Protests rage once again in Minneapolis after another Black man, Daunte Wright, was killed by police, and a newly released video from Virginia shows a Black Army lieutenant in uniform getting pepper-sprayed by police. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #DaunteWright
Like Alexander, the British Empire and the Soviet Union, we have learned the Afghans are really hard to pacify.
Recalling a great book about the hopeless attempt to pacify Afghanistan — by Alexander the Great’s Macedonians https://t.co/SfdPEQXbDs
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) April 14, 2021
Get ready to see a MAGAT & QAsshole meltdown.
U.S. Capitol Police officer cleared of wrongdoing in fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt during Capitol attack
MSnbc remakes the obvious point
Steven Benen looks over the list of the “G-10” senators that have approached Biden and Senate Democrats as potential legislative partners and notices one thing: they don’t have particularly moderate or compromise-oriented legislative histories.
“Indeed, that G-10 list reinforces the larger problem of why meaningful, bipartisan deal-making in the Senate is effectively impossible: if you were a member of the Senate Democratic leadership, and you had a choice between passing good bills and making each of these 10 conservative senators happy, you’d embrace the budget reconciliation process with both arms, too
re: #1 No Malarkey!
Like Alexander, the British Empire and the Soviet Union, we have learned the Afghans are really hard to pacify.
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And we didn’t help ourselves by deciding that we’d use it to get into Iraq.
Kim Potter booked on 2nd degree murder. Good to see they’re following through without delay on this. May save a lot of protester lives as the Rittenhouses are due to start showing up with their guns to ‘protect the police.’
re: #2 🌹UOJB!
Get ready to see a MAGAT & QAsshole meltdown.
U.S. Capitol Police officer cleared of wrongdoing in fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt during Capitol attack
Good.
I only caught some of this morning’s defense testimony, enough to send my blood pressure to a nice round 300/200 or thereabouts
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) “footing might be firmer among fellow Republicans, but he still has plenty of work to do to shore up the grassroots GOP base,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.“That’s the takeaway from a round of GOP meetings in recent days that saw Kemp get a standing ovation at a Cobb County GOP breakfast, but also receive overwhelming votes by GOP activists in Murray and Whitfield counties to censure the first-term Republican.”
“What irony that one of the nation’s most notorious election thieves getting hammered by the brain-dead deplorables because he refused to back the Seditious Sociopath-in-Chief’s historically stupid attempt to overturn the election in Georgia.”
The so-called “pro-life” movement is an American nightmare, founded and pushed by fanatical Christian supremacists. These hypocritical monsters are doing their best to drag America back into the Dark Ages. https://t.co/0vz1VHbgE8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 14, 2021
re: #1 No Malarkey!
There’s a reason why it’s been called “The Graveyard of Empires”.
The Russians couldn’t succeed either.
re: #7 Jebediah, RBG
I only caught some of this morning’s defense testimony, enough to send my blood pressure to a nice round 300/200 or thereabouts
My blood sugar went thru the roof yesterday thanks to that plus Grubhub failing to deliver lunch, a lunatic threatening to kill himself and several Karens screaming about being forced to wear masks topped off with a real life Karen screaming that she is going to work out at the YMCA without a mask and nobody is going to stop her...and that idiot decided to call the police saying the attendant “fondled her”…
Last week, police raided the Navalny organization’s office in St. Petersburg and confiscated a number of large stickers bearing the phrase “Russia will be happy.” According to Leonid Volkov, who runs Navalny’s political organization, the police removed the stickers to conduct an expert analysis of whether the slogan constitutes extremist speech, which is illegal in Russia.
Good article from Masha Gessen.
re: #1 No Malarkey!
Like Alexander, the British Empire and the Soviet Union, we have learned the Afghans are really hard to pacify.
Alexander, the Brits, and the Soviets were looking to conquer. Had we made an actual attempt to nation build and create a civil Afghan society, we might have had a chance. But as re: #4 Belafon said, we decided to be stupid instead.
(I still think we would have ended up in Iraq in the last decade and a half because there’s no way that Uday and Qusay wouldn’t have had a rather bloody civil war to succeed Saddam when he died)
re: #7 Jebediah, RBG
I only caught some of this morning’s defense testimony, enough to send my blood pressure to a nice round 300/200 or thereabouts
Me too, but I’m looking forward to the cross of this latest witness…he obviously wasn’t comfortable saying the cause of death was undetermined.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
And they are going to very soon succeed in shutting down every abortion clinic across vast swaths of the country, forcing poor women to either give birth or seek an illegal abortion, for which I guarantee you they will prosecute and imprison women for.
Why do tasers have the same user interface as a gun? People get confused all the time, and a different UI could help reduce the times that a cop confuses the two. A sideways t-shape, with a button on top could work.
re: #5 darthstar
Charge is 2nd degree manslaughter. Big difference
re: #18 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Why do tasers have the same user interface as a gun? People get confused all the time, and a different UI could help reduce the times that a cop confuses the two. A sideways t-shape, with a button on top could work.
I believe there are multiple models of non-gun looking tasers on the market.
re: #17 No Malarkey!
And they are going to very soon succeed in shutting down every abortion clinic across vast swaths of the country, forcing poor women to either give birth or seek an illegal abortion, for which I guarantee you they will prosecute and imprison women for.
They have packed the court with enough radical Catholics to kill Roe. And once they do that there will be a very virulent backlash not only against the court but the Catholic and Religious Right Churches as well.
re: #12 🌹UOJB!
My blood sugar went thru the roof yesterday thanks to that plus Grubhub failing to deliver lunch, a lunatic threatening to kill himself and several Karens screaming about being forced to wear masks topped off with a real life Karen screaming that she is going to work out at the YMCA without a mask and nobody is going to stop her...and that idiot decided to call the police saying the attendant “fondled her”…
Jeebus what a day! I do not envy you any of that…
re: #21 🌹UOJB!
They have packed the court with enough radical Catholics to kill Roe. And once they do that there will be a very virulent backlash not only against the court but the Catholic and Religious Right Churches as well.
The RWNJ celebration when Roe goes down will be nauseating.
re: #19 EstebanTornado1963
Charge is 2nd degree manslaughter. Big difference
Manslaughter…thanks. Still important that she got charged in the first couple of days.
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
The RWNJ celebration when Roe goes down will be nauseating.
Oh you’ll see the bishops rejoicing and there will be a very strong backlash against them and their right wing Xtian allies.
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
The RWNJ celebration when Roe goes down will be nauseating.
And more women will die than babies saved…
Corporate America doing the absolute minimum.
Well, I called this correctly.
Today’s statement from businesses: ““Voting is the lifeblood of our democracy and we call upon all Americans to take a nonpartisan stand for this basic and most fundamental right of all Americans.”
They named no law, no state. Just words… https://t.co/R2gSCqZ26g— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) April 14, 2021
Moderna #2 update
It’s been almost 24 hours & zero side effects.
I did unfortunately stay up reading till 130am, so maybe it gave me a jolt, or my book was just so damned good. (Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen)
re: #26 The Pie Overlord!
And more women will die than babies saved…
Oh as I’ve posted before. The Cult Of The Fetus does not care what happens to women or babies once they are born.
My sister would have died if she had not had an abortion and I will NEVER forgive the Pulpit Pimps who laid such a guilt trip on her and her asshole husband who doubled down on that torture turning her into a rabid antiabortion activist.
It is never an “emergency” to Garbage Hobbit unless it’s his own property that’s under water. But of course he thinks he is smart enough to sell before that happens.
Ben Shapiro: “It’s not as though a certain level of climate change occurring over the course of the century turns it from just change to emergency…I do not consider it an ‘emergency’ if the climate were to warm 4 degrees Celsius over the course of the next century” pic.twitter.com/Vm4AWBmDlN
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) April 14, 2021
Watch the Right say libs are hypocrites for not wanting the officer who shot terrorist Ashlie Babbitt arrested.
BREAKING: Federal prosecutors say no charges will be filed against a U.S. Capitol Police officer who fatally shot a woman during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Ashli Babbitt, 35, was one of five people who died amid the mayhem. https://t.co/uGSAuYFjhF
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 14, 2021
re: #31 No Malarkey!
Watch the Right say libs are hypocrites for not wanting the officer who shot terrorist Ashlie Babbitt arrested.
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re: #30 The Pie Overlord!
Conservatives do not care as long as they aren’t alive to see it. If I had a dollar for every damned time one of my parents said “well, I won’t be alive to have to worry about it”, I would have a nice little cash stash. Never mind your grandchildren and great grandchildren, nah. They have nothing to do with any of their grandkids anyway, so I guess they don’t give a shit. But I am the bad guy. Ok then.
re: #15 darthstar
Me too, but I’m looking forward to the cross of this latest witness…he obviously wasn’t comfortable saying the cause of death was undetermined.
Me too. I’m looking forward to some witness shredding.
The “tradition” that water systems and the electrical grid don’t count as infrastructure seems to date back to March 2021. https://t.co/PxauNNkM78
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 14, 2021
The great intellect of Ben Shapiro on climate change (a response):
I had to visualize @Hbomberguy actually doing this pic.twitter.com/1AVnMmQvYU
— ScottyJayMan (@TheScottyJayMan) June 1, 2019
Elections have consequences, especially when you elect smart, hard working people to office.
New Senator @ossoff is turning out to be *exceptional.* https://t.co/IzlEHzKusf
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 13, 2021
re: #36 No Malarkey!
Seems like water and power companies might have a bit of an issue with that. Don’t taxpayers foot the bill for a lot of assorted repairs and upgrades to the systems they use to get their products into our homes?
re: #39 A Mom Anon
Seems like water and power companies might have a bit of an issue with that. Don’t taxpayers foot the bill for a lot of assorted repairs and upgrades to the systems they use to get their products into our homes?
But this is a tradition that the GQP has cherished for days. Tradition!
re: #30 The Pie Overlord!
It is never an “emergency” to Garbage Hobbit unless it’s his own property that’s under water. But of course he thinks he is smart enough to sell before that happens.
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Funny how people like Benny there and the wingnut Christian fanatics totally deny climate change, while folks like Sheikh Eshref Efendi here make videos like the following urging people to be keenly aware of such things…
BTW, I know the Sheikh personally. He’s a decent mensch.
re: #38 No Malarkey!
Elections have consequences, especially when you elect smart, hard working people to office.
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Love That Jon!
There are no “good” Murdochs.
The statement is so vague and vanilla it’s no great stand to sign it; it’s just pr.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 14, 2021
re: #41 Dr Lizardo
5 foot sea rise affects pretty much every US Navy base for ships and their support facilities - from Norfolk to Puget Sound. From Portsmouth to Seal Island. From New London to Pearl Harbor. 10 feet and it gets worse for all.
That’s significant facilities across the globe that need to be fortified or moved or upgraded to address sea level changes.
And you can’t just move those things. There’s billions in infrastructure costs. There’s facilities. There’s utilities. All of it.
And Ben the ass-clown thinks that you can just up and move or sell it to someone else.
Who is going to buy “property” that is now underwater?
re: #37 BlueSpotinAL
The great intellect of Ben Shapiro on climate change (a response):
CNN has a story today about how Duluth MN will be a wonderful town for “climate refugees” who are bailing on the uninhabitable places they live. It’ll be the next San Francisco.
The video looks like a travelogue. Nothing at all about how Duluth will be a San Francisco with snow on the ground for three months out of the year and four months of winter.
The video made me feel extremely NIMBY about hordes of mobile professionals wrecking the North Shore like they’ve ruined affordable living in the Rockies.
re: #36 No Malarkey!
Traditional infrastructure:
Cobble stone roads
Roman aqueducts
Whale oil street lamps
Strip mining national parks
re: #44 lawhawk
Ben understands nothing. It’s that simple.
re: #46 KGxvi
If you let the Liberals take away whale oil lamps, they’ll take away child labor next. Where does this slippery slope end?
re: #46 KGxvi
Traditional infrastructure:
Cobble stone roads
Roman aqueducts
Whale oil street lamps
Strip mining national parks
Pooping in trenches or holes in the ground.
I think Biden’s argument for leaving Afghanistan boils down to this:
Inertia is not a good enough reason to stay. Leaving may pose risks, but there are great risks by staying, including draining resources needed elsewhere to counter China or Russia or both.
It’s past time to consider Afghanistan done. We couldn’t pacify the country. We couldn’t defeat the Taliban because all they had to do was run off to Pakistan and return when the bombing was over. They could go into Waziristan. They could melt away into the tunnels/caves in the mountain regions.
All the while, the provisional government remained relatively weak and without sufficient support from the population. Are there things we can do without having troops on the ground to continue supporting the govt? Absolutely. Can we do more to stop Taliban? Sure.
re: #47 Dr Lizardo
Ben understands nothing. It’s that simple.
And the way he dismisses a “4°C” (7.2°F) rise in global temps as apparently trivial - we’re already seeing visible global climate change with (I think) a 1°C rise already over the (??) 100-year baseline: and most climate scientists think that even a 2°C rise over the next 5-6-7 decades will enough to cause extensive coastal flooding (not to mention increased desertification and other problems): Moron.
re: #45 stpaulbear
CNN has a story today about how Duluth MN will be a wonderful town for “climate refugees” who are bailing on the uninhabitable places they live. It’ll be the next San Francisco.
The video looks like a travelogue. Nothing at all about how Duluth will be a San Francisco with snow on the ground for three months out of the year and four months of winter.
The video made me feel extremely NIMBY about hordes of mobile professionals wrecking the North Shore like they’ve ruined affordable living in the Rockies.
There’s been an uptick, supposedly, of people seeking climate refuge in NH among the people gobbling the limited stock of housing here in the last year and half—at least according to NH public radio.
re: #50 lawhawk
I think Biden’s argument for leaving Afghanistan boils down to this:
Inertia is not a good enough reason to stay. Leaving may pose risks, but there are great risks by staying, including draining resources needed elsewhere to counter China or Russia or both.
It’s past time to consider Afghanistan done. We couldn’t pacify the country. We couldn’t defeat the Taliban because all they had to do was run off to Pakistan and return when the bombing was over. They could go into Waziristan. They could melt away into the tunnels/caves in the mountain regions.
All the while, the provisional government remained relatively weak and without sufficient support from the population. Are there things we can do without having troops on the ground to continue supporting the govt? Absolutely. Can we do more to stop Taliban? Sure.
The Pod Save The World podcast gives a pretty good rundown on Afghanistan this morning. They pretty much echo what you say. I appreciate their insider viewpoints.
Ah more GOP Family Values on display!
Former Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst arrested on domestic violence charge
Samuel Christopher Montoya, reportedly a video editor for Infowars, was arrested Tuesday and faces multiple charges, including entering a restricted building and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a Capitol building.@highbrow_nobrowhttps://t.co/gRUTkar0xL
— Ale (@aliasvaughn) April 14, 2021
re: #30 The Pie Overlord!
An additional 4C, over the current 1C rise since the 19th century, will return us to the hottest part of the Cenozoic.
The dramatic differences in climate between then and now is what makes human life possible.
Here’s the latest from Just Have A Think on what we’re facing currently:
yeah, i like the prosecutors, but all of these folks are kind of sloppy with direct and cross. Presumably, the prosecutor should have the witness read text into the record, rather than reading it themselves.
GRRR.
Lowest vaccination rates in NYC are in Borough Park among the Haredi population.
All it took was this one article to change everything.
Until this article came out, there was praise from these voices: The Forward was their friend, it was their ally, it was no longer “targeting” them.
And yet. This article changed it all.https://t.co/gWDeY7OXpW— Elad Nehorai (@PopChassid) April 14, 2021
Now, why is this the case? It goes back to the rabbis leading those congregations and Trumpworld courting them for support and buying into the baffling bulkshit. This is the same community that resisted the masking and social distancing and instead held massive funerals, weddings, and other events with no regard for safety. They’re still resistant to the idea of masking or vaccination and remain a danger to all involved.
Trump might be gone, but the policies and damage he inflicted remains.
re: #56 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
An additional 4C, over the current 1C rise since the 19th century, will return us to the hottest part of the Cenozoic.
The dramatic differences in climate between then and now is what makes human life possible.
Here’s the latest from Just Have A Think on what we’re facing currently:
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But Ben will be dead by 2100, so it’s not his problem./
re: #46 KGxvi
Traditional infrastructure:
Cobble stone roads
Roman aqueducts
Whale oil street lamps
Strip mining national parks
And cavalry with bayonets.
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re: #49 stpaulbear
Pooping in trenches or holes in the ground.
Followed by seasonal outbreaks of cholera, yellow fever, and various pox.
Kentucky may have shot at herd immunity, according to new poll about COVID-19 vaccine https://t.co/Q0xpB7evML via @courierjournal @d_yetter
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) April 14, 2021
re: #59 No Malarkey!
But Ben will be dead by 2100, so it’s not his problem./
That’s pretty much exactly how these people think. “Ain’t my problem, I’ll be six feet under.”
Asshats.
re: #46 KGxvi
Traditional infrastructure:
Cobble stone roads
Roman aqueducts
Whale oil street lamps
Strip mining national parks
Don’t forget!
Canals
Turnpikes
River Rafts
Gaslights
Stagecoaches
Pony Express
Livery Stables…
re: #62 No Malarkey!
Kentucky may have shot at herd immunity, according to new poll
So it’s safe for all the surrounding states to travel and vacation and party in Kentucky this summer!
/
I have to admit, I am a bit torn. We can save American lives by withdrawing from Afghanistan, but I worry about what will happen to women and girls who fall under Taliban rule. There are no easy answers, and every choice has consequences.
It is time to end America’s longest war.
It is time for American troops to come home from Afghanistan.— President Biden (@POTUS) April 14, 2021
Wyoming has 578,000 people, is 92% white and has 2 senators
Washington DC has 712,000 people, is 46% Black and has 0 senators
House Oversight Committee just advanced #HR51 to make DC 51st state #DCStatehood— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 14, 2021
re: #65 stpaulbear
So it’s safe for all the surrounding states to travel and vacation and party in Kentucky this summer!
/
Stay away!/
re: #58 lawhawk
GRRR.
Lowest vaccination rates in NYC are in Borough Park among the Haredi population.
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Now, why is this the case? It goes back to the rabbis leading those congregations and Trumpworld courting them for support and buying into the baffling bulkshit. This is the same community that resisted the masking and social distancing and instead held massive funerals, weddings, and other events with no regard for safety. They’re still resistant to the idea of masking or vaccination and remain a danger to all involved.
Trump might be gone, but the policies and damage he inflicted remains.
I am so old that I remember when דער פארווערטס had on its masthead ארבעטער פון אלע לענדער פארייניגט זיך! They never met a Hasid that they saw as a fellow mensch. I don’t know when they suddenly became BFFs. That said, the anti-vaxxism I have seen in the community is troubling.
— Liddle Rainbow Pie 🌈🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) April 14, 2021
re: #69 The Pie Overlord!
The thing that boggles my mind is that Jewish law is what I thought explicitly clear about preserving human lives and that masking and public health measures to keep people safe took precedence over the need to hold services or celebrations like weddings or bar mitzvahs or even funerals.
These people went out and openly ignored centuries of Jewish doctrine. Why? Because Trumpists running their congregations from the pulpits deemed this not to be a public health crisis? Ignore the science?
Statement from Director of Communications for Rep. Matt Gaetz pic.twitter.com/z9urNJCV4x
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) April 14, 2021
re: #49 stpaulbear
Pooping in trenches or holes in the ground.
Say what you will, but privy trenches are shovel ready jobs! (God that was a phrase I hated so very much)
Mre: #44 lawhawk
Who is going to buy “property” that is now underwater?
Oh come on with your liberal gotcha questions, we know who is going to buy it.
Fucking Aquaman, that’s who.
re: #45 stpaulbear
Nothing at all about how Duluth will be a San Francisco with snow on the ground for three months out of the year and four months of winter.
But global warming “solves” that.
John Cornyn grills assistant attorney general nominee Kristen Clarke about an article she wrote for her college paper, seemingly oblivious to the fact it was satire pic.twitter.com/qMG3LNg2AO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2021
re: #66 No Malarkey!
I worry about what will happen to women and girls who fall under Taliban rule.
Oh I know how to fix that!
Go back in time and don’t fund the Pakistani ISI to destabilize Afghanistan!
Just needs a time machine, surely that’s easy?
re: #74 John Hughes
But global warming “solves” that.
That’s kinda what one of the interviewed Duluth officials said. A little global warming would be welcome in Duluth. Not so much thought about how the native plants and animals might, ya know, die. The CNN video was a disconcerting puff piece.
re: #62 No Malarkey!
The possibility that half of the vaccine hesitant could change their minds means reaching herd immunity (typically 70-80% vaxxed) in KY isn’t pie in the sky, Foundation President Ben Chandler said.
Full report here: https://t.co/W82O9uJgHB— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) April 14, 2021
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author J.D. Vance exits AppHarvest board after controversial tweetshttps://t.co/fua9rQV7Pg pic.twitter.com/vfIpmX0tsl
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) April 14, 2021
re: #67 jaunte
PA US Congressional reps:
Dems - all 9 are co-sponsors of DC Statehood
R’s - zero. Why did you even bother to ask?
re: #77 John Hughes
Oh I know how to fix that!
Go back in time and don’t fund the Pakistani ISI to destabilize Afghanistan!
Just needs a time machine, surely that’s easy?
Bad decisions have consequences which keep biting us in the ass for generations.
Apparently almost 81 million of us did, in fact, vote for it.
— Maria Dy (@DyMdillon) April 13, 2021
re: #77 John Hughes
Oh I know how to fix that!
Go back in time and don’t fund the Pakistani ISI to destabilize Afghanistan!
Just needs a time machine, surely that’s easy?
I mean, I got an old Delorean in my garage…
Where Things Stand: GOP Acknowledges Asian Hate Crime Bill Might Not Be Right Time To Force First Filibuster https://t.co/Vwd545EypI via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 14, 2021
VIDEO: Andrew Yang was booed and kicked out of a #DaunteWright protest todaypic.twitter.com/evRypjzKuF
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) April 14, 2021
You need to see a wee beaver sing Madonna and have a bath #janeygodleyvoiceover pic.twitter.com/aoE1NcMSfH
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) April 14, 2021
re: #71 No Malarkey!
One of her best (after the “left in the cold Trump supporter” one). “People forget that Matt’s a father; sometimes Matt forgets too.”
re: #70 lawhawk
Blu Greenberg, wife of Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, once wrote “Where there is a rabbinic will there is a halachic way.”
But mostly, it seems that right wing zealotry and ideology have found a home in fundamentalist segments of Judaism and Christianity, which have come to resemble each other politically.
re: #85 Dread Pirate Ron
Sen. Schumer….why don’t you fast track this bill?
Y’all wanna see a dead body? pic.twitter.com/dF8f6f4TuS
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) April 14, 2021
re: #77 John Hughes
Oh I know how to fix that!
Go back in time and don’t fund the Pakistani ISI to destabilize Afghanistan!
Just needs a time machine, surely that’s easy?
Then the whole world would be communist, once the communist regime in Afghanistan is not overthrown. No thanks! I remember the last time the communist dominoes fell with South Vietnam.
We’ve never seen a species like that before! https://t.co/IS6KPaelsU
— Jurassic World (@JurassicWorld) April 14, 2021
re: #77 John Hughes
Oh I know how to fix that!
Go back in time and don’t fund the Pakistani ISI to destabilize Afghanistan!
Just needs a time machine, surely that’s easy?
Hey that’s not a fair assessment.
…you’d also have to go back in time and not give a trillion dollars to Saudi Arabia to spend on “anti-Communist” operations within the Islamic world *and* not use Egypt as an all purpose black site specializing in rape.
re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg
I mean, I got an old Delorean in my garage…
If that doesn’t work, I can probably get this old blue box to power up…
re: #65 stpaulbear
So it’s safe for all the surrounding states to travel and vacation and party in Kentucky this summer!
/
Or they can come to the beach for some country music:
The good news—More than 2.4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered in South Carolina, and more than 972,000 people in the state had “completed vaccination” as of Monday, when the latest data was reported.
The soon-to-be bad news:
After being canceled last year due to COVID-19, the Carolina Country Music Festival is coming back to Myrtle Beach this summer, the Sun News reported. Vendors selling food, drinks and merchandise will be set up for the three-day event. Officials expect between 25,000 and 32,000 attendees each day.
Sigh.
re: #90 cat-tikvah
Blu Greenberg, wife of Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, once wrote “Where there is a rabbinic will there is a halachic way.”
But mostly, it seems that right wing zealotry and ideology have found a home in fundamentalist segments of Judaism and Christianity, which have come to resemble each other politically.
We see that common thread throughout the Abrahamic religions - the RWNJ’s are invariably found in the fundamentalist strains of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. After all, what are Islamic State if not right-wing* totalitarian fanatics within the context of their religion?
*right-wing in the cultural sense of misogyny, Patriarchalism, extreme homophobia, etc., etc
re: #95 The Ghost of a Flea
Oh shit, I forgot:
…and don’t give Saddam Hussein a bunch of guns and easy-to-convert-into-chemical-weapons pesticides.
This shelter dog getting his forever home..
Paw bump little buddy! 👊❤️
Via @Thund3rB0lt pic.twitter.com/glmpCXaluQ— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) April 14, 2021
re: #98 Dr Lizardo
We see that common thread throughout the Abrahamic religions - the RWNJ’s are invariably found in the fundamentalist strains of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. After all, what are Islamic State if not right-wing* totalitarian fanatics within the context of their religion?
*right-wing in the cultural sense of misogyny, Patriarchalism, extreme homophobia, etc., etc
Right wingism and fundamentalism tend to go together regardless of religion. From what I’ve read of him, you can make a decent argument about Modi fitting that bill in India (I’ve heard him referred to as a Hindu Nationalist).
re: #99 The Ghost of a Flea
…don’t repeatedly fuck over the Kurds.
re: #60 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And cavalry with bayonets.
///
Pistols and swords. Although repeating carbines like the Spencer work well too.
re: #61 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Followed by seasonal outbreaks of cholera, yellow fever, and various pox.
Ha! You can’t fool us with that! We’re too smart for science!
re: #104 Romantic Heretic
Ha! You can’t fool us with that! We’re too smart for science!
Science and reason are tools of the elite to try to make you believe what they want you to believe.
re: #38 No Malarkey!
Elections have consequences, especially when you elect smart, hard working people to office.
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Nice! Congratulations Georgia.
Hey #Georgia! This is what happens when you replace an asshole insider trading pig like @sendavidperdue with a hard working man like @ossoff - remember this when 2022 comes around and another GOP shill tries to unseat Warnock.https://t.co/dZxTlUavv6
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 14, 2021
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
👏🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿 I hope Alex meets some serious consequences for his blatant racism. So it appears that Tik Tok is a haven for racists. Good to know.
All this talk about infrastructure and what it is bothers me a great deal. I’m an Urban Planner. When new development comes in, they have to put in infrastructure. Even under an old school concept that means roads, utilities, schools, parks, emergency services stations, libraries; everything needed for meaningful habitation. A more modern interpretation would easily include broadband and cell sites at a minimum. Child and elder care are also within the realm of possibility. I have seen higher end planned developments include them. This roads only claim makes me very upset.
The Krassensteins have moved on from the anti-Trump grift
The Krassensteins, anti-Trump Twitter personalities when Trump was president, are now promoting a cryptocurrency feature from Ali Alexander, a far-right figure who organized the “Stop The Steal” efforts leading to the insurrection (Alexander amplified their praise). pic.twitter.com/zGYQuwCv3j
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) April 14, 2021
re: #109 BlueSpotinAL
The Krassensteins have moved on from the anti-Trump grift
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And Ali Alexander still evades arrest…
I hope he didn’t die of something related to being addicted to attention-seeking.
Adam Perkins, Viral Vine Star and Musician, Dies at 24 (Variety)
re: #98 Dr Lizardo
We see that common thread throughout the Abrahamic religions - the RWNJ’s are invariably found in the fundamentalist strains of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. After all, what are Islamic State if not right-wing* totalitarian fanatics within the context of their religion?
*right-wing in the cultural sense of misogyny, Patriarchalism, extreme homophobia, etc., etc
re: #101 KGxvi
Right wingism and fundamentalism tend to go together regardless of religion. From what I’ve read of him, you can make a decent argument about Modi fitting that bill in India (I’ve heard him referred to as a Hindu Nationalist).
Conservatism is rooted in preservation of tradition and specifically traditional hierarchical structures, but the index of tradition is texts.
Texts are many many words that can be sampled and spliced to create meanings; old texts have meanings that are obscured because language and idiom and references have moved on; many texts are meta-textual in that they reference other texts to generate their own meaning as well as provide justification for key theses. This basic premise—that there is recorded past knowledge that has value in dictating What Should Be and What Is Right—has a glaring failure point…that at any given moment most people cannot critically evaluate the textual sources that are supposed to dictate their worldview, and are dependent on a middleman class of text interpreters.
Text interpreters can apply human failings—ignorance, misunderstanding, want, projection—to the materials they interpret. Some do this without malice or intent but still create worse outcomes for people, others fully embrace bad faith and lean into their role as mouthpiece as a means rather than as an end, and there are also a third category who are so inconsistent that their beliefs—and thus their relationship with the gnosis of core texts—that they acquire and discard interpretations like garments.
It’s not a coincidence that throughout history there have been numerous reformers that attempt to return textual interpretation to end-user—Luther, Muhammad, Gautama Buddha, etc—-and also not a coincidence that these movements largely fail and a new middleman class of interpreters arises.
I say all this because the base premise of modern totalitarian organizations that cite tradition is not a process of return to some original (and thus authentic) meaning of whatever sources they cite, but an up-to-the-moment novel interpretation that provides them with exactly what they need to acquire temporal power and indulge antisocial appetites. The theology, or hermeneutics, etc constantly shift to incorporate new wants and new tactics, but the “conservatives” simply refuse to acknowledge that they’ve just transformed their worldview. It’s not cynical, for the majority, either: because hierarchy is the most important aspect of conservatism, the correct person changing all the rules is acceptable…more than acceptable if the rule changes create new vistas of self-indulgence.
That’s the core of why they are the way they are—the ideology never actually informs their actions in a way that constrains their preferred choices.
This shoudn’t be a shocking concept because it’s exactly how cults functions, but we’ve spent decades othering cults as some kind of anomaly as opposed to noticing how they’re a hothouse variety of a more durable species.
And I think ISIS needs to be looked at in those terms: it’s not an ideology that made people behave a certain way, it’s a interpretive structure that permits them to do what they want. This explains two features of ISIS: one, it’s core is old Iraqi military who previously weren’t notable as religious zealots but were notable as self-dealing crooks; two, ISIS has specifically attracted foreign converts excited at the prospect of extreme violence and, in effect, state-and-faith-endorsed slavery and sexual violence. So what if the relationship isn’t top-down—the belief system makes the group—but dialectical—the ideas that make up the ISIS ideology are available within the incoherent babble of centuries of texts, and the ISIS followers are the people who want specific things that the particular textual interpretation makes possible (indeed, holy)…and once these parts merge to form a community there’s a feedback of further justifying want with the already-accepted framework of belief.
If you want a different example of the same thing, look at the American Christianity’s relationship with wealth. Word of Faith theology is not entirely new…there’s been centuries of “God gives prizes” out there…but it’s current expression is intensely honed down to very modern issues and priorities, yet its practitioners also see themselves as following an authentic ancient tradition.
It’s Procrustean—fitting the guest to the bed, fitting the ideology to the momentary need—by design. And this has always been a thing people have done, yet one of the base assumptions of discourse is that belief is solid and authentic. Thus we have the same conversation and the same distress over and over again, but bad faith is the norm not the exception.
re: #108 DesertDenizen
All this talk about infrastructure and what it is bothers me a great deal. I’m an Urban Planner. When new development comes in, they have to put in infrastructure. Even under an old school concept that means roads, utilities, schools, parks, emergency services stations, libraries; everything needed for meaningful habitation. A more modern interpretation would easily include broadband and cell sites at a minimum. Child and elder care are also within the realm of possibility. I have seen higher end planned developments include them. This roads only claim makes me very upset.
similarly, houses didnt used to be built with electrical wiring or plumbing. then they were. no one would question that now.
houses didnt used to be built with rj45 jacks or cat 5 wiring, then they were. no one would question that now.
same with office space and hotels. in every room.
(yes, wi-fi has somewhat surpassed the rj45/cat 5 necessity)
you know what else is becoming ubiquitous? usb charging ports built into electrical outlets.
they’re just against progress and change.
any argument, no matter how illogical or absurd they will take it up.
if trump had said ‘masks!’ all the Rs would have.
in fact if trump had said broadband everywhere instead of that stupid wall, congress just might have done it - or started it - even at the significantly higher cost.
re: #101 KGxvi
Right wingism and fundamentalism tend to go together regardless of religion. From what I’ve read of him, you can make a decent argument about Modi fitting that bill in India (I’ve heard him referred to as a Hindu Nationalist).
Narendra Modi would call _himself_ a Hindu Nationalist, and has certainly described himself as such.
One thing to note is that “Nationalist” isn’t as much of a bad word in English-language Indian political discourse as it is in the West (either in English, or closely related words in other European languages). That’s because nationalism in India has a liberal/multicultural strain, in addition to the right wing strain that is in the ascendant today.
The long time ruling Indian National Congress started off as a liberal-multiculturalism broad-based nationalism during British rule, against both the Two Nation theory — that Hindus and Muslims were two separate nations (espoused by those who later Pakistan), and Hindu nationalism (espoused by those who became the RSS).
re: #112 The Ghost of a Flea
I say all this because the base premise of modern totalitarian organizations that cite tradition is not a process of return to some original (and thus authentic) meaning of whatever sources they cite, but an up-to-the-moment novel interpretation that provides them with exactly what they need to acquire temporal power and indulge antisocial appetites.
this part +1
He’s a father. He’s father to a beautiful, 240 month old baby boy named Nestor.
Statement from Director of Communications for Rep. Matt Gaetz pic.twitter.com/z9urNJCV4x
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) April 14, 2021
re: #112 The Ghost of a Flea
re: #115 Dangerman
My only quibble is that I don’t think this is particular to modern/contemporary groups. I get the feeling that “a return to the old ways” or “preserving the old ways” has always held sway in many societies because there are always some who benefit from the system as it exists (or allegedly used to exist). The idea of restoring past greatness did not originate with fascism. And sadly, it did not die with them either.
Anyone watching Falcon and the Winter Soldier? A lot of the story they’re telling seems very relevant to the world today.
The local sheriff’s department and FBI are pursing a criminal investigation, but the Army could still hand down its own disciplinary action. https://t.co/cI62bmSAOX
— Meghann Myers (@Meghann_MT) April 14, 2021
Law enforcement is now “The Deep State.”
get over yourself. you’re a junior congressman from a backwater district coasting on your daddy’s money who came to Washington to party and who is far too dim to know not to leave a digital trail of payments for one’s crimes. and how has your lawyer not told you to stop talking
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 10, 2021
New Kentucky COVID-19 cases up 25 percent so far this week. Positivity rate rising.https://t.co/lYRHd9yILk pic.twitter.com/J8LYDPj1K2
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) April 14, 2021
sigh
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Thank goodness for people who videotape these atrocities. That racist pig needs to be imprisoned for assault.
ted will never forgive the press for catching him running away to cancún during that texas winter power outage https://t.co/e0IRfxvs98
— darth™ (@darth) April 14, 2021
White supremacists: If the Black guy followed to law, the cop wouldn’t have shot him.
Also White Supremacists: Y U NO ARREST THE COP WHO SHOT THE WHITE LADY TRYING TO OVERTHROW AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN THE NAME OF WHITE SUPREMACY??? https://t.co/NlMmwLG1fU— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) April 14, 2021
re: #14 KGxvi
Alexander, the Brits, and the Soviets were looking to conquer. Had we made an actual attempt to nation build and create a civil Afghan society, we might have had a chance. But as said, we decided to be stupid instead.
(I still think we would have ended up in Iraq in the last decade and a half because there’s no way that Uday and Qusay wouldn’t have had a rather bloody civil war to succeed Saddam when he died)
Or maybe he would still be alive. Castro survived to 2016 when he was 90.
re: #122 Patricia Kayden
Thank goodness for people who videotape these atrocities. That racist pig needs to be imprisoned for assault.
I believe the suspect’s wife recorded then posted the video.
Bless her heart
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I have family members who consider Babbitt a martyr for liberty…probably including the ass in Uncle Sam’s B&B…
Who is @KristenClarkeJD?If you never saw this segment of her interview with @maddow, watch it. You’ll understand why she is the bold leader we need to lead the DOJ Civil Rights Division at this moment.#ConfirmClarke https://t.co/RYl2rSeMBX
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) April 14, 2021
re: #118 KGxvi
Anyone watching Falcon and the Winter Soldier? A lot of the story they’re telling seems very relevant to the world today.
It is indeed. The very first episode, where the cops rolled up on Sam & Bucky and asked the freaking WINTER SOLDIER, former Communist hit-man if Sam, who had served his country bravely in Afghanistan, was “bothering you.”
Oh my. That one hit home.
Saw that in my old neighborhood in Los Angeles, where the cops hassled the black/latino guys who had served, while ignoring the ignorant, wife-beating meth freak who got into screaming matches with them (well, everyone on the block, really) when he did public bullshit. Which was frequently.
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
UPDATE: #JonathanPentland was arrested https://t.co/MuQhtjlDgU
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) April 14, 2021
Never mind, Backwoods Sleuth got there first.
re: #117 KGxvi
My only quibble is that I don’t think this is particular to modern/contemporary groups. I get the feeling that “a return to the old ways” or “preserving the old ways” has always held sway in many societies because there are always some who benefit from the system as it exists (or allegedly used to exist). The idea of restoring past greatness did not originate with fascism. And sadly, it did not die with them either.
Maybe I didn’t make this clear, but I’m saying the “the old ways” is always a bullshit concept. Modern groups justifying arbitrary hierarchy lean on ancient material justifying arbitrary hierarchy.
In both cases, God is suddenly very intent on the High Priest fucking Bob’s wife, and we can’t disappoint God, can we?
Manchester, England:
After not seeing his wife Mary for several months due to the pandemic — Gordon decided to surprise her by moving into the assisted living home so they could be together.
Here’s the reunion…pic.twitter.com/Kx40D57WzJ— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) April 14, 2021
While I get this sentiment…
President Biden on withdrawing troops from Afghanistan: “I am now the fourth United States president to preside over troops with Afghanistan. Two Republicans, two Democrats. I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth.”
— Norah O’Donnell 🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) April 14, 2021
I hate the framing. Biden’s also the 14th consecutive president to preside over troops in Germany, England, Italy, Japan, and Korea. He’s the 6th consecutive president to preside over troops in Saudi Arabia.
It’s not that we have troops in these locations that is itself the problem. The wars in those places are long over. The problem is that we have never truly mustered the will to do the hard work of nation building places.
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Can’t help but wonder if that dickbag would have had the same approach if he didn’t have 4+ inches and probably 50 lbs. on that kid. Racists are cowards to their core after all.
And much respect to the kid for not being intimidated (at least not outwardly).
re: #133 The Ghost of a Flea
Maybe I didn’t make this clear, but I’m saying the “the old ways” is always a bullshit concept. Modern groups justifying arbitrary hierarchy lean on ancient material justifying arbitrary hierarchy.
In both cases, God is suddenly very intent on the High Priest fucking Bob’s wife, and we can’t disappoint God, can we?
Fair. I think I just got hung up on the word “modern”
re: #118 KGxvi
Watching and loving it. Definitely see the commentary, especially the racial angle.
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This will make your day. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/q2MU6v1wX7
— Pamela Paresky (Habits of a Free Mind) (@PamelaParesky) April 13, 2021
Happening now under the dome: Officer Clarence accepting pets from reporters and lawmakers alike pic.twitter.com/MaGXxTCwrh
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) April 14, 2021
Officer Clarence specializes in helping first responders after crises. He weighs 160 pounds, eats 4 bowls a day, sleeps 20 hours a day, and is “allergic to exercise.” Loves pets. pic.twitter.com/OU05ZmQiAg
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) April 14, 2021
re: #113 Dangerman
similarly, houses didnt used to be built with electrical wiring or plumbing. then they were. no one would question that now.
houses didnt used to be built with rj45 jacks or cat 5 wiring, then they were. no one would question that now.
same with office space and hotels. in every room.
(yes, wi-fi has somewhat surpassed the rj45/cat 5 necessity)
you know what else is becoming ubiquitous? usb charging ports built into electrical outlets.
they’re just against progress and change.
any argument, no matter how illogical or absurd they will take it up.if trump had said ‘masks!’ all the Rs would have.
in fact if trump had said broadband everywhere instead of that stupid wall, congress just might have done it - or started it - even at the significantly higher cost.
I have glibertarian, privileged white friends who argue that internet access (not just broadband, but internet access in general) and cell phones are luxuries that no one actually needs. They have yet to take me up on my challenge to quit their jobs, give them up, and try to get a new job or otherwise participate in modern society.
re: #143 DesertDenizen
I have glibertarian, privileged white friends who argue that internet access (not just broadband, but internet access in general) and cell phones are luxuries that no one actually needs. They have yet to take me up on my challenge to quit their jobs, give them up, and try to get a new job or otherwise participate in modern society.
try getting a vaccine appointment
in fact try finding out how to get a vaccine appointment
or being notified you’re eligible to get a vaccine appointment
re: #118 KGxvi
Anyone watching Falcon and the Winter Soldier? A lot of the story they’re telling seems very relevant to the world today.
You could do an entire segment on race relations in American in that 5 minute block where they meet the black supersoldier (I forget his name).
re: #145 Dangerman
try getting a vaccine appointment
in fact try finding out how to get a vaccine appointment
or being notified you’re eligible to get a vaccine appointment
The kicker is that they are a soldier and spouse, yet cannot see just how privileged they are because of it. They are starting to get an idea when he recently fell and shattered his wrist. They paid nothing for the repair surgery and have acknowledged that it could have bankrupted them if he wasn’t a soldier stationed in Italy.
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That was fast.
UPDATE//: The Soldier in the video is stationed at Fort Jackson and has been charged by Richland County Sheriff’s Department. Department of Justice at the federal level is also looking into the incident.
— Fort Jackson Post CSM (@fortjacksoncsmT) April 14, 2021
re: #147 Belafon
You could do an entire segment on race relations in American in that 5 minute block where they meet the black supersoldier (I forget his name).
Isaiah Bradley. Hope we haven’t seen the last of him!
re: #150 Ferdinand
Isaiah Bradley. Hope we haven’t seen the last of him!
Or his grandson Elijah, who becomes Patriot in the Young Avengers. With a lot of those characters appearing the MCU may be setting up the next generation.
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
Damn it, who’s chopping onions?
A new Quinnipiac poll shows something that’s popped up in other recent surveys: President Biden’s infrastructure plan actually becomes more popular after voters are told that it’s financed with corporate tax hikes.
R’s traditional anti-tax playbook aint gonna work
Burn them first.
What would happen if your favorite stuffed animal refused to be thrown out? ‘Benny Loves You’ is the horror-filled answer, and Collider has your first look at the trailer: https://t.co/Dq10RGKez9
— Collider (@Collider) April 14, 2021
I’m going to hide this under the fold, but since a few people have been watch TFATWS, I figured it was fair game:
The most interesting part of the series, so far, has been how utterly fragile the ego of John Walker has been and how that has contributed to his development of the anti-Steve Rodgers.
I didn’t notice it until I saw someone point it out on either TikTok or Instagram, but Steve Rodgers would always just introduce himself as “I’m Steve Rodgers” where as Walker always introduces himself as “John Walker, Captain America.”
And then getting his ass kicked by Dora Milage (the best line in the series may well be “the Dora Milage have jurisdiction wherever the Dora Milage find themselves”). Just fucking… *chef’s kiss*
I wasn’t reading the comics when the John Walker character was introduced, but from what I gather, he was basically the embodiment of all of America’s worst tendencies (as opposed to Rodgers, who has always been the best of American values). The show has captured that very well.
And while there’s a lot of speculation about this apparent cameo in the next episode, I’m going way off the board on who I’d love to see… Luke Cage. In part to pull in the Netflix shows (it’s a shame those actors didn’t at least have cameos in Endgame) to the wider MCU, and in part because I think his story would tie in nicely to what they’ve done so far.
re: #156 KGxvi
I’m going to hide this under the fold, but since a few people have been watch TFATWS, I figured it was fair game:
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Spot on about Walker. He’s a thug. Sure, he was OUR thug and smart, but he’s clearly still a thug. Recent developments have only enhanced that trait.
In a rare bipartisan vote of 92-6, the Senate advanced legislation aimed at improving anti-Asian hate crime tracking and identification,” Axios reports.“The bill had looked initially unlikely to garner the 60 votes necessary to end debate and move to a final vote. But Republicans decided to not filibuster, in part because Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose wife Elaine Chao is Taiwanese American, signaled openness to working on it with Democrats prior to final passage.”
this is not some rare display of large scale ‘decency’ to a segment of americans.
it’s “that could be my wife’
I knew even before reading the article that it was a yeshiva. (The article is paywalled anyway)
Toronto public health investigating after complaints that three private religious schools remain open despite citywide order to move online https://t.co/1kFfRBPkrw
— Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) April 14, 2021
Quinnipiac poll on Biden’s infrastructure plan:
Support: 44%
Oppose: 38%
Same poll after respondents are told the plan would raise taxes on corporations:
Support: 53%
Oppose: 39%— Steve Benen (@stevebenen) April 14, 2021
Jerry Falwell Jr.’s son is out of his job as vice president at Liberty University nearly eight months after his father resigned as president of the school https://t.co/TyXYhL1lMb
— POLITICO (@politico) April 14, 2021
re: #159 Dangerman
this is not some rare display of large scale ‘decency’ to a segment of americans
it’s “that could be my wife’
This may just be me, but I’d prefer that the Biden administration frame issues with China as issues with a “competitor” and not an “adversary.” It seems subtle, but it can have huge ramifications because we need to cooperate with the Chinese on multiple fronts and should not be boxed in by aggressive language that seems only cast China as a threat and not as a partner in some regards.
re: #158 DesertDenizen
Spot on about Walker. He’s a thug. Sure, he was OUR thug and smart, but he’s clearly still a thug. Recent developments have only enhanced that trait.
He’s utterly unsuited to be Captain America, and it was the worst thing they could have done to the character….but it’s interesting if he could still be a hero.
re: #163 Barefoot Grin
This may just be me, but I’d prefer that the Biden administration frame issues with China as issues with a “competitor” and not and “adversary.” It seems subtle, but it can have huge ramifications because we need to cooperate with the Chinese on multiple fronts and should not be boxed in by aggressive language that seems only cast China as a threat and not as a partner in some regards.
Every time China or Japan gets labeled as an adversary, Asian Americans across the board get it in the neck.
So yeah…they’re competitors, not adversaries.
re: #164 gwangung
He’s utterly unsuited to be Captain America, and it was the worst thing they could have done to the character….but it’s interesting if he could still be a hero.
I have a feeling I know where they’re going with the character. It’s all done intentionally, and if I’m right, it’s not with good intent.
re: #10 cat-tikvah
There’s a reason why it’s been called “The Graveyard of Empires”.
The Russians couldn’t succeed either.
The US invasion destabilized Iraq like the Russians invasion destabilized Afghanistan.
re: #166 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I have a feeling I know where they’re going with the character. It’s all done intentionally, and if I’m right, it’s not with good intent.
I have an idea as well. I think his personality is pretty simple, making his actions easy to predict.
re: #169 DesertDenizen
I have an idea as well. I think his personality is pretty simple, making his actions easy to predict.
Mrs. Fish and I play drinking games with these hunches. If we call it exactly right, the other person has to take a shot.
re: #168 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
It’s better than nothing, I guess.
re: #170 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Mrs. Fish and I play drinking games with these hunches. If we call it exactly right, the other person has to take a shot.
I’d never do that with Mrs. Denizen. I’d need a liver transplant within a month.
re: #172 DesertDenizen
I’d never do that with Mrs. Denizen. I’d need a liver transplant within a month.
Most of our arguments these days center around the definition of “exact”. The rest of them, we’re too drunk to notice.
re: #168 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That’s just the quickie local charge. Federal ones may be pending. And his Army career is over. Even if it’s not a Dishonorable Discharge, he’s done.
re: #171 Patricia Kayden
It’s better than nothing, I guess.
Well, the Army can still get their bite at the apple too.
re: #174 Patricia Kayden
“I sent you a news report, a boat, and a helicopter, what more did you want?”
The Senate has voted 92-6 to start debate on Sen. Mazie Hirono’s bill seeking to address hate crimes against Asian Americans.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 14, 2021
re: #178 Patricia Kayden
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I got a feeling I know which 6 assholes voted no…
Senators who voted “no” were: Cotton, Cruz, Hawley, Marshall, Paul & Tuberville.
No surprise there.— Chelle *Fauci Fan Club* 🌊🥁🥀 #BLM ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 (@ChelleStenn) April 14, 2021
I was right!
re: #179 🌹UOJB!
I got a feeling I know which 6 assholes voted no…
I can name four off the top of my head: Hee-Hawley, Marjorie “I’m so airheaded I believe all the conspiracy theories” Taylor-Greene, Lauren “My guns are my boyfriend” Boebert, and Rafael “Cancún is my second office” Cruz.
Those voting against cloture on the anti-hate bill:
Cotton (R-AR)
Cruz (R-TX)
Hawley (R-MO)
Marshall (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Tuberville (R-AL)
I really can’t put into words how much I despise Ted fucking Cruz. There’s going to come a time when anti-Latino sentiment is going to come to the foreground again, and he’s going to realize the alligator is coming for him too.
re: #182 sagehen
If he’s your favorite, why are you throwing him out?
Because he’s contaminated with Cholera?
re: #135 KGxvi
While I get this sentiment…
I hate the framing. Biden’s also the 14th consecutive president to preside over troops in Germany, England, Italy, Japan, and Korea. He’s the 6th consecutive president to preside over troops in Saudi Arabia.
It’s not that we have troops in these locations that is itself the problem. The wars in those places are long over. The problem is that we have never truly mustered the will to do the hard work of nation building places.
Nation building in Afghanistan seems impossible on its face.
re: #155 Patricia Kayden
Isn’t this just a remake of like 3 different Twilight Zone episodes?
re: #159 Dangerman
this is not some rare display of large scale ‘decency’ to a segment of americans.
it’s “that could be my wife’
It’s also “we can’t piss off the one minority groups still slightly favorable towards us.”
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ...
Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
Joe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
