WebDom and me.
Just kidding, I’m miserable. The Nehru jacket bombed. I’m beginning to think that the women here just have no appreciation for a sharp dressed man. Well, except one, who complimented me on my daring and clear lack of any fucks to give. I think that was a compliment, anyway, hard to tell because she disappeared so quickly. I give up, gonna be an incel. You’ll read about me one day.
You’ll also read about birthdays, but not much today. Apparently September 3 was astrologically poor for anything I give a shit about. But still, it’s the birthday of the inventor of the pussy magnet; a woman who played second fiddle to Margaret Dumont; the last worthwhile Democrat; a guy who had the blues every day; a pretty decent cartoonist who was an inspiration and unbelievably kind to my father; the only person named Ralph I would have ever banged; a militant free-market economist; a great actress who had very bad luck; a not so great actress who made her fortune from her tits; and a guy we’d all like to hang out with.
That disposed of, Links ensue.
See, it was a success, you fascists just don’t realize it.
You mean all the climate news is bullshit? Where’s my fainting couch?
This time, the rats are pushed off the sinking ship.
Team Red is the guy who can’t get laid in a whorehouse clutching a handful of $100 bills.
Old Guy Music is usually slightly out of mainstream, but… I was walking through the cafe’s kitchen, and l0B0t had on my favorite Led Zeppelin song. Very mainstream. But hey, let’s hear a cover from a girl band, and it’s a pretty decent cover, if not at the level of “they OWN this song!”
GSK takes it a step further, saying, “At GSK, diversity, equity and inclusion is embraced and celebrated and we are committed in policy, principle and practice to maintaining an environment which prohibits discriminatory behavior and provides equal opportunity for all persons.”
That there is some authentic
frontier gibberishcorporate HR babble.It’s interesting that their “environment” extends to the interior of commercial airplanes in flight.
It’s sad they don’t have the balls to say we didn’t realize we hired an asshole so we fired him.
“Maybe it’s the Commie Pope.”
It’s been happening for a while. Catholics aren’t evangelical like they used to be.
it is the same split between European Catholics vs. African Catholics. The second group is much, much more traditional and less forgiving of liberal, western shibboleths.
Commie Pope is Their Guy.
“Providing energy for a population of a projected 10 billion by mid-century has many impacts on public health and the environment beyond just carbon emissions.”
Bill Gates is working on that.
10 billion where?
Not China, not Europe, not the US, not Japan, not Korea, not Russia, not Australia
India, South America, and Africa by themselves? Methinks they’re full of shit.
Why increase the supply when you can decrease the demand?
my friends father is still trying to create a perpetuum mobile in his bathroom… any day now
“MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution,” Biden said during his prime-time speech, one of just a handful that he has delivered during his first term in office. “They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election.”
Nice projection, asshole.
Assertions without any examples. Just say it and it’s true.
“I’m a racist”
While I’m sure TMZ is delighted to help woke-shame this person, it reads like sarcasm to me. *shrug*
That’s because you’re a homophobe.
We’re all homophobes now.
I’ll bet you haven’t been to any drag queen story times this whole year. So hateful.
I too, have come up lacking in this virtue.
*hangs head in shame*
This is the most likely answer. The Establishment GOP is actively trying to prevent wins in November by Trump-backed candidates. Vance should have known that going in though and stepped up his game.
Since about 2000, use of Lake Mead water has exceeded river inflow, causing water levels to drop. The negative phase of the PDO since that time has exacerbated the problem.
You don’t say.
Supply and demand.
I demand that you supply me with what I want.
Is that how it works?
It’s a human right…
“It worked for Biden, didn’t it?”
Mornin y’all.
Good morning, Sean!
😉
I don’t see any candy in that top photo.
Or any restrained bagels.
“MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution,” Biden said during his prime-time speech, one of just a handful that he has delivered during his first term in office. “They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election.”
Most of the MAGA types around here are boomers who might do a golf cart rally, or if they’re really feeling saucy, a boat parade along the Intracoastal. They think the election was gamed, and they’ll grumble about it at Happy Hour, but the worst that they’re doing is putting fake chrome “FJB Edition” labels on their F-150s and Biden “I did that!” stickers on gas pumps.
Unity and healing bitches
After they liquidate all opposition, of course.
you people and embedding the music in the post
I’m wondering what is so objectionable about that. Does it auto-play for you or something? That would be annoying but that does not happen for me.
no. I tend to start the song and then I read and comment, which reloads the page which cuts the song off.
Click on the YouTube logo in the lower right and it will open the song in YouTube in a new tab or window.
Self-fulfilling prophecies, part 7,329
In a statement to Yahoo News on Friday, the White House said that the calls for violence following Biden’s speech illustrate the threat the president described.
“The President’s message couldn’t have been more clear: there is no place in our democracy for political violence,” the statement said. “None. And that some of the more extreme elements in our society are now calling for more violence only proves the very point of his speech … that we are in a dangerous moment right now, a moment where simply stating the truth about the fragility of our democracy brings out the worst instincts of those who want to tear it apart. The President was right to call them out. The bigger risk to the body politic would have been to remain silent in the face of such a threat.”
Some Republicans and former Trump administration officials have been critical of Biden’s strong rhetoric, accusing the president of being divisive.
“I don’t understand how Joe Biden is so angry when his party controls the House, the Senate and the White House,” Richard Grenell, acting director of National Intelligence during the Trump administration, told Yahoo News on Friday. “He should be telling America how great the country is under his leadership and instead he’s attacking Republicans.”
“That mean dog bit me just because I stepped on his tail and kicked him.”
How many of those calls are false flags?
Who the fuck knows?
Narrative and perception uber alles
It’s almost like his speech was designed to elicit “online calls for violence”.
Awake, coffee, and watching the park manager murder a hornet nest.
good coffee?
Meh
Either from indoors or a safe distance, I hope? 😨
In the woods about 30 yards away 🙂
Talmudic loopholes.
Translation: The state gets first dibs.
Next time you break out the Nehru jacket, tell everybody you’re collecting money for Pakistani flood victims.
You mean all the climate news is bullshit? Where’s my fainting couch?
look it was a really hot and unpleasant summer in Bucharest. But today finally some relief… 15C and rain. heaven.
Pastrami Sandwich by Michelin chef Claudio Sadler with Lorenzo Sacchi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzZlehBGYTs
but is it better than US deli pastrami
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/VvSEVOIbEMU
Please ask l0b1e to come around here more often – we miss him! (And maybe stop working him so hard, you slave driver! 😉)
It’s WebDom working him. When he’s not at the grill, he’s hammering and sawing away at their new house.
A ha! That explains his absence! Thanks!
I’m so glad he was able to relocate to your neck of the woods! 🙂
Yep. I would rather he be MIA here and happy and engaged with life, than loitering with us lot because he’s miserable otherwise.
I get it. I did a lot of remodeling the past few weeks and it’s kept me away until a few days ago. My sympathies.
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Several current and former CNN employees who spoke with The Washington Post — most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly — are interpreting the sudden exodus as evidence that Licht, who joined the network as chairman and CEO in May, is starting his tenure by casting out voices that had often been critical of former president Donald Trump and his allies, in an effort to present a new, more ideologically neutral CNN. That aligns with a vision repeatedly expressed by David Zaslav, the chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Zaslav hired Licht to replace Jeff Zucker, the network’s ousted longtime leader, who had encouraged an earlier tonal shift at CNN by allowing the network’s stars to express more emotion and opinion.
No more speaking truth to power?
Depoliticization is politicization.
People losing their jobs don’t like it, film at eleven.
Do you know where my children are?
“CNN employees who spoke with The Washington Post”
Now there is a reliable source of information.
And they spoke anonymously, which makes everything more credible!
New large study confirms that sex can quite reliably be identified from brain morphometry and connectivity features.
The study also finds that male-typical brain features were associated with greater cognitive abilities in both girls and boys.
https://twitter.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1565756885508169728
That’s how you shitlord…
Revolving door? What revolving door?
President Joe Biden revamped his climate change team on Friday, announcing that longtime political operative and climate advocate John Podesta would join the White House and Ali Zaidi would take over for Gina McCarthy as domestic climate adviser.
Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor to President Barack Obama, will take on a role implementing the energy and climate parts of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act.
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Podesta’s climate and government background, Biden said, “mean we can truly hit the ground running to take advantage of the massive clean energy opportunity in front of us.”
He knows the ropes.
I thought it was cyber-security expert John Podesta who used “password” as his gmail password.
I guess he’s not using that descriptor anymore.
Professional liar, grifter, and alleged pedophile John Podesta.
That’s the one.
“We’re not wrecking the economy fast enough. Chop chop!”
“Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten admits educators HAVE become ‘social justice warriors’ – as she slams Republicans for banning woke books and issues
On Weingarten’s watch the AFT has pushed back against schools re-opening post Covid-19, flown in the face of CDC guidelines by foisting mask mandates on school districts and promoted a progressive agenda that includes the tenets of Critical Race Theory turning classrooms into frontlines in an increasingly divisive political and cultural war….
This year to date the AFT has contributed $11,338,132 to candidates, parties and Super PACS and all but $75 of those funds have gone to Democrats with a further $350,000 spent on lobbying.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11175619/Randi-Weingarten-admits-teachers-social-justice-warriors-attacks-Republicans.html
Ban public sector unions. It will solve most of the teacher problem and most of the police problem.
Why wouldn’t she admit it? Everyone knows it and it’s not like it’s going to harm her career or anything.
you just can’t win the Woke Olympics
1565765175453564928
https://twitter.com/francesweetman/status/1565765175453564928
The only way to win is not to play.
Observe and laugh from a distance if you dare.
JFC, malignant narcissists, all of them.
If no one else is gonna do it, I will
Genuine LOL.
Clearly got way too much time on their hands. They need a productive hobby.
An Abandoned mansion in the Irish forests.
https://twitter.com/DesertedPIaces_/status/1565376489796694016
That’s STOYVE SMITH’s stumping grounds?
STOVE SMITH REALLY BRING “HEAT”
While Biden has signaled over the past week or more that he plans to escalate his rhetoric against the GOP heading into Labor Day and the post-holiday sprint to November, liberals are cheering the tactic as long overdue — even if its impact is uncertain.
“He was just calling out the truth,” said Vicki Miller, who leads the Philadelphia chapter of the grassroots group Indivisible. “The voters I talk to at the doors here in Pennsylvania, they all see what’s happening.”
More “nobody I know” political analysis. Go sit in a corner at a truck stop or a local bar and listen to what people are saying, you dopey twat. You won’t like what you hear, I suspect.
Truckers? Icky!
Enjoying the cover OMWC.
Spoke with my friend in Japan last night. Lest you think the US has entrenched interests that screw the population I found out just how much it costs to keep an old car on the road.
Japan exports late model used cars into RHD and other markets all over Asia. One major reason for this is that is after a certain period they need to be “inspected” and repaired to exacting standards every two years and at some point annually.
My friend just paid roughly $1,000 USD for her inspection which is good for two years.
It’s ridiculous. They have a far smaller “salt belt” than we do so much less rust to contend with.
Helps encourage people to go buy new, now doesn’t it?
Leading up to the event, administration officials said the speech was meant to send a message to all Americans, not just their own side. The White House circulated excerpts in advance that used language stressing personal responsibility for helping to protect the country’s existing governing rules and contended that there are forces working in the other direction.
After he spoke, many Democrats were relieved that Biden used the bully pulpit to address their top concern and argued that it may have also provided a useful boost to the base.
“He set the table for the midterms in a way that frames it perfectly for Democrats,” said Michael Starr Hopkins, a veteran Democratic campaign strategist. “Either we defeat Trump and his acolytes or democracy as we know it is over.”
Just what we need; more doomsday LARPers .
“If my guy doesn’t win this Most Important Election Ever, civilization will crumble!”
Good. Let it.
Your terms are acceptable.
“Your proposal is acceptable”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTw4AW-JllI
Every TEAM RED candidate, in debates, should be pointing to their supporters out in the audience and asking the TEAM BLUE candidate, “Do you think those people are a threat to democracy?”
“Leading up to the event, administration officials said the speech was meant to send a message to all Americans, not just their own side.”
Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.
So far two of the three kids haven’t noticed that I shaved the Lincoln beard off.
I should start a pool on how long it takes.
Good heavens, Ms. WebDom! You’re beautiful!
Plot twist: WebDom is on the right.
Assuming that is her, she is a quite attractive lady.
But she really should button her shirt up.
Assuming that is her, – I would not assume that given that I doubt we se OMWC in that pic
The truth is even funnier, IMHO.
well immage search + wikipedia
Midnight Blue[1][2] is a sexually-themed public access cable television program that aired on Manhattan Cable Television Channel J[1] in New York City.[3][4]
The show debuted in 1974, as Screw publisher Al Goldstein parlayed his publishing success into a cable access show, a freeform interview program that played on the late night airwaves of Manhattan cable for more than twenty-five years.[5] He regularly included ads from phone sex companies, brothels, and escorts, the only television show to do so.
Midnight Blue was the subject of controversy when Goldstein testified before the United States Supreme Court in 1995 as part of a lawsuit brought against Time Warner Cable’s plan to scramble sexually explicit public access programs unless subscribers gave written consent for them.[6] The Supreme Court ultimately ruled in Goldstein’s favor in 2000.[7]
Al Goldstein[8] was the host and producer along with radio personality Alex Bennett.[9] Alex Bennett and Screw editor Bruce David were its creators and original producers.[10]
Seven collections of show excerpts have been released on DVD by Nyaftermidnight and Blue Underground, Inc., together with added info about the actresses and scenes from their movies.
Fun trivia: although that’s nothing like what WebDom looks like, the woman in the photo has a strong resemblance to Mrs. BrettL.
Japan exports late model used cars into RHD and other markets all over Asia. One major reason for this is that is after a certain period they need to be “inspected” and repaired to exacting standards every two years and at some point annually.
I had a very similar conversation with a guy in Australia, a long time ago. In the course of talking about one thing and another, I mentioned my BMW 2002, which was about twenty years old at the time. He said, “Oh, mate, I’d love to have an old classic like that, but there’s no way I could afford it.”
Same deal; anything over about five years old was made ruinously expensive to register, to keep people coming in to their friendly neighborhood Holden dealer.
That’s depressing. They’ll certainly be trying to do that here.
“Hello, it come to my attention that the previous version of this comic (that featured a black baby) reinforced anti-black tropes, that of the white woman cheating on her husband with a black man. Treating the idea of having a biracial child as a “gotcha” at gamers- this is the og….”
https://twitter.com/NashRomi/status/1565713226473656322
This cartoonist is a cartoon.
So tediously stupid
Apology not accepted. Please provide that name of your employer so we can ruin your life. kthxbai
do they imagine that cartoon is good and makes any kind of point?
in this I mean are they really this fucking stupid or they realize it is stupid but are doing it anyway
“this fucking stupid” gets my vote
Open societies need to rediscover heroic ideals
Capitalism and liberalism have wrought a miracle of progress
Liberalism’s great failure is its inability to channel tribalism productively
Solidarity and trust are essential components of open societies
https://capx.co/open-societies-need-to-rediscover-heroic-ideals/
I assume liberalism is used in the classic european term not in the USistan way.
Liberal, free-market systems work, yet their major weakness is an inability to give people the innate human need for stability, order, tradition and group membership – I disagree with this. handling the economy is one thing, but people need to handle the rest of the aspects of life like tradition, these are not totally linked to the economic system.
“So is it possible for enlightened democracies to provide a form of ersatz traditionalism, a free society with a reactionary veneer, and so stem the tide of anomie?:” it is possible
There is little chance we can escape living not just in cities but in mega-cities in the future, but perhaps we can fake rural life. There is a growing body of literature showing that well-being and health is linked to living in neighbourhoods that mimic aspects of village life, with medium density housing, access to green space and traditional architecture. – meh wioigh work from home mega cities may lose some apeal
I think few of the issues are due to free market economics but to underestimating the will of leftists to burn everything to the ground and destroy everything good in their attempt to sneak in their vile idiotic ideology through the back door
Mornin’, Old Man et al.
WRT to evangelical Latinos, my maternal grandparents were Puerto Rican Baptists, Mom converted to Catholicism to marry the father I never met. So I wound up being baptized Catholic and mostly attending Baptist Sunday School with Abuela (divorcees were persona non grata in Catholic churches in the 1950’s) while simultaneously attending CCD sessions to prepare for the Catholic sacraments. Some days, Mom was destined for the bad place, other days Abuela was headed there. I grew up dazed and confused.
Doesn’t that neatly capture pre Vatican II in a nutshell.
Yeah, those were the days.
Abuela attended a Spanish language Baptist church in the Bronx, but Sunday School was in English. They had this odd idea back then that it was best that he children should assimilate into the local culture.
The monsters!
Biden, a lifelong moderate, attempted to differentiate the most fervent right-wing strain of the GOP that supports white nationalism and seeks to invalidate elections from Republicans he admires and has in some cases worked with across the aisle for decades. The latter camp ranges from moderate officeholders to people who may check “R” on their voter registration but who gave the current president a chance to defeat Trump last cycle.
Come unto me, all you sinners, and beg my forgiveness.
Those Russkies are really sitting pretty. They have the natgas Europe is begging for, and all the fresh water you could ask for.
https://www.lakebaikal.org
“Baikal is also the largest freshwater reservoir on Earth, so that 22% of all freshwater worldwide and 85% of Russia’s water supply are concentrated here. Its volume of water is 23 thousand km3 (approximately the amount of five Great Lakes combined in the United States).”
Who needs Lake Mead? Although transport could be a problem.
Essential resource concentrated in one location sounds like “strategically vulnerable single point of failure” to me.
Child molester turned vigilante
The produce manager hailed as a hero after police said he died while attacking a gunman at a Bend Safeway had a criminal record from the 1990s for child sex abuse, complicating his legacy but not halting plans to honor him.
Donald R. Surrett, 66, likely saved others from dying after he ambushed the shooter during a rampage inside the store last Sunday, police said.
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“Mr. Surrett’s background does not change the fact that in this instance, when faced with great peril, he acted heroically in attacking and attempting to disarm an active shooter in his place of work,” said Bend police spokesperson Sheila Miller. “While Mr. Surrett’s past may complicate how people feel about his legacy, his actions in the moment were courageous and for those actions, he deserves praise.”
Complicated? We cannot abide complexity.
Maybe he used the N-word on social media a decade ago – that would simplify things.
If it was my kid he molested I’m not sure how I’d feel.
However, the new deal is that you can never be forgiven or reformed or atone for any wrongs you’ve committed. At least if you are white that is…
From a quick perusal of the linked article, it doesn’t seem to rule out “She told me she was 18!”
I happened to stumble into the Reddit about that incident while looking for restaurant suggestions. Lots of ridicule for the comment section of a local tv station where the gun nuts were suggesting that a good guy with a gun could have stopped it.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/the-week-in-pictures-leni-riefenstahl-edition.php
🥕 New CarrotTech Fuel Technology
lol
there will never be another website like Twitter
https://twitter.com/DylanBurns1776/status/1565695329508265984
Twitter is not a website: it is a tool to fuck people over into insanity..
Outrage addicts, assemble
South Carolina and women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley have canceled a home-and-home series with BYU over a recent racial incident where a Cougars fan yelled slurs at a Duke volleyball player.
The Gamecocks were scheduled to start the season at home against BYU on Nov. 7, then play at the Utah campus during the 2023-24 season.
But Staley cited BYU’s home volleyball match last month as reason for calling off the series.
“As a head coach, my job is to do what’s best for my players and staff,” Staley said in a statement released by South Carolina on Friday. “The incident at BYU has led me to reevaluate our home-and-home, and I don’t feel that this is the right time for us to engage in this series.”
Duke sophomore Rachel Richardson, a Black member of the school’s volleyball team, said she heard racial slurs from the stands during the match.
BYU apologized for the incident and Richardson said the school’s volleyball players reached out to her in support.
South Carolina said it was searching for another home opponent to start the season.
Gamecocks athletic director Ray Tanner spoke with Staley about the series and supported the decision to call off the games.
A hate crime which may or may not actually have been committed. But you cannot be too careful. Those little children must be protected from the big bad world of people who do not think as they do. This is the vital life lesson which must be imparted to them.
“a Cougars fan yelled slurs at a Duke volleyball player”
There’s always a stolen base in these stories, it seems. I believe it has yet to be confirmed that any such slur was yelled by anyone.
Like with the Trump raid – we’ve gone from documents with Top Secret markings (which may or may not still be classified) to Top Secret documents, stated as fact.
Duke sophomore Rachel Richardson, a Black member of the school’s volleyball team, said she heard racial slurs from the stands during the match.
ESPN had a similar article yesterday. Grudging respect to them for acknowledging that the only person out of a crowd of over 5,000 who appears to have heard the epithets was Rachel Richardson. Maybe, just maybe, after the Duke lacrosse hoax, the Bubba Wallace noose hoax, the Jussie Smollet hoax, etc., ad infinitum, the media are learning to be a tad skeptical of these claims.
Sounds like a good way to delay a match. I wonder if a team in March Madness has a starter with an ankle sprain, they just claim racist comments and delay the rematch a couple weeks.
Silicone Saturday don’t need no stinkin’ bras.
https://archive.ph/x5H1r
From a quick perusal of the linked article, it doesn’t seem to rule out “She told me she was 18!”
You noticed that too?
This popped into my head, for some unknown reason
“Twitter employees warned colleagues to take action against Libs of TikTok, saying it was “only a matter of time” before the posts led to violence…”
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1565816327708610561
Maybe the bomb threat to Boston Children’s Hospital was a false flag.
The truth hurts.
That’s the thing. What LibsOfTikTok does is hold up a mirror to the left, “this is what you support”.
“If you like that sort of thing, then that is the sort of thing you like.”
“On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump Tweeted:
“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
Shortly thereafter, the President Tweeted:
“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.””
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension
Trump was kicked off Twitter for that.
Joe Biden tweets this:
“Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1565492666120523778
Twitter does nothing.
LOL I couldn’t even make it through the first sentence.
Mind-reading FTW!
Go big or go home
Over the weekend, the spotlight was on NCAA women’s volleyball, for the worst possible reasons. Duke University sophomore Rachel Richardson was playing at a tournament in the Brigham Young University field house when things turned ugly. As Richardson said in a statement on Sunday, she and the other Black Duke players were “targeted and racially heckled throughout the entirety of the match.”
The heckling fan was not removed by security. A police officer had to be stationed by the Duke bench. The N-word was used repeatedly according to a viral twitter post from Richardson’s godmother, Leslie Pamplin. In her statement, Richardson spoke to feeling “unsafe” and having to “struggle just to get through the rest of the game.”
Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X would be so proud.
Did anyone actually hear it? Aren’t these games recorded?
No one had a cell phone with recording capabilities either.
They did but can’t release the video without the expressed, written consent of the NCAA, Duke University, NBC and its affiliates. Any attempt to rebroadcast will be prosecuted under Federal Law.
So she’s ramping it up to a constant stream of racist abuse.
And note that it is reported as fact that there was a “heckling fan” presumably shouting racial abuse. Throughout the match, apparently.
I see there was a cop stationed by the Duke bench. Has the cop confirmed this constant stream of abuse?
Even if this highly unbelievable tale were true, it goes to show you that we live in one of the least racist countries in the world, that an alleged racial epithet thrown out during a college women’s basketball game would be national news for days on end. Interesting that no one else heard this slur. More interesting that it has now morphed into “racially heckled throughout the entirety of the match”. Tomorrow, I imagine it will come out that nooses were found hung in the visitors locker room but removed before any photos could be taken of them.
<a href=" More thoughtful nuancede commentary from MSNBC
Carlson’s response underscores how Biden’s comments, while accurate in the eyes of some experts, might provide fodder for the far right to grow even more confrontational toward the left.
Carlson fed viewers of his Monday show a fresh helping of misinformation by distorting the president’s remarks. He said Biden believes “anyone who disagrees with Joe Biden is by definition a fascist” and suggested that the president considers all Republicans semi-fascists. Carlson then presented his haunting conclusion: Biden’s comments were “effectively a declaration of war against half the country.”
“What do we do to fascists?” he asked. “Well, we fought a war and killed them.”
Granted Biden’s statement, like many of his proclamations, was a bit garbled. But he clearly was isolating “extreme MAGA philosophy,” which could reasonably be seen as those ideas circulating among the diehard Trump set. And in the context of his other remarks, it’s clear that he meant for his characterization to be limited in scope. Biden went out of his way later that day to distinguish between “conservative Republicans” and “MAGA Republicans,” the latter of whom he says he doesn’t “respect” because they “embrace political violence” and “don’t believe in democracy.”
Biden’s definition of fascism is obviously not anybody who disagrees with him. He’s demonstrated a willingness to work with lawmakers to his right (and left) throughout his presidency, and he has continued to promote the idea of working with the non-Trump-pilled GOP. It’s clear that he sees the far right’s commitment to overturning democracy in the bid to “make America great again,” and its willingness to deploy violence to achieve it, as features of “semi-fascism” — something a number of analysts and top scholars of fascism agree with.
Experts agree. You’re just stupid and obtuse. If you think Joe Biden hates you, that just proves you’re a contemptible person who wants to tear the country apart.
OFFS
Could they have stuffed in one more appeal to authority. Just a few more experts, and I’d be totally on board.
I want a T Shirt with Darth Brandon’s red background pic on it that says “end fascism.”
Total Rorschach test.
WTF?
MSNBC link
Poop chute maintenance complete!
Everyone come out un….scathed?
Poop chute maintenance complete!
These euphemisms.
Carlson painted Biden in cartoonish terms, but Carlson’s tirade dramatized a serious, tricky question: Is it a good idea for a president to use arguably the most alarming descriptor in modern politics to describe a huge number of people, even if it’s accurate? It’s one thing for professional analysts to use it, it’s another thing altogether for the leader of one party in a two party system to do so. I’d say it’s too early to say if it’s judicious, and time will tell if the administration wants to continue to use the term or let it fade. But Carlson’s eagerness to use it to rile up his base even more should remind us of what’s at stake.
I marvel at people with the ability to say stuff like this.
Carlson painted Biden in cartoonish terms? After four years of MSNBC et al braying hysterically about President Cartoon Villain’s ceaseless onslaught of atrocities?
Cut it the fuck out.
“It’s OK when we do it.”
I think the set for the speech painted Biden in cartoonish terms, myself.
And I like how its Carlson who is a bad guy for trying to rile up his base.
NASA’s Artemis 1 launch for today had been scrubbed. Fuel leak they couldn’t fix.
Run a line through the NASA budget and flip some cash to SpaceX if you want to achieve something.
Remember under Obama, Nasa’s chief mission was Muslim Outreach.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0714/NASA-chief-says-agency-s-goal-is-Muslim-outreach-forgets-to-mention-space
Never A Straight Answer needs to call it “mission accomplished” and just turn over its assets to SpaceX.
Artemis has become a huge embarrassment.
Yeah, the main aim of Artemis seems to be to make certain that the next person to set foot on the moon has a vulva.
Concerns
The FTC’s iRobot review is wide-ranging, one of the people said, including both head-to-head competition and whether the deal will illegally boost Amazon’s market share in both the connected device market and the retail market generally. Amazon also sells the Astro, a high-end robot for household tasks like delivering items and providing home security, that has failed to gain traction with consumers. The Astro does not have a vacuum. The FTC is also investigating how the purchase would add to Amazon’s increasing smart device lineup, which also includes Ring security cameras and the Alexa digital assistant.
Among the concerns the FTC is investigating is whether the data generated about a consumer’s home by iRobot’s Roomba vacuum will give it an unfair advantage over a wide variety of other retailers. That concern was voiced by multiple critics of the deal when it was first announced early this month. For example, Amazon could have an advantage with a consumer looking to buy a couch, by using detailed home maps generated by iRobot to suggested particular items.
Maybe if they promise to hand over that information to the FBI it would go a bit easier for hem.
Briefly, iRobot’s insurance broker approached my wife’s business unit a number of years ago to request a quote for product liability insurance.
My wife had a conference call with their chief counsel. She raised the question of how they store customer data & protect it from unauthorized access. Apparently, the meeting went off the rails very quickly, and my wife not only declined to give them a quote, she told me that night that she would never let one of their machines in our house.
She strongly suspects that they were selling customer data to other businesses, for example furniture makers, on the down-low.
She is certain that the chief counsel lied to her. Apparently he made little effort to hide his dishonesty.
She still fumes about it when we see one of their ads.
I wouldn’t. TAANSTAFL.
Yikes.
Duly noted.
There is no world or time in which I will NOT love “Kashmir.”
The trend of Hispanics moving from Catholic Churches th Protestant ones is an interesting topic. I first noticed it in Minneapolis when a new “church plant” of Hispanics wanted to rent our church building on Saturdays for a Spanish language sermon and worship.
In Pahrump, the Catholic Church is packed to the rafters, but still there are many Protestant churches with varying ethnicities.
I do think that part of why Mexican immigrants are turning from the Catholic tradition is the Pope being not so Catholic, and Pelosi and Biden don’t help. An often overlooked factor is music. Music is how people worship God and commune with one another. Protestants have better music.
If I was thinking of finding Jesus I’d look in a black Baptist church, they seem to be having much more fun.
Exactly.
When my husband was enduring ICU psychosis (a terrible t
condition), it was the black Christian nurses (all male, oddly enough) who sang gospel with him and brought him around.
ICU psychosis is a weird but common phenomenon in which a person whose heart has been stopped and restarted and then on a ventilator etc pretty much goes insane. The psychosis tells them that they are dead in hell or behind enemy lines. It’s never a happy fantasy; always paranoid and terrifying. Fortunately they just snap out of it suddenly within a week or two.
The gospel music was a great comfort to him when he thought he was surrounded by demons.
“ The psychosis tells them that they are dead in hell ”
To be fair, they are still in the ICU.
He recovered physically from the heart surgery so well so quickly that the surgeon told me that ironically the only reason they couldn’t transfer him from the ICU was that he had ICU psychosis.
He had to have his legs tied down, his hands in “oven mitts” and tied down. It was gut-wrenching to watch. He thought I was Satan himself, since only Satan could impersonate his wife so well.
No, they have showier music.
So, on the topic of protestant music.
My church may or may not have talented musicians in each congregation who provide the music, but we DO NOT have professional musicians. I went to Midnight Mass once and fell in love with the music. My friend said, “You know they’re professionals, right?” Oops, silly me. So I go to Midnight Mass when I can (being Santa tends to be exhausting) to enjoy the music.
Protestants have Marty Haugen. I don’t know how you can call that “better”.
OM, good to see you are getting some semblance of your life back. Some things take longer than others.
At least you have a reserved parking space
I call my handicap placard my Rock Star Parking Pass.
If you have completely destroyed your body for work, you deserve a placard.
Bernie Sanders
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