Roy Wood Jr. takes the stage in his second hour-long special to talk about changing the national anthem, protesting, Black superheroes and why people hate learning new things.
Watch full Comedy Central stand-up specials: http://www.cc.com/shows/stand-up
Comedy Central Stand-Up: Anti-Bias Statement: https://www.cc.com/info/k32ti7/ccsu-anti-bias-statement
Damn. Took too long to write ;-) Just posted this downstairs.
re: #280 Dangerman
I think it is likely that Jeffries, with Pelosi working in the back ground, have got this. They have set up the discharge petition months ago. The Wall Street Republicans had been lied to believe that the starting negotiation position was this bill and that there would be months to get to a real bill. Now there is no time and they will be under extreme pressure (18 of the Republicans in the House come from districts won by Biden).. We shall see but all the leverage is now with the Dems in the House.
This is actually one of my thoughts for how the GOP is broken as we create a new political party system. The Wall Street/Main Street Republicans find common cause with the Third Way, moderate Dems (they already overlap a lot on fiscal issues). This debt bill would be an example.
This giives the moderate Republicans a lot more power than they had in the GOP. Also more than the Progressives, who then respond by reaching out to the working class whites in the GOP (the non-racist ones) by paying to 2 years of community college, and to rural communities ripe for transition to WFH economies. Without these grouos, the GOP cannot win at the national level and we end up with 2 parties - a liberal one and a centrist one. Maybe ;-)
For the best key lime pie, go to Florida. https://t.co/svUQijJQl1
— Food & Wine (@foodandwine) May 7, 2023
Scoop from @McGeeReports: Texas Senate may blink on getting rid of tenure. Amended bill allows universities to grant it but requires them to have clear guidelines and conduct performance reviews for those who earn it. Already in place/happening https://t.co/cGsJVUaPHX #txlege
— Evan Smith (@evanasmith) May 7, 2023
Our online lesson describes the geographical location of the Auschwitz camp, its security system, alarm system, repressions faced by captured escapees, the collective revolts and finally tells the stories of 25 escapes.https://t.co/E0tTMN1ryO
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) May 7, 2023
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, basically all the stuff Republicans don’t want you to learn about.
Yellen Warns There Is No Way Around Lifting Debt Limit
More pressure on at least 5 Republicans in the House to vote for the discharge petition. The alternative is for Biden to ignore the debt ceiling law, invoke the 14th Amendment and tell the Fed to keep creating money to pay the debt. Sure, it would go to the Supreme Court, who may idiotically say this is unconstitutional (they should say the debt ceiling is unconstitutional which it is, IMHO). But they have no way to enforce this ruling. So Biden could continue to pay the debt. And sure, the GOP may work to impeach Biden (but would they so obviously wreck the economy?) but he would not get convicted in the Senate. And Harris would continue to do the same thing.
If Biden is forced to do this, it will, IMHO, seal his place in history as one of the great Presidents. He will obviously saved the global economy which the GOP would have destroyed. No subsequent President would risk re-instituting the debt celining and history would be very positive.
re: #258 Hecuba’s daughter
They also don’t care when they or their loved ones are murdered or harmed. Think of Steve Scalise’s reaction when he was shot or the reaction when their 2 year old shoots their 4 year old — “It’s G-d’s will”.
Imo scalise held onto that position be cause he was not injured enough
I don’t mean to be glib or minimize what happened to him
He survived and lived to tell the tale
Relatively easily
Recovered well, had the best healthcare
No long term or permanent damage
A year later he was playing ball again
Nothing like, say, Giffords
re: #4 jaunte
Not surprised. All the great professors are probably already looking for santuary in Blue states. The brain drain would be huge. Those professors bring in huge amounts of money from the Federal grants. That money is needed by the Universities to sustain its teaching requirements.
They have to blink if they hope to get any of the Higher Ed lobbying money.
Ummmm…yeah.
When the marketing team didn’t watch the movie pic.twitter.com/9bpG9oMFlv
— Obaid Omer (@obaidomer) May 7, 2023
re: #9 silverdolphin
I’m a little surprised at how quickly reality dawned on them. We’ll see.
A coward’s response. You have a duty to keep Texans safe, yet you surrender to weakness. “Can’t legislate evil” is pathetic . You easily legislate away voting rights, women’s health, personal liberties, & local control. You don’t lack solutions, you lack courage. https://t.co/cZIlJt0VGT
— Matt Angle (@LSPmatt) May 7, 2023
re: #9 silverdolphin
Not surprised. All the great professors are probably already looking for santuary in Blue states. The brain drain would be huge. Those professors bring in huge amounts of money from the Federal grants. That money is needed by the Universities to sustain its teaching requirements.
They have to blink if they hope to get any of the Higher Ed lobbying money.
Not that I use my degrees for anything (except for “why are you working on the technology help desk when you have a law degree”*) but I couldn’t help but wonder how my degrees would be devalued by this. “Oh yeah, I graduated from UT Austin back when it was a ‘Public Ivy,’ before it became a Greg Abbott-Dan Patrick hellhole.” Right.
*Question I was asked back in 2006 at a job interview. I do think that degree helped me stand out from the crowd of applicants.
re: #274 silverdolphin
Thanks for al the support. It means a lot. I have not heard anything more from the ICU so no news is good news. They’ve got him on antibiotics for the pneumonia, some steroids and anti-virals for the COVID, and another drug to increase his blood pressure. He is getting oxygen. His oxygen saturation levels are fine. It is the high CO2 levels that are a worry (Which anyone who has watched The Andromeda Strain would know would protect him from the alien disease ;-)
I’ll keep you all updated. Again, thank you all so much.
+1 for the movie ref
re: #9 silverdolphin
Not surprised. All the great professors are probably already looking for santuary in Blue states. The brain drain would be huge. Those professors bring in huge amounts of money from the Federal grants. That money is needed by the Universities to sustain its teaching requirements.
They have to blink if they hope to get any of the Higher Ed lobbying money.
Not only from federal government, but from corporations. HUGE amounts of money, and this is separate from outright donations. There are contracts and grants for specific applied research, which essentially offload a lot of internal research and development[ onto universities.
That’s a huge reason that universities are such major drivers of economy.
Republicans, of course, want to kill that.
Police are now saying for the record that the car-pedestrian collision in Brownville this morning was intentional. Just saw an extremely graphic video of the immediate aftermath. (no link, it’s easy to find). Four or five dead people are lying in a pile on the curb. Another one is a few feet away with his head crushed and his brain on the pavement nearby. There are a number of badly injured people, including one guy whose leg was severed just below the knee. Another has lost a hand and is yelling “Mi Mano!” Several people are doing their best to help, including applying tourniquets against massive outflow.
I have not seen anything like this since I left Iraq in 2007. Yeah, the war is here.
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Black Voters Not As Enthusiastic About Biden
We have a year and a half before the elections. Lots will happen to change this. Biden is the best professional politician we have had in my life time as President. Dark Branden has this.
For one, I have been really impressed with Harris since the speech she gave on the Tennessee Three. She was displaying the angry Black woman trope that I have not seen efectively used since Barbara Jordan. It was pretty impressive (especially as she did not seem to be using a teleprompter) She seems to have maintained this style in recent speeches, changing a lot from her previously stilted form. If she can act as a stalking horse hee for Biden, they will have the Black vote sewed up.
Abortion issues will continue to gatherthe woman;s vote. And I expect Biden has some things up his sleeves to get the youth vote excited.
I try not to be a Pollyanna but I really do think this is one possible future. Hope so.
re: #12
A coward’s response. You have a duty to keep Texans safe, yet you surrender to weakness. “Can’t legislate evil” is pathetic . You easily legislate away voting rights, women’s health, personal liberties, & local control. You don’t lack solutions, you lack courage. https://t.co/cZIlJt0VGT
— Matt Angle (@LSPmatt) May 7, 2023
Yeah, Holland, in Britain they put a fancy robe and a weird hat on a 74 year old man and call him a sovereign, yet even they are smart enough to keep semi-auto rifles and high capacity mags away from lunatics. Same for Canada, where they have millions of guns and even the same sovereign geezer.
re: #17 silverdolphin
I’d guess they’re a lot less enthusiastic about Trump and Desantis.
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) May 7, 2023
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
That cat wants a belly scratch.
I’m not sure it was intentional
🚨🚨🚨Graphic CCTV footage from Minnesota near Brownsville, Texas
‼️Warning‼️Graphic video‼️No Sound #Brownsville #Texas #Minnesota #HateCrime #Migrants #Graphic #Breaking_News pic.twitter.com/0PK8d1Oh2x— Mrs. SpaceX ™️ (@anuibi) May 7, 2023
Quite a sentence about a scotus judge
for years, Thomas has accepted lavish trips and gifts from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, which have gone mostly unreported on the justice’s financial disclosures. Crow also purchased several real estate properties, including the home where Thomas’ mother lives, from the Thomas family and paid boarding school tuition for Thomas’ grandnephew, according to ProPublica
“ethical/legal” or not (its not) it was a damned stupid thing to do
But he don’t care what it looks like
Its the old saw, we’ve established what you are, were just negotiating the price.
And now we all see his.
re: #23 gocart mozart
That guy in the white T-shirt running towards the camera at the end of the clip has to be, quite possibly, the luckiest guy in Texas.
re: #24 Dangerman
“We’re rich and powerful. We can do what we want. And you can’t do shit to stop us.”
re: #23 gocart mozart
I’m not sure it was intentional
And looking at that clip, I’m not 100% sure that was intentional, either. Looks like he was speeding, lost control, hit the curb (with the pedestrians), and his SUV flipped. But it’s basically impossible to say right now without seeing the incident from another angle.
Unless the driver confesses to doing it intentionally, of course.
Loved watching her sign during Andy’s Covid reports.
‘Rock of stability’: Virginia Moore, Kentucky’s sign language interpreter, dies https://t.co/2EsUCT7UMJ via @courierjournal
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) May 7, 2023
I wonder if his tastes are catered for there ….
— Will (@WJBMass) May 7, 2023
Whenever I hear the “but so and so is my colleague” argument I know something’s wrong. Here it’s the natural consequences of old age. Elsewhere, it’s dishonesty, racism, substance abuse or something else. The “colleague” argument easily can betray the public trust.
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) May 7, 2023
This is fundamentally unserious -
We’re trying hard to make your feed as compelling as possible (maximize unregretted user minutes).
How is it now vs 6 months ago?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 7, 2023
There are a whole bunch of takes on this picture -
when you have to stir the royal chili pic.twitter.com/bYu7dcQ47Q
— bring on the dancing horses (@inthefade) May 7, 2023
How shading crops with Solar Panels can improve Farming, lower Food Costs and reduce Emissions
Pretty nifty idea. Might well help keep crop yields up even with warmer temps.
Fun fact: Since I am a Canadian citizen, I am technically one of King Charles’ subjects.
re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg
Fun fact: Since I am a Canadian citizen, I am technically one of King Charles’ subjects.
I was reading somewhere that Canada has redesigned the Canadian representation of the Royal Crown that it will use for Charles’ reign. (As opposed to Crown Royal.) But I have not seen anything else on it, so I have not posted it.
re: #23 gocart mozart
I’m not sure it was intentional
It looks like the driver in question ran a red while speeding, tried to avoid the vehicle that had just turned on from the cross street, overcorrected, and… you’ve seen the rest.
Whoever was behind the wheel is still fucked in any case.
a comment on Charlie Pierce’s blog:
grennan: Although the final results of some may not have been affected, the GOP has tainted most of the last 14 presidential elections:
1968/Nixon, treason, Paris peace talks
1972/Nixon, Watergate
1976/Carter
1980/Reagan, Iran hostage deal
1984/Reagan
1988/Bush (note that AG Bill Barr may have improperly downplayed veep Bush’s role in Iran/Contra)
1992 and 1996/Clinton
2000/Bush, Bush v. Gore
2004/Bush (note some voter suppression, Ohio and FL)
2008 and 2012/Obama
2016/Trump and the Russians
2020/Biden, then the deluge of the Big LieI really hate the idea of sounding like the inverse of Trump’s “only fair if I win”….but it appears the Republican party has neither institutional memory of nor ethos concerning free, fair, best-person-wins, US elections.
I don’t know any way to gift a post from his blog on Esquire, but if you can get on there somehow, it is esquire.com. The post is about that ex-FBI agent convicted on J6 charges. He was part of the FBI office in the New York field office that (to quote Charlie), “put both thumbs, a foot, and its meddling keister on the scale during the 2016 presidential election, as well as the persistent reports that elements of that office had it in for Hillary Rodham Clinton.” In 2017 he was let go, and then joined Project Veritas as an infiltrator assigned to infiltrate teacher unions in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kentucky. “There are layers within layers of the 2016 election that nobody even has touched yet.”
re: #23 gocart mozart
I have a feeling he stole the SUV.
Holocaust-denying Fucker deleted his Tweet, but The Internet Lives Forever.
— A T (@AlsoTu) May 7, 2023
Why is the NYT writing a fluff piece about a convicted felon?
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) May 7, 2023
The NYT just published an apparently very flattering article on convicted con artist Elizabeth Holmes. It has come in for a lot of mockery…
I realized I was writing a profile about two different people: A con artist who manipulates people’s emotions to unduly obtain capital or favors, and the beautiful and innocent young woman who would never do that to me personally.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 7, 2023
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How long before NYT editors issue an apology for this abomination?
— John Russell (@JohnRussell99) May 7, 2023
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“the leopards will never eat MY face…”
— Fooli (@Mafooli) May 7, 2023
apropos to nothing, I managed to pick Eye of the World (Wheel of Time series ) up and finish it, after previously getting bogged down with the wolves and Perrin and Egwene. This is soooooooo much fucking better than the series.
The Amazon series is basically “let’s generate a season arc designed around what we’re told by a focus committee. We’re aiming for Lord of the Rings, but our special effects budget is Star Trek: Original Series, so rather than sticking with the original plot—a damned decent one if I do say so myself, not quite as satisfying as Return of the King, but way better than the overly ponderous White Gold Wielder—let’s create a bunch of shit that doesn’t actually happen in the book—like an interracial marriage between teenaged Perrin and a gal he’ll accidentally kill in the first episode, an interracial lesbian affair between a couple of Ae Sedai witches who don’t exist anywhere in the novel, and some battle scenes with the false Dragon. We’ll also have one of the lads, controlled by an evil artifact (which does kind of happen) kill everybody in some farm house (which doesn’t happen) and it won’t occur to anybody in the focus committee that this is probably gonna impact how the audience views that character for the rest of the fucking series. “Oh, yeah, that’s the guy who killed everybody in that farm house. I think he’s better now.”
So if you haven’t read book one, and were thinking about it, yeah, this is pretty good sword and sorcery. Ignore pretty much anything that happened in the Amazon series because most of it never actually happens, or happens in ways that are way less stupid (remember the scene at Fal Dara where the forces of Good manage to get blown away in one of the stupidest tactical plot devices ever launched? And then how a bunch of Ae Sedai hold hands and burn themselves to the ground in order to hold back the horde? Yeah, I’m happy to report that stupid shit never happened in the book).
re: #43 The Pie Overlord!
Nathan deleted that tweet, but responded to the tweet you put. And he thinks “approximately 6 million” means we’re unsure, meaning it could be 0.
re: #44 Belafon
The only thing that’s OK about this piece is just how much the ENTIRE INTERNET is not having any of it.
— Dr. Leslie Carr (@DrLeslieCarr) May 7, 2023
Expecting Elon stans all over this thread the next day or so…
Thank you for this dank meme, ceo of multiple corporations including this information website and richest guy in the world who of late has been advertising flagrant white nationalism pic.twitter.com/Yv8q0VwCfB
— eve6 (@Eve6) May 7, 2023
Someone who knew Prigozhin in 90s once said Prigozhin threatened to drown himself in the Moyka river in St Petersburg because his superiors were angry and not giving him what he wanted
— Pjotr Sauer (@PjotrSauer) May 7, 2023
Recently Prigozhin, the head of Wagner had claimed that Wagner was withdrawing its mercenaries from Bakhmut. In response, Kadyrov said that his Chechen mercenaries would replace Wagner in Bakhmut. Now Prigozhin says that Wagner is not withdrawing from Bakhmut.
Some analysts have surmised that the issue was that Wagner had two classes of mercenaries. The first class were the professional/experienced mercenaries. The second class were the convicts.
The professionals are the core of Wagner’s business. If they get killed off, Wagner will have nothing to offer its international clients. Fighting a full fledged war against a tough opponent, they are likely to take massive casualties. Particularly if the Ukrainians decide to deliberately go after them. The Ukrainians have spoken of the Wagner professionals as generally highly competent soldiers.
The convicts are treated as basically cannon fodder including getting shot by Russian rear line security if the convicts try to retreat. They have been given little training and are not well equipped.
I am less convinced by other analysts’ arguments that the Wagner professionals will be needed in some sort of upcoming Russian Civil War scenario.
re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg
Someone in the replies says it’s actually pretty good about going after her. The tweet writers did everything they could to mess with that message.
re: #50 Thanos
We’re getting closer to Q returning to Twitter with a blue checkmark account.
— Travis View (@travis_view) May 6, 2023
*snork*
A breathtaking series of owns pic.twitter.com/fg8PD6dUQS
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) May 7, 2023
re: #3 The Pie Overlord!
@foodandwine
For the best key lime pie, go to Florida. foodandwine.com
Gotta give them credit -they got the color right (FWIW, key lime pies aren’t green).
OT: I think I’ve found Morgan Freeman’s worst movie. It’s called Vanquished, co-starring Ruby Rose and is currently on Netflix.
Reviews were terrible across the board and the only reason I was curious about it was a lot of it was filmed in my area.
I did recognize many locations but holy shit is the movie bad. Freeman and Rose are okay but the story is confusing and it has some of the worst cinematography and editing I’ve ever seen.
I have very little patience for grandstanding TV hosts who retrospectively blame Dems for fully believing the things which they themselves insisted on air every night for an entire election cycle.
Perhaps Sen. Durbin should grill Tapper on why he was so wrong, so often in 2016. https://t.co/Dunx9xjjvx— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) May 7, 2023
Allen mall shooting suspect identified, senior law enforcement source tells CNN
The suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting in Allen, Texas, was identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, a senior law enforcement source familiar with the investigation told CNN.
Garcia held a Texas security officer commission from 2016 to 2020, which means he had received firearms training and passed an extensive background check, ie there is no chance this guy was an “ill eagle.”
MTG, among other bigots, had declared flatly that he was here illegally and Biden was responsible.
re: #59 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Great, he was Latino. The RW “illegal immigrant” talking points are being frantically tweeted out as we speak.
re: #59 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Allen mall shooting suspect identified, senior law enforcement source tells CNN
Garcia held a Texas security officer commission from 2016 to 2020, which means he had received firearms training and passed an extensive background check, ie there is no chance this guy was an “ill eagle.”
MTG, among other bigots, had declared flatly that he was here illegally and Biden was responsible.
Mauricio Garcia, who carried out the Texas mall attack, may have had “white supremacist or neo-Nazi motivations,” sources say, according to WaPo and WSJ
— BNO News (@BNONews) May 7, 2023
re: #59 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I’m just wondering why he did not renew , or maybe was not permitted to renew, the license in April 2020. Was there some sort of issue or negative information about him?
I guess that we will find out eventually.
Folks, remember that Latin America is full of people that identify as “white” and have racist enough beliefs about black people and natives that neo-Nazi sympathies aren’t really surprising…and those same people would be subject to racism in the United States because “whiteness” has no set definition by design.
That’s a good question. His former employers aren’t saying anything yet but they may open up. Abbott is probably on the phone right now trying to get the DPS to suppress any knowledge they have of right wing extremism.
re: #65 The Ghost of a Flea
Folks, remember that Latin America is full of people that identify as “white” and have racist enough beliefs about black people and natives that neo-Nazi sympathies aren’t really surprising…and those same people would be subject to racism in the United States because “whiteness” has no set definition by design.
Lots of Nazis ended up in South America.
re: #65 The Ghost of a Flea
Folks, remember that Latin America is full of people that identify as “white” and have racist enough beliefs about black people and natives that neo-Nazi sympathies aren’t really surprising…and those same people would be subject to racism in the United States because “whiteness” has no set definition by design.
New Mexico has people who insist they are New Spaniards.
re: #33 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Was just looking for a jam to listen to…
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Mainly familiar with it from “Live Rust” and was nice to find the video of it. Doing the roadies up like Jawas is sort of brilliant for 1978.
My army jeep is still alive
Got locking hubs and four wheel drive
Ain’t got no radio
Ain’t got no mag wheels
Ain’t got no digital clock
Ain’t got no clock
And the critically important question -
I am genuinely shocked by the results of this poll. The thing that’s currently winning does not make any sense and about 10,000 people have voted for it. https://t.co/Cj3Zhg10dx
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 7, 2023
re: #61 Teukka
Mauricio Garcia, who carried out the Texas mall attack, may have had “white supremacist or neo-Nazi motivations,” sources say, according to WaPo and WSJ
— BNO News (@BNONews) May 7, 2023
That would explain the wehrmacht haircut that I noted this morning.
re: #47 steve_davis
I stopped about a 1/3 of the way through the series when I stopped. I skimmed the last book and saw no reason to change my mind.
OTOH, I found the The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant quite a bit more interesting (if scuzzy in parts) than wheel of time so a classic case of mileage varying.
re: #67 The Pie Overlord!
Lots of Nazis ended up in South America.
Yes, but I’m also talking about Central America and the Caribbean, and the previously-Spanish portions of the US, where there was less German migration and fewer Nazis coming in on the rat lines. Where the Spanish Empire was, the Spanish mode of racism tends to persist, and it’s a slightly different shape than US one-drop racism such that you get people that aren’t-white by US standards…being Creole or Mestizo in the old “part-white” Spanish classification of racism…but who are full-on racist in ways that make them lean into Nazism enough though Nazism would view them as unclean.
It’s all very stupid, but unfortunately it’s rhetorically useful when American racists want to claim that a non-white person actions can’t perpetuate white supremacy.
Just repugnant pic.twitter.com/622RtA8YJ1
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 7, 2023
More important context, “Justice Thomas’s friend and a former official for the Trump admin,” is also Ginni Thomas’ attorney and represented her before the Jan 6 Committee.
But please go on that the Justice has no idea about Ginni’s political activities.https://t.co/iK2fsjfxDd https://t.co/3Cyf6hgoJJ pic.twitter.com/LWUFZVRgY9— Pete Strzok (@petestrzok) May 5, 2023
FFS… Here we go again…
#BREAKING: Multiple unconfirmed reports of law enforcement responding to a shooting at the St. Charles Mall in Waldorf, MD, just outside Washington DC.pic.twitter.com/LQqAWd6N1e
— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) May 7, 2023
Around the time that racist dynamite bombings of Black owned homes were happening in Dallas, there was a Spanish language white supremacist newspaper called the Dallas Americano, as discussed in the book White Metropolis by @drphillips2001. https://t.co/3Wmdiym946
— steven monacelli 🆓 (@stevanzetti) May 7, 2023
re: #68 wrenchwench
New Mexico has people who insist they are New Spaniards.
My brother’s friend and former business partner is a wealthy Mexican national (Mexican passport); who jokes about how there is no such thing as a rich Mexican.
(I’ll let you supply the punchline.)
re: #78 jaunte
I’m having a rightio trying to scaremonger about MS13 in a chat…
re: #77 Teukka
FFS… Here we go again…
I’ve been harboring a secret fear that there might be a sudden exponential increase in these events, sort of a critical mass effect.
The right has certainly turned up the temperature on its incitement recently.
Once again, Congress must send me a bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Enacting universal background checks. Requiring safe storage. Ending immunity for gun manufacturers.
I will sign it immediately. We need nothing less to keep our streets safe.— President Biden (@POTUS) May 7, 2023
Spain is white. Portugal is white. White supremacy was as instrumental to their colonization of the Americas as England’s. The idea that people from Europe or with visibly European ancestry are better than other people, and can treat those Others however they want? American.
— Kaitlin Byrd: Renaissance Maiden (@GothamGirlBlue) May 7, 2023
re: #83 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I’ve been harboring a secret fear that there might be a sudden exponential increase in these events, sort of a critical mass effect.
The right has certainly turned up the temperature on its incitement recently.
I’m sure Tucker getting canned turned the dial up a bit.
“As the former Commanding General of the Infantry Center at Fort Benning and Chief of Infantry, I know a bit about weapons. Let me state unequivocally — For all intents and purposes, the AR-15 and rifles like it are weapons of war.” -MG (Ret.) @PaulDEaton52 pic.twitter.com/EF81NfYH8Q
— VoteVets (@votevets) May 7, 2023
Maryland incident: Three people reported dead. Was apparently a murder-suicide outside a hotel.
My husband was one of the first responders on scene.
He is Mexican-American.
Nobody asked his status or noted that he “appears Hispanic” when they were asking for help. @RepMTG is a POS
Oh and it was an outdoor mall in a permitless carry state pic.twitter.com/YXmAARnvzx— Kat (@MamaOsaTX) May 7, 2023
If your Congressman or Senator tells you next week that we are helpless in the face of this carnage, and our gun laws are just fine as is, then decide to do one small thing, each week, to help elect his or her opponent.
Democracy is designed to fix a problem like this.— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 7, 2023
There are literally no limits to how far anti-abortion policies can be stretched to punish women.
This pregnant woman was shot in the abdomen and then was charged with manslaughter because she “failed to remove herself from harm’s way.” https://t.co/2iqXJZAtUe— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) May 7, 2023
re: #73 William Lewis
I stopped about a 1/3 of the way through the series when I stopped. I skimmed the last book and saw no reason to change my mind.
OTOH, I found the The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant quite a bit more interesting (if scuzzy in parts) than wheel of time so a classic case of mileage varying.
Several threads back Netflix’s The Diplomat was mentioned.
I watched the first five episodes, recommended it to my wife - started again from the beginning and I’m picking up things I missed on the first go-around.
Good - well paced story line, with a lot of “I wasn’t expecting that” character acting and you-are-there-cinematic settings.
re: #73 William Lewis
I stopped about a 1/3 of the way through the series when I stopped. I skimmed the last book and saw no reason to change my mind.
OTOH, I found the The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant quite a bit more interesting (if scuzzy in parts) than wheel of time so a classic case of mileage varying.
I enjoyed Covenant, once we got past the first book with him feeling compelled to shout “unclean! don’t touch!” at everybody, but I felt like Donaldson wrote himself into a corner by the end and then had to come up with some way of getting the book to end. It’s the same issue everybody has with high fantasy. My bad guy is virtually omniscient: how to destroy them in a way that isn’t completely contrived? Tolkien did it in genius fashion by simply not bothering with a final showdown. The ring is destroyed and much of Sauron’s power is in the ring; hence, Sauron is effectively destroyed. We don’t have to have some fictitious conversation with Sauron.
re: #85 jaunte
See, this is part of the unacknowledged incoherence of race…even as held by racists…that makes it so hard to talk about. The idea of “whiteness” is…vapor…but even the act of speaking to oppose it conveys the sense that it’s something solid, define-able.
Modern definitions of “white” vary far more than any one racist wants to acknowledge, because there’s neither an orthodoxy—a central authority setting the terms, like a government or a spiritual leader—nor an objective series of measures to determine the boundaries of race—scientific racism has never really achieved “science” with its postulates. Each white supremacist has their own personal model that they derive through cultural communication, without any system to “find truth” when picking between racist theorems.
There are absolutely white supremacists who don’t view Iberians as white…or Slavs as white, or (retro) the Irish as white…because there’s literally nothing stopping them. For the individual racist, it’s all vague impressions and self-gratification and pseudo-intellectual gamesmanship, to define oneself as the elect of the elect; for hegemonic power, whiteness is a series of tiers by which you grant and revoke license from your goons.
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Not only did the left organize protests for the Tennessee Christian school shooting, but they protested so hard that the GOP-led state legislature attempted to literally ban Democrats from even being allowed in the government.
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re: #98 Captain Ron
You can take the Nazi out of South Africa but you’ll never take the Nazi out of him.
Higher antibody levels linked with Long COVID in children.
Vaccination did not make a difference.
Fatigue, cognitive impairment & breathing difficulty predominant.
Post COVID immune dysfunction likely.
This Norway study shows the importance of avoiding infection. https://t.co/IOeswaXeKa pic.twitter.com/6t4t99KEnQ— Rajeev Jayadevan (@RajeevJayadevan) May 7, 2023
re: #73 William Lewis
OTOH, I found the The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant quite a bit more interesting (if scuzzy in parts) than wheel of time so a classic case of mileage varying.
Covenant is the quintessential anti-hero. His wife let him and his Hansen’s disease made him even more bitter. But he does learn and becomes a tad less assholish. It’s not a big bar to say ‘at least he didn’t rape his daughter’ as he did to her mother, but he didn’t.
re: #70 ckkatz
And the critically important question -
But how do people feel about the most important part - a plaque-loosening pre rinse? ;-)
re: #102 silverdolphin
But how do people feel about the most important part - a plaque-loosening pre rinse? ;-)
I find two fingers of a good blended whisky like The Famous Grouse works well for that.
re: #102 silverdolphin
But how do people feel about the most important part - a plaque-loosening pre rinse? ;-)
:)
You reminded of the Tom Lehrer monologue from “Old Mexico” -
Whereupon he switched to the field of medicine in which field he also won renown as the inventor of gargling. Which prior to that time had been practiced only furtively by a remote tribe in the Andes who passed the secret down from father to son as part of their oral tradition.
re: #100 ckkatz
so, once infected, vaccination status didnt alleviate this condition
the point is you still vaccinate to make catching the infection less likely
re: #103 William Lewis
I find two fingers of a good blended whisky like The Famous Grouse works well for that.
Or listerine, which reportedly has up to a 26.9% ethanol content.
*Life hack - do not take a breathalyzer test just after gargling with it.
re: #101 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Covenant is the quintessential anti-hero. His wife let him and his Hansen’s disease made him even more bitter. But he does learn and becomes a tad less assholish. It’s not a big bar to say ‘at least he didn’t rape his daughter’ as he did to her mother, but he didn’t.
he first Conenant trilogy is one of my favorite series, mainly because of so many unforgettable characters and settings.I reread it about once a year. But it will never be made into a movie or TV series because of the rape. Even though Covenant thinks he is hallucinating and even though he is overwhelmed by feelings he has not felt in years. Neither can excuse the rape. But his regret and self-loathing for the rape is an integral part of his redemption. So I can’t see them ignoring it.
And I did enjoy it more than Wheel of Time ;-)
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