Good morning, kids!
Do not adjust your set, it is indeed SP up at the crack of 0dark:30 to cover links for you fine folks. And the rest of you, too. I am nothing if not dedicated to the happiness (and/or snarkiness) of the Glibs!
We’ve got a weekend house party kicking off around lunchtime today. This includes many humans (purported humans?) I have never met IRL. Should be a blast, but it means I’ve been busy provisioning, and configuring sleeping quarters, and all such like that there. And there is still more to do, so this will be brief.
Welp, judging from the comments on the most excellent Episode 18 of CPRM’s animated Hat & Hair, many of you watched Round 1 of the Dems’ debate last night. In case you missed it, or just didn’t care, like me, check out the highlights here. Cripes, I just realized there is another round tonight. We shall be entertaining, so probably won’t see that one either.
Remember that fire at Notre Dame Cathedral? Probably not arson.
Do your fucking job, or find another one.
I think this chick has a short life expectancy.
Keep an eye on the Supremes today. Could be interesting.
Australian possibly detained in North Korea. “[Sigley] told Australian Broadcasting Corp. two years ago that he wanted to break down negative stereotypes about the country. “If we thought it was unsafe, we would stop doing these tours,” Sigley said. “We wouldn’t be able to bear the moral and legal responsibility of bringing people to North Korea if it was dangerous.” How’s that working out for you, bro?
Okey dokey, I’m outta here. Enjoy your day, friends! We sure will!
Comments
575 responses to “Thursday Morning Busy, Busy, Busy Links”
““We wouldn’t be able to bear the moral and legal responsibility of bringing people to North Korea if it was dangerous.”
Parents of Otto Warmbier beg to differ.
Frist!1!
Okay, my work here is done. Off to the skatepark before it gets unbearably hot. Check you later, Glibs.
NOYCE!
And good comment about Ottos’ parents…
I still don’t get hoe many stupid apologists are willing to risk life & limb to pretend marxism is not evil.
Better hurry. Gonna be a scorcher here today.
” The group cited the American government’s refusal to take in a group of desperate Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II”
It’s always Nazis.
That means we’re morally obliged to bomb Mexico.
I mean if we are Nazi Germany, what’s that make the rest of the “free” world, ostensibly still our friends and allies.
Fixed that for you.
Doh how could I miss that?
That’s excellent. Next time someone tells me to be an ally of some protected group, “I’m more of an axis guy”.
Well, you are in Japan.
#RESIST
I’m confused, are we to accept the entire populations of Central America? What is the specific subset of the population that is being persecuted?
Why do I get the feeling at some point some prog is going to float the idea of annexing Mexico into the US.
It could become a new state. What name would we give that state? Old Mexico? South Mexico?
And specifically, persecuted by Mexico, considering that’s where they are.
Yeah, and don’t forget this happened under that dastardly Republican multi-millionaire, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
“Remember that fire at Notre Dame Cathedral? Probably not arson.”
Allegedly.
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1143944019598331904
It’s not the Post’s fault we live in a ridiculously litigious society.
The proper level of not caring: not even bothering to watch the highlights.
I figure the highlights would be pratfalls all set to the Benny Hill theme.
It would certainly make them more relevant or entertaining.
Besides, my bet is that it was a gathering of idiots each trying to up the anti on how much free shit they would give in return for the votes of the people driven by envy/jealousy of others.
They already did that
I almost got up to turn off the radio when NPR starting prattling about it this morning, but then I realized I didn’t care enough to do even that.
“launder millions of dollars in proceeds back to Mexico”
Money laundering laws target women as they make traditionally female tasks and make them illegal.
I was lead to believe that cartel women look like Salma Hayek not Friedrich Hayek. Although, I guess the latter would be better with money.
Didn’t Salma marry a billionaire? I’d say she’s done pretty well with money.
Yes, she’s married to a billionaire frog.
I find it amusing to think that he still cheats on her.
Is it really a debate if they’re all just arguing over who’s most committed to the same lunacy?
Yeah they are Debutants not debaters
I can’t remember the last presidential debate that actually was one, there is never point counterpoint, unless you count “I’m not a puppet, you’re the puppet.”
How many people you wanna lock in rape cages before you admit failure.
Let me be a moderator.
So Many Democrats, So Many Bad Ideas
– Stossel
I see your “Free shit” offer to the voters, and I raise it with my own counter offer of “Even more free shit”!
Now make me POTUS you ungrateful freeloaders!
Master of Trolls
https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1144177713869017089
I liked his one word tweet: BORING!
The President of the USA. Anybody who says they saw this version of 2019 coming is full of it.
Most entertaining timeline. that is all.
Seriously. I’ll take this over being lectured without the entertainment.
Does that include porn searches?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gabbard-most-google-searched-democratic-candidate-debate-third-lowest-speaking-time
Obviously.
People are looking for spank bank pics?
“Gabbard least search-suppressed-by-Google candidate.”
“Roberts has repeatedly said he doesn’t want the public to view the court as just another political entity, even now that it has five conservatives appointed by Republican presidents and four liberals appointed by Democrats. Yet decisions in these cases could amplify criticism of the court.”
That’s way over-simplifying things.
“ even now that it has five conservatives appointed by Republican presidents and four liberals appointed by Democrats. ”
This reeks of “the court was apolitical before a majority of justices became conservatives.” Notice that this wasn’t a talking point until the court was in danger of becoming conservative.
Of course not. When Garland was nominated by Obama, no one in the press moaned that the ideological balance of the court was going to shift further left.
4 Progressives and 5 slower Progressives.
We all know that Judge Roberts will cave like a wet, cardboard wall. He’s a PoS.
As long as there is a tax attached to it.
Funny how it’s only the “conservatives” who ever have concerns like these. It’s never, ever a mystery how the 4 horsemen justices will rule and if they had a majority they would exercise that power early and often with no thought to the “political nature” of the court.
They just want to be loved.
I saw fox news bitching about gorsuch joining the left-wing. Looked at the case… due process for sex offenders. Fucking conservatives.
My SCOTUS roundup will hopefully be less inane than the MSM’s
The last few decisions have been pretty mixed, no?
Also, most of the judges get along with one another, which makes certain people crazy.
Amazing picture – damn I’m insignificant.
I was amazed when I first saw that.
“damn I’m insignificant”
Yeah, my wife hates when I watch shows about stuff like this for this very reason.
I find some strange, hard to describe peace knowing that my life really is insignificant in the grand scheme. Or else it just makes me want to drink more.
Wait, we need reasons to drink more? I thought that drinking more was in and of itself reason enough to drink more?
I get the same feeling when looking at the pale blue dot picture. Say what you will about him, but Carl Sagan’s comments about it are still moving to me.
I may have been a humanities/business major in school, but I’m a science nerd at heart. Best vacation I ever went on was going to CERN during one of its open weekends. Wife and I spent an hour talking with one of the scientists about his research on antimatter. Did I understand everything? Nope. Was I absolutely transfixed by the conversation? Absolutely.
FTA: “the Hubble Space Telescope. One can argue that it is the ultimate camera,”
Good thing the James Webb ST got delayed. Now that we know that the HST is “ultimate,” the next one is redundant and sending it up would be a waste of money. / sarc
Less than one year ago, Rob O’Rourke was a media superstar. That is absolutely hilarious now.
Key being “media superstar”. Nobody else GAF about that guy. Menudo was more organic.
Menudo actually sounded Puerto Rican.
Speaking of espanyollllll, I particularly appreciated Castro dusting off a Ricardo Montalban accent for Spanish words to disguise the fact that he doesn’t actually speak Spanish.
+1 Rich Corinthian Leather
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVELhUyLZGk
It’s annoying when he changes his accent when saying Spanish names while speaking English.
At least he sounds like his parents could have been from north eastern Mexico. Whereas, Beto sounds like he’s from Narnia or Neverland.
He was a superstar only because he was running against Cruz. Now that he’s running against other Dems, he’s outlived his usefulness.
“[Sigley] told Australian Broadcasting Corp. two years ago that he wanted to break down negative stereotypes about the country. “If we thought it was unsafe, we would stop doing these tours,” Sigley said. “We wouldn’t be able to bear the moral and legal responsibility of bringing people to North Korea if it was dangerous.”
/face palm.
Now he’s all ‘but come get me Australia!’ I bet.
Natural Selection
No, because his family will now demand blood, sweat, and treasure be wasted to retrieve this idiot, and you know they will cave in and do so.
Trump will talk to Rocket Man, get this ahole released, and the international media will go bananas about Trump kowtowing to an evil dictator.
Beloved ‘Blackheath Donkey’ stabbed in suspected ‘gang initiation’ attack
the fuck is wrong with people? Poor donkey.
At least he was not STEVE SMITHED?
STEVE SMITH NO DO DONKEY SHOW. THAT STEREOTYPE NOT HIM.
Has any gang, anywhere, ever used random violence against normies as a form of initiation? I remember the don’t look at anyone flashing their lights at you and always check your back seat when you come out of the mall chain emails from like 25 years ago. I’m sure 60 minutes probably ran a story about it in the early 90’s durring the Hillary Clinton Superpreditory era too.
“The Knockout Game” panic was more recent.
Yeah, but that’s recreational violence, not initiatory.
Nino Brown had to kill Ice-T’s mom as an initiation, so there’s that.
“I’d like to get my hands on them, put them in a field and let the general public do what they want with them.”
#MeToo
“it is indeed SP up at the crack of 0dark:30 to cover links for you fine folks”
We appreciate your sacrifice.
“many of you watched Round 1 of the Dems’ debate last night”
OrangeBadMan, More taxes, More free except one who said big achievements made by bipartisan support and Congress can’t even manage to put bills on OrangeBadMan’s desk on what people outside the Beltway can unite behind.
“Remember that fire at Notre Dame Cathedral?”
Notice how they are raising money for the rebuild instead of government covering it with deficit spending?
FTA: “A group of current asylum officers tasked with overseeing the controversial ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy asked a federal appeals court in a surprising legal filing late Wednesday to block the Trump administration from implementing it. The group cited the American government’s refusal to take in a group of desperate Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II[.]”
They are not arguing executive overreach or Constitution. Imagine if a business put up a banner proclaiming “UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT” but it was illegal to implement a policy because it was different than previous management?
“I think this chick has a short life expectancy.”
Another casualty of the War on People who Use Drugs.
FTA: “The census case involves an attempt by the Trump administration to ask everyone about their citizenship status in the 2020 census. The last time the question was broadly asked was in 1950.”
Same morning about OrangeBadMan needs to be overturned because did different in WWII, but now OrangeBadMan needs to be overturned because he wants to reinstate what was done until 1950.
FTA: “Congressional redistricting is at issue in two cases” of the “five cases in all still unresolved[.]”
Read the document from 1787. Redistricting is not supposed to be subject to judicial review.
“If we thought it was unsafe, we would stop doing these tours,”
Is he trying to get sued? I wonder what would happen if the detainees parents hired someone, this statement was Exhibit A, and Exhibit B was the assessment by Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade @ https://dfat.gov.au/international-relations/security/sanctions/sanctions-regimes/north-korea/Pages/travel-bans.aspx
“Redistricting is not supposed to be subject to judicial review.”
Did congress subject themselves however via the Voting Rights Act and the 14th amendment?
It’s because judges actually talk like what you typed that Donald J. Trump should nominate SP to fill the next SCOTUS vacancy. “Just stick to the Constitution as written and leave me alone. Especially in the morning.” . Imagine this at oral arguments: ‘The statute at issue in this case was signed by the President and before that passed by Congress. 1A says ‘Congress shall pass no law.’ Are you suggesting that these precedents you have cited supersede the Constitution?’ Or, if she was a HIS nominee, would it be OK if she something ending in “slaver?”
Yeah. I’m not disagreeing, just giving the legal argument.
I did not assume that you believed it. How do you feel about SP for SCOTUS, even if she is not a lawyer?
Lawyers shouldn’t be allowed near the bench.
Is everyone hung over from drinking through the debate yesterday? I had to work, in preparation for all the new taxes we will get under their rule.
Nope. Dealing with a fuck up with the on call calendar with my company. Someone made a change, which updated everyone’s on call dates. This has upset me, as I copied down my dates on the calendar months ago, and planned around them. Not to mention they still have this idiotic policy of dropping scheduled weekend changes on the person on call that weekend (which is bullshit), so now I have to deal with a change in my queue, for a day that I wasn’t supposed to be on call. The only response I got from my management was that I wasn’t supposed to be on call, they’re looking at it, and they’ll keep me updated. Motherfuckers, the way the calendar is currently written, I’m supposed to be in the on call rotation starting tonight, instead of July 5th.
A group of current asylum officers tasked with overseeing the controversial “Remain in Mexico” policy asked a federal appeals court in a surprising legal filing late Wednesday to block the Trump administration from implementing it. The group cited the American government’s refusal to take in a group of desperate Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II
Because that’s the same thing…
Not that it matters to some judges, but the only questions are 1) Is it consistent with the Constitution? and 2) Is it consistent with the law?
configuring sleeping quarters
Like the padlocks and sight lines and overlapping fields of fire?
I call bullshit. From what I have seen so far the ratio is 5:1 for fake shit vs real shit.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/03/30/andy-ngo-reports-on-the-epidemic-of-hoax-hate-crimes-against-lgbt-people-in-portland/
Gays being beaten and killed in the streets by Trump supporters…..in Portland.
Cool story.
Yeh, these stories about ‘I was walking in the park and out of nowhere a white man came and ripped the burka off my head and stomped on it’ need some tweaking.
That shit doesn’t happen unless it’s a dare or the person is off their meds or some other thing.
No. White men are really just that terrible. They are terrified by a strong independent woman walking around in a burka.
What, you didn’t know that Manhattan is teeming with Klansmen?
Or you’re in the vicinity of football hooligans celebrating a win, which tends not to happen in these United States.
Well played…
It’s always hilarious to me when Europeans attempt to label us “racist”. I always tell them that I have never seen a baseball game halted because the visiting team’s fans threw bananas on the field when the home team fielded a black player.
I was an Eagles fan during the Buddy Ryan era. I would be happy to attest to the fact that Philly Phans would never hate people based on their race, because this would leave large, large swaths of reasons to hate them off the table.
See, like early Pennsylvania Dutch Jaggermeisters meticulously etching scroll work into unique riles barrel, Philly Phans hate is a craft specific to time, place, and context.
Wot that, mate? Oi, look at that guvernor!
I consider hate crime hoaxes to be hate crimes, so my number is 100% are real.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144033134129758208
Do you know who else was Australian?
Justine Ruszczyk Damond?
Well, she is down under…
IS she down under, or does she go down under?
Too soon?
For anywhere but here, yes.
Crikey!
These guys?
How on Earth is that not a Men at Work link. Tundra, I am dissapoint.
Too easy.
Also could have gone here.
I would also have accepted this.
And who could forget this?
Wait, they had 2 songs?
I love the early Divinyls – like this rockin’ number
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnOXYcO4zjg
Or this
I can’t not picture Elmer Fudd singing when I hear them.
This?
I’ll say it again, Tundra: I swear to god we have identical record collections. Much good taste in ya!
That means ur old!
But yeah, it seems we travel the same musical paths.
I was hoping it was Hoodoo Gurus, so you sir, are a winner!
Thanks!
For you.
Kirk Lazarus?
Wait. I thought he was that dude playing another dude that was playing some other dude…
The first reply is a mental health counselor calling him an asshole who won’t get money to build his wall penis.
He has a blue checkmark.
JFC.
Michael Hutchence was known to hang around there from time to time.
something something Teamsters
Sex Workers Are Fighting to Unionise in Scotland
Can you imagine the contracts?
I’m sorry sir but you can’t have the same person perform Fellatio and let you bang them. Also they must be present at all times but may not participate in the act.
I need to file a union grievance report cause I am not being sent enough Johns because I am an old and fugly skank. Seniority matters!
The pimps are gonna come down with a strong hand on this one.
Is that because their love is not like that of a square?
So she can abruptly stop blowing you because her union mandated 15 minute break just started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPvIQ82rd1g
eh the good ones won’t join the union
I wouldn’t fuck a scab.
Secret Nazi President strikes again!
So I don’t know what list my number fell on but I’ve recurved around 10-15 scam calls a day for the last week. Yesterday I broke and started to mock the accents, curse, and screw around with the guys calling. I know it’s not the right thing to do but seriously fuck those guys.
Did you recently brake the 5 decade age environment?
One of the biggest group targeted by these scammers are those that are more senior. There is a belief – often justified – that said demographic is less savvy and easier to rip off for some reason.
You mean like my mother calling me yesterday to tell me about the Microsoft tech support person who called her and had her do some things on her computer so she wouldn’t get charged $235 for $REASONS?
Yup…
Tell her that if some dude with a funny/thick accent says his name is Mike, Steve, John, or anything sounding western, and says he wants to “fix” her computer problems, she should ask him to give her the phone number to call them back at later in the evening because she is too busy right now to take any calls.
Oh, I have. Repeatedly. For years.
“Microsoft will never call you out of the blue, Mom. Anyone who does is trying to scam you.”
She somehow manages to forget that after approximately 10 minutes.
“Well, trashy, my computer was running slow, so I Googled it and found out that it was a registry error, so I deleted 250 registry entries. Now the computer doesn’t work right.”
After telling her multiple times to never, ever touch the registry, I gave up and told my mom to buy a Mac and stop bothering me.
I’m about a week away from buying her a Chromebook.
The worst part is that I haven’t used Microsoft in something like 2 decades now, so trying to remotely troubleshoot is brutal.
I told her to get a Mac last time around, since I could actually help her with that, but noooo – too different / too expensive (if you value my time at $0).
For years I had a gotomypc subscription for my mom’s computer to solve any problems. Unfortunately, they were bought and drastically raised the prices.
Put a sticky note on her monitor for her?
Why is it not the right thing to do?
It’s more fun to lead them on and on without ever giving in.
“I just can’t remember where my debit card is. I think I used it last Sunday to buy some bananas. Maybe I put it with my emergency Depends in my gym bag. Do you go to the gym? You really should maintain your health sonny…..”
Just yesterday: “Hello, sir, I have here your resume that you sent us, and I think we have a few openings for you.” Me: “Great, what is my name?”
Click.
There’s a community of people scamming the scammers. I present to you 419 Eater. Check out the Trophy Room.
I could go into some of the fun exchanges I have had with these people entertaining myself at their expense, but I don’t want them to be able to track me down. I am sure they are out to get some sort of revenge on me for playing them for the fool.
You’re recurving them?
But I’ve spent the last week straightening them!
Ugh!
Good morning, SP!
Thanks for pinch-hitting today, particularly your choice in tunes. Happy to say I watched precisely zero minutes of the clown show.
Good luck this weekend – I hope it’s a swingin’ party!
How can it be ${CURRENT_YEAR} and Thot Thursday is still expressing wrongthink opinions?
https://tinyurl.com/y6o92gp7
Titties, titties everywhere and not a nip to slip.
3, 36, 56. Are these chivettes unionized too?
I’m having a hard time with spot-the-not (fake). I may have to take a second, more carefully considered examination later.
“he wanted to break down negative stereotypes about the country.
We wouldn’t want a despotic shithole to appear to be a despotic shithole.
Apologists for marxism’s evil ways will shitlord for shitholes.
Woman ‘left to die’ after extreme webcam role-play sex game asphyxiation
That’s ridiculous.
“unlawfully killed”
How? She did it to herself. They guy is a POS for not calling an ambulance to save her, but she did it voluntarily.
“‘degrading and dangerous’ sex acts”
Women are stunning, brave and independent… until it’s convenient for them not to be.
I bet there were circumstances that people are ignoring…
If he was furiously beating his meat and close to the release threshold, one can’t expect him to just drop that and call for help, can one?
“who paid Barden to engage in “degrading and dangerous” ”
And clearly she had no choice but to take the offer. This is all that terrible mans fault and his dirty seductive money.
Well, its not like she had any other source of income. She even had to go and make up an obviously fake career as a “carer” which is obviously not a real job that you can have.
She was much more attractive than I had expected.
So would?
I’m not sure HM’s “wouldn’t” list is all that large. He’s a giver.
I love all of God’s creatures.
Yeah she’s a solid UK 9.
agree in principle would say more a UK7
there are a Welsh tart or two ahead of her
This was on webcam. Did he even know where she was?
Did anyone else notice that the Team Blue clowns last night just assumed the Constitutionality of all of their grandiose policies? I think Team Red is guilty of it too. But Team Blue has taken it to a whole new level. They literally want government in every aspect of people lives and directing everything. They are socialists/commies, whether they admit it or not.
You actually watched that shitshow? May STEVE SMITH have mercy on your
soulass.I find it entertaining…until they say something that has me yelling at the tv. But I try to keep it to making fun of them.
Remember when Pelosi laughed at the guy asking about the constitutionality of Obamacare?
I do. She’s an asshole.
…yet the SCOTUS came down on her side. The joke’s on us (as always).
And hence why none of them will be getting a vote from this guy.
Sane people like you are outnumbered by those that want free shit or those that are simply mentally deranged and overwhelmed by their jealousy of what others have.
The media needs more reporters to follow up with “Where is that authorized in the Constitution?” questions. And not settle for the “FYTW clause.”
“We’re sure that this will be a groundbreaking contribution to the field of Porn Studies.”
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/1144079105060757504
It looks like https://www.tandfonline.com/ is using images so people can’t mock pull quotes.
Anyway, the paper is titled “Desi Dick”.
There is a “Porn Studies” journal?
And if anyone doubts that higher ed is largely a complete joke nowadays, just show them this. It’s so embarrassing I can’t even laugh at it.
Porn and the porn industry are worthy of study just like any other section of the economy / media. But this linked artile isn’t that. Its just livejournal for low-functioning academics.
Shut the fuck up, libtard! The only valid post-secondary education is glorified vocational training, and the only valid research is into things that I understand will make new shit for me to buy on Amazon.
I’m pretty on board with th idea that post-secondary education should, by and large, be vocational training. And yes, it should be glorified.
Study of porn and the porn industry can be part of that.
But your joke is particularly funny. You think Amazon and other online content producers aren’t doing in-house analysis of various markets and media?
Oh, of course they are!
If I had to live life all over again, I would have gone head first into sentiment analysis, thus being able to spend the rest of my days banging hookers in my money and cocaine bin.
You sir, are an inspiration!
Wait, you don’t do that now?
Why bother directing students or grants to that research when the results have already been written?
Is that called Desi Dick because of some Indian slang?
English slang/slur for Indian.
It basically means “homeland”.
Oh, come on. That’s just grasping.
And they’ll get a #Resist judge to go along with their jumbled thoughts
After all, ORANGE MAN = BAAAAD!
That’s pretty much the entire population
Why isn’t “we’ll, then they should go back where they came from” a good answer to “Mexico is treating illegal migrants to Mexico like shit”?
So let me get this straight, they don’t want to let immigrants wait in Mexico, they want to throw them into concentration camps over here and they cite Jews fleeing Nazi Germany as precedent?
OT: is that a Roadmaster or Caprice or Olds wagon there? I used to drive a ’94 Buck Roadmaster with the LT1 engine. One of my favorite cars ever.
It looks like a Roadmaster to me.
It’s a 1996 Buick Roadmaster with the LT1. I’ve crammed it (Crane 227), stalled it (2800 rpm converter) and stuck 3.42 in the rear end to wake it up. It already had heavy duty cooling due to it having the tow pkg. Next I’ll have the suspension done so it can handle the additional power. It scares me above 100mph.
Just like they complain that little kids are sleeping on the floor in these “concentration camps” but when DRUMPF tries to buy some beds they protest because ORANGEMANBAD.
I know they’re talented at cognitive dissonance and doublethink, but this is world class stuff.
Refugees fleeing Nazi State “A” are stuck in Nazi State “B” while trying to get into Nazi State “C”. It’s Nazis all the way down.
”
1. @YouTube bans @Pinterest investigation
2. @Twitter suspends Veritas for Pinterest story
3. @reddit bans Project Veritas
4. @YouTube bans @Google investigation
5. @Vimeo removes Project Veritas account
DO THINK BIG TECH IS WORKING TOGETHER?”
https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1144003696369577985
“This proves two things; That the “hate” designation is now flagrantly being abused to just outright censor legitimate journalism.
It also illustrates how the left doesn’t care about “hate speech,” they just hate speech. Period.”
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1144007538947629056
Remember, Russia “hacked the election” with sick memes, but when a company that does the bidding of China starts censoring their domestic political rivals that’s “freedom of association” (offer not valid to small independent bakeries).
Heads- we win; tails- you lose
How anyone can be upset at Russian ads in the face of this…
The lack of consistency in logic is all I’m pointing out
TW: Salon
Sex isn’t binary, and we should stop acting like it is
It’s time for legislation and education to reflect sex as a spectrum with unlimited options.
“The science is clear — sex is a spectrum”
NO. IT’S. NOT.
Citing exceptional cases, all of which are considered defects and usually have severe developmental problems associated with them, does not prove your lunatic theories.
Also, drawing conclusions based on less than 1% of the population is particularly silly.
I LOVE MY BUICK AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TELL ME I CAN’T BANG IT THROUGH THE MUFFLER!
/weirdo
That is just deprived. You should bang it through the exauhst pipe like a normal person you freak.
It’s a Buick. The tailpipe fell off after 12,000 miles.
iFLS. At this point Fakescience.com is more accurate than what far leftists call science.
Sex? No. Sexual preference? Sure.
Not the same thing.
That’s where you’re wrong, bucko! A probability distribution that displays extreme kurtosis and skewness is still “analog”, if you catch my meaning and could even exist as a discrete spectrum.
😛
I am looking forward to our next Glib series: A Linguist and a Physicist Argue About High-Dimesional Clustering.
*laughs in too mcuh computer science education*
We do need something to replace Thicc Thursday.
Sex IS binary.
There’s me, and everybody else. And only a fraction of that “everybody else” would be considered a potential mate in my mind.
This is pretty much the same for everybody – only the definition and bounds of that fraction are different.
Spoken like a man who never raised a daughter and/or owned a shotgun.
They got him this time! A watchdog group has sued the Trump administration over the return of mineral leases to a Chilean company.
Show me the man, and I will show you the crime!
Trump’s administration is filled with people who ostensibly work for the man but go to court to thwart whatever he told them to do. But his daughter is somehow able to force the EPA to fork over mineral leases just to get a good deal on a rental.
Yeah.
So you are saying that the “#resisters” are shitty at their resisting?
From the Porn Studies journal:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23268743.2018.1555053
I sense this is going to become a frequent object of mockery…
The capacity to subvert yet reinforce white masculinity was maintained in the transmission of the fetish through porn and is reflected in the memes it inspired.
It’s a pair-o-cox.
We’ve got a weekend house party kicking off around lunchtime today.
Did all you other Glibs get your invitations already? Mine must have gotten lost in the mail. Or was it an e-vite? Maybe it’s in my spam folder?
Yeah I got my invite but I’m not going since my gimp suit is at the cleaners.
So who will end up playing the gimp at the meeting? Can’t have a good meeting without a gimp…
Pictured
Yeah, mine was missing as well. I can’t understand why – I’m SUCH fun to have at parties…
From the class and sophistication SP has shown with her “SP’s Guide to Insufferable Politeness” posts, I don’t think SP does e-vites.
The orphan with mine must have gotten lost.
I’m assuming the invitations are hand delivered by orphans.
I assume her invites are hand-written in beautiful Palmer Method script on thick Crane & Co. cardstock. But maybe OMWC sent the invites.
Spencerian, please.
True, she’s fancy like that.
I have toyed with the idea of attempting to reform my terrible writing via the Palmer Method but that idea always seems to get kicked down the road.
No doubt it will be something I finally get around to years from now and, right before I die, I will finally have nice, legible cursive handwriting.
Having actually received written correspondence from SP, I can verify that a fountain pen was used.
Last night’s Glibs writing seminar
Our parties do have a certain Tod Browning quality to them…
So is there any candidate that has clear measures they will implement?
‘
I do not mean “improve education for the children, out future” but how precisely.
I went to the Tulsi Gabbard website and only found a bunch of bullshit.
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In this new century, everyone has clean water to drink, clean air to breathe and access to nourishing food; everyone receives the medical care they need, has a roof over their head, receives the education they need and is able to find good paying, fulfilling work. People have financial security and don’t have to worry about making ends meet in their old age.
Our children, and children for generations to come, never worry again about nuclear war and no parent has to wonder where they will hide their children when the missiles strike. Our economy is not dependent on war, but is driven instead by innovation, green technology and renewable industries.
Our schools, parks and streets are safe so that our children can learn and play without fear; our first responders act as servants and protectors of the people, the community respects their service and sacrifice and we truly have justice for all.
”
Bleah
Clearly, it’s unusual for politicians to not give specifics on their policy proposals
At risk of invoking the “It’s Happening!” meme, I know one that was very specific on his policy proposals.
Ron Paul is irreplaceable. And his candidacy is proof that history does not progress. We went from Ron Paul to Gary Johnson. Talk about regressing.
As bad as Johnson was he was still a significant improvement over Bob Barr
I am asking if any of them does. This was just an example.
No. Not one of them.
They all promise hope and change. Now stop being a bigot and vote for them.
Wait. You’re not American. STOP INTERFERING IN OUR ELECTIONS!!!
I hate giving the little twit more attention, but:
Photos Reveal AOC Was Crying Over an Empty Parking Lot
Sad.
The Twitter accounts that first noted this will be suspended this week.
I believe that’s a Gucci watch?
nope – it’s a “Mavado Museum Classic which retails at $595.”
It looks very much like a (used) Gucci watch that I bought the wife-o.
Nearly $600 for an accessory that does the exact same thing as a phone that literally everyone carries around with them now. How much more bourgeoisie can you get?
Even an apple watch (which I think is still way overpriced) is cheaper and more functional.
Her watch doesn’t even have numbers. I’ve never understood that. At least give me a cool Iron Man watch that lights up in the dark
Tony Stark is way over-rated and his fortune comes from taxpayer government contracts. Fuck him and his watches.
HAHA
I laughed at my desk. That was gold
Your comment reminds me of a hilarious Christmas morning many years ago when my uncle got a Movado watch like that from my aunt and was…..less than happy. “What is this – guess the time??”
I am your uncle
I have one of the original TIX clocks in my computer room. It used to be above the bar, which confused many a guest. Once you know the trick, reading it is simple (assuming you can count to 9). I also generally keep it set to change patterns every 10 seconds.
$150 for a clock that displays Predator time. It’s your money.
Regarding the TIX clock, one of the numbers is a Game of Life glider pattern…
“Socialism is the rich man’s fetish”
Important to remember if she ever brings up increasing congressional pay again.
I wear a Movado. Men’s obviously.
My girlfriend (now wife) gave it to me literally minutes before I proposed.
I call it my engagement watch.
Is there a ball and chain attached?
I kid, I kid, I’m a kidder.
No, he’s lonely and tired and can’t take any more pain.
Yes, there is.
It’s a $600 quartz watch – not a jewel of modern engineering mechanical watch, but a quartz watch.
I already had negative levels of respect for her, but holy crap.
kek
The memes it generated are hilarious though.
like this one
She is such an obvious fraud. She’s straight out of central casting.
I am convinced her whole shtick is just that. It is an act. She needs a part on old-timey SNL.
Of course. PS – if you like this article, you should buy and read the hell out of his book. Its very, very good.
Stars and Stripes:
Anxiety about the present changes visits to former Nazi concentration camps
From the country that deliberately spins all this new anti-semitism as “far-right” when… it’s not. You could power a small town on all the gas-lighting going on there.
Incidents of anti-Semitism have been on the rise in Europe while sharp anti-immigration rhetoric has increasingly become part of national debates…
Not too long ago, I remember reading an article about the increasing popularity of the National Front (LePen) with French Jews. What the article seems not to notice is that maybe some of that anti-immigration rhetoric is a logical response to the drivers of those increasing incidents of anti-Semitism.
I can’t believe the Morning Linx aren’t anything but wall to wall praise for Amy Klobuchar from the great state of Minnesoda!
Jennifer Rubin said she totes won the debate!
“When Washington Gov. Jay Inslee bragged that he was the only person onstage to pass a law ensuring abortion services are covered by insurance”
What happened to “muh…choice”?
The choice is how much harder you want that iron boot on your face.
Exactly!
You have the choice to support what they want or the choice to enthusiastically support what they want.
Your choice has been squashed for the
wantsneeds of others comrade.Why do you hate my sons? They need that abortion insurance coverage! They couldn’t pay for an abortion out of pocket if they accidentally got pregnant.
And don’t be a shitlord and try to pretend that they might not get pregnant from being hit by a bus just because they don’t have female genitalia. That is such medieval thinking.
What kind I say, I’m a Bible-thumper for not believing that men without a uterus can have babies.
*can
What is wrong with me? I believe I may be functionally retarded, but only slightly functional
You make such simple mistakes. How can we trust your so-called “science”?
I’m just waiting for some Republican to use the bit from Life of Brian in an ad:
You have a PhD in one or more studies programs you are hiding from us, don’t you, your holiness?
Cause that there….
That was fucking woke squared, man.
The Minnesota senator went into the night needing a kick
-start, and she got it.Close but no cigar.
I always trust Jennifer Rubin’s political instincts.
I’d never heard her speak before.
I hope to never again. Warren’s school-marm lecturing is less off-putting than Klobuchar’s passive-aggressive schtick.
Only criticizing the females? You misogynist!
Some are saying that Trump won this debate. OK. But I’d say the alt right won that debate. If you put Richard Spencer on that stage, he wouldn’t have sounded worse. Just different.
TW: TOS
Minnesota Supreme Court Holds That Nonmedia Speakers Are Fully Protected by First Amendment
Good news, I guess. I still don’t understand why it’s even a question.
Not a tough one to parse, but then again I’m not a slaver.
Can someone explain this: Is there some constitutionally protected right someone has if they are determined to be “press” that others don’t. I don’t legalese very well.
Well, the journalos are extra special and pure, so we have to give them some extra carve outs from the law so they can lead us to Utopia.
Like if they have a source who illegally leaked information to them, they can ignore subpoenas to reveal who that was. Unlike Bad Orange Man’s administration ignoring subpoenas from grandstanding committees. That is totes bad.
It wasn’t that long ago that they were pushing for censorship on the internet UNLESS you worked for an accredited media company.
Thank you. Makes sense. You don’t want people thinking they can filter BS themselves.
No, there is no *constitutional* protection specifically for the members of the media *that the entire supreme court* is willing to recognize.
1) There are some states that have special, additional protections. These can be anything from protection of private sources to special laws allowing news reporters to pass over open fields without it being a tresspass if they are covering a story and need to do so.
2) Bryer is a dick and thinks that the 1st amendment is specific only to a well-ordered democracy, and therefore only covers the citizens ability to yell at the government, and should really only be doing that through the media. I don’t think anyone else on the court agrees with him bedcause that is stupid. (Steven A Smith voice) BUT it was a possition in vogue about 100 years ago by the progressives (conservative and lefty) on the court, and there are some old rulings that reflect this. I *think* they have all be “clarified” not not be press-specific any more, but I’m not sure.
Breyer is the worst justice on the SCOTUS. I can read the most aggravating Sotomayor, Kagan, or Ginsburg opinion and still think that, while horribly wrong, they acquit themselves well. Every time I read a Breyer opinion, I wonder if he hires law clerks off the most recent bar discipline reports.
Agreed. I find Ginsburg incredibly unpersuasive in the same way a non-libertarian probably finds Don Boudreaux, but at least she’s logical and sensical.
Breyer is just.. bad. He’s got deep-felt opinions that he can’t express in a way that anyone else can understand, let alone be swayed by. He wastes more time at oral arguments than everyone else combined. And his opinions are just dog shit, probably bad logic but who can tell behind all the bad writing?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, OR OF THE PRESS; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
To ‘proper’ thinking people “the press” means the news and opinion outlets they call “the press” instead of “the press” meaning a printing press.
I like how you capitalize words instead instead of supporting your idiosyncratic interpretations, then say that its other people who aren’t properly thinking.
A previous ruling was formulated very sloppily that added extranious details that inadvertantly limited it (or at least that’s how its being retconned..)
The previous ruling stated “In a private plaintiff defamation action against a media defendant speaking on a matter of public concern, states may not constitutionally ‘permit recovery of presumed … damages”
When it should have (*wink*) stated “In a private plaintiff defamation action against a
mediadefendant speaking on a matter of public concern, states may not constitutionally ‘permit recovery of presumed … damages.”“There Is No Sign That the Notre Dame Fire Was of Criminal Origin, the Paris Prosecutor Says”
Bullshit.
“Asylum officers” “labor union”
Oh. I see.
“X is detained in North Korea/Iran/China/Russia/Shitholistan”
Ok. *spits, lights ciggarette*
You have some evidence of arson?
Personally, the sloppy sounding Frog construction practices loom large to me.
The fact that many of the construction workers at Notre Dame were Muslim immigrants and there have been many many church vandalisms and arsons by Muslims in France makes it very suspicious. 875 French Churches Vandalized In 2018 – of course the International Business Times is too polite and sensitive to speculate on the who or why of it.
Over / under on Notre Dame burning again before it’s rebuilt – I take “burn again”.
I’ve got a hunch backing your claim.
Well, the French announced before the fire was even out that it wasn’t arson, nope, no way.
IOW, they don’t want to find out if it was or not. And, yeah, a church burning in the middle of a vandalism and arson against churches is suspicious.
FBI Uses Puppies to Justify Civil Asset Forfeiture
WHY DO YOU HATE THE PUPPIES?!?
If they’re craven enough to try that gambit, the agency should just be eliminated.
Just remember – Dead Puppies Aren’t Much Fun
Stolen for my Twatter.
On my drive home yesterday I was listening to the local non-profit community radio station. It’s a great place to listen to obscure music from many different genres, but not such a great place to listen to politics.
Discussion yesterday was talking about the evil and inhumane treatment of immigrants. The story they were talking about was a group of immigrants who had been released by ICE and had been put on commercial flights to various parts of the country to meet up with family who were already here.
The inhumane treatment? Those flights were cancelled, and those poor immigrants, who didn’t speak English or even Spanish (they spoke some regional dialect that nobody could understand) had to rebook flights themselves. The hosts were blasting the government because they weren’t there to do that for them.
I was dumbfounded.
The humanity
We should be providing them with free blowjobs too.
*ears twitch*
free what now?
Get on your knees slum, you won the PowderBalls lotto! One taxpayer wins every day!
The asylum process is quite stressful.
Better make sure that an interpreter is there when you offer the free blowjob. It would be a tragedy if they misunderstood and thought you were trying to make them work. They might flee back to wherever they came from.
Hold up. So, their argument is that people who pass through Mexico, a valid location for asylum, should be able to claim asylum in the US instead because, and let’s be absolutely clear about this, THEY HAVEN’T BEEN IN MEXICO LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW IF THEY’LL BE PERSECUTED THERE. In other words, the fear of not knowing that they wouldn’t be persecuted in an asylum nation is sufficient for them to claim asylum in the next one over, prophylactically, so to speak.
That’s fuckin’ rich.
It all makes sense when you realize that virtually none of them have a valid asylum claim. This is the kind of gibberish you have to resort to if you’re pretending otherwise.
One of the myriad things that pisses me off about this whole issue is that there’s a side of the debate that wants to solve the immigration issue (and that’s being generous, because I’m not sure they want to “solve” anything per se) by redefining the meaning of asylum. Diluting the term through overbroad interpretation and overuse will mean that the US and other countries will likely begin to establish limits on asylum as if it were routine immigration, which is what it will have become under the new definition. This will put legitimate asylum-seekers at risk, which is something the screaming toddlers on the left don’t seem to consider or care about.
What that side you mention really wants to solve is the pesky problem of the deplorable voting block outgunning their constituency and electing someone that attacks their racket (deep state). If you start from there, all the crazy starts making sense.
I think you’re absolutely right about that. If likely conservative voters were coming across the border illegally AOC et al would be Tweeting for attack dogs to patrol the Rio Grande. Problem is, likely conservative voters will more than likely enter the country legally or at least attempt to establish legal citizenship once here. People who are coming here in order to siphon money and services are going to vote for the party likely to keep the spigot open.
You’ve gotta be shitting me.
I wouldn’t shit you! You’re my favorite turd!
But they do know damn well that they will be persecuted in Trump’s America where their kids will be drowned in the Rio Grande, or torn away and kept in cages without soap, toothpaste or medical care. Gee, don’t they read U.S. media? Wouldn’t you rather take your chance in possibly benevolent Mexico instead of a country where brown people are treated as slaves and criminals?
Well, we should just write up a similar rule and bump them up to Canada.
Has the president of Mexico said anything about building a wall to keep them out or anything like that? Ours has. Obviously they need preventive asylum from the US. Ship ’em to Trudy, he’s got a heart of gold.
THEY HAVEN’T BEEN IN MEXICO LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW IF THEY’LL BE PERSECUTED THERE.
In fairness, I don’t think you have to actually be in Mexico to know that you won’t be treated with kid gloves if you enter the country illegally. Or the rampant corruption and extrajudicial violence carried out by security forces not always working on behalf of the government.
Month #3 in an open office environment. It’s much harder to stare at an attractive woman walking by when you feel like you’re being watched from every angle.
Are you not married? That’s a skill you rapidly develop.
The scan and pan method. “Why I was just looking at that sign over there, not the girl in the thong bikini who just happened to be nearby.”
Lizard Eye is better. That is where the eye closest to your wife keeps staring straight ahead, but the other eye is capable of independently turning and focusing on the thong bikini. (Obviously all your brain’s optical processing cells are shifted to the eye looking at the thong)
Won’t people think you’re having a stroke?
Not if you wear baggy trousers.
Just tell them you have MS.
Smoooth
Literally a wandering eye?
Lizard eye. So it’s not just me.
His holiness wins comment of the day.
You can also employ the long/short look where it looks as if you’re looking ‘past’ the wonders in front of you at something beyond.
I am but it’s always a much better view when you can actually turn your head and look.
Also doesn’t help that my wife have a look don’t touch policy that encourages actively pointing out attractive people.
Sunglasses, dude.
It will give you a certain aura of mystery and danger, too.
Should I pickup a cane and seeing eye dog in case people start to question me?
No, just continually scan the area like a Secret Service agent.
Will not having a fake earpiece give you away though?
Na I would wear my wireless ear buds they’d think I’m listening to music.
It worked for Brad Pitt in that movie with Mira Sorvino in her prime.
Just wear the wrap around kind if you’re old enough to receive AARP crap in the mail. No one will give you a second glance.
And by wrap around, I mean the sunglasses version of VR googles, not some slimline cool kid version.
Not just any sunglasses. You need these.
X-Ray glasses are what you need
https://centurynovelty.com/products/x-ray-vision-glasses?CSE=Google%20Product%20Search&mr:trackingCode=A1966CF5-AF91-E811-8104-005056947A2A&mr:referralID=NA&mr:device=c&mr:adType=plaonline&mr:ad=47727204954&mr:keyword=&mr:match=&mr:tid=pla-18283950120&mr:ploc=9019792&mr:iloc=&mr:store=&mr:filter=18283950120&gclid=EAIaIQobChMItfne_-mJ4wIVjlYNCh3FvwbkEAQYASABEgIX5fD_BwE
in HR meeting wrt sexual harassment complaint: “THEY’RE PRESCRIPTION!!”
Teh male gaze,
I’ve only worked in one open office, which had a total of three people working in it (including me). I just rearranged my desk so I would always be facing the attractive female in the office…
If they didn’t want to be stared at they wouldn’t be wearing those pencil skirts. Come on, those things cannot be comfortable. Stop teasing me. I got to go to the bathroom, but I’m afraid to stand up
If you’d stop making eye contact while jerking off, it would be easier.
Eye contact? Look at sensitive Phil Donahue here!
Just stare at her tits like a regular guy while you jack it.
But the asylum officers said the recent filing that “Remain in Mexico” is “entirely unnecessary” and not designed to stem the current large-scale flow of migration from Central America. They argued the U.S. immigration system has been “tested time and again” and is capable of efficiently processing asylum claims if it has the adequate resources to do so.
Union says more “resources” are needed.
I never saw that coming.
Sounds like Elementary School.
Why we should let them beg in the streets like a proper poor person.
There’s nothing on her website about how she intends to address this issue. Imagine that.
Hah! I called it last night that the 100,000’s of concentration camps in the country are public schools.
Wacky communist suicide cults are not limited to thet west apparently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japaneseism
You know who else was tainted with imperialism…
Russian stout?
Does anyone else here think that John Delaney sounded like he was unlike the other nine last night with little “daylight” as they put it last night “between” the other nine?
Last night Glibs website time.
Didn’t watch. Which single free shit program was he reluctant to endorse? Because that alone would put him in “wouldn’t piss on him if he were on fire” territory for the Dem primary.
No Medicare for All, carbon tax instead of throwing money at “clean” energy, “workable solutions” to firearms instead of either confiscation or making licenses like driver’s licenses, will veto bills first 100 days that do not have bipartisan support, seemed to recognize that a good economy and money to pay for free whatever both require not being as hostile to business as the other eight. IIRC, his latest Congressional ranking puts him at about the 40th percentile among House Dems for liberalness where 0 would be least liberal.
Cracking down on unlicensed possession of firearms would fall most heavily on which population, Delaney, white middle-age men or young black men?
He basically said we couldn’t do Medicare for all. Crazy!
Did someone ask for Asylum?
How about an Asylum Party?
Nice. I haven’t been able to find them for purchase anywhere.
Love the guy smoking at the keyboard….
Physical media? LP or CD
Interesting. I did see vinyl, which is useless to me.
I prefer digital but I could make a CD work.
Discogs has just about everything; if you’re willing to pay for it!
I’m sure you could find the albums/songs in (legal or illegal download) MP3 format too.
Yeah, I’ll look harder sometime. I really dig Little Nemo and they seem in that vein.
Little Nemo is a little friendlier, less cold than AP, for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioitGxMDlcg
Nice choice Tundra!
We picked up a live Soul Asylum LP at one of the past Record Store days. Listened to it a few weeks ago – it was a fantastic show. Heavy mix from Hang Time and Grave Dancers Union.
You should check out the first few albums. Still very solid.
I lost count on how many times I saw them. Fantastic band with a fantastic sense of humor.
I have them all, but my first experience with the band was Cartoon, so it holds a special place for me.
It’s funny how regional bands are, and while I have some crossover from the MN area bands of that era (Soul Asylum and the Replacements mainly), most of my high school and college bands were from the southeast, where I lived – Drivin n Cryin, Guadalcanal Diary, the Connells, REM…
(Yeah, I know everyone knows REM, but the first time I saw them play it was in a crowd that was still in double digits).
Hang Time is my fave, as well.
I agree with you about regional music. My local bands were absolutely my foundation and still are my go-to. Hard to compete with the memories and associations from that time of life.
The first time I saw REM was an outdoor show where they were an opening act for the Replacements and the Suburbs. I believe it was in support of Murmur and almost no one knew much about them (except Radio Free Europe).
Ok, question for you – I’m a big fan of both Soul Asylum and the Replacements. What other bands from that area would you recommend that are similar?
Husker Du for sure. Rifle Sport, Babes in Toyland, Suicide Commandos, Suburbs, Cows, The Wallets, and Run Westy Run.
Obviously there are a lot more twangy rock bands like the Jayhawks, Son Volt, Honeydogs and Gear Daddies.
Artsy stuff like Trip Shakespeare and plenty of funk bands.
Here’s a fun band you may never heard of: The Flamin’ Oh’s
I think I have a solution to the debate over immigrant detention. They’re kept in detention or returned somewhere else because there’s a concern that they’ll fail to show up for hearings to determine their immigration status and will just remain illegally. So, what’s the compromise?
Bond.
Congress should pass a law allowing American citizens to post bond (say, $15,000) as a guarantee that a immigrant will show up for all their hearings. At that point, the immigrant can be released into the public. If they fail to show up for their court dates, the bond is forfeit. In fact, I’d suggest that the bond could be granted on the credit of the person posting bond. As long as the debt was non-dischargable. Once they show up for their court dates, the bond is returned with interest.
It would be a tremendous opportunity for progressives to signal their virtue.
I like it.
Would the forfeited proceeds be dedicated to the wall?
Already exists and is much cheaper than you proposed.
A bond needs to be painful if forfeited. Cheap bonds don’t do that.
I would add that anyone who fails to show up for a hearing without very good reasosn is permanently barred from residing in the United States. And no, being in jail is not a very good reason.
I guess. I mean they’re not that cheap though. Are you really afraid they won’t show up? It’s not that big a concern in the grand scheme of things. Our deportation system consists of literally asking people to show up at a particular time and deporting them if they do. There are over a million people with deportation orders just chilling right now.
I believe that is already the case.
Yup.
Only problem is there is currently no discovery process to know about who is detained if you’re some rando, but you can already bond a friend or relative out. Many choose not to do this, though, as people in the centers go to the front of the queue in being processed.
Wouldn’t that also require removal hearings to be processed through the criminal courts and not the Star Chamber that is the DoJ’s immigration courts system?
OT: I’ve been looking at ECU tuners for my 3.7L Mustang. And the weird things they can do with the ECU/timing to get an V6 engine that sounds like an old-school lumpy V8 cam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwk9sSzE-Oo
I assume that’s partly because they can adjust the cam phasers with the tuner.
I’m sure the aftermarket exhaust and long tube headers help.
I was going to say “get the cam!” but then I couldn’t find anything on the Lunati website.
I saw Mr Joe at lunch just the other day.
Virgin Emo Band: Can’t figure out how to make songs about insects.
Chad Amorphis: Makes awesome song about a bee.
As a lifelong Maryland resident living in a very blue part of Maryland–though not the bluest, astonishingly–I’m really, really interested in how the gerrymandering ruling goes. If you look at the way districts are drawn in Maryland you’d think it was a gag. The Onion couldn’t come up with this stuff. And it goes down to the city level, too.
Sorry, but this is a visual.
I’m in Ward 6. If you’ll notice, it’s drawn such that it bisects another ward along one street–excluding the buildings on either side–in order to capture a neighborhood on the other side. That neighborhood is called Newtowne 20, and it’s the worst public housing development in the city. State police have had to establish temporary barracks there because city cops are afraid to respond to calls there. The ward also contains another large public housing development, Harbor House, naturally along Frederick Douglass Street. That’s an area of particular interest to me, since I live one street over.
So, why in the world would this ward be drawn that way? Well, as it turns out, the Annapolis Democratic Party farms votes from the public housing, even stooping to coercing residents to vote for the establishment candidate. Another fun feature of the ward is that a lot of houses along Tyler Avenue are basically ramshackle single family homes, many of which are owned by one guy and rented quasi-illegally to, um, people who don’t speak English. They vote, too. The guy all these people used to vote for was a homeless drunk who would sleep through city council meetings but vote reliably however his attorney, who has deep roots in the party and is sort of infamous for being a scam artist, told him.
The stories I could tell would make Chicago look like a model of honest civic governance. At any rate, it’s a microcosm of Maryland politics, it’s why I will never, ever vote for a Democrat in this state, and it’s made possible by the Democratic legislature’s focus on redrawing districts every chance they have in order to solidify seats as demographics change.
Oh, I forgot to mention, we’re having a special election because the seat opened up. The homeless guy withdrew for “health reasons”, which may be related to people getting so angry that they threatened to sue the board of elections for allowing him to run as he doesn’t live in the ward. You know who’s running in his place? His campaign finance manager. The guy who owns those houses I mentioned on Tyler Avenue. You seriously can’t make this stuff up.
It’s different when they do it. Underrepresented! Marginalized bodies! etc. etc.
Oh my god that kills me. Public housing in the city has been woefully mismanaged. The housing authority is a pinnacle of corruption in an astonishingly corrupt city, and I absolutely believe that the residents of those projects need a voice at the table if for no other reason than to keep the housing authority board members from pocketing the tax money that’s supposed to go to maintenance and improvement. But, frankly, I’m about $250k more invested in this neighborhood than anyone who lives in Section 8 housing down the street. There are people in the ward who are into it to the tune of $350k, even $500k if Redfin’s a reliable source. I’m not saying we should have more representation, but we should have at least as much representation.
Looks like gerrymandering lives.
If you want to see what gerrymandering looks like, look at any electoral map of Maryland. It’s like a fractal, too, because it works from the Congressional level all the way down to the cities.
Oh I know, I moved from Carroll to Wicomico. I am in the same congressional district.
Ugh, yeah, that one’s a doozy.
“As a lifelong Maryland resident”
And all this time I thought you were from Indianapolis.
*steam pours out of ears*
modest proposal
The map where districts are naturally compact but sticks to existing counties makes sense to me. In the linked model, the states I know the most about (AR, MS, TN, TX) have very reasonable and understandable districts. I live in TN-09 which would change hardly at all, but the rest of the state’s bullshit would be fixed in a orderly way. If I could vote for this design, I would: the risks to the country and the logistical costs are negligible.
Lots of folks (no one here, of course) can see that gerrymandering is probably evil or unnatural (or whatever the word should be . . . disenfranchising is chic) without having a clue as to how to draw something that is “fair” and workable. I certainly wouldn’t want the job.
That 538 site is interesting. It’s funny, if you choose the option to gerrymander in favor of Democrats Maryland only changes by one seat.
I like the compact w/ counties plan, too. It has the quality of being unbiased while respecting county borders, which I think is important as the counties are political entities subject to elected representation within the state. I don’t know about other states, but for Maryland that result winds up more accurately reflecting the political leanings of the areas involved.
With a relatively short list of rules, you could get rid of the worst of gerrymandering.
(1) Use existing political boundaries.
(2) Adjust those boundaries to the minimal extent necessary to equalize population, as measured by the length of boundary around each district.
The question is, who enforces the rules?
This is why the anti-Federalists were absolutely right to decry the notion of congressional districts, in general. They believed that existing local governmental boundaries were natural, whereas a congressional district was arbitrary and prone to shenanigans. They suggested that local governments could work among themselves to create districts as close to their existing boundaries as possible. For instance, a city of 10,000 would join with a city of 100,000 or get approval from one city to divide itself between two congressional districts. It was a penchant criticism that the anti-Federalists presented. Unfortunately, they lost the debate on nearly every topic other than including a Bill of Rights in the Constitution
*prophetic criticism
God damn it, I cannot spell or think for shit
who enforces the rules
The rules aren’t even easy. There are probably three or four legitimate ways to cut up NYC to meet your rule (2).
And there is more at stake than mere party control: within parties, the way lines are drawn can make or break a candidate’s viability; those pressures will mean there will always be varying goals . . . and various tactics to achieve them come redistricting time.
I live in NJ District 5 which used to be just northwest NJ. It was solidly Republican and for a long time the seat was held by a Liberty Caucus guy. Then the Democrats redrew the map – trimmed off a bit of western NJ and stretched it down to include enough Bergen County liberals to ensure no Republican will ever win again. My vote is now worthless.
this looks reasonable from my NJ experience
Funny they think the district is currently competitive and favors Republicans. The last 2 elections proved it’s not even close.
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1144076439941189632
“Bank of America will end its association with companies that provide prisoner and immigrant detention services at both the state and federal levels. The move comes amid growing public concern about the nation’s border policies”
Is this the part where we all pretend like fractional reserve banking is “private”? I love how when a small independent bakery doesn’t want to bake a cake that is a tough one to decide, but an industry that couldn’t exist without federal support enjoys broad “freedom of association”
Woke megabanks are the fucking worst.
Obama started this with that Operation Choke Point bullshit.
>>amid growing public concern
are there reliable numbers for this “concern”? I mean people are concerned about immigration but open borders aren’t exactly popular.
Dude, haven’t you see the dozens of angry tweets??
We detest the living conditions in these detention centers so we will not support anyone attempting to make them better. We want these children wandering the streets!
Let’s call them speed bumps.
As if it will end there. Other businesses will poo poo this, until they’re up against the wall.
In a normal country, no bank would ever fuck with the federal government like that. They would literally get regulated and audited out of business.
The guy all these people used to vote for was a homeless drunk who would sleep through city council meetings but vote reliably however his attorney, who has deep roots in the party and is sort of infamous for being a scam artist, told him.
Respect democracy.
He referred to himself as a “Councilman at Large for the black community”. As near as I could tell this meant going to cookouts in the projects down the street.
What Round One Means to Democrat Primary Voters
Not persuaded they deserve my attention whatsoever
F Inslee
F Ryan
D Delaney
I get it but I have that already from real candidates
C de Blasio
Maintained their brand and position
B Booker
B Warren
B O’Rourke
Who knew that person existed; will listen/read for another month
A- Klubochar
A Gabbert
A Castro
My wife, who is my political foil, had a positive view of most of the candidates but felt that Castro, Booker, Warren, and Klobuchar did particularly well.
I didn’t watch, but the consensus seems to be that Castro got the most mileage out of it.
I can’t believe Warren is doing well. People must like scolds far more than I – she’s one of my senators and absolutely puts my teeth on edge every time she starts talking. That combination of scolding and condescension is just awful.
It worked (to an admittedly lesser degree) for Obama.
Yeah, but did you see the crease in his pants?
I’m going to say he had something else going for him, that made those unlikable qualities something that couldn’t be mentioned… I can’t quite put my finger on it…
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
She combines free shit with greed & envy.
Based on my in-house semi-tame Progressive voter, there are a few things going on there. Warren’s an expert, she says nice things, and she’s a woman. Oh, and she hates Donald Trump.
Warren’s got her rap down because it hasn’t changed in a decade, and her journey to power has sharpened her sense of what works.
She should not get past the convention: she brings nothing to the eventual topper electorally.
It’ll be interesting because I think there’s going to be some tension between who the rank-and-file want and who the party leadership thinks can beat Trump. I have some pretty good ideas of who couldn’t win, but I don’t know who could, honestly. I can see a scenario where Cory Booker does well. Maybe Klobuchar, but I think her rep as being an evil primadonna to her staff is going to sink her in a party that’s advocating for worker’s rights. Biden is a known quantity and I’d bet he’s got favors he can call in within the party, but he’s also Creepy Uncle Joe. I think the problem is that if they go with someone older and more established in order to pull in moderates they’ll lose the young radicals, the Bernie bros., etc.. If they go with a leftist firebrand, Trump will make mincemeat of them in the debates and I believe win the general.
I didn’t watch last night but when Klobuchar announced I happened to be house sitting and with nothing else to do I watched that, and, she came across as very likable, I remember thinking I probable dislike her politics but at least she’s not annoying as fuck. Not going to vote for her, but I could see her gaining traction if that’s the image she still is putting out there.
mincemeat
I absolutely think a national quantity like Biden would make it a horserace. Trump’s brilliance populist excoriations that “what have you done about it in all these years” and “all the shit I’ll do on day one” and “I’ll bring the factories back” have largely fallen flat. There’s more to being a populist god than trolling and shock-jockery, especially if your family’s prospects haven’t changed in this administration, a non-zero population. Now he’s got to pay the piper for all the attitude in the districts in MI, WI, and OH that have continued to bleed factory jobs. Blue needs to take back the reins of populist bullshit from the current master, and a bullshit master like Joe might be the guy to do it.
A free-shit flake like Warren or de Blasio would be mincemeat.
My wife thought Klobuchar came off as very personable if a bit passive. Maybe she’s got that LBJ thing going on where she’s a nightmare behind the scenes but her stage persona is terrific.
As far as Biden goes, I think if Obama hadn’t come around when he did he’d have gotten the nod. Biden has that comfortably establishment, reasonably moderate, capable administrator thing that the Dems used to be so good at. He’s also remarkably good at just spouting bullshit off the cuff with what appears to be complete sincerity. For my money he’s better at it than Obama was. I could definitely see Biden winning if he got the nomination just because I think he could be the candidate for people who just want to get off the ride.
What Naptown said: Biden doesn’t come off as “extreme” so would win back some of the blue collar vote.
How could it do otherwise? It gives a stage to people most of the public have never seen before and maybe heard of.
The funny part is that only Inslee and Gabbert could beat Trump from that field of candidates.
Are you telling me that transgender abortions is not going to win back Michigan and Pennsylvania?
I laffed
Insleeand Gabbert could beat TrumpInslee is a roach that scurries away when the light is shined upon him. He could only exist in a deep blue state.
The majority of Americans have no idea who either one of them are.
I’d like to see more of Delaney. I mean he had the balls in a room full of nutjob Democrats to suggest that Medicare for all wasn’t fiscally feasible. He is an interesting guy.
Hmm.
absolutely: seems reasonable with a capable private sector background
I’d say he’s dead because you need good hair in the TV era, but that might not be a firm rule anymore.
“…good hair…”
Counterpoint: Bernie Sanders.
Was Senator Sorority Girl on the stage? Did anybody notice?
“Senator Sorority Girl”
Me and you have encountered some very different sorority girls over the years
Gillibrand. Maybe the most vapid of all the candidates, and that’s saying something.
I thought he was talking about Booker.
The one from New York. I can’t even come up with her name right now.
Mrs. Hitler?
No, it’s New York, so it’d be Mrs. Stalin.
Ah you’re right. Mrs Hitler would live in Alabama.
Mrs. Stalin….you mean Lane Mayer’s old girlfriend?
She’s up tonight. Whee!
SCIENCE???
vodka suppository?
+1 Butt Chugging
It’s an 80s Dance Party!
white people dancing to my eyes is fingernails on a chalkboard to my ears.
That Flock Of Seagulls haircut is magnificent.
Love that song
Stephanie Zimbalist was hot back in the day.
Ahh, love those pre-tattoo days. Bad haircuts and poor makeup/hair dye/wardrobe choices can be changed quite easily.
I skipped the debate fortunately. How many of them gave their support of taxpayer funded late term abortions for undocumented transgender migrant Hondurans?
It was and will forever be meaningless. Temporary entertainment.
Heh, like the new avatar.
Sadly, you can’t distinguish yourself from the other candidates on that issue. They all support it.
We’re just lucky that none of them are willing (yet) to say out loud that they support mandatory abortions in some cases.
I see my company’s infatuation with minimum non-viable product, aka throw shit over the wall and see if it works, has another success story. Redesigned internal home page is broken for Win7 browsers. Nice job guys.
Roberts continue to disappoint, but don’t worry: he signaled that he’s willing to play Lucy with the football and disappoint again.
Fuck me.
at least I’m not the only one
No, I do it constantly. I start to reply, think better of my dumb remark, wander off, forget, compose a comment at the bottom of the page, and it redirects to my earlier response. Sometimes even after refreshing.
oh I know * Trump voice * believe me!
I’m a little far away right now.
>>judicial deference to agency interpretations
derp.
Redesigned internal home page is broken for Win7 browsers. Nice job guys.
What kind of lowbrow troglodyte still uses Win7? Who cares?
I haven’t been
dragged kicking and screamingmigrated onto Win10 yet.“The business basically exists to be a profit-generating entity, tries to create success for all our employees, tries to create wealth in all our employees so that we can all have an impact on the world,” Conine said during the meeting. “I mean, we’re not a political entity. We’re not trying to take a political side in this.” When asked whether the B2B team, which handles large corporate and government orders, had a code of ethics, Conine responded, “We should think about a code of ethics. And I think that’s something as a company that we should have a conversation around, we should put together. We should put some thought into that.”
Read: ‘Children were dirty, they were scared, and they were hungry’
Conine’s desire to avoid the fray is understandable, if naive.
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goddammit
No not particularly…
Want to help migrant children at the border? Here’s how to donate
I can report new job is going well, but no Glibs from work. Working from home this morning though, so I can spend some time amongst you yahoos. I have rather missed this place.
WTF Roberts? If they can ask any question besides, “How many people live here?” they can ask about citizenship status. Man, that guy has been a fucking disaster.
So you’ve been tied up at work?
Good to see you though.
What’s it mean when you totally neglect to care for your lawnmower for years and then all of a sudden it loses power, starts smoking, and leaking oil all over? Should I change the spark plug or something?
Shoot it.
Go buy a Honda.
And nice as they are, I can buy two Toros or more for the same money, and still not feel bad about beating the crap out of them.
Which reminds me I need to switch blades and change the oil in mine.
Will do (If the cheapest push mower at the box store is a Honda)
It means that clearly there was a manufacturing error and it’s not your fault. Damn Chinese, can’t make lawnmowers like we ‘Mericans use to. It’s not right.
Midlife crisis. Paint flames on it.
something something thermostat
What kind of Glibs are you? “Did you check the thermostat?” “Did you try turning it off and on again?”
Let’s try that again.
The Atlantic wants you to know
“The business basically exists to be a profit-generating entity, tries to create success for all our employees, tries to create wealth in all our employees so that we can all have an impact on the world,” Conine said during the meeting. “I mean, we’re not a political entity. We’re not trying to take a political side in this.” When asked whether the B2B team, which handles large corporate and government orders, had a code of ethics, Conine responded, “We should think about a code of ethics. And I think that’s something as a company that we should have a conversation around, we should put together. We should put some thought into that.”
Conine’s desire to avoid the fray is understandable, if naive.
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“We do a hundred thousand orders a day right now. There are hundreds of organizations every day that we’re selling to that many of us in this room would not approve of,” Conine said during the meeting. “And the trick is, for us to then say we’re going to build out some sort of system, to say we’re going to discriminate our order flow … We also feel like we have a duty not to be a discriminatory business.”
His argument is a cousin of the one many of his peers in the technology industry have long clung to: that they aren’t really political entities, but simply value-neutral conveyor belts for whatever service it is that they offer—short-term rentals, rides, community, connection, information, entertainment. That their sheer scale, multiplied by the wide spectrum of beliefs held by their users, makes moderation of any kind so Sisyphean and so subjective a task that the only possible solution is to allow for just about any idea, or any customer.
CEO of public company says, “We’re here to make money. We sell things to lots of people, not all of whom we unquestioningly agree with.”
What a Nazi. A deluded, naive Nazi.
We should think about a code of ethics.
Don, lie, cheat, steal or take bribes ought to cover it, don’t you think?
The corporate press and publications like the Atlantic primarily exist to bully Americans until they adopt the belief system of your average person living on the upper west side of Manhattan.
You know we’ve fallen as a society when the Atlantic no longer serves primarily to to bully Americans until they adopt the belief system of your average person living in an expensive part of Boston.
Is there an inexpensive part of Boston? Asking for a friend.
Not anymore
Locally inexpensive, sure. Globally inexpensive, probably not.
But I have faith that Bostonians will latch onto any numerical variance to differentiate themselves as much as possible.
I lived in Brighton for a bit. Near the hospital. It was ok, but I think the price had doubled since 2012
The Atlantic moved from Boston to New York about 15 years ago.
*sad pepe face*
Important lesson from the protestors and the Atlantic article: It is ethical and socially just that facilities that house children that do not house adults should not include any furniture?
Hmm… I have a bottle of Grey Skies Barrel Finished Gin just staring at me. And it’s not even lunch time…
Mix it with coffee. Now it’s a breakfast drink.
*remembers the time gf mixed tequila and Coke*
Ew.
Oh damn that’s good. Yeah…
“We are a furniture company,” one employee told me. “But we also employ people who care about where they work and have every right to surface things when they have problems.” (The employee requested and was granted anonymity for fear of retaliation, and because they didn’t want to take credit for a group effort. On the meeting audio, Kate Gulliver, Wayfair’s head of talent, is heard strongly emphasizing that no employees who walk out will face repercussions. Gulliver did not respond to a request for comment.)
“We sell furniture, and so, you know this type of particular, very polarizing example?” Conine said at one point during the meeting. “It doesn’t come up that often.” But really, it was only a matter of time. The political moment has created a sort of moral gyre from which no corporation is truly safe, no matter whether it’s selling dish sets or drones, and no matter how deeply its executives want to avoid taking a side.
“Surface things” = moralistic whining
If you’re so goddam traumatized by the idea of selling merchandise to a government contractor, Quit your job and set yourself on fire.
Speaking of govt contractors, I wonder if Wayfair has ever sold anything to Boeing, or Northrop. Where are the squeals of outrage?
On the meeting audio, Kate Gulliver, Wayfair’s head of talent, is heard strongly emphasizing that no employees who walk out will face repercussions.
You know what? Good for her! It’s good to see an executive actually willing to strap on a set and nip the social justice takeover in the bud.
Uh wha? She’s announcing amnesty for those pulling that crap.
Wayfair’s head of talent
I think I might see what the problem is…
They’re probably planning to offshore everything anyway. This will just make that happen sooner.
fucking Roberts.
i bet he’s going to screw us on guns too next term with NYSRPA vs NYC. he was nom’d by a damn Texan for fuck’s sake.
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-inc-v-city-of-new-york-new-york/
He was nominated by a Bush.
Legitimate questions that Democratic candidates should be asked tonight.
To Biden: Why are you the way that you are?
To Gillibrand: Does the carpet match the curtains, because I see your eyebrow color and all I can think is….you know…and that’s nice
To Harris: Who are you willing to sleep with in order to become president?
To Buttlieg: Same question, but in gay?
To Harris: Who aren’t you willing to sleep with in order to become president?
FIFY – need to keep the response reasonably brief
I see the headline:
Harris takes bold stance: says she refuses to sleep with Trump to get to whitehouse.
Who was it that recommended Patriot on Amazon Prime? Goddamn, do I love that show. Half the reason I’ve not been here as much is because I’ve been tearing through it.
I didn’t recommend it but I believe the recommendation came in response to one of my brilliant posts, so I deserve most of the thanks. Your welcome!
“Your welcome!”
First time I’ve seen someone use that on here. Well done
* relights candle in corner Ted shrine *
STEVE SMITH TEAR THROUGH TENT TO GET TO HIKER
“Cool.”
“It is cool.”
…has become a running gag in my house.
Cool Rick is great.
So is Dennis.
Hell, so is just about everyone.
I never watched Lost so I was unaware of what a charming fellow Terry O’Quinn is.
And I may start thinking “Hey, it’s Leslie Claret!” and not “Hey, it’s Clarence Boddicker!” when I see Kirkwood Smith now (probably not).
Yeah, I slept on that show for a while and then started watching it when I ran out of other stuff. I lost a ton of sleep binge-watching straight through. Everybody’s great in it, the writing is awesome, it’s really, really good. It reminds me of everything I love about the movie “In Bruges”.
YES! It’s very “In Bruges”.
One of the top critic review from Rotten Tomatoes wrote:
You may not find a single line or frame of this show funny, but I smiled the whole time I wrote about it. Which of course means the audience for this is me.
Which seems perfectly true, though I did laugh out loud a couple times during the pilot episode.
Just finished S02E01 and said “what the fuck!?” out loud at the end of the episode. So great.
I think of him as Cocaine Red.
JFC, that’s fantastic.
I know I’ve recommended it.
I still can’t get over from the summary of last night how much of a fucking fascist Elizabeth Warren is. Holy shit. She wants to eliminate private healthcare and place a government official on the board of every major corporation?
This is the chick who is trending in the polls? I’m deeply concerned.
I always though the end would come with an ahem Bang, not a whimper.
The end is near
I hated her before it was cool.
Trump has, and will continue to, make mincemeat of her, however.
Many of the proposals I’ve seen from her can legitimately be described as “fascist” or at least something that would have been right at home in the Italian Fascist Party – it’s a shame that word has been degraded beyond meaning.
She needs a snappy update of “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”.
She wants to eliminate private healthcare and place a government official on the board of every major corporation
Wait, what?
And that “major” corporation will be whittled down to every mom ‘n’ pop place.
Yeah. I feel like that’s been tried somewhere before. A few places, actually.
I’m probably simplifying it.
She calls it the Accountable Capitalism Act.
Under her plan, any business with over $1 billion in revenue could only operate with permission from the federal government. The government can then oversee the composition of their boards and place board members, ensure compensation is palatable to the government, that the right number of minorities are hired, and more.
It is literally Mussolini style corporatism.
That, that right there is no-shit real honest-to-goodness Fascism. Elizabeth Warren is running for President of the United States of America proposing to enact Fascism if elected. And she’s considered one of the front-runners of the Democratic Party.
Now ask me again why I’m likely going to vote for Trump. The answer is because as far as I can tell it’s the next closet ballot item to “Cover DNC in Flaming Dogshit”.
Yes. It is. And she’s trending.
Wait, who’s the fascist again?
They could have a cool name, like komissar
https://youtu.be/8-bgiiTxhzM
I award you 5 Internet Points for not linking to After The Fire
Right?
No way! Falco’s is much better musically. And the video. RIP.
I may need to make myself a new ringtone
Wayfair is just the example du jour, but I have a (silly) question:
Has it not occurred to these Red Guard wannabes that political loyalty oaths are potentially not a tactic exclusive to Team Social Justice?
I suppose they assume the courts will always be there to put their thumb on the scales of justice.
Something tells me the pendulum will swing.
Yes, of course, which is why they have to go straight for the jugular and eliminate their enemies before they gain the upper hand and try to turn the tables.
She calls it the Accountable Capitalism Act.
Bless her heart.
One of my favorite parts of the border crisis is how they are trying to compare the detention of “asylum seekers” to the US turning away a boatload of (((them))) during WWII.
What if the Arabs finally got their shit together and won a war with Israel. Do you think AOC, Tlaib and Omar would be welcoming those (((refugees))) into our country? Or would they scream for “extra vetting”?
They’d scream for sinking the boats in the Atlantic.
Are you kidding? They’d be arguing for a war crimes tribunal spearheaded by the Arabs.
My favorite part is how last year I was told there was no border crisis whatsoever, and now it’s the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis.
The most disgusting thing?
Being libertarians, we actually saw MANY articles 10 years ago bout how horrible these government-run detention centers were and the horrid conditions. And I distinctly remember no Democrat or Republican giving a shit about any of it until now when it can be utilized politically for a particular narrative.
She needs a snappy update of “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”.
Maybe Hillary will license her “Stronger Together” slogan to Warren’s campaign. Then all she needs is an eye catching bundle-of-sticks graphic to go with it.
I still am amazed more wasn’t made of that gaff.
er, gaffe. Preet, I’m not suggesting someone should gaff Hillary.
She should come up with a logo for that slogan. Maybe like a bundle of sticks because, you know, they’re stronger because they’re bound together. Maybe with an ax in the middle, because, you know, sometimes one of us has to cut some sticks down to size, so to speak, if they won’t fit in the bundle.
Ah, great minds I see.
Anybody else still having the issue where hitting the reply button to the comments causes the page to refresh? I’m not sure whether it’s just me.
*raises hand*
Yes sir.