Yesterday sucked. Drive to DFW and back in the same day and do a bunch of moving and lifting in the middle of the trip…ugh. Oh well, at least I got to finish the night off by watching my Buckeyes basketball team absolutely smash North Carolina on the road. In fact, it was Roy boy’s worst home loss ever while at UNC. Elsewhere, Purdue one-upped the Buckeyes by throttling UVA by even more. And with Maryland thumping Notre Dame, the Big Ten bested the ACC for the first time since 2015.
Across the pond, Liverpool obliterated crosstown rival Everton, whose manager is likely to be out of a job sometime today. ManUre took down Spuds, who continue to suck no matter who’s in charge. Chelski and Leicester also won. And in NFL news, the 49ers suspended their radio analyst for saying something you’re not supposed to say. NHL winners were Colorado, Washington, Pittsburgh and Ottawa.
Old school Genoan Pope Julius II was born on this day. So were president Martin Van Buren, General George Custer, aviation pioneer Clyde Cessna, genius filmmaker Fritz Lang, noted anti-Semite Walt Disney, physicist Werner Heisenberg, redneck Senator Strom Thurmond, another great director Otto Preminger, rocker Jim Messina, PGA great (I got to play with once) Lanny Wadkins, wide receiver Art Monk, and snooker legend Ronnie O’Sullivan.
Now we come to…the links!
The House judiciary committee held an impeachment hearing yesterday. It wasn’t exactly what I’d call impartial. In fact, it was downright scary in its partisanship.
George Zimmerman hadn’t been in the news for a while. So I guess this was inevitable.
A sailor went nuts and killed two people before offing himself at Pearl Harbor. That’s got grudge written all over it. But don’t worry…the NYPD is on it.
A Florida UPS worker stole a rather expensive package rather than deliver it. But the bigger crime is that haircut. WOW!
NASA probe “touches the sun”. That’s actually pretty cool. Now maybe NASA will start to understand how the sun impacts climate more than man can. But that doesn’t sell, so I doubt they’ll even consider it.
Somebody in the comments recently asked where were the French yellow jackets. Well, they’re back in the news today.
I had some success with yesterday’s rock. May as well kick ass two days in a row. Enjoy.
Now go have a great day, friends!
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544 responses to “Thursday Morning Links”
That shrew the Dems presented was a bad look for them
She was a shrill, nasty woman. I Ean, find somebody that supports your position, but at least try to find one that’s not such an overt hater of the guy you’re trying to railroad. Especially when there’s lots of footage out there of her hating on him and saying how they need to find a way to get rid of him way before the Ukraine fiasco happened.
Shrill and nasty is in right now.
Don’t you feminist?
Hasn’t it always been “in” with the feminist movement? I can’t remember a time when there were hot feminists who presented their arguments in a sober, reasoned manner?
For some reason that ideology has always appealed to people who don’t appeal to the opposite sex.
So you are feminist? sorry unable to resist.
The term NOW Cow wasn’t invented yesterday.
NOW still exists? It seems a little naziistic, what with their erasure of Q, T and 2S and all.
Andrea Dworkin approves.
With the current anti-intellectual populist zeitgeist in the US, the only way the Democrats could have done worse was to have Obama, in his role as ‘scholar of Constitutional Law’, testify. I don’t understand what any of the 3 testifying accomplished.
I think “nerdy law profs with politics to the left of Eugene Debs” was a great look for them.
I saw some comment yesterday along the lines of “you know what the deplorables in flyover land like better than being called racists and rubes? Being yelled at by liberal professors”
4. There were four of them testifying. Remember there was the one guy the GOP asked all their questions to in addition to the three the Dems asked all their questions to.
But it wasn’t partisan at all.
With the current anti-intellectual populist zeitgeist
Take a look at big words smart guy here.
When a lot of people getting carted out as “Public Intellectuals” can’t outsmart a box of rocks and have fields of study that can be boiled down to ‘marxist pablum with a different coat of paint’, can you really blame the public for not trusting them?
It’s not all, but there are a lot of pretty dumb ‘intellectuals’ out there in the public eye.
To be somewhat fair, the ones who get carted out before Congress are usually the ones comfortable with speaking outside their domain. The smart but humble ones don’t get the light of day.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say people make judgements based upon what they see.
I’m just saying not all intellectuals
Isn’t that what the last line of my initial statement said?
You expect me to read everything?
Is there a zeitgeist right now? Can you have a zeitgeist when there do not appear to be any points of agreement between sections of the society?
All I know is that whatever is going on is better than when I was a teenager. That was a horrible time of zitgeist and totally sucked. To tell the truth in the height of zitgeist I probably couldn’t even have made out with that shrill female prof from yesterday.
You were haunted by a pimple poltergeist?
Nothing supernatural about it. All genetics.
I blame my pop for my zits
I concur with with one of the posters at Instapundit. You would have thought the Ds would have lined up some nice dry scholars who used all kinds legalese to put calm legal veneer over the whole partisan charade. It would have been boring, but the idea would be to give it some gravitas.
Instead it was just more shrieking.
Lets be honest, anyone the D’s put up to make their case would have been dismissed as never Trumpers or deep-staters no matter how they behaved or who they were.
Yes, but these people didn’t even take the basic precaution of that Kavanaugh accuser of scrubbing their social media prior to jumping in the spotlight.
Which gives a certain sort of hysterical raving spittle-flecked nature to their partisanship.
I only listened to a small part but it seemed to me the point was to explain that ‘abuse of power’ does not need an underlying crime to be an impeachable offense. Which, seeing how often one still hears “what was the crime” from Trumpster, is a point that might need to be made. But no one watching that was going to be swayed one way or another so it was an exercise in futility.
“exercise in futility”
*Picks up Iron, puts it down*
*Runs for 30 min to end up where I started*
Isn’t all exercise futile?
Well it is futile if you didn’t run out to the kitchen to get me a sandwich after you took a break from ironing.
There was no crime unless you are going to define every interaction a president has with a foreign head of state as a quid pro quo/bribery. Team blue is making a dumb argument because every interaction with a head of state carries that implication.
There was no crime
Exactly that’s the point, there does not need to be crime for abuse of power to be an impeachable offense, we can argue whether Trump crossed this threshold with his ham-handed attempts to have Ukraine smear Biden, but that not being an actual statutory crime is irrelevant to impeachment.
I honestly tried to follow the logic of what that chick was saying. Something about, “Well, there weren’t laws against this type of bribery when the constitution was written.” My reaction was, “Well, then too fucking bad. Don’t cloak you accusations in terms of violating the constitution, then.” I couldn’t figure out her point other than, “The congress can impeach a president!” Yeah. We get that, asshole. Who is arguing against that?
For sure, no crime is needed. But it’s nice to have to convince the American people that you are pursuing something legit rather than just political. Politically impeachment has to sell and having a crime makes selling it easier.
“smear.”
Fair enough that should have been in scare quotes.
He asked them to investigate Burisma and Biden’s son, not Biden.
It is obvious to anyone with a cursory understanding of corruption that Hunter Biden was hired to get access to the WH. Asking for someone to look into that is perfectly acceptable. Impeaching someone for asking them to do it ahead of us giving them aid pretty much insulated any politician from ever having a crooked family member being looked at. Even if the pol in question went out of his way to have the guy investigating that family member (in another country with a separate justice system) fired or have aid cut off. Which Biden was dumb enough to brag about.
The accusation is along the lines of, “You’re only trying to catch that criminal because it helps you!” It’s ridiculous.
The other thing, There’s a lot of. talk about Biden’s son,. that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it … It sounds horrible to me.
Sounds like he asked them to investigate Biden to me.
And that’s their whole argument. They aren’t seeking justice. They aren’t looking for unethical behavior. They’re conducting a political witch hunt because they lost an election to a boorish outsider who is upsetting the apple cart of sinecure for family members and pissing off nations who have fed for free at our trough for decades.
Man, I couldn’t care less what Macron or Trudeau think. I couldn’t care less if they laugh at Trump. It doesn’t offend me as an American. But what does offend me is that they’ve been riding our military for decades.
And I couldn’t care less if Trump benefits from an investigation of Burisma and Biden’s son in advance of us giving a foreign nation military aid. We give the money, we set the terms. And if the terms are “clean up your corruption and attempts to peddle influence with our government by hiring the son of the VP”, I’m good with that.
Sounds like he asked them to investigate Biden to me.
But Biden did brag about it. And he has a right to demand they look into whether the investigation was stopped due to political pressure by someone with a vested interest in his son not getting caught.
Although I read it as “look into the investigation”, not “find dirt in Biden”. That dirt was already plainly visible in the video of a Uncle Joe bragging about stopping the investigation of a company that inexplicably hired his unqualified cokehead son.
I think it’s even more than that, Sloop. From the witnesses last week (Sondland etc.) you’d have to say that the high ranking bureaucrats are just pissed off that the new president is taking away a lot of their power. It’s a battle of psychopaths, narcissists and cowards. In this case, I’m siding with the narcissist.
Constitutional standard for impeachable offense: Treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Does abuse of power fall under that? I am asking seriously. I am thinking no, but I could be wrong.
See my take below. Its not just super-clear, but I think part of the answer will be dictated by whether your are an “original intent” guy (in which case, an actual crime may not be required) or a “text/common meaning” guy (in which case, an actual crime would be required).
As noted below, bare abuse of power is pretty much purely political when it can’t be associated with a crime, which would make the President serve at the pleasure of Congress. Which is not our system.
I thinks so, if the abuse is grave enough, all subjective standards obviously but that’s what the hearings and the trials are for. Contrary to what it may seem I do not think Trumps actions rise to that level, I’d say a censure from congress would be appropriate not impeachment and removal. On the other hand when Bill Clinton pardoned Mark Rich that was a grave abuse of power and even though no crimes were committed if he wasn’t already out the door impeachment and removal would have been justified in that case.
Well yeah, impeachment is a political act. As such, you would think that it would be in the Democrats’ interest to actually convince people that Trump needs to be removed. But my impression is that most people are tired of the endless Trump investigations and the backlash is real. Nevermind the double standard they consistently apply.
“‘abuse of power’ does not need an underlying crime to be an impeachable offense”
Shame it’s not written that way, then.
If that was the standard, there would have been 44 previous impeachments, not two.
Which I am okay with.
If presidents Washington, Adams, and Muhlenberg had all been impeached and removed during the first 4 years, things might have gone dofferently from then on.
This. The impeachment is not about maintaining standards or upholding the law, it is about hatred for an individual. But they have the gall to pretend it is not and claim that Trump’s actions are some unique threat to the nation, when in fact it’s just SOP for all presidents. Every president uses the office for political advantage and uses leverage in foreign policy to get what they want. If I thought this impeachment was the dawning of a new age of accountability I’d be for it, but it’s most certainly not, which makes it dangerous and undemocratic.
Good to see you here white knight in for the Marxists in Congress and their Soviet show trial.
Could a case be made, yes. So far it has not been made as all we have is opinion and speculation masquerading as fact a and evidence.
Right now this farce is all about the DNC’s hatred of Trump and everyone that resists their current insanity.
If those witnesses were intellectuals, they demonstrated why we have an anti-intellectual zeitgeist.
You have a problem with thinly veiled irrational anger, bald faced lies and tone deaf moral lecturing?
I’m curious why we are supposed to be surprised and upset than an impeachment proceeding is supposed to be non-partisan.
This is bread and circus for the base, and maybe supposed to peel off a few marginal, undecided voters (who, crazy enough, still exist). Objectively speaking, ” irrational anger, bald faced lies and tone deaf moral lecturing” is pretty effective at both of these tasks.
I’m neither surprised nor upset. It’s the benefit of being ever skeptical of government.
(I was agreeing with you)
OK sorry for the prickly tone. Just when I think I’m not on the spectrum, stuff like this happens. 🙂
https://media1.tenor.com/images/64a388854af0eddc785aa96d422354ed/tenor.gif
I’m surprised and upset because for over 200 years losers of elections have tended to grudgingly accept the results and go on to smear the officeholder over their poor performance or decision-making rather than attempt to undo an election by demolishing our entire political system.
This move is a sea change in our system and will lead to its unraveling should they succeed. And it’s still a better system than anything else out there, warts and all.
I hope they checked his hair for stolen merch. He probably walks out of the grocery store with 20 Ribeyes in that hair every trip.
How many packages does Florida UPS man have hidden in that hair?
however many fit in the two trucks he’s stashed in there.
Commenting on HOC… so racist.
Seeing his mugshot, my first thought was of a certain reporter.
A sailor went nuts and killed two people before offing himself at Pearl Harbor.
Good thing the carriers were out to sea
What you did there… it was noticed.
Tora Tora Tora!
10 things you probably didn’t know about Pearl Harbor
I give it a Zero out of three Toras.
The article, not the movie.
Tora, Tora, Tora is a great if long movie.
I went to see in theater with my dad.
I was fairly young so to me it didn’t have enough action.
“Of the 1,177 crew members who died on the USS Arizona, there were 37 sets of brothers”
Geeze.
Families were bigger in the 40s
/deliberately obtuse.
The Sullivan brothers on the USS Juneau were 5 brothers who died when their ship was torpedoed in 1942. It led to the Sole Survivor Policy designed to protect members of a family from the draft or from combat duty if they have already lost family members in military service.
And I think they stopped putting siblings on the same ship after that, but I’m not sure
So 74 black guys?
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Finally. Thank you.
We shared a bill in Lincoln, NE with this band (Tora Tora) that was out of Chicago. They had some great stories. We stayed at the same hotel and really had a blast with them. They had some great stories. Also at the same hotel was a country band out of New York. One evening we all got together in one of the rooms and did some acoustic stuff. It was awesome. One of my best road memories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny6XmPyTcus
Oh, I guess they were out of Memphis.
Somebody in the comments recently asked where were the French yellow jackets. Well, they’re back in the news today. – good luck Mr Macron, reforming pensions in France is no small feat
But he snickered at Trump. SO he’s still good to go with our media.
French for “reforming pensions” is “il faut payer plus.”
Let me guess, he depends on the domestic media for “News” and didn’t realize that these protests have been ongoing for Months.
Maybe now he’ll learn that relying on the government for your transportation needs, especially in France, is not a very good idea if you want to get to your destination.
I wouldn’t count on it.
New Yorkers are stubborn creatures.
It’s hard feel sorry for people vacationing in Paris knowing the whole city could shut down at the drop of the hat.
The NYPD seems to have gotten a little big for their britches.
And WTF is it with the Starship Troopers getup?
https://twitter.com/vincentjbove/status/1202428451933868032
They’re doing their part to fight terrorism. Would you like to know more?
Now just to redefine everything as terrorism.
And with the mayor having his own army, they’re ready for the fight!
I’m sure he truely sees it that way as well. Dude’s a dick.
The only good civilian is a dead civilian!
The very definition of taticool!
That’s just ridiculous.
God damn it why the fuck do things work on small testcases and have problems only on the one with a 4 hour runtime. How am I supposed to debug this shit…
My testcases are huge, so no problem for me.
Biggest testcases ever, beautiful ones really.
I read that in Roman Maronie’s voice and kept expecting you to then start talking about your SCOTUS and Vans Defernce too.
“The testcases in my SCOTUS are huge and only my huge vans deference can keep up with the throughput”
All these fargin iceholes make me want to go back to Sweden
“My testcases are huge, so no problem for me.”
Your comment reminds me of a song that happens to tie in nicely with Sloopy’s choice of a musical link this morning.
It will come out in Prod.
I love when a tester comes and tells you a long convoluted process to recreate the bug they found.
If the process does generate the same results, then it’s not so bad as getting a long convoluted process that fails to recreate the bug.
We had a guy who kept reporting the same bug that had been fixed. Turns out he Kept testing on the unpatched version.
Well, he’s consistant.
Yeah. The dev in charge of the bug was none to pleased. Called the day a total loss.
“General George Custer, ”
What’s the rule on this? He was a Bevret General in the Civil War, but was an LTC even when he died.
Secretary Clinton says “let him have the title.”
I read this at first as “let him have the tittie”. Then I shuddered involuntarily.
I’m actually reading “The Last Days of GAC” right now. I’m in the beginning where he’s busy whoopin’ Native American tribal butts. The ending will probably be shorter.
You can say that again!
I’m actually reading “The Last Days of GAC” right now. I’m in the beginning where he’s busy whoopin’ Native American tribal butts. The ending will probably be shorter.
A picture of the gas station in Sentinel Butte, ND. You can see a historical marker on the right side of hte parking lot. It talks about how Custer and his men got snowed in there during a June blizzard on their way to the Big Horn.
As a kid, we always stopped at that gas station for pop while hunting sharp tailed grouse. I thought it was a cool story about Custer.
Custer was alive when he left North Dakota.
I’m actually reading “The Last Days of GAC” right now. I’m in the beginning where he’s busy whoopin’ Native American tribal butts. The ending will probably be shorter.
Custer: Men, I have good news and bad news
Men: What’s the bad news
Custer: We will be wiped out to the last man by the Sioux just a few days from now
Men: What is the good news?
Custer: We don’t have to march back through North Dakota.
Library of Congress naming authority indicates to use the highest title they ever reached, but to omit title unless it is necessary to establish identity.
Wish I would have been able to watch that Buckeyes game. I was drunk and ready to crash before it even started. Good thing they play good eastern teams late so the west coast can watch them.
I was pretty entertained, I will say that. The first half was nothing but turnovers and cold shooting. But that second half…wow. And watching UNC put their second string in for 4 minutes and only see the Buckeyes lead grow by 2 points being followed by putting their whole first string back in and the lead grow by 10 in 2 minutes was hilarious. Poor Roy looked like someone punched him in the gut.
Nice:) Thanks for the recap.
accused of swiping packages containing two kindles, an iPad and a tablet computer
So he stole someone’s Goodwill dropoffs?
What goodwill do you use?
Asking for a friend.
In fact, it was downright scary in its partisanship.
He wouldn’t be on trial if he didn’t do anything wrong.
It’s an open and shut case. The house says he’s guilty, and since he’s refusing to confess, that’s black-letter law Obstruction of Congress. You might doubt my qualifications to make that pronouncement, but I have the exact same law licences as noted Genius Legal Scholar Elie Mystal so you can trust me.
Is PMS real? Expert claims that the condition is fabricated by Western culture and that women’s anger usually has NOTHING to do with their hormones
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7750429/Expert-claims-PMS-result-Western-culture.html
Much like slavery and murder, PMS didn’t exist until wypipo invented it with their tricknology.
So they’re saying that all women are lying bitches?
Just the white ones
How is that going to square with Men’s periods?
Very punctually.
Yes. It is real.
Even if it isn’t.
Didn’t the American Indians send their women off to a different tepee during that time of the month?
A lie perpetuated by the same people that came up with that whole “Aztecs sacrificed humans” myth.
The Aztecs made up stories about the plains Indians?
Yes. Sorta like like Polish jokes of the pre-Columbian Americas.
But don’t worry…the NYPD is on it.
Speaking of which- remember when Bloomberg behaved as if the entire NYC law enforcement apparat was his personal army? Just think how much fun he’d have with the lethal coercive might of the Nanny-in-Chief.
Posse Comitatus
The seventh largest army in the world, no less!
Me: *brushing my teeth at 6am*
Wife: *storms into bathroom* “WHY ARE LESBIANS WITH RUBBER THINGS SHOWING UP IN OUR AMAZON ACCOUNT SUGGESTIONS?”
Me: *oh shit what HM link did I click on* “What were you looking for?”
WIfe: “I need some weights with velcro for my wrists for walking.”
Me: “You mean like ‘strap-on weights’?”
Wife: “Yeah”
Me: *laughing nervously* ” Well, you searched for strap-ons so Amazon gave you strap-ons. I can’t wait for your daily email of ‘you may be interested in’.”
Wife: “HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS STUFF? WHAT DO YOU SPEND YOUR TIME DOING ON THE INTERNET?”
Me: *laughing and spitting toothpaste* “You may be the only person I know who doesn’t know what a strap-on is, but thank you for the laugh this morning.”
thank you for the laugh this morning.
No, thank you! LOL
I figure he’s leaving out the next bit when he gets hit with with one of the “weights” he wife ordered that didn’t fit any wrist.
I had a very similar conversation but about paint stripper.
Wife: FYI don’t search Amazon for stripper.
Me: um…. Yeah. Why where you searching for strippers?
Her: I was looking for paint stripper.
Me: Honey, when I hear stripper, there’s one thing I think of and it ain’t paint
Mrs. Spartacus is a technophobe and, having spent years learning how to click on those icon thingies to get IE to work (mostly), simply won’t invest the time on anything else.
So naturally I use Chrome. No browsing overlap.
“I swear to God I was searching for a Reciprocating Saws”
The internet has it’s tentacles in everything. Google it if you don’t believe me.
That’s great!
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Yeah, that was a not-so-subtle Christmas present suggestion.
I don’t know where to shop for lesbians. Suggestions are welcome.
now that Backpage is gone, try the classifieds section of your local free alt-weekly paper.
https://www.subaru.com/
*golf clap*
Hope the search was on Siri.
So you are saying you are into pegging?
One search for faux leather/vinyl upholstery material got me targeted ads for “men’s fetishwear”, which appeared to be a guy wearing a shiny PVC tracksuit, outdoors, which is horrific in it’s own way even before adding a sexual dimension to it.
? ?? ?
So did she order one?
The house says he’s guilty, and since he’s refusing to confess, that’s black-letter law Obstruction of Congress.
Something something nothing to hide.
They have SCHOLARS! Three of them!
So, NASA is like Micheal Jackson, trying to touch your sun?
No, they’re trying to get a handle on the Corona. At least they’re cheap dates.
God damn it why the fuck do things work on small testcases and have problems only on the one with a 4 hour runtime. How am I supposed to debug this shit…
Possibly for the same reason modifying your race car in the simulation has a different effect than when you build the parts in meatspace and test them on a race track.
Good morning Sloopy!
And good morning to the rest of y’all.
Why do sailors wear camo?
Great song. The Gibson SG is the coolest guitar ever manufactured.
To ambush the marines.
SG’s are cool, but Les Pauls are the clear winner.
Blackjack is correct.
No. No he’s not.
https://reverb.com/p/gibson-es-355td-mono-1958-1970?gclid=CjwKCAiA8qLvBRAbEiwAE_ZzPZZl2W4y5icp8evIl33rlHuxjemJ-gUYLZz1w42nHAoYQAXJzpFgBxoCNr8QAvD_BwE&hfid=26958775&merchant_id=105371203&utm_campaign=6481185772&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google
You misspelled Firebird.
I can’t really tell on guitar from another.
Actually, one of the practical reasons for sailors to wear cammo is because it hides stains well. Lots of sailors work in jobs where inks, oils, grease, and other things will end up staining their uniforms at some point. If they are wearing cammo those stains don’t show up so much. If they are wearing a solid color at some point they would be required to replace a uniform with stains that show up to easily.
Hiding seamen stains?
Mail thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7758753/Kendall-Jenner-struggles-contain-perky-assets-TINY-string-frolicking-Miami.html
twitter thicc? (NSFW kinda maybe I dunno )
https://twitter.com/Axjacks88/status/1202513631071604737
Am I to understand that “thicc” has nothing to do with thickness? Kendall Jenner doesn’t look very thick to me, at least in terms of physical proportions.
“that Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson’s dark skin helps him disguise a dark football when running fake handoffs in Baltimore’s zone-read heavy offense.”
Lol. Man oh man.
Timmy the Greek.
The Gibson SG is the coolest guitar ever manufactured.
I like the hollow body Gretsch. Especially when the Setzer cat is playing it.
Good choice. You will enjoy this.
I was planning to take my daughter to his Christmas show, but he cancelled his tour due to tinnitus. Bummer.
Saw him with a big band at First Avenue many, many years ago. Incredible show.
So how bout them Lakers…
Winning back to back on the road in Denver and Utah is not easy
Only 2 weeks until the first Bucks-Lakers game of the season. On his 5th team in the last 5 seasons, it looks like Dwight Howard may care again.
Alex Caruso will shut down Giannis
He does get to practice against Kostas.
You think Lebron is going to keep up this pace for a whole season? I doubt it. Denver shot like garbage. The Clippers will end up as a two or three seed, meet the Lakers in the second or conference finals and knock them out. The Lakers are running at 8k RPMs and are going to blow their engine.
Dunno depends on management. If kuzma and green will get better and the lebron keeps some in the tank for playoffs they could have a shot
As much as I hate the entire “load management” trend, if other teams are going to do it and save their stars for the playoffs, you better do it, too.
Not a fan either. You should not be in the mvp conversation if you load manage
Drive to DFW and back
45: a road you can run the speed limit most of the day most of the way
Viz
“….Chairman Jerry Nadler declared that “never before in the history of the republic” has “the president engaged in a course of conduct that included all of the acts that most concerned the Framers.” The New York Democrat added that Trump’s “level of obstruction is without precedent….”
You’ve changed since you’ve lost weight.
“….Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina said that Trump’s abuses of power “are worse than the misconduct of any prior president.”
Pamela Karlan of Stanford said that “if we are to keep faith with the Constitution and our Republic, President Trump must be held to account.”
She got into it with Collins, who said the witnesses couldn’t have digested the Intel Committee’s report on impeachment, declaring: “I’m insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor I don’t care about those facts.”
It quickly emerged that Karlan had recently donated a thousand bucks to Elizabeth Warren.”
Now it’s the turn of academics to drop their masks publicly.
Riiiiight. Because The Light Bright Bringing Lecturer Obama never abused the Constitution…..riiiiiiight.
It’s just a piece of paper. Not a suicide pact.
gold tablets would have been better than paper
Why Gulags Aren’t as Bad as You Thought
https://old.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/e4r0s3/why_gulags_arent_as_bad_as_you_thought/
So, they’re A-Okay with the communists being rounded up and interred in Gulags?
My guess: free food, and a job guarantee.
And the hard labor kept you warm through the frostbite!
That’s why leftists are dead inside. They have no meaning in life beyond ‘security’ and ‘free stuff’. There’s no room for personal agency; a soul.
They then proceed to think like Godless anti-humans.
They’re essentially narcissistic nihilists with no principles
All those rat bastard commie apologists would be the first to be gulaged in the Revolution
Now that’s a tankie.
What an unmitigated piece of shit, a stain on humanity.
I notice that they did not cite a single one of these “Instances”. And the big scourge in capitalist countries is that our poor people are getting too fat.
Offers no reason why Stalin didn’t intentionally starve his own populace.
If he wants to talk potato famine or India, he’s going to run into the big britsh state.
In fairness, Stalin wasn’t specifically targeting the Ukrainians – like a good Communist he was targeting all the “haves”. The wiki article on the Soviet Famine of 1932-33 has a nice little map showing that the famine was hardest in the grain producing regions while the grain consuming regions of the USSR were relatively unscathed, a classic transfer of wealth if I’ve ever seen one. Not only were millions of Ukrainians starved, millions of Kazakhs and many of the various Caucasian peoples were starved as well. And unlike Lenin in the famine of 1921-22, Stalin refused to take any foreign aid to feed his people.
Oh, that’s ok, then.
What a fucking cesspool.
So the Chinese are doing all their Muslims a big favor?
That whole subreddit is a collection of retarded apologists
Today it was the old “nazism = socialism” lie.
I’ve heard arguments from both sides from people that I respect. The argument I usually hear from these guys is “it’s not socialism because the Nazis were bad”.
That always the argument. Socialism = Pure and Good
Unfortunately, the Nazis kept excellent paper records:
Where is that taken from?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Program
TL; DR
Non-Marxists Socialism for Some, Tiny German Flags for Them Too!
Leninism: The Highest Stage of Progressivism
As their masks fall off, obviously what they aspire to.
Chris Pratt apologizes for posing with single use plastic bottle
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/472973-chris-pratt-apologizes-for-posing-with-single-use-plastic
It says single use, but if you flip it inside out you can use it a second time no problem.
Oh, so just like underwear
And condoms.
And penises.
“I have seen the objections to my single use plastic bottle, which I understand has caused distress. I would like to issue this statement, which I assure you is heartfelt and sincere:
Fuck. Off.
Oh, and get a life, already.”
Why Gulags Aren’t as Bad as You Thought
Shared pain and struggle make us stronger. We become better people for it.
What did I win?
My guess: free food, and a job guarantee.
Don’t forget “an end to homelessness”.
to paint him as a madman is historically ignorant.
Say what you like about Stalin, the man was a planner.
Angry Pinetown pupils torch school over poor year-end reports
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-12-04-angry-pinetown-pupils-torch-school-over-poor-year-end-reports/
Man we never had any fun like that when I was in school…
Should be “unsuccessful learners”, no?
Since it was only partially destroyed, you can add “unsuccessful arsonists” too.
The fence with razor wire on the top makes me think this isn’t just your everyday craptacular school.
Well, actually, since we’re talking south africa, that could just be normal security against the rampaging criminals.
Right, this isn’t america, where the razorwire is to keep the students in the government schools.
Speaking of burning things
A man was burnt to death on Thursday after a pastor mistook petrol for water during a healing service in Lagos, the emergency services said.
“The pastor picked a keg believing it contained water not knowing it was filled with petrol,” said Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency.
“In the process of emptying the contents on the man, a lit candle nearby sparked fire that engulfed both of them,” Farinloye told AFP.
The church fire in the Baruwa area in the north of the sprawling city spread to nearby oil pipelines, which burst into flames, he added.
https://guardian.ng/news/man-burnt-to-death-in-freak-accident-at-lagos-church/
So… the pastor had no sense of smell?
Some pastors just preach hellfire – this guy brings it on.
A burning bush appeared to him?
Why does arson seem so widespread in Africa?
It’s the ancestral home of domesticated fire.
Impeachment is a massive fail. And it is backfiring in the Midwest where the Dems have to make gains if they hope to win next year. Now they are the other stupid party.
This is why I don’t have my knickers in a bunch over an obviously partisan impeachment. If its obviously partisan and the voters don’t like, the voters can punish the impeachers and vote the impeached bum back in. If its obviously partisan and voters do like it, that’ll knock some of the imperial gilding off what should not be an imperial office.
But that said, I’m going to wait for a few people who haven’t made their career out of asserting that Team Blue is always and forever making a HUGE MISTAKE before I put much stock in this particular narrative of HUGE MISTAKE.
Both stupid andevil.
Come on Dems! Double-down!
A KwaZulu-Natal school was partially destroyed on Wednesday by fire – allegedly started by aggrieved learners who received poor year-end results.
Sounds like somebody needs to go back to the basics.
Well now we’re going to see grade inflation.
GOP: These proceedings are partisan!
Karlan: No they’re not!
GOP: You donated to Elizabeth Warren!
Karlan: That’s different! That’s being sensible!
GOP: It’s still partisan!
Karlan: HOW DARE YOU!?
You are partisan, I am simply ethical
I laughed when she said she donated to Clinton in 2016 to help poor people.
That poor person being herself, lacking a seat on the Supreme Court.
Aaaah, now I get it. The local lefty news site has been running a lot of anti-vaping articles for the last several weeks. I have posted a bunch of them here because of how baldly they lied about the dangers of vaping.
The other shoe has finally dropped. Minnesoda’s AG Brother Keith has sued Juul.
I’m sure it is just coincidence that the media has beating the panic drums just before this lawsuit is announced. No way this could all be ginned up to prepare the battlespace for Brother Keith.
*Am I too cynical for thinking that Brother Keith would drop the demands for changes to their marketing as long as they “fund corrective public education” (aka slush fund).
Banker with Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead from Apparent Suicide – it’s contagious.
Crowder also does a Super Dave Osborne reenactment of Epstein’s suicide.
Could no longer live with himself, exploiting the poor as this bankers do
Chairman Jerry Nadler declared that “never before in the history of the republic” has “the president engaged in a course of conduct that included all of the acts that most concerned the Framers.” The New York Democrat added that Trump’s “level of obstruction is without precedent.”
If only he had simply and illegally suspended habeas corpus, imprisoned journalists and political dissidents and waged war on his own people.
You leave Abe Lincoln alone! He needed to do all that in order to create the United States of America. I’m shocked that Democrat Nadler now has amnesia regarding the president who destroyed the slave-holding and slavery-apologetic Democrat party.
An introduction to comparative-historical sociology
https://barryeidlin.org/2018/12/27/an-introduction-to-comparative-historical-sociology/
Here comes the impeachment recommendation… Wheres the popcorn?
This cunt saying people aren’t above the law is amusing
-1 Email server
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-12-05/house-trump-impeachment-pelosi
Three legal scholars testified that Trump’s efforts provided grounds for impeachment. A fourth expert, chosen by Republicans, said the House was moving too quickly and has not proven its case.
Nobody chose the first three. They just showed up randomly. But that fourth one was definitely partisan.
^^This^^ is why nobody trusts the media anymore. And for good reason.
Has anyone posted this yet?
https://twitter.com/MaxLewisTV/status/1202364112237453313
White progressive Black Lives Matter protesters stormed a meeting of black elected officials who support Mayor Pete and demanded for real black voices to be heard. The video is beyond parody.
Only a religious commitment to your moral righteousness would allow someone to be so lacking in self-awareness.
LOL
They yearn for sweet death.
Grandma with a cane was about to give it to him.
If you watch that part closely, you’ll notice that as she raises her cane the white progressive hides behind the man in between the two of them. How does this guy sleep at night?
With the rest of the collective hive mind, secure in his own virtue.
I’d send her a new cane if she broke her’s right then.
Something for the hockey people.
That’s considerably more difficult than he made it look.
And backhand-ed.
Pamela Karlan of Stanford said that “if we are to keep faith with the Constitution and our Republic, President Trump must be held to account.”
It is rather strange how we can be working from the same set of facts and come to such different conclusions. My understanding is that Trump inquired on the corruption know to permeate through the government of Ukraine as he is instructed to do by the legislation relating to aid given to Ukraine. They literally want to impeach him for attempting to faithfully execute the law (which is his job…). Am I missing something?
Yes, he named his son a Baron, his daughter a Princess, Melania a Queen, Don Jr. and Eric Earls and crowned himself King at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace yesterday.
Yes, as established upthread, Congress can impeach a sitting president for absolutely no reason whatsoever, therefore as long as a majority of Reps believe Trump is a stinky poo-poo head it’s totally fine to vote a coup and let the Senate behave like adults, to the extent that’s possible.
Congress can impeach a sitting president for absolutely no reason whatsoever
Congress can also outlaw gun ownership, ban criticism of the government, and order people to allow police to search their homes without a warrant. “Can” =/= “Constitutional” or legitimate.
They literally want to impeach him for attempting to faithfully execute the law (which is his job…).
This is the same Congress that censured him for wanting to stop fighting a war they refuse to declare, so at least they are consistent (from a certain point of view).
Sober impartial analysis
Democrats are injecting an urgent new argument into their already fast-moving impeachment drive: President Donald Trump poses such a flagrant threat to the republic that there is no time to waste.
Their emerging gambit is prompting Trump’s GOP defenders — who have long struggled to coalesce around a coherent strategy of their own — to launch a fresh counterattack, warning that that a rush to condemn the President proves the Democratic case is shallow and politically motivated. The President himself appeared to contradict that defense Thursday morning, tweeting, “if you are going to impeach me, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate, and so that our Country can get back to business.”
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University of North Carolina law professor Michael Gerhardt argued that the President’s attempts to thwart the impeachment investigation by Trump had reached historic levels.
“In this situation, the full-scale obstruction of those subpoenas I think torpedoes separation of powers,” he said.
“Therefore, your only recourse is to in a sense protect your institutional prerogatives, and that would include impeachment.”
While the House Intelligence Committee report released on Tuesday did underline the obstruction angle as a rationale for impeachment, Democrats have so far focused mostly on the facts of the President’s back-office foreign policy scheme to pressure the government of Ukraine.
But the White House’s blanket refusal to honor 71 Democratic requests for documents — revealed in the report — and its blocking of testimony from key White House officials is strengthening the obstruction case and presents an opportunity to make a more complete case to Americans.
Let’s get this President railroaded out of office so we can get back to business as usual.
Keep goading him, and then use his responses as justification to remove him. Throw a drink on him, and see if he punches you in the mouth.
““In this situation, the full-scale obstruction of those subpoenas I think torpedoes separation of powers,” he said.”
Isn’t executive privilege peak separation of powers?
Now do Obama and Fast and Furious. He actually said that, never mind Congressional subpoenas, not even court subpoenas could overcome executive privilege.
Uffda. They’ve cracked the code here in Minnesoda. They have finally figured out that Minnesoda Nice is a tool of white oppression!
This really is one of the dumbest stories I’ve read in a while. A transplant is bitching because he came up with a dumb idea in a meeting and no one got up in his face and told him he was a moron. Minnesoda Nice made them say “that’s interesting” and avoid him for a while. He even agrees that the behavior isn’t racist, but it reminds him of other racist stuff he’s encountered in the past and he just “feels” like he is reliving racism.
I guess that everyone needs to stop being Minnesoda Nice because it makes this guy feel bad.
*For his mental health I hope that he never visits Japan. He would die on the fainting couch if he gets mad when people don’t violently disagree with him to his face.
Adnan Ahmed, MBBS is a community psychiatrist in Minneapolis.
What a cunte.
Go fuck yourself. Is that nuanced enough for you?
THAT’S RACIST!
My experience of that story is reminiscent of worthless, specious nonsense.
I take it back: “specious” is too kind. It is reminiscent of a steaming pile of shit. Horseshit, to be nuanced about it.
The best part of this story is that I tried to add a comment of “That’s interesting” and the moderators scrubbed it. (Minnpost requires a moderator to approve any submitted posts before they go public)
“That’s interesting” is the kind of white supremacist MN nice that needs to be eradicated. What is wrong with you? Can’t you just not be a white supremacist for one day, bigot?
What they need to do now is address how Lutefisk promotes cultural appropriation and is a tool of colonialism.
You’ll take my lutefisk from my cold dead fingers!
*slinks away to purchase train ticket to nearest re-education camp*
*Passes PJ his share of lutefisk, asks for others to voluntarily give up theirs…out of generosity.*
I have an unbroken history of giving up my share of lutefisk.
It wasn’t out of generosity, though. More due to having functioning taste buds.
You got to the taste stage? I gave mine up based on smell, appearance, and just flat out I do not eat lye!
You’ll take my lutefisk from my cold dead fingers!
I knew it was foul, but I didn’t know it was deadly. I guess I’ll have to avoid it even harder now.
“That’s different.”
They’re gonna do it! HAHAHAHAHA they’re actually gonna do it!!!!
*starts warming the butter and gets out the air popper*
They aren’t even going to wait for Nadler’s committee clown show to make a recommendation? Why pretend at this point?
Go ahead Cocaine Mitch – make some crazy rules for the trial and schedule it to run from a week before the Iowa primary to right after Super Tuesday.
Nobody is in control of this mess. It was bound to happen eventually. At least we get to be alive to see it happen.
1998: “You’re impeaching him because of a blowjob”
2019: “You’re impeaching him because he is a blowhard”
It took them 3 years to do something they said they were going to do Inauguration Day
We’re gonna impeache that mother fucker!
3 years is actually kind of fast for DC
At least they did what they promised.
*glares at GOP cunts who promised to repeal Obamacare*
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While you’re in monitoring mode, how are things going in Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, Epstein’s island, oh, and France?
My first thought.
They may just want to start with Riker’s
Maybe they could monitor, I don’t know, New York…
I, for one, fully support the plan of turning NYC into a giant prison.
78% of teachers in the capital were on strike.
For the children, I’m sure.
Democrats should say ” ‘these are the holes’ and say to President Trump ‘we want you to have your chance to defend yourself’ and he will say ‘no,’ I suspect,” said Naftali, a New York University history professor.
“If the American people think the rush is all about the New Hampshire primary and not about the problem of getting documents from the White House, they are not going to understand the seriousness of this.”
We’ll get him out of there, by hook or by crook.
There’s no deadline on getting documents from the White House, so why would that create a rush?
“Somebody in the comments recently asked where were the French yellow jackets. Well, they’re back in the news today.”
The original yellow vest movement was rural and suburban workers protesting carbon taxes that would drive up their energy costs. This is just a strike by tax parasites who are trying to pretend like their cause is somehow aligned with that of the yellow vest movement. Disgusting.
It took all of a week or two before the movement was hijacked by all the usual suspects.
If only he had simply and illegally suspended habeas corpus, imprisoned journalists and political dissidents and waged war on his own people.
The end justifies the means.
Progressive humorist and legal scholar
Melania Trump admonished one of the legal scholars testifying at Wednesday’s impeachment inquiry hearing after the professor made a joke involving her son, Barron, for which the professor later apologized.
“A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it,” the first lady said in a fiery tweet aimed directly at Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan, an impeachment witness for House Democrats.
Trump was addressing Karlan’s mention of Barron Trump in her testimony, wherein she used the 13-year-old’s first name in an analogy to make an argument about the differences between kings and presidents.
“The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the President can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,” said Karlan, who is in favor of President Donald Trump being impeached.
Karlan later apologized for her remark, saying, “I want to apologize for what i said earlier about the President’s son, it was wrong of me to do that. I wish the President would apologize, obviously, for the things he’s done that’s wrong, but I do regret having said that.”
Trump made her say that, the big meanie. He has wrecked the country and destroyed civility in public discourse. Lock him up.
“I want to apologize for what i said earlier about the President’s son, it was wrong of me to do that. I wish the President would apologize, obviously, for the things he’s done that’s wrong, but I do regret having said that.”
Does every woman take a course in how to give non-apologies?
Every politician does
I apologize to the Woman Glibs for my statement, it was hurtful. I wish my wife could learn from mean and give a meaningful apology, but that is no excuse for my behavior.
I recognize that when women behave as if the concepts of cause and effect and responsibility don’t apply to them are victims of a patriarchy that stunted their psychological development, rendering them spoiled children in adult bodies, and I apologize for engaging in victim-blaming when I honk at them for backing out of a driveway into a public street at 30 MPH while putting on makeup and texting at the same time.
I wish my wife could learn from mean
If just being mean to her isn’t working, you might need to escalate to corporal punishment. Creosote probably has some tips for you.
“I want to apologize for what i said earlier about the President’s son, it was wrong of me to do that. I wish the President would apologize, obviously, for the things he’s done that’s wrong, but I do regret having said that.”
WTF is that? I send my kids back to the room when they come out with an apology like that.
I’m sorry you are an unreasonable tyrant.
Back to your room and try again later!
It’s bravery to talk truth to a president who is being impeached for BS and won’t do anything to you anyways.
“Oh, really? Well then I’m sorry that I’m going to give your Christmas presents to the dogs.”
That might have been a little too far. My daughter has asked me every day this week if I was joking when I said that. She’s also been on her best behavior for me, though.
The apology sucked, but I’m still a bit baffled about why that joke got everyone’s panties twisted up. It was a play on his name, not anything personal. It seems a far way from the jokes about Chelsea’s looks.
“It seems a far way from the jokes about Chelsea’s looks.”
Agreed. Except I think the attacks on Chelsea were mainly coming from comedians and not witnesses before Congress.
I think what happened was conservatives were all pissed that the corporate press continues to white knight for Biden’s son saying “children are off limits” and then they wet themselves with joy when this obviously crazy woman made a reference to Barron. It was an overreaction to a retarded double standard that the corporate press has enforced.
Also, Chelsea got hot when she hit her twenties. I’m just say’n
Do you have a gofundme page I could donate to? So you can get the eye care you so obviously need.
Haha. I’m a sucker for red heads
*runs hands through formally red hair that has been grayed by global warming*
A sucker you say?
*bats eyes at TGA*
Makes note to never accept a blind date setup from TGA
Butterface
because people are stupid. Even people who are on your side politically. The joke wasn’t funny, but it wasn’t an attack on the kid.
And, let’s be honest, Barron is a stupid name.
(No offense to any Barron or Baronesses out in Glib land)
WHAT!!!!
I think you mean Baroxxes!
Ahh, Takata the gift that keeps on giving.
New Problems With Takata Air Bags Prompt Recall of 1.4 Million Cars (paywall)
Nice, I’m sure folks driving 20 year cars have a backup auto.
Today’s most lop-sided sporting result, courtesy of the South Asian Games Women’s Cricketing Competition :
Bangladesh 255/2
Maldives 6 all out
Yikes. How do you only score six? I could put a handful of blind batsmen out there and they could score more than six. And there’s no way women bowlers can throw very hard anyway. You’d think batting is the one thing women Would be able to do well in the sports world based i. The lack of speed a female bowler could generate.
Well, it’s cricket, the game which Calvinball was modeled after. I expect that somewhere in the 3rd quarter (or whatever they decided to call it today) successfully striking the ball with the furthermost 1/3 of the bat while thinking of armadillos would score 48 points. But only for the following 2 minutes, 34 seconds.
Vice President Mike Pence, during an appearance in Holland, Michigan, also slammed Karlan’s comment.
“The impeachment hearings today reached a new low,” Pence said. “I just heard at the hearing today, one of the Democrats’ witnesses actually used the President and first lady’s 13-year-old son to justify their partisan impeachment. Democrats should be ashamed. Enough is enough.”
Just what a bible thumper would say.
Slammer mentioned this above, but they were planning on impeaching from the day he won the election. They just needed an excuse, any excuse. This whole dog and pony show reflects that.
Too bad for them they didn’t find one.
That’s the whole problem. They thought the details would just take care of themselves. Or that everyone would just pile on and ignore the details because Trump is a bad man.
I find your avatar to be “othering”. On behalf of PoC, and in particular First Nation People, I am deeply offended.
Good for you.
I’m like a hero
I too think that all icons and symbols of Native Americans should be wiped from our popular culture so that future generations will never know that they existed and that there were people that used to want to identify with their courage.
I mean, they put up a good fight for four hundred years, but in the end, it didn’t work out for them.
Isn’t that how we got the Mormons?
/JK for our LDS brothers and sisters.
I think i see what you did there….
You guys are no fun to tease. Where’s your vitriol?
I agree with you. If TOC would only walk a mile in their moccasins, I’m sure he’d understand how horrible his avatar is. But for some reason Shitlord-breath refuses to even try.
Cevin? Looks wrong somehow.
bwhahahhahahaha
* single tear rolls down cheek *
A positive sign
How fast is the Second Amendment Sanctuary movement growing in Virginia? So fast that even as I was talking with Philip Van Cleave of the Virginia Citizens Defense League for today’s show, another county in the state was adopting a resolution. More than 40 of the state’s 95 counties have adopted the resolution, with at least 20 counties signing on just this week.
Van Cleave was in Virginia Beach on Tuesday evening as the city council heard from dozens of residents urging them to introduce and support a Second Amendment Sanctuary resolution. In addition to the hundreds of citizens who made it inside the council chamber, there were hundreds more on the front steps and lawn of the municipal complex. That type of crowd is becoming a common sight at county commission meetings, and every county employee I’ve spoken to says they’ve never seen anything like this before.
Van Cleave and I also spent some time talking about what happens when the wave of Second Amendment Sanctuary votes subsides and the state legislature begins its session in early January. It’s absolutely critical that the thousands of gun owners who’ve been showing up for the county commission meeting make the drive to Richmond in January for Gun Owners Lobby Day.
2A is clear. Article 1, Section 13 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth is even more clear. Team Blue is proposing some patently illegal and seriously dangerous things that they should reconsider.
“that they should reconsider.”
When the first cops trying to execute a search warrant to seize someone’s guns get shot at, there will be a lot of reconsidering.
Is escalation a form of reconsidering?
I think you autocorrected “reconsidering” for “escalation”. Because any armed resistance to the agents of the state begets escalation until the resister is dead.
Exackle. If you’ve ever read Unintended Consequences, it’s an amusing bit of revenge porn, but it’s 100% impossible that armed resistance ends with the Executive thoughtfully reconsidering decades of escalating overreach.
“Would you shoot a cop over a 30 round magazine?” “I don’t know, would a cop shoot me over a 30 round magazine”
You know who wasn’t part of that little Socratic dialog? Law makers. Don’t expect any reconsideration.
“Would you shoot a cop over a 30 round magazine?”
No, but I might shoot armed men kicking down my door.
Like I said elsewhere, I suspect what this looks like on the ground is a series of events similar to what’s happened where red flag laws have passed: a person who is of very dubious threat is shot and killed by jumpy police who think he reached for something they thought might be next to a gun, it doesn’t play that well in the press, and the laws stay on the books but are enforced less frequently. You’ll see a lot of passive resistance with Ruby Ridge-style events becoming more frequent. In response, you’ll see vigilantism against LEOs who execute those warrants.
Or, maybe it’s more like Prohibition. Gun ownership stays about the same but gun sales become entirely black-market, with local PDs often looking the other way or receiving payoffs in exchange for lax enforcement and tip-offs about raids.
They really seem to want things to come to a violent confrontation. Cops and gun-owners are going to end up dead in VA.
When populists win elections, it’s a conspiracy against the people.
When progressives win elections, it’s a mandate to control the people.
If the progressives are smart, they’ll pass state wide gun control and ignore the counties that are sanctuaries. It will be a great tool to crush individual trouble makers while avoiding wide spread confrontations.
Aren’t counter-factual fun?
@SF I was driving the other day and got behind a Tesla. I mentioned that it was an expensive car to my wife, but that it was “Ostensibly not a death trap”. She looked at me and then said “Oh, so it’s not like a Subaru”. She might not read much from here, but she has enjoyed the Subaru Horror Theater.
The Black community needs REAL leaders. White ones. Love the old lady with the cane:) Violating the NAP but funny nonetheless. TW: TOS.
https://reason.com/2019/12/05/pete-buttigieg-black-lives-matter-sharon-mcbride/
I posted that above and my link was not from TOS.
Also, white progressivism is somewhere between “the dumbest religion ever invented by man” and “legitimate brain cancer that saps the victim of self-awareness”
It’s the new White Man’s Burden. Racism pretending to be tolerance. Just like they disguise their authoritarianism as standing up to the man.
That NPC meme was perfect. They are a mindless hive.
Cool. I miss a lot between potty breaks.
Yeah, I usually post while on the shitter too.
Did some drugs fall out of her ass?
And then there’s Bloomberg.
As president, I will appoint judges who understand that the Second Amendment allows for common sense limits on gun ownership. I’ve spent 15 years working to build a national coalition that is capable of taking on the NRA and winning — and I’m glad to say that we now have the NRA on the ropes. That may be one reason why the NRA is hoping the court will save it.
“Shall not be infringed” has already been more than a little unconstitutionally curtailed.
We left “common sense” in the rear view years ago with regard to gun laws. I know this is crazy, but to me, common sense laws would be ones that don’t inherently violate a Constitutional amendment.
and I’m glad to say that we now have the NRA on the ropes. That may be one reason why the NRA is hoping the court will save it.
I’ve…. I’m not quite sure this pans out. A lot of the left think they are winning on the 2A, but i just don’t see it. Not Legally.
i just don’t see it. Not Legally.
SCOTUS has dodged any number of challenges to gun control laws, many of which were upheld at the Circuit Court level. If the gun grabbers aren’t winning in the courts, they sure aren’t losing.
“I’m glad to say that we now have the NRA on the ropes.”
I’m not sure WTF he thinks this means. The Heller and McDonald decisions are the biggest supreme court decisions that did a lot to bolster gun ownership rights in my lifetime. Yeah, there are some blazing illogical holes in those but mostly they helped support the RKBA across the country.
And yet I’m off to take a class and pay another protection fee to the gov in order to exercise RKBA.
He’s not wrong in a sense. The NRA is in disarray from the top down. That has little to do with Bloomberg, though, and a lot to do with institutional rot. They got fat and happy and now they won’t reform even as gun rights are in retreat across the country.
It was a totally unrehearsed ad lib
Finally, a smoking pun. A simple play on words told us everything about the impeachment inquiry, the current mindset in Congress and the state of the nation.
The witness Pamela Karlan cracked a joke that delighted liberals and infuriated conservatives. Or rather, it delighted conservatives because it gave them a talking point to whip up outrage.
The afternoon session of the House judiciary committee hearing on the constitutional framework for impeachment had just begun when the Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee posed the question: “What comparisons can we make between kings that the framers were afraid of and the president’s conduct today?”
Karlan, a Stanford Law School professor, replied: “Kings could do no wrong because the king’s word was law. Contrary to what President Trump has said, article two [of the constitution] does not give him the power to do anything he wants.
“I will give you one example that shows the difference between him and a king, which is: the constitution says there can be no titles of nobility. While the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron.”
Jackson Lee smiled and there was laughter in the big and ornate committee room, where two carved eagles look down under the words “E pluribus unum” (out of many, one) and a dozen uniformed Capitol police lent an air of a courtroom drama. Karlan’s point echoed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s recent opinion, cited at Wednesday’s hearing, that “the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that presidents are not kings”.
Oh lordy, what a bon mot. And those Republikkkinz, all they can do is sputter in outrage. It’s like shooting fish in a toilet.
When people are outraged, it’s an outrage that they love being outraged.
how many “czars” did the last few presidents make?
REPUBLICANS POUNCE!
Contrary to what President Trump has said, article two [of the constitution] does not give him the power to do anything he wants
His pen and phone are not Barry’s pen and phone.
And has Trump even made that claim in any serious way?
the constitution says there can be no titles of nobility
So we are going to stop refering to ex Reps/Senators/Presidents as “Rep/Senator/President” right?
LOL… yeah… right, that’s going to happen
Those aren’t titles of nobility, they’d all be pejorative in a just society.
This guy gets it. Titles of Ignobility.
A Facebook rumor about white vans is spreading fear across America
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/tech/facebook-white-vans/index.html
*puts on tinfoil hat*
What if the corporate press is dismissing this as an “unfounded rumor” much like they did with Epstein for years leading up to his arrest?
Black helicopters > White Vans. However, OMWC is proof positive that the rumours are true.
Old Men with candy hardest hit?
Nah. OMWC’s van is way cooler
In Utah, those are called Polygamist Vans, not Kidnapper Vans.
It’s all in the marketing.
They kidnap women, force them to wear ankle length plain dresses, and then force them to be Ammon’s fifth wife.
How does one get in on this? Is there some kind of auction you sign up for?
You want another wife?
Asking for a friend obviously.
Cue Rodney Dangerfield…
“I said to my wife, ‘Honey, is there somebody else?’ She said, ‘There *has* to be.’”
Now do the vaping panic.
It’s a great deal for thousands of electricians, plumbers and appliance repair guys who will never have to worry about someone parking too close to them.
Because you could throw it at them? There is another slightly larger than a cell phone object that would really deter a person from abducting you.
The white vans I saw in Baltimore always had a great deal on some overstock speakers.
Oh, like the Beltway Sniper days. I lived about a mile away from Tasker Middle, where one of the shootings happened. That’s right at the edge of my grandparents’ neighborhood. K-section.
But could we forgive the pun? Not when the president’s son, tall but only 13 years of age, was involved. Republicans’s well-oiled fury machine clicked straight into gear. Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, tweeted: “Classless move by a Democratic ‘witness’. Prof Karlan uses a teenage boy who has nothing to do with this joke of a hearing (and deserves privacy) as a punchline.”
I’d say the Republicans’ well oiled fury machine is like a wheezing, clanking Model T compared to the Dems’.
Imagine if some GOP whackjob had belittled Obama’s choice of names for his kids.
I remember some people pointing out that Sasha was a boy’s name, but it never got very far.
I don’t think outrage is a good battle tactic for the Rs to employ. The terrain is not the same as for the Ds. You have to fight with what you’ve got and outrage ain’t it.
Here Comes the Merch: Sony Strikes Deal for Beatles Memorabilia (paywall)
The Beatles were essentially my parent’s generation. I listened to them and know just about all their catalog, but they aren’t exactly on my playlists. And I’m willing to bet my son doesn’t know a single song and has no idea what impact they had on music. Not seeing a big long term revenue stream here.
The division over this pun – a laugh line to some, evidence of liberal sneering to others – cut to the chase of yet another hopelessly polarised hearing. Facts mattered less than being on the winning team. It made one wonder whether Americans don’t even laugh at the same jokes any more.
Three of the witnesses, including Karlan, had been called by Democrats to testify that the evidence gathered regarding Trump’s dealings with Ukraine meets the historical definition of impeachment. The other witness had been called by Republicans. Few Democratic or Republican politicians put a question to a witness from the other side.
Democrats got plenty of ammunition. Representative Steve Cohen laid out an ABC – Abuse of power, Betrayal of the national interest and Corruption of elections – and asked if Trump had achieved the trifecta. “Yes,” replied all three Democratic witnesses. Michael Gerhardt, a University of North Carolina law professor, said: “I just want to stress that if what we’re talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable.”
But their opponents worked tirelessly to argue that their witnesses were partisan ivory tower-dwellers and therefore ignorable in this “sham” and “farce”.
The Republican witness was Jonathan Turley, who was somewhat measured, opining that Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president “was anything but perfect”. But the George Washington University law professor said: “One can oppose President Trump’s policies or actions but still conclude that the current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but in some respects dangerous.”
There were also some structural problems for Democrats in the all-important court of public opinion. At hearings like Wednesday’s, they have to take turns with Republicans, which creates an impression of equivalence: first let’s put the case for the world being round, now let’s hear the case that it’s flat.
It’s not fair to have to let the Republikkkinz muddy the waters, when it is as plain as the nose on your face that Trump is a menace to world order. Can’t we put an end to this pointless shillyshallying?
IMPEACH NOW
The hearing itself was pointless. The House has the power to impeach, the Senate the power to try and remove. There have only been 2 impeachments of Presidents in the past, and both have failed to result in removal. The Constitution is vague on the criteria. The House did not need any cover from these idiots, and seems to have hurt their case by wasting time having them speak.
They keep coming out with these, “Rah, rah, rah! Our team! Go out there and and beat the pants off the other team!” It’d be like a football coach doing that before every down. It’s too much and I can’t imagine it not backfiring.
“Those fuckers shouldn’t be able to take part in our kangaroo court. Because they’re wrong and we’re right and nobody needs to be exposed to wrongthink!”
There were also some structural problems for Democrats in the all-important court of public opinion. At hearings like Wednesday’s, they have to take turns with Republicans, which creates an impression of equivalence: first let’s put the case for the world being round, now let’s hear the case that it’s flat.
Party of Science! demands that you stop your debate. There is no debate. We have reached the end of history, and it is now time to get off the train of open debate.
“It made one wonder whether Americans don’t even laugh at the same jokes any more.”
Anyone who laughed at that was really, really forcing it for political reasons.
Has the Daily Show writing staff come up with a joke other than “lolol, rethuglikkkans stoopid, amirite?” for the last two decades?
After a year of work our paper on evaluating performance of historical climate models is finally out! We found that 14 of 17 the climate projections released between 1970 and 2001 effectively matched observations after they were published.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hausfath/status/1202271427807678464
So what about the thousands of other projections that didn’t?
And are we talking about raw data or ‘adjusted’ data?
You can’t use the raw data. It hasn’t been normalized to fit the predictions.
In this case, I do wonder a bit how much the opposite occurred: that the models were interpreted more conservatively to fit the actual data. Some of that perception may be due to the rather wide distance between what the models actually say and how they are presented to laypeople, though.
Vague recollection: the major models actually are used to produce a number of scenarios, from conservative to, well, ambitious. If the model’s most conservative prediction’s error bar barely fits inside the actual data, I don’t call that a success.
“Controlling for mismatches in future forcings, 14 of the 17 projections match observations”
You can’t control for something that’s endogenous to the model dude. That’s not how math works.
Assume a spherical cow…
Oh, its actually worse than that. You can get shit done with spherical cow assumptions, if you make them correctly.
This is literally ‘We evaluated a model that uses X, Y, and Z. Once we controlled for X (IE modified ground truth to be different based on a projection)’ and then saying “10 of 17 model projections were statistically indistinguishable from observations.”
Got that? When they cheat, they have a hit rate of 59%. That’s astonishingly bad.
Here’s more evidence that their models are good: https://mobile.twitter.com/hausfath/status/1202271436011761665/photo/1
Look at that fucking graph. Every Single Model except a few from the 70’s overestimated CO2 PPM. That is literally the mathematical definition of mathematical literal bias. And the ones from the 80’s and 90’s, the ones I learned about in school, where off by a factor of 2.
And this is the best evidence that the models are good?
This shit wouldn’t get published
in any other field…in any high quality journal…in a high quality journal in a hard science fieldin a high quality journal in a data modeling field like econometrics or comp sci.This
Has Spencer weighed in yet?
Hmm, yeah there’s a buried lede there. The conclusion is overstated. The models by and large did not predict temperature accurately because they did not predict the changes in their inputs accurately. There’s a logical leap from “we’re only looking at the climate physics, not missed forcing factor predictions” to “the models did well and affirm our faith in climate science”. In other words, if you feed the models better data in hindsight, then they “forecast” well. But then they’re really hindcasting at this point, since they’re feeding actual input data over the “future” time range.
And even then, a number of models still tend to predict in the upper range of observed temperatures.
It doesn’t look heavily adjusted (at least, the “actual” data, and for the time range of relevance, which is roughly the 1970s to 2010). It lines up closely with UAH’s temperature anomaly graph, albeit with a different baseline and starting point. Their trendline is approximately 0.1 C/decade which is congruent with the satellite data.
As someone who makes good living from obfuscation and misdirection, I applaud their use of “effectively”. Which is basically a euphemism for “not actually, dammit”.
I can imagine going to our comp committee meeting and saying “Well, our incentive target for operating income was 10%, and we made 8%, so we effectively met our target. Pay us.”
Well, there’s another takeaway from that, which is that the scaremongering models didn’t hold up. There’s no hockey stick, and the temperature isn’t going to rise by more than 2 C/century and will probably be less than that.
There is only one number that matters regarding CO2: the death of plant life occurs around ~125-150 ppm. We are currently at ~405 ppm. As anyone who grows anything knows, plants do really well between 1000-1500 ppm, depending upon the specific flora. Everything on Earth is dependent upon plants doing their magic photosynthesis thingy of converting sunlight, water, air (with CO2 in it), and some soil minerals magically into nuts and seeds, fruit and vegetables, and everything else necessary to sustain Life.
The fucking death cult morons are screaming about trying to REDUCE CO2 when we’re already approaching dangerously close to the death of plant life. But yeah, just keep braying at the moon, idiots. God, it is truly amazing that we live in a time of such unrepentant, self-righteous stupidity coupled with arrogance. There is nothing worse than being condescended to by morons.
‘Peaches.
Peaches
Teaches of Peaches
Note: naughty words. Be sure to turn the volume WAY up before playing
Eat a Peach
Great record.
<a href="https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/12/04/jonathan-turley-not-impeach-american-president/"Not my impeachment
The core of Turley’s argument was that the founders rejected a loose standard for impeachment, one which might include such vague crimes as “maladministration” and instead settled on a stricter standard let the Congress be given power to remove any president it disagreed with. “In the end various standards that had been used in the past were rejected: Corruption, obtaining office by improper means, betraying trust to a foreign power, negligence, perfidy, peculation, and oppression,” he said.
Turley then pointed out that a common factor in previous impeachments was that they “all involved established crimes.” “This would be the first impeachment in history where there would be considerable debate and in my view not compelling evidence of the commission of a crime,” he said.
En contraire. All I need to do is use words like “compelling evidence” and “credibly accused” and viola. Guilty.
I have a hard time thinking Andrew Johnson’s was an “Established Crime”. He refused to follow an unconstitutional law from congress.
Not only that, the law was specifically designed to entrap him over the use of his Constitutional powers. Impeachment of the President has never been anything but political gamesmanship.
The Founders wound up using the standard for impeachment in the English Parliament. It is somewhat vague, and the structure is a little puzzling. Treason, bribery, those are easy.
“High crimes and misdemeanors” is less than clear. I believe “high” can be read as a reference to or requirement of “abuse of office” or “abuse of power” (which would probably make Clinton’s impeachment for perjury illegitimate, as I don’t see an abuse of office or power there).
“Crimes and misdemeanors” is the nut, though. Typically, every word in a statute must be given some effect, as the canons of interpretation require. If so, then “misdemeanors” don’t have to be actual crimes (and their status as crimes when the Constitution was ratified is unclear – the word appears to have been evolving through that time from “something reprehensible but not a felony/crime” to “a minor crime”.
It is clearly intended to be a requirement that the President only be impeached for something that goes beyond a purely political dispute. I am not seeing much of anything here that isn’t a purely political dispute.
When interpreting a contract, the parties’ past course of action can be used to clarify ambiguity. If one party tolerates certain activity by the other party, it is hard to suddenly declare it a breach. Using this rule of construction, there is nothing that would qualify for impeachment. Presidents have routinely declined to cooperate with Congressional investigations, and have routinely tied foreign aid to actions by the recipients, some of which have domestic political relevance.
I view it as a purely political act. If Congress can pull it together the votes to do it, then go ahead. The words are guidelines.
Otherwise, you’re going to end up arguing over what the meaning of “is” is. I don’t think that’s what they intended.
I’ll say it again: “Can” =/= “Constitutional” or “legitimate”. The Constitution exists to put some limits on the “purely political” acts of Congress and the President.
If we are unconcerned about legitimacy and Constitutionality because it requires parsing a legal document, and we regard “shall pass no law” and “shall not be infringed” as guidelines rather than hard stops on government action, then we are giving up one of the few remaining protections, however tattered it may be, between us and totalitarianism.
Missed your reply yesterday re: FCPA. If you scroll down to the next section, the next one prohibits everyone else not falling under the first section from bribing foreign government officials.
If I can’t post poorly researched hot takes on the internet, then what is it good for?
Of course, releasing Ukraine aid was not bribery of a foreign official. It wasn’t released to the Ukrainian PM’s Swiss bank account.
Of course not. But don’t let that stop Trump’s opponents from claiming so.
Of course, but who determines whether or not something is purely political? It’s the lunatics running the asylum. I firmly believe that the wording of the Constitution is meaningful and deliberate, was intended to be a legal document, and should be read and treated as such. Obviously this is not the way in which the government has viewed it for, oh, two hundred some-odd years.
So who’s going to be the final arbiter of the words’ meaning in this case? Congress or SCOTUS?
I don’t see a united Congress removing a President as a totalitarian act. Congress is elected as well.
Now involving SCOTUS seems a bit more dangerous to me.
Just opining here.
So who’s going to be the final arbiter of the words’ meaning in this case?
I don’t think SCOTUS would touch this. It would be up to Congress to exercise its obligation to not take unconstitutional action.
Don’t laugh.
Still, the argument must be made that this impeachment (and any removal) is unconstitutional. Sadly, we can’t rely on either Congress or the public to take seriously their responsibility to uphold the Constitution, but that’s not a problem with impeachment, that’s a problem with the whole system and society.
If Congress can pull it together the votes to do it, then go ahead.
I’m not sure I agree. Then you get the President serving at the pleasure of Congress. That seems to break the balance of power between the branches (not that it’s not already broken in the opposite direction). Maybe the solution is that impeachment triggers a snap election for both branches.
I prefer the “original public meaning” mode of analysis. The Virginia House of Whatever they were called is the only place I know of that talked about this on point before they ratified the Constitution. They basically said that it doesn’t matter what limits are put on the President in relation to the emoluments clause (!!!) because if he does something unseemly, then he can be impeached.
1) This is not the only way to read what is in the record, but its the most natural way to read it to me.
2) I don’t think there’s an officially recognized canon as such, but I think there should be a canon that anything ambiguous in the constitution should be interpreted in the way that limits the power of any office. This colors my feeling on this, and you might not agree since this is literally head canon.
We don’t need a bunch of women telling us how to live.
https://youtu.be/t1Uu-VTXfRE
CNN headline:
A retiring House Democrat just nailed what’s wrong with our politics
Republikkkinz.
What did I win?
Compromise is doing what I want, and you liking it, not meeting each other halfway.
I don’t want the Republicans and Democrats to compromise. That’s when bad shit gets made into law.
Oh, the individual parties can do that all on their own, too.
Mornin’, Glibbies. Here at the eye doc for XX’s 3rd doc appt in 3 days. Sadly, XX cannot be taken to amy old eye doc so we had to go across town to Childrens Mercy.
Anyway… (they called us to the room before I was finished) …there was a poor wee child in the lobby sitting on the floor refusing to move and the security guard was trying to coax him. He asked him a bunch of questions and finally hit paydirt: Do you want to go to school? Emphatic shake of the head.
Well, shit, I wouldn’t, either, if I lived in the KC school district.*
*I’m making a whole lot of assumptions here.
Oh KCMO the eyesore in a sea of good school districts. Proof that teachers mostly do not have effect on the success of students.
*an effect.
St Louis school district os not accredited, either.
And it all started here: https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/money-school-performance-lessons-kansas-city-desegregation-experiment
So a judge 200 miles away ordered the KCMO district to desegregate which involved buses and taxis. They spent scads of money, stolen from districts in the rest of the state, bankrupting more than a few school districts, and got nowhere with accreditation, but the school board got used to that sweet sweet mo ey and have never let go of it. The KCMO SD goes through a superintendant every 1-2 years.
Meanwhile, they are begging anyone with a degree to teach. No teaching cert necessary. Huge salary, school paid for while you work on your cert and master’s. Great benefits. Still can’t get anybody willing to work there.
It’s a fucking mess.
Jesus, that report is a train wreck in itself. ‘Taxpayers refuse to provide adequate funding’ by refusing to approve the SD’s tax increases. Fuck you, cut spending. And then the fed judge forced property tax increases on the electorate by fiat. 1/3 third of the windfall came from them. He’s lucky residents chose to flee rather than lynching his unconstitutional ass.
State sovereignty is such a quaint notion. We’re all better off with unelected people deciding the rules on the fly.
Pelosi is drunk as shit giving this press conference.
She’s hoping to get the Katie Hill Bump.
Euphemism?
What’s going on with her hairline?
This is Kennedy-esque in its level of slurring words and speaking gibberish. If her BAC is below 2.0, I’d be shocked.
There is some speculation that she has Tardive Diskinesia from mixed demensia, with some symptoms masked by botox.
The baron pun was funny.
Just because her name sounds like Carlin, doesn’t make her a comedian.
Compromise is doing what I want, and you liking it, not meeting each other halfway./em>
Democrats want to make America a better, fairer society. Why won’t Republikkkinz let them?
If you have nothing to hide…
“No, I’m not going to let them take their eye off the ball,” the former vice president told reporters when asked about the possibility on his “No Malarkey” bus tour in Iowa. “The president is the one who has committed impeachable crimes, and I’m not going to let him divert from that. I’m not going to let anyone divert from that.”
Biden’s refusal sets up the likelihood that he would need to be subpoenaed to appear before Congress, especially if the impeachment inquiry proceeds to a trial in the Senate. Some Republicans, like Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), have already signaled it would be inappropriate for the impeachment inquiry, let alone a trial, to progress without the testimonies of both the former vice president and his youngest son, Hunter. As such, Senate Republicans have begun looking into the Obama-era White House and Hunter Biden’s wheeling and dealing in Ukraine, which has taken center stage in the inquiry.
Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he’s going to regret his whole life,” Biden said last month when asked about the senator’s efforts around impeachment. “I say Lindsey, I just—I’m just embarrassed by what you’re doing, for you. I mean, my Lord.”-
Sounds like intimidation AND obstruction. Lock Joe up!
“Trust me Uncle Joe, Lindsey never was embarrassed by going down.”
-Ghost of John McCain
The baron pun was funny.
I wouldn’t go that far. It hardly met the definition of attack or abuse, though. Just the sort of thing a self-absorbed douchebag would think was witty.
Here’s probably a self evident if not plain stupid question: From now on, if the opposing party has control of the house, will impeachment become just another routine action? How about if the opposing party controls both chambers?
Oh no, now the president will be restrained from doing shit that pisses off so many people he loses congress in the midterms. What a terrible and unexpected outcome.
Ugh. The index card of allowable opinion just got laminated.
Given that the index card of allowable opinion appears to include “use flying murder robots to execute us citizens without judicial oversight” and “use taxpayer money to bail out preferred automakers and banks but not unpreferred ones” I’m not sure we should let the good be the enemy of the bad.
“enemy of the perfect” blah
Yep. That was my point, in case it wasn’t clear; what a president can do has been limited to the terrible stuff they already are doing.
It’s kinda lookin’ that way, isn’t it? The Republicans started this shit with Clinton, who should have been ridden out on a rail and likely imprisoned for any number of crimes, none of which they were able to establish through the impeachment process.
I don’t think so, Trump seems to inspire a unique level of hate.
Also, if the R’s try this, the media will be blaring about the anti-democratic and illegitimate nature and reminding the Rs of Clinton. At which point they wil cave and award the D prexy a medal.
Used to be that way. We’ll see if Trump has reshaped them into a lasting populist party or not. If they stay populist, I’d bet on them serving this impeachment stuff right back at team blue.
My stupid question is this: Suppose the Dems did have a super majority in the Senate too. Could they impeach both Trump and Pence at the same time? Then the new President would be Pelosi.
I’m sure that would go over great in Rubeville. Sure you had an election, but we decided to overturn it because we can.
*boogaloo meme production intensifies*
Could they impeach both Trump and Pence at the same time?
Yes, they could.
Which is fine. Pelosi was elected after all. Sure, maybe not by everyone, but by those people who matter. Hah! Didn’t think your support for the racist EC would bite you in the ass like that did ya?
Which is fine, provided the impeachments and removals are for “treason, bribery, or high crimes and misdemeanors”.
If they aren’t, its a coup, and everyone who voted for it should be executed for sedition.
Said of Johnson’s impeachment:
Attributed to Lyman Trumbull
As it stands, I’d think the Reps would have a better chance of getting 2/3 of a hypothetical senate to remove a sitting president. The current make up? No, but maybe if the cultural split continues.
No. If there is a Democratic president, Republicans will be attacked by our corporate press for daring to question his wisdom. There is very very recent historical precedent to show that this only works one way. A Republican president just can never lose any house of congress
At the end of the day, the American voters as a whole either have no fucking clue what they want or they never consistently assemble enough people with a shared purpose come election time. That the corporate press does absolutely nothing resembling any vital service for them despite alleging otherwise is somewhat ancillary to this fact. The brief Democrat supermajority from 2008-2010 notwithstanding, there’s no real and lasting aim to most election outcomes (fanciful interpretations notwithstanding). That the press plays favorites in this dog and pony show only speaks to their own insular king and court mentality, not ultimately to anything of real consequence.
The corporate press has been seriously injured. Hopefully it’ll take a mortal shot over the next few years. And it’ll be self inflicted.
While the seeds of this transformation have already been there, they’ve already morphed into a nearly unrecognizable entity in order to survive. They seem more like cockroaches than something killable.
Based on that Guardian article, I think that “barron/baron” thing was completely scripted.
They probably paid somebody on the Saturday Night Live staff to write it out for them.
I’d have guessed The New Yorker. It’s the same kind of unfunny joke that’s supposed to elicit a mild chuckle from people who describe things as “droll”.
Yes, I chuckled mildly.
The idea that it was scripted takes away even that much.
Of course it was scripted. Everything she said was scripted. You don’t put “expert” witnesses like her on the stand to ad lib.
SNL? more like some unpaid TA saw it on reddit and started saying it around her office.
Prof Karlan: Our national interest for Ukraine to fight Russians there so we don’t fight here
Oh, FFS!!! How about we don’t fight the Russians there or here? It’s hardly like they’ve made a whole lot of aggressive gestures toward the U.S. Mostly, they’re either continuing longstanding relationships (Syria) or trying to hold on to territory they’ve considered theirs for centuries (Crimea). For the most part, we’ve been the aggressors in our relations with them, at least in recent years.
In just a little over ten years, the American left has gone from accusing their opponents of being warmongers to being unrepentant warmongers themselves. And if this POS supports Elizabeth Warren, I’m just going to have to assume Injun Lizzie also gets a warm tingly feeling in the front of her panties about sending young Americans to die, as well.
Would you not fight the Russians in a box? Would you not fight Russians with a Fox?
I would not like to pick a fight with the Russians while wearing your sox.
When you’re talking about Russian foxes, do you mean the domesticated fur bearing animals or Russian women between the ages of 16 and 27?
Whatabout Russian boxes, wink wink nudge nudge.
The Ghost of McCain smiles
I wonder how they would react to Russia funding Mexico to battle our objectives in Latin America.
I like how Ukraine has become an indispensable ally when they literally never were ever. This lady only proved that we need to completely defund colleges which are nothing more than religious cathedral dedicated to spreading the Gospel of Wokism
But they are the buffer zone to the buffer zone to the NATO buffer zone which keeps the Russians from knocking on the doorstep of our gigantic, aquatic, buffer zone!
If we don’t fight the Russians there, then we’ll have to find them somewhere only slightly less far away! And by we, I mean probably somebody else.
I was going to say that we should make that old hag’s kids fight for Ukraine, but then I realized that there is a strong correlation between the likelihood of dying alone and being a white progressive so she probably doesn’t have any kids. Maybe we should just draft the faculty at Ivy League colleges to fight for Ukraine. We can call it “The Worthless Battalion” and we’ll all get a good laugh when they come home in body bags.
I for one fully support the College Administrators, Diversity Coordinators, and Myriad Other Functionaries and Mandarins’ Crusade.
“Which is precisely why we need to make them part of the EU and NATO!!!”
Yeah, it really is that batshit crazy. None of this makes any sense. I swear, I almost think the point of this isn’t anything more than trying to provoke the Russians into a war.
When does the National Security Establishment start arguing to have Chechnya join NATO?
I wonder how they would react to Russia funding Mexico to battle our objectives in Latin America.
They’d be fine with it.
I realized that there is a strong correlation between the likelihood of dying alone and being a white progressive so she probably doesn’t have any kids
You would be correct – she is “bisexual” with a female “partner”, and no kids.
I think Warren would continue Obama’s policy of sending blankets to the Ukraine. But they’d be small pox infested blankets. That’s just the way she was born.
No. If there is a Democratic president, Republicans will be attacked by our corporate press for daring to question his wisdom. There is very very recent historical precedent to show that this only works one way. A Republican president just can never lose any house of congress
Posted this in the wrong place
and the VCDL picked up another two counties last night bringing Virginia’s 2A sanctuary total to 43.
I signed a petition to make Saratoga County a 2A sanctuary. If you never hear from me again, the password to my porn collection is “p0rn.”
New York? is there a 2A movement afoot there?
Only among the yokels. But that’s where I live.
~ From the “We Are the Domesticated Version of our Wild and Independent Forefathers” Files.
Here is what the Founders did.
Our schools have been teaching and preaching obedience to authority for centuries. I posted a link yesterday to a Maryland man being shot dead by cops coming to seize his guns. Let’s see what happens in VA. Either the gungrabbers will back down or the People of VA will. I’m genuinely curious as to how this plays out.
Holy shit, how did I not hear about this.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-officers-serving-red-flag-gun-removal-order-fatally-shoot-armed-man/
Cynically, I would like to know the race of the man killed. I wonder if anyone with a BLM shirt has had anything to say about it, if the victim was of the preferred race.
his fucking cuntbag prog sister called in the Red Flag. i bet she’s now a big hit at all the family gatherings.
his fucking cuntbag prog sister called in the Red Flag.
I wish I knew her, so I could loudly shun her at every opportunity:
“Oh, yeah, she’s the woman who got her brother killed by siccing the cops on him. A real peach. I’d stay far away from her if I were you. If she’ll have her own brother killed, I would say nobody is safe.”
Dammit people, I posted this like 3 times when it happened.
In any case, it had absolutely no effect on local or state elections, except insofar as they went even more blue.
Sorry man, I’ve sniffed so much glue I have no idea what I read a few months ago.
Sniffing glue is necrophiliac bestiality foot fetishism.
Meh, I’m more just amused that it’s been posted a couple times lately.
(technically, Hogan (R) won reelection as governor, and I think with more votes than the first time around, but he is the quintessential blue-state Republican and had signed the “red flag” law into effect, not that a veto would have mattered what with the legislative supermajority the Democrats have enjoyed for decades; but, principally, the local elections in AA county, where this man was killed, went blue for the first time in a while)
Hogan has been an enormous disappointment, but he’s still better than the Dems he’s run against. Which is an incredibly low bar to clear. I’ve heard it said that the reason he votes like a “moderate” Democrat is because if he shows any sign of resistance to the state Dems they’ll make priority number one getting him out of office. As a guy with a job who wants to keep it, I can sympathize, but as a resident of the state it doesn’t carry much water with me.
*by “votes” I mean behaves; the sleep deprivation is catching up to me…
It’s clear he has ambitions beyond the governor’s office, and the best way to not have those torpedoed (which is no guarantee of success, though) is to play along. It doesn’t help that the voters will gladly assist the legislature in neutering him, as evidenced by support for the ridiculous constitutional amendment that makes the governor, an elected official, bow and scrape to the
people’s sovietunelected, non-governmental “central party committee” of the outgoing officeholder’s affiliated party when replacing the attorney general or comptroller.While the outcome was horrid, the dude was an asshole who was making threats against a person’s life. I’ve got a mixed response to this.
He was, according to the cops at least, belligerent with them too, which is what eventually led to them shooting him. I don’t know that there’s any great answer here, but there are certainly less bad ones.
I guess death penalty for a drunken threat, not made with any further attempt to carry it out, is now totes A-Okay!
I wonder how many of my friends would be dead if one of their drunken family arguments resulted in cops banging on their door and trying to take their guns?
The, or at least my, argument against these kind of things isn’t (just) that some Red Blooded, White Skinned, Blue F150, Charlie Daniels fan is going to strap on a plate carrier and pull out his claymore clacker after his wife tells the pediatrican there is an AR 15 in the safe in Daddy’s closet.
Its also that the poorly-trained police are going to show up at 5:00 and act like a cop at the door of people who are pissed off / deranged and own guns. You seen many cops when they know they have to deal with a normie who might be armed? They get buzzed out of their mind on adrenaline and Warrior Training and execute them in front of toddlers (insert link to Philandro). These are people who said “Hey, we gotta go take this guy’s guns. I know, lets do no background research on why that is and just go bang on his door at 5:00 in the morning.”
So the bar for what gets you a red flag will keep getting lower, and the bar for response has to keep getting higher (‘If it saves just one cops life, we’ll serve this from a BearCat’ can’t be too far away)
(PS turns out this county is 75% white 15% black, and so while I expect these laws to land heaviest on minority populations, that is unlikely the case here).
Piss on you, I love CDB!
Also, my blood happens to be red, racist.
I’m genuinely curious as to how this plays out.
only about a month left until we find out.
hell, even if they ended state preemption and only passed UBCs and an AWB in urban areas, the rest of the state would still be unable to purchase semi-auto rifles.
And the ATF would enforce statewide restrictions as much of federal interpretation of what’s legal depends on the state (aside from specifics in federal law).
They landed it at night when it’s cooler.
Prof Karlan: Our national interest for Ukraine to fight Russians there so we don’t fight here
[insert Harry Dean Stanton “Avenge me” clip]
If the Republicans were smart they would be using humor as a main tactic against the impeachment charade. The Biden family seems to provide a daily dose of top notch material. Kids on laps, smoking crack, nibbling fingers, impregnating strippers, Ukrainian bribes, blind leg hair slides. They need better writers.
And 5 years ago, Biden and Trump would’ve been politically almost indistinguishable, eccentricities included. You can’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it all, although so many people seem to be taking it so very seriously.
This is the most amazing thing to me: Trump is politically indistinguishable from what we all knew as a Reagan Democrat. Most of his political leanings would be of the typical “New Yawk” Team Blue voter. The Dems have veered so hard left they don’t even recognize their own team members anymore. Remember this: Trump was personally called by Bill Clinton and encouraged to run and we know now it was specifically a part of Herself/Team Blue’s plan to hope he won because they thought he was the weakest possible Team Red candidate! It’s fucking insane.
If the Republicans were smart they would be using humor as a main tactic against the impeachment charade.
Agreed. Although some outrage at the naked idiocy and hypocrisy would also be warranted.
Yeah, a bit of disdain mixed in, along with constant reminders that this is how the Dems want Congress to spend its time.
If the Republicans where smart, we wouldn’t have the last 15 years seeing the groundwork for someone like Trump to get elected.
Step One: Demonstrate that the establishment doesn’t give a shit about you.
Step 2: Demonstrate that the courts don’t give a shit about you.
Step 3: see if the spam filter stops a comment with two links…
Step 2 linky no worky
TLDR: John Roberts said the court’s job isn’t to protect you from elected officials. If you don’t like what Obama did, get your own big man who doesn’t respect the courts.
No way. Kids are off limits. Even if they’re 49 years old.