Jeez, what a long weekend. Unless, of course, you’re on the Houston Astros. Then it flew by as you beat the piss out of everyone on your schedule. Or if you’re Takumo Sato. And as for the hockey. well the Stanley Cup Finals game 1 was an eclectic mix of slow play, luck, soft checks…and a Penguins (inexplicable) victory. Seriously, did Mario Lemieux make a deal with the devil?
OK, that’s out of the way and we can get into the political, the personal and the perverted (hopefully). Let’s dive right into…the links!
Damn, dude. Call an Uber. (This doesn’t count as a sports story since he’s not been an athlete in years. And seriously, how fucking dumb do you have to be to be worth nearly a billion dollars and get a DUI in your gated neighborhood of homes worth tens of millions by the police department who you probably pay enough in property taxes to fund annually?) I’m no caddy, but I say he should have used a driver.
The artist version of a cripple fight is going on right now. Read it for yourself.
Lefty mayor social signals after nutball affiliated as much with BernieBros as he was with the “alt-right” goes off his meds and gets stabby. Hey, asshole. The First Amendment doesn’t say what you think it says.
When modern environmentalism runs into the adamantium wall that is modern technology. At least they came up with an experiment that could lead to hilarity. Or porn.
Texas Rep calls ICE on protesters disrupting session. Oh, it didn’t end there. In fact, that’s when shit got real! No word yet if the South Korean parliament is planning on sending advisers over on how to do a proper legislative brawl.
After that last link, I’m thinking this could be refreshed with just a name change for the city. Although there probably isn’t a modern band that could pull it off.
That’s it, dear friends. Welcome back to the work week. Go out there and hit that feeder bar.
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493 responses to “Tuesday Morning Links”
Over the weekend, I was reminded that Gianforte won’t be the only pol in Congress who has body slammed someone. His tag team partner is no one other than Al “Scrap Iron” Franken
Yup, Al was ahead of the curve when it came to the whole “I had to beat up someone in the name of free speech” movement.
It’s a real shame that nobody seems to know what a body slam is anymore. Until video of the incident in question surfaces, I’m having a difficulty believing that Gianforte actually held the reporter above his head and slammed him into the ground (awesome as that might be).
While he yelled “Hulkamania running wild, BROTHER!!!”
Either way, what makes me skeptical is the reaction of the reporter. His first comment is “you broke my glasses”. Followed a few seconds later by “you bodyslammed me and broke my glasses”.
If I was bodyslammed, my first comment wouldn’t be about my glasses and then about the bodyslam. Also, I wouldn’t be as calm and deliberate.
And since there is no video, and the only eye witnesses are other reporters, yeah, I would say skepticism is the way to go.
Other reporters that are already changing their story, mind you.
If I was Gianforte, I’d get every single one of those people under oath explaining exactly how thatbreporter entered the room, his supposed aggression, the limited access that room was supposed to have, his refusal to leave when requested, his refusal to acknowledge others already engaged with Gianforte and a bunch of other stuff.
Freedom of the press is not a free pass to do the shit this asshole did.
Yeah, I saw that at least one of the reporters was “walking back” their original statement.
But really, they’re objective tellers of the truth, not propagandists at all!
Thanks for that laugh man..
And these douchebags bristle at you when you point out they are political hacks pushing an agenda, that their credibility is shot, and that the olden days of the monopoly that allowed them to pretend they were not hacks are gone and will never come back no matter how hard they scream at us deplorables that we need to just accept whatever bullshit they are peddling for whomever.
Yeah, I call bullshit. I’ve seen people refer to it as “choke slamming”, which is probably more realistic but still not likely. I think the most likely thing is that when they were scuffling over the phone Gianforte shoved dude, who lost his balance and fell. If you haven’t trained in some kind of sport or martial art where you learn how to be thrown and fall correctly you’re probably going to get hurt, sure, but more importantly you’ll probably hold your breath when you hit the ground, which will stun you pretty good for awhile if you don’t straight pass out. And something tells me Glasses doesn’t know how to fall.
You can blow in a lefty’s face and they’ll claim it’s a body slam.
Ah, Hell, they claim that words are violence. Fuck them.
And at the same time they seem to think punching someone in the face for disagreeing is simply their right to free speech.
Yeah, fuck those people.
As evidenced by the ridiculously overblown brouhaha over Corey Lewandowski grabbing Michelle Fields by the arm. That one was covered as if Lewandowski hit her over the head with a tire iron.
She parleyed that into a gig at HuffPo very smoothly.
Or, the guy in Berkeley who popped the Antifa woman who was grabbing at his throat and taking a swing at him. Media: He ‘sucker-punched a girl’.
First Gianforte body slam video surfaces.
Ah!!1 He ripped my leg off!
Damn, I missed this link.
I remember that weekend when we invaded them.
Yeah… that was the deployment that really turned me into a libertarian. I spent my 18th birthday getting pelted with RPGs on the locks at Gatun; we later used our anti-aircraft gun to sink a Vosper near Coco Solo. All to effect an arrest of the head of a sovereign nation-state for thumbing his nose at Uncle Sucker. Sigh…
On an unrelated note, how is your mother?
She’s not too bad. Doesn’t talk much about the beatdown anymore. The dickheads in Jasper County, SC still haven’t set a hearing or established a trial date since her attorney requested a jury trial on March 1. This after they offered to drop all charges if she would agree to not pursue civil action.
You’d almost think they were toying with her, what with it being a very minor misdemeanor and all. But I couldn’t imagine a Boss Hogg-run place like that still existing, right?
Thank you for asking. I appreciate that.
“This after they offered to drop all charges if she would agree to not pursue civil action.”
I sincerely hope that she is not even considering their offer.
Oh she’s not.
Good, I hope she takes the town for a big pile pile of cash.
Yeah they are gonna try to string that out forever hoping ya’ll will get tired of fooling with it and walk away. Common tactic in cases like this.
Speedy trial demand clock keeps a ticking…
Probably died of grief, knowing his name was ruined by his failed lawsuit against Black Ops 2.
Reposted from dead thread, because PB failing never gets old, and it’s topical!
Crossing dead threads from different websites… SFing links…
What’s next, Pomp? You gonna come over and kick my dog?
Oh the link isn’t supposed to be active anyway, it’s just copied plaintext. Maybe I could make a hat trick and piss all over the toilet seat.
did some tell him that joseph is a bernie fan.
On jan 12 in Facebook he said he wanted to kill all trump and hillary voters
Has described this election as pick your poison
Claimed trump is a sociopath and narcissist
And talked about frequently how great bernie is and the best pol since ralph nader
https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.christian.581/posts/1389644297765880
Jeremy Christian
December 27, 2016 ·
What would voters do, if the people who voted for Bernie only or 3rd party candidate, got together with non voters to beat up and imprison in reeducation camps, those people who voted for ****** pick your poison candidates???
But he showed up at a pro-Trump rally (to threaten Trump supporters) which reporter Doug Brown assures me means he was threatening only leftist protesters and is an alt-right, Trump supporting meanie. It’s insane how these people can just push whatever message they want and people believe them because it conforms to their paranoia. Someone in the comments from Brown’s linked article even said we should be scared because he represents half the country.
So, a nutjob gets stabby and idiots try and make it political.
Saw some delicious derp on derpbook about how the Portland stabber was a “white terrorist” and “Trump had nothing to say about it”.
Was that before he had something to say about it?
Who knows, reality rarely enters into leftist thinking.
Please don’t bring the uninteresting character strings generated by the non-sentient neural net known as Shriek here. Rather, leave them at TSTSNBN where they belong.
We don’t need its mindless logorrhea here any more than I need to import diarrhea to paint the walls of my living room.
As you wish. Even still, I’ve never seen somebody/thing so consistent in being an order of magnitude lower than an expected value of 0.5 in terms of prediction.
Tarran wasn’t complaining, he was just bragging about his living room decoration.
I hope all the Glibs had a good weekend. I took Friday off to help my wife move the files to her new office. She’s joining a firm of lawyers, so a good step up for her career. The office itself looks like something out of a Dicken’s novel – all dark wood and creaky floors.
And the neighborhood run pool opened this weekend. I went swimming a bunch of times, got slightly sunburned, and was so tired that I could barely workout on Sunday morning. But I sure did sleep well – got a solid 9 hours, which never happens when I’m working.
I also slaved away on getting the yard/garden into some kind of shape beyond looking like No Man’s Land. Also grilled some monster steaks, which turned out perfectly. Getting back to the office today is horrible 🙁
The weekend was pretty good. Got four bike rides in (but had to cancel the 60+ mile day due to predicted thunderstorms, which wound up rolling in late afternoon). Three with the girlfriend helping her train up, and one by myself testing some work I did on my road bike. The biker’s tan is already coming in strong. Then I spent Monday playing board games at a local store, and Sunday brewing beer. It was a tough life.
I stepped on an ant.
Maybe even two.
MURDERER!
I worked all weekend. I just got home about 30 minutes ago and saw what’s left of what looks like a good party my family had at my house last night. sigh… Earning a living sucks.
GIL, regarding your Python thing last night… I see everyone got you straightened out, but you should seriously consider using the Spyder IDE (it comes with Anaconda)… I programmed in terminals for years (vi), but switched over to Spyder about a year ago and am not going back. Even for someone experienced in Python, it’s a huge boost to productivity and makes editing/analyzing/testing/running code a lot easier.
As far as SQL parsing in Python is concerned, you might take a look at Pandas, which also comes with the standard Anaconda distribution. It’s a great package for working with databases in Python.
I’ll second the recommendation for Spyder simply for having all the variables and their current data types displayed. That was my biggest headache left over from my Java days.
If you’re not using Anaconda (and maybe even if you are), then PyCharm is my recommendation.
Thanks for the thought.
perhaps some context was missing = my only reason for downloading the python libraries and running that particular spider was literally to accomplish a single task – not as part of any ongoing need.
Now that i’ve got my little db, i have little need for any further coding. I’m using a very simple DB browser for SQL-lite at the moment and its exactly what i need.
i do appreciate having lots of code-savvy people here for when occasions like this pop up.
I actually really like Visual Code for programming. It’s got a lot of features of IDE’s while still being fairly lightweight text editor.
Feminist researcher invents ‘intersectional quantum physics’ to fight ‘oppression’ of Newton
It’s peer-reviewed. Totes legit.
You can’t even parody these fucking loons.
And what do turntables have to do with it?
Coincidentally, I spent the weekend refurbishing a very very wounded veteran SP10 Mk2.
Tax dollar at work. I tell ya, without publicly funded basic research we’d never, ever, ever have any kind technological or societal advance. Ever. Cause private research funded by evil corporations just results in new and innovative ways to kill customers.
Yes, because killing your customers is the most effective business model to ensure long term profits.
I think the left actually believes this.
Don’t forget paying women less just for the oppression boner. And poisoning the environment because fuck Gaia!
And refusing to hire all women who can provide the same productivity for 23% less wages just to be male oppressors.
That is truly amazing. That is undiluted horseshit spray painted to look like ice-cream. It’s not even a good paint job.
I was trying to think of who this woman’s peers for the review might be, I can only assume that they must be artists of one kind or other. It has occurred to me that some of them are from the Metalist School.
I’m starting to wish for an alien invasion.
Of course she has no training in physics or quantum physics, she would have had to listen to mansplaining.
Niels Bohr was a white-cis shitlord so what he has to say is obviously irrelevant.
Did she at least stay at a Holiday Inn last night?
While we’re at it, a publication called The Minnesota Review is run by Virginia Tech?? And who the hell goes to Virginia Tech for creative writing other than Cho Seung-Hui?
“Did she at least stay at a Holiday Inn last night?”
Winner.
I know someone who majored in History at MIT.
Course 21 FTW! I only knew one History major while I was there but I also knew a Writing major. I think he wanted to be a screenwriter, but I’d bet he’s doing something different.
Seems like an awful waste to go to MIT for a liberal arts degree. Unless they got a free ride, I guess. I don’t think the woman I knew was on a scholarship. Despite her feminist leanings, I am pretty sure she was looking for her Mrs. Degree with some up-and-coming engineer.
It’s all need-based financial aid, not scholarships.
Neither of them was a good enough friend that I ever knew their stories (Writing was more a friend of a friend and History was a friend of my ex-wife) but I suspect that both of them came to MIT looking to major in something else that they later found out was way too difficult for them.
You laugh, but Cyborg Colonial Theory is really blowing up right now with a lot of cutting edge research.
-/s just in case.
I, for one, welcome the assimilation opportunities afforded by the coming cyborg colony.
+ 1 Seven of Nine
Personally I’d say she’s at least a 9 of 10.
She is just trolling, right?
I miss Feynman.
Yeah, he’s great. I have 3 of his books.
“the tendency to categorize people has historically hurt activism efforts by small minority groups”
And who spends all of their time categorizing people?
“small minority groups”
I think they just categorized people.
WTF? This is literally the entire purpose of postmodern Marxist identity politics; to slice and dice people into collectives and then assign group rights according to some imaginary oppression hierarchy. This undermines the entire proposition of the article. Then again, how am I expecting logic and reason from people who explicitly reject them as racist and bigoted.
Could it be another hoax paper?
Science WILL conform with the narrative, or it will be punished!
Fucking Luddites.
Her various gender studies degrees totes qualifies her to comment on quantum physics.
“These structures of classification, such as male/female, or living/non-living, are “hierarchical and exploitative” and are thusly “part of the apparatus that enables oppression.””
I think this is my fav. Non-living? This is what makes me wonder if hoax.
I suppose that there is some truth to the non-living being oppressed by science. Lol.
Good God, that human power link is amazing derp. They just gloss over 99.9% of human history.
Yep. That and the brain-exploding super derp on physics is the end result of accepting critical theory. Build on nonsense and whaddya get?
12 Ways Feminism Looks Different In 2017
I notice they left off intimidation and using social media to run people out of business.
Or are those more SJW tactics in general and not really specific to “feminism”?
Speaking of feminism, it looks like Tina Fey might be getting kicked out of the left. The AV Club finally got the the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode that rips on SJW’s. The comments on the episode review are a deep well of derp.
This person is obviously the most interesting xe in politics.
Don’t worry, sweetpea, you’re not a liberal.
I’m surprised she lasted this long. I just binge-watched 30 Rock and it is shockingly self-aware and even handed in its parody of both left and right.
“I just binge-watched 30 Rock and it is shockingly self-aware”
Interesting, I always avoided that show assuming the opposite especially given Baldwin’s involvement. Maybe I’ll give it a try.
30 Rock is really good, and Baldwin is fantastic in it.
Alec Baldwin is a bona fide horse’s ass, but he’s great at his day job.
I know he’s a good actor but also an insufferable dnc hack. Glad to hear the former wins out here.
I do craft services (location catering for television commercials) and often have jobs at Silvercup Studios where 30 Rock was filmed. Part of my mission was to make that Commie Baldwin blow a gasket. I found that “Fuck off slaver!” and “ALL taxes are theft!” would send him into a sputtering rage. He once called a “Low-rent NAZI” and a “Deluded goon with unfathomably delicious brownies” after I waxed nostalgic about free helicopter rides on Pinochet Airlines. Good times…
Lol
The object of humor was mostly the Liz Lemon character. Fey has always struck me as a more Seinfeldian type of comedian. Go for the funny no matter what’s in the way, basically.
Victimhood as virtue.
Be careful man… you might be delving too deep. I think that’s about where I closed the tab.
If you gaze long into the Derp, the Derp also gazes into you.
Progs always have to preface comments like this so the scorekeepers can tally the grievance level to decide whether this person should be allowed to speak.
Oh, now it’s a spectrum like that Asperger’s bullshit?
It occurred to me for the first time this weekend that I should be a lot angrier with the people pushing the white privilege narrative, given where my parents came from and my own frugal, no-frills upbringing. Like, incandescently angry.
Tina Fey seeks advice on a bicycle purchase.
https://youtu.be/m_24p1ht9v8
That is great:)
Wowza.
Granted I haven’t seen the ep and won’t, but I’m having a real hard time understanding any reality in which that joke is a preface to examining how cishet men (ugh….I suddenly feel so dirty…think that’s the first time I’ve written that out) use feminist language to their advantage.
I really hope the “they are eating their own” business that we keep seeing and talking about is really true.
I’ve bitched even here about how I kinda like the AV Club but they are just so fucking insufferable recently. I just want to hear about new albums and shit! Other than TSTSNBN it’s the only place that I frequent (I literally go to like….7 websites maybe) that has just been totally poisoned by TDS.
cishet
We prefer cis shit lord, please.
Bitch, if you try once more to invalidate my experiences imma gonna have to bust you up.
I haven’t seen the show (except one episode), but the joke about guys using feminism to score isn’t very original. My friends and I referred to such men as ‘yoga assholes’, defined as men who take women’s studies classes to meet chicks.
When I watched the episode, that wasn’t even the key takeaway from the joke I got. The joke is that all of the SJW’s are just big babies. The guy calling his mom is crying because Kimmy said he wasn’t special, not just because she turned him down. That and the consent form is there to set up a brick joke later in the episode. After reading it, Kimmy says, “That’s not what thumbs are for! Thumbs are for hitchiking and being Fonzi!” Later in the episode, one of the SJW’s is sitting on a bus sucking their thumb. The driver of the bus (another character who worked his way into college and is more down-to-earth) says the line, “She shouldn’t be sucking her thumb like that. Do you know where they put those nowadays?”
That sounds even worse.
Speaking of looking different, they might have gained a few pounds as well
Ok, it hasn’t changed, then is what they are saying? Merchandise- people have been wearing buttons on their clothing to support a cause since first wave feminism. Marching for rights, again, came of age in the eighteen hundreds. Equal pay, not a super radical or modern idea (hello Geraldine Ferraro) . . . .I could go on but I’d rather not waste the time of brain cells.
Yeah, don’t think 3rd wave is mainstream right now. You’ll have to do what feminism has always done; wait a few generations after the fact to then brainwash the younger generations into thinking it was an admirable movement with good righteous goals.
Damn, the Midnight Rider finally got caught. RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_UaQx5eZQ
Something tells me he wanted to join Duane earlier.
Little mermaid statue vandalised in whaling protest
I can’t say I like whale meat. Tastes weird
That’s what she said?
Because the little Mermaid has fuck all to do with promoting whaling. Some people are stupid.
If they had done it somewhere logical, you would have never heard about it.
No matter what you think about the cause, you have to give them credit for picking a target that would create worldwide attention.
It’s practically a Danish tradition to vandalize that statue for every and no reason. I think she had her head sawed off a handful of times.
IOW: It’s guaranteed news coverage.
Forgot to add this.
track biker vs a toaster
no, we could not.
I remember an experiment we did in High School physics powering a 75 Watt light bulb with a bike. Even keeping that lit for 1 minute was a lot of work.
Black Mirror that shit!
Soilent Green is people?
I often accuse my liberal family members of being neo-feudalist who wish they could rule over the peasants. Now their dreams are all coming true.
I truly believe that a lot of the anger on the left this days is tied to the fact that the election results show that the plebes took a stance against their disdain for them and their compelling need to rule these people they consider to be beneath them and should just do what they are told. I have had several libs, in a candid moment, admit to me that they lost because so many ungrateful idiots that simply didn’t realize what was better for them decided to bite the hand that fed them.
It’s either that, or the line about how the commoners surely would have voted for Hillary, but those damn Russians interfered by allegedly revealing factual evidence of bad things that she did behind the scenes.
This all damn day. I’ve had the very same experience. If you’re not a progressive, it’s because you’re either evil or stupid or both. It’s very unusual in my experience that a progressive will concede that smart, kind people can disagree, or that they themselves might be wrong about something. Now, that can be said about most people in most arenas, probably, but it seems to be part of the fabric of progressivism. Conservatives seem more likely to either see opposing viewpoints as naive, or to make a judgment based on utilitarian considerations.
All this being in my experience, mind you, so take it all with a grain of salt.
If you just label the other side as stupid, evil, or both you can avoid dealing with any facts or logic they can present that tear down your dogma, and progies are quasi-religious in their ideological dogma as well as seriously lazy and intellectually incurious about anything that forces them to reassess their feelings.
If only we could harness the smugness of progressive media personalities as a power source.
Grapes honors Memorial Day the best way he knows how. Speaks about it a little later in the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Rgr8xPFf8
The Dumb Politics of Elite Condescension
Are the first two paragraphs sarcasm to illustrate a point? I hope it is. I don’t think it is.
“Privileged” used four times. Noyce.
I guess they’re not gonna address the 80% difference blacks or the 70% difference hispanics voted for Hillary over Trump. Only one disparity matters: the one that hurt my team.
Well here’s why that disparity exists: when you call a large segment of your target deplorable and irredeemable because they are considering disagreeing with you, it probably isn’t gonna sit well.
This really pissed me off in Obama’s two wins. In 2008 he got 95% of the black vote and in 2012 it was about 93%. That’s not racist?
No, because only Whitey can be racist, because privilege.
Of course not.
You’re soooo not woke.
That’s the nicest thing anyone has said to me a long time!
I understand why they voted that way the first time, but the second? He spent the first four years either ignoring them or actively fucking them.
Because Romney was a dangerous right-wing extremist who wanted to bring back slavery, of course.
How naive I was at the time, to think that the absurdly ginned up hysteria about Milquetoast Mitt, the Republican socialist from Massachusetts, putting people back in chains and women in binders was bad. I had no inkling of the true horror that TDS would be.
Elitism is the left’s worst problem. They’re not only elitist, but hypocritical. When some 19-year-old black chick from Harvard lectures, say, a construction worker from El Paso about “checking your privilege”, the irony should burn them up into vapor.
I am as blue collar working class as it gets. I have a factory job and live in flyover country. Her deplorable statement was directed square at me and the people I know. That’s not a winning strategy for a party that depends on blue-dog democrats for votes.
If I’m not mistaken, you live in Arkansas right? The state that produced Bill Clinton goes blood red in 20 short years. That should tell the progs something.
Correct. I was in kindergarten when Bull was elected the first time. I didn’t become politically aware until I was 25 or so. Before then, I didn’t give a shit.
From what I can tell, people in my state would go back blue if the blue team went back to what they were 25 years ago. Those that I know are for-
social security
medicare/medicare
foreign intervention
anti immigrant.
anti drug
pro police
What is making them vote red is-
Anything to do with SJWS
Welfare to able bodied people
Obamacare
Terrorism
Good to know they’ll never go back, then, because the SJW stuff is here to stay. I think we will see more and more of it from the left — and we will watch as they wonder “why the heck do we keep losing.”
SJW rhetoric is really for the “elite.” Anybody working difficult jobs trying to provide for their families won’t have time for it. The more its used, the more the average American is going to feel separated from the higher social classes.
“if the blue team went back to what they were 25 years ago”
Not gonna happen, at least not anytime soon. The Dems have become beholden to the far left and their priorities are firmly revolving around socialistic economic policies, postmodern identity politics and weakening of national sovereignty. They figured that they would more than make up for the loss of middle America by bringing in and catering to immigrants because “DERP DEMUHGRAFICKS”. In honesty, it was probably a winning strategy if they were a little more patient and kept the SJWs on a tighter leash. But they dropped the mask too soon and middle American defected sooner than they anticipated, before enough third worlders had come in.
I blame Bush (as in W) – the voters punished the Republicans for a shitty war, but the Democrats read it as the great awakening of lefty politics. So they went full left, ripped the mask off and burned it. And then they lost the house to no one’s surprise.
Is there a chance that the Dem’s could take the house in 2018? *shrugs*
Historically speaking there is a chance, but the Dems will once again read it as some lefty mandate.
(Of course the right is just as guilty of their electoral wins)
Another way to look at it is that we should thank Bush for being such a shitty president that he finally made the left abandon the strategic game they were playing out and show their true colors. The fact that no matter how many people start holding their nose at what the left now peddles only makes them double down on the derp should be encouraging, but then again, the other side has also bought into their version of a massive and intrusive government robbing us of freedoms.
I’ve lived in Arkansas for a little over 25 years. In that time I’ve seen us go from having Democrats as Governor, both Senators and 3 out of 4 congressmen to all Republican. And our former first lady got about half the votes Trump did. I wouldn’t say Arkansas will be red forever (we had a fairly popular Decmocrat Governor just a few years ago), but I don’t think we’ll be flipping anytime soon. This is the kind of state that a populist centrist Democrat still should have a shot at, but the Democratic party seems pretty intent on not learning any lesson from this election.
Hello fellow Arkansan. I will be in Fayetteville this weekend watching the hogs hopefully win their NCAA regional.
I think your summation Is pretty correct.
Very cool. Going to a game at Baum Stadium is on my list of things to do in Fayetteville, if we ever make it back up there. My niece just left the Fayetteville area, so we don’t have much of a reason to get up there these days.
They would have to have some self-awareness and a sense of logic for that to happen.
Oh man, that was priceless. You are on a roll today.
“elites… unselfconsciously belittle working-class whites”
They can’t stop and won’t stop. If they try, it will be transparently disingenuous. To try and not have contempt for the vast unwashed masses is tantamount to drastically altering their own nature and philosophy. They have been marinating in a stew of smugness, condescension, white guilt and identity politics largely since birth. If you’re a hardcore prog, good luck convincing yourself (or anyone else) that you don’t secretly despise all the rubes living in tract housing who weren’t smart and/or connected enough to go to the “right” college and get the “right” job. If they had done those things, they’d agree with you right? I mean, these are people who clean fucking toilets for a living, while you’re a Master of the Universe. What do they possibly have to offer of any value? They just need to shut up, do what they’re told and everyone will be better off.
In some cities, a construction boom is hobbled by a lack of plumbers. We might ameliorate this problem if we stopped talking about plumber’s butt.
I get that the author is trying to be a wisecrack here and this isn’t a serious look at why we don’t have more trade school workers, but it still struck me as silly. Progressives are just one word-change or slogan away from fixing the world.
What’s the Republican jobs program? Supply-side economics, which is bad science but savvy politics
I’d be tempted to refute this if I thought she understood or even cared to understand what supply-side economics even means.
Or science, for that matter.
Salon trying superstitious reverse psychology?
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/27/wake-up-liberals-there-will-be-no-2018-blue-wave-no-democratic-majority-and-no-impeachment/#.WStNyR9rHag.facebook
Dood, don’t say the Dems are gonna win, you’ll jinx it!
TW: Retarded comments (but it’s Salon so you except that right?)
Marc Tretin
Nassau County, New York
Patrick Franklin if a credible social-democrat stepped forward, the very stupid American public would vote against him. Give the average american someone to hagte and they will love you wihile you pick their pockets.
That’s it, proggies. Keep calling people that might vote against you “very stupid”. I’m sure that’ll win them over to your way of thinking.
VOTE FOR US YOU RACIST, KNUCKLEDRAGGING, MORONS!
Because if you don’t we shall insult you even more!
Go away or I shall insult you a second time!
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
*farts in general direction*
It really seems as though they have no capacity for learning.
Someone needs a dose of Dale Carnegie.
It’s all about hedging their bets. If you confidently state all outcomes you will never be wrong, so people can count on you to get the truth to them.
I’m no caddy, but I say he should have used a driver.
*guffaws, slaps knee*
I will istead *narrows gaze* at sloopy.
U.N. Peacekeepers – $8 billion cost and a bit rapey.
Well pimpin… ehm peacekeepin ain’t easy
A peacekeeper’s love is a special kind of love, not like a square’s love.
Do all peacekeepers have names with double “Ds” in them? For the double dose thing…
Yeah, we’ll bring you those refugees… BUTT FIRST!
Well said Scro!
STEVE SMITH RAPEY BUT WORKS FOR FREE
AND EVEN STEVE SMITH TOO CLASSY TO ASSOCIATE WITH U.N.
FIND A JOB YOU LOVE AND NEVER WORK A DAY!
STEVE SMITH NO NEED BLUE HELMET !
STEVE SMITH HAS PURPLE HELMET!
I can’t even figure out what is really going on in the latest installment of the proggies eating their own.
From what I sort of understand, some prog artist (who has done a lot of work in the past with Native Americans) has gotten himself in a jam because his latest piece of art protests the execution of 38 Dakota men. The indians are not happy for some reason.
Try parsing this statement:
If I understand this correctly, the Indians (who didn’t create the sculpture) feel that are enacting labor for whitey because they are the subject of whitey re-education.
I’m sure it would be more obvious to someone who had a degree in this shit.
So, meaningless social-signaling bullshit.
Boh. Garble bab. But….
“who may not know it consciously exists”
Is a key concept among prog/lefties where race is concerned. It gives them all kinds of leeway.
Fucking Plato
What’s plasticine got to do with this?
One study, two headlines
https://twitter.com/TheSafestSpace/status/868260185017647105
good comments, too.
Stark identifies Newtonian physics as one of the main culprits behind oppression. “Newtonian physics,” she writes, has “separated beings” based on their “binary and absolute differences.”
Reality is oppression.
“Reality is oppression”
And here, folks, we may have the most succinct, accurate summarization of progressive philosophy ever made. Well done.
Really good. Its easy to see how this can lead to “I shouldn’t have to work for a living.”
In the 1700s, highly realistic landscape paintings called vedute gave European visitors proof of their trips to exotic destinations.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/05/instagram-for-18th-century-tourists/527853/?utm_source=bbccfb
Fully peer-reviewed, Somatechnics seeks contributions that present innovative examinations of the interplay between bodily being and the technological context in which it occurs.
It’s a word-salad-tossing contest, right?
Well, salad tossing, anyway.
Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, squash, bell pepper, banana pepper, mushrooms, spinach, boiled egg, pickled okra, diced ham, and balsamic vinegar dressing, and white privilege.
Makes sense to me.
Don’t forget the maple syrup.
I thought it was supposed to be some kind of berry jam or jelly?
Not according to Chris Rock.
Our firewall rules here are way more strict than the govt when I worked there. I can’t even get on NIC to register MFing domains.
But that Indy 500 was great, I thought. Charlotte was a boring clusterfuck. I know stage racing is a grand tradition and all, but leave that shit for the local tracks.
Stage racing an Endurance race? What a stupid idea, the Rest of the day was great for Ferrari and Takuma, Yea!
I am really hating the stage racing in NASCAR this year. I don’t mind going to the local track and seeing a 100-lap race cut into stages. When you get to the big tracks with the big cars and the big bucks, leave that shit behind. Charlotte MS does not produce great racing in general, and the whole point of the 600 is endurance and strategy.
This guy is stealing my moves!
http://www.thefrisky.com/g/man-claiming-to-have-cancer-busted-for-conning-women/?ipp=3
To determine the effects of a 24-week ketogenic diet (consisting of 30 g carbohydrate, 1 g/kg body weight protein, 20% saturated fat, and 80% polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fat) in obese patients.
In the present study, 83 obese patients (39 men and 44 women) with a body mass index greater than 35 kg/m2, and high glucose and cholesterol levels were selected.
The weight and body mass index of the patients decreased significantly (P<0.0001). The level of total cholesterol decreased from week 1 to week 24. HDL cholesterol levels significantly increased, whereas LDL cholesterol levels significantly decreased after treatment. The level of triglycerides decreased significantly following 24 weeks of treatment. The level of blood glucose significantly decreased. The changes in the level of urea and creatinine were not statistically significant.
Administering a ketogenic diet for a relatively longer period of time did not produce any significant side effects in the patients. Therefore, the present study confirms that it is safe to use a ketogenic diet for a longer period of time than previously demonstrated.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716748/#!po=23.7705
I’ve been keto since last August, not really for weight loss but just as an experiment. I figured I’d go for a month and they re-evaluate. I’ve felt so fantastic that I just kept on truckin. I just had a cholesterol check last week and my numbers were excellent. Got more energy, clearer thinking and fewer urges to snack throughout the day. I endorse.
I’ve been low carb for 5 years now – only way I’ve found that I can maintain my body weight without resorting to calorie counting, or feeling hungry. Except for special occasions I rarely eat more than 20g of carbs a day. I eat until I’m full, have a snack or two during the day, and that’s about it, Also my “pre-diabetic” condition went away and my cholesterol numbers are great.
Another side effect: I haven’t had a cavity, nor a crown since. My teeth were terrible before, where I had to visit the dentist 4-5x a year for cleanings, crowns, cavities, and other “repairs”. Now it’s only two times a year for cleanings.
SMOD has the last word.
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/nasa-spots-five-asteroids-that-will-be-flying-awfully-close-to-earth-starting-in-2017-9473170
Exclusive: This is the Essential Phone.
Looks promising. Finally a phone built to the standards I’ve been looking for.
Too bad I already got an S8. I’d be seriously considering that phone, especially if it didn’t try to track your whole life like a Samsung phone. Shame about the 3.5mm jack though.
How ’bout get rid of the fucking selfie camera while they’re at it?
No SD slot, no replaceable battery, no headphone jack, no thanks.
Ya the lack of SD card sucks, but 128 GB is more than I need. It does have a headphone dongle that comes with it. What I like is the titanium build. If it’s truly what they claim it is you wouldn’t need a case. Also no bloat just pure Android!
Yeah, getting rid of all the bloatware (most of which seems to be used for tracking me in minute detail) would be a huge plus in my book.
Looks like it’d be a great platform for Silent Circle, so they can drop the Blackphone.
No replaceable battery is the new thing. It’s a requirement to being waterproof.
I don’t recall ever seeing such a wonderful statement from the ACLU:
The ACLU remains excellent on the “speech” portion of the first amendment. They’ve just forgotten that all the other parts of the first amendment exist.
And the rest of the Constitution.
And of course the second amendment is right out.
how does the ACLU count to 10? 1, 3, 4, 5…
…6, 7, 8.
I’ve posted this before but it bears repeating. The ACLU started life as the legal defense team for the American Communist Party. ACLU chairman and co-founder Roger Nash Baldwin writing in 1934 –
No shit. I had no idea.
A quick delving reveals that he had a serious falling out with the Soviets by 1940 and was expunging communists from the ACLU.
And I had no idea about that, thanks.
I think he missed a few
They just got rid of the ones they didn’t like. At its heart the ACLU is still a bunch of closet communists pretending to care about freedoms. But their agenda is to undermine government they don’t like. if the right people/political party/political agenda is shitting on our rights, they are fine with that.
I did not know that. Thanks I0b0t. That explains a lot
That explains their worthlesness on actual civil liberties like freedom of association and the right to self defense.
“When that power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union.”
Anyone who has anything positive to say about the Soviet Union needs to be sent to tried in a kangaroo court and given a sentence of *25-5-5.
This was a common punishment for dissent in soviet russia. 25 years hard labor. 5 years of exile. 5 years of deprivation of rights.
So, just like Planned Parenthood, a not so pristine origin? Why am I not surprised?
“fundamentals of liberty are firmly fixed in the USSR. And they are fixed on the only ground on which liberty really matters — economic.”
So forceful confiscation of all private property and bloody purges of dissenters is the root to economic liberty. Not to mention forced collectivism that resulted in the death of millions.
SHUT UP WRECKER!
Motherjones was crying over the weekend about bbqs releasing carbon into the air as much as a coal plant
I think I’ll fire up the Weber again.
It’s what plants crave!
Remember that a drunk celebrity… is drunk, and doesn’t think any more clearly than the rest of us do when we’re drunk.
They do have more money, however. If I had Tiger’s dough, I was going out and I thought there was even the tiniest possibility that I’d be getting hammered, I’d just hire a freakin’ limo. It works better on the skanks I’m likely trying to pick up anyway.
He’s gonna make the talk show circuit soon enough where he’ll be able to commiserate with Ellen about how nasty ‘white privileged racists’ who ruined his life but he persisted and overcame his sex and alcohol addiction. Or some shit.
Tiger Beat: ‘How I beat my meth addiction I freely undertook!’
Hero!
It’s not the drunk decision-making. It’s the pre-drunk decision-making that’s so perplexing.
Plus He’s already said he had no alcohol and that it was his pain meds. I guess he went partying until 3 am on pain meds. Or he was popping them like the dude in “Role Models” esceptnwith a Perkins waitress instead of the hot-as-balls Carly Craig.
IDK. He’s rich as fuck. He made a decision to drive home impaired, one way or the other. Its a 650 dollar ticket and a loss of license for six months. That would be a significant negative in my life, but for him, not that big of a deal.
That would be a significant negative in my life, but for him, not that big of a deal.
Well, not that big a deal until Nike, Rolex and Buick drop him and the $45m a year they’re paying him.
Maybe, but if they didn’t drop him for his previous scandals, he’s probably good on this one. Especially if he can play if off as-
Yeah I had a drink, but it conflicted with the medicine I was taking for my back surgeries. Im just ting to get my body back into shape to play golf again.
Maybe, but if they didn’t drop him for his previous scandals
They’ll drop him soon because he’s a shitty golfer with no chance of a comeback.
Gargage in, garbage out
One of the major goals of tax reform is to reduce the opportunities for savvy taxpayers to game the system.
This is the opening sentence of a NYT piece on the terrible injustice of allowing evil rich people to keep any of the money they have earned. Or something like that. It’s as far as I got.
If you establish a sufficiently nonsensical premise, you can “prove” anything.
Damn those savvy taxpayers! *shakes fist at sky*
*pulls off mask*
“Zoinks! It’s Warren Buffet!”
“And it would have worked too, if not for you meddling liberals!”
“Well, now let’s find out who the tax dodger REALLY is!”
*pulls off mask*
“Jinkies! It’s Warren Buffett!”
“And it would have worked too, if not for you meddling liberals!”
How dare they game the system and still pay more in a single year than most of us will pay in our life.
In the case of the NYT, isn’t the logic you should pay more to support the nanny state we peddle, so we don’t have to do they paying for this idiocy ourselves?
That’s not the goal of the tax reform they have in mind. Not the goal at all.
Later, we get this:
This new loophole would encourage people to characterize even more of their income as pass-through income. Under this plan, if a wealthy executive sets up an L.L.C. to receive his $10 million salary, he could potentially save $2 million in taxes.
Indeed, the cost of capping the rate on pass-through income is breathtaking. The Tax Policy Center and Tax Foundation both estimate that Mr. Trump’s proposed cap would cost about $1.5 trillion over 10 years, about a quarter of the net cost of his campaign tax plan. After accounting for ensuing efforts to game the loophole, the Tax Policy Center and Goldman Sachs estimate it would cost $2 trillion or more.
The horror. The only way to eliminate loopholes benefitting the rich is a wealth tax, I suspect. And a 130% inheritance tax. That’ll equalize the fuck out of us.
Letting people keep more of their own money is not a “cost” that needs to be “paid for”. Fucking slavers.
Of course we could just eliminate the corporate tax and institute a flat income tax, but that’s just lunacy. And it eliminates one of the main fundraising powers that Congressmen have: the ability to alter the tax code.
So whats the deal with the whole Isis in the Philippines thing? I mean, it’s not like they will accomplish anything. Also is there some conspiracy theory that it is staged?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/30/philippine-army-battles-to-contain-isis-attacks-from-spreading-to-second-city
Before the internet they were the Moro Islamic LIberation Front. If having your fundamentalist sect’s internet SEO poisoned by Western pornography isn’t the apotheosis of irony, I can’t say what is.
Well they are getting Malay and Indonesian folks to join in the fun – used to be a little more separatist/isolated. Just more of the same.
Squirrels are after me. This is a test. My responses have been devoured twice, but maybe a fresh comment sneaks through. *crosses fingers*
*SHHHHH* Everyone ignore him and maybe he’ll think the comment didn’t get posted! This is gonna be hilarious!
For whatever reason, they ended up in the Spambox. I’ve liberated them just to make you look ridiculous, posting the same thing twice and complaining because it doesn’t show up. I do this because basically I’m an asshole.
Still crazy
This will happen only if the organization commits itself to making substantive change that disrupts the balance of power for the most vulnerable. To get there, the N.A.A.C.P. must search for its new president not in the highest places, but rather in the lowest.
Is the N.A.A.C.P. ready to follow the leadership of undocumented women? Queer women? Black women? Is it ready to listen to those who have been incarcerated? Those who are H.I.V. positive? Is it ready to have as its president a young person just out of foster care who, because he is transgender and black, lived with vulnerabilities many can’t imagine?
These are the kinds of leaders capable of offering a radical new direction for an organization that has been irrelevant for far too long.
Melissa Harris Perry emerges from wherever she has been hiding to scold the NAACP for its gender-normative irrelevance. Yay.
I think the NAAPC would be best served if they hired a black working class husband and father of 3 children who worked his ass off trying to make ends meet to be their president.
They should hire Poppy because everyone loves Poppy except Charlotte, but Charlotte is probably a serial killer.
Yes, a transgender teenager from a foster home should make an outstanding NAACP president.
Queer women?
They’re going to need more letters in NAACP.
This is a fantastic idea. I have some candidates in mind. I will write them a letter.
Well they already have/had trans-racial leaders, so that’s good. Right?
Our web vendor just quoted me 6 hours to do a simple 10-question contact form that emails the form info as plain text. I fucking hate them. If our site was in WordPress with a contact form plugin, I could have it done in an hour or less.
Is hat 30 mins of work, 30 mins of testing, and 5 hours of slack that they want to charge you for? Sounds like they might be doing legal work on the side..
If that’s really how long it takes to make a form in their POS proprietary CMS, they need to go out of business, stat.
But yeah, probably 5 hours of bill padding.
I’d just build a form on Wufoo or Typeform and drive the users to that.
We have a form on Survey Monkey, but the product managers hate it and want the form built into our web site. They think they would get more responses if the form were living on our site. I don’t see how it makes much of a difference, but 6 hours is ridiculous, regardless.
To get there, the N.A.A.C.P. must search for its new president not in the highest places, but rather in the lowest.
And she lists:
undocumented women
Queer women
Black women
So your fellow women…are “low”? As in, women are second-rate?
Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone?
I saw that episode of Black Mirror. Didn’t end well.
I saw the Matrix, too. And Soylent Green.
So, like a microverse battery?
Peace among worlds, JB.
Have to wonder if there is a “eco-friendly” marketing opportunity for some fitness center out there. The feels and social signaling matter more than the facts for a large percentage of greens.
All the bikes just hook up to your apartment above the gym and you have a reduced power bill. I like it.
You could market it as such but to say that it’s going to actually save the planet is complete BS.
power on a bike
Go look at the power meter on your house and just watch those watts go round and round.
and right back into the Stone Age we go…
The stone age rocked man… Did you ever watch the Flinstones?
Today in things the Supreme Court doesn’t think are actionable police brutality (PDF link)
[background: They were looking for a fugitive, last name “O’Dell”, whom a confidential informant had allegedly told them was on the property]
I have caught my 5 year sleeping with his bb gun several times since i bought to for him a year ago. God help us if the police decide that my house is the one that has a law breaker in it.
I didn’t quite read it that way. The Supremes unanimously said the 9th circuit made up a rule that doesn’t fit with SC precedent and they needed to go back and follow it instead.
RE The Cripple Fight. I think the next statue after Dog Pissing on Brave Girl should be: Cop Shooting Dog, followed by BLM Activist Shooting Cop, followed by Jihadist Preparing to Pull Cord on Suicide Vest to blow them all up, followed by Politicians Pointing Fingers.
Followed by mass civil unrest, followed by civil war, followed by victory for libertarians?
Somalia!
And in the end, only The Jacket standing on top of a pile of corpses while shouting about a Libertarian Moment ™.
Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone?
Think of all the jobs we’d create by planting wheat by hand, instead of using tractors.
You can have my tractor when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
I’m serious. I love my tractor and she thinks it’s sexy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uWu4aynBK7E
Pol Pot had some great ideas, he just implemented them incorrectly.
He should have killed 66 percent of the people of Cambodia (4 million) instead of the measly 2 million he killed? he did off all the douchy intellectuals that tend to be the ones pushing this communist reform shit, and for that we should thank him.
Chelsea: “Certainly I think we all have a responsibility to not stay silent now,” … “I think we have to speak up and use whatever platforms we have and certainly social media is part of that.” .. .“I don’t think what I say today is really any different than what I would have said had I been asked similar questions or if similar, kind of issues, had risen on a stage,”
Oh my God, Dems, please pin your hopes on this snoozer.
NO FUCKIN’ LIE. CHELSEA 2020!
They were looking for a safe seat to run her in for Congress–but that was everybody thought her mother was going to be President.
I think those plans have been scaled back now.
Even her mother needed to be a senator and then SoS before people took her seriously as a presidential candidate.
They could ask my rep (Beyer) to step aside “for the good of the Party”, then run Chelsea as the D candidate. My district is guaranteed D win, every 2 years.
Are you in Alexandria or Arlington? Don’t give them plans! Knowing family over there, the bureaucrat worms that swarm the area probably still love Hillary.
Alexandria (Fairfax Co.). The republicans almost never put any money into my district because it’s just like flushing it down the toilet. Just like the DC mayor’s race, whoever wins the D primary, wins.
I always wondered what would happen if a person that ran on an anti-NSA/anti-Saudi/anti-foreign aid/anti-surveillance/pro-criminal justice reform platform tried their hand with running as an R in an urban district. Someone needs to give it a try: I know a lot of younger lefties that would crossover to vote for someone like that.
Not worth it. They wouldn’t cross over simply because the candidate would have an R after their name. Republicans are racist, Nazi shitbags remember? On the other hand, if the incumbent is shitty enough and someone ran on that platform as an Independent, they might have a chance.
IMO I think it has a chance of working in a lot of places, including my own district. Even though it’s D+17, there’s a lot of young people in my district because it’s in the middle of two major universities. I think that if you made your campaign unique enough, it’s possible to flip it. For example, on top of the foreign and security policy, how about advocating for the abolition of the state ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control), lowering the drinking age to 18, and privatizing liquor sales and legalizing alcoholic sales online?
Give it a shot. I mean that non-ironically. The Republic was designed to have average people running for office. If more of our reps were people from this board, things would be marginally less of a clusterfuck.
Or just a different flavor of clusterfuck
Interesting idea. My district I think skews MUCH older, and it’s made up of rich people and immigrants.
Oh, they do. They do.
I would gladly buy and wear a Chelsea 2020 shirt
it would be the source of so many laughs.
I never did buy my Trump-T (“we shall overcomb”) It lost its joke-appeal when he started to win.
I am sorry I missed out on the “we shall overcomb” T’s. That’s hilarious.
I wish I’d have thought of this before, but an “Orange is the new Black” with Obama on one side of the presidential seal and Trump on the other might have sold a few units.
As an added bonus, a shitload of heads would have exploded.
small world. i was suite-mates with that TX rep at undergrad. random trivia: he’s a huge Rush/Geddy Lee fan
i don’t recall him ever losing his shit like the hispanic reps describe in that TXTrib story. but concede anything can happen when someone admittedly grabs you and says let’s take it outside.
“I was pushed, jostled and someone threatened to kill me,” Rinaldi said. “It was basically just bullying.”
Nevárez said in an interview with the Tribune that he put his hands on Rinaldi and told him to take his argument outside the House chamber.
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting video up (no subscription required) about the commonalities between the 16 terrorists who perpetrated terrorist attacks in Europe over the last two years.
http://on.wsj.com/2rzYxGN
All 16 were known to law enforcement. Six were known through having been previously incarcerated by way of the criminal justice system, and the other ten were all being monitored as terrorist threats.
Eight of the 16 either traveled to Syria to fight for Islamic State or attempted to travel to Syria.
If we’re trying to draw lessons from just those facts, the policy prescriptions would be simple. We’d start with refusing reentry to any immigrants who return to Syria or any country that has been compromised by ISIS.
That prescription is complicated by the fact that 13 of the 16 terrorists were born in Europe. In the United States, that would make them U.S. citizens. There hasn’t been a terrorist attack yet that would make me condone violating anyone’s constitutional rights–certainly not the constitutional rights of American citizens.
In Trump’s Republican convention acceptance speech, he said, “We must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place”, and he’s tried to keep that campaign promise by pursuing his executive order even as its been stayed by the courts. However, if the people who preset a terrorist threat are, like in Europe, not the immigrants themselves but the immigrants’ unborn children, no amount of vetting will keep them out.
From a public policy perspective, there may be no getting around limiting immigration from countries that have been significantly compromised by terrorism. Like Trump’s executive order, the policy need and should not specify any religion or even mention religion–I would oppose any policy that did so on First Amendment grounds. However, setting the rules of naturalization is an enumerated power of Congress, and using those rules in harmony with the First Amendment to protect the rights of Americans from terrorism is a legitimate responsibility of government.
Racist!
rules of naturalization
At that point, Syrian immigrants are already past our borders so what difference would be made by Congress tightening naturalization rules?
If setting the rules of naturalization has to do with who and how someone becomes a citizen, who says new Syrian immigrants would be past our borders if Congress denies them legal residency?
Naturalization just has to do with process of becoming a US citizen. I don’t consider it so broad a term to include immigration visas, green cards for resident aliens, etc.
That’s all a part of becoming a citizen.
They may be prerequisites, but not parts.
I believe that protecting our rights by deciding who can and can’t come across our borders is a legitimate function of government. Furthermore, I think those decisions are properly made by Congress and that the power to do so is enumerated to Congress by the Article I, Section 8, where Congress is given the power to set the uniform rules of Naturalization.
I’d argue that naturalization isn’t a single event but a process, and Congress is given the power to define the rules of that entire process–so long as they don’t violate the Constitution by discriminating on the basis of religion, don’t fail to conform with any treaty the Senate has ratified, etc.
People can properly be refused visas by the constitutional rules Congress sets, and they can be refused permanent resident status by those rules, as well. In fact, naturalization by birth is an artifact of laws that Congress has enacted. Whether we should abandon such policies and whether it’s Congress’ power to do so is like the difference between whether Congress should declare any particular war and whether Congress has the power to declare war.
Congress’ hands are tied by the Fourteenth Amendment and the First Amendment in regards to the rules it sets for visa requirements, permanent residency requirements, and citizenship requirements–but so long as the First and Fourteenth Amendments are respected, there’s nothing wrong with Congress restricting immigration on the basis of security threats due to terrorist infiltration from countries that have been significantly compromised by terrorist organizations that are actively seeking to murder American citizens.
In fact, if the government’s only legitimate responsibility is to protect our rights and out naturalization laws don’t seek to protect us from infiltration by ISIS, then the government is shirking its legitimate responsibility.
check out Ken going all mansplainy
You love it.
It makes you horny.
And it answers a bunch of questions floating around in the background behind both of you.
Citizenship only confers a few things: The right to vote, the right to hold office, and the right to be within our borders. Setting the rules around that last part is a legitimate function of Congress–and it’s a responsibility that’s enumerated to Congress in the Constitution.
If I’m wrong about why I think something, I won’t find out about it unless I explain not just what I think but why.
If I don’t respect people’s opinions, I don’t bother explaining a thing.
You can now donate to the Mark Zuckerberg Presidential Campaign!
(Zuckerberg is worth $61.9 billion)
He was already rapidly ascending my hate-list; this just put some rocket fuel in his tank.
I find Facebook itself loathsome in so many ways–in its most basic form.
The sharing of inanities, the importance of “liking” things, and it being important that other people “like” it and know what we like. Zuckerberg represents all that shit to me.
The kid is in desperate need of a wedgie.
And that’s before you get into surveillance state issues, advertising entities knowing so much about you and your friends and family.
Facebook does have one very important feature: informing me of how unforgivably stupid many of my acquaintances are.
Proudly, combatively stupid.
Yeah, that’s what did it for me–I started losing respect for people.
Also, I had a girlfriend who was obsessed with it. She’s spend half her spare time just digging up dirt on people. It was a big soap opera to her. The nasty fights that break out between women are intense. Who needs more of that shit?
I definitely lost a lot of respect for some people. For example, the guy who I thought was one of the smartest guys on the planet (and my best friend when I was a kid) is a raving leftist loon who thinks libertarians are really what’s wrong with America. Amazing how such a small percentage of the population has so much control!
Virtue signalling requirements do that to people..
I know, right?
+1 bag of (((gold)))
ix-nay on-way our-way orld-way omination-day
This isn’t even political stupidity, but two friends of mine are married, and just had a baby. Dad works in the Film industry in Hollywood, and the adorable baby girl is named, “Stella”. Both of them had no clue, at all, about “A Streetcar Named Desire”. I know they don’t watch older movies, but Google is a thing, right?
Yeah, I find that Facebook is not just a convenient place to see NSFW pics and memes posted by acquaintances and friends, but also an important tool for smoking out just how politically retarded people I went to high school with twenty years ago are these days.
Is it any surprise that the vast majority of social media execs are radical leftists and SJWs? Their whole business model isn’t about promoting free speech, but promoting virtue signaling and policing world views that they don’t like.
To me, it’s no wonder that it was invented by some millennial kids in college.
If you asked me for a demographic where what other people like or don’t like is important, I’d tell you it must be millennial kids in college.
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I had a conversation with a millennial about some music on YouTube recently.
He says, “Was that stuff back in the ’80s or something?”
It wasn’t. It was from a few years ago.
He says, “How many hits does this have”–as if that were important for some reason?
“Nobody likes this stuff”, he says–as if that were important for some reason.
There were always people like that–trendy people who liked things only because other people liked them.
I’m all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came here for a special offe,
guaranteed personality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsrEAWcAvRg
It was never a generational outlook. Authenticity has never been actively disparaged before–not the authenticity of your own tastes even? Blech! Isn’t that like the plot of “American Psycho”?
Knowing your own personal preferences is foundational to individualism. Respecting other people’s authenticity may be foundational to morality.
Snake people are the worst.
It’s actually one reason that I like Snapchat a lot: because you’re mostly sharing pictures/messages person-to-person and the message goes away after a few clicks, it’s really difficult to social signal with it.
Once again the court did not act on a major gun-rights case from California or on a First Amendment challenge by a Colorado baker who objects to creating cakes for same-sex weddings.
What is SCOTUS waiting for?
^from here: http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/05/tuesday-round-up-380/#more-256213
Kindle deal of the week:
Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
Certainly not a new book, but it is a great read. If you’ve seen the movie but not read the book, here’s you chance to do it on the cheap.
$1.99. Thank you!
-cripple fight-
“That’s an a–hole move. You call this art?” said one woman, who kicked the dog statue as she walked by.
He should have made it a sculpture of a leg-humping dog.
Today in cops part 2:
This is really amazing. I’ll just give you the money sentence.
We can just post this every damn day.
two Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD)
Don’t call it that.
Is the Costanza Defense ever NOT applicable?
Yeah, if you’re not a cop.
the veteran officers were unaware they were required to testify honestly
Totes legit.
Holy fuck. Bubble? What bubble?
Hegge approached me in distress. She’s frustrated that she can’t even get to a point of departure for a reasoned discussion with her dad, a strong supporter of President Trump. “What can I do? We can’t even agree on a reality to discuss or a source we both accept,” she said. Like many Trump voters, her father is convinced there’s a liberal plot to sabotage the president.
Hegge’s experience is normal. Tens of millions of Trump opponents cannot communicate with tens of millions of his supporters. There is no viable vocabulary. There is no shared reality.
This is the chasm to which Fox News, Republican debunking of reason and science, herd-reinforcing social media algorithms, liberal arrogance, rightist bigotry, and an economy of growing inequality have ushered us.
“Liberal plot to sabotage Trump? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA that’s the craziest thing I ever heard!
Hey, maybe when you overhype the shit out of every single one of these leaks, which then invariably turn out to be nothing, you lose credibility? Just an idea.
Crying wolf shouldn’t affect your credibility! At least not in their reality.
Hey now. There is a small measure of self-awareness in that article, which is more than I can say about the vast majority of articles about the same subject.
They sometimes put out articles like this – “let’s not condescend to these people, not all of them are racists, after all, and if we condescend to these poor, anxious people the Republicans will prey on their fears and win their votes.”
“Maybe if we listen to them attentively and nod, and not freak out, we can develop talking points which argue how Democratic Party policies will address their concerns.”
R: Molon Labe?
D: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!1!!
Talking about the latest bullshit news story is pointless. The only relevant discussion would be on first principles. When it comes to government, I value my freedom above all else. I sometimes wonder what the leftists value most, safety or control?
Rank and file brainwashed Dems value virtue signaling, good feelz and social currency. Dem overlords: CONTROL, CONTROL, CONTROL.
Yes.
control.
You sometimes wonder?
Um, if it’s debunkable….
So, are leftists pro-science or anti-science? Like everyone with 1/2 a brain, I’m confused.
Depends on what the science says
So, when a Mormon comes knocking on your door, assuming you’re not Mormon, do you feel like your opinion or perspective is unreasonable or less valuable because he/she can’t have a reasoned discussion with you based on the writings of Joseph Smith?
When your sources are op-eds disguised as news segments and your definition of reality is indistinguishable from your opinions and assumptions, then yeah, you’re going to have a hard time having a reasonable discussion with people.
BuzzFeed Brings Out The Cuck.
What is the point of being so damn proud of your bodily functions? The last time I showed my friends the huge shit I took was when I was 13. Fortunately, I’ve grown out of it. Feminists, apparently, have not.
My uncle taught me the old “Pull my finger”. My aunt didn’t teach me the old “Pull my string”. Patriarchy.
Ya see. That’s gold. And fewer people are going to have seen this than have ought to. And you’re theoretically going to sleep soon, so you won’t be able to bask in the laurels that should be penetrating your vaginal crevice and soaking up all the rich, blood-soaked gratitude that you should be lucky to experience at least once a month.
That’s a damn shame. I salute thee.
You do NOT want to attend the inner circle meetings for Glibertarians, then.
They should have had her on one of her heavy days, where the tampon is so saturated it is just ready to slide right out.
Also: I’m not squeamish about blood and have had several injuries that bleed profusely to the point of certainly needing medical assistance (which I did not indulge in, because fuck that shit) but not to the point of being absolutely critical…..but isn’t some blood worse than others?
If someone coughed up blood I’d be freaked out much more than if someone bled out the equivalent in a cooking injury…if I showed someone a ziplock bag full of ass-blood that’s been seeping out of me I’d also imagine to garner a stronger response.
I…I’m just thinking about this too much, which is my problem I’ll deal with it. It’s obviously all just insanity at this point.
Pure poetry
Looks like Even should get tested for diabetes.
I have bad wiping habits.
I love in Asian countries (Sadly not terribly common here in Korea) where you get the Ass Hose. Such a more civilized system.
Get a Water Pick and duck tape it to your toilet seat.
Not quite the home-aesthetic I’m going for.
I’ve switched to the Roman-style Sponge-on-a-Stick.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJQEl5vcAo
Whooooa. I just saw the same black cat.
The annotation said there are about 6 tablespoons of blood at the top end for a woman’s entire period. If it’s only 6 tbspn (at the high end!), then why does it take 5 fucking days and ~80 tampons to get through it??? WHY, GAWD? WHY?
Never trust anything that bleeds for a week and doesn’t die (something something this is why no libertarian women something something).
I had heard that Tiger’s lawyers were repeatedly requesting any body cam footage of the arrest. I assumed they had some sort of strategy and he was going to skate.
Nope. Damage control.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/sports/tiger-woods-arrest-report-530170
“Ten Really Cool Ways Communism Is Becoming Cool Again!
The most influential ideology of the 20th Century is becoming cool and popular again, but why? Here’s ten things which are making people yearn for a fair society! ”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/thelisterite/ten-really-cool-ways-communism-is-becoming-cool-ag-301zr
It’s so cool to slaughter millions of people who are trying to sabotage the revolution! Where’s my Che shirt?
Also, it’s never been tried!
https://i.imgur.com/eKUcGKB.jpg
Communism ≠ fair society
I’m dead.
Freedom of association, religion, and speech are meaningless in the face of all that social justice shit.
Great. So move there. Why continue wasting your time trying to turn the US into Cuba when you could be soaking up that sweet, sweet utopia right away!
Funny, you never hear about a Venezuela or North Korea immigration problem.
Arent their doctors borderline slaves? And the “free” healthcare is only good if you are a party member.
Healthcare didnt exist prior to Obamacare? What?
you remember 2007, right? all the dead bodies everywhere- how could anyone forget?
Slaves whom Cuba traded to Venezuela in exchange for oil, and who then fled the country because fuck socialism.
I was in Cuba in 2012.
Their “free” healthcare is so lacking in basic capabilities that families of a patient have to bring bedlinens to the hospital, purchase (if available) ALL of the drugs the patient will need and also bring food to the patient several times a day. The average Cuban depends on Western tourists to bring in all manner of basic medicines that are available OTC in Bumfuck, British Columbia or Upper Rubber Boot, Alberta, but can’t normally be had in Cuba for any price. We brought Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen by the bagful to hand out to people we met. They were touchingly, disturbingly grateful.
Their “housing” is so Third World that most self-respecting Westerners wouldn’t dream of inhabiting it. I met one guy (who worked in the tourism sector, so he was actually doing really well) who told me it took him twelve years to build a basic cinder-block house (single-floor) for himself and his wife. Even though his (mostly under-the-table) income was an order of magnitude greater than most of his peers, it didn’t matter, because Cuba doesn’t have a functioning economy that allows you to actually BUY THE STUFF YOU NEED TO BUILD A HOUSE. Materials were, by and large, simply unavailable.
“Fairness” is simple when it boils down to DENY EVERYBODY EVERYTHING. Yeah, baby. That’s my idea of a “fair” society.
Would love to hear more details about your trip!
You might be interested in a friend of mine’s trip from last year:
https://mooneyspace.com/topic/20393-201ers-caribbean-adventure-3-cuba/
pages 5-6-7 have his pictures and travelog (and lots of random replies). The plane allowed him to visit more remote locations in Cuba.
Very cool (plus I’m an aviation nerd)
Only lasted a week. (That was more than enough. Loved the Cubans, was infuriated with their shitty Overlords who kept ’em down.)
Only managed to spend a single day in Havana, and our tour guides kept trying to herd us toward the Potemkin Village part of town that the government spent stupid amounts of money refurbishing so that people wouldn’t think Havana was largely a shit-hole. However, even the buses have to travel between the pearls by going through the string, where you see the real Havana. The waterfront looks like it’s been shelled by enemy artillery, with the occasional weirdly out-of-place café or restaurant that was all cool modern angles and colours. Again, meant for the tourists.
Probably the most “normal” part of Havana (to Western eyes) was the diplomatic district, where they had a number of shops and restos that catered to the diplomatic set, and most of the buildings looked well-cared-for. The restaurant we ate in, which had a good rep, produced a lunch that was probably a meal fit for a Cuban king, but was utterly “meh” by our standards. Our Cuban guides said that lunch there was the highlight of the day. No wonder — actual meat appeared on the plate, along with some fresh-ish vegetables (a salad put together with green beans [ubiquitous, actually] and thinly-sliced turnip), and of course rice. The meat was something a typical Cuban doesn’t see in a normal month (beans and rice were the staples there, and weirdly enough, even cooking oil was in short supply).
The shops all seemed to sell the same dozen or so items. Occasionally, we ran into a shop (government-owned, natch, as most of them were) that sold contraband such as U.S. Coca-Cola smuggled in from Florida (that’s where the can said it was bottled, anyways). Of course, there’s always rum and cigars. And there’s fakes of both on the black market. The government’s taken to labeling the real stuff with holographic stickers to try and stop the counterfeit market. It wasn’t working.
Another guy I met and spoke to over several days (took a while for him to drop his guard with me) told me that everyone believed that the government was going to eventually collapse, but of course no-one held out any hope that it would happen anytime soon. He also said that the government snitches that existed in every neighbourhood would probably be amongst the first to be punished should a collapse occur — the scenario he mentioned was that they’d get a visit from their neighbours in the middle of the night, and by sun-up when the cops arrived, it’d be all “Gosh, officer, none of us saw or heard anything. What’s that you say? Consuela’s had her skull bashed in? How awful! Whoever would do such a thing?” He said that the snitches were well aware of the fate that could await them, and were thus some of the biggest boosters of the regime.
I’d go back, but I hope the next time I’ll go back to a free Cuba, even though its transition would be painful and probably dangerous.
I knew somebody who was in Havana right after the Pope’s visit. She had pix of the cathedral they did the big photo op in front of. The front of the building had been repaired and cleaned up. The sides of the building were rotting and featured much garbage.
Typical.
Yeah, that’s most of Cuba where the gov’t. thinks that tourists have any chance of showing up. Freshly scrubbed in front, shithole everywhere else.
And of course, in this egalitarian and colour-blind society, all the really crap physical work gets done by the descendants of Africans. The darker your skin in Cuba, the more likley it is you’re doing garbage manual labour and being paid even less than the per-month-maximum shitty wage mandated by law.
I wonder about the people that I know that have gone there and talked about how “quaint” or “untainted” it is. Do they not see what you saw? Should I just give up trying to understand the progressive mindset?
Communism can only reliable deliver misery for the masses. And when you are someone consumed by envy and anger that others are better off than you, you obviously seem to be able to find solace in everybody getting the shaft, including yourself. But hey, these are the people that tell us the problem is the rest of us, not their beliefs and those beliefs put in practice…
Yep, there’s a reason why the American left can sell the “LOOK HOW GREAT CUBA IS” myth a lot easier than the Canadian left can (see, for example, the response to Zoolander praising Castro). Because a lot of Canadians have been there and actually seen the system they’re talking about and aren’t buying it.
Their “housing” is so Third World that most self-respecting Westerners wouldn’t dream of inhabiting it.
*glances left, glances right*
So… it’s the West’s fault, then.
Yeah, what kind of shitlord are you anyway? Living in a house with walls not made of cardboard that has running water and a flush toilet? Your privilege makes me sick! We’re going to have to confiscate it for the benefit of the “people”!
“The people” is one phrase that drives me crazy. Sometimes it’s perfectly appropriate, but more often “the people” are the reason we are told we have to enact some kind of leftist bullshit policy.
Such luxuries must be confiscated from the Shitlord Enemy and redistributed to the deserving poor. By which we mean, of course, the Guiding Class whose tireless work keeps the Ship of State on the correct course.
You should post this in a comment on buzzfeed..
Haven’t seen that, I love it. Consider it stolen.
Basketballing?
Lol
Nothing says, “Fairness” like a gulag
George R R Martin is a communist? Explains White Walker society I guess.
Whoever shat this word diarrhea out is abject scum.
I mean, this isn’t for real, right? I know it’s Buzzfeed and all, but still.
The officer in Cleveland (the one who was declared “unfit for police service” by another department) who murdered Tamir Rice has been fired. His partner, who drove his car to within 10 feet of Rice so Officer Shooty could kill him, has been suspended for 10 days.
Over/under on how long until the union appeals and the officer is reinstated with full back pay?
I’ll take the over on reinstated with full back pay + emotional distress pay + free counseling/support/therapy for life
He should be in prison
It’s amazing to me that a grand jury could watch that video and not return an indictment, regardless of what the prosecutor might have been telling them.
Anyone ever have an explanation for how this clown, who was judged unfit to complete training as a cop in a small town, was hired by a big city department?
“The Marine Corps has a “toxic masculinity” problem”
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/29/15619574/marine-corps-women-sexual-harassment
From “We never promised you a rose garden” to this shit in just two generations. My DIs were dead right – the Marine Corps wouldn’t survive the pussification of America intact.
America won’t survive it, which is exactly the agenda behind it in the first place..
Like, when has masculinity ever won a war?
Want to hear a fun story? All female Marine recruits, regardless of location, go to Parris Island. When I went through PI, my company graduated with a female company, which meant we did most of the training alongside each other. Everywhere we went on the island – rifle range, gas chamber, o-course, whatever – we marched. The females rode in buses if it wasn’t particularly close, because every female platoon invariably had at least a half dozen recruits straggling behind the formation on light duty. This was a)the Marine Corps, where training is ostensibly not watered down for females to the extent it is in the Army b)2001, before the SJW virus had taken hold in the Corps.
This is exactly the kind of toxic masculinity we need Voxplained!
Buses! Really?! Inefficient carbon-spewing monsters! Why were they not given electric vehicles?!?!!!!
In the future, they’ll ride around in unicorn-pulled chariots/
I went to basic at Relaxing Jackson in 2004 – mixed company. We all rode the buses when going out to the far ranges (until the last week or two when we worked up to our full field exercise), but we weren’t split up for anything else the entire period and marched around for most events.
There is a “World Menstrual Hygiene Day”???
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/chelsea-clinton-tweets-about-world-menstrual-hygiene-day-even-libs-sick-her-now
Jebus. It’s bad. It’s real bad.
I thought she was busy fighting the diabetes caused by global warming. What happened about that? Did she win?
Where Princess Chelsea is concerned, she may not be a winner but we all are always the losers.
I didn’t want to be an asshole yesterday so I put this post off for a day.
Yesterday at the supermarket I was on line behind 3 refugees. They had a stack of vouchers that apparently are each meant to purchase a certain food item, which they kept getting wrong since they couldn’t speak English, which didn’t deter the cashier from trying to explain this to them in English.
So I change lines and get stuck behind a guy who can’t get his ebt card to work.
I’ve never been more proud to be a hard working American., especially since I’ve been assured by the goodthinkers that the free food and housing for the refugees is funded solely by private charities, and that ebt cards are nothing compared to all the benefits I receive from being part of the Cis normative patriarchy.
Were you talking? If so, shut up and get back to work. That tax revenue isn’t gonna generate itself.
Yeah, the people fucking up the checkout lines depend on your money!
One of the changes that I’ve really not liked seeing over the years are all the “EBT ACCEPTED” signs in restaurant/store windows that weren’t there before.
LOL. Our MN friend Keith Ellison strikes again.
updated: allegedly a parody account
Which? The Keith Ellison? That’s his real account. Or was the whole thing photoshopped onto his @ tag and avatar?
oh snap. it has the blue checkmark. my bad. Griswold said it was parody so i relayed that here.. but why would a parody account delete an embarrassing tweet. and also the blue check.
The Pence account is the fake/parody one.
ohhhhhhhhhhh my fail
But…he’s getting his bills paid and by the type of charity that socialists say doesn’t exist and never happens.
Does it really matter what you do when the US taxpayers cover any losses?
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/05/30/goldman-sachs-makes-big-investment-venezuela/
Hey, they’re GOVERNMENT ISSUED bonds.
Totes safe, and probably a better investment than holding General Motors bonds in 2008, after all.
“The Marine Corps has a “toxic masculinity” problem”
Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but…
U.S. might ban laptops on all flights into and out of the country
They’re worried about eroding customer demand?
“raise the bar”“lengthen the shaft”“Rammed so far up your rectum you’ll be able to taste the salt on our balls!”
Two words: disposable laptop.
One potential workaround:
Rent a laptop and journey with a Knoppix CD and thumbdrive.
disposable laptop
So, pretty much all of them now.
I suspect the hand of Microsoft, to get the Surface sales up!
Still too electronic.
I fear that we’re going to find that Big Abacus is behind this …
I doubt it, they’ll just change their customer relations strategy: “Fly American – or else.”
IIRC my government indoctrination security briefing was specific about carrying on secured laptops. So no idea how government employees with equipment with classified info are supposed to travel. What about companies that provide similar equipment to their employees? Like proprietary info that competitors would love to get their hands on.
Well, naturally, Our Masters will be exempted from the “no laptop” rule. Can’t be inconveniencing them, you know.
The real question is….if we’re holding on to our private gear the entire time and not carrying anyone else’s luggage…is anyone ever going to say…”maybe we should consider this profiling thing…could be a bit of common sense and use less resources.” – El Al seems to be doing pretty well.
Canada’s Beloved State Broadcasters continues the excellent, incisive analysis it is so well know for
Getting by on minimum wage in Canada’s biggest cities: Don Pittis – Low-wage job offers abound but a rethink of capitalism says high wages are better for business
Not provided in the article: names of said business leaders. Or a link to the report.
So ban them for working and create gov dependence?
They peddle this bullshit so often that there’s no need to cite sources. I think they’re hoping that sheer repetition will eventually get it accepted as “common wisdom”. It’s not unbelievable if you ignore the fact that they’re essentially describing a perpetual motion machine.
I’m not sure why it turned up on front page today, when it’s an article from October (I thought it sounded familiar).
Oh, refreshing the page while I was typing this up explains it:
Ontario becomes 2nd province to go ahead with $15 an hour minimum wage
Mock it all you like, this legislation is creating well-paid jobs! And those 175 officers are just a start – they’ll need IT support, legal, HR…
MOGA!
“Not provided in the article: names of said business leaders. Or a link to the report.”
Included: anecdotal sob story about poor, unfortunate, underemployed young person and how evil capitalist pigs and bourgeois wreckers are denying xir from xis fair chance.
“A better kind of capitalism” = “GLORIOUS PROLETARIAT REVOLUTION!!!”
Shocking plot development: new Conservative Party of Canada leader literally
HitlerKhomeini.Government doesn’t have enough power, but bad people can abuse it. Solution: make sure bad, wrongthinking people never get such power, and that only Enemies of the People will continue to be punished.
+1 Purge
Didn’t Canada have a conservative PM like all of two years ago? Yet this conversation is acting like a conservative holding power and what they may do is entirely theoretical and bad.
Also, seems relevant to point out that it’s fucking absurd that publicly funded media is allowed to be so blatantly partisan. The right has spent most of the 20th century getting bukkake’ed by the left at every turn, and just seems to sit there all docile like if not begging for more.
Yes, and yes. And yes.
Harper was Hitler for ten years. Whose only redeeming feature was his total incompetence, so that’s why his Hitlerite schemes failed. But he also ruined the country and destroyed all the poors. But he’s retired so it’s OK. This new guy, though – Real Hitler. And loves Jesus. Why couldn’t Conservatives elect the “liberatarian one”? I mean, he’d still be Hitler. And worst choice possible.
Any similarities between Canadian and US media are left as an exercise for the reader.
Well, as soon as someone says, “Hey, you know what? Fuck NPR,” the Left starts screaming about how the Right hates education and culture and is in the pocket of evil KKKorporations like NBC and ABC. Because private media is so widely known for its conservative bias…
Why do you think “cuck” became so popular?
Didn’t Canada have a conservative PM like all of two years ago?
Yes, and during it the same people to lick Trudeau Sr.’s boots (a man who declared martial law over a kidnapping case) threw massive and constant hissy fits about how they were living under a ‘soft dictatorship’.
Also as always the state broadcaster hacks somehow would NEVER question whether the United Church of Canada’s authoritarian views of the state would influence NDP party platforms. If you think you’re divinely charged with stealing from people it’s fine.
The investigation actually goes back longer than 7 months. Like almost a full year now. Full video is very worth a watch if you want to laugh.
That is why I feel entirely comfortable in dismissing all of this Russia noise as bullshit – these people, all of whom despise Trump, have been digging into this for close to a year and yet have not produced any real evidence. None of these spooks, congresscritters, or media types are going to hide anything for Trump’s benefit. If they had something, anything, they would have plastered it across the front page of the NYT and WaPo and it would be the only topic of discussion on CNN 24/7. Instead, it’s just leaks and whispered rumors on top of leaks and whispered rumors. They have jack shit after a year of a wide ranging fishing expedition, one which likely used a fair bit of illegal surveillance to boot. So, there are two possibilities here:
1)The man the media tells us is a bumbling, incompetent clown who so far steps on his dick every other hour managed to be incredibly effective in covering his tracks, leaving nowhere for investigators to turn, or…..
2)There is absolutely nothing to the Russia stories.
What I find most amusing is that the Russia collusion was something the Clinton campaign pulled straight out of its ass as an excuse for why they got that same ass handed to them in the election. Prior to the election loss they would scream at the top of their lungs that you were crazy if you suggested the Russians might have gotten hold of info on Clinton’s illegal server. That was just crazy talk.
Trump made a huge mistake not putting Clinton in jail. She certainly belongs there.
It’s also amusing that the major hacks into government systems under Obama were treated as no big deal whatsoever, but when the DNC gets hacked because John Podesta uses the worst password imaginable and falls for the most obvious phishing scheme in the world, it’s DEFCON 1.
Democrats pushing the whole Russia narrative is like what criminal defense attorneys do when they know damn well that their client is guilty: they don’t even pretend that he didn’t do the crime; they just try to get some of the key evidence thrown out as inadmissible.
What they don’t seem to get is that there’s no such thing as inadmissible evidence in the court of public opinion.
I just read story after story after story and find the exact same shit: it’s always “anonymous sources” that “might have found” something vaguely intimating the “possibility of something potentially damaging” etc., etc., etc. If the slightest deviation from that cookie-cutter shit starts happening, I’ll be waiting. Oh, and I forgot the intentionally vague constant repetition of “Russia hacking our election” so that 59% of Democrats think that the Russians literally hacked voting machines to tamper with vote tallies.
If you are skeptical you get shouted down and shamed. Hell, take a spin by r/politics or any of the big news/politics communities on Reddit which basically have become nothing but anti-Trump/Russia astroturfing.
This is a soup coup attempt.
My favorite is “former officials” who claim anonymously to know the inner working of the Trump White House.
Many crimes have been committed, make no mistake. So far as I can tell, they have all been committed by Trump’s enemies in their attempt at a slow-motion coup.
Perhaps the most egregious, though, is something that the perpetrator actually signed – the recent 4th Circuit opinion that a facially valid (as they admit in the opinion) order is made invalid by campaign speeches. Completely disregards well-established SCOTUS doctrine that you don’t go behind a facially valid reason to try to determine what was really in the President’s heart.
I still think when Trump’s immigration EO was first overturned by the Hawaiian judge, he should have just sent every wannabe refugee to Hawaii while their case was being sorted out.
From your Reddit link is a very intelligent analysis of the situation. I haven’t thought of it this way before (apologies for the length):
“One might think that the main goal is attacking Trump and manipulating the perception of his popularity, but that would be wrong. Reddit at large is already a leftist site, so neither of those things are needed.
The real goal of astroturfing on a site like reddit is the protection of the Democrat establishment. Bernie Democrats were livid with the Democrat establishment for hamstringing Sanders to promote Hillary. When Hillary lost, that anger was vindicated and amplified. The Democratic party is in a crisis and can’t just do away with Bernie Democrats, but neither can it truly reform, because that would mean that the Democrat establishment must admit its failures and step aside.
The way out of this conundrum is focusing Bernie Democrats against Trump. Make them believe they are part of the “resistance” against Trump and voilà, you’ve redirected their energy, enthusiasm and anger at someone else, at the same time cementing them as your allies.
While Berniecrats are busy LARPing as proud resistance fighters, the Democrat establishment is reaffirming its absolute control of the party. The Bernie candidate for DNC Chair has been defeated and an Obama loyalist, Tom Perez, was installed. Other Berniecrats were rebuffed at the local and state level, ensuring the Democrat political and fundraising machinery remain firmly in the hands of the establishment.”
Yeah, that G_Petronius guy has been doing some surprisingly good… well, actual journalism, with an apt perception of American politics for a European. And he’s just some random asshole doing it for free on the Internet.
Here’s some more astroturf investigation, albeit linked to instead of investigated directly by him.
“soft coup attempt” el oh el I love it when I do that
Her obvious sealioning is simultaneously infuriating and ineffective.
Wow, listen to the tone of voice on that CNN drone. Immediately hostile and maintains that when Sununu doesn’t start eagerly babbling in agreement about how Putin is secretly blackmailing and controlling Trump and the entire GOP via watersports tapes, then has the gall to claim that it’s making him uncomfortable and not (very visibly and audibly) her.
“Hypotheticals about hypotheticals” indeed.
I just watched it again and I’m seriously agog at this woman. We need to have this witchhunt “to get away from all the partisan bickering” and gets even more hostile insisting that she “doesn’t have any version of events.” Yep, a 100% neutral observer, and how dare you even question her! Sununu literally cannot contain his laughter at this shit and she cuts him off in a tiff with her composure lost.
Seriously folks, watch that clip. It’s slightly over 3 minutes of prime fake news hilarity from… hmm, is CNN fake news central now? Or should WaPo or perhaps The Indepedent take that crown?
CNN, WaPo, NYT, BBC and CBC are my go-to sources for “legitimate” fake BS. Sources like Salon and Vox of course have more obvious derp, but they’re openly partisan. The former sources are supposed to be “objective” so it’s much more amusing watching them be blatant political operatives while (badly) trying to hide it.
In the end this is just the flailing of a dying party. There isnt anything they can do. Trump is president. The R house is not going to impeach and the R senate is not going to convict. They haven’t come up with any evidence and they aren’t going to. All they are doing is discrediting themselves and ensuring that they lose even more seats next year. I almost feel bad, except I dont. They are the lunatic fringe and should be treated as such.
Secret Nazi Belly Laugh —-> “MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
What is especially amusing is that the R party is so bad, sucks so much, that’s not even worth all this hullabaloo. Yet the D party has to do it because they’re so much worse and they have no other options to crawl back into power.
Aint that the truth. I just laugh at the tranny bathroom party. Insanity can be somewhat entertaining. The R’s are pissing me off to no end. Their smarmy, mealy mouth excuses for not doing their fucking job makes me see red. Where are our lower taxes? Smaller government? Someone needs to start body slamming them one at a time until we go backward from ‘not really repeal’ to ‘repeal and replace’ to ‘repeal’ to ‘ok, ok free market please just stop’.