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There are just too many articles today.
I’m over stimulated.
You cry because there is an abundance of riches? There are time lines that would beg for either Sug OR Pengie — and we get both. My cellars are still groaning with tuns of prog tears.
You may want to invest in stronger scaffolding then.
This is the best Christmas ever.
You sound like a Bernie Bro
Are you running out of morally suspect links to post?
Why is everyone being so mean to Hunter Biden? What did he ever do to you?
He once bit my sister.
Hunter Biden is a moose?
Honestly I’m surprised:
https://youtu.be/fg_CXfJtySs
Interestingly enough, an intrepid “reporter” asked the same thing.
https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/1177243008703614977
“As this fellow circulates personal attacks on a candidates child, remember he’s paid by @NBC and @MSNBC”
“Won’t somebody think of the 49 year-old child!”
– screamed the corporate propagandist
Why did the sexual deviant love hummus so much?
The chick peas.
I don’t get it.
What’s the difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea?
I wouldn’t pay $200 to have a garbanzo bean on my face.
Watersports…
I still don’t get it.
Secret Nazis can’t be impeached.
Tell that to the Nuremberg tribunal!
/Shifty Shiff
Is…is that tweet real. I just can’t tell what is real anymore.
Whistle-blower sensationally accuses White House of covering up Donald Trump’s call to Ukraine leader by filing transcript on a SECRET SERVER used for ‘covert action’ as bombshell complaint accusing president of abuse of power is published
I am shocked Rudy Giuliani could be involved in any foreign shenanigans!
Um…I’m not a fan of artificial sweeteners.
You mean broken linx?
The link is stored on a secret server too.
Designed by John Bolton,
Bravo!
SugarFree posts deleted scenes from Spartacus, Penguin posts Bolton on Ice, damn it I was running behind this morning and barely saw the links. Y’all are making my soul bleed.
John Bolton’s Mustache will dine on Russki blood!
There’s tusks in them thar wiskers!
Remember this phrase when pondering all impeachment news:
If at first you don’t succeed, keep in sucking ’till you do succeed.
Okay, I’ve got three tabs going for continuing comment threads and refreshing one now causes all three to clear new comments.
You beat out Nikki the other night, but today clearly moves SF into position as the worst!
There can be only one.
You should get to contributer status. Being able to use the comments view on the dashboard, even without edit rights, makes it easier to follow multiple threads.
I do that sometimes when I have to search, but today my brain is cotton and it didn’t even occur to me. Thanks!
So that’s what that does, Thanks UCS!
Now if only I could focus. I’m not doing well today.
You are not supposed to tell the plebes of our secret powers. Only when they go through the Rite of Submission will they be worthy to know such things even exist.
No one told me it was a secret. Are there other rules I wasn’t informed of?
If we told you, they’d hardly be secret now would they?
Of course they would.
Plebe? I have the special powers, I can summon Tall Cans from thin air……
Libertarians my ass.
High school teacher had sex with 14-year-old boy for months: feds
This may be my favorite of these stories. She is a little older and the mugshot doesn’t do her any favors but…hubba-hubba.
That one is less baffling than the ones where the teacher is a 25 y/o smoke show.
In a way this is still rape because 14 year old boys would have sex with a vaguely woman shaped tree stump.
Hot.
High school teacher had sex with 14-year-old boy for months: feds
Damn, if the 14-year old can keep going for months without stopping, he’s got a great career ahead of him in adult cinema.
Especially if he went for more than 12 months and still stayed 14!
Her name is only slightly modified from child molester!
Months? Kids that age usually only last a few seconds. And after 4 hours she should have taken him to a doctor.
OMWC hard at work.
She’s WAAAYY to old for OMWC…..
@Tonio
Re-sent email. If that doesn’t work, and you’re on Twitter, DM me. @MoriahJovan
Thy name is the wind!
One of the reasons I love Agile Cyborg so much is that he welcomed me so warmly and rhapsodized over my name quite a few times, reminiscing over a beloved ancient computer game. He was even normie-coherent about it.
My daughter adores that song. She did some theater when she was very young and was into musicals. We used to (actually still do) backyard movie nights in the summer. I think she was 8 or 9 when we first watched Cat Ballou, and she loved it. When I said there was a Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin musical she called me a liar. We watched this and she was floored. She made me watch White Christmas, and I was pleasantly surprised.
She’s 15 now and we watch Young Frankenstein or McClintock at least once a month with the family. I love that she digs the old movies.
Damn! I always thought that song was from ‘Oklahoma!’, not ‘Paint your Wagon’??
I saw the two of those in college as part of the weekly film studies program the English department ran, though.
Sorry, saw those two within weeks of each other…
UCLA receives $20 million to establish UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute
lol just read “Lord of the Flies,” because that’s society, silly dorks.
My guess is it will focus on kindness and inclusion with the exception of one particular demographic……..
I’m in the wrong line of work.
I’m trying to understand what is and isn’t acceptable for a politician to do, but I gotta say I’m having a hard time finding a consistent rule.
Storing all your official emails, including classified and SCI information, on a private, unsecured server in a bathroom? Acceptable
Using your own country’s intelligence services to spy on your political opponents? Acceptable
Pressuring a foreign leader to drop an investigation that could affect your relatives by threatening to withdraw foreign aid? Acceptable
Selectively releasing redacted documents to bolster your arguments? Acceptable
Communicating with foreigners while you are part of a Presidential transition team? Unacceptable
Asking another country to reveal to the public whatever it may know about your political opponents? Unacceptable
Asking a foreign leader to investigate your political opponents? Unacceptable
Selectively releasing redacted documents to bolster your arguments? Unacceptable
Silly kbolino. It’s not the acts that are acceptable or unacceptable, it’s the person who performed them that matters.
No, I’m sure the paragons of truth and virtue that are our media and political establishment would never do something so crass and transparently self-serving. Only Trump is like that.
It’s not that tough.
Being a Democrat? Acceptable
Not being a Democrat? Unacceptable.
dammit
Be a (D), don’t be an (R).
I doubt I could concoct the right search terms to find it and not some woke-fest but SNL did a video in prehistoric times (read: 2005 or so) about the two rules to avoid sexual harassment claims: 1. be attractive, 2. don’t be unattractive.
Fred Arminsen vs. Tom Brady.
Transcript
Nice! Thanks.
I would put it a little differently:
The rules for acceptable behavior by a politician:
(1) Be a (D).
(2) Don’t be a not-(D).
Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change?
lol
No. Next question.
It’s worth noting that the Neanderthals, who subsisted almost entirely on meat, were outcompeted by our omnivorous ancestors
Humans also outcompeted a bunch of herbivores, too.
It’s worth noting that the Neanderthals, who subsisted almost entirely on meat, were outcompeted by our omnivorous ancestors
Were they though? I’ve always heard that Neanderthals basically disappeared because they interbred out of existence.
That’s how we ended up with soulless redheads.
I had a beyond slider at food and wine. I liked it.
TRAITOR!
occasionally chews a beef burger to orient his palate, then spits it out and wipes his tongue with a napkin
Something, something, ends justify the means
https://youtu.be/QDk-xa1oBXw
Err… Isn’t that pretty much the definition of mating success?
Well done Sir.
“we can use the expanded brain that meat gave us to get us off of it.”
So our brains can shrink? That seems like a poor plan.
“you want to be a protein provider”.
Oh yeah.
Had an Impossible Whopper the other night. Not bad, the bun was actually stale.
It had 630 calories mostly from fat and carbohydrates. The regular Whopper has 660 calories mostly from fat and carbohydrates.
Yo, Pengie. Could you help out us folks who don’t read Russian very well since we can’t cut and paste the pic into a translator?
I’m thinking first word is “Orange…”
Also, well-done, bro.
Third word seems to be something about torpedoes.
It’s the noun adjunct (ie. an adjective made out of a noun) for “torpedo”.
Is that a new term since mid-80s grammar nazi books?
I had never heard the term either. It’s roughly like a gerund (I think) except that instead of a verb form becoming a noun, it’s a noun becoming an adjective.
Actually, thinking about it, I’m a bit off again. It looks like a noun adjunct stays the same as the original noun, which is why we have a lot of them in English (and some of them become compound words like snowman). These adjectives are derived from nouns in the sense that “polar” is derived from “pole”, with a suffix.
To put it another way, in English we would say “computer program”, with “computer” being a noun adjunct. In Russian they’d add a suffix to the noun and then the declined adjective endings, so you get “компьютерная программа” where the noun is “компьютер”.
Does that make more sense?
Yes, actually it does.
However, I think it does make a difference that though our nouns are default declined, we don’t actually learn that we decline our nouns or how.
OT or at least OT adjacent: I really really really hate “I am bartending.” I want “I am tending bar.” “Login” is a noun, “log in” is a verb. And so on.
OT OT: My only real weak spot of basic grammar is lay/lie/lain/laid.
OT OT OT: And try explaining that affect can be a noun and effect can be a verb.
OT OT OT OT: Subjunctive. ‘Nuff said.
Yeah, it’s hard to explain subjunctive in English when it’s only used in a couple stock phrases any more. As opposed to German where you’ll see it in every news article (less often in speech, but still very much alive).
Or this gem:
“My hands need washed.”
some thing orange torpedo?
some thing flesh tuxedo?
By that, I mean, we were taught that was called a compound noun. “Chicken” of “chicken soup” did not have its own label.
A compound noun is a noun phrase in which a noun serves as the head of the phrase and a noun adjunct is its adnominal dependent.
8th graders don’t need to get into Syntax 101 in order to write their paper on what they did over summer vacation.
I could diagram that just fine; I just didn’t know “noun adjacent” was a thing. Soup in the noun slot and chicken on a slanted line under soup.
My senior year of college, I took a diagramming class. It was…intense.
There a lot of concepts in what laymen call “grammar” that have “schoolboy” labels and linguist labels. Like if you say you broke your kneecap, we all know what that is, but a doctor is going to use the term “patella” on his chart.
Adjacent: In a former life I was a medical transcriptionist. That clarifies a lot of grammar.
Actually, I’ve made my living most of my life being a transcriptionist. Listening to how people talk, the rhythms of speech, having to figure out how to punctuate natural speech, is an unbelievably solid foundation for relaying tone and rhythm in dialogue.
My brother’s oncologist wrote “Patel, A.” on his chart.
@invisible
Does your brother own a motel now?
No, he bought the farm a few weeks ago.
I’m sorry to hear that.
8th graders don’t need to get into Syntax 101 in order to write their paper on what they did over summer vacation.
When I started with Russian my freshman year of college, one of the books we had to buy was English Grammar for Students of Russian (there were similar books for people taking German, French, and so on). I don’t remember how much the book in particular helped, but knowing about grammar from having already taken German and French in high school helped tremendously (specifically cases and declension).
Yes! When you study another language it helps to know grammar as you obtain the language (actually, we call it meta-language) to conceptualize the differences between your native language and the target language.
I didn’t know nouns were declined in English until I had to take Old English. Oh, hell, I didn’t know there was such a thing as declining nouns.
I don’t actually know why all those linguistics classes were wrapped up in a creative writing degree, but whatevs.
I was gonna guess some weird genitive plural whatnot. My русский is pretty limited to a couple books on my shelf.
Genitive singular of an adjective. Убийства and катера are both genitive singular nouns, of “murder” and “cutter” respectively.
What threw me at first was that the last three words are all possessives of one form or another (since English doesn’t have a full-fledged genitive case like German or Russian). I was trying to figure out what was pertaining to what. The first half is one discrete part, “murder implement”, while the second half is a second discrete part as well. “Cutter with torpedoes” might be a better way to translate it, although military jargon is not the sort of stuff you learn in standard-issue language classes so I could be off.
And welcome to Japanese – which like to do this… differently.
Y’know, I had my brush up with a foreign language with 1 year of high school French. So as a family 4 years later, we went to Europe and in France I tried, really really tried to speak French. I found out that people use numbers a lot more than one would have thought.
I also found out French speakers are super nice if you at least TRY. They’ll smile sweetly and speak English for you. Very polite.
Numbers are positively awful to learn and work with.
Japanese has different number systems for different things being counted and an awful 10,000 unit. So for example 1 million is expressed as “one thousand of 10,000”.
Isn’t a million 100 x 10000? :-p
And then there’s Indian English, which has “lakh” (100k if memory serves) and “crore” (10 million).
Yeah – my bad – was trying to write it out in way that made sense in English!
百万
hyaku + man. 100 10,000
I actually wanted to use the term “attributive adjective”, but in English that’s something different.
And wouldn’t adjectival verbs be participles?
My knowledge of linguistics and (non-English) grammar ain’t great.
I’m happy to be corrected, but my understanding is adjectival verbs in Japanese are essentially full blown verbs. You can actually inflect them just like a full blown verb.
Japanese equivalents of adjectives
Participles aren’t a linguistic universal. They exist in some language families, like I-E, but not in others, like Japonic or Sino-Tibetan. For example, in Thai, any adjective can function as an attributive verb, but because verbs aren’t conjugated in Thai, it would make no sense to call an adjective acting this way a “participle” because there is no morphological distinction between a verb and adjective.
And then there highly agglutinative languages where everything can be an affix and single words can contain more meaning than a run on sentence and syntax cries. Hungarian is brain breaking sometimes.
Hungarian is not an Indo-European language.
Of course that’s only a side note coming from someone who can’t speak anything but English. :/
You didn’t have to learn a foreign language to do your mission?
I’m aware, and it is almost as hard to learn for native English speakers as most artistic languages are. Seriously, any language where this: legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálataitokról can be a valid word is fucking weird. This language is my windmill.
I did not go on a mission. (Also, you don’t necessarily get called to do a foreign language mission.)
When I was that age (late 80s), a girl going on a mission was still kind of a stigma (it was really bad in the 70s). Girls only went on missions if they couldn’t get married by the time they graduated from college, or girls who couldn’t get into college and had no marriage prospects and didn’t know what to do after high school.
How do you say “tilt” in Hungarian, amirite?!
Hungarian is not a human language.
It was originally spoken by space aliens.
Caput Lupinum-
Rock on my brother!
Subtext: Ugly/fat girls.
The best translation for tilt would be bajvívás, probably; since tilt is being used in a slightly archaic way in the English translation of Quixote, a true translation would require finding the appropriate word for the jousting technique used in contemporary Hungarian, and now you’ve sent me down a rabbit hole.
Thanks, Mojeaux
Heh.
I think I see torpedo in there.
Ha. Google translate says Murder weapon, torpedo boats!
Thanks.
Orange is оранжевый, apparently. Chipperbot is correct tat gre third word is torpedo. I’ve given up on guessing the rest.
Murder weapon of a torpedo cutter (cutter as in the type of boat, so a cutter armed with torpedo tubes fired the weapon).
At least, I’m assuming this is some sort of weapon fired from a torpedo tube. If he’s trying to say that the weapon killed the people in a torpedo cutter, then he shouldn’t have used the word убийство.
Actually, that’s slightly off: орудие is a tool, implement, or ordnance; a weapon is оружие.
Катер is a much more common/generic Russian word than a cutter in English. I’d go with a boat.
Yeah, Wikipedia says “torpedo boat” is a specific type of boat in the navy. I wouldn’t have known in English exactly what sort of boat that is.
Tonio, I didn’t see your question at first. It’s bastardized Russian for “Murder weapon torpedo boat.” TedS is probably correct, he knows Russian far better than I do.
Or what he said right above.
The murder weapon of a torpedo boat!
I have a short break in an 8-hour meeting at work today.
Then I have a three-day weekend meeting with friends and probably drinking too much.
For those that expressed concern yesterday, I saw my brother last night. He starts a new job today. So he is in good shape until he looses this job for non-performance due to ongoing depression. And then we’ll start over.
BTDT. Kinda sorta in it right now.
Good luck to him, and you are a saint for understanding and helping him through.
Fact checking satire
The Bee continues it’s savage awesomeness. I stopped over and these are the first three headlines:
“Marionette Strings Clearly Visible During Greta Thunberg Testimony”
“Man Sure Is Glad He Switched From E-Cigs To Regular, Healthier Cigarettes”
“Democrats Introduce Debate Strategy Of Holding Up Small Child Whenever Their Positions Are Challenged”
They truly do God’s work
I wish I could find it, BUT I cannot, so bear with me. Meme going around FB:
“Commercial” touting new, single-use [comes in a box of 20], biodegradable vapes, made with organic materials [insert vid of tobacco harvester], biodegradable paper [insert vid of a cigarette].
Hilarious.
That’s great. It’s nice to know that Radhida Tlaib is predictably coming in hard from the statist top-rope:
https://reason.com/2019/09/24/vaping-rashida-tlaib-hearing-conspiracy/
By “conspiracy theorist”, she obviously meant “Jew”.
Well it is always (((them))) what dun it
Eventually this took me down this rabbit hole:
https://reason.com/2019/09/24/think-globally-shame-constantly-the-rise-of-greta-thunberg-environmentalism/#comments
And of course The Jacket has to start out by signalling that he’s not one-of-those-sorts-of people:
Not a bad article but damn you can be tiresome, Nick.
[citation needed]
And of course the inevitable equivocation at the end:
And the people who disagree with Thunberg aren’t “heartfelt”, but “deplorable”.
To be sure.
To Ted S: I guess it wouldn’t be TOS if the conservatives weren’t deplorable whereas the Progs are merely misguided.
Nick is too far up his own ass to realize that the world getting richer every day is precisely what the enviros are bitching about.
As much as I love the Bee, I wish they stuck a little closer to their original target audience. I love the Christian-based humor.
I am not saying they shouldn’t venture into other areas, they should just tone it back some.
https://babylonbee.com/news/saudi-arabia-closes-down-new-chick-fil-a-location-for-disappointing-lack-of-homophobia
This one hits at many areas.
LOL
Seriously, who here is writing articles for them?
I, too, wish Amy Grant would go back to where she came from.
Obligatory.
Music like that basically necessitates bands like Morbid Angel.
“Parents Allow 6-Year-Old Son To Begin Transitioning Into A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Per His Wishes”
“Pennywise Now Frightening Children With Presentation On Climate Change”
“Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Claimed AR-15s Are As Heavy As 10 Boxes. Fact Check: FALSE. They Are Actually As Heavy As Your Mom”
“Press Warns That Trump Is Actually A Wolf Coming To Devour The Village And This Time They Mean It”
“Homeless Man Rejects Charity After Searching Through Giver’s Tweet History”
these are all winners.
Oh wow. Beautiful.
Yeah… Poe’s law wins:
Vapers seek relief from nicotine addiction by turning to cigarettes
From the L. A. Times, 10 days ago (and I’ve linked it here before).
Good one, SF. Is CPRM’s next cartoon going to be a Yaoi version of this?
Oops. Wrong thread.
Too many people in too many different rooms, this confusion will not stand, man.
It will be if he knows what’s best.
Next challenge:
SF vs CPRM.
FIGHT!!!
Nah. SF knows having his stories illustrated will multiply their horror.
Trump was ‘last hope for white people,’ former N.J. police chief said, as cop who recorded him continues to testify
He seems nice.
It’s amazing to me how many people have become frothing at the mouth racists because they fear the loss of their government-issued, taxpayer-funded entitlements.
Hands off my Medicare, LIBTARD!
Everyone in that story sounds like a POS, but the headline just has to be about Trump.
/facepalm.
Or how many people have become pro-open (southern) border only
Who’s that?
Seriously, you know what I think about imaginary lines, and I’ve never heard of such an animal.
I don’t believe I mentioned you. Take ‘er down now
I always thought we shared the same views on immigration, so if I were referring to you, I’d be criticizing myself
No, I mean, are there really people who advocate for only the southern border to be open but other borders to be restricted or closed? I’ve never heard someone argue that outside of caricature by the opposing side.
That’s literally the only position anyone argues.
Let me know when you hear someone talking about visa wait times or reforming and streamlining the visa system. Or making it easier for those without relatives in the US to immigrate.
Even “sanctuary cities” do exactly nothing to protect legal immigrants in the US, because it doesn’t matter if they won’t hold you for ICE- it’s already on your record. And good luck getting a job in a white collar profession without a visa.
I talk to myself all the time. 🙂
I’m involved in such advocacy, so perhaps my perspective is a bit skewed.
“I’m involved in such advocacy, so perhaps my perspective is a bit skewed.”
So was I, at one time.
I became disillusioned because the rationale behind the work shifted rather dramatically a couple of years back.
I am speaking more of on the political level. I’ve seen suggestions about decriminalizing border crossings, but no discussion about reducing visa wait times which would solve the “problem” of illegal immigration.
I was working with ICIRR as a volunteer
No, I mean, are there really people who advocate for only the southern border to be open but other borders to be restricted or closed?
This is a correct description of the position held by the open border proponents. Not once have they mentioned abolishing even tourist visas for Russians, Ukrainians, Chinese, Nigerians, etc. On the contrary, numerous waves of sanctions imposed on Russia led to the closure of two Russian consulates in the US and a US consulate in St. Petersburg, which made crossing the non-southern border substantially more difficult for Russians. When did the open-border-reason types condemn the recent anti-Russian sanctions?
I support efforts to streamline immigration. Ideally there would be no quotas on immigration. Ideally we could provide green cards after performing a background search.
Instead we get sanctuary cities and decriminalizing border crossings which benefit a small sliver of immigrants and protects the jobs of white collar professionals, while disadvantaging low skill professions.
My open border position has mostly focused on eliminated H1B. I want to make it as easy as possible for anyone, whether Mexican, Russian, or Indian to **work** in the US. Path to citizenship is an entirely different issue (and I am not entirely opposed to ending birthright citizenship).
@robc: That’s my inclination as well. I do not consider myself a proponent of open borders (nor would anyone else) but I am in favor of making immigration easier. My issues lie with security–we should know who is entering the country–and spending–we need to know the real population when budgeting for domestic spending, including social welfare spending. Setting aside whether or not illegal immigrants represent a net gain or loss in revenue based on consumption taxes or whatever, the current situation is sort of like having a potluck dinner where all of a sudden uninvited people start showing up and hanging out in the living room. Maybe some of them aren’t eating, and maybe some of them brought beer, but assuming some of them are partaking you now no longer have a good idea of who’s having dinner and whether or not you’ve got enough rolls, if you’ll forgive the analogy.
I consider my position to be open border, as I (within reason) am okay with any coming into the country. The within reason is basic background checks, I don’t see any reason to let in terrorists or felons.
But, being here and becoming a citizen are too entirely separate issues and have nothing to do with borders.
My not-quite-as-open compromise position I call the “Purple Card”.
Anyone, no quotas or limits, who passes the basic background check can get one. It allows you to work in the US for up to 330 days. When you leave, you turn it in, and 30 days later you can start a new period.
So, basically, anyone can work in the US 11 out of 12 months. If they are Tech workers, they would probably just work remote the other month. Farm and construction work is generally seasonal, so no problem there either. I know it would cause some problems for some jobs, but it is a compromise solution.
The Purple Card, unlike the Green Card, is not on the citizenship path. Green Cards would still exist under current rules. H-1B would go away as unneeded.
The “More Conchita, less Sanjay” phenomenon seems more prevalent to me, but that may be a consequence of where someone lives. And may also be because people don’t think that is a bad position to hold and so they are more open about their cronyism. They are no less pushing a policy that advantages them to the disadvantage of others
Ok, I think I see what you mean now. There does seem to be a contingent, not sure how large it is though, that is decidedly warmer on immigration from the Americas than from Asia.
If you are a white collar professional, the existing immigration system ensures that the labor market for your job is tight. If you are a low skilled worker, the existing de facto “open (southern) border” position ensures that your labor market is flush.
Do you recall how apoplectic the corporate press became when the administration suggested that skill sets be an advantage in someone attaining a visa?
Pretty sure that contingency is pretty big
This contingent also trends liberal, so that may play a part in it getting downplayed. Also, disliking Asians could be seen as punching up (see also: Jews) so therefore justified in the woke worldview.
Now they might be “liberal”, but this is a bipartisan deal that everyone signed on with: cheap low skill labor and a heavily restricted white collar labor force.
I don’t want to ascribe malice to anyone, but I don’t doubt that some dislike Jews or Asians as much as this asshole cop hates brown people
I don’t know how much reluctance there is towards increased skilled labor immigration or white-collar immigration, but I would definitely say that immigration as an issue these days seems to be heavily conflated with illegal immigration from south of the border. I think that’s largely a political ploy to paint Trump as a racist and potentially a kind of ploy to generate a political power base in that population. It’s also a lot easier to point to a young, impoverished mother struggling to carry her small children as a sympathetic case than a well-fed, professionally-dressed, clean-cut young man with a laptop bag.
What sucks is that you see guys like this cop who are genuinely racist supporting Trump because the policies under his predecessor were racist too, just not in favor of white people. So Trump moving towards a more law-and-order approach, although not racist, is favored by racists who benefit from it. Because, duh, people are in favor of policies that benefit them.
Again, I have to say that I’ve never encountered someone in the wild that wants to restrict H1-Bs but also make it easier for low-skilled Latin American workers to enter.
Maybe I just don’t know enough citrus orchard owners.
Yeah, I’ve heard a ton of people talk about reducing visa wait times (you know where the majority of our immigration comes from). The citrus orchard line is cute, though. Because people in the Philippines are waiting upwards of ten years to work in citrus orchards.
Are there that many Canadians streaming south?
There are a fuck ton of immigrants that don’t border us who are waiting upwards of eleven years to receive a visa. And amazingly that accounts for the majority of our immigration. But, sure Canadians
You, ICE, and the Supreme Court may consider airports to be borders but normal people don’t. That having been said, I was half joking and further explanation on your part clarified what you meant.
If you’re an engineer and you live in India and want to immigrate to the US, even with family sponsors you’re waiting years before you get your green card. If you don’t have family in the US you’re going to be waiting a while.
Do you really think an engineer could illegally come to the US and receive employment in his field? Come on, now. White collar jobs require background checks. They’re not hiring you.
So you’re stuck in the system of waiting. Revising the visa system is an actual open border policy that would streamline the immigration system. Advocating for an open southern border is just pantomiming “open borders” for those sweet sweet virtue signal points
They say our politicians don’t represent the people but that’s only somewhat true. White collar workers vote, and it is unsurprising that so many policies seem geared towards their interests now. I’m dreading the day unionization and a labor mentality become common for office workers.
My last comment would better fit in the thread above.
For the original white nationalists here (Know Nothings, the KKK after Forrest) and in Europe (you know who else…?), this was definitely true. The purpose of the state was to protect and benefit the nation and the nation was the “right” people.
Agreed. I shouldn’t have distracted from this asshole cop
Richard Spencer agrees.
It’s New Jersey. They give up 75% of their income and then jockey for power in a vain attempt to get it back and then some.
And again, it’s New Jersey.
The Master Race seems a little lame.
I’m gonna keep shopping around.
I love these. Is it me, or could crooked Hunter be RDA as well?
Great work, BP!
Random drugged asshole? Possible.
*scratches chin*
Show me dem tiddies!
*lifts shirt*
MOOBS!
Trump worse than Hitler. Literally.
https://youtu.be/K-lZ0j0XNBA
Kids are dumb, what else is new?
Some of them seemed to not be overly brainwashed.
Awesome as always, but where meh tig bitties?
Look down. They usually don’t wander far.
Lol
I’m assuming he likes to mix it up to keep it from being too formulaic. Also, builds anticipation and demand, ie good showmanship.
Thanks, Tonio. Snopes rates your response is mostly true.
JB, Don’t worry, Q is still around.
🙂
Probably should have added that sometimes I don’t come up with good enough jokes, and sometimes it’s hard to find a ‘reporter’ with hands/arms easily manipulated to look like they’re holding a microphone.
Most of them have the décolletage to easily accommodate a mic.
Just a suggestion.
Yes, like Molly Ringwald putting on lipstick in The Breakfast Club.
No, that won’t work. BP uses hot chicks, or at the very least plain chicks.
*scratches chin*
H&H and SNP in the same day? That’s a speedball of entertainment!
I just checked, and incredibly, we still have our Family-Friendly certification.
Curses! Foiled again!
I don’t know what more we could do to lose it.
Goatse?
Erm…
SF: Challenge accepted!
Manson Family Friendly, for sure.
XENU COMIN’. Thanks BP for the comic and man, that SNP keeps getting away with everything, shucks.
Just did a little catching up on my lunch hour.
Man, what an utter train wreck this Ukraine phone call/whistleblower thing is. For the Dems and the DemOp Media, that is. Schiff had to claim that his fabricated quotes from the call were meant as parody. The whistleblower had zero first hand knowledge and based his complaint in part on media reports. All the major news outlets left out chunks of the transcript to create the appearance of a quid pro quo. it just goes on and on.
It looks a lot like this whole thing was a rerun of the FISA warrant fiasco and the startup of the Mueller investigation – make something up, leak it to the press, cite press reports as confirmation. The cherry on top is, wait for it, FusionGPS has fingerprints on this! Some their people and associates are involved.
The quotes were a parody, and a way to get them into the official record.
I didn’t read the whole transcript yet, but once I hit the part where it’s a “whistleblower” reporting things that the person heard other people say other people heard I tuned out. There’s nothing there. It’s ridiculous that this is even getting a minute’s attention.
Since I cant get it out of my head….
/sksksksk
/and I oop
“Can’t get it out of my head…”
Let this sink in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t79TwDS2dVA
Yes, that is the exact video I hear every time I see sksksksk and and I oop.
It’s a little like watching a train slam into a semi that’s stuck on a railroad track. It’s horrible and awful, but you just can’t look away…
I love the Anti-Hijab thing she’s got going on.
Just got back from the new club which has a foot switch-operated automatic clay thrower. Standing next to the thrower is cheating, but it didn’t dawn on me until after I had finished that the pedal cord was long enough that I could have moved a few yards away at least.
Anyway, CZ 1012: 25 trigger pulls, 25 booms, 25 hulls ejected and the next one reloaded (if any were left in the magazine). I might get an aftermarket pad if I’m going to do this seriously — it’s a pretty light gun.