Welcome to Hump Day, or Mid-Week Maintenance Sex Day for those of you in long-term relationships where you don’t schedule monthly appointments. I don’t have much patter or chatter today, Sloopy does a pretty good job of sucking all the air out of the day in the morning. We’ll see how this Croatia/England matchup goes. After eliminating the Cravats, I think the English will fall to the French in a way that will disappoint them as much as anything since Joan of Arc’s victories.
“It was Gatlinburg in mid-July/I shat myself ’cause of e. coli./I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a Boy Named Sue” – I believe Shel Silverstein would be okay with this
As a fellow Brett, I am shocked and disappointed at these baseless allegations. I was never a member of a fraternity.
Huh, I always thought fraudulent evangelism was an American phenomenon.
I think everyone here can agree that the cops did a good thing here.
Oh what the hell. We’ll make it easy.
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The URL says it all.
http://thechive.com/2018/07/10/perky-points-vs-massive-mammers/
Archive.is doesn’t seem to wanna work right now, so original URL posted. Will post archive version if it starts working.
I’m gonna hand it to mammers on this one, but I will say that there are several disqualifications due to duck faces, and the few girls who look like they had someone else take the picture get bonus points for not coming off as self-obsessed narcissists with no friends.
When they came for the Bretts, and I said nothing.
When they came for the Chads, I said nothing….
The Chads? Did the incels take power?
Well, there IS 4Chan.
4Chad
Don’t forget the hanging Chad
So Brett is hung like a chad?
I’d think Incels would be more of a Myron. Or a Francis.
Howard
Waldo from the Hot For Teacher video.
Siddown, WALDO!
Or Frito Lay.
Wasn’t it the incels who had “Chad” folders and bitched about the Chads who steal the attention from women rightfully due them?
Incels are like the alt right: A nebulous collection of DANGEROUS EXTREMISTS which number in the dozens.
Ohhhh. Now I get it.
Yes. Chads are sexy sexy men who use their sexual charisma to soak up all the poon. Poon redistribution now, poon redistribution forever!
Gilbert
Did the incels take power?
Funny you say that. I’d thought earlier how much the “frat-boy” comments sounded remarkably like the “Chad” comments from the incels. And it occurred to me, these people really do remind me of the guys I knew in college, or even high school, who had a ginormous chip on their shoulders about the jocks or the frat guys. Honestly, how much of leftist politics isn’t trying to get back at Chad and Brett for boning the Homecoming Queen and having the new car?
Oh yeah, people getting their mad out from high school is an enormous part of left wing politics.
Liberals attack Brett Kavanaugh for ‘frat boy’ name
Totally unfounded.
Until they can produce a picture of him in a polo with the collar standing up.
Certainly, no fraternity has ever had any members named John, Stephen, Clarence, Samuel, or Neil.
I can see Clarence. It’s not exactly a “tough guy” name like Bert, Lance or Julius.
They took our names!!!
I admire how you managed to work a reference to that episode into yet another thread – kudos!
Everybody dance now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Nvfu2zME0
https://youtu.be/S3S_qqhL_4A?t=5m32s
I wonder how many sororities members have been named Ruth, Elena or Sonia (or Maria).
The intertubes tell me there are 135,000 people in the US named Brett. I think the Dems just managed to generate @ 50,000 more votes for Trump 2020.
Because nothing says “salt of the earth” like “Merrick”?
Popular ‘peegasm’ orgasm trick is loved by women – but it’s actually really dangerous
*Kind of NSFW if you work for prudes*
People are now just discovering this? Emptying my bladder when I’m about to explode, feels good, but I wouldn’t call it orgasmic. I guess women get more sensation.
Relief != orgasmic
https://nypost.com/2014/09/22/the-living-hell-of-the-man-who-orgasms-100-times-a-day/
He’s got forearms like Popeye?
Just don’t go full Tycho Brahe.
Have you ever noticed that sexkink stories like these all happen to be in U.K. outlets?
https://totalfratmove.com/tfm-babe-of-the-day-jaimee-from-sacred-heart-university/
Seems remotely related.
Welcome to the cheesecake club. Clothing’s optional but tits aren’t.
https://media.giphy.com/media/bkHvqwM88agHC/giphy.gif
His first name….that’s what they’ve got, his first name.
In the vein of proggies have a sad:
https://ntknetwork.com/anti-trump-protest-at-nato-draws-only-a-couple-dozen/
**EDIT FAIRY FLUTTERS BY**
Edit fairy! That’s “proggy”, not “profile”.
“I think it’s, what went wrong is not the good question to ask,”
What went wrong?
They have much more than his first name. They have vague, unproven assertions that he will kill people and ban birth control, which were written prior to his name being announced and were intended for any of Trump’s nominees.
He’s going to usher in the apocalypse, lead a genocide, and restore this country to a racially pure patriarchy. This is known.
Most Republicans went along with the prior nominees without complaining about the Jewy and Hispanic names.
Yeah, but wise Latina. Seriously, you put 5 white guys, even though one is a prog and one is the inventor of a penaltax, oh yeah, and one uppity porch nigga, the world is definitely going to end.
Speaking of Kavanaugh, the other morning some Bloomberg douche was crowing about how he is a total insider’s insider, which completely invalidates the entirety of trump’s Presidency, or something.
I like Johnny Cash as much as the next Arkansan, but I hate that song.
Is your name Sue? How do you do?
Sabres, sick of losing, hire STEVE SMITH as assistant coach.
The NHL Steve Smith played during one of my favorite Blackhawks eras. He played next to Chelios. They were one hell of a defensive pairing.
I’ll always remember this when I see the name Steve Smith.
That better be the Red Green Show.
Oh, he pulled a Paul Coffey.
Ouch, that sucks.
It will eventually happen to everyone who plays defense. But rarely in the SC playoffs…
In the third period of a tied Game 7, no less.
Eliminated the Oilers in the quest for the 3rd of what might have been 5 Cups in a row.
**Oilers fan sheds single tear
It happened to me last year. I was chasing down a player who had a breakaway. He took a shot, I grabbed the rebound, and tried to clear it into the corner. It bounced off the front part of my sled and into the goal. It broke a tie and we ended up losing. Was not a tournament game though.
On our team we are taught to never, ever pass to the front of your own net. Ever.
Yeah, it’s one of the first things you are taught in mites.
STEVE SMITH will be in charge of disciplining players who fail to perform. And by disciplining I mean….
Well, whatever he does, it can’t hurt. Every game I went to last year was painful.
And by disciplining I mean….
PENILE-TEE BOX
So was Kavanaugh officially DESTROYED by Colbert, or will the left need to break out John Oliver?
Think they will have to bring out Most Punchable Face #2, because that was some weakass shit from Colbert.
This is so serious, they may need to bring Jon Stewart out of retirement. Then Kavanaugh will really get PWNED.
Maybe the ghost of Alan Colms?
Colmes never owned anyone. That’s why he was the House You-Know-What on Fox.
Truly cringeworthy. There were times I actually felt bad for him.
They need for Meyers, Fallon, Kimmel and Bee to pile on and WINNING!
Don’t forget that prick Jim Jefferies.
And Marc Maron.
I like Maron because of Glow.
I don’t even know who that is.
You can keep it that way.
The picture of the baby holding on to the hand is powerful.
OMWC’s tinder profile pic?
I don’t think he’d be holding the finger.
This one?
THIS IS THE LAST TIME I SAY SOMETHING NICE.
I’m starting to like this guy more now.
You’re a fan of broken pictures?
So, the bro at the top with the green cap on backwards…. What the hell is happening to his fingers?
Is that a big gray penis in the upper right?
“We’ll be DAMNED if we’re going to let five MEN—including some frat boy named Brett—strip us of our hard-won bodily autonomy and reproductive rights.”
“As a fellow Brett, I am shocked and disappointed at these baseless allegations. I was never a member of a fraternity.”
Well, looks like you’ll be damned.
Personally, I have never known a Brett who wasn’t an asshole, but I’m giving Brett L and Kavanaugh the benefit of the doubt. You can’t be bad if you’re a Glib and you can’t be bad if you are making snowflakes cry.
Personally, I have never known a Brett who wasn’t an asshole,
Oh, I’m not gonna break that streak.
I have a cousin named Brett who is a thieving piece of shit, so I’ll sign on to this.
Does Jeremy Brett and the guy from Alien count?
Or Roger Moore’s character from the Persuaders or Brett Hull?
George Brett.
Fuck George Brett!!!!!
Sounds like someone’s got some pine-tar in their panties?
George Brett? The guy who shit his pants?
Golden Brett?
He weren’t his daddy.
I know a very nice Brett, although he’s gotten a little spacey since shacking up with a woman 2x his age and joining a hippie ayuhausca (spelling?) cult.
A little?
He’s really not that bad. Still a super sweet guy, but just a wee bit too chill.
The first Brett I ever met was when I was 17. I was playing in a band and the other guitar player knew him. He had a black Les Paul with the ivory inlays on the frets, and when you met him, that was the first thing he’d tell you. He couldn’t play it for shit, but it was a nice guitar.
The 2nd Brett I knew was an IT director and major pompous dickweed. Talk about a totally undeserved attitude. He showed me a website he did, which was average at best and he reminded me of Obama’s arrogance.
No love for the one true Brett.
What’s the ruling on the guy from Poison? He’s not a jerk, he’s lookin’ for nothin’ but a good time.
Rock of Love was ridiculous.
“Favre holds many NFL records, including most career pass completions, most career pass attempts, most career interceptions thrown, most consecutive starts by a player, most times sacked, and most fumbles.”
That’s kind of mixed bag, but he did win a Super Bowl. Micheals also made 6,300 passes — on various women.
Is there a male feminist who isn’t a rape crazed prick?
What even in the fuck is feminist apparel? A pussy hat and red skinny jeans?
What even in the fuck is feminist apparel?
Men’s apparel in short and stocky.
And earth tones. Don’t forget the earth tones.
Does Alan Alda have some skeletons in his closet?
It shouldn’t really be surprising. A guy who has genuine self-respect and genuine respect for you as an equal isn’t going to buy into an ideology that defines himself as an immoral piece of crap and you as infallible by virtue of the fact that you’re different from him. A guy who is willing to toe that particular lion is either someone who is cynically trying to tell you what you want to hear to get something from you or someone with a very serious self-image problem who is going to see the worst possible behaviors as natural to him.
There’s an H&H storyline somewhere in here. Trump changes tone in Merkel meeting after earlier slamming Germany
That doesn’t sound like a change in tone to me. It sounds like classic Trump. Next thing you know he’ll tweet:
“Merkel’s very low IQ, very low IQ, and fat, did I mention fat? SAD!”
From Trump’s memoir due 2025: The Big Book of Deals
“‘What can I say? She gives good head.’ Trump summed up about the meeting.”
All right. Which of you Glibs is this?
He was on his way to a BBQ.
lump charcoal or gtfo
Are you kidding, if it were a Glib, the tank would have been full of yummy prog tears and he would have been 6x the legal limit. Also, there would have been rocket launchers on the rig. Did anyone say anything about rocket launchers? Obviously, not a Glib.
It’s got to be one of the Canadians. I blame Rufus.
I mean, does he even work?
I think he went to the movies today.
Another haz mat driver down. Dang. It’s hard to get those guys.
The World Cup will determine once and for all which nation is the greatest on earth: Mexico or Portugal.
It appears to be Croatia.
Well both are libertopias…
Holds it
Holds it!
HOLDS IT!!!
Peegasm?
^ Actual lol. Made my dog look up at me.
And I was hoping for France and England to start a new hundred years war.
+1415 Crispin’s Day.
War of the Pitches!
I haz a sad that England lost. I wanted the hooligans to burn down the entire place after they took the cup. Make earth a better place, burn down limey town.
They can burn it down just as well after a loss.
Remember Vancouver?
Vancouver did that twice, actually – there was rioting in 1994 when they lost to the Rangers, too.
As a true-blue American, I proudly advertise my utter disinterest in this Commie sport.
It’s actual the sport of British Imperialist Patriarchy but whatever…
I thought that was cricket.
Polo?
Marco!
Polo!
FISH OUTTA WATER!
Both? And Rugby too.
Also fun fact: American Football was very much like soccer until Harvard played McGill in rugby and this lead to American football becoming rugby and later rules changes into the current sport.
Soccer did grow out of those upper class English boarding schools…
Needz moar woodchipper.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-found-dead-trash-compactor-posh-york-city/story?id=56503375
“There is no immediate criminality, the NYPD said, because no one else is seen on the video. “
The Hooligans fail. :woohoo:
The entire Croatian staff look like they’re missing their track suits.
Dat Coach Hair Doe.
I’m sure England will blame Trump.
Baby Trump cursed them.
Does Rufus yearn for James John Edmund Guerin?
His name is my name too.
No, but I’ve always said Manzukic is an animal and Juve has to find a way to hold him.
Mandzukic.
Mandžukić. 😉
You Know Who Else wanted to keep hold of Croatians?
The Ottoman Empire?
The Ustashe?
Mail-order bride agencies?
I like the way this man thinks.
Technically right is the best kind of right.
Yes.
So now she’s a “star”? Why? Because she won a snoozathon primary with something like 5% turnout in a district with a Cook PVI of D+29?
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/396412-new-dem-star-to-rattle-dc-establishment
Oh I get it. It’s because she represents the great Bolshevik hope to our Pravda media. Please keep promoting her as a mainstream Dem my pinko friends. Nothing does more to establish them as a Euro-socialist party like, well, nominating socialists to great fanfare.
The glee with which they are promoting this dimwitted bitch is amusing.
Not surprising though. “Yay, Marx!” sayeth the media.
Will she be the 2020 LP Nominee? With Cynthia Nixon?
Haven’t you heard yet? Hillary’s running. She Guevara and this Nixon chick will wind up in the bottom of the Potomac with concrete shoes if they even think about it.
Or, if they seem like serious contenders to pull votes away, they’ll get free summer homes and quietly go away.
Hillary would prefer that they just commit suicide.
It astonishes me how people throw support and adulation at a politician because they aren’t actually ugly. See, also, the Twink in the North.
Not really if you think about it.
Remember, Washington DC is Hollywood for ugly people. So a semi-handsome person in politics is comparatively like Jessica Alba in “The Lone Gunmen” era. A home run.
The Dems seem particularly prone at the moment to looking for a single “savior” politician rather than building a solid infrastructure throughout the country.
I don’t think this is so: zany New York real estate developers with no government experience who were registered Dems most of their life sounds like a pretty good stretch to me.
I’m not picking sides; I don’t care; I just try to weigh things objectively. At least with the monkey actor, Team Red had more traction.
Fair point. But I think of, say, Kamala Harris who was instantly going to win in 2020
If the subject is all the guys were ever trotted out as potential saviors, I’ll see your Kamala Harris and raise you a Rick Perry; this is a game that can go all night.
As my mammaw would say: enough sin to go around.
As I always say here: a pox on both their houses.
Also a fair point.
Well, Obama-era Dems lost 910 seats in legislatures.
“5% turnout”
even lower
~25,000 primary votes in ~730,000 person district = ~3.4%
i don’t know voters. it might be interesting to see her #s in the general, if they’re lower than previous
The primary is the general in that district.
Yeah,
but her predecessor still had 160,000 voters show up for him in the general.
If she pulls significantly lower numbers, its more evidence that she’s coasting on apathy more than anything. The fact she’s being celebrated by media as rising star, when by any sane-person’s measure, she’s almost accidentally fallen into a congressional seat…. is semi-amusing.
I am fucking sick and tired of feminist hysteria over the patriarchy and misogyny and blah blah blah. Somehow, impotently raging on Facebook and Twitter is supposed to change things when all they really need is a therapist and a ramrod shoved down their spines. Cowboy up, princesses. /random vent
This is why there are no female libertarians…. :-p
“when all they really need is a therapist and a ramrod shoved down their spines”
Not a deep dicking?
TIWTANLW.
I’m not sure they could get one if they wanted one. /meow
PERVERT!
So, not a fan of the mayor of Durham banning Jordan Peterson?
Check this beaut out:
https://twitter.com/ProTemJillianJ/status/1015631703950405637
So now I guess you ban for inclusivity just like you fuck for chastity and bomb for peace?
Get rid of Duke, and Durham is Kampala with minor league baseball.
When I was living in Chapel Hill, Durham had a drive-in porno theater. It was right at the crotch of a fork in the highway, so as you were coming up to the split and had to make a decision on whether to go left or right, there would be a naked woman having sex right in your field of vision. I’m surprised more people didn’t crash there…
You couldn’t buy alcohol most places back then, and definitely not on Sunday anywhere. But they had hard-core sex visible from the public highway. Really strange times.
Relevant.
Good gawd that is one fugly woman. No wonder she mad.
If you click through to the article, there is a hilarious bit from the comments.
The article is basically just a long-form ad-homenim attack consisting of mostly unsubstantiated opinions about Peterson’s views.
Then the comments section has this wonderful rule:
“Comments that include ad hominem attacks will also be removed.”
Brilliant!
The argument I have with my mom the commie is that if she were a real feminist she’d be making things, selling things, creating jobs…………instead of bitching about how third parties who are none of her business behave (this or that company doesn’t XYZ SJW issue). She want to verbally bully her way to the top of the social heap instead of working her way to the top of the economic heap.
You have interesting discussions with your mother.
Mine was along the lines of ‘How nice? I made minestrone and bruschetta.’
Why are you having conversations with Don’s mother?
/narrows gaze. Bites into bruschetta. Spills some.
Bartender shows Dangerfield a picture of his naked wife.
D: who said you could mess around with my wife!?
B: everybody
Dangerfield talking with dentist.
D: I have yellow teeth!
De: Wear a brown neck tie!
My convos with my mother go like this:
Her: “I just don’t think anybody needs to dye their hair purple or teal or whatnot.”
Me: “Don’t look at it.”
Her: …
I don’t think anyone needs to paint their lips or eyeholes funny colors either, but here we are.
I think it was Brigham Young who said, “Even an old barn looks better with a new coat of paint.”
*Off to spend time with Ms Clairol*
Similar. In this case, co-religionists are upset that the church does x, y, and z, promoting the patriarchy, sexualizing and pedestalizing women at the same time, blah blah blah (hello religion since the Garden of Eden), like our men are special sorts of turds.
So, instead of doing as I have politely suggested, which is to tell the priesthood to fuck off when they get out of hand (this works, by the way, especially if you know your doctrine hetter than they do), these women go find a coven and a muff to munch (to own the patriarchy) but they do not leave the church.
Either tell the pristhood/patriarchy to get out of your personal space or you get out of theirs.
/still random
society is one thing; money is another
the priesthood is the oddest overhead anyone has ever taken on; I’d rather have a goat as a confessor than a man who has never married
My bad. Mormon priesthood. Married. Occasionally full of themselves. Mostly just guys trying to hold down a full-time paid job and a part-time unpaid one and raise a family. My only confessor is God.
my bad: I tend to lump all the religious stuff together; I had forgotten you were Mormon
It’s okay. I wouldn’t have expected you to. 🙂 I forgot there are other iterations of priesthood.
Back when Mrs. Tundra and I got married, the Church required pre-game counseling with the priest. Luckily, he was a family friend, so we spent most of the time talking sports and movies. Great guy.
Related: I realize that I hit the jackpot when I married Mr. Mojeaux. I don’t know if it was wisdom or good intuition or divine guidance or luck or good timing or some sort of “privilege”, and that other women are not so fortunate.
Excellent. Although I would throw ‘reasonable expectations’ into the mix, too.
Well, honestly, I wasn’t expecting much of anything. He was a good guy. I’m not too evil. We seemed to be simpatico in a lot of different ways. I decided to ride the ride and see where it went.
I thought very highly of him when I met him. You both did really well, except for that “no drinking” part.
No drinking!? Is that a thing?
I lived with my wife for 7 years before we got married to ensure exactly that.
Thank you, OMWC! We had a wonderful time with you too. Can’t wait till you have to come back around.
Mad Scientist: Yeah, religion strikes again. But it’s probably a good thing in my case because I have an addictive personality. Mr. Mojeaux hasn’t had a drop in twenty years, but he still misses his beer when he’s stressed.
Playa: We just jumped in with both feet. That was 16 years ago. 🙂
The first twenty years are the easiest.
Second wives are awesome.
Good luck!
I think that in general, there’s a dearth of self-described feminists who have been successful in anything resembling the real world.
Successful women are a) too busy for all that bullshit and b) don’t want to be loaded down with all the baggage of “feminist.”
They probably also think, “Hey, I made it this far, so clearly it’s possible for women to actually achieve something if they work hard for it.”
all they really need is a therapist and a ramrod shoved
*winces*
down their spines
Oh, never mind.
STEVE AM BEST THE RAPIST AND HAVE HANDY RAMROD AVAILABLE.
I’m not even sure STEVE SMITH could help at this point.
STEVE DEFINITELY NOT HERE TO HELP.
I am not happy that you feel like you have to hold back.
I am very reserved.
In a stunning revelation, Mueller admits there’s absolutely no link between the case against Paul Manafort and any supposed “collusion” between Trump and Russia.
I know, I can’t believe it either!
Someone should forward this to Bill Maher. Fool.
It’s actually funnier.
As far as the alleged crime during Manafort’s time working for the Trump campaign, the allegation seems to be that he victimized Trump by asking them to give an appointment to someone who didn’t necessarily merit it, but had given Manafort a loan as a quid-pro-quo.
I’m guessing he’ll be pardoned by Trump somewhere down the line?
I swear, I’d laugh and laugh if Trump started pre-emptively pardoning everyone being investigated by Mueller.
Probably the only thing stopping him is, I don’t think you can actually pardon someone before they have been convicted of something. Not sure, though.
Has he been sentenced? I don’t follow it close enough because retarded.
Nixon?
Sure you can. Ford pardoned Nixon.
I’ve heard that also, so it must be true.
I don’t think you can actually pardon someone before they have been convicted of something.
Sure you can. Ford pardoned Nixon.
And didn’t Carter pardon all the draft dodgers?
Mueller already has this handled. He has friendly democrat State Attorneys General lined up to prosecute anyone that Trump has the temerity to pardon.
They are all-in. They are going to have their pound of flesh, no matter what.
Going after Scooter Libby on a nothing scandal when they already knew he wasn’t the leak is small potatoes next to these guys.
Umm is Mueller allowed to just indict anyone for anything? I thought a special counsel was only supposed to investigate the things he was appointed to investigate.
Look, how do you expect him and his army of democrat donors to keep that sweet gig going? They knew before this started that there is no Russia collusion or Russia anything. They actually caught that guy with Gumby as his GF saying that there is no ‘there’, there.
The charter was poorly written for Mueller by Rosenstein.
Open ended.
“I know, I can’t believe it either!”
Look, Mueller is just playing 43D chess, he’s got Trump now and everyone knows it! Cheeto is done this time! /progtard
Homeless Florida man with no arms charged with stabbing…
https://www.wishtv.com/national/homeless-florida-man-with-no-arms-charged-with-stabbing-tourist/1296720291
“You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what’s coming to you! I’ll bite your legs off!”
The Always-Prescient Heath Ledger.
Might fine piece of judging Lou.
The TSA will soon get themselves the right to wear shooting irons and be able to take care of the problem of too many people flying with their dogs.
Behold the minds of our judiciary: you can’t sue police officers because they have “qualified” immunity and you can’t sue other government employees because they’re not police officers. Why, it’s almost like FYTW is a real law.
Beer heaven
To stick with the beer thread Paste blind tasted 324 IPA’s and ranked the. And I’m fairly certain that Beer Heaven is the GABF, which I hope to attend this year.
Goddammit I fucking hate this job. Staff work is everything I was afraid it would be. I can’t wait to cut ties with this bullshit and hopefully never work for anyone else but myself again. Fuck.
And fuck those hypocritical assholes piling on about a name. They really are superficial. They’d immediately jump to the support of anyone named Mohammed, Jose, or Daquan, but because it’s some white guy with a common name it’s fair game. Time for another round of “Replace the Race,” where we change the contestant’s skin color and decide whether or not the insults being hurled at him/her make the insulter racist.
And another thing! To whomever did the coffee article a while back and recommended the burr grinder, thank you. You’ve changed my life. That, coupled with amazing beans (Black Rifle Coffee Company if anyone cares. Very pro-2A), has turned my mornings upside down in a very good way.
That would be Florida Man, with spaces, not FloridaMan, no spaces. Different commentors.
Exhibit # 377383738274678787485884847 of how our governor is an idiot:
Cuomo says he’ll sue if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
First the governor wouldn’t have standing, although a politically friendly judge could be found to rationalize that. More importantly, who the hell is he going to sue?
The UN?
You know it and he knows it. But he also knows that 90% of his constituents don’t know it, so it’s an empty promise that will play well with many of them.
Not like he’s going to have anything to sue over. Like Mad Scientist said, it’s a great way to play to his base.
I love that show.
Has anyone at the federal level even mentioned making abortion illegal as a matter of policy?
I’m pro-choice and pro defunding Planned Parenthood (with taxpayer money). But I only see leftists screeching that abortions are going to be outlawed tomorrow, but I have yet to hear anyone say that’s on the SCOTUS docket.
Immigration isn’t working, economy isn’t working, foreign policy isn’t working, next on the list is abortion rights to gin up outrage.
So you have around 30 states that have told the FedGov “fuck you” over marijuana usage. Why wouldn’t Cuomo, after working everyone into a lather over possible illegal abortions (at the Federal level) just say, “we wont have that in MY state! New York shall remain a pillar of infanticide!”
You’re attempting to apply logic. Their arguments aren’t based on logic. There based on using whatever means necessarly to keep power including outright lying.
“pillars of infanticide!” good name for a death metal group,
and BEER! https://youtube.com/watch?v=O-jOEAufDQ4
Can the Lead Sanger do a good death growl?
It’s been the same refrain for every Team Red pick. It’s reflexive and has never worked.
So of course, this completely obscures any legitimate reasons for opposing nominees (like utter disregard of 4A and 5A). Having an intelligent opposition is a good thing. I can hardly wait until Team Red and/or Team Blue ever have one.
I’m still trying to figure out why they act like the entire world is hanging in the balance when it comes to abortion.
I don’t favor banning abortion, but let’s face it: not all political issues are equally important. Gun rights, free speech, and economics are all more serious issues than abortion, just to name a few.
In the unfortunate case that abortion were banned completely, what would the world be like? Well, women would still be able to use birth control, make the guy put on a condom, or simply abstain from vaginal intercourse. Granted, there would still be the cases where a woman is raped and unable to abort the fetus. But I’m sure it would be quite easy to abort fetuses illegally and secretly, much like they did for most of history.
Let me just repeat, this is not a situation I want; this does not mean that I’m OK with banning abortion. But I get irked when Leftists act like a ban on abortion would turn the USA into the Handmaid’s Tale or something.
Overturning Roe v. Wade wouldn’t ban abortion anyway. It would just kick it back to the various states.
But then all of the Deplorables in Kansas that they really don’t give a shit about would be inconvenienced so outrage.
It’s nothing more than a scare tactic. It’s all they have.
I don’t think there is a good argument for the SCOTUS to make abortion illegal, only a half-assed convoluted argument that the states can’t make it illegal.
Notice in the last 45 years or whatever, neither the Democrats or Republicans tried passing legislation one way or the other.
It is an easy argument if they want to declare a beginning to personhood. If a person’s rights begin at birth, then you are right. But if they begin at some point before then, it is pretty trivial to rule Abortion illegal after that point.
But then I realized that you meant to say SCOTUS making abortion legal by federal court mandate.
In which case it is a tougher argument. But after reaching step one – that a fetus does not have legal status or rights – getting to “the state has no power to restrict a woman’s healthcare choices” would be pretty easy too. Except we are way, way past that point with the regulatory state. Nobody on the left seems to want the state to be less intrusive in healthcare. Hell, they even decide if my doctor’s office can open a second location, or order a high-resolution CAT scan machine. And they can require a prescription for “medical devices” like catheters. (I’ll never understand restrictions on owning a molded piece of plastic, whether that be a syringe, a mesh stint or a sex toy…. or a 30 round magazine)
I could easily make a libertarian case for either side of the abortion debate, depending on the base assumption about human life. But I can’t make a coherent case for the left at all.
They’re going to run on free abortions for everyone, raising taxes, amnesty for all illegal aliens, and socialism. Good luck with that, dummies.
Relevant.
Miniature American flags for others!
I think there was something about gutting the Second Amendment, too.
Oh, yeah, and free worthless college degrees for all and shitty rationed healthcare that only cost everyone 50% of their income. Brilliant.
I don’t think there’s any Amendment in the Bill of Rights they’re still okay with.
First: Hate speech
Second: Gun control
Third: Natural disasters
Fourth: Neo-nazis, white supremacists, racists, fascists, etc.
Fifth: Ditto
Sixth: Sexual assault epidemic
Seventh: Municipal code violations
Eighth: Bikelocks
Ninth: Anything except abortion
Tenth: Anything not done by a Democrat
To be fair, the Eighth Amendment one is a bit of a stretch. Unpersoning and deplatforming are much more common, but they’re more a First Amendment violation.
Well, acts not in the spirit of the First Amendment, anyway.
“leftists screeching that abortions are going to be outlawed”
Has happened every Presidential election and Supreme Court pick since Roe v Wade decided. You would think people would stop listening the the xer that cried wolf for 50 years but I would expect them to keep trotting it out for the next 50 years as well. The media of course have helped keep that red herring alive for so long.
“But I only see leftists screeching that abortions are going to be outlawed tomorrow”
Well, let us contemplate other things leftists have said.
We should all be dead now from climate change
If Trump is elected, we’re all going to die in a nuclear war, right after he starts rounding up poor people, women, and POC, and putting them in camps.
I could go on, but you just cannot take them seriously.
I always wonder how overturning Roe plays out. So now it’s up to the states, deep red states outlaw abortion blue states carry on with the status quo. Are the red staters satisfied that the abortions aren’t happening in their state? I imagine the libs would be happy that they can abort at will in their states and hell, how hard is it to drive from a red state to a blue state? Can the Red state make it illegal to travel to a blue state for abortionative purposes? and why should the State be the final deciderer, what if a county in a no abortion state wants abortions, what if a township in that county wants no abortions, and a neighborhood in that ctownship wants them? Makes my head hurt.
Can the Red state make it illegal to travel to a blue state for abortionative purposes?
No
State laws trump trump local laws often explicitly.
Mann Act.
Duh.
Patriarchy!
I can see someone making a play for the “rights of the unborn” under the guise of “equal protection”, in the vein of homos marrying. But as CP pointed out, over the nearly 5 decades of Roe, nobody has forced the issue.
It’s not going to happen. The Supreme Court doesn’t want to go there. Probably just as well. Abortion prohibition will go about as well as drug prohibition.
Well, at least the WoD has provided all sorts of solid, mostly union, jobs!
Why do you want so many people unemployed?
Won’t someone think of the brain sucking device union?
“Well, at least the WoD has provided all sorts of solid, mostly union, jobs!”
And at times, large cash bonuses that don’t need reporting on tax returns!
They have. 3rd Circuit essentially granted ‘sovereign immunity’ to TSA workers.
The gerrymandering and electoral balance have never been this well suited to force the issue, especially if the influx of Latin Catholics line up with the religious right; I think the cards line up for a perfect storm (someone please save that metaphor from itself).
The other question is: is it wise to mess with the status quo? Abortions are down and state-level impediments have never been more effective, so what does team blue have to gain? No need waking up the suburban soccer moms to the possibility that voting straight blue might not be in their best interests.
I don’t think it’s murder; I think it’s a private affair, but a lot of very good people disagree…..maybe it’s merely private murder. But this is the best issue for highlighting the arguments for an ancap utopia: how to escape of the orbit of the socon, even the libertarian ones, who are ready to tell me what to do at the doctor’s office.
I don’t see Roe vs Wade being overturned. In fact, I don’t see the court changing too much at all. With Kennedy gone, either penaltax or Kavanaugh, probably randomly taking turns, will be the swing vote. In fact, I think Roberts will make a play to be exactly that. The only way the court changes significantly is if Ginsburg keels over and Trump nominates and gets confirmed a true shitlord.
RBG keels over and Trump gets 3 SCOTUS picks?
*swoon*
A guy can dream, can’t he?
Well she has to make it at least 6 years:) The next president after Trump could be a full bore conservative, so she might want to get out while these vanilla replacements are being made.
Worse, it could be the libertarian version of Trump. Yes, the world will end, but damn will it be fun getting there.
What do you think he’s saving Judge Amy for?
This law was designed for that purpose.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2018/05/01/roe-v-wade-fetal-heartbeat-lawsuit-supreme-court-iowa-republican/442359002/
This part here is where I start saying no. Are they happy that they’ve banned effective guns in their states? Are they happy about expansive welfare benefits in their states? Are they happy with the state of gay marriage in their states? Look at the bakery fights, and the blame placed on Indiana.
In all fairness, a lot of things can be blamed on Indiana.
There was a brewery in Indianapolis I want to hate, if for no other reason then selling 8 oz pints, and 16 oz to go glass BOTTLES (but the 32 oz to go bottles were disposable plastic). Unfortunately, their beer was solid, so I can’t build up too much hate.
I will forever hate the kick started electric scooters, unless they make me fabulously wealthy somehow.
Hoosiers, to start with.
Republicans couldn’t even get Planned Parenthood defunded after catching them talking about making money selling fetal body parts, so I’m pretty sure they’re not going to suddenly find the balls to Federally outlaw abortion.
There are murmurs of excitement in the team read pro-life circles, but I’m more skeptical that they’re gonna make any real progress to outlaw it, despite my full on support for redacting Roe wholecloth.
“Cuomo says he’ll sue if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade”
The thing is, leftists now think you can sue anyone over anything you don’t agree with. Hopefully they will soon run out of other people’s money to file useless lawsuits.
All of the talk of suing just makes me think of this.
I thought of this.
That literally makes no sense. Who the heck is he going to sue? And in what court?
I’ll be damned if I’m clicking on any frat boy links!
Frat Boys
+1 Prince Markie Dee
With the Fat Boys you need to feel it. Can you feel it ?
Frat Boys
Lol.
Sriracha scauce and Qauaalude punch, nummy! Although I do have to say that Sriracha is overrated, I would have have went with Cayenne pepper sauce.
I like Sriracha on Asian food – I think it’s weirdly out of place on anything else.
Sriracha is universally excellent. You live in Baltimore.
Case closed.
Flavor wise, it actually sucks compared to cayenne sauce like Louisiana.
Bal. Ti. More.
Most Louisiana cayenne sauce is one-dimensional and blah. A huge exception was the amazing Ortego Sauce, made by the late Alan Ortego. You would find it on the table at K-Paul’s and could buy it from the Ville Platte auto parts store.
Somehow, I think I should have expected something like that.
Fuck trees, bitch, cock and squeeze! I love it.
The Twink of the North!
Who needs the US protection?, we have Dudley Do-Right and… and hockey! And even Rocky and Bullwinkle are getting behind this!
“…Trump set the tone for what is expected to be one of the most acrimonious conferences in NATO’s 69-year history.”
Acrimonious to whom?
Grifters and freeloaders?
Ive seen the pants-shitting happening at military towns over BRAC closures. Just wait till Angela gets a taste of no US military in germany.
Merkel is a fucking idiot. Her and her idiot coalition basically killed their energy production with silly green hysteria and so are now going to be dependent on Russian oil. Mercedes are now saying they’re going to kill the internal combustion engine, basically saying they don’t want to sell cars to Americans or most of the world. They want to partner up with China and get all of their technology stolen. They’ve imported millions of 3rd world peasants who will not lean the language or work. Is there anything they can do to destroy beer and kinky sex? I’m sure they are working on it.
+1 Scheiße-pr0n
ich lachte
So Germany wants to go the way of England… Tragic.
In addition to the misfortune of some once-great societies committing suicide, there’s the fact that some people will be driven right into the arms of these racist-nationalist asswipes (ya know, the actual neo-Nazi extremists).
When you excommunicate anyone who suggests that European nations should look after their own interests first, don’t be surprised when they join up with other banished groups just to have a voice.
Well, and when you have disenfranchised people and a shitty economy, you need a strong leader to unite them, amirite?
And ex-Chancellor Schröder is on the board of Russian energy company Rosneft.
Wait, Canadas in NATO? Why aren’t sitting at the childrens table?
Ooo, that’s cold.
The Twink of the North says, “FUCK NATO!”.
Florida Man for the win:
https://www.news4jax.com/news/jacksonville-man-fights-off-home-invader-armed-with-rifle
“I gouged him in his eyes until I felt his brain”
Well done Beast.
“I sat on him and gouged him in his eyes until the cops got here. I was beating him with his own gun until the police got here,” said Golden.
FloridaMan, already high on meth, gets broken in on by other FloridaMan who was high on bath-salts. Film at 11.
Your Future Reptilian Overlords are most pleased with the ratings generated by Florida Mammals.
It’s a fair cop.
Country Drugs minus the o, r, y and d.
+1 flying carpet
Did it open up your eyes?
Our instructor is reading from the International Building Code. Like, reading straight text. As a break from Power Point.
He could have at least switched to the Uniform Fire Code, just to change things up a bit.
Title 24, just to Fuck with your head………
NFPA would have you on the edge of your chair.
I wont even get into 40 CFR, Part 60, Appendix A…..
May I interest you in what SP has posted in post 32?
I was once so bored as a student intern I started reading the CA criminal code. But I created a list of all the code sections Batman breaks so it wasn’t totally a waste of time!
There’s some fun stuff really – like the provision against adding a rocket to your car. Apropos of today’s Antifa Unmasking bill, CA also already has a provision about masking in public for the purposes of evading police identification.
“evading police identification”
That’s constructive: every mask is de facto evasion; now into the paddy wagon with the lot of ye.
Once I took my son on a tour of the western campaign’s battlefields and swung into Brice’s Crossroad (AKA ToadSuck, MS) while observing a roadblock keenly set on a creek bridge a furlong down from the park entrance. Here they come: sheriff, state drug cops, and park ranger who was just over there drinking coffee and other official business. They insisted I was evading their roadblock; answer: that’s constructive….everyone who goes to this park is therefore a probable suspect; I call bullshit. After a couple of minutes running my DL ( okay, I guess you did see my driving ), am I free to go? Grudgingly yes, citizen.
God they wanted to see something throw a window or for me to say something or move furtively.
through
My town has a law whereby the police have to post a notice in a public newspaper when they’re going to do a sobriety checkpoint, and legally they have to set up in a place where there’s a viable alternative route for drivers to avoid the roadblock. So they’ll put the ad in the inside of The Capital (because that means very few people are likely to actually see it, btw) and they’ll post up on the main drag from downtown to the highway. Basically, if you’re a local to the city proper you’ll probably not even see the roadblock, and if you know ahead of time it’s because you know someone in the city PD or because you read it in a Facebook group message. I swear to God, I believe they’re designed to shake down tourists and white trash from the surrounding area.
That’s federal case law now.
I would have assumed that the rocket law was in the vehicle code.
Brew Rebellion Ne Dry Hopped DIPA 9.8% abv, Thic itrus is strong in this one, but knocks the Hops back where they belong
https://photos.app.goo.gl/69b21T5mjX5hbwYRA
The Citrus is Strong,…….
I;m drinking vodka mixed with grapefruit & OJ.
Um, orange juice, not the RB from the Bills who stabbed his ex-wife. Although that would be interesting.
say “running through the airport like OJ” around millennials sometime for max cornfuzzlement
I was born in ’87, and I remember us inventing some kind of playground chasing game which we called “OJ Simpson”. Then we got in trouble because some kid who was playing the part of OJ ran into a pole and got a concussion.
So on the drive home from work today I saw a truck with an interesting bumper-sticker combo: they had both a “Molon Labe” sticker and a “Settlers of Catan” sticker. Gun enthusiast + board game enthusiast is not a combination you see often among the bumper-sticker crowd.
If it had a “Who Is John Galt?” bumper sticker it’s a guy I knew in college that brought me to Reason, and thus, libertarianism, back in the day.