Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely wonderful morning it always is!
Barrett to most likely be confirmed by tonight.
DOJ source claims FBI dropped Biden laptop investigation.
Hunter sought to avoid registering as a foreign agent.
The New York Post endorses Trump.
Trump supporters crashing Biden’s Saturday rally.
Netflix subscription cancellations went up 800%.
10% of Twitter users create 92% of the Tweets 69% of which lean left. This is known as the Twitter bubble and what is partially responsible for turning so many journalists and Democrat politicians extreme left.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Barrett to most likely be confirmed by tonight. – how very undemocratic…
mornin’
Netflix subscription cancellations went up 800%. – I pay for 3 services which I watch a couple of times a week all together I think it is inefficient…
You can rotate them, pay for one month at a time and then next month switch to another.
*sniffs own fart* I have a flat-screen that I never watch!
“DOJ source claims FBI dropped Biden laptop investigation.”
I am sure they did it for the same reason the dropped the Hillary Clinton one: they feel Biden, like Clinton, didn’t really mean to break the law, so despite the fact that the law says this is immaterial, they decided to give em a pass…
Trump needs to fire all top management at every three letter agency in D.C.
And sought to avoid registering as a foreign agent – just like Flynn. Hmmm.
He’ll need to win again plus the Senate. I dunno.
For the record, I think this laptop story is shady as hell. It is precisely the happy coincidence that I would expect from some bad actor (not necessarily Russia- there are tons of people this helps). Nevertheless, the FBI’s story does not seem like a compelling point. If they are trying to prove the authenticity of the laptop- or more specifically emails that seem illegal- then they had enough probable cause to seek warrants with online service providers.
I think it is highly unlikely that Hunter was downloading his emails from the cloud to this one laptop- so it is most likely that they were still up on the various online sites- and if not his account, then others on these 5 – 10 person email chains.
The FBI secured SURVEILANCE warrants for Trump’s campaign based on a conversation with a diplomat in a bar and a Russian-sourced Dossier, for crying out loud! That they couldn’t be bothered to conclusively prove the authenticity of the laptop is bullshit.
And to be clear- what if the laptop was some sort of plant? That doesn’t matter. Let’s say a cop finds a stolen laptop, and he finds CP on it that belonged to the original owner. That is still enough evidence to *begin an investigation*. That doesn’t mean the laptop will hold up in court. But it is enough to begin gathering OTHER evidence.
In this case, the question is not where the laptop came from, but whether the emails are authentic. That is easy to confirm. But the Government deliberately held off, and now- a year later- these emails cannot be verified independently because they are a known entity and others could have fabricated/deleted them now that they are being discussed.
Of course the Bidens have not denied the authenticity of the emails and at least several of the emails have been confirmed by the recipients. So the evidence so far indicates the emails are in fact authentic.
I’ve been OOTL because of life this week. Can you point to reports of these confirmations? Thanks!
“But the Government deliberately held off, and now- a year later- these emails cannot be verified independently because they are a known entity and others could have fabricated/deleted them now that they are being discussed.”
That isn’t true. There is all sorts of metadata, DKIM, etc.
So that Navy officer partner that came forward to corroborate the story? Is he also a sleeper agent?
People keep thinking that these leftists are smart and would do hard work to cover up their corruption. The facts bear out exactly the opposite. Fuck, Biden got recorded talking about blackmailing a government with tax payer money to get his way. And these leftists are used to the media and big tech covering for them so they really are not compelled to try too hard. We spent 4 years with the dnc operatives with bylines peddling a false collusion story and running an entrapment investigation that only imploded when we finally got a AG that would no longer let the deep staters keep doing the shit that had been going on for some reason. And I remind you that, yes, fucking Hunter is a crack head. These people tend to not be very good at thinking straight.
The only reason we know about this shit is because these credentialed elitist criminal class members really are truly this mendacious and they spent the last 4 years showing it to anyone willing to look. The fact that the FBI investigated and yet again buried the story tells you all you really need to know.
“Crack head drops off laptop containing incriminating evidence for repair and then forgets about it” is not the shocking part of any of this to me.
Indeed. There’s a few things that are odd about the story:
Apparently the laptop wasn’t encrypted/didn’t need any kind of password to get into?
Its not at all unusual for an Apple to have email, regardless of the service provider, or texts from any device on your Apple account. That’s standard stuff. Generally, though, it doesn’t have pictures unless you specifically download from your cloud account. You can see them all, but they have to be downloaded to actually reside on the computer. But, if you have access to someone’s account, then its very seamless. And access to the account for purposes of looking at/downloading pix is automatic once you have logged into the device.
Maybe Hunter actually never put any kind of authentication on his computer? Maybe he did, but gave it to the repair guy?
Regardless, the pictures are definitely Hunter’s. At least some of the email, and I believe texts, has been authenticated. Nobody has denied that its not all really his email. And its quite easy to authenticate email even if you don’t have subpoena/search warrant power, because email by definition has multiple copies. If you have subpoena/search warrant power, like the FBI/DOJ, then you can authenticate or falsify the entire account pretty quickly and easily.
Chain of custody has nothing to do with it, and its a bullshit excuse. In any event, Hunter’s laptop has a solid chain of custody – signed receipt, and hand-to-hand to the FBI. If anyone monkeyed with it while the computer guy had it, I’m sure it would be pretty easy to determine.
Unless it is literal firing is far less than they deserve but probably far more than we will get.
If it turns out masks helped reduce flu cases, (and maybe even if they didn’t) we’ll be wearing the awful things forever.
It’s shocking how readily Americans just give up their freedom. I guess decades of leftist indoctrination in education and the media have an effect.
We all bent over enthusiastically for the Patriot Act.
Influenza cases plummeted.
Probably because they are now presumed to be COVID cases.
More likely it is because we are less likely to see the usual transition vectors with mass transportation travel basically shut down.
Don’t ignore the financial incentive to misclassify people’s ailments in the official record.
I’m predicting a Trump win, based on those rallies and Biden’s failing to campaign. The polls aren’t showing it due to a Bradley effect. The upshot for libertarians is a faster collapse and some hilarious tantrums from the establishment media.
I agree that Trump will win the legitimate election, but the Dems will come in hard with plenty of fraud to overturn the result after the fact, with tons of mail-in ballots coming in late and being “found” and harvested.
Probably. I heard somewhere that the Biden campaign has retained brigades of lawyers to tie things up.
If we get 4 years of Biden bringing back DC business as usual, the populist who comes after him will make them wish they had Trump back.
If the Dems get control they will rig things to make sure they never have to relinquish it again.
The tantrums will be epic.
This is the biggest reason why I want BOM to win. My prog tears reserves are still well stocked, but election tears are the best vintage, and I’m running low.
^^^ This guy fucks!
And has the children to show for it!
My hard-left colleagues have already announced that they will be too upset to work for the week following the election. It’s a little bizarre to me that even they don’t believe the polls the MSM are pushing. These are Dem’s loyal foot soldiers.
I’m still not making any predictions… the magnitude of voter fraud is too much of an unknown… but that the hard left supporters are already forecasting a Biden defeat just a week before the election doesn’t bode well for Biden/Harris.
What? They don’t believe that a middle-of-the-road, plain-vanilla, clearly demented DNC-picked package (picked to deliver a far, far left VP-cum-CinC) is electable? Have they no faith?
I’m reminded of Winston’s famous “V for Victory!” sign. Fuck off ya silly gits!
Overgrown, immature children
I’d love to be given the opportunity to fire somebody for not showing up to work because they’re upset over an election.
There are six people taking extended paid leave at my plant because the work is too hard.
Yep. For the record though, they are not employed where I work. My coworkers are very far to the left, but most are extremely professional about it. I enjoy talking/working with them despite us being miles apart politically. It feels all too rare these days.
These other colleagues work at places where presumably their jobs are safe and such behavior is indulged.
This article asks the question, If polls didn’t exist, who would you say was winning the election right now?
The guy whose supporters hold massive spontaneous rallies or the guy who stumbles through one speech a day in front of a dozen people before heading back to the basement? A Libertarian could probably draw a bigger crowd.
I’ve long suspected that Twitter in particular has been a part of the reason why the Democrats have failed to reach the “man on the street and regular American. They see Twitter and they journalists see it and then they think it’s what the popular sentiment is.
It didn’t turn them that way, it just provided them with a shit-ton of confirmation bias, which they are apparently too retarded to recognize.
Agreed, they wouldn’t have gotten where they were if they needed much turning.
The right will do some piling on, but nothing like the left does. The left thinks it isn’t bullying when they are simply trying to point out all the Nazis they see.
I doubt that. I’m sure in right-dominated places that they behave like journalismists on tweeter. I just don’t have that kind of exposure to those places.
Hell, we regularly get called out for being too groupthinky.
Let me be more specific then. How many people have been fired for saying something online that a conservative, but not a progressive, would find offensive? Piling on as in posting a comment critical of the original tweet, for example, and actively trying to ruin people’s source of income.
That guy wo got canned for being a shithead to a Chick-Fil-A employee to own the cons?
I’m thinking about at the Sara Jeong types that keep their jobs despite saying blatantly racist shit. Joy Reid. Challenge the orthodoxy in the media and you get ostracized quickly.
Ugh, Jeong is loathsome. Her hiring verified everything we already believed about the NYT.
Sara Jeong, Gov. Coonman, Lt. Gov Rapeface…
I don’t know that it’s evidence that the right doesn’t dogpile rather than the left protects its own.
Who cares if you get dog piled if it doesn’t cost you anything in meatspace? You’re right that there are groups of righties that will swarm comment sections. My brevity left it open to interpretation, but hopefully you get the point.
Just speculation, but it would not surprise me at all if there is a dogpile circuit-breaker built in to lefty-controlled spaces.
I don’t twit, but was there a Eugene Gu for Obama? Or would anyone being aggressively stalkerish on the tweets @demprez get their account revoked? It was claimed that “Obama never blocked anybody,” but the only way that his replies weren’t a constant stream of edgelords with racial epithets is if twitter was doing the blocking for BO.
That’s the fun part of if Biden wins. At least we can test the limits of that.
I think there’s a fair amount of self-selection here that can sometimes result in something like groupthink. It’s striking how calmly people react to heterodoxy when it does come along though. Might be an age thing rather than to do with politics.
It is not just the Democrats. Back around 2010, companies started hiring “Social Media Experts”. These people were not just there to generate Social Media buzz, they were there to interpret it for their corporate employers. It’s been about a decade of companies misinterpreting Twitter sentiment as customer sentiment, and the damage is very real. Look at how many companies immediately jumped to donate to BLM- that doesn’t happen by accident. It happens because they aren’t taking the time to survey their customers- just feeding what ever hunger Twitter shows them.
I’m fascinated by the companies doing it because it strikes me as such very bad business. It’s like they don’t realise that (for example) by referring to women as “people who bleed” they can drive customers away from Tampax forever.
It won’t ever show up in a hashtag or in a survey, but the amount of people they’re at risk of quietly alienating vastly outweighs the people they might possibly appease (if they didn’t hate capitalism and multinationals).
“FBI dropped the investigation due to supposed concerns over the story from the repair shop owner. Concerns were raised over the chain of custody in the case”
IANAL but such things don’t seem to stop the FBI when they use noon recorded interviews to jail people.
The rules change depending on who they’re going after.
That is due to the unimpeachable integrity of every agent of the Federal Bureau, oh, oh, oh hell, hahahahahahahha – just couldn’t say it with a straight face.
Good morning, Banjos!
I hope you had a nice weekend.
Judging from your lynx, the shitshow is already in full swing this week! The soccer mom judge lady confirmation should be interesting. More riots?
I’m not sure how the FBI can just say “nope, nothing to see here”. Time to shut those motherfuckers down.
Influenza cases plummeted because they were called ‘vid. Simple. The Branch Covidians in my state are desperately trying to keep us locked down. The useless shithead repubs have promised to end the lockdowns if they take the house. Fingers crossed.
As is to be expected, you chose a wonderful song. Thank you. This one rolled up next.
Have a great Monday, people. They won’t know what hit ’em!
“the shitshow is already in full swing this week! ”
Just foreplay for the election.
Nah. It’s much toned down from the last time. Instead of people rheeeeing and breaking fingernails on the front doors of the Supreme Court, some asshoe is gonna chuck a Molotov.
Who wants to go back to Reason?
I’ve got no reason to do that.
maybe as a coup after we buy it and skinsuit it so that it represents actual libertarianism..
Maybe we should do a gofundme?
We want to purchase reason so that we can fire:
Shika, ENB, 2Chille, ….
Nah, just give them their performance objectives to meet if they want to remain employed. Firing gets too sticky nd expensive.
Performance objectives, like write an article expressing and promoting libertarian philosophy?
performance objectives – how many lefties unfollow them on twitter?
Works for me
actual libertarianism – what is the purity test?
“Do you enjoy Washington DC cocktail parties?”
What is your favorite caliber and why. Even hypothetical.
.338 Win Mag. Because you can shoot little stuff with a big gun, but you can’t shoot big stuff with a little gun.
+ 1 “Well, there was a squirrel there”
Most of them would have to spend a week studying what a caliber is and what the differences are. Even then it would take weeks for them to understand enough to make a credible argument.
Sure you can. You just need to shoot them more often.
Are we talking small arms or artillery? Because caliber has different meanings depending on context.
/gun pedant
If they started with an artillery argument I would be impressed.
Drugs falling out of your ass?
Simple for me: Don’t slander people for ideas they haven’t put forth themselves. Oh, and of course, don’t initiate violence against people who are violating other’s rights.
*aren’t violating. Dub negs are messy.
don’t initiate violence against people who are violating other’s rights. – this is nos as clear a definition as you might think.
Patience comes to those that wait.
You saying he was a little premature?
I meant with the correction included but did not copy paste that as well
Don’t initiate violence against peaceful people. Is that better?
Don’t initiate violence against peaceful people. Is that better? – it is not. what is violence and what are peaceful people? Just because these things make sense to you does not mean they have the same meaning for leftists.
Just because these things make sense to you does not mean they have the same meaning for leftists.
and this is why moral relativism never works. So long as we have no set measuring stick, good will be defined as anything that provides the left power and bad will be defined as anything that takes power away from the left. To the extent that people see natural law seeping through the cracks, the left paints it as indoctrination and silly religiosity.
I mean we saw this summer how words I violence and looting and burning businesses is not
Do I really need to give Pie a libertarian primer lesson? I’m talking the NAP and there are many books out there that explain all the questions you may have. I know I’m narrowing down the “libertarian” label by insisting on that. There are people that I’d happily call fellow travelers. But to me, it’s what it is.
I am perfectly aware of libertarian thought and I had many posts on it. But those so called basic libertaraian definitions are too open to interpretation
Sorry if I’m getting snippy. You’re right that it becomes messy the further from the core you get, but that doesn’t make it wrong. It just makes it like all things in life. Complicated.
I am perfectly happy – for instructional purposes – to visit violence on people who equivocate on the meaning of violence. If the example I present doesn’t convince them I can take it up a notch until it does.
The ability to make a decent sammitch.
Bring back Postrel?
I’m actually really pissed at ENB for obvious reasons but also because lots of people, like Michael Malice, had worked hard to bring the Reason libertarians and the Ron Paul:Mises libertarians into at least a ceasefire and normalized relations. And then ENB like the SJW fanatic she is, goes and shatters it because, Best not to work with the heretics.
Honestly if that shatters it, it was not much in the first place…
Combined we make up about 3% of the populace, and are largely defined by our disinterest in running things so we don’t campaign. What does it matter that we splinter into 100 groups?
Probably damage control after she took to Twitter to badmouth Ron Paul supporters.
And that’s fine, he probably needed to say something, but don’t tell us she is the mostest libertarian ever.
Yeah; everyone knows Ted S. is the most libertarian ever.
that is the Nick Gillespie of endorsements…
lol
Oh, just give up and align yourself with Niskanen already.
^THIS!
Dave Smith has some thoughts.
Lots of fun in the comments.
I did not see ENBs tweet saying all Ron Paul supporters are racist but that some racists attached themselves. Then again it could have been phrased a lot better if that was the case… Off course the inclusive crap is thrown around quite excessively.
I found this tweet a lot worse
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1319982527747153920
Is that… Mary in the comments?
Where?
https://twitter.com/M_F_Rose
Unless she’s become far more sane, I’m not seeing it.
Yeah, that’s not even vaguely Kizone Kapow.
Based on her previous writing, she’s saying that social conservatives cannot be libertarian. And she indulges the identitarian movements instead of individualism, because that’s icky.
ENB is the almost perfect distillation of cosmo-libertarianism, which is little more than cultural libertinism.
Yup. I despise the “Collectivist Libertarians” who fall all in on the SJW, Racial groups are true collectives thinking. They rightly call out racists for being collectivists, but then do the exact same thing on the flip side, and pander to the SJW’s who will never fuck them.
I think it’s primarily a failure to distinguish between legal and moral.
How exactly is that inclusive?
INCLSUSIVE DOESN’T MEAN YOU SHITLORDS GET THE FUCK OUT ALL ARE WELCOME!
The problem isn’t that she’s not libertarian. The problem is that she often behaves poorly, gets called out for it and then proceeds to play the ‘blameless’ victim. “Don’t start no shit, won’t be no shit” is a concept she doesn’t seem to get.
I wish this were like a sports team owner or GM’s “vote of confidence” for the coach who is leading the team to a .300 record.
Thing is things will never go back to a pre-trump normal. If Biden wins, many prominent leftist, thinkers and journalists, have put civil war and unrest on the table as options for losing an election. You can’t put that back in the can.
pre-trump normal – what dat?
So if OMB does win the election by a big enough margin that it can’t logically be contested, and the blue mayors allow the Marxists to riot in their cities, I wonder how many election cycles will roll over without most of those blue mayors being voted out of office. I can only imagine than, on the average, there are only so many (D)-votes who will continue to believe it’s raining as their “betters” piss all over them.
There are many people in those cities whose entire identities are based on “resist!”. I don’t see them ever giving up precisely because the fascists that they fear aren’t actually in power. Now if they were…
..while the fascists they don’t fear are burning they city down around them.
“You hit women!”
*She kicks cop in the balls*
“See! I saw you react like you were gonna hit me! Fascist!”
I said something similar in a dead thread. It feels like a civil war (or at least unrest) is where we’re heading these days. All that hatred towards Trump is really hatred towards tens of millions of people who don’t support marching lockstep towards Marxism. Trump is the lightning rod for the left’s hate (their Emmanuel Goldstein), but he’s really irrelevant and we’re already starting to see the hatred past to their fellow countrymen.
I think a peaceful split is the best possible outcome at this point… especially if remaining unified entails living under Marxism.
Marxism was actually more coherent than the jumble of nonsense these assholes believe in. It boggles my mind that on top of it all, they still have room for contempt for religious believers – because they are in even deeper in pure belief.
They mock and poke fun at people who swallow a dogma as they simultaneously swallow a larger dogma whole.
Yes. I’ve said this before – Marx’s prescriptions were horrendous, but he was right about class being the fundamental source of conflict within a society.
The woke identitarians have taken Marxism and mutated it far beyond class to encompass an unholy fusion of class, race, religion, and sexuality. Instead of one major conflict between rich and poor that suffuses everything, we have an interminable number of conflict between ever more atomized identity groups. For example, have you noticed that, now that Trump has made some inroads with black voters, there’s a lot of lefty media harrumphing about how problematic black men are as compared to black women, who tend to be much further left politically?
My (at the moment slightly half-hearted) experiences on dating apps suggest a massive uptick in dopey twenty something women who want to “smash capitalism”. They don’t actually say what they want in its place. I assume lawless anarchy and violent revolution would actually be pretty bad for eight stone women without access to firearms, but whatever.
Say what you like about the tenets of Marxist-Leninism; at least it’s an ethos. Modern anti-capitalism is just flabby nihilism. Marx at least valued human progress and industrialisation, even if he also wanted the dictatorship of the proletariat or whatever.
The modern left has no idea what they want in the positive sense. They think global warming is a function of capitalist excess, even though ten percent of global carbon emissions comes from the production of Portland cement. Marxism is utopian in ways that never come to fruition in practice; post-Marxists actively want a dystopia.
I listened to this episode of the Death to Tyrants podcast yesterday. Buck’s guest did a nice job of explaining the gibberish and where it originated.
Truly some fucked up philosophies.
It’s almost as if we have this abscess of Tories 240+ years after the revolution – people who still long for a king/Top Man to make the decisions. Maybe this time we should force them to choose and go to whatever place they prefer to America. Assimilate or leave. We live here for freedom. If that doesn’t work for you make your choice.
Nobody else wants them.
Last time we sent them to the Atlantic Provinces. I don’t think there will be enough room there for the new ones. Maybe they can settle in Nunavut? (JK, Canadian Glibs)
The local weather report always lists Nunavut. I guess to make us feel better?
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If it’s ownly “tens of millions” of people in the US who don’t support marching towards Marxism, we are well and truly fucked.
I suspect most of the population are clueless as to what’s going on. They may not support Marxism if its spelled out but are currently content to just go along for whatever ride is presented without getting involved.
I think a peaceful split is the best possible outcome at this point
It wasn’t peaceful in 1776 or 1861…
Ever have a Co worker and boss like this?
https://youtu.be/1Dxi1fLFJ14
Prior to the pandemic, I was working in the entertainment industry (RIP). Females were treated such that they didn’t need the broom.
When I worked at a big box store, it wasn’t the ladies where where able to get away with not working. It was anyone willing to draw a paycheck and sit around and not do work. This was back when a few people would still have compunctions about that, so enough got done.
My local Valvoline drive-through thingy is staffed exclusively by young men and women between 18 and 28, including the store manager who is 26. I love talking to him. Smart kid. Not book smart, but great horse-trader, with his head on right. Said there’s few young people out there that want to work and get rewarded for it, and he has a secret interview technique to find them. He says “I’m going to hire you, and I’m going to fire you for insubordination the first time you get too lazy to do your job. You won’t be able to collect unemployment. But the upside is you won’t have to pick up the slack from your coworkers, because I have the same rule for them. Deal?”
I want to just hug him forever.
Nice. I don’t think they were focused too much on the gender, as much as the Manager, who is the perennial bugbear of their skits.
This is good to trigger the not true socialism crowd
https://twitter.com/NoStatism/status/1320451620673593345
I’m going to reserve comment until its done. What if the plan is to build a toilet under him? I mean, have you seen the sweet Vader statue in the Ukrane?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/darth-vader-statue
What I wonder about Reason is this… the comments are a shitshow, of trolls and bad arguments, and most people who read online also check pout the comments. So if they want to attract people to libertarianism, do the Reason staff not realize that a shit comment section works massively against them?
They don’t have to recruit. They are funded anyway. If they had to earn their daily bread they would be a much different organization.
“We don’t care because we don’t have to”
-SNL, Back when SNL was both funny and on point.
Honestly, its one of the best lessons in public choice theory you could hope for.
That was a Lily Tomlin line by her character Ernestine — “We’re the phone company. We don’t care because we don’t have to.”
The Koch family bailed them out a few years ago after the Glibbening. As long as they tow the lion on free trade with China and open borders (so the Koch’s can sell cheap Chinese stuff and import cheap labor), they can be as absurd and left-wing libertarian as they want.
Ho.Lee.Fcuk – I didn’t realize that our departure sparked such a gesture. So the big “L” party was bought and sold once us die hards walked away from the site. Cool.
Sure. But the regular guys (and some women) I talk to at the gym were just your average gun-owning middle of the road conservatives a few years ago. Now they are seriously talking about the deep state, election fraud, and what comes next. They weren’t hanging around here or Gab, but somehow the scales still fell from their eyes.
Ok, this is just stupid. I left Reason because they caught TDS and the comment section became unreadable, but when Glibs start attacking the Kochs using almost exactly the same arguments that the left uses to attack the Kochs we have elevated “Team uber alles” to a ridiculous level. The Kochs are not libertarian as a business strategy. They are just libertarian. ENB is a cosmo. Cosmos are annoying to me, and I believe they are mistaken about many things, but they are still, in many cases, libertarian.
ENB is a libertarian who shares some beliefs with progs about equality. I believe those beliefs are ultimately inconsistent with liberty, but that does not mean that she is not libertarian; it just means that she is mistaken about what a libertarian world would end up looking like. She does not stop being libertarian until she says, “Oh if liberty won’t produce perfect equality then screw liberty”
The point is that thanks to their funding source (and TDS), topics that deserve discussion are off-limits. They sold their freedom.
The Kochs were supporting Reason long before your timeline describes. I am pretty sure you are mistaking agreement on Trump for some sort of imposed position. I agree that TDS has them focused on Trump’s flaws to the exclusion of attacking the left’s much worse tyranny. And in terms of substantive policies I think we need and the relative value of various liberties I am actually way out on the right with you and Suthen and Alex, and RCDean etc. Where you guys lose me is when you decide that all the cosmo types are no different from the progs. (and where they lose me is when they decide all the yokel types are no different than the socons)
Cosmo and yokel describe desires about the choices people will make, or possibly markers about which libertarian State (or nonState) you would choose to join if you had the option. The ‘tarian part describes the basic recognition that you do not get to force, and ultimately kill those who disagree with you, to make them change their minds. If the ‘tarian part is not more important than the cosmo/yokel part then we might as well split up and all the Yokels join the Conservatives and all the Cosmos join the Progressives. HM is far more cosmo than me, but he is my brother in liberty. Tulip is way more feminist than me, but she is my sister in liberty. Q is way more focussed on overlarge breasts than me, but he is my brother in liberty.
When we play this damn no true libertarian game we are being both stupid, and authoritarian. We do not get to tell other libertarians what to believe.
You’re being a bit harsh here. An off-the-cuff working definition of libertarianism is a belief in negative rights and not positive rights. The main arguments I see among libertarians are exactly what are negative rights and how should infringes on negative rights be punished.
If someone acknowledges X is a positive right and, despite that, they believe X should still be forced on others or taken at gunpoint, I don’t see how they could possibly a libertarian. Words have no meaning if ENB could be considered a libertarian.
Here’s where I disagree. I can’t point to a single person here who I’d consider to be a leftytarian/cosmo/progtarian. Plenty here have different priorities and worldviews than I do, but as far as I can tell, none of them hold worldviews or principles that are hostile to liberty.
To me, the hallmark of a leftytarian is a belief in some slice of pomo progressivism that is authoritarian at its core. Whether it’s the whole UBI thing or the collectivist identitarian thing or the bake the cake thing or environmentalism or whatever else, they build their principles over a rotten foundation, and it compromises their entire worldview.
It’s a completely different dynamic than the internecine squabbles here between the trumpalos, the Jo-alos, and the no-alos.
I largely agree, but still think they belong in our tent right up till the point where “I am not going to fight for your right not to bake the cake because I think it is wrong” turns into “I support a law forcing you to bake the cake” which I don’t think ENB and the Jacket quite did. I recall a lot of “This is a stupid purity test you yokels want to apply to Gary, yes of course in a perfect world we don’t have forced association, but really this is such a fringe issue we would be fools to support some bigot and piss off the world” I do not recall overt support for the law. Maybe it is a fine line, but I don’t see how libertarians can avoid riding those fine lines, because they are the core of the whole matter.
There is NEVER going to be a big group that agrees with me on all the Xs and Ys in my “You should do X; you should not do Y, but I have no right to make you do X or stop you from doing Y” philosophy. There might someday be a significant group that agrees with the part following the but.
Who needs overt support for the law when they can just not defend freedom of association when they find it inconvenient?
Let me try one last time to explain what I am saying in a way that maybe won’t immediately drum up opposition. ENB was doing something despicable when she expressed her desire that the Ron Paul supporters get out of libertarianism. What she was doing was excluding liberty loving people from the liberty movement because she found some of them icky. Maybe, we should not do the same thing she just did?
Jarflax doesn’t want infighting. He must not be a real libertarian.
What she was doing was excluding liberty loving people from the liberty movement because she found some of them icky.
Here’s the difference. I’m not excluding her because I find her icky. I’m excluding her because I find her “liberty loving” bona fides questionable, at best.
We’re never going to avoid the mess that is drawing a line, and I think you’re right about the humility required when drawing such a line.
That said, just because the line is fuzzy doesn’t mean that we can’t exclude people way on the wrong side of the line. IMO, ENB isnt particularly close to the line.
To many libertarians on all sides are holier than though and more interested to perform their libertarianism than in actual liberty.
But… isn’t that what she’s said multiple times? Maybe not in blanket form, but has she EVER sided with liberty over SJ orthodoxy?
Honestly, the thing that made me lose respect for her is her chickening out on being a whore.
Honestly, the thing that made me lose respect for her is her chickening out on being a whore. – well she did at least try…
Gonna have to go ahead and disagree with ya there – ENB is a prog who shares a few beliefs with libertarians, not vice-versa.
As long as the few beliefs includes believing in the NAP, or the concept of negative rights, or the concept of self ownership, she is still in the tent. I am not standing up for ENB telling Paul supporters to go away here guys. I am saying we should not do what she just did! We have a political philosophy whose sole tenet is “We want people to run their own lives” and yet we are hated by half the population and viewed as a complete joke by 90% of the other half. Why is that? Could it be that we excommunicate each other over every disagreement more significant than pizza toppings?
“We want people to run their own lives” and yet we are hated by half the population and viewed as a complete joke by 90% of the other half. Why is that?
For the same reason that the Silver/Golden Rule/NAP is written down in almost every religious tradition. People, by nature, are ego driven, self-centered to a fault, and craven. Without the authority of the supernatural behind it, almost nobody is going to follow such an edict. The fact that a small group of (mostly atheist) people happened to apply the edict in a political sense is a minor miracle and is largely driven by the last gasp of a dying philosophy and a general incapability to conquer a modern community/society without pre-established connections to power.
Pie, I used to recommend TOS to budding libertarians. Then they got an look at Agile Cyborg, and some of the crazed commie-sucking trolls, and backpedaled from libertarianism. As you say, the comment section “works massively against them.”
My wife was curious why I plan to vote for Trump (I normally vote for the LP candidate) and I had to think about it for a bit. There’s a really deep dysfunction in our government and institutions and Trump’s overtly hostility to the forces that have taken them over is refreshing to see and I’m hopeful that he can roll back a lot of the power, at least in DC, and make the media realize that being as biased as they are isn’t good for business. As far as supporting Trump over Jo, I mentioned that my standards for the LP candidate is higher than a mainstream candidate, and she doesn’t measure up.
Jo didnt destroy the USFL.
I’m hopeful that he can roll back a lot of the power, at least in DC, – that is a lotta hope
We just had our first kid. I have to be optimistic
I was wondering what spurred that delusion.
I tend to agree with you that 4 more years of Trump disrupting the status quo is highly preferable to the snap-back sure to follow a Biden victory. But I’m not at all optimistic that even an additional term will turn that tide, particularly given where the Republican party stands today. If I really want to hope for something it is that 4 more years of Trump would cause the death of both current parties and the emergence of new ones – but that’s more a delusion than a reality.
My 11 year old daughter loves Trump for some reason. We never talk politics per se and she says out of the blue the other day, “I hope Trump Kun (Kun is friendly ending you put at the end of boy’s name) wins. I don’t like that Baiden man.”
Kids have a rather effective BS meter. Trump my bloviate but he’s gonna back up what he says is he can. Biden is a pure, canned puppet.
Now I’m picturing Trump as dressed in a schoolboy uniform. With an aide carrying the nuclear randoresu.
That is unexpectedly easy to imagine.
It’s the Hair.
Sigh… my 11 year old daughter is blissfully apolitical, but has my love of musical theater. She has been watching that damnable Hamilton every day for weeks and serenades us with its numbers at every opportunity.
I don’t like that Baiden man.
I think its her pervdar going off, myself. Good for her.
His magic power so far has been exposing the corruption. The deep state and now the Biden crime family have been exposed. Red-pills are being swallowed in record numbers. I don’t know if it is possible to roll it back without Pinochet style helicopter rides.
Red-pills are being swallowed in record numbers.
I think that remains to be seen. I see an awful lot of people in denial.
Chile is proving that chopper rides are only a temporary bandaid.
Yep – Celebrations across Chile as the country votes to rid itself of its dictatorship-era constitution left by Augusto Pinochet’s regime
Goodbye Chile, hello Venezuela.
Good morning, Banjos
Islam and State‐Skepticism
Sep 21st, 2020
Anarchism is not solely a western idea; in the east, Islamic thinkers have also theorized about life without a state.
https://www.libertarianism.org/articles/islam-and-state-skepticism
Ok.
Sure, whatever you say man.
Sure, I can see Muslims not believing in an all-powerful state, because they still believe in an all-powerful God.
I mean, couldn’t you say the same thing about the West? We also have no True Libertarian State (other than a few seasteds that no one knows about)? We have a long history of theocracy that ebs and flows, but has at high water-marks, you know, burned people at the stake, organized pan-national empires multiple times, etc. And yet, we have anarchist thinkers, some who are devout and some who are not.
I think you are confusing the average stereotype of that culture to the average anarchists from that culture. Doesn’t matter what civilization you are looking at, those people are going to be very different.
Culture/civilization is very much the point. Sure the West had it’s religious barbarism, and then it had the Enlightenment (and may be in the process of an Endarkenment). Both politics and economics are very much dependent on the foundation of culture.
A portion of our Right today sees the secularization as a problem, and it is hard to not agree. Except of course that if religion was the answer, then why did it fail in the first place? Liberty, she can be a bitch. Same with capitalism – creative destruction is an unforgiving mistress, and if you worship at the altar of the free market, you may just be missing the forest for the trees.
Clearly if you let heretics take over, things stop working correctly.
/The answer to every failure, change noun as needed.
Clearly if you let heretics take over, iPhones stop working correctly.
*scratches head*
They do not offer the correct deferrence to appease the machine spirit.
theocracy was weaker in the west though… especially in the last 1000 years or so
The renaissance and enlightenment followed the reformation and counter reformation. This is not a coincidence.
Something is going to happen.
Something wonderful.
AZ is going to seize all tin cans?
Jupiter exploding would be just about par for the course this year.
No, this year it would definitely be Uranus.
Just finally kicks off fusion in the core and we all burn up in the light of two suns?
It’s about time for some Ying cuz people been yanking my Yang all year.
Andrew dropped off a laptop at your repair shop?
I’m not even sure what “ying” is but I’d order a pallet of that delivered to my door just based o this comment.
Black or white, but I’m not sure which is which. It’s like the difference between a Panda’s front hole and it’s back hole.
*HM signal lit
McRib is coming back?
God is gonna make a female Ronald McDonald? Bet it still tastes like ass.
Biden is going to implement a nationwide 6 year old age of consent?
As if politicians like Biden even understand that other people consenting is even a concern.
SO I was right in the previous post comments? Hunter Biden guest post for Glibertarians?
You’ve obtained the map to Wonderland and you’re gonna rodger Peter Pan and the Lost Boys and pound Tinkerbell?
Good morning Banjos, everybody.
Who knew there was an 8 o’clock in the MORNING?! I’m blown away by this fact.
It snowed last night and I find myself in the opthalmology dept for XY because I’m a bad mommy and haven’t brought him to get glasses in 2 years, most of which I have been obsessed with trying to get XX to be able to see with glasses since she refuses to use contact lenses. Totally forgot about XY till he got mad. Oops.
I have snoozed numerous friends and family members on FB over their political rantings. I jave no family members vocally supporting Trump on FB even though I KNOW they are going to vote for him.
I don’t say anything because I’m whoring books but further, because I just don’t want any drama. My style is to give bullet-point lists of pros and cons, but I can’t say a positive word about Trump or a negative word about Biden without being beset by all these political hornets.
Went to Lowes yesterday sans mask. Nobody said a word, but I notice I didn’t look a single person in the eye. It’s the only way to communicate silently since we can’t see each other’s noses and mouths. What a fascinating phenomenon, taking away people’s mouths.
*people’s SMILES*
Is an S-mile related to the Canadian K-mile?
I don’t understand.
Don’t even feel anything negative about the boy’s eyeglasses. A hundred years ago – a blink of the eye – he would have been one of eight and lucky to have shoes in the most advanced societies of the age. You should know this better than most. I can name a list of countries where that still applies. Material shyte is shyte. Love and food is real.
Thanks. I do know that but I forgot.
Food…
It has become tradition in our house that I always bake a cake for our kids’ birthdays. Saturday was the oldest’s birthday so, of course, I baked a cake. Yesterday he came home from baseball practice and before I saw it he had 1/4 of the cake on a plate and was wolfing it down. I felt like I’d covered both bases (love and food).
When I can be arsed to cook, I do so for XY. He loves my cooking and he has favorite dishes. I don’t very often because he can suck down a stock pot of spaghetti sauce in about 24 hours. XX doesn’t like anything I make unless I’m baking. My husband likes my choco chip cookies, but I do not care for them, especially the way he likes them. XX and I like lemon sugar cookies. No such thing as too much lemon.
When I was wee, we would take the Greyhound bus up to Sebring to visit my great-grandparents. Nanny Karnes would always make chicken and dumplings (from a chicken in the backyard) and Papa Karnes would sit for hours out on the front porch, churning lemon ice cream from their lemon trees. You are correct; there is no such thing as too much lemon.
Now I want a Limoncello and cranberry juice.
I have snoozed numerous friends and family members on FB over their political rantings. I jave no family members vocally supporting Trump on FB even though I KNOW they are going to vote for him.
Wife has noticed this, too. A lot of suburban women (supposed boon for Biden) are shutting the hell up and letting their ballots do the talking. Why? Because they watch decent people getting shit on all across social media for daring to be right of Lenin.
That’s exactly how Mrs. TOK knew Trump was going to win last time. The anti-Trumpers were all over FB, but a lot of people were very quiet, and she assumed (correctly) that those were Trump voters. I can’t imagine it being much different this time.
If I knew who was the current host of The Tonight Show, or even if it was still on the air (is “the air” still a thing?), I’d make some sort of joke about it.
It went down hill after Jay left the first time.
Anyway. I’m sure that Feinstein will announce that she has a letter from a high school friend of Barretts that purports that Barrett actually pimped her out in High School.
I was looking through the archives and came across this gem from January. I’m like a nostrildomus or something.
Heh. It seems like 50% wasn’t enough, and so they urged the Governors to assume dictatorial powers in order to stop all shadenfreude related libertarian deaths.
We all saw that. I could feel the panic brewing amongst the commentariat.
As usual, I’m clueless.
STEVE SMITH made a special morning post for just a moment and created an existential decision for those who saw it. Do I comment on the new post when the morning links are still going strong? This is highly irregular!
Damnit i blinked!
Yuck, more garbage.
https://twitter.com/reason/status/1320720091835629568
Their need to be loved is palpable.
Some of the state govts are going hog wild stripping people of basic human rights and they are focused on Trump not pantshitting. Very libertarian of Reason.
Like I said upthread, they should just give up the pretense and jointly collaborate with Niskanen. They have a strong predilection for libertine technocracy.
“businesses don’t fear Biden presidency”
Probably because the only ones left are in bed with Big Brother.
“Nonchalance AKA laissez-faire”
Ouch. That’s gotta hurt.
And to think I actually used to donate to those assholes.
The Libertarian Case for Putting Boots on the Necks of Yucky People.
Mammary Monday returns with bathykolpian beauties with lubricious declivities!
https://archive.li/rEE4b
Q!
I was afraid you had been smothered to death by a pair of giant bazoongas at the strip joint.
hey Q!
Q who?
Welcome back! I hope your time away was well spent, maybe learning some Dr. Strange powers in Tibet.
When is “q” due?
I am still voting for “u”, because in English it is an absolute rule that u must always follow Q!
that gets too confusing.
q is officially q-ette and will be arriving on the scene sometime in February.
My daughter is entering training bra time. It’s kind of a weird time for geezers like us to be papas. Enjoy.
I believe this is why, at least as far as empirical evidence can show, I am incapable of producing Y-chromosomes.
Awesome. Congrats to you and mama.
Oh, and it’s not nearly as scary as it appears.
Hey Q, welcome back!
The continuum continues after this brief message. The Q lives.
All is right with the world.
Welcome back, Q.
QQQQQQQQQQ
Good to see your ugly mug Q!
My father, sometimes, gives the appearance of being an intelligent and reasonable man, but increasingly, on any vaguely political topic, he is just a smug, dishonest, spittle-flecked mouthpiece for Guardian talking points on any topic. What’s worse than that, is that upon any pushback,he reflexively assumes I’m arguing for whatever he’s railing against, for instance, he argues against some private sector hire to oversee some new govt bureaucracy by rehashing the curated narrative built from a carefully selected representation of their career. If I poke any holes in the argument or suggest it’s dishonest, then I’m treated as some sort of brain-dead champion of cronyism, instead of someone who might well agree. Anyway, the latest absolutely shameful episode of his reduction to elitist, intransigent lefty, is his wholesale acceptance and defense of the narrative about the ACB confirmation, and how the Democrats have never rushed through a confirmation before an impending election, or apparently ever done anything beyond reproach in their pursuit of an activist judiciary at the highest court in the land. That’s something else which I find utterly mendacious and intolerably stupid; the fact that, all the MSM/Guardian reporting on SCOTUS picks (with which he largely concurs) has absolutely no principled position for or against an activist judiciary. When the nazgul are legislating from the bench in their favor, it’s all very wise and solemn and respectable and anyone who disagrees must be too stupid to understand the profound legal wisdom of the opinion, but whenever a decision isn’t helpful to their egregious agenda, it’s all a big tantrum and the quivering voices, in their carefully practised tone of fanatical urgency, decrying the politicization of the courts and how the VRWC/evil Republicans are conspiring to take every blessed right under the sun.
I suppose this is something that may have been relevant in SPs post about parents, but I really am absolutely the black sheep of the family. I really do need to try keeping things in perspective and think about all the positive things about my dad. He’s a good person, just another victim of the particular, more general derangement that runs somewhat parallel in symptoms to TDS.
Ps – mornin’ Banjos
Pps – I think I need some more covfefe
False choices reign supreme.
When someone is so chock full o left wing nuts, you really can’t try to unravel the Gordian knot their brain is wrapped in. Maybe try solely focusing on principle? For example, “I know you don’t think we should eliminate the min wage at this time and place, but in theory would you agree that there shouldn’t be one?”
I never even tried with my dad. He was probably top 1% in terms of intellectual capacity but had spent too many years living in the leftist hive mind.
I loved him for the man and father he had been for me.
Everybody lives in the age they were born in. There’s no shame in that
I think that’s what I’m trying to come to terms with. I do, to some extent, understand him as a product of his generation, the post-war “consensus” politics, and “municipal socialism” he grew up in, and the public service to which he dedicated his entire working life to, in good faith, even when politics was making it very difficult.
The mechanisms through which “news” is disseminated, and through which facts are “verified” has changed at an unprecedented rate, and this seems to have left certain people unwilling to accept that they know much less about the effects of this than they claim (2016 anyone?). I think he’s very much in that camp. He was, and is, absolutely adamant about the Russian “collusion” in 2016, yet when I pressed him on the evidence he’d never even heard of Christopher Steele. It’s a bizarre absurdity that the established narrative is still one of Putin working to install Trump, rather than Putin working generally to foment discord and rancor in the US electorate, but one in which there has begun a gradual shift, and a moving of the goalposts, with certain things predictably memory holed. Hey, at least he’s not as outright awful as my sister.
So basically, if/when my father talked politics I would smile and nod. Let him make his point and change the subject. I wasn’t going to change his opinion so there was no reason to try.
There’s a lot more to life than politics.
You are very wise.
That’s my method for discussing politics with my mother, although she makes it difficult sometimes by INSISTING on knowing what I think about something. My dad on the other hand, while still a liberal, only likes to talk about sports, food and family history. You can guess whose calls I look forward to more.
I do, to some extent, understand him as a product of his generation
A while back, I was talking with my grandparents (b. early 1940s) about the media and I had to stop at one point and say “you have to see it from my eyes for a second. I have a vague recollection of the night vision shots from Desert Storm, but my first fully formed political memory is of Bill Clinton’s impeachment. My formative years involved watching the media using W as a punching bag and turning a 180 when Obama took office. I can’t conceive of a trustworthy, unbiased media. I can’t conceive of politics as anything other than deeply cynical.”
^^^ This, except i’d say my first really formed political memory would be the election of Bush and the “Recount”-paloza.
Looks like 2020 is the year of the red pill. The media was already highly untrusted, but they just keep throwing away any credibility they had, and making themselves into more of a joke. The same thing with the FBI. Confirmation bias is a powerful thing, and if someone is already skeptical, things like this laptop business just pushes them over the edge. Some of my friends who have switched to Trump name the biased media as a big reason.
In COVID news, my youngest starts online learning today, for the next 2 weeks. There has been an increase in cases at her high school, so they’re taking a pause. I am happy that they made it 10 weeks, and she was able to finish her entire volleyball season (though some games were cancelled due to other schools not having sports).
Does the NY Post usually endorse Republicans, or is this something noteworthy?
The NY Post usually endorses Republicans, so not really a shocker.
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1319990335477583872
She really doesn’t get how collectivism isn’t libertarian, does she?
Somebody should ask her to define libertarian feminism. Are we talking first, second, third, or whatever the hell wave it is now feminism?
And how specifically does libertarian feminism distinguish itself from libertarianism?
By being marxist.
Utterly abandoning the concept of being an individual with agency?
Here ya go sunshine
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/feminism-does-not-demand-collectivism
“But she calls herself the “Red-Headed” libertarian. Clearly she is too stupid to see that that is Identity Politics.”_
Literally almost half of the responses. “Serious Libertarians”TM are some of the most obtuse, stupidest, motherfuckers out there. No wonder everyone constantly laughs at the LP.
Liberterians for marxism kinda doesn’t come across as anything liberterian to me..
Yet, believable that such a grouping now exists.
How do you make a container to hold a quantity of anti-matter?
You use a magnetic bottle.
I want proof, an exhaustive list that weighs all relevant factors, that women indeed have a rougher time of it in the US in 2020.
That’s impossible, but what i can do is present a list of cherypicked facts that may or may not be accurate and use those and exclude any others as “crypto-sexisim”.
Mentioning Family law is misogyny.
They don’t but there is a large percentage of them that like the victimhood thing because it allows them to have it both ways. and that is what they really want.
they really don’t I would say
Good lord she is fucking repulsive
I’m finally digging into Michael Malice’s The New Right and I’m loving it. Just finished Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds and it’s written in a similar manner to Malice’s book, but Malice has his filled with a lot more historical background whereas Murray’s is filled with stuff that we’ve covered here already over the years. Murray section on the LGBT+ movement was fantastic, though. Maybe do a write up and compare them together?
That would be a really good write up. I loved “The New Right”, and look forward to Malices next book.
I’d love to hear more about how it resonated with you and then work that in a write up. Have you read “Madness”?
I haven’t but now its on my list.
As for what i liked about the New Right i found it very interesting to see the different levels and groups. It also gave me a lot of optimisim against the Left, who had been used to winning all the time and “being the cool” guys. I’m not sure i follow all of his argument, but i think Michael has a point that when you push someone into the fringes of society, you eventually cause them to become cultural trend setters, everyone else is just the square doing what they were always told.
It’s hard not to catch some of the optimism from Malice.
Interesting because Murray comes to a somewhat similar conclusion. He says that the left has embraced nonsense and gibberish to such a degree that nobody is going to continue listening to them. You can only listen to pure nonsense for so long. Eventually, people will start building things again instead of deconstructing everything.
Peak Derp is unattainable, no matter how hard the Atlantic might try
The Third Amendment might actually breathe new, constitutional life into what Ibram X. Kendi has labeled “freedom from infection.”
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Yet if the Third Amendment may have something to do with a right to be free from infection, what exactly is that right? Construed most narrowly, the amendment might merely imply a right to be free from having a specific category of people who might carry diseases forcibly pushed into one’s house without consent. But broader interpretations are possible. The amendment could be interpreted to include other governmental actors, and house could be understood expansively. The broadest interpretation might recognize a general right to be free from being forced to come into close contact with diseases. Since the Founders’ world looked tremendously different from our world today, the question is where to draw the line: how much to limit the amendment to a narrow interpretation of its text and how much to prioritize the broader rationales at its foundation.
Freedom from infection. You just have to squint a little.
It’s not a suicide pact, you know.
Ugh, I had almost forgotten about that postmodern intellectual monstrosity of an article.
Progressivism, where you pick an choose lenses to get as broad or narrow interpretations as you need.
That being said, there is no lense that can get “You have a right to not get sick” from “Troops shall not be quartered in your house against your will during peacetime”
Ginsburg would have tried to find it.
Keeping other govt actors out, sure, but I don’t think viruses and bacteria are going to pay much attention to Supreme Court rulings or Byzantine interpretations of law.
You’re Negative view of human rights is oppresive. You deny that people have rights to Life (in whatever kind of house they want?), Liberty (from being oppressed by having to work) and Property ( of other people)?
The 3rd requires the government to weld everyone into their housing to keep the bad bugs away.
You can’t quarter troops if they can’t get in. It’s for the protection of your rights.
OFFS!!
if the Third Amendment may have something to do with a right to be free from infection
It doesn’t, so everything that follows is fallacious.
There, I “engaged” with this proposal.
“Exclusive: I interviewed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on school reopenings, Title IX reform, and why her Cabinet department probably shouldn’t exist at all.”
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1320367925757399046
At least something good at TOS
Robby gets/got a lot of shit, but i always kinda liked him.
Robby writes stories that are going the right way only to be totally derailed by a single “to be sure” at the end.
That puts his stuff ahead of 90% of the articles on that site these days.
Tallest midget.
Robby at some point realized They weren’t going to Love Him no matter how many equivocations he wrote. Its nice to see little boys grow a bit.
Yes. He’s definitely come a long way.
A long way on flat tire. Gonna ruin his rims. 😉
FWIW: I still subscribe to the magazine (although I don’t give extra during the annual fund-raiser) and their iTunes/podcast feeds.
The mag still has some really good articles every issue. The video feed is mostly good and The Jacket has some great interviews on the Reason Interview feed. I don’t visit the website much because I don’t have time to both Glib & Reason.
Point being…well, not sure I have a point, but I do think Reason still puts out some really good stuff (as does CATO when they get away from their TDS moments).
Barrett to most likely be confirmed by tonight.
Excellent.
The New York Post endorses President Donald J. Trump for re-election
They are clearly carrying water for the campaign. There is no equivalent on the left. – Brian Stelter
“They are clearly carrying water for the campaign. There is no equivalent on the left. – Brian Stelter”
That is spectacular. I have no other word for that. Ostriches must be jealous.
Trump supporters crashing Biden’s Saturday rally.
If the Trumpsters didn’t show up no one would.
Trump ought to tweet out that he’s happy to lend out his supporters to show up at Biden’s rallies as a cross-aisle gesture of bipartisanship.
LOL. That would trigger some folks.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8879541/Demi-Rose-flaunts-eye-popping-assets-TINY-string-bikini-luxury-trip-Maldives.html
Confirmed influenza cases hit rock-bottom, puzzling infectious disease experts
The flu has been everywhere. We just call it covid-19 this year.
The reimbursement rate for influenza is negligible compared to a CLI (COVID Like Infection). That’s all the explanation you need,
Incentives – how do they fuckin’ work?
“Donald Trump has mocked ‘Sleepy’ Joe Biden for forgetting who was president after the Democrat candidate said ‘we need to stop four more years of George.’
Biden was last night addressing a virtual concert when he said: ‘Four more years of George, er, George, er, he – we’re going to find ourselves in a position where, if Trump gets elected, we’re going to be in a different world.’
The 77-year-old appeared to receive a prompt from his wife Jill who was sitting beside him, muttering ‘Trump’ under her breath.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8878991/Joe-Biden-appears-confuse-Trump-Bush-calls-president-George-virtual-rally.html
Its pretty bad when you cant remember who you are running against
Or the office you’re running for, since he has repeatedly said that he’s running for Senator.
I don’t know what drugs they’re shooting him up with for the debates because, while he’s still kinda meandering, he’s far more coherent there than in virtually any of his other speaking appearances. He constantly gets lost in his own words, makes incredibly obvious mistakes, forgets what he’s talking about, etc.
Especially since your opponent is an existential threat to the Republic. And their names aren’t even close. I could forgive him fucking up Saruman and Sauron. But Trump and Bush?
Murray comes to a somewhat similar conclusion. He says that the left has embraced nonsense and gibberish to such a degree that nobody is going to continue listening to them. You can only listen to pure nonsense for so long. Eventually, people will start building things again instead of deconstructing everything.
I WANT TO BELIEVE
…but the evidence points in the other direction.
Unfortunately, yes. Our institutions of higher education have fully embraced and intellectualized the nonsense.
The tower of Babel never reached heaven. Fucking Muslim highjackers.
“CBS airs the full Trump dust-up: 60 Minutes shows the President walking out mid-interview, a stunned Lesley Stahl saying ‘I’ve got a lot of questions’, and Kayleigh McEnany giving her a ‘healthcare’ binder with ‘no plans’ in it”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8878823/CBS-shows-moment-Donald-Trump-walked-60-Minutes-interview.html
Maybe Republicans should avoid anything with binders all together.
Well we’ll air the FULLEST INTERVIEW EVER!
Also, exhibit 1038294829103857392, that journalists are the most entitled people in our culture.
Demi Rose’s “eye popping assets”
Partially true: Looking at her mammoth ass makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
This is what I look for in hard-hitting news coverage.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/onlyfans-star-25-charged-drug-22907685
Ms Hansen, who moved to the Gold Coast as a “sweet innocent” 18-year-old, worked as a safety officer for a mining company before moving into the adult industry. – weird trajectory
“She was charged with two counts of possessing dangerous drugs after being allegedly caught taking narcotics in bugged footage at the party at The Star penthouse on July 27.”
Story doesn’t match headline.
“”It has been a targeted witch-hunt and a lot of it has been unnecessary … the way they have worded it and released it to the media as an alleged drug trafficking ring is completely false,” she told The Courier-Mail.”
I was late this morning because, as usual, there is another ‘thing’ that I have to deal with on a Monday. I noticed a bad spot in the ceiling in my bedroom and poked it. Finger went straight through. So that’s going to be fun to deal with. Get to the office and everyone is listening to the cfo. Apparently someone else “tested positive*” for the commie-cough and the company is being super serial about masks now. I still don’t wear one and I have a perfectly legit reason not to (can’t breathe, sinus issues) but I do hope they do not force the issue.
*which doesn’t mean much to me because I am not a moron.
When the overall death rate plummets next year, due to all the deaths pulled forward by the Trumputinous Plague, will Joe Biden be hailed as the greatest boon to mankind since penicillin?
The
watersdeaths will recede and theplanetinfirm will begin healing.I’m about ready to declare myself a victim of PTSD who is unable to wear a mask, due to a potentially violent reaction. Prove I’m not.
“Does this mask smell like chloroform?”
This weekend I was in the local super market looking for some pub buns for dinner. They weren’t out in the normal spot so I walked over to the bakery to ask if they still had some in the back.
The three old lady bakers were at least 20 feet away and couldn’t hear my question, so I pulled my mask down and asked them. None of those three ladies had any issues with me. While they were telling me no that they didn’t have any buns in the back, some 30 something manager type ran over and started yelling at me to put my mask up.
I told her that with the masks the other bakers and I couldn’t hear each other. Manager Gal got really hot and said I had to pull up the mask. So I did and then asked her about the buns. When she tried telling me that there weren’t any, I kept telling her that I couldn’t hear her and could she speak up. I asked her about three times to repeat herself but more loudly. The other bakers were all laughing, so I think they weren’t big fans of Manager Gal either.
Manager Gal finally huffed that I had heard her and stormed off. I shared an eye roll with the rest of the bakers and went on with my day. I was really tempted though to take my mask off and claim the medical exemption when Manager Gal was going into her act.
Just went into Walmart sans mask. I feel weird doing this, but I think I’m going to continue. Damn near suffocated at the doc office.
I have a doctor’s note that says I shouldn’t wear a mask.
Of course, that means nothing, as I don’t believe there are any exceptions in the illegal order for NY.
I’d watch this movie
Its pretty bad when you cant remember who you are running against
If you’ve run against one Nazi, you’ve run against them all.”
Here’s a pointless, off politics topic. Khabib won his UFC match against Gaethje this weekend and many people in the sport are calling him the greatest fighter to ever live. Now, I don’t mind calling him the pound for pound greatest, but, sorry, if there are guys in heavier weight classes that would mop the floor with you if you were to fight, you aren’t the GOAT. I’d say the same for boxing: the GOAT has to be the heavyweight. Saying otherwise is like saying Iverson was the greatest NBA player of all time. Nope.
Huh, I didn’t know they had weight classes in UFC, I remember way back when Royce Gracie was dominating he fought guys twice his size.
Thank you. Exactly. Once people started really working BJJ into their arsenals, you couldn’t have 250 pounders fighting 170 pounders. Those days are over. The heavy weights would destroy them.
I haven’t followed it in years, but when they changed the rules and would separate the fighters if they were on the ground too long it kind of ended it for the pure grapplers, sure it was boring at times but that was their edge – tire the big guy out and slowly work one of his limbs into position so you can force a submission.
It’s evolved since then. For example, Adesanya at 185 is basically a pure kick boxer and is dominating his division. Khabib is grappler. The HW champ, Miocic, is a basically a boxer that can wrestle, but usually just boxes and low kicks. It’s really entertaining now because there are many ways to win your division, but you have to have the basics at least in all disciplines.
Venezuelan missile crisis.
The United States is warning it will destroy potential Iranian long-range missile shipments delivered to the Maduro regime in Venezuela, a senior administration official tells Fox News.
“The transfer of long-range missiles from Iran to Venezuela is not acceptable to the United States and will not be tolerated or permitted,” said Elliott Abrams, the State Department Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela.
“We will make every effort to stop shipments of long-range missiles, and if somehow they get to Venezuela they will be eliminated there,” added a senior administration official.
US should just completly ignore Venezuela it is better for all that way
“The transfer of long-range missiles from Iran to Venezuela is not acceptable to the United States and will not be tolerated or permitted,” said Elliott Abrams, the State Department Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela.
“We will make every effort to stop shipments of long-range missiles, and if somehow they get to Venezuela they will be eliminated there,” added a senior administration official.
President Biden and Secty of State Clinton will offer to buy them from the Venezuelans, at a handsome profit. Less commissions and consulting fees., of course.
Read something interesting this weekend. Can’t remember where exactly, but the person asked how you would view the race if you hadn’t been bombarded with polls telling you that Biden was way ahead.
Throw out those stories and what would you think? Based on stories of rallies and talking to other people in your life.
The story I can’t get over is the “rally” that Biden and Harris had in AZ that no one showed up for except a couple reporters. Not one person? That is stunning to me. Any other race and that would have gotten the power brokers to start scrambling to find a way to replace the candidate.
Well, Goldwater had loud and enthusiastic rallies, too, but a lot of good it did him. Driving through the more affluent neighborhoods in my neck of the woods, I’ve never seen so many lawn signs for the Democrats.
There are more Biden signs than there were Hillary signs. There are also a lot more Trump signs than there were last time.
Like I said, I’m having a hard time believing that Biden is really that far ahead. My tinfoil hat is picking up messages that tell me that the poll stories are fake news to keep Biden supporters somewhat enthused so there is a chance they will show up at the polls.
If this was a normal year and you had to go to the polls to vote I think Biden would be complete toast. The ability to mail in a ballot might be enough to get his apathetic base to carry the day for him.
Agreed – normal year, no ChiComVirus, Trump coasts. Nor would the Dems have put up sleepy non-entity Joe. They would have gone with some firebrands like Warren and O’Rorke, knowing they had no chance but preparing for 2024. Covid and a “moderate” like Biden gave them hope to fool the voters and sneak Harris in there in a couple years.
What part of the country?
Ironically, I live in a particularly proggie area of Iowa and signs are way down. Hillary signs dotted the yards/major roads for 2-years before and a year after the 2016 election.
Philly suburbs, Main Line McMansion territory.
Here is my presidential prediction heuristic ruleset. Its been accurate at least since WWI.
Rule 1: Nothing is a better predictor of incumbent reelection than the state of the economy, and mitigating circumstances other than war don’t matter.
Rule 2: There is no rule 2.
That is way too complicated. The only rule I know of that is accurate is:
1) Who did I vote for? They won’t win.
^^^ Confirmed Hillary Voter.
According to multiple headlines, Trump is running a “smear campaign” against the Biden family.
All those articles about Trump and his kids are strictly on the up and up, though. Nothing but the (regrettable) facts.
I saw something this weekend where Biden was outraged that anyone would bring kids into this campaign. OUTRAGED!
I didn’t get by the lede of that story, but I’m sure Joe finished up with “My son Beau who died of brain cancer and was a decorated veteran would have been totally disgusted by the use of a kid as a campaign prop”
Biden seems to have skated much of his political career off of the death of his loved ones.
He absolutely has.
He notoriously slandered the truck driver who was in the accident with his wife as being drunk when there was no evidence of such and IIRC the truck driver was not found at fault for the accident. All so he could have a good anecdote at a MADD gathering.
He’s a foul human being.
“Kids”….Hunter Biden is like 50 years old.
Granted, he has the maturity of a thirteen year old boy.
The infantilization of grown children is a very modern thing.
Biden was outraged that anyone would bring kids into this campaign
His adult child…
But anything said about Baron Trump is totally fine.
Whycome people don’t trust us? Must be Trump spreading Fascist hate!
The story I can’t get over is the “rally” that Biden and Harris had in AZ that no one showed up for except a couple reporters.
[insert Pee Wee Herman “I meant to do that” clip]
Hope for our English cousins?
Thousands of protesters descended on the British capital on Saturday to call for an end to coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions on businesses in the UK, which they described as a form of “tyranny”.
In a Breitbart London exclusive video, protesters were seen singing: “I would rather be a human than a slave”, “We are the 99 per cent”, and “You can shove your New World Order up your ass”.
The ‘Stop the New Normal’ march was organised by the anti-lockdown activist group Stand Up X and was one of the largest rallies against the government’s coronavirus restrictions since the beginning of the lockdowns in March.
Crazy Q-Annon Conspiracy Theorists!
Also did you hear that Russia is once again meddling in US elections by releasing those laptops?
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As a demoralised person I am sceptical that this will ever achieve anything more than giving Channel 4 news a few carefully selected vox pops to run as evidence that these people are all crazy/q anon/racist/whatever. It’s like with the protests in MI, where whichever MSM report on it I saw went straight to the ultra weird basement-dweller with the Pepe flag for an interview. To be fair, even he was perfectly reasonable in what he said, so excuse my snobbery when it comes to internet kooks.
Instead of getting depressed, you could work on improving yourself.
For example, you could work on your spelling. Skeptical? No, learn how to use the letter ‘k’ properly (and remove unneeded ‘u’s ) and you will feel much better about yourself!
I saw yesterday that TTyrant’s gal was going to make an honest man of him. I was disappointed in Tundra and the rest of you for not telling him that the perfect wedding venue for them would be Honey Harvest 2021.
Also cool would be some Glibette birthing a Glibaby at the Honey Harvest. Instead of one of those trendy water births, the tiny Glib could be dropped right into the tub of honey.
You have odd kinks, Holiness.
Besides, I’m not sure placenta-essenced honey is gonna sell.
I think it is gonna sell for even more than before. Fourscore’s old clients were rubes who bought it because it was high quality and good.
Bloody Bee’s Moon Honey will sell to an entirely different demographic. They could care less about quality. They simply want something they can put on their shelf that affirms all their life choices. That sort of reassurance means that he can charge whatever he wants.
The two teens setup an impromptu ‘homecoming’ get together with their closest friends. They are absolutely done with all this nonsense.
That is one silver lining of all this heavy handed govt: it’s making a bunch of unaware Agorists.
stop othering the agoraphobics
Same root word.
that’s the joke.
So you are saying you are in the market for a laugh?
Would you buy it if he said he only does it for the kicks and giggles?
Doesn’t look like this is the Forum for it.
A facebook friend (an acquaintance in real life) posted an meme noting that Theresa Greenfield’s (Dem Senate candidate) advertisements where the most annoying sound in Iowa.
This friend is a very open Lesbian. So it is weird to see her openly mocking the Dem candidate. She is also, however, a blue collar worker that likes to hunt, fish, and drink beer. She would be a stereotypical 80’s Reagan Democrat if she was a guy.
Fit that into the election narrative however you see fit.
How insensitive to mock a candidate whose husband died – she still drives his Nova once a year!
Hey Jimbo, thanks for the info on my Dell laptop battery charging issue. I looked elsewhere on the Internet as well and found this site:
https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/dell-laptop-plugged-in-not-charging-solved/
Used method number one. Took less than a minute to fix.
Glad to hear it!
It frustrates me to no end that laptops haven’t standardized on a common AC Adapter. I get that batteries may need to differ because of form factors and other requirements, but no reason all AC adapters can’t be the same.
I’m guessing it’s because they’re balancing cost and charging time for their different batteries.
Given the voltage and amperage differences of all these bricks…
I’m guessing there is awesome markup in replacements.
For those needing a fix of redhead, behold your goddess.
https://www.instagram.com/katerina.soria/
Is it snowing at your house, Q?
“Barrett most likely to be confirmed tonight”
And on Hillary Clinton’s birthday as well. Heh,heh.
Was she birthed? Or hatched?
Budded.
Vomited.
Like I said, I’m having a hard time believing that Biden is really that far ahead. My tinfoil hat is picking up messages that tell me that the poll stories are fake news to keep Biden supporters somewhat enthused so there is a chance they will show up at the polls.
That’s pretty much where I am. Biden’s support is highly visible, because his cheerleaders in the media give it plenty of play.
I think it’s a mile wide, and an inch deep. We’ll know soon enough.
I think the Dem candidates are completely irrelevant in the Presidential election, and that Harris and Biden’s campaigns were smart to understand this and keep their candidates under wraps. This election is solely about Trump. Nobody is really voting for Biden or Harris, they are voting against Big Orange. That’s it.
If the Hunter story has any value, its that it may upend some people’s naive trust of the DemOp Media and cause them to question all the Trump hate stories they have been bombarded with for 5 years. If they do, then they are less likely to vote against him.
Exactly. They know that by staying in the basement, the election is just a referendum on Trump, which is their strongest take.
If the Hunter story has any value, its that it may upend some people’s naive trust of the DemOp Media
IMO, the bigger value is tearing apart the decent person v. asshole dichotomy that the media has been grooming for months. Biden very much needs to be portrayed as the anti-Trump to capture those voters who care about the superficial aspects of the candidates. Corrupt, power-hungry Biden v. BOM is too close to Corrupt, power-hungry Clinton v. BOM.
True, but the DemOp Media is running interference, and if you don’t leave that bubble, this is Big Orange smearing his opponent’s family.
BOM’s best song is “If You Leave.” Fight me.
My dutchland friend who was covid panicked it starting to look through the stats and noticed for healthy7 people under 50 the risk is basically non existent
On the Twitter front, those 10% of users creating 90% of the tweets are not entirely human. in 2016 the press was absolutely giddy about the advantage that Hillary and the dems had in technology. There were several articles in the NYT and elsewhere detailing how they were using sophisticated social media “engagement” companies to push their message out across the internet. They specifically talked about their advantage in the size and scope of messages that they could promote.
Then they pivoted to blame Russia for a “fake news” meme campaign that managed to engage with 250k people.
The reason twitter leans so hard left is not just the bubble, it is also the fairly large number of leftist bot armies that are allowed to run free, while real conservative voices are actively suppressed.
Oh, and the New York Post is still suspended.
Yeah, that is a super-weird response. It might be a concern that the investigating team raises, but as you point out, it is trivial to deal with.
As for the underage girls – how hard is it to contact them and simply ask?
Cogitate for a moment on the case of Papadopoulos , Look at the great lengths the FBI/CIA went to in order to set him up. Now look at this case…
Huh, you are handing me a laptop full of incriminating information? Nope, not gonna touch that. I can’t verify the chain of custody.
#OnlyNutterConspiracyTheoristsBeleiveInTheDeepState