) but his most notorious one was calling Clarence Thomas “a clown in blackface.”
I love how he keeps bringing up internment camps but never seems to connect them to icon FDR.
He was on Star Trek, for one.
Star Trek was the least racist thing ever.
-1 klingonface
https://qz.com/1598345/microsoft-staff-are-openly-questioning-the-value-of-diversity/
Who knew Microsoft was a Haven for racists and sexists
(Repost due to Gilmored comment)
From Microsoft article, my favorite bit (paraphrasing): “most MS employees don’t use Yammer because the interface is awkward and clunky”
Really? An MS product with a shitty interface? Unpossible.
Happy Passover OMWC and fellow Jewish glibs. Hope y’all have a great one.
SP thinks I have a great one.
I thought it was mohel’d?
Yeah, but she’s how old?
Hey, JB. Congrats on the new addition!
Thanks Straff! She’s adorbs.
No shit, Shirley
20 Years On, The Background Check System Continues To Miss Dangerous Gun Buyers
The thing reads as if it was written by someone suffering from a severe head injury. They (it?) pull a couple of high profile anecdotes out of their ass which show… something.
In 2015, a white supremacist in Charleston, S.C., was able to obtain a gun after the FBI failed to complete his background check before the three-day deadline.
The gun purchase was able to go through and that shooter later killed nine black churchgoers.
As NPR reported later, it was discovered the shooter had admitted to possessing a controlled substance during an arrest. That should have denied the purchase on the grounds of “an unlawful drug user or addict.”
Since it was created in late 1998, the federal government says NICS has initiated some 311 million background checks, including 26 million in 2018 alone.
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Like at Virginia Tech in 2017 when 33 people died, including the gunman.
In that case, Virginia court documents released after the rampage showed a judge had previously declared the man “mentally ill” and ordered him to seek treatment. But at the time, Virginia wasn’t fully sharing information with NICS. Had that information been in the system, there is a better chance the gunman would not have been able to obtain his guns.
Not getting a gun over the counter at Dick’s Sporting Goods means those people could never obtain a firearm. Obviously, more funding would fix this.
What about the people who slip through the “loophole” of having never been adjudicated crazy, or have never been convicted of a felony? How do we keep them from getting their dirty murderous paws on a gun?
20 Years On, The Background Check System Continues To Miss Dangerous Gun Buyers
Ok, repeal it, don’t reform it.
“We are complicit, sadly, because we had no wheelchair-bound lesbians at the table.”
Thats wheelchair-capable, shitlord.
/ Google’s wheelchair capable lesbian porn
So much derp.
I don’t really follow Baseball, but causing the benches to clear is probably a good reason to eject someone?
The social justice sports reporting is more annoying to me than probably any other “journalism” simply because it takes something that people use as an escape from politics and forces some horseshit angle on it.
Also, sports is the ultimate meritocracy; it is anti-prog in every way.
It’s pretty normal to eject both players when these things happen.
That article was as dumb as anything I have ever read. So much woke, so little knowledge.
MLB is apparently racist and desperate for black players? Who knew? I suppose there have not been any black players of note since Robinson donned #42. That must be why they are trotting him out now…… (actually, I was under the impression that a plurality of players were from the Dominican Republic, but whatever… I guess all but 3 players in the big leagues are white)
And how dare they say it isn’t OK to use racial epithets, particularly the N-word! (What???) Because he is a descendant of SLAVES! (Wha-wha-What????)
We already reached peak derp… but then we go on to completely not understand baseball. Here’s a hint: If you don’t know anything about a subject, troll about it on internet comments sections, don’t write opinion pieces for newspapers.
Baseball is really big on “showing up” the other team. It is a big deal in baseball culture. The response is to get plunked. That’s how it has always worked. And no, being a super-awesome minority doesn’t cut you any slack, unlike in SJW circles. Plunking in the butt is within the realm of the expected. Throwing at the head is not. It’s a baseball thing. Apparently you wouldn’t understand.
Holy crap – that article reads like a parody. Particularly the outrage about daring to tell a descendant of slaves that he can’t use the N-word. (double-down for the implicit endorsement of “it is OK when They do it”) Maybe the dumbest thing I’ve read in a month. (all of the derp about Mueller notwithstanding.
According to Schilling, it would be possible in theory to achieve cooling of up to -47°C under the same conditions, if the “ideal” Peltier element—yet to be invented—could be used: “With this very simple technology, large amounts of hot solid, liquid or gaseous materials could be cooled to well below room temperature without any energy consumption.”
“Once we invent the perpetual motion machine, the rest is a piece of cake.”
I had a TA in grad school that would say “I think this problem is very easy once you know how to solve it.” That’s how this sounds.
“With this very simple technology, large amounts of hot solid, liquid or gaseous materials could be cooled to well below room temperature without any energy consumption.”
If I understood the paper, they used a peltier cooler physically connected between two bodies and electrically connected to a superconducting inductor to create a thermal oscillator. They were then able to find that at some point the smaller “hot” body was temporarily able to be pulled to a lower temperature that the larger “cool” body.
What baffles me is why they claim no external energy is applied to the system when they have to use liquid He to the coils (superconducting) to make the system viable.
What this indicates to me is if there was room temp superconductors and 100% efficient Peltier heaters, then they might be able to temporarily cool a hot object below the heat sink temp. I didn’t look to closely at the time elements of the model enough to determine how long the small object is below the large object, but I imagine it’s very brief depending on the size differences.
Where’s my Nazi cake!
Kick off your 4/20 with some glamorous tits.
https://thechive.com/2019/04/20/cleavage-saturday-goes-well-with-saturday-morning-cartoons-32-photos/
17, 30, 31. Heaven is truly a place on Earth.
31 looks like she left your bunny waiting for you at home.
Is there Passover coke in the grocery stores? I’ll have to stock up.
Honest? Honest as the day is long.
Mueller’s report aims directly at the anxieties these voters express about Trump and his Republican defenders. Many of these college-educated whites are traditionally center-right voters who may agree with key aspects of Trump’s agenda, such as his success in cutting taxes. But the lying, belligerence, scheming, and disregard for the law that Mueller cataloged in Trump’s effort to block his inquiry speak directly to the greatest doubts these voters have expressed about the president. The report validates the concerns of anyone who feared how Trump would wield presidential power—with a solipsistic elevation of his personal interest over any other concern, and with an utter disregard for limits of law, much less morality. (Mueller may have produced the most damning portrait of a leader exercising power since Shakespeare’s Richard III.)
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The Mueller report may not dislodge significant elements of Trump’s electoral coalition, some of whom thrill to his behavior and others who accept it in the same implicit bargain as do Republicans in Congress. But it seems highly likely to reinforce the doubts of the nearly 55 percent of Americans who expressed unease, if not outright revulsion, about him as president through their votes for other candidates in the 2016 election and for Democrats in the 2018 House races.
Fifty five percent of all Americans voted against Trump? Seriously? Did it hurt when you pulled that out of your ass?
This is the sort of “hyperbole” which would send people into hysterics if Trump said it. What was voter turnout in 2016, again? It wasn’t 100%. This ain’t Cuba.
Well, there was only a 60% voter turn out and Hillary won the majority of those votes and since 40% didnt vote…55%! I dont know its early and its just another day of made up numbers.
There’s no baseline for this. No president had a special council crawling up his ass for the first two years of his administration. An army of lawyers with subpoena powers found some stuff? How disengenuos or naive would you have to be to believe any administion has dirt?
nO oNe I KnEW vOTeD fOr DrUmPF
“The Mueller report may not dislodge significant elements of Trump’s electoral coalition”
Well that’s what it’s all about innit? First the report was gonna be a Dem congress outsourcing its impeachment investigation, now since the report is a bust and impeachment is mostly off the table, it’s a truncheon to try and beat white Trump Democrats from the Midwest back in line. It’s always about power, now and forever.
All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.
Drink deep the gathering derp,
Watch spot-lights fade on every perp,
Deranged people look on and lament,
Another useless story is spent,
Enraged morons pine for The One,
Orange-man cries for respect and has none,
Old shits stare in disgust at the young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night,
Ignoring injustices ever so slight
All prophesy lost to our sight
And goddammit we know we are right
Bitter clingers to the illusion
[with apologies to Graham Edge]
Don’t know who this chick is, but this sounds like a good plan.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/we-must-ban-kte-smth-entirely/
Here’s another chick you may not know, but I’d be glad to introduce you to her: Ai Shinozaki
Newsletter? I can haz subscribe?
There’s also something magical about Asians with big knockers; maybe because it’s rarer but they seem even more spectacular.
They’re wonderful and I’m glad I got a little rendezvous with one such blessed lady next week. You gotta try it someday if you end up on this island of degeneracy, Q.
I’m fond of the artwork off of one of her singles
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71iibdVlKsL._SS500_.jpg
Now that is what I’d call a hot single.
The MV doesn’t quite live up to the promise of the artwork
https://youtu.be/t8L9YH0Afg0
Regionblocked in my country. It seems neither the Emperor nor his men appreciate this on the youtubes.
https://youtu.be/HhFlmC6bm58
3 minutes shorter but gets the idea
Thanks, good sir. Homegirl still looking cute as all heck though so that’s okay.
Well her name does mean “love”.
Unless it’s pronounced “Megumi” of course…
I still have a hard time reading Japanese names, I almost always get the wrong reading and end up looking like a fool.
You and me both!
My Japanese friends look at me a bit funny when I try to explain my difficulties with reading names.
Lots of “twenty years on” anguish about Columbine. I’m sorry, but the people who were forced to endure the Bataan Fucking Death March came home and picked up their lives where they left off.
I don’t want to hear your reminiscences about how you heard a noise in the distance and are now still too traumatized to function.
It’s just a chance for relevant parties to flog gun control. Nevermind that the massacre occurred smack in the middle of the AWB and the killers’ weapons with handguns, a Hi-Point carbine and a shotgun.
Don’t forget the failed propane tank bombs. Why we keep allowing people to run around with those latent WMDs is truly a mystery.
not even 20 years later and some people think it’s totally fine to say “some people did some things” one September day.
“Some people did something” is now my repertoire for dismissing other people’s “trauma”. Works a treat for Columbine:
So you can’t just say that today someone is looking at me strange because I am a gun owner and that I am trying to make myself look harmless.
*nods in agreement*
I’ve ranted about this once or twice in the past few weeks.
You have to say that this person is looking at me strange, I am not comfortable with it, and I am going to talk to them and ask them why. Because that is the right you have.
*sigh*
Learn a lesson from the left for once. Be a bit unreasonable. Push the Overton window back in the right direction.
“And you know who ELSE has a birthday today…”
Howard Zinn?
Carmen Electra?
Lilith Lovett?
Luther Vandross?
One of my college FWBs who I remain friends with?
FWBs?
Friend with benefits.
Jamie Gillis?
This guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burger
Would.
All my want. I hope I can relish that pure American delicacy one day.
Luther Vandross died almost fifteen years ago? I never knew.
I’m thinking eating bacon cheeseburgers between two glazed donuts might increase the chance of stroke.
No love for Riven, eh, OMWC? That’s fine… That’s just fine. I have this brownie to console me…
But is it a Ghiradelli brownie?
Well, it does have a special, high-quality ingredient…
We’re not doing phrasing anymore, are we?
Happy Birthday ?? I’d take a brownie over cake any day.
So would OMWC.
Danke! 🙂 Brownie first. We still have to finish making the cake, which is a childhood favorite from way back.
It’s an amalgamation of three different recipes: homemade devil’s food, ribbon cake, and chocolate-cream cheese frosting.
Pie. The correct answer is pie. Always pie.
And yes, that can be a euphemism for you if you’d like.
My love for Riven is a special sort of love.
Y’know, you say that…
Happy birthday, Riven!
I hope you have a great day!
What Straff and Tundra said, Happy Birthday, RIven. Hope you have a great and wonderful day.
Thank you! I have very chill plans. Honestly, it’s not that different from any other Saturday.
Happy Birthday!
Thank you. I have high hopes for 31. Should be a good year, if 30 was any indication.
What’s the new avatar?
Don’t you get it?
Does it have anything to do with John Anderson?
He was trying not to out your birthday to this pack of miscreants?
Either that, or he’s senile.
I vote senile.
Happy Birthday!
Maybe a bit of both? 😉 And thank you!
Trump’s America. What a shithole.
President Donald Trump may soon be able to claim a sweet victory for his deregulation push, with officials preparing to get rid of the decades-old rules for frozen cherry pies.
Emails show the Food and Drug Administration planned to start the process for revoking the standard for frozen cherry pies this week, followed by a similar revocation of the standard for French dressing. Plans to get rid of the obscure rules had been tucked into the Trump administration’s deregulation agenda .
“This so-called French dressing was made in Hoboken! Get the ACLU on the phone!”
There’ll be many people dying in the streets cause of the future lax standards of frozen cherry pies! You’ve all been warned.
Sara Sanders hardest hit?
Or these guys
Relevant
Trashy and Tundra forgot about the burgers and fries.
Happy Passover!
Old Man, I liked The Flock selection. I’ve noticed the violin making a comeback in modern music, can the flute be far behind?
Your music career may be on the cusp of a resurgence!
Hopefully he is not blowing on one of them semen tainted flutes.
Unfortunately, I’m going to have a mental image of some wierdo jacking off into them whenever I hear of that instrument from now on.
Band camp chick didn’t already do that?
That’s different.
I dunno where this will end up Gilmored, but… that K*te Sm*th link made me realize that racism is just like cooties.
“Young Adults Should Be Allowed to Smoke or Vape
In the last Senate, 12 Democrats sponsored legislation to raise the age for purchasing tobacco products, a legal category that includes e-cigarettes, to 21. Now two Republicans have joined the cause: Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Kent.) and Todd Young (Ind.). McConnell says the bill “will include an exemption for men and women who serve in uniform.”
I’m glad the exemption will be there, but it highlights the absurdity of the legislative idea. What McConnell is saying is that nineteen-year-olds are not competent to decide whether to smoke or vape, unless they have also decided to join the Armed Forces. That can’t be right.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/vaping-tobacco-young-adults/
Yes. Now do drinking age.
This right friggin here. And thanks Cocaine Mitch and Young for doing the dumb-dumb facepalms.
And credit cards, medical insurance coverage under their parents’s policy, and firearms.
What about pot and ass sex? What kind of libertarians are you?
McConnell gets some props for having some wicked tweets, and for pushing court appointments, but underneath it all, he’s still a member in good standing of the We Know Better Than You Party, and you just know he misses McCain. I wonder when he falls under the sway of McCain Jr., the junior senator from Utah.
What about gum and patches? Are our children still going to be forced to wear 18 nicotine patches and chew a pack of nicotine gun every day by the horrid BIG TOBACCO!?
“Felicity Huffman, an overripe actress charged with fraud in a high-profile college-admissions scandal, has learned at least one thing about professional stagecraft: Always listen to the writer.
She got a pretty good one to do her apology, which reads in part:
“I am in full acceptance of my guilt, and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions. I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues and the educational community. I want to apologize to them and, especially, I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college, and to their parents who make tremendous sacrifices to support their children and do so honestly.”
That is a classical good apology: admission of guilt, statement of regret, specific acknowledgments of harm done — and no excuses. No sudden recollection of childhood abuse or trauma, no prescription-drug side effects, no checking herself into rehab. That’s the kind of apology that might keep you out of jail.
And it’s an increasingly rare thing.
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Representative Ilhan Omar, too. After the Minnesota Democrat’s umpteenth forced apology for indulging in anti-Semitic slurs, she wrote, “I unequivocally apologize.” Also, “I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity.” Which is to say: She used “unequivocally” in an apology in which she was equivocating.
Whether that was good writing or bad writing remains to be seen.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/05/06/felicity-huffman-and-the-stagecraft-of-apologies/
I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity.
And here I thought people were attacking her for her bigotry and hatred. Unless those are an essential part of being a Muslim, I don’t think that really attacked her for her identity. Is she saying that Islam requires that you want all the Jews dead? Because it seems like that’s what she is saying.
You know who else made eliminating Jews a cornerstone of their identity?
Ooh, I know this one. Shoko Asahara, founder of Aum Shinrikyo?
Harvard University, for many decades?
Riven?
Eric Cartman?
Marcia Clark?
Oops. Thought you said “Juice”.
Do you believe in magic? Joseph Stiglitz does.
We are now in a vicious cycle: Greater economic inequality is leading, in our money-driven political system, to more political inequality, with weaker rules and deregulation causing still more economic inequality.
If we don’t change course matters will likely grow worse, as machines (artificial intelligence and robots) replace an increasing fraction of routine labor, including many of the jobs of the several million Americans making their living by driving.
The prescription follows from the diagnosis: It begins by recognizing the vital role that the state plays in making markets serve society. We need regulations that ensure strong competition without abusive exploitation, realigning the relationship between corporations and the workers they employ and the customers they are supposed to serve. We must be as resolute in combating market power as the corporate sector is in increasing it.
If we had curbed exploitation in all of its forms and encouraged wealth creation, we would have had a more dynamic economy with less inequality. We might have curbed the opioid crisis and avoided the 2008 financial crisis. If we had done more to blunt the power of oligopolies and strengthen the power of workers, and if we had held our banks accountable, the sense of powerlessness might not be so pervasive and Americans might have greater trust in our institutions.
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The neoliberal fantasy that unfettered markets will deliver prosperity to everyone should be put to rest. It is as fatally flawed as the notion after the fall of the Iron Curtain that we were seeing “the end of history” and that we would all soon be liberal democracies with capitalist economies.
That “neoliberal fantasy” is coming from inside your head.
Progressive capitalism is not an oxymoron, he says. It seems to be more of a synonym for fascism.
Greater economic inequality
Bzzt. Assumes facts not in evidence.
The available data is cherrypicked to increase apparent inequality, as it measures pre-tax income at the top end, and ignores government benefits at the bottom end. Why, its almost like the people in government and academia cooking these numbers want there to an inequality “problem” for them to “solve”.
Now, there may be an increase in economic inequality, but at this point we really can’t say one way or the other.
Give us more power and I swear we’ll make sure we make EVERYTHING
except our relationshipequal.Deregulation? Government at every level in this country is heaping ever more regulations onto the books.
“none of the poorest economies in the world is free, and that none of the world’s freest and most competitive economies is poor.”
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Competition.html
OK, then.
Except you don’t want a dynamic economy.
To be sure, the economic system that bailed out the banks does need to end, so why is this person asking to expand it?
It seems to be more of a synonym for fascism.
Indeed, although they aren’t smart/honest enough to see it. It’s about keeping business firmly under the thumb of government. When that doesn’t work out well, they’ll be “forced” to put the government directly in charge.
“Top 10 things the media got wrong about ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction’ ”
https://nypost.com/2019/04/19/top-10-things-the-media-got-wrong-about-collusion-and-obstruction/
And what do the NYT commetariat have to say?
Ted B
UES2h ago
Times Pick
Under progressive capitalism, companies would
1) Pay every worker a living wage
2) Be unable to outsource or automate jobs without proper compensation to workers
3) Produce within ecological boundaries, and pay for the environmental costs of their business
4) Have worker representation on their boards
5) Pay their fair share of taxes
6) Accept a universal healthcare system instead of insisting health insurance be tied to employment
What about my pony?
The Socialists ate it.
Wait, Obamacare is the system that forces large companies to tie insurance to employment…something something blind eye…
FDR started it. Another thing he f’d up. We would be better off without employer paid health care. But that’s between the employer and employee. Should not be Medicare for all, it should be like car insurance for the most part.
FDR and those who came after used the tax code to encourage businesses to tie insurance to the employee, but Obama mandated it (companies over what ever employee number threshold they arbitrarily set)
Ah, yes. The employer mandate. So important that Obama delayed its implementation until he was almost out of office.
It’s a completely stupid system.
Not at all. It is the perfect system. The government has all the power, but none of the responsibility. It seems to be working out swimmingly for the politicians.
i.e. Fascism
It’s like Utopia for the leftest control freaks. TW: Our old buddy Sheldon.
https://fee.org/articles/fascism-socialism-with-a-capitalist-veneer/
“pay for the environmental costs of their business”
Assuming there are “actual” environmental costs tied to the production or use of a product. It would be preferable that any actual costs would be paid from a visable tax on that product than by taxpayers who don’t use the product.
When you get to define carbon dioxide as a pollutant, you can make anything prohibitively expensive. It’s about driving the economy into the hands of government, not saving the environment.
insisting health insurance be tied to employment
What employer wants this? It’s extra paperwork and hassle and it only happens because the tax code encourages it. Get rid of the tax exemption, or make it universal (see: Paul, Rand) and it will go away (quickly in the former case, gradually in the latter).
It’s much easier to give people more cash than it is to jump through a bunch of hoops to give a non-cash benefit, especially one as complicated as regulated health insurance.
Pay every worker a living wage
Yeah, fuck the poor. I too look forward to the day when anyone who isn’t a member of the professional class or one of their servants can’t find work.
Under progressive capitalism, companies would
1) Pay every worker a living wage2) Be unable to outsource or automate jobs without proper compensation to workers
3) Produce within ecological boundaries, and pay for the environmental costs of their business
4) Have worker representation on their boards
5) Pay their fair share of taxes
6) Accept a universal healthcare system instead of insisting health insurance be tied to employment
operate as a wholly-controlled affiliate of the national government
A national democratic-socialist industrial policy, if you will, democratically implemented to advance national socialist goals.
I wonder how long they can keep dancing around it before someone just gives up and calls for “national socialism”.
Didn’t Bernie say that by mistake in 2016?
“When a female gets a tattoo, she is giving a permanent oath of fealty to the oligarchs and their hired managers. Her mind is controlled by their Satanic inversions, her body destined to be used and abused in exchange for pleasure and power. Her tattoo is the mark of the beast.”
https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/1119246441690611712
To Roosh: Here’s that attention you ordered.
Parenting. Took the 12 year old and 8 year old to an Easter egg hunt this morning about a mile from home. 12 year old, when presented with a horde of friendly kids, goes into full introverted puberty panic mode and asks if she can go play in the field away from the goings on. Sure, I say. Instead she walks all the way home. Ten minutes later I’m looking for her and she’s nowhere to be found and not answering her phone.
After fifteen more minutes I’m about to organize the Easter egg hunt into a search and rescue party when she finally calls me from home. She, of course, has no idea why I’m so pissed at her.
Meanwhile the 8 year old is picking up the Easter eggs, taking the candy out and returning the empty eggs to their hiding places. When I ask why, she says it’s so somebody else can find them.
My kids are tarded.
No idea how that comment got there.
You’re Roosh, that’s how.
Heredity?
Fun story though
I like the way your 8 year old thinks.
(1) Find Easter egg. (Yay!)
(2) Eat candy (Yay!)
So far, the standard experience for every kid. But yours adds an extra fillip:
(3) Return empty egg, watch look of disappointment on other children’s face when they realize there is no candy.
Well played, budding shitlord. Well. Played.
“IMO the Supreme Court example cuts in the opposite way. By denying Garland a fair hearing, Republicans were essentially cutting Obama’s term short—which is what Democrats would be doing by impeaching Trump.”
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1119303431896825856
Be careful, it’s retarded out there.
I guess Reagan’s term was cut short when they borked Robert Bork, too.
When they are learned they think they are wise…
There’s a 100% chance that you’re correct.
You know which other Democrat cut a Republican’s term short?
John Wilkes Booth?
Well, it wasn’t Hitler.
The guy who shot Steve Scalise, temporarily?
Also, It’s Saturday mornin and I’m not at work, yay!
Re: commenting issues – I fixed it by clearing all cookies for this site. I had some wonkiness with Eyepiece last night, maybe it was related.
Force refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R in most browsers on Windows and Linux) also worked for me.
Thanks. That worked for me.
No idea how that comment got there.
I thought it was going to be about your 12 year old’s new tramp stamp. Phew.
I only want to say.
Just came back to corpse-fuck this mug to say, I listened to old guy music today and was glad I did. Thanks for that. On to an Elysian Moon Dust.