Judges and Jurors in Trump Cases Receiving Threats: “Unbelievably Shameful” and “Anti-American”
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There are some people whose faces just radiate evil and bad intentions. Matt Gaetz, for example.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-17T17:58:38.000Z
Next week, the jury could hold the fate of American democracy in their hands, but their duty is solely to determine if Trump is guilty of the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
re: #3 No Malarkey!
Next week, the jury could hold the fate of American democracy in their hands, but their duty is solely to determine if Trump is guilty of the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
Are we hearing closing arguments now?
Edit: Never mind, they’re off today.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Oh wait…— Dave Todd (@travisblues.bsky.social) 2024-05-17T18:11:06.781Z
Interesting - Salon dot com is currently throwing a 404 error.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Seeing it here as well.
So, are the Democrats calling for Alito to resign?
I haven’t checked, but I just assume they won’t.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-17T18:25:08.000Z
re: #8 Charles Johnson
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If Slappy Thomas won’t resign over his acceptance of bribes, Alito certainly won’t over an upside down flag.
Most corrupt SCOTUS ever!
re: #3 No Malarkey!
Next week, the jury could hold the fate of American democracy in their hands, but their duty is solely to determine if Trump is guilty of the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
No, the jury will not hold the fate of democracy in their hands. That is entirely up to us. I really don’t want people thinking that him being convicted means there’s nothing we have to do. There are so many wrong scenarios in this thinking. Consider that if he is convicted, he will appeal, and he could easily get a judge that holds his conviction until the election, especially a judge named Alito.
Meanwhile shall we check in with everyone’s favorite Kinky Couple in Florida—The Ziegler’s?
Oh my they are such a naughty couple so of course Wonkette does the XXX-Posing!
Dick Durbin just called for Alito to recuse himself from all Trump cases.
Opinion J.D. Vance wasn’t just some hillbilly after all
His journey from author to Trumpist senator is a fable for the GOP’s devolution.
by Matt Bai
wapo.st (gift link)
I’m late to the Coen’s talk, but it’s my take that Javier Bardem’s Anton Chigurh Is the personification of capitalism.
re: #13 prairiefire
Dick Durbin just called for Alito to recuse himself from all Trump cases.
Frankly, Thomas should resign for corruption and Alito should recuse himself from any and all cases involving Trump (or think about retiring). Kavanaugh and Barrett should strongly consider recusal.
I know they won’t, of course.
‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference
“Before we get self-righteous,” Milley said, in the second world war, “we, the US, killed 12,000 innocent French civilians. We destroyed 69 Japanese cities. We slaughtered people in massive numbers - men, women and children.”
A future is being planned for us where it must be simply be understood that the institutions with all of the killing power and all of the resources cannot help but create spillage in the course of their grand endeavor of self-defense.
This creates a paradox in which the value of their weapons is their precision but the accountability structures they implement allow for imprecision. What resolves this paradox is the secondary theme of the rhetoric: that the definition of “threat” must be expanded to include abstract measures of complicity, and complicity will absolutely involve one’s position relative to “western democracies” sense of well-being.
In the imperial center the by-blows might create consequences; but in the periphery it must simply be accepted that threat is general, that bystanders cannot be fully innocent.
In effect, this creates the same justification structure as Russian bombardment doctrine—what was under the target was a viable target because we aimed at it; if someone is dead they were a combatant—but with an added flourish of promising yet another layer of technological disassociation from having to own that choice.
re: #13 prairiefire
Dick Durbin just called for Alito to recuse himself from all Trump cases.
Weak. He won’t do that and nobody really expects he will.
Alito is just going to get away with this.
Report from the road. Stanley Sea and I are on our way to Columbia for the SC Dem convention. Tonight’s speakers at the dinner are Cory Booker and d Rafael Warnock (VIP seating, baby,). Yay us
re: #18 Charles Johnson
Weak. He won’t do that and nobody really expects he will.
Alito is just going to get away with this.
There is literally nothing to be done. No difference between calling for resignation or calling for recusal. Both will be laughed at.
re: #19 BeachDem
Have a great time!!! I wish I was there!
re: #20 Mike Lamb
There is literally nothing to be done. No difference between calling for resignation or calling for recusal. Both will be laughed at.
They should do it anyway.
re: #24 Charles Johnson
They should do it anyway.
This. Just because you someone won’t change their ways doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep calling them out on their bullshit.
re: #10 Belafon
No, the jury will not hold the fate of democracy in their hands. That is entirely up to us. I really don’t want people thinking that him being convicted means there’s nothing we have to do. There are so many wrong scenarios in this thinking. Consider that if he is convicted, he will appeal, and he could easily get a judge that holds his conviction until the election, especially a judge named Alito.
It’s a state case — so Alito should not have any input there.
Re: the Harriet Miers discussion downstairs— For years I have felt that for SCOTUS judges, compassion and a good heart were far more important than a “good” mind and great academic credentials. Intellectual brilliance allows a judge to justify the most evil and corrupt decisions — and that’s what Scalia did, and that’s what Alito does. I have said previously here that Miers would have been a far better judge than Alito. Indeed it’s hard to see how she would have been worse than he has been.
Gotta admit, I expected him to get much less. Now we gotta make sure the Tangerine Traitor isn’t reelected or it’s a safe bet the f*cker will pardon him…
BREAKING: The man who attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer - David DePape - has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) May 17, 2024
Glen Powell’s Parents Showed Up on His Red Carpet With Signs Trolling Him: ‘Stop Trying to Make Glen Powell Happen’ and ‘It’s Never Gonna Happen’
re: #18 Charles Johnson
Weak. He won’t do that and nobody really expects he will.
Alito is just going to get away with this.
What can Durbin do? It is not as though the House will pass any legislation placing any limits on the GOP judges.
Edited: To correct comment
re: #172 Ace Rothstein
“Dunkirk” and “Das Boot” are two of my favorite movies that just happen to be war movies.
mine is lawrence of arabia
re: #374 Shropshire Slasher
People expressed doubt that he would go.
no one serious expressed doubt.
he zugzwanged himself and the judge obliged
he couldnt then blow it off and just go to the fundraiser
there was some speculation how long he would stay to make it look ‘legitimate’ before he winged off
i dont know the over/under on that or how long he lasted cause i really dont care
just had a brilliant aha/epiphany moment with the design of the trough drain plumbing that i want to run through a bamboo pipe.
i am happy.
well i will be when i get to it, probably next weekend.
re: #10 Belafon
No, the jury will not hold the fate of democracy in their hands. That is entirely up to us. I really don’t want people thinking that him being convicted means there’s nothing we have to do. There are so many wrong scenarios in this thinking. Consider that if he is convicted, he will appeal, and he could easily get a judge that holds his conviction until the election, especially a judge named Alito.
You are correct of course; I was just being a bit over dramatic. I do think that convicted felon Trump will lose enough swing voters to secure the election for Biden though. Trump’s appeal of the verdict will stretch at least into next year, if not 2026; it certainly won’t get to SCOTUS until long after the election because its a state case and he has to exhaust his appeals in the New York appellate court system before he can take it to SCOTUS. Because Trump is an ex-President, I’m assuming he won’t have to surrender himself to the state until after his appeals are exhausted, if he is sentenced to prison time.
re: #32 Dangerman
mine is lawrence of arabia
I’m fond of most of the Miazaki movies, though I will never watch Grave of the Fireflies again.
re: #26 Shropshire Slasher
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Great V8 engine sounds.
(High speed chases are nuttso & cops love to join in the chase because everyone involved in the chase gets paid time off to attend court hearing)
re: #38 BeenHereAwhile
Great V8 engine sounds.
(High speed chases are nuttso & cops love to join in the chase because everyone involved in the chase gets paid time off to attend court hearing)
Outmatched by a…Hyundai.
forgot to mention the strong similarity between proposed travel restrictions for pregnant women and laws restricting the movement of free black americans across state borders, including laws that presumed that all black people were enslaved until proven otherwise
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie.bsky.social) 2024-05-17T19:08:03.011Z
“Third Way is rolling out a new five-figure ad buy highlighting Trump’s own previous comments about defendants who don’t testify in their own defense. The ad, titled “Coward,” is launching today in Palm Beach, Florida (home to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago), Dallas, Texas (where Trump is set to headline the NRA convention this weekend) and New York City.”
mockpaperscissors.com
re: #37 Belafon
I’m fond of most of the Miazaki movies, though I will never watch Grave of the Fireflies again.
Dunno know nothing about Maizaki, but plan on streaming this tonight:
So, with the new active pooch, I’m having to walk 5 miles a day outside of work. Finally stopped ignoring my feet crying for help. My ratty old Nikes aren’t cutting it. Decided to invest in some dedicated walking/running shoes. Hoka. On. Brooks. Etc. Considered ASICS at first but they’ve been cutting corners. Dick’s had a bunch of the other three I mentioned in my size (but the wrong colors). The young guy helping was patient with me after throwing 6-7 options at him to fetch in the back. Decided on Brooks Glycerin 21. Had to order online and I have to wait a week. Sorry, feet! But help is coming soon!
re: #45 BeenHereAwhile
It’s excellent. Also check out Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and My Neighbor Totoro. :)
(And a bunch of others too. He has no bad films)
re: #40 Patricia Kayden
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Meanwhile, I just sit here, marveling at all the things that evangelical Christians proclaim to support (treating women as property, enforcing obedience to male members of their families, child brides, outlawing premarital sex, etc) were also things they claimed showed Islam was “barbarous” when calling for us to invade their countries and forcibly convert their populations to Christianity.
re: #46 GlutenFreeJesus
So, with the new active pooch, I’m having to walk 5 miles a day outside of work. Finally stopped ignoring my feet crying for help. My ratty old Nikes aren’t cutting it. Decided to invest in some dedicated walking/running shoes. Hoka. On. Brooks. Etc. Considered ASICS at first but they’ve been cutting corners. Dick’s had a bunch of the other three I mentioned in my size (but the wrong colors). The young guy helping was patient with me after throwing 6-7 options at him to fetch in the back. Decided on Brooks Glycerin 21. Had to order online and I have to wait a week. Sorry, feet! But help is coming soon!
my sports med doc turned me on to Hoka One One recovery sandals.
a game changer for me. i live in them. being florida i can.
unless I’m actually running (merrells) or on an airplane.
re: #10 Belafon
No, the jury will not hold the fate of democracy in their hands. That is entirely up to us. I really don’t want people thinking that him being convicted means there’s nothing we have to do. There are so many wrong scenarios in this thinking. Consider that if he is convicted, he will appeal, and he could easily get a judge that holds his conviction until the election, especially a judge named Alito.
I have a feeling if he is found guilty on all counts, he will immediately be remanded to custody. the judge will take into account his untrustworthiness as a free agent when it comes to fomenting rebellion over his perceived persecution.
Son of conservative activist and 1st rioter to invade Senate floor on Jan. 6 is sentenced
Leo Brent Bozell IV of Pennsylvania, son of Brent Bozell, the conservative founder of the Media Research Center, CNSNews, and the Parents Television Counsel, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison Friday for his raucous role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, amid throngs of Donald Trump supporters.
re: #58 Decatur Deb
UAW lost in Alabama.
Even before this week, the union had already filed unfair labor practice charges against Mercedes, alleging the company violated U.S. labor law by intimidating workers in the run-up to the election. Under a new standard adopted by the National Labor Relations Board last year, Mercedes could be ordered to bargain with the UAW if the company is found to have illegally interfered in the union election.
re: #52 Dangerman
When I need a more rugged shoe, I’ll definitely seriously consider Merrell. Have heard nothing but good things. Glad the Hoka sandals are working for you!
re: #45 BeenHereAwhile
Dunno know nothing about Maizaki, but plan on streaming this tonight:
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I guess I should learn to spell his name right.
If you don’t know anything about him, go watch his stuff, both his pure fantasy stuff and his historical fiction anime. But be warned, Fireflies is emotionally devastating.
re: #51 Targetpractice
Meanwhile, I just sit here, marveling at all the things that evangelical Christians proclaim to support (treating women as property, enforcing obedience to male members of their families, child brides, outlawing premarital sex, etc) were also things they claimed showed Islam was “barbarous” when calling for us to invade their countries and forcibly convert their populations to Christianity.
It’s almost like conservatives are capable of using identity politics to gull liberals into taking their side when they’re proposing something awful, because the only consistent, if unstated, belief they hold is their right to determine who is deserving of suffering, and it is entirely acceptable to hold contradictory subordinate beliefs when it is useful to the project of allocating more power to the task of violence against designated antagonists.
Then they wanted to primarily hurt Muslims, so they made statements that could be read as in solidarity with feminism and queer rights in an attempt to acquire enough consensus to hurt Muslims with the full force of US democracy. Now they primarily want to hurt women and the LGBTQ, so they’re talking about how fundamentalists actually have some valid points, and creating international solidarity with social conservatives to create as broad a front as possible for punitive measures against their preferred targets.
This is why idpol has to balanced out with intersectional thinking, because otherwise it’s just a series of interest groups and individuals that can fractionated and turned against one another by the invitation that they, too, can be the boot.
Case in point:
How is this real
— Comfortably Numb (@ygalanter.bsky.social) 2024-05-16T00:38:32.460Z
Well what have we here with this right wing Xtian Republican?
Michigan state Rep. Matt Hall, an election denier and now House minority leader, placed more than $2,200 in bets a day on an online gambling website, according to a new report.
re: #66 Belafon
I guess I should learn to spell his name right.
If you don’t know anything about him, go watch his stuff, both his pure fantasy stuff and his historical fiction anime. But be warned, Fireflies is emotionally devastating.
Being pedantic, Grave of the Fireflies wasn’t a Miyazaki film. It was, however, released as a double-bill with My Neighbour Totoro which is kind of whiplash times a thousand, emotionally speaking.
re: #68 The Ghost of a Flea
Case in point:
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Pair that with the conservative woman that ran on clearing our the indoctrination material from school curriculum only to find out there wasn’t any, and now she’s getting harassed by the right for not finding it.
re: #70 Nojay UK
Being pedantic, Grave of the Fireflies wasn’t a Miyazaki film. It was, however, released as a double-bill with My Neighbour Totoro which is kind of whiplash times a thousand, emotionally speaking.
Thanks. It was released by Ghibli, which, combined with his other historical fiction films, made me think it was him.
“…A prominent conservative activist’s son was sentenced on Friday to nearly four years in prison for what prosecutors said was his “relentless” assault on the U.S. Capitol, where he smashed a window, chased a police officer and invaded the Senate floor.
Leo Brent Bozell IV, 44, of Palmyra, Pennsylvania, was one of the first rioters to enter the Capitol and among the first to reach the Senate floor during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege.”
witf.org
“…After then-President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House on Jan. 6, Bozell marched to the Capitol and joined a mob in breaking through a police line.
Bozell used a metal object to shatter the windowpane of the Senate Wing Door. After climbing through the smashed window, Bozell joined other rioters in chasing a Capitol Police officer, Eugene Goodman, up a staircase to an area where other officers confronted the group.
Bozell entered then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and left carrying an unidentified object. He later entered the Senate gallery, where he moved a C-SPAN camera to face the ground so it could not record rioters ransacking the chamber on a live video feed. He also spent several minutes on the Senate floor.
Bozell roamed thorough the Capitol for nearly an hour, reaching more than a dozen different parts of the building and passing through at least seven police lines before police escorted him out, prosecutors said.”
Horrible human being and a friggin’ idiot to boot.
Thus killing both many many innocent civilians and, oh yes, most if not all the remaining 100+ multinational hostages Hamas is holding (including Americans) assessed to be held there.
Exhibit no. #1921815 why strategy and tactics should be left to the professionals…— Arch 🛰️ (@Arch_LGF) May 17, 2024
this is interesting…(the alcohol part)
Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia says the lack of decorum at Oversight last night is in part due to people drinking before the hearing. Says Crockett is a “class act” and Greene should apologize for insulting her. https://t.co/AqnQBjyB01
— Maeve Sheehey (@MaeveSheehey) May 17, 2024
The whole debacle, one Democrat suggested, was fueled by the booze certain members consumed before the hearing—and an audience of lawmakers drinking during it. One panel member claimed “we have some members in the room who are drinking inside the hearing room, who are not members of this hearing.”
US culture and influence continues to spread. https://t.co/TKBDGufUQ4
— Conspiracy Bullshit (@ConspiracyBull1) May 17, 2024
We are devastated to share that the @IDF recovered the bodies of three Israeli hostages who were kidnapped from the Nova Festival and held by Hamas in Gaza.
Amit Bouskila (28)
Shani Louk (23)
Itzhak Gelerenter (53)
There are no words.
May their memory be a blessing. pic.twitter.com/N8xEvUPBC2— Israel ישראל (@Israel) May 17, 2024
In case you were wondering what Erickshmuck was raging about in particular, the bodies were found in a massive tunnel network in Rafah.
re: #68 The Ghost of a Flea
Case in point:
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Today’s “transphobia” is just yesterday’s “gay panic” with the serial numbers filed off. Name a characteristic of the anti-trans crowd and you’ll easily find a parallel in yesterday’s anti-gay crowd. The overall theme also remains the same: homosexuality/transexuality is a learned trait and not an inborn one, that any children demonstrating such are simply “confused” or “mentally ill,” and society has “failed” them if they are not forced to accept a “normal” heterosexual lifestyle conforming to fundamentalist views of gender roles in society.
re: #71 Belafon
Pair that with the conservative woman that ran on clearing our the indoctrination material from school curriculum only to find out there wasn’t any, and now she’s getting harassed by the right for not finding it.
I don’t fully know how to articulate this, but there’s a phenomenon in which part of group cohesion is the things that you accept without skepticism—everyone knows what’s in the box—and the greatest crime is opening the box and looking at the contents directly.
I come back to epistemology on the right being a different thing such that even when they speak the language of evidence and proof it doesn’t mean the same thing. Truth emanates from the consensus of authority—the correct people tell you what is true—meaning that as an insider you can neither seek the consensus of those not in authority nor apply a materialist test to that which is declared “true.”
A side effect of this is that there’s a constant jostling to be a person that has disproportionate voting rights within the consensus of authority…it’s not a 1 person,1 vote system, there’s multiple ways of obtaining extra franchise…and this creates an even deeper and nastier incentive to never, ever let a member of the ingroup reference a material standard of proof.
A have a lot of conversations with conservatives, it’s just an inevitability of my state and my social position, and what fascinates me is consistent arc of conversations in which someone makes a broad assertion that they can’t back up, is willing to hear out my detailed refutation and even concede that my knowledge is valid, but at the end they can’t concede that their initial claim must be modified…which is how I’ve arrived at the thesis that “truth” is simply a function of who you are perceived to be.
Here’s an awesome trick! Just add:
&udm=14
to the end of any Google search result, and you’ll get AN OLD-SCHOOL GOOGLE RESULTS PAGE, with no AI or sponsored link garbage. Just Google the way it should be.
re: #45 BeenHereAwhile
He’s great! An incredible imagination, I’m looking forward to this, his latest.
re: #76 (((Archangel1)))
The thing you’re replying to was deleted.
re: #83 Charles Johnson
THANK YOU.
I did a search earlier and got THREE PAGES of “sponsored results” before finding what I was looking for.
re: #83 Charles Johnson
Someone needs to make a browser plug-in that does it for you.
re: #45 BeenHereAwhile
Which service is streaming it?
re: #83 Charles Johnson
Here’s an awesome trick! Just add:
&udm=14
to the end of any Google search result, and you’ll get AN OLD-SCHOOL GOOGLE RESULTS PAGE, with no AI or sponsored link garbage. Just Google the way it should be.
Yeah, I was just looking that up, because I was researching some problems for work and kept having AI suggestions pop up. I’m like, I DIDN’T FUCKING ASK FOR THIS, ASSHOLES.
Realizing he crossed a line, he deleted and posted this (doubling down on idiotic military suggestions in the process):
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As I posted to your terrible post, leave the strategy & tactics to professionals. If not because carpet bombing (on top of being a horrible war crime) would also kill most of the hostages assessed to be held there, then cause the tunnel approach was already proven impractical.
— Arch 🛰️ (@Arch_LGF) May 17, 2024
What did EmptyG say to AOC?
x.com
[Is there a reason why my tweets don’t post. I see others do.]
re: #94 gocart mozart
What did EmptyG say to AOC?
x.com[Is there a reason why my tweets don’t post. I see others do.]
You need to change x.com to twitter.com before posting or it won’t show properly.
Because Cylon Husk is a f*cking moron.
re: #85 The Ghost of a Flea
DJ Akademiks Says He’ll Take Entire Industry Down If Convicted In Rape Lawsuit
Ahem.
DO IT
You know what really kills these “I’m gonna go public and destroy the entire industry!” threats? The fact that the assholes who utter them don’t do so until it’s their time in the barrel. Your credibility utterly tanks when it becomes obvious the only reason you’re goin’ public with what you know is because you’re scared shitless of going to jail yourself. If you are sittin’ on this info that you know could destroy careers or put others in jail until it becomes convenient, then guess what: YOU’RE PART OF THE COVER-UP!
re: #100 Targetpractice
You know what really kills these “I’m gonna go public and destroy the entire industry!” threats? The fact that the assholes who utter them don’t do so until it’s their time in the barrel. Your credibility utterly tanks when it becomes obvious the only reason you’re goin’ public with what you know is because you’re scared shitless of going to jail yourself. If you are sittin’ on this info that you know could destroy careers or put others in jail until it becomes convenient, then guess what: YOU’RE PART OF THE COVER-UP!
you mean like reporters who ‘save up’ to write books?
re: #102 Dangerman
you mean like reporters who ‘save up’ to write books?
Oh, those fuckers have their own reserved section in the new 10th circle of Hell that’s bein’ excavated.
re: #17 The Ghost of a Flea
Humans love excuses.
re: #89 Belafon
Someone needs to make a browser plug-in that does it for you.
You can make it your default setting, too. In Chrome, go to the Settings page and choose “Search Engine” from the left menu. Then click the button “Manage search engines and site search”.
On this page, below the “Search engines” list, click the “Add” button. In the form, give it a name (I used “Google Old School”) and a shortcut (“go”). Then for the URL, enter:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14and save it. Then you can make it the default with the 3-dot menu that shows up next to it.
re: #105 Charles Johnson
I didn’t realize how much I missed that old Google style. Fast, unobtrusive, just the shit you need and no crap.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
SCOTUS will be packed this time next year.
Probably 13 Justices, or perhaps even 15 if Republicans have their way. If Biden wins with a willing Congress he must pack the Court ASAP. If Trump wins he will pack the Court whether he has approval or not. He will issue an EO installing his own pet 40 year old Justices and through a combination of cowardice and sycophancy his efforts will succeed and this will be a very different country in 2025 starting with a White male fascist state.
re: #105 Charles Johnson
OH MY GOD THANK YOU. I’ve been looking for this ALL DAY.
re: #73 jaunte
When I see ‘the IV’ after a name my brain starts singing, “I’m my own Grandpa.”
re: #93 (((Archangel1)))
Realizing he crossed a line, he deleted and posted this (doubling down on idiotic military suggestions in the process):
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Erikson regularly pops off about who needs to be killed pour encourager les autres, and there’s no reason to give him the benefit of the doubt. This is just a redo of War on Terror revanchism, but also his personal blood thirst in which bloody spectacles must be made.
The original statement was his authentic feeling: the purpose of war is to destroy utterly what angers him, not to achieve strategic objectives. The second statement is the standard American minimum-viable-product for expressing revanchism while meeting the absolutely bottom-barrel social norms for measured sadistic glee.
Conservatives…mostly, but not exclusively US conservatives…view warfare as a continuation of the violent enforcement of their preferred social norms. Soldiers kill because the killed deserve killing in the eyes of the only political actors that matter, and neither ethics nor strategy should impede that act of catharsis. And to be absolutely clear, this instrumentalizes the lives of all noncombatants…in this case both hostages and Palestinian civilians…as uniformly less important that the objective of emotional discharge.
Erikson….nor most other American conservatives…don’t give a shit about saving or protecting people; they simply see another opportunity to advance their general thesis that there are kinds of people that are acceptable to kill en masse because there are types of people that don’t matter who can be used or discarded freely to advance the comforts of people who do matter.
It’s an elaboration of the cynicism-idealism colloid that permitted Cheney to lie about causus belli for Iraq and feel no hesitation as the situation destabilized in ways that effected Iraqi citizens: they were accept tokens to wager against the possibility of a captive, privatized petrostate controlled by US interests.
To them…indiscriminate bombing is precisely the answer, it is the correct strategic move because “victory” is elimination of even the possibility of threat for the broadest, basically-emotional definition of “threat.”
It’s the same logic that lets cops shoot anyone with impunity.
re: #100 Targetpractice
You know what really kills these “I’m gonna go public and destroy the entire industry!” threats? The fact that the assholes who utter them don’t do so until it’s their time in the barrel. Your credibility utterly tanks when it becomes obvious the only reason you’re goin’ public with what you know is because you’re scared shitless of going to jail yourself. If you are sittin’ on this info that you know could destroy careers or put others in jail until it becomes convenient, then guess what: YOU’RE PART OF THE COVER-UP!
re: #76 (((Archangel1)))
Well, the purpose of the attack on Gaza is to remove any hope of a two state solution so by Bibi’s standards this is just fine.
Can’t make an omelette etc.
Details: Two murders averted against the Israeli embassy this week
Security is now being increased around the Israeli embassy and other Jewish objects, the police say. On the night of Friday, there was a suspicious shooting near the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, and there are reports that two similar incidents were averted this week.
— www-svt-se.translate.goog
The police increase security around Jewish and Israeli objects
Due to the Israeli embassy’s connection to the night’s shooting in Stockholm, the police are increasing security around Jewish and Israeli objects and interests throughout the country. The police write this in a press release on their website.
— www-svt-se.translate.goog
re: #100 Targetpractice
You know what really kills these “I’m gonna go public and destroy the entire industry!” threats? The fact that the assholes who utter them don’t do so until it’s their time in the barrel. Your credibility utterly tanks when it becomes obvious the only reason you’re goin’ public with what you know is because you’re scared shitless of going to jail yourself. If you are sittin’ on this info that you know could destroy careers or put others in jail until it becomes convenient, then guess what: YOU’RE PART OF THE COVER-UP!
I feel like we’ve watched a shift in which stuff that used to be an open secret, just barely under the skin of the status quo, has erupted to the surface.
And while on one hand that means people trying to speak out, but on the other the counter-movement, the reaction, is simply to unashamedly announce that This Is Fine, and the dirty business will now be conducted in open air markets.
re: #77 Eclectic Cyborg
OFFS.
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Isn’t that a Bill of Attainder?
The constitution very specifically forbids laws that are passed to be for or about one person in particular.
re: #118 sagehen
Isn’t that a Bill of Attainder?
The constitution very specifically forbids laws that are passed to be for or about one person in particular.
It’s performative nonsense. Its only objective is to show the Dear Leader that the House Republicans are still loyal lapdogs fighting to secure his victory.
re: #107 Charles Johnson
The most horrible fact about the modern web I know is that the “Perplexity AI” search engine in many cases sucks less than Google search currently sucks. But neither of them are as useful as Google used to be before Prabhakar Raghavan made Google search suck.
How to shut down an entitled lady during a traffic stop
re: #121 sizzzzlerz
“No, but I wish you luck in your search” has always been my go-to reply.
re: #77 Eclectic Cyborg
OFFS.
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re: #118 sagehen
Isn’t that a Bill of Attainder?
The constitution very specifically forbids laws that are passed to be for or about one person in particular.
re: #119 Nerdy Fish
It’s performative nonsense. Its only objective is to show the Dear Leader that the House Republicans are still loyal lapdogs fighting to secure his victory.
Andy Ogles… one of my state’s Representatives, ladies and gentlelizards.
*retches*
re: #28 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s a state case — so Alito should not have any input there.
Re: the Harriet Miers discussion downstairs— For years I have felt that for SCOTUS judges, compassion and a good heart were far more important than a “good” mind and great academic credentials. Intellectual brilliance allows a judge to justify the most evil and corrupt decisions — and that’s what Scalia did, and that’s what Alito does. I have said previously here that Miers would have been a far better judge than Alito. Indeed it’s hard to see how she would have been worse than he has been.
As we’re noticing every day, there’s always worse. Tomorrow it’ll be worse than today. And the day after worse still.
re: #66 Belafon
I guess I should learn to spell his name right.
If you don’t know anything about him, go watch his stuff, both his pure fantasy stuff and his historical fiction anime. But be warned, Fireflies is emotionally devastating.
It’s cool.
Youtube had no problem finding Miyazaki using your spelling.
re: #45 BeenHereAwhile
Dunno know nothing about Maizaki, but plan on streaming this tonight
He’s the god of animation.
I see I need to do it on my phone. Can it be done on a PC?
re: #9 sizzzzlerz
If Slappy Thomas won’t resign over his acceptance of bribes, Alito certainly won’t over an upside down flag.
Most corrupt SCOTUS ever!
While I fully believe if Democrats hold the House come January, they should begin an impeachment inquiry into Thomas, I’m sort of “meh” on this Alito thing. Flying the flag upside down is in bad taste, but also protected by the First Amendment.
Now, if it turns out that Alito is getting emoluments like Thomas apparently is… that is a different story all together.
re: #101 darthstar
I think she likes you. You should ask her out.
re: #68 The Ghost of a Flea
Case in point:
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade
You make the change
You rearrange me ‘til I’m sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me
And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
re: #129 KGxvi
I understand that he has First Amendment rights, but I feel like openly embracing a coup against the rightfully elected government is drawing a line. I suppose the same could be said of flying the Confederate flag, though, which is, as you say, a First Amendment protected expression, even if it is vile and despicable.
re: #127 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
He’s the god of animation.
And the godfather of a whole lot of really good new stuff.
re: #129 KGxvi
As a former sailor, I lean towards the idea that those in government must observe some restrictions on their rights in order to make sure the rest of us can observe them. And too many of the conservatives on the Supreme Court violate that.
re: #77 Eclectic Cyborg
OFFS.
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Rep Andy Ogles & Sen Marsha Blackburn, middle TN dumb & dumber.
re: #129 KGxvi
While I fully believe if Democrats hold the House come January, they should begin an impeachment inquiry into Thomas, I’m sort of “meh” on this Alito thing. Flying the flag upside down is in bad taste, but also protected by the First Amendment.
Now, if it turns out that Alito is getting emoluments like Thomas apparently is… that is a different story all together.
I object not to the poor taste, but to the public demonstration of concurrence with the ‘stop the steal’ people.
re: #129 KGxvi
While I fully believe if Democrats hold the House come January, they should begin an impeachment inquiry into Thomas, I’m sort of “meh” on this Alito thing. Flying the flag upside down is in bad taste, but also protected by the First Amendment.
Now, if it turns out that Alito is getting emoluments like Thomas apparently is… that is a different story all together.
Not as much as Thomas, no real estate gifts or RVs… but Paul Singer has taken Alito on luxury fishing trips, and then had multiple cases before the Court (including Argentina, debt, hedge fund, etc)
re: #101 darthstar
OMG a friend request….
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Sounds like a bunch of Russian ladies who match me on Tinder
re: #91 SerialUpDinger
Which service is streaming it?
Dunno yet - i’m on my handheld - gonna jump on the tv flat screen tonight & see.
I may have to rent it.
re: #136 BeenHereAwhile
Rep Andy Ogles & Sen Marsha Blackburn, middle TN dumb & dumber.
Don’t I fucking know it…
re: #140 BeenHereAwhile
I think it is available for sale next month. With any luck, we can find a way to stream it.
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