I think all the time-traveling the Hat & Hair did to save The Donald is really stating to pull our local reality apart at the seams. Just what in the hell is going on? Everything! Although, I did take my boys to the zoo on Saturday and it was surprisingly normal, except they made us wear masks in the one air-conditioned exhibit. Lots of great pictures, and some credit from Momma for giving her a day to herself. Now that “school” is over, I feel like I inhabit this little bubble of 2019 that has somehow stuck around despite the craziness of 2020. I guess being normal is weird now, so why not Florida?
Hong Kong police would love to let people memorialize Tienanmen Square, but the COVID….
Ebola? Come the fuck on, 2020
Never Trumper engages in public masturbation, no charges filed.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an elephant serial killer.
We should all memorialize Tiananmen Square.
I’m sure antifa would try to burn it down.
The independent autopsy on George Floyd proved that he died because the blood to his brain was cut off. Just shocked to learn that he didn’t coincidentally die of a heart problem while the cop had a knee on his neck.
But how did he test for COVID-19?
I mean, would it really matter if he did have a heart problem? I’m not sure about the all the intricacies of legal bullshit, but to me, if you do something to someone, and that action triggers a health condition, that shouldn’t absolve you from responsibility.
Like if you decided to sedate a prisoner, and you picked a sedative he was violently allergic to, and he died, then it wouldn’t be a defense to say “If he hadn’t been allergic, he wouldn’t have died.” would it? Don’t you have the higher duty and higher scrutiny when you have a bound prisoner?
Of course. And in law there’s something known as the “eggshell plaintiff” rule, which means that you’re still responsible for what happens even if it only happened because the other person was unusually fragile.
But I think most of us have been around this long enough to know that the laws that apply to the police aren’t the same ones that apply to the rest of us.
No, it wouldn’t. What matters is the officer’s mental state (i.e. what did he intend to do), the dangerousness of his actions, and the outcome. Kneeling on someone’s neck for over 8 minutes is inherently dangerous. We know Floyd died. The only leaves the cop’s mental state issue. In the end, this is difference between murder and manslaughter, not guilt or innocence.
Well, Floyd said he couldn’t breathe multiple times. A crowd nearby told them they were killing him. The other cop seemed to express quite a bit of concern about him dying AND he stopped moving and breathing AND the other cop said he couldn’t find a pulse. It’s not looking possible to argue that Choking Chauvin didn’t know he was likely causing a death. The only question is how culpable are the other cops who didn’t forcibly stop him and in fact aided his effort.
Choking Chauvin
Ever since he was cut during the Vikings training camp, he has really, really tried to prove everyday that he had what it takes to wear the Purple.
Because a normal person would not have a bad reaction to someone kneeling on their neck for 10 minutes. How is a cop supposed to know you have some condition? They can’t even do their job!
The MIL is listening to Todd(?) Schnitt who is, apparently, a conservative radio host. He thought it important to point out that if you can say “I can’t breathe,” then you actually can breathe. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to talk. I have no idea if that is true or not but, yes, that’s something that should be discussed. Idiot.
IANAD (well, a medical doctor), but according to the article on the independent autopsy, just because you can talk doesn’t mean you can breathe.
He’s fucking clueless.
I do jiu jitsu.
It’s possible to asphyxiate someone without blocking their airway. You constrict their ribs or their diaphragm so that breathing in takes a huge amount of effort or is impossible. And, until they lose the strength needed to pull air into their lungs, the person being constricted can talk.
In fact, one time it happened to me, I went from “doing fine, don’t need to tap yet, try to create space” to passing out cold so quickly, I never tapped. My last words were “you’ve almost got it, keep going”.
Or a sharp blow to the carotid can cause the artery to contract cutting off flow to the brain. Three seconds and the victim passes out. A knee to the neck can have the same effect.
*remembers a few tricks from back in the day
Oh yeah.
Although constricting the blood supply to the brain is so quick that people usually don’t talk.
I believe that’s part of the killing method with crucifixion, along with exposure/dehydration.
That logic is only applicable if you have something blocking your airway passage. Other wise you can “not breathe” and still talk. If someone is pressing down on your neck or heavy on your chest, it is restricted and severely labored, but you can still talk to an extent.
The way I look at is, you can’t breath underwater, yet you can talk.
:Boot lickers heads explode:
And no, not because the cops shot them in the head.
I could still hear Granny from under the pillow. I don’t know what happened!
That’s a great example.
There are alot of people that legit believe it though. Back in high school, I wrestled. That was the mantra of our coach: “if you can talk, you can breathe”. It wasnt until much later that I learned otherwise.
Yeah, I get that he’s wrong. But my larger point, which I didn’t explain very well, was, even if he was right, who fucking cares? That’s not the issue. Floyd was in distress and the cop didn’t give a shit.
Agreed.
Its Team Red copsucking, its an instinctive urge for them. No matter how bad the cops behave, theres a Team Red copsucker ready to explain how ACKSHUALLY its not that bad.
Or maybe, Todd Schnitt the Copsucker, a fit, athletic dude who worked as a bouncer recognized the gradual shortness of breath he was feeling, and attempted to alert the police that it was happening.
“Excuse me my good officer, I feel a bit short of breath. If its not too much trouble, could you please ease up the pressure on my trachea, if you would. If it’s not too much trouble.”
Derek Chauvin murdered Floyd. Of that there is no doubt.
Why is the question. I have heard all kinds of weird shit. They both worked at a bar as security. The mafia runs all bars. They both worked in porn? Is that true? The mafia runs porn too.
Was this a hit? If so, why?
There is something very, very hinky about this business.
I don’t know. This is not the first or even 2nd time the cops have pulled this same type bullshit.
Now their might be some weird shit going on with this case. But the only thing I’ve heard so far is that they both worked at the same place in security at the same time. So there may have been some sort of disagreement going on between them. Cop thug had better hope not, because then it starts looking premeditated.
“But the only thing I’ve heard so far is that they both worked at the same place in security at the same time. ”
Somebody did post about this on the weekend (can’t remember who). There is no evidence that they knew each other from where they worked.
I live in the porn capital of the world and I lived with a famous porn star for about a year in ’91. I will tell you that, while there are some mafia-ish types involved, they are the minority. Most of the porn people are all messed up in totally different ways than organized crime ( at least, in L.A.)
“…I lived with a famous porn star for about a year in ’91.”
Ummmm, blackjack, you can’t just drop a little tidbit like that and not flesh out the rest of the story. Some might call you a tease.
can’t just drop a little tidbit like that
quit skeet shaming. maybe he had one removed or wears briefs.
From CNN:
So is CNN saying Dr. Baden should be trusted?
I’m seeing copsuckers point at the autopsy that says asphxiation wasn’t the cause of death to excuse the cops.
Overlooking that compression of the arteries in the neck can be fatal, and that low oxygen saturation in the bloodstream can cause heart attacks. The copsuckers seem perfectly willing to believe that it was purely a coincidence that there was a cop kneeling on his neck when he died.
This is the best part – if you believe Epstein didn’t kill himself, then neither did George Floyd.
Although calling this autopsy “independent” is a bit of a stretch. I would be interested to see some cases where this guy came to a conclusion that contradicted his client’s beliefs.
I was surprised that your comment stopped at the period.
I’ve been grappling in some form or other for 35+ years – wrestling, judo, jiu jitsu (japanese and brasilian), etc, and street fighting for even longer. Let me offer that none of that experience matters. All of this talk about George Floyd breathing and talking is utter and complete horseshit.
My grandmother would have kicked her sons’ teeth in if she caught one kneeling on the other’s neck. The human neck is one of the most delicate and vulnerable parts of the human body, with almost zero protection while containing numerous vital components – it connects the head/brain to the body through both the airway and the spine/nervous system. Kneeling on someone’s neck might be the single most idiotic and dangerous thing you could ever do to another person. A slight shift in balance and you could crush the spine, twist the neck, crush the larynx, and on and on. If I caught one of my kids doing it to another I would slap the living shit out of them. And I am not exaggerating when I say that. I would be livid at one of my kids doing that to another.
People trying to justify this reveal everything about themselves and add nothing to the discussion.
I would NEVER, EVER allow someone to kneel on another person’s neck – ever. And if someone did it or tried to do it to me on the mat, I would take it as conclusive intent they were trying to maim or kill me and respond and react accordingly.
I can’t even believe we are having this discussion. To me it is simply more proof of how fucking stupid we have become as a people and species.
/End Rant
My brother is a very accomplished karateman (bleeds on the inside, even). His words: “Anyone who has been in martial arts for more than 5 minutes knows to stay the fuck away from the other guy’s neck. Unless you want to kill him, of course.”
Well said, Ozy.
““Police believe the event will not only increase participants’ chances of contracting the virus, but also threaten citizens’ lives and health, thus endangering public safety and affecting the rights of others,” police said.”
They aren’t wrong. I’m no a doctor, but I’m pretty sure tear gas and blunt trauma is bad for you.
I mean it’s not like burning shit down, rioting, and attacking people is harmful to anyone’s health. Nope, only the virus is a concern here.
Will George W. Bush endorse Joe Biden?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I wonder what it’s like to be a Leftist Democrat and see that your party has been taken over by Never Trump republican neo conservatives.
Look getting the endorsment of a War Criminal is worth it if it means getting rid of BAD ORANGE MAN!
The social distancing dogma was concocted within the Bush administration. I think it’s a bigger crime than starting the Iraq war.
So now we want the first Literally Hitler to not endorse the second Literally Hitler, and now it’s ok if Biden is endorsed by a Literally Hitler
They took it too far, from Bush the baby killer & idiot. to Binders of Women Romney looking to put y’all back in chains.
When you go literally Hitler on two milquetoast chumps, then are faced with Donald Trump, you have to turn the outrage knob up to 11.
They have Literally Hitlered every Republican President since Hitler was actually alive. They Literally Hitlered Wendell Wilkie.
I can belive it, but i’d have to see if they tried to literally Hitler Dwight.
Which pol was it that said after WWII that “we’ve defeated fascism abroad only to see it take root at home”?
In my lifetime of being cognizant, every R president nominee was literally Hitler, except Dole. I dont remember it for him. Reagan, both Bushes, Mittens, McCain (I think McCain probably came closest) all literally Hitler.
In my lifetime of being cognizant, every R president nominee was literally Hitler, except Dole. I dont remember it for him. Reagan, both Bushes, Mittens, McCain (I think McCain probably came closest) all literally Hitler.
“They took it too far”
They’re siding with and trying to protect antifa. Went too far?
Taking over? No just exposing that they were always on the same team, Team Government. It might not sit well with the people, but we know what it is.
Yeah, I got a nice laugh out of that too.
Moron endorses dementia patient. Film at 11.
Slow Joe: Yeah, you know I’ve just been endorsed now by my good friend … Bosh… you know, he once ran for the Senate, just like I’m running for now, and we’ve come up with the new Axis of Evil. That’s Donald Trump, Iowa, and … one of them Kor… you know, the thing.
I’m sure that they can get Chimpy McHitler’s support with a few bananas.
Well, I’ve been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today’s codes?
https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1267544317478031366
The 179th (or so) case in which a court found that an accused male student’s sexual misconduct hearing was “fundamentally unfair”. But Betsy DeVos is evil for trying to change that, and literally wants women to be raped by the thousands.
What will bankrupt the schools faster? Not being able to do school because of covid? or all the payouts to accused students?
There will just be more cases of Zoom rape.
Is that like phone sex or phone orgies?
STEVE SMITH NO ZOOM RAPE. HIM BUILT FOR COMFORT, HIM NOT BUILT FOR SPEED.
Since when does STEVE SMITH care about the hikers’ comfort?
AND BY COMFORT, MEAN RAPE. ALSO BY SPEED, MEAN SPEEDY RAPE.
I sure hope so. It is past time to cut the SJW nuts off.
It’s not about rape. It’s about the power to accuse and remove political opponents from society.
You know who else wanted women to be raped by the thousands?
STEVE SMITH?
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an elephant serial killer.
Nah. Its just that that particular Herd witnessed a HRC Hit Job.
And what with them never forgetting and all..
Disney just helping with the conditioning of what the future of The United States will be like once ANTIFA is done:
https://nypost.com/2020/06/01/stormtroopers-enforce-social-distancing-at-disney-theme-park/
The new movies suck, but at least the theme park people have a sense of humor.
What used to be my favorite thing to do at Disneyland was at the end of the day, ride the Jungle Cruise. Usually some guy, sometimes gal, giving the tour and going way off script and everyone having a great time. Now its script only, or so my niece told me. No more poking fun or actually being funny.
As of two years ago and at Disney World, they were still joking around. Not sure if that’s changed due to the movie though.
Maybe the crew-members said screw that and we will go off script. A lot people that get into Disney are aspiring dancers, comedians, actors, etc. Wonder if they took out the lions eating the zebra in the same way they put food in the whores hands in Pirates
Whenever I went on the attraction (they’re “attractions at WDW, never “rides”), the cast member would riff if the audience was into it, but mostly stuck with Dad Jokes. I.e., when approaching the Africa exhibit, “This mountain is made of sandstone, though most people take it for granite.”
If the patrons would pop back with more mineral puns, the cast member would keep on going.
I can’t give you any examples, but you get the schist of it.
you get the schist of it
Gneiss One!
On Monday, Hong Kong’s police force wrote to organisers of the vigil to object to it taking place, citing the social distancing measures that were due to expire on Tuesday.
Maybe it will happen anyway.
That public masturbation editorial was pretty bad.
Elephants have become a political issue in the southern African nation, with President Mokgweetsi Masisi last year lifting a hunting ban and saying more needed to be done to stop the 135,000 elephants in the country from damaging crops and occasionally trampling villagers.
Huh. Are the hunters allowed to harvest the ivory?
How funny would it be if they brought back the big game hunting industry. Oh the Left would be so fucking incensed.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an elephant serial killer.
Q. How do you kill a unique elephant?
A. Unique up on him!
Q. How you kill a tame elephant?
A. Tame way, tupid!
Q. Why do ducks have flat feet?
A. To put out forest fires.
Q. Why do elephants have flat feet?
A. To put out flaming ducks.
Gauleiterin Whitmer graciously and magnanimously deigns to lift cower-in-place; however, salons and barbershops will continue to feel her wrath for daring to defy her. Some other businesses will remain closed pour encourager les autres. Leper Length and other similar restrictions will remain in place.
NJ will start to lift the boot off our necks in 2 weeks. Still no date for gyms and if you want to participate in anything other than a riot, you must engage in safety theater while genuflecting towards Trenton.
Better a boot than a (Chauvin) knee?
It will be at least another month before we know how many businesses Murphy managed to asphyxiate.
Since other link adblocked:
“The Democratic Republic of Congo has detected a new Ebola outbreak in its northwest Équateur province, adding to global health woes.
Lab tests confirmed six cases. Four patients have died and two are receiving care, according to the World Health Organization.
The outbreak in the health zone around the city of Mbandaka comes as the globe battles the COVID-19 pandemic.
Also, the DRC is trying to stamp out the last embers of an Ebola outbreak in a war-torn, eastern province that’s been going on since 2018.
“This is a reminder that COVID-19 is not the only health threat people face,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said. “Although much of our attention is on the pandemic, WHO is continuing to monitor and respond to many other health emergencies.”
The new Ebola outbreak is the 11th one recorded in the DRC since the disease was discovered in 1976. The ninth one occurred in the same area from May to July in 2018.
WHO said it has personnel on the ground in Mbandaka to test samples and trace the contacts of infected persons.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/1/congo-reports-new-ebola-outbreak/
Monkeys are going to steal the samples, aren’t they?
Whoever’s playing Plague Inc. on “Real Life” mode really needs to stop.
Blah blah blah. Stop fucking corpses you stupid savages and you will stop getting ebola.
I thought it was racist to call it Ebola. Or is place of origin OK again?
JFC
Until they get together and merge into one supervirus that kills us all.
No sure I’d really care at this point.
The “Kill All Humans Virus”.
You MeatBags had your chance — now we see the rise of The Planet of the Capsids!
“‘You’re weak!’ Donald Trump calls governors ‘jerks’ and ‘fools’ for not deploying the National Guard to stop violent protests then uses Twitter to threaten to deploy the 101st Airborne against ANTIFA ‘terrorists’ he claims are behind violence”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8376461/Trump-holds-crisis-talks-AG-governors-weekend-riots-death-George-Floyd.html
“BREAKING NEWS: Cuomo announces 11pm-5am NYC curfew and says he will put another 4,000 cops on the streets after Trump said he had to ‘toughen up’ in his response to looters and riots”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8376441/Looters-trash-Soho-Smashed-windows-Gucci-Chanel-Bloomingdales-NYC.html
Only Trump could turn this into “Hey governors, you’re jerks and fools and by the way you should pass laws banning flag burning”.
In Trump’s defense, the governors are jerks and fools.
It is pretty obvious that this is some kind of deluded leftist attempt to declare war. I think a lot of leftist pols are sympathetic.
Cuomo walking all over Deblasio (remember him?) again. *snort*
Can the two of them get a room and fuck each other and leave the rest of us alone?
I think he’s cracking.
How much can one person take before losing it?
The governors can’t handle it. The feds need to prosecute antifa members under federal law, as terrorists. Wait until you get a few of these little bedwetters asses hauled in under federal felony charges, facing decades in prison. Let’s see how fucking brave they are then. They’ve been coddled by city governments like in Seattle and Portland. Then they got emboldened and started doing this in other cities, and still nothing happened. So they’re going to keep this shit up until the hammer is brought down on their asses. I’d rather see them beaten to death by the protesters and the cops, but that probably won’t have too much appeal with the public. Time for a dose of reality for out little ‘revolutionaries’.
I think the little molothot in NY and the two lawyers currently in federal custody are the start of that.
molothot
Nice.
Prosecute?
I thought that, if you’re a declared terrorist, the Feds can do away with all that pesky “trial” stuff and go right to renditioning ’em to Gitmo.
“against ANTIFA ‘terrorists’ he claims are behind violence”
I bet he made that claim without evidence. All us Science followers know that the truth is that its those boog alue white nationalists doing the violence.
“Black Baltimore cop is suspended after knocking out ‘mentally ill’ black woman who punched his white colleague twice in the head after ‘heckling protesters'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8377101/Baltimore-police-officer-suspended-caught-camera-punching-woman.html
Looks like that cop was right though.
yeah she had that comin’
Justified. Even though I think the idea you should only make a “proportionate” response to a violent person is bullshit, that was even proportionate.
Obviously he’s a racist.
Er, a white supremacist.
I have a coworker that buys the white nationalist are behind all this mind. I was floored until I realized there was little difference between that and believe in Russian collusion and Putin being a puppet master which he also believes.
When you ardently believe everything CNN tells you, of course you will buy that its’ white nationalists that are rioting.
They don’t call them “useful idiots” for nothing.
“Award-winning archaeologist gives detailed instructions on how to pull down Confederate obelisks as protesters topple racist statues in Birmingham and Nashville”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8376541/Archaeologist-gives-instructions-safely-pull-obelisks-George-Floyd-protests.html
CWAA
Like the Sphinx she studies, she is cutting off her nose to spite her face.
Now give us instructions on how to place the dynamite to blow up giant Buddhas.
[golf clap]
You know who else destroys historical monuments? Just another example of how alike certain groups are.
I wonder how she felt about ISIS destroying pagan artifacts.
As someone who has an MA in archaeology, I can tell you that 99.9% of everyone she has ever come into professional contact with has been a bug-eyed socialist derpshit.
As if studying Precolumbian building practices entitles one to preach to the rest of us yokels about politics.
I like the Egyptians were racist or white supremacists…
* how the Egyprians weren’t*
There was a guy (Bernal) who wrote a book called Black Athena that argued that Greek civilization stole everything from Africa (as in Greek philosophy and whatnot). It was actually taken seriously in certain academic circles.
Africa has interesting cultures and history without making up stupid shit out of whole cloth.
“It was actually taken seriously in certain academic circles.”
TBF, not very many.
More than 0 is too many. If I published a new book talking about how Galileo was actual a plant by the Pope to suppress the truth of geocentrism, I doubt I would win an American Book Award for it.
Afrocentrists treat upper Nilotic civilizations like they’re worthless.
CNBC has interviewed a slew of CEO’s about the current civil unrest and creation of opportunities for African Americans. When pressed about their company programs and hiring, nearly all have pivoted to “under represented” people and diversity.
CEO training includes learning how to toss a good word-salad for the media.
Or just know how to toss the media’s salad
They all have coaches to tell them exactly what to say. Which in modern times is probably a good idea, given how quickly you can be destroyed for saying something slightly outside of what you’re expected to say.
I’d like to hear someone talking about profits.
Because very shortly, there aren’t going to be any.
Why are you worried about profits when the Dow is UP UP UP?
I’d say that that would put them in dangerous legal position (EEO laws and all), but i think there is on point precdent from the supreme court, saying that laws about equal employment can’t be used if it is to the detriment of a group of people the legislators didn’t intend to be helping (i.e. White People).
So the last five decades of AA accomplished… what? exactly?
Just turn on the news, you’re looking at it.
Meanwhile, in Louisville, a BBQ shop owner was shot by police/the National Guard yesterday. Police chief had said that they returned fire against someone who was shooting at them, but SHOCKINGLY, all of the officers’ body cameras just happened to have turned off before the shooting.
The police chief has been fired. He should’ve been fired two months ago after Breonna Taylor, but hey.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/06/01/who-david-mcatee-louisville-barbecue-store-owner-killed-police/5308229002/
His cops certainly have trouble with guns and their cameras being off. Maybe its somethin other worldly causing it. Should throw Fox Mulder on the case.
Cops to suggest owner may have had a positive tox screen in 3 2 ….
How many cops are hyped up on some kind of stimulant before going on raids?
LOL I read that as “going on roids”.
Well, that too.
The insurance will cover it.
Well in this case, either the store owners family will eat it, or the taxpayers.
There is a whole lotta feels in that article but very little information.
Thanks to everyone that offered advice on truck buying in the AM lynx. Y’all have given me a lot to (re)consider.
Just a few explanations. I haven’t looked at the Ridgeline much because its outclassed by its competitors in price and towing capacity. I have largely been unsure if I want to go the mid-size truck route anyway.
It is likely foolish, but I was avoiding the Nissans because of the financials for the company. I guess I was worried about what owning a Nissan looks like if the company is bankrupt in a few years.
There is a possibility the pop-up could be upgraded to a small travel trailer later in the lifetime of the truck.
Ridgeline is more expensive than it competitors (except for Toyota) but you can find one under $30k and 40k miles which was your parameters. Sure, you could reason that an F-150 or Silverado is more capable for the price, but the Ridgeline is still going to do everything you ask of it and provide a better overall ride.
When I was shopping for trucks (I settled on just buying a beater Ranger for doing things around the house) I test drove a brand new Frontier and several Ridgelines (among other trucks, but the bran new Frontier and Ridgeline was on the same day which was a good comparison). The Frontier…drove like a truck, which is to say rough and bumpy. The Ridgeline was much smoother and car-like, which I think you will appreciate if still doing a lot of commuting in it.
The Frontier…drove like a truck, which is to say rough and bumpy.
Oh no. A truck that drives like a truck.
I’m not bashing the Frontier, except the current iteration is ancient (Nissan finally unveiling a new one soon). And the ride kinda sucks. But otherwise, I would have no problems buying one.
Nissan has a history of letting the Frontier/Xterra platform go stale while they keep the family vehicles more up to date.
Since I run mine for a decade or more between purchases, it doesn’t bother me. And I prefer stripped-down platforms without all the consumer bullshit.
You probably already saw this, but I’m sure you appreciate the title: Nissan Giving Million-Mile Frontier Owner a Brand New Truck (That’s Pretty Much the Same)
Thats funny
That’s actually part of the reason I got my Tacoma, over the Ridgeline. It just feels more truck-like.
Nissan is so popular, and so many Japanese brands share parts, and so many companies make those parts, I wouldn’t worry.
There is a great deal of truth in this; it works globally, even, not just Japanese badges.
Thanks guys that makes sense
bankrupt
Fair point, but, if it makes you feel any better: of the hundreds of car companies that arose in the US in the past century, only Ford remains in any form remotely like its self of as recently as 13 years ago.
I have a Frontier 4X4, and I love it. A friend is on his second (over 12 years at least) and he obviouly went back to the well. The only thing I don’t like, and it is a very minor quibble, is that they put a six speed in it when it should have been a five. Not an issue if you don’t drive stick.
I have owned a few Honda products in my life. And will not touch another one with a ten foot pole. In fact, when I worked for an auto electrican, they were the most derided car that came in; really bad electrics and not a manufacturer with easily repairable parts. In other word, if there was an electrical problem, you probably had to replace the whole harness.
This time, it’s personal:
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/looters-hit-stores-near-mall-at-millenia-as-justice-for-george-protests-erupt-across-orlando
Do what you want to panda E, but don’t mess with my donuts!
Q would have kept the camera rolling on the girls in tank-tops running away.
With all the big things going on, I don’t know why this story outrages me but it just does (irrational lizard brain maybe): https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52866678
Here’s the short version, Aston Villan defender Tyrone Mings, spoke out and criticized the English Premier League’s plan to restart football. In the interview he said: players are “commodities in the game”; “The motives are possibly 100% financially driven rather than integrity driven”; “Project Restart is financially driven. I think everybody accepts that. I am all for playing again because we have no other choice. As players, we were the last people to be consulted about Project Restart and that is because of where we fall in football’s order of priority…it really doesn’t make any difference what the players think because you are going back to play. It is get in or get out.”
There’s good and bad in that, but the phrase that is pissing me off is “financially driven.” Who is Mings? First of all the good: he played amateur football while working two other jobs before getting a pro contract. And, he’s part of an Aston Villa team where all the players took a 25% deferral of their wages for four months so the club could keep all the support staff employed and not have to get involved in the British government’s support program (but, note, it’s a deferral, not giving up permanently).
Here’s the part that pisses me off: according to numbers I could find online, Mings was being paid $75k pounds per MONTH to sit home and not play. Hey, Tyrone, you hate being a “commodity”? Then go get a fucking job working on a construction site or something.
And I’ve been hearing a lot of similar ideas from British football journalists, all sitting at home drawing wages and complaining about the way “money” is driving decisions in football.
Well said but this is surprising because….?
We all knew the majority of ‘Lockdowners’ and ‘Too sooners’ are people getting a paid vacation.
They can sit home and pretend to be humanists while others are sacrificed.
This pisses me off to no end this part of the equation.
This for me will be the lasting impression. That I know how spectacularly full of shit people can be.
Yeah, sadly a lot of the people I work with are taking this tack. Sitting at home collecting monthly (government) salary checks and complaining about people who want restrictions lifted. I just find it worse from a guy making that kind of money.
Everyone where I work has been having a dickens of a time getting their unemployment from being furloughed down to three days a week.
And here I’m wondering how many teams on America’s shiny new 2nd, 3rd, and 4th tiers will survive. Guessing a few of the established “Championship” teams (Indy, Pittsburgh) and some of the MSL reserves make it. Everyone else folds.
Boo MLS not doing relegation.
I think the finances are too precarious for that. Other countries where soccer is a minor sport (India, Australia, et al.) don’t have it either.
He is in the entertainment business. No show, no money. I cancelled my cable TV subscription (Fubo TV) after all the sports folded. In other words I’m not paying a penny to NBCSN, which pays millions to the EPL. Unless you start playing, I won’t resubscribe.
It would be nice if this led to better coverage of European football here in the US instead of having the EPL rammed down our throats.
Still with this? You must be in heaven with only the Bundesliga on now.
The Faroe Islands league has been back, too.
Target acquired, two large, round masses, Mammary Monday incoming!
http://archive.li/Fd8tD
You always know how to cheer me up:)
#18 looks like Ruby May.
#25 is Angela White.
#27’s instagram page.
Better than average gallery.
It looks like a slew of chubby women, some bordering on BBW, with compensatory huge tits.
I approve.
JFC. One of my staff just emailed this to me: https://patch.com/california/murrieta/curfew-set-riverside-county-despite-peaceful-protests.
My county has over 2 million people in it. My city is just over 100,000. There was no violence. Beyond the FYTW Clause, what legal basis is there for a curfew?
Look. everyone else is getting to flex their authoritarian muscle some, why are you not going to let your county commissioner in on the action..
Of course:
As long as the county was acting in good faith, then this should be allowed
– John Roberts
The Good Faith clause in the Constitution!
Johnny “I Just Want To Be Loved” Roberts is fast turning out to be the worst appointment in 25 years.
It seems like he wants to be W’s Souter
That ship sailed in 2012
Seconded.
To honest and rational legal scholars, the Penaltax will go down as one of the worst SCOTUS decisions ever, alongside Brown v. BoE and Dredd Scott.
Shortly after the decision, I was on a panel discussing it at a bar association meeting. The guy who got me on the panel was a friend, a very good lawyer, and a big OCare supporter.
He said it was the most intellectually dishonest SCOTUS opinion he had ever read.
I tell people it is the Dred Scott of the modern Supreme Court. It’s underlying rationale is that you are the property of the State – you can’t opt out. If some actuary can put you in a risk pool, then it’s ‘interstate commerce’ and now you MUST play, pay, and obey. It will go down as one of the worst decisions ever.
That’s crazy. Orlando’s curfew is 11-5am but we had actual violence.
Columbus is 10pm until further notice. Started Saturday.
Same with LA. Went from city (downtown) to the whole county for curfew. Almost as if this was their second wave….
Over on TOS I have been arguing with the Johns in relatively good order (for that place). They have been saying “We need to stop the lawless rioting” and I was replying, “Screw that, we need to stop the lawless government.” I totally condemn the rioting, but as many of them remind me, sometimes you have to choose the lesser evil.
And I will happily ignore the rioters I despise over the lawless mayors putting me under house arrest and the lawless cops who will shoot me in the face with teargas canisters and rubber bullets. They get away with this because they KNOW the law and order types will forgive their every excess if it keeps the riots down- just as they have forgiven every excess if it kept drugs, whores and other crimes out of sight. This is a unique time to stop that, but it feels like once again the right is throwing away their chance.
Is it wrong to want to spend the next 12 months using up every benefit my company has to offer and then unceremoniously dump them and go somewhere less infested with progs?
Excerpt from email received from CEO 5 minutes ago (paraphrased to avoid searchability) : “I’m sure we’re on the same page, feeling anger, grief, and frustration at the systematic racism and oppression in our society.
…
We have a responsibility as a company to ensure a world of equality. We need to stand up and advocate within and outside the company for unconditional inclusion.”
If that’s truly what he believes then maybe you should find somewhere else to work before they go tits up.
Yeah. If he dosn’t own a large voting stake in the company, then he really ought to be fired.
The thought has occurred to me. On the other hand, as long as they’re still willing to sign my checks and provide me benefits, and this Marxist bullshit is just words, I’m happy to take their money. I know I’ll spend it on more egalitarian things than they will.
Steak…
Steak is egalitarian
And beer…
Could’ve been a black cow or a brown cow or a white cow or a mulatto cow. I’m an equal opportunity cow consumer.
Reply with a request for some unconditional inclusion in the senior management profit sharing plan.
And to answer your question – NO. Every time I’ve been the good soldier instead of the greedy mercenary I’ve regretted it.
I gave my notice today, starting a new C2C contract in two weeks. I feel very bad that there will be clients and coworkers inconvenienced by my leaving. I will do my utmost over the next two weeks to reasonably minimize that. It was about the same money after you figure I’m carrying my taxes and insurance. Everyone should strike the best deal they can and then live up to the terms as best they are able. Never do your employer a favor you wouldn’t do a paying customer, because that’s what they are.
That.
By the time I started asking myself, “Should I look for a new job?” it was already past time.
“unconditional inclusion”
Tell them you’re a gun-toting, hardcore right-wing Trumpista and thanks for including you.
Their response will be amusing.
10X this.
Do that on the way out the door.
No, it is not wrong. Fuck ’em. The harder the better.
Trashy if you seriously question the leadership then it is time to make exit plans. I wouldn’t burn any bridges on the way out because you never know when you will encounter someone in the same industry. But don’t stick around if it’s bad for you. It’s a job, not a marriage.
Make it a graceful exit, and I say sure, why not?
One question: why wait a year? Get your resume out now, and as somebody with a job currently, you will be a more attractive candidate, and be able to pick and choose your next gig.
why wait a year?
1) they’re paying $5k on my student loan over the next year, and that will exhaust the program
2) wife is due in November and I get 6 months paternity leave
That sounds like it’s worth sticking around for.
Leaving right after sticking them for 6 months paternity leave is probably going to leave a bridge somewhat scorched, at a mimimum.
My company’s was “social justice is core to who we are as a company.” Mind you my company is in the top 20 of the Fortune 500. It was the type of sentence that made me want to short the stock…if only that weren’t against my employment contract.
Happy news: delicious cherries all over the tree and strawberries ready too. Peaches and plums are numerous but need more growing time.
And now back to your regularly scheduled outrage and yelling at clouds.
Nice. What are you going to do with your plums? We have a ton on the tree (still need to grow of course), but i’m not sure what we are going to do with them all.
We usually eat them raw. If there is too much, then I’ll give some away.
It’s the apples that overwhelm me, but that will be a while.
My father in law made canned (jarred) apple sauce one time. He had bought like a crate of them off the side of the road when coming back from the western slope of CO. That apple sauce was the best food I have ever tasted, and it lasted for like two years until we ate it all.
If you are looking for something to do with apples, it is pretty good. It works as a side for most pork dishes, and a desert for kids, and even a filling for breakfast crepes and waffles.
My lime tree finally has limes. The lemon tree is producing like crazy as usual.
So it’s basically 68 all over again without the southern racists. Only the southern racist mentality lives on in the media by talking about how the blacks are incapable of acting civilized and it’s totally not their fault they are looting.
Well if we just give them 13 trillion dollars all will be well.
+1 AOC
Yes. The implication that white supremacists are goading blacks into burning and looting is explicitly racist. They’re out there saying “Blacks can’t think for themselves” “Whitey made them do it”
That’s not to say blacks are alone in the burning and looting, plenty of shitass white kids are out there getting their revolution on.
This time, they’ve got to invent the KKK because they’re not really around any more. So the real threat to the country comes from Chris Cantwell, the Crying Nazi, and his ilk.
The KKK was the enforcement / intimidation arm of the DNC up until the late 60’s. They have been replaced by Antifa.
Cornel West was on TV a few days ago talking about how blacks shouldn’t have to live around whites. First time I agreed with the guy.
I am tired of living around people who think like that. Cornel should go sit on a sharp stick.
He could move to Baltimore. It’s pretty much like that here.
Except that they’re not looting; it’s totally white supremacists doing the looting.
good catch.
I have gotten to the point where if I hear ‘black’ or ‘white’ I immediately ignore anything else the speaker has to say.
I’m so done with the race shit. This was a clear murder nobody not even the biggest copsuckers I know disagreed, now we have this shit going on? This country is a fucking powder keg.
“New Ebola Outbreak”
Now if that ends up over here I’ll willingly self isolate. In fact, you’d have to pry me out of my house with a crowbar.
I remember the Great Ebola Freakout of 2014.
Luckily it doesn’t spread too easily. That’d be a rough way to go.
If you’re going to go, go big. Go running, screaming and flailing while hemorrhaging all over the looters.
I remember dying in the 80s of the Latchkey Kid syndrome.
I survived it, only to die from the Net Neutrality repeal.
You too?
Amazing, no?
Do journalists feel no shame at all about whipping up fear and chaos over and over with NONE of it being true?
You’d think they’d keep a running tally as a reminder to stay humble. nOOOOOPE.
“journalists feel no shame”
You could’ve stopped there.
No. No they don’t.
Remember, journalists aren’t real smart. They have even less ability to accurately assess risk than the typical suburban-American.
Their panicky hysteria is wrong in an objective sense, but it is 100% genuine.
We passed that torch to our kids, in grand ceremony like a coronation of a king. Key around their neck, a trusted friend’s house to go to if in danger and yet..they live as I have.
Alar on apples is what done me in.
Shit, I died of backward satanic lyrics in the 70s, way before they thought up latchkey kids.
On the topic of things that will cause some real pain for everyone…
In looking at some numbers, the cumulative amount of stock market capital inflow from corporate buybacks over the last decade has been $5T. Households and foreigners account for $0.23T, ETFs and mutual funds account for -$0.36T
In other words, the entirety of the stock market rise over the last ten years has come from stock buybacks. Knowing that, what’s holding up the market right now? The only possible answer is the Fed. But they will not be able to maintain that.
If we get a return to semi-normal valuations, expect a rollback to 2008 prices, which would be pretty much in accordance with the second dip of the Great Depression that saw the market lose 80% of its valuation.
And all those companies, that were buying back stock in order to inflate the price and trigger big bonuses for execs are or will be looking for taxpayer bailouts.
There are serious economic hard times still coming and they will be accompanied by political violence.
I’ve been considering making some sell offs within my 401k, including TSLA.
Of course, if it really gets ugly, my 401 will probably get “redistributed” to other members of society.
10 year Treasury funds are safe right now. The only thing holding up the market is the Fed and the big funds pushing people back in so the funds can sell. Note how many talking heads are out there saying the market will never be this low again and you should be investing? They have a motive and it’s not to make you rich.
I was thinking of selling a bunch of my stuff as well and leaving the money in the Money Market account (it’s part of my retirement account at work and I can’t pull it out of the actual account). I know that the MM isn’t pulling much, if any, interest, but I figured it was at least relatively safe. Then I got a message from one of the fund managers telling me that, when a waiver expires at the end of this year:
“After the waiver expires, you may see negative returns in the Account if interest rates do not rise sufficiently to cover the Account’s expenses.”
Sweet.
They’re going to confiscate all private 401Ks and dump them into SS to try and bail it out. Of course it will be spun as “Retirement is so easy now! You don’t have to worry about saving anymore, new and improved SS will take care of you!”
Further: is there a vehicle to short the entire economy?
Side note:last night my “smart” TV suggested I watch the Big Short as the top suggestion for me.
https://www.ammoman.com/308-762×51-ammo
I’m still debating between .308 and 6.5 Creedmore in the next rifle. A year ago, .308 was somewhat cheaper and much more plentiful. Now the opposite is true.
Funny you should mention that, I was at Walmart the other day and noticed that they had boxes of 6.5 Creedmore.
Like increasing the chocolate ration
The 401Ks are reparations – part of Robert Johnson’s 13Trillion dollar plan.
Yep!
I am just praying it will stay propped up until Nov. 1
Do you turn into a pumpkin on Nov 2?
taxpayer bailouts
I’ll stipulate that Fed meddling is the strongest pole in the tent, but I wouldn’t discount (pardon the pun) the value of safe harbor; if you think the NYSE looks like a bad idea, try TSE, FTSE, or the DAX.
I don’t approve of bailouts whatsoever, but when they occur, everyone must take the haircut. The only thing more wrong than my being robbed to prop up a balance sheet is their stockholders not being penalized for their careless positions and tacit approval of their board’s incompetent oversight. Everyone must go, everyone must pay, even the bondholders and suppliers. Any other answer only encourage a return to nonsense.
It really makes me wonder why the previous crappy news about the kid being hunted down by the two good-ole-boys didn’t set this off, but this incident did. Both equally crappy. Maybe cause one was by a cop? I just don’t get it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j2Pb0YwVH8
This one has clear video, a person in obvious distress, and the situation is far less ambiguous.
1)it wasn’t a cop, although the one guy in Georgia is a former cop.
2)there’s something more visually arresting and horrible about someone losing their life slowly and gradually. This wasn’t a confrontation – that was already over. Floyd was handcuffed already, and the killer calmly knelt on his neck despite his pleas……for nine minutes. That’s about as cold as it gets.
Agreed to all that. I am just trying to wrap my head around it all. The previous, in my mind, was just as bad or worse since the D.A. was going to let them walk if that video never surfaced.
And I get that the other one was clear and the guy has the demeanor of a psychopath.
That is all. Just shrugging my shoulders at it all.
I personally felt the lynching was worse. But than I don’t expect cops to be good actors anymore, I guess that’s still not the case with the rest of the populace.
I was thinking about this last night, about the video specifically. The crime in this case was back in February, but it only got attention when the video went public.
Videos make it impossible to ignore. So i ask, how many of these police excessive force things take place that never even make a non-local headline due to lack of a video?
All the time. I did a ride along back in the 90s with a cop. He broke every single traffic law as a matter of habit. He turned without signals, blew through traffic lites, drove on the wrong side of the lines. And that was with a civilian in the car with him.
When you see these cops kneel on a guy, with the full knowledge that they are being filmed, you see that they just don’t give a fuck. As I said above, there is all this footage out there of cops callously endangering peaceful peoples’ lives during these riots. I’m not talking about roughing up a looter. I am talking about shooting a screaming but peaceful protester in the face with a teargas launcher from 3 feet away. I am talking about shooting at press with rubber bullets and people sitting on their porch. They would not do this on film if they didn’t do it ALL the time. And they wouldn’t do it at all unless they knew they could get away with it.
I think a ton of this is astroturf and them moving the message from covid back to race stuff. It can’t be a coincidence that as the lockdowns ease up this shit goes off all across america in an election year. And I agree the lynching was worse, but this wasn’t even given a chance to resolve itself before the protests and riots started.
OT
PNW glibs are you interested in a glib-together?
So far I’ve tricked, I mean so far Plinker’s in and egould has offered to brave a mountain pass to drink with strangers.
“Oh, a Mountain Party ain’t nuthin’ but just a lotta dancin’, and laughin’, and fightin’, and drinkin’, and fuckin’.”
I’m in North Idaho and would be interested.
I am, however, meek and uninteresting. As such I’m terrible company.
I am terribly boring, awkward, and do not know how to socialize in groups. Also, I don’t drink so I’m tons of fun!
We can just sit in silence.
14 murdered in Chicago yesterday alone, 24 for the week end. Not a word on the news other than George Lloyd’s death, as tragic as it was. Lori in able to control the info cycle well. I guess no one cares anymore, unless its a white cop publicly killing a black guy.
I am getting jaded.
Which is part of why I cant help but be bemused by the phrase “Black Lives Matter”. I am not arguing that there isn’t a huge problem with violent cops killing people – everyone here knows that’s the case. And yes, these cases are particularly galling because of the general failure to hold killer cops accountable for their actions. Still, if black lives matter, someone may want to tell the black men who kill thousands of other black me every year about it.
I also get irritated when the cop problem is inevitably broken down in racial terms, as if there aren’t people of races other than black being murdered by police.
The cop issue being primarily attributed to racism is why nothing ever gets done to address it. It’s an issue of abuse of power and lack of accountability more than racism but addressing it in those terms requires nuanced thinking and apparently that makes most people’s heads hurt.
That’s the primary reason (nuanced thinking leads to headaches), but the other reason is that is in the best of many “community” leaders to keep race relations raw and unhealed.
Yes, precisely. What happened to Daniel Shaver and Kelly Thomas should have been every bit as much a national story as George Floyd, but as there was no racial angle it was mostly confined to people like us who follow such stories closely.
From a practical standpoint, if you can open white people’s eyes to the fact that “Hey, this could happen to me, too!”, it will facilitate reforms. You can rail about how unfair it is that people’s minds work that way, but that’s reality.
Doesn’t fit the narrative and/or can’t be spun to damage BadOrangeMan.
Therefore, memory hole.
Antifa goes all in, starting last night. In a now deleted Tweet, ANTIFA_US gave the following direction:
I hope this escalation goes very poorly for them. I know it will go poorly for society as a whole.
I note, also, that Twitter has not seen fit to terminate Antifa’s accounts. Sadly, this means that whatever the FCC and DOJ do to Twitter is probably going to be justified. Their leftist politics and double standards have led them to a place where they are facilitating the coordination of riots and violence. So fuck Twitter.
Luckily that was yesterday’s tweet but yes, it will just grow unless stood up against. Moving to the suburbs pits persons defending not a business, but their homes and I doubt people are going to be putting up twitter message saying “Just burn it to the ground, we stand with you” like that restaurant did.
That account is suspended; not at all clear that wasn’t just shit-stirring.
Did not know that.
I wonder how many other antifa accounts promoting violence are still up and running, though.
Tons, no doubt. Not defending Twatter, just pointing out that particular one was suspended and could just have easily been some 4chan shit-stirring.
^This
Yet the riots have been moving out from the city centers.
Opportunistic looters, at least around here.
Since Twitter is, through their own actions, no longer a neutral platform, could this be interpreted as aiding and abetting a terrorist organization?
I thought tweeter did cut them off?
If they do move into the burbs things will go very poorly for them.
As far as I know we don’t have any of that going on here but I do have a saga-12 and a mini-14 handy with loaded mags on hand. I know it would go poorly here. I doubt they would make it to my house as there are 4 other houses between where I am and access. I hear my neighbors target shooting on a daily basis.
The Saiga’s an AK platform shotgun isn’t it? How’s the reliability been on that thing?
boo:
In response to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, U.S. President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13662 on July 16, 2014 blocking the importation of all Izhmash products, including Saiga shotguns and rifles.
Yes, it’s Chinese, but my buddy has one that he likes a lot.
https://www.classicfirearms.com/century-catamount-fury-1-12-ga-semi-auto/
Basically a Saiga knockoff.
Ooh, they have some nice Chinese SKS rifles for 320 bucks.
The chamber is chamfered on the outside, not the inside. Cheap rounds (low brass or thin brass) tend to catch on the mouth of the chamber.
Since shotgun rounds are ‘soft’, if you leave them loaded in the magazine for extended periods of time they tend to squish out of round and not chamber properly.
3″ high quality rounds with thick, high brass function well. I prefer Federal 3″ #00, Remington #000 and Remington #4B. I have an ample supply of all.
I have a good supply of 2-3/4″ #4B and a hundred or so slugs in 2-3/4″ that work quite well in a Remington 870. I load them buck, slug, buck, slug etc.
The 3″ hunting magnum stuff is hotter than hell. It really is jaw-dropping firepower. Having 10- ten round box mags of the stuff ini a semi-auto…you can drive an army to its knees with that stuff.
I’m a big fan of AK pattern anything, I may have to pick up one of those one day.
I had just returned some hardware back to the safe and now not only did I reinforce my house guns, I added extra firepower to the truck. I’ll be damned if I’m get pulled out and beaten by a mob.
I’m going to rather enjoy a punk ass like Dorsey go down.
He’s the dumbest of the social media moguls, on that grilling via Joe Rogan/Tim Pool he came across as downright dense.
And disingenuous.
He also looked horribly ignorant.
These guys create things that exceed their own ability to intellectualize.
Just read Brennan’s Tweet.
A treacherous, commie piece of shit for real.
Client: I want to call you tomorrow morning.
Me: I’ll be at the dentist. How about afternoon?
Client: You aren’t confined to your house?
Me: I choose not to allow myself to be confined.
Client: *silence* *hearty laughter*
“Get back inside!”
“Light her up!”
You aim to misbehave?
I do…
I am not misbehaving for the sake of misbehaving. In fact, I would say I’m not, in fact, misbehaving.
I choose to regard the orders as unconstitutional and therefore, not applicable.
^This^
I have paid no attention whatsoever to ‘orders’.
That’s all well and good, but ask the guy if he’ll still support “common sense gun safety”.
https://twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1267502464988844033
People don’t ever really abandon their religion. Most people I’ve met raised hardcore in a faith, even if they are “lapsed”, retain that way of thinking.
I like this reply “Many are starting to wonder whether a well regulated Militia may be necessary to the security of a free State.”
Good luck. Stores are getting empty around here. My kid tells me they are out of almost everything except the most expensive stuff.
Amazing that democrats and their media are so fucking stupid that they think they can control this little monster, antifa, that they created and nurtured for political purposes. They cannot. People are about to get very very angry on a large scale.
Someone is going to stop this shit, either the feds or the citizens.
The Insurrection Act is interesting. I believe it is not limited by the Posse Comitatus Act. In part, it reads:
That’s pretty broad. The use of active duty troops to put down the riots could fall within it.
So. In the post above about Antifa thugs. Did Trump designate them terrorists to also take down Twitter?
Yes, that is pretty broad. It looks like an end-run around Posse Comitatus. I guess he can send in the troops if he sees fit. That is kinda scary.
It is. I do not view designating Antifa a terrorist organization as a positive development.
Posse comitatus never has applied to putting down rebellion and insurrection.
Sounds like if an organized group commits conspiracy to deny Constitutional rights, all bets are off.
Huh. That has been going on for 200+ years.
So it turns out that the white supremacist in the tanker truck was just some poor driver that didn’t see any barricades. He’s still in jail of course.
Why didn’t he see any barricades? Because the state can’t even be trusted to do stuff like that.
During our morning meetings – before this info came out – the general consensus was that this guy wasn’t trying to do anything bad. If he really was some Ukranian plant who was supposed to run over protesters, he did a really bad job of it.
Jailed for what? They need to let him/her out it sounds like.
Didn’t you get the memo? The Constitution has been indefinitely suspended due to Coronariot.
Probably for his own protection. And to keep idiots for using his release as “proof” that The Man was trying to run them down and wasn’t going to punish any whitey.
Speeding. It’s there in the article.
(I call bullshit, until verified. They’re looking for any excuse to hang him.)
Poor guy. And once again, the lesson of Reginald Denny. Do not stop. Do not get out. Again, unfortunate for him is that there were 5,000 dickwads who don’t believe in physics thanks to the insane pedestrian laws that have sprung up. If a truck is honking it’s horn, you fucking move.
Hey Rhy? What’s in like in your neighborhood right now. I’m chatting up a chick who was part of the takeover of the 88th Pct. Saturday and she said shit has spread to Bay Ridge. She was arrested yesterday in running battles with NYPD along Atlantic Ave. by the Barclays Center.
She was arrested yesterday
Sounds like it didn’t stick. I assume she’s out now? What was her charge? Bail?
If she’s been released, I imagine unlawful assembly
They are ROR for everyone who was directly observed by NYPD engaging in destructive action. I’m pretty sure it’s just an excuse to go through their phones while they are being booked and process all that info through CompStat. Anecdotally, I’ve had cop neighbors tell me that Stop & Frisk was largely implemented to roust people so as to get their information into CompStat.
Released on recognizance. I bet the charges just . . . evaporate, at some point.
Unlawful assembly? When she was directly observed by cops engaging in destructive action?
Yeah, she’s got nothing to worry about. She got her riot on, and will walk scot-free.
They are ROR for everyone who was not directly observed by NYPD engaging in destructive action; those who were witnessed were whisked off to the Brooklyn House of Detention until they make bail. I’m pretty sure it’s just an excuse to go through their phones while they are being booked and process all that info through CompStat. Anecdotally, I’ve had cop neighbors tell me that Stop & Frisk was largely implemented to roust people so as to get their information into CompStat.
Let us know what it’s like to fuck and antifa chick.
He’ll need this
You can scream “I LOVE ADAM SMITH!” right as you’re blowing your load.
I’m tryin’, brother I’m tryin’! Icing on the cake, she might smoke more trees than I do AND she is one of those anarcho-socialist types. I’ve already dropped my Ignatius Reilly line – “What we NEED is a king! A king with some knowledge of geometry, theology, and an iron hand!” on her. She got feisty.
Anarchy-socialist?
How the hell is that supposed to work? Socialism has to be backed by the force of government. People aren’t going to do it voluntarily.
They call themselves anarchists but they’re actually socialists. I’ve known a few of those.
Communists, actually. They may have some naive ones in their ranks playing anarchist. But we all know what happens to the anarchists when the commies win. I’ll just borrow from one of their own famous quotes ‘liberals get the bullet too’. Anarchists will also get the bullet.
News to me. Perfectly quiet here.
Bit of a nothing-burger.
But I am not near 86th Street.
Good! There is absolutely no evidence of any unrest whatsoever here on the peninsula. Keep that shit in downtown Brooklyn.
Good.
Yeah, my area doesn’t have a lot of Antifa types. Or black people…. Those white people in the pic probably Uber’ed in from Clinton Hill and Fort Greene.
Uffda. Bad enough the looters burned Uncle Hugo’s bookstore down but now someone slimy is running a fake GoFundMe account claiming to raise money for the owner.
I bet it was Amazon Supremacists!
Giant one Breasted Women?
Fortunately, it’s not _quite_ that bad – the dude who started it pretty promptly posted:
THIS IS PAUSED FOR RIGHT NOW! DON Wants to do his own GoFundme. All the money will be sent to Uncle Hugo’s.
Too bad. I was really hoping it was going to turn out to be another Ilhan Omar scam.
Fuck. When I visited Minneapolis last year, I made a point of visiting Uncle Hugo’s. Picked up a signed copy of Tales of a Dying Earth.
I hope every one of those piece of shit looters gets terminal pancreatic cancer.
Picked up a signed copy of Tales of a Dying Earth.
Sweet. Nobody does . . . atmosphere? . . . like Vance. His books just have a flava to them.
Check out Awake in the Night Land if you want some atmosphere.
It has really stuck with me.
Any real lawyers want to weigh in on Walz naming Brother Keith a special prosecutor in the Chauvin case? It sure seems like a dodgy move to me? Does this give Chauvin a potential path for appeal?
Ellison is a card carrying communist and knowing sympathizer, maybe even supporter of antifa. He should not be allowed anyway near any court system.
I don’t think that “maybe” applies
Didn’t he tweet the Antifa handbook?
I think that’s his corrupt son.
Looks like him to me.
Scott Johnson wasn’t impressed.
Teenage Riot
Teenage Riot
I always wondered if they were the “real deal” or just “ironic”.
Riot, the unbeatable high
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBWT1gg9sI
Aw yeah ?
Despite all that is going on right now the thing pissing me off the most is the SC decision on shutting down churches….and I am a damned atheist. I see that as the most dangerous, destructive action going on now.
Fuck the SC. What the hell do we need them for? If they are going to rubber stamp any statist shit that comes along what use are they?
Big-picture, that’s the worst thing to happen in the last couple of days.
Thank goodness for Sensible Republicans like John Roberts…
The guy is a moron. He claims to be trying to preserve the credibility of the court but he couldn’t take a bigger shit on the court’s credibility if he brought in an elephant and fed it five pounds of Ex-lax.
I’m not a churchgoer anymore and hover around religiousphilic agnostic, but agree also. The outright hostility to religion is striking, and I think is because many of those people have adopted the state and secular idols as replacements.
The state constitution here is seen both publicly and by the courts as providing far more protections for free speech than the federal construction because it’s even more absolute in the wording. It was used to strike down bans on nude dancing because those were violation of free expression. Yet the almost word for word verbiage in the religious clause, right down to the absolute right to exercise of any religious belief, doesn’t get the same treatment as the free speech clause.
Well that has always been a problem with atheism for some time: the notion that once we reject God we will become rational, logical scientific beings since superstition is no more. Also we will agree on everything since we are rational, logical and scientific beings who are no longer superstitious and we no long have religious conflict to divide us and no Priests or Biblical texts to tell us to do or not do something. And since the Fallibity of Man, the Original Sin, the Infallibity of God and Not to Play God are no longer concerns then why not believe in the Infallible TOP MAN who will evolve Man into perfection?
I’m an atheist, but I realized long ago that religion abhors a vacuum. Weaken or get rid of a religious belief system, and another will replace it. Possibly one you like a lot less.
Yup. The courts will only protect the rights the judges feel are important. Right now religion and self defense are not seen as important. You can see that with the way the lower courts refuse to even follow the instructions of the SCOTUS Heller ruling
Isn’t this a serious flaw in the court system? The courts are supposed to protect minorities but what if they are minorities the judges don’t like? And since society evolves doesn’t that inherently bring majoritarianism into the system? Not to mention the fact that politicians elected by voters appoint the judges or the judges are elected themselves. And then you have the pesky law school aspect. These judges need to gain their legal theories from somewhere and who will teach them and why do we assume these law professors will agree with us?
The biggest stolen base was Robert’s statement that the church has a high barrier it has to clear. I remember when the 1A got strict scrutiny, meaning the government had a high barrier to clear.
Not any more.
What a piece of shit he is.
https://reason.com/2020/05/31/i-got-tear-gassed-at-baltimores-city-hall/
Cite needed.
Very collectivist for a libertarian. Also interesting how he adopted the “do something, anything” approach.
Shorter Tony: “I am a dumb ass”
I “CAN” do many things that would stop these injustices. I won’t, because those things are equally, or even more, immoral and destructive than the original injustice. Stupid platitude is stupid.
I’m pretty certain the Egyptians saw the Nubians as a different race, as evidence by the art work I saw at the museum. Probably didn’t have high regard for them as they were depicted under the Egyptians boot.
But.. but… Surely no one could tell the difference between Moors and Rus? I mean folks is folks until those evil American rednecks invented slavery.
Best comment: If this article was a storefront window, I’d consider throwing bricks through it
And the response: Well, maybe. But I for damn sure wouldn’t want anything inside
Downright Glib-worthy.
Wow, that’s quite a story.
“…if we who have layer after layer of privilege going right the way back to those tactical Slave Codes are unwilling to put ourselves at risk…”
Nice job, Reason management. Take a respectable publication and drive it right into the Potomac.
He’s getting a Dalmia level roasting in the comments.
I almost wish there were a magazine out there that could offer up libertarian solutions to these issues (e.g. de-militarizing the police, ending the war on drugs, disempowering the police unions, reconsidering qualified immunity, revoking the countless laws that create “Ham sandwich Nation”), rather than repeating the standard bromides about race and getting rid of the police.
I miss Liberty Magazine.
Awesome. I participated in Liberty’s intern program a long, long time ago.
Seconded.
The online version is a shadow of its former self. I still read it though.
People are aware that the left thinks that any who disagrees with them is a “white supremacist” who should therefore be censored for violent hate speech. And free speech is “systemic racism” since Madison and Jefferson owned slaves. And by “getting rid of the police” then mean replace with Revolutionary Guards to kill the reactionaries.
How about here?
/We Rule!
I notice that they seemed to not really like the lockdown protests but are very supportive of communist rioters and reluctantly condemn the looting. Gee I wonder why…
That’s such utter shit I’d believe it was written by a neo-Nazi PR guy to drive recruitment through spite.
Well he writes for CATO
“Race was invented right here in the Chesapeake—in Virginia, to be exact”
I know I’m going to regret this but, he’s not entirely wrong. Not in the sense of race being invented in Virginia. BUT, Bacon’s Rebellion was an important “moment” in changing conceptions of race in America.
If he’s wrong about race being invented in Virginia, isn’t he entirely wrong?
I’m reading the essay as “race in America” but, I could be wrong.
Don’t worry, everyone. The national healing can begin. Obama has called for change now.
Much peace. Much healing.
Pretty sure Democrats are the ones in control of almost everyone of those cities with racist cops?
“…emphasized the importance of electing the right officials…”
The smartest man that ever drew breath.
TOP MEN
Right? We just have to elect more Democrats to run our cities and the problem will be solved.
They’re doing a mighty fine job in the ones they’ve been running for the past 50 years. Darkies right there on them plantations getting their welfare, just where they belong. We let em out occasionally to vote for us, or riot, so it’s all good. It’s not like they can take care of themselves, after all.
As the country’s first black president
Poor Bill Clinton.
“The former president also noted that while protesting and civil disobedience puts a spotlight on racial injustice, “aspirations have to be translated into specific laws and institutional practices” and emphasized the importance of electing the right officials at all levels of government.”
Maybe this Obama guy could do something. We should elect him President. Might take two terms though, its a big project.
Sorry, but he can’t run again. It’s going to be up to his VP. If only that guy could remember what it is he’s supposed to do. Oh, wait, that’s why they want a senile old food as president. He’s just a puppet prop, while the hard left run rampant with their wildest dreams.
Never mind that Obama didn’t do jackshit about justice reform for 8 years in office. I’m sure he wanted to, but Republicans wouldn’t let him.
Sure he did.
I’m reading the Grauniad’s helpful summary of Obama’s reform accomplishments and on that basis I’m assuming you’re being sarcastic. Right? Sleep deprivation has really screwed with my mental processes, so I’m even more oblivious to tone than usual.
No sarcasm (see my alt text) I can’t keep track if which news source is which. Now, if there are inaccuracies in the article I’m more than willing to listen to that criticism, but ‘It’s from “X” publication so it’s bullshit’ is a lazy argument.
The entire article takes a few token gestures made during the twilight of his presidency and pretends they’re significant accomplishments.
Your own link tells you that he ignored the subject entirely for the first 6 years he was in office. There wasn’t a legislative push until the waning months of his presidency.
So, yea, kindly fuck off.
‘He was late to the party’ is a little different from ‘he didn’t do jack shit for 8 years’ but, hell, if it helps you sleep well to white knight for the impostor’s lies knock yourself out.
“I’m assuming you’re being sarcastic”
Because it couldn’t be being contrary, no need to assume that.
He could have rescheduled weed at any time during his eight years as he promised, but he declined to do so.
Barry certainly believed in his executive power to do everything else without legislative approval, but for some reason the one thing he could legally do on his own, he didn’t.
Simply put, it wasn’t politically expedient to do it, so he didn’t give a shit. He’s just an corrupt opportunist from Chicago.
I have so much fucking contempt for him, because I genuinely thought he would do something good in office. Yeah I knew we’d get tax hikes and socialized medicine, but I thought for fucking sure we’d get legal weed and some kind of criminal justice reform. But nothing. Just drone strikes and endless golf vacations.
I was just happy he wasn’t Bush. Well, that initial optimism didn’t last very long.
Same here. I was ready to strangle Bush by the time he left. Then we were presented with a douche and a shit sandwich.
The shit sandwich did not disappoint.
What a loser and a coward Obama is.
I’d actually like him a little bit more if he’d just go the fuck away like most presidents do after their term.
though he also called for “healing,
And they make fun of evangelicals.
Do you think there is one rioter or looter that will stop because Obama wants “healing”?
No, but the single twenty something females think it’s dreamy.
Possible violent protests tomorrow night in Manchester, NH
On Saturday, a social media post from a group calling itself “New Hampshire Protests” appeared on Facebook, advertising a “Protest in Manchester, NH” against police brutality. The post included a picture of a police car engulfed in flames.
The post encouraged participants to gather outside the Manchester Commons Shopping Center on South Willow Street Tuesday night.
“We will then march all throughout Willow Street and let our voices be heard,” reads the post. “Police cars will be tipped. Graffiti is welcome. Bring masks. Take examples from riots in other cities.”
On Sunday, the post appeared to have been deleted.
The Clown Prince thinks no one needs to be dominated. You see, those pesky business owners that want to reopen their businesses don’t count.
Gov. Chris Sununu said he disagreed with President Donald Trump but declined to condemn him for telling the nation’s governors Monday too many of them were “weak” or “fools” for their response to violent protests over the weekend.
Trump said the governors have to show protesters they can “dominate” a volatile situation.
“No, speaking for myself, I don’t think anybody needs to be dominated,” Sununu said. “If anything, we have shown in New Hampshire that working together and staying positive leads to more successful results.”
Enough depressing nonsense. Much more and I will paint my face, get out the bowie and start taking scalps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6vMpbppUg
A reminder that there is still beauty in the world.
Guy has a very good voice. Dunno what it is, but I just can’t stand anyone other than The Animals singing that song.
#MEM
National Guard and curfews
The link is just for citation and not worth clicking.
As always, I consider rights absolute, so I resent this. I also rather resent that it is always the law-abiding people who carry the brunt of any regulation.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/its_time_for_trump_to_come_out_and_take_command.html
Yeah, Trump had better snap out of it right now. This cannot wait. If Barr is not going to do anything (wouldn’t surprise me), he’d better go into hi famous firing mode and get someone who will. We don’t have weeks or month to put out this fire, like we did with the commie flu, it needs action now.
The stupidest wars start when both sides overestimate their likelihood to win.
They cannot be, and you cannot be, seriously endorsing sending American citizens to Gitmo. Fuck that.
I’m fucking done. I hope Trump loses by a Mondale-level blowout in November. I don’t want Biden to be President, but I sure as fuck don’t want this asshole tearing down constitutional rights whenever he feels like it.
“I don’t want Biden to be President”
Well, no worries, he won’t be. It will be Warren and her little army of far left minions like Gulag Barbie running the country. You’d better think long and hard what you are wishing for, you losing your mind, or what? You see what is going on right now? That will be every fucking day, and worse. And they’ll rob you fucking blind of everything you have. WTF?
“ And they’ll rob you fucking blind of everything you have. ”
This will lead to broken marriages, crime, and destitution.
That breeds “Lethal Weapon” types who are bitter and have nothing left to lose. Not a good situation.
Don’t want her either.
But I sure as fuck don’t want a President who’s willing to shit on the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th amendments because people are being mean to him.
Don’t fucking call yourself a libertarian if you’re supporting this shitheel. I’m done laughing at that shit. You wanna MAGA, be my fucking guest. But don’t call yourself a libertarian while you’re doing it.
I’m just not the burn it to the ground type of libertarian if I can’t get my every way. Trump is the best president of my lifetime. I’ll take that over the other shit we’ve been stuck with for the past 24 years before him.
There’s nothing wrong with being a libertarian with a little bit of strategic thinking as opposed to ‘burn it all down if I don’t get my pony right now!’.
“President who’s willing to shit on the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th”
Dude, that’s every president in my entire lifetime, but Trump, unlike the other ones, at least does some good things too.
But I’m not going to call you not a libertarian over that. I’m just saying you’ll regret your wish very shortly after you get it.
They’re all going to tear down our rights.
Nobody wants President Rand Paul.
I do!
Especially with the beard!
The beard with the curls is just too Irresistible?
What has he done this time?
He hasn’t rounded up antifa and sent them to gitmo yet.
I hope Trump and Biden lose like Ceaucescu.
That’s the dream, but I’m feeling realistic right now.
One of my favorite Remy songs is the IRS Love Song “What Are the Chances?” poking fun at the ridiculous Lois Lerner IRS targeting “investigation.”
I thought that level of brazenness by the government would not be tolerated by the people.
And NOW look at what our “betters” pull right in broad daylight. Pathetic.