“Back to the salt mines.”
There’s really not much to talk about in the world of sports the last couple of days. I wish that weren’t the case but it is. Instead I’m focused on the first day of school for my kids. And that day has arrived. So I get that do deal with when I’m done providing you with…the links!
I’m confused. Wasn’t the decision already made? It was made when the borrowers signed the loan agreement paperwork, which clearly laid out the terms for repayment and the penalties for non-payment. Joe Biden didn’t have anything to do with it then and he shouldn’t have anything to do with it now.
Asshole
Holy shit. This asshole is still alive? I’m shocked he hasn’t been consumed by the earth yet.
This really happened? If so…good! I’m sure these people will be better stewards of the money than the government would be. Also, this is misleading, as he will pay tax on the sale of the stock as will everybody else who received it. But either way, I very much doubt there was anything illegal going on here, so this is little more than a hit piece.
Sue everybody! I’m sorry, but this is absurd. I hope this is a publicity stint.
A dangerous herd when startled
This seems dangerous to me. What happens if somebody shows up with a gun? Those thirty could end up stampeding kids as they run out as fast as they can. Which I have no doubt would be their response.
Speaking of school, this kind of shit fires me up. And what’s sad is that nobody, from Randi Weingarten to Lori Lightfoot, will be held accountable for the lives and education they took away from these kids.
I always loved Family Feud. But these guys took it a bit too far. I wish there was video. Alas, I am yet to find any.
This is quality trolling. And that “political expert” can kiss my ass. We’ve listened to people seriously calling us (in addition to conservatives) that for years now. Tough shit if it offends him.
Here’s one to get the blood pumping this morning. What a great beat. And just in case that one didn’t get your toe tapping (at a minimum), this one surely will. If not, go see a doctor.
Right. Now get out there and have a great day, dear friends!
Morning glibs!
Mornin’!
For what? LEOs were on site last time something went down. AND DID NOTHING.
Losers.
They didn’t do nothing. They actively prevented people from putting the shooter down or evacuating the wounded before they bled out.
Fair point.
30 cops? Overkill?
When I was growing up, one cop car was a traffic stop, two meant drugs, three or more was a dead body.
They never showed up to prevent anything, just take statements after the fact.
If only they gave the crooks their copy of the police report…
They have a lot of “restraining people from being helpful” to do.
Some ideology believes that when the shit they want to force on the real world fails, and fails massively, too often leaving mountains of bodies and billions in chains, the problem was that they didn’t push hard enough for the outcome they wanted, so they double down on doing more stupid….
Well I hope they made sure all the hand sanitizers in the hallway are fully filled.
“Speaking of school, this kind of shit fires me up. And what’s sad is that nobody, from Randi Weingarten to Lori Lightfoot, will be held accountable for the lives and education they took away from these kids.”
If you really want to make a cogent argument that there is inherent racism in America, the best example is the public school system. No system run by the machine causes more damage to minorities than the public school system.
I’m sure Al Sharpton and Ben Crump will be funding a campaign where they tell black kids that The Man didn’t allow slaves to learn to read and write because they knew it was dangerous. And now black kids will ostracize other black kids for trying to learn.
Because those two care so much about their fellow POC
There is systemic racism in the US. Youre right about public schools. The 2 examples I use most are minimum wage laws and gun control laws.
To be fair with regards to the disruption of institutionalized schooling, I didn’t learn anything in Public school either.
I also remember having great grades in high school but feeling outclassed in college. Like you say the problem is probably less COVID restrictions and more, that’s just how bad public schooling can be.
I was a B student though high school and college doing between jack and shit in terms of effort. The biggest thing it taught me is that educators deserve no elevated status, and a lot of them deserve a stigma for their disservice.
Same here – Bs required a few lazy moments of concentration or just showing up and listening to the babble of the teacher/professor.
Getting an A seemed liked to much work 😉
Yeah, I coasted on trivially easy Bs, and high standardized test scores, right up until my chosen university accepted me ‘provisionally’ based on grades. Whether I got in or not, and thus escaped my dysfunctional family*, came down to last semester senior year grades. Straight As, so I made it, but it was a bit of a wake up call.
*sole university criteria — large school, greater than 500 miles from home
All through HS and undergrad, mostly As and some Bs, with minimal effort – but as noted, pay attention to what the teacher/prof says in class, because they’ll test to that (after all it was important enough for them to lecture on). Ah but grad school – that was a different story.
I went from B- in high school to B+ in college because I was paying for it. I still didn’t give full effort for all the mandatory classes I didn’t like.
I was A’s Fall, B’s Winter and C’s in Spring during high school. Fall semester the football coaches made sure I attended. Winter there wasn’t much to do outside so I mostly showed up. Spring? Beaches, sunshine and tourist girls. I never showed up and still got C’s.
First stint in college was C’s. Partying and no professor cared if you showed or not.
Second stint in college was A’s and B’s. Like Ratsy, I realized I was paying for it. Also was much more mature.
was much more mature
Age and four years in the Regular Army before college helped me.
Same. Time traveling with Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children taught me a lot about life.
Funny that, my parents started paying for my college, then the grades came in – Dad “I’m not for these grades.” I re-enroll after a year of working shitty jobs in a recession, now I’m paying for it and attendance and grades went up.
I was a literal straight-A student in high school, but front-loaded all my math classes into grades 9 and 10. Junior year I took business math just to fill out the credit requirement, and then senior year I had it easy. Great plan, right? Until I took the SATs. In the year they completely changed all of the criteria and added the essay question (which they dropped like 2 years later). I got something like 780 on the English portion. The essay portion was scored in some funky way at the time, where two reviewers read the essay and then assigned it a numerical score between 2 and 10, IIRC. I got a 9 from one reviewer and a 10 from the other (or whatever the numbers were). And then the math portion… not only was I completely rusty from not doing any higher maths for 2 years, but they had added pre-calculus questions, which wasn’t even available at the time at my school. High school trigonometry was my highest level. I did abysmally. Good thing my parents had nothing saved for college anyway, so I wasn’t applying to selective schools.
I don’t recall an SAT essay, I think they added it after I took the test when they started screwing with the formula a lot, nor do I recall the english/math split, just that I only squeaked out a 1350 combined.
I think I took mine in 2005, but it might have been 2004. Either way, it was the first year they added the essay portion, and they had retooled the math portion completely, and the English portion partially (mostly the vocab section because the relationship between two words was racist or some shit). The math and English sections were each scored on a 400-800 scale for a total of 1600, which was the same scoring range and split that was used when my step brother graduated, and then the essay question got converted/normalized from the weird 2-10 score into an 800-point score to combine with the rest of the test for a nice round total of 2400. I can’t remember exactly where I ended up, but it was just over 2000, I think.
I took it in 1999. I was pissed when they went to 2400 points because it made my results look worse.
Yeah, the inflated SAT grades thing was laughable…
Any of you take the ACT tests?
I did. I got a 35.
I did math & sciences so I had two scores of 36 (has that scoring also changed like the SAT?). scored max on my SAT for math, and think I was 80 points short for english max.
From what I understand, there’s something of an east-west geographical split in whether you take the ACT or SAT (or both). Being a west coast lad with no plans to attend an eastern school, I only took the SAT. I think the ACT has remained more stable in its scoring. The SAT was a joke when I took it, and it’s only gotten worse since.
My understanding was that the ACT was a west thing.
I didn’t know anyone who took it in the east.
I understood the ACT to be a Southern thing, but I took it anyway.
ACT only here in the wilds of Michigan. I don’t know anyone who took the SAT.
Friend of mine got high before taking the ACT – got a score of 4. She now works as a sheriff deputy.
I got a 27 on two hours of drunken sleep. Pretty sure I was still hammered. I didn’t care, I was being recruited for soccer at a few schools.
The SAT and ACT come in and out of favor with different schools and different states. California in the ’80s was all SAT and no one even talked about the ACT.
Here in KY, circa ’00, my kids took the ACT and no one talked at all about the SAT.
Some liberal arts colleges are more likely to want ACT scores and it seems like engineering schools tend to weigh more towards the SAT.
The Army has used the SAT as a pre-screen for some people in lieu of no ASVAB.
Any of you take the ACT tests?
Yes.
I did much better on the ACT than on the SAT.
Yes, there was a geographical divide for ACT/SAT.
I took both because I wanted the flexibility to use either to apply to any school.
I took that one too.
It said I should go into Military Intelligence.
[snark] I was insulted. [/snark]
I took both. ACT because KY. SAT because I was targeting Georgia Tech.
GT takes both now, but in the 80s, they were SAT only.
I graduated in 2004 and the essay came out after, so 2005 sounds right.
I was also a straight A student in high school. And now look at me. *points to avatar*
That makes perfect sense, actually, because a lot of kids take it junior year, but I waited until the beginning of senior year, and I graduated summer of ’05. Good thing I waited…
Also you’re a paragon compared to me. Talk about falling from grace, Jesus Christ. I rarely if ever discuss my academic history and have taken pains to lose touch with my college academic mentor and the few professors I kept in touch with because I’m so embarrassed about how spectacularly I failed to achieve anything with my life and wasted what little talent I actually had.
Intelligence is overrated. A lesson that took me a long time to learn.
My dad placed a lot of importance on both intelligence and education, and I tested “gifted” multiple times on whatever bullshit standardized test the state of Washington made us take at regular intervals from kindergarten through junior high. So I got a lot of smoke blown up my ass that way – not just about the value of intelligence generally, but a completely exaggerated sense of my own. I’m more or less the (urban)dictionary definition of a fucking midwit. And I still don’t like it.
Move over Pat. You’re in my seat.
Er Wow – Midwit fits me very closely.
And yeah I was in a “gifted” program but I always felt like an imposter. I had some very intelligent (and nerdy) friends and I felt insecure around them.
When I graduated from college I thought the business world was going to be a cinch, especially once they realized how smart I was. Hah! Little did I know about the cronyism.
Intelligence is overrated.
To adapt an analogy from Adam Carolla, I think of intelligence as raw horsepower – what matters is how much you get to the wheels.
Lots of intelligent people who can’t actually _do_ anything with it.
Lots of successful people of average intelligence who can apply what they have effectively.
I wouldn’t call my old man a genius.
But damn he gets things done with threats, charm, or by any means necessary. More of a high social ability – waay better than introvert me.
Haha. HAHAHA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING!
I should have gotten a degree in history or economics like I originally wanted to and just stayed in academia my entire life. Only problem is I was convinced then, as I am now, that academia is a cesspit where nothing worthwhile is ever accomplished, particularly in the history and economics departments. And of course, I’d have never gotten hired with my politics.
Yep, 2004-2005 school year. I took the SAT at the same time. They gave us both a 1600 point basis score and a 2400 point basis score and told us that the 2400 basis score was able to be ignored since it was the first round of essay grading.
That SAT got me a full ride through college. I was an A-/B+ student, so I wasn’t gonna get one otherwise.
I skipped the SAT by going to a community college for two years before transferring to a university.
I wish there had been an essay question when I took them (1970). Much more latitude for bullshitting. I always thought my scores were pretty good (1550-ish) until I found out that SP scored a perfect 1600.
I didn’t do that great on the SAT or the GRE, but the GMAT, that I only took as practice for the GRE – that I totally kicked ass on, 95th percentile.
I took the GRE on a whim (I had a job offer, but wanted to see if any grad schools would bite), and pissed off my college girlfriend by outscoring her significantly despite her studying for over a month and me studying exactly zero.
I never “played the game” with the standardized tests. I studied a bit, took the test, and went with the score I got. Meanwhile, everybody else studied for much longer, took the test multiple times, and generally freaked out about things.
LSAT is particularly bad in that way. Sucking on the LSAT doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to be a crap lawyer, but an inability to learn the test and improve on it is an indicator that you may not have the skills required to succeed in law school. I knew of people who took the LSAT 5 or more times trying to get into the 160s so they could get into a half decent law school.
Speaking of studying for tests…
How many of you libertarians that like your mind altering substances prepped for a work test by going for broke?
Just kidding…
It’s been 30 years since I took the GRE. I did quite well on it, but ultimately decided that I didn’t want to live like a student any more.
Probably just as well, I would have been sucked into the scientific consensus if I had pursued the area I was interested in (remote sensing, synthetic aperture radars, and physical oceanography).
One of my two best friends in high school was the central casting high school druggie. He was on shrooms when he took the SAT (same day as me, but different location). We scored pretty close to the same.
EF got a good but not great LSAT score. And went to a third tier trash law school. It was cheaper and more convenient then U of Michigan for sure.
I used to mod a law school admissions forum. There were two types of people doing “trash tier” law school. Those who shouldn’t go to law school and those who had a plan and just needed a bar license to execute that plan.
For that first group, law school and a law career is an uphill battle. I was shocked at the number of people who went that path and spent gobs of time, money, and effort on learning and taking and retaking the LSAT 5+ times to then spend gobs of time, money and effort on learning and taking and retaking the bar exam 5+ times.
The formula for “success” in law school admissions is pretty simple (at least, for a traditional K-JD). Practice the LSAT until the score is not a liability on your admissions package. Apply broadly. Accept the offer to the best school that offers you substantial money. If that school is outside of the top 100, reconsider law school.
TBF, I tripped the night before the SATs. My one and only LSD experience. It was likely not helpful.
GRE is hilariously easy. It was like taking the SAT again.
Didn’t study at all for SAT, got around 1500? GRE almost perfect math, English way above average despite engineering major…
The thing is a joke.
All you people with your SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, …
I took the ASVAB, DLAB, AAT, …
The DLAB was interesting. There were four of us taking the test. One person quit the test part way through. Just got up and left.
They made me take the DLAB after I commissioned, even though I didn’t need it as a tanker.
After about a half hour of “WTF”, I just gave up and laid my head on the desk and got some shut-eye.
They were spouting gibberish language that you were supposed to pick up patterns on…
Still managed a 66, but you need a 95 to go to DLI.
Actual gibberish, or military gibberish?
It was a made up language that you had to learn as you took the test. I scored 117 which allowed me to select Russian.
The AAT was like a travel book of logic puzzles. The one I recall was “identify which island the chief lives on based on canoe travel between the islands”.
Authentic frontier gibberish
I took the GRE for grad school. I think they had just added a logic section to it.
I remember I maxed out the score on the logic section. I did OK on math and verbal. I also remember that my math and verbal scores were reversed from the SAT. On the SAT I did better on verbal than on math. For the GRE I did better on math than verbal.
The Math section on the GRE is a joke, possibly easier than the SAT.
I didn’t think college was more difficult than grade school, but definitely less handholding (no worksheets).
This might be major/school dependent?
Or else you’re way smarter than I am, or were slow when you were younger! XD
I was at Catholic school.
The beginning of college was easy. I started coasting. And got my ass kicked. Then I went back to the way I was in high school, and got decent grades.
My situation was unique. I spent got all my schooling prior to college in the countries my dad had been stationed in. I had a voracious appetite to learn things and because my parents encouraged it I excelled in school despite being a problem (had a ton of suspensions, mostly for fighting bullies picking on others). I tended to go far and beyond what the already advanced courses in the STEM fields I focused on expected, because I couldn’t get enough knowledge fast enough, and I did a ton of that work on my own. And one thing that stood out to me about education outside the US was that in practically every system I went to school people understood no two students were the same. And these systems always seemed to, at a minimum, acknowledge kids learned at different speeds, and more often than not, had tracks to allow people to learn at a pace more comfortable to their intellect and commitment. Including making the kid aware of how far their intellect and commitment could take them. Avoiding school in the US basically made it so that when I got to college, I tested out of all the math & science curricula courses, which allowed me to do a lot more stuff to add value to my edumacation.
My dad used to tell me that education was the one hyper expensive thing most Americans spent most of their time avoiding getting the best value in return for the cost. Mostly because young people simply couldn’t understand the value. I know I was an anomaly because my siblings, who both were not dumb, worked real hard at avoiding any work in school. There is no way to properly inform young people, IMO, how valuable education can be to their future prospects, but it feels – based on my experience helping keep my own kid motivated during his schooling years now almost a decade ago – that the real damage came from schools switching from actually making kids learn the basics, at a minimum, and encouraging the smarter kids to do more, to just indoctrinating them and pretending to actually get the kid to learn anything.
And these systems always seemed to, at a minimum, acknowledge kids learned at different speeds, and more often than not, had tracks to allow people to learn at a pace more comfortable to their intellect and commitment.
An ex-gf of mine taught at a public school in MA. She talked about how the school was adding tracking to group kids with similar abilities together. I don’t remember what the school called it, but that’s what it was.
She was talking about it like it was a new thing. I pointed out that the Catholic schools I went to had been doing that for years. Her response was, “Really?”
We had that at my high schools in the 70s.
“Colleges could see a surge in students unprepared for the demands of college-level work” Could see? COULD see?
We have already been seeing it, and I expect a whole lot more. A friend of mine has a wife who owns a day care, and she was saying that preschool kids are already showing a deficit in large-muscle motor skills because of a lack of outside play time. This shit is going to go on for several years, at least, before even regaining the status quo ante.
I took AP English my senior year. Show up for the test so I can get college credits.
I get to the essay that had a big list of books that you could write on. I hadn’t read any of them! But the other option was to pick your own book.
So – being the WTF kind of guy I am – I picked Naked Lunch by W. Burroughs. I got a 3/5 score, just enough for the college credit. So I never had to take English when I was in college.
I forget which AP courses I took in High school. I think it was Calc and Social Studies, but I never bothered to file the paperwork to get the credit, or never paid the fee, or something, so I just took the classes.
As for College English, the only time I got up to a B in that class was when I created a pile of drivel pandering to the professor’s politics (I lost points for not citing sources, but ‘pulled from my rectum’ wasn’t a valid source anyway). That taught me everything I needed to know about the value of that class.
+1 Steely Dan
5 on my Lit and Comp. I picked Antigone.
I took AP History in High School, did fuck-all work, took the test and got a 3. Which was somehow still good for 6 hours of US History credit at An Ohio state university.
Ironically, I probably would have found the 6 hours of US History more useful in the long run than the other electives I had to take to pad out an A&S degree. Interpersonal Communication? Intro Psychology? Wasted time.
I totally shocked myself by getting a 4 on AP Bio.
I don’t think I remember anything from that. I was also happy to take the college credits.
I also had AP History. Teacher was a conservative fellow whose family owned an apple orchard. He worked there when school was out.
To this day I remember his saying: “I could teach this class in my basement. Why does this school need more money?”
My college was asshole, a 3 was not good enough to get credit- wasted a lot of time sitting in what was basically remedial English essay classes.
Sigh. High school 1. Went to high-pressure catholic school because family. Got good grades but hated the social scene. A large majority of my class mates had uber-wealthy parents, but we were on scholarships. Stupid peer pressures, etc.
After repeated truancy reports I was “asked to leave” in my junior year. Had I known at that point my parents could have written a large donation to the school and I could have stayed. But my dad wanted me to take my lumps. 2. So I went to the public school. My parents expected I would drop out of that and turn tricks.
One again, I did get huge truancy reports – but – due to meeting the right man (Lord H) I committed to finishing on time. In my last term I did a ton of makeup work and graduated. Despite all the truancy I still ended up at 3.6.
If being fat is standing to sue then America better buckle its extended-length seatbelts.
I chuckled.
If they like “curvy” women, why is it an “offense”?
Oh, I get it. They have appropriated American-style woke. For shame.
If only being offended burned calories
BAZINGA!
She didn’t think anyone would notice.
“Instead I’m focused on the first day of school for my kids. And that day has arrived. ”
In the middle of August? I thought American kids didn’t start school until after Labor Day.
They have to account for all those Texas snow days.
Varies by state.
Here it’s mid-August start and they finish before Memorial Day. Where I grew up we went after Labor Day and got out in early June.
I guess it varies by location.
Mine go back next week. It seems like it creeps earlier and earlier each year.
They should ban government schools entirely. Let free range kids forage knowledge on their own.
Am I free to gambol across the library?
GAAAAAAHHH!!
Sorry, the Native Reservations want to keep a lock on gamboling.
I drove through some reservations while I was on my FreedomFest road trip. No one prevented me from gamboling through them.
Yeah, when I was a kid school started the week after labor day and ended the week after memorial day.
My kids started much earlier and ended later. I think there are a lot of 2 income families out there who want the extra baby sitting.
^^ this. Wife was telling me that the number of “mommy freedom day” brunches she saw on FB was galling.
When the youngest Altar Boy started school, it was a bad time at the Jimbatican. Mrs. Holiness has a lot of her life wrapped up in those kids and not having one running around was tough on her.
She also got ejected from the Korean Mommy Club. That was a group of Korean women who had kids at home. They’d get together at each others’ houses, eat, talk, and let the kids play. Once she didn’t have kids to bring, she stopped getting invites.
Geeze.
For sure kids can be tough.
Me too. First day was yesterday. Utterly ridiculous.
How the hell does school start now? Didn’t it start in Sept. when we were growing up? I know it came after my brothers birthday, with is on Monday, so this is some boolshiite. I feel sorry for the kids in those hot rooms, sweating and sticking against the seats. Not so much for the teachers though..
Started in September for me when I was a kid as well.
After Labor Day, out by Memorial Day. Kids were either smarter or dumber. That’s 9 months, enough time locked up for a kid. Had outdoor recess unless the weather was colder than a minus something. We walked a long ways, a mile, no buses. For a 6 year old that’s a long ways.
Yeah, I walked about a mile, mile and a half. No AC, but no computers either. I do remember getting busted for riding my bike too soon, as you had to be in third grade to start doing that. But we were right across the street from the university, so we got special stuff from that.
I’m one of those entitled Millennial shitheads who attended private school and was dropped off and collected by my mom. Until I started homeschooling, that is.
Your straight As were from homeschooling?
For about half of grade school, yeah. For junior high and high school I attended a Christian correspondence school. This was before online learning was really a thing, so I got a syllabus, a stack of text books and a stack of DVDs (VHSs in junior high) at the beginning of the year and shipped my work off every couple weeks for grading. I’m long past the point where it matters now, but I got that question and the accompanying sideways glances a lot. I wish everyone who thought I was getting it easy could have met my dad. He was about ready to throw me off the Monroe Street Bridge on the occasions when I’d slack off and he’d have to pay for overnight shipping to get my tests graded.
^same, September. Usually the first full week of the month- with Monday off for some reason, of course.
That’s why we need to remodel the outdated school systems to install AC!
Please extend the levy (Not a Tax Increase!).
Heh. In Texas, early 1970s, the elementary school I attended did not have any air conditioning at all. Whippersnappers!
For me, school started in the third week of August and ended in the third week of May. And yes, it was hot as Hell. No air conditioning in any of the rooms until highschool and then only in the rooms used for computer classes. I took a computer mathematics class just for that reason(I sucked at it).
First day was the Wednesday after Labor Day.
Last day was somewhere in late June, plus any snow days.
We always started the week before labor day and then immediately had a three day weekend.
Here? After Labor Day. Now it’s something like mid-August.
And I walked the 1+ mile to my elementary, often cutting through dirt lots, backyards, and the condo complex. Biking usually took longer since you had to go the long way. We all had strong little legs back then since we biked or walked miles a day to get to stores, friends house, the park, and, of course, back ‘n’ forth to school.
I was 2 blocks from elementary school and it still took 30 minutes at least to walk home. Mostly because you’d mob up with your buddies in the neighborhood. A pack of young boys who are throwing rocks, mud clods or a football at each other don’t travel fast.
My kids were the same. The two Altar Boys, the two boys next door and a few others would walk to their elementary school a half mile away or so. Took them a long time to get home too.
Kids should have more unsupervised screwing around time like that.
I had to walk to grade school, too, It was about a mile each way. When I started High School we were on split shifts due to over crowding. My freshman year I went to school from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM. I had the early shift my sophomore year – 5:30 AM to 11:30 AM. That sucked. My first hour class was gym – we would go outside for flag football and it was still dark outside. And fricking cold…..
“Never a borower nor a lender be” is pretty solid advice. Obviously in our society that isn’t entirely possible, we have to take loans for houses and we have to invest money for retirement, but I can’t help but see how thankless it can be to loan money.
My theory however is that the level of indignation towards a lender calling in a debt is proportional to how common the type of debt is.
Being foreclosed on in a house is much more sympathetic than an car being repossessed.
That’s even funnier than closing html tags.
Meow.
“Funeral of elderly woman descends into mayhem after ‘uninvited son’ mows mourners down with his car, tips over the casket and causes $20,000 worth of damage at cemetery in Northern California”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11099775/Funeral-elderly-woman-descends-mayhem-uninvited-son-mows-mourners-car.html
Was there booze involved or straight up crazy?
I wonder why he was uninvited.
Bom dia,
CPAC Dallas panel proclaims ‘We are all domestic terrorists’
Well if they dont like it, maybe they shouldnt have started this crap. The whole “everyone that disagrees with me is a _____” is such a childish and on its face ridiculous thing to do, yet the left keep pushing it. They had to have known people would get tired of it, by pretty much the first week.
What im more concerned about is that its “somehow” found its way to the FBI and even theyre starting to believe the BS (see their “how to spot a domestic terrorist” guidance), well, believe it as long as it increases their own power and funding.
Also houston chronicle sucks and their paywall pisses me off. Glad I stopped subscribing a decade ago
…looks around… no domestic terrorists…only people with guns, shooting at targets…
If I see any DTs I’ll call a neighbor, ’cause of my boating accident
Embracing a slur deprives it of its power, and we can’t have that.
That’s really the divide between the old right and new right, or Rockefeller Republicans vs. Trump Republicans or however you want to classify it. Conservatives, by nature of being conservative, have customarily respected institutions, even those erected by their opponents, and presumed their serious approach to language was shared by everyone. It’s easy to put people like that on the defensive. All you have to do is level some completely unfounded accusation that takes a thousand times more effort to refute than to make, and turn the institutions they worship against them. To this day, even after Ruby Ridge, after Waco, after Elian Gonzalez, after Snowden, after Assange, after BLM, after Portland, after J6, the vast majority of red-meat conservatives are still die hard cop suckers with Thin Blue Line bumper stickers on their $50,000 F150s. They’ll be thanking the soldiers who put them on the cattle cars for their service.
Institutions? No, we want to conserve values. You cut out the rot and cauterize the wound, especially when it’s an institution where you can’t point to an individual, you burn the whole thing down and figure out what functions were actually warrented.
That may be true for you, but it is not true of Conservative thought in general.
I have to respectfully disagree. While there is, of course, substantial variation in ideology among the broad category of “conservative”, most are flag-waving, patriotic, respect authority types. They’re most certainly not going to burn anything down literally, and to the extent they can agree on burning anything down metaphorically, it’s the equivalent of a small trash can fire in the sub-basement. Some of them are getting “radicalized”, if you will, now that they’ve realized 40 years after the fact that every single institution in this country, including the trillion dollar corpos whose tax treatment has been their primary concern for the last century, is not only opposed to their ideology, but actually prepared to do violence against them. And that’s how we got Trump and the “new right”. Because 60 years of Bill Buckley ivy-league-meets-MIC conservatism wasn’t worth the pulp upon which National Review was printed. We’re past the point where nibbling around the edges can meaningfully accomplish anything.
What I find repugnant about that article is the accusation is just fine to the academic. If you don’t want people accepting their political opponents see them as terrorists then don’t fucking call them terrorists.
Why I am not a conservative.
“ Political experts say that despite Pickren’s assurances, the slogan represents a departure from conservatives’ past attempts to reappropriate labels given to them by groups they perceive as their political opponents.”
No, by Pickren’s own statement they are doing what they’ve always done. The departure is from what the left is calling them.
Me thinks you are operating in the pre-2016 world friend. As an example, I was following and commenting on a thread about the relative merits of Adam Kinzinger’s military service. An old line con came along and defended him as a decent guy and the virtue of his service trumped his supposed lack of current cache in the movement. I responded to them with something along the lines of “Kinzinger is an errand boy, doing the work of the D.C swamp” and as such his military service is meaningless. I got more props for that I’ve ever gotten for any comment I’ve made anywhere ever. Yes, there are still quite a few of those conservatives you speak of out there, but they are being summarily dismissed from the front bench. If there’s one thing I’ve noted over the last 2 1/2 + years, it’s that this isn’t your Daddy’s conservatism anymore.
That’s what I meant with the old right/new right split. Younger conservatives and pissed off older conservatives who have been paying attention are finally grokking it. Unfortunately, too late to do anything about it short of the type of revolutionary violence that will always be anathema to those who aren’t radicals. What’s really going to be interesting is what happens after the next fixed election when a lot more people get clued in to the “new normal”. My money’s on Solzhenitsyn as Nostradamus:
Same with Crenshaw from Texas. His military badassery means nothing in his new job, which he does not seem to be particularly good at.
I was initially hopeful about ol’ one-eye, he talked a good game in his first election. But he’s been a massive disappointment swamp-thing.
Even Michelle Malkin has turned on the security state.
Something I never thought I’d see.
Given how she defended Japanese internment during WWII, that is a sea change.
Yep, I remember two incidents that led to her awakening: one of her kids had some kind of neurological condition (IIRC) that was successfully managed with medical marijuana, and she got assaulted at a political rally while the cops stood around doing nothing.
A lot of conservatives by virtue of their economic class do not often deal with cops other than maybe the odd traffic stop. Having a white trash family and lower middle class early childhood experiences before my dad’s business started becoming successful is probably the reason I lean the way I do politically. That and my dad, despite being pretty conservative generally, was not a cop lover by any means. I was 11 years old when the Michael Crowe interrogation happened, and my dad took me into his office, gave me a copy of an ACLU pocket constitution, and told me to never tell a cop anything besides my name and address without him or a lawyer in the room. I don’t think a lot of other middle class white kids in my neighborhood got that lecture.
“…she got assaulted at a political rally while the cops stood around doing nothing.”
The political rally was a pro-police “back the blue” event.
Lol, I didn’t know that.
It was made when the borrowers signed the loan agreement paperwork, which clearly laid out the terms for repayment and the penalties for non-payment.
I’m not resuming payment until I have to.
Regarding the kids who were in High School during the COVID hysteria, this is not going to go well for anyone. The universities are going to either have to offer remedial courses, or downgrade their existing courses to HS level. They will then have to pass these kids along to avoid student/parent/societal outrage, and to maintain their place in the Lockdown Coalition. These kids will then be admitted to grad school with insufficient preparation. So avoid anyone who graduates medical school 2030-2034.
I hate to break it to you, Tonio, but colleges downgraded their academic rigor decades ago.
The colleges are don’t care. Best case, they get to force kids to take remedial courses and have to borrow a pile of money to pay for an additional year or two of partying, and worst case, they will make money of the idiots that just fail out.
In my state if graduation rates go down two years in a row, my university is subject to loss of several million dollars’ funding. So, we care. Not enough to do what would actually have to be done to reach the rates the state wants, but we care.
But hey! Those kids will score perfectly on the wOKE portion of the LSAT/MCAT that schools are now requiring.
Making sure that pregnant men get proper nutrition and natal care, and that is all that truly matters,
They’ll relabeled the COVID inspired learning deficit “education equity” or some shit like that, proclaim it a great success for getting society to the lowest common denominator and institute it permanently. Idiocracy here we come.
They’ve been failing kids up for decades. I see no reason that they would stop now.
All the incentives are in place to continue doing what they’ve been doing.
Your placement test results are in. It says here you’re fucked up. You talk like a fag and your shit’s all retarded.
LOL! I need the laugh this morning. Classic movie.
No worries. The amount of jobs that require a college degree to be hired far outnumber the number of jobs that require a college education to perform successfully.
This will be another nail in the coffin of Big Higher Ed. The crap graduates being turned out will convince a lot of companies that the requirement for a college degree is stupid and they should go back to aptitude tests or apprenticeship programs.
Software development has been going that way for some time. When I started you had to have a college degree. Not necessarily in CompSci, but some degree. Now I work with a lot of people who went to some coding camp or taught themselves.
Cal Jillson, professor of political science at Southern Methodist University, said the slogan is likely another attempt to repurpose liberals’ derogatory labels for right-wingers as badges of honor for conservatives. Past examples include conservatives’ mocking embrace of “deplorables,” Hillary Clinton’s characterization of Donald Trump supporters. See also: Senator Ted Cruz’s recent adoption of the phrase “dangerous radicals, which the junior senator coopted with pride during a Friday CPAC session.
According to Jillson, however, “We Are All Domestic Terrorists” is new territory for conservative repurposing. “We cannot afford to take it as a joke anymore,” she said. “To label yourself ‘domestic terrorists’ is over the line.”
Curiously, it’s not over the line for leftists to call conservatives domestic terrorists.
“How dare they not take this seriously”
That’s all this is.
‘That’s not a question about men’s hairstyles of the 1970’s…’
Wonder what Cal thought about pussy hats
He was silent about them.
The reason that the Right can coopt these derogatory labels is because they were so patently absurd. It is easy to mock an accuser when they accuse you of something so wildly wrong.
Which makes it scary that the Dems/Educators haven’t adopted “Groomers” as a joke.
Hey, we need groomers to make the snow mobile trails smooth and fast. Don’t disparage groomers.
I don’t know what sort of euphemism that is, but I’m sure it’s particularly disgusting.
At some point, you have to recognize that the other side is not arguing in good faith and is relying on framing and labels to win the public debate.
The real problem for them comes when you realize that the other side is not going to compromise, ever, and they would rather see you dead than do so.
“We cannot afford to take it as a joke anymore,” she said. “To label yourself ‘domestic terrorists’ is over the line.”
Settle down, Prissypants.
I think you meant Hold on there sugar tits
Texas will deploy more than 30 state police to patrol Uvalde schools as classes resume three months after elementary massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead
Why?
They needed to close for three months?
376 law enforcement officers descended upon the school and failed to stop the active shooter. Maybe 30 will work?
#BELIEVEHIM
Democrats’ big climate, health care and tax plan provides $79.6 billion in additional funding over 10 years for the Internal Revenue Service. That money includes about $45.6 billion for stepped-up tax enforcement — a crackdown that is projected to raise $124 billion in net revenue.
Republicans have honed in on that funding and revenue in scaremongering messaging that warns that an army of IRS agents will be coming for middle-class taxpayers.
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Those warnings ignore assurances to the contrary from the IRS itself. IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a letter to Congress last week that the agency did not plan to increase audit rates for middle-class and low-income households. “These resources are absolutely not about increasing audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans,” Rettig wrote. “As we have been planning, our investment of these enforcement resources is designed around Treasury’s directive that audit rates will not rise relative to recent years for households making under $400,000.”
That should be enough to satisfy you hysterical naysayers.
That’s what they said about tax increases, too.
messaging that warns that an army of IRS agents will be coming for middle-class taxpayers.
That’s all it can be used for.
He said the “rates” will not increase. He did not say the *number* of audits wouldn’t increase.
Does the IRS publish the rates? Id wager that the large portion of audits are on middle class already.
A lot of that money will be to purchase an Enterprise license for Bit Bleach software. Poor Lois Lerner had to erase her hard drives on her own dime. That isn’t right.
“Trust me. I’m from the IRS.”
😂🤣
How do you define ‘rate’ in this example?
The rate relative to other groups? Certainly there will be more audits, you can take that to the bank (so long as you pay the big guy 35%).
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/fbi-delivers-subpoenas-to-several-pa-republican-lawmakers-sources-say.html
Shit is going down in PA. (Maybe)
People need to start arresting these federal agents.
Abolish the FBI.
This is the only answer.
You cannot possibly prosecute all of the bad behavior, and it debatable whether you would want to.
Abolish it and open the records like they did with the Stasi after the fall of East Germany.
YURI YASUI July 2022_7.16 JBBF姫路大会①
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKxcANq8llw
Blocked at worked semi-NSFW.
Female body builder from a Google. Funny thing is that Yuri means lily in Japanese and also commonly means lesbianism. Yasui can mean “cheap, inexpensive, calm, peaceful, quiet”.
Interesting combination.
Today, in front picture news.
“Toxic! Britney Spears’ ex Kevin Federline revives dormant Instagram and hits back at pop star by posting videos of her getting into arguments with their sons after she blasted his parenting skills and said his home was full of ‘weed'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11101403/The-lies-stop-Britney-Spears-ex-Kevin-Federline-posts-videos-arguing-sons.html
“Britney Spears is branded RACIST after she singled out only black artists in a post saying Kevin Federline ‘raised her boys with more weed than Ludacris, 50 Cent, Jay Z and Puff Daddy combined’ as their feud over sons intensifies”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11101227/Britney-Spears-branded-RACIST-naming-black-people-post-cannabis.html
Will never, ever understand why some people want a front row seat on other people’s domestic issues.
Hey Sister Sally-Better-Than-You, go find a squirrel to take up your drawers already and leave these two saps alone to hopefully work crap out.
But not more than Snoop Dogg, obvs.
Or Willie Nelson.
Snoop Dogg claims Willie Nelson is the only person to outsmoke Snoop.
You’d almost think that there’s a genre of music dominated mostly by black artists where weed is a lyrical theme in a plurality of the songs or something.
Also I’m pretty sure Britney Spears has been on some pharmaceuticals a lot stronger than weed at various points in her life.
Instagram and Twitter are two things that are very high on my “don’t care about and try hard to avoid” list.
According to Jillson, however, “We Are All Domestic Terrorists” is new territory for conservative repurposing. “We cannot afford to take it as a joke anymore,” she said. “To label yourself ‘domestic terrorists’ is over the line.”
Stop calling people that disagree with your politics domestic terrorists then.
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“Outrage as FBI now subpoenas GOP lawmakers for more January 6 intel on Rep. Scott Perry: Feds pressure colleagues to turn on Trump ally after seizing his phone in front of his family”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11100863/Now-FBI-delivers-SUBPOENAS-Pennsylvania-lawmakers-confiscated-Rep-Scott-Perrys-phone.html
Republicans pounce?
Ugh.
Alternate take: The PA Republican party was pushing on the credibility of the election and was assembling an alternate state of electors in case any of their efforts bore fruit so they’d be ready. You know, like has been done many, many times in the past in this country and like any sane person would expect.
That they’re trying to spin this into “Insurrection!” via the DOJ is so far beyond Kangaroo Court logic that we need a new term for it. Platypus Courts or something.
I believe the current term as “democracy”. As in, “We must protect our democracy.”
Democracy can only be secured by making sure wrongthinkers neither hold office or vote.
A warning shot, as the commie rat fuckers are planning big shenanigans in PA again this year.
York can’t even run an election competently (let alone corruptly), per the evidence of the primary.
Mastriano will be targeted.
I’m shocked he hasn’t been consumed by the earth yet.
I don’t think the earth wants to receive him.
Brainstorming
President Joe Biden privately met with a group of historians at the White House last week who warned him about ongoing threats to democracy, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Sources familiar with the August 4 meeting, which was said to have lasted nearly two hours, told the outlet the experts described the current moment as among the most dangerous to democracy in modern history.
The people in the meeting were said to have included the Princeton University history professor Sean Wilentz, the University of Virginia historian Allida Black, the journalist Anne Applebaum, and the presidential historian Michael Beschloss. Speechwriters for Biden, including Vinay Reddy and Jon Meacham, and the White House senior advisor Anita Dunn were also said to have attended.
The small group almost exclusively discussed totalitarianism around the world and threats to American democracy, according to the Post.
The outlet reported the scholars compared the current state of affairs to the era that preceded the American Civil War, as well as the period before World War II when fascist movements emerged, specifically noting Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 election and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1940 election.
“After thorough examination of the facts, we decided you people are a threat to our political power.”
Your conclusion sounds accurate…
“democracy”
They keep using that word.
Just like North Korea so it fits with their redefinition.
I’m sure there was trace of irony to be found in that den of thieves.
“no” trace ugh
I was going to post something about Wilentz but realized it might be over the line.
But check out his Wikipedia page: someone’s being having editorial fun.
LOL! Poor guy doesn’t have seem to have a team of basement nerds to “fact check” his entry.
The 1940 election where FDR threw away custom and became President for life? I’m sure they glossed over where FDR was a by the dictionary fascist.
America LOVED FDR!!! /caudillo-worshipping lefties
Ah, you’ve met my mom who still believes that FDR saved America with his economic policies.
Oy, I’ve had that discussion with my MIL. A complete pointless endeavor on my part.
My mom too, ’cause the War made labor scarcer and gave my dad some pay bumps (He was too old to be drafted)
<em.told the outlet the experts described the current moment as among the most dangerous to democracy in modern history.
Agreed. The federal government is out of control.
when fascist movements emerged, specifically noting Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 election and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1940 election.
Speaking of authoritarians/totalitarians/fascists…
Nothing to see about the president who suspended habeas corpus and another who imprisoned whole classes of American citizens by executive order.
Fascism is not anti-democratic. On the contrary, most fascists were voted in quite democratically.
The elision comes in how they now define “democracy.” They interchange and add principles constantly and sell it as “everybody gets a say.”
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There’s something intermediate between a fully human influencer and a purely virtual Lara Croft.
And that’s an AI influencer (ainfluencer?!) who uses AI to scale themselves.
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Excellent post on the social media arms race.
DALL-E style AI-generated media >
Tiktok-style algorithmic feed >
Instagram influencers >
Facebook friends >
People magazine twitter.com/lessin/status/…
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Consider the following:
1) Hollywood keeps casting the same aging cohort of actors
2) Hollywood owns their IP
3) Hollywood loves sequels
4) Top Gun has outgrossed Titanic
5) Deepfake Tom Cruise looks very real
Conclusion: digital zombie Tom Cruise may star in movies forever.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1557682750898876416
Needs more p0rn references…
Thou shalt not question the election (if you have an ‘R’ next to your name).
Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to multiple sources.
At least some of the individuals receiving subpoenas were told they were not targets of an investigation, according to at least six sources reached by PennLive, but that they may have information of interest to the FBI. All of the sources had been briefed on the investigative moves in some way, but demanded anonymity in order to discuss them.
The information being requested centered around U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and the effort to seek alternate electors as part of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after the 2020 election, several sources said.
Because there were no calls for alternate electors in 2016?
They’ve obviously made the decision to go for broke here and we’re all along for the ride.
No silly, they didn’t ask for ALTERNATE electors, they wanted FAITHLESS ones!
I thought this was a Bee article, but it was for real….
After the violence in the pangolin community during COVID, I’m glad the WHO is getting ahead on this.
Oh, Megyn.
Megyn Kelly reacts to the FBI raiding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago house, and more.
The meeting was in step with Biden’s habit of seeking outside experts to provide guidance on domestic and foreign-policy issues. He also met with Bill Clinton in May to discuss inflation and the midterms and with a group of foreign-policy experts in January when the US anticipated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The meetings also continue a tradition of US presidents seeking big-picture context from historians that started with Ronald Reagan but stalled under Donald Trump, according to the Post.
Historians have publicly been sounding the alarm on threats to democracy in recent years, especially since the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021.
Trump should have asked the Washington Post editorial board for their list of approved “historians”.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-rejects-chinas-one-country-two-systems-plan-island-2022-08-11/
Why wouldn’t they trust the CCP to keep up their end of the bargain?
Here’s my counter proposal – We lock the CCP fucks in the camps they built, turn over China to the Chinese government, and have them engage in extensive de-Maoization projects to salvage the nation. It will not be pretty. It will not be Free. But it is necessary unless the option to erase the mainland with nuclear hellfire is chosen.
No scenario where the CCP is left standing is permissable.
How about the Chinese people handle it and we stay the fuck out of it?
That approach failed.
And why is it our responsibility?
We can’t (or won’t) even stop the commies in our own country and we want to go fighting them in Asia?
No, our problems are here and I’m not signing up to “save” anybody else from theirs. Particularly since our track record in that regard involves millions of dead.
There’s plenty of room in those camps for our own commies to be with their comrades.
There’s not going to be a clean or peaceful solution.
I agree with your second sentence.
“Pay no attention to Hong Kong’s two system, one country! I promise I won’t hit you this time baby!”
I was gonna say, I’m pretty sure we have pretty recent evidence of what China means by “one country, two systems”.
Watch Brian Kilmeade get ambushed. He thought he was getting a guest who was pissed at Biden over everything else he’s fucked up, but instead he got a tirade against the COVID vaccines and the establishment’s deafness to any criticism of them.
I’m surprised they didn’t cut to commercial and I bet somebody at Fox got a nasty phone call from Pfizer afterwards.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6310708656112#sp=show-clips
I say hear all sides
Wake me when the media starts cooperating with that idea.
China property crisis: Why homeowners stopped paying their mortgages
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-62402961
Not a Daniel Henninger fan in general, but this screed is perfect.
Mar-a-Lago Search Shows the Swamp’s Trump Obsession
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-swamps-trump-obsession-mar-a-lago-raid-fbi-justice-department-documents-garland-wray-2024-russia-deep-state-11660162038?st=7zncmy7vuhctqul&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The plus side is that many in DC do read him. It’s too late of course.
Prosecutors setting themselves up for strike two?
So far, the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping retrial is shaping up like the last case, if jury selection is any indication.
A jury was seated in one day, just like last time, with the judge handling most of the questioning.
Most of the folks chosen don’t like the news, or pay much attention to it.
And they said they know very little about the high-profile case involving the state’s chief executive, militias and those groups’ disdain for Whitmer’s handling of the pandemic.
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At the start of jury selection, Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker told the prospective jurors that the case is “potentially more challenging and potentially more interesting” than other trials, given its high profile.
“The victim is our sitting governor. There has been publicity. There have been earlier proceedings,” Jonker said, without disclosing that there was a previous trial that ended with no convictions.
Your tax dollars at work.
The sitting governor is a co-conspirator at this point and the victim is the American people who’ve had the full force of their government turned against them.
That’s not double jeopardy?
Since it is only two defendants this time around, I would guess the jury was hung on them and they got a mistrial instead of acquittal.
The victim is our sitting governor.
Doesn’t appear that way to me.
The FUCK it is.
Complete inversion of the legal burden
Ok, groomer.
Licensed counselor and sex therapist advocates for “MAPs” (minor attracted persons). She says they are “vilified” and “marginalized” and shouldn’t be referred to as pedophiles
They’re vilified for a reason. Enough with the moral relativism bullshit. That social shaming serves a purpose, namely to keep the bad behavior in check.
And I’ll bet good money this person has no issue with labeling those she disagrees with as fascists or worse.
The lesser known consequences of WW1
https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1557463878501650432
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Don’t be the kid that screws up. A verbal smack down or more would be forthcoming.
I get ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ vibe from that.
Jonker stressed to the jury pool, however, that only two things matter:
“This is not a political forum. It’s not whether you like Gov. Whitmer or don’t like Gov. Whitmer. It’s not whether you think mask mandates was good policy or bad policy,” Jonker said. “Here in court … only two things matter: what the law is, and what the evidence is.”
Mistrust in the government appeared to be a top priority during the jury selection process, based on Jonker’s questions and comments.
He asked prospective jurors repeatedly about how they felt about the government, noting that the case is loaded with controversial issues: a sitting governor’s response to the pandemic, mask mandates, lockdowns and an FBI investigation into an alleged plot to kidnap her.
Do you think an FBI agent would lie on the witness stand? Under oath?
Only if his or her lips are moving.
FBI agents don’t record interviews for a reason.
If we don’t dissolve the agency in it’s entirety (preferred solution) then we need to render inadmissable information gleaned from unrecorded interviews and flip it so that it’s legal to lie to the FBI and illegal for the agents to lie to anyone. Start holding them to minimum standards of conduct.
I don’t see how it can be reformed. It has to go and the power dissolved.
But you might as well ask a tiger to declaw itself, DC has no interest in reducing its footprint.
If you can’t trust the FBI, that says more about you!
Yeah, it says you have working brain cells.
only two things matter: what the law is, and what the evidence is.
And jury nullification if you believe the law or its application is an ass.
He asked prospective jurors repeatedly about how they felt about the government
“Government is assho” would likely have be booted from the jury pool.
“It’s not your business to know or judge my opinions.”
“What do you mean ‘the government?'”
No sportz news? Minnesoda Twins guest announcer reveals a bit too much
But it is still better than Pete Rose on a live broadcast
I’m sorry, people.
For some reason I’m unusually cantakerous and angry today. I’m not going to make excuses for it or try to explain it away, I should be better able to control myself.
Been there done that!
I’m picking through a stack of documents dropped on me when people left.
But OneDrive decided that the upload date was more important than the last modified date, so figuring out the latest version is… time-consuming.
Great, now the meeting’s started.
At least my people show up on time.
Everyone else… not so much.
You planning to cat but the site?
$ cat butt > glibertarians.com
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Paging Ron, looks like we need that Stoic article stat!
If you can’t be cantankerous here, where can you be?
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/wlf3ik/more_than_a_little_infuriating/
What’s infurating is the even worse interface cancer Reddit has acquired since I last saw them. The actual content of the page is relegated to less than a third of the screen real estate down the middle. WTF?
old.reddit.com
This.
Better still: teddit.net. Pretty sure there’s a FF extension to automatically convert reddit links. It not only preserves the old layout, but also strips out most of the tracking and JS bullshit from the modern reddit front end.
Not fair
As House Republicans rush to argue that the FBI search of Donald Trump’s home is marred by politics, they are readying a future Hunter Biden investigation designed to ensnare Joe Biden ahead of a potential reelection bid.
House Republicans see no contradiction between their suspicion of the FBI’s law enforcement activity at Mar-a-Lago and their interest in digging into the business dealings of the president’s son and other family members. Oversight of the Bidens, they contend, would counterbalance what they see as a Justice Department where partisanship influences decisions like the probe of 2020 election subversion that’s drawing closer to Trump.
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These days, Republicans are making no secret of their plans to use a Hunter Biden inquiry next year as a platform to go after his father — after years of brushing off conflicts of interest within Trump’s family. No evidence has emerged to show that the business dealings of Hunter Biden, who’s faced a years-long federal investigation, affected his father’s decisions as president.
And we want to keep it that way.
they are readying a future Hunter Biden investigation designed to ensnare Joe Biden ahead of a potential reelection bid.
How dare they play the game we play on them.
after years of brushing off conflicts of interest within Trump’s family.
Never mind the multi-year investigations that have turned up less than nothing. Dude must be the cleanest asshole on the planet.
affected his father’s decisions as president
And we aren’t even going to contemplate his eight years as vice-president!
No evidence has emerged to show that the business dealings of Hunter Biden, who’s faced a years-long federal investigation, affected his father’s decisions as president.
Now when he was Vice President … well, um, er… HEY LOOKIT WHAT TRUMPENHITLER DONE DID NOW!
Anyone listen to the latest Your Welcome episode with Dave Smith? Malice goes hard at Young Americans for Liberty (in particular the CEO Lauren Daugherty) and even goes hard on Dave.
What was the spat there? I know Malice withdrew from the YAL conference, but I don’t know why.
He read the speaking contract (Dave did not) and he took issue with the clause that he could not criticize the organization or specifically those who run it. He then unloaded on the CEO of YAF.
Nobody likes free and open debate anymore.
So he went Rod Serling on their asses?
“goes hard on Dave”
boom chika wow wow?
Conversations Tuesday with more than a half-dozen House Republicans revealed deep concern about constituents panicked and infuriated by the FBI’s daylong Mar-a-Lago search.
“The base has lost its mind. If Trump decides to call them to arms, then I think he could get another Jan. 6,” one senior House Republican said in an interview, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The base has lost its mind. What about the morons in DC who think they have limitless power to do any goddam thing they please?
This calls to question who’s in charge. Obviously one senior House Republican doesn’t think the voters are.
Minnesoda Dem calls for voters to support senior House Republican
We all know who that unnamed source is, don’t we?
That tweet is pretty special too.
Oops, I meant to add on that it is nice to know my Congressman was in the group of women who were hiding in a safe room.
A real man right there.
On Jan 6, not one politician or “leader” apparently made any attempt to meet, talk, or even address the crowd. Atticus Finch had more stones that the lot of them combined. This modern crop can’t show their faces without stage management and speaking notes. No wonder Dementia Joe’s struggles are largely handwaved away.
Very good point
without stage management and speaking notes
and a carefully curated audience.
So did Stalin’s
#TeamWarmonger
After escaping
Lol…
That is LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE OF PRINCIPLED. Fuck these people
Until she perceived an opening political ascendancy she was totes principled
You might be a little surprised that I’d be supporting Liz Cheney
Not really. The deep state is trying to save itself.
He knows a useful idiot when he sees one!
Hey, as long as the right people are in charge. 🤷🏻♂️
It’s an incredibly revealing statement. “The base has lost its mind” meaning “why won’t these tax-slaves just keep taking’ their whippins like they’re supposed to!?!”
They know they’re pushing people to the brink, but the need to continue the gaslighting about Jan 6 AND put to rest any POSSIBLE notion in the tax cattles’ minds that resistance is an option.
Our current government is 10X worse than the British circa 1773.
It’s worth checking out the Steve Kirsch clip I linked to above. He’s donated $20M to Dems over the years and he could not get a single Democratic politician or a staffer to listen to him on the vaccines or even read his criticisms. The response was unanimous, “Your opinion differs from the CDC, therefore we won’t even entertain it.”
I think it’s reflective of a groupthink, and frankly, cultish behavior where by they cannot accept any outside contrary input. It’s worse in the Democrat party, but the Republicans can be just as impermeable, particularly when it comes to the MIC.
DC is wholly disconnected from reality at this point.
What about the morons in DC who think they have limitless power to do any goddam thing they please?
Well, that is why we are all in DC – that’s what you elected us for, to be there, exercising all the power we can grasp! /those morons
Yellen directs IRS not to use new funding to increase chances of audits of Americans making less than $400,000
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/yellen-new-irs-funding-audits/index.html
Small business owners – don’t you worry. And I’m sure this could never be changed by somebody else or even Yellen herself at some point in the future.
Yeah, like they told us the DOJ would NOT be accusing anyone pointing out the corruption, ineptitude, and downright evil of the things the current weaponized bureaucracy engaged in both to fortify the 2020 election and then to silence anyone pointing out the obvious, right?
More like, if you like your audit agent, you can keep your audit agent.
Not only that but the way they say it is the the proportion will remain the same, but because more audits will occur, your chance of audit will go up.
It’s like saying you have only a 1/6 chance of being drafted each time we do the lottery, but we are also increasing the times we do the lottery to daily.
The question becomes, if not the middle class and poor folks, who are they going to go after?
They sure aren’t going to go after people rich enough to be able to afford high paid tax attorneys and accountants. The IRS knows it isn’t going to win any of those audits. Not only are the IRS agents outclassed by the team on the other side of the audit, but you don’t think those rich folk haven’t made a few investment in the politically invested?
So in reality they either are: a) really going after the middle class b) really going after the rich but will have no success or c) just sitting around with phoney baloney jobs.
d) Both a and c.
You go after the people least likely to be able to fight back. And in this day & age of highly weaponized, politically motivated bureaucratic abuses, especially the people that you deem to be enemies of the mandarinate and its agenda….
Rich people have lawyers & accountants. and most of them already pay off the machine to have it ignore their shitshows.
In a no-shit moment, convenience store sales are way down. After buying gas, people don’t have money to buy snacks and drinks in the store.
Presumption of guilt
“I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’ Now I know the answer to that question,” Trump said in a statement on Wednesday. “When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded, politically motivated Witch Hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors, and the Fake News Media, you have no choice.”
In a statement, James confirmed she was in the room when Trump declined to answer questions.
“While we will not comment on specific details, we can confirm that today, our office conducted a deposition of former president Donald Trump,” an AG spokesperson said. “Attorney General Letitia James took part in the deposition during which Mr. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Attorney General James will pursue the facts and the law wherever they may lead. Our investigation continues.”
Observers said that Trump’s sit-down with James suggests the probe is in its final stages, pointing to another recent high-profile questioning — that of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, whose 11-hour interview with James was one of the last steps before she released her final report on his unrelated misconduct.
Legal experts said the former president’s decision could create an impression among some — including a potential jury — that he has something to hide.
“What it’s saying is that he’s afraid if he testifies, what he says will be used against him in some criminal proceeding,” said Vincent M. Bonventre, a professor and director of the Center for Judicial Process in New York at Albany Law School.
And James could theoretically seize on that perception.
James’ obsession with the cartoon villain is hardly theoretical.
James’ obsession is with taking some high-profile scalps that she can wave as war trophies on her way to the governor’s mansion.
Hochul says back off bitch.
Yeap.
I had no idea back when she was just another one in the revolving-door of far-leftist Brooklyn city council creatures that she would become this ambitious.
Legal experts said the former president’s decision could create an impression among some — including a potential jury — that he has something to hide.
This standard flies in the face of the entire history of American law.
He’s obviously guilty. Why bother with a trial?
There is already a “trial” – it airs Thursday nights at 8, 7 Central. Check your local listings.
Less credible than Ancient Aliens.
“In a statement, James confirmed she was in the room when Trump declined to answer questions”
“We have a way to make people talk” as she slaps her gloves on her hands
What it’s saying is that he’s afraid if he testifies, what he says will be used against him in some criminal proceeding,
Scooter Libby agrees.
uhhh…. is she purposefully making derogatory statements meant to be heard by potential jurors?
I thought there was a word for that.
I give up…
Two guys with bad hair dye make more sense than anyone on cable TV.
That’s just Russian disinformation. I know because Zelensky told me MacGregor is a Russian stooge.
I find that guys analysis of the China situation very inconsistent. First he says China has no interest in war. Why then are they building out their navy? He says China has great respect for our submarine fleet. Do they? Has the submarine service escaped the deterioration of the surface fleet? He says our submarines could blockade the Chinese coast, and then says we couldn’t possibly do anything to interfere with China attacking Taiwan. Then he says China has plenty of submarines, and could do great damage to the US surface fleet. What about our submarines again? Then he says there’s no need for us to be in conflict with China over Taiwan, half the Taiwanese want to be Chinese anyway, and we can work something out.
His defeat in the mayor’s race in Fountain Hills against two-term incumbent Ginny Dickey marks Arpaio’s third failed comeback bid since his 2016 loss after serving 24 years as the sheriff of Maricopa County.
I know people who lived in Phoenix that lived during Arpaio’s time as sheriff. They loved him. I wondered what was wrong with them.
“The beneficiaries of the city of Pittsburgh Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund are municipal fire and police personnel serving the city of Pittsburgh. Many are first responders putting their lives on the line every day. They depend on the integrity of the financial markets to provide for their retirement.”
My gut feeling that this suit involving Youngkin’s previous company is bullshit just got stronger.
With a new school year about to begin, Texas plans to send 30 state police officers to bolster school patrols in Uvalde, three months after the city suffered the deadliest school shooting in more than a decade.
What could possibly go wrong?
Across the country, there are countless others like him. Hundreds of thousands of recent graduates are heading to college this fall after spending more than half their high school careers dealing with the upheaval of a pandemic. They endured a jarring transition to online learning, the strains from teacher shortages and profound disruptions to their home lives. And many are believed to be significantly behind academically.
I’m struggling to see how this is different from any other year. Public schools not preparing students for the world is not new.
The brother and sister sister were talking and got into an argument, when her boyfriend came over and encouraged her to walk away, Pomeroy said.
“The brother started beating on the boyfriend, and that’s when it escalated and it became a brawl and we started to get calls,” he said.
At some point during the physical fight, the brother got into the vehicle with the intention of driving over his sister, Pomeroy said.
Classy.
With a new school year about to begin, Texas plans to send 30 state police officers to bolster school patrols in Uvalde, three months after the city suffered the deadliest school shooting in more than a decade.
Did Ramos escape custody or are they expecting a copycat?
The pendulum always swings too far one way, then too far the other. Given the choice between a Portland or San Fran situation and an Arpaio situation, I can’t imagine a lot of people who’d opt for the Portland/San Fran option. With “criminal justice reform” we’re basically repeating the same soft on crime shit that was going on throughout the 1970s and led to the massive crackdowns in the ’80s and ’90s.
Trump’s decision to not answer questions may complicate the Attorney General’s efforts to connect Trump to the alleged wrongdoing.
“Whether or not he himself is directly connected to the statements that they claim are false or misrepresented in the tax filings and other things is a question that they may not be able to solve without his testimony,” Schiller said. “Absent them having documentary evidence or testimony by others that say, ‘Well, he told me to do this or it was his instructions,’ then maybe she won’t be able to build a case that specifically implicates him.”
We know he’s guilty. Why must we endure this charade of respect for his rights as the accused?
Rights are only to protect the innocent not the guilty.
The burden of proof should be entirely on Trump. Let him prove his innocence beyond the merest shadow of a doubt.
We just know he’s guilty of something. The evidence is undeniable. No I will not provide an example.
What an assclown. TDS is a terminal disease.
Rand Q-Paul.
Rand Paul suggests the FBI may have planted evidence in boxes they seized from Mar-a-Lago
They would never do something like that after executing a search warrant that was not shown to the resident or legal council and preventing said council from being present and requesting security cameras be turned off and …
Probably stuff they took out of Epstein’s cabana and have been sitting on.
a search warrant that was not shown
Apparently there was a bevy of Twitter bluechecks all simultaneously posting nearly word-for-word that “Trump has the search warrant, why won’t he show it?”…JournoLIst 2.0, basically.
And if so, when did he get the search warrant?
Good point, I heard he was out of town when the search happened.
My buddy: You’re going to Iriomote island? You can stay at my friend’s cabin for free.
https://ibb.co/rHYzQNv
Gotta admit he got me. Wife took one look, we turned around and paid through the nose for a crappy hotel room in the “city”. I’d have stayed at least the night. 🤷♂️
That’s fantastic.
Welcome to Fourscore’s Honeymoon Cottage.
Same thing, no extra charge for the free mosquitoes. Speaking of which, cabin hasn’t been used much this year, needs more Glibs.
Get some cat pictures!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iriomote_cat
A local was telling us about those things. Came within about 2 meters of a Habu out on my walk tonight. This place is a bit nuts.
What do Japanese rednecks say to you when they want to enact their own “Deliverance” LARP?
Everybody speak hyoujungo?
Just kidding… It’s on my places I’d love to visit list.
More of this.
The great Attorney General of Missouri, @Eric_Schmitt, sends a very clear message to the #FBI.
A little wordier than ‘fuck off slaver,’ but acceptable.
He just won our senator’s primary race and is running against Trudy Valentine Busch, to replace Roy Blunt, who is retiring. I’d like to say I voted for him, but I couldn’t be arsed to vote at all. Mr. Mojeaux did, tho.
Also, this is one reason Missouri is a constitutional carry state. No permit required.
Roy Blunt is retiring?
Good
Yes. We are also happy about that.
Ooops. Trudy Busch Valentine.
I assume she’s one of the worthless Busch clan.
Yes. Her opponent pointed that (and other sus things) out, but it didn’t take. That said, it was a nail-biter race.
Nice!
Good morning, Sloop.
The world is dangerously stupid.
Thank God for the Specials.
Are we all special, in our mothers and god’s eyes?
“This really happened? If so…good! I’m sure these people will be better stewards of the money than the government would be.”
You aint kidding. Since according the article, and I’ll put quotes around what I cut and paste, : “the Carlyle insiders who received the payouts escaped a tax bill that would have exceeded $1 billion” on “Carlyle’s 2020 $344 million tax-free payout to its insiders”
How in the holy hell does the tax bill on a 344 million pay-out equal out to 1 billion dollars? Am I missing something?
In some local news.
LBI man risks all to save mom, daughter in capsized boat: ‘Dumbest thing I’ve ever done’
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/emergencies/2022/08/11/barnegat-light-lbi-nj-capsized-boat-rescue-bob-selfridge/65398842007/
Selfridge, 58, has been a lifeguard every summer since he was 16 years old. He’s grabbed people out of rip currents and gone out in hurricane surf. A volunteer with the Barnegat Light Fire Department, water rescue team and first aid squad, he responded to a distress call on Sunday when a 23-foot boat capsized near Island Beach State Park…
Then someone yelled that two people were still trapped below the boat.
A mother and her 4-year-old daughter were stuck in a small air bubble as the water slowly rose around them.
“This incident … is a low-frequency, high-intensity type of call,” Selfridge said. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime.”
Just when you’re ready to give up on the human race entirely, you find some small redeeming feature.
Judge rules against Walgreens in San Francisco opioid lawsuit
I hope Senior District Judge Charles Breyer dies agonizingly slowly from stomach cancer and can’t get more than a 2-day supply of hydrocodone at a time.
Meanwhile, outside of the SF Walgreens you can freely inject or smoke whatever drug you just bought on the street.
No opioid for you!
Walgreens has a lot to answer for. Imagine if those opioids hadn’t been diverted, we could have had people dying of fentanyl overdoses that much sooner!
Covid becomes equal leading cause of death in New Zealand for first time
Mask and vaccinate harder.
Don’t worry, Jacinda will continue to be their only source of truth and snopes will continue to carry water for her.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jacinda-ardern-truth/
Bullshit. Here they are quietly revising deaths downward as it’s no longer to verboten to separate “with covid” and “from covid”.
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*nopes right out of that*
The place I get my glasses at was closed Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday. When I finally got in Wednesday to pick up my new glasses I asked why. It was because of workers calling in sick with COVID.
Dame Emma Thompson defends intimacy co-ordinators after Sean Bean remarks
I guess the real question is “Why is this important to me in any way whatsoever and why is it even worth reporting on?”
I think an even more important question is: “What movie has Sean Bean starred in where his character lived long enough to do a sex scene?”
Maybe the Sharpe series, where he inexplicably escaped death a zillion times. There was a topless Elizabeth Hurley, as I recall.
actors are the most important people around
“I like to watch.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG8V7Am8zI
Was expecting this.
Columbia Journalism Review is on the case
The lack of actual information here has not only led to errors in framing what the search means, but also in framing whose fault the lack of information is in the first place. A narrative has developed, including in the press, that Garland’s silence on the search (the Justice Department and FBI still haven’t commented, to this point) is untenable, and that he’ll need to say something to plug the informational hole to stop Trump and his allies from exploiting it. As I’ve written of other ongoing investigations involving Trump, it’s legitimate for journalists to ask the Justice Department for more transparency and clarity in the public interest. But there are limits to what officials can properly say—and, if they stay quiet, it’s irresponsible for the press to respond by letting the loudest voices flood the void and calling that Garland’s fault. Most pertinently here, Trump himself could easily help us learn much more about the search by releasing the warrant and saying what the FBI took. No little coverage has noted this fact—but it hasn’t been uniformly prominent, which is hard to justify when Trump is instead trying to fill the news cycle with wild, unevidenced claims. The Post and Times stories on Garland’s “gamble” that I cited above don’t even mention that Trump has the proof.
Ultimately, all of the above—the furious right-wing response, the 2024 chatter, the analysis of Garland’s risk—is rooted not just in an absence of evidence but in the person at the center of the story actively withholding that evidence so he can shape the narrative in a way that’s favorable to him. Again, no few astute articles have pointed out the absurdity and danger in this, but no few is not enough—by now, anyone covering politics in the US, or who is just alive on Earth, should know what Trump’s narrative tricks are. Sure, Trump being searched is new, and the apparent fact that it’s over his handling of records is surprising. But major newsrooms have had months to prepare for the general scenario of federal law enforcement criminally probing Trump, the profound democratic questions that this would trigger, and the cravenness with which far-right voices were always likely to respond. Those newsrooms could have thought seriously about how best to cover that. Perhaps they did. But the evidence from this week’s coverage is mixed at best. Too much of it has been reactive, speculative, trivial, or naïve.
We all know he is a degenerate criminal. Hang the bastard, and get it over with.
Journalisming at its most august.
Trump himself could easily help us learn much more about the search by releasing the warrant and saying what the FBI took.
He is clairvoyant, apparently.
He’s still waiting for the warrant, FBI says it’s in the mail.
Oddly enough, they don’t mention that pesky little detail about the FBI not allowing Trump’s attorney to see the so-called warrant.
Well supposedly they did wave it around and said stand over there and you can try to read it while we hold onto it.
Indeed there will be many sour krauts.
Riots resulting from gas shortages would make anti-lockdown protests look like a “children’s birthday party”, one official has said.
Gas shortages in Germany brought about by a combination of long-term government mismanagement and Russia’s war in Ukraine are likely to prompt mass riots that will make previous anti-lockdown demos look like a “children’s birthday party”, an official has claimed.
The statement comes after a number of similar warnings from ministers in the country, many of whom fear that the political right will suddenly gain significant political and social capital due to people being unable to heat their homes.
fear that the political right will suddenly gain significant political and social capital due to people
being unable to heat their homesfeeling the effects of leftist policiesWho could have foreseen being dependent on Russia for energy would have been problematic?
I particularly enjoyed all the German political elite viewing Trump like a small curious child when he pointed this out.
Wurst sort of pun.
Did they condescend to leave a copy of the warrant when they left? Did they provide an inventory of any and all “evidence” removed, or do they just say, “Tell us what you think is missing.”?
It’s still an unreliable computer on wheels, but I have to admit I like it.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/2023-ford-bronco-heritage-editions-get-retro-white-roof-35-inch-tires
White is the correct color for Broncos.
+1 Slow police chase
I was going to buy a new Bronco in yellow – back before I left my job! – because of the more retro, boxy looks. I’ve always liked the originals.
But wow – these heritage editions get it right.
The box on wheels look is extremely practical for a real SUV. They aren’t suppose to be highway cruisers.
For sure. To be honest I’m glad I didn’t get one because a) Ford and b) I don’t need a real off-road vehicle.
Those tires make the car look small.
Ford also took the same approach in modifying the Bronco Sport to offer Heritage and Heritage Limited Editions.
The Bronco Sport is lame. Ford should axe the current Escape and then just call the Bronco Sport an Escape.
This
Bronco Sport is the same type of short-sighted brand exploitation as the Mustang Mach-E. It sounds great in some PowerPoint to execs with concept drawings and absurd fake performance numbers, but it irreparably dilutes a high value brand. They should have a list of 5 or 6 primary words or phrases associated with their high value brands. Things like “coupe” and “muscle car” and “growl” for Mustang and things like “4×4” and “rugged” and “boxy” for Bronco. Then, if anybody proposes a concept for those brands that doesn’t match the primary words, they get the Hoffa treatment.
“This is quality trolling. And that “political expert” can kiss my ass. We’ve listened to people seriously calling us (in addition to conservatives) that for years now. Tough shit if it offends him.”
Heh, it is almost like weaponizing the state against people might make them a bit hostile towards the government. Nah…
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state!”
Just elide who said it and they’d be quite comfortable with it.
For me and my fellow midwits: At least we’re not this fucking stupid.
There’s no such thing as a nonbinary skeleton
OFFS!
The special rigs come in two- and four-door flavors, and there are actually two separate trims: the Heritage Edition and Heritage Limited Edition. The first packs the 2.3-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder
Turbo Pinto!
The 6sp only comes with the 4 banger.
7 Speed manual or 10 speed automatic for the Bronco. 6+1 crawler on the manual.
8 speed automatic only on the Bronco Sport.
/pedant off