John Oliver discusses Jair Bolsonaro, how he’s run Brazil as president, how far he might go to maintain power after the upcoming election, and, of course, nunchucks.
This supposed Sinema-Trump video is a fake. (I know that is extremely obvious to some of you, but it clearly isn’t to everyone.) (H/t @oneunderscore__) pic.twitter.com/o1mlYGWnb3
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 26, 2022
PANCAKE! https://t.co/KlNZUnDSgD
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2022
BREAKING - Russian FSB security service says it has detained Japanese Consul in Vladivostok - RIA - Reuters News
— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) September 26, 2022
Russia detains a Japanese consular official in Vladivostok for engaging in “intelligence activities”, and declaring him persona non grata.
Note that he was a consular official, and not diplomatic official, so only consular immunity rules apply here — he can’t be arrested in the course of his job, but can be arrested for activities unrelated to his job.
Edit: Apparently he was receiving information on the economic impact of sanctions.
Dark Brandon just trolling TFG
“None of it came easy. People counted you out,” Pres. Biden says during event with the Atlanta Braves, the 2021 World Series Champions.
“Heck, I know something about being counted out. And I know, in Georgia, you show up when it counts.” https://t.co/IDSFyDSZsr pic.twitter.com/uBiqkU3wh3— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 26, 2022
Pork Tenderloin with Rice and Corn pic.twitter.com/TWSNT07I2g
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) September 26, 2022
Pompeo praises Mussolini fascism. What a disgrace to the American GIs who died on Italian beaches and hillsides. https://t.co/D8NEsPjHXz
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) September 26, 2022
“Video unavailable in your country.”
Canada is apparently not permitted to see John Oliver.
re: #136 PhillyPretzel
yay. That is good to hear. I heard your car was damaged? Can you still drive it?
Yes, we can still drive it. The panel below the passenger door was torn away by Fiona. Other than that the car is fine. I’m not sure if I should turn in a hurricane claim to my car insurance company in Nebraska though.
If you asked her what religion and/or ethnicity those “financial speculators” were, what do you think she’d say? Because I have a pretty good guess what she’d say.
— Jeremy O’Kelley (@JeremyOkelley) September 26, 2022
re: #6 jaunte
Begins around 13:20 in this link: https://t.co/V3DYJlyHSi
— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) September 25, 2022
That is the single most anti-American thing you have ever said. You are a disgrace to this country, and you dishonor the memory of every Allied soldier who died fighting Italian Fascism.
— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) September 26, 2022
re: #6 jaunte
So Republicans are finally outright admitting they are fascists?
re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg
Whatever they think they need to do to gain power, they will do.
These fucking fascists. https://t.co/oAABXlavkZ
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) September 26, 2022
It’s time for us to come to grips with the fact that the Snowden, Greenwald, Assange ops were all part of a years-long Russia-supported effort to upend the West.
— Dave Troy (@davetroy) September 26, 2022
The models for hurricane Ian have flipped: now the GFS has it hitting Tampa Bay, while the European model is now keeping it farther off shore.
Regardless, all models show a stalling near Tampa.
“We won’t hesitate to act,” said the Bank of England, hesitating to act. https://t.co/O3vYYA79wl
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) September 26, 2022
Hmmm. Does this mean Russia grants citizenship to all Americans accused of violating the Espionage Act and stealing government documents? https://t.co/XE7flvvwtj
— Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield) September 26, 2022
Good thread. All too familiar https://t.co/zhV46ZUjs5
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) September 26, 2022
jfc
BREAKING: MO Atty General’s Office withdraws case against Agape Boarding School.
Cedar County Judge Munton orders removal of Children’s Div. workers observing the safety of the trafficked kids. pic.twitter.com/3QLZDoAZq5— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) September 26, 2022
He won’t congratulate Joe Biden, but he’s ecstatic that an overt fascist will lead Italy.
A former US secretary of state openly cheering for fascism.
But whatever you do, don’t call them fascists. It hurts their tender fee-fees. https://t.co/t41ptJo2vC— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2022
Serious topic but I literally LOLed at this spot-on description of my governor https://t.co/VmrTodZVwy pic.twitter.com/oBeen6Rwel
— Sarah Rumpf 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@rumpfshaker) September 26, 2022
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
jfc
Legally, that’s the correct outcome. However, “the legally correct outcome” and “the morally correct outcome” often diverge, as is the case here.
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
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When all you have is a hammer.
Raising interest rates isn’t going to fix inflation created by Covid supply chain issues. Oh it might seem to help a little but it’s going to overall make things worse and potentially cause the recession everyone is trying to avoid.
No one “printed too much money”.
The Fed raising rates is stupid and they should know better. If the Bank of England does this it will be stupid too.
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
Great Brexit will continue to flounder as it comes to terms with leaving a common market and striking out on its own in this big, cruel world.
The UK is less than 1% of the world’s population yet the Brexiteers thinks it can recover some glory from the days of the Empire.
Now Brits are discovering that everything is going to be a lot more expensive.
re: #16 jaunte
This was being pushed by a group called Women for Liberty.
I’d say the following are more accurate:
Women for Patriarchy
Women for Handmaidenry
Women for Misogyny
Women against female empowerment.
Obviously, they’re using the old Roman definition (which I’ve seen an occasional conservative — not just fascist — actually defending), where liberty was a privilege for the elite, and not meant for the (proles, plebes, *insert group here*).
Merrick Garland…deep respect, @SenatorSinema https://t.co/mIljbwVvfO
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) September 26, 2022
re: #21 jaunte
It’s one of the reasons that fascists like Tolkien. In his imaginary world the past was glorious (at least for the magical, all-white* Elves), and life was better in the deep past.
It’s a theme Tolkien lifted from Genesis. It’s also an idea that is found in other religions/beliefs.
At the root is nostalgia, and at the root of nostalgia is the desire to return to childhood once we as adults figure out death is closer to us than our birth.
* Yes, I know that Tolkien never described all Elves as being white-skinned, but that is how many Tolkien fans believe he did.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
They, of course, will continue to call all Democrats fascists, communists, nazis, traitors, tyrants, etc.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) September 26, 2022
When Pete Buttigieg comes for someone, he doesn’t carry a sledgehammer…he wields a scalpel.
And in this must-see clip, Pete slices Ron DeSantis into a million little pieces. pic.twitter.com/FvmNpbL6yn— TrumpsTaxes (@TrumpsTaxes) September 25, 2022
#IAN UPDATE ‼️ A mandatory evacuation order has been issued by @HillsboroughFL for Evacuation Zone A. A voluntary evacuation has been issued for Zone B.
Check your evacuation zone & route: https://t.co/DahPv3JOg5 pic.twitter.com/3kYMImLDcu— City of Tampa (@CityofTampa) September 26, 2022
⚠️ EVACUATION ZONES ⚠️
Save this printable evacuation zones map for a quick reference.
To look up your address and find your evacuation zone/route, visit @Hillboroughfl’s website at: https://t.co/xQD6U59GMm
Please note: the website is experiencing high traffic. Please be patient. pic.twitter.com/ziPCZm6V3M— City of Tampa (@CityofTampa) September 26, 2022
.@HillsboroughFL is opening emergency shelters starting at 2PM.
Consider sheltering with loved ones or in a hotel outside of the evacuation zone. Shelters should be a last resort.
See locations (including pet-friendly and special needs options): https://t.co/jWX0khlpGB pic.twitter.com/oRL1P5s5QC— City of Tampa (@CityofTampa) September 26, 2022
SANDBAG UPDATE ⚠️
Sandbag locations will be open until 8PM today, September 26th (while supplies last).
Please be patient and expect long lines. Staff is working as quickly as possible to help get the lines moving. More info: https://t.co/q1bLprqnQv pic.twitter.com/D3ymGsdv8f— City of Tampa (@CityofTampa) September 26, 2022
re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s one of the reasons that fascists like Tolkien. In his imaginary world the past was glorious (at least for the magical, all-white* Elves), and life was better in the deep past.
It’s a theme Tolkien lifted from Genesis. It’s also an idea that is found in other religions/beliefs.
At the root is nostalgia, and at the root of nostalgia is the desire to return to childhood once we as adults figure out death is closer to us than our birth.
* Yes, I know that Tolkien never described all Elves as being white-skinned, but that is how many Tolkien fans believe he did.
Tolkien also specifically stated that the different sub-groups of Hobbits had varying skin colors, the Harfoots (and yes they actually existed in the books) were described as having darker skin color than the other groups.
I’m sure this is something overlooked by anyone bitching about it though.
Aesthetics is without substance
Kitsch https://t.co/OumQUn4yLd— John Cusack (@johncusack) September 26, 2022
I’m gonna vote for the party that wants to give fourth graders free school lunches instead of the one that wants to force them to have their rapists baby.
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) September 26, 2022
I’m sure you folks are already well aware of this, but just for the record: Benito Mussolini came to power in 1922.
And now, exactly 100 years later…
Arizona Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem (R) “failed for years to follow state laws requiring elected officials to report their sources of income and business ties,” the Arizona Republic reports.“If elected, Finchem would be in charge of overseeing the financial disclosures and campaign contribution reports required of every elected state official.”
See? Problem solved
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
Are they actually filling sandbags by hand, or is that just a photo op? I spent college years in Fargo ND and spring floods occurred often enough to invest in machines (mprnews.org). They still fill some by hand in Fargo but the machines fill so much more. I just assumed hurricane-prone places would have machines too.
My Anymousian Centurylink two-cans and a string rural internet went out on Saturday afternoon. When I tried to go through the automated process of troubleshooting the problem this morning, I also lost my landline just after Centurylink tried to reset the port on my modem remotely. Now I have no internet access AND no landline phone service at home.
The earliest they can get a tech out to us is Thursday, so I’m catching up as I can at the local library. I’m gonna be a bit scarce for a few days.
CL’ed. In my defense, I’m optimistic about the midterms. It’s just GOP primaries I’m pessimistic about.
re: #213 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
It lost in all the rural and urban counties of Kansas, east and west, according to the latest accounts I read.
Polls are now showing that the number of voters intending to vote in this primary is vastly higher than the ordinary, significantly higher than it was even in 2018.
We’ve had endless lizard predictions of doom before every election since DT was elected and every one of them has been wrong. If you (not you personally) can’t bring yourselves to imagine that something good might come out of an election, can you at least, on the basis of your terrible record of predictions in the last several years, just keep the gloom and doom to yourselves? Some of us have elections work to do, and this is not helping.
re: #39 dat_said
Are they actually filling sandbags by hand, or is that just a photo op? I spent college years in Fargo ND and spring floods occurred often enough to invest in machines (mprnews.org). They still fill some by hand in Fargo but the machines fill so much more. I just assumed hurricane-prone places would have machines too.
We built this for the pond work
6 bags in about 2 min
Soon from Politico: “Blacks wade into America’s culture wars by showing up to vote in general election.”
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) September 26, 2022
re: #16 jaunte
Pop-up message at the Central York School District official Website in Pennsylvania which appears as soon as you go to their page:
An Important Update from CYSD Regarding Media Coverage
The District was recently made aware of a national article published last evening falsely claiming that Central York School District has banned the book/series Girls Who Code.
The information published in this article is categorically false. This book series has not been banned, and they remain available in our libraries. If you have any questions, please email communications@cysd.k12.pa.us.
The USA is going to kill itself through believing everything it reads on the Internet.
re: #40 A Three Hour Tour
My Anymousian Centurylink two-cans and a string rural internet went out on Saturday afternoon. When I tried to go through the automated process of troubleshooting the problem this morning, I also lost my landline just after Centurylink tried to reset the port on my modem remotely. Now I have no internet access AND no landline phone service at home.
The earliest they can get a tech out to us is Thursday, so I’m catching up as I can at the local library. I’m gonna be a bit scarce for a few days.
Please visit our website to diagnose your lack of internet service.
If I could visit your website…
re: #20 Dopamine Fish
Has to give him citizenship before he can draft him.
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Pop-up message at the Central York School District official Website in Pennsylvania which appears as soon as you go to their page:
The USA is going to kill itself through believing everything it reads on the Internet.
re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg
So Republicans are finally outright admitting they are fascists?
Well, fascist adjacent…
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I wonder if they put that message up after the Guardian story ran.
A Pennsylvania school district has banned “Girls Who Code” in its purging of books, saying the series encouraging girls to get into STEM is too “activist.” https://t.co/iAidmK9op8
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) September 26, 2022
re: #46 John Hughes
I guess not quite:
So, it turns out that Snowden can’t be drafted, legally anyway, because he has no service history in the Russian armed forces, says his lawyer. He’s dodged a bullet (several of them), it would seem! pic.twitter.com/vjKJ4tOOZs
— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) September 26, 2022
The Conference of Chief Justices, a group representing the top state judicial officers in the nation, filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the court to reject “a legal theory pressed by Republicans that would give state legislatures extraordinary power,” the New York Times reports.
“If the Supreme Court adopts the theory, it will radically reshape how federal elections are conducted by giving state lawmakers independent authority, not subject to review by state courts, to set election rules in conflict with state constitutions.”
In mass school shooting news, first, apparently there was a mass shooting at a school in Russia today. Second, mass school shooter Michael Carneal, who has been in prison for the last 25 years since he killed three classmates and injured others when he was 14, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
re: #40 A Three Hour Tour
My Anymousian Centurylink two-cans and a string rural internet went out on Saturday afternoon. When I tried to go through the automated process of troubleshooting the problem this morning, I also lost my landline just after Centurylink tried to reset the port on my modem remotely. Now I have no internet access AND no landline phone service at home.
The earliest they can get a tech out to us is Thursday, so I’m catching up as I can at the local library. I’m gonna be a bit scarce for a few days.
The mayor of Port aux Basques was on television this evening. Cell service is out through most of the province; only landlines work. Most of Newfoundland is under emergency orders not to drive on the roads. Stores in the southwest of the province were allowed to open for a few hours so people could get essentials. Much of the infrastructure of southwest Newfoundand is smashed, though the ferry service to Nova Scotia says their terminals and ships only received minor damage.
He said that the city has contacted contractors to start using bulldozers and other equipment to move houses off the street tomorrow.
A woman who was washed out to sea in her house and was thought lost at sea had her body wash up on shore.
Jeff Durbin and Apologia taking a page out of the Greg Locke book with the “witch casts a spell”. Wonder if the witch cast as spell on the Christian Nationalist body armor company that sponsors Apologia Radio. 👀👀👀👀👀👀 pic.twitter.com/DaOCzot2yS
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) September 26, 2022
You’ll have to forgive the team. Jeff Durbin and Luke Pierson just got back from vacation….AHEM I MEAN TAX FREE ANTI-ABORTION MISSIONARY WORK in Ireland and they are a bit jetlagged.
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) September 26, 2022
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 26, 2022
The fact that nothing happened on Sept 24 is proof that QAnon was right.
re: #56 dat_said
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The fact that nothing happened on Sept 24 is proof that QAnon was right.
Isn’t anything and everything that happens - or doesn’t happen - proof that QAnon was right??
re: #27 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Great Brexit will continue to flounder as it comes to terms with leaving a common market and striking out on its own in this big, cruel world.
The UK is less than 1% of the world’s population yet the Brexiteers thinks it can recover some glory from the days of the Empire.
Now Brits are discovering that everything is going to be a lot more expensive.
It seems to me that at least a large minority of Britons* (any Brits here, please correct me if I’m wrong), are under the mistaken impression that they can lead the old British Commonwealth, and gain on some nostalgia for empire from the colonies, and gain from that. That may have been true decades back, but not anymore.
*I’m guessing highly correlated with Brexiteers.
“Girls Who Code” WAS banned, along with 300 other books, by the Central York School Board 2 years ago, but thanks to student activism, and a strong campaign, the ban was lifted and the lead book banner was voted off the board.
CYSD is a blueprint on how to fight a ban and WIN.— Sam (@YoungSam_PA) September 26, 2022
re: #60 Charles Johnson
I just saw that and was coming here to link it. Thanks for the information, boss.
re: #59 aatharuv
It’s possible they changed their mind amidst massive negative publicity before they could implement the changes.
It is also possible it is simply a false report. Moms for Liberty aren’t exactly known for being truthful. They are conservatives. They lie when it suits them.
re: #60 Charles Johnson
That would be a good piece of information for the CYSD update/disclaimer to contain.
re: #49 Dangerman
experimenting, not committed
Why yes I am a minion of Satan. But my duties are mostly ceremonial.
re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth
For my opinion of Sinema, I’ll quote Kerry Eurodyne from Cyberpunk 2077:
“Unnecessary, uncomfortable, and ultimately kitsch as all fuckin’ get out.”
re: #66 Eventual Carrion
Aren’t things written into constitutions really just suggestions anyway?
//
“They’re more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.”
The latest fundraising email from Trump pic.twitter.com/6v61rJHG8Q
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 26, 2022
Immediately after this photo shoot she began saying, “I want to be alone.” https://t.co/an891ylDoh
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2022
Thread, nine tweets.
One more week until the worst Supreme Court term in modern history. And you thought last term was bad. This term is when they cement white dominance into law so hang on to your butts especially if they are non-white.
— ⚓️Imani Two-Kitchens Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) September 26, 2022
Yeah, that argument sucks because it’s essentially saying “I don’t like that progressives made me feel bad, so I’m going to vote for the blatant evil party.” Ffs
— Tony (@TonyHatcher) September 26, 2022
Tolls suspended on Selmon Expressway ahead of Hurricane Ian impact https://t.co/A4gKLpeUkV pic.twitter.com/ZzWCkma8PE
— WFLA NEWS (@WFLA) September 26, 2022
re: #51 Dopamine Fish
I guess not quite:
That is not stopping “recruiters” from grabbing men off the streets and shipping them off. Snowden should stay home until at least April — and so should every man in Russia.
re: #16 jaunte
The authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives are such fucking cowards.
OMG! We can’t have girls thinking! If they did that they might get the idea we can’t order them around!
I’m telling my kids this is how footballs are born pic.twitter.com/HKqGOWcobi
— Mike Golic Jr (@mikegolicjr) September 26, 2022
re: #74 Romantic Heretic
Library and school boards are so vulnerable to attack from rightwing activists swarming our weak points.
re: #76 jaunte
Library and school boards are so vulnerable to attack from rightwing activists swarming our weak points.
To be fair, I think it is impossible for any system of government to function if 1/3 or more of the electorate is as utterly deranged as Republicans are.
Thru its buying power the Texas Board of Education controls what’s published in school books nationwide.
And Texas has banned more books than any other state.@GrantNoland@blainekell6@EdBlackEsq@AlexaJaar1013@ColelliCol@SCPrice5@Limmered@leslea61https://t.co/yvmR4lpI8Y— Jan Parks (@JanPark05778117) September 24, 2022
This is what happens when you have Christofascist justices and politicians. https://t.co/LUyLfcBvwA
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) September 26, 2022
“…From July 2021 to June 2022, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans lists 2,532 instances of individual books being banned, affecting 1,648 unique book titles.”
………
“…PEN America defines a school book ban as any action taken against a book based on its content and as a result of parent or community challenges, administrative decisions, or in response to direct or threatened action by lawmakers or other governmental officials, that leads to a previously accessible book being either completely removed from availability to students, or where access to a book is restricted or diminished.”
re: #69 Charles Johnson
Leo’s body language: She looks tasty.
Garbo’s body language: He thinks I look tasty.
Search continues for 2 inside massive Guatemala sinkhole https://t.co/LVMFhYOk6B pic.twitter.com/fyXp1kHoHF
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 26, 2022
re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s one of the reasons that fascists like Tolkien. In his imaginary world the past was glorious (at least for the magical, all-white* Elves), and life was better in the deep past.
It’s a theme Tolkien lifted from Genesis. It’s also an idea that is found in other religions/beliefs.
At the root is nostalgia, and at the root of nostalgia is the desire to return to childhood once we as adults figure out death is closer to us than our birth.
* Yes, I know that Tolkien never described all Elves as being white-skinned, but that is how many Tolkien fans believe he did.
Tolkien was just writing fantasy novels for his kids. He was not trying to make any political statements. That was CS Lewis.
re: #82 Romantic Heretic
Leo’s body language: She looks tasty.
Garbo’s body language: He thinks I look tasty.
She has snacks displayed on her wrists.
Guys, I’m going to keep saying this:
The idea there’s a grand unifying Russian “op” that explains a bunch of shit going on is a conspiracy theory, and like most other conspiracy theories it steps over the open, obvious Shit Going Wrong in favor an occult explanation in which there is a singular operator.
Putin is a basic-ass dictator and wasn’t even a notably good KGB agent and he’s not doing four-dimensional chess any more than Trump is. Never, ever believe any claim that one super smart dude is pulling all the strings.
And what power and clout Putin has is less about spy hijinks and defenestration and more about the petrodollar and nukes. He’s gotten away with shit because he pumps gas to Europe, and like all dictators squatting on a single resource the global north needs he’s overplayed that hand and finally getting pushback. So now he’s using nuclear missiles explicitly the same way that has them uses them implicitly: let me do what I want or I will kill your civilians and poison the land like a fucking wizard curse.
(Nuclear warfare is insanity, built on the premise of atrocity. Contrary to that cool movie, the way you “win” is to be a high enough elite that you can launch missiles and just write off the chunks of the nations because all that matters is your bank account…or just bully countries with nukes instead of gunboat)
And, as to spying…yep, he has spies and has appropriated the vain, the vulnerable, and the available, which is not novel doctrine. It’s regime change tactics, just like the CIA does it. Yep, it sucks, damn shame that it’s the taproot of neoliberal international conflict.
Dictators mostly succeed because they provide some utility for a major power, but nowadays that doesn’t just mean governments, it means capital holding entities of whatever stripe. To the extent that things seem to have bent Putin’s way in the last couple of decades, it’s less because he’s distinctly good and more that there’s a massive systems of wealthy people that provide inroads for yet another kleptocrat, plus a global white reactionary systems that has it’s own plans but is willing to let Putin be the figurehead.
re: #80 wrenchwench
That act of informing the employees was in no way neutral.
Neutral is what conservatives say it is.
This is the result of the striking down of Roe: The university is concerned that a XIX Century Idaho law will be strictly enforced. That law prohibits any favourable mention of abortion or promotion of birth control.
Rudy Giuliani on line one https://t.co/6a26ibIzf8
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 26, 2022
re: #84 Axolotl
Tolkien was just writing fantasy novels for his kids. He was not trying to make any political statements. That was CS Lewis.
The Hobbit certainly was, initially, written for his children in the 1930s.
LOTR was written starting in WWII. He used to send drafts of sections to his son Christopher while the latter was training for war in South Africa. And it took several more years to complete (1951 I believe). It’s a big treatise on the meaning of life and mortality (death.)
What I find interesting is that all of Tolkien’s notes and backstories are much more involved but he never could publish them in his lifetime. So the posthumously published material turns out to be more voluminous than JRRT’s published material.
The New York AG Sues Trump, the Trump Organization, Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka for Staggering Fraud
Background Briefing with David Cay Johnson
Update: Body of missing Port aux Basques woman displaced during Hurricane Fiona is recovered #RCMPNL https://t.co/2nLEcW2JlG pic.twitter.com/Z9ONb80Q7Q
— RCMP Newfoundland and Labrador (@RCMPNL) September 25, 2022
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Neutral is what conservatives say it is.
This is the result of the striking down of Roe: The university is concerned that a XIX Century Idaho law will be strictly enforced. That law prohibits any favourable mention of abortion or promotion of birth control.
In an attempt at compliance, they’ve taken a side. The ‘deadly to women’ side.
Just saying. https://t.co/tgBnzWFGen
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 26, 2022
Krystle Collier’s Port Aux Basques home was destroyed by Hurricane Fiona. Her dining room collapsed into the garage.
This morning, she found her fridge washed up on shore. Still in her fridge was a box of White Claw Seltzers.
“It’s a good day to have a drink.” pic.twitter.com/vTKgAg6511— Ben Cleary (@BenClearyNL) September 25, 2022
The only people now afraid of the Russian military are Russian men of military age.
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) September 26, 2022
re: #86 The Ghost of a Flea
The whole society-as-a-petro-state thing that Putin has going on will come to an end.
Eventually.
Probably after Putin is long dead.
But it will end.
I get what you are saying about Putin. I agree that some are giving him too much credit. He’s an exploiter, like Trump, but better than Trump.
What we have all over the world are states full of people who are increasingly anxious about losing their faith and their identities.
It’s why I am such a doomer.
re: #86 The Ghost of a Flea
Guys, I’m going to keep saying this:
The idea there’s a grand unifying Russian “op” that explains a bunch of shit going on is a conspiracy theory, and like most other conspiracy theories it steps over the open, obvious Shit Going Wrong in favor an occult explanation in which there is a singular operator.
Putin is a basic-ass dictator and wasn’t even a notably good KGB agent and he’s not doing four-dimensional chess any more than Trump is. Never, ever believe any claim that one super smart dude is pulling all the strings.
….
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^this
it’s spy novel stuff
easy to understand
and woefully not what’s ever actually happened
there arent a lot of actual machiavelli’s out there
Folks are posting photographs from Port aux Basques. (I’m really glad we moved up the coast to St. Anthony as the hurricane approached.)
FYI, that’s our lighthouse on Channel Head to the left. #PortauxBasques #Fiona @WreckhousePress pic.twitter.com/6m8J19f4lr
— The Paperboss (@HfxHabby) September 26, 2022
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Folks are posting photographs from Port aux Basques. (I’m really glad we moved up the coast to St. Anthony as the hurricane approached.)
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Lighthouse got heavy.
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
Insane quote from Lauren Boebert:
So California wants to ban electric cars and now natural gas heaters.
I’d say they plan to run the state on unicorn farts, but thanks to the Green New Deal, flatulence is off the table.
I’m guessing she meant to write “gas cars” but her natural stupidity took the wheel, as it were?
Because the idea of both CA banning EVs and Boebert defending them is both hilarious and insane.
She’s at it again, asking all the right questions:
From a couple of the comments it seems some people don’t understand.
re: #51 Dopamine Fish
I guess not quite:
They’re drafting students (they said they wouldn’t).
They drafted a 60 year old man with brain disease.
Anyone who expects Putin or his followers to obey the “law” is delusional.
re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
re: #84 Axolotl
So…I’m going to provisionally disagree. Like not “this is bad, you are wrong” but “this is nuanced, let’s talk nuance.”
The core thing is: fascists are so shallow that there’s no relationship between what they attribute to a text and what is within a text, to the point that conventional contextual critique is meaningless. Fascists no more read in good faith than they speak in good faith.
We can talk about what was or not intended by the author, and what are possible readings of themes, or even dissections line by line of what words could mean, and none of it would matter because fascists value books like Ed Gein values ladies. They want the aesthetic, the cultural clout—the fetishizable bits—and give no two shits about the contents.
As such, authorial intent is dead even beyond Barthes’ framing: all texts exists to convey the same message, and any text can be fitted to that message, Procrustes like.
I was a Tolkien kid, deep in the Simarillion and the marginalia, and I could argue with you both of you. I could argue that Tolkien’s mythic past shouldn’t evoke nostalgia because most of it is a tragedy—LotR being the final moment of uplift at the end of a cycle of folly, but still filled with bittersweet elements. I could also argue that Tolkien’ss lack of explicit politics do not change that his work is political, with its elevation of community and its condemnation of systems of control that benefits the few…
…but neither of these things matter to the current culture war because the reactionary culture warriors don’t care. Tolkien, like all other things, exists only as an expression of power, a thing to claim and use. The entire point is to hollow out the text and inject the same reactionary substance as always.
re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth
Forecasts for my area in the Panhandle are safe with only minimal risk of any major events resulting from Ian, thank goodness. However I do have friends in the Tampa area and will not be surprised if I get a call or two about evacuating to our house while the storm rages, especially if it slows as expected and dumps a shit ton of rain and wind on that region over a matter of days.
It will be necessary for any and all Federal Government help to be available which I’m sure is already being staged by the Biden Administration, ready to deploy as needed without any grandstanding or assistance in exchange for appeasement and knee-bending unlike our previous utterly loathsome President.
With that being said, Florida’s current loathsome Governor is furthering his populist pivot by being the “guy in charge” here during the storm using USA national resources, all the while defaming and decrying Federal Government in his pathological Conservative nonsense. And don’t even get me started on the whole Climate non-debate when it’s the exact same technology and modeling that can determine a hurricane’s likely cone of landfall and can also precisely determine human-driven effects upon our planet.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The mayor of Port aux Basques was on television this evening. Cell service is out through most of the province; only landlines work. Most of Newfoundland is under emergency orders not to drive on the roads. Stores in the southwest of the province were allowed to open for a few hours so people could get essentials. Much of the infrastructure of southwest Newfoundand is smashed, though the ferry service to Nova Scotia says their terminals and ships only received minor damage.
He said that the city has contacted contractors to start using bulldozers and other equipment to move houses off the street tomorrow.
A woman who was washed out to sea in her house and was thought lost at sea had her body wash up on shore.
i can imagine few things more terrifying than having the house I’m in get washed out to sea during a fucking hurricane. that’s one where you presumably just say, “fuck it, I’m not even gonna struggle, ‘cause god laid down a full house, aces high on this one.”
re: #105 Florida Panhandler
#NEW: 7,000 National Guard service members ready to respond to Hurricane Ian emergencies in Florida https://t.co/dMVUzRCbEX pic.twitter.com/qsEDNBHSAG
— WPTV (@WPTV) September 26, 2022
re: #104 The Ghost of a Flea
No doubt that there are plenty of subtleties going on wrt literature and political movements.
I will argue that Tolkien’s 19th century racialism not only is real (that is, embedded in Tolkien’s writings and thus his own beliefs), but that it does draw the right-wing and fascists to him.
This is what I think was Tolkien’s greatest flaw, not that I claim to be able to psychoanalyze a guy long removed from me: His unwillingness to see that his ideas of “race” were indeed the racialism that was so common (in the English speaking world) when he was a child.
A few years ago a Tolkien society member wrote a defense of Tolkien against the fascist-types. I applaud such an effort, but the said essay also never addressed the deep problems with racialism.
If one of the cores of fascism is a strong idea of nationalism based on type (that is, the “us” is tightly defined and thus also the “them”), then we need to address this problem of thinking that the “them” are easily typed, i.e. racialism.
re: #82 Romantic Heretic
Leo’s body language: She looks tasty.
Garbo’s body language: He thinks I look tasty.
my body language: I think she looks tasty.
re: #105 Florida Panhandler
Forecasts for my area in the Panhandle are safe with only minimal risk of any major events resulting from Ian, thank goodness. However I do have friends in the Tampa area and will not be surprised if I get a call or two about evacuating to our house while the storm rages, especially if it slows as expected and dumps a shit ton of rain and wind on that region over a matter of days.
It will be necessary for any and all Federal Government help to be available which I’m sure is already being staged by the Biden Administration, ready to deploy as needed without any grandstanding or assistance in exchange for appeasement and knee-bending unlike our previous utterly loathsome President.
With that being said, Florida’s current loathsome Governor is furthering his populist pivot by being the “guy in charge” here during the storm using USA national resources, all the while defaming and decrying Federal Government in his pathological Conservative nonsense. And don’t even get me started on the whole Climate non-debate when it’s the exact same technology and modeling that can determine a hurricane’s likely cone of landfall and can also precisely determine human-driven effects upon our planet.
My son lives in Jacksonville. We’ll have to see what happens.
I went through a hurricane (well, the edge of one), and a week later he goes through one.
We must not be living right or something. /s
re: #73 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Snowden should stay home until at least April — and so should every man in Russia.
actually the advice from people who seem to know what they’re talking about is to stay off the street and if possible stay somewhere other than your registered address.
Live views of #HurricaneIan from the @Space_Station as it flies over the storm. https://t.co/hGjzrBmuyw
— NASA (@NASA) September 26, 2022
When we dated, in 2010-11, Kyrsten was a legit progressive, far to my left.
Now she has embraced the Political Industry™️ where there is only process, not policy, and never people.
Perfect solution: she can be the next host of @MeetThePress https://t.co/lSvKDDykjZ— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 26, 2022
re: #109 steve_davis
my body language: I think she looks tasty.
my body language: who the eff thought this was a good idea and is there a sharpshooter off camera aiming at Leo?
re: #89 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The Hobbit certainly was, initially, written for his children in the 1930s.
LOTR was written starting in WWII. He used to send drafts of sections to his son Christopher while the latter was training for war in South Africa. And it took several more years to complete (1951 I believe). It’s a big treatise on the meaning of life and mortality (death.)
What I find interesting is that all of Tolkien’s notes and backstories are much more involved but he never could publish them in his lifetime. So the posthumously published material turns out to be more voluminous than JRRT’s published material.
And where are you getting that from?
From the man himself in his forward: “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
I think a lot of people are finding applicability where is suits him but that was not his intention.
video, 0:31
This “home is where the heart is” plaque tells part of the heartbreaking story of destruction here in Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland. The Fire Chief is calling his coastal community “a war zone” where dozens of families have lost their homes. More ahead @CTVNews @CTVNationalNews pic.twitter.com/c0Mf1sNvng
— Adrian Ghobrial (@AdrianGhobrial) September 26, 2022
re: #114 Dangerman
my body language: who the eff thought this was a good idea and is there a sharpshooter off camera aiming at Leo?
yes, but leo was smart: he had a sharpshooter aimed at THAT sharpshooter. He just never anticipated that there might be a triple-cross!
re: #98 Dangerman
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^this
it’s spy novel stuff
easy to understand
and woefully not what’s ever actually happenedthere arent a lot of actual machiavelli’s out there
Now that I’m older and reading more thorough histories of Cold War espionage it’s amazing how often practitioners of the craft convinced themselves they were the super operators, or put their trust in one dude they imagined to have some critical espionage quality that meant bending the rules.
Operation Paperclip involved a lot of attributing some kind of genius to Nazi security figures like Skorzny and Galen…both of whom turned out to just be kind of shit.
We’re sold the image of Great Men because it’s rhetorically useful to the powerful, but the downstream of that is fitting mediocrities for the garb of genius because the alternative is expressing how bad the systems are. Serial killers are geniuses because the alternative is that cops don’t really try to serve people that end up as serial killer targets; Dictators are geniuses because the alternative is that “democratic” states are kind of ok with tyranny over there if it cuts costs.
re: #104 The Ghost of a Flea
So…I’m going to provisionally disagree. Like not “this is bad, you are wrong” but “this is nuanced, let’s talk nuance.”
The core thing is: fascists are so shallow that there’s no relationship between what they attribute to a text and what is within a text, to the point that conventional contextual critique is meaningless. Fascists no more read in good faith than they speak in good faith.
We can talk about what was or not intended by the author, and what are possible readings of themes, or even dissections line by line of what words could mean, and none of it would matter because fascists value books like Ed Gein values ladies. They want the aesthetic, the cultural clout—the fetishizable bits—and give no two shits about the contents.
As such, authorial intent is dead even beyond Barthes’ framing: all texts exists to convey the same message, and any text can be fitted to that message, Procrustes like.
I was a Tolkien kid, deep in the Simarillion and the marginalia, and I could argue with you both of you. I could argue that Tolkien’s mythic past shouldn’t evoke nostalgia because most of it is a tragedy—LotR being the final moment of uplift at the end of a cycle of folly, but still filled with bittersweet elements. I could also argue that Tolkien’ss lack of explicit politics do not change that his work is political, with its elevation of community and its condemnation of systems of control that benefits the few…
…but neither of these things matter to the current culture war because the reactionary culture warriors don’t care. Tolkien, like all other things, exists only as an expression of power, a thing to claim and use. The entire point is to hollow out the text and inject the same reactionary substance as always.
Yes, I can’t argue that is will be used by fascists and others. I think he would agree that the reader can apply it however they choose. I am just saying that he was not intending to right is as a political allegory.
DENVER RIGGLEMAN, Former Republican house member & 1/6 staffer: “Much more coordination (with the White House) than the 🇺🇸 can even imagine, when it came to January 6th.” pic.twitter.com/OFck9iK7DB
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) September 26, 2022
She read online that a golden retriever’s mouth is so gentle they can hold an egg in their mouth without cracking it; so she tried it on her dog🐕🥚 pic.twitter.com/9dibpjeQ9H
— Tansu YEĞEN (@TansuYegen) September 25, 2022
re: #120 Axolotl
Yes, I can’t argue that is will be used by fascists and others. I think he would agree that the reader can apply it however they choose. I am just saying that he was not intending to right is as a political allegory.
Anyone who has read both Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia should know what’s allegory (Narnia) and what’s not allegory (LOTR).
re: #97 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
What we have all over the world are states full of people who are increasingly anxious about losing their faith and their identities.
There is only one identity. We are human.
Nothing more, nothing less.
re: #122 Charles Johnson
“Lady, you stuck this thing in here. You come in here and get it.”
News report from the CBC today on Port aux Basques (video, 2:52), showing the widespread destruction of the city.
Update Sept 26: The 81-year-old man who was reported missing in #LowerProspect is believed to have been swept out to sea during Post-tropical storm Fiona. https://t.co/0bFR20Vpa3
— RCMP Nova Scotia (@RCMPNS) September 26, 2022
Don’t think for one minute these backward-assed superstitious piss-eyed buckled-shoe Bible bangers wouldn’t burn you and me at the fucking stake if the government wasn’t stopping them. https://t.co/kJRArzsxo0
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 26, 2022
They’re busy collecting names. (Fifteen tweets)
Tonight is #RoshHashanah so let’s dig into the new year by learning who in Nebraska politics are antisemites and those that support them.
— nebraska antifascists (@antifa_ne) September 25, 2022
re: #130 jaunte
I can’t tweet at work, but if I could I’d quote from the Pirke Avot 3:2:
Rabbi Hanina, the vice-high priest said: pray for the welfare of the government, for were it not for the fear it inspires, every man would swallow his neighbor alive
Then they’re asking if @KenPaxtonTX will go after Reddit for discriminating against anyone who doesn’t believe that Abbott “is a little piss baby.”
I see the 5th Circuit ruling is going just great… https://t.co/Fr0sATqKdB— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) September 26, 2022
re: #130 jaunte
Seems to be a trend:
Yep, feminist nothing but lustful witches working for the government. 😒 pic.twitter.com/FVmiVzcP8N
— AskAubry 🦝 (@ask_aubry) September 25, 2022
Sounds like fun. Where might one find some of these lustful feminist witches?
re: #134 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Seems to be a trend:
Sounds like fun. Where might one find some of these lustful witches?
I hear Hunter Biden might be able to hook you up.
re: #134 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Over-reliance on spellcheck intern hurts the original poster’s ability to proofread.
Lara Trump just ripped the biggest fart of all time. pic.twitter.com/XYB7NDkfbY
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) September 26, 2022
FUN FACT: Newt Gingrich divorced his first wife because “she wasn’t pretty enough to be First Lady” without realizing he wasn’t pretty enough to be President.https://t.co/w4l6ytlnNW
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) September 26, 2022
re: #51 Dopamine Fish
I guess not quite:
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Perhaps Snowden has dodged a bullet, but can he dodge a window?
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lara Trump angrily calls stylist to berate them for suggesting this.
Why would Pennsylvania democratic senate candidate john fetterman have a tattoo saying “ i will make you hurt”?
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) September 26, 2022
Fun fact: when Newt Gingrich was a young man, he was an old man. pic.twitter.com/xz3xCRYApJ
— A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon (@JuliusGoat) September 26, 2022
re: #130 jaunte
Dear @RepMTG: Last Tuesday we had a bipartisan classified briefing about Ukraine at 8 am. Did you even attend?
I attended because I’m a new class of woke vampire, where I can move around in daylight. Very powerful. https://t.co/d6RuVWKX8c— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 26, 2022
“He doesn’t. The actions on Wednesday are totally indefensible. We need to rebuild our country and our party from scratch. We have to start over.”— Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), when asked by National Journal last year whether Donald Trump has a future in the Republican party.
———-
“I’m going to support whomever Republicans nominate in ‘24.”
— Mace, when asked by NBC News this weekend if she would support Trump as the GOP nominee in 2024.
another spineless jellyfish
re: #143 Dangerman
another spineless jellyfish
Rep Nancy Mace was once literally caught supporting vaccines and supporting natural immunity on the same day to different news sites.
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well blast. Apologia meets at 4 pm Sundays at another church near my home here in Mesa. I have wanted to protest them again, but temps have been in the low 100s this month. The high for next Sunday is 98. It’s being penciled in on the calendar.
— Dee *I support transgender people* Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) September 26, 2022
Kemp just made Stacey a hard ass mixtape cover 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/8tXSivxRkm
— khan (@bckndmillennial) September 26, 2022
re: #149 jaunte
On average, 8 of 10 viewers will only look at the picture and read the headline.
“Sometimes I think you’re the only one who really gets me”
📸: @pmfvic pic.twitter.com/XL8ZN7oSEc— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) September 26, 2022
— In Otter News…. (@In_Otter_News2) September 26, 2022
I consolidated undergrad & grad in 2010 at $65k. I paid on time every single month, a total of $46k, yet my principle was holding. I hate interest. It’s all gone now thanks to the TEPSLF. I never qualified for the original PSLF because I wasn’t on an income based plan.
— LaToya Jordan (@latoyadjordan) September 26, 2022
Everyone telling me to vote blue: I’ve been a registered Dem since I was teenager. 😂
— LaToya Jordan (@latoyadjordan) September 26, 2022
ed just wants some privacy, y’all…
After years of separation from our parents, my wife and I have no desire to be separated from our SONS.
After two years of waiting and nearly ten years of exile, a little stability will make a difference for my family. I pray for privacy for them—and for us all. https://t.co/24NUK21TAo pic.twitter.com/qLfp47uzZ4— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 26, 2022
Doug Mastriano says it is “disgusting” that the FBI arrested someone for assaulting a 74 year old man escorting someone into Planned Parenthood: “Our people - don’t do anything stupid. We get the last word on Nov 8. We got to win at the ballot box and take back our country.” pic.twitter.com/u0eYVfpzoZ
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 26, 2022
“our people”
O_o
when cuba is more progressive…
🎉 We’re celebrating because Cuba just legalized same-sex marriage!! 👭👬 This legislation will also allow gay couples to adopt and increase the rights of women, the elderly and children. https://t.co/tLibV9X2b4
— NCLR – National Center for Lesbian Rights (@NCLRights) September 26, 2022
Tomorrow’s Wordle was sitting upstairs in the bus and missed its stop.
Chipped in from off the green. The birbie says tveet tveet.
Wordle 465 3/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
SibData: 3,4,4
For my spoopy lovin’ frens. 😏 pic.twitter.com/WgGMRPo0GK
— Rilla Of The North 🇨🇦 (@CelticCarnivora) September 26, 2022
re: #115 Axolotl
And where are you getting that from?
From the man himself in his forward: “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
I think a lot of people are finding applicability where is suits him but that was not his intention.
As Tolkien implied, and my art teacher said: There are many valid interpretations of a piece of art, and the artist’s interpretation is one of them. Part of the reason the viewer’s interpretation is valid is that they may see influences that the artist has internalized but not consciously acknowledged.
So I personally do not buy any artists attempt to say “This is what I made and this is what it means.” We call those people manufacturers, not artists.
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
Actually, she’s Jean Jacket.
re: #160 Belafon
As Tolkien implied, and my art teacher said: There are many valid interpretations of a piece of art, and the artist’s interpretation is one of them. Part of the reason the viewer’s interpretation is valid is that they may see influences that the artist has internalized but not consciously acknowledged.
So I personally do not buy any artists attempt to say “This is what I made and this is what it means.” We call those people manufacturers, not artists.
A real allegory is pretty much a counterexample to this way of thinking. E.g., in the Chronicles of Narnia, there are only two ways to interpret Aslan — as a Christ figure, or incorrectly. The author’s intent in this case is indisputable (i.e., the “purposed domination of the author” from Tolkien’s comment on allegory.)
This is just as relevant now as it was then. This is how it starts. Fascism and hate spread quickly. And before you know what happened, everything changes and not in a positive way. This is history echoing so we can learn from it and prevent the past from returning. https://t.co/Nfx1y96SEP
— Robin Alura 🏳️⚧️ (@RobinAlura) September 26, 2022
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mark Houck assaulted the escort, a 74 YO man, on two separate occasions. He knew what he was doing was wrong. Mastriano us just saying it’s open season on women. https://t.co/RbnaAuwt6h
— Dee *I support transgender people* Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) September 26, 2022
People who defend Mark Houck need to understand that they are saying it is OK to assault clinic escorts and patients, which is already a crime. The only reason the Feds are involved here is because of the federal act that makes assault at a clinic a federal crime.
Little Tommy Twelve Toes may be illegally smol, but he makes it clear that he’s in charge. https://t.co/pNbT4gmAn5 pic.twitter.com/u84Ht0q8Wq
— Illegally Smol Cats (@IllegallySmol) September 26, 2022
Article 1, Section 9 of Idaho constitution: “Every person may freely speak, write and publish on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.”
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) September 26, 2022
Canada dropping COVID-19 border rules, travel mask mandate https://t.co/0MDpWd94jf
— CTV Ottawa (@ctvottawa) September 26, 2022
re: #162 EPR-radar
A real allegory is pretty much a counterexample to this way of thinking. E.g., in the Chronicles of Narnia, there are only two ways to interpret Aslan — as a Christ figure, or incorrectly. The author’s intent in this case is indisputable (i.e., the “purposed domination of the author” from Tolkien’s comment on allegory.)
Hmm. Not sure of that. A Christ figure can be a trope or metaphor as well as being a yes or no kind of thing. One can read Narnia and see Aslan as Christ-like but not inherently divine (I didn’t but the kids at the catholic school I knew did. I found him as “christ like” as Odin… iow a similar myth but no where near the same.). The Doctor from Dr. Who is similar.
Our investigative team has discovered the precise location an asteroid will strike Earth next week. Details coming Spring 2023 to bookstores near you.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) September 26, 2022
Anyway I’m not a fan of Italy electing a fascist, although I do approve their past approach to retirement of such people
— ResponsibleDispatchHat (@Popehat) September 26, 2022
In case you missed it:
— Andrew D. Lewis (@AndrewDLewis) September 26, 2022
I remember my mother getting very upset that I turned down a job in Concord, CA in 2000. I told her, “Mom, I don’t make enough to live there, unless you want me sleeping in a box undrneath the 680.” That’s even more the case now. When I was in LA in June, I was kind of stunned by the number of tiny blue tarped encampments tucked in here and there as I drove around. It’s a true crisis. It’s getting that way here in Phoenix.
re: #171 mmmirele
I see a lot of that on my bike rides, but they have cleaned up the Grand Canal which goes from Tempe, by the airport up to 15 ave and Camelback. Also, they got all the homeless out of the river bottom west of Tempe Town Lake (a lot are camping just off the bike paths now, or underneath the bridges).
re: #169 ckkatz
Times Pitchbot@DougJBalloon
Our investigative team has discovered the precise location an asteroid will strike Earth next week. Details coming Spring 2023 to bookstores near you.
As written by Maggie Haberman
re: #167 ckkatz
Stupid people who refuse to vaccinate are on the MSN comment section right now talking about taking their unvaccinated families to Canada, with no idea that they’ve failed to take care of their families and will be getting them sick.
re: #171 mmmirele
In case you missed it:
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when i was an undergrad (late 70’s) there was a lot of overcrowding at our school.
we already had a lot of 3 in two person room
they ended up block renting the local motels, apt complexes, etc
(they were not great motels)
re: #56 dat_said
Thoughts…
1. Reminds me of the “Great Disappointment” of 1843-44.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
2. I think that we are now into the “Gray Goo” Apocalypse. (Google it. Or not…)
NASA’s Shooting Rockets at Asteroids Like Space Billiards Now
I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
By Charlie Pierce
esquire.com
I have watched far too many science fiction movies to feel entirely comfortable with this whole “let’s just shoot a spaceship at extraterrestrial objects for funsies” mission.
…
Look, I know what happens next. Either we miss the damn thing entirely, or we nudge it into a direct trajectory toward Earth—it’s presently going to miss us by a parsec or three—and then we all have to pay Bruce Willis to go and blow it up. Or we crack it in two and expose an alien civilization that then comes to Earth, entirely pissed off, to take back the pyramids.
…
Am I going to watch? You damn betcha (it starts around 5:30 p.m., Eastern, today).
If this has already been posted to lgf, my apologies:
https://t.co/0T73QVLIKc pic.twitter.com/ypxY1OLeQ2
— Jack🇮🇪🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 (@NoNotThatJack) September 26, 2022
Trump wasn’t “kicked out of office.” He lost the election. That’s how democracy works.
Nixon wasn’t “kicked out of office.” He resigned rather than face his chicanery.
History has shown both were crooks.
Maybe these people aren’t qualified to be opining on this subject. https://t.co/p6ADxQGAqa— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 26, 2022
Most Unbelievable Body Art Illusion Ever
by J.Stotter pic.twitter.com/bQZ0rXEVcX— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) September 25, 2022
re: #182 Crush White Nationalism
Amazing! I don’t know why I love those things, but I sure do.
NASA is streaming live views from the DART spacecraft as it speeds toward a collision with an asteroid at 7:14pm EDT (2314 GMT) in the agency’s first planetary defense experiment. Watch here as the asteroid grows larger in the field of view: https://t.co/OtCYO9xkql pic.twitter.com/Q8uwQkgoXG
— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) September 26, 2022
good fucking grief
Calling from jail on the eve of his trial, Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes says he is a dissident political prisoner like Nelson Mandela and Solzhenitsyn. pic.twitter.com/m3ioJy6eC4
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 26, 2022
At least Solzhenitsyn wrote a book of his experiences in the gulag. I do not think this guy would know how.
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief
Why do I get the feeling that in all actuality Steward Rhodes would agree with Cecil Rhodes far more than he would agree with Nelson Mandela.
Watch an asteroid take a good whacking.
FWIW: A reaction to John Oliver’s take on Bolsonaro. I very much like Oliver, but he misses important nuance here. I have quite a few close Brazilian friends. They all support Bolsonaro. Yes, he can speak rudely. Yes, he can be insulting. And, yes, I disagree strongly with some of his views. Some of my friends do, too.
But Oliver strikes out on why Bolsonaro has such wide-spread passionate support. Many Brazilians see him as the person who stood up and saved Brazil from becoming the next Venezuela or the next Cuba. As Oliver says, they call him “Mito”, which means “legend.” During the last election, he was attacked and stabbed with a knife. He only barely survived, but then he won, and after coming into office has worked to stop the fountains of corruption that were bleeding Brazil.
Oliver gets a detail lost in translation. Bolsonaro’s supporters do not see him as a biblical sort of Messiah. But they do see him as someone who saved the country. “Messiah” gets mentioned simply because it is right there in the man’s name: Jair Messias Bolsonaro.
Oliver only briefly refers to the trouble with the other side: Lula and his Worker’s Party. Over more than a decade in office, they took long-running Brazilian traditions of political corruptness to a new level. The country went from a booming economy in the years before they hosted the World Cup and the Olympics to a giant recession with lost jobs and stores closing up.
Many ordinary Brazilians chalk this up to Lula and his buddies stealing the money that could have made their country thrive. Lula ended up in jail for his part. How did he get out? Because of his supporters in the Brazilian version of a Supreme Court.
Imagine Trump gets arrested and convicted, then is let off on a technicality by the Supreme Court, many of whom he appointed, and then he runs for President AGAIN!. Imagine the disgust you would feel.
Another thing. In Brazil (I’m tempted to spell that their way, “Brasil”), voting is mandatory. Trump warned the election would be rigged, but he didn’t do a thing to prevent the alleged rigging. Bolsonaro is warning the election could be rigged, so he is trying to institute a requirement that voting has a paper trail, so that there is a clear record as to who voted and who did not. Lula is fighting this, which Bolsonaro supporters see as evidence that Lula intends to win based on false votes, mostly in the dirt-poor communities where he has the most support.
It’s complicated for me, because I’m very put off by Bolsonaro’s Trump-like side. On the other side, his opponent is a populist thief in the model of Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega.
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
we are tuned into the NASA channel on DirecTV
the asteroid is way bigger than a pixel now
“come on there is no place safer than on the surface of an asteroid out in the middle of space what could possibly happen out here” pic.twitter.com/gPqawSeZp9
— darth™ (@darth) September 26, 2022
The asteroid in front isn’t Dimorphos, the one they’re crashing into. Dimorphos is just starting to become visible at upper right of the brighter object.
re: #171 mmmirele
In case you missed it:
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I remember my mother getting very upset that I turned down a job in Concord, CA in 2000. I told her, “Mom, I don’t make enough to live there, unless you want me sleeping in a box undrneath the 680.” That’s even more the case now. When I was in LA in June, I was kind of stunned by the number of tiny blue tarped encampments tucked in here and there as I drove around. It’s a true crisis. It’s getting that way here in Phoenix.
UT Dallas had the same issue at the beginning of the school year. The only reason my son has housing is he stayed in the same apartment since last year and payed the fee to stay in over the summer.
One of the scientists just assured us there’s no chance of anything going wrong and a massive screaming fireball smashing into the Earth, which made me pretty nervous tbh.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2022
NASA about to crash into an asteroid to test their ability to steer an asteroid off a collision course with earth. Wouldn’t be ironic if they accidentally put this one ON a collision course with earth?
What’s his favorite team? The Siberian Deserters? Leningrad Leavers?
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) September 26, 2022
re: #194 Charles Johnson
The asteroid in front isn’t Dimorphos, the one they’re crashing into. Dimorphos is just starting to become visible at upper right of the brighter object.
big guy is Didymos
YOU BETTER HIDE BEHIND DIDYMOS CUZ I’M COMING FOR YOU YOU GLORIFIED DIRT CLOD pic.twitter.com/gW0ky8lizL
— DART the Asteroid Slayer (@DARTprobe) September 26, 2022
re: #198 Charles Johnson
Anyone know how far away the Impact Event is/I.e. what the transmission delay is?
ETA: 38 seconds, they said
re: #189 Tahitinho
It’s complicated for me, because I’m very put off by Bolsonaro’s Trump-like side. On the other side, his opponent is a populist thief in the model of Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega.
I don’t know enough about most of his positions… but I’m definitely pissed off about how he’s treated the Amazon.
This one is for the pterodactyls, you frickin’ space rock.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2022
This channel is great (DarkMatter2525) and a total mind bend.
Warning: may be offensive to religious people.
That was pretty incredible. I hope that fuckin rock learned its lesson.
OMG,
The details in those last pictures!
How big were those rocks? 1 meter?
re: #212 Charles Johnson
That was pretty incredible. I hope that fuckin rock learned its lesson.
I hope they didn’t steer it toward earth…it’s the size of a pyramid.
re: #186 PhillyPretzel
Believe it or not, the dude is a graduate of Yale Law School. Proof that stupidity and racism cut across all academic circles.
netflix is charging for 480p streaming and they are in los gatos
— darth™ (@darth) September 26, 2022
WaPo ping:
Washington Post is now saying the asteroid is dust.
Last image before KAPOWIE pic.twitter.com/WZWaNbFz9Q
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2022
I very rarely regret being unsuited for a career in science, but watching a bunch of NASA people hug it out after successfully hitting a rock with a spaceship is so purely beautiful I come close
— ResponsibleDispatchHat (@Popehat) September 26, 2022
Impact! NASA’s DART spacecraft has collided with asteroid Didymos, hitting at a velocity of more than 14,000 mph in a historic planetary defense experiment. https://t.co/OtCYO9fJyN pic.twitter.com/rlWiUycLt8
— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) September 26, 2022
re: #216 TarHellion
Believe it or not, the dude is a graduate of Yale Law School. Proof that stupidity and racism cuts across all academic circles.
It’s almost like these institutions that the elite use as markers of meritocratic worth are either ineffectual—not producing the bespoke Great Men they advertise—or malicious—a system rigged to elevate a certain kind of mediocrity and small-spiritedness that just keeps extending the human centipede of the status quo.
But it’s definitely not that general intelligence is largely meaningless as an index of clear thought because bad axioms plus G equals very logical bad solutions, and racism just happens to be one of those axioms.////
MrBWS tweeted what we managed to capture here:
Dimorphos right before impact pic.twitter.com/dGX3c20dMG
— Cabledog (@Cabledog6) September 26, 2022
Loss of signal pic.twitter.com/No9eNoN8wl
— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) September 26, 2022
It would be interesting to see a rounded stream-bed pebble in all that.
re: #222 jaunte
Talk about an easy lay-up pickup line on your resume…
..yes, I work for NASA… Planetary Defense.
re: #221 Charles Johnson
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things like this is why the rest of the world put up with our bullshit.
re: #227 Florida Panhandler
It sounds so much more real than Space Force.
He’s too classy to do this but it’d be funny if President Biden said that if Putin wants Snowden that much he can have him.
It would also send Eddie running for the nearest border.— Sean (@sean_s_mc) September 26, 2022
re: #227 Florida Panhandler
Talk about an easy lay-up pickup line on your resume…
..yes, I work for NASA… Planetary Defense.
but the Space Force new song is for shit
re: #184 jaunte
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NASA boss Bill Nelson wass just on congratulating the DART team. Mr. Nelson will be 80 years old this Thursday (born September 29 1942). He flew in space on the Shuttle Columbia while he was a Congressman in 1986. This was the last successful mission before the Challenger disaster.
Did anyone else notice that Dimorphos looked like a Scotch egg?
Was this all just a hoax in a black room with a scotch egg as the target of a camera that zoomed in????
That was for the dinosaurs.
— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) September 26, 2022
general intelligence is largely meaningless as an index of clear thought because bad axioms plus G equals very logical bad solutions
History is full of clever monsters that built very efficient corpse-making industries for want of the base assumption “those people over there are also people.”
Stewart might be intelligent, even learned in the law, but what he wants is to be cruel and dominating. His theoretical intelligence chooses to live at the bottom of a well and only tolerates sunlight at noon.
He’s not fucking up because he’s stupid, he’s fucking up because he can’t conceptualize a framework in which his premises, based on being at the bottom of a well, aren’t true. That’s not stupidity, it’s folly. ofermod even. All of these fuckers, it’s hubris, the specific damming off of other possibilities because they are unflattering resulting in catastrophe…when they succeed the catastrophe is directed onto someone else, temporarily, but eventually the waveform collapses. Cruelty is a pretty primitive fucking problem solving tool.
Basically, the much memed bunker scene from Untergang played straight.
re: #26 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
When all you have is a hammer.
Raising interest rates isn’t going to fix inflation created by Covid supply chain issues. Oh it might seem to help a little but it’s going to overall make things worse and potentially cause the recession everyone is trying to avoid.
No one “printed too much money”.
The Fed raising rates is stupid and they should know better. If the Bank of England does this it will be stupid too.
Paul Krugman (of all people) doesn’t oppose the action.
Yet if I were in Powell’s shoes, I would probably have done the same thing. For the Fed is anxious to preserve its credibility on inflation.
Notice that I said “preserve.” The Fed — like yours truly — failed to predict the 2021-22 inflation surge. But neither financial markets nor the public lost faith that inflation would, in fact, come down in the fairly near future.
That’s an important asset. Subdued inflation expectations are the best reason to believe that the Fed can engineer a relatively soft landing — an economic slowdown for sure, maybe a recession, but not the kind of sustained era of extremely high unemployment that it took to end the inflation of the 1970s.
And the Fed is acting to preserve this asset, trying to bring current inflation down soon enough that the public retains its faith in low future inflation. I don’t like it. I’ll be calling for a monetary pivot as soon as we have clear evidence that inflation is, in fact, coming down. But the Powell Fed is, I’m afraid, right to believe that retaining credibility is important.
Let them fight to the death.
I love that trump called DeSantis “fat” and “whiney”!
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