Nice anniversary dinner last night in Scottsdale, just the two of us. At an actual restaurant. With actual tables. And actual waiters. It was almost like the Before Times. Which was particularly good since SP and I ask each other every few minutes, “Are we really the last sane people?” Every once in a while, we’d catch snatches of conversation from other tables and marvel at its geometrically perfect, almost crystalline vacuity.
Let’s pretend everything is normal, shall we, and that a giant heap of meteoritic stupidity and moral panics isn’t within days of landing dead center? That’s get us through the day. Oh, and please remember to visit our spanking new forum!
So many great birthdays today, it’s hard to know where to start. Maybe with a guy who may have even outdone Jefferson for range of brilliance; a pioneer of comedy films; an entrepreneur and champion of free markets; one of my favorite economists– and yours, too, I hope; everyone’s favorite senior; the best Catwoman; the star of the most hilariously bad baseball movie ever made and the voice of the worst news channel ever created; a cross between a baseball player and a gerbil; the unquestioned master of both puppetry and ventriloquism; simply The Greatest; an actual genius of comedy; the exact opposite; and a guy who makes me want to yell, “BANG! BANG!” just for the LOLZ.
Of course there will be diktats. The imperial presidency becomes more imperial.
Pool on which commenter is missing? The dude had three names, that’s the tipoff.
I have fantasies of Wayne in an orange jumpsuit.
Again, let’s see which commenter goes missing.
You know who else has a birthday today? This guy. The little comment at the ending made me tear up a bit.
Only 500 rounds? Do you even redneck bro?
“Beeler allegedly declared that he had a Glock handgun under an armrest, and a subsequent search found nearly 550 rounds of ammunition, including a loaded magazine, clipped into the Glock, with 16 rounds, authorities said. An additional round was in the chamber of the handgun, they said.”
It’s really annoying that the news plays this game. He had a gun!!! IT WAS LOADED!!!!
WTF are you supposed to do with an unloaded gun?
Hug it and pet it and call it George ?
Heavy is good. Heavy is reliable. If it doesn’t work you can always hit them with it.
So it sounds like you’ve had an OG 1911A
Have you never seen Snatch?
No, but Ive kissed quite a few.
/Heyoooooh
Man… with that setup, that’s all you came up with? That’s like bunting in a t-ball game.
Meh, seems like a straight report of what they found.
Without context, completely sensational.
But we’ve learned that “meh” is a negation operator, so, yes, I agree, the media freaked out and shit their pants.
There is plenty of details in the article, if they simply wrote he had a gun and some bullets they’d be accused of lazy reporting. how should they have describe it?
According to the twits, he was a security guard.
I would’ve put money on it being a Florida Man.
We’re all accounted for, BTW. Wait… Brett? BRETT!
Front Royal Man can be pretty weird, too.
I have three names (first, middle, last) and I live in Virginia. You do the math.
Kristen Zsa-Zsa Sugar-Tits ? Of the Chantilly, Va Sugar-Tits ?
“In Sacramento, California, the California Highway Patrol was on tactical alert, which allows for longer shifts, in preparation for inauguration-related protests.”
Ponch and John getting that sweet, sweet, FOP overtime
“preparation for inauguration-related protests” that totally have no connection with left wing radical agitators
Who was hotter? Ponch or John?
Ponch.
At a quick glance, Bejan’s work seems to be an elaboration on, or generalization of, the work in Into the Cool.
I hope you’ll post a review when you’ve finished the book!
I very much will do so.
“Iran has no credible civilian use for uranium metal,” the group, known as the E3 in the context of the Iran nuclear deal, warned. “The production of uranium metal has potentially grave military implications.”
Call me crazy or racist or whatever tickles your under carriage but, I’m not comfortable with a culture that’s famous for suicide bombing having nukes.
I was unaware that there’s Iranian suicide bombers. I thought it was more of an Arab thing.
yeah I thought they were more of the head chopping variety
cy isn’t wrong, I’m not comfortable with them having nukes
That’s the Saudis. Iranians do hangings, especially Baha’is, gays, and troublesome seculars.
I’ve always lumped Iran with the Middle East. But the more i think about it, the more I can’t recall that being a thing for Iranians.
there are a bazillion different cultures in the ‘ME’ all different as day and night
Not identical, but they did human wave attacks against the Iraqis during their war. They had no trouble sending teenagers to do this.
It’s getting weird around here…..
something has changed…..
Well, there’s battle lines bein’ drawn.
Nobody’s right, if everybody’s wrong.
it seems that may in fact be the case, everyone’s Sarc meter is broken it appears,
please remember to visit our spanking new forum!
Spanking? Nope. I don’t even put up with mild chastisement.
Where do we put in our application to be the spanker. Are the spankees volunteers or is this like a China thing?
Clears throat, adjusts collar
I read that as new spanking forum. I need to clean my glasses…
I like that ‘Copperhead Road’ song but that’s about as much Steve Earle as I can stand.
One Fucking Chord! I hate that boring ass POS song,
I think it’s been pointed out here by others here that the NRA is one of those organizations that exist only to exist (and enrich its executives), while other smaller, more focused orgs do the heavy lifting. The American Red Cross, the March of Dimes, and Komen for the Cure probably fall under this category, too — and let’s not even get into the SPLC.
I’m told GOA is the one doing the heavy lifting? Confirm/deny?
GOA, 2A Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition
GOA does zero heavy lifting. Any money you send them you might as well burn for warmth, for all the 2A advocacy good it’s doing.
Yeah what no one wants to hear is that the love of firearms is a cultural thing, and the powers that be in government are not of that culture. If they own guns at all, it’s Gun Culture 1.0 stuff: deer rifles, shotguns for shooting trap and skeet, maybe they own a single modern service pistol that they keep in their nightstand. Gun Culture 2.0 stuff, the love of AR builds and customization, pushing the limits of the NFA with pistol braces, shooting practical shooting matches like 3 gun or IDPA, that has zero fans in the halls of power legislative, executive, or more importantly judicial.
The best case scenario on 2A is holding the line where it is, you’re never going to get the NFA repealed because you’d need to have 300 or so Congressmen, 60 Senators, and a President who all love to shoot ARs and really really want to drop an auto sear into their favorite build.
Almost all the national animal advocacy groups, too. Local organizations & shelters do the actual animal care.
Well I suppose on the national scale the biggest spend, aside from overall admin, is lobbying, lobbying, lobbying for policy and law that ostensibly benefits their cause.
This is not true. The NRA, specifically the Institute for Legislative Action, does the huge majority of federal-level 2A activism in the US. No other organization is even making ripples in that particular pond.
Yeah, this odd trope that the NRA does nothing is really dumb.
Years of demonization.
They’re very Fuddy, and Ol’ Wayne certainly has quite a lot of creature comforts, and I understand the anger over that. But with the exception of the Second Amendment Foundation, I don’t think there’s a single other group that really does much of anything on the federal level.
VCDL is quite good here in VA, although at this point they’re just fighting a gallant rearguard action. Course, thats all freedom lovers in this country.
They are quite Fuddy, yeah. But have done a lot. So no, I wouldn’t support them if there were a better option, but…to act like they’ve done nothing when they’ve done a ton? Odd.
I hope this guy gets to pursue his claim. LaPierre certainly sounds like a dirt bag. I’d love to find out if it’s true.
The religion is based not on devil worship, but on atheist philosophies of individualism, liberty and self-fulfillment, Gilmore said.
Way to throw ’em off your trail, Reverend.
Arthur Brown nods.
Poughkeepsie’s motto is “At least we’re not Newburgh”.
When I used to do work for Lafarge in Buchanan, I’d fly into Newburgh. Quite a place.
Ah, the old Stewart AFB.
Cute story- once when I was there waiting on my flight to Philly, Paul Sr. from OCC walked into the gate. Evidently he was celebrity enough that the local TSA folks let him escort some THOT back, despite not being a passenger. I said “hi” and shook his hand. Seemed like a nice enough guy. Big as a damn house.
The “Satan House” for anyone curious:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6991371,-73.9218103,3a,72.8y,82.31h,97.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snGrTbTHoy5XvLAZk7-hndg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
First winter ascent of K2 was just accomplished by a group of Nepalese Sherpas. Badass.
Godwin-Austin is a killer, far more than Everest, good job on the Sherpas!
I read “K2” as a self-reference.
It makes the comment much more entertaining.
President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming chief of staff said in a memo to reporters that Biden will cap a busy day of inauguration pageantry by using the powers of his new office to push policy changes on housing, student loans, climate change and immigration.
The executive actions to be taken on Wednesday include rejoining the Paris climate accords, reversing a travel ban on several majority Muslim countries, extending a pause on federal student loan payments, halting evictions and foreclosures, as well as mandating masks in inter-state travel and on federal property.
Once we’re rid of that meddling authoritarian busybody Trump, we’ll be free to live our lives in peace and harmonious autonomy.
Let me guess: every random shooting in the US by some lone crack pot at any time in the future will be blamed on Trump’s inciting of violence.
Trump’s dogwhistles create an atmosphere where a few words from him stoke his base of insurgents who wish to carry out acts of terror on the populace.
Or something like that, without regard to any Pro Bernie Sanders paraphernalia subsequently found in the shooters apartment.
Trump will be retroactively ascribed as having such massive power that even our brave public servants couldn’t stop him from undermining “who we are” as Americans.
Trump IS the American dream, A Billionaire with hot ladies on each arm, buying shit just because, How come Bruce Wayne can do it in the movies, but it’s a bad thing when it’s DJT?
“Pro Bernie Sanders paraphernalia subsequently found in the shooters apartment”
This will be double-plus-positive proof of a Trump supporter when presented as the usual Trumpista’s “know your enemy” research.
I suspect the pinkos are going to overstep to the point where they will start being ignored
“constructal law.”
I was trying to sell that 30 years ago. all got were blank stares. I may have recently written an article published on an obscure site a few around here have heard of
holy shit
a ford pickup truck? definitely a deplorable. irredeemable even. shoot him
“Whoever did this is going to be hexed by all of us.”
oh shit!
saw the story on the shooting of the young girl (made the mistake of looking at the root) all I know is that if you read it the it is 99% bullshit.
they have a section called ‘ ver smart brothas’ : if you have to tell people you are smart…
https://www.theroot.com/army-veteran-charged-with-attempted-murder-for-shooting-1846074214
concentrate power, concentrate money and the worst kinds of shitbirds are drawn like flies. fuck the nra
I’m sure the ayatloas are jerking off over the Biden election
Still one-armed?
one fingered
lemme tell ya, those little critters aren’t kidding around
It’s pretty well known in Virginia that you do not head north with your guns. South is fine, north is asking to be arrested.
There’s also a suspicion that the Virginia state police share data on CCL’s with Maryland and MD cops pull people over based on that list.
There’s also a suspicion that the Virginia state police share data on CCL’s with Maryland and MD cops pull people over based on that list.
Not a suspicion, they acknowledged it. If you’re a VA concealed carry holder, expect to be pulled over in Maryland.
The constant harassment has become such a problem that a few years ago.. I think when McDonnell was governor so it wouldn’t have been vetoed… the VCDL pushed a bill to prohibit the Virginia State Police from sharing CCW records with Maryland cops. The piece of shit VA GOP, who had a majority, didn’t pass it. Several voted it down when the Virginia State Police told them the bill would endanger officer lives.
There might not be a more useless GOP than the VA GOP.
The CA GOP?
The NY GOP also waves “hi!”
The Republican Party cannot win a state where less than 40% of the population is white. The Democrat/media complex has been too effective at tarring the GOP as white supremacist or racist. Even the inroads Trump made are just inroads, the GOP still loses all nonwhite demos by pretty big margins. So the more nonwhite voters you have, the more the Dem lead grows.
Why do you think amnesty via EO is the first thing on Bidens list? He’s about to turn Texas into a blue state, turn Florida back to being competitive, and probably tip AZ over into the blue column. But don’t worry, the GOP will give some stump speeches about Reagan in Spanish and give a great concession speech in 2024.
Trump’s dogwhistles create an atmosphere where a few words from him stoke his base of insurgents who wish to carry out acts of terror on the populace.
When the cult leader speaks, the shooting starts.
as well as mandating masks in inter-state travel and on federal property.
What?
Most of the measures are a reversal of policies Trump pursued and do not require congressional action.
Something something DACA something something Paris accords.
But Biden will also unveil a long-expected immigration proposal that would provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants that does require congressional action.
Not if the 9th circuit has anything to say about it.
Checkpoints at state lines on the highway?
Federal marshals at every rest stop.
Nothing like a 07:00 wake up call regarding a work outage… and still being on the bridge 90 minutes later.
Damn it people… I have plans for brunch today!
The Physics Behind Freedom
Ethan YangEthan Yang
– January 15, 2021
Andrew Yang’s cousin believes in freedom.
Great birthday crop today, Old Man.
Lolz about the laughably bad Fiel of Dreams. It always amazed me how greatly life changing many men found it to be,
I suppose there’s a rich vein of untapped emotion running under the surface in a sufficiently high number of men to support an occasional soap opera level tear fest that sweeps the country.
Some generations get Field of Dreams, others get The Cat’s in the Cradle.
Marathon Man spoke more to me
As long as it wasn’t Encino Man.
You have a problem with the greatest actors of our generation?
Monkey Bone was Oscar worthy! Those elites don’t know good a film when it bites them in the ass.
OMG! I forgot there was a hobbit in Encino Man!
Pauly Shore or Brendan Fraser? Two of the best to ever grace the big screen.
Brendan Fraser’s turn in that Getty series, Trust, was awesome.
Marathon Man spoke more to me.
For me it was Repo Man.
For some Glib here, it was undoubtedly Rain Man.
Phew, thank god for that clarification. When I read it I thought “OMG, he’s not talking shit about ‘Bingo Long’, is he?”
I read that as Fidel of Dreams, and well, he did play baseball.
European gov’ts warn Iran’s latest move has ‘grave military implications’
US announces new round of sanctions after Tehran moves to produce uranium metal; Biden appoints new negotiator.
Sure.
Until Biden reverses that and sends them a pallet of cash.
Biden hasn’t appointed anyone to anything yet.
still being on the bridge 90 minutes later.
Don’t jump!
And it was a self inflicted outage by someone putting an invalid application in a configuration folder. There was patching, which restarted a service which bombed out when it hit the invalid file. The person who did this is known, and was already not getting their contract renewed. I would not want to be in their shoes tomorrow (or today).
someone putting an invalid application in a configuration folder
Euphemism?
I think it has to do with dildos.
I think that would be more of an invalid or incompatible device. Depending on what you think your configuration folder is.
Joe Manchin doesn’t want his job anymore.
“I think there’s a responsibility we all have. These are private platforms. These are private individuals. These are basically publicly-owned companies. And thank goodness they’re pushing back now. Change comes. The market’s changed because of the pressure that’s put on. So, maybe this will give my Republican colleagues some support that they can be free. The truth will set you free. Maybe they can break the bonds, these chains that they have of captivity within the Republican ranks that they’re afraid of they’re going to be primaried or there’s going to be challenges or things that they have to deal with that they’d rather not.”
—————-
During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of PBS’ “Firing Line,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said there should “be a consideration” of removing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and that what Cruz “did was totally outside the realm of our responsibilities or our privileges that we have.”
Manchin said, “Well, they should look, absolutely, basically, that should be a consideration. He should — he understands that. Ted’s a very bright individual and I get along fine with him. But what he did was totally outside the realm of our responsibilities or our privileges that we have.”
For a guy who has spent his entire life working in the government, Biden seems to have a poor understanding of how things really work.
*looks in mirror*
Or maybeeeee…
“Pro Bernie Sanders paraphernalia subsequently found in the shooters apartment”
FALSE FLAAAAAG1
Party of the people.
At the same time, Democratic lawmakers are reportedly considering resurrecting their past proposal to temporary repeal a cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions that high earners can deduct on their federal taxes. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, temporarily repealing the current $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction would cost $136 billion over the next two years, which was the timeframe proposed for such a repeal in legislation pushed by House Democrats last year.
California Republican Rep. Mike Garcia is touting new legislation to repeal the limits on SALT deductions. Bloomberg News reported that “Democrats have been trying to restore unlimited SALT deductions since the 2017 tax law capped the benefit at $10,000.”
If Democrats choose to permanently repeal the cap, it would cost almost $600 billion — or three times the amount it would cost to boost the $1,400 checks to $2,000.
The survival checks and the SALT tax breaks are mirror opposites when it comes to distributing benefits.
“…the current $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction would cost $136 billion over the next two years,…”
not giving is taking
Nothing says “today’s Democrat” like a gigantic giveaway to the wealthy.
Franklin was certainly more fun to be around than Jefferson.
By the power of Biden, be HEALED!
This is the culmination of the growing insanity of the GOP over the last four years. Trump has remade the Republican party into a white supremacist cult living within a counter-factual wonderland of lies and conspiracies.
More than half of Republican voters – almost 40 million people – believe Trump won the 2020 race; 45% support the storming of the Capitol; 57% say he should be the Republican candidate in 2024.
In this hermetically sealed cosmos, most Republicans believe Black Lives Matter protesters are violent, immigrants are dangerous and the climate crisis doesn’t pose a threat. A growing fringe openly talks of redressing grievances through violence, including QAnon conspiracy theorists, of whom two are newly elected to Congress, who think Democrats are running a global child sex-trafficking operation.
How can Biden possibly be a “centrist” in this new political world?
There is no middle ground between lies and facts. There is no halfway point between civil discourse and violence. There is no midrange between democracy and fascism.
Biden must boldly and unreservedly speak truth, refuse to compromise with violent Trumpism and ceaselessly fight for democracy and inclusion.
Who needs objective reality, when they have Robert Reich’s apocalypse porn to fap to?
You know, I think there should be some sort of punishment for posting quotes from the Shortest Reich.
Trump has remade the Republican party into a white supremacist cult living within a counter-factual wonderland of lies and conspiracies.
Aaaannnnd I’m out.
But I persisted.
There is no middle ground between lies and facts. There is no halfway point between civil discourse and violence. There is no midrange between democracy and fascism.
Biden believes in truth > facts. Leftists have been violently “protesting” for months. You can easily vote yourself into fascism and, interestingly, it is you and your cohorts that support strict economic and social regimentation. I wonder what that is called, you dishonest cunte.
they desperately want to be the ussr, dehumanize and kill anyone who isn’t them
http://www.renegadetribune.com/danzig-baldaevs-drawings-from-the-gulag/
it cant happen here? bullshit
Congratulations on your anniversary OMWC and SP.
Mrs. Time and I will celebrate tying the knot today.
The physics of freedom looks interesting, I hope the book is written with scientific rigor.
Congratulations and I’m sorry, that should cover it.
Thanks and “why I outta!”
I might give it a try but I am not optimistic
I put forward the premise that ‘ if it works it conforms to reality’ both in physical, practical science and social practice but it didn’t get much traction. I think someone more articulate than myself should give it a go
If everything is racist then nothing is.
A linguistics and education professor from Michigan State University claims that telling somebody that you can’t understand him is an example of “linguistic racism.”
More specifically, it’s “racist” to ask a person to repeat what he said because you “don’t understand [his] thick accent” (does anyone actually say that … especially the “thick” part?).
Another example is someone “openly say[ing] only English is to be spoken in the workplace” despite the presence of multilingual employees.
“hand me that wrench”
“Que?”
“hand-o me-o el wrench-o por favor, amigo”
/Archie Bunker
What if the other person has a limited vocabulary and doesn’t understands my big words? Is that racist on my part or theirs?
The poor editing of my comment only reinforces my point. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
“More specifically, it’s “racist” to ask a person to repeat what he said because you “don’t understand [his] thick accent” (does anyone actually say that … especially the “thick” part?).”
3 years olds hardest hit!
I guess I’m a racist since I ask people to e-mail over the after call reports and requests.
I’m also guessing it’s racist if you enter in a misspelled name as it was submitted on the request instead of recognizing that it was obviously misspelled.
Maybe they can break the bonds, these chains that they have of captivity within the Republican ranks that they’re afraid of they’re going to be primaried or there’s going to be challenges or things that they have to deal with that they’d rather not.
Come on, don’t be afraid to send a big “Fuck you!” to your constituents. They’re too dumb to run their own lives without our direction.
I, for one, welcome our communist overlords.
President-elect Joe Biden will tap Anita Dunn, an Obama-administration alumna who praised Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong’s political philosophy, for senior White House adviser, Axios reported Friday.
Dunn’s last stint in the White House ended after just seven months, when she resigned after former Fox News anchor Glenn Beck aired a clip of the then-communications director saying Mao was one of her “favorite political philosophers.” …
“The third lesson and tip actually come [sic] from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa,” Dunn said during a June 2009 commencement address at St. Andrew’s Episcopal High School in Washington, D.C. “[They’re] not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is, you’re going to make choices…. You’re going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.”
Mao’s communist takeover of China led to the deaths of an estimated 45 million people.
“Mao’s communist takeover of China led to the deaths of an estimated 45 million people.”
Now is her time to SHINE!
Crickets about calling Mother Teresa a political philosopher.
Finally did belated Christmas with my sisters & BIL yesterday. One sister gave me The Broken Earth trilogy. Each of the three books won the Hugo the year it came out, but I don’t know if the Hugo means anything any more. Anyone read these? Are they any good?
mandating masks in inter-state travel
That’s okay. The airlines can’t die fast enough.
President-elect Joe Biden will tap Anita Dunn, an Obama-administration alumna
When will President-elect Biden just get it over with and name Obama as chief adviser and head of White House Operations?
When will he stop tapping female staffers?
The gates will be opened:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-immediately-send-congress-bill-would-offer-citizenship-11-million-illegals
Some good news about amnesty: We will finally find out how many illegals have been here. Bad news: The number will be greater than 11 million.
And it will increase rapidly after that. Printing presses go brrrrrr
Say “hi” to your replacements.
That’s mighty damned peculiar.
A new video shows rioters INSIDE the Capitol, breaking a window, and being helped outside by police. The video shows what appear to be Antifa members breaking glass in an office window and then escaping out the window. Outside the police turn their backs to the escapees and allow them to run away.
What about those people makes them “appear to be antifa”?
The occasional MAGA hat? Wishful thinking?
https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2021/01/qanon-destroying-gop-within/
”
The violence that Americans witnessed—and that might recur in the coming days—is not a protest gone awry or the work of “a few bad apples.” It is the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice. When Trump leaves office, my party faces a choice: We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions, or we can be a party of conspiracy theories, cable-news fantasies, and the ruin that comes with them. We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both.
If and when the House sends its article of impeachment against Trump to the Senate, I will be a juror in his trial, and thus what I can say in advance is limited. But no matter what happens in that trial, the Republican Party faces a separate reckoning. Until last week, many party leaders and consultants thought they could preach the Constitution while winking at QAnon. They can’t. The GOP must reject conspiracy theories or be consumed by them. Now is the time to decide what this party is about.”
Fuck Off Ben!
Now is the time to decide what this party is about.
Cuntes like you think it is about grift and faux opposition to leftism.
Isn’t Officer Goodman the guy who shot that woman in the neck?
He’s the guy who got the rioters to chase him, leading them away from an unsecured room where some congress critters were hiding.
“The Party of Eisenhower”
Now let me go suck up to the complex
The video shows what appear to be Antifa members breaking glass in an office window and then escaping out the window.
Were they wearing official licensed Team Antifa uniforms?
This is a set up, We are so Fucked…..
https://spectator.us/topic/washington-dc-inauguration-trump-biden-violence-security-2021/
Ihre Papiere bitte…
We are Panem.
rejoining the Paris climate accords
Meaningless signaling absent Senate approval, after which it becomes an American economy-destroying monster of epic proportions. Winner: China.
reversing a travel ban on several majority Muslim countries
*shrugs*
extending a pause on federal student loan payments
What could possibly go wrong?
halting evictions and foreclosures
What could possibly go wrong?
mandating masks in inter-state travel and on federal property
No idea what this means.
Not wearing a mask on a train, plane, bus, or other federally regulated travel will be a federal crime not a private business rule. Same with all federal properties including post offices. I’m sure they’ll extend it to the supposed public grounds outside including sidewalks.
I saw Biden has a plan for “Buy American”and remember Ol’ Ike did that 60 years ago. Price of scotch doubled and more with the new taxes. Foreign car prices jumped but didn’t slow sales, low quality American cars suffered though.
Wheel gets reinvented (again).
Politicians, they’re the best ’cause they understand economics and stuff.
I swear Trump had the same plan and presumably the Dems opposed it.
Yes, one of Trump’s less desirable positions. Interesting that Dems are, at least in name, pushing American industry protectionism.
There must be an angle in there that benefits big corporations.
I assume that’s all it is. Of course we should be explicitly and adamantly anti-China in our trade policies after last year. But this will probably just be giveaways to big donors.
Libertarian? Whatever you say,
https://jamestown.org/program/american-boojahideen-the-boogaloo-bois-blueprint-for-extreme-libertarianism-and-response-to-the-biden-administration/
American ‘Boojahideen’: The Boogaloo Bois’ Blueprint for Extreme Libertarianism and Response to the Biden Administration
“Extreme” non-aggression?
The movement is centered on participants’ belief that the U.S. government has become excessively tyrannical.
Well, it does operate completely outside the stated limits in its founding charter.
I think I know where we are going. “Patriot”, “freedom”, “liberty”, “limited government” will all be code words for “domestic-terrorist”.
The LP is going to find out real quick what the left really thinks of them.
I think I know where we are going. “Patriot”, “freedom”, “liberty”, “limited government” will all be code words for “domestic-terrorist”.
The Obama DHS memo explicitly said that the following things were signs of domestic terrorism, back in 2011, so a full decade ago this was the training DHS was giving not only to the feds but to local agencies all over the country.
I don’t think I am paranoid about the upcoming regime.
God forbid people believe in those things. ?
I know it’s early days but I suspect Obama will go down as an even bigger POS than Biden will.
In underground samizdat, sure. In academia and in the popular culture, he’ll probably end up right behind Lincoln, FDR, and LBJ in the pantheon of American Presidents.
•Declarations of Constitutional rights and civil liberties
•Belief in a New World Order conspiracy
Takeaway our constitutional rights/civil liberties and we’re certainly in a New World Order. Although, Coolidge would note it’s a regression into an ancient form of government.
It’s clear they’ve been laying the groundwork for this for awhile. The training from this list, the coordinated actions of Big Tech, more troops than we currently have in Iraq and Afghanistan combined being positioned in DC for the coronation, and the lockdowns/mandates show we’re entering a new phase. I fully believe the election was manipulated and would invite anyone who doesn’t think so to provide a reasonable explanation for why we watched vote counts decrease on live tv for both Trump and the GOP in the GA senate runoff. The most charitable explanation I think of is that someone fucked up and corrected it. But that opens the whole box of how can the vote counts be manipulated that easily even if to correct a mistake since the media counts come from Edison.
I hope I’m wrong, but at this point it seems almost quaint to complain about the impact of stimulus checks on the deficit, discuss if Big Tech should be free to do what they like as private companies, or hope the Left will overreach and lose in the midterms. There’s an entirely new game being played with millions of people ready to gorge on the blood of their countrymen and a class of elites from both parties trying to cement their single party rule.
Yeah the best case scenario for the election is that with mail in ballots being legalized in the key swing states, that the exceedingly well funded (by the taxpayers in most cases) lefitst GOTV groups were able to systematically go around to millions of registered voters and get them to vote. That’s the most charitable explanation, and even then these changes were made in defiance of the written law in quite a few states and were thus illegitimate.
It’s not a government any more, it’s a regime.
1. Make the boogeyman.
2. Associate everything wrong that happens with the boogeyman.
3. Associate everything you don’t like with boogeyman.
4. Write article slandering over 1/2 of the US population using the boogeyman.
5. ?
6. Profit.
One wonders if Nazism would have succeeded if half the Germans had been Jews.
I wonder what % of the Jews were armed pre-confiscation.
LOL them again?!
George Carlin- Stand Up Routine 1965
I wouldn’t have known that was him without the description. Even his voice is different but the same.
Where’s Ballgag?
When Joe Biden gives his inaugural address this week, he will do so from a place that will illustrate the magnitude of the challenge he faces as the 46th U.S. president — and will test his ability to find the right words to begin to unite a divided nation.
He’ll be inaugurated in a fortified underground bunker?
That’s not what tests his ability to find the right words for, you know, the thing.
C’mon, man. He has a speech-writer. He will, however, face the challenge of articulating said speech before his Depends need changing and it is time for pudding.
magnitude of the challenge
The only challenge is that which can be solved by prune juice.
Hello to everybody here.
From that NPR excrescence:
A pro-Trump rioter
Boy, howdy- that is one riotous son of a bitch. I guess he must be all tuckered out from all that raping and looting and lynching Congressmen and whatnot.
legit LOL.
Apparently that guy and his buddy, the dude with the beard, glasses, the caveman uniform and the bulletproof vest are known NYC lefty types.
They’re nuts with a hodge podge of left and right nutty views but they’re also largely Trump fans, or fans of their delusion of what Trump is anyway, and Q afficianados. There might have been a few lefty agents provacateur in the crowd but these guys are delusional and are motivated by such.
Don Zimmer being tossed to the ground like a ragdoll. By his head.
https://youtu.be/5O0yPrnCQeI
Real life boogeyman
Coffman’s face was not among those that have gone viral, and it’s not even clear if he breached the building. But he stands out for the sheer amount of weaponry he brought to Washington.
The 70-year-old Alabama man with no criminal history or known extremist ties represents the worst nightmare for law enforcement, experts say — an apparent lone wolf who operated completely under the radar.
“These are the people who keep law enforcement up at night,” said Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI criminal profiler and an NBC News analyst. “I used to go to bed thinking, ‘Did I do everything I could? Have I looked for this? Have I looked for that?’ But what do you look for in a guy like this?”
The rise of right-wing groups like the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters has become a focus of federal authorities in the President Donald Trump era. The existence of people like Coffman, loner types who amass large collections of weapons and who may become motivated to act on calls to overthrow the government, pose an even greater challenge for law enforcement.
“When you tell no one what you’re doing and do it yourself in a complete void, the only way we find you is, like this guy was found, we’re awful lucky and stumble upon you,” said Van Zandt, who was among a team of investigators that worked to identify the “Unabomber,” Ted Kaczynski.
Just like that guy in that movie!!!
As I’ve said before, the nitwits who talk about revolution on YouTube comments and on Twitter are fundamentally unserious. There is a distinct risk of an actual reactionary movement in this country that will be met with extreme violence by the government and with some joy on DC’s part. The de facto police state in DC right now is just the beginning.
I can’t help myself. Chuck Todd is over there in the corner hyperventilating about the impending slaughter and destruction of our nation’s finest and most wonderful people.
What’s really encouraging? Friends and family members are ratting out the evil seditious terrorists.
People that rat out friends and family for anything short of murder or rape are the lowest of the low and now they’re praised. It’s disgusting, at least Judas had the good grace to hang himself after he realized what he’d done.
How long will the District of Columbia be an armed camp?
Until white people have been put in their place.
Get used to it. The East Berliners did. We haven’t even put the fence up yet.
Booker: We must have our show trial, even as we go about putting the Green New Deal in place.
Booker: we can’t let those other guys politicize our witch hunt!
This was a traumatic event. People feared for their lives.
If you fear the people you work for, you’re doing it wrong.
Good morning, Old Man!
And good morning to the rest of you liberty fiends!
“Potential sale” and “pledged to halt arms sales”, huh? Why the fuck don’t you just say no bombs? Oh, wait, I know: because he really has no intention of stopping.
I hate these fuckers more than any other people on earth. Pure evil.
You know what I don’t hate? Lazy Sunday mornings, coffee and You People.
Thank goodness. Foochy’s on.
I wonder if he’s pissed because he’s not Guest Number One Headliner this morning. Poor little feller, getting shuffled to the back of the pack.
Weird- it’s almost as if tight central control is inefficient.
“You don’t want people to panic.”
Haha, you slay me.
Double mask? WTF?
We have to double down on all the things which have proven completely ineffective!
Game day! I’m not drinking this month; I trust someone here will pick up my slack.
Go CHIEFS.
If you hate the incoming First Lady, you’re a terrorist!
Was Jill Biden on the ballot? Why the fuck are you talking about this?
That’s DOCTOR Jill Biden, you uneducated peasant.
James Earl Jones’s best role: The coach in Best of the Best.
Second best: Eddie Murphy’s dad in Coming to America.
The old guy in the Sandlot. And Darth Vader’s voice.
He was good in the Hunt For Red October.
Yes!
RIGHT WING VIOLENCE IS EVERYWHERE!
Yeah, okay. Take your meds, Chuckie.
For KK, Tonio, Jesse, and anyone else who likes bearded and buff dudes. Also people trying to decide between buying a Taurus G3C and an Atlas Athena might find it helpful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNsHU3_IOFM
Gun Show @ 1:23.
Texan status confirmed by the Bucee’s merch.
I LOLed
LOL!
Awesome.
I wouldn’t mind putting the goddess of war in my pants.
Every once in a while, we’d catch snatches of conversation from other tables and marvel at its geometrically perfect, almost crystalline vacuity.
(I had to look the word up and that was in the search results. Not really my thing but whatever. I am not sure if my life is more vacuous or viscous.)
The religion is based not on devil worship, but on atheist philosophies of individualism, liberty and self-fulfillment, Gilmore said.
Gilmore! Assuming Satan was the subtil serpent in the Garden of Eden, he gave humanity the knowledge of good and evil and the choice of doing good or evil – i.e. Free Will. Much the same as Loki and Prometheus, he was punished for making humans too much like the gods. But he did make them humans.
Oops, just thought of something else I wanted to add to my comment, but I can’t seem to find the “EDIT” button. Somebody want to clue me in where the “EDIT” button is? I know you’ve got one around here somewhere, it would be silly to not have an “EDIT” button. Or at least a “PREVIEW” button. Right?
Monocle/Eyepiece has “Preview Comment.”
Pester SP about an “Edit” button. I dare you.
ZARDOZ doesn’t have time to answer all your prayers
maybe the occasional bit of thoughtful relationship or political advice, whom to cleanse, that sort of thing
Wait, wait! Has nobody give the new guy a “Fuck off, Tulpa” yet? Because new guys should get a “Fuck off, Tulpa.”
Seriously, folks. You don’t fuck with tradition.
Jerryskids has been around since TOS.
Oh, OK, I think I remember him now. Well, you can never deliver too many “Fuck off, Tulpae.”
welcome back?
I hadn’t seen him in a year
They should just call it Opposite Catholicism, the rituals are just a parody of Catholic ones without the belief. The idea of a religeon based on athiest philosophies was edgy when LaVey came up with it in the ’50s or 60s but it’s just silly now.
RIP Gilmore and his avatar coming around here. The world cries out for his pithy comments and fashion sense.
+1B
biggest holes
I see that you, like me, still participate over on TOS. What do you think of the shitshow TOS is becoming and incessant “do you want to make $750 per day on the internet by filling out mail-in ballots?”
It’s a fucking shit show, and not just because of the incessant spam.
With few exceptions, the writers are little more than TDS-rattled children, and the commentariat is a shit show of flinging shit and “first 2 years of college” level “argument” that many believe is actually intelligent.
New critter spotted in the yard today. Internet searches indicate it is a red squirrel. Further internet searches indicate that they are unpleasant to have around, and that in NY it is illegal to trap them, but legal to hunt them with bows and arrows.
Are they any worse than gray squirrels?
Apparently. AND in the spring they’re mostly carnivorous, feeding on bird eggs and hatchlings.
Yes, they are even more destructive than grey squirrels. Terminate.
This little fucker was waaaay more skittish than any of the other mammals I’ve got. I’m hoping that means it’s well outside it’s home range. But it also means there’s no way I’ll be able to take it with an arrow. Unless it’s got that visual problem where it can’t really see things moving straight towards it like mice have.
I should get an air rifle.
Temporary
Facebook is temporarily banning advertisements for weapons accessories and protective gear amid the fallout from the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol and days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
The platform said in a blog post that the ban will be in place at least two days after the inauguration, on Jan. 22, “out of an abundance of caution.”
“We already prohibit ads for weapons, ammunition and weapon enhancements like silencers,” the company wrote. “But we will now also prohibit ads for accessories such as gun safes, vests and gun holsters in the US.”
Facebook declined to comment to The Hill on the exact reasoning behind the ban.
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In addition, three senators and four attorneys general this week wrote letters to Facebook to demand that it permanently halt the advertisement of military goods and tactical gear, according to the outlet.
“Facebook must hold itself accountable for how domestic enemies of the United States have used the company’s products and platform to further their own illicit aims,” Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) wrote.
“Whether through negligence or with full knowledge, Facebook is placing profit ahead of our Nation’s democracy.”
The Constitution is just a fucking piece of paper.
Not a very effective one at that.
It was a fun experiment, but it turns out that people are shit.
It’s going to be funny when the Dems who’s Zuck’s been coddling and kissing their asses actually break up his company and prosecute him for some kind of made up BS. I don’t agree with it but I doubt he’s going to be the one the crocodile eats last.
I think it’s far more likely that we get Agents of the Regime placed on the board, perhaps in large enough numbers to make up a voting majority. This will be stated, with no shred of irony, as a way to prevent fascism.
Maybe but they’re still out for blood because he allowed Trump to collude with Russia in 2016 on his platform in order to steal the election from Clinton. It’s the ridiculous and discredited left wing equivalent of Q but the debt must be settled.
They already have board members in high ranking positions in the Biden administration. They’re pushing for more.
Silicon Valley IS the Democrat Party.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-tech-biden-insight/big-techs-stealth-push-to-influence-the-biden-administration-idUSKBN28V170?fbclid=IwAR0wFM34UnQ1rC6qAugtJpfhMJshNOarbobwLVDNLX9QRvQoQdvoE-Lalqc
Yeah, FB et al. ain’t going anywhere. Way too useful in their new role as the Ministry of Information.
That aint no shit there. It is hard for me to not get out my tinfoil sombrero.
Related to a lot of the comments above:
People claiming that the Democrats want to ban guns are conspiracy theory fakenewsing bigot rioters and need to be purged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqlvn4MPBgc
It’s obvious that gun rights people as well as people who believe the election system is corrupted will be considered insurrectionists (they don’t really believe that but that’s the spin) and will be dealt with accordingly. They aren’t trying to tamp down tensions, they’re ramping them up.
Wait? Wut? We have checkpoints now?
Downtown DC is a “Green Zone” now. Literally. That’s literally what they’re calling it.
So I hear.
If they’re aren’t insurgents, they’ll have to manufacture a couple.
Good luck with dismantling all of this new security state by the end of January. I bet DHS is already writing up RFPs for permanent fortifications.
Oh, and Metro will be shut down in downtown DC for a week
https://twitter.com/wmata/status/1349806494846492675
Wow. I guess all those essential jobs aren’t so essential after all.
And NPR just answered my question. Apparently there are checkpoints into the “green zone” around the capitol. The story went on to compare what happened on the 6th to Iraqi insurgents who opposed the US invasion. Wow. Even I did not see that line of propaganda coming.
They’re already moving forward into the next phase. They need to present the appearance of normalcy, and that means getting enough Republicans to go along with this bullshit so they can claim bipartisan consensus.
Seriously, they’re rerunning 2003, but now the Deplorables are Saddam Hussein’s regime. They’re about to Shock and Awe Redneckistan.
God help us all.
Yep.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/violence-in-the-capitol-dangers-in-bbe
Also….
https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1347542374952677377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Funny how they are doing exactly what they accused Trump would do.
I should get an air rifle.
This. I have some friends who are big fans of the Modern Sporting Pellet Rifle.
They recommend them enthusiastically for dealing with rodent (and other) pests inside the city limits.
on the subject of Iranian suicide bombers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Hossein_Fahmideh
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Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh (Persian: محمد حسین فهمیده;[1] May 6, 1967 – October 30, 1980) was an Iranian war hero[2] and an icon of the Iran–Iraq war.
In September 1980, Iraq initiated the invasion of Iran via air and land, sending five armoured and mechanized divisions across the Shatt al-Arab (Arvand Rud) waterway to invade the oil-rich Khuzestan Province in southern Iran, quickly seizing several towns in the area, and, on November 10, attacked the city of Khorramshahr.[3]
According to his official biography,[4] Fahmideh was a 13-year-old boy from Qom who, at the outbreak of war in 1980,[5] left his home without his parents knowing to go to southern Iran and aid in the defense of Khorramshahr, the front line of the war.[6] In the besieged city of Khorramshahr, he fought side-by-side with older Iranian soldiers.[7] Fahmideh was among the Iranians who engaged in fierce house-to-house battles in which thousands of Iraqis and Iranians were killed.[3] At one point, Iraqi forces pushed the Iranian troops back as they were passing through a very narrow canal. Due to a lack of RPG rockets and the sensitive formation of the Iraqi tanks, Fahmideh, seeing that his older comrades were already dead or wounded,[8] wrapped himself in a grenade belt from a nearby body, pulled the pins out, and jumped underneath an advancing Iraqi tank, killing himself and disabling the tank.[9] This led the Iraqi tank column to believe that the Iranians had mined the area, ceasing their advance. Later, Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran broadcast a breaking news story describing the incident.[10]
His story inspired many Iranians during the war to risk death to protect their nation and has been heralded by leaders in Iran from Ayatollah Khomeini to President Mohammad Khatami.[3] Ayatollah Khomeini declared Fahmideh an Iranian national hero,[11] and made references to him in several of his speeches:[3][8]
Our leader is that 13-years-old child who threw himself with his little heart against the enemy. He is worth more than a hundred pens and a hundred tongues.
***
Martyrdom is very much part of Shia Islam. The landmark event was a last stand battle by the followers of Ali at Karbala.
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The Battle of Karbala (Arabic: مَعْرَكَة كَرْبَلَاء) was fought on 10 October 680 (10 Muharram in the year 61 AH of the Islamic calendar) between the army of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at Karbala, Iraq.
Prior to his death, the Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I had nominated his son Yazid as his successor. Yazid’s nomination was contested by the sons of a few prominent companions of Muhammad, including Husayn, son of the fourth caliph Ali, and Abd Allah ibn Zubayr, son of Zubayr ibn al-Awam. Upon Muawiyah’s death in 680 CE, Yazid demanded allegiance from Husayn and other dissidents. Husayn did not give allegiance and traveled to Mecca. The people of Kufa, an Iraqi garrison town and the center of Ali’s caliphate, were averse to the Syria-based Umayyad caliphs and had a long-standing attachment to the house of Ali. They proposed Husayn overthrow the Umayyads. On Husayn’s way to Kufa with a retinue of about 70 men, his caravan was intercepted by a 1,000-strong army of the caliph at some distance from Kufa. He was forced to head north and encamp in the plain of Karbala on 2 October, where a larger Umayyad army of 4,000 arrived soon afterwards. Negotiations failed after the Umayyad governor Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad refused Husayn safe passage without submitting to his authority, a condition declined by Husayn. The Battle of Karbala ensued on 10 October during which Husayn was killed along with most of his relatives and companions, while his surviving family members were taken prisoner. The battle was followed by the Second Fitna, during which the Iraqis organized two separate campaigns to avenge the death of Husayn; the first one by the Tawwabin and the other one by Mukhtar al-Thaqafi and his supporters.
The Battle of Karbala galvanized the development of the pro-Alid[a] party (Shi’at Ali) into a unique religious sect with its own rituals and collective memory. It has a central place in the Shi’a history, tradition, and theology, and has frequently been recounted in Shi’a literature. For the Shi’a, Husayn’s suffering and death became a symbol of sacrifice in the struggle for right against wrong, and for justice and truth against injustice and falsehood.
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I don’t know but I’m thinking this story is …um… a little changed to benefit the Iranian government.
Brunch is a good thing. Especially with a Cold Brewed Manhattan.
MAGA, bitchiz
You might as well wear a “I am a right wing terrorist” t-shirt, with a pack of Pall Malls rolled up in the sleeve, when you drive that.
Looks more like a car some beaner would have bouncing on one tire.
That car. Would. The rest of what you said not so much.
UNFILTERED Pall Malls
Pretty cool – Italians refusing to comply.
https://mobile.twitter.com/_evelynrae/status/1350257826388713473
Who is the dude sniffing the little girl’s hair in the Sunday Morning Links photo? Looks kinda familiar.
Looks like Donald Trump?
Doesn’t speak to me
Hell, doesn’t sleep with me
She treats me like a louse
Watching FoxNews
Alone with my blues
Last Sunday morning at the White House
Good luck with dismantling all of this new security state by the end of January. I bet DHS is already writing up RFPs for permanent fortifications.
Why do you think Chuckie Todd did a segment on the decade-long (or longer) rise of heavily armed right wing insurrectionist cells? Trump’s secret army is everywhere, and we must defend our nation. Now is not the time for ill-considered outreach to the sworn enemies of democracy. We must strike, and strike hard.
Not sure if this has already been posted, but I was too busy finding my surprised face to check: COVID Lockdowns May Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures, International Study Shows
And I SF’d trying to link: https://www.newsweek.com/covid-lockdowns-have-no-clear-benefit-vs-other-voluntary-measures-international-study-shows-1561656