Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but me who was up late drinking with Sloopy and now has a full day of life to fight through.
Shoot this straight into my veins!
It’s impossible to not enjoy this shitshow.
This man might be the dumbest motherfucker on the planet.
Sweet Jesus, people, it’s the fucking measles, stop being such hyperbolic pussies and acting like it’s ebola.
Corruption or stupidity? Who know, it’s a Jersey thing.
What is six months to live, Alex?
That’s all I got for today, here’s your song. I’m going to go get my daughter ready for school and desperately try to keep myself awake with various caffeinated drinks.
Comments
451 responses to “Thursday Morning Links”
Sweet Jesus, people, it’s the fucking measles, stop being such hyperbolic pussies and acting like it’s ebola. – I had the measles and I was just fine. Made me better./ Stronger. Prettier
I actually think I had every one what in Romania is called childhood diseases. Measels chicken pox mumps rubella everything
#metoo
The chickenpox vaccine came out here in the states a year or two after I had it.
Same here
Dropsy? Ague? Cattarh?
I caught one at the Neverland ranch.
A lot of little kids caught one there.
Anti vaxxers gave me genital warts.
I caught one at the Neverland ranch.
That should be on T-shirt.
Most of them I had before age of 5 and do not even remember. I think the measles was 7th or 8th grade.
I had some friend get it in University right around mid term exams and they could not sit for them, and there was a particular teacher who refused to even consider having a special session so they basically went into end of term exams with a 0 for mid terms
Vampirism? Lycanthropy?
“I believe I must have the f̵a̵r̵t̵s̵ vapors!”
Measles might not be ebola, but you still shouldn’t go all Wisconsin Man when you get it.
I bet this guy also did not wipe down any equipment (or rack his weights) after he was done.
*An actual Wisconsin Man would have gone to a road house, not a Gold’s Gym.
Are you telling me they don’t have kegs next to the exercise equipment at gyms in Wisconsin?
Cheese curd buckets hang off the treadmill arms.
Corruption or stupidity? Who know, it’s a Jersey thing.
Never ascribe to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by corruption when a government agency is involved.
Sharpe James (former Mayor of Newark) was convicted of these kinds of shenanigans. I think he got the city to sell one of his girlfriends property way below market value (but for more than $1).
Yes, typical New Jersey hijinks making everything at least ten times more expensive than it should be, which is why the government always wants to keep raising taxes ever higher to try to pay for it all.
I’m surprised the locals aren’t outside city hall with ptichforks and torches.
>>What is six month to live, Alex?
ooh that’s cold.
bit harsh even for this place
I cant criticize. I have crossed the line at least once myself. The problem is that the jokes write themselves in this case.
I saw Trebek interviewed once and the impression I came away with is that the guy is a bit of a dummy. I have never heard anything bad about the guy.
Yeah, crossing the line actually makes it funnier in a sick way.
Must be a hell of a hangover.
me: Do you the doc game him his diagnosis in the form of a question?
wife: [stares at idiot husband]
think…gave
Maybe that is why she stared…she thought you were having a stroke?
“That’s not a stroke, THIS is a stroke!”
– Luke Perry
Oooh, the daily double down. Love these.
Oh man. My wife is gonna be devastated. She watches Jeopardy! religiously.
Same here.
I even had a buddy go on a win $29K… came back next day and got second.
I think she’d be starstruck if she met someone who went on Jeopardy!, forget someone who actually won money on it. She follows Matt Jackson on social media. It’s a thing.
I have had two friends on Jeopardy
1 did the college one and did ok
The other did the real thing and won a couple nights. Random tidbit, she was on during the recession and They wouldn’t let her say she was unemployed because of the image they wanted to maintain
I had two close friends in the supertournament of super champions. One was eliminated in the QF but was the alternate for the SF. My other friend made the SF and went up to the alternate and said, “I hear you know robc”. Freaked the other out.
They were from two distinct subsets of my life.
I went to Law school with a guy who was on the show last night, so I watched it last night for the first time in decades, kind of an odd coincidence that it was the day Trebek announced he was dying.
Too soon?
Omg his wife. I think Alex Trebek had a bit more personality than he showed on Jeopardy!
.
Never underestimate a classy Canadian with a pocket full of dough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ
In sports new, Champion’s League drama as Europeans went from arguing about referrer mistakes and not having a video review to arguing about having a video review. But our friends at Manchester United did qualify.
“Well if you’re not going to listen to me, I’m done talking.”
Start bonking heads with that gavel, Nancy.
“Well if you’re not going to listen to me, I’m done talking.”
Promise?
I’m guessing she’s upping it to screeching.
Think of how bitter she is going to be when the Dems lose the house again in 2020.
“I’d still be Speaker if it wasn’t for you
meddlinganti-semitic kids!”Like I said yesterday, she lost her grip on the tail of the tiger the Dems used to win in 2018. Now the party is going to be fucked.
The Republicans will still probably lose, they just have to work harder at it than they did last time.
I say they’re up for the challenge.
Sweet Jesus, people, it’s the fucking measles, stop being such hyperbolic pussies and acting like it’s ebola.
The important thing is to remember that these outbreaks are the fault of anti-vaxxers and definitely not, you know, 15-20 million undocumented immigrants coming from countries where these diseases not only haven’t been eradicated, but are rampant and in many cases drug resistant.
Nonsense. All immigration everywhere is always a pure and unalloyed good.
/cytotoxic
You forgot to drop a bomb on them while they were still in their homelands…
Obligatory
That better be the Gap Band this early in the morning.
I coulda went with Parliament, but it was more obscure.
I’ve been reading about all the people killed by the US around the world. Are we the baddies?
(Nice song Tres)
Some need encouragement to come here and collect welfare.
There are measles outbreaks in other countries which don’t regularly have Central Americans walk across the border.
It’s both.
Get your fucking kids vaccinated, people. If you’re dumb enough to believe this anti-vaxx shit you probably … I can’t think of a good enough insult here. But if you don’t vaccinate your kids you’re a fucking moron.
The academic paper linking vaccines to autism was a complete fabrication. I think the author even got convicted on some kind of fraud charge. But I guess corporations are still trying to poison people because profits.
The study was a giant fraud. He wasn’t criminally convicted but he lost his medical license.
(But now he’s a martyr to the antivax cause and makes tons of money speaking and writing about how big pharma is so evil)
To be fair, with the amount of absolute junk studies these journals publish on a routine basis, and in consideration of the fact that physicians whose medical errors have caused the deaths of their patients practically never lose their license, stripping that guy of his medical license smacks of overreach. Making a martyr out of people you hate is almost never a good idea. See also: the last couple hundred no-shit white supremacists in this country.
(before you all lose your shit I got all my vaccines and would do the same for my children in the unlikely event I ever had any – that’s not the issue)
there’s a difference between making an error and knowingly publishing a completely fabricated study to push an agenda.
I’d argue that the one that results in the actual death of a specific person reflects at least equally as poorly on one’s competence as a physician, which is what licensing is ostensibly supposed to guarantee to the public, but licensing boards are absolutely useless steaming piles of political shit in any case.
Just send them this comic (SFW, though other comics on this site are not).
The history of disease in the United States before and after vaccination should be compelling enough evidence, but, then again, gay frogs and chemtrails and shit, so what do I know?
Pelosi even reportedly walked out of a meeting Wednesday with Democrat House members, setting down her microphone and telling attendees, “Well if you’re not going to listen to me, I’m done talking.”
Do you know who else walked out of meetings?
Me every chance I get? (Better yet, I dial into them then read the comments here instead of paying attention)
+1 advantage to being a remote worker.
#metoo
Patients of this guy?
Trump, who is the reincarnation of Hitler?
Secret Nazi President:
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
It is shameful that House Democrats won’t take a stronger stand against Anti-Semitism in their conference. Anti-Semitism has fueled atrocities throughout history and it’s inconceivable they will not act to condemn it!
Justine Bateman?
I have no idea, just throwing darts at this point.
Scott Boras?
At its peak, the Soviet Union was an industrial powerhouse that was capable of rivalling the U.S. economy. All this despite the fact that unlike the United States, the USSR did not built its economy up through Indigenous genocide, stolen lands, and extensive use of slave labour.
https://twitter.com/ClaraSorrenti/status/1103347064547749888
TRUTH
her pinned tweet
I’m a Communist, I believe that: 1. No one should go homeless 2. No one should go hungry 3. Work is a right and duty 4. Everyone should have the right to an education 5. Everyone should have access to a doctor 6. Workers should control their workplaces. Aren’t I evil?
Why yes you are evil. Thoroughly.
Work is a right and duty
What’s her job?
My first thought as well.
I forget who was saying it the other day, but work is a means to an end for a vast majority of people. You work to provide for yourself and your family. You would stop working if you no longer found it financially necessary.
Work is neither a right nor a duty. It’s an economic transaction.
Ayn Rand villain cosplay?
Maybe not evil. Maybe just a precocious idiot.
How this will be done is never clarified. I can only imagine what would happen to my plant if management stepped aside for even one day.
5. Everyone should have access to a doctor
And if there are none willing to provide services?
US chattel slavery was just a fitness program for Africa in the same way the Soviet labor camps were vacation seminars.
Oh Canada
Sounds like somebody doesn’t know a single goddamned thing about Russian history.
You can’t count the centuries of serfdom against the USSR.
Or the Siberians, apparently. Or the kulaks.
They get the Holodomor, though.
Then why did Tevye and his daughters needs those wagons?
Bonus round: What was worse? Russia under the Czar or the Soviets?
Yes.
*presses buzzer*
What is the Holodomor, Alex
“the USSR did not built its economy up through … stolen lands”
Dear do you even understand communism?
Kulaks don’t count!
That thumping sound is people in the Baltics banging their heads on their desks.
The land belongs to the people, comrade. You can’t steal what already belongs to you.
Not only that, but the Russians built an empire by conquest just as much as any other European power. The Russian peoples aren’t indigenous to any of the land east of the Urals, which is most of Russia.
Breaking it down for you:
“I’m a Communist, I believe that:”
You believe in an ideology where everyone is de facto owned by the handful of people who control the state.
“1. No one should go homeless”
OK, how are you going to force people to house homeless people? Are you personally and voluntarily housing homeless people right now? No? Oh, you mean you want OTHER people to be compelled to do that at gunpoint.
“2. No one should go hungry”
Food is plentiful and cheap in America. Not so much in socialist to communist countries, like Venezuela or Cuba. Obviously, to get closer to this ideal, we should do the opposite of that.
“3. Work is a right and duty”
So, at gunpoint, you are going to force some people to provide jobs, and other people to work, and have a handful of “leaders” decide what work you will perform?
“4. Everyone should have the right to an education”
Well, you mostly got that to happen here. Aka shitty public schools. Paid for at gunpoint (are you seeing a trend here)?
“5. Everyone should have access to a doctor”
Paid for at gunpoint? What if someone who has a “duty” to work is told to be a doctor, such as happened in the Soviet Union, and refused? (Hint: at some point the guns in “at gunpoint” are used on those who balk at the consequences of your vision)
“6. Workers should control their workplaces.”
So, people who do not have a direct financial interest in the business being efficient and profitable are going to run businesses taken over by the state – at gunpoint? On an entirely unrelated topic, why has the output of Venezuelan oil refineries dropped precipitously in recent years?
“Aren’t I evil?”
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Your ideology is evil. You — probably one of the “useful idiots” who mean well, but to their utter surprise find themselves blindfolded and lined up against a wall shortly after the Wrong People inevitably seize control of the state you’d love to create, because you’re no longer useful.
The zeks in the gulags weren’t slaves! They WANTED to be there!
BTW, I’m curious: when exactly was its peak? Was it in WWII, when they needed the US to send them tens of thousands of airplanes, trucks, tanks, etc. to be able to fight the war? Was it the ’70s and ’80s when the US had to ship them grain so their people didn’t starve after shitty harvests? When are we talking about here?
Stolen lands – the Baltics don’t count? Chunks of Finland and Poland don’t count?
1957 to 1965 of course, when glorious communist rockets were leading the way into space.
Central Asia, and Siberia might have a bone to pick with this idiot. The Russian expansion eastward mirrored US expansion westward pretty closely, took more lands, killed more indigenous people, enslaved everyone, and was conducted without a whisper of dissent or attempt to deal fairly with the indigenous people.
Do you know who else was involved in corrupt elections in Georgia?
Stalin?
Andrew Young?
The Devil when he went down there?
Nah. He was just lookin’ for a soul to steal.
I heard he was way behind and looking to cut a deal.
Sounds like he ended up buying a bunch of ’em.
They’re cheaper in bulk.
Hank Johnson ?
Boss Hogg?
“I’m going to fight this’: Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek reveals he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and vows to ‘keep working’ despite diagnosis”
That’s something, It’s the deadliest form of cancer (or was that prostate?)
Prostate cancer is usually so slow growing and the onset at such an advanced age that a lot of oncologists don’t even recommend treatment.
Yep. Exactly the case with the old man. Doctor basically told him not to worry about it because that wasn’t going to kill him.
Pancreatic cancer is what took down Mama Tres, and she was diagnosed about mid-stage III. What I learned was that since that form of cancer rarely presents any symptoms early on, by the time its actually noticed, its likely already spread and metastasized in other places.
This makes me sad.
I am sorry Alex, you can fight but you aren’t going to win. Get your affairs in order.
*I saw Three Billboards yesterday. The Woody Harrelson character, in my opinion, took the honorable out.
My one coworker who died from it had a wife who had a full on opioid addiction. When he passed, hospice was too slow in collecting the morphine drip machine from his home. She broke into it and OD’d. It was a double funeral. Very sad.
When my mother died the hospice nurses ran my brother and me out of the room and gathered up the fentanyl before ANYTHING else could happen. I mean literally, went from shaking her head at us after listening for heart beat to gathering up the sublingual sticks, and logging them. She was extremely polite and apologetic about it, and I understood, but it was kind of surreal.
When my dad died, my mom couldn’t find anyone to give the meds to. Hospice sure wasn’t in a hurry to collect them.
The cancer was sad. I can see myself taking a lethal overdose if my wife died.
nnnnnoo not that…
Why British Sex Workers Are Striking This Friday
You think the irony would be lost if somebody told them to go fuck themselves?
Sex work strike, Porn Card required…wtf, Britain?
They do that every month.
Thing is a lot of these people are lefties, they want big government as long as it does not fuck their shit up.
You’d be surprised. From following Maggie McNeil and seeing her retweets and replies, a ton of the sex work community seems to be libertarian/right wing. Most of them recognize how much the left despises them and wants to control their lives.
I haven’t read a lot about this but from what I’ve seen I think you are right.
Let the children vote.
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley is pushing to lower the federal voting age from 18 to 16.
The Massachusetts Democrat made the proposal as her first amendment since winning election last year.
Pressley said young people across the country are taking the lead on key issues from gun violence to climate change. She said that under her amendment people as young as 16 could vote to elect members of Congress and the president.
In a Wednesday press release, Pressley said she believes those who will inherit the country should have a say in electing those who represent them. She noted that in some states like Massachusetts 16- and 17-year-olds can pre-register to vote.
Pressley offered the proposal as an amendment to a Democratic-backed bill aimed in part at expanding voting rights.
So we are also going to lower the age to buy firearms, and register for the draft, right?
“We can’t afford to wait another couple of years for our indoctrinated youth to swell our poll numbers!”
– U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley
*Covington kids perk up*
Pressley said young people across the country are taking the lead on key issues from gun violence to climate change
huh… In other words: These people are young enough and still naive enough to think the government is special, lets make sure they vote.
Sure, they wait until I’m in the group to be gassed. Couldn’t have done this 30 years ago?
If this person isn’t being laughed out of the room, I will lose faith in humanity. Oh who am I kidding.
She sticking it in the wrong place, I guess she won’t have any kids who can vote.
Why stop there? My daughter has very strong opinions about chocolate milk (pro), bugs (con), the Disney cartoon Tarzan (strong pro), and vegetables (strong con). I’m sure she’d be happy to voice her opinions in the voting booth. She’s three, so she’ll need a stool, but why should she be disenfranchised on the basis of age?
It’s hard to disagree with her platform. She should be allowed to run for Congress, age be damned.
Billionaire dies during Paris penis enlargement operation
This is the type of headline id expect if we lived in an Austin Powers timeline.
LOL Omega Diamonds!
Would the new penis be circumcised?
Since it was an enlargement and not a transplant…
Fun fact: by a sizeable margin, raw, uncut diamonds are Israel’s biggest import and cut, polished diamonds are its biggest export.
Israel be stealing jobs from hard working Belgian Jewish diamond cutters.
Also this says 4th
http://www.worldstopexports.com/israels-top-10-imports/
\
But it is 2018 data
from the same link:
“At the more detailed four-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, Israel’s most valuable imported products are unmounted and unset diamonds”
I assume that is measured by value, not by weight.
You know, if I was a billionaire, I’m fairly certain that a fat stack of cash would make most women overlook any shortcomings.
Maybe he was in the hotdog down a hallway category?
The bulge in a man’s pants that women care about most is the back pocket (where they keep their wallet), amirite?
So this tumor is doing nothing for me? Damnit.
The assumption that he was doing it for the wahmens pleasure and not his own ego is where your mistake lies
Happy news from the old hometown!
A guy gets a great birthday present.
I love the fact that my old hometown newspaper is still far enough in the sticks that a guy hitting a wolf gets the top story slot.
“He was running hard. I seen it for just a split second,” said Metteer.
Confirmed. Northern Minnesota man.
LOL. I thought the same thing. That phrase with “I seen it” is such a throwback to my childhood. “I seen it” is the second worse grammatical error for Minnesodans, (#1 is the inability to user borrow/loan properly).
“I done seen it” is the correct grammar. Wisconsin FTW.
That’s just ignorant.
Come to Western Pennsylvania — the world grammar forgot!
Read my mind.
/issue of W PA stock
You mean around Warshington?
Where does the confusion between worse and worst fall on the list?
Hit a timber wolf. Man, they never call charging anymore.
I mean, he was driving near ‘Wolf Lake”. What else would you expect ?
available in 43 states, coming to non-Pixel devices soon
“Google Duplex — the magical system that allows an artificial intelligence to place phone calls and make reservations at restaurants — is rolling out now to more areas of the United States”
What happens when it becomes self aware? I can only imagine the horror stories when it starts cancelling reservations, or placing them under Seymour Butts.
On an unrelated note, the PinePhone should be out by Q4.
I am very, very interested in that phone.
If it actually comes in under 200 I’m buying one. I already have a PIneBook that I received as a gift. It’s low spec hardware, so don’t expect anything other than low-spec performance, but for what I do on a phone it’s more than adequate.
For a more upscale experience there’s the Librem 5, although the ship date on it keeps getting pushed back. Pine is basically releasing theirs as an open development platform like their SBCs (the KDE and UBports teams in particular seem to be shouldering most of the development duties), where Librem is doing all the development themselves, and it seems not to be going as smoothly as they anticipated.
I’ve currently got a Galaxy S5, and I text, call rarely, check email, and use maybe two or three apps regularly. My needs are minimal, and I’m not seeing any new phones that seem worth it. At this point I just want an old person smartphone that doesn’t have a bunch of crap on it, with privacy being almost a secondary concern. I think getting the former will incidentally get me the latter, mostly.
Prank pizza deliveries all day and night.
But I thought it was like totally popular:
Democrats seek to evade GOP trap on Green New Deal vote
The GOP should do more of this. Shed light on Democrat trial balloons and force them to either admit the insanity or mark themselves as supporters of the insanity.
I’m no parliamentarian expert but have been on lots of committees. What is this “present” bullshit that Obama used to pull because he was too lazy to his job? The options are “yea” and “nae” and the roll call should just stop until the asshole sitting there says one or the other.
Or just call the vote and anyone that does not vote yea is voting nae.
Vote “present,” then attack GOP lawmakers as anti-science climate deniers.
So a no vote with false pretext. Not going to help them in front of their base. And you aren’t the target. The target is the people who vote yea.
Also: do the people who say or write anti-science climate deniers do so without a bit of irony? do they understand how dogmatic it makes them look?
Don’t see how this helps them. Didn’t Bernie say that we had to respond to Impending Climate Doom the same way we would respond to a massive military attack on the US? Does one respond to a massive military attack by voting “present” ?
OT: I get to represent someone for OUI today who thinks because she had an accident while driving – and she was the only one injured – that she shouldn’t be charged with a crime.
*smacks forehead*
Lady, I am sorry you were injured. But the fact that you had a BAC of .06 and then fell asleep at the wheel & crashed, means you will get charged with a crime, even if you’ve never had a charge before.
I’ve heard libertarians argue that case before. *Shrugs
06? No one else injured?
I kind of agree with her.
then fell asleep at the wheel
I don’t think it’s crazy to say that is reckless endangerment. Just like if you started wildly firing a gun. You are putting people in danger and i don’t have a problem with calling that a crime.
^^
What would happen to someone who fell asleep with a .00?
If they would get a similar charge, then I’m OK with this. If a guy who fell asleep because he was super tired doesn’t get a ticket, neither should she.
A coworker just told me a story, to which I half-listened about a judge chastising him for driving after working a 24 hour shift. Of course the guy has multiple DUIs by now and will never drive again.
If a guy who fell asleep because he was super tired doesn’t get a ticket, neither should she.
IMO, they should both get reckless driving charges. I’m amenable to the idea that DUI should be upcharged because you show some premeditated recklessness by drinking heavily without a safe way to get home.
But .06 isn’t heavy drinking. Shoot, if she had just been pulled over, it isn’t enough for a DUI charge (.08 here in Minnesoda).
My point is that .06 is as reckless as working a long shift and driving home. If both get a charge, I’m OK with this.
I was talking more generically. Either she couldn’t handle her liquor or this is a bullshit DUI charge. Either way, I’m all for treating reckless operation of a 2T ball of metal on a shared public thoroughfare as criminal.
.06 is not drinking heavily. It is less than 2 drinks for an 140 lb. woman. and the ‘drinks’ they use in the guidance are 4 oz wine 1 oz spirits or 12 oz beers, so a single restaurant or bar pour is more than 1 drink.
I agree.
I fell asleep once driving and wrecked the car, but didn’t hurt myself. I clipped a guardrail with my back right bumper. I came to as the car was swerving all over the place. State police let me go without a ticket. I was 2 miles from home – my wife came and got me. This was of course right after our son was born so I wasn’t getting much sleep.
She doesnt understand the basic premise of what constitutes a crime.
The part where the alleged “victim” is the state, as in “The State vs Clueless Idiot X”?
BAC of .06 is not driving drunk or even noticeably impaired, regardless of what the state’s laws say.
So, no actual victim other than herself, she’s paid all the consequences for her lack of judgment, not drunk, just basically got too sleepy and lost control at the wheel? Not seeing much of a real crime here, unless she narrowly missed hitting someone else on the road at the time of the crash.
Not seeing much of a real crime here, unless she narrowly missed hitting someone else on the road at the time of the crash.
I’m not sure I’d be okay with the “you actually have to hurt or kill somebody before they take your license away from your reckless driving ass” standard. How many times do I have to dodge your swinging arms before I can treat it like you’re swinging at my face?
I pre-emptively agreed with you downthread. 😉
Plus this was the kind of client who argues with everything. Shouldn’t have points related to this; shouldn’t have probation; shouldn’t have to do community service; shouldn’t have to pay fines and costs.
I’m guessing she shouldn’t have to pay you either. Get that cash up front!
I know this isn’t your first rodeo for this. I’m assuming you have a set fee up to certain number of hours plus expenses.
I was court appointed for her. She also insisted (before I was appointed) that she didn’t need an attorney. Also, time to review the first three rules of criminal defense from law school: 1. get the cash up front; 2. It’s your clients – not you – that go to jail; and 3. Get the cash up front.
Yeah, .06 is bullshit, but she wrecked her car and that is proof of impairment. This is one of those rare dui’s where I can’t find any fault with it. If you fell asleep and crashed and you were drinking , bingo, DUI for you.
She could be like a friend of mine who was young, working three jobs, and chronically sleep deprived. Not DUI, just couldn’t stay awake any longer. Been there, except I knew enough to stop driving right away once I realized I was that sleepy, let the passenger take the wheel.
I’d say, absent any actual danger to other people who were near her at the time of the crash, the appropriate punishment is taking away the right to drive for a while, give her time to mull over whatever caused the crash, and hopefully make the appropriate modifications to future behavior.
Impaired can be as low as .04 in Michigan.
Which is dumb, as I can be at .04 after one shot if there’s nothing on my stomach.
Any number is dumb. One man’s impairment is another’s “can’t feel a thing.” The only time I believe a DUI is warranted is when there’s obvious evidence of impairment, like this lady crashing. I know you can coincidentally crash after a minor amount of drinking, but I’m that’s just the way it goes. If you have had a drink and want to drive, you better be the best driver on the road, because if you crash, you’re done.
So this exists
https://twitter.com/BOLTgraphics/status/1101494582100017154
#NSFW
Doesn’t this belong in /d/?
Love that it says “Enter” on her face.
Yes NSFW sorry I lack the reflex to tag things.
Next, apologize for your Lakers.
I just hope they seat LeBrons ass and tank like motherfuckers. They ain’t makin no playoffs anyway so might as well maximize that pick.
Maybe they can pick up Antetokounmpo in ten years for a 100 million and can’t jump anymore. Hold out hope.
My greatest wish would be to trade james
SPACE SMITH’s sidekick?
I guess oral is off the table.
This is great! They’ll finally quit violating the Constitution so they can then hold Trump accountable for his violations!
Impeachment because…..reasons? Orange Man Bad?
Orange Man Bad?
It’s the only reason they need.
Not one mention of what the actual charges that Trump is guilty of to warrant impeachment.
Just this: “I think that every single colleague of mine agrees there are impeachable offenses. That’s one thing we all agree on.”
My opinion of the journalos has sunk too low to even think that they bothered to ask her to list the impeachable offenses.
Let’s not let silly details like a reason get in the way of a good impeachment.
Follow up: “What specific acts, violating which specific part of the Constitution, did he allegedly commit? Have the people who would be voting on this ever violated the Constitution by, say, voting to infringe on 1A or 2A rights, or any other part of the Constitution? Really? Give me a name and I’ll look up their voting record on “gun control”. “
They never ask the constitutional implications of any of their preferred policies. Why would they care to ponder any actual impeachable offenses*?
*The real offense is to them because Trump is an impediment to their tyranny.
But guess what? There is a wall there, and a constitutional crisis that is not going to be able to have us be able to do our jobs as American Congress members to push a lot of these agendas forward.”
I like how a man elected via the means stated in the constitution is a Constitutional Crisis (TM).
We want to be able to work on these economic justice issues, racial justice issues
By this you mean that you seek to commit injustice.
Jesus!
Woman with vaginal condition gives birth despite having never had sex
Bug or a feature?
OMG I automagically thought “vaginal condition” meant FtM trans and that having a vagina was a disorder.
OK, so a virgin birth?
I wonder if going through childbirth might have cured the condition? (I would expect her husband would be happy were that the case.)
Hope she springs for the Caesarean, the kid’s head could get snapped right off.
At the age of 22, Revati tried to use a tampon for the first time but failed as her hand began to shake and the vaginal opening seized shut.
I don’t think what she described is a vaginal condition. I think the condition is happening way upbody from there.
Yeah I was gonna say, why are they calling it a sex condition, it clearly is a mental disorder
Dying Man, President Trump, you know the drill
What is it with Trump and dying people?
By the way, the sister got her wish and Trump called her brother.
*Over/Under on the number of activists who throw rocks through a dying man’s window?
By the way, the sister got her wish and Trump called her brother.
TRUMP HARASSES DYING MAN IN HOSPICE!
– Washington Post
I heard speaking to Trump automatically gets you through the Pearly Gates no matter how big of a bastard you’ve been-Trump’s just that awesome.
Seriously though, it ‘s a nice gesture.
Full VHS tape Original Trilogy
I’ve still got my box set.
I have 2 — the original original and then a THX version.
“It’s highly unusual for a Congressional Committee to involve itself in a state’s election. This is squarely in the purview of the state of Georgia, not the House Oversight Committee. We can’t help but think that attempts by the Democrats to insert the Committee into the state’s business is an attempt to relitigate an election result that they do not like,”
Team Blue will have to fraud harder next time.
It’s like they want another civil war
OT: I get to represent someone for OUI today who thinks because she had an accident while driving – and she was the only one injured – that she shouldn’t be charged with a crime.
Is she a Sovereign Citizen, or whatever those nutcakes call themselves?
Canadians doing jobs Americans won’t.
Oh, I’ll bet there are a few Americans who would help with that dilemma.
Boris and Natasha are Americans?
^This^
Why they didn’t have a lottery for those moose is beyond me. I know a lot of guys who would have gladly paid big $$ for the opportunity to hunt one of those moose.
*That is assuming that the Park Service allowed the hunters to actually hunt the moose. I know a guy who got a tag to shoot a bison in Yellowstone in the late ’80s and he said it was a complete waste of time. Basically a ranger put him on an ATV drove up to an old cow and said “Shoot that one.” There was no fair chase involved. It was no different from being the guy at the end of the killing chute at the meat packing plant.
>>the guy at the end of the killing chute at the meat packing plant
so clean up crew at the Warty Dungeon?
And why Canadian wolves? Northern Minnesoda has enough wolves we are hitting them with our trucks.
It’s like you don’t even read the article. They tried bringing in Minnesodan wolves, they were too weak to survive the wilds of Michigan:
Sounds like when you catch a rat in your home. If you try to release it somewhere to avoid killing it, it just dies shortly thereafter anyway from being in an unfamiliar environment.
Wilds of Michigan
Do you even Google Maps?
How Michigan got that chunk of Wisconsin and Isle Royal is beyond me. Those Michigan bastards treated us like native americans and stole our land!
You guys probably just traded it to some Yoopers for some beer and pasties.
Never, ever heard of pasties as a food ever. The only thing I think of when I hear pasties is “ripoff strip club”.
Pasties as food is also very Australian and British.
There was a sizable contingent of Cornish folks who immigrated to Wisconsin back in the day (lots of stonemasons, if memory serves). Pasties were their thing and became a Wisconsin thing.
The only thing I think of when I hear pasties is “ripoff strip club”.
The difference is clearer in spoken rather than written context. Paste-eez (like glue) are nipple coverings. Past-eez (like time) are food.
“Never, ever heard of pasties as a food ever”
‘Cause you never lived on the Range.
More likely we couldn’t fight back after being decimated by the Yooper’s gift of small pox infested Vikings jerseys.
It was the consolation prize Michigan got after Ohio kicked their worthless ass in not one but 2 wars!
Speaking of wolves and wild life management, it looks like the US Fish & Wildlife Service is about to stick its dick back into the electrical outlet.
Last time they tried to get wolves off the endangered list, the eco-nuts freaked out and had tantrums until most states rescinded their wolf hunts.
In search of a new center in the culture war
public opinion on social issues and questions of national identity tilts somewhat to the right — and that this stance, when combined with a pragmatically progressive economic program, could well constitute a new American center.
I mean what you describe sounds like the inkings of facsicim. Which has been very popular for almost a Century in the US. So i don’t think this is a “new” American Center. And just because it is popular does not make it a “Center”
For much of the past four decades, the American center has been defined by its broadly libertarian outlook on both economic and social issues.
I wish I lived in that alternate universe.
Anything in between the two extremes of totalitarian communism and totalitarian fascism is a libertarian utopia, don’t you know?
Will libertarianism always be defined by people who either don’t understand it, or do and despise it? Fuck!
“Will libertarianism always be defined by people who either don’t understand it, or do and despise it?”
Good summation and yes.
Sounds like an interesting movie. Not sure where the plot goes after that, or how it purports that the US would somehow evolve to a libertarian state but it would be a nice fantasy.
That sounds absolutely fucking horrific
public opinion on social issues and questions of national identity tilts somewhat to the right — and that this stance, when combined with a pragmatically progressive economic program, could well constitute a new American center
Ah, the old “fiscal conservative, social liberal” bullshit. Funny how, when these people have to choose between the two, the socially liberal part always wins out.
Bonus points for the oxymoron “pragmatically progressive”, though.
This is true
There is absolutely no evidnence for this. The general public is by and large ignorant as to the scope of regulation but the political class on both sides abandoned the concept of minimal regulation in the 60’s and never looked back. What is called deregulation has been a lie for 40 years, what it really represents is a shuffling of the deck of regulations, some new things will be allowed others will be restricted and more will obtain additional compliance and reporting requirements
Say it will me class…
Managed trade is not free trade. There has not been a single mainstream advocate of actual free trade in US politics or the punditry since the 80’s and maybe not since the 60’s
This is true, the right makes noises about cuts but they never really take action on them
.
There is no evidence for this whatsoever
So yeah, it is hard to take anything else he says seriously
Yep, agreed.
It’s like they want another civil war
Civil war? Don’t be silly. They only want what’s best for you. If you’d just stop squirming around and hold still you’d know how good it feels to love Big Brother.
Big Brother = STATE SMITH
STATE SMITH LOVE YOU!! AND BY LOVE MEAN….
Hold still and relax. Relax that part in particular.
For all those who were having a heck of a time figuring out how to get the mute button working, and get the options button on the left side that T-Monster was talking about, you gotta go to this page, find the block of text below about mobile updating, click on the eyepiece link, and install it:
Mobile Update! 2018/01/03 I have crafted a somewhat mobile friendly version of Monocle called Eyepiece. The only way I know to use it is to add tamper monkey to mobile Firefox and install Eyepiece by clicking the link.
Yknow, I write for a living, but nobody has ever accused me of having clarity.
Thanks for interpreting my incoherent scrawl, prole!
I was just doing the user version of shamefacedly telling other coworkers: “You know, this machine works a lot better if you flip this switch labeled “on”. In case you experienced that same problem.”
Sometimes it is hard for IT savvy folks to dumb things down enough that the lowest percentile of users understand stuff.
You mean like, the Internet?
“…the left side that T-Monster…”
I think I like that nearly as much as Yufus.
Man.. It’s been awful quiet around here since i muted all you folks.
fuck you, leon!
Who are you saying fuck you to? 😉
HA
Zuby said that he only identifies as female while weightlifting.
This guy has never been through an airport with a wife and daughter in tow.
Nice troll job.
That is just all kinds of awesome.
It’s a female penis while he is weightlifting.
“Just an above average sized clitoris. Don’t judge, OK?”
To be a centrist Democrat, a centrist Republican, or a centrist independent has been to favor keeping taxes relatively low, regulations relatively minimal, international trade relatively free, and government services and benefits intact and in place while not expanding them very far into new areas. It has also meant supporting abortion rights and eventually gay marriage and transgender rights, and favoring, for both moral and economic reasons, high levels of immigration.
Just fucking say it.
“If you agree with me, you’re a centrist. If you don’t, you’re a dangerous fanatic.”
And at some point in the past centrism meant the polar opposite of many of these things. It isn’t a word that magically validates certain views.
Kind of like Carlin’s bit about driving: “Everyone driving faster than me is a crazy maniac, everyone driving slower than me is an asshole making me late”
This is the political equivalent of, “If you want to drive slower than me, you’re a pussy. If you want to drive faster than me, you’re a maniac.”
Cern cuts ties with ‘sexist’ scientist Alessandro Strumia
Italians. Bunch of shitlords
But lets continue to shame the catholic church for burning heretics/ Niel DeGrasse Tyson
Some people hated hearing about higher male variance
Biology is a bitch.
Jesus.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/432968-new-cracks-emerge-in-dem-unity
Wait… so the defense is that ((they)) destroyed Somalia and forced her into Camp Refoogee?
Perhaps the greatest episode of that show.
I’m partial to Lincoln Lover.
These are the same people who think white privilege personally affects every facet of a black American’s life a century and a half since slavery was abolished and half a century since the last vestiges of racial discrimination were outlawed.
That’s different. The trauma was so bad and so lasting that it actually permeates through the generations in the genetics. / Yes i actually have read that argument without the writer as much as recognizing how similar it is to what a white supremacist would say.
If it wasn’t Jews that got her sent to a Kenyan refugee camp, and I suspect it wasn’t, how is that even relevant?
You never know. (((They))) have a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. Some might even call it a global conspiracy.
The globalist Jewry has tentacles, not fingers.
Don’t be silly. Pie is way too old for OMWC.
Because she knows the pain of being put on a train to a hellish place (the US) where she is forced to toil under a literal dictatorship.
Fuck.
That.
Cunt.
You probably can’t without using a knife. FGM is pretty much 100% in Somalia.
I’ll say this for the latest crop of House Dems. They’re really working to out the shittiest members of the Democratic Party. It’s pretty hard to whiff on such a softball as agreeing that anti-Semitism is bad, but, here we are.
That may be the most ridiculous whataboutism I have seen.
“Omar is a strident anti-semite.”
“Whatabout her stay in a Kenyan refugee camp?”
Of course, refugee camps aren’t the most unlikely place to get radicalized, so its possible she’s a Jew-hater because of her stay in a refugee camp full of Muslims.
Battlespace prep
Even as the 2020 race begins in earnest, President Donald Trump is already suggesting that Democrats cannot beat him fairly — raising the specter that if he loses next November, he will suggest that the election was not legitimate.
—————-
This is straight from the Trump blueprint — and not just in politics, either. In his past life as a businessman, Trump would regularly declare victory on a deal loudly and publicly — even when the facts didn’t bear out his bluster. Hell, he somehow spun three bankruptcies as wins for him!
It’s not just that Trump doesn’t like losing. (No one likes losing.) It’s that he is unwilling to accept any sort of loss for fear that defeat might take some of the shine off of his all-I-do-is-win persona.
In the business world, that approach was mostly harmless. Trump could say whatever he wanted but, at the end of the day, it was pretty clear who won and who lost a deal. Money, usually, changed hands. And while lots of people Trump dealt with rolled their eyes about his massive exaggerations, they usually just ignored them.
In politics, Trump’s inability to accept that he could lose fair and square is far, far more dangerous.
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former longtime fixer, said as much during his congressional testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee last month. “Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power,” said Cohen.
Sit with that for a minute. And realize what it would mean if the sitting incumbent President of the United States simply refuses to concede he has lost in 2020.
Just imagine what it would be like if a political party refused to accept the results of an election they thought was in the bag.
They are going to beat this drum incessantly, from now ’til 2020.
he will suggest that the election was not legitimate.
And? Someone might suggest that deep-dish is an acceptable pizza. It’s only a suggestion (and they’d be wrong…).
And realize what it would mean if the sitting incumbent President of the United States simply refuses to concede he has lost in 2020.
It would mean that the incumbent lost and the new president is inaugurated at the same time and date regardless of the incumbents opinion because the incumbents term would still end with the new presidents term beginning at the same time and date that it always does, even if the inauguration was postponed for some reason.
I mean, let’s say the election hangs in the balance, say with the Midwestern states in 2016 that broke for Trump very very close. Say it comes down to Wisconsin, and four weeks after the election, on the fifth recount, enough Dem votes are discovered in Milwaukee and Madison to swing the election to Kamala.
Pucker factor time. Does political and civic trust mean accepting false elections, in the hope that the vast majority of the time elections will be outside the margin where fraud can swing it?
Unfortunately the Dems are working hard to make the margin of fraud ever greater.
Yup. They beta tested their new election fraud concept in CA last year, and it was a huge success.
The supine Republicans blew their chance to get real election reform and security when they lost the house. There is a very real risk that we will become a structurally one-party nation if the Dems succeed in exporting their new election fraud techniques to enough other states.
Already done. They already have Michigan locked with D atty general and sec of state; expanded absentee voting, automatic registration, and looser requirements to vote.
Same is happening in NY.
Basically a ranger put him on an ATV drove up to an old cow and said “Shoot that one.” There was no fair chase involved. It was no different from being the guy at the end of the killing chute at the meat packing plant.
Yeah, somebody told me one time that “buffalo hunt” was about like going out to shoot at parked cars.
That is just one link in a chain of reasons why the American bison was all but wiped out. The men sent by the railways to kill the buffalo herds needed little more than a lot of ammo and persistence. They would ride out within easy range and shoot them one after another. The herds never spooked, never moved off. The “buffalo hunters” would spend all day shooting every buffalo – there was no real hunt or tracking involved.
For some reason all I could think of while reading this is that it sounds like people and freedoms. Everyone stands around while the predator takes people down. Its how they’ll eventually seize all the guns – one person at a time while everyone else stands there doing nothing.
If the herd were to turn and charge, buffalo hunting would be a very different thing.
“Science is not about being offended when facts challenge ideas held as sacred”.
Somebody needs to get his mind right.
Michael Cohen asked lawyer to inquire about pardon, sources say, possibly contradicting Congressional testimony
I recall the question of whether or not he sought a pardon being asked and him saying he hadn’t sought one. What a stupid schmuck.
Corruption or stupidity?
Why not both?
Gets my vote as the most all-purpose Glibs comment.
“Yes” works, too.
Yes.
See??
Yes.
Rape charges dropped against ex-cops who had sex with a teen when she was in custody
What an outrageous crock of shit. Some other judge needs to step in and give these heroes in blue their jobs back.
:bravo:
I saw this movie. Behind the Blue Line
Alright, so I can see how that particular technicality gets them off the hook for rape. But what about kidnapping? They arrested her, fucked her, and then let her go without charging her. So they weren’t actually acting as police enforcing the law. If they had fucked her and then booked her for possession, then they’re guilty of professional misconduct.
But their story is that they handcuffed a girl, and then traded sex in exchange for freedom. So that’s solicitation, kidnapping, and bribery. I’m sure the prosecutors will be filing charges any day now.
Disclaimer, IANAL and any of the lawyer glibs should correct me because I’m sure I got my facts wrong .
Further thought. We here a lot about the “few bad apples”. How many guys in these fuckers precinct or on patrol with them are fathers? Because from my POV, if most cops were righteous crusader types, Batman in a blue uniform, you think they would have fallen down the stairs or gone swimming in the icy East River at 2 AM.
90% of cops make the other 10% look bad.
Vox in fantasyland
Today, there’s literally nobody on the right between those frantically accommodating Donald Trump, on the one hand, and us on the other. Except for our brave friends in exile from the Cato Institute now trying to build something in the ruins at the [centrist] Niskanen Center. There’s simply no political place for neoliberals to lead with good policies that make a concession to right-wing concerns.
Interview with “moderate” Brad De Long. He’s so moderate, he thinks the Democrats should go full commie, apparently, because anybody to the right of the Niskannites is literally worse than Hitler.
Obamacare was a market based policy proposal. Did you know that?
Holy shit, does that guy ever have a vivid fantasy world in his head.
So finally got my work laptop from my new Job, after working off my personal (i know i don’t’ like it either) until. Now. I had asked for a Linux machine, but got Windows 10. Whatever, i can use Windows Subsystem for Linux. Start trying to add it to the domain only to find out that they sent me the Home edition of Windows 10 not Pro. I know the company i work for contracts out a lot of the IT stuff for our machines. So Now i’m wondering how much they pay those guys cause nothing is being done right…
Windows 10 Home, which is garbage, is also cheaper, I think. But at the volume I’d imagine companies are buying seat licenses that shouldn’t really matter too much. Then again, it seems like people love to “save” $10 on software/hardware/vehicles/whatever and then spend $100 in labor to make it do what it was supposed to do in the first place.
I’m trying to wrap my head around this leftward lurch from the Dems. It’s amazing that they’d think blatant antisemitism is totes cool. A few thoughts:
1. Because politics is now determined by geography, there are areas that will vote Dem no matter what, so it’s easier for someone unqualified and/or crazy to get elected (see: AOC).
2. The Twitter mob is having a real effect. The loud and obnoxious get heard, and the silent majority is ignored. This is how you get Trump’s second term.
3. Debate and respect for your opponents are gone. “You either agree with me or you’re a Nazi” is now the law of the land. Again, this is how you get Trump’s second term.
It’s inevitable with their embrace of Islam and worship of victimhood losers like the Palestinians.
But it’s nuts since the Dems’ main financiers are Jews. It’s going to hurt them badly unless those are some truly self-hating Jews.
I can’t figure it out either, but my bet is the checks keep coming.
You don’t think antisemitism, socialism, and infanticide will win back the working class voters? Bold statement
I’ll add one:
4. For decades Dems have had a lock on certain voting groups (teachers, unions, minorities, etc.). They’ve come to assume they can shit on those voting groups and still get their votes. But everyone has their limit, and will eventually get tired of getting shit on. (See: union votes for Trump).
Have they actually managed to shit on teachers unions yet? Here in Penna. the Dems suck whatever they need to in support of the powerful teachers union.
The Janus decision might have some effect on that calculus.
Don’t forget gun confiscation.
Palm Beach County police officer convicted of manslaughter, attempted murder in killing of unarmed man
Now, I’m wondering how the fuck he gets convicted of *attempted* murder when, you know, he killed the guy. The verdict indicates he tried to kill him on purpose but then killed him by accident? Wonder if it’s designed to get him off on appeal.
He didn’t kill the guy, his discharging gun did it.
Well, that does fit with the leftist worldview, yes.
That is strange-if someone croaks because of an attempted first degree murder it seems like, you know, first degree murder.
And why should the penalties be different anyhow? You get a break for incompetence?
Worst murderer ever. He’s like every villain in any movie. To stupid to ensure proper follow through with his plans. It just so happens that he accidentally killed the guy as he was leaving him to die.
The verdict indicates he tried to kill him on purpose but then killed him by accident?
Schrodinger’s homicide.
Private Chipperbot:
Just saw your request for places to go to this Saturday for food with teens.
Barrio’s – Build your own taco place (check list style)
Winking Lizard – Local chain for bar food and drinks
Mabel’s – BBQ
Southern Tier Brewing Company – Newest brewery to open in the Cleveland area.
If you’re looking to go a bit pricier, there’s also the Butcher and the Brewer which is a good brewery with a focus on meat and small plates.
If you’ve got the time, I’d also recommend hitting up Fat Head’s in Middleburg Heights, it’s fairly close to the airport and has great beer and food. Do not go around dinner time unless you have about an hour to wait for a table.
Thank you!
Not a problem. All of them have websites with menus as well, so you can see price ranges and food selections. If you’re looking to range a bit further, you can head to Tower Square (right by the Soldiers and Sailors Monument) and hop the Rapid (red line) over to West 25th. There you’ve got the West Side Market, and a street full of restaurants, breweries, and bars. Highlights there include:
West Side Market – It’s a giant mass of people buying food, snacks, and desserts. Great for locals, but there’s still ready to eat food available to go there as well
Great Lakes Brewing – It’s the Godfather of brewing in Cleveland. Decent food, and ask them about the bullet holes from someone trying to kill Elliot Ness.
Market Garden/Nano Brew (same owners) – A relative newcomer to the Cleveland brewing scene, but both have good food, and solid beer selections.
Southern Tier’s Chokolat Oranje is fantastic.
It is, but I was more partial to their Mokah. I strongly dislike their Creme Brulee though.
Southern Tier and Victory merged under a parent company, and have since acquired Sixpoint. So they have a very nice selection of really good beers there. Southern Tier is also a distillery, and they have their products there as well.
I just stopped in for a pint to once again be able to say I’ve been to every brewery in Cleveland, and went to the downstairs area, which had a nice speakeasy vibe to it. The upstairs looked to be catering more to the family crowd.
Sorry. I thought this was a Minnesota discussion.
Reply Fail — put this down under your next comment and it makes a little sense.
I wouldn’t classify Winking Lizard as a local chain as we have them here in Ohio.
Right. This is in Cleveland, hence local chain. I don’t think they’ve even made it down to the southern corners of the state yet.
“Rank-and-file Dems revolt against Pelosi over resolution to condemn anti-Semitism”
We’re all just living in a Michel Houellebecq novel now.
What happens if they split and try to put one of their own as speaker. Do the ‘Centrist’ (cause DiFi is somehow a “Centrist” these days) Dems bolt and vote for a GOP, or do they stay with the party?
Well, in “Submission” this is about the time that Jews start fleeing for Israel and the Socialist Party makes an agreement to support the Muslim Brotherhood over the National Front.
Tell me that hasn’t already happened (other than Jews fleeing to Israel)?
I recently spent quite a bit of time in Israel. I regularly heard French spoken on the streets, including places where tourists have no reason to be.
were you in Netanya for some reason?
No. I stayed in Tel Aviv.
I saw/thought of something the other day that made me think of you JS re: Democratic antagonism towards Practicing Catholics.
I think it was regarding the fact that the Government assumes the right to tell you how you can practice your religion.
Democratic antagonism toward the Catholic Church is an inevitable outgrowth of them losing that demographic with wider and wider margins since the beginning the 21st Century (with the 2008 presidential election being the exception). This also explains their antagonism towards all religious groups at this point (except for Muslims for intersectional reasons). The fate of all Christian churches is in their own hands at this point. The Catholic Church has cancerous leadership that harms the faithful far more than the socialists in DC.
I fear most for Jews, though. I am not an Israel booster and I’m critical of American support for Israel and other states. But, now we’re playing a bullshit game pretending as if blatant antisemitic talking points are somehow legitimate criticisms of Israel when no mention of Israel is ever made- just the Jews. I never thought I would ever see shit like this in the US.
The blatant antisemitism I see now scares me. I’ve seen it nearly all my life, but it was fringe groups on either side of the political spectrum, all of whom were ignored or derided. Now it’s being openly stated, and approved, by a major political party.
If antisemitism becomes politically advantageous it’ll be utilized to maximum effect. Remember these people are politicians and they have no guiding values other than the gaining and retention of power.
See my item 1 above. As long as they are from solid blue districts, and keep getting re-elected, there is no reason for them to stop.
I think this started with “words are violence” and “it’s ok to punch a Nazi”. Hatred and violence are now becoming acceptable, as long as they are directed against the “wrong” people. I find this to be scary as well. By dehumanizing your opponent, it makes it much easier to do terrible things to them.
The seeds were sown for this stuff 100 years ago. 20th and 21st century American history have been a story of creeping progressive identitarianism punctuated by occasional backlashes as the boiling frogs of liberty work up the energy to try to jump out of the pot.
The Bee hit it on the head: https://babylonbee.com/news/christian-just-voting-for-whichever-political-party-less-likely-to-make-his-faith-illegal
Hell, if I were Jewish American, I’d be thinking very hard about moving to Israel right now, because it’s glaringly obvious now that the Democrats will sell them down the river at the first available opportunity.
Hey JS! Haven’t seen ya in a few days! Hope all is going well.
All is well, good sir. I’ve just been trying to be more productive with my time.
Yes, because that is not incredibly annoying and will definitely open their eyes.
Being unnecessarily rebuked by a peer for meaningless bullshit is hurtful too.
And their is a growing history of it happening willy nilly to white men. Please educate yourself on it AOC.
Is this more of that “uniter, not divider” stuff I keep hearing about?
I thought this was going to be from The Root or Everyday Feminism. That jargon is straight out of their playbook.
“You may not be aware of X thing about annoying bitches. Here’s some links if you want to learn more.”
Hmm…patronizing…with a whiff of…what is that…condescension? Oh! And do I detect a touch of self-importance? Delicious!
It’s a passive-aggressive way of saying “read a book you ignorant fuck.”
Good point. I’m starting to notice that passive-aggressive is all she does.
“Latinx isn’t a real word and you don’t represent the entirety of ex-Spanish colonial peoples. Get over yourself.”
“Its long past time you stopped bitterly clinging to long-past historical wrongs, and moved into the 21st century.”
There was a girl who did that in our Cinco de mayo party planning meeting at work. I nearly bit through my tongue trying to hold my peace.
“Help me out here. How is it hurtful to Mexicans for a bunch of Americans to celebrate French imperialists getting kicked out of Mexico?”
“I’d appreciate it if you didn’t wear those green socks, miss. It’s cultural appropriation, and it’s not ok.”
I was half tempted to get pizza put on the “cultural appropriation” list because it offends my 1/4 goombah sensibilities to see them treat my cultural food so flippantly.
Then I remembered that I liked the pizza place we normally use.
Just send them this picture.
It’s so bad it would make the Bluths cry, and for some reason it only lasted a year.
+1 cinco de cuatro
That’s a real sign (the website went defunct a couple years back). I was out riding and did a double take when I went past it. I stopped, turned around, and took a picture of it just so that I would have evidence that it was real.
For a show so wonderfully racist it certainly gets a pass by the leftist critique set.
“Go make me a sammich, bitch.”
I haven’t bothered to read any of it, but I guess net neutrality is back.
By all means, House Democrats, just keep bringing a bunch of your crazy pet bugaboos to the floor.
Thank God! The death toll will finally be stanched!
Our proposal is super serial, but we won’t debate it.
“You can’t have, especially where I live, zero-emission renewable energy in Wausau, Wis. It doesn’t happen,” he said. “We just had a polar vortex: We don’t have enough wind for windmills to heat our homes or drive our cars. We don’t have solar panels that are going to heat our homes in the winter. It thoroughly doesn’t exist.”
Duffy said that this portion the Green New Deal was “catastrophic for American housing,” and requested that his amendment to it be debated. Waters refused Duffy’s request upon learning that he did not plan to vote in favor of the amendment, saying that it wasn’t “serious.”
“Is the gentlelady chairwoman saying that the Green New Deal is not serious?” Duffy asked Waters.
“I beg your pardon,” Waters said.
“You said this is not serious. Are you saying that the Green New Deal is not serious?” Duffy asked. “I just want to make sure so I can get a gauge on it.”
“You are not serious,” Waters reiterated.
“This is my amendment,” Duffy said. “Are you saying that my amendment is not serious?”
“We need to look for real ways to make our homes more energy efficient and sustainable,” Waters said. “This amendment does not reflect a thoughtful approach to the topic.”
Democratic representative Lacy Clay (Mo.) backed up Waters’s statements and criticized Duffy for questioning the bill, which he said did address practical solutions, but rather a “broader” vision for America.
Maxine Waters is dumb as a bag of hammers. It’s like her hair is the mushroom cloud of her brain detonating, frozen in time.
I love it. They’re just going to go full-on insanity here, consequences be damned.
But what if their side wins out?
We’re doomed, basically.
You know, the more I see of elected politicians, especially incumbents, the more I realize that Trump isn’t an exception or an outlier. He’s not even the most extreme example. You follow Nancy Pelosi around with a camera, or Maxine Waters, or any of these people, and you’ll see some outlandish shit. Trump tweets a lot and people pay attention, but that’s about it.
Enh, the sooner we get to a restart, the better.
*nods emphatically*
The best thing to happen is that the inevitable collapse occurs tomorrow. The next best thing to happen is that the inevitable collapse occurs the next day.
The longer we wait the harder we fall.
Is the gentlelady chairwoman saying that the Green New Deal is not serious?
ARGGHH! That drives me insane. Just say chairwoman.
I prefer Charwoman
Doesn’t bother me. I see it as some sort of parliamentary lingo. They don’t wear powdered wigs any more but they have their own jargon and by gum they’re gonna stick with it.
“I beg your pardon,” Waters said.
And just this once, ma’am, I’ll grant it.
“”We just had a polar vortex: We don’t have enough wind for windmills to heat our homes or drive our cars. We don’t have solar panels that are going to heat our homes in the winter. It thoroughly doesn’t exist.”
So if the GND passes, the deplorables will freeze in their homes in the winter, stranded and unable to drive to shelter? This is a feature, not a bug.
They hate you, and they want you dead.
Whore for power
President Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly on Wednesday said that he probably would have worked for Hillary Clinton if she had won the 2016 election and asked him to join her team.
Kelly made the comments during a Q&A session at Duke University. The event was closed to cameras, but ABC News obtained an audio recording of the comments.
“If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, and she had called me and said ‘I really need a good chief of staff here,’ I’d have probably done it,” Kelly said.
“Politics aside, it’s all about governing the country.”
I just like telling other people what to do.
“I have no principles. I would have been perfect for the job of Hillary’s Chief of Staff.”
Hard to argue.
“I have no principles. I would have been perfect for the job of any president’s Chief of Staff.”
FTFY
Politics aside, it’s all about governing the country
If you let that sink in, it’s horrifying.
That or the fact that the establishment thinks that such a view is the “Adult” view. Lets put politics aside and collaborate on how to fuck over our fellow man.
Yep, keep in mind that a plurality of our fellow citizens celebrate someone who spends decades in politics as a “selfless public servant.”
“Hold on, I thought you said ‘commit’! I’m out!”
I believe this is the same party that had a really, really hard time saying officially that the President shouldn’t and wouldn’t perform extrajudicial killings of American citizens within the United States using drones, so I guess it should be surprising that they’re waffling over saying in public that they don’t hate Jews.
*shouldn’t
NBC white-knights the Neiman Marxist
The complaint, filed by conservative group National Legal and Policy Center, alleges that Ocasio-Cortez and her allies violated the law by funneling political action committee (PAC) donations into a limited liability company (LLC) during her campaign for Congress.
The complaint called it an “extensive off-the-books operation to make hundreds of thousands of dollars of expenditures in support of multiple candidates for federal office,” and said Ocasio-Cortez and her allies “were aware, or should have been aware, of the sweeping and apparently illegal nature of the enterprise.”
—————
So, did her team do anything wrong?
There’s no evidence of self-dealing or any kind of elaborate scam, two experts told NBC News, which is often the major concern with LLCs and PACs run by the same people.
Brendan Fischer, a director at the Campaign Legal Center, said “scam PACs” typically pay their staff huge salaries without doing much campaigning work other than fundraising, which doesn’t appear to be the case here. He said he hasn’t seen evidence of wrongdoing that would suggest any laws were broken.
Fake news. Low slander. Totally on the up-and-up. Everybody does it.
So it’s totally kosher if they’re breaking laws for ideological reasons rather than personal gain.
Killing people for the good of the State cannot be murder.
I think you got it kid!
He said he hasn’t seen evidence of wrongdoing that would suggest any laws were broken.
Huh… Cause the other guys say that there is. So either someone is a liar, or Someone is Incredibly ignorant of the laws, and I (or :cough: one of you fellow glibs :cough) will have to dig into the law and see if there is evidence of illeagal activity.
It’s just a good thing she didn’t pay off a hooker with her own money, or else it would be clear.
It’s funny that even that little scandal was basically settled as far as concerns the applicability of campaign finance law by John Edwards just a couple years ago.
But history began anew in November 2016, and how is anyone supposed to remember ancient history from 2009. Especially when it’s so inconvenient.
Although, TBF, Campaign Legal Center did criticize Edwards’s charitable organizations.
So it’s totally kosher if they’re breaking laws for ideological reasons rather than personal gain.
She means well. Given a few terms, she’ll be shown how to cover her tracks much more effectively. Once she’s made her first ten million or so as a Congressperson, she’ll be able to afford truly sophisticated counsel.
So for those who want to go retro with their gaming, GOG just got the rights to Diablo. Yes, the first one. DRM free.
Totally not a fishing expedition
Nearly everyone in Donald Trump’s world just became a potential witness.
House Democrats are laying down a vast net as they ramp up their investigation into deep tracts of the President’s personal, business and political life, with a breathtaking document request from a list of 81 people, agencies and entities.
They went after the Trump Organization, Trump employees, the Trump presidential campaign, the Trump transition team, the Trump inauguration committee, the Trump White House and blood members of the Trump clan.
The intent of the sweeping oversight offensive designed to encircle the President, launched by Rep. Jerry Nadler, the New York Democrat who’s the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is clear. Democrats are eyeing a case that Trump is not fit to continue in his job.
“Our goal is to hold the administration accountable for the obstruction of justice, the abuse of power and the corruption,” Nadler said on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” on Monday.
Just a three hour tour.
Pass the sunscreen, wouldja?
Every time I hear or see “Erin Burnett OutFront” two things cross my mind:
1. Erin Burnett…solid “would” about four, five years ago. Strong probably now, although we’ve left the realm of certainty.
2. “Out front” means the front yard. Why is Erin Burnett in my front yard?
Erin Burnett…solid “would” about four, five years ago.
She’s crazy as a shithouse rat. They must have had her on some powerful meds (and an extremely strong leash) at CNBC.
You know, provided no real addresses or names are used and you’ve got paramedics on call, crazy can be a good thing.
I had a huge crush on a girl in college who was one of those chicks who is obsessed with serial killers. Probably for the best that nothing happened there.
Sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight…
One ex was a huge fan of Hannibal Lecter, both movies and books. I don’t know if it translated to anything more general or she just liked the stories.
Years ago I briefly went out with a girl who was way too into underground type horror flicks. She was delightful otherwise but I just couldn’t get that out of my head.
I’m a pansy about horrors and thrillers. Not so much if the violence is comically overplayed, but if it’s plausible, I’m out. I had to shut off the RLM review of The Clovehitch Killer after they featured a clip of a brutal knifing, not for the gore (I don’t think there was any) but just the insensible viciousness of it. Violence in other genres is fine—Sicario, say, or Munich. But I feel sick indignation when it comes to murderers.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/06/conservative-activist-punched-guns-dhillon/
turns out that guy at Berkeley who punched the conservative activist is a crazy asshole that sues his roommates and landlords. he also had guns but had them seized during a previous restraining order.
He’s pleading not guilty despite being filmed punching someone because he’s betting that there will be at least one “punching Nazis is a good thing” asshole on his jury. And, in Berkeley, he’s probably right.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/i-called-for-diversity-of-thought-my-peers-compared-me-to-a-neo-nazi/
So while reading this it came to me, if I ever find myself in a place where some moron asks or even worse requires me to provide them with “my pronouns” I have decided what they are…
“The white patriarichal supreme lord and master to whom I am subservient in all ways”
Posted that yesterday. Sad but unsurprising.
Also, would.
Granted I’m a stubborn, bad-tempered old fart, but were I asked the above, I could reply with a single syllable:
“No.”
One of the people I work with is very liberal/progressive but she hates the idea of having to list pronouns. Her idea is that, if we’re ever forced to, she’ll choose “it.” I think I would do the same.
Louis CK has a good response. his pronoun is “there” because he identifies as a place. and that place is your mother’s vagina.
My pronouns are “cunt/squaws”.
Don’t you dare not use them.
*headdesk*
OOF. I don’t think that’s Pelosi trying to save Omar’s hide.
I mean, if you take lefties at their word that racial bias can be unconscious and unintended, but deserves to be treated the same as flagrant knowing bigotry, then ignorance is no excuse. Pelosi my as well have admitted that Omar’s an unreconstructed Jew-hater.
if you take lefties at their word
Not even the lefties do that, they just say it and the right cows to it.
She isn’t antisemitic. She is fine with many Semitic peoples, its just the (((Jews))) she hates.
*applause*
Now that’s how you patronize someone.
For some reason i saw that and it made me think of this:
I Edward Teach, Also known as Blackbeard, was not all bad.
On a cynical level, why shouldn’t they give Omar a pass? Are Jewish people going to stop voting Democrat over it? Stop donating? Will anyone calling the President (a guy who I’ve never heard say anything bad about Jews and has Jewish family members) an anti-semite even pause over it?
Half he Democratic contingent could show up in full Klan regalia, and it wouldn’t cost the Democrats a vote. On the other hand, Omar is a darling of the progressives.. Why risk pissing them off?