It’s been a tough week, juggling clients, café, university, and home issues. The last is getting my house prepared for a new arrival, which has involved much lifting and carrying, about 100,000 trips up and down the stairs, and repeated errands to pick up small items that I just remembered I needed. I could use some sleep, but instead, here I am writing up little stories for Links. Hopefully, I can get in a short nap to energize myself for an evening with Prime (dinner and a concert).
Know what else is exhausting? The constant self-created drama of academia. Here’s the latest email blast from our little institution:
On Wednesday, September 10, at approximately 4:30 p.m., a bias incident was reported on our campus. An offensive leaflet was left on the vehicle of an ***** University employee in a campus parking lot.
We are treating this matter with the utmost seriousness and are considering it a hate crime. An investigation is underway... Counseling is available to students and employees.
Offensive leaflet. Hate crime. I mean, this is the equivalent of getting shot in the throat by a sniper. (Pardon the asterisked redaction, I don’t want this to come up in the University’s regular search and destroy missions, you know who this is)
Speaking of offensive, people born on this date who may have needed it include the spiritual father of most American politicians; a guy who, unlike our current crop of government physicians, actually did something; a guy whose name ended up being an ass-sex euphemism; a famous serial killer; a woman famous for a one-night stand; the father of bluegrass; a vicious antisemite to whom we entrusted our kids; the one and only Velvet Fog; and the prime exponent of Heroin Chic.
And Links are also chic.
Had you ever considered that this was because you’re a piece of shit?
Nobody apparently learned the lesson from Jimmy Carter’s miserable failure.
Normally, I avoid Twitter links, but this one is delightfully symbolic of the rage many are feeling.
And one more, sorry, but you have to see how absolutely retarded Louisiana politicians are.
Everything we all knew, but it’s said out loud.
Another symptom of the political enstupidation of science curricula.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
This is what happens when you let a dirty Jew take charge.
You can’t help but smile when Slim Gaillard appears- the piano showmanship of Chico Marx but with about a hundred times better chops. And then he starts in on guitar… Personal trivia: The Old Guy used to own an identical guitar to that, and likely the same vintage.
“*****”
asian?
Speaking of Asians…
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?”
Hope one of the cars (preferably the black van that stopped first) had dashcams front and back so they got that they weren’t at fault… and the plate of the asshole who was. I was just going to quip “Bad drivers never miss their exit” — but didn’t expect it to actually trigger the pileup.
Wait! My wife doesn’t drive anymore! Wasn’t her!
search and destroy missions
You should’ve said Cornell, just to fuck with the algorithm.
Baptist Bible study leaflet on a gay professor’s car? Too early for a Charlie Kirk vigil…
Oh wait… BBQ restaurant flyer on a vegan’s car! That would be a good gentle ribbing….
I asked at the time if giving Jack Chick comics to Trick or Treaters was a hate crime. Of course, not one person other than 10b0t had any idea of who Jack Chick was.
“… was that the guy in School of Rock? I didn’t know he wrote comic books too!”
Damn it. I was going to joke it was either a JW pamphlet or a Chick tract.
Now I’m tempted to order some Chick tracts and bring them up for the little library.
Make sure to get the softcore porn ones. I always liked the ones with pictures of painted Jezebels luring adolescent me into sin.
Those comics are hilarious. I think my favorite was the one that targets the TV show Bewitched into being a conduit into the occult.
Why brisket?
I really want to know what was so offensive. I need to know if my biases are confirmed or not.
Did they go through the year of classes and is the Bishop available to anoint them?
OTOH private businesses can do what they want. Print posters, fire employees. I don’t see a problem.
“The far-right commentator”
He was a moderate conservative. He was shot for saying what half the country believes.
The new talking point this morning is something along the lines of, “A white man killed a white man. Yawn.”
He got shot for deprogramming young people. That cannot stand.
Offensive leaflet. Hate crime. I mean, this is the equivalent of getting shot in the throat by a sniper.
Maybe we shouldn’t have hate crimes.
Iupac, the international authority responsible for standardising chemistry, described this new document as ‘a call to action’ for scientists, educators, industry leaders, policymakers and the next generation of chemists to align their work with humanity’s most urgent needs. The organisation also described it is ‘a living resource’, intended to evolve as the challenges and responsibilities of chemistry continue to grow.
Why do I smell skinsuiting of an institution going on?
“Now we have a system where you can listen to whatever version of the news makes you happy,” said “This is not good for democracy.”
Maybe four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner is a bad idea.
And now after dropping some turds in the punchbowl, I’m going to do something productive with my time.
And by productive, I mean perv gym hotties.
I have the hugely exciting “Go to Wally World for cat litter and undershirts, then fill up the car with gas so I don’t run out taking Mom to Mass tomorrow morning”… so there are less productive activities planned than yours, DEG.
One wolf, four sheep, same result.
Yep. “You two sheep vote with me and I’ll reward you.”
I strongly suspect a lot of pieces of shit are and remain pieces of shit due to lacking any self-awareness (and often empathy)… so my vote would be “No”.
Now we have to listen to them whining about how unfairly they were treated instead of never hearing from them again like any other person? JFC it’s good to completely own the media.
I’m really filling up on schadenfreuden watching them all cry out how unfair it is that people are sharing their public media posts from the past 48 hours when they’ve spent years digging up shit from decades back to get people fired and cut off from polite society.
Instead of filling up on rage, I’m going to listen to the Supernova Ska fest today, I have a feeling it’ll leave me in a better mood (even though it appears they lost audio for one of the first bands yesterday).
which would raise the average monthly benefit for retired workers by $54
That’s not much in hookers and blow.
Depends on where you live, right?
A downtown apartment?
Expats for the win.
:headdesk: Hey asshole…
1) These stupid hate filled bastards showing themselves to be stupid hate filled bastards is the best thing for driving people away from their “Conservatives are teh debbil!” crap. The more normal folks see what idiot nuts they are, the better. Combat them with words and deeds, not muzzling. Which leads to…
2) Do you really think Mr. Kirk — known for engaging in debate and trying to change minds — wanted mass censorship as any part of his legacy? Show them a better way.
Yeah, I just heard a giant “whoosh” sound reading that.
CWAA
I’ve been loath to embrace the conservatives are engaging in cancel culture too narrative but conservatives are engaging in cancel culture. Let the clowns say what they want. As stated, it’s the best way to reveal the character of the cause they represent.
I think this is going to be the more common right wing rather than violence.
Get some people fired. Get some revenge
Politicians in general.
Animal, vegetable, or mineral?
He does like dropping these little enigmas, doesn’t he? OMWC… Man of Mystery!
A lot of possibilities
Waits for the other shoe to drop, though I (and many others) have our guesses. Probably wrong.
Shacking up with Prime?
That was my guess as well.
New pupper was second.
WebDom sending the grandbaby to live with Grandpa for a while so she gets some peace was a distant third.
We’ll see… could well be something that never even crossed my unimaginative mind.
We’ll see… could well be something that never even crossed my unimaginative mind.
Someone took the candy?
Good guess, but no. Unfortunately, Prime has her work (6 days a week) two hours away, I have my family and business here, so we’re definitely in the weekends-only mode and not even all of them (she’s on call for weekends twice a month).
Animal
No offense… but very fresh cherry pie out of your van worries me as a concept, sir. Glad it was something very different.
Ah yes… the “give micro quotes with no context” that’s been just so popular on the “justify our hate” side. At least they attempted to find a quote (unlike King), but 1000 percent of the time I’ve seen these, the surrounding conversation completely changes the tone and meaning of what he said.
I’d be more disgusted at humanity… but this is the Guardian — I knew what I was getting into when I hovered over the link, I suppose.
How about a prisoner out of a van?
https://nypost.com/2025/09/13/us-news/oklahoma-inmate-hangs-out-the-back-of-speeding-corrections-van-pleading-for-help-on-freeway-video/
Huh… I thought leg restraints chained to the floor of prison transport was standard for just this sort of reason.
They’re just lucky they didn’t end up searching every doghouse, henhouse and outhouse in Oklahoma.
lol The Guardian thinks this is “controversial”.
It’s a tried and true method. I have a friend that has never heard of him. Person is right of center still gives too much credit to the MSM, so she thinks he was probably a bit of a firebrand as is reported.
Meanwhile he will still have upper west side Jewish vote locked up.
https://www.jta.org/2025/09/12/politics/mamdani-reiterates-vow-to-arrest-netanyahu-as-poll-shows-nyers-prefer-him-over-any-opponent-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict
I’m at a complete loss to explain NYC’s most secular and only nominal Jews.
I can absolutely understand voters already on the dole voting for more Free Shit ™.
To a lesser extent I can understand AWFLs being all about abortion and to some extent free child care (because when you’re evident goal is single motherhood, you need the State to be your husband after all).
Otherwise — any voter with any assets or who pays any attention to their paystub taxation voting for confiscation via socialism (or full on communism)… I really don’t get in my gut. Which is doubtless why I’m here, true… but it still befuddles me… it isn’t like this shit hasn’t been tried and hasn’t royally (or revolutionarily, I suppose) sucked all kinds of ass. So the whole “You’re not empathetic enough / you don’t care for the community!” bullshit doesn’t make sense… good intentions and all — but you know this shit doesn’t work, so why replay it?
I suppose K-12 indoctrination is a big part of the answer… “Don’t think for yourself! I’ll tell you what to think (based on what others told me)… It will work if we wish
Tinkerbell alivehard enough!”Sorry for the rambling pointless observation…. sometimes you just have to vent — and y’all made the horrible, horrible mistake of giving me a place to do that. Fear your life choices!
It speaks to the stupidity of the average voter that people are prioritizing a mayor’s position on Israel/Gaza over actual policy he can implement.
A mayor taking a stand against Israel is nothing more than social signaling and moronic voters eat it up.
Ordinarily, yes. In NYC, which has a sizable Jewish population and anti-Jew protests (and violence, from time to time), its not entirely irrelevant, seeing as it telegraphs how he is likely to handle that particular local problem.
“Don’t worry about the pot holes that are destroying your cars, the rampant petty crime, or the dirty streets. We hate Israel, isn’t that enough?”
“They don’t kill you for being a fascist. They call you a fascist so they can kill you.”
https://substack.com/@volodzko/note/c-155329200?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I don’t think that’s wrong. It riles up their non-psycho voters… and if it happens to rile up some of their psycho fringe… well, they have plausible deniability when it takes some of their opponents pieces off the board in the Great Game. Win-win (if you are a sociopath… which is likely a pre-req for politicians these days… so what a shock…)
“Now we have a system where you can listen to whatever version of the news makes you happy,” said “This is not good for democracy.”
I’m not convinced that it was better for “democracy” when Walter Cronkite’s scriptwriters could decide that Truth was and fed it to a credulous public every evening.
Agreed.
Yeah, it was back in 1980 that Cronkite told a Libertarian staffer that he refused to cover the presidential campaign of Ed Clark because it was an evil philosophy.
“Fourteen workers at a Montana animal shelter were rushed to the hospital after breathing in meth-laced smoke from a botched FBI drug incineration in the same building, officials said.
Staffers at the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter in Billings fell ill Wednesday when fumes from an FBI meth burn seeped through a shared ventilation system, according to city officials.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/12/us-news/14-montana-animal-shelter-workers-hospitalized-after-fbi-meth-burn-goes-wrong/
Everyone looks like a lesbian.
Single women without kids.
So yes.
Government incompetence related to the war on drugs?!? Impossible.
“We want to abolish the university as it is,”
OK, maybe I can agree with leftist* nutters on something
*My bad. There’s no such thing as the left. Or even, I suppose, universities.
^Bait
<Me leaving it be.
Couldn’t resist.
See, its not ever chat room where people can rib each other about their opinions.
LOL, Oh I took it as mild ribbing. But I said all I had to say about levels of abstraction (unless I decide to use my retirement to go full retard and write philosophy).
retirement to go full retard and write philosophy
Hey!
Hey!
Aren’t you the guy who was arguing that persuasion is basically impossible yesterday? What does that say about the value of spending hours wracking your brain, writing a paragraph, revising it 9000 times to try to remove all ambiguity (and probably adding in 2 ambiguities for every one you remove), then putting it out there for 6 people to read, 1 to understand and argue with, and 97 to to nope out after the first 30 words?
For what it’s worth I have enjoyed a couple of your stack posts.
See I do realize that I write mostly for myself, then for a tiny audience beyond that. The majority of people aren’t interested and aren’t persuadable because they just don’t want to ever have to think very much. They’re happy to conform to the peer group they have and don’t really want to stretch beyond that.
“use my retirement to go full retard and write philosophy”
“persuasion is basically impossible ”
You know that old guy sitting in front of his fire in a cave or on top of a mountain, the one people are always goind to and asking “What does it all mean?” ? Yeah him, Mr. Enlightened.
There is a reason he always says “Know Thyself. Now go away.”
Let me be more clear here in case people are taking me seriously as mocking others for this. This is self mockery because I have folders full of half finished outlines of things I have started to write, in some cases agonized over, and left undone. Actually thinking through pet ideas is painful, because no matter what the ideas are, odds are they are flawed, contradictory, or trite, and truly thinking about them means challenging parts of your world view that can leave you feeling very much adrift.
“what the ideas are, odds are they are flawed, contradictory, or trite”
Summary of my life, right there
Summary of everyone’s life Mr. Fourscore. Realizing it is the beginning of wisdom. Unfortunately it’s probably also the middle and end of wisdom for humans.
“We want to abolish the university as it is,”
Since Universities used to be places of inquiry and learning I would say “Mission accomplished”
“Self-styled street vigilantes are reportedly roaming around San Francisco spraying the anti-overdose drug Narcan into the noses of unsuspecting homeless people – before posting video of their attacks online to brag on social media.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/12/us-news/san-francisco-vigilantes-spraying-narcan-into-unsuspecting-homeless-people/
LOLOL
I’m running out of compassion
Letting drug addicts rot on the street and prey on innocent victims to get their next fix isn’t just mean-spirited, it’s cruel.
I dont know the mechanism by which narcan works. It has no effect on non-drug heads?
It blocks opiate receptors in the brain. Hence the reason you start breathing again.
So the addict loses the high AND can’t get high again for a while until the effects of the narcan dissipates.
It’s a double fuck you from their point of view.
“He/she died doing what he/she loved”
I usually say to ban narcan but this is hilarious.
It’s an assault and if caught the guys doing it should be fined. Beyond that meh…
“One brave Minnesota lawmaker is already fighting for common sense. On Aug. 30, state Rep. Drew Roach announced that he’ll introduce legislation to repeal Minnesota’s therapy ban….
Yet Minnesota isn’t alone in putting up that barrier. At least half of states, as well as Washington, DC, prohibit or restrict mental-health professionals from helping kids realize they aren’t the wrong gender….
But the biggest hope is at the Supreme Court. On Oct. 7, the justices will hear a case challenging Colorado’s ban.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/12/opinion/stop-banning-therapists-from-talking-to-kids-about-accepting-their-biological-sex/
Terribly written article that makes a good point badly.
I’ve never understood why “gender-affirming care” doesn’t fall under the state laws banning “conversion therapy”.
Because feelz and groupthink trump the hell out of logic?
The tranny push to be treated just like gays has been successful beyond the wildest dreams of the Marxist activists who originally plotted it.
The ratchet only goes one way so good luck unwinding that.
Tell me the left isn’t a death cult.
“she celebrates people dying all the time”
Oh, well, that’s alright then. Carry on.
Margaret Sanger?
Isnt a pamphlet speech? This ‘university’, do they take any federal. money?
Just askin’.
My work for today:
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/1966848157087867005
Great selfie, tEDs’, if that’s really you
That Dowd guy sounds like he’s considering running for congress next.
Don’t give him ideas.
How come witch doctors can’t identify the evil spirits?
I remember the days when the pendulum was the other way…people got committed for being gay, disobedient wives, eccentrics of almost any sort….it was ugly.
Now it is just as bad. We have violent lunatics wandering the streets.
The problem of course is money. Mentally ill people dont have money. The only money to be had is taxpayer money. Invariably the system is either neglecting people who need care or violating the rights of people who dont. It’s fucked up.
♫♪ “Conform or be cast out” ♪♫
I’m OK with most of that.
Late to the show here, JI, but then again I never rush in with my comments…
Funny. I again will repeat. If I call somebody the wrong name on social media I will be fired immediately. I’m not wishing he or she any kind of harm. Simply a word we don’t like.
Meanwhile, NPR is concerned…
People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk
Maybe celebrating murder via social media isn’t conducive to keeping one’s job? I don’t like seeing people being canned for off the job speech but then who’d want to work with those assholes?
Who knew?
I’d love a world where personal and professional were separate. For most that world doesn’t exist.
And if I’m going to be punished for things the left doesn’t like by my employer they can live with the reverse. They are the primary reason why I have that in the first place.
Also they could always relish in his death the old fashioned way via face to face (or phone) conversations with friends and family.
A lot more difficult to be fired for off the job speech that lacks a paper trail
While tit-for-tat cancelling may not be likely to result in everyone saying “Ya know, let’s not do the cancelling thing any more”, its a dead certainty that cancellation by one side only will never end. Why would it? All upside, no downside.
I am against cancelling people. I am also absolutely giving the right a free pass on this one because I think the canceling here is doing two very positive things.
One, it is sending a message, in an entirely morally unambiguous context, that leftist* evil doesn’t get to have its cake and eat it too, if canceling people is ok for one side it is ok for both,
Two, I think it provides an outlet for an unprecedented level of rage that otherwise was about to take us to a place there is no return from.
*See, levels of abstraction! At this level you need the amorphous concept.
Oh, how I laughed:
men vs women survival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO8roISHjJo
from the comments:
***
I saw it a while ago from a channel called Think Before You Sleep. The producers released two piglets on the womens camp. The women not only kept them as pets, named them Sage and Onion, but they also gave them their little bit of food and water, and then left them there on the beach as they waved goodbye to walk to camp. The second time they encountered a different pig, they did hunt it, but it was half dead, fully infected with ticks. The women tried to “salvage” the meat by putting it in a water canister. Obviously, it didn’t work, making everyone sick. Then threw away the water canister instead of sanitizing it, leaving them with one can left and unable to do their filtration system. This made the producers almost throw in the towel to get them medical assistance, and tell them to go get that canister back.
***
the aforementioned video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzCO0G8AGLU
the miracle pigs appear around the 15:55 mark in the second video
I remember watching a Cousteau documentary about Cocos Island and the feral pigs there.
Speaking of actual racism….
Israel blew up all of Gaza, announced they are going annex it, and now they are worried about hostages? Okay.
… and then Mossad hoaxed Black Colleges worried about backlash from the Kirk assassination?
Is Step 3 in this involving underpants gnomes? Because I’m not really following your logic chain here….
Israel provides basically all the food, water and power to Gaza, which is a whopping 365 square miles, 50 square miles smaller than the county I live in, and it is up against the sea. If Israel wants to take Gaza back after 20 years of it being used to launch attacks on their citizens it is odd that their genocide doesn’t include siege tactics, but does include broadcast and autodialed warnings to civilians in advance of attacks.
It’s odd their genocide dosent involve actual genocide.
I saw that on social media and people playing the victim card saying that blacks had nothing to do with this but of course became the target.
I instantly thought hoax.
Guardian running true to form with this headline.
“Stunning” has definitely become overused and in lots of clickbait.
There’s no common ground between the modern left and right. And yes, I’ll keep using the short hand to describe these people with overlapping beliefs and generally shared outlooks on things.
People want to bring the temperature down out of fear, but there needs to be a breaking point where the left learns that they are no longer dominant and need to either accept dissenting voices aren’t all radical loons or there will be consequences.
We’ve gone from unless I recant my views the left wants me fired or in prison to now they want me dead.
Hence they can fuck off with “unity”.
Brochettaward:
I think that lesson for the “left” has begun. Starting with the beat downs and assaults for people disturbing vigils, people getting fired, and learning that they are in the minority with their hatred.
Pretty much this.
You cannot have a rational conversation with increasing numbers of brainwashed people. That kid they assassinated gave it a shot and look what happened to him.
Correct rhy, Kirk was the guy interested in changing minds through dialogue regardless of what you think of his mostly middle of the road stances and they killed him and rejoiced in his death after the fact. Now they get to reap what they’ve sown.
I suspect Trump’s more interested in vengeance than unity right now and as long as he doesn’t get too carried away I’m OK with that for the time being. After all, what happened to Kirk very nearly happened to him.
I’m hearing he might have been instrumental in Trump’s 2nd win which does help explain the left being barely able to conceal its glee at his assassination.
Just more TDS.
Good.
What would Guardian headline have been had Trump called for unity? “Trump demands allegiance to his authoritarian policies?”
Gee, what a surprise. The last time he tried to chart a middle and inclusive course, he was and continues to be wrongly pilloried for it.
What does it say about Chicago, that when I first skimmed this headline I misread Congo as Chicago.
“If it had been Chicago, think how many guns were lost in that boating accident.
” Routh trial gets a taste of Vienna sausages as his selfies are coming back to haunt him ”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/routh-trial-gets-taste-vienna-sausages-it-speeds-along
STIJLTH
The guy is not competent to stand trial much less serve as his own defense FFS.
Item #1: He eats vienna sausages.
Hey hey hey! They’re not that bad.
I ate vienna sausages (or, as Levon Helm playing Loretta Lynn’s father in Coal Miner’s Daughter called them, “viney sausages”) when I was a kid and don’t remember having them since then.
Now I want some, and I didn’t even click through to the article. 🙁
They’re excellent for offshore fishing trips which is the only time I eat them. See also: potted meat.
Vienna or veenah sausages?
I liked them as a kid, but they don’t taste the same to me now. There’s some canned German sausages at Cost Plus which do and scratch that itch when I have a nostalgia hankering.
“Multiple lawmakers this week canceled or postponed outdoor events in the aftermath of a shooting Wednesday that killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and House Speaker Mike Johnson said he is expediting a review of member security….
Democratic Reps. Becca Balint of Vermont, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan have all canceled events recently, including a town hall scheduled for Friday, because of heightened tensions related to Kirk’s death.
Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, who is running for governor, also canceled all of her in-person events for the foreseeable future, claiming she no longer feels safe, USA Today reported.”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/lawmakers-cancel-outdoor-events-light-fatal-charlie-kirk-shooting
Chilling effects
You know, I can’t help but notice that these are all women. Like, now more than ever people on both sides need to nut-up and speak in public places.
Are you entirely certain that Tlaib is a woman? I’ve always suspected she was a Hutt.
(((Jarf, I was just curious whether you happened to be familiar with this particular Cincy BBQ joint. One of the partners really did a number on their business. We’ll see if they survive or if you’re stuck with Montgomery Inn.
I doordashed it once, brisket was dry and their rub was too salty for me. And yeah I saw that one of the owners had decided that getting his hate on was a good plan.
Well gee, it only cost them a major concession venue (the stadium for the local MLS club, which apparently is popular for some inexplicable reason) and their meat supplier. 🙄
Since my niece just became the first member of the family, ever, to get a full athletic scholarship, after being named a first team high school all American as a soccer player, I am forced to moderate my opinions of the sport.
(((Jarflax:
Good for your niece for going to drama school, but are there really that many acting jobs out there for graduates?
(Honestly, the NBA is worse about flopping than soccer at this point.)
Paging Rhywun, Help! All I know about soccer is that it bores me to tears, and my niece is a prodigy at it so I can’t defend it against this vicious attack except by flopping to the ground clutching my knee and looking around for someone to hold up a card. (which seems like a very odd way to say get off the field but what do I know)
“Though the restaurant described him as a “minority owner,” a 2019 article from Northern Kentucky University described how Sharpe began looking for a side business while working as a station manager for WNKU, a Cincinnati radio station. ”
Oh, so he managed an NPR affiliate. Shocking.
Bend It Like Jarflax
Well, about 90% of the average Congressers public appearances are fundraisers, so I’m not really shedding many tears about this.
I cant blame AOC after that close call she had Jan 6…..
various high-altitude stunts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaktoN681UM
These are awesome.
Simone said yesterday about news articles that modern articles don’t provide the pertinent information in the first paragraph; who, what, when, this video is the same; who, where, when, how high.
I recognized Palouse Falls which is in my neighborhood.
covering more than one link: Kirk’s murder has a lot of people showing their colors. I dont t;hink the left is pretending not to be evil anymore. I am curious how they got that idea. As for Louisiana pols….they are pols, i.e. not the best of human beings.
Kill Hamas and their supporters. That is all.
The attempt to smear Kirk: Not gonna work. Like every other left/right position the sides have already been picked.
“…suffered no professional consequences…”
Every problem we have today is obvious and the solutions are obvious. No one wants to fix those problems because things are they way they like.
‘Dont kill Hitler’ might be a rule but I dont see ‘Dont massacre the Frankfurt School’ listed.
The IUPAC story makes me feel like I am going to have a stroke.
The fake ‘active shooter’ calls have been a thing lately. We had one here locally. It is part of the disrupt everything effort. I am not sure why they chose black colleges this time.
Hollywood is full of evil loons? Ya’ dont say.
Kill Hamas and their supporters, we’re gonna need bigger ovens…
NPR printed this with a straight face:
“…a community activist and Smith College professor who researches authoritarian movements…”
Cookie cutter commie. Got it.
“blacklisted for having opinions that the government didn’t like”
The irony is pretty ironic. Where was she for the past ten years?
Ah, here we go:
https://ontherecordnews.ca/calling-in-or-calling-out-loretta-ross-speaks-on-the-transformation-of-cancel-culture/
(I assume this is her)
TLDR: It’s OK when we do it.
Another university professor conflating HUAC and McCarthy despite being separate entities and periods.
Also, both were right about the commies.
They conveniently never get around to admitting that.
McCarthy was right.
Counseling is available to students and employees.
Not this, unfortunately
Or this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcSAQyzPcl0
I will be happy when the word ‘Democracy’ is treated with the contempt it deserves.
“My thoughts & prayers are w/ the family and friends of Charlie Kirk. On an earlier appearance on MSNBC I was asked a question on the environment we are in. I apologize for my tone and words. Let me be clear, I in no way intended for my comments to blame Kirk for this horrendous attack. Let us all come together and condemn violence of any kind,” he wrote on social media Thursday.
“I’m sorry the vast right wing meda conspiracy has sown hate and distrust everywhere.”
His hot take basically amounted to he had it coming and now he’s walking it back after being shitcanned. You aren’t getting your job back anytime soon bud.
Is there anywhere lower to sink than MSNBC?!
democratic underground ?
rhywun:
There’s always Jacobin, Daily Beast, Daily Kos, and the Nation.
In media in general? Salon perhaps.
In TV you may be right.
“Jacobin”
It still boggles my mind that a well-regarded outlet on the left chose that name. At least they wear their inclinations on their sleeve I guess.
Other campuses, including Spelman College in Atlanta and Florida A&M University, did not receive threats, but locked down anyway out of what they said was an abundance of caution.
Of course they did.
Representative Yvette D. Clarke, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the threats “terroristic” in a statement, and said they were a “chilling reminder of the relentless racism and extremism that continues to target and terrorize Black communities in this country.”
Was “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” playing in the background?
The relentless racism sneaks into black communities and infiltrates random young black male brains making them racist. It’s probably (((lasers)))
This has been going on for a while across the country. Now because is happened to black colleges they get to play the race card? Fuckin’ race grifters never quit, do they.
“Who is Charlie Kirk’s murder suspect?
Tyler Robinson 22, has been arrested as a suspect of Charlie Kirk’s murder. He has no criminal history and as per his voter id details, Robinson was a registered voter but was not affiliated with any political party.
He is listed as an “inactive voter” which means that he did not cast a vote in last year’s presidential election, as per Ryan Sullivan, the clerk and auditor for Washington County, Utah, where the suspect lived. Robinson was a member of the Mormon church “at a young age” as per a spokesman of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Charlie Kirk was notably against Mormonism, as per his 8-minute theological debate about Mormonism versus Christianity at the Utah Valley University. He also joked about Mormons and said, “I love how Mormons have more kids than they can afford.”
https://www.soapcentral.com/entertainment/news-is-3d-figurine-charlie-kirk-getting-shot-real-nano-banana-ai-tool-explained-viral-image-sparks-backlash-online
Twas his antiMormonism what done it? The actual motivation behind this is as plain as the nose on my face. Also, people still watch soap operas apparently. Who knew?
I don’t know the motivation myself. Could have just done it for notoriety like the last trans shooter or any other number of mass shooters in general.
People are all attempting to put him in a box to suit their narrative. For my part, I’m just going to say that the left should do some reflecting given how many of their own reacted to it regardless of the reason the shooter acted.
Unless the antifascist stuff written on the bullets was just something to throw the cops off the trail that makes it fairly apparent and his friends and family say he’s left wing and had become more radical in the past couple years (which fits in with the timeline of him going off to college unsurprisingly).
I think it’s pretty cut and dry but we’ll see. The cops are going to be all over the Discord servers he was on and god only knows what they’ll find there.
Do you have a source for the family saying he was left wing? I’ve seen the claims that he was a follow of Fuentes and then there’s the people assuming he was a Republican because his family seems to have been. Which is nonsense. We all have family with different political views.
The messages on the bullets are all over the place. I’ve seen some mental gymnastics to make the anti-fascist message be proof that he was right wing somehow. But the other message on the gays indicates he wasn’t left wing. And then you have the stuff that’s harder to interpret or just nonsense.
Not right offhand. I’ll look around and see if I can find it again.
Huh, maybe the left wing stuff is something I heard but didn’t read or it’s an interpretation I added in my head. It’s still what I think but I can’t find it.
No, it is not something you added in your head. I heard the same thing. His family described him as a leftist who had recently become more radical.
How can a 22 year old be an inactive voter already? Fucking motor voter laws.
WA, CA, and OR politicians love motor voter.
A Utah collage campus was no less dangerous for him than Mecca would have been.
From Sensei’s NPR link above:
Some of Kirk’s rhetoric was incendiary. He questioned the intellectual capabilities of women and black people, said that some gun deaths were worth it to have the Second Amendment, asserted the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a mistake, and cast immigrants and transgender people as threats.
I have seen this boilerplate mud slung almost word for word in other places.
The result of the social media frenzy over commentary about Kirk’s death is that some people who “want to go down that path of debating the things that he stood for are essentially being silenced,” said David Kaye, a law professor of law focusing on international human rights, the internet and free speech at the University of California, Irvine.
Leaving aside that whole “Kirk was actually murdered,
to prevent him from speakingin an inexplicable random act of totally unplanned thrill killing” yes, those people are the true victims here.Dog woke up early and wife is making bran muffins. All I want is to drink coffee and wake up first.
Poured my second press of coffee.
Doing paperwork, new kitten got to spend the night with us. She didn’t wake up until the sprinklers came on at 445
wife is making bran muffins
Winco bakery department makes good oatmeal cookies. I’m eating one now.
Our Winco dosent have a bacery but the Moscow one does and it’s a smaller location.
My belly is better off for that fact even though rosaures needs competition for the donut business as theirs have gone tragically downhill in the last 15 years.
Just sayin’….the shooter is prime age and demographic for the onset of schizophrenia. His behavior, shooting included, also fits the bill. At first I thought the inscriptions were along that line as well but it could also be the in-talk of his online/age/video game group. Of course those are not mutually exclusive. Add to that that leftist thought and ideology fosters and encourages insanity and you have quite a toxic stew.
That is a lot of words to say ‘evil’.
I was thinking that too. Some killers are just scum though: no mental illness necessarily required.
The joy of trying to find a speciality audio cable. I want an 4 pin XLR extension in 3 feet. I don’t want some $100 boutique ultra pure silver coated cable. I just want a well made cable with proper construction and a reasonable sized conductor. It’s for “balanced” headphones meaning the L and R minus are separate.
This is why I keep every cord I have ever owned.
In a box u set a pile of lego dojo cant get to it when i need one.
Odd autocorrect with the ‘dojo’ should have been ‘so’ but that box is under Ninjago City so I’m fine with the autocowreck.