At last my electrical junk is working again! A maintenance outage robbed me of my power today, but now it’s back! Back, I say! Moo hahahaha! So while I get things back in order, here’s a great new video from Lucy Woodward, one of the artists working with Snarky Puppy’s GroundUP Music.
Welcome back, Charles! I’d say something about not going crazy while you were in Luddite paradise, but let’s face it - you’re already there. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
Was it like giving up TV for a while? When you come back you find yourself thinking “My God, this is all junk!”?
A bunch of people jumped out of nowhere to deny it when I said the killer of UK MP Jo Cox was a far right nationalist. But I was correct.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
You know, even if we thought the NeverTrump thing was almost dead, it may be still breathing, what with all the Rs that claimed recently they would not vote for Donald or would even vote for Hillary.
re: #4 Nyet
Never Trump as a movement to nominate a different presidential candidate was always a farce. Never Trump to actually, like, ensure Trump is never president? I always had faith that there was an internal crazification factor within the GOP that would split the 5% or 10% necessary to ensure he had little chance.
re: #4 Nyet
You know, even if we thought the NeverTrump thing was almost dead, it may be still breathing, what with all the Rs that claimed recently they would not vote for Donald or would even vote for Hillary.
When you’ve lost Dick Armitage….
Since it is an open thread, here was last night’s needlework finish.
It’s been a rough week. I wanted to feel like I accomplished something, so I got the beading done on Lapland Santa. I really like this trio. Just one more to go, but I’m going to put it off since I’m doing Scotland Santa to celebrate being at a Highland Games this weekend. #crossstitch #crossstitching #crossstitchersofinstagram #millhill #beading #santa
An RWNJ blogger would be claiming that the outage was a Soros-Hildabeast conspiracy, with gay Mexican Muslims somehow involved.
@SenJohnMcCain Yes you did. Words have consequences, just like choices (Palin for example). Stooping to Trump’s level - have you no dignity?— Arch1 (@Arch_LGF) June 16, 2016
The pre-nom statements were always to be taken with a sack of salt, and we saw how people went back on their words. But what people are saying at this point seems to carry more weight.
re: #11 Nyet
I’m in agreement with Josh Marshall that “support the nominee” is a weird, tenuous balance that really does not have much of a chance of surviving five months of crazy Trumpism.
Do you think the media will let sitting Senators really go that long without even discussing the presidential candidate of their party? Hell naw.
I saw his tweets but the ones who yelled at me were randos, obviously searching for “Britain First” to spread denial propaganda @codechopper
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
You’re obviously confusing me with someone else, because I have NOT done that. And I don’t appreciate the accusation. @MelodyMehta
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
re: #11 Nyet
The pre-nom statements were always to be taken with a sack of salt, and we saw how people went back on their words. But what people are saying at this point seems to carry more weight.
Latest is Kasich “can’t bring himself” to endorse tRump.
Bullshit. @MelodyMehta
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
re: #12 Testy Toad T
Yep. If the same Donald made the exact same awful statements and it made him popular among the general population - most of these folks wouldn’t be trying to get away from him. For most it does not seem to be a principled stance.
But I’ll take it.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
“Part of a movement” = “I dunno it looks kinda similar so I’ll lump you together”
Discourse these days, my god.
So you’re part of a movement that tries to deny reality, and the far right’s responsibility in this crime, I take it. @MelodyMehta
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
re: #16 Nyet
For most it does not seem to be a principled stance.
I think Sasse and Graham, in particular, are exceptions. They actually seem to think that Trump is disgusting pants-on-head crazy evil.
However, I agree with your broader sentiment.
re: #19 Testy Toad T
I actually thought Graham went back on his word too, but apparently he denies having semi-endorsed the Don.
Is this the first British political assassination since PM Spencer Perceval in 1812?
Amazing how these people who don’t follow me suddenly appear to attack and spread denial.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
You seem very sensitive about this subject. @MelodyMehta
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
Li’l Whiplash is projecting onto some entity called “Leftists” again
Conservatives: We need these guns to prevent tyranny.
Left: You’re crazy. That would never happen. Give us all your guns.— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 16, 2016
Jo Cox murder suspect linked to hard-right group that campaigned against the EU https://t.co/hY1aDirUJj @MelodyMehta
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
re: #23 The Vicious Babushka
How do you prevent tyranny with guns?
For any theater nerds here:
1)So far @USATODAY is the only one not burying the lede:
We’re filming the original cast before I go.
WE GOT YOU. https://t.co/O7Vo9LhF7O— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) June 16, 2016
re: #23 The Vicious Babushka
Li’l Whiplash is projecting onto some entity called “Leftists” again
Right-wing projection of leftist “tyranny” always rang rather hollow, but it’s laugh-out-loud funny as we stare the prospect of Duce Trump square in the face.
How desperate are you to attempt these obvious deflections and straw man arguments? @MelodyMehta
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
re: #25 Nyet
How do you prevent tyranny with guns?
And if you can prevent tyranny with guns, what stops you from preventing democracy with guns?
Gun nuts: “trust us, we’ll only prevent real tyranny with our guns!” (whisper: “OBAMA!”)
I don’t think the founding fathers had any clue that popular American gun ownership would have about a thousandfold better chance of being the instrument that enacted and enforced tyranny than it did of preventing it.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet your “principled conservative” of the day:
Hugh Hewitt Gets Back On the Trump Train Because ‘Hillary Clinton is the Real Risk’ https://t.co/xCUXKPduZ3 pic.twitter.com/4fKzECTkzw
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 16, 2016
re: #30 Nyet
Gun nuts: “trust us, we’ll only prevent real tyranny with our guns!” (whisper: “OBAMA!”)
Wisdom of the largest and loudest and dumbest crowd, backed with gunpowder. S-M-R-T!
re: #23 The Vicious Babushka
Li’l Whiplash is projecting onto some entity called “Leftists” again
A: I need these guns to protect against tyranny.
A: also, tyranny includes people we don’t know gay marrying, any sex that we’re not having, not worshiping exactly how we worship, and being critical of us.
B: I are not entirely comfortable with how those two sentences fit together.
A: You better respect that I a hero defending your freedom or else.
ROFLMAO
Dem bill would require rich people to undergo drug test before receiving tax breaks: https://t.co/5vvzg4HPnq pic.twitter.com/S0qrihryOX
— The Hill (@thehill) June 16, 2016
re: #30 Nyet
Gun nuts: “trust us, we’ll only prevent real tyranny with our guns!” (whisper: “OBAMA!”)
No fly no buy advocates: “trust us, we’ll stop with the 2nd amendment. The 1st, 4th and 5th are safe.”
re: #36 compound_Idaho
No fly no buy advocates: “trust us, we’ll stop with the 2nd amendment. The 1st, 4th and 5th are safe.”
“Oh no, I voted to change this one thing. That means I’m now bound to vote on these other things identically, because bills come in weird omnibuses like that and also Obama!”
Please attempt to construct a dumber slippery slope. It would be an interesting mental exercise.
This is sad.
“He’s still a candidate for the Democratic nomination,” says Jeff Weaver of Bernie Sanders on MSNBC.
— Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) June 16, 2016
Sanders has effectively marginalized himself. By waiting so long to concede gracefully and endorse he’s lost most if not all of his negotiating power. By transitioning his demands from the actual policy positions he ran on to a bunch of sour grapes electoral reforms that little to nothing to do with why he lost he’s screwed over the people who voted for him. Those people thought he’d be a tireless champion against income inequality, banking reform and free education. Instead what they got is a bitter old fool distracted from his core issues by his own delusional gripes.
Even if the DNC could enact the reforms he want’s, and for the most part they can’t, they rules he’s complaining about aren’t the reason he lost. He’s the reason he lost, and this pivot away from the the issues he ran on perfectly demonstrate this fact. He was never prepared to explain a plausible path towards how he would enact the things he wanted to do, and now he’s near to utterly abandoning those very things in favor of some ridiculous demands utterly unrelated to his nominal goals and reasons for running in the first place. He’s always been the kind of guy who was eager and ready to abandon his principles, who could be so easily distracted by personal grudges and angst. He was never going to make an even halfway decent President.
I have never had more contempt for Bernie Sanders than I do right now, and that includes the absolute rage I felt for him when he called Clinton unqualified. A rage that motivated me to volunteer for her campaign. I’m just glad I could be a small part of the team that defeated him here in California.
Seriously, fuck that guy.
re: #36 compound_Idaho
No fly no buy advocates: “trust us, we’ll stop with the 2nd amendment. The 1st, 4th and 5th are safe.”
The 1st amendment guarantees freedom of speech. Yet you still can’t shout “fire” in a crowded theater, command someone to bump someone else off, watch or own certain kinds of porn and libel people right and left. Constitution, how does it work?
re: #32 Lidane
He’s seen the polls. It’s time to circle the wagons and claim that Trump is the best political candidate since sliced bread.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
Seriously, fuck that guy.
Ain’t worth the effort.
He’s so marginalized at this point I don’t even think he has any sway over his actual supporters, outside the diehard dead-enders who were never going to vote for a Democrat in the first place.
Let him yell at his clouds. Let his persuadable backers come aboard in their own due time. We are blessed, thank God, with the most astonishingly toxic opponent in five generations. They’ll find their way.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
Odd, because of this:
Campaign manager: Sanders no longer actively lobbying superdelegates https://t.co/5lx4VXU7d4 pic.twitter.com/fX0sXdTEsw
— The Hill (@thehill) June 16, 2016
Wow, that tweet really brought the nuts out of the woodwork.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
re: #43 Lidane
Odd, because of this:
At no point could the dude even run a cohesive campaign, never mind a country. Sad!
A day or two before he dropped out, Ted Cruz’s campaign manager said he won’t be dropping out.
So it’s just noise, let’s wait and see what Bernie says today.
re: #40 Nyet
This is a poor analogy. The first protects speech, but those activities aren’t considered speech pursuant to the first amendment. It doesn’t stop applying to specific persons based on their actions.
No-fly, no-buy applies to specific persons ability to buy any guns at all, whether or not you think certain guns aren’t protected by the second.
re: #36 compound_Idaho
No fly no buy advocates: “trust us, we’ll stop with the 2nd amendment. The 1st, 4th and 5th are safe.”
How does it make sense to compile a list of people deemed too dangerous to be allowed on airplanes and have these same people be allowed to buy guns?
Something like the no-fly list should be a package deal. If we’re going to have it, it should be used consistently. If the due process concerns really are intractable, then end the list entirely.
re: #47 Altermite
This is a poor analogy. The first protects speech, but those activities aren’t considered speech pursuant to the first amendment. It doesn’t stop applying to specific persons based on their actions.
No-fly, no-buy applies to specific persons ability to buy any guns at all, whether or not you think certain guns aren’t protected by the second.
Just as no-fly no-buy won’t be considered infringement pursuant to the 2nd amendment. Easy.
re: #21 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Is this the first British political assassination since PM Spencer Perceval in 1812?
No: I think the IRA blew up or shot an MP c. 1990. Maybe more than one?
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Oh, and Lord Frederick Cavendish in Dublin in 1885
Also: Lord Mountbatten in 1979.
Mainly an Irish thing til now….
re: #22 Charles Johnson
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I sense she will burst into flames, pinwheel out a plate glass window and say it was all…..your…fault. I can hear the transmission trying to shift…
re: #40 Nyet
We have a secret list of those that cannot fly. We are proposing a secret list of citizens cannot by guns. We had/have secret rendition sites. Maybe you are just more trusting than I am.
Nice trick there. “But those are not considered speech!” But they’re still speech. So if you can re-define speech as non-speech pursuant to the 1st amdt., you can sure as heck do the same with the 2nd.
re: #54 compound_Idaho
We have a secret list of those that cannot fly. We are proposing a secret list of citizens cannot by guns. We had/have secret rendition sites. Maybe you are just more trusting than I am.
If you want to propose we make this list public (at least to the extent you can find out if you’re on it) and subject to due process of law, I am 1000% behind you. I suspect most Americans would agree. I am almost certain most Democrats would agree.
re: #54 compound_Idaho
We have a secret list of those that cannot fly. We are proposing a secret list of citizens cannot by guns. We had/have secret rendition sites. Maybe you are just more trusting than I am.
I’m against the no-fly lists.
As long as they exist, it also makes sense that those folks won’t be able to buy guns.
If this leads to disappearance of said lists, so much the better.
re: #52 Jay C
No: I think the IRA blew up or shot an MP c. 1990. Maybe more than one?
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Oh, and Lord Frederick Cavendish in Dublin in 1885
I’d forgotten Cavendish—duh. I wasn’t counting foreign terrorists like the IRA, but maybe I should have.
re: #49 EPR-radar
How does it make sense to compile a list of people deemed too dangerous to be allowed on airplanes and have these same people be allowed to buy guns?
Something like the no-fly list should be a package deal. If we’re going to have it, it should be used consistently. If the due process concerns really are intractable, then end the list entirely.
With our luck, they’ll do away with the list and still let everybody buy guns.
re: #32 Lidane
He thought about it. And came to the conclusion that Trump is the better of the two. Because. You know. Right. Did you expect it any different? Its as if a glimmer of conscience slips by, and then its back to SOP. Back on the Train To Griftville. All aboard!
re: #57 Nyet
I’m against the no-fly lists.
As long as they exist, it also makes sense that those folks won’t be able to buy guns.
If this leads to disappearance of said lists, so much the better.
It makes sense to have a list whereby an individual could be subject to almost arbitrarily strict scrutiny before they were allowed through security, but a flat-out “you are too dangerous to get through” is a roundabout way of saying our security is ultimately toothless and impotent.
IMO anyway.
You’re being offensively stupid, and I’m blocking you now. Bye! @MelodyMehta
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2016
re: #61 Testy Toad T
Agreed. There can be lists of persons to watch out for.
Simple denial of service is or at least borders on unlawful IMHO.
But as long as it is there, as EPR said, it’s a package deal.
Setting aside the no-fly list, how does this make any sense?
Being on the terror watch list is no obstacle to buying guns, according to government data https://t.co/Yr6se83tAP pic.twitter.com/IJifIbR8LJ
— McClatchyDC (@McClatchyDC) June 15, 2016
What the fuck is the terror watch list for if people on it can still buy guns and ammo?
re: #47 Altermite
This is a poor analogy. The first protects speech, but those activities aren’t considered speech pursuant to the first amendment. It doesn’t stop applying to specific persons based on their actions.
No-fly, no-buy applies to specific persons ability to buy any guns at all, whether or not you think certain guns aren’t protected by the second.
The reason they aren’t considered speech pursuant to the first amendment is law, regulation, and practice that deemed them not to be such.
As it happens, I don’t like the no-fly list. I consider it an abrogation of the sixth amendment. I think it magnficent tactics to force it into close examination by tying it to the second amendment rights. The end result, I think, will be a mild increase in reasonable protection from abuses using the second as cover, while at the same time forcing the no-fly list to meet basic constitutional obligations that boil down to knowing what the charge is and being given the right to defend and appeal the charges.
re: #21 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Is this the first British political assassination since PM Spencer Perceval in 1812?
I’m sure someone answered, but I heard today that it’s the first since an MP was killed by an IRA car bomb in 1990.
re: #67 Nyet
Thank you, sir. I actually thought several people said it well, and a lot faster than me.
NAILED. IT.
49 Americans murdered
So … when does Trey Gowdy start the investigation?— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 17, 2016
This “arm everybody” thing that the gun nutz propose is so utterly insane, I can’t even deal.
Can you imagine how many people would be killed daily? It would be worse than any war in history.
Someone cuts you off while driving? Well that’s a shooting. Times about a million, every day.
Someone is rude to you in the grocery store? Well that’s a shooting. Times about a million a day.
Drunk people in a bar? I don’t think there’s a high enough estimate for how many people would get shot daily.
ad infinitum
FFS
re: #71 plansbandc
Georgia allows guns in bars. There seem to be more restrictions on purchasing alcohol than guns here. Odd that.
re: #40 Nyet
To them the only Amendment that’s absolute is the 2nd. They are that insecure about themselves that they value inanimate killing tools over anything else.
re: #50 Nyet
This is literal nonsense.
libel laws aren’t an infringement on speech because libel isn’t considered speech under the first amendment. Under them, people have the right to speech, but they don’t have the right to libel, because libel isn’t a protected form of speech. The parallel under second amendment cases is whether an ak-47 is an “arm” contemplated under the 2nd.
No-fly no-buy has no determination on whether buying an ak-47 is a protected right under the 2nd amendment, just whether certain people have that right. The equivalent speech law would be that members of a group can’t speak.
re: #65 kirkspencer
The reason they aren’t considered speech pursuant to the first amendment is law, regulation, and practice that deemed them not to be such..
This explanation applies equally well to any law, and is therefore so broad an analysis as to be meaningless. One might as well say “Courts said so, QED.”
As it happens, I don’t like the no-fly list. I consider it an abrogation of the sixth amendment. I think it magnficent tactics to force it into close examination by tying it to the second amendment rights. The end result, I think, will be a mild increase in reasonable protection from abuses using the second as cover, while at the same time forcing the no-fly list to meet basic constitutional obligations that boil down to knowing what the charge is and being given the right to defend and appeal the charges.
I agree with these concerns, excepting that the 5th might be a better fit than the 6th, as it’s not clearly a criminal matter. But that’s not a meaningful disagreement.
re: #71 plansbandc
This “arm everybody” thing that the gun nutz propose is so utterly insane, I can’t even deal.
Can you imagine how many people would be killed daily? It would be worse than any war in history.
Someone cuts you off while driving? Well that’s a shooting. Times about a million, every day.
Someone is rude to you in the grocery store? Well that’s a shooting. Times about a million a day.
Drunk people in a bar? I don’t think there’s a high enough estimate for how many people would get shot daily.
ad infinitum
FFS
And with no Wall.
American Pie.
re: #76 nines09
Yes. No wall. I don’t even know how to express my disgust anymore. No words.
wtf - I just got my 3rd notification from Twitter that I needed to change my password, even though I’ve enabled 2-factor authentication.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 17, 2016
re: #75 Altermite
libel laws aren’t an infringement on speech because libel isn’t considered speech under the first amendment. Under them, people have the right to speech, but they don’t have the right to libel, because libel isn’t a protected form of speech. The parallel under second amendment cases is whether an ak-47 is an “arm” contemplated under the 2nd.
“Arms…necessary to the security of a free state” nowadays might very well involve ICBMs with MIRVed warheads. They are not legal for individuals to own, as far as I know, and very few people are advocating for that. That’s all the proof you need that the Second Amendment has nothing to do with private ownership of “Arms”. It speaks only to the security of the state…at least partially from random nuts with guns.
re: #77 plansbandc
You would think we were at war with ourselves. Or preying upon each other. Enabled by the profit to be made. And as the body count rises, so do the sales, and ultimately, the profits. You do have to wonder how some people live with themselves.
trump is harping on about Kerry’s bike accident.
re: #81 Stanley Sea
trump is harping on about Kerry’s bike accident.
OFFS—how does that reflect badly on Secretary Kerry?
So I guess Bernie isn’t suspending his campaign then.
TACTICAL NUKES IN EVERY GARAGE FOR A SAFE SOCIETY
re: #81 Stanley Sea
Trump is just jealous that Kerry can ride a bike. Daddy Trump never cared to teach Donny.
re: #84 Not a Sparkly Vampire
TACTICAL NUKES IN EVERY GARAGE FOR A SAFE SOCIETY
Look, any country that doesn’t let me equip my Continental with a 105mm smoothbore tank gun is not a country worth living in.
re: #81 Stanley Sea
trump is harping on about Kerry’s bike accident.
He’ll talk about anything to avoid discussing the issues in a serious manner.
Wasn’t he going off about tents the other day?
So MSNBC just cut away to the woman subbing for Chris Hayes. Am I missing something here? He’s really going to keep “running” all the way to Philly?
Why is it that the most repulsive men think they are entitled to criticize women’s looks?
Why are liberal women always so homely? And why do they flaunt it? @antisocialista
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) June 17, 2016
re: #86 thedopefishlives
Look, any country that doesn’t let me equip my Continental with a 105mm smoothbore tank gun is not a country worth living in.
GTFO the fast lane, n00b!
re: #90 Not a Sparkly Vampire
GTFO out the fast lane, n00b!
Although my Continental is less of a tank and more of a boat… perhaps I should opt for the 16-inch Mark 7 naval cannon?
re: #75 Altermite
This is literal nonsense.
libel laws aren’t an infringement on speech because libel isn’t considered speech under the first amendment. Under them, people have the right to speech, but they don’t have the right to libel, because libel isn’t a protected form of speech. The parallel under second amendment cases is whether an ak-47 is an “arm” contemplated under the 2nd.
No-fly no-buy has no determination on whether buying an ak-47 is a protected right under the 2nd amendment, just whether certain people have that right. The equivalent speech law would be that members of a group can’t speak.
I’m afraid your argument is nonsense.
My point was that the “absolute” language of the amendments never prevented various tweaks that skirt around that language. You missed the whole point. That the tweaks for the 2nd amendment might look different is not the issue.
Jesus, what was the point of all that? How the fuck do we come together to fight Trump if Sanders is going to keep egging on the Bernie Bros?
re: #89 The Vicious Babushka
Why is it that the most repulsive men think they are entitled to criticize women’s looks?
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— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) June 17, 2016
re: #89 The Vicious Babushka
Why is it that the most repulsive men think they are entitled to criticize women’s looks?
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Because they’re men.
Jim Hoft feels that entitlement because he’s a man.
re: #88 Mattand
So MSNBC just cut away to the woman subbing for Chris Hayes. Am I missing something here? He’s really going to keep “running” all the way to Philly?
Yep. He’s going to be like the owner of that little house with its postage-stamp lot right in the middle of the fence of Boeing Renton’s parking lot—held out for too much and they said : “Fuck it!”
re: #91 thedopefishlives
If it is a land yacht go for the naval gun.
re: #89 The Vicious Babushka
Why is it that the most repulsive men think they are entitled to criticize women’s looks?
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Hoft has no room to talk about anyone being homely as long as he rocks that ‘Dumb and Dumber’ do.
re: #93 Mattand
Jesus, what was the point of all that? How the fuck do we come together to fight Trump if Sanders is going to keep egging on the Bernie Bros?
Forget the BernieBros. They were never gonna vote for a Dem anyway.
re: #89 The Vicious Babushka
Why is it that the most repulsive men think they are entitled to criticize women’s looks?
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Mr. Hoft has clearly not met the Mrs. Fish, who is beautiful, strong, and liberal enough to make his head asplode.
re: #95 EPR-radar
Because they’re men.
Gee, sure is fun being on the good guys’ team sometimes.
Thanks for the support.
re: #89 The Vicious Babushka
Why is it that the most repulsive men think they are entitled to criticize women’s looks?
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I know of five liberal women who are on my freebie list—or does that make me as bad as him?
re: #64 Lidane
Setting aside the no-fly list, how does this make any sense?
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What the fuck is the terror watch list for if people on it can still buy guns and ammo?
So you can watch impotently as they buy guns and ammo?
re: #93 Mattand
Jesus, what was the point of all that? How the fuck do we come together to fight Trump if Sanders is going to keep egging on the Bernie Bros?
Bernie is a self-centered jackass. Power and adoration has gone to his head.
Fuck you, Beenie. Go away. You’re useless. Worse than useless, you’re damaging.
Why is Jim Hoft always so amazingly stupid? And why isn’t he embarrassed by his own stupidity? @gatewaypundit @antisocialista
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 17, 2016
re: #81 Stanley Sea
trump is harping on about Kerry’s bike accident.
Trump reminds me of that well off punk in school who walks around like he owns you, rags on everybody and does and says whatever he pleases. Pushes people around, takes lunch money, and can get you beat up. Not by him, of course, but his “boys”. They hang around because Trump buys them things, and says they are “great” and “really tough” and “can beat anybody up.” So they collect their nickels and dimes, and Trumps mommy and daddy allow some to sleep over at his big house with all the trappings. And sometimes they are even allowed to go to the lake with them. But sooner or later, a kid shows up who isn’t afraid of anything, let alone a bully like Trump and his tough guys, and when they try the squeeze, they get the living shit kicked out of them. Large. That moment is approaching. Enjoy it. I will drink it in.
re: #103 Dave In Austin
At this point, why would he care??
True, that. He can’t help himself. Another self loathing dude who feels the need to play it straight.
re: #98 makeitstop
Hoft has no room to talk about anyone being homely as long as he rocks that ‘Dumb and Dumber’ do.
Dim Jim would be just as hideous even if he had Donald Trump’s personal hair stylist.
re: #91 thedopefishlives
Although my Continental is less of a tank and more of a boat… perhaps I should opt for the 16-inch Mark 7 naval cannon?
I’d pay to see that.
re: #98 makeitstop
Hoft has no room to talk about anyone being homely as long as he rocks that ‘Dumb and Dumber’ do.
I always think: “M.O.O.N.—that spells Moozlins!”
re: #102 Testy Toad T
Gee, sure is fun being on the good guys’ team sometimes.
Thanks for the support.
Good catch. I’ve edited that.
re: #106 MsJ
Bernie is a self-centered jackass. Power and adoration has gone to his head.
Fuck you, Beenie. Go away. You’re useless. Worse than useless, you’re damaging.
This, in a nutshell. “The best way to defeat Donald Trump is to sow as much division in the Democratic Party as we can.”
Fucking A, Bernie. That whole speech was one giant passive-aggressive version of “Give me what I want or I burn it all to the ground.”
Oh, man. Been super crazy this and the last couple of weeks.
Circumstances have allowed me to schedule a quick, 3-day trip to Washington DC with the family before we head to the Beach this summer with the extended family. Going to make the drive next week on Wednesday.
re: #107 Charles Johnson
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Why would he care? Glass house. He should give us the scoop on Trump. What’s he do for your shorts, SMOTI?
Seriously, though, it makes a seriously twisted sense that conservative nutjobs focus on womens’ looks as a valid (to them) means of criticism. Think about it: Wingnuts think of women as property, or as objects. A “good woman”, to them, has that shiny sex appeal, because it reflects on the man if he is able to capture a sweet beauty. Therefore, accusing a woman of being ugly is tantamount, to them, to discrediting her - because any woman who isn’t fit to be seen in their company is obviously not a woman of quality. It makes sense in their head, but it’s so disgustingly wrong.
From Sanders, on my FB feed:
Please go to my website at berniesanders.com to learn more about how you can effectively run for office. #OurRevolution
Which is ironic, coming from the guy who just lost.
re: #119 thedopefishlives
Seriously, though, it makes a seriously twisted sense that conservative nutjobs focus on womens’ looks as a valid (to them) means of criticism. Think about it: Wingnuts think of women as property, or as objects. A “good woman”, to them, has that shiny sex appeal, because it reflects on the man if he is able to capture a sweet beauty. Therefore, accusing a woman of being ugly is tantamount, to them, to discrediting her - because any woman who isn’t fit to be seen in their company is obviously not a woman of quality. It makes sense in their head, but it’s so disgustingly wrong.
You might call it Argumentum ad Wominem.
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re: #118 nines09
Why would he care? Glass house. He should give us the scoop on Trump. What’s he do for your shorts, SMOTI?
Trump and Hoft in some kind of love nest may be the most singularly disgusting possibility raised in this disgusting election season.
re: #120 Blind Frog Belly White
From Sanders, on my FB feed:
Which is ironic, coming from the guy who just lost.
Them as kin, does—them as cain’t, teach.
re: #120 Blind Frog Belly White
From Sanders, on my FB feed:
Which is ironic, coming from the guy who just lost.
Sanders University.
re: #123 EPR-radar
Trump and Hoft in some kind of love nest may be the most singularly disgusting possibility raised in this disgusting election season.
Imagine SMOTI walking out like he was eating Cheetos all night. And nary a bag in the house.
re: #25 Nyet
How do you prevent tyranny with guns?
You don’t.
You can guarantee the right type of tyranny though. semi/
re: #111 Blind Frog Belly White
I’d pay to see that.
Well, let’s see. A Mark 7 cannon is 68 feet long and weighs in at a measly 134 tons. The ol’ land yacht clocks in at a little less than 19.5 feet and 2.5 tons. I think the recoil would probably having me breaking the speed limit.
re: #120 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s a RWNJ level of self-delusion.
The simple fact of the matter is that Bernie Sanders screwed things up just about as thoroughly as one conceivably could while running on the oligarchy issue.
re: #129 thedopefishlives
Well, let’s see. A Mark 7 cannon is 68 feet long and weighs in at a measly 134 tons. The ol’ land yacht clocks in at a little less than 19.5 feet and 2.5 tons. I think the recoil would probably having me breaking the speed limit.
Nothing a couple rolls of duct tape wouldn’t solve.
re: #132 EPR-radar
That’s a RWNJ level of self-delusion.
The simple fact of the matter is that Bernie Sanders screwed things up just about as thoroughly as one conceivably could while running on the oligarchy issue.
Although, to be fair, this is what I’ve been saying progressives should do if they’re not happy with the Democratic Party - emulate the Tea Party by putting up their own slates of candidates but still voting Democratic in every election. It’s certainly more grown up approach than bitching about not liking what the Democratic Party ‘gives’ them.
re: #133 Not a Sparkly Vampire
Nothing a couple rolls of duct tape wouldn’t solve.
This sounds like a job for my favorite celebrity dynamic duo. “Can a land yacht mount a battleship gun? This week on Mythbusters!”
re: #129 thedopefishlives
Well, let’s see. A Mark 7 cannon is 68 feet long and weighs in at a measly 134 tons. The ol’ land yacht clocks in at a little less than 19.5 feet and 2.5 tons. I think the recoil would probably having me breaking the speed limit.
Yeah. We say “built like a battleship”, but really they’re close to the weight of the projectiles.
re: #136 thedopefishlives
This sounds like a job for my favorite celebrity dynamic duo. “Can a land yacht mount a battleship gun? This week on Mythbusters!”
Reminds me of the lovely fairy tale about adding military rockets (jet assisted takeoff units, IIRC) to a Chevy Impala.
re: #137 stpaulbear
And the lovers that you sent for me
Didn’t come with any satisfaction guarantee
So I’ll return them to the sender
And the note attached will read
How I love to hate you
I love to hate you
I love to hate you
I love to hate you
The right-wing obsession with women’s looks reminds me of something Judge Judy told a nice-looking young lady who appeared in her court: “Beauty fades but dumb is forever.” Sometimes I look at stars who were once considered very beautiful/handsome 20 years ago, and most of their looks have faded. Some of them are unrecognizable to me today. When Chuck Woolery emerged recently to share his right-wing views with us, I almost didn’t recognize him. The years have not been kind to him.
re: #21 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Is this the first British political assassination since PM Spencer Perceval in 1812?
I guess if you don’t count IRA bombings.
re: #139 EPR-radar
Reminds me of the lovely fairy tale about adding military rockets (jet assisted takeoff units, IIRC) to a Chevy Impala.
One of my favorites. The seasons prior to the last one are on Hulu. I might have to see if the latest season is streaming somewhere.
Trumpism: “I have a thing called ‘lots of common sense.’”
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) June 17, 2016
re: #143 lawhawk
LMAO.
Piker.
Suitcase nukes and EMPs. When you care to send the very best.
Hey, they made a tactical nuke in 105mm caliber.
re: #143 lawhawk
LMAO.
Piker.
Suitcase nukes and EMPs. When you care to send the very best.
Do realize, Electromagnetic Pulses have been hyped up.
re: #145 Stanley Sea
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It’s funny how often ‘common sense’ is appealed to when there’s actual data that can confirm or refute the assertion.
re: #35 The Vicious Babushka
ROFLMAO
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That would have a higher rate of positives than drug testing welfare recipients.
A new harassment tactic: trolls are apparently using Twitter’s “report hacked account” option to get their target’s account locked.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 17, 2016
re: #148 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s funny how often ‘common sense’ is appealed to when there’s actual data that can confirm or refute the assertion.
Trump would be a jackass barking at the moon on a street corner if it weren’t for all his money.
It is truly remarkable that this walking personality disorder is treated as respectable simply because he is rich.
re: #147 Teukka
Do realize, Electromagnetic Pulses have been hyped up.
You say that now, but when the Bad Guys light off a nuke 10 miles up, the guy with ~200 mechanical watches* will be laughing as your Casio stops working!!!
////
*That would be me.
A different view of the last SpaceX landing attempt
Looks like early liquid oxygen depletion caused engine shutdown just above the deck pic.twitter.com/Sa6uCkpknY
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 17, 2016
re: #141 majii
The right-wing obsession with women’s looks reminds me of something Judge Judy told a nice-looking young lady who appeared in her court: “Beauty fades but dumb is forever.” Sometimes I look at stars who were once considered very beautiful/handsome 20 years ago, and most of their looks have faded. Some of them are unrecognizable to me today. When Chuck Woolery emerged recently to share his right-wing views with us, I almost didn’t recognize him. The years have not been kind to him.
It’s been 20 years since The Truth About Cats and Dogs (and 23 since she was on SNL), but Janeane Garofalo is still #1 on my freebie list. It helps that she’s probably the RWNJs most hated woman—after HRC of course.
re: #151 EPR-radar
Trump would be a jackass barking at the moon on a street corner if it weren’t for all his money.
It is truly remarkable that this walking personality disorder is treated as respectable simply because he is rich.
Yep. The difference between “clinically insane” and “eccentric” is about $1 Million.
Open thread, so I’ll add a chapter I never thought I’d write to my Cat’s Tale.
For those who haven’t read it here, the story so far: My mother’s home was wrecked by a flood. I evacuated her and her two cats to my cabin on higher ground. A couple of weeks later, the all-black, long-haired cat, Hootie, slipped out into the night and never came back. We had lost hope when several weeks later a lady living maybe fifteen miles away called and said she had a cat that matched the description on one of my flyers, the only response we’d had. I went and saw the cat and had no doubt it was Hootie, as I happily reported here. Storybook ending for all.
But as time went by doubts did crop up. The cat was a dead ringer for Hootie, but there were little things. For one, our little tuxedo cat, Tippi, was standoffish, not welcoming, to what had been her great friend. And saved Hootie seemed to have abandoned some of lost Hootie’s idiosyncrasies. Most of all, he didn’t have Hootie’s pretty, tiny mew, but a normal meow. We began calling him Big Boy instead of Hootie, and soon loved him, though it felt like betraying poor Hootie.
Weeks pass, and one night I spy Big Boy outside on the deck. “How did you get out there?” Go to let him back in but he slithers away. I sit on a bench to wait, which is when I notice Big Boy inside, sleeping in his favorite spot in the hall. Then I feel a cat rubbing against my legs with a tiny, familiar mew.
It was Hootie, two months almost to the minute after he disappeared. Tippi knew immediately, racing to meet him and going ecstatically through the whole nose- and butt-sniffing ceremony. I worried for a minute that it might not be him, because he was so small. He’d lost more than half his weight, nothing but skin, bones, much-thinned fur, and just enough muscle to wobble to his food bowl.
For a couple of days I thought we might lose him after all. He was depleted like a Bataan Death March survivor. But he’s a much tougher little creature than I’d ever imagined. Gradually he’s recovered and started to put on weight again. The more he does so, the more we have two mirror-image Halloween cats to go with Tippi. Will try to send a pic, but both of the black cats are camera shy.
To all here who offered good thoughts, many thanks, and I hope you enjoy two happy endings to one kitteh tale.
re: #144 thedopefishlives
One of my favorites. The seasons prior to the last one are on Hulu. I might have to see if the latest season is streaming somewhere.
I quit watching when they fired Kari, Grant, and Tory.
re: #9 Shiplord Kirel
An RWNJ blogger would be claiming that the outage was a Soros-Hildabeast conspiracy, with gay Mexican Muslims somehow involved.
This is from Freeperland on the incident, and guess what, not one single comment in reply going LolWhut?
Another mind control subject put to work. Just like Oswald and the rest of the “loner” political assassins. Pick someone with problems, use drugs and hypnosis to implant the compulsion to kill someone and then cover up the whole thing with ECT. MK-Ultra. Bet on it.
Yea, I think I’ll bet on something more likely, perhaps the Tennessee Titans going to the Superb Owl this year.
RBS
re: #152 Blind Frog Belly White
You say that now, but when the Bad Guys light off a nuke 10 miles up, the guy with ~200 mechanical watches* will be laughing as your Casio stops working!!!
////*That would be me.
Or the guy who spent time studying the design of the electronic and electrical gear and modifying as necessary to ruggedize it, he would be rolling on the floor laughing*
*That would be me.
re: #147 Teukka
Live the dream. And watch out for Grazer 1. Muwhahaha.
re: #156 whitebeach
I have a huge happy smile on my face for a happy ending. Wishing you all many more years of love and happiness together.
re: #152 Blind Frog Belly White
You say that now, but when the Bad Guys light off a nuke 10 miles up, the guy with ~200 mechanical watches* will be laughing as your Casio stops working!!!
////*That would be me.
Wasn’t that a Twilight Zone Episode. The Watchman Cometh?
RBS
re: #156 whitebeach
Family members returning. Any celebrations planned?
re: #164 Reality Based Steve
Wasn’t that a Twilight Zone Episode. The Watchman Cometh?
RBS
Who’s watching me, anyway?
*facepalm*
O’Reilly: Guns Are an ‘Ancillary Issue’ in Mass Shootings (If Killer Is Muslim) https://t.co/WCsJgvPfZ5 (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/INk4YXJXT0
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 17, 2016
re: #156 whitebeach
What a great story with a happy ending! Thanks for posting that.
re: #159 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I quit watching when they fired Kari, Grant, and Tory.
Yeah, that was a sad day. I cried. But, I still love Jamie and Adam and I still want to meet them, along with Alton Brown.
re: #162 lawhawk
Live the dream. And watch out for Grazer 1. Muwhahaha.
Personally I like Alec Hardison’s EMP gun, which somehow works for exactly 30 minutes.
Sure, it’s bullshit. But it’s entertaining bullshit!
re: #167 Lidane
*facepalm*
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re: #156 whitebeach
Open thread, so I’ll add a chapter I never thought I’d write to my Cat’s Tale.
For those who haven’t read it here, the story so far: My mother’s home was wrecked by a flood. I evacuated her and her two cats to my cabin on higher ground. A couple of weeks later, the all-black, long-haired cat, Hootie, slipped out into the night and never came back. We had lost hope when several weeks later a lady living maybe fifteen miles away called and said she had a cat that matched the description on one of my flyers, the only response we’d had. I went and saw the cat and had no doubt it was Hootie, as I happily reported here. Storybook ending for all.
But as time went by doubts did crop up. The cat was a dead ringer for Hootie, but there were little things. For one, our little tuxedo cat, Tippi, was standoffish, not welcoming, to what had been her great friend. And saved Hootie seemed to have abandoned some of lost Hootie’s idiosyncrasies. Most of all, he didn’t have Hootie’s pretty, tiny mew, but a normal meow. We began calling him Big Boy instead of Hootie, and soon loved him, though it felt like betraying poor Hootie.
Weeks pass, and one night I spy Big Boy outside on the deck. “How did you get out there?” Go to let him back in but he slithers away. I sit on a bench to wait, which is when I notice Big Boy inside, sleeping in his favorite spot in the hall. Then I feel a cat rubbing against my legs with a tiny, familiar mew.
It was Hootie, two months almost to the minute after he disappeared. Tippi knew immediately, racing to meet him and going ecstatically through the whole nose- and butt-sniffing ceremony. I worried for a minute that it might not be him, because he was so small. He’d lost more than half his weight, nothing but skin, bones, much-thinned fur, and just enough muscle to wobble to his food bowl.
For a couple of days I thought we might lose him after all. He was depleted like a Bataan Death March survivor. But he’s a much tougher little creature than I’d ever imagined. Gradually he’s recovered and started to put on weight again. The more he does so, the more we have two mirror-image Halloween cats to go with Tippi. Will try to send a pic, but both of the black cats are camera shy.
To all here who offered good thoughts, many thanks, and I hope you enjoy two happy endings to one kitteh tale.
That’s such a great story! I’m so happy for Hootie. And it sounds like Big Boy found a good home, too.
re: #170 thedopefishlives
Yeah, that was a sad day. I cried. But, I still love Jamie and Adam and I still want to meet them, along with Alton Brown.
Oh, I didn’t blame them—I’m sure it was the Discovery Channel suits who needed more money for their highest-paid-in-the-world CEO.
re: #120 Blind Frog Belly White
From Sanders, on my FB feed:
Which is ironic, coming from the guy who just lost.
That’s the whole point. He’ll teach you how to avoid his mistakes and run effectively.
re: #176 Patricia Kayden
That’s the whole point. He’ll teach you how to avoid his mistakes and run effectively.
So his whole purpose has been to serve as a cautionary tale?
re: #165 Teukka
Family members returning. Any celebrations planned?
For the furry members it’s been a continual feast. As for me, the miracle certainly erases any possible guilt over lifting a celebratory glass at any fitting moment.
re: #40 Nyet
The 1st amendment guarantees freedom of speech. Yet you still can’t shout “fire” in a crowded theater, command someone to bump someone else off, watch or own certain kinds of porn and libel people right and left. Constitution, how does it work?
Also, “free exercise of religion” does not mean Quetzlcoatl’s followers can pull the beating hearts out of their captives. It doesn’t even cover peyote ceremonies.
re: #179 sagehen
Also, “free exercise of religion” does not mean Quetzlcoatl’s followers can pull the beating hearts out of their captives. It doesn’t even cover peyote ceremonies.
“I’d gotta be painted red before they chop me. It’s a different religion from ours—I think…”
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