Day 5 and I’m still horribly stuffed up and drug reliant, but slept through the night.
Today in Birthdays we have 1st US Chief Justice, John Jay and Crooner Frank Sinatra.
ISIS terror attack in Strasbourg. Media claims that the US is downplaying a rise in ISIS activity.
Huawei executive posts $7.4 million in bail and gives up passports ahead of extradition to the US for alleged Iran sanction violations.
Pelosi near making deal with Democrats for party leadership term limits, a huge sacrifice for such a young vibrant woman.
The Daily Caller doing some decent trolling.
And now the fun begins as the truth starts to trickle out.
Well, no shit. That would be a disaster.
This is one of those situations where both the right and the left see what they want to see and both declare a win. What a time to be alive.
That’s all I got for now, here’s a song to start your day off right.
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519 responses to “Wednesday Morning Links”
ISIS terror attack in Strasbourg. Media claims that the US is downplaying a rise in ISIS activity. – this was clearly a setup to mace Micron look bad
I am unsure of why these people think that anything had to be set up to make Macron look bad. He is doing a great job of it himself.
To my shame for the first seconds when I heard the news I though hmm terror attack in Belgium.
Mace Micron would be an excellent screen name.
And now the fun begins as the truth starts to trickle out.
If you’re stupid enough to go in there without a lawyer, you’re too stupid to be allowed out in public, or to handle scissors.
Letting any arm of the supposed legal machine of this country “question’ you without a lawyer IMO shows a sever lack of understanding how corrupt said machine is.
If I ever come as a tourist in the States I will need the number of a lawyer just in case
You’ll need to know where you plan to travel and what crimes you may commit ahead of time.
You want Swiss. “Here’s my attorney. He has killed many people. Direct your questions to him, and good luck.”
Yanno, if Switzy was actually a criminal lawyer…
I have dozens and dozens of lawyers amongst my frat bretheren. I know them far too well to actually trust them with anything more serious than a paternity suit or DUI.
I was an assistant State’s Attorney for 5 years. I still know a fair bit of Criminal Law.
So, your retainer fee would need to be enough to:
1. Fly out to bumfuckistan to meet with the local po-po
2. Tell me to STFU and wait for the cavalry
3. Research and find a lawyer licensed in that jurisdiction, specialized in the appropriate field, and better than averagely competent.
4. File the necessary paperwork to transfer
liabilityresponsibility for me.5. Pay for booze.
6. Time and trouble.
I have a feeling that adds up to a non-trivial sum.
Who said anything about a fee?
Sometimes you just want to stick it to the Man.
Let me guess, you were sentenced to provide a certain number of pro bono hours as community service.
That can be arranged.
The number of lawyers commenting here is amazing. I’m sure you’d be fine, at least
on the lawyer front.
Bingo. Never speak to the FBI. Ever. Under any circumstances. They can talk to your lawyer. They are probably just fishing anyway. Hand them a fishing pole with your lawyer’s card taped to it.
I wonder if this works for a guy who’s wife is in the FBI during an argument
Never speak to anyone in law enforcement, ever, not just the FBI, other than something like this:
“I do not wish to answer any questions, and I do not consent to any searches.”
Then shut up and get a lawyer.
Huawei executive posts $7.4 million in bail and gives up passports ahead of extradition to the US for alleged Iran sanction violations. – I did not follow this and find it strange. I do not see how a Chinese company violating US sanctions give the US any power to arrest those people outside the US
Because FYTW. C’mon, we all know this by now.
#metoo
This whole thing is bizarre. I feel like there’s something far more to do.
Yea – it’s weird. Unless her firm was shipping stuff from the U.S. to Iran, I don’t get it. I would not want to be a Canadian or American Executive visiting China right now.
An old fart gave me this advice before travelling to China for business: “Never, ever give up your passport.”
Apparently he fell for that once. The company we were contracting for asked for his passport and visa “to make a copy”. They refused to give it back until they were satisfied with the job. It meant an extra, unplanned week in China for him.
I have read some stories out there that this was done to undermine Trump’s negotiations with China – he was supposedly in a meeting with Xi when they nabbed this guy – by the deep state and that it is playing out to be a shitshow.
“Guy”?
Nice try, RussiaBot Tulpaov.
Exactly my thought. What jurisdiction does the US have over a non-citizen who wasn’t in the US at the time of arrest?
The Chinese should be pissed.
They would if they weren’t arbitrarily imprisoning people themselves. No good guys in this spat.
Exactly!
Well, just ask Assange about that.
She needs to hire an Eskimo guide to take her across the Bering Strait. I doubt the Russians would extradite her.
Flynn says FBI pushed him not to have lawyer present during interview
Why in the fuck would anyone agree to that?
That’s when my brain would sound the red alert and I would literally run to my lawyer’s office.
I’m guessing Flynn was foolish enough to believe he was one of the elite on a par with Hillary and would therefore get the same deferential treatment.
I suspect he was told that lawyering up was an admission of guilt, and that if he did, they would go down on him real hard, but if he just cooperated, there would not be much trouble for him. Ad Drake points out: that should have immediately set off his alarms and resulted on him demanding a lawyer.
This ^^
They’ll say and do anything to get you in the room alone with them. “oh, you’re just a witness”, “oh, we just need to clear a few things up, it’ll only take a few minutes”, “you wouldn’t want to make things difficult, were all on the same side here”, “it would look awfully suspicious if you were the only one to lawyer up”
All you do is say “I would like to have my lawyer present before I answer any questions” and then shut the hell up.
Well, the fucked up thing was that as NSA, he would have to have a working relationship with those people. So the old soldier probably didn’t think his co-workers would jam a knife in his back like that. He was naive.
^So much this. But hopefully all the other feds will take note of this and realize that being part of the state, deep or otherwise, does not protect you when the state wants something.
Why in the fuck would anyone agree to that?
Perhaps by “pushed” they mean “threatened with additional charges”. But I’d still get a lawyer.
“Flynn says FBI pushed him not to have lawyer present during interview”
Why do so many allegedly smart people turn out to be so damn stupid? There are plenty of Sterno drinking hobos out there with the presence of mind to insist on a lawyer.
There are still a lot of people that really believe that if they lawyer up they are implicitly admitting guilt, so they are easily cowed out of that. Considering what we know of the machine this is a real stupid move to make period.
Yup. I was one of those people until not all that long ago. It’s a common mindset.
Because Flynn is not a corrupt piece of shit like Hillary and is obviously too trusting in his government. Guess he learned his lesson.
“Flynn says FBI pushed him not to have lawyer present during interview”
And why would you listen to the people who are trying to ruin you?
I’m down to 1 NyQuil a night. Otherwise I’m too stuffy to sleep. The problem with that stuff is I wake up immediately when it wears off at 4:30 am.
I never understood this getting the flu stuff. People do it in Romania as well. Seems terribly inconvenient
It’s roughly equivalent to when you start growing mold on your crust when you’re not eaten quickly enough.
My family has insanely strong immune systems (and no allergies to go with it, not even to poison ivy). I’ll get maybe a cold a year. My brother-in-law has bitched about how it means we have no sympathy for people when they get sick. We laugh at him and tell him to suck it up.
I do not think I had a flu or even serious cold in the last 15 years. I used to get sore throat often as a kid but not that much recently.
I did have two nights of high fever two years ago without any other symptom and have no idea why
Ebola. Quarantine all of Romania. Now.
Obviously it is Sanguinare Vampiris
A bottle of NyQuil bottle a night seems a bit much.
I’m doing the tablets.
And washing them down with bourbon?
Is there any other way?
I prefer Methquil:
The nighttime sniffling, sneezing, gums bleeding, bathroom stall puking so you can get arrested medicine.
A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do to get himself some of that sweet meth ho booty, right Straff?
Meth booty = bag of antlers
Truth. *shudders*
I’m lying. Don’t even know what it is. The meth epidemic hit well after I was gone. “Meth” sounds so much nicer than “crack”.
You’ve never had Adderall? It’s pretty much the same stuff and it’s good for a runny nose too.
I use my sleeve when I have a runny nose. 70’s kid FTW.
+1 Catholic school uniform with crusty right sleeve.
In Japan?
For whatever reason the Japanese overreact to amphetamines the way the US overreacts to opiates.
Honestly, most OTC cold medication in the US has enough pseudoephedrine to make you a lawbreaker. I’ve no idea if they honestly lock you in a room over it or just simply take it.
But Carlos Ghosn can explain how they have the ability to just simply legally lock you up for an extended period of time. So I make sure to check all the toiletries!
I read an article about him the other day. He told his lawyers to bring him Thrillers (as in novels) because he was bored. Also, the Yomiuri had an article yesterday telling us what a dickhead he is: He’d show up to meetings 30 minutes late and ignore underlings. Pure hit job.
For sure. Ghosn was set up.
OTH, Takata – the airbag people – literally, knowingly killed people. I’m not aware of any executives there locked up.
You must have been getting really shitty meth.
“all good meth is cut 50/50 with draino!”
The “It wakes you up so you don’t have to sleep” medicine.
Day 5 and I’m still horribly stuffed up and drug reliant, but slept through the night.
Here’s to drugs!! Too bad we have to bug the pharmacist to get real Sudafed these days.
I’ve felt like crap since Saturday. Probably the same bug that caused our ER trip for the kiddo last week. Sore throat, head and chest congestion, fever, and upset stomach… I have eaten a handful of saltines and one chick-fil-a sandwich since sunday night. Appetite still isn’t back even though the symptoms are receding.
Too many sick people in this comment section. *Grabs mask*
Also a good reminder that winter sucks.
I think I’ve just about beaten my annual bout of vertigo. I don’t know why it usually hits me this time of year.
Get well soon.
I remember walking through the medieval streets of Strasbourg in 2008. Such a beautiful place. Touristy, yes, but touristy spots are usually so for a very good reason.
After meandering and just heading down alleyways, I turned a corner and was confronted by the cathedral.
Gothic architecture is the best architecture. That place was literally jaw-dropping.
Could have done some good getting some MEPs rather than innocent people
Yeah, it may well be the most beautiful city in France.
You know who else walked the streets of Strasbourg and saw the cathedral…
John Calvin?
Jon Bon Jovi?
They have laws against open carry for loaded six strings over there.
Lawrence Welk?
Wunnerful, wunnerful!
I get it! Of course I was born in Linton.
Laurence Faller?
French Marty Robbins?
I don’t understand the quotes around “terror”, “Islamist”, and “a threat to the state”.
Reading the article, there are more “sowing terror”, “capitol of Christmas”, very distracting style.
All the security measures there and self defense is not one of them.
You’ve hired me before, Mr President, so hire me again. I’m the one person whose reputation can’t be tarnished by becoming your Chief of Staff and I’m perfectly qualified for the job!
By Piers Morgan for MailOnline
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6483401/PIERS-MORGAN-hired-Mr-President-hire-reputation-tarnished.html
He does have a point; there is no way to further tarnish his reputation.
Re DCNF private jet survey. It’s possible the climate hucksters knew it was trolling and that’s why they didn’t respond.
“Trolling” meaning you ask completely legitimate questions.
Anyone who points out their hypocrisy must be trolling and is bellow contempt. These people are saints and your betters – remember your station.
Or, they know they are hypocritical pieces of shit running a scam and there is no good answer.
^I’m leaning towards what he said^
They’re pieces of self-serving shits. Every single one of them.
Steyer understands and explains to the deplorables what’s going down in France:
“Tom Steyer
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The protesters in Paris are telling us that if we are going to tackle climate change, we have to address gross inequality. We can’t ask working people to pay for the clean economy. We need to pay for it with unionized, living wage jobs.”
A billionaire socialist’s take. It’s glorious.
Didn’t he make his money in coal?
I guess he’s looking to diversify his portfolio with a carbon credit scam.
I’ll be going to my gun-club’s meeting / Christmas party next week. I’m sure our Club Legislative Officer will bitch up a storm – then they’ll tell us not to bring any mags over 10 rounds to the range. It would be cool if they made it a range rule that applies to the cops who practice and qualify there – but we can’t piss them off because they might start responding to the neighbors’ noise complaints and getting noisy about other things.
You are in NJ?
How do you get mags with less then 10 rounds?
Other than a 1911 which pistols can you shoot?
Mine holds 10, with one in the chamber would that be illegal?
When did I turn into Napolitano?
You are asking questions that are meant to be answered. Napolitano is a more rhetorical questioner.
Is he?
He isn’t?
Is anyone, really?
Where are my pants? Am I doing this wrong?
What if, when we talked about a certain person, we only did it in question form?
Hitler?
Falco, dude.
10 round mags are okay – nothing bigger.
When would you have a round in the chamber other than at the range? Not like anyone can carry here.
I carry everywhere with one in the chamber.
OC is still legal in VA. Taxes kind of suck, but cheap compared to Jersey, I’d imagine.
There a few places that sell magazine plugs.
Bit of a home-made feel. Look to be 3D printed and required a bit of filing to work.
– Fellow NJ suffer
I just went to Gunbroker and ordered the cheapest 10-round mag I could find.
Then browsed Zillow for homes in other states.
As getting to the range now involves a drive out Route 80 to your neck of the woods I didn’t want to use a magazine I haven’t tried. I’ve had bad luck with cheap magazines not feeding properly.
OTH, heaven knows if the modification has messed with my formerly functional magazines…
https://www.cdnnsports.com/magazines.html#capacity=10
Also, Redfin is good for searching real estate too.
*waves hi from PA*
Waves back across PA with a 27 rdn glock mag.
Good morning, Banjos. Happy to hear you got a real night’s sleep!
That’s all I got for now, here’s a song to start your day off right.
Excellent choice! Ness is one of my heroes.
A prohibition agent is one of your heroes?
*asking before Jimbo or UCS do*
He’s well remembered in Cleveland, even got a beer named after him. The bar for the brewery that makes it has bullet holes said to be from his gun.
Cheating at Solitaire
so good
TW: Vox
Why women have better sex under socialism, according to an anthropologist
Communists… want to make things more individualistic?
I suppose an honest accounting of that would subtract Beria’s victims from the sexually satisfied socialist side.
That is massive horseshit.
When you can’t eat, you have sex.
Yeah I’m sure the sex is amazing when you have no energy and your stomach is distended.
OTOH, they were always enthusiastic to swallow.
Well, no. No, it’s not.
Was this article not thoroughly debunked by some other writer? One that had actually come from the communist block these usual asshats peddling marxism try to glorify and promptly pointed out that it was real difficult to get your freak on when you were sharing a small apartment with an entire family and had no privacy to speak off.
Yes. It was actually in the New York Times, and ripped to shreds by quite a few people.
If you do a Google search for the debunking articles, you have to go 5 pages deep before they show up. No agenda there in that filtering…
To be sure. ?
Like a self-reporting drug user who reports to an assessment that he hardly uses drugs anymore . . . then leaves the assessment to go shoot up. Gets caught two days later when court services requires a drug screen . . . /my job /reads too many psyche evals /substance abuse assessments . . . etc.
I’m guessing that the Eastern European women asked questions about their sexuality after the fall of the Soviet Bloc had acquired a habit of honestly replying to intrusive questions from strangers.
Commie shitweasels are mendacious pieces of shit. News at 11.
It doesn’t sound like NJ police ruled out going door to door.
Isn’t that against the 2A?
Wtf?
4A violation
You and your quaint, outdated notions FM.
Both those things are null and void in most of the eastern seaboard.
The 2nd is long gone in this state. They decided they weren’t going to toss out the 4th and 5th as well. Or get shot because of that idiot Murphy’s ideas. I was in the National Guard with a State cop who was super pro-2A.
This was always a law to pile on extra charges to people caught in other situations. Domestic disturbances where they find a gun, suckers who get caught bringing their weapons in from PA and think their CCW permit means something here…
New Jersey regularly gets away with violating the 2nd Amendment, as well as a few others, because SCOTUS refuses to slap them down.
Well, it’s a new SCOTUS.
We’ll see. John Roberts is completely unreliable.
Yup, another instance of the Bushes screwing us with court appointments.
SJWednesday: Ode to Skinny Edition
Skip a meal once in a while
Didn’t you read? She ate 1/2 as much at the buffet but was charged double!
*things that never happened*
Eating 1/2 as much as her idea of what skinny people eat? I need quantities.
Also while some people have great metabolism, in my experience most of the skinny people I know do not really eat that much.
Some people don’t like food which blows my mind. Some people don’t drink…wine.
*stares at Pie*
I like both sadly. Also scotch. One reason I am not really fat is that I don’t like sweets
We also don’t eat when nobody else is looking.
“Eating 1/2 as much as her idea of what skinny people eat? I need quantities.”
Heffer had a 1/2 metric ton worth of buffet food. Buffet owner started yelling at her about the place being an all-you-can-eat buffet and not an eat-all-you can one like she did, and proceeded to then complain that because of the way she grazed at that buffet he was now not going to be able to feed his kinds (which are thin)….
“Also while some people have great metabolism, in my experience most of the skinny people I know do not really eat that much.”
I’ve lost about 50 pounds over several years by cutting out both breakfast and lunch.
And working out really hard an hour a day.
I’m guessing she’s doing something different than that.
I wanted to tell you that only 15% of managers would even consider hiring a fat person.-
Well, if you can’t manage your own life, how are you going to manage others?
I highly suspect that to be a false statement. Unless they are running something like a strip club where looks matter, managers want someone qualified to do work and do it for a reasonable price. Of course if you look like a blimp, they might also worry about the Obamacare mandated costs for healthcare they will be straddled with as your health implodes on their dime. But someone wanting to make sure his company doesn’t go under because of costs like these, I am sure she will tell us is evil for wanting to keep their livelihood and not end up forced to pay for her…
In my experience, a lot of nerdy overweight people end up in highly paid jobs because, not having much of a social life due to being shunned as kids, they poured their energies into studying and work.
If you hire a skinny idiot instead of fat Steve Jobs, you deserve the competitive beatdown you’ll suffer.
Unless they are running something like a strip club where looks matter
Somebody is going to the expensive places. I bet they don’t have a buffet, either.
Of course it’s bullshit. So is “I got charged double at the buffet”. It’s all lies with these types.
I would always hire a fattie over a skinny person because it made me feel so much better about my own fat old self.
Not to mention that you are less inclined to want to bone a fatty and risk your marriage, right?
Sounds like jealousy to me.
That’s pretty pathetic. As they say, “People who can’t control themselves control the people around them.”
acknowledging my body was somehow a danger, somehow weaponized.
Well, it does sound like she would be a lot more effective as catapult ammo than her skinny friend.
Criminalisation of sex work normalises violence, review finds
Sex workers three times more likely to experience violence from client where trade is criminalised, data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/11/criminalisation-of-sex-work-normalises-violence-review-finds
That’s not surprising.
And as usual, the leftist version is retarded.
McInnes’ youtube account restored. turns out all those 3rd party copyright violations were just simple goofs. a coincidence. oops! sorry.
Nate Silver’s take on why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘drives certain Republicans crazy’ goes down in flames
I don’t see why you think it drives them crazy as much as they see an opportunity to do say “liberuls r dumb” to their base
This right here. Just look at how little she knows of any of the functions/organization of the US Government she was “elected” into. What a joke.
Silver’s obviously not much smarter than Cortez.
It’s the Jungle Book snake eyes thing she’s rockin’.
He has a point, after all he is an unbiased calls ‘em as I sees ‘em numbers cruncher.
They’re also jealous of her vast intellect. Plus some Republicans hate her because they mistakenly think she’s a Jew. The rest can’t stand the insecurity they feel in the wake of her impressive list of accomplishments.
Don’t forget the fact that most Republicans just hate women.
“Get out of your bubble”
Perhaps the best explanation for why someone like Nate would think like that. He has whole merged with the progressive bubble of thought. Any other data point just doesn’t register.
foremost among them her race and gender
Republicans love Bernie Sanders though.
And they hate Clarence Thomas.
Nate Silver sounds like another self-hating Jew
foremost among them her race and gender
Evidence?
she’s quintessentially a New Yorker and DC political culture is formal and prudish
So you’re cool with Orange Man now?
He meant to say there’s a 95% probability that race and gender are the foremost reasons.
SJWednesday:
SocialismDemocratization of the Economy Is Great”Tragedy of the comments.
My kingdom for a closing tag.
Let me make a bad pun. I’ll take it.
More:
Are the workers going to “run their businesses” without workers?
And here I was thinking that an employee entering into a voluntary agreement with an employer was akin to running “their businesses for their own profit”. The way I see it, if one makes enough $$$ to buy a nice smartphone, cool rims for their ride, fashionable clothes, gaming consoles, and myriad other thneeds, that person is making a profit.
You are missing the argument they are really making when they make the claim that under socialism the employers run the business for their own profits: basically that equality of outcome (in this case pay) is the most important aspect to them that supposedly makes the system fair. The belief, never mirrored by reality however, is that everyone would get equal payment/profit.
Richard D. Wolff
Verified account @profwolff
Dec 4
Private capitalism = When private individuals profit by hiring workers to produce goods and services.
State capitalism = When government officials do the same.
Socialism = When the workers become their own employers and run their businesses for their own profits.
state capitalism is when govt officials hire workers to produce goods and services? i thought state capitalism was synonymous with crony capitalism and just referred to Cash for Clunkers, TARP, Solyndra, and other market interventions.
also, this professor wants workers to become their own employers and run their businesses for their own profits but he’s fine with crippling regulations that strangle small business.
Well it’s not ok because they then take those profits and hire other people and then it becomes evil. Because hiring people is evil in itself. Even if someone says they want it and are happy. Forget that a lot of people could freelance but choose not to because they don’t want to. That’s totally not the same thing. because in socialism you own your own labor but still have to pay the taxes and be directed by the government…
“Our water is too vital to let private profit-driven companies control it.”
Or is our water too vital for us to let the government fuck it up?
:Looks at Flint, MI:
Nope.
What about our food, our land, our jobs & incomes?
See: USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Mao’s China, Cambodia, etc.
Let’s hope no Glibs ever see their daughter on one of these lists by accident.
http://archive.is/BaH54
30, 32, 43, 55, 75.
9 looks crazy but I’ll go for her, #yolo. Would also 18, 22, 48, 55, 57, and 99 (dat playful finger-biting, heaven help me). Q you made this hard for me to choose.
I saw #9 and thought “She looks ‘Cut you with a knife’ crazy” BEFORE I saw she was holding a knife.
62, 9, 36
Yeah, 9 looks crazy as well as crazy hot, but still would.
They’re ok, but this is guaranteed to please. SFW, barely.
Beyonce, Hillary Clinton in attendance as India revels in a very big wedding
My ex was a Canadian with two Indian immigrant parents. They were arranged married. They later had another kid 10 years later.
The ex’s grandmother was murdered in India by a servant by literally stabbing her in the back. She brought that up on like our third date or so. It was very difficult to not immediately bombard her with questions. I eventually got all that she knew of the story, which sadly, wasn’t much. Ya know. Pumping for information. *wink*
Also fun: Ex’s name is literally the Jane Smith of India.
Also fun: She threw a chef’s knife at me. Then we moved together to Singapore.
Also fun: I don’t regret this at all, though it did lead to the worst 3 months of my life. I have more profound memories of Singapore over two years ago than I developed in these last two in Korea.
More watermelon hypocrisy, anyone?
Solar Panel Waste: A Disposal Problem
But…but.. no emissionnnnzzzzzzz!
“Only Europe requires solar panel manufacturers to collect and dispose of solar waste at the end of their useful lives.”
That reads a bit odd? Whose useful lives?
Old folks over there have to do that to be eligible for retirement I think.
You’re saying it was a typo and should’ve been “useless lives”?
Should read “pensioners”
like it’s something that could happen?
Stone cold lead pipe lock man, stone cold.
Trump would beat this guy like a drum.
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/12/11/beto-orourke-overtakes-biden-dems-top-2020-candidate-new-poll/
Fake Hispanic, intellectual lightweight with no real policy plans. He’s a white Obama and, let’s face it, Obama’s melanin content is the only reason he worked.
I want Trump to call him “Irish Bobby” to his face.
Can he beat Clinton again though?
I think he will defeat Trump.
no way he doesn’t have a #metoo lurking.
He’s a Democrat so no one will care.
two words for ya: white male
I suspect the #metoo women would be much more likely to be silent for Irish Obama here.
The guy gave Cruz a run for his money in TX.
If he can somehow survive the primary, he’s got a shot at taking down Trump.
That would never do. Whenever I see a picture of Beta, I mistake him for Trudy for a minute until I realize Trudy’s face is taller than that.
He is such an empty suit he probably doesn’t even have any skeletons in the closet.
Well, I don’t think the drunken crash he tried to run away from actually kiled anyone, even if he was going the wrong way down the highway at the time,
What if there’s an economic downturn, does that hurt Trump’s “business guy” appeal enough to make him lose?
An economic downturn would hurt anyone.
Actually with the economy the way it is, Republicans should be more popular than they are.
The media have been working hard to counteract that effect.
True.
Every time I catch a glimpse of daytime television, I get depressed. I think “How is there a market for this garbage?”. And then I remember that the average person is really fucking stupid. And then I remember that those people vote. And then I get really, really depressed.
I need a hug.
Then think of the ones bellow average
Also Nazi avatars don’t get hugs
My SiL is a big Oprah fan. She’s also Canadian, which explains a lot.
How can anyone watch Tiffany on Let’s Make A Deal and get depressed?
See if Evan will give you one. Ask for his “Nephilium Special”.
Here ya go
‘Involuntarily celibate’ women who say they’re ‘rejected by ALL men’ because of their looks or personality reveal they are also shunned by misogynistic male ‘incels’ who insist ‘any female can have sex’ if she really wants
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6472951/Meet-involuntarily-celibate-women-rejected-male-incels.html
A woman named Rachel, 19, said she identifies as a femcel because she has never had sex or a relationship due to her ‘very atypical appearance’
Some male incels won’t acknowledge femcels because they share the misguided belief that women can always find sexual partners
Clare, a former femcel, admitted she used to pretend to be a man online to speak to male incels because some see lesbians as ‘competition’
No matter what you look like, there is always somebody who is into that.
True. Incel, Femcel whatever. Be worth fucking and the fucker will find you.
First off, she’s only 19. And:
“any female can have sex”
is true unless she’s hideously deformed (which maybe she is, there’s no pic). Even really fat girls can find some dood that will lay them.
But, it’s like we’ve said before when it comes to male incels; it’s not about the sex. If it were, they’d be fine hiring prostitutes. It’s about a feeling of low self-worth because no one wants to give it to them for free (protip: it’s never free).
Meh it may be more than just sex to be honest. And feeling of rejection hurt in general
No matter how fucked up you are, there’s plenty of other people of your preferred gender equally as fucked up who will think you’re great.
Keep telling yourself that.
You want a refill on that rotgut?
Are these MTF Trans Incels? Maybe that’s why the male incels won’t lay them.
In general no.
It’s irritating enough that I know what an incel is, and now I have wasted brain space on “moids” and “femcels”.
***male incels known as moids (Men that Ostracize Imperfect Damsels), who don’t recognize femcels***
What are signs that we have been too successful in solving the problem of feeding the world? Alex, I’ll take Hitler or Hillary for $500.
A lesbian… who is having trouble finding a woman to fuck… is blaming men. Do I have that right?
Shoutout to CPRM on his latest H&H Animated. Captures Ocasio-Cortez perfectly, also Biden.
lol. I can see the Campaign adds now: “Vote for a candidate you can trust to use the nuclear option”
Apropos of nothing:
I have a buddy who has suffered pretty intense depression and anxiety for many years. About a month ago, he started receiving TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) treatments, and they’re working wonders; doing more than any drugs or therapy ever have.
I know several Glibs suffer from these afflictions and just thought I’d give this little public service announcement to see if it’s an option for them.
That’s all.
Interesting. I get migraines with odd symptoms like aphasia and neuropathy. Might be worth looking into.
I think someone linked this yesterday, but it’s pretty damn good and worthy of a re-link.
Sad Radicals
These motherfuckers really do need Jesus.
What a bunch of sad, strange little people.
Sadicals!
That’s a great explanation of what is essentially a mental disorder, paranoia.
It’s the lack of redemption that gets them. It’s why miserable people join and why they get more miserable over time. They essentially share the same worldview as a school shooter, but instead of going out in a disorganized blaze of glory, they play a long game of trying to destroy the whole world.
Also, I want to force members of the woke crowd to get this tattooed on their bodies:
“Intentions do not matter if one does not consider incentives and human nature.”
On their foreheads… in reverse… so they can read it in the mirror every time they look..
It’s the old “Permanent Revolution” idea. When you base morality in class warfare and struggle you always need an enemy to destroy. Every word written by Progs/Radicals/SJWs is plagiarized from someone responsible for a pogrom. These people really are determined to open the doors of hell again.
ISIS terror attack in Strasbourg.
There was a serious lack of a tropical food counter. ///alohasnackbar
Better be careful. We can’t admit the truth. Macron is preparing to crack down on French Christians for hate speech.
RE: Hawei.
“She had put up her husband, children and their two Vancouver properties valued at more than C$11million (US$8.23million) as sureties ”
Isn’t that disturbing? What does the Government do if she skips bail? Arrest her husband and children? Or is it just used as evidence that you won’t run?
I didn’t know Canada was still involved in the slave trade.
Or maybe i’m reading it wrong? She tried to put them up as sureties cause that’s what she’s used to, and the government gave her a weird look, and so then she did the properties.
How’d you like to be the husband.
“Honey?”
“Hey, sweetheart, how’d the hearing go?”
“…so remember how you said you really like Vancouver?”
I’m calling it: We’re witnessing a narcissist epidemic.
About all these people identifying as something.
I decided to identify as the guy who bangs Emily Ratajkowski. It did not work and am still sleeping alone.
The Matriarchy strikes again!
Wretched Excess Wednesday — Women With Wildly Oversized Breast to Waist Ratios (some mildly NSFW):
One:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c2/24/9e/c2249eb8d6964523e9b8c8b228870b7a–girls-girls-girls-sexy-girls.jpg
Two:
https://www.1rst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cute_asian_big_boobs-28.jpg
Three:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClUlf8mWQAEs4KX.jpg:large
Four:
https://thehomeofhiphop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/kate-upton.jpeg
Five:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/59/93/29/59932980387b81791f0726880c30cef3.jpg
Six:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/bc/29/e2/bc29e232b11e8cd9f3dc23d4414d9c54.jpg
Seven:
http://pinimg.com/originals/22/c6/be/22c6bedbb45bee744a08abd81cb900c8.jpg
Eight:
pinimg.com/736x/2d/ef/1c/2def1c847434df80a6a03d401197b9ff–sexy-women-sexy-girls.jpg
Jeebus #1 is gonna end up wheelchair-bound from those things.
Would.
Ditto, I recognize her from some of her other work. You can throw in #6 as well.
Would all three, jeebers man.
Yeah put me down in the no thanks category
+1
Gross.
At some point a desire for proportionality kicks in, yes.
My preferred format, even if it may come with a tempermental tendency towards stabby.
“towards stabby”
only b/c she loves you to death.
“It’s a big responsibility being the first brown-skinned superhero”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6487611/Its-big-responsibility-brown-skinned-superhero-Jason-Momoa-playing-Aquaman.html
Black Panther haz sadz. Where are we now in terms of regression in racial relations? Way before MLK since the World is utterly obsessed with skin color and no one gives two shits about the content of anyone’s character. If we wait long enough, slavery and lynchings might make a comeback.
Whatever, women wet themselves when Momoa walks into the room. Everything else is irrelevant in his life.
Urineman!
I guess they don’t pee themselves. I’m dumb.
There oughta be a law where every adult who says something facile like this has to read ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’.
“content of anyone’s character”
I’m sure political affiliation could be tenuously linked to character, so yes they do care.
So are there different shades of brown? Is Hawaiian brown the same as Polynesian brown or south Asian brown?
I would think Hawaiian brown is not particularly oppressed. Especially a tall cishet successful male
I don’t see Jason Momoa and think, “Gosh, that poor guy. I’m glad to see he’s finally had a break go his way.”
Judging people by skin? Check.
Desires of segregation even in public facilities? Check.
This “progress”ive bit sounds like some fine forward-thinking.
Think of the overall lack of clarity and perspective we have today.
It’s a ‘big responsibility’ to be the first ‘insert race here’ to play a damn….super-hero.
Stew on that while I spread some Baratti and Milano on some bread. Ga’head.
“Shur it’s a greaht responsibiliteh ta pleh ta furst Oirish super hairo, ya cunt ya!”
Not even a good superhero. It’s effin’ Aquaman.
Look, we know the superfriends sucked on every level, but you have to stop letting it color your image of the characters.
Maybe he’s a hardcore Sub-Mariner man.
Let’s not have a race to the bottom here.
That character breathes in water with fish poo in it bro.. How freaking nasty is that?
His Gills have quadruple-filtration. He’s basically a walking Brita.
If I want lame superheroes with unfeasible, niche powers, I watch Venture Bros.
Good for you, but that still has nothing to do with the character in question.
I suppose I’ll have to wait to see the movie. Or at least the HitB discussion of it. But it’s a contrived barrel-bottom-scraping IP that makes Black Panther seem like a first class franchise headliner.
Movie?
And Black Lightning, and Vibe, and Falcon, and Wild Dog, and Luke Cage, and Elektra, and Misty Knight, and Colleen Wing, and Davos, and several others I’m sure I’m missing.
though to his credit, he does sort of revive the character. otherwise Aquaman’s basically a glorified SpongeBob SquarePants.
Appropriate music link! They tried to revive the character back in the 90’s in the comics and cartoons, but the character is still the butt of so many jokes. Too many of us grew up on Super-Friends.
And I did forget at least Vixen, Hawkgirl, and Isis (though they haven’t used that code name on the show)
“Paging Spawn to the white courtesy phone. Spawn, to the white courtesy phone.”
That movie did not age well at all, and it wasn’t good when it was released.
And Blade would also like a word.
The HBO series wasn’t bad.
Storm from the X-Men, Sue Storm from Fantastic 4 (or is she excluded because she is white hispanic?), War Machine from the Iron Man movies, Cyborg in Justice League, Johnny Storm in the FF remake, Heimdal,…
Why it is almost like there has been no shortage of brown skinned super heroes
Being “Yet another” doesn’t carry the same cred as being “First” when it comes to irrelevent characterists of people who make-believe for pay and try to pretend they’re not just prostitutes.
I should’ve started tracking the propaganda in my textbooks a long time ago. They are so insanely biased…and always in one direction. Insanely pro-Obama and the leading knife’s edge of “global warming” and environmental shit.
I came across this today and was baffled. They can’t even keep their arguments glued down–every angle must be assaulted at all times, regardless of sense. Please, someone tell me if this makes any sense.
Direct quote re: Iceland’s landmass rising 1.4 inches a year, based upon (according to the book) “62 GPS receivers fastened to the rocks.”
What in the fuck is that?
I am alarmed
Springs don’t swell. They compress and release.
Not everyone is an expert you know
This is the Internet, everyone is an expert on everything, dontchaknow
Is it too much to ask for some fucking accuracy?
Yes.
A decrease in glacier mass will cause a rise in the underlying strata. But there are about four major assumptions between rising land from melting glaciers and AGW.
I think north america in general is still undergoing some rebound from the last ice age. This is what makes it difficult to estimate actual ice loss, water loss, sea rise etc. All things take into account this rebound although I have yet to understand how it is more than a guess
I can remember my dad going nuts 20+ years ago when my sister’s math textbook had a little section about Cesar Chavez. I swear I’m not making that up.
Post glacial rebound
The glaciers they are referring to melted 10,000 years ago however
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan are also rising due to loss of glaciation
It’s true that some land masses, including North America, are rising due to the release of pressure following the last ice age glaciation. Even though the ice sheet has been gone for a while, it take a long time for the land to rebound.
So that is a thing?
I mean, an island is a mountain that’s grown through volcanic activity over millions of years and breached the surface. It’s literally a mountain 3+ miles high poking above the water.
Ice, though dense and expansive, has the ability to actively *push* down a mountain that big?
I call bullshit. I am also not a geologist.
A mountain is a piece of solid floating atop liquid rock. think of it like a boat. The more mass you pile on top, the lower it is going to ride, in this case lower in the magma. Because it it none too flexible, it takes a while to sink down to the new equalibrium. When the more volatile glaciers melt off, the rock boat rises just as slowly.
I am also not a geologist
You just like getting your rocks off bitching about climate change?
Hey! No need to get basalty!
Our science textbook at the Salsa Homeschool for the Gifted, Talented and Good Looking, does not claim man made global warming.
Isostasy. It’s due to the interglacial period, not the industrial revolution though.
Here’s an explanation I would think plausible
Volcanoes do deform when internal pressure builds. Removing material covering the top would allow for existing internal pressure to deform the rocks further.
So they’re saying that Iceland is going to capsize?
Only if we move more marines there.
No, that’s Guam…
Yes, land rebounds when a heavy weight that depressed it for a long time is removed, but it takes a long time, as in the parts of North America that were covered by glaciers in the last ice age are still rebounding.
However, Iceland is an island that is literally tearing itself apart due to volcanic activity. I think that would be a bigger influence in a sharp rise in mean height.
The meaning of the words of the year
They are depressing. But they won’t last
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/12/08/the-meaning-of-the-words-of-the-year?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/themeaningofthewordsoftheyearjohnson
This article is in fact kinda depressing
Rolling Stones’ Chuck Leavell: Longer Summers in South Prove Climate Change Is ‘Undeniable’
“I can tell you this. I’m 66 years old. I grew up in the South; I grew up in Alabama. I live in Georgia now. I remember the Septembers in my youth – you always needed a jacket. It was cool. These days, the weather doesn’t really get cool down there until October, November. It’s undeniable. The changes are coming,” Leavell said.
“We have seen the evidence of the shrinking of the polar caps. This is very disturbing. We keep breaking records year after year – the hottest summer we’ve ever had in this part of the country or that part of the country. We’ve seen the devastation of forest fires. We’ve seen the increase of really bad storms – recently in south Georgia we had Hurricane Michael devastated a billion dollars’ worth of timber,” he added.
None of those things happened before the industrial revolution. And we definitely did not just have a major snowstorm in the south uncharacteristically early in the winter season.
The United States hasn’t seen any average temperature gains in the last 100 years.
Global warming above all warms the poles, so at least they gotta the science right.
Do not deny the mans lived experience.
Anyone can play this game. I remember in the Richmond of my youth that we went entire winter’s without significant snowfalls. Before moving back here in 2011, I assured my snow-hating wife that Richmond generally doesn’t get much snow. So, of course, we’ve had major snowstorms every single winter since moving. We had 10 inches the other day, the most this area has ever had this early in December.
We had 10 inches the other day
But enough about your kinky sex life. ///Ikeed
We got somewhere around 10 inches on south side as well.
10 inches on the south side
Now who’s blabbing about their kinky sex life?
NO FACEBOOK FOR YOU!
I can do you one better:
When i was a kid In Utah I found playing outside in the winter enjoyable, having snowball fights and building snow forts.
Now I hate being outside in the snow, its all slushy and wet, and cold. And i have to shovel my walks. It’s horrible. Suffice to say it’s pretty clear that Global Warming has ruined Winter.
Living in Bowie in the late 80s and early 90s it wasn’t that unusual to have a white Christmas. In Annapolis, twenty minutes due east, I recall getting maybe two good snows a winter in the 90s. Then in the 00s, we’d go whole winters with nothin’. Randomly a blizzard, but more often nothing at all. This year we had snow before Thanksgiving, and we’re slated for the snowiest winter in decades. Climate is a range.
Early ’70s when I was a kid we had brutal winters. A bunch of huge blizzards. We were real life snowed in for a few days several times during those winters until a neighbor dug us out with a front end loader (we lived out on a farm).
At that time everyone in the Big Doom business was predicting a new ice age. And the reason for the cooling was exactly the same as the reason given for warming now.
Warming is a waaaaaaaaay better problem that cooling.
I love these stories. Even if everything they were positing as an explanation were scientifically accurate, it wouldn’t produce the changes they’re talking about at the rate they’re talking about.
Also, not for nothin’, but depending on where you are in Alabama you might see cooler winters than parts of Georgia on average anyway. But that’s still beside the point. If climate and weather aren’t the same, stop conflating them to convince non-scientists to join your panic mob.
He’s confusing weather with climate.
If he wants to play that game, we’ve had an unusually set of cold winters here in Austin. First freeze in mid-November this year, which is really unusual.
So, oooh, watch out for the Ice Age based on a few data points.
We are still in an ice age. It’s merely an interglacial period.
+2 polar icecaps
Can’t possibly be because he’s fatter and more acclimated to air conditioning than he was 55 years ago.
Day 5 and I’m still horribly stuffed
I remember working on a project with a bunch of Limeys. One day after a big lunch an American female coworker said “Uffda, I’m stuffed” and the Brits all fell off their chair laughing. The said that “stuffed” meant having sex to them.
So if you are on Day 5 Banjos of being stuffed, I think you are well on your way to another kid. You may want to buy a few books/videos if Sloopy is still horrible after all this time.
I’ve heard similar stories from American tourists wearing “fanny packs” (and calling them that) in England.
Yeah, but the Brits will go and knock someone up, and then ask for a fag.
Yeah, and on occasions, they will share a fag.
Look, just because they don’t speak english anymore doesn’t mean we should laugh at their ignorance.
Then can we laugh at their terrible oral hygiene?
That website looks like it got stuffed.
Since the left is having rampant fever dreams, I had my own VRWC fever dream last night, what if the recent Uranium 1 stirrings and whistleblower raid is really about them solving the Seth Rich murder? They’ve got her this time! Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he?
You’re not alone. I keep thinking I’m going to kick that football, too. Sigh.
Trump takes out a Bush and a Clinton. The Feds take out Trump and Bury Clinton. I don’t mind seeing the trend of our betters getting buried, but then I look at the next crop sitting on the bench. *Shudder*
“She Guevara!” the most qualified candidate in history!
One thing OC proved and you don’t need a bench. Any idiot can get elected. Unfortunately the people that I would want to have the job, don’t want the job. Quite a catch we have here.
“One thing OC proved and you don’t need a bench. Any idiot can get elected”
She got elected in a very specific district. It’s not like she won a statewide Governor race. She seems so popular because of the media hype.
“Pelosi near making deal with Democrats for party leadership term limits, a huge sacrifice for such a young vibrant woman.”
Of course, if you read down into the article, Pelosi “made” that “deal” likely knowing that it won’t pass:
“The agreement is expected to win over at least five rebel holdouts …
But there was already fierce pushback — including from Pelosi’s top deputies and some members of the powerful Congressional Black Caucus — to the idea of term limits as early reports about the deal started to surface on Monday and Tuesday.
“She’s not negotiating for me,” Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, said tersely during a press briefing in the Capitol.”
Shorter: “We’ve already established what you are, now we’re dickering over price.”
Not surprising at all. The old black guard has a stranglehold on their positions. For all their talk of progress for everyone, they’re really only about obtaining and maintaining power.
-712 super delegates
Hell, Steny figures he’s got another twelve years left before he appoints his successor.
“We gave the president two options that would keep the government open,” Pelosi and Schumer said. “It’s his choice to accept one of those options or shut the government down.”
Option 1: Do what we want.
Option 2: Do what we want.
Option 3: (faux..?) Government Shutdown.
I also like how Trump said he would own it. Hopefully we can avoid the closing of open air parks and monuments this time.
I wish Trump would say “I will own this shut down and if I do it, I am going to do it right. Anyone furloughed will not get back pay when the govt starts back up. And only the super essential will stay working. And I am going to demand that at least 10% of the non-essential people are permanently fired before anyone can come back.”
Time to go full on Reagan/Air Traffic Controllers on the pubsec employees.
I can only dream he actually does something as valuable as this.
And then follow it up in the 2020 campaign debate with – “Our government was shut down for 3 months a couple of years ago. Ask yourself if it impacted your daily life in any way.”
Doesn’t Trump still have the votes to push the Wall bill through even if 100% of Democrats vote No? Who are the renegade Republicans?
The filibuster rule is still in effect for legislation. It was only nuked for judicial confirmations.
Ah, so. Given the Red/Blue Team demographics, one wonders if either party will ever be able to get to 60 senators?
Permanent gridlock which could be good if stopping liberty-eroding legislation or bad if stopping liberty-inducing legislation.
Team Red just might if Team Blue keeps pushing that impeachment idea.
And this from the link about Flynn:
“Explaining why Flynn was not warned about the possible consequences of making false statements, one of the agents wrote in the 302 that FBI brass had “decided the agents would not warn Flynn that it was a crime to lie during an FBI interview because they wanted Flynn to be relaxed, and they were concerned that giving the warnings might adversely affect the rapport.” ”
Yeah, because now Flynn has such a good rapport with the agents who rolled him.
I’m sure his comfort was the utmost of their concerns.
The most irritating thing about this is that there is no oversight. No one at the FBI is questioned about weather or not they are just using entrapping techniques to get someone to misspeak and then accuse them of lying. Fuck the FBI.
Worse isn’t Flynn the one that after the interview the agents said they didn’t think he was lying, but Mueller charged him anyhow?
Why yes, yes he is!
Hey those Headlines don’t write themselves, and sometimes you gotta break a few eggs to justify your job.
The only reason Flynn chose not to fight it out in court is because Mueller threatened to go after Flynn’s son unless Flynn accepted a plea deal.
It’s not about oversight. Law enforcement is expected by their bosses to lie to get results. No one ever gets punished for this — unless you’re a civilian.
I haven’t see this mentioned here, but there is a farm bill that could be passed this week, that will legalize industrial hemp and CBD products at the federal level. Sure, it’s a farm bill that is full of handouts and will hasten the country’s financial collapse, but at least these blind squirrels have finally found a nut.
I’ve noticed a bunch of CBD businesses here lately.
Anyone have any experience? Considering giving it a try for sleeplessness.
I have tried it. As with anything, the quality and % of active ingredients can vary. The kind I used was pretty expensive ($90 for a small bottle). However, it did help with sleep and some with pain. Mostly it mellows you out, it doesn’t knock you out like a sleeping pill.
Once hemp can be transported across state lines you will see a LOT more CBD products, which will bring down the price but will also introduce a lot of shitty products you’ll have to look out for.
Cool. Thanks, Kevin.
The farm subsidies and handouts are somewhat exaggerated. 80% of the farm bill is the food stamp program and only about a quarter of the remaining 20% is subsidy programs. I agree that we should not have these programs, but the narrative that they are somehow equivalent to the entitlement boondoggles is somewhat naive.
Meanwhile, Ohio managed to put CBD under the same restrictions as medical marijuana.
Tucked into the farm bill is this little gem. Or maybe its an amendment being proposed today…hard to say with this crap.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1072797861182619648
What? You doubt that the Saudis are dropping Molotov Bread Baskets on the Yemenis?
I hate this.
JHTFC
Burn it down
Where my parents live there is a very low and narrow train bridge that crosses above the road. Someone needs to learn the height of their truck:
https://i.imgur.com/ZDWOxJml.jpg
Upload Hope…and please donate to help us fix our truck.
I’ve seen that pic before. It rings a bell.
I’ve seen it too, but always act like i didn’t notice it.
Just about made it, though. More speed next time ought to do it.
Hmmm, I don’t see any height markers on that bridge.
Second time my parents have seen this happen. It is a weird little bridge – obviously built when it was just a farm road.
this bridge near me gets DIY moving trucks driving in the right lane ALL. THE. TIME.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinborland/2474213042
Here’s another famous bridge that claims many victims. It appears to be well-marked, but that doesn’t stop some people. And some of the trucks seem to be local merchants — you would think they would know about it.
Holy shit that’s hilarious. I probably shouldn’t be laughing hysterically but….
I like it when the AC units get sheared off the RV’s.
couple of them were going fast enough to rip the whole top off.
I’ve taken out a drive up window awning at a drug store with my box truck like that before. Easy to forget what you don’t see.
You obviously weren’t driving with your wife.
A relatively simple fix would be to mount a rubber flap over the road at least 1/2 mile ahead with a warning sign, so the trucks can feel the height and then avoid it. Would save on clean up costs every time that happens.
What’s up with the left being ok with joking about someones manhood. They do it a lot, but it seems like that should be a big no-no.
They are terrible, terrible people?
Hollywood’s Most Powerful Women Pick Their Dream 2020 Presidential Candidate.
It’s exactly what you think.
“Predictably, Oprah ranked as a favorite among the industry insiders, as presidential buzz has engulfed the mogul and star ever since her memorable 2017 Golden Globes speech,”
Former Vice President Joe Biden got a few mentions. Others gave ridiculous answers like celebrity power couple Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. One also called for an Oprah and Ellen ticket.
Another mention was producer Kathleen Kennedy
“A version of Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke. Or Beto and Kamala.” — Victoria Alonso, executive VP physical and post-production, Marvel Studios
“Chrissy Teigen and John Legend.” — Sarah Barnett, president of entertainment networks, AMC Networks
“Oprah and Michelle Obama.” — Lorrie Bartlett, partner, co-head of talent, ICM Partners
“A ticket that is dedicated to uniting this country.” — Kristine Belson, president, Sony Pictures Animation
The woman that killed Star Wars?
She killed the most successful movie franchise in history, she’s just the person to finish off the USA.
Sounds like a step down to me…
Star Wars is a boys’ club for white male nerds AKA incels, so destroying it is major woke cred.
I thought Michelle was pretty good in Star Wars.
I don’t think she emoted enough when [CENSORED]
You know what? I think we’re all fucked. Our digital footprints have dragged enough dogshit onto the digital carpet that The Daily Stormer will be rescinding our Man of the Year award.
“celebrity power couple”? I have no idea who those people are.
Diversity makes us … something.
HA HA HA!
LOLOL
https://quillette.com/2018/12/07/academics-mobbing-of-a-young-scholar-must-be-denounced/
Editor’s note: Quillette sought comment from several high profile academics in response to the open letter to Cambridge University. Their unedited responses are reproduced below.
some choice quotes:
That whole affair was an embarrassment for the academy and those who signed the open letter. Here we go again.
The open letter filled with damning accusations, unsupported by any argument, and designed to end a young career, violates ethical norms of the academy—at least any academy that I would be proud to associate with.
I do not know the full case of Noah Carl. But from what I can see about this matter, neither do the academics protesting him, without argument or citation.
Academic freedom is a foundational principle of the modern university, while the principle that one provide evidence or reasoning for the claims one makes is the basis of any rational inquiry. For a university to act on a letter that attacks an appointee without offering any evidence to support the sweeping claims it makes, would be to go against both these principles.
So why all the fuss? Dr Carl’s crime is that he has defended intelligence researchers who’ve written about the taboo topics of race, genes and IQ and argued that stifling debate in these areas is likely to cause more harm than allowing them to be freely discussed by academics. It appears to be this, and the fact that he spoke at the London Conference of Intelligence in 2017 alongside some of these researchers (although he did not himself speak about race, genes or IQ at that conference), that is the basis for the accusation, made in the letter, that he is guilty of “pseudoscientific racism.”
This blows my mind. You can’t even say that we should let people talk about it.
I am always amazed, though, that the people who promote the race IQ hypothesis have so much in common with the gender studies people. All of their conclusions are based upon faulty surveys and non quantifiable questions. There is nothing concrete in any conclusion, just a series of assumptions (How are you determining who is part of what race? and How can standard gender roles be a result of societal indoctrination, while unconventional gender roles are a genuine expression not also a result of environmental upbringing?) They should be political allies, since they are both undermining the notion of legitimate scholarship.
It is crazy, though, that just defending the notion that people should be allowed to discuss the former topic can get your life ruined however.
Conservative Gays Need To Shut The Fuck Up
“I’ve been discriminated against,” these gay male narratives tell you, “So believe me when I say that [women/immigrants/trannies/poor people] aren’t the real victims here.” If too many people believe those words, all of the fantastic, revolutionary ideals of freedom and empathy that formed the foundation of queer liberation will quickly fade away, and almost all of us will be worse off for it. I know it’s naive to think these dudes are ever going to shut the fuck up. But the least the rest of us could do is stop listening to them.
Click for the whole thing, if you dare.
Commentz:
How anyone can be LGBTQ and support conservative policies is beyond me. They do realize that if Pence gets in charge, they’ll be rounded up and thrown into camps to be “cured”?
That’s more than a little projection, isn’t it.
“Sports blogger”
So much sportsball…..
I identified as a gay male during my teen years, but now I’m probably more like trans female or genderqueer or something more fun like that.)
She (he?) is fun! Likes the sports!
Xe seems nice.
the writer makes a good point that i had not realized before:
…published an opinion blog by a gay guy named Chad Felix Greene titled “The Stigma Against My Conservative Politics Is Worse Than The Stigma Of Being Gay.” That’s good news, right?! I mean, in a utopian society, nobody would much care who other people prefer to fuck or fall in love with, but everyone would care deeply about the laws and policies that actually impact the world.
the Left now treat conservatives the way the Right used to treat homosexuals.
I dared
Oh the irony, and this author most likely doesn’t get it.
Anyone familiar with vehicle gps trackers for a small fleet (under 12)?
Suggestions/info needed.
Holy shit guys… Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be able to run for president.
At least they mention that they would have to amend the Constitution.
So they’re not super serial about gun control, after all.
Give a trigger warning before you link to Vox again. Jesus.
>>the Constitution is extremely cumbersome, requiring both supermajorities in Congress and ratification by a staggering 75 percent of the state
there’s a reason for that…
One that liberals love when it allows them to get/keep getting their way, and absolutely despise when it stands in the way of their ability to get their way.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1072675372028825603
Also, Nate Silver is an idiot
I looked at the numbers and Nate Silver is a joke of a man
I like how he worked in a little “NYC is better than DC” jab alongside the usual “Republicans are racist” bit.
And don’t move the capital back to Philly, even if it’s my favorite city. Don’t need that shit.
Move congress to Kansas. Split every other department to a different state. Leave the Prez in DC.
If anything, the age-restriction should be bumped up, not down. 35 is the new 15.
I wish we just reverted this whole cumbersome process to a lottery system.
Why absolutely! Let’s make 16 year-olds able to run for president!
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
In other words, she’s a populist who knows the current lingo among the most rabid leftist morons. Sounds fantastic.
The left writes daily fawning pieces over this ignorant piece of shit, and then scratches their heads why the right keeps mocking her. It’s a real fucking mystery.
And I agree on letting immigrants run. Just think of the laughs when it’s a Russian immigrant.
That isn’t even true. You can skip the supermajorities in Congress step if you can get 2/3rds of the states to call a convention.
“France’s Yellow Vests Take a Left Turn”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/frances-yellow-vests-take-a-left-turn/
FTA:
“A movement that three weeks ago seemed somewhat attractively apolitical (many Gilets Jaunes proclaimed this was the first political protest they had ever engaged in) has begun to assume a different coloring. Center-right intellectuals such Pascal Bruckner and Alain Finkielkraut, critics of globalism and neoliberalism, were initially well disposed; now they lament the violence that trails in its wake. If a movement is seen to be both extremely popular and unstructured, requiring no more than a yellow vest to join, it will inevitably become a target for entryism, a tried and true radical left tactic.”
And
“Another facet of the Gilets Jaunes protests, not formally linked to economic immiseration, is that of cultural displacement. This was originally a movement of the French périphérique, the French equivalent of flyover country, whose concerns had been widely ignored by a succession of governments that instead devoted considerable resources to trying to “integrate” the immigrant suburbs. The website of Bernard Henri Levy, the influential French neoconservative, depicted the Gilet Jaunes as “white trash,” to use the English phrase. On the other hand, the initial reaction of Marine Le Pen’s party (renamed the Rassemblement National) and many more traditionalist right-wing intellectuals was favorable to the movement, often enthusiastic.
But to the extent that the Gilet Jaunes becomes an adjunct to La France Insoumise, with an added seasoning of banlieu looters and Antifa, the French right will back away. Practically all of Marine Le Pen’s tweets over the past several days have been directed at Macron’s signing of the United Nations’ immigration pact at Marrakech, a document that expresses a wooly aspiration towards a multicultural borderless liberalism. Important as that pact may be, it is not what the French are talking about right now.”
Michel Houellebecq predicted all of this in the late 90’s and early 2000’s
The Sans Culottes rise again!
The great inventors of “pants”
Since we’re talking self-medication… do any of you take something for anxiety? Something you might take before a job interview, for example. And no, not bombing a couple mouthwash spritzers.
At my yearly checkup, my doctor wrote me a script for beta blockers (Propanolol) for just that type of scenario. It was odd, because he did so unsolicited. I filled it, but haven’t tried it yet.
I’ve taken it for headache prevention. It can seriously lower your blood pressure. So be careful getting up out of chairs and such.
Good to know.
Beta blockers are really good for situational anxiety (like a job interview or a speech). Suppresses the fight or flight response.
I’m on klonopin. Try not to take it all the time because I’d rather not be addicted to benzos.
How do you self-administer klonopin? It takes 6 – 10 hours to work.
I don’t take it myself but I bet some Xanax would help with the pre-interview jitters.
Or some Valium.
You could also take a look at passionflower extracts.
I don’t have a recommendation for something short-acting. Xanax mad me woozy and immensely sleepy.
I take Abilify, which builds up a little but boy do I have my shit together with no anxiety (which, I realize now, looking back) I had been living with nonstop for years, interspersed with a panic attack here and there. It’s like stress on steroids.
Ionic Potassium.
Kava Kava & Passion Flower
Thank you all. I’ve got an appointment coming up and it’s good to have some names to throw out. The last time I asked about it I was given a scrip for generic Paxil and sent on my way, and AFAICT it did nothing for me.
You might have them check your potassium levels.
Paxil take a long time to get working… like a lot of SSRI drugs.
Xanax and Valium are the only two I’ve taken that ease anxiety within 20-30 minutes.
Xanax was what got me through the two interviews I’ve had lately. Panic attacks have gotten less with it, I have been taking it since July – august. I can take 2X daily for smallest dose available. I don’t need it every day, but there are days when I wish I could take 3 . . .
The process of amending the Constitution is extremely cumbersome, requiring both supermajorities in Congress and ratification by a staggering 75 percent of the states. But there’s no time like the present to start working to abolish arbitrary qualifications and letting any eligible voter run for president any time he or she wants to.
They should have just repealed the 22nd Amendment, so Obama could be Supreme Leader for Life.
“‘Give us $50,000 each to go home’: Caravan migrants march to the US consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, demanding US government let them in or pay them off”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6487193/Central-American-migrants-march-consulate-Tijuana-demands-Trump-administration.html
“Listen carefully, because I’m only going to say this once. Ahem…
No.”
The Huns approve.
And Vikings. The next tactic is ” Give us a piece of land on your border and we’ll keep the other guys out.
I’m getting to the point where I’d be favorably disposed towards giving them small pieces of copper-clad lead at high velocity.
AC-130 herding would be more fun.
I vote for a ride on a C 130 – destination Ottawa.
If we’re going to give them rides, we deliver them back to their homes – and don’t land to let them out. If we’ve caught them before, they don’t get a parachute.
Give the no-parachute deportees a wireless GoPro though.
*ding, ding, ding*
I’ve been hearing that this is what the whole thing was about all along.
Zelaya wants to return to power and take over Maduro style, which he was prevented form doing back in 2009.
Yeah that sounds about right.
“We are marching because the US Fucked up our country,
so we are going to move therewe want you to remove that guy in power”R-i-g-h-t, you pay five thousand would-be border hoppers to go home, in a month you have five hundred thousand camped out.
So they admit they came here to shake down the American tax payer?
“Counterpoint: You just committed extortion, which in this case would be an aggravated felony and would result in your deportation. Let’s save us all some time and consider you admitted, convicted, and subsequently deported.”
https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/1072231322729570307
American Federation of Teachers backs antisemites.
Thankfully, they all use the proper pronoun, because that is offensive. No one is offended by posing and supporting antisemites, though. It’s almost as if “hurt feelings” is just a guise to force your politics. But, that’s a crazy thing to believe.
Linda Sarsour has the most punchable face I’ve ever seen on a woman.
Careful, Ms. Weingarten. If Linda hears your last name and picks up a certain (((vibe))) from it you might wanna keep your head on a swivel.
“pedophiles really out here making whole ass channels defending pedophillia and calling everyone else nazis for disliking it”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1072672936732094464
I had to read that three times before it clicked that “ass channel” might not be a thing.
What were the demographics of the area you grew up in? The adjective “whole ass” is a little dated, but I recognized it.
If it had been correctly punctuated (“whole-ass”) I would have got it immediately.
“Wait… why are all the top racist countries in the world non-white????? I thought white people invented racism? I thought only white people could be racist? This is all very confusing.”
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1072251795165069312
It’s simple – Whites are the only ones who get appologetic about ingroup bias.
You know it’s almost a mystery why a (small) percentage of white youths are attracted to white power groups.
The first comment is awesome
So what she’s saying is “It’s oaky that we’re racist because we keep getting shown a better way by the people we try to kill”?
It’s okay when we do it because the people we are next to we hate….
Can’t tell if that’s circular reasoning or actual begging the question?
How has Lauren Southern not been banned from social media?
She was kicked off Patreon, and I think she was suspended from Instagram.
OK, which one of you did this?
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1072608080653897728
Outstanding!
Wasn’t that guy at another hearing a while back?
‘Monopoly man’ returns for Google CEO hearing
“Gender neutral pronouns”….commence eye rolling
Did you listen to those Misfits songs?
No. Got sidetracked and forgot.
*hangs head in shame*
And now I can’t remember what they were or what day we talked about it.
Max Boot takes on his most dangerous enemy – himself
It’s absurd.
Max Boot just wants to bomb something- anything. Since his progressive friends are Iran boosters (just look at all the fawning progressives there are to a tweet by Ahmadinejad) is out of the question, he’ll settle for Russia.
AC-130 herding would be more fun.
A-10, FTW!
A-10s are ill-suited to herding AC-130s
No, that’s what the AN/TPS-73 is for
But Chip, the Radar can’t do anything to get the errant members back into the flock.
““We know that if we want to live in a world that looks more like Wakanda, the first step is you invest in some women and girls.” #WakandaForever”
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1071943841052352512
WTF??
A xenophobic ethnostate? I thought these people were for inclusivity.
It also helps to have technology that doesn’t exist.
That’s one thing that annoys me about Iron Man. I don’t care what suit you are wearing, the sudden g-forces and getting pummeled by a building, large creature, Thor’s hammer is going to turn you into jelly.
I thought I couldn’t find anyone more detestable than Warren but Harris has taken the number one spot. She’s a showboat who has the intellect of a gnat and the pettiness of one of Bravo’s Housewives of Orange County.
Clearly, she is presidential material.
This is someone considered a leader in the Democratic party, ladies and gentlemen.
Also, by the phrasing it reads to me as if she’s advocating the purchase and importation of women and children.
On the plus side, they’ve stopped with the Harry Potter references. But, they still haven’t read another book
OT: I have failed as a father.
I am very excited to see They Shall Not grow Old, almost giddy and I don’t get giddy about things.
My wife doesn’t want to come which I understand since Blachawk Down gave her a headache.
I asked my 16 yo son and showed him the trailer and his reply was “meh, doesn’t look that good to me.”
Guess I’m going by myself, bought the ticket on Fandango.
Any Hampton Roads Glibs going to go?
My 15 year old son is fired up to go and see it. He’s fascinated by WW1.
OT: I have failed as a father.
I am very excited to see They Shall Not grow Old, almost giddy and I don’t get giddy about things.
My wife doesn’t want to come which I understand since Blackhawk Down gave her a headache.
I asked my 16 yo son and showed him the trailer and his reply was “meh, doesn’t look that good to me.”
Guess I’m going by myself, bought the ticket on Fandango.
Any Hampton Roads Glibs going to go?
Apparently I failed twice, but the second time I spelled blackhawk correctly.
Don’t worry about being a failed father. It is the state’s job to be the father in every child’s life now.
We know that if we want to live in a world that looks more like Wakanda
Nobody told her it’s a fairytale.
Nobody told her that the modern, prosperous, technological world wasn’t built by women.