“That ain’t shit.”
-Bill Laimbeer
Kansas-Kansas State ended in a brawl. Antonio Brown experiences the hardships of dealing with a moving company. A Coco-Osaka showdown is coming. And the NFL Draft will be held in a fountain.
Bournemouth stopped the bleeding against Brighton. Villa beat Watford. Southampton topped Palace. Everton drew with Newcastle (disproving my projection). Man City squeaked by Sheffield. And Chelski drew with Arsenal. More matches on tap today, and I hope Norwich continues the trend of bottom-dwellers having a good set of midweek fixtures. Ditto that for Burnley.
Philly personified.
Boston, NYI, Carolina, Philly, and Florida all won on the ice. Fortunately for fans in Minnesoooda and Detroit, their teams didn’t play. Because things aren’t looking too good there right now.
Sir Francis Bacon was born on this day. He shares it with Grand Prince of Moscow and Russia, Ivan The Great, legendary pirate William Kidd, romantic poet Lord Byron, infamous film director D.W. Griffith, bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, “the inventor of soul” Sam Cooke, TV’s Bill Bixby, underrated actor John Hurt, punk pioneer Malcolm McLaren, Steeeeeeve Perry, wrestler Tully Blanchard, NHL player Mike Bossy, Australian music legend Michael Hutchence, actress Diane Lane, (shouldn’t have been a) Bond girl Olivia D’Abo, and rap sidekick Jazzy Jeff.
Brain Busters assemble!
And with that out of the way, we move on to…the links!
After a marathon session, the Senate passes rules for the Trump impeachment circus trial. Cocaine Mitch gets what he wanted, the media decries that the House will have to proceed with only the evidence they once called “overwhelming and compelling”, and nobody involved gets a good night’s sleep.
“Fuck Adam Chiff and fuck the fucking Diaz brothers!”
Just in case you’re against the death penalty in all cases. I hope they cook this fucker. Sorry if you find that distasteful.
The US Supreme Court agrees to take a pretty important First Amendment case. Unfortunately the chance they will rule that no money should be spent by the state or federal government on education is nonexistent. But a man can dream, can’t he?
That Target manager some asshole tried to shame on social media is cashing in. I just hope that dickhead doing the “shaming” gets that non-working toothbrush display he wanted so badly.
“Trust us, it was an honest mistake”. Seriously, they’re just dunking on us now. They already let every person buried in a local cemetery cast a ballot. Or rather, they let someone cast a ballot on their behalf for whatever Dem happens to be on the ballot. This is totally unnecessary piling-on.
“Whistleblower”
I always wondered why Schiff was so keen on protecting the identity of the “whistleblower” when whistleblowers aren’t necessarily given anonymity. Perhaps this has something to do with it. I’m sure it was just a hypothetical intellectual exercise and there’s nothing to see here. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket.
The South will apparently not rise again. In fact, it doesn’t look like they’ll even get off the couch. I wonder what the methodology used to determine this was. Actually, I don’t. But I do wonder what the fuck the CDC is doing wasting taxpayer money on this kind of crap.
Just go ahead and put this on everything, California.
I’m curious how they’ll manage to print a Prop 65 warning on every single pill. I’m just kidding. They’ll probably just have it pulled off the shelves in the face of mounting contradictory evidence. But hey, “if it saves just one life”, right? (Hint: it will not save one life.)
See if you can make heads or tails of his story. If I’m reading this correctly, it sounds like the only person who didn’t fuck up here is the only one who ended up dead.
Go have a great day, friends. It’s raining here, so I’m homebound. But that’s fine by me. My back is killing me. Thank God I live in Texas and not California. I can take a Percocet. Or three.
(BREAKING NEWS AS I FINISH: Monty Python’s Terry Jones has died. Shit, that sucks.)
Warning: Impeachment Proceedings contain chemicals known to the state of California to cause stupidity.
I am glad that there is a California. Minnesoda has been a supplier of outbounds for decades. I only hope CA doesn’t figure out where they all come from and start sending them back.
Mexico, China, India…
“It’s not the hearings, but the President that causes cancer.”
-CA government spokesman
Par for the course with people that have gone off the deep end…
Pettifoggery
When Chief Justice John Roberts issued an extraordinary admonishment of Democrats and Republicans on the first day of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, he not only reminded speakers to maintain decorum but used a seldom-uttered word — pettifogging — to make his point.
Roberts had just listened to the impeachment managers and Trump’s legal team sharply criticize each other early Wednesday morning after House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, made the case for issuing a subpoena for former national security adviser John Bolton’s testimony.
Roberts said that kind of exchange was not appropriate and, providing a historical example, reminded the legal teams they they need to be on their best behavior.
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“I think it is appropriate for me to admonish both the House managers and the President’s counsel in equal terms to remember that they are addressing the world’s greatest deliberative body,” Roberts said. “One reason it has earned that title is because its members avoid speaking in a manner and using language that is not conducive to civil discourse.”
[insert ’70s sitcom laugh track]
In equal terms means Roberts just said nothing at all.
That’s where you decorate tiny cakes with a spritzer and powdered sugar, right?
I thought that’s where you sent mist into the underskirts of noblewomen.
WHAT WORD FOR WHEN STEVE SMITH SEND PENIS INTO UNDERSKIRTS OF NOBLEWOMEN? OH, THAT RIGHT, WORD IS RAPE.
It’s a Heartbreakers and Credence collaboration.
::polite applause::
“In a sign of partisan Trumpism, Roberts degrades House by calling Senate ‘worlds greatest deliberative body'”
-probably Salon or Slate
Civil discourse? From New York Democrats?
Laughable.
Part of the fun will be watching Roberts squirm and try to maintain order. He has no experience as a trial judge, and most of his pre-SCOTUS courtroom work was appellate. He’s already become peevish. Lulz await…
I am worried it will be like watching a train wreck with massive fatalities making it hard to laugh at this whole stupid process being run purely to try and keep people from finding out how corrupt and criminal the Obama administration was and how they planned to notch that criminality and corruption to a whole new level under Clinton by pretending the one that committed crimes is the bad orange man.
If the massive fatalities are congressional reputations why wouldn’t I point and laugh at the wreckage?
You know that this shit doesn’t cause these vampires any lasting harm, but that we the people will end up taking it up the ass somehow, right?
If it were policy I would agree with you, but this is internal congressional combat.
We are an unlilely impeachment conviction away from change in the present so the damage I see being done is to reputations of members of Congress and some spillover to the party.
If impeachment is dragged down to policy differences in the future we probably will have an issue with the bureaucracy running amok more, but I don’t see real change against that trend today.
I can translate, I speak Robertsian:
Democrats telling blatant lies = Bad
Republicans calling out blatant lies = equally Bad
*chuckle*
He’s afraid they’ll tear the mask off and everyone will see exactly what they all are.
He’s afraid his mask will come off.
“if it saves just one life”, right.
Easy, just put seat belts on the pills. Works for every other life saving before the fact event.
Or just outlaw the pills and let the other market solve the problem
Banning pills will not only reduce health care costs, it will really sock it to those price-gouging big pharma companies!
Ouch
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. for her recent remarks on the ills of the capitalist system during an event commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“AOC trying to explain economics … is sort of like watching a badger trying to explain calculus,” Shapiro said on “The Ben Shapiro Show,” Tuesday.
During the Monday event, Ocasio-Cortez attacked billionaires for “taking a billion dollars” “off the backs” of their employees, who she said were “undocumented people,” “black and brown people being paid under a living wage” and “single mothers.”
“No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars,” Ocasio-Cortez said during a discussion with author Ta-Nehisi Coates. “I’m not here to villainize and to say billionaires are inherently morally corrupt. … It’s to say that this system that we live in, life in capitalism always ends in billionaires.”
She addressed a hypothetical “widget” manufacturer to further demonstrate her point.
“You didn’t make those widgets, did you? Because you employed thousands of people and paid them less than a living wage to make those widgets for you,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “You didn’t make those widgets. You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern-day slave wages and in some cases real modern-day slavery.”
Fuck you and the widget you rode in on, Toots.
A business owner who sits on the couch soon finds themselves without a business.
But what would she know. I’m not even convinced she was a good bartender.
Congress people, on the other hand, can sell their product in many ways and there seems to be no shortage of willing buyers.
She’s not. Did you the pics from her wee fundraising event where she worked behind the bar? She holds the bottles by the body (rather than the neck) when pouring – that is an immediate tell that she doesn’t know how to work a bar.
Remember that she was bartending with a degree in economics from BU in her pocket. That alone should have told you both how shitty an economics program BU has and how inept this woman is at producing anything of value. And they elected her to a position of power where she can really do economic damage…
OK, now do socialism.
Hugo Chavez’s children are billionaires.
It seems to me that both produce billionaires, but it’s Socialism that does it the way Lexi thinks billions are earned, since capitalist billionaires end up enriching a lot more people along the way.
So, socialism results in one single billionaire?
Needs more inflation.
Under capitalism many do well, and some do bad, but some get rich, and some get stinking rich. Those that get stinking rich, because of the money, get to wield power. Under socialism only the powerful get rich, and the rest get kept in play by selling equality of misery or camps for those that object.
Gamboling in the gulags.
Widgets?
Did that remind anybody else of this classic exchange:
https://youtu.be/YlVDGmjz7eM
At work… but I’m gonna guess a movie with Kurt Vonnegut.
And a triple Lindy that wins the day!
Yep.
“Tape recorders? Are you kidding? The Japs will kill us on the labor costs!”
So she’s saying unions really didn’t build a middle class?
Government did that, DUH!
It’s like watching a jellyfish trying to steal second base.
Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining jellyfish.
But, if it were raining jellyfish, wouldn’t the appropriate response be to pee on your leg? Or is that just an old wives tale?
“(BREAKING NEWS AS I FINISH: Monty Python’s Terry Jones has died. Shit, that sucks.)”
Who’s playing the organ at his funeral?
A naked man, no doubt.
Onan.
Not THAT organ!
It is heartless to pun off Swissy.
In May 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas decided to not proceed with charges against the federal agent who fatally shot Valladares.
The victim’s family can rest easy knowing that at least the person who didn’t shoot their loved one is clear and free.
Wait..
You get the point.
“I don’t want your money as much as we want your power,” she said.
Sorcery. That’s how great fortunes are made.
According to the peddlers of marxist social justice nobody that gets rich does so without fucking over the couch potato class…
Did you see how Everton drew with Newcastle?
Up 2-0, they gave up goals in the 94th and 95th minute.
The game was total Everton domination for 93 minutes. This one is all on Ancelloti, questionable late substitutions.
This team has talent, but will not be top 6 until some serious paring of certain players takes place. There are big money, no brains players that need to go. They totally have the talent to do what you predicted, they are missing some element that will keep them from doing it.
My prediction would have been right if they’d held on in the last two matches they dominated but only got two points from.
So you failed to properly account for the “Everton way”.
When, in the last few years, have they successfully held on in matches they dominate? While this was especially brutal, it wasn’t without precedent.
This reminds me of an old argument I had about college football recruiting rankings. The year in question, there were 4 5-star QBs. Two of them were Xavier Lee and Rhett Bomar. The bad side of the argument went something like “Well, you cant account for head cases and thieves.” My argument was, “Yes, yes you can. To do it accurately, that is exactly what you have to account for.”
MIsses happen, but when you miss that bad, your process is wrong.
Your miss isn’t nearly that bad (and still could turn correct in the long run), but your failure is for a similar reason — looking only at athletic talent.
Shit, I forgot to add this steaming pile of shit to the links.
Enjoy.
You should have left it as “Shit, I forgot”
“son”
*sigh*
*checks clock*
*walks to the liquor cabinet *
At the risk of angering HM: The purpose of speech is communication. Pronouns used to aid in this by adding information. Now they do not.
As i tweeted last night on this subject:
@BobarianLMD
If you buy a 13 year old boy a sex toy, he’ll never leave his room again.
If you want a 30 year old still living in your basement, then by all means, go ahead.
Whenever I get a contractor to do some work on the house I feel ripped off… And I probably am. But it is so hard to find one I never know what else to do.
When in doubt, add a comma.
,,,,,,,,,””””’,,,,,,,’,’,’,’,
I don’t know what that means
Well you comma, they’re like chameleons — they come and go.
I don’t care about run on sentences, but you really ran some on there.
It is a short internet comment, I am sure it gets the point across.
No, that’s periods, not commas.
A run on period sounds awful.
I don’t rag on your fetishes.
This is getting bloody inappropriate, people.
Just go with the flow, people.
Earn your red wings, muh friend!
I’m shocked at how this thread has gone toxic so quickly.
Tee hee, I remember those pins being sold in the back of Soldier Of Fortune magazine.
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
You Protestants always glaring at the Catholics.
I protest that characterization.
TPTB always welcome Articles nailed to their door.
This is making me anemic.
Go on YouTube and learn how to do it yourself. Even with buying some tools and occasionally ripping out material you installed incorrectly, you’ll still save money.
But it’ll be really expensive when the house collapses on your head.
#WaterDamageKills
/looks at the current state of home improvement projects
Ehhh… not necessarily. My time has value too.
Yes changing a roof 12 meters from the ground is exactly what I can learn on youtube.
That’s the spirit. Just don’t fall off and you’ll be good.
My roof is steep, so no way I am doing it myself. But installing shingles really is pretty simple.
Roofing is simple. It is not easy. One of the best reasons to make money is so you can pay other people to do stoop labor for you.
^This.
Roofing sucks, even if you don’t have to worry about falling off.
Quality products cost more. Contractors bid the job, there are many unknowns at the time. You want the job done well, quickly and cheap. The reputable contractor
is working on the first part primarily.
Yeah but here most times it is expensive and not that good quality. The problem is most of the good construction workers left Romania as they get payed more in Germany or Dutchland
Really? Man, I always feel like I’m getting the better of them. Every time they quote me, I thank
Them for their time but I already have a quote that’s lower than theirs and they immediately drop their price. Then I tell them I’ll buy the materials instead of letting them include it in the price. And the materials are always less.
I am not good at bargaining
Then you shouldn’t feel ripped off.
Well that is precisely why I feel ripped off
At least wait and see if the roof holds up against the rain.
Point is I payed 2100 Lei for a 17 square meter roof, plus gutter and drainage. It took like 4 guys 3 and a half hours to do it. I think I over-payed by about 500 Lei
The problem is I will not know if it is a good hob until a torrential rain
You could climb up there with a hose…
That’s what she said….
That seems pretty reasonable to me. Particularly if the weather stays on the right side of the new roof.
Yeah, but where’s he going to get all those garlands of flowers?
Thank you. There was a lot of conversion that needed t be done to get some idea if that meant anything.
Is that $500 USD for a new roof? Please tell me my math is wrong.
Online Currency Converter says… $487.10
You got it impossibly cheap, Pie. Around here, you’d be looking at ten times that in many markets.
How many Romanian Big-Macs is that? Could be a cost-of-living effect.
Looks like ~210 Big Macs. Based on that index, ~$1,200. Still a good deal.
https://www.romania-insider.com/the-big-max-index-how-many-burgers-can-a-romanian-afford/
US Big Mac is twice the price as a Romanian Big Mac, so that’d still be a steal in the US for $1,000.
Well it is just a bit of roof over a sort of large balcony. And the no wood or structural thing was replaced, it was covered with some sort of cardboard that was waterproof and they just put metal sheets on top of that, and some additional metal pieces on the sides and the gutter and tube to drain it.
When we replaced the roof on the whole house with the drainage and whatnot it was like 6000 USD, split among the 4 apartments
Oooh, you got a metal roof for $500?
Unless it leaks like a sieve, you got a good deal. And it sounds like an normal rate for the main roof too.
Looking at stores in Bucharest, the metal sheets are about 20-25 Lei per square meter. Overall I think the materials are like 700 lei. The work is the rest – 1400.
And did you want to climb on that balcony roof to change it out?
or maybe 30-35
nope
Pie the cheapest style of metal roof in Texas is +/- $500 per 100 sq. ft.
This is called r panel and is usually used only on barns or commercial metal uildings.
Higher quality ones are grouped under the heading of standing seam roofs. They are for residences and
My metal roof, (because hail is a common factor here) cost me about 19 large. Insurance covered the 12 that a new shingle roof would have cost.
Amish installed probably cost me a little extra, but they guarantee their work for 10 years and the metal is good for 40 years color-fastness.
I save $150 a year on insurance, too.
Who gives a shit how long it took them.
Do you value your new roof at more than 2100 Lei?
If Yes: You did ok.
If No: You did not do ok.
I am unsure. If it lasts for 20 years or so it seems ok. The last one lasted 20 years and it was made of inferior material.
I cut myself off above.
higher end commercial buildings.
They run around +/-$1,000 per 100 sq. ft.
Compared to the US you got a good deal.
Don’t forget the roofers had to remove and dispose of the old roof as well.
why it matters how long it took is that maybe I could have found someone to do it cheaper for the number of man hours
You’re paying FOR their ability to do it in 3.5 hours.
This is the roof
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KTHhxIAbXCRfpCsLuWSUhbh-PL55ujif/view?usp=drivesdk
anyhoo it is done. Looking at the bill for the main roof, it may not be that bad.
a 9-0 “Separation of School and State” ruling seems unlikely.
What about a 4-3-2?
I don’t know what that would be, but seems more likely than 9-0.
I don’t either. I suppose it could be two recused or something that won’t ever happen.
Where’s the center midfielder gonna play? Has he been sent off?
I was going to make a red card joke, but I figure we already have two many soccer conversations on here.
Kansas City will play that quite a bit, stacking the box to force Jimmy G to start throwing.
“Perrotti plans to donate some of the money to charities supporting retail workers, the station reported, and hopes to use the rest on a vacation someplace warm.”
She’s good people.
She could have kept the money but is donating some of it. Good for her.
She should offer needy people douches for a penny.
Why would you give needy people journalists? Seems rather cruel.
Good morning, Sloop!
Dang, that’s a lotta lynx.
Fortunately for fans in Minnesoooda and Detroit, their teams didn’t play.
There are some prospects in this year’s draft that, while not a sure thing, are extremely promising. So this would be an excellent time for the Wild to go on a massive losing streak. Which of course means they will do just enough to get a WC spot and get bounced in the first round. It’s the Wild way.
Excellent musical selection! This is for you.
Have a great day!
From that group, 16 people cast 19 ballots in elections since November 2018.
I see 2 problems with this story.
Oops, never mind on 2nd problem, I read that as 16 cast 19 in the Nov 2018 election. Missed the “since”.
we want your power,” she said.
Which is an indicator of her infantile understanding of humanity, and the relationships between humans. Voluntary co-operation for mutual gain is completely inscrutable to people like her. Nobody does anything absent force and the threat of violence, in their zero-sum universe.
If people like her don’t get to pick the winners and losers, social justice doesn’t happen, brah!
Cocaine Mitch gets what he wanted
The House did their “investigation”. That contains the “evidence”. Now they get to eat shit because it ain’t their show anymore.
In fact, it doesn’t look like they’ll even get off the couch.
Threaten 2A and we shall see…
“Please, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. We all know the President is a rogue and criminal, and his guilt is as plain as the nose on your face. However, this is an august body, with a grand tradition of reasoned debate, so please maintain a pretense of decorum and fairness. Now, what was that Republican traitor yammering about? Doesn’t matter, I’m ruling against him.”
“Monty Python’s Terry Jones has died.”
[Dresses as working-class British housewife, falsetto]
Bloody bleeding, bleeding bloody, bloody bleeding hell.
I may be guilty of this.
That’s what Dads are for, Tundra.
Here in urban northern NJ a pocketknife of any size is going to cause fainting.
However, I carry a Manbug and have never had issues. In this case the small size is good. I’ve used it a small children’s birthday parties and never gotten a second look from the mothers.
One good thing about being in the South is every guy visibly has a knife on him (pocket clip) and no one seems to give a shit. I carry a SpyderCo Cara Cara 2 for my work knife which cuts e-tape satisfactorily.
I knife is a tool. Since the invention of flint knapping, people have carried them. This time is the odd exception to the rule where a significant number of people go around without simple utility items.
I carry three knives on my work pants, all of which are illegal to carry here in NYC (two have thumbscrew thingies to enable one-handed opening and the other is a fixed blade). Yet every morning, I’m at my local bagel shop which (because of our neighborhood demographics) is always packed with NYPD, NY State Police, NYC Park Police, US Park Police, USPS Postal Police, and NYS Environmental Police. Nobody has ever said a word about my knives even though they are very much out in the open on my belt. Must be that white privilege I always hear about.
That unconstitutional and unconsionable law isn’t there because the knives are a threat, but to provide an excuse to law enforcement when no real crim has been committed.
You’re uninteresting as a target to the cops looking to get their bagels.
This is my fixed blade; I can’t recommend this knife highly enough – it cuts, scrapes, and prys.
https://images.app.goo.gl/7cgX73ymZG6dBWVX9
I <3 Mora knives for bushcraft. That looks like a good one for a work knife.
Even the NYT has said that New York City’s knife laws are ridiculous and way to hassle people.
My favorite EDC knife. Very aggressive and easy to handle…
https://www.kershaw-knives.net/Kershaw-Ken-Onion-Tactical-Blur-KS1670tblkst.htm
It’s tough to beat Kizlyar Supreme for fixed blades…
http://kizlyarsupreme.ru/military-echelon
I have a Kershaw Blur as well. Different point, though.
The flipper is the bomb for quick opening.
It is wicked and inexpensive enough to abuse and replace.
this is what I have.
Looks good!
Too good for a guy who tends to lose stuff, unfortunately.
I value the ability to destroy my knifes and not worry about it. At that price, I couldn’t do that.
I normally carry a Kershaw Cryo (no serrations because fuck that I sharpen my knives), but CRKT M16’s are cheap on amazon today and I always wanted to try one of those, so that’s what I’ll be carrying for however long it takes for me to destroy it.
Ooh, I like the options on the M16. Thanks for recommending. Digging the desert tanto.
Well, I’m not yet recommending it. I’ve never had one before.
And we appear to have hilariously different preferences anyway, so you may want to take my recommendations with a grain of salt.
I’ve got four of the Blurs.
Excellent tools for the money.
I loosened my Leatherman up a little so I can single hand flip it open into pliers mode.
words to live by.
In my opinion, the handier a guy is, the more attractive he becomes. When my (at the time) boyfriend took apart his washing machine and replaced a few parts, then put it back together in perfect working order on the first try, I knew I’d found the man I wanted to father my children. Competence is sexier than a good haircut or tight abs.
I took a washing machine apart once…
How crucial is the “put it back into working order” part?
Disassembly is easy – children do it all the time.
Getting it working again is the line that separates the boys from the men.
Truth.
I’m very mechanically declined. That said I have actually fixed a lot of things because my theory is that if it is broke, then I can’t break it worse* so I should just start pulling it apart to see what is going on. A lot of times, simple logic makes it possible to fix something.
*The have been a few spectacular exceptions to this rule.
I might not be able to break that item worse, but if it say, starts a massive water leak, I might be able to break other things.
Yeah, anything involving “water” is where I draw the line at tinkering.
I had a roommate once who should have heeded those words.
I’m OK with the water, but if it shocks you, then I start getting leery.
I took mine apart just the other day to replace the seal that was leaking water because it had gotten perforated. It was fun times, and now I am doing laundry again without any water leaking out during the process.
It was 20 years ago, but I’m pretty sure that what my husband fixed, too. He spent the weekend hanging drywall, and now our garage is insulated. I find it much more satisfying to occasionally help draw a chalk line and let him do the work, than hire someone out and pay through the nose to have it done for us.
Most people club seals Alex. You should stop perforating yours like a cheap Elvis knock off.
At least you didn’t accuse me of fucking them until they had holes, and warning me to stick too sheep if I wanted to make it into your kingdom in the afterlife, because that was all the church approved of, your holiness.
Some people just blow a seal and call it a day
That was just ice cream.
A true libertarian can turn a Maytag into a Fatboy.
Never worked on the washing machine. I’ve fixed a dryer and a toilet (with the girlfriend’s first response in both cases, “Do we need to replace it?”). And at some point I’m going to swap out that downstairs bathroom faucet.
We hired out to replace the roof, exterior windows, doors, and pave the driveway. The rest, I am proud to say, my husband accomplished on his own: two decks, finished basement office, freshly finished garage, replacing multiple fixtures around the house, patching and repainting walls… damn, now that I type it out it sounds like we live in a real hovel, but we’ve just been in the same house for nearly two decades and have done a lot of maintenance over the years.
I’ve got no issue knowing my limitations. I’m an IT geek, simple fixes, I can do. We have a plumber coming out this week because one of the shut off valves to a hot water faucet isn’t working. I learned this when trying to fix a drip. I’ve got minimal soldering experience, and all on the electronics side, not on the pipe side. I’ll let someone with that experience take care of that for me.
exterior windows – are there interior windows?
Yeah, the interior windows are next. Privacy for kids is overrated.
We typically end up doing some quick calculations to decide if it’s worth the time to do it ourselves or pay someone else. For most automotive, electronic and minor home repairs, though, the hubby is fully capable of doing it himself. The roof was: yeah, you could do it yourself, but it’d take you five times as long and you’d probably fall off and break your back; let’s pay someone else.
If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
What a depressing way to start the day. I’m doubly screwed is what you are saying?
I’m a man and I can change.
If I have to.
I guess.
Illinois secretary of state’s office blames programming error for registering more than 500 voters who said they weren’t citizens
Yeah, sure. In other voting news, VA Dems want to eliminate voter ID. You know, to preserve the sanctity and security of elections…
They also want to give electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, which of course is not actually a thing (and is illegal) in our waning republic.
Notice that when ever we discover voter fraud helping democrats, we get told it is an honest mistake, and that there really is nothing to see despite the fact they are disenfranchising real voters for not voting for them?
I was a registered voter in CA until I left in 1994. I often wonder who I’ve voted for since then.
‘Botched’ and ‘FBI’ seems to not be an oxymoron.
They should write a show called ‘Botched’ in fact.
The problem at the FBI is the leadership. When you have absolutely evil and stupid politically motivated management calling the shots, you can bet your ass you will have nothing but flops and failures.
(shouldn’t have been a) Bond girl Olivia D’Abo
Why not?
The teeth, maybe?
Otherwise, she seemed fine to me.
Is she British?
She wasn’t pretty enough. And because they should have just waited until Remington Steele was a bit older rather than cast Dalton. His movies sucked.
Dalton was a serviceable Bond, and unlike most of the others, he didn’t have the huge drop-off in the quality of his movies.
Most Bonds are best in their first movie and hated in their last.
My 13-year-old trans son recently told me that a friend’s mom gave him, the friend (also trans), a vibrator. I know my kid thinks his friend’s mom is generally wacky and that she does not support her son being transgender and is generally ultra-religious, so I said something like, “Wow, that surprises me, and it seems kind of intrusive to get that from your mom.” (I was actually wondering if this was some kind of don’t-be-trans thing from the mom—like, clitorises are great! Here, have a vibrator! Look! Fun! I had no idea where this conversation was going.)
I haz a confuze.
“The US Supreme Court agrees to take a pretty important First Amendment case. Unfortunately the chance they will rule that no money should be spent by the state or federal government on education is nonexistent. But a man can dream, can’t he?”
Seems pretty obvious you can’t discriminate just because an institution is religious. . . But that stopped our government before.
From the whistleblower link, Sean Misko shows us that crazy eyes aren’t just for art chicks.
Sources told RealClearInvestigations the staffer with whom Ciaramella was speaking was Sean Misko. Both were Obama administration holdovers working in the Trump White House on foreign policy and national security issues.
Huh. I wonder where all these leaks keep coming from.
Damn, beat me to it.
How did trump leave a single Obama official in his administration? He’s really dumb sometimes.
The establishment types never saw the problem created by the Obama administration when it produced a hyper-partisan, politically motivated, weaponized bureaucracy that was more interested in protecting itself and the team blue people than serving the American people. Going forward, you can bet no team red winners (that is, if orange man manages to actually show the people how evil and corrupt what team blue did and was doing is) will never again just tolerate the leadership of the bureaucratic machine staying in the hands of political appointees of the other party.
We’ll be told that this is nothing. Besides they were just trying to stop orangeman, so it’s not really a crime.
“I’m sure it was just a hypothetical intellectual exercise and there’s nothing to see here. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket”
Schiff looks like a fish, this Misko guy has crazy eyes that don’t point in the same direction. Are there any non clowns involved in this?
this Misko guy has crazy eyes that don’t point in the same direction.
Tread lightly when going down this road. There’s plenty of good people out there with eyes a little off-kilter.
I think you mean Schiff has the Innsmouth look.
a set of physical features that result from the hybridization of Humans with Deep Ones.
Well, that explains a lot.
I’m not sure I follow.
Biden, who recently said he believed drunk driving should not be crime that warrants deportation, made the statement during a campaign rally in Ames, Iowa.
The 77-year-old former vice president said:
“These kids have come, they’ve done well, most of these kids there’s a lot of them, and they’re not just Hispanic, they’re Asian-Pacific Islanders as well. and they in fact have done very well. In many cases, they’re more American than most Americans because they have done well in school.”
Biden proceeded to claim that DACA recipients believed in the “basic principles” which we all share and deserved a pathway to U.S. citizenship.
And when is candidate Biden going to reveal what his proposed immigration policy will be? Never, cause he doesn’t have one that he wants any thinking voter to see?
Plagiarist Joe lecturing us about doing well in school. SMDH.
Biden thinks stupid people are un-American.
It’s worse than that.
DACA recipients do worse in school than citizens. So he’s both insulting and lying.
A Summoned Q’Aimn’Czergalach, Also Known As False Leurgoyles Or Celestial Abyss Killers.
https://twitter.com/codexnoirmatic/status/1219436819739303937
*Unzips*
Meanwhile, in an article about the gun control fight, I came across a quote from a member of Moms Demand Action regarding the protests in Richmond on Monday.
“All over the country – Red States, Blue States, Purple States – are more aware of gun violence,” said Laura Hudson with Moms Demand Action, in a phone interview.
Hudson says the demonstration in Virginia and pushback in Arizona won’t deter their efforts.
“It’s a temper tantrum because we’re trying to pass laws that will save lives,” said Hudson.
*Zips up*
Yeah, constitution shmonstitution.
laws that will save lives
Assumes facts not in evidence.
1) Purple states? You mean Muppet states?
2) Temper tantrum? You’re the run throwing a tantrum seeking to lay down the tracks for gun confiscation. They’re actually DEFENDING their rights honey.
one
The tantrum thing I get is rhetoric, but it’s kinda bellies a worldview where everyone is just children to Daddy government.
“It’s a temper tantrum because we’re trying to pass laws that will save lives,” said Hudson.
That doesn’t make one ounce of sense.
I usually think of Michael Hutchence less of as a music legend than as a belt enthusiast.
He probably wasn’t all that enthusiastic at the end.
Go back where you came from
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ race-tainted remarks (on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no less!) are strong evidence that he’s unfit to be mayor.
Adams accused out-of-towners who move into gentrified areas of “hijacking [black New Yorkers’] apartments and displacing [their] living arrangements.”
“Go back to Iowa, you go back to Ohio,” he told them. “New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.” Imagine if, say, a white Republican pol had said that about out-of-town minorities or immigrants.
Let’s be honest: A fair amount of opposition to gentrification is based on anti-white bigotry. Meanwhile, the claim that younger, higher-income — often white — residents moving into a fixed-up neighborhood push out longtime, lower-income minority residents is off the mark.
That fucking retard wants to be mayor? Sure, why not?
“New York City belongs to the people that was here ”
“Sounds good to me” says any descendant of Manhattan native americans. Here’s your $24 back, now all you bugger off to wherever you came from.
Immigrants? Nah brah that’s what Texas and California are for
The poor wouldn’t be pushed out of it weren’t for property tax assessments going up.
You want trees? I’ll give you trees. The best trees. Big league.
President Donald Trump surprised the international ecological community with a pledge to join the One Trillion Trees initiative to fight climate change.
In 2019’s World Economic Forum, ecologist Dr. Thomas Crowther posited that planting 1.2 trillion trees could compensate for global CO2 emissions. Now, the U.S. will officially join the effort to preserve the planet. “We’re committed to conserving the majesty of God’s creation and the natural beauty of our world,” Trump said.
Trump called himself “a very big believer in the environment,” after recently explaining to reporters that he no longer believes climate change is a hoax. “Nothing’s a hoax about that. It’s a very serious subject,” he told reporters two weeks ago. “I want clean air; I want clean water. I want the cleanest air with the cleanest water. The environment’s very important to me.”
This is a very different tone than the POTUS struck during his controversial decision to withdraw from the international Paris Climate Accord, which he criticized as being a ploy to siphon jobs and money from Americans.
So we’re removing restrictions on lumber companies?
One trillion trees?
Call me crazy, but that seems like a bit of hubris bordering on dangerous.
They’ll be the best trees, the classiest trees, everyone says so.
Bonzai!
1 Trillion tiny trees?
Believing that the environment is important and believing that the Paris accords are a ploy to siphon jobs and money from Americans are not contradictory ideas.
^^This^^
It will be hilarious* when the 1 Trillion trees drop us into a new ice age.
*for some non-funny meaning of hilarious.
Do they need to be concurrant trees?
I mean, if it’s one trillion gross over a century and we release enough of them back into the atmosphere…
A trillion trees? I wonder if he’ll eventually hedge on that number.
It may fell a bit as time goes on.
*waits for Swiss to lumber by*
Leaf him alone! That was funny.
You guys are the root of evil
Are you saying we need to branch out into chaos too?
“You guys are the root of evil”
YEW GUYS!?!?! Who are YEW calling YEW GUYS?
English Longbowmen?
His bark is worse than bite.
In a bit or a double bit? Just axing.
I saw what you did there.
Those can both be true.
In fact, achieving the former probably requires the latter.
I want to meet those people that don’t believe in the environment and record their meetings.
I don’t care for the NRA, but I don’t think they should give ground*.
*Irony being that I dislike them because they give ground.
A West Virginia senator is inviting the National Rifle Association to move to his state as lawmakers pursue gun-control measures in neighboring Virginia, where the group now has its headquarters.
The invitation came in a Monday letter from Republican Sen. Randy Smith to NRA leadership that said his home state lets residents carry guns without permits and its lawmakers have pushed to allow firearms on college campuses.
“Where Virginia is pushing for stricter gun laws, West Virginia has worked on and passed a number of legislation in support of gun rights,” Smith wrote, also noting potential tax incentives for companies that bring their headquarters to the state.
The NRA did not immediately comment.
And here’s the leftist spin, shitbag Gov Ralph Northam claims government planning averted problems during 2A rally. Polish that turd, Ralphie.
A crisis was averted, despite the governor’s best efforts.
Cunt.
Reasonable
Fake guns that look too much like the real thing are now banned in New Jersey under a new law that seeks to prevent police from mistakenly shooting people carrying toy firearms.
Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday signed a bill into law barring the sale of toy guns and imitation firearms that may be reasonably confused for a real weapon.
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Those caught selling toy guns that do not meet the new standards face a fine of $500 for a first offense and subsequent penalties of $1,000.
That’s easier than expecting the cops not to be such trigger-happy pussies, I guess.
WTF, NJ?!? Even NYC has airsoft.
Because it is too much to ask of police to have them assess a situation prior to acting.
When they shoot you because of your cellphone, at least you’ll know it wasn’t an accident.
And here’s the leftist spin, shitbag Gov Ralph Northam claims government planning averted problems during 2A rally.
Of course.
Oh dear. Avoid dark streets, and isolated locations, Tulsi.
That lawsuit doesn’t seem like it would stand a chance. How do you prove Tulsi wasn’t “a Russian favorite”?
It’s a question for the jury.
But the suit is doomed because of how difficult defamation is to win on.
Ask CNN whom thought they would get away with calling a kid a racialist catholic hater how that worked out for them. Juries are coming through now for people that sue, and I wouldn’t be surprised this suit results in Tulsi committing suicide by double tap to the back of the head so Hillary can avoid showing her Old One bonafides in court.
A: Sandmann wasn’t a public figure.
B: There was a lot of evidence of malice already.
C: What was the last high profile defamation case that went to jury?
Think folks. THINK!
WCIDFAT?
Almost makes me want to return that fundraising mailer from the Trump campaign.
Christ, what an asshole.
I can drop a deuce for Amy. Does that count?
Shit yeah, it counts!
That was corny.
She’d dump you as a supporter for sure if you did something like that
Her campaign is circling the drain, anyway.
I’m sure she’ll still be floating herself for a VP or cabinet position.
I bet she comes in turd place in Iowa.
“I’m With Her” was tone deaf and narcissistic. I assumed it would be a while before any campaign flack would let another egomaniacial psychopath go with another slogan like that. But that was stupid of me, wasn’t it?
If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
Last time I got handy with a woman, she slapped me.
I think you meant you got handsy, not handy…
You’re saying he does not know how to use his tool?
Never would accuse anyone of that. It’s up to the people that the tool is being used on to define the “expertise” of the tool master.
What kind of fucked-up culture eats wolf puppies?
“On the menu at China virus market: rats and live wolf pups”
“The food market where China’s deadly virus surfaced was a smorgasbord of exotic wildlife ranging from wolf pups to species linked to previous pandemics such as civets, according to vendor information and a Chinese media report.
The Huanan Seafood Market in the central city of Wuhan came under greater scrutiny on Wednesday as Chinese officials said that the virus which has so far killed nine people and infected hundreds may have originated in a wild animal sold at the food emporium.”
https://news.yahoo.com/menu-china-virus-market-rats-live-wolf-pups-111650959.html
The more I learn about China and its traditions, the more my reaction becomes “If this were a fictional country, people wouldn’t be able to suspend disbelief at how fucked up it is.”
In my experience ordering food in places like that will get you anything other than what is listed on the menu. Snake, rat, dog or cat you have no idea what you are eating.
Are you talking about authentic boudin sausage?
One that has had some of the biggest famines in history. They learned to eat everything.
If its back faces heaven, it’s on the menu.
So the sloth is safe.
I am told that sloth tastes truly foul.
You mean it tastes like chicken?
Would there be another reason they’re not extinct?
There are big news breaking soon that sit at the intersection of the Jamal Khashoggi murder, the Jeff Bezos phone hack, and Saudi suppression of free speech. I’m one of few people who knows the entire story. If any reporters wish to get in touch, please email press@kawaakibi.org.
https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/1219736865735159808
riveting stuff
Jeff Bezos phone was used to get the audio of Khashoggi’s murder… because that is how evil Amazon is!
This is the same Bezos who claimed a couple of months ago that someone from Russia hacked him to reveal his affair? Is this guy a reliable accuser?
I mean fuck Saudi Arabia, but Bezos is a clown
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/was-tabloid-expos-of-bezos-affair-just-juicy-gossip-or-a-political-hit-job-20190207-p50w5y.html
FTA:
“Bezos commissioned an investigation into the Enquirer’s investigation of his love life, thereby leaping into a roiling mix of political attacks and conspiracy theories featuring the president of the United States, key figures in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, minor Hollywood celebrities and the owner of The Washington Post, Bezos himself.”
That’ll do, clown. That’ll do.
I said earlier I am not good at bargaining. I think this would put me at a massive disadvantage in actual libertopia. I also dislike bargaining. Even in the bazaar in Istanbul, and I think that, not unlike Life of Brian, the Turks are offended if you don’t haggle.
I would not get along with the Bazaar Turks.
I’m offended if someone wants to haggle.
Really? How did you buy a car? Or your home?
I walked away.
My friend in Dutchland bough their hose by putting in an offer 25k Eurosover asking price. That is off course a form of bargaining, you have to bid over asking price just enough to get it but not overkill
I find it is entirely possible to buy cars, houses, etc, without acting like a carpet seller in a souq. If the asking price isn’t appropriate, look elsewhere.
Eh. I got my first car and my first house by the “here’s what I can pay, can you make it work?” method.
You don’t have to be a great haggler to offer below the asking price. If they say no or counter at a price that’s too high, you can just walk away.
Footage of trashy buying his first car
Depends on how motivated of a buyer you are – and how motivated the seller is.
“I bid forty-five.”
“Forty-five hundred is too low, we’re talking twenty thousand.”
“I bid forty-five caliber.” *pulls gun*
“souq”
learnt a new word today – my brain is full – can I go home now?
Just put your brain on defragment, I’m sure there’s free space left.
He must be a Carmax guy.
Must be. And there’s nothing wrong with that if you’re buying used.
But damn, I can’t imagine paying full price for a car. I’d never be able to look myself in the mirror. Is MSRP: Manufacturer’s SUGGESTED Retail Price.
It’s a suggestion. I will suggest something lower.
I dunno, I bought a Saturn back in the day. I loved that car, then some 15 year old joy riding in Daddy’s caddy ran a stop sign at 40 mph and totaled it.
I think a legit business would be a hired negotiator.
I’ve thought of asking friends who like to negotiate come with when buying a car. I too, do not like haggling and dickering about prices.
That’s really not a bad idea. I’m in the ‘hate to haggle’ boat, myself. I’ve done it when I’ve absolutely had to, but it’s always been more in the form of, “this is how much I’m willing to pay. If you can’t meet that, thanks bye.” And I’m always left with the sneaking suspicion that had I gotten over the discomfort of it, I could have gotten a much better deal.
Some people need to haggle because money is tight. Other people just like to haggle. If you don’t need to and don’t like to don’t sweat it.
A friend bought a car a couple years ago and was worried she might have been able to get another $1000 off the price. I said “Do you plan on keeping the car for 10 years?” She said “Longer than that hopefully”.
I said “So at worst you spent not even an extra $100 a year. Put an extra hour in at work every year and you’re even.” She felt much better.
I like that. It makes me feel better, too, since I recently bought a new truck.
Most negotiations in the real world are not simple “Give me X” “No how about Y” “Ok How About (some number between X and Y)” That’s because there’s not much to haggle over.
Most deals have lots of factors, and driving down one factor usually drives up another. The trick to a good negotiation is knowing what the other side actually values, and what they can give up, ditto for yourself, and then finding the arrangement of factors that makes you both happy.
That’s not possible. I’m inherently unreasonable.
Negotiations don’t require the other party to be reasonable. Just avaricious.
Tulsi Gabbard is suing Hillary Clinton and the first page of the suit is insanely savage.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EO5G0wZX4AAXlQo.png
does it mention Epstein didn’t kill himself?
Haha.
Still think the suit will do jack squat.
Gabbard is a public figure.
“Actual Malice” is a nigh impossible standard to prove in court.
Yeah, it’s frivolous, but still hilarious
If it gains traction online, it would be cheaper PR than trying to bid for ad space between Bloomer bits.
Just realized you already linked this.
It is a good publicity stunt
Anyone for a dead pool?
Like what? A hole in the ground?
/deliberately obtuse.
More like a la the movie, Poltergeist.
Funny. Shame she’s just another commie with a pretty face.
Yet, a better civil libertarian than nearly all members of either party and a sizable chunk of libertarians.
How can a commie be a civil libertarian? These things are not compatible. If she thinks they are, then she’s a fool. A dangerous fool.
Nice. But I do hope that Tulsi maintains any heightened situational awareness she may have learned in the military.
San Jose: ‘Furries’ pulled assaulter out of vehicle, sat on him
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/20/san-jose-furries-pulled-assaulter-out-of-vehicle-sat-on-him/
Given this place, I assume this was covered
Last PM Lynx, if I recall correctly
PM lynx do not exist
TDS is bad, hmmm-kay?
This is why we need gun control. Imagine if this crazy person had a gun! With all the extremist politics these days we can’t allow people to own weapons of any sort.
Your car is not a safe place to store expensive shit
I feel bad for the guy, but why on earth would you keep something in your car worth more than the car itself?
Didn’t these people see “Snatch”? Even with two black fellas in it holding pistols, a car is not a safe space.
Tough to have a boating accident in Utah, I guess.
Everything floats in the Salt Lake, so yeah….
/queue up SLC Punk scene
Professional Youtuber. Didn’t ensure his existentially-important business equipment. Left it in a mobile, unsecured place. I know my bible says should feel bad for this guy, but intellectually I’m having a hard time.
Trump’s speech at Davos yesterday was pretty awesome. You can say, “well it’s just words, just a speech” and yes that is true to a degree. But for decades now we have been getting a non stop bath of bullshit environmental propaganda. At this point it is very deeply ingrained that we are “destroying the earth” when the opposite is far more true. I think combating this is the number one issue of our time, it has cost us a lot and is behind the movement to cost us even more of our money and liberty. This was a particularly nice passage:
“We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, or eradicate our liberty. America will always be the proud, strong, and unyielding bastion of freedom.
In America, we understand what the pessimists refuse to see: that a growing and vibrant market economy focused on the future lifts the human spirit and excites creativity strong enough to overcome any challenge — any challenge by far.”
Good stuff.
New Hampshire man chokes to death coyote who attacked toddler
See Americans, you don’t need guns
Fuck off, slaver.
“Need” has got nothing to do with it.
I hope he gets to be able get the pelt or something to have a memento of how on the day he was tested he rose to the occasion.
He should wear it as a hat as he sits in his drinking hall.
Like so.
Yes!
“get the pelt or something to have a memento”
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/man-charged-for-cutting-off-grizzly-bears-claws-after-shooting-it-in-self-defense/
The drugs that fell out of the coyote butt let him come down one last time.
The coyote didn’t kill himself!
I managed to survive the paralyzing cold this morning. Was 39 with a wind chill of 26 when I went out. Probably one of the 10 coldest mornings I’ve ever experienced in South Florida.
Stay strong
Get used to it, this is what you can come to expect with global climate change.
That’s awful! Almost cold enough to wear long pants.
Tots and pears for you.
With the wind chill this morning, it was 6. And it’s supposed to warm up to 39 today, just so that snow can start to melt and refreeze overnight. Then up into the 40’s, with rain and snow mix. It’s really been a warm winter here. And it’s looking less and less likely that the lake is going to freeze, so it should stay this way.
Did your fallopian tubes get frostbite?
HOLY SHIT!
Well done
A real freezer burn.
BAP mentioned here. Watch intensity when talk “body,” “blood,” “nature.” This isn’t Christianity or liberalism. This is hardcore Gnosticism, alienated from corporeal reality
Why would AEI (shills for Agribiz, Chemical industry, etc.) want to promote such hostility to nature …?
https://twitter.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1219492244933226504
Trump committed the US to planting trees, because he’s perpetually trapped in the 1980’s. I’d say we’re about a week away from him unveiling his administration’s newest environmental slogan: “reduce, reuse, and recycle”.
I’m just waiting for him to tell China to tear down it’s wall!
Please let him play “Born in the USA” at his rallies
“The USA is a nice place to live, work and shop.”
“But don’t you dare play there.”
Last night’s thread being dead, I’m going to post this here.
Regarding Winston, many of you will recall that I have a great animus towards him, to the point that one time SP was moved to remind me to remember my manners.
The biggest reason for it is that often when he links to an article and with great snark accuses its author of writing something that only an ivory tower denizen who lacks common sense, he actually misrepresents what the thesis of the article is.
Sometimes the article says A, and Winston accuses it of saying a’. Not infrequently, it says A, and he claims it says F. In my opinion, it is impossible for someone to make that mistake over and over again. In my opinion, he is misrepresenting the writings of people he dislikes on purpose.
I don’t care how smart Winston is. I don’t care what a thick skinned fellow he is. I am not appreciative that he can take a joke. In my opinion, he’s a liar, and I would be thrilled if he decided to deprive us of his whining.
I just don’t take the fella that seriously myself
Winstons shtick used to annoy me alot. Nowadays i just skip his posts if i don’t feel like getting into it with him. I assume others do so as well with me.
I’m not quite sure why he upsets you so much. You think he’s deceitful in framing his criticisms. Fine, I probably wouldn’t disagree most of the time. Then don’t read his comments or just don’t reply to him. What ever happened to “if you don’t like it then change the channel”? Is he harassing you? I just don’t grasp what the complaint here is.
I got jumped on by some this weekend just for noting that I agreed with Winston’s perspective that free trade does not equate to liberal political freedom. So strange that so many of you have decided who it is and isn’t verboten to engage with here.
He’s definitely got a “shtick” and I can see why it would annoy some people, but I appreciate somebody who intelligently questions conventional wisdom. And he’ll sometimes mention things I didn’t know about or would tend to disagree with, but after looking into it I realize he has a valid point.
I skip over most of his posts. But, the dude is less of a jerk than myself. I got no problem with him. Let him do his thing.
I explained why… well, not completely. Occasionally he flirts with arguments about controlling demography. I get a strong whiff of Nazi from him, although he does drench himself in the cologne of “I’m just asking questions, here”, so I can see why other people are missing it.
And yes, I do change the channel. You’ll note that I haven’t demanded he be shown the door. There have been no hysterical announcements that either he goes or I go.
I just let him and others know my distaste for him.
If people see value in discourse with a liar, that’s their perversion.
I have to plead ignorance on the demographics part. He definitely pushes the criticisms of open border people more than my liking. If he’s used racialized language then I can see your point. But, again, I am not aware of that, but I’m not on here a lot of times when he is.
You’ll note that I haven’t demanded he be shown the door. There have been no hysterical announcements that either he goes or I go.
You’ll never make a very good warrior for social justice….
I pretty much have learned to skip Winston’s posts for the reasons you list above. He doesn’t irritate me that much.
I do like the pics of Winston’s Mom though and would be sad if they went away.
…and her repartee…
She is quick on the draw, deadly on aim and pulls the trigger…
Love the lady
Jon Caldara, president of the libertarian Independence Institute, announced that he has been fired from the Post, chalking it up to “a difference in style” that his editors found “too insensitive.”
He claimed there were only two sexes and had to be hurled into the void.
Defy the marxist’s attempt to destroy your ability to stand up to the state in any form (but especially using facts & logic), and you will be fed to the lions!~
“Jon Caldara Represents the Libertarian to Alt-Right Pipeline”
FTA:
“Jon Caldara, of the far-right Independence Institute, has come under fire for espousing Nazi ideology. Much like fascists of the early 20th Century, Caldara has been refuting established science for his own agenda. While some have blamed the misogynistic and racist attitudes that symbolize libertarian discourse as the root of the problem, other libertarians contend that Caldara represents a minority view that is being purged from the movement.
“I believe there are three genders, or twenty genders, or whatever” said Libertarian Party chairman, Nick Sarwark. “And to dispute this, puts you in conflict with the New York Times editorial pages and gender studies departments and really all right thinkers.”
Sarwark went on to add that he strenuously objected to any libertarians contradicting the New York Times editorial page.
“It’s Russian disinformation to contend that there are only two genders,” Sarwark went on to add. “Only fascists believe that and there is no room for fascists in the Libertarian Party or the libertarian movement, at large.””
Much like fascists of the early 20th Century, Caldara has been refuting established science for his own agenda.
Erm… They were embracing fad science.
This is FAKE NEWS. I made this up. I am a purveyor of lies (good handle, by the way)
Totally, the give away was that no one would contact “Libertarian Party chairman, Nick Sarwark” for a comment on an article.
You got me good on that one. *applause*
You’re a little too good at that.
His day job is CNN and Slate contributor
Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the latest sex education literature in public schools took upon itself the solemn task of answering seriously such fundamental questions as:
“Are boy penises different from girl penises?”
This one is imaginary.
Maryam d’Abo was the Bond girl, not her cousin Olivia. Olivia was the little hotty in Conan.
You’re right!
I remember her from The Wonder Years.
AFAIK, Olivia d’Abo was 14 at the time of filming Conan. One no-knock raid for your computer and smart devices coming right up!
She was lovely in Star Trek: The Next Generation, though.
The d’Abo sisters were a fascination of mine in my earlier years.
That’s the politest way I could think of putting it.
Oh for sure. I think a crush carried forward from adolescence is kosher.
She’s only a couple of years younger than me, so I make no apologies.
Her recurring role as Nicole Wallace in L&O: Criminal Intent was quite well done.
I was two when Conan the Destroyer came out.
I was 20.
Ok boomer
Sucks being on the tail end of that. Big difference being born in 46 vs 63. Growing up during the Vietnam War, Civil Rights movement, actual hippies, Watergate, Munich Olympics, not to mention the music or the 60’s, 70’s, and early 80’s is not the same as growing up in the 50’s and actually becoming a hippie.
The Clintons strike again!
🙁
She’s pretty.
Pretty dead.
/sadly laughter
Like I said yesterday, Epstein’s wife didn’t kill herself.
“Dragostea Din Tei/The Numa Numa Song” (O-Zone) Romanian Folk Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVZOsVV8poc
Pretty song. Beautiful lady too. She looks like a Russian dressed in the garb of a flamenco dancer.
the pronunciation is… reasonable
Sometimes the article says A, and Winston accuses it of saying a’. Not infrequently, it says A, and he claims it says F. In my opinion, it is impossible for someone to make that mistake over and over again. In my opinion, he is misrepresenting the writings of people he dislikes on purpose.
My interest in doctrinaire philosophy of any stripe is pretty much nil. I refuse to pay attention to quibbles over academic turf (real or imagined).
Virginia Democrats take a break from shitting on the Second Amendment to shit all over the First.
Virginia Democrats Push Legislation to Make Criticism of Government Officials a Criminal Offense
The pertinent text:
So I can’t call Governor Blackface a sheepfucker any more?
Of course you can.
Just find someone to fund your appeals to the supreme court.
The ACLU?
*Laughs bitterly
I was thinking MacAfee on a lark.
Oh oh! I don’t think ol’ Virginny can extradite me for saying this, can they? Well, here I go anyway…
*deep breath*
Northam is a coward, a tyrant, an aspiring vicarious murderer of helpless children, and a real “southern Democrat”. He is just terrible. #RECALLRALPH!
The
emperorklansman has no robes.Sugarfree hardest hit.
In the state of Virginia, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and the Attorney General are all literal pieces of shit that should be fed to shit eating maggots. Then those maggots should be tossed in a wood chipper.
Well they can just go fuck themselves.
Show me the people opposed to the top men, and I will show you the crime we will use to silence & punish them.
These fuckers have read books like 1984, Brave New World, Harrison Bergeron, and the like, and have taken them to be “How to” manuals….
I actually saw an article a while back claiming Harrison Bergeron was just that. It was…odd.
Section 12. Freedom of speech and of the press; right peaceably to assemble, and to petition.
That the freedoms of speech and of the press are among the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained except by despotic governments; that any citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; that the General Assembly shall not pass any law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, nor the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for the redress of grievances.
Well, they aren’t familiar with Article 1, Section 13, so I suppose they aren’t familiar with this either.
I could joke, but I won’t. That’s fucking terrifying.
Sic Semper Tyrannis*
*Not a threat, just acknowledging the state flag/motto.
I thought it was a Bee article.
Looking at the full bill and they slipped that in near the end. All the other sections are about threats which should already be covered by existing laws, so if you oppose the bill they will scream, “You think death threats are OK?!”
He claimed there were only two sexes and had to be hurled into the void.
Objective reality is a tool of the kkkapitalist patriarchy to enslave you and steal your labor, comrade.
This is a commentator here called “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist” or “Just Say’n” and I want everyone to know that he is a Russian bot that is spreading fake articles. These articles aren’t even well written. Don’t fall for his nonsense.
Tulsi Gabbard sucks
ALOL.
Mikey?! It can’t be! Is it really you?!
Dang it. I was going to respond back to myself, but with this image and I failed.
I don’t sock. I just argue with myself
Handles stay with comments – avatars stay with accounts.
Haha. I stopped with the TOS lurking when the Hihnswarm came back with a vengeance. That comments section still seems to have a few gems here and there, but I don’t feel like wading in.
I wish Addiction Myth was here
Agile Cyborg, LH & EF, and a few others who used to be here and then weren’t.
I seem to recall that Gilmore had taken a job which would require his absence.
Short Pier. Long walk. Cement shoes.
A Dutchman, an Indian, and an Italian?
Tulsi Gabbard sucks
I hope so.
You’re gonna hate this then.
https://twitter.com/alec_sears/status/1219990424548454400
We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, or eradicate our liberty. America will always be the proud, strong, and unyielding bastion of freedom.
And, on the next pitch, “Nuke” LaLoosh beans the mascot.
We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy,
We only let the Mainstream socialists do that
Does this seem weird? I know it’s the FBI and they aren’t exactly known for being competent or caring about crime victims families, but this seems bizarre and cruel to me. I don’t know the reason you would tell the family of a never found murder victim that something was going to happen in the case in a few weeks time. Why wouldn’t you just tell them directly when it was possible? Making them wait seems like another torture to put them through.
I was just reading extensively about this case a week or so ago as something mentioned here got me thinking about unsolved murder cases. Everything about the way this case was handled by law enforcement and the school is disgusting.
https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/cal-poly-kristin-smart-missing-podcast-flores-14992346.php
The only thing I can imagine is if one of the family is their prime suspect and they want to see if s/he does something revealing.
Maybe that’s it. Otherwise I can’t think of a reason why they would tip off whoever did it. All evidence so far points to the last person to see her alive. I’ll be interested to see as I followed the case when it first came out as I’m a similar age and knew people who went to school there just after that time. The ineptitude of the campus police and SLO Sheriffs Dept seems to me bordering on criminal.
Yes, what a mess. And I saw this on wikipedia:
Apparently they lost the earring (and the photo of it!) before it was even tested. How the hell does that happen?
The same way that a prime murder suspect’s dorm bedroom gets sanitized by the university before the police test it for fluids. There were a number of utterly baffling moves by the police and uni that go beyond incompetence. The same suspect’s parent installed a new concrete patio two days after she went missing. Even though a cadaver dog signaled next to it they never bored holes in it to further investigate, even though they had a search warrant for the property.
Government should be in charge of everything, seeing as it is so competent and efficient.
As we’ve reported, CBS News’ David Bergnaud has been on the case, reporting in 2018 on photos showing “what may be millions of water bottles” that were sent to Puerto Rico by the U.S. federal government a year earlier but never delivered to those in need by local authorities. A year later, Begnaud found photos of thousands more water bottles — bought by FEMA for Hurricane Maria survivors — sitting in a field in Dorado, Puerto Rico
Bergnaud is back, and he’s reporting that Puerto Rico’s Secretary of State has confirmed there are more warehouses stocked with emergency aid that was never distributed.
Worse than NIXON
It wasn’t until August 6, 1974, at the regular Senate Republican Conference lunch that Barry Goldwater fumed to his colleagues: “There are only so many lies you can take, and now there has been one too many. Nixon should get his ass out of the White House—today!”
Hours later, he ventured to the White House to tell Nixon to resign.
And, amazingly, Nixon did. For Nixon knew that when Goldwater threw in the towel, it really was over.
Examining this critical turning point in Nixon’s presidency and the arc of the larger Watergate scandal carries with it today important lessons about the impeachment trial President Donald Trump now faces. It also raises the all-important question of whether there’s a Barry Goldwater moment ahead in Trump’s future. Is there even a figure in the GOP left today to carry such a message to a White House under siege? Is there even a figure in the GOP who Trump respects enough to listen to?
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As the impeachment trial opens for Trump in the U.S. Senate, it’s worth wondering how and when—and if—such a dramatic moment could unfold today.
Three things auger against the idea that a Goldwater exists today or that a similar moment awaits us in the weeks ahead: First, while Nixon may appear to be similar to Trump—a lonely, brooding, solitary figure—he was at the same time a creature of his party and of Capitol Hill, a man who had learned and worked the levers of power in Congress and grown up alongside the representatives who now sat in judgment on him. Nixon was so central to the GOP, in fact, that Goldwater’s 1964 run had been the only campaign ticket between 1952 and 1972 that Nixon did not appear on himself. Thus, when Goldwater and the House and Senate minority leaders made that sojourn to the White House in early August, Nixon was talking to people he fundamentally respected. It’s hard to think of any member of the GOP in the House or Senate today that could elicit the same level of respect from Trump.
If Mitt Romney shows up at the White House and demands Trump’s resignation, does anybody—least of all Mitt—think Trump would listen or care?
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As Trump’s circle has tightened and he’s expelled heavyweights like John Kelly, Jim Mattis, H.R. McMaster, and Rex Tillerson, replaced them with ultra-loyalists like Mike Pompeo and Bill Barr and downgraded and sidelined voices like Mick Mulvaney, it’s not clear that any outside adviser could or would offer any hard, straight talk to the president about the ongoing damage he could cause the country. And it seems clear that Trump’s family remains fully in his corner, too. Similarly, his announcement Friday that his impeachment legal team would include Ken Starr, Robert Ray, Pam Bondi and Alan Dershowitz seems to make clear that the president is surrounding himself with public pugilists rather than sober legal minds with the nation’s best interests in mind.
Moreover, and perhaps most troubling, while at the end of the day, Nixon cared about the office of the presidency as a historical institution and moral force in America, there is no sense today that Trump separates his own interests from the office he now holds.
As Goldwater hinted to the cameras after their Oval Office meeting, Nixon understood that the presidency was an office one held for only a period of time, a role that had begun long before he arrived at the White House and one that he hoped would continue long past his two terms.
Unfortunately, it’s not clear that Trump cares what shape the presidency is in when he leaves office, whenever that will be.
This is what happens when you let upstarts run for President.
It’s about time we returned to the Founders’ dream and vision of a nation run by a mandarinate of hereditary career public servants.
“Barry Goldwater fumed to his colleagues: “There are only so many lies you can take, and now there has been one too many. Nixon should get his ass out of the White House—today!”
Hey guys, Barry Goldwater is good again. Wait a week and he’ll go back to being a dangerous extremist Nazi who ruined everything, but not being a Rockefeller Republican
Apropos of Barry Goldwater.
When i search duckduckgo for “Extremism in the defense of liberty”, the first article is from Niskansen center talking about how that quote violates every theory of virtue in history (cause muh Aristotle)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/on-the-saying-that-extremism-in-defense-of-liberty-is-no-vice/
I always forget, Goldwater was quoting Seneca?
Cicero, not Seneca.
Only 67 miles off
Or seventy, if you stick close to the lake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_High_School_MCA
^^My High School, so it sticks in my mind.
I can’t ever think of “Cicero” without “North Syracuse” popping in too because one of the school districts was “Cicero-North Syracuse” and I heard the two terms constantly adjacent to each other.
Niskanen Center is a neocon think tank. Garbage people that should be ignored, when not being mocked
It strikes me that even their interpretation of Aristotle is pretty superficial.
Apparently Nixon was also a good guy down down deep, who “cared about the office of the presidency as a historical institution and moral force in America.” Not like that dastardly Trump and his high crimes of asking another country to help investigate a corrupt Democrat, and then having the gall to defend his own actions. We’ve got to get rid of this guy before he does something truly evil like drone-kill American citizens.
Damnit he was supposed to quit! Not Fight!
If Mitt Romney shows up at the White House and demands Trump’s resignation, does anybody—least of all Mitt—think Trump would listen or care?
Wouldn’t that require some kind of relationship between Mitt Romney and Trump?
There was one fundamental difference. Nixon’s position had become untenable. Nixon didn’t resign because a bunch of Republican Congressmen decided they didn’t like him anymore. He resigned because the Congressmen and Senators had defected to outside his camp. His erstwhile allies were now becoming his opposition. That isn’t the case for Trump. For the most part, he’s got solid backing in the GOP caucus. They’re supporting him because they’re pretty sure he can win in November. And this presumption that an accusation, in and of itself, should be enough for a president (but, only a GOP president, mind you; we all know that any accusation against a Democratic president is simply a product of Republican perfidy) to resign in disgrace should be something that Beltway insiders find laughable. But, they’re really that stupid and brainwashed.
Won’t some brave Republican stand up and shout “No more!”
Otherwise they’re just a bunch of Nazis. Everyone who voted for them, too.
With regard to the Montana First Amendment case, I really don’t get the claim of subsidy of religious schools. It looks like the tax credit goes to the parents, not the school. The parents choosing to spend the money from that credit on educational services offered by a religious school is no more a violation of church and state than someone choosing to spend part of their tax refund on a dinner offered at a church fish fry. The government is quick enough to say that once you’ve paid your taxes, it’s the government’s money. Okay, but that principle should work in reverse. Once the government has given you a tax credit for buying educational services, it’s your money to spend on such services.
You are probably mixing up the parties.
The donor puts money in a fund. The donor get the tax credit.
The fund provides scholarships to the school on the kids behalf.
The parents send their kids to the school, paying either $0 or a reduced tuition (I think, may only be $0 in this state).
Your point is the entire reason that states have set this up as a tax credit fund instead of taking the money themselves and providing it to the private schools directly – they have a Blaine amendment saying that direct funding using government funds is unconstitutional at the state level.
Useful history of Blaine amendments by the good folks at IJ litigating the case: https://ij.org/sc_long_podcast/special-episode-espinoza-v-montana-dept-of-revenue/
Again, though, the tax credit goes to the donor. The fund itself functions pretty much as a charity. Are we going to start saying charities can’t give to churches? Then I think we’ve entered some pretty dangerous territory.
Right. The architects of this plan set it up so that charities give money to the religious school on non-sectarian basis. The trial court ruled that it was ok. The state appeals court said it was ok. The state supreme court interpreted the Blaine amendment in the state constitution to say that its not ok. SCOTUS took the case on a question of if that interpretation of the Blaine amendment violates the 1st (and maybe 14th, can’t remember) of the US constitution. I expect them to overturn the state supreme court.
The only people “going to start saying charities can’t give to churches” are the state supreme court, and only when it is done in a tax-credit-for-donations scheme, and only when “to churches” is replaced with “sectarian schools” not all church activity.
If this ends up invalidating Blaine amendments, progressives are going to lose their minds. Some bigotry is OK
*IJ strokes their fluffy white cat, grins, and leans back in their leather executive office chair*
I could see this putting a serious kink in the Democratic party. They’ve been able, so far, to paper over fractures between the Progressives For Failing School wing vs Poor Minorities for My Kids Not Being Physically, Sexually, and Emotionally Abused While Being Trapped in Failing Schools wing.
And that’s why I like IJ (and have them as my charity of choice on my smile.amazon.com account).
I remember when they use to advertise on the back of issues of “Liberty” magazine back in the day. Good group
But i mean, Catholics are like…. Icky.
LOL! And this case should wind up having a decision before the election. Watching the Democrats twist in the wind between their progressive base that really does believe just this and their Catholic voters is going to be priceless.
Hell yes it is! Remember Hugh Latimer!
“The South will apparently not rise again. In fact, it doesn’t look like they’ll even get off the couch.”
I had no idea Washington, DC was an island in the Atlantic.
https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/data/inactivity-prevalence-maps/maps-files/2019-inactivity-map-Overall.svg
I love that they have a bit on their legend (<15%) that i don't see used at all….
Hard to imagine that this could’ve turned out any differently.
“I’ll tell you what I’d do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.”
no sound but I’m assuming “two chicks at the same time.”?
My mind works strangely.
Yesterday I started with the idea seed for a story of “Harpies are raiding merchants, narrator gets sent to clear out the flying bandits.” Now I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of harpy society, ecology, demographics, and role in the black market.
Welcome to Curiosity 101.
This happens all the time, this is just the latest example. I don’t need to know any of this to write a story where the narrator fights harpy bandits, but I just get the feeling that painting in the background in my mind creates a better story on the page.
Harpies can be hot
harpies are just pests. not particularly dangerous.
According to Dragon magazine, harpies are parthenogenic. And since I’m pretty sure that bestiary was from the Kim Mohan/EGG era it’s probably right.
*shudder*
Oh, harpies. Not hippies.
Say what you will about hippies, but them being unwilling to bang is not one of their faults.
I don’t like that one.
Naw, I was going to go with – There are males, but they live in flocks akin to lion prides or gorilla packs, only with lethal dominance fights between males. Most of the actions and decisions are directed by the matriarch of the flock, since the males don’t risk their position by wandering from the vicinity of the nest.
Also I’d decided that young harpies can be pretty, but they get ugly fast, and seek to adorn themselves with shiny things to compensate, so the matriarch of a successful flock would be very reflective due to chains and baubles.
Pretty when young, get adorned with a jewel, and turn into an ugly harpy.
I thought you were writing fantasy, not MGTOW lit.
Well, when you put them in the wrong order like that, you distort what I wrote.
Boom. You’ve just been Red Pilled bro.
So much gold that they’d be unable to fly?
Now I need to find my .pdf of the first 200 issues of Dragon.
Maybe, maybe not. But they’d be advanced in years by then and might not be that good at flight regardless.
Beware the Harpy
https://imgur.com/a/GAiclzr
Imgur is blocked from work – what’s the image?
Better picture than the one I took anyways.
https://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/3/60/5284ea02747c5/clean.jpg
Ah, I see.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EO5aN-AWkAAzY2r.jpg
The best part of Tulsi’s lawsuit against Clinton
Her power level is over 9,000
She’s the best thing to happen to presidential politics since Trump invited all of Bill Clinton’s accusers to his debate with Hillary
OMG
Jedi Troll wrote that one up!
Malice is my hero.
Meanwhile Bernie is rolling over for another female psycho this time around.
WARNING: This may be a Michael Malice troll. And God bless him for that
My NY-legal El Cheapo racing rifle build:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IMG_20200122_100153-scaled.jpg
Made from “blemished” MAS and Anderson Mfg parts. As soon as I’m off work when there is daylight I’ll see how it runs and sight it in. I’m thinking I’m going to be much happier with the HK style irons.
I’m currently tracking my CZ75 adapter as it makes its way from Canada. So far it’s gone through Cutbank, Helena, Billings, Bismark, Fargo and Sioux Falls. I hope they have good booties on the sled dogs.
I ordered something from Varustelenka in December. Their tracking information gave me detailed information about exactly where in Helsinki my stuff was for like 3 days, then its last update was “Shipped to America”.
My, what a short grip you have…
It’s because my middle finger is so yuge from all the exercise it gets here.
Aren’t the muscles that control the fingers located in the forearms?
Very sharp! Are you going to add rail covers for heat?
As of now, I’m not planning on it since It will probably be fired for less than a minute at a time unless there is a really odd course design or I completely suck.
I am considering replacing the carbine stock with a rifle one. Maybe this one: https://www.hogueinc.com/tactical-rifles/ar15/buttstocks/fixed
But that depends on whether that extra length of pull will really help.
Nice. Not looking for something with cheek riser?
Bye Tulsi.
https://youtu.be/IdpSZGoOtFE
See above, she referenced that possibility in the lawsuit.
Nice:)
Hold on, though, it might have been a Michael Malice troll. I should have added that disclaimer
Hillary is such a miserable human being. And Tulsi has more balls than “genuflect” Bernie who apologizes to the Democrats that smear him
That’s because Bernie just wants to hang with the cool kids in the commune but still express his more commie then thou opinions.
Yup. Fuck Bernie. He brings nothing to the table. He use to be better than the average senator on the war front, but he’s even conceded that, because of fashion. Like all commies, he’s worthless
The left was never anti war. They were anti America and pro communist so they opposed any US military action because it was generally against communists. If the US had invaded Chile to oust Pinochet they would have been cheering.
Plus actually wining the election means he would have to actually do some work…
Just wait 4 years.
https://youtu.be/TesSxB4AaSg
Related to Pie’s article yesterday.
https://www.lawliberty.org/2020/01/21/a-story-of-economic-contrasts/
Hong Kong and Cuba, Monnery argues, are two remarkable real world experiments of economies closer to resembling an ideal (true laissez-faire, true socialism) than any other in the world. To the reader of A Tale of Two Economies, it is rather obvious which lessons ought to be taken: “in the late 1950s, both economies had a GDP per capita of around $4,500 in today’s money. By 2018 Cuba had slightly more than doubled its GDP per capita to around $9,000 per person. But Hong Kong reached $64,000 per capita”—seven times Cuba’s, and even exceeding the UK’s as well.
On Malcolm McLaren’s birthday, you may think you want to hear the Sex Pistols, but you really want to hear…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCBN7lyLT4w
This is pretty cool. He can see the future!
https://twitter.com/SageRosenfels18/status/1220002480597217281
Lol
Drumpf attacks child
The president spoke about Thunberg during a press conference at Davos before he left Switzerland to return to the United States.
He said the United States was experiencing great environmental numbers while other countries were worse polluters of the air and putting tons of garbage in the Pacific ocean.
“I think Greta has to start working on those other countries,” Trump said.
“Pretty much nothing has been done,” Thunberg lamented at a World Economic Forum event on climate change.
“Since last summer, I have been repeating these numbers over and over again in almost every speech, but honestly, I have not once seen any media outlet or person in power communicate this or what it means,” she added.
Trump told reporters he would have loved to see Thunberg’s speech but missed it.
“How old is she?” Trump asked. “Seventeen? Oh, that’s good, she beat me out on TIME magazine.”
Honestly, I like Trump’s response to Thunberg. Basically, you’re never going to win the argument with her because even if you demonstrate you’re absolutely right, you’re still “picking on an autistic child”. Given that, trolling is absolutely the best counter.
https://reason.com/2020/01/21/covington-catholic-media-nick-sandmann-lincoln-memorial/
“A Year Ago, the Media Mangled the Covington Catholic Story. What Happened Next Was Even Worse.”
Robby has decided that he doesn’t have a future at any corporate press outlet anyways, so he’s gone YOLO
Honestly, I like Trump’s response to Thunberg. Basically, you’re never going to win the argument with her because even if you demonstrate you’re absolutely right, you’re still “picking on an autistic child”. Given that, trolling is absolutely the best counter.
I thought their little “troll vs troll” episode a while back was pretty funny, and well played on both sides.
He called her something like “happy and well adjusted” and she promptly put it in her twatter profile. It would be hilarious if he invited her to the White House and they spent the afternoon gabbing amicably. The W H press corps would probably commit seppuku en masse.
She’s 17 now. Does anyone really think a 17 year old is a child?