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Picking up from downstairs:
re: #261 KGxvi
wouldn’t the judgment be non-dischargeable?
Yes. I am guessing Screwdy is trying to get out of paying a bunch of shit that can be discharged.
Statement from Czech PM Petr Fiala, translated into English, regarding today’s mass shooting in Prague.
We were all deeply affected today by the news of the tragic attack at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in the center of Prague. First, let me express my deepest condolences to the loved ones and friends of all the victims. None of us can fully imagine the depth of grief and pain they are experiencing now. Many lives of mostly young people have been completely and needlessly extinguished, many of them are injured, some unfortunately very seriously. There is no justification for this horrific act. Like many of you, I feel deep sadness and disgust in the face of this senseless and brutal violence.
At this point it appears that this was the act of a lone gunman, who is now deceased. It is therefore not an act of international terrorism or an organized group. I have been assured that the security forces have the situation fully under control and there is no further danger to the citizens of the Czech Republic.
Dear fellow citizens, let us now think of those who have lost their loved ones and for whom this Christmas will be unimaginably sad. Let us share with them their grief and their pain. At this difficult time, we should come together with all consideration and mutual understanding to show our respect for the victims of this brutal crime.
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re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg
as predicted and wow.
— Richard Signorelli 🌱🇺🇦 🌊 (@richsignorelli) December 21, 2023
Plus likely spending the rest of his life in prison. Can’t forget that (and many of us are looking forward to it).
OMG
Terroranschlag in der Prager Universität, Fachbereich Philosophie, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Jüdische Studien.
TRANSLATION:
Terrorist attack at Prague University, Department of Philosophy, Center for Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies.
re: #4 lawhawk
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Plus likely spending the rest of his life in prison. Can’t forget that (and many of us are looking forward to it).
Bankruptcy will help him with non punitive debts, but he’s still on the hook for the 148 million. Sell that place in FL and the other in NYC.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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re: #8 Patricia Kayden
How can I buy a subscription for someone? Is there a link?
I think you just need to shoot Charles a DM.
re: #8 Patricia Kayden
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re: #5 Vicious Babushka
OMG
Terroranschlag in der Prager Universität, Fachbereich Philosophie, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Jüdische Studien.
TRANSLATION:
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Fuck.
Saying prayer for America’s Mayor. pic.twitter.com/DRaYg7G7Gq
— Jason Selvig (@jasonselvig) December 21, 2023
OH, Hi everyone!
🇦🇴🛢️| Dissatisfied with OPEC’s demands for cuts, Angola decides to leave the organization. pic.twitter.com/6CRxRrUEmf
— Eternal Glory (@EternalGlory0) December 21, 2023
Here we are in the 21st-century, and instead of flying cars, we have Nazis all over the fucking place.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Substack responds to “Substackers Against Nazis.” Exactly how I predicted they would. With a big “fuck you, not only are they welcome, we’re gonna keep paying them too.”
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I love how they’re like, “Deplatforming Nazis only makes the problem worse.” How far up your ass is your head, you idiot? Congratulations on your Nazi bar.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Hey Hamish, substack THIS.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Substack responds to “Substackers Against Nazis.” Exactly how I predicted they would. With a big “fuck you, not only are they welcome, we’re gonna keep paying them too.”
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Substack goes 3-D
Depressing
Disgusting
Dehumanizing.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Substack responds to “Substackers Against Nazis.” Exactly how I predicted they would. With a big “fuck you, not only are they welcome, we’re gonna keep paying them too.”
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[As if] “Fringe” makes it somehow not completely objectionable
Eta [] for clarity
re: #7 Patricia Kayden
For years I’ve used the phrase “maliciously ignorant” to describe the American hate-right.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Shorter Substack: Nazis are bad, but they sure are lucrative.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
One of the problems with post-Christian/religion dude-bros in the tech world is that they have transferred their collective belief-system from the old religion(s) to another old one: money for any reason.
Dressed up as “free speech”, the real reason to keep the Nazis is because the latter brings in their sympathizers, which brings in money.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
“We don’t like Nazis, but we don’t really feel the need to do anything about them either.”
How much more fucking contradictory can you be?
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
“We don’t like Nazis, but we don’t really feel the need to do anything about them either.”
How much more fucking contradictory can you be?
They’re from the Elon Musk school of freeze peach: We don’t care what people say, as long as they pay us to say it.
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
“We don’t like Nazis, but we don’t really feel the need to do anything about them either.”
How much more fucking contradictory can you be?
What do you call a dinner table where you join 6 other Nazis sitting at the table? 7 fucking Nazis.
re: #28 Nerdy Fish
They’re from the Elon Musk school of freeze peach: We don’t care what people say, as long as they pay us to say it.
Fungible ethics.
re: #31 Dangerman
Headline says it
But he delayed them and harmed many people in the process. And, unfortunately, he’s still around to do more damage.
Forecasters keep rolling back the rain prognostications for our area.
We’ve had some scatter sprinkles the past 12 hours or so, but the totals are only around a tenth of an inch of rain.
This is the NWS excuse explanation:
The system has retrograded slightly away from the coast this morning drawing moisture and instability away from us temporarily.
Retrograde indeed.
The persistent river of rain in the eastern Pacific is now farther from us than last night:
All you up in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have gotten everyone else’s share of the rain.
First they came for the Nazis. Then when they were gone the rest of us high-fived each other and said ‘Yeah, fuck those MFers.’
re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Whoa! just had a pulse of hail for about a minute! Pea-sized melting on the ground.
re: #22 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
For years I’ve used the phrase “maliciously ignorant” to describe the American hate-right.
The old RC term was “Culpable Ignorance”.
re: #7 Patricia Kayden
Oh, I know that. My coworkers are college educated people, not idiots. They choose to believe it. Which is why I don’t do many political conversations here in Red Texas.
re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Forecasters keep rolling back the rain prognostications for our area.
We’ve had some scatter sprinkles the past 12 hours or so, but the totals are only around a tenth of an inch of rain.
This is the NWS
excuseexplanation:Retrograde indeed.
The persistent river of rain in the eastern Pacific is now farther from us than last night:
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All you up in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have gotten everyone else’s share of the rain.
Yeah it’s coming down hard here too! Why, we’ve had .14” in the past…umm…9 hours.
re: #18 Nerdy Fish
I love how they’re like, “Deplatforming Nazis only makes the problem worse.” How far up your ass is your head, you idiot? Congratulations on your Nazi bar.
What grandpa had to say to the local Mississippi newspaper during WWII about Nazi’s.
In a bit of a coda to today’s mass shooting in Prague, bomb disposal experts have arrived in the small town of Hostouň - to the house where the gunman killed his father before starting his rampage in Prague - and evacuated the neighbors.
A police search of the house revealed explosive boobytraps.
This is the thing about the modern world that many people have not taken seriously: the need for ethics.
If we do away with a religious decree for right and wrong we still need a structure for organizing how we think about treating others.
The tech dude-bros think “free speech” is some sort of idol to worship.
But they never really consider why actual free speech has always had limits.
So many of the dude-bros just want to make money. Their system of ethics really is nothing more than this: if it makes money it must be a good thing.
re: #39 Belafon
Oh, I know that. My coworkers are college educated people, not idiots. They choose to believe it. Which is why I don’t do many political conversations here in Red Texas.
It’s an unholy alliance of old high school bullies, and a particularly broken group from the ranks of the bullied.
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
But he delayed them and harmed many people in the process. And, unfortunately, he’s still around to do more damage.
Sure it was messy
Because politics ain’t beanbag.
He tried to sweep the leg
He missed
Then got crane kicked in the head
Unless the senate comes to terms with some of their rules, some ass will exploit them.
re: #43 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This is the thing about the modern world that many people have not taken seriously: the need for ethics.
If we do away with a religious decree for right and wrong we still need a structure for organizing how we think about treating others.
The tech dude-bros think “free speech” is some sort of idol to worship.
But they never really consider why actual free speech has always had limits.
So many of the dude-bros just want to make money. Their system of ethics really is nothing more than this: if it makes money it must be a good thing.
…because it doesn’t seem to adversely affect me…
re: #5 Vicious Babushka
OMG
Terroranschlag in der Prager Universität, Fachbereich Philosophie, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Jüdische Studien.
TRANSLATION:
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Twenty-four hour rule.
BBC says it was in the main arts faculty building, The Guardian says he was shooting from a different building at a bridge (and the passengers on it).
re: #18 Nerdy Fish
I love how they’re like, “Deplatforming Nazis only makes the problem worse.” How far up your ass is your head, you idiot? Congratulations on your Nazi bar.
It’s the old “the answer to speech is more speech” thing. Going to take a while to root it out of our discourse.
re: #47 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Twenty-four hour rule.
BBC says it was in the main arts faculty building, The Guardian says he was shooting from a different building at a bridge (and the passengers on it).
He was shooting at pedestrians on Mánes Bridge, which would be directly in his line of sight and also at pedestrians in and around the Rudolfinum building.
Thankfully, there’s a couple of buildings that blocked his line of sight to Charles Bridge - because that would’ve been a real fucking massacre.
re: #48 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
It’s the old “the answer to speech is more speech” thing. Going to take a while to root it out of our discourse.
And “all speech is equal” applies to honest brokers. Once one side of a discourse has no intention of being truthful the rules need to change.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
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re: #50 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And “all speech is equal” applies to honest brokers. Once one side of a discourse has no intention of being truthful the rules need to change.
+1.
re: #42 Dr Lizardo
In a bit of a coda to today’s mass shooting in Prague, bomb disposal experts have arrived in the small town of Hostouň - to the house where the gunman killed his father before starting his rampage in Prague - and evacuated the neighbors.
A police search of the house revealed explosive boobytraps.
How easy is it for Czechs to get guns? I assume there is no 2nd amendment right like we have in the U.S. (which has been badly misinterpreted).
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Substack responds to “Substackers Against Nazis.” Exactly how I predicted they would. With a big “fuck you, not only are they welcome, we’re gonna keep paying them too.”
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It’s traditional for businesspeople to be friendly toward Nazis. If all you care about is money, liberalism is going to be a problem because you wind up with consumer protection.
And here’s another coda to today’s Prague shooting.
Six days ago, an unknown assailant shot dead an adult and a child in the forest surrounding the small town of Klánovice: the victims in that case were a thirty-two-year-old man and his two-month-old daughter.
The Czech Police President, Martin Vondrášek (sorta like the Chief of Police for the whole country), said about five minutes ago that after examining the gunman’s social media accounts, they have strong reason to believe that he was responsible for those two murders as well. It seems the Klánovice shooting was a “dress rehearsal” prior to today’s mass shooting.
re: #4 lawhawk
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Plus likely spending the rest of his life in prison. Can’t forget that (and many of us are looking forward to it).
Concern for Rudy? As I quoted Judge Smails last night ..the world needs ditchdiggers too.
re: #54 Patricia Kayden
How easy is it for Czechs to get guns? I assume there is no 2nd amendment right like we have in the U.S. (which has been badly misinterpreted).
It’s more stringent than in the USA, to be sure, but it’s not that difficult, either. The “right to acquire, keep and bear firearms” is explicitly recognized in the first Article of the Firearms Act. At the constitutional level, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms includes the “right to defend one’s own life or life of another person also with arms under conditions stipulated by law”.
Now mind you, if you use deadly force here, you’d better have a damned good reason for doing so. There’s certainly nothing like “stand your ground” laws here and you will be thoroughly investigated if deadly force is used.
re: #31 Dangerman
Headline says it
Better headline would have been: “Neo-Confederate Traitor Fails in Attempt to Damage US Military Readiness”.
re: #14 lizardofid
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OH, Hi everyone!
” Giuliani has vowed to fight this all the way to the Supreme Courtyard by Marriott.”
re: #59 Dr Lizardo
Thanks for the explainer. Mass shootings are so common here in the U.S. that you can barely keep up with them. Hope that doesn’t become the case in Europe and other western countries.
re: #54 Patricia Kayden
How easy is it for Czechs to get guns? I assume there is no 2nd amendment right like we have in the U.S. (which has been badly misinterpreted).
Relatively easy compared to some places (though not as easy as here) but you do have to be licensed which does require training, a psych exam and a police background check. Their licensing system would be fully compatible with the 2nd amendment and I’d love to see it made law here.
re: #55 lizardofid
It’s like the Hotel California.
That song was popular when I was in college, where there was a men’s dorm called California Hall. So I’ve heard it a few times.
re: #64 wrenchwench
There was a Hotel California near our base in Italy. It was fun to book Temporary Duty visitors there.
re: #50 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And “all speech is equal” applies to honest brokers. Once one side of a discourse has no intention of being truthful the rules need to change.
This. The US right is now axiomatically dishonest. Absolutely everything they put out is in bad faith, and 99+% of it is lies.
Gotta leave early for work so I can stop at the fancy pet store and get Schrader some more mouse. Later, lizards.
Glorious good news! Henry Kissinger and Rush Limbaugh are both still dead, and I am still alive.
Now, if Trump will just stroke out….
re: #64 wrenchwench
That song was popular when I was in college, where there was a men’s dorm called California Hall. So I’ve heard it a few times.
The first four lines always bring to mind late Sunday night trips back from my Brother’s house in Brawley, anytime I was working in L.A., back in the day.
re: #69 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
We should be that lucky.
re: #55 lizardofid
It’s like the Hotel California.
I was just thinking the same…
Welcome to the Substack California
We got Nazis here
They’re really quite severe…
re: #72 darthstar
I was just thinking the same…
Welcome to the Substack California
We got Nazis here
They’re really quite severe…
dammit…earworm material
re: #69 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Glorious good news! Henry Kissinger and Rush Limbaugh are both still dead, and I am still alive.
Now, if Trump will just stroke out….
I want him to have a heart attack at one of his Torch Light rallies.
Just babbling away with his schtick, then a puzzled look and a hand to the chest and eyes darting about, then he falls face first into the podium making noises like a loose fan belt.
I want to hear the wailings and cries of his brain dead morons as their world falls in on them.
Well, that’s my wish anyway….
re: #74 nines09
To make this picture complete, Satan himself should appear in a cloud of sulfur smoke to escort Trump to his eternal “reward”.
re: #61 Dave In Austin
” Giuliani has vowed to fight this all the way to the Supreme Courtyard by Marriott.”
Stolen.
Or stollen, it’s Christmas time whatever.
re: #76 Eventual Carrion
Stolen.
Or stollen, it’s Christmas time whatever.
Way to set the panettone for the season!
re: #75 EPR-radar
To make this picture complete, Satan himself should appear in a cloud of sulfur smoke to escort Trump to his eternal “reward”.
“It’s time to come home, Donald.”
re: #76 Eventual Carrion
Stolen.
Or stollen, it’s Christmas time whatever.
oh man those memories of fresh iced holiday stollen soaked in warm brandy sauce…
re: #76 Eventual Carrion
Stolen.
Or stollen, it’s Christmas time whatever.
I like stollen. That’s some quality bread.
We found an alternative station here in the DFW, but what they play makes me wonder if alternative ended sometime around the turn of the millennium. I go back to KXT in part because they play new stuff. Speaking of which, Modern English - of “I’ll stop the world and melt with you” fame - released a new song earlier this year that I’m just now hearing about:
Former Lee Chatfield staffers charged with embezzlement, conducting a criminal enterprise
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday charges against two former staffers for Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield, alleging the couple misappropriated funds from multiple entities, including social welfare non-profit organizations, campaign committees and a lobbying firm.
Facing criminal charges are Rob and Anne Minard who both worked in various capacities for the Levering Republican who served as House Speaker in 2019 until the end of 2020 before leaving office due to term limits. Rob Minard served as Chatfield’s chief of staff while he was speaker while Anne Minard was a legislative adviser and director of external affairs for Chatfield.
The charges they face include conducting a criminal enterprise, embezzlement and filing a false tax return. In early 2022, Law enforcement raided the Lansing-area home of Rob and Anne Minard. Nessel said Thursday that the couple engaged in a “sophisticated pattern” and had access to a vast network through their work relationship with Chatfield. During the course of the investigation, Nessel said evidence was uncovered they illegally enriched themselves while holding influential posts in Lansing.
The Attorney General’s office announced its investigation into Chatfield almost two years ago. Nessel said the investigation remains ongoing and that her office has not finalized all of its charging decisions. Mary Chartier, Lee Chatfield’s lawyer, said in email Wednesday she was confident an objective review of the facts would not result in charges against her client.
Chatfield has been accused of sexual assault by his brother’s wife and accused of an array of financial improprieties. Michigan State Police and unnamed federal agencies also participated in the investigation, according to statements and documents. Lee Chatfield’s lawyers previously told the Free Press he had a consensual affair with his sister-in-law but did not commit any crimes.
Nessel said previously her office aimed to make a charging decision regarding Chatfield by the end of this year but said Thursday it was not possible to entirely wrap up the probe before Dec. 31.
In other words this motherfather is yet another typical Republican!
re: #75 EPR-radar
To make this picture complete, Satan himself should appear in a cloud of sulfur smoke to escort Trump to his eternal “reward”.
And then Satan says he’s too evil for hell and Trump is forever banished to The Phantom Zone.
re: #81 Belafon
We found an alternative station here in the DFW, but what they play makes me wonder if alternative ended sometime around the turn of the millennium. I go back to KXT in part because they play new stuff. Speaking of which, Modern English - of “I’ll stop the world and melt with you” fame - released a new song earlier this year that I’m just now hearing about:
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Button #2 on the radio in the old XB.
re: #82 Joe Bacon ✅
There are no decent Republicans left.
re: #74 nines09
I want him to have a heart attack at one of his Torch Light rallies.
Just babbling away with his schtick, then a puzzled look and a hand to the chest and eyes darting about, then he falls face first into the podium making noises like a loose fan belt.
I want to hear the wailings and cries of his brain dead morons as their world falls in on them.
Well, that’s my wish anyway….
And then the look of his beloved MAGATS praying that he should rise from the dead in three days…and three days later…he just rots away…as they continue to drink the miracle mineral solution…
re: #85 Eclectic Cyborg
There are no decent Republicans left.
It’s an interesting exercise to look back and try to pinpoint when the GOP set off on its path to ruin. I think the New Deal era was a key early moment. The GOP’s later embrace of the Southern strategy only happened because the party was already essentially worthless.
Trump ramps up plans for new police powers — except the ones investigating him
Former President Donald Trump has an “absurd” new plan to expand the rights of American police, even as he rages against those investigating him, legal experts told The New York Times Thursday.
Trump’s new proposal would “indemnify” on-duty police officers, essentially shielding them from misconduct lawsuits, despite already high immunity standards that make legal cases against officers hard to win, Michael Gold reported.
Legal experts told Gold the proposal doesn’t make much sense.
“The idea that officers need indemnification is frankly absurd, because they already have it,” said Benjamin Cardozo Law School professor Alexander Reinert.
“Officers virtually never pay anything in settlements or judgments entered against them,” said UCLA Law professor Joanna Schwartz, noting police departments and insurance companies usually make payouts, not the officers.
That didn’t stop Trump from saying in a recent speech, “We are going to indemnify them, so they don’t lose their wife, their family, their pension and their job.”
Nor did his professed support of law enforcement stop Trump from “raging” against federal and state law enforcement officials leading the four criminal cases against him, Gold notes.
“Even as he proclaims his steadfast support for rank-and-file officers, he has been raging against federal and state law enforcement officials who have led the four criminal cases against him, resulting in 91 felony charges,” wrote Gold.
While Trump does have a strong support base among police, a pair of Capitol Police officers injured during the Jan. 6 attack have filed suit against him for, they say, inciting the violence, Gold reports.
“Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled this week that there was enough evidence that he engaged in insurrection to disqualify him from holding office again,” Gold notes.
re: #87 EPR-radar
It’s an interesting exercise to look back and try to pinpoint when the GOP set off on its path to ruin. I think the New Deal era was a key early moment. The GOP’s later embrace of the Southern strategy only happened because the party was already essentially worthless.
Civil Rights Act in 1964 another?
re: #43 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This is the thing about the modern world that many people have not taken seriously: the need for ethics.
If we do away with a religious decree for right and wrong we still need a structure for organizing how we think about treating others.
The tech dude-bros think “free speech” is some sort of idol to worship.
But they never really consider why actual free speech has always had limits.
So many of the dude-bros just want to make money. Their system of ethics really is nothing more than this: if it makes money it must be a good thing.
Greed is good. Known and loved since the 1980s.
re: #90 lizardofid
Civil Rights Act in 1964 another?
The GOP has had many chances to become civilized in the last century, none of which were taken. The party fucking up on civil rights is one of the biggest missed chances.
Sigh… NWS changed the forecast again… bringing back the threat of heavy rain tonight and raising the expected rainfall totals.
I looked at the latest GFS and European model runs and they’ve pulled back the total accumulated precipitation totals, so the local NWS people must think that some local phenomenon is going to make for more rain than the models expect.
re: #75 EPR-radar
To make this picture complete, Satan himself should appear in a cloud of sulfur smoke to escort Trump to his eternal “reward”.
Satan should also first step to the mike and sing “I Am a Model of a Modern Major General” as well simply for the humor of the moment.
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Sigh… NWS changed the forecast again… bringing back the threat of heavy rain tonight and raising the expected rainfall totals.
I looked at the latest GFS and European model runs and they’ve pulled back the total accumulated precipitation totals, so the local NWS people must think that some local phenomenon is going to make for more rain than the models expect.
It’s a bit dull, but I wouldn’t call it a threat.
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re: #87 EPR-radar
It’s an interesting exercise to look back and try to pinpoint when the GOP set off on its path to ruin. I think the New Deal era was a key early moment. The GOP’s later embrace of the Southern strategy only happened because the party was already essentially worthless.
The abandonment of Roosevelt (Teddy) for Taft and a business-first attitude was a stone in that foundation. From there the path through Coolidge, Hoover, isolationism, and opposition to the New Deal is pretty obvious. And then the post-war conservatism as they lock themselves into a status quo straitjacket constructed from the practically unique post-WW2 economic circumstances. As they lose the popular demographics the party then grasps for other groups of voters and sequentially brings in more and more radical and non-logic thought into the party mainstream.
Final tipping point was Gingrich and company at which point they started purging their own remaining moderates and making internal policy such as the Hastert Rule.
re: #95 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Satan should also first step to the mike and sing “I Am a Model of a Modern Major General” as well simply for the humor of the moment.
Change the song a bit to be “I’m the very model of a modern Republican”
re: #90 lizardofid
Civil Rights Act in 1964 another?
The polarization back then was more about geography than party ID. People like Pete McClosky, Linc Chaffee, Jacob Javits, Nelson and David Rockefeller, Margaret Chase Smith, were admirable in most ways. Al D’Amato had a mixed record of liberal and conservative positions, but he today would be considered RINO.
And I still think Michael Bloomberg (temporary Republican) was an awesome mayor.
The Southern Strategy made a difference regionally, but it was really the Reagan years that accelerated the Republican party’s right-ward swerve.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Substack responds to “Substackers Against Nazis.” Exactly how I predicted they would. With a big “fuck you, not only are they welcome, we’re gonna keep paying them too.”
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He is absolutely and totally wrong. Censoring Nazis works, and giving them a platform to spread their bile makes the problem worse.
re: #103 No Malarkey!
He is absolutely and totally wrong. Censoring Nazis works, and giving them a platform to spread their bile makes the problem worse.
Making money is more important to them than stopping the Turd Reich.
Americans are being raised to care more about money than anything else. My brother’s kids have a shark tank class in their high school.
re: #103 No Malarkey!
just look at all of the improvements we’ve witnessed over on “X” since they let the Nazi’s roam free with their free speech…. /////////////////////////ssssssssssss
As others have mentioned, today is winter solstice. Here in Juneau, the solstice occurs at 6:28PM. And the days can now start being longer.
Today, the official sunrise is 8:46 AM and the official sunset is 3:08 for a total amount of daylight to be 6 hours and 21 minutes. Longer days are certainly welcome up here.
In other weather news, 2023 has already been determined to be the warmest year ever in Alaska. Along with the warmer weather, we’ve been fairly wet. A few days with heavy rains along with many days of light rain or drizzle.
To date, we’ve had 74.36 inches of precipitation while the “normal” amount is 64.87 inches. We’re still behind last years ytd amount of 87.19 inches of water.
Everyone up here will be enjoying the longer daylight. In a few week we’ll be gaining over 5 minutes per day.
LGF will be offline at some point later this evening, to make some DNS changes to allow a new feature I’m putting together for subscribers.
re: #103 No Malarkey!
He is absolutely and totally wrong. Censoring Nazis works, and giving them a platform to spread their bile makes the problem worse.
Someone needs to write a sub stack about the paradox of tolerance and that the only real solution is to deplatform the intolerant.
Russia donates North Korea a bunch of rotten grain, and North Korea gives Russia a bunch of shells that explode in the barrel. Best buds forever.
re: #107 Charles Johnson
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re: #106 Cheechako
As others have mentioned, today is winter solstice. Here in Juneau, the solstice occurs at 6:28PM. And the days can now start being longer.
Happy birthday to Duncan MacLeod, now 431 years old (if he still has his head).
re: #107 Charles Johnson
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re: #115 Dave In Austin
Dave earlier we had some heavy rain and then a minute of rock salt sized hail that melted the minute it hit the ground in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles. Right now the rain stopped but it looks like another heavy pulse is heading our way later
Northeast Philly’s weather for the next few days:
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re: #113 Charles Johnson
The downtime should only be 10-15 minutes.
get us some pizza to snack on. we’ll be fine.
what the eff??
this is an R talking.
and he means the Rs.
Why in the world would good conservatives vote for crazy stuff like what we’ve been seeing?
so i take him at his word.
R’s are compromised.
Rep. @TimBurchett exposes how government officials are BLACKMAILED:
“This is how it works: You’re out of the country, out of town.. and some, whatever you’re into—comes up to you, they’re very attractive and laughing at your jokes. Next thing you know, you’re in the hotel room… pic.twitter.com/o6gQ8jEjSY— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 21, 2023
The Fark post on Substack’s pro-Nazi policies is titled “Substack chooses evil.”
I expect to see a lot on that on the web this week.
I hope this was a really bad business decision that leaves them with a Nazi bar.
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re: #121 Dangerman
what the eff??
this is an R talking.
and he means the Rs.so i take him at his word.
R’s are compromised.[Embedded content]
Uh…is Timmy trying to get in front of the news before his name shows up on Epstein’s list?????
OR Does Controller Vlad have the dirt on Timmy that was in the 2016 GOP E-mail hack that Vlad and his GRU held back from being released by Wikileaks?
re: #124 Joe Bacon ✅
Uh…is Timmy trying to get in front of the news before his name shows up on Epstein’s list?????
OR Does Controller Vlad have the dirt on Timmy that was in the 2016 GOP E-mail hack that Vlad and his GRU held back from being released by Wikileaks?
yes, questions need to be asked!!
re: #121 Dangerman
Or you could have common sense enough to NOT GO TO THE FUCKING HOTEL ROOM.
re: #125 Dangerman
yes, questions need to be asked!!
And we can count on the New York Times NOT going anywhere near that since they’re too busy sticking shivs into Joe every chance they can.
re: #121 Dangerman
what the eff??
this is an R talking.
and he means the Rs.so i take him at his word.
R’s are compromised.[Embedded content]
“Whatever you’re into” comes up to you… someone has video of that guy getting peed on by twin dwarfs dressed up like Care Bears 🐻🐻
re: #130 darthstar
“Whatever you’re into” comes up to you… someone has video of that guy getting peed on by twin dwarfs dressed up like Care Bears 🐻🐻
bears huh?
Whodathunkit????
Mike Flynn’s induction sparks mass resignation from Rhode Island hall of fame
Mike Flynn was selected as an inductee into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, sending dozens of board members fleeing for the exits.
As a result, multiple members of the organization submitted letters of resignation, reported the Providence Journal.
“The inclusion of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn flies in the face of honorable service,” said former congressman Jim Langevin, who was also selected last week as an honorary inductee. “I just couldn’t see placing that particular nominee on the same footing with so many fabulous people that have been honored in that way over the many years that it’s been in existence.”
Former state senator Bea Lanzi and attorney John Tarantino co-signed a letter to board president Lawrence Reid calling Flynn’s selection “disappointing and astounding,” saying the board had been advised in specific detail last month why the retired U.S. Army general-turned-right-wing conspiracy theorist was “not worthy of induction.”
“There is an overall right and wrong in the universe, and what has happened here, in our view, and according to our moral compasses, and consciences, compels us to resign,” read the letter co-signed by Lanzi and Tarantino.
The pair said they would not stop or withdraw their donations to the hall, but specified they did not want the board to use any of those funds “to deal with any legal fees, crisis management, public relations fallout, or other negative reactions the organization may face because of Lt. Gen. Flynn’s nomination and induction.”
Lawyer-historian Patrick Conley, who led the hall of fame for two decades, offered a vociferous defense of the nominee.
“[The induction will] vindicate Flynn in his home state in the manner contained in his executive grant of clemency from President Trump - another innocent victim of the ‘Russia hoax,’” Conley wrote in a recent letter. “Flynn did not commit high treason, espionage, sedition, or any high crime… Flynn was illegally surveilled by the outgoing Obama administration … set-up without benefit of counsel by two agents from a weaponized FBI …. [then] tried and convicted by a biased media.” 🤣
re: #130 darthstar
“Whatever you’re into” comes up to you… someone has video of that guy getting peed on by twin dwarfs dressed up like Care Bears 🐻🐻
Whoa! Wait a minute because that’s too kinky even for Pornhub! 😳
I don’t think the SCOTUS is going to like getting this one… he’s going for immunity from anything he’s done his entire life.
re: #131 Dangerman
bears huh?
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I was trying to think of My Little Pony but had a brain freeze.
re: #133 Joe Bacon ✅
There for 20 years, but he lost his mind and joined the Trump cult. Now the group is a joke to real people, but the cult will praise it.
re: #107 Charles Johnson
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re: #139 Vicious Babushka
Oh my. They look yummy.
One “social welfare” non-profit shares the address with a pro-Chatfield PAC called the Peninsula Fund.“Victor Strategies received $151,568 in 2020 for fundraising work through Chatfield’s Peninsula Fund,” the report from 2022 explained. “The Peninsula Fund reported spending $142,266 on travel and entertainment for public officials and $454,337 on food, dining, travel and entertainment overall in 2020.”
re: #102 sagehen
The polarization back then was more about geography than party ID. People like Pete McClosky, Linc Chaffee, Jacob Javits, Nelson and David Rockefeller, Margaret Chase Smith, were admirable in most ways. Al D’Amato had a mixed record of liberal and conservative positions, but he today would be considered RINO.
And I still think Michael Bloomberg (temporary Republican) was an awesome mayor.
The Southern Strategy made a difference regionally, but it was really the Reagan years that accelerated the Republican party’s right-ward swerve.
Nixon made, Reagan perfected.
re: #138 TedStriker
It’s sad seeing Ted Knight in Caddyshack knowing he was being treated for cancer while the movie was being shot. 😰
re: #142 darthstar
Imagine getting 10-15 years of free housing after leaving office… good for them!
re: #142 darthstar
So much worse than just the embezzlement.
In January, 2022, “Chatfield’s 26-year-old sister-in-law, Rebekah Chatfield, accused the former speaker of sexually abusing her beginning when she was 15 years old,” The Detroit News reported in Feb. 2022. “The woman’s attorney, Jamie White, said there were also unspecified financial allegations involving Lee Chatfield.”
re: #123 Charles Johnson
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re: #135 darthstar
It’s almost as if the only reason he wants to be President is to avoid being held accountable for his actions and crimes.
And of course also to be able to grift off the sheep.
re: #104 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Making money is more important to them than stopping the Turd Reich.
Americans are being raised to care more about money than anything else. My brother’s kids have a shark tank class in their high school.
I’ll respectfully disagree with the tone of this post. There is nothing wrong with coming up with a Better Mousetrap, if it works. There is nothing wrong with making money off of it, either.
If Public (or Private) schools are supporting thinking about outside-of-the-box entrepreneurship, I’ve got nothing wrong with that, as long as they also teach just how rare it is that that succeeds. It’s a tough old world out there, and one bright kids Brilliant Idea is often a complete flop in the Market.
re: #69 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Glorious good news! Henry Kissinger and Rush Limbaugh are both still dead, and I am still alive.
Now, if Trump will just stroke out….
Someone else who is still alive: Admiral Phillippe de Gaulle, eldest child and only son of General Charles de Gaulle, will be 102 a week from today. Phillippe was a cadet at the Ecole Navale at the time of the surrender in 1940. He escaped to the UK and joined the Free French Navy. He could have had a relatively quiet war but chose instead to fight on land, joining a tank destroyer unit of the Régiment Blindé de Fusiliers-Marins, the French Marines’ armored force. He led a platoon of lend lease M-10 tank destroyers during the liberation of France and the final push into Germany. This was extremely dangerous work, to say the least. He retired from the Navy in 1982, wrote his memoirs and dabbled in politics.
re: #74 nines09
I want him to have a heart attack at one of his Torch Light rallies.
Just babbling away with his schtick, then a puzzled look and a hand to the chest and eyes darting about, then he falls face first into the podium making noises like a loose fan belt.
I want to hear the wailings and cries of his brain dead morons as their world falls in on them.
Well, that’s my wish anyway….
I go for the Dante approach. Trump is already in hell. His body is mostly just wandering around up here like a corrupt cardinal, jibbering nonsensically.
re: #144 Joe Bacon ✅
It’s sad seeing Ted Knight in Caddyshack knowing he was being treated for cancer while the movie was being shot. 😰
Just going by the timeline from his wiki, Knight was likely in remission for a while before doing Caddyshack; it wasn’t until at least a few years later, during Too Close for Comfort, that the cancer returned and took him out.
re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg
Or you could have common sense enough to NOT GO TO THE FUCKING HOTEL ROOM.
Borat could be filming you.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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