Life continues to happen for people, and some things get missed on occasion.
This is one of those things. Enjoy the open post, and consider this yet another request for more fuel for the fire. If you’ve ever asked, “Would anyone be interested in a piece on [obscure subject]?”, realize that in this place, the answer is, “YES”. If they’re not really interested, at least they’ll comment about something else.
I can First if I want to. I can leave my worries behind.
You’ve obviously left your friends behind, or vice versa.
If they don’t dance, then they’re no friends of mine.
Does anyone venture into Bluesky? I’m morbidly curious how all the TDS pseudolibertarians who were so approving of “jawboning” are reacting to the Kimmel thing.
Not curious enough to expose any of my electronics to that place of course.
I surfed the web and couldn’t find anything, but considering the leftist public reaction I can only imagine the death threats, threats of dismemberment, etc. etc. are being said on that platform.
Not I, said the fly.
Supposedly they had a “guest” search option, but people were using that to call out the lefties so they removed it.
I’ve seen the screengrabs from people who are using it, I’ve seen it described as 2020 Twitter with the purity setting turned up to 11.
Just tune into CNN or MSNBC or one of the network news shows or your local news or a newspaper. The talking points are the same all across the MSM.
I hit https://bsky.app: art, cats, etc. They may be filtering what they show to people who aren’t logged in.
I was specifically referring to all the “libertarians” who flounced off of Twitter because Musk didn’t hate OMB enough.
Pie had an excellent example in Ken White. Who I’m pretty sure was fine with jawboning against Cheeto Hitler and his supporters.
Admittedly, Ken has been a fan of cancel culture since the very beginning and only drew the line at “official government censorship.” Like Randall Munroe.
https://bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/419725132
What a lovely place.
“pro-democracy expert”
Oh, lord.
And Mark Hamill yapping too. *taps out*
I hate when I outsmart myself. While I admit, learning from failure is my general modus opperandi, I just wish I didn’t learn so much some times.
In removing painter’s tape residue from polycarbonate, windex works better than isopropyl.
I wouldn’t know my orphans handle that well enough
I don’t know how well it works on poly, but on book covers at least, Ronsonol lighter fluid works great for removing very old (read: calcified) stickers and residue.
Also, it works for freeing up very fine metrology equipment when gummed up with oils.
That (naptha) was the preferred solvent for removing rosin from varnish.
The left is doubling down on the notion that Antifa is nothing more than an “idea.”
Those purple haired trannies who tried to burn down a federal courthouse for months on end are nothing more than figments of your overactive imagination.
I am so sick of the pure dishonesty here. Antifa is organized loosely for this very purpose. It’s like them saying “Trump is Hitler, Trump is a dictator, Republicans are fascists, a threat to democracy, this is our last election, they are rounding up people randomly on the street, they will put you in a camp” every day for years. Then when someone gets murdered, they say, “Oh well I never told anyone to MURDER someone.”
Motte, meet bailey.
(Bonus: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/19/30/25/1930254af24ae2c11d5092076313f02e.jpg )
What’s gonna stop them from just rebranding as something else?
An idea burned a lot of tangible stuff over the years and cracked a few skulls
Technically they are correct, Antifa groups seem to be loosely organized and not all chapters of one central group. However, given what we’ve learned in the past 6 months, I’d expect they are all getting funding from some Soros foundation or other big donors, and they didn’t bother to cover their trail because they thought they could operate without scrutiny forever.
lol I sort-of accidentally let out a “thank you for your attention to this matter” on a call the other day and got some laughs. I am eternally thankful it didn’t turn into any sort of political discussion – we don’t do that.
“That’s fascism.”
Literally what your team practiced for four years under Joe From Scranton.
That dude is about as much a terrorism expert as my dingleberries.
If AntiFa is just an idea, then so is AQ, because their organizational structure is EXACTLY the same.
Do you call your dingleberries the Red Brigades? Or just the Red Army Faction?
How does this work in other contexts? “We called over to ISIS, but they were all squirrelly about their chain of command so we just let it slide.”
Who do I call to get a pallet of bricks dropped off at an intersection near a protest? Asking for a friend.
I should finish “Judge of Jinwick” and “Badenburg Mystery” or even “Slaves of Baranga”. You guys could use some fiction.
Carryover
At the same time, the deliberate trail of public evidence that this suspect allegedly left behind, specifically with the bullet casings, also echoes a pattern increasingly seen among perpetrators of mass and school shootings. In those cases, the attackers appeared to be fluent in the cultural script that has developed in the U.S. around mass shootings, such the common choice of weaponry, messaging inscribed on firearms and through journals or other written materials, and digital presence. But in those cases, the attackers typically lacked any political or ideological motive, instead striving to be remembered among figures who had committed similar atrocities in the past.
Senters said he worries that the duration of discussion about Robinson, his potential political leanings and a motive, may have illustrated a more potent way for aspirants to this disturbing legacy.
Absolutely not in any way motivated by left wing politics MAGA gamer on line culture edgelord fame seekers will target the political landscape. All our finest thinkers will now have targets on their backs.
You have been warned.
Odette Yousef is such a dishonest hack.
Does she drive a Kia?
Surely no NPR reporter of her status would drive an ICE vehicle.
So she has a Nokia phone?
the common choice of weaponry
Yes, bolt action Mausers everywhere.
Stand With Chicago Hat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Can Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr, or other federal actors, for violating his First Amendment rights by coercing ABC to suspend his show, and maybe eventually to fire him?
To teal deer it, yes, but without an effective remedy.
https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/post/3lz4kpz55xs2v
I say sue
I wonder what this person thought about the Twitter files.
I swear he said that the pressure on Twitter to punt misinformationers was totes legit.
Then again, he also said there was no political bias in the censorship policies of Twitter, Reddit and Facebook, so I guess he’s always been kind of a tard.
Back when people wanted to cosplay as libertarians for some reason…
for some reason – hipsterism
If they even look at him funny?
I think we all know who is to blame
The family of a Black student who was found hanging from a tree on a college campus in Mississippi has retained the civil rights attorney Ben Crump as questions continue to mount around the death.
On Monday, staff at Delta State University found the body of Demartravion “Trey” Reed near campus pickleball courts. Michael Peeler, the Delta State police chief, has said Reed appeared to have died by suicide and that there were no signs of foul play, but concerns have grown and the case has brought up painful memories of the state’s history of racist violence.
While local police and the Mississippi bureau of investigation look into the death, attorneys representing Reed’s family are conducting their own investigation and plan to seek an independent autopsy.
MAGA lynch mob revenge murdered him as payback for Charlie Kirk.
Lynching yourself is true dedication to the hate crime hoax.
Peak Guardian?
Painful memories to… nobody alive?
Generational trauma!
Pickleballers don’t take kindly to people telling them to keep the noise down.
I say sue
The Delta State campus in Cleveland, near the Arkansas state line, is located only about 30 miles (48km) from a site closely associated with the infamous lynching of Emmett Till. A sign at the Tallahatchie River landing near Glendora commemorates the discovery 70 years ago of Till’s mutilated body in the water.
Reed’s case quickly drew attention online, and hearkened back to the Jim Crow era of racial terror and the violent killings of Black people at the hands of white vigilantes in Mississippi and across the US south.
The ghost of MAGAs past.
Ghost of Democrats past.
Because a guy killed himself there? What are you going to do, go dig up his body and lecture him about finding a better place to snuff it?
I have several filler posts submitted for just this, maybe TPTB
Just didnt notice……
Aren’t you more of a late night feature writer?
A science fiction double feature?
It’s just a jump to the left and a step to the right.
Or is that the Overton window? I’m so confused
True but I have few question style things for an open post
The NAACP said in a statement posted online: “While initial reports offered no evidence of ‘foul play’, you’d have to excuse our skepticism amidst growing racially motivated violence targeted at our communities across this nation.
“So while we await more formal autopsy reports and information, we offer this piece of history with a level of certainty: Our people have not historically hung ourselves from trees.”
There weren’t any lions around.
We have limited time to push a narrative before the truth is out …
And in local NJ news…
“Just before 8:30 a.m., Parsippany police received a report of a 155mm artillery shell located on a drain at 707 Route 46, the Holiday Inn.”
Maybe it came to try to sneak into the free breakfast? That’s the new thing on TikTok or so I’ve read…
Oh, that’s Boom Shakalaka.
I called the Secretary of State’s office and asked if there was an incorporated entity called “antifa”. They said no.
There you are. Proof positive there is no such thing as antifa, other than as a figment of your overactive fascist imagination.
I’m going to start saying that “white supremacy is just an idea”. That seems a bit more tenable given that people who actually engage in action for the white supremacist cause are usually very small groups (most of which are probably FBI agents goading one guy into “terrorism”) or lone wolves. White supremacy is generally very poorly organized. There’s not even a central KKK organization anymore; it’s just random groups of people who call themselves that.
This exactly. But that didn’t stop the Biden admin from calling them an existential threat and cracking down. Antifa seems like small groups that don’t have a central leadership structure, but they do fly the same flag and I’ll be they are all getting funding from the same sources.
re: the NPR article,
Did they have that written and scheduled before the texts were released and just forgot to spike it, are they unaware of the texts or are they consciously trying to counter them?
My assumption is they are trying to spread FUD around that. They know they exist and want to muddy the waters.
It’s obvious! the texts were fabricated by Trumpenfuhrer’s toadies!
First amendmen lawsuits always remind me of this
https://youtu.be/PxcYfR2ylaU?si=JnfORJQ07PO3-fG1
New glibfight topic:
Where to you put the stress on “shakalaka?”
everywhere
ka-MA-la
Maybe just ask the man himself?
In front of the “ding dong”
On the ‘Boom’
Evenly on each syllable.
The Muppets should be your pronunciation reference:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GReS_VlSTrQ
I prefer the Opening Credits music on that soundtrack.
Wait, RJ linked some fucked up remix.
Bad RJ, Bad.
That vid has two different pronunciations.
Did they have that written and scheduled before the texts were released and just forgot to spike it, are they unaware of the texts or are they consciously trying to counter them?
But obscure internet memes!
LOL
https://x.com/LivePDDave1/status/1968705071798956477
I’m sure there are dozens of such examples that will come back to bite him in the ass. And I’ll be here, with popcorn.
Fascist fascist fascist
In a statement, Khalil, a Palestinian originally from Syria, accused the Trump administration of using “fascist tactics.”
“It is no surprise that the Trump administration continues to retaliate against me for my exercise of free speech. Their latest attempt, through a kangaroo immigration court, exposes their true colors once again,” Khalil said.
If this is such a fascist shithole, why are you so desperate to stay? rejoin your people and fight the oppressors.
Yeah, you’d think he’d be delighted at a free ride home.
And because it just landed in my youtube recs
Monty Python’s Flying Circus – “Working Class Playwright”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQDeU6dHX-c
Tooongsten carbide drills?!
The leftists are threatening to boycott ABC and Disney as if this is going to punish the right. Oh no…the next woke Marvel or Star Wars project will flop even harder! The humanity!
And Obama is out there calling the right hypocrites for cheering on Kimmel’s firing and claiming cancel culture is being taken to dangerous new heights. As if the Light Bringer ever gave a fuck about cancel culture and didn’t actively egg it on while in office when it was punishing wrong thinkers.
And Kimmel has officially been “released” from his contract. He’s done.
Or fake news…Not fired yet.
I think it is fake news so far. I will not be surprised though. I stand by my comment that his bosses are delighted they have a quick exit ramp for the guy that keeps them out of legal problems with terminating his contract.
I love this so much.
So they’ll have Netflix left?
It’s going to be really funny when they realize how few subscriptions this involves.
Yeah, Obama of all people calling anyone out for stirring divisions is breathtaking even by his own standards of mendacity.
For more than three months earlier this year, Khalil was held in detention in Louisiana after the Trump administration arrested him, invoking a rarely used provision of immigration law that allows the government to deport any noncitizen — even a legal resident — if the secretary of State determines that the person’s continued presence harms U.S. foreign policy interests.
It shocks the conscience.
whycome you bad Americans are not giving Hadi Choopan a visa for Mr Olympia?
Who and what?
<Moderates
Moderate Democrats who gained control of city politics in San Francisco are starting to tear each other apart.
The recall this week of a San Francisco supervisor was the product not of a progressive uprising, but of a schism in the city’s moderate coalition. Voters recalled Joel Engardio, a moderate, by a landslide in a campaign propelled by residents’ outrage over his support for converting a major roadway into a two-mile pedestrian park.
But for the left in San Francisco, a one-time bastion of progressivism, the vote represented the first glimmer of hope in years. More than just Engardio, the fight over development and urban planning here has torn open a rift within the city’s coalition of moderates — between so-called urbanists, who want to build a denser city full of pedestrian spaces, transit and apartment towers, and those who want to preserve suburban neighborhoods and instead focus on fighting crime and homelessness.
Moderate as fuck, y’all.
Because progs are all about fighting crime and homelessness.
LOL do they even listen to themselves?
To be clear, this is considered non-progressive in San Fran?
whycome you bad Americans are not giving Hadi Choopan a visa for Mr Olympia?
Who?
a short iranian with big muscles
Sounds kinda gay.
It’s bodybuilding. It’s men stripping down to their undies, greasing up, and standing on a stage showing their muscles to other men.
But there’s no wrestling involved, so it’s still less gay than jiujitsu…
Wrestling is pretty gay, too
“The moderates didn’t really understand: It’s a district that just wants to be left alone, they’re not interested in an anti-car, open space, environmental agenda,” said David Ho, a veteran consultant and a protegee of the late Chinatown powerbroker Rose Pak. “People are kind of like, ‘Get off my lawn.’”
How far out in left field are these people that the anti-car anti-property anti-freedom urbanist mafia are considered moderates?
I think one side or the other is playing fast and loose with buzzwords.
I know SF politics a bit and believe me, residents in the “suburban” neighborhoods that “just want to be left alone” can be every bit as radical looney-tunes as any other part of town.
The neighborhood in question is the Sunset. Lots of Asians out there and they do tend to be the moderates in SF politics.
a short iranian with big muscles
He sounds like a terrorist.
Jimmy Kimmel is not a comedian. It wasn’t any attempt at humor that got him in trouble.
The most fitting word I’ve heard was that he’s an “activist”.
Comedians linking arms and screaming is just the thing to convince people. Maybe they can wear handmaids costumes while doing it.
That may actually be comical, even if not in the way they intend. So the comedians of today obviously wouldn’t do that.
The “frightened and short-sighted” hate you too, neckless troll.
Could all y’all stop your little internal bitch fest? It doesn’t really add much. Obviously, you’re all free to continue to snark at each other if you want, but it seems sort of useless and tiring.
Pretty sure that Tox was referring to Patton Oswald as the neckless troll.
Yeah. Bro has a neck. I am the only neckless troll here and I was not participating in the conversation.
Unless Bro is actually Patton Oswald?
Nah, even I wouldn’t go that far…
Copy, I apologize.
What is this free speech right to host a late night show and why does only Jimmy Kimmel have it?
“Nobody I know voted for Orange Hitler.”
My favorite Patton Oswalt-related moment
(although [probably] a joke)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_3b4a50ad-ee95-40cc-8f1b-877c14940056.html
“One of the things that it’s clear to note that the working group fully established that we do not have a spending problem in Chicago. We have a revenue challenge in Chicago,” Johnson said.
Translation: We need to find more ways to squeeze money out of the tax cattle.
Chicago is just like France in a way…
My favorite leeches are still the Greeks. They actually held a vote rejecting the EU’s rejection of giving them more money and then cried it was an affront to democracy that it wasn’t honored.
there are plenty leeches to go around
I remember studying the Greek financial crisis in an Econ class. Everyone saw their default coming a mile away and the Greeks still went full steam ahead towards fiscal insolvency.
It’s the same thing in Chicago. Like we all know where this is going to end, but yet the unions would rather kill the city than give up their position.
If we give up our scraps in the name of fiscal responsibility, someone else is just going to eat them instead!
/full steam ahead into the wall
Oh yes. Technically I think the French are going to hit the wall before Chicago. That will be the straw that breaks the Eurozone’s back. And there is no stopping it. It is 100% like the situation in Greece.
France is going to fuck around and be on their sixth republic.
I know I’m going to have my man card taken away, but I was watching Emily in Paris and one of the things the owner complained about was navigating the rules when she was trying to establish a business in Paris. But the French can’t see this as a connection to why their fiscal situation is horrible. They tend to value stability and stasis and eschew growth and risk.
There’s nothing wrong with stability. There’s a local industrial bakery which when maintained properly returns a stable profit. It keeps getting sold because each new set of corporate overlords have an unhealthy worship of growth but the market for baked goods is heavily saturated and there’s no chance in hell this regional bakery could break the barrier to entry to the next tier of the market. Since nothing they do elicits growth, they regard this otherwise profitable venture as a failure and sell it off.
I know I’m going to have my man card taken away, but I was watching Emily in Paris…
You did warn us, but good lord.
You did warn us, but good lord.
This is why we need CBDMCs, so we can just delete the man card digitally without any muss or fuss.
Now what’s Emily in Paris? Never heard of it.
I had to Google that.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Ed, I will assume your wife is watching that while you are checking sports scores, UFC fights, and car repair videos on your phone.
😂🤣
A Netflix show! Well, I can add it as a movie (show) post suggestion from Ed, but it could be years before it hits free streaming.
In Ed’s defense, it’s not like it was Virgin River.
Where do I get my river of virgins?
We have a revenue challenge in Chicago,” Johnson said.
I’m certain they have plenty of checks left.
I regard this as one of the highest forms of art.
The Babylon Bee Is Outraged To Learn Jimmy Kimmel Was Canceled Just For Being MAGA Republican
https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bee-is-outraged-to-learn-jimmy-kimmel-was-canceled-just-for-being-maga-republican
Since nothing they do elicits growth, they regard this otherwise profitable venture as a failure and sell it off.
And the debt load increases every time, making it more likely to go belly up eventually.
On the topic of the abstract idea Antifa:
There has been quite a bit of reporting pushed into my feed on YouTube and X about the organization of left protests. The same people (actual identical person) show up at events across the country and for different causes. They wear yellow vests and police who can speak to the press, even if “press” is just some guy with a cell phone.
They coordinate signage. They are there when busses arrive from hours away.
The same tactics are employed as Antifa moves to riot or to violently attack “fascists” who they dont want presents.
Nancy Rommelman reported on this 5 years ago, talking about the use of umbrellas to block photography and to stop her from asking questions.
Far from Antifa being an idea alone, they are just one piece of a much larger suit of tools used to destabilize Republican leadership by introducing lawlessness. They provoke fights and restrict coverage so they can claim victim status and point to the evil white supremacists. Sometimes they have official government support, as police are told to stand down and allow them to assault and vandalized, but to arrest anyone who tries to stop them.
Then I confess, I know much less about this than I thought. Just like the NGO’s and USAID, there is probably a lot more behind the scenes than we ever imagined.
Criminy… the left has been using all of these same tactics for 100 years or more. Because they work.
I feel truly blessed. Big Mike came to humble Romania amd gave a speech
You were overcharged for the visit.
Flew private. Isnt that bad for Gaia? Probably not if you are one of The Chosen
It seema the most important things in leadership are experience and common sense. Who knew? Probably mindless platitudes as well.
Revealed: Egyptian illegal migrant, 42, who raped woman in Hyde Park while living in the Hilton hotel is a convicted Islamic terrorist
https://x.com/DailyMail/status/1968478258304790804
At some point one might need consider the possibility Egypt is not sending their best
There are some people who need killing.
To be fair, asylum seekers’ claims of “fearing persecution in their home countries” by definition has to include the reason being that they are a convicted, escaped terrorist.
The neighborhood in question is the Sunset. Lots of Asians out there and they do tend to be the moderates in SF politics.
Shutting down a major road and converting it to a “park” is hardly what I’d call the work of “moderates”, which is what is being claimed in the article. I guess Humpty Dumpty edits Politico these days.
*I realize the politically moderate Asians who live in that area are not the “moderate” activists who pushed for the road closure.
Just to clarify, “moderate” in SF can include anything up to and including not wanting to close all the jails, fire all the cops, groom your children in public schools, and so forth.
Creating a boardwalk along the Pacific coast is not a “left/right” issue per se.
I played https://squaredle.com 09/15 (Weekly Subscriber Puzzle):
*133/133 words (+74 bonus words)
📖 In the top 2% by bonus words
There’s currently 3 people on the leader board that found all 150 bonus words.
Dayyyumm!
Then I confess, I know much less about this than I thought. Just like the NGO’s and USAID, there is probably a lot more behind the scenes than we ever imagined.
Brought to you by those wonderful caring folks at institutions like the ford and Rockefeller Foundations.
Sometimes the argument for a wealth or 100% inheritance tax makes sense.
I dunno, I see two possibilities here.
1.) That money goes straight to the government, where it is used against me.
B.) That money goes to NGO and nonprofit government intermediaries, where it is used against me.
Not much of a difference…
JFC – thank god I’m not young.
That’s so fucking stupid I can’t be bothered to try to understand it.
What might happen if a school had a ‘Pick-Me Contest,’ for performative women who pretend interest in typically male pastimes?
So… peacocking? That’s the term, right?
I was going to go with “metrosexual” but let them think they’ve invented something new I guess. 🙄
“A performative male is someone who takes things women and queer people typically like and incorporates them into their aesthetic,” Temple University student Gabby Aikoo told The Temple News. ”But for them, it’s just an aesthetic and not really a lifestyle. If you’re gonna be interested in something, you should be actually interested in it, not just do it outwardly for approval.”
*side-eyes Ed Wuncler*
I won’t say they’ve finally analyzed and picked apart everything, because eventually they’re going to get to our bathroom habits.
Women don’t have the endurance to sit on the can for extended periods of time while reading the news.
Just to clarify, “moderate” in SF can include anything up to and including not wanting to close all the jails, fire all the cops, groom your children in public schools, and so forth.
Creating a boardwalk along the Pacific coast is not a “left/right” issue per se.
Based on that article, a moderate Democrat is anybody not willing to go full Pol Pot.
And that closure isn’t necessarily a right-left issue, but it’s pretty radical, in my estimation. And, of course the next step is high density development.
SF desperately needs more housing. Build, build, build.
Anyway, the neighborhood is not “suburban” in a sense that any American would recognize. Here is a typical view. It is already urban.
“I’m a huge fan of, like, queer spaces … it’s important to me that there are more spaces like this on campus,” Auxmary Valdez, a sophomore at the University of Central Florida, told The Hill.
Everywhere yo go is a queer space. Just remember that.
What an odd thing to say.
Just substitute “leftist” – it makes the gibberish easier to understand.
I was trying at wordplay.
Auxmary?
Wow. Killed by a Warhol. Not what you’d think.
https://www.theautopian.com/man-crushed-and-killed-by-warhol-bmw-m1/
Kinked rusty winch lines always scare the heck out of me.
They should melt that thing down to make a memorial for the dead guy.
Melting down an original BMW M1 qualifies as a crime against humanity.
It’s suffered the taint of corruption when Warhol ruined it. Into the clensing fire.
BMW’s most prized automotive possession: the BMW M1 Procar art car painted by Andy Warhol.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
I do think it’s funny that BMW basically came in the dead of night and took all their automobiles from Lamborghini to complete themselves because they were waiting for them to go bankrupt and have the assets seized.
Melting down an original BMW M1 qualifies as a crime against humanity.
It has tasted blood. Crush it, before it kills again.
SF desperately needs more housing. Build, build, build.
True. My preference is for “allow” as opposed to “mandate”.
Absolutely. Right now they put many roadblocks in the way.
I was trying at wordplay.
I got it.
I didn’t. *whoosh*