OMWC is still otherwise indisposed, so you get back to back Spud!
I guess I could toss in a few birthdays.
This guy made being small and effeminate fashionable. A man who inspired a building style. She’s a minor counterbalance to Bieber, and she’s hot. This guy single-handedly destroyed a dynasty sitcom. And finally a guy who really knew how to sync it up.
Links?
Just in case you thought (((they))) weren’t going to appear.
You totally want to preview this.
The waste of perfectly good salumi hurts the heart.
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Okay. I’m done. Let’s hope for two awesome Championship games today.
I’ll be your bubblegum, bitch.
I hate wasting salumi.
Huh. I’m pretty sure I’ve never associated them in any way nor thought of the two of them within the same hour, but I guess they ARE both Canadians, aren’t they? There are so many I don’t even think about it any more.
I will forever associate her with sad, pathetic puppies and kitties.
Shania Twain would be the minor counterbalance; Sarah is a real talent.
No Avril Lavigne?
Not for two and a half months.
inirite?
lol
I’m glad I lived near Canada to hear her on the radio for her first couple albums cuz I probably would not have noticed her in a different time or place but yeah, her first album is something else. I think she was 18 (?!).
UNRWA became a victim of Stockholm Syndrome?
No; UNRWA always wanted to genocide the Jews.
New Jersey’s plastic consumption triples after plastic bag ban enacted, study shows
And they say Americans don’t get irony.
This guy single-handedly destroyed a dynasty sitcom.
Dynasty may have been campy, but I don’t think it was a sitcom.
as a none American I did not get this one
Here you go
eewww
The only soap I watched.
Not Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ?
Now is OMWC really in NYC, or did he convince Tomb Raider to slide on down to Bawl’mer to sit in the rain for three and a half hours?
Carrying over from the dedthread
“Mann never ceases to astonish with his audacity”
It also came out this week that after 12 years preparing for trial, Dr. Fraudpants (Mann) has not spent a dime of his own money and as far as he is aware has incurred no debt owed to his legal team.
https://www.steynonline.com/14045/the-end-is-nigh
The mere fact that that fraud is involved in the global warming scam should be enough to convince anyone that it is a scam.
I wish I believed in hell so that I could be confident that he will rot in it.
Emma Watson Makes An Espresso Martini, ‘Emma Spritz’ & 3 Other Classic Cocktails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksOVxOiL-x0
there is almost no famous person not shilling some celebrity gin or vodka or tequila
60 pounds fora bottle of gin? fuck no
If Emma Watson was pouring it for me, and she was naked.
also why are 20 people credited for this video? cocktail YouTube channels do it with 2. I think the corporate media is still overstaffed
I thought she was making porn these days
I’d watch that for a dollar !
Re: the first link, here’s my experience with Mrs. Prole on immigration:
We were in El Paso during the Trump years, and looked from a high hill at the border. Two layers of razor wire topped fencing, patrolled in-between by trucks and Humvees with what appeared to be armed Border Patrol employees / troops.
Me: “We live in an open air prison. It’s such a large prison that people who don’t venture to the border don’t realize the police state we’re in.”
Mrs. Prole was appalled at the sight.
Last week, we drove thru El Paso on the way to Phoenix. The Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas, which in the Trump years stopped us and asked a bunch of intrusive questions, this time just glanced inside at the two of us and waved us on thru.
To me, this was an improvement. Better, IMO, would be tearing down the fucking internal checkpoints entirely and getting rid of the “papers, bitte!” treatment altogether. But then, I’m a libertarian, and from the comments yesterday, quite a few commenters here explicitly said they were not.
So … is this actually a libertarian site, as they name implies? Or has it morphed into a conservative site?
My tax dollars should not be used to transport, clothe, feed, house, and provide free medical care to millions of foreign invaders.
I hold a ‘wide gate, high fence’ sort of position on immigration, but that does mean there still needs to be a fence.
Pretty much where I am, with the exception that we need high fence and closed gates for a period of years. The US has gone through periods of very restricted immigration in the past and needs to do so again.
To me, it’s a matter of priorities, with the “general welfare” (in the old sense) of US citizens the highest priority. I simply do not believe that adding millions of immigrants a year who don’t speak English and can contribute, at most, menial labor is in the interests of US citizens. Of course, the massive migration to the US isn’t driven (with one or maybe two exceptions) by some sudden humanitarian catastrophe. Its driven by a pair of messages – (1) You can lie your way past the border controls and (2) Once you are in the US, your needs will be taken care of.
The burden of proof is on the open borders supporters to convince me that it improves the general welfare of US citizens to have this many, of these immigrants, becoming residents of the US under these circumstances. I’m not seeing it.
If the borders were truly open they’d be open in both directions. I could be in Mexico/Canada with no papers/no hassle/no covid vaccine.
We saw the affects of covid, no mask=not wanted at your local grocery store.
We hear the words “Freedom and Democracy” bantered about and they are either true or false but not synonymous. The government will decide with or without your vote.
As long at there is a check point we don’t have open borders. As long as there are benefits and obligations of citizenship we can’t have open borders. Like it or not citizenship is a contract, even if you didn’t sign it.
I’m not sure I’m there on ‘closed gates,’ but I do agree we need to control the spigot for awhile.
This is one of those situations where the idealistic view of libertarianism collides with the reality that not everyone is going to come to America with good intentions. People should be generally free to live and work where they will, but that policy means you’re blithely letting in people who want to violate the NAP. If you are proactive in preventing that then you have to create barriers to open immigration.
The idealistic view would work in a country with little to no government welfare (also a libertarian idealistic view). Wide gate, high fence*.
*Fence does not need to mean a literal fence in all cases, and could include various forms of surveillance technologies.
Also, what constitutes conservative? The views expressed in Martha’s Vinyard, New York City, and Chicago?
Something happened a few years ago and I noticed a more conservative leaning commentariat.
A lot has happened in the last few years to make non-delusional people less enthusiastic about the wide open Southern border.
I agree. My opinion is the shift here started during COVID-19 mandates. The Democrats/leftists nearly universally were 💯 for every type of mandate. The only recognizable pushback was from Republicans/conservatives. YMMV.
That about sums it up. Add in that Biden is actually in power, the Dems control the Senate, and the mainstream press has gone from Team Blue Cheerleader to outright propagandist.
It’s always leaned conservative, in my opinion. I’m of a similar mind with Sean. I’m all for open borders with the caveat that not a single goddamn dime be spent on any social programs whatsoever. We can’t have both. Until one or the other is eliminated, the situation is untenable.
Yeah, I’m happy to let global free travel reign. Any deviation from that is not “libertarian” in any shape or form IMHO. At best it’s “libertarianism for thee, not for me”.
If staying within the confines of reality and of human nature make me a “conservative”, so be it.
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I am all for getting rid of the police state tactics. First get rid of the incentives for foreign invaders that despise us, our culture and our ideals to come here.
Come legally? Pay your own way. No housing, no food, no meds, no schooling for your children. Come illegally? Get deported.
Put that into effect and no wall would be needed.
First get rid of the incentives for foreign invaders that despise us, our culture and our ideals to come here.
But enough about ex-blue state residents moving.
I made a comment to that effect yesterday. Fuck the locusts but I am not willing to go so far as to restrict freedom of movement inside our national borders. I will leave that to the blue states themselves.
Exit taxes? Taxing income on former residents living in other states, sometimes for years? This is the same crowd facilitating and supporting this invasion. What does that tell us?
They hate us, our ideas and our culture. They will dig mass graves for us the instant they think they can get away with it.That is not hyperbole.
Yeah, any of that internal, anti-American shit needs to stop.
We are one country, period. Anyone who has left it for any length of time will soon come to appreciate it.
Is there one, correct libertarian position on open borders?
Mine. 😉
Yes. Mine:
Deport American citizen welfare leeches. Strip them of citizenship.
Foreigners that want to come here, work, and not commit crimes? COME ON IN!
Foreigners that don’t want to work or commit crimes? GTFO.
And with that bomb thrown, I’m going to eat breakfast and grocery shop before the snow starts in southern NH.
Ive heard the libertarian argument for private borders. The argument basically goes, the border was private property seized by the government, it should be returned to private citizens. I’ve also heard arguments for a sponsorship program to come here.
“…a sponsorship program to come here.”
That is what we have now. Private ( as private as fascism allows) entities using government and taxpayer dollars to facilitate the importation of cheap labor.
But those same entities are not on the hook financially for their sponsoree’s.
I hate the internal checkpoints with the heat of a thousand suns. I would be plenty alright with higher levels of legal immigration, presuming that we return to the concept of assimilation (and that means no ballots in foreign languages) and no welfare for new arrivals. Tell me how likely we are to get that?
Yeah, that’s wrong no matter one’s opinion. It certainly isn’t a requirement for border types. Being pro-border doesn’t mean one supports every kind of authoritarian fuckery out there.
Internal checkpoints are BS. But then, they’ve been around for decades. Up here they are called “DWI checkpoints”. Stopping every auto passing by would seem to be unreasonable search, but what do I know. Red light cameras – Hello surveillance state. The ship of freedom did not sail, it sank into the depths of the sea a long time ago. And “the people” don’t have a problem.with this.
Me: “We live in an open air prison. It’s such a large prison that people who don’t venture to the border don’t realize the police state we’re in.”
Just remember: The official reason for the Berlin Wall was to keep the West out.
Watch how fast the Mexicans turn you around if you attempt to migrate into their country.
Yeah, I don’t recall being shot at the last few times I exited the U.S.
Unless you tell them you are just passing through Mexico on the way to the U.S., then they just wave you through.
i always called myself broadly libertarian / classic liberal. I was never open borders and for controlled immigration. my few conservative leaning are due to Chesterton’s fence.
Public money to support people coming here is not, IMO, libertarian either. Free movement in which an individual, of their own accord, can find work and engage in voluntary economic activity is totes fine with me. NGOs subsidizing movement of millions of people so they can live on the dole is destructive to the country and to the people coming here. The only people who win in the current situation are the political class.
“can find work and engage in voluntary economic activity”
This is the deracinated, incomplete, transactional/economic view of human nature that libertarianism shares with Marxism. Most countries are made up of people who work and trade with one another. Most countries are also not exactly havens of liberty, so it would seem that something else is needed. A free country must be a high-trust society with a deep well of shared culture. Mass migration is likely to erode that.
Not gonna disagree, just trying to offer a purely libertarian critique of the current situation as Prole requested.
I consider myself much more of a political nihilist/absurdist than libertarian anyway, so the slow-motion train wreck of the US system is very much expected in my eyes. Not that I think it’s a good thing, just the natural course of all human higher-order social organizations.
Q is a Sun reader.
Hrm. My SUV emailed me to tell me it’s time for an oil change.
Kinda of neat – it gave me the existing tire pressures and remaining # of complementary oil changes and tire rotations.
a real libertarian would be suspicious about all this new technology. the man can track you with that
Thus the “Hrm”
Can you reply with “DO YOU HAVE A WARRANT ?”
Just don’t go overboard with “I’m travelling not driving!”
“DO YOU HAVE A WARRANTy ?”
As if getting a warrant were any sort of challenge these days…
As if respecting the warrant that was granted was relevant.
I look forward to the firing of the agents that so blatantly ignored the limits imposed. I mean, when you fuck up at your job that badly, you get fired, right?
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 01/28:
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Mona Lisa: Protesters throw soup at da Vinci painting
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68121654
Brainwash as many people as possible into loonies
Have loonies agitate and disrupt as much as possible
Western civilization’s gears grind to dust.
Freedom and profit!
Oh….wait, I mean smothering totalitarianism and soul crushing poverty!
Oh….wait, I mean smothering totalitarianism and soul crushing poverty!
Yes, even for us that rule over you. But the important thing is – WE RULE OVER YOU.
+1 foot stomping on a face forever
I was going to ask what does Mona Lisa have to do with Palestine until I remembered that these types do not lack for shit to pRoTeSt.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Short-timer
As long as we’re ‘pulling things forward from previous thread’ – GT, thank you for your reasonable response Re: ‘founders’ and ‘tptb’ participating. I’m not sure why the participation has decreased, but I can assure you that descending into cliques will hasten it’s end.
The ‘founders’, whoever they may be, generated a site to satisfy a need they had for a place to interact. I believe many are still around, many have ‘left’ – that doesn’t mean they think this place is beneath them and, in so many words, calling them ‘elitists who look down their noses at everyone else’ is in all likely hood not going to address whatever reason they drifted away and entice them to come back, and that attitude will, in all likelyhood, further alienate other people. Circumstances change, whether they found other places or the site they helped found grew and evolved into something that didn’t scratch the itch anymore – there’s no call to fall into the normal human trap of us vs. them about it, as easy and natural as that is for us as a species. Create what you want from this site by your actions.
It’s difficult to create interesting content even in a one-off – to those who do it on a daily and weekly basis, I’m grateful – Sloppy, Banjos, Ron, RJ, OMWC, Spud, NA, MS, Tonio, and even that crotchety Swiss bastard, thank you, and I hope that this place continues to be somewhere that you find value in the creation you do. And that the time spent managing things behind the scenes continues to be a worthwhile way to spend some of your time.
I didn’t respond to that, tempted as I was, because I presumed it to be drunken ranting.
True. But if all that is seen is the drunken rant (which often reveals true sentiment, in vino veritas and all), that can become the perceived reality and I’d prefer it did not.
Yeah, it got needlessly salty there.
Yeah, I probably got a little too worked up. My main point, if there was one, was that the place is dying off slowly and I think the lack of engagement from the people who run this place hastens that. Do I want to see this place overran with fly by trolls? Of course not. Do I want to see the same couple dozen people basically say the same thing dozens of times a week? No, don’t want that either. Honestly I’m slowly losing interest in the place and frequent it far less often over the last year or two.
And of course, I could try to do my part and provide more money and attempt to create content to help keep the place alive and interesting…the money I can start to help with…the content? Look, I’m a lazy, drunken, uneducated idiot with few insights of value. We all know this, it isn’t news. I honestly can’t see how I could help in that regard. So I’ll continue to bitch and moan and continue to be useless until one day I fade out completely or the place goes under.
Fuck that oh-I’m-so-useless crap. There is something you are good at, something you know more about than most other people here, something that at least interests you more than most other folk.
That’s what you write about. And I challenge you to do that in the next month. You can do it, if you’re willing to stop wallowing in self-pity.
Challenge not accepted because frankly I don’t really care anymore.
“the lack of engagement”
But you don’t care.
A Christian wedding during the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut, Lebanon, 1986
https://twitter.com/menavisualss/status/1751152962682998926
-Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Yep, checks out…
Girl, 17, arrested after mass machete brawl at Bournemouth college campus sparked by ‘rival Afghan and Romanian gangs’
Five people were injured in the brawl involving up to 20 people on Thursday
The fight consisted of groups of Afghan and Romanian students, it is believed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13009797/Two-machete-wielding-gangs-Afghans-Romanians-sparked-mass-brawl-college-hour-students-asked-safety-survey-amid-rising-tensions-two-rival-groups.html
Who is the winner matched with in the next round?
Albania.
Rwanda, and it’s a tough match-up.
Uh…someone does not know how to machete properly.
They should have brought wooden stakes and garlic, not machetes.
Gov. Brad Little announced Friday that he plans to send more Idaho State Police troopers to the U.S.-Mexico border “to assist with securing our nation’s border,” as Texas is in the middle of a legal standoff with the federal government over border security.
It would be way cooler if they were armed with spud guns.
FreedomToons on Hitler in 2024
Go on blitzkrieg? You need to go on Jenny Krieg!
LOL!
Sarah Maclachlan hot? You still drunk from Saturday night Spud?
I’m with Spud on this one.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s good looking, just not hot. Also, every time I see her face that Arms of the Angels song (or whatever the title is) plays in my mind along with the faces of a bunch of sad dogs and it’s just depressing.
It was overplayed on 90’s radio. Now it’s double torture.
I wonder if she license the song out for an anti-abortion video?
RJ – saw your Final Wars post. That was a fun flick with such a huge cast of critters at least making passing appearances. Suffered a bit too much “stupid alien/mutant” plot lines though. (Same director as the zombie flick “Versus”)
My flick last night was “The Whale God” – via srscinema.com – Japanese flick from 1962 I’d never heard of before this week. Less Kaiju and more Moby dick, but still some effective effects.
Nice! I am still looking for more free streaming films. I found a couple Yokai titles (Great Yokai War and others), a smattering of south of the border B movies and Lair of the White Worm.
After Final Wars I watched Giant Monsters Attack. I have the Megaguirus film and Tokyo SOS on tap today as I do more living room renovations. I guess I really did want to go see Godzilla Minus Zero, I just can’t drum up anyone to go with me this weekend.
Like the dumbass I am, I posted this on the dead thread.
FINALLY. I have been trying for years to join the site.
How I became a Glib (hopefully not TL;DR) I was on foreign work assignment during “The Departure” from TOS, and when I got back, it seemed like the exodus was invite only. After a few months, I tried to register at Glibs, but for some reason I was never able to sign up. Subsequently, it seemed as the was a glitch in the registration process (???). Maybe it was just me. This morning, Spud mentioned that enrollment was open, and here I am.
“I have mixed feelings as well, but the group was clamoring for increasing our ranks. This is what we have available to us.”—I have noticed in the past that the commenter ranks were shrinking. I Hope that with registration being open, You (we) attract more commenters who have something to add, just not a bunch of trolls.
As my first comment—Fuck you, cut spending.
WELCOME!!!!!
Thank you, Moje!
OK, everybody join in – Fuck off, Tulpa! 😃
Just our own little way of saying “Welcome aboard!” 😉
Indeed, a hearty “Fuck off, Tulpa!”
It’s been too long since we could say that.
Fuck off, Tulpa! 😃
Errr…I mean, welcome.
Welcome!
Huzzahhhhhh!!! Fuck off, Tulpa!!
Welcome!
Fuck off, Tulpa!
My very own “Fuck of Tulpa”.
You love me, you really love me.
“You must make me a lousy gardener because with you all I wanna do is plant my seed where the sun never shines.”
https://archive.is/B9A7m
Slutty Sunday.
Better, IMO, would be tearing down the fucking internal checkpoints entirely and getting rid of the “papers, bitte!” treatment altogether.
I am in favor of immigration, and I do not believe every single person who wants to come to this country is motivated by welfare. Get rid of internal checkpoints and “papieren, bite”? Absolutely.
But I am appalled and disgusted by the fake refugee locust swarms all over the countryside, and by the Biden administration’s (at minimum) tacit encouragement of it.
Yup. Said it before but get rid of all the free shit and these problems (mostly) go away.
Unfortunately, while it will keep out the leeches, it won’t keep out criminals and such folk that our friends seem happy to ship our way.
I was going to ask what does Mona Lisa have to do with Palestine until I remembered that these types do not lack for shit to pRoTeSt.
She owns stock in Exxon, too, I think.
Hello. Oil Painting. Oil. And that’s one of the most famous paintings in the world, so it must be big oil.
What if we defund the UN in its entirety?
The secretary-general of the United Nations on Sunday called on countries to resume funding the main agency providing aid in the Gaza Strip after a dozen of its employees were accused of taking part in the Hamas attack on Israel that ignited the war four months ago.
The dispute engulfing the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees came as U.S. officials said negotiators were closing in on a cease-fire agreement. The emerging deal would bring a two-month halt to the deadliest-ever Israeli-Palestinian violence, which has stoked instability across the Middle East.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the agency known as UNRWA would be forced to scale back aid to more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza as soon as February. The coastal enclave is in the grip of a severe humanitarian crisis, with a quarter of the population facing starvation as fighting and Israeli restrictions hinder the delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged territory.
We could move the UN General Assembly to Palestine.
We could move the UN General Assembly to Palestine.
Id like to subscribe to your newsletter.
They’ve been angling for a new building in NYC.
Some of us suggest putting them in the rebuilt WTC. Nobody wants to rent the white elephant and people feel like it’s a target for another attack.
I say it’s a win win. It either makes it unthinkable to attack or we lose the UN.
Sounds like a stellar idea to me. Before they go squeeze their balls until their faces turn purple to make them pay their goddamned traffic tickets.
That book was already written, Eyeless in Gaza.
Stop, I can only get so hard.
That agency is 100% a tool of terrorist regimes. Why do people think the U.N. has one such agency for them, and a separate one for the rest of the world?
UNRWA provides basic services, from medical care to education, for Palestinian families who fled or were driven out of what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding the country’s creation. They now live in built-up refugee camps in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
The refugees and their descendants number about 6 million, and in Gaza they are the majority of the population. UNRWA, which has some 13,000 staff members in Gaza, expanded its operations during the war and runs shelters that house hundreds of thousands of newly displaced people.
More than 2 million of the territory’s 2.3 million people depend on the agency’s programs for “sheer survival,” including food and shelter, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said. It’s a lifeline that could “collapse any time now,” he said after the funding was suspended.
Generations of proven success.
UNRWA provides basic services
Say, isn’t there an elected government that’s supposed to be taking care of those things?
I wonder what they’re spending their money on…
Could just stop having babies, break (brake) the cycle. It’s not like rocket science.
/Religion is a helluva aphrodisiac.
STEVE SMITH unavailable for comment.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/distinct-possibility-bigfoot-responsible-mangled-31867378
“…experts say.”
That is code for “This is complete bullshit”.
The stench of desperation
President Joe Biden’s campaign is trying to organize a first-of-its-kind fundraiser that officials hope would be lucrative and headline-grabbing, but also energizing for Democratic voters who so far have not shown enthusiasm for the party’s 2024 ticket, according to four people familiar with the planning.
The idea is for three Democratic presidents — Biden, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — to appear together at a fundraiser this spring, the four people familiar with the discussions said.
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The plan underscores the belief among Biden allies that the party needs an all-hands-on-deck approach to help him win a second term. It’s also just one in a growing list of ways that Democratic leaders, and the Biden campaign, are gearing up for a general election they view as having the highest of stakes.
I wonder what Bill Clinton says about Biden in private.
“I wonder what Bill Clinton says about Biden in private.”
“That guy is an amateur at grifting compared to my sweetheart Hill! His son sure has great taste in women though…”
He probably doesnt care. He is busy crossdressing and fucking teenage girls.
Not really sure why an apology was necessary…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/actor-forced-apologise-profusely-after-31984419
Must be a slow news day.
Interesting how gracious he was in the bit at the end about losing the Superman role. Compare that to the reactions of harpies that had their franchises canceled after they skin suited the material and insulted the fanbase.
The dude is a class act, incidental boners or not.
I’m chuckling at the notion that this isn’t ubiquitous among actors.
Agreed. Also, tempted to make a joke about hen’s teeth and straight actors.
I wonder what the tickets to the Three Democratic Stooges extravaganza will go for.
$20. Then they give you $2 back as part of a drink stimulus package.
They had to slash the price so people could afford the gasoline to get there.
Ummm… why are you planning to marry this chick then?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/25517677/fiance-everything-i-want-one-thing/
Equivalent to “she’s perfect in every way except she has a lousy personality”.
I don’t understand people who plan to marry each other who don’t know how to talk to each other about the most basic shit, like sex.
Sex when young is fun and stuff but older and have communication you can tackle to deed with efficiency cause expectations and wants are met.
Errr….LOLWut?
Couples that communicate about sex have better sex…I dunno man…I’m still getting over my cold and say weird shit on meds
I just assume he was typing that with one hand while getting it on with Mrs. OBE.
Keeping it topical.
Or cold meds.
One of the two.
Deidre writes those, doesnt she?
As a result, the campaign is increasing the pace of its hiring, particularly in battleground states, and ramping up its focus on voters whose support it believes will decide the November election, officials said. Biden, for instance, has tailored recent events to Black voters, including on Saturday in South Carolina. Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday in Nevada kicked off a series of small events with Latino voters.
She’s doing “latino outreach” because black people hate her?
Yes.
Maybe blacks are finally tired of the pandering from the string of “fake” blacks like Obama and her that the Dems have been throwing at them for decades. The Dems can’t even get the divisiveness they’re pushing right.
Shocking
Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine’s security service reported.
The SBU said late Saturday that five people have been charged, with one person detained while trying to cross the Ukrainian border. If found guilty, they face up to 12 years in prison.
The investigation comes as Kyiv attempts to clamp down on corruption in a bid to speed up its membership in the European Union and NATO. Officials from both blocs have demanded widespread anti-graft reforms before Kyiv can join them.
“Mommy, somebody stole my milk money. Can I have some more?”
Snow turning to rain has turned out to be a bad prediction. Seems snow won and dropped enough temps to start sticking.
That Ben Shapiro & Tom MacDonald rap is cringe.
I sure did choose an odd lifestyle for someone who hates the wind.
If we’re going to have the site open, maybe we should have some mods watching the pending comments, as we have our first lurker trying to join this morning but his comments are stuck in pending.
I don’t want to do it…but I see an option to approve the pending…maybe someone PTB-adjacent can
I just tried for the heck of it, but obviously don’t have The Power. Hang in there, new Glib! We’ll find a way!
Boy, it’s been a long time since we’ve had a chance to indulge in a nice, rousing “Fuck off, Tulpa!”
See “Cunctator” comment at 9:34 a.m., courtesy of Mojeaux’s magical powers! 😃
I have mixed feelings about the search engine thing.
Eminent thinkologists
Twenty-five historians of the civil war and Reconstruction filed a US supreme court brief in support of the attempt by Colorado to remove Donald Trump from the ballot under the 14th amendment, which bars insurrectionists from running for office.
“For historians,” the group wrote, “contemporary evidence from the decision-makers who sponsored, backed, and voted for the 14th amendment [ratified in 1868] is most probative. Analysis of this evidence demonstrates that decision-makers crafted section three to cover the president and to create an enduring check on insurrection, requiring no additional action from Congress.”
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The historians concluded: “The court should take cognisance that section three of the 14th amendment covers the present, is forward-looking, and requires no additional acts of Congress for implementation.”
Some political and legal observers have suggested Trump should be allowed to run regardless of the constitution, because to bar him would be anti-democratic.
In a forthcoming article for the New York Review of Books, seen by the Guardian, Sean Wilentz of Princeton – an eminent historian not part of the supreme court brief – calls such arguments “risible”.
“By their reasoning,” Wilentz writes, “Trump’s misdeeds aside, enforcement of the 14th amendment poses a greater threat to our wounded democracy than Trump’s candidacy. In the name of defending democracy, they would speciously enable the man who did the wounding and now promises to do much more.”
That’s nice. Now tell us what the gym teachers think.
I’m sure the 14th Amendment does prevent insurrectionists (of the late Civil War) from holding office.
That has nothing to do with Trump nor Jan 6th. GO FUCK YOURSELVES!
Notice they, nor any of the others making this argument, mention that no charges for insurrection have been filed, no evidence shown and no conviction.
Nice stolen base, assholes.
Insurrection is like porn. We proles just need to trust the experts to know it when they see it, and then the Constitution just, like, happens.
I sure did choose an odd lifestyle for someone who hates the wind.
Move to Wyoming. The wind hardly ever blows there.
Wilentz continues: “Whether motivated by … fear of Trump’s base, a perverted sense of democratic evenhandedness, a reflexive hostility toward liberals, or something else, [commentators who say Trump should stay on the ballot] betray a basic ignorance of the relevant history and thus a misconception of what the 14th amendment actually meant and means. That history, meanwhile, has placed the conservative members of the supreme court in a very tight spot.”
And I’d say those who want to presumptively declare Trump an insurrectionist need to brush up on their understanding of due process.