I guess sacrificing that live chicken did more than wake up a bat. The Indians reeled off their 20th win in a row as they took down the Tigers last night. The world waits for tonight, when they will attempt to tie the all-time record for consecutive wins. (Again, I do not recognize a 26-gae streak that involves a tie. There’s no tying in baseball! Elsewhere, the Royals topped the White Sox. The Braves blanked the Nats, whose playoff position is already secure. Team Canada topped the Orioles again. The Red Sox beat the Athletics. The Yankees lost to the Rays. The Mariners won. The Cubbies won. The Twinks put up a HUGE number on the Padres and won. The BIG RED MACHINE shit the bed. The D-backs lost to the Rockies, as the NL Wild Card home field advantage race gets warm again. And, hey look, the Dodgers managed to win a game. And lastly, the Astros kicked the Angels in the balls with a 1-0 victory as Verlander pitched a gem.
The UCL got fired up, with a bunch of blowouts and a couple close games. Liverpool plays today though, and the world will be watching to see how they bounce back from the blowout loss (that was in part cause by a dubious red card of Sadio Mane.)
No more sports for today. We’ve got bigger things to discuss in…the links!
What could possibly go wrong? The franchise is supposed to mean something, and in my opinion, this degrades that. Yes or no?
Former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray sizes up his next victim.
Sex. Incest. Politics. What will happen next in Westeros? Just kidding. This is the Emerald City, not Kings Landing.
Woman in Silicon Valley, she dye hair when she no don belong in de boardroom. Its not purple, so I assume she’s not working for a think-tank.
What the Ninth giveth, the Supremes take away. I guess powers specifically granted in the Constitution actually mean something after it leaves the Nutty Ninth Circuit.
The homeless are taking over Southern California. Orange County declares emergency…whatever the hell that means.
Why would the city deny this man a prostitute?
I guess that whoring license never got renewed. Ah, Waco. Way to take away the little bit of pleasure your residents are looking for as they attempt to eke out an existence in your town. Alternative headline: The cops were afraid dancing might have broken out.
For the Kaptious one herself. The rest of you are free to enjoy, but Kristen deserves a little special treatment after having to deal with two Senators yesterday.
That’s all, folks. Go out there and make the best of today.
Dick Dale kicks ass. Thanks sloop!
::Tips cap::
Could the bass player be any more indifferent, though?
HA! Yeah, wow. Looks like he needs a nap.
Could that bassoon have come in any more late?!
The drummer is like 20 years older than everyone else. Dick Dale got his uncle to play drums.
And if you get the chance to see him live. Do it. He’s touring to pay for his medical expenses.
At 78 and with myriad health issues, surf-rock legend Dick Dale plays through the pain
Whatever that is, it sounds awful.
I would have recommended pepper spray to deal with them, but I wouldn’t want KK to get fired.
Woodchipper or GTFO.
Harder to whip a woodchipper out of your purse, scream “rape” and shred the Senator.
I retract the comment I made some moments ago.
-PM Sloopy
Don’t get me wrong. I would pay good money to see that.
Concealable woodchippers were never within the founding father’s intent!
I find it odd, when I start writing a character who’s supposed to be a villain, but I like them too much to have permanant bad things happen, I have trouble letting them be villainous. For whatever reason, I can’t let them get away with their crimes, so I end up trying to avoid having them commit them. It works against the story. My best villains so far have been characters I didn’t care about.
Why the hell is it so hard to cancel a reply?
My best villains so far have been characters I didn’t care about.
Like two senators?
Too easy.
2 sleazy
It ain’t easy bein’ sleazy
So, yeah, I have a main character who’s supposed to be a villain, but my mind won’t let me let him be villainous. So he hasn’t advanced past petty larceny and burglaries. What’s the point of telling the tale of the guy who never actually went into supervillainy?
“The failed supervillian” actually sounds interesting to me.
I can tell you how to write the super villian.
Make him a super powered guy with a proggie mindset, have him start out trying to be a super hero. He starts small and local does a few good things, saves a few people from actual bad guys but then decides he is not doing enough so he begins to use his power in bigger and bigger ways tearing down the existing power structures that “enslave the people”. This causes a certain segment of the population to love him (aka the occupy movement) and drives him into bigger and bigger “projects”. Now you start to show the negative side effects he is causing how the system he is using his super powers to build is worse than the old system. All of a sudden he starts seeing new young super heroes gunning for him as the big villian and he just can’t understand why, he brushes them off as minor villians attacking him or misguided reactionaries. You end the book with him being an evil dictator over an enslaved people using the progressive jargon of his youth as a mask to cover the reality of what he is.
While it’s an interesting concept, I already have 20k words of this guy’s personality written, so I don’t think I’ll retrofit him like that.
Besides, I think I’ve come up with a few ideas for the guy. (I don’t want to give spoilers, especially if they prove unworkable.)
As to your guy, make him an Anti-Hero, rather than the villain. Hate worthy, but ultimately redeemable.
Make him choose between shitty complacency and continued existence or redemption and sacrifice.
Call him StalinMan? The Incredible Fidel? Captain Mao?
Nope, gotta make him an illegal and give him a name with flair so we’ll call him…
Che
Remember: villains never see themselves as villains, and probably see themselves as heroes. everyone is the hero of their own narrative
The entitlement and hubris of Hillary wow lol. No wonder she lost…check out this para from her book
https://mobile.twitter.com/katereadsbks/status/907662831822110720
Gruezi! We haven already some links, Danki!
*narrows gaze*
Accept no substitute!
The fuck? Troll?
Nah, JATNAS is a mite upset I denounced his “blast a paste item in the comments first thing, why bother looking at the post” schtick.
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spammity spam spam, spaaaaam spam.
I Don’t Like Spam!
Well, how did you go about denouncing it?
If it was normal heckling in the comments, I’d see the reaction as overblown, but if it was an abuse of moderator powers, I’d have to take his side.
So, would your denouncement be considered a thought or a sermon?
As long as he doesn’t have a diva tantrum like Eddie.
Eddie definitely went overboard, but he wasn’t exactly wrong either.
I think we need an express statement on what is in bounds and out of bounds for the links, because I’m not clear on it, and I’m sure many other commenters are wondering, too.
I get that dropping 4+ links of your own in the comments right after they’re posted is a no-no, but everything else seems to be a gray area.
To me, the links are “nothing is off topic” posts, and the actual links are there as opportunities to spur discussion and to drop some inside jokes.
As such, whats the harm in commenters dropping a pre-written comment or two? I completely get the shaming of folks who post the same content that is in the links, but do we really need to force the conversation to be on the links? It especially rubs me funny to have that attitude when at least one of the links is from that shit hole of a site written in pidgin. It’s an inside joke. It’s funny. but I’m not even going to pretend that I click on the link.
All this to say that lately I’ve seen a few people run afoul of the mods, and I’m left scratching my head as to what they did wrong.
You have to REALLY fuck up to run afoul. And I think your understanding accords with mine- just common courtesy is all it takes.
Sociopaths gonna sociopath.
Now we ALL have to live with the consequences!!!11!!
It never, ever, ever dawns on them how many people – right now, today – still view Trump winning as the preferable outcome. They have completely convinced themselves that EVERYONE recognizes that we’re now stuck in a tragedy of cosmic proportion, and we’d all take it back if only we could.
The times they are terrible and basically the dawn of hitler
Yes. It’s like they take Trump’s low approval ratings as proof of how we all really want Hillary while ignoring the fact that her numbers are even lower than his.
Low approval ratings reported by the same polling outfits that say Americans hate guns and Hillary had a 98% chance of winning the election.
Totally legit.
The only personal problem I can see with Donald Trump (I’m ignoring areas where I don’t agree with his policies) is that he’s an uncouth blowhard. Sure. He’s definitely that. But, the truth is that there are a lot of things that are worse than an uncouth blowhard. – a liar, a thief, a weasel. Ms. Clinton seems to embody all of those qualities.
I’ve been told Trump has told more lies than anyone in history.
*than everyone in history
are you even trying, bro?
Yes, he is an uncouth blowhard. I don’t agree with a lot of his ideas, such as they are.
But I still think the country dodged a huge, cankly bullet by not having Her Imperial Majesty Hillary I, Dowager Empress of Chappaqua, as President.
One of the quotes from it’s book:
Two thoughts.
1. Yoga pants on Hillary = barf. It’s almost like she’s plagiarizing some of the more tame sentences from Sugar Free
2. You lying bitch. A completely transparent attempt to “relate” to the common folk
I think she talks about yoga more than she does yoga.
We can only hope.
I agree. I wouldn’t believe a single thing she claims.
She’s whackoo-Coo-coo.
I just assumed she hit the sauce so hard she woke up legitimately couldn’t remember.
But believing that would entail believing her. So. No dice.
Well I fucked that up.
Believing her alibi would entail believing her, so I know it’s not true.
I think she got angry-wasted and I put the probability that she threw and broke shit at a solid 1.
check out this para from her book
That’s nothing. Here she is saying the message from 1984 is that we should trust authority
I am not quite following her logic there, but whatever. Make no mistake – that woman would have been a totalitarian nightmare, or at least attempted to be one. Some of the things she said made that turd Obama look benign. She would have torn the country apart.
There is no logic to follow. She read it wrong.
Progressives who read 1984 take notes on how to build a controlled world.
The don’t look at the liberty side.
“The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust toward exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves”
O’Brien couldn’t have given a better damnation of Emmanuel Goldstein.
“Of course I didn’t say that. I just wrote it in a book for millions to see.” FTFY
I love that in writing this stupid book she’s reinforcing one of the worst stereotypes about women. Things didn’t work out the way she wanted and expected, so now she just won’t shut the fuck up about it.
I love that in having had this stupid book written she’s reinforcing one of the worst stereotypes about women.
FTFY
True. Point still stands though.
The false sense of entitlement on display there is truly shocking. Not so much that she’d think it; we all know she thinks it.
But it’s supposed to be a book to rehabilitate her image right? A tale to tell that shows how noble in defeat she was, right? How the fuck did the editor(s) not see the tone that those parables impart?
Yes, yes. I know the answer. But yeeeeesh.
They understand that the amount of people that would buy the book to hate read it is as vastly higher than the amount of people that would spend actual money to read why Hilary thinks she lost.
for those of us who don’t have twitter accounts what do they say?
In their minds, is there any reason to exclude anyone from voting there? Should they ship ballots to Montreal and say “We value your input, fellow citizens of the world!”
Sacre bleu! Don’t give them ideas.
May as well let children vote as well. I mean, obviously children are in charge there.
They are, after all, our future. We should teach them well and let them lead the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMM6UuIFkw
I was hoping for Sexual Chocolate.
Don’t forget, the Tomorrow Belongs to them
I totally wanna vote next time. Send me one of those mail ballots.
Yeah, the franchise already pretty much lost any meaning when universal suffrage went through. This sort of crap will just speed up the process.
Citizen is a meaningful qualification.
I am thinking we should get rid of universal suffrage. I am poor. Why should I be able to steal your money through the voting booth? Or Vote to put a word limit on John? Or vote no alcohol for Florida Man for 24 hours straight?
It’s for his own good.
He’ll just meth up for that time then.
I might – might – be OK with this if the rule is that casting a vote is also signing up to pay taxes.
Instead, of course, I’m seeing the exact opposite — the city where I work (but not live) is going through it’s semi-annual ponderance of whether to implement a city income tax for anyone who works there. Because despite rapacious tax rates on their own citizens, they somehow still don’t have enough OPM to go around.
Voting is all just a big exercise in asking everyone what color pony they want, and the connection between that exercise and who fucking pays the bill doesn’t even enter their minds as a consideration. Is it any wonder I loathe people?
Walter Williams wrote a proposal about tying taxes and voting together.
Fixed link, maybe?
Interesting read, thank you.
1) “Let’s put it another way: I do not own stock, and hence have no financial stake, in Ford Motor Company. Do you think I should have voting rights or any say-so in the management of the company? I’m guessing that the average sane person’s answer is no. ”
I understand the intent of that analogy, but *I’ll take that bet*. I’m very confident that there’s a very, very large contingent who feel that yes, they absolutely deserve a say in how Ford Motor company runs their business.
2) “James Madison’s concern about class warfare between the rich and the poor led him to favor the House of Representatives being elected by the people at large and the Senate elected by property owners.”
Hmm, I hadn’t thought about splitting the senate off to be the representative of the net payers. Interesting thought.
3) “What I’m suggesting is that every American gets one vote in every federal election, plus another vote for each $20,000 he pays in federal taxes.”
Also interesting. It’s not even remotely plausible that the American gimmedat class and their enablers would let such a proposal fly any further than a proposal to just restrict voting to net payers, but I appreciate it as an intellectual exercise to try to balance the interests on paper.
Thanks for that DEG.
The problem I have with tying the vote to tax expenditure is that regardless of how much money you make the laws of the land apply to you. The “deal” of citizenship, aka the “social contract”, is that by accepting that you’re a member of the group of people and institutions we call the US, or Maryland, or College Park, you take on the obligations to adhere to the rules set down through law, and, in return, you enjoy the benefits conferred by membership.
If you’re an illegal alien, or undocumented, or whatever, I don’t care whether you’re paying taxes; you are by definition violating the laws of another community. And you already have one of your own, you just choose not to live in it. Setting aside whether you should be deported or automatically granted citizenship or anything in between, you absolutely should not be granted a say in governance as you don’t have skin in the game and have already proven that you’re not especially interested in adhering to the law of the land.
Of course, in the case of College Park, it’s a shithole and I daresay a good number of the people there aren’t legal residents anyway. The University of Maryland has actually had several discussions with the government of College Park as to how to convince professors to live in the city. They can’t. The bottom line is that no matter how much they sweeten the pot they can’t convince professors to move to CP because it’s so god-awful. The schools are for shit, the area is the butthole of Prince George’s County, which is really saying something, and it’s surrounded by nicer places.
Once again I foresee lots of fraud. How are they going to split ballots? Typically you have inner ballot with everything you can vote for in it. I guess it is electronic it’s simple enough, but I foresee this item being ‘overlooked’
Sometime in the last decade I vaguely remember an absurd movement trending on the left to left everyone in the world vote for US president. It didn’t fly so they shut up about it.
We’re paying them, we should get to vote in their elections instead.
^ding ding ding^
That is a good way to get some prog heads to explode. I like it.
From the Anaheim article:
Ah, the magic of “non-profits”.
Don’t expect a knowledge of economics and corporate structuring from a homeless guy. Or most homed guys, for that matter.
I bet he couldn’t tell you the difference between an S-corp and an LLC.
I love telling people that live here in SC that think non-profits are magical that their HOA that they hate so much is also a non-profit.
Exactly. Government is non-profit. Non-profit = economic fuckup.
Do you think the reporter quoted the homeless man as an example of the economic stupidity of a homeless person, or as an example of profound thought coming from a homeless man?
Shorter Jeff: “Give me a house.”
. “There are lots of empty buildings,” ah yes, those empty buildings need to meet taken from those greedy hoarders and shared.
What’s with commies and empty buildings?
a homeless resident
Is he homeless? Or a resident? How is it both?
Jeff Geddes, a homeless parking lot shitter that passes out drunk along the Santa Ana River Trail in Anaheim.
FTFT
“Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation hours after a fifth accuser, a cousin, said Murray molested him when he was a child.”
Ready to be mayor of Lahore.
Eh don’t jump to conclusions and all that, no proof I assume
Proof is in the pudding.
The Qualudes?
Hey, Merle, I was wonderin’… if ya had any ‘ludes on ya?
/ Bill Cosby method +1.
Molestation is his one talent, he;s been molesting taxpayers for years.
“Fight for 15.”
*golf clap*
Ed Murray misunderstood the “Fight for 15”
Dammit refresh THEN post
That’s the coward’s way PBR.
I like the way you think.
^ This guy gets it.
I like the way you think.
No Champions league sports? That was unexpected
*squints suspiciously*
Hmm I missed that somehow, then did a control f for the word league to make sure it si not present, and it wasn’t. Oh well, didn’t look for UCL
I sold copy after copy of the Hillbeast’s book yesterday. Probly 20, 25 copies. Almost all white women under 35.(One femalel couple taking selfies holding the book). One older gentleman, one young man who bragged about voting today (NY Primary), then rushing to buy the book. Very cultlike.
Then a young woman bought The Fountainhead, and with a sigh of relief I said, “Nice book.”
She said, “Oh yes, I have to prepare for the play of it that they’re going to present at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.”
I took a short break.
Your bunk… you were in it?
Do you work in a store or were you hawking them on the street?
Retail bookstore
Those still exist?
Park Slope B & N? I worked there for a spell when I moved to NYC.
What year?
2005, I then got a gig at the Pintchik Hardware as a paint mixer/color matcher.
Hey, just be happy it’s being produced.
Sales is sales
I strongly encourage you not to insert monkey selfies of Anthony Weiner into every copy, even if there’s no way anyone could ever prove you were the one to do that.
What he oughtn’t do, under any circumstance, is print out all of SF’s epic and match the pages to the print of the book. After that he absolutely should not remove the existing pages from the book and rebind it with the printout. And he mustn’t re-shelve the book and sell it afterwards.
Yes, he really shouldn’t. [stifles laugh]
I want my dead tree version of Sugarfree damn it.
This is an excellent idea for a Glibertarians.com fundraiser.
Print on demand services exist, it’s not that outlandish from a logistics standpoint.
RBS: Send us money or explain this book to your neighbors!
Still, that’s a great book. Much better than Atlas Shrugged, IMO. And definitely a better intro to Randian philosophy. Who knows, maybe that lady will learn something.
That the willful destruction of other people’s property is A-Okay if you had an agreement with a third party about the design that the actual owners didn’t sign on to?
Hey, just be happy it’s being produced.
Shit, Sloopy. I thought you meant What Happened.
I think he did mean that.
The American People deserve to know exactly how the election was stolen from Hillary, and how else would we know? Being a woman, she has no voice or access to other patriarchy-controlled messaging platforms.
*narrows gaze…and slow claps*
If they did a stage version, would it be a comedy or a tragedy?
It depends on who’s watching.
I’m getting a Producers vibe.. the writer aims for serious but the audience can’t stop laughing.
Deblasio’s fucking Commie interview should have been on every local channel 24/7– enh it still wouldn’t have helped.
Congratulations on taking money from idiots without coercion. How many weeks do you think it will be before these copies go for $0.01 on Amazon?
The homeless are taking over Southern California. Orange County declares emergency…whatever the hell that means.
Piss on you, lady. I paid for that warm bed.
But the commies assured me that everyone is selfless, it’s just dirty capitalism. But this is happening in the Soviet socialist republic if California.
“I paid for that warm bed.”
And how’d you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society! If there’s ever gonna be any progress in our society…
There you go bringing class into it again…
Ni!
We’re oppressed! /peasant
I thought the homeless were overrunning Southern California when I lived there in the early 90’s. if you were going to be a drunken lazy bum, why not do somewhere with perfect weather and commie city councils that reward your idleness?
My buddy drives for Lyft up in San Francisco occasionally, and he says a ton of the old school liberal (I know, try to imagine them) upper middle class residents are fed up with all the homeless and their needles, trash, and feces being left everywhere. And what pisses them off more is that even saying a bum shouldn’t shit on their front porch is met with “NAZI!” from the new progs.
Yet, they’d still rather jump naked into a pile of broken glass than vote for someone other than the candidate who progs hardest. Mental disorder.
The old progressives made the new ones possible. The front porch bum shit is coming home to roost
That is what happen when you turn into Mexico.
“I guess that whoring license never got renewed. ” – this is why you need forums, know the chicks from the pigs
I have a client who’s been accused of prostitution via back pages, (which didn’t come out in court – yet– I am defending her for neglect/abuse of her infant son — yeeaah), and it made me think there there needs to be an app for this sort of thing. It doesn’t have to advertise as what it is, it could merely book for “services/time” and act as a pay-unit, and keep a percentage for the app’s creator. It would take some of the danger/ uncertainty out of the whole scenario. I am sure someone else has already created this, though. Can any Glibs lead me to it?
Would this app have customer ratings? Just asking.
Or pics?
Silkroad.com
I’d point you to the guy who started it but he’s rotting in a jail cell.
I vaguely remember woodchippers, a judge, hell and a federal investigation.
Trump should have pardoned him instead of Arpaio.
He could do both.
If it’s for iOS it would need Apple’s approval.
If you’re into that sort thing
Excuse me sir, but I’m sure you know that human-automobile relations are strictly forbidden.
I guess this guy is on a bus headed to Waco
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1de_1431222616
In related news – Sex Robot Makes Live Appearance on British TV.
“As sex robots go, she looked okay — a little pasty maybe. Perhaps a little stiff.”
Maybe because she’s British?
I reiterate, if you’re into that sort of thing.
She lays back and thinks of Turing.
*salutes*
Of course, Turing wouldn’t lay back and think of Samantha.
Harsh, but fair.
OMG, what a sad sack that wrote that.
Yeah, because HE isn’t bone tired from working 40+ hours a week at his job! Also, fixing the lawnmower? What woman does that? That’s something HE does, not her.
Yup, that 40+ hour job isn’t enough to get her to think “Well, every single thing I enjoy has been provided to me by him, maybe I should have sex with him when he asks.” Nope, he has to also do HER work! Is there any expectation of her in all this, or does her doing anything mean he doesn’t deserve sex? God, I get sick of seeing this kind of crap where if a man expects sex from his wife, he must not let her do any kind of work to deserve it. Grow a pair!
Everything ok at home?
I like to think my wife has sex with me because she, you know, wants to.
or at least that’s what we tell ourselves
Take a breath. If she works outside the home, then every single thing is NOT provided by him. Every thing I have, I provided. And wow, am I sick of meeting men who seem to think I should bring them a drink and slippers.
Howzabout a sammich instead?
*runs from room*
Not a fan of “Steak and a BJ Day” then?
Eyes Number 6, then seasons steak with rat poison.
Policeman: “So, Tell me, what caused Mr. Tulip to fall down the stairs and break his neck?”
Tulip: “Bastard wouldn’t eat his steak”
If she does. Even then, how much is she making compared to him? If she brings in a similar amount of pay, then yeah, my opinion of that situation would be a bit different. My little rant is with the assumption that she’s a stay-at-home mom. (As the article mentions above, taking care of the kids, doing dishes, cleaning the house).
“Even then, how much is she making compared to him?”
Someone like me? More than he does.
–“You see, Samantha will never be on her period. Never have a headache or be bone tired from taking care of the kids, cleaning house, doing the dishes, fixing the lawnmower, and helping dear daughter with her trig homework. (Not that men don’t help with all that stuff — or at least that’s what we tell ourselves.).”–
Err I know more than a few women who would see this as a feature not a bug
I mean sure there are some guys who don’t do anything around the house and don’t work any more hours than she does outside of it but the reality is the household chores tend to be pretty well divided up these days…
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/11/04/raising-kids-and-running-a-household-how-working-parents-share-the-load/st_2015-11-04_working-parents-02/
So when she is tired and not interested in sex it is less likely that it is because he is just freeloading off her than it is she just had a busy day and so being able to say no honey go spend some time with Samantha I need to get some sleep is a blessing not a curse to these women.
It’s not a blessing to the author, because her real complaint is that it takes away the leverage of being able to withhold sex in return for [whatever].
He has threesomes with his wife and the sex robot. I’m honestly speechless.
**The world may be changing but men aren’t. I have no idea how you finagled your wife to accept this marvelous piece of engineering and technology into your bed, but please write a book and tell the rest of us how you did it.**
I’m not, it’s basically just a big expensive sex toy.
She has her vibrators, I have Samantha and she likes chicks too but Samantha comes with a whole lot less baggage
The sex doll has a ‘family’ mode, and the guy lets his kids play with it. I hope he hoses it down good each time.
Speaking of voting
America’s shameful history of voter suppression
Voter fraud is more rare than being struck by lightning, yet the fear-mongering persists. Don’t blame Donald Trump – blame America’s democratic model
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/13/america-history-voter-suppression-donald-trump-election-fraud
Thing is, growing up in a country with a national id that is required for anything really, at first, years ago, it was hard for me to even understand there is a controversy about voting id in the states, I couldn’t even imagine voting without a picture id. Not that there isn’t fraud in countries where voting requires picture id, but anyway I find it difficult to believe this is such a major imposition as I assume most people in the 21st century have id. And if not, it is a minimum effort to get one for something important as voting.
You may have discussions, ja?, but please to use our links already provided! Proechtli!
You were better as JATNAS.
I kenne nicht this Yatnas Kerl, he sounds like an Arschenloch! LOL, just reminding the world we haven already die links at the top! Hopp!
Is that a sermon?
No way to tell.
It’s def not a thought.
“Voter fraud is more rare than being struck by lightning”
Then alot of people must get struck by lighting, cause every election I hear slot thousands of cases of voter fraud.
“I don’t!”
/Al Franken
Thank doG that we got him in. Otherwise we’d have no decent health care.
I think that the risk here is that if the Dems could somehow see beyond their hatred of Trump, they could make a deal with him to do single payer. Trump would love the positive spin the MSM would put on such a plan.
MSM would never give him the credit. He knows that, so hopefully he is rational enough not to fall into the trap of trying to please them. If Trump forced this through the MSM would fawn on how Franken and Sanders did this (probably in spite of Trump, in their narrative).
Voter fraud is more rare than being struck by lightning
When i hear people mouth this crap, I’ve developed a standard response: Fine. Agreed. Then i”m sure you’ll have no problem whatsoever making voter fraud a capital offense with no appeal. Since you say it never really happens, this draconian punishment won’t really affect anyone. And it will get people like me to shut the hell up about the topic. I mean I know you’re not trying to turn a blind eye to a subversion of our democracy because it helps people you support. So, I have no doubt you’ll support killing people who engage in voter fraud.
Somehow, they’re never really interested in continuing the discussion.
“A government study has suggested that the introduction of stricter ID requirements could shave two to three percentage points off the Democratic party total.”
Aren’t they supposed to be the party of superior beings?
Same here.
/picking nose. ‘Hi, I wanna vote.’
‘M’kay. D’ya’ve Id?’
/Flashes ID. Name scratched off list.
‘Away you go. Thanks for voting.’
/scratches ass. Votes. Leaves.
What’s so difficult and controversial about that?
It’s well known that Democrats think black people are to dumb to get IDs.
They all look the same to them anyway, so what good would IDs do?
Because some random dipshit might be “disenfranchised” because they’re too dumb or poor to use one of the many services available to them to get a valid government-issued photo-ID, and because we want people in those circumstances helping to decide the fate of our republic.
That same ID they use year round to access a whole host of government services that they magically can’t produce in early November.
Have you noticed that when there’s one consistent counter-argument to a common criticism it’s generally bullshit? I admit that Voter ID laws come a bit too close to a state ID card for my liking, but the zeal with which progs rush to the racism well is quite telling. And you get the same response all over the country from them all over the country, not because it’s obviously true but because it’s designed to try and shut debate down.
I don’t like the concept of forcing people to have ID to vote, but I also think it’s a necessary (but not sufficient!) step to curb fraud. I also find any argument that some people—however grouped—are not able to get ID to be a total non-starter.
I look at it like this, you don’t just have a right to stuff a ballot into a box, you also have a right to have your vote counted fairly and equally with everyone else’s vote. You can’t say “one man, one vote” and then turn around and allow some people to cast multiple votes—by whatever means—or allow people who are not eligible to vote in a jurisdiction—however eligibility is defined—to cast any number of votes. The “right to vote” is as much a right to have an honest election as it is a right to cast a vote.
That having been said, I am amenable to a constitutional amendment banning voter ID if it also repeals Amendments 16 and 17 and restores the power of states to decide how their own legislatures are formed (stripped from them by SCOTUS in Baker v. Carr Reynolds v. SIms). As long as we have “popular vote, universal suffrage uber alles” then preventing fraud is of the utmost importance.
Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims
And don’t forget that in their minds, at the same time, stricter gun laws don’t disproportionately affect minorities, and stricter licensing and permit laws don’t disproportionately affect minorities. Because intentions.
Except that progressives see stripping gun rights from minorities and subjecting them to regulation as a GOOD thing.
The Waco Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit organized a sex sting last weekend, placing online ads on websites that men looking for sex frequent. They also posted ads as a john seeking to pay for sex, Sgt. Patrick Swanton said.
“They met our officers instead,” Swanton said.
Fuck you Swanton.
“Fuck you Swanton”
That’s what the John’s thought they got to do…
“One of the females we arrested told us she had been trafficked since 2013,” Swanton said. “Hopefully this will be her chance to be safe and make a difference.”
Because prostitutes never lie?
In prison. Or being exclusive to cops…
^^^not what I want, but what seems to always happen
Ted Cruz Fingers Staffer For Liking Late Night Porn Tweet
https://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-fingers-staffer-for-liking-late-night-porn-tweet/
Phrasing?
Deliberate phrasing on their part.
Not as funny as an accidental wording.
Chris cizilla needs Cruz to clear it up asap!!
My biggest problem is the disrespect towards Shawn Rees that it displays. We all know that there will only ever be one Milf Hunter.
So the woman in the Pidgin article went from just dying her roots brown to all her hair?
Yeah, I noticed that too. I always look at the roots and eyebrows.
I lighten my hair, but keep my brows dark — on purpose! Otherwise my forehead extends into infinity.
Check the pubes, that’s infallible. And even if it isn’t, it’s more fun.
What would you know about pubes?
Touché.
To be fair, that’s as good a sign as any that it’s time to get a younger one.
Back when I had a full head of hair, I was very blond. The hair came out of my head that way, didn’t change after an inch or two unless I was getting a lot of sun. Then it was just white.
Posted last night, but a worthy repeat:
Rand Paul’s Lonely AUMF Battle
“A single senator vowed Monday night to delay the Senate from debating a must-pass, $700 billion defense bill ” – is it really that must pass?
If it doesn’t get passed our entire military will be inoperable and the damn Canadians will be able to walk right in.
We’ve already taken care of that – in event of non-passage, we remove the covers from the “Welcome to Canada” signs we posted a few miles from the border. The Canukistanis will think they got turned around in the snow and turn back of their own accord.
Why do you hate America, freedom, and democracy?
So today Congress will just vote against his Amendment and move on. I must be dense today, because I’m not seeing a political downside for the Congress-scum voting against it..
Merkel seems to be campaigning against Hungary on immigration. For some reason, the Hungarians aren’t enthusiastic for a German ruled Europe this time around.
I heard that the war started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich ’cause he was hungry.
Merkel is a true useful idiot through and through. She grew up and was educated at an indoctrination center in East Germany during the cold war.
I am not sure what she thinks but importing zillions of muslims will mean they will end up getting elected and at some point start putting germans to the sword, her included.
It’s nationalism versus internationalism. Derbyshire breaks it down – if you, uh… dare to go there.
Then why did they join the EU in the first place?
Serious question.
All the major parties supported joining the EU.
The EU has always had a great PR machine. For members of the former Soviet Bloc, my impression was that it felt pretty lonely, and the alleged dividends that western democracy offered for a sovereign nation hadn’t been delivered.
Add to that the expectation that the German and British economies would be subsidizing them. It was like being given a free pass to join the “Free Shit Army”, albeit in a more benign suit. Problem is that just like the Mafia, you let other people in with money, pretty much, you have to start following their orders; but it’s awfully hard to turn down the kinds of developmental aid being offered, especially when nothing was really being asked in return.
That of course had changed by 2016, when there was a referendum regarding EU resettlement of aliens in Hungary over any national parliamentary veto. The motion to support the EU was a resounding ‘No’ with 98% of voters rejecting the plans, with a 44% turnout.
So, from socialism to naziism in a generation.
/sarc
Seemed like a package deal with joining NATO to stay out of the Russian sphere of control.
So I looked for reviews of Broadway’s 1984 and ended up in the belly of the program beast. I didn’t realize the extent to which they’ve co-opted one of my favorite books, and now the play, into a “this is trump’s America” thing.
The rare actual descriptions of the play make it sound like it has nothing to do with being motivated by Trump, not to mention that it’s a British adaptation that’s been around for a few years. The production sounds kind of weird with lots of startling lighting and sound gimmicks, and the overall play sounds very open to interpretation. So I might see it
Prog
Just go see Blue Man Group.
Vegas is a thirty-seven hour drive away! And I am not going to be groped by TSA.
So go to the NYC one…
https://www.blueman.com/
I thought you meant the support group.
Actually, I got distracted by the possibilities of a road trip to the region, and noticed that the Grand Canyon, Lake Mead and Vegas were within a six hour drive of each other. It might require a three week span if I wanted to stop along the way in a pattern like my last road trip, but it’s not exactly unfeasible.
Throw in Zion, Bryce and Great Basin and take a month.
I looked at them, then realized I’d be miserable. I might stop to take a photograph, but I wouldn’t linger. Judging by my experiences on my last road trip, the great outdoors is less interesting than the history of a place, or an industrial facility. For example, the standout of my time at Niagara falls was not the falls but Old Fort Niagara.
We aren’t the only country where the media is literally making the stories. The Polish paper’s staff went out and pretended to be Greenpeace demonstrators – some in black-face.
To be fair, they were Poles, and they were racist (against Poles), so they were not entirely inaccurate in that assessment.
I mean, not saying “would”, but I was definitely expecting two crack whores from Waco to look waaaaay worse than that
Happily would the first. Ixnay on the second.
I was a bit surprised too.
This site has a weird bug I’ve noticed numerous times. I posted a reply to JH’s comment above, and it showed as the first comment. Then later EfE’s comment showed above it. Looking at the times EfE’s comment was made about four minutes before mine, but it wasn’t there when I made my comment.
Yes, I’ve seen that bug too. I initially thought that I had fucked up monocle, but it happens on my phone on occasion.
Billions of devices impacted by new Bluetooth attack
“A study found that on Twitter, the left and right are generally isolated from each other, with retweets rarely leaving each group’s bubble.”
https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/905487144160038912
That’s surprising?
I am shocked
Echo chambers on the internet? Well I’ll be darned.
No. Fucking. Shit.
I wonder if that has anything to do with Twitter burying trending right-leaning posts and banning anybody to the right of Bernie Sanders at the drop of a hat.
“The 3% of our user base that is right wing and hasn’t been excommunicated already is basically just circle jerking itself. We’re working on it…”
I swear, I need to learn how to write grant applications.
Fact check: false.
There are armies of twitter accounts whose sole purpose is to find the absolute most retarded things tweeted by the members of the “other” side and amplify them to fuel the daily 1440-minute hate.
I wonder how deleted tweets affect the numbers.
The brain is a Peirce engine
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7651
There comes from Scott Alexander’s blog news of a new unified theory of neural cognition called the “predictive processing model”. Read his review of the book “Surfing Uncertainty” before proceeding further.
This model seems to solve a whole raft of longstanding problems about how the brain does what it does, offer insight into how various neurotransmitters work in cognition, and even into how disorders such as autism can be understood as consequences of very specific processing failures with testable consequences.
Found this whole thing somewhat interesting
Also Scott Alexander review
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/
Scott Alexander has been discussing top-down vs. bottom-up processing for a couple weeks now.
I thought people on the spectrum were all geniuses with near-magical powers. Saw that on TV.
Then why aren’t 80% of us on this site superbeings?!
So, you mean you’re not a superbeing?
/takes note
What’s Pidgin for “would”?
me wan tap dat ass
Near as I can tell; “will”
“Did Milo Yiannopoulos really lose his Miami house in Hurricane Irma?”
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article172687231.html
If they’re not asking me to pay to replace it, I don’t need to know.
I notice a severe drop in Russia election-hacking stories. They don’t want to report the actual scandal blowing up now.
“Fear among members that Awan could release embarrassing information if they cooperated with prosecutors could explain ”
That’s definitely the charitable explanation. Remember when Democrats were losing their mind over a supposed server that pinged a Russian bank in Trump tower?
I suspect the awans were the ones that made dnc “hack” which was really an inside job look like russians.
And the FBI feigned interest like they did with hillarys email investigation
I think the FBI offered to investigate, but the DNC refused.
They told them to investigate away, but you can’t look at their servers – you know, the ones that were hacked wicked bad by the Ruskies.
They were hacked to pieces, like with a machete?
With a cloth, duh.
Could be. You also had Guccifer 2.0, which was clearly a misinformation campaign designed to point the finger at the Russians before Wikileaks released the actual documents. Who was behind that? Seymour Hersh apparently believed it was John Brennan, but maybe the DNC was more directly involved.
There were never going to report that, and if I had to guess, CNN is ignoring the new revelations about Comey. Charlottesville, then the two hurricanes, interrupted their non-stop bleating about Russia. As much as they are motivated by politics, they are motivated by ratings. Eventually, people got tired about hearing about that missing Malaysian plane. Even though it’s still missing. And like Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia, I doubt it will ever be found.
I have been amazed all along at how stupid the dems are for stirring this shit up in the first place. I guess after 8 years of Chocolate Jesus having their back they thought it would never lead back to them. Incredible. Of course it was going to lead back to them.
That too.
I notice a severe drop in Russia election-hacking stories
I was contemplating that on the drive in this morning. I think Harvey and Irma get a lot of the credit for that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the sell-by date on the whole story has now expired. I just can’t wait for the release of the next new narrative!
A couple days of “nothing to see here, move along” followed by months of “that’s old news!”
Or just a general assumption it really happened because people talked abut it a lot.
Turns out my new lady friend is a crossword enthusiast. I texted “Down to fuck?” and she replied “How many letters?”.
Eleven.
If you say “orca eria Ani Enos,” she’ll get wet.
Just send her “olio.” Guaranteed wild night.
Keep talking Hillary!
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-clinton-my-own-mistakes-werent-enough-to-lose-the-election/article/2634237
Well she has a point. Podesta made some mistakes, and Human made some mistakes. But those three together account for most of it.
Joke’s on you, pal. There were no humans involved in that campaign!
I just heard that. Amazing.
She insulted, berated and threatened voters who were already at least suspicious of her because of her breathtaking felonious behavior and transparent lies about it.
Of course it wasn’t her fault. It was everyone else’s, especially those damned deplorables.
Good news: local Minnesodans are against thowing tax dollars at Amazon.
Bad news: For all the wrong reasons. “Waaaaah! We deserve tax money and don’t dare give that loot to our competitor!”
Is it tax deductions as in they wouldn’t pay as much if they go there or is it using tax credits which is spending?
The former (not taking more of something that doesn’t exist) isn’t govt spending
Or, you know, used to.
*waves to Medtronic*
-1 NWA
I miss being a hub airport for them, but as a taxpayer I am happy we aren’t still building them maintenance facilities up on the range.
NWA was a real leech.
Hmm… I coulda swore I replied 20 mins ago. Anyway;
Do you know if anything has been done with that facility? That is one hell of a white elephant to get saddled with.
Maybe sub-contracted it out? Old story. Not sure if it ever happened.
Looks like it happened
So, imagine how many more would be employed by Amazon setting up shop there. No, don’t give any of them tax money, but another big company bringing more jobs by setting up shop would be good. Right?
“Thanks but no thanks.”
/Amazon
A man approached a very beautiful woman in the large supermarket and said, “I’ve lost my wife here in the supermarket. Can you talk to me for a couple of minutes?”
The woman looked puzzled. “Why do you want to talk to me?” she asked.
“Because every time I talk to a woman with beautiful tits like yours, my wife appears out of nowhere.”
http://archive.is/zqF9C
1 and 14.
Nice!
1 and 38.
1, 2, and 17
# 5 is the rabbit boiler
19. No duck lips, no clown make-up, no silicone, sexy eyes. Winner
2nd place. Meant to include her.
Natural, casual hotness is the best hotness.
31.
Surprisingly a couple of wouldn’ts in there.
31, my my…
I guess there’s no statute of limitations on moral outrage.
It bugs me somewhat that decades old accusations of sexual misconduct have dislodged the tick in Seattle when rational thinking could not. Unless at least one of those accusations is current, and the old ones are being trotted out in an attempt to support its credibility. Me no RTFA, brudda.
Rest assured, a younger, hungrier tick will be inserted into his place.
The credit union is still without computers and phones. They are trying to do the “disaster recovery” but apparently that doesn’t work so well if the place that the system is being rerouted through is under water. Who knew? I’m still without tellers and thinking that I need to find a better class of orphans. During the clean up of the backyard yesterday I managed to grab a wasp’s nest. I would suggest that ya’ll avoid that if possible. I got power back last night so I’m a semi-happy camper and will reach full happy once I’m able to watch the Nazgul feast on the flesh of my orphans.
Whenever I read your updates I think of “It’s a Wonderful Life” and Jimmy Stewart ?
Yeah, well, my guardian angel needs to show up toot sweet because the wonderful part is falling a little short of the mark.
I’m writing down that recommendation about wasp nests. Ouch.
Things I’ve learned in the last few days: Don’t grab wasp nests. Generators don’t run without gas. Orphans are highly unreliable.
Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks!
I had the displeasure of watching about five minutes of Difficult People last night. I understand that this awful pile of shit of a show is actually somewhat popular. Why?
I’m still trying to figure that out about Big Bang Theory. People watch this shit? We’ve pretty much given up on broadcast networks, and if this week’s Monday Night Football is the wave of the future, we’re giving that up as well.
All of these new shows have this overwrought, expository dialog that just too clever for its own good, and it absolutely grates on my nerves.
I though the first few seasons of Big Bang Theory were pretty funny but, like several other shows they have gone several seasons too many.
This. Seasons 1 and 2 of big bang theory were good and then it quickly devolved into a by-the-numbers sitcom with superficial references to geek culture.
Yeah, the first couple of seasons the guys were really oddball fish out of water types and while neither accurate as realistic or stereotypical “geeks” they were close enough to be interesting. Then they had to give them all spouses and the show turned to shit. The sad thing is I actually find the females in the show more interesting than the men.
That said, gotta ask why the hell a show about geeks could not have made the segments where they were playing D&D actually look like guys playing D&D? Especially the episode where Howard takes over as DM and runs a game straight out of a 4th grade monty haul campaign and every one but Leonard (the regular DM) loved it.
In the first two seasons, they are frighteningly accurate for graduate students/postdocs in a Physics department. I speak from experience.
I liked the show in its early seasons.
I made it through 7 minutes of one episode before deciding that the sweet meteor of death was the only answer to the enstupidation of mankind.
I occasionally watch Big Bang Theory because I have a close friend who is Sheldon through and through. He even uses the word “coitus”, which at thirty he has never had. He is incapable of lying and doesn’t understand why he makes peoples’ mouths drop with some of the things he says. He doesn’t mean to be hurtful, he is just being honest. He really is a terrific person and a great guy but just odd beyond belief. Yesterday, because of the “system” limitations I had, I had to tell him that I couldn’t do something for him and he said, “But I brought you chocolate. It was dark chocolate.” and I can imagine Sheldon saying the same thing under similar circumstances. He’s frustrating and a hoot all at the same time.
That’s amazing. We all should be so lucky.
I’m not a big fan of the show, but I happened to catch the episode where Sheldon trains Penny with chocolate, and it was hilarious.
I despise that show. I find it incredibly sexist and off putting.
My wife and I have damn near identical tastes in television, and we both agree that Big Bang Theory is quite possibly the worst show on television. We both kind of snobbily use liking BBT as a ph test as to whether or not someone’s an unsophisticated dummy. I call it “nerdface”; playing up to the worst stereotypes of intellectuals, IT people, “nerds”, what-have-you, for a laugh from the dopes. People we know and love watch the show and laugh, but those people are classless and intellectually lazy, One’s a Ravens fan and the other thinks salsa verde is exotic.
I’m being facetious. We love those people.
I mean somebody’s got to, otherwise who’d stop them from licking bus windows?
I confess that I’ve watched a couple dozen BBT episodes, but mostly while sleeping. It’s an integral part of my sleep strategy for overnight intercontinental flights. I take a couple of melatonin before the flight. I order a double scotch whisky when the drink cart comes around and work until bored, which after a double scotch doesn’t take long. Then, more scotch and wine with dinner. Then I watch BBT for mindless entertainment until the mindlessness of BBT puts me to sleep. Works every time.
If you aren’t a big city gay guy or one’s desperate hag, Difficult People really isn’t for you. It’s basically Will and Grace and Meth.
It was so annoying it made my teeth hurt.
Cuba’s crumbling infrastructure no match for might of Irma
Despite government preparations, some have criticized the response to the monster hurricane that crumbled buildings and deluged homes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/13/hurricane-irma-cuba-havana-flooding-government-response
“María Estela Pedroso, who knew the brothers, said she had been trying to convince the authorities to relocate her for over a decade. “Nobody should be living where we are living,” she shouted furiously. “I go to all the Committee for the Defence of the Revolution meetings, all the assemblies, and I’ve always said they are not going to get us out of here until somebody dies.””
_ mean if going to all the meetings of the committee does not solve problems, nothing can
“Luís Dilu Galiente is the president of the building’s Committee for the Defence of the Revolution – neighbourhood bodies which provide basic social services, and also watch out for counter-revolutionary activities. ” – each building needs a president of the committee
“With macabre comic timing, Donald Trump renewed the US embargo on Cuba for another year just hours before the Irma made landfall. While the island’s faltering economy goes some way to explaining the condition of housing stock the embargo makes matters worse.” TRUMP
Yorka Gutiérrez Pérez came here with her neighbours when the front of their building collapsed. She’s hoping to stay in the shelter until she’s given a new house, but given that hundreds of Cubans are in temporary housing following the last hurricane, it’s likely she’ll have a wait.
“I’ve got faith in this government,” she said. “Until now, at least, the Revolution has never abandoned us”. – Jesus how brainwashed can you be?
Cuba can trade with a host of other countries. But they have nothing to offer
That is not true. They have delicious rum and a variety of inexpensive hookers.
Sugacane, Tobacco, Coffee, Produce, Fish, mercenary soldiers
Cuba should have plenty to trade
Doctors, lots of doctors I’m told.
people who can read.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
The Trump embargo was pretty messed up tho.
“the island’s faltering economy goes some way to explaining the condition of housing stock”
You think?
Jesus Christ
Joy to you, friend. Peace and contentment. They are the gift of Landr… Hillary.
Uh..no, crazy person. We know exactly how much she means to you.
#gethelp
I dunno, I imagine that liberals would have started kneeling facing towards the White House seven times a day had Hillary won.
I don’t think the hardcore Hillary supporters understand the negative effects that their cult like behavior, and rancid hatred of Trump are having on people, like, their children. My cousins, 16, 13, and 10 have rabidly progressive parents, and my aunt and uncle do not like to talk politics with me, since I am obviously not in agreement with them, except that I don’t particularly like Trump either, but I see hints in the cousins that they really do not like Hillary’s brand of politics, nor the idea the media and probably a lot of their friends and fellow students (they are in NoVa, so 16 y/o’s GF is daughter of two government workers, their dad works for the Smithsonian) insist on politics all the time. Plus, they see my relatively conservative parents (who did not vote for Trump) being very successful, and that is a good counterexample to them as well.
Why do liberals feel the need to deify people? Whether it is politicians or celebrities, liberals form an emotional attachment that I just don’t understand. Even as a kid back in the dark ages I didn’t get into the whole hero worship thing. I’ve seen some of this on the Right with Trump but not to the extent that it happens on the Left.
Hypothesis – It’s part of being looked after. To fullfil the parental role, the leader – be it governmental or merely a thought-leader – must be somehow greater than the masses, thus lending itself more naturally to cults of personality. Those not looking to be looked after don’t have a need for these same roles to be filled with ‘better people’ in the same way.
But it’s just a rough thought.
Good explanation.
That and having abandoned traditional religions, something has to fill the void.
I don’t see it as any different from deifying sports “heroes”. And that’s neither a left nor right thing.
The thing is that I can admire someone for what they do professionally without admiring the person themselves. Being a crappy person or a great person, whichever the case maybe, doesn’t change an athlete’s or celebrity’s ability to do their job. I think, up to a point, it does effect a politician’s ability to do the job. The people swooning over Hillary Clinton don’t know her and she doesn’t know them but they act as if they have a spiritual connection. I think that UnCivilServant explains it pretty well but because I am unable to empathize with that need for a “better” I find the reaction pitiful and a bit scary.
While speaking as an athiest, I think that at its core, it’s all about having a messiah – in a world where everyone is meant to be equal, no matter what their talents and abilities give to society, how *can* you have a leader unless they’re *so* special, that they are a God-Emperor?
And when one God-Emperor falls short, well, it means you didn’t throw enough virgins in the volcano, and burn sufficient heretics. You were unworthy.
It makes perfect sense if the society you want to create diminishes individual agency and willingly grants power to the state.
I think you get it backwards Number 6. You are right about people’s need to see meaning and justice in the world. Without that, life is meaningless and chaos. And no one, not even the most hardcore atheist can really face that. Religion, tells people that while there is no justice in this life, there will be justice in the next. When you walk away from that, and the Progs and the Marxists and the Fascists and all the rest of the Utopian idealists have, you still have the same need for meaning and justice. If it isn’t coming in the next life and this life is all there is, then you look for an ideology or a person who is going to bring it in this life.
All of these ideologies are about giving people meaning by participating in a larger cause that will cleanse the world of injustice and wrong and usher in paradise on earth. This is why they always end up so murderous. What means isn’t justified if the end is paradise?
Well, that would depend on whether a ‘hardcore athiest’ actually thought that life was meaningless. Existence itself has meaning for the individual, while you’re alive.
Now, you can be an active nihilist and rave about that meaninglessness and be a total pain in the ass, or you accept the gift of existence and make the best of what you got, and someday entropy overtakes you and go on into the dark eternity of death.
I seek power over my own reality to the extent that I can get it, and would refuse to exert it over others, even if I were given the chance. When younger, I might have been tempted to leadership to “make a difference”, but I’m not a libertarian evangelist, and am now old enough to appreciate the futility and hypocrisy of doing so.
Is my life ‘meaningless’? Not to me, and not to my immediate contacts, but on galactic scale, sure. But I want to strongly rebut the claim that an individual needs to see meaning and justice in the world. Justice is a social construct, born (imperfectly) out of human spontaneous order (as expounded by Hayek) and maintained by the interaction between large groups of individuals. Meaning is whatever significance those individuals, influenced by culture, wish to assign to their three-score years and ten.
So, *as an athiest* who doesn’t believe in a guiding deity, and rejects the legitimacy of (and certainly the superiority of) ‘leaders’, from your point of view, my life should(?) be meaningless and chaotic? I’d strongly reject that claim.
I have an article about all this good stuff ready for submission if the Glib overlords would ever write me back! HINT, HINT.
The right mostly deifies Reagan. But you are correct that the left seem to want to deify anybody that will represent them. I think it’s called Narcissism.
The reverence for Reagan comes somewhat close to what I’ve seen on the left but the “awe” isn’t quite there. The fealty that the left showed Obama is almost matched by some on the right for Trump. For almost the entire left it is considered an abomination to speak ill of Obama and stating that Trump’s brain sometimes runs away from his brain is met hearty heaping of “Cuck!” on the right. The idea that questioning a politician’s policy decisions is heresy blows me away and seems so unhealthy for the individual and the country.
Cultist are a sad sight to behold.
“through the words of one of America’s most accomplished and achieved politicians.”
She just edged out Daniel Webster…
Or they confessed to plagarism.
who was the ghostwriter for the book?
Based on the excerpts i’ve seen, its the inverse of either of these things. its painfully shallow, self-absorbed, tone deaf, and somehow has managed to wildly misconstrue every literary reference she makes (she references both 1984 and The True Believer, and you get the impression she’s never actually read either.)
The perversion of the word “intellectual”, along with the word “science”, has been one of the most infuriating developments over the last several years. These people act like cultists and their own caricatures of religious people, but because they use the “right” words, it’s all okay.
I got the feeling she’s read both, and understood both to mean that she should be in charge.
sad cultists.
Wow, man. Do these people understand how brainwashed they sound? I mean, that’s really, really scary behavior.
“State of emergency” = “Give us money, Washington”.
^^this guy gets it
While the island’s faltering economy goes some way to explaining the condition of housing stock the embargo makes matters worse.
I’m a bad person. Because I… you know… laughed.
https://medium.com/@russroberts/the-world-turned-upside-down-and-what-to-do-about-it-2dc27d1cf5f5
Chin scratching ever “thoughtful”, “conservative” Russ Roberts bemoans just how mean and awful America is and of course how terrible Trump is. Are these chin scratching Never Trump conservatives just really dense or really that dishonest? Roberts’ big example of Trump’s falsity is Trump’s claim that Americans are the most taxed people on earth. In terms of percent of income paid in taxes, Americans are not the most tax people. In terms of the total amount of money paid to the government, Americans are far and away the most taxed people on earth. Add the total taxes collected by the federal and state and local governments in this country together and you get a number far and away larger than the taxes collected by any other country. So whether Americans are the “most taxed” depends on what you mean by “most”.
I and I suspect most other Trump supporters understood what Trump meant. Yet, it apparently went right over Roberts’ head. But we are supposed to be the dumb ones and they are betters. The quality of self-appointed intellectuals, in general, is very low. Trump has debased me of any thought that those on the right are any better than the ones on the left. These people are stupid but make up for it by being smug and dishonest.
Roberts’ characterization of left leaning journalists as “right thinking people” who apparently have let the horribleness of Trump get the better of their professional standards is particularly stupid. These people are not right thinking and are no different than they always have been. The only difference is that they no longer have editors and producers to ensure they look respectable in public.
I don’t think even the greatest human genius could have come up with a more brilliant plan to discredit the media than Twitter. For years their awfulness, stupidity and bias had been hid from the public by careful editors and TV producers. Twitter comes along and offers all of them a platform to broadcast their real thoughts unfiltered to the public. Being complete narcissists who live in an intellectual cocoon that constantly tells them how brilliant they are, they could not resist. And the result has been for them to completely drop the mask and show the world just how stupid, shallow and hateful they actually are.
Are these chin scratching Never Trump conservatives just really dense or really that dishonest?
Some of them are actually principled, valuing conservatism over personality cults.
I can only imagine what Barry Goldwater would say about Trump if he were still alive. You wouldn’t be happy.
BTW, in terms of tax to GDP ratio (which is a reasonable measure of tax burden), the US doesn’t even make the top 20.
https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-germany.pdf
More detailed data:
https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm
I know that and said as much in my post. But in terms of actual amount of taxes collected, the US is far and away number one. Again, it depends on how you define “most”. I don’t think to define “most” as meaning “we pay the most taxes” is unreasonable. In fact, it is more reasonable than defining it by percent of GNP. Percent of GNP implies that you owe the government some magic percentage of your income no matter how wealthy you are. I would say it is just the opposite. If you are a rich country, a government should be able to provide the necessary functions and services with a lower percentage of the nation’s wealth.
As a gross number, that might be a wee bit tilted by population numbers. An honest appraisal of tax burden needs to normalize, either by population or GDP.
Yes, the more people you have, the more government should cost. But, there is an economy of scale to it. The cost per person should go down as your population gets bigger. And there is also a proper ceiling to it. So the richer your country is, the less percentage of GNP is should cost you to run your government.
To put it in simple terms, you ought to be able to govern anything without going bankrupt with five or six trillion dollars in tax revenue the country pays. So, I do not think it is wrong to say Americans are the most taxed people on earth.
Only one I can think of that falls into that category would be Ben Shapiro.
I can think of several more of actual consequence (e.g., Amash, Paul, Flake, Massie…), but for me principles >>> principals, so the subject is somewhat uninteresting.
Personality cultists have a different view.
I would be curious to meet these people because I don’t see them. What I see is people who use their “principles’ as an excuse for cowardice and rationalization for self-interest. If your principles always give you the right answer, you are a fanatic. If your principles only require other people to sacrifice and never you, they are not principles but rationalizations. I guess where you see “principled people”, I see cowards, simple minded fanatics, and craven self-interest.
I always laugh at adults who run around talking about how “principled” they are, like that, makes them smart or impressive. Any idiot can start with a set of assumptions and then reason out a set of moral principles from them. That is the easy part. The hard part is living in the real world and understanding the limits of those principles and balancing the need to see that with the temptation to not have principles. These morons skip the hard part and never matured past being an earnest high school student, yet think they are sophisticated people.
Perhaps you do see them, but are unable to recognize people who operate off principle. It’s a very different mindset, and just as, admittedly, I can’t understand personality cultists, perhaps the opposite is also true.
It is not a different mindset. It is an immature mindset. Anyone who claims that they “operate on principles” is lying to themselves and living in a fantasy morality. Principles are necessary and living in a fantasy morality where there is always a right and a wrong decision to make and you are never required to make a moral sacrifice is a necessary stage of life. It allows you to work out what you think the ideal is before wading into the messy world. If life hits you in the face from the start, you risk never having any principles or believing in an ideal.
Part of growing up is moving beyond fantasy morality into real morality. And that means understanding that no set of principles answers every question and that few questions are really black and white and even when they are you likely don’t have the information to see them that way. I see the people you speak of as the moral and intellectual adolescents they are. And no, I am not impressed.
There’s a huge difference between a naive view of morality and holding your principles higher than getting your pony . The ends don’t justify the means, no matter how many paragraphs you write saying that they do.
Everyone holds their principles higher than getting their pony. If they didn’t, there would be no such thing as a rationalization. But in the end, talk is cheap. I respect people who hold to their principles when doing so requires sacrifice on their part or if it doesn’t they own up to the cost of them doing so. What I don’t respect is people who use their principles as a way to avoid moral dilemmas and avoid responsibility. Time and again, people walk away from responsibility and making a choice because the world didn’t offer them a choice that fits with their principles. In those cases, they are just using their principles as an excuse for cowardice.
Speaking of sad cultists…
Nothing I said here has anything to do with Trump or current politics. Yet, you somehow think it does. But I am the cultist obsessed with Trump? Is that your final answer?
Because this thread didn’t some how start with you freaking out about a Never Trump conservative. Nope. Nothing to see here. Move along.
I didn’t freak out, I said his points were stupid. If you think they are smart, then tell me why. What exactly do you think you are accomplishing by name calling? Moreover, even you don’t believe what you are saying. You don’t like my opinions and that is your right. Maybe you are right not to like them. But, I am not a cultist and you know it. The fact that you resort to claiming I am one is just you admitting that you really can’t articulate why what I said was wrong but still don’t like it. Get back to me when you have something reasonable to say.
Isn’t there another way to look at it, John? When you are on a huge stage, like some of the dudes we are talking about, and you have almost zero chance in hell of accomplishing your goals, isn’t a vocal, principled stand a smart play? Rand is gonna fail with the AUMF, but it will be hard for the shitheads who are avoiding it to answer for their silence at election time.
I understand what you are saying, but I think so much of politics is theater, it’s important to have at least a few principled voices.
That’s why I didn’t get Gary Johnson. He knew there was no way he was going to win. So why water down the message?
Potato,
That is what I never understood that either. What is the purpose of a third party? If it is not to win, which Johnson wasn’t going to do, it is to push ideas and get the other public aware and thinking about them. And you can’t do that by trying to be some lighter version of either party. You do that by being true to your ideas. If you are not going to win and have the responsibility for leading that comes with that, you can be pure.
The point of Gary’s campaign was to get a high enough national percentage (%5?) to gain “major party” status. It was also to get the party on all 50 state ballots. It was trying to take advantage of what was going on with the R’s and D’s and open people’s eyes to another alternative. It’s the top-down approach to growing the party.
Mike S,
That is a fair point. I honestly don’t remember, did he get 5%?
He needed to make sure that he tanked heavily in the polls.
If he was doing well, then more people would be paying attention to how he was spending the donations he was getting this cycle. And he needed to not spend money, because he was intending to divert a bunch of it to pay back the FEC for “unqualified” spending that they had financed in the previous cycle. In other words, the FEC wanted some of that welfare back.
If he had actually energized people and become a phenomenon, the whole scheme would fall apart. If, on the other hand, he drove off any interest, then he’d be able to pay back the money he owed, and be free and clear.
And, I think the prediction I made back when Matt Welch and I mixed it up over the excessive Reason coverage of the LP; that they were squandering resources on something that would prove irrelevant and forgettable has proven quite true.
John; no he didn’t. Had to look up exact percentage, Wikipedia says 3.28%
The percentage needed varies by state.
For KY, 2%, which he got, gets the LP ballot access in EVERY race for the next 4 years without signature collection (actually, reduces the number of signatures needed to TWO, but the Rs and Ds need that too).
I don’t know if the state LP is going to blow it, but I want to see 100 state house LP candidates and 19 state senate candidates in 2018. Considering 1/3 or so of those are unopposed races currently, it could cause a lot of fun.
robc; yep. You are absolutely correct. But I was referring to the magical national percentage needed to be considered a major party and have access to the federal election funds. I think it’s 5%. To lazy (and I should be working) to look it up right now.
Im of the exact opposite opinion. Pragmatism is great, but it’s mere capitulation. Principles and their rational application are the only things that separate the quest for knowledge and truth from a power grab.
Pragmatism without principles is just cravenness. Principles without pragmatism is fanaticism. That is why life is so hard. If it was just a matter of living by your principles, the world would be a pretty easy place. It is not. First, the world is too complex and your information about it too flawed to understand what your “principles” demand in most cases. Second, even when you do understand, principles often make competing demands. Life requires moral sacrifice. Moral sacrifice is not giving up something. That is material sacrifice. Moral sacrifice is doing something that violates your morality because the alternatives are worse.
War is a great example of moral sacrifice. I guarantee you that if you told Harry Truman when he was a young man that he would some day order the incineration of two cities and hundreds of thousands of people he would have been horrified. To put it in modern parlance, incinerating people is not okay. Yet, Truman did just that because the alternative of doing nothing or invading Japan was even worse. And while he didn’t regret his decision, I have no doubt he went to his grave wishing he had never had to make it.
That is what real morality and real life look like. People who run around trumpeting their principles are living in a fantasy morality as a way to avoid the nasty truth of real morality and real responsibility.
Real morality in a leader would involve being one of the first men off the front of the DUKW as it slides up Omaha Beach, with his immediate family in close support.
Not necessarily. Not everyone can be the first guy on the beach. And everyone involved in a war, from the guy making the decisions to the guy pushing paper in the rear to the guy pulling the trigger shares in the moral responsibility of it. People who think they can avoid that by just enabling other people to do the dirty work of killing people are kidding themselves.
I’m not sure that leaders of nominally democratic societies are going to feel much moral responsibility for initiating a war. After all, *morally*, the entire nation (and if not that, at least the voters who put that administration in place) provide moral sanction.
Just how responsible for Iraq and Afghanistan do the members of Congress from 2001 feel? I have no idea, other than to strongly suspect that they don’t lose much sleep, and when they do, they comfort themselves with warm, snuggly platitudes that “everyone else” thought it was a good idea too.
John, the issue I have with your point is that it assumes that the moral philosophy of each person carrying out the war is focused on the best interests of the nation and the individual soldier (going to give each guy the best chance to survive while accomplishing the objectives, strategic and tactical). I would say that has been materially proven not to be the case, because REMFs are too busy politicking to give a damn about the grunts.
Trump is not a conservative. I don’t know that anyone seriously thinks he is. I get frustrated with intellectuals like Roberts because they make it too much about Trump and not about what his election has revealed. About how there really is only one party (called Washington DC). I mean, we all knew it, but it is good to have confirmation.
I don’t give a fuck about Trump. What I do care about is primarying the fuckers who had a chance to end a few wars, shrink the government and bolster a few liberties, but instead chose to fuck us harder.
The difference is trump is actually delivering far more than the true conservatives would ever actually do
By dismantling the federal bureaucracy and getting out of the Paris, cpp things
If any of those other GOP candidates won or the true cons they would have rationalized to stay in Paris
Trump is not a conservative.
Exactly. He’s not a liberal, either. Those would take a philosophy beyond relentless self-promotion.
Yes, but doesn’t that mean he would sign just about anything that makes him look good? You don’t think if the shitheads in Congress put forth Rand’s O-care plan, he wouldn’t sign it? If I truly wanted to make changes, Trump is exactly the kind of CEO I would want.
Yes, but doesn’t that mean he would sign just about anything that makes him look good?
Track record so far would indicate exactly that. The shitheads in congress aren’t going to pass Rand’s plan, nor his demands for revisiting AUMF. They’ll do their usual thing and pack bills with free ponies, and Trump will decide if signing them will be good or bad for his self-promotion and act accordingly.
Eh I am not really sure being a liberal or conservative is a good thing…or not being either is a bad.
Liberals and cons pols are self promoters so I don’t really get that point
Personally, I prefer being a libertarian. But that’s just me.
Eh I don’t really care how principled you are as a conservative when you never actually deliver anything conservative.
They wanted Hillary to win so they can squawk and complain about big gov but not actually do the walk. Hillary provides them cover
Where were the true cons prior to trump having an idea like tax reform and cuts?
Did they repeal Obamacare yet? Did they get rid of planned parenthood funding?
Hell trump proposed a basically break even budget with a bunch of cuts to federal agencies…congress says no and just does the more military thing
The same people who are all about “principles” and being “real conservatives” spent 8 years defending George Bush while he was launching the most Wilsonian progressive war the US has ever waged, having the federal government take over education, expanding Medicare, and giving us John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Their claims of purity ring a bit hollow.
Ya at this point I care more about results than talk.
Trump’s biggest plus side is cutting the federal agencies in terms of jobs and scope. Putting someone in who continually sued the EPA as director was yuge
The reality is that we live in a Republic where no one gets their way entirely. So if you will not accept half a loaf or make any real compromise, you need to join the church and get out of politics because that is not how politics in a republic work.
Yep. It is pretty clear the self described true cons aren’t actually interested in delivering results…they just want to be self righteous and complain about others
They have 3 branches there is no excuse for congress to drag their feet on what they campaigned on. Using trump tweets as an excuse is bs since they write legislation
No, they are not interested in delivering results because doing so requires making choices and accepting responsibility. And that is just not something they do. Responsibility is hard. Fantasizing about how the world will some day listen to your genius and give you the perfect choice is easy.
“State of emergency” = “Give us money, Washington”.
“So, let me get this straight. You want us to shovel a bunch of federal money onto your local problem. What do you plan to do with that money? Will it go toward a long term solution, like increasing the available supply of housing? I didn’t think so.”
“Do teacher pensions count?”
Ironically, the best thing to ensure a greater supply of housing would be to get rid of Federal money and all the strings that come with it. Section 8 does more to lock up housing stock than just about any other policy short of rent control and zoning.
Roberts’ characterization of left leaning journalists as “right thinking people”…
Yeah, I nearly spit my coffee on that gem.
They mean well Tundra. They are good people. Roberts went to college with them. His children go to the same schools. They are good people and not like all of those deplorables who live in places like Alabama and eat at Olive Gardens.
Well, Olive Garden is the culinary equivalent of Mussolini.
Good breadsticks, though.
They used to be good but then they changed the actual garlic butter for butter with garlic salt and now they are too salty and not garlicky enough.
That said they actually have some of the best pizza I’ve ever had and some of their soups are pretty good too
It’s good to hear her voice again.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
well, it is. i mean how often do you get the opportunity to hear the off-pitch almost-human shriek of a harpy? huh?? in case you haven’t noticed, they’re very rare.
I saw that and LuLD
It sure is good if I need to induce vomiting for some reason.
I was curious as to whether Hillary’s misogyny claims had any merit. So I looked at the states that were the six closest losses for Hillary (all less than 4% margin), and checked to see if any had ever elected a woman in a major statewide election (i.e. Gubernatorial election of election to US Senate).
Michigan – has elected a female governor, and has elected a female senator three times in a row (Debbie Stabenow).
Pennsylvania – no female governors or senators ever elected.
Wisconsin – 1 current senator is female (Tammy Baldwin)
Florida – elected a female senator before it was cool: Paula Hawkins (an evil RepubliKKKan) who was “the second woman ever elected to the Senate from the South and the first in the country ever elected to a full Senate term without a family connection”.
Arizona – four of their last six governors have been female. AZ is all about that Girl Power.
North Carolina – has elected a female governor and two female senators.
So, with the exception of Pennsylvania, these states had no problem pulling the lever for a stronk womyn in previous statewide elections. We rate Hillary’s claim of “misogyny” to be complete and utter bullshit.
Also interesting to note: Florida elects a stronk womyn before it was cool, and then hasn’t elected one to the senate or governorship since. One has to wonder if the culture Florida is importing – the machismo cultures of latinos and cubanos – has something to do with that.
Baldwin isn’t just stronk wymyn: she’s super-proggy and intersectional as well (LGBT). So no, Hillary, WI voters simply don’t like you all that much.
Woohoo! PA is the shitlord amongst shitlords! Suck it, Michigan.
I will note, however, that we unenlightened Pennsylvanians have elected corrupt self centered idiots to statewide office mostly because they had a vagina; take a look at Kathleen Kane.
“We rate Hillary’s claim of “misogyny” to be complete and utter bullshit.”
As is everything else that comes out of her mouth. She would lie if the truth served her better. Remember the two staffers complaining via email that she lies constantly and if she tells the same lie twice she actually believes it? They were in a quandary for what to do about it.
A question about those pidgin articles. When they quote someone, was the person quoted speaking in pidgin?
I’m guessing any quotes that weren’t in Pidgin are translated into it, just like the regular BBC translates quotes in other languages into English.
http://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Bay-Area-thunder-lightning-rain-storm-weather-SF-12189916.php
Because Zeus hates progressives?
Thor is pissed they think he is a woman.
Huh?
“Feels more like Mexico than Berkeley” sounds like a review someone would leave on a place that is neither Berkeley nor Mexico in the vein of “Berkeley is pretty Mexico, but this place was more so”
I’ll be back. Wife just requested Eggs Benedict. Yum.
While you’re in there, how’s about you make us all a sammich?
Breakfast euphemism, nice.
Fuck that shit, make her shakshuka.
At his age? Could be risky.
I fulfill her requests. Plus bacon. And ham.
Transy student says classmate targeted her for deportation
But, I thought you were unafraid?
Joking aside, the other kid does sound like a smarmy Alex Jones following asshole. Unfortunately he’s also associated with Rand in some way. That’s great PR for libertarians!
If you are living in a country illegally, you might want to keep your head down. I don’t know what to tell this person other than “thems the breaks”.
It’s sort of the equivalent of those “I Am A DREAMer” t-shirts that I’ve seen at some DACA protests. Doesn’t seem so smart to me to scream “I’m A Criminal and I Haven’t Been Arrested Yet!” at the top of your lungs, but maybe that’s just me.
I guess they learned nothing from the Jews who resisted Hitler by posting “#resist” placards on their storefronts and adopted the yellow star as a symbol of defiance.
They want to make symbolic gestures but then avoid the price that goes with that. If you want to stand up and make a public display against the government, great. But understand part of that is taking the consequences. In fact, taking the consequences and making the government look like a bad guy and feel bad is the whole point of nonviolent resistance. These people are so self-centered and spoiled they don’t understand that. It is as if MLK wrote the Letter from the Birmingham Jail complaining that the police had the nerve to arrest him.
Say what you want about InfoWars viewers, but at least they’re skeptical of government. Could you imagine how unbearable they would be if they worshipped the state like the BernieBros?
Are they anymore? Infowars kinda pivoted to state worship once The Don was elected.
InfoWars ATM is “We Like Trump, But We Hate Establishment Rs and Ds Because They Control Minds via Deep State”.
IOW, not super-principled, but way more open to libertarianism than most audiences. They even invited Austin Petersen to interview recently.
He’s not that kid that tried to knife a bunch of people on campus, was he?
Naw. That kid was crazy. This one seems like an edgelord douchebag
Transylvania University? I notice both those pictures were taken at night.
I went there my freshmen year. Cool, old (founded in 1780) liberal arts college right down town. Pretty conservative for such an environment. Too many art weirdos for my taste, tho
I hate these stupid fucking nickname programs made up by politicians and reporters. I thought “Dreamers” were the kids born here by illegal parents? Or are those still anchor babies? Whatever, she’s an illegal alien. Why not just get a student visa like everyone majoring in computer science?
Anchor babies are citizens, so the controversy there is what to do about their parents. “Dreamers” (fuck that) are kids brought here by their parents when they were, ostensibly, too young to have any say in the matter.
And if they are willing and able to serve in the military (nope, no other options, not college, nor other liberal bullshit causes), they should be fast tracked into citizenship.
Foederati didn’t work out so well.
That sounds like very bad policy.
No, “Dreamers” is a misnomer anyway. DACA – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was the thing Obama did and Trump has now …. phased out ? Put an expiration date on? It’s not really over yet, but six months it’s supposed to be. DREAM act is the similar Congressional bill about the same group of people, more or less, that did not pass under Obama and that’s why he did it on his own.
But, unlike many government programs DACA actually says what it should be on the tin: “Deferred Action”. Deferred. Not eternal. So my frustration/annoyance is those who took ZERO ACTION on their status while this was going on. The whole POINT was to get them to do something, and it looks like most of them did fuck-all. So my thought would be they should only reward those people who actually started the process, either applied for visas/residency or whatever,but anyone who’s an adult and did squat can go the fuck back. They don’t want to be a citizen anyway, and there are lots of people willing to actually do something about joining the US who deserve the spot more .
WTF? If I post pics of myself on Derpbook standing over a body with the status “I just killed dat foo!” I kind of only have myself to blame when the cops show up.
According to the article, she was brought here when she was two.
I get that, I’m saying that if you want to avoid deportation, you should probably not advertise the fact that you’re here illegally to the world. I sympathize with someone in her position, however, shit happens and currently, she’s deportable.
Garcia, 21, says she came to the United States with her parents when she was two. She grew up in St. Albans, W.Va.
Yet after 19 years, Garcia said in the video she posted, America still does not feel like a home to her.
There’s a simple solution to that, return to your country of citizenship. Why wouldn’t you if the US is so irredeemably racist and terrible?
“Deport me to a non-deplorable, loving western nation, like Sweden(!) or Germany, and do it now, slavers!”
I was about to post the same quote. I don’t think it means what she believes it means.
Sounds like she is saying she feels insecure about being here.
Rightfully so?
Yawn… so does every SJW.
America still does not feel like a home to her.
She’s kind of a trespasser, so I’m not too bothered by that.
And if America doesn’t feel like home to her at this point, I would say she’s done a shit job of assimilating, and I won’t miss her when she’s gone.
I thought “Transy” was going to be, well, you know… something else.
It gets called that around here because most of the people who graduate from there can’t spell “Transylvania.”
Tranny University. Sounds delightful.
Hail alma mater!
Hail to thee Tran U!
We’re fluid in gender
and body parts too!
/cues band
The wife and I watched the documentary Good American on Netflix last night. It’s a fascinating story that ties together 9/11 and the NSA Metadata program. It’s downright scary how much info the government has access to.
Help me out
Trump sends out dog whistles only racists can hear…but yet the alleged non racist liberal journos are able to point them out?
“If you can hear the dog-whistle, you’re a dog.”
“Dog whistle” is shorthand for “straw man.”
I guess I missed it when Trump *repeatedly* denounced Nazis, KKK, etc. unequivocally.
https://twitter.com/WilkowMajority/status/907919277298212864
Make up your own narrative
WTF??
“You’re fired.” If only. What a bunch of scum.
They can’t pass tax reform, repeal Obamacare or come up with a bill to raise the debt ceiling without letting the Democrats get everything they want. But they do have time for this. How far does your head have to be up your ass to think not doing all of those things and still doing this is a good idea?
But they do have time for this.
Well, its just another thing in the bucket of “Give Democrats everything they want”.
Honest to God, my contempt for the Repubs is just about to the level of my contempt for the Dems.
Evil or cowardly. Take your pick.
So, I’m not going to be reading Hillary’s book, obviously, but WTF is up with this paragraph? https://twitter.com/JamesHeartfield/status/907752206627213312
Projection, projection, projection…
I know there is such a thing as confirmation bias, but holy shit, how do your read 1984 and get THAT out of it?
Much of proggie propaganda is intended to discourage the outer party members from being willing to listen to our read non-goodthinkful arguments.
Man, Metallica’s singer has really aged poorly
All the replies are about how you need to get info from various locations not just alternative media. To support her. These are the same people who say you can only trust good scientists and reporters
The subtext is “otherwise STEVE SMITH will get you”
http://nypost.com/2017/09/11/gene-simmons-to-nycs-young-women-band-together-dont-go-anywhere-alone/
STEVE SMITH AVOID BIG APPLE. PERHAPS HIM FIND SOME FUN UPSTATE, IN WOODS.
Upstate, like Chappaqua?
That isn’t terrible advice.
Coming from Gene Simmons, it made me chuckle a bit.
“Mucho poon for me, not so-mucho for thee!”
I saw the irony, still not terrible advice.
No, very sensible actually.
It’s funny how having children -especially daughters- will change a man’s perspective on things. (myself included)
Dovetailing nicely with the OC article in the links:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4877408/Hepatitis-outbreak-San-Diego-fecal-matter-city.html
California turned into Calcutta so slowly I hardly noticed.
OMG! Public shitting!!!!!!!!
Entschuldigung?!
/German scat-pr0n producer
Some of you may remember what I wrote the other day about how these days the censors are coming after us. It was about how because social media (and technology) has made it possible to communicate like never before, it’s also made it possible to censor people like never before and that because of this, the censors have turned away from censoring things they can’t control easily (like television and movies) to thins they can control–like what individuals say to each other on campus, social media, etc.
Here’s further evidence of that.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/12/stifling-free-speech-one-pamela-geller-robert-spen/
We’re mostly libertarians, so there’s no need for me to make the usually obligatory statement that Pamela Geller is a shithead, right? We all know that shitheads have First Amendment rights, too.
We also know that private companies censoring speech, etc. is a First Amendment violation, since the First Amendment merely protects us from censorship by the government. That being said, the relationship between our legal rights (the First Amendment) and our natural rights (the right to free speech) is that our legal rights simply protect our natural rights from abuse by the government. Just because a private company isn’t violating someone’s legal rights, however, doesn’t mean they aren’t violating their natural right to free speech.
And just because the government, maybe, shouldn’t do anything about this doesn’t mean that Google search, PayPal, Pintrest, Google Adsense, YouTube, and Twitter aren’t all acting like shitheads in their treatment of Gellar. Maybe Gellar has good reason to file a lawsuit against them. I don’t know.
But I suspect there are any awful lot of people, out there, who are getting treated like Gellar–and no one ever hears about them because they don’t have as big a megaphone as Gellar does in the mainstream press. I also suspect that in the future, the voices that are heard in the public square are likely to be determined by the arbitrary decisions of . . . whomever. It may not always be executives at Google, Pintrest, PayPal and elsewhere. With the idea that “hate speech isn’t free speech” gaining currency in the younger generations, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the government step in eventually, and it might not even take Congress stepping in to do the heavy lifting of censoring the public square either. It only takes an upper court decision and the Supreme Court to decide not to hear a case, or they could decide that speech on social media platforms amounts to commerce, amirite?
Regardless, free expression isn’t likely to be about censoring Hollywood or the pr0n industry in the future anymore.
They’re coming for individuals.
It’s been happening for awhile, but lately it seems to be getting worse.
” Just because a private company isn’t violating someone’s legal rights, however, doesn’t mean they aren’t violating their natural right to free speech.”
I agree with that, but freedom of the press doesn’t mean someone else owes you a printer. The free market solution would be for someone to start a platform that allowed all speech was wasn’t illegal (eg. true threats). The thing is that Google, Facebook, Twitter, are bolstered by the government. Level the playing field, and I think the problem would be solved eventually.
I’d prefer to not see the government get involved it at all possible. The solution is to stop using Google, Twitter etc. and find alternatives; DuckDuckGo for example (which I already use exclusively). It’s been discussed on here previously that Leviathan companies that no one can imagine ever going away/losing market share are not invulnerable (see: Sears, Blockbuster, IBM etc.). The internet has made its chops being a place for the free and unfettered exchange of information. If these tech companies are going to choose sides and start putting sluices in that flow, other companies *will* step in to fill the demand. It’s only a matter of time.
But Kathy Young told us that Pamela Geller was a terrible poster child for free speech. No, I’m going to link it, but guess what site carried that article?
Salon?
*ducks*
I have never understood what makes Pam Geller a shithead. Is pointing out the truth about Jihadists wrong?
Meh. Some of her writings are a bit sensationalistic. If there’s a possibility someone has jihadist ties, Geller won’t hesitate to cite it as a certainty.
So, she’s about as much a shithead as most of the writers on the Before Site, just with a different agenda.
I think the first time I became aware of Geller was when she was posting in comments over at Hit & Run. This would have been circa 2004 or 2005.
She linked to her blog “Atlas Shrugs”, at the time, and it was like the worst thing I’d ever seen in my life. At the time, people were still arguing about the Iraq War, the Abu Ghraib photos, torture, warrantless wiretapping, the Patriot Act, the AUMF, holding American citizens without trial and without counsel, etc., etc., and I remember her position on all the Constitutional rights issues as being entirely anti-libertarian.
My memory of her from back then was that she was a scaremonger who was 100% committed to selling our constitutional rights short out of fear, and cranking the fear dial way up past 11. And that was back when making those arguments mattered. Yeah, that makes her a shithead in my book.
Standing up for our constitutional rights at such times–in the face of all those who were draping themselves in the flag and attacking our constitutional rights–is a big part of what I’m talking about when I call myself “patriotic”, “patriotic”, in that case, being the opposite of “shithead”.
youtube has demonetized all the little gun guy channels. NRA still unscathed apparently.
full30.com is competing to replace youtube for gun guys.
…this doesn’t mean that Google search, PayPal, Pintrest, Google Adsense, YouTube, and Twitter aren’t all acting like shitheads in their treatment of Gellar.
The answer needs to be more competition. I’m generally skeptical of anti-trust law, but if there’s a company out there that fits the definition of a monopoly, it’s Google.
so there’s no need for me to make the usually obligatory statement that Pamela Geller is a shithead, right?
To be sure, Ken. To. Be. Sure.
Yeah, everywhere else people seem to think that standing up for the First Amendment rights of shitheads means you support the shitheads.
I think the most appropriate condemnation of Gellar would not be that she’s a “shithead”, it’s that she’s an uncompromising, one-trick pony whose strident activism may be counterproductive, and is probably too inflammatory to be of value in framing policy.
In other words, she’s a special-interests activist that lots of people don’t like.
To be sure.
Well, the push-and-pull we’re seeing play out from is “Fuck Islam” from the one side and “Islam is totes awesome, you guys” from the other. My vote is for the former, but there is an open question of whether or not Gellar is help or hurting her own side.
“We also know that private companies censoring speech, etc. is [NOT] a First Amendment violation, since the First Amendment merely protects us from censorship by the government.”
I had a typo (missing “NOT” in there), but I hope my main idea is still getting through.
You guys drive me crazy sometimes. It isn’t supposed to be about whether Geller is a shithead; it’s supposed to be about new forms of censorship and where all this is headed.
I’m not sure Geller doesn’t have a case, here, Did these companies change the TOS on her–after she helped make them what they are today and before she invested that time and effort in their success? Putting something into the TOS doesn’t and shouldn’t necessarily make it unquestionable.
Geller may have a civil case against them–but for all I know she doesn’t. Regardless, we’re talking about the public sphere here and who gets to speak in it. Geller is presumably emblematic of other (who knows how many?) voices getting censored out of the public sphere by new media. Regardless of whether the government should regulate this, if that’s what’s happening–it sucks.
I suppose to a certain extent this is like the arguments about net neutrality–or at least how people perceive those issues. In the future, there is no guarantee that unpopular views will even be heard in the public sphere. People are crying about “net neutrality” while social media seems to be doing all the things they’re worried about by other means.
I’ve always found Facebook rather infantile in its essence. The idea that telling people what you like and don’t like is almost as important as telling everyone you know all about what you’re doing and why–as if they should care–is very much the mindset of a 20 year old college kid. That such a service (and other social media) are taking steps to protect this infantile society from things they don’t want to hear shouldn’t be surprising. But we should really take note of where this is going. This technology is not liberating. If you don’t accept the mindset of a 20 year old college kid who needs to be protected from scary thoughts, we may not have a voice in the future. If social media ends up controlling access to the public sphere, we all may end up sounding like 20 year old college kids who need to be protected.
Whether the government gets involved in setting the rules may be beside the point.
It isn’t supposed to be about whether Geller is a shithead
Then you probably shouldn’t have to-be-sured that she is.
Putting something into the TOS doesn’t and shouldn’t necessarily make it unquestionable.
Under ye olde contract of adhesion doctrine, most TOSes are utterly unenforcable.
There is an interesting theory to be developed out there – does suppressing or penalizing content based on political viewpoints amount to a conspiracy to deny civil rights, even when its done by the private sector? Under this theory, it might not matter what the TOS says, what matters is whether Google (or whoever) is using the TOS to selectively “edit” the information that they are a conduit for as a form of viewpoint discrimination.
Honestly, I thought implying that we don’t need to denounce Geller to stand up for the First Amendment meant that we could avoid the whole discussion of whether Geller is a shithead. The point was supposed to be that if we can’t get past that part of the discussion here, then where?
“There is an interesting theory to be developed out there – does suppressing or penalizing content based on political viewpoints amount to a conspiracy to deny civil rights, even when its done by the private sector?”
I suppose there’s the libertarian argument against public accommodation. Gays have a right to a wedding cake, but Geller doesn’t have a right to speak her mind on whatever social media network? I know all our rights aren’t spelled out in the Constitution, but wedding cakes aren’t in there and free speech is. But I don’t want to see public accommodation for ideology either.
Meanwhile, the future doesn’t auger well for individuals who express controversial views, and that’s probably bad news for individual libertarians.
I just googled “Geller Atlas Shrugs”. The first link is to the SPLC denunciation of Geller.
A cacophony of partisan struggle. Liberty for all. Justice for all. But not so much THANK DEMOCRATS anymore, I guess.
I would say that it’s one of those out-of-state voter fraud types, but she might be screaming “TEAM!” a little too hard to make it a successful run.
I wouldn’t go anywhere without Mr. Cuddles.
https://www.studyfinds.org/teddy-bears-stuffed-animals-adults/
Are these LaVeyan Satanists or theistic Satanists?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/13/planned-parenthood-teams-up-with-satanists-to-promote-abortion-in-missouri/
TW: Breitbart
You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God. But somehow, I suspect, this will all be blamed on atheists.
I don’t think Satanists believe in either.
It depends. LaVeyan Satanists are free-thinkers that use the idea of Satan metaphorically to define their beliefs about free-will and bending to no master. There is significant overlap between their philosophies and those of Occult-type organizations like Crowley’s OTO.
Theistic Satanists believe in the Biblical constructs, they just side with Satan instead of G-d.
Look, I’m an athiest (he says again), so I don’t believe in God, but you know, in my boudoir, I have this little four-legged ottoman with a cushion coveres in purple satin, so I know THAT exists.
Oh. Satan?
Nevermind.
Shitshow? I’ll show you a shitshow
A 26-year-old Nashville woman charged this week for the attempted killing of a homeless man was firing “warning shots” in self-defense, her father says.
Katie Layne Quackenbush, 26, of 45th Avenue North, was charged Monday night with attempted murder for the Aug. 26 shooting of 54-year-old Gerald Melton, who remains hospitalized at Vanderbilt University
Looking at photo- a solid “might”, death wish, and all.
With how crazy she is, she’s probably a tigress in the sack.
Quackenbush, an aspiring singer and songwriter who previously lived in Amarillo, Texas, has twice been accused of assaulting other women. One charge was dropped and the other is still pending in Texas.
Even those sexy, sexy dirty librarian glasses can’t overcome my dread of the crazy.
You’re into those Sly Stallone drooping eye thingy, eh?
That is the problem with carrying a gun. Once you pull it out, what are you going to do with it besides shooting someone? If the guy is armed, he is probably going to shoot you before you can get your gun out and all drawing your gun does is give him a legitimate self-defense claim for doing so. If he is not armed and the threat of shooting him doesn’t scare him away, what then? You can’t shoot an unarmed man without risking a murder charge. Maybe if he attacks you, but even then it is not always clear. To use deadly force you have to reasonably fear for your life. And if the guy isn’t armed, that can be a hard claim to make even if he does attack you.
The only time having a conceal and carry really helps you is if the guy has a knife. Then you can just shoot him and have an air tight self-defense claim, without the risk of being shot yourself.
“Once you pull it out”
That has like a 30% failure rate.
The only time having a conceal and carry really helps you is if the guy has a knife. Then you can just shoot him and have an air tight self-defense claim, without the risk of being shot yourself.
Thousands (at the very least) of reports of successful self defense by concealed carriers would dispute this notion. I get reports weekly from all over the country and nothing could be farther from the truth. Don’t be fooled because the media doesn’t report them since it goes against their narrative.
Massad Ayoob has also likely saved his own life on at least one occasion by drawing his gun without firing when two cars bracketed him in at an ATM.
*further from the truth
If you pull the gun and it scares the guy off, great. Understand that if it doesn’t and he isn’t armed, you have a real problem. I have no problem with people carrying weapons. I am an absolutist about the 2nd Amendment. I just don’t think carrying one is a simple as people think it is. I have this weird idea that you don’t pull out a gun unless you intend to use it. I really have never seen the point of waving one around. And while i have no problem with shooting someone, I do have a problem with going down for murder or even having to go to trial for such.
If he is armed and you aren’t then you have a much bigger problem. You’re voicing pure speculation that doesn’t hold up to reality. Here is an extremely small list of mostly successful concealed carry defense against armed attackers.
https://crimeresearch.org/2016/09/uber-driver-in-chicago-stops-mass-public-shooting/
Last year I had a report about a woman concealed carrying who had a gun held to her head by two thugs. With the gun to her head, she withdrew her sidearm, chambered a round, and killed them both. Training is a big deal in determining your effectiveness and most thugs don’t go through training.
I have this weird idea that you don’t pull out a gun unless you intend to use it. I really have never seen the point of waving one around.
“Waving one around” is not arguing in good faith. No one said that. If three supposedly unarmed guys advance on you, there is something to be said for withdrawing your firearm without immediately shooting but retaining the option too. As I said, Mayoob was able to defuse the situation without killing anyone, but could have in a split second if necessary.
And while i have no problem with shooting someone, I do have a problem with going down for murder or even having to go to trial for such.
Do you think people who shoot in self defense want to go trial? Such a person is facing imminent death and are choosing between being six feet under or a possible trial. As the saying goes, it’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
Understand that if it doesn’t and he isn’t armed, you have a real problem.
I would say he has a bigger problem. But I get your point. Its easier to make the claim that you reasonably feared, etc. if the other guy has a weapon.
Speak for yourself, citizen.
sin,
Fraternal Order of Police
Better judged by 12 than carried by 6 though right?
Someone who is unarmed can still be a deadly threat, depending on the circumstances. Take the example of a 5′-2″ 115# office worker being beaten or choked by an attacker who’s 6′-4″ and 250# – she won’t have any trouble articulating the ‘jeopardy’ portion of ‘ability, opportunity, Jeopardy’. The courts have, in general, been pretty willing to take these kinds of disparities into account.
Not drawing until you have no other alternative, is probably a good general plan.
Someone who is unarmed can still be a deadly threat,
-1 Trayvon Martin
In general, it’s considered to be very stupid to draw on someone who already has a gun drawn, but every situation is different, and there are plenty of examples where a motivated, legally armed good guy has done so, and the aggressor, while armed, has wimped out and effectively run away.
Remember back in your youth, when you finally stood up to that schoolyard bully, and he backed down? Well, that schoolyard bully is now that guy with the gun. There are no useful stats I’ve ever found, but anecdotally, most aggressors with guns are guys with very poor training, and they know it.
It’s not even necessarily a matter of poor training. I know of three separate cases in which an armed robber had someone at gunpoint, that someone pulled their own gun, and the robber, rather than firing, ran away.
In each case, the robber’s explanation was similar – he wasn’t willing to get into a gunfight over a wallet.
One piece of baseball news missed above:
Rhys Hoskins is the greatest player in the history of the game. Discuss.
Get back to me when he’s a 20+ game winning pitcher for multiple seasons, then sets the lifetime record for home runs.
And smokes 5 cigars a day and has the athletic physique of John Goodman
who?
Phillies rookie. 298/424/754 slash line. 16 HRs and 2.1 fWAR in 32 games (hit his 15th last night to be the fastest rookie in history to 15 HRs, and then hit another)
*Immediately pictures UnCiv’s face upon reading that*
._.
OK.
Uh, he’s a little young to start crowing the greatest of all time. He’s good, without a doubt, but you’ve got over a century to work with there.
One would think it would be easy to realize I’m being a bit hyperbolic here But there hasn’t been a lot to be excited about as a Phillies fan the last few years, and Hoskins is looking golden.
So he either suffers a career ending injury or the Phils decide to keep Joseph at 1st base and trade Hoskins for two established major league pitchers who then blow their arms out by next May 1st. Let’s hope if he’s the second coming of Mike Schmidt (greatest 3rd baseman of all times) the front office types spend their money on guys that can play ball, hit the cutoff man, and not stand there watching the outfielders when they should be tagging up.
“Thousands of people lined up outside the Barnes & Noble at Union Square in hopes of meeting their idol. Some slept outside the night before. Clare Hogenauer, an older, disabled Upper West Sider, told me she rented a downtown motel room nearby. “I didn’t want to take a chance,” she said.”
http://nypost.com/2017/09/12/hillary-clintons-book-signing-was-as-insufferable-as-youd-expect/
There really should be a question mark at the end of the title.
So they were paid by Soros then?
If he was doing well, then more people would be paying attention to how he was spending the donations he was getting this cycle. And he needed to not spend money, because he was intending to divert a bunch of it to pay back the FEC for “unqualified” spending that they had financed in the previous cycle. In other words, the FEC wanted some of that welfare back.
If he had actually energized people and become a phenomenon, the whole scheme would fall apart. If, on the other hand, he drove off any interest, then he’d be able to pay back the money he owed, and be free and clear.
I’ve seen that movie. It was called, “The Producers.”
If the LP nominates candidates who would sell out their own campaign over $300k of party indebtedness, it’s not worth spit.
Seriously, I don’t think this is the cause for Johnson’s disappointing campaign performance. The problem was that, for all his libertarian virtues as governor of NM, Gary Johnson was a poor LP candidate — especially the second time around. He focused his entire campaign on getting into debates that are essentially owned by the two main parties. It was always a losing bet, and an expensive bet that burnt up a lot of consulting and legal fees.
It gets better wiTh Hillary
https://mobile.twitter.com/NBCNews/status/907939943015575552
Well tough shit, you lost anyway!
Jeeezus. I could come home to my wife with two Armenian hookers, a broken monitor ankle monitor and a positive result for HIV and come up with better excuses.
I was tricked into it!
There was a flood!
So your ankle monitor is operational now?
Only one way to go under those circumstances.
Fuck you Bernie sanders. Insurance companies are a small part of the equation…if the hc costs were due to insurance companies why don’t folks pay out of pocket? Also please ignore Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rates and people who don’t have pay driving up price of premiums since hc providers have to make it up somewhere
https://mobile.twitter.com/kerpen/status/907949426806804481
Don’t forget regulatory compliance. It doesn’t take over 1500 pages to lay out free shit. The ACA imposed a host of new regulations on top of the onerous burden that HIPAA,HMO, and a bunch of other Federal and state laws already set up.
Don’t forget it gave the authority to just make it up as they go along too
I love it when the media talks about Trump “creating uncertainty” because he isn’t ordering the federal agencies to just make shit up so the ACA appears to be working like Obama was.
Always nice to run into some evidence that at least some conservative Republicans can be alright.
I think we’ll see Federal legalization in our lifetime (crosses fingers).
Probably. But, I can just imagine the heads popping if federal legalization is delivered by conservative Republicans.
In the current political axis, anything left of far right is generally really bad for libertarians. Horseshoe theory sometimes apply when talking about foreign policy, but besides that there’s almost nothing that libertarians can relate with the far left on.
The former is not like the other Chris. I don’t understand why liking a porn video is so bad unless you are a prude? I like Cruz even though it appears it wasn’t him better for it…he has lightened up
https://mobile.twitter.com/CillizzaCNN/status/907929727276642305
Watching porn != diddling your underage relative. The fact that this needs to be said is insane.
Yup. The fact that Cillizza think’s they’re comparable makes me wonder what Chris is doing at his family reunions.
Did Cruz make a video of himself having sex Chris? Lol
Anyway I don’t think Cruz actually did the liking there but if so he scored points for me being less of prude
Note the dishonesty of calling it a Ted Cruz porn video
Luís Dilu Galiente is the president of the building’s Committee for the Defence of the Revolution
*orders business cards*
“It says right there. Jefe. That’s me. Gimme your shit, you no good counterrevolutionary parasite.”
You’re not authorized to see these tweets.
Oh, boo hoo hoo. Woe is me.
the 9th circuit is run by loons
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/supreme-court-reinstates-trump-travel-bans-restrictions-on-refugees-1505258960
If the Republicans in Congress had any balls, they’d be reorganizing the circuits.
Wow I am starting to like Hillary now lol
https://mobile.twitter.com/foxnewspolitics/status/907976218934423557
She is concerned Benghazi hurt her politically
https://mobile.twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/907981065997955072
Lol
Did he get replaced by a pod person or something? I thought he was Hillary all the way. Or is he just being… truthful?
He is a lib but I think he and trump are pretty good friends. Trump is one of his followers or was
Followers on twitter
I’ve heard him sound reasonable 4 or 5 times in the last 6 months or so. It scares the hell out of me.
Well, I assume he is still an Arsenal fan and therefore worse than Hitler.
He has a history of not being a complete idiot, he just totally loses his shit when it comes to 2A so he’ll remain an idiot to me.
He’s many things, including quite an astute observer of social trends, when he needs to.
He’s just an asshole. It’s just funny when he’s an asshole to the right person.
Don’t make me like him.
Jeremy Clarkson’s brutal and public takedown of Piersy when the latter lost his job…was the harshest burn I’ve ever seen in print.
‘Twas glorious.
Even more from Hillary
https://mobile.twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/907979954834624512
Wow! Hillary seems to think the media is part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
The woman is totally detached from reality:
“We don’t control the media environment the same way the right does, it’s harder for our message to get out,” she said.
You might be too young to remember it, but that’s precisely what the ‘Vast Right Wing Conspiracy’ was claimed to be when Bill was POTUS.
The whole of the US has moved on, but for Hillary, it’s still 1998. And she’s still hurting over Hillarycare.
This is a generally stupid article, but at least it answers one question from yesterday.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/09/08/the-mail-just-implied-a-transgender-rapist-made-unwanted-sexual-advances-because-she-has-a-penis/
LOL
I thought the implication was that putting a man with a penis into women’s priz is not the right thing to do.
“putting a convicted rapist into a women’s priz is not the right thing to do”
FIFY.
That too.
Complaints about deadnaming are idiotic. If there is nothing wrong with a person being transgendered, then there is nothing in recognizing they once had a different name. Yes, I realize that people who transition are generally much happier if they “pass”, and calling someone by their old doesn’t help. But that doesn’t re-write history.
“The sports personality formerly known as Bruce Jenner”
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I had just never heard the term before. It has a comical sound to me, like they are talking about “the before time” in somber tones.
Mrs. Walker – Two Thumbs Up!
I hate to admit it but the red card was probably the right call. You don’t stick your cleated boot in an opponent’s face, even if it was clearly not intended. But their complete and total collapse after (and OK – before) that was a joke.
“Prof Tweets That He’d ‘Be OK if #BetsyDevos Was Sexually Assaulted’ ”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451259/college-professor-tweet-betsy-devos-sexually-assaulted-would-be-fine
Oh boy. The article links to a Soave article. The cocktail parties are paying dividends!
Poor Hillary, why won’t you people leave her alone and allow her to live quietly as a private citizen? Everybody knows that’s what she wants.
It is by now abundantly clear that Hillary Clinton no longer cares what the haters think.
After decades in the public eye and a brutal and humiliating 2016 election, it’s easy to see why. She’d been attacked relentlessly and often unfairly almost incessantly for 24 years before the election began, and as she got closer to the White House, the clamor increased. She would have been forgiven for thinking that her loss on Nov. 8 would quell the racket, but, as we’ve seen over the past 10 months, neither the 2016 primary nor the 2016 general election show any signs of wrapping up.
Those who loudly opposed Clinton in both of those races — including hard-left liberal supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) in the primary and staunch Trump conservatives in the general — have reacted to her new book tour with predictable disdain. And since Clinton is now largely unshackled from any electoral repercussions for that disdain, she’s taking the opportunity to say things that have not been okayed by any pollsters.
This is, of course, followed by a bunch of gibberish about polls, and who sits where on the political spectrum.
Spoiler alert- there are no moderates in Trump’s America. Whatever.
WP;DR
Wapo complaining about unfair treatment of a candidate is ironic
Their editorial board was mainly a version of trump is hitler every week
Why is this under their news section? It is pure opinion
Shows any signs of wrapping up? Maybe because Hillary writes a book almost a year later making excuses about why she lost blaming the media, to Benghazi to comey to misogyny to sanders to Russia
I can’t wait until she writes a book about the failure of her book.
It was the failure of the readers, you despicable idiot!
You misspelled “deplorable”.
Or a coffee book table about coffee tables.
Dammit
“Clearly, the content of my book was just too deep, too complex, for regular Americans to grasp. I blame my ghostwriter, of course.”
LOL
It practically writes itself.
Onion’s gotcha covered.
I’m not about to read her little screed, but do any of you who couldn’t resist know if she ever mentions calling many of Trump’s supporters “deplorables” as one of the most significant mistakes she made? I know she believes they were deplorables but for God’s sake woman haven’t you been in politics long enough to know when to keep your mouth shut?
Anyone else hear this?
Red Cross throwing away supplies in Houston because they “can get more for Florida?”
It’s on Facebook so it must be true.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NBCNews/status/907986923335163904
Lol
How could you resist the follow-up:
HIllary: The more professionally successful a woman becomes, the less likable she is.
Savannah Guthrie: Hillary, would you say that I’m professionally successful?
Hillary: Uh, of course you are.
Savannah: Do you think I’m unlikable?
Hillary: You’re likable enough, Savannah ….
boom chicka wow wow?
Nah, that was that sick burn on Hillary by Obama in the 2008 primaries, when he butted into one of the (in hindsight, rather insightful) question posed to Hillary by the New Hampshire moderator, whether she had sufficient personal appeal.
*Huma cries into her cereal as she comes to the realization that her master has taken on a new host*
Haha, does the shit make the flies, or are the flies attracted to the shit?
Love “Matthew” fem-splaining to everyone else.
That must mean Oprah Winfrey is the most hated woman on the planet, right?
For 25+ years Bill has been telling her without words that she is repulsive and she STILL. DOESN’T. GET. IT.
Red Cross throwing away supplies in Houston
That’s simply not credible. They’d find a way to monetize that stuff.
And that is why I did not hesitate to tell the cashier at Safeway that I did not want to donate $1 to the Red Cross last night. She looked at me like I was about to drown puppies in the beer I purchased.
Tyler Cowen contemplates single payer.
Single-payer systems can work for yet another reason: If a citizenry consumes much less health care, and it doesn’t damage patient outcomes so much. Patient queuing isn’t a disaster if people who really need treatment get priority, as is the case in the better-run single-payer systems. In other words, single payer has to be sold as a way of getting us all to cut back on the consumption of medical resources. Unfortunately, the Medicare for All movement is more about easing everyone’s access and boosting the usage of health-care resources, a typically American approach.
Assume a can opener.
He quite rightly points out the lack of incentives for the overwhelming majority of people with private insurance (most likely provided by their employers, which he doesn’t really mention) to jump into a government system.
gonna need a citation on that bub.
I suppose something above catastrophic is technically better.
And how do we make that happen, pray tell?
Liverpool Care Pathway for when the beneficiary is an actuarial liability.
Get with the program, dude.
Ask Charlie Gard’s parents.
We make it illegal to be sick, DUH!
–“as is the case in the better-run single-payer systems”–
And which one is that?
I mean there exactly 3 first world health care systems which are single payer.
England is fully socialized which means it is both single payer and single provider. Canada and Taiwan both have Single Payer and that is it. Every other major economy on the planet has some form of social welfare system where health care payments are handled by a mix of public and private entities
You’re ignoring the pillar of healthcare superiority that is Cuba.
Lol I did say major economy, Cuba is way too poor to qualify and I really don’t feel like researching the health care systems of some 150 minor countries
Cuba’s notable if only for the sole reason that irrespective of the quality of their healthcare, they trade medical services for foreign exchange by sending their doctors to other failed regimes.
Maybe Cuban socialized medicine is so effective that they have an oversupply of doctors.
I know, I was just joking.
*checks wait time at Carl T. Hayden VAMC*
6 business days to see a Primary Care Physician, nearly 14 for a Specialist. Whatever dude.
Single-payer = Denial Of Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPHz4fGuIM
watch this movie trailer for Trophy about big game trophy hunting and conservation for the rhino horn farmer’s solution to black market unintended consequences.
and of course the lulz from the anti-hunting activists at the end.
“we’re going to put an end to this”
by “we” i’m assuming she means the human race, and by “this” i’m assuming she means the existence of elephants, rhinos, lions, tigers, grizzlies, and any other large game.
What a lot of these people miss is that, absent trophy hunting or horn farming, rhinos are a pest for the people who live near them. They destroy crops.
Big shocker. Animals go for easy source of food, don’t worry about trampling other crops. If you don’t control their populations, and keep them away from the farmers, the farmers will either pay poachers to eliminate them, pay the government officials to look the other way, or kill them themselves.
As a rancher out west told me (in regards to wolves): Shoot, Shovel & Shutup
Totally off-topic (as though that matters. Heh)
Windows 10 users who recently had a ‘forced update’ (in my case, this morning).
Microsoft seems to have reset almost all of your privacy settings – when I ran my privacy tool today, I had to go switch off about 160 settings again. So be warned, and go get a VPN.
I wonder if that forced update was to fix the blutooth exploit published yesterday?
I use Windows on my Mac once in a while and it’s like an hour of updates every. single. time I boot it up. That and “you must reboot NOW” is just maddening.
I will be clinging to 7 for as long as possible.
Same.
ugh, is that what that was? It couldn’t find my DESKTOP file on first boot up this morning. Luckily another restart fixed it, but it was definitely a moment of WTF DID YOU DO NOW FUCKERS. so yeah, thanks for the warning.
But I’d bet Rasilio is right and it’s related to the Bluetooth thing. They don’t tend to force updates like that (I’m not saying they don’t nag you to death on other updates, cuz they do, but that one was a no-choice, no-delay update) unless it’s a security issue.
Microsoft sent out something about that three weeks ago – I think they actually reset some of the privacy settings at that time and even hyperlinked to the privacy settings so you could revisit them.
I don’t like built-in wifi for just this reason, too easy to forget that you have it on. I use a USB wifi adapter and disconnect it every time I am not using the computer. Always-connected-to-the-internet devices are the devil’s playground.
I worked my company laptop over so it’s bound to a specific portable hotspot I was issued. I put on an always-on VPN service, and disabled bluetooth, NFC, and all the external ports other than 2 USB ports. Reset the kernel so it can’t connect to the corporate network and tweaked some shit, ditched the company firewall software and put kaspersky on there. I do, however, use Windows 10 Privacy very aggressively. Everything I use is run with 2FA security if I can.
About 5 months ago they had to take the whole wifi/tablet/laptop infrastructure offline. Except for mine. Smugs all the way home, that day.
Had some resistance from the boss up until then. He thought I was trying to avoid surveillance, and was kinda shocked when I told him he was right – I was, and am. That was the whole point.
watch this movie trailer for Trophy about big game trophy hunting and conservation for the rhino horn farmer’s solution to black market unintended consequences.
I had an economics professor at Idaho who spent a fair amount of time on the difference between Kenyan and Rhodesian wildlife policies. It was quite the eye-opener for me.
Kenya- elephant poaching was rampant, the herd was shrinking precipitously.
Rhodesia- rhinos were flourishing.
After a particularly harrowing couple of hours videogaming last night, I can confirm that like Rhodesia, Kyrat has got the wildlife policies ‘right’.
Shame about the oppressive police state though.
Private property is evil. Also Rhodesia was a cesspit of racist shitlordism. If a few elephants have to die, so be it.
they can be a profitable commodity or they can go extinct. choose one.
Hillary, voxplained
“I was called a ‘Rorschach test’ for the American public,” she writes. “I was being labeled and categorized because of my positions and mistakes, and also because I had been turned into a symbol for women of my generation. That’s why everything I said or did — and even what I wore — became a hot button for debate.”
“You people are obsessed with me. And stop calling me a narcissist.”
please please please keep talking. stay in the public eye for the next two to three years. please please please don’t shut up.
At the very least, don’t hang up.
What is she trying to accomplish at this point? Her career as a politician is over, but she’s got more money than Croesus; why not just cut the losses and go relax?
Money doesn’t necessarily get you power, and power is the ultimate feeder for her vanity.
This. Also, I assume she is desperately trying to bolster her “legacy.”
The plot of land they bought for the Clinton Library has the slab laid for a duplex.
It’s a simplex at the moment, and they have to put something on the northern half of the slab up by David Terry Lake (which I’d expect would be renamed if Hillary’s Hubris ever got built).
I don’t know her true motivations, but I’m inclined to agree with MikeS. I think she’s been chasing her “legacy” since the beginning of her career and can’t either let it go or find a more productive direction to channel it.
All that time off that she had to contemplate and consider her approach when she re-engaged the public has really paid off.
I was being labeled and categorized because of my positions and mistakes
Isn’t that the way its supposed to work?
and also because I had been turned into a symbol for women of my generation
So, other than being labelled and categorized as a symbol for women, etc., what labels and categories did that result in?
That’s why everything I said or did — and even what I wore — became a hot button for debate
So, people are criticizing Melania Trump for what she wears. Is that because she has been turned into a symbol, etc.?
Hillary seems to be hitting the sweet spot of incoherence and narcissism here.
To be fair, when a crypto-totalitarian wears a Mao suit, it’s too ironic to not mention.
Reminds me of:
Mr. Burns: This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That’s democracy for you.
Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.
Also John Kerry, who like Hillary seemed to be supremely annoyed that he had to actually campaign for office.