Windows of the US General Consulate in Hong Kong are lined with lit candles! ?? pic.twitter.com/T8ulu8LuUC
— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) June 4, 2021
That is objectively one fine photograph.
Yeah, we can afford the gesture. So, if not us, if not now, when?
Hong Kong Tiananmen Square commemorations in pictures https://t.co/vvwF9g0kMN
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 4, 2021
Ken
This may explain that recent poll that showed various nation’s popular opinions of the U.S. Most countries had a better opinion of the US than they did in January, in many cases by double digits. However China’s numbers had decreased.
rikyrah
Sometimes your faith is restored ????
Kim Wexler’s Ponytail (@MadisonKittay) tweeted at 0:28 AM on Sat, Jun 05, 2021:
A story in 4 screenshots. https://t.co/E9WKogA6KM
(https://twitter.com/MadisonKittay/status/1401048160726835201?s=03)
Nora
@rikyrah: Thanks for sharing that. The pictures brought tears to my eyes. I really want to believe there are more of us than there are of them.
Eunicecycle
@rikyrah: That’s great. More love, less hate, indeed.
rikyrah
????
Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) tweeted at 10:09 PM on Fri, Jun 04, 2021:
The GQP are seeing their recall effort against Gov. Gavin Newsom fail and evaporate before their very eyes and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
(https://twitter.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1401013267888177153?s=03)
germy
I Want to Honor Keeping Kink Out of Pride, but My Kink Is Bank-Sponsored Parade Floats
rikyrah
Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) tweeted at 7:50 AM on Sat, Jun 05, 2021:
If you didn’t criticize Trump when he created 150,000 new jobs a month in his first four months, what’s your critique of @potus when he’s added 530,000 jobs a month his first four months? https://t.co/QvrCufc6Ek
(https://twitter.com/WHCOS/status/1401159457720176643?s=03)
Another Scott
Good, good.
(via https://driftglass.blogspot.com)
Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
dmsilev
Naomi Wolf got herself banned from Twitter, finally. Last straw apparently was her musing that perhaps covid-vaccinated people should use segregated sewer systems, apparently to prevent the evil (and entirely nonexistent) shedded proteins from crawling up the insides of toilets of unsuspecting pure non-vaccinated folks and causing Bad Things to happen to them.
debbie
@rikyrah:
I just love when stuff like this happens! ❤️ Damn them to hell and back with kindness!
rikyrah
She really is funny.
The ones about the 1/6 Capitol “tourists” are hilarious ??
Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) tweeted at 6:28 AM on Sat, Jun 05, 2021:
I truly can’t say this enough, I think [email protected] is the funniest person on this website. Her videos make me cry. She sent this one to me knowing I was having a rough time and I couldn’t stop laughing. Follow her!
(https://twitter.com/tonyposnanski/status/1401138976942133254?s=03)
hells littlest angel
@dmsilev: Most boring direct-to-video horror movie ever.
rikyrah
Truth
MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) tweeted at 10:10 AM on Sat, Jun 05, 2021:
Texas is not a red state. It’s a voter suppresed state.
(https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1401194844769296384?s=03)
germy
@hells littlest angel:
She implied that vaccinated people are the dangerous ones, rather than the unvaccinated. I’m not surprised she got kicked off.
Joe Falco
@hells littlest angel:
Let Troma make it. It’ll be line with their past productions.
HinTN
@Another Scott: Or, as we used to say in my younger days, “Onward, through the fog!”
rikyrah
Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) tweeted at 7:04 AM on Sat, Jun 05, 2021:
Opinion | The GOP is failing to make a villain out of Biden and has run out of ideas — so now they’re getting desperate and turning on their own. By @EoinHiggins_ https://t.co/uIc9xbKlUI
(https://twitter.com/BusinessInsider/status/1401147837493170184?s=03)
Just Chuck
The rainbow flag is also a nice touch.
rikyrah
Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) tweeted at 10:16 PM on Fri, Jun 04, 2021:
I seriously doubt that a more targeted version of HR1 will get any real Republican support. The fundamental question is, is this a problem (GOP turn to authoritarianism) you can solve with legislation? If GOP views law and Congress as illegitimate, how does legislation help?
(https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1401015078439292929?s=03)
Feathers
@rikyrah: I clicked your link and the tweet was gone. However, they seem to have reposted it. https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1401195064248836099
The linked tweet quote tweets an interview with the Texas AG that without the Republicans being able to block mail in ballots, Trump would have lost Texas.
Just Chuck
@rikyrah: Word. These laws need to be backed with overwhelming force. As in teams of federal marshals to arrest officials for brazen violations. Elections happen over a day, they’re not something we can drag through the courts for years just to ask them to pretty-please not do it again.
Catherine D.
@Just Chuck: Yes, I liked that too. TFG would never have flown it.
Ken
@hells littlest angel: However the version where snakes crawl up your drainpipes and get into your toilet is absolutely terrifying, because it does happen.
scribbler
@rikyrah: Thank you for this. These stories make me feel so much better!
germy
Geminid
@Feathers: Some new Texas political news: after less than a year on the job, carpetbagger Allen West has resigned as Republican State Chairman. Some Republicans are griping that he was just using the post as a stepping stone to elective office. West was coy about his future plans, although he did say that suburban Dallas Democratic Congressman Colin Allred needed a good challenger. Some speculate, though, that West may go after Governor Greg Abbot in next year’s Republican primary. I hope he does.
dmsilev
@germy: She’s been saying that for a while. Not sure why this particular straw is what broke the camel’s back, but I guess we’ll take it.
Frankensteinbeck
Holy smokes. The Chinese government must be LIVID.
Elizabelle
I am proud of fellow Americans like Lt. Col Kemter (USA-ret), age 77, whose speech was censored by some wingnuts formerly associated with Ohio’s Hudson American Legion Post.
The Akron Beacon Journal printed the draft of his prepared remarks, which he delivered. In his “Army voice” when the wingnuts cut his mic, because hearing the true history is … dangerous. I’ve put up the “controversial” part and a bit more, but do click and read his whole speech. Lt. Col. Kemper is a very good American, a patriot, a soldier, and apparently a pretty good scholar.
Another Scott
@dmsilev:
(points to a Mediaite story about her retweeting a fake comments from a “doctor” who’s a porn actor…)
:-/
“We have terrible elites. We need better elites.” – Kay
Cheers,
Scott.
PaulWartenberg
trump and QAnon apparently accused ITALY of using advanced military technology to remotely hack into the voting machines to steal trump’s many many ballots.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/politics/mark-meadows-justice-department-election.html
PsiFighter37
That won’t make the Chinese happy, but at this point, the U.S. needs to make a point to China that its authoritarian overreach isn’t acceptable.
What’s a shame is that, if both Brexit and the 2016 election went the other way, China could very well be on a much better path – both for it, but for its relations to the outer world. I think Xi and the CCP only went the way they did because they knew that the ‘West’ was facing something of an existential crisis, and it decided to try and use the gap to solidify/normalize certain behaviors because they knew Trump and a neutered Europe would be distracted. Had Clinton won and the UK remained in the EU, methinks China and the West would have been much more integrated and aligned on things like climate change, and Hong Kong would not be suffering under the repressive new rules it is now operating under.
J R in WV
So, Open Thread…
Yesterday I went to town for a long series of visits to shops of a widely varying nature. As I left the house, the puppies, as always, got excited and wanted to accompany me, barking all the way out the farm road, so when I opened the front door to walk down the path to the car, there was a small 3-dog pack boiling ahead of me.
They stopped suddenly and their barking changed totally just 20 or 30 yards out the path — I jokingly said “Don’t sniff the snake!” but when I got out far enough to see, it WAS a snake, coiled up with tongue flickering, mostly black with some very pale patterns in places, almost certainly a black pine snake, which we have seen many times over the years. Wife and I gradually got the dogs into the house, and I left my garden cart where it was and walked down the steps, leaving Mr Sneke alone in the middle of the shaded path.
We have more black king snakes and a few ringneck black snakes to go with the black pine snakes, which are silver when first hatched, they darken gradually as they mature, peaking at around 60 inches. When they’re about half grown it is possible to mistake them for copperhead snakes, this guy still had the typical silver pattern showing in some places, but was pitch black mostly. Very small head compared to the size of the body.
The best thing about having lots of black snakes is that they out-compete copperhead snakes in every way. They’re better at capturing rodents, so there is less small game for copperheads to hunt, and the black snakes can prey upon copperheads, reducing the population still more. While several gardening friends have had copperhead bites in the larger neighborhood, I don’t recall ever seeing a snake I was sure was a copperhead on our farm.
Years ago I was in the old now torn down barn to feed livestock, when a really huge black king snake fell off a rafter and landed next to me on a pile of old heavy kraft paper feedsacks, and I’ve always been grateful it didn’t land on my shoulders, what a shock that would have been! This guy was 6 or 7 feet long and as thick as my arm, which back then was pretty muscular from the farm work. When you feed livestock your barn tends to have plenty of rodents to encourage the snake population.
Pretty clumsy of Mr Sneke to fall out of the rafters like that.
Another Scott
@J R in WV:
… when he goes wigglin’ through the
grassrafters, he tickles his underneath… (2:01)Cheers,
Scott.
Ken
You sure he wasn’t aiming at you?
Doug R
@rikyrah: Bad link. Try this:
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1401195064248836099
MagdaInBlack
@J R in WV: My husbands Missouri side of the family loved to tell the story of my then 18 y/o father in law standing on top of a tractor throwing wrenches at a black snake, because it had “chased ” him.
I do not know if the story that they will chase you is true, but he certainly believed it ?
MattF
And, in the pillowworld, it turns out that the lawsuit filed yesterday in Federal court on behalf of the pillow guy was not authorized by the lawyer’s firm, and so, the lawyer who filed it is no longer a member of that law firm.
Geminid
@MagdaInBlack: I’ve walked up on black snakes unexpectedly for both of us, and seen them vibrate their tails in dead leaves as a warning. I’m not sure if they were mimicking rattlesnakes, but it was kind of funny to see.
J R in WV
Some year ago I had several large tarps folded up lying against the concrete footers which support the garage. On a pretty fall day I went to gather them up and put them away. As I gathered the first one into my arms, I saw that there were several tiny black snakes, ring-necked, curled up under the tarp on the warm concrete. These guys were the size of a ballpoint pen filler, newly hatched.
I picked them up and stashed all of them under the brush-hog where they would be safe from predators. Probably a couple of dozen under 3 different tarps. Cute little things… black with a cream colored collar around their neck.
Kelly
@J R in WV: One morning after camping along the Deschutes river in central Oregon I was about half way into my kayak when I saw the fat coil of a bull snake poking out from under the seat. I’m not a snake expert and thought it was a rattlesnake. Levitation is possible if you have sufficient incentive. I’d pushed all my buddies rafts off the beach and they had drifted out of sight without noticing I’m out of my boat shakinging it and banging it on the ground to dislodge the beastie. Snake had a good grip on it’s spot under the seat and it took several minutes to convince it to leave. Since then I always lean it up against a tree to make it a little harder to get into.
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack:
Makes it sound like he had a whole toolbox full of wrenches and was just chucking away.
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: So the story went, yes ?
Eta: I have Hal on WCPT
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev: Holy nutcase, Batman! – on so many different levels.
CaseyL
@J R in WV: That was very sweet of you! Newly hatched reptiles are just exquisite, tiny jewel-like versions of themselves. Every scale, spike, and marking perfect.
debbie
@Elizabelle:
Not sure if it made the news in your area: The post has been closed and the guy who muted him has been forced to resign.
Kent
And to think this woman was once considered smart enough to earn a Rhodes Scholarship. That must have been one impressive example of white privilege.
tom
@rikyrah: the replies to that tweet, where they get Michigan Governor Whitmer’s name wrong three times, had me on the floor.
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: Well… it’s complicated, I think. A lot of people in the Hong Kong protest movement had a weird reverence for Trump–to them, he was mainly a symbol of opposition to the PRC government.
Kirk Spencer
@J R in WV: My years ago – i was at a week-long summer camp in my early teens and decided to take a (regular) shortcut through the weeping willow instead of following the path around. Peeled the hanging branches off my arm in glee when suddenly one of the branches decided to wrap around my other arm. Multiple times. And start climbing.
To this day I’ve no idea how long that snake was, nor what kind it was. I know it was greenish brown. I know it was long enough to wrap several times around my skinny arm. I know i was loud and forceful in shoving it off my arm but not frightened enough to run away, instead watching it move swiftly away from the noisy and painful tree it had found instead.
Oh, and I nevermore since have run forcefully through curtains of leafy branches. Pushed my way through, yes, but blindly run? never.
Another Scott
In other news, JuanitaJean – Who Is Subject to the UCMJ? (or Why hasn’t Mike Flynn Been Court-Martialed?)
A perspective from someone formerly in the military service but is not a lawyer.
An interesting read.
Cheers,
Scott.
TerryC
@MagdaInBlack: My mom always told me the story about coming out of her house – I was less than a year old – and finding two huge black snakes curled up in the sun with me in my playpen
MagdaInBlack
@TerryC: I always understood them to be harmless, but that man was just plain scared to death of snakes, all snakes.
Another Scott
Click on over.
It was all out in the open, and totally acceptable to them.
Just infuriating. Racism has done so much damage, and we have to recognize it to start repairing that damage.
Grr…!
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@TerryC:
Are you….are you Voldemort?
Ken
@Baud: Hercules, I was thinking.
Baud
@Another Scott:
One of these things is not like the others.
Catherine D.
@Kent:
Well, Cecil Rhodes is a monument to white privilege all on his lonesome …
Ken
I’m blanking on the name, but what’s it called when someone is good in one field (such as poetry) and immediately thinks they are expert in everything? It’s not exactly Dunning-Kruger though possibly related.
Perhaps the world would be better if such people universally decided “I am good at finance” and immediately got a harsh lesson about their limits.
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: I don’t know a general term, but I’ve heard “Engineer Syndrome” and “Physicist Syndrome” used in reference to specific subvarieties.
Geminid
@Kent: Wolf’s bad takes are probably due less to lack of intelligence than to character defect, maybe narcissism. I’ve never paid much attention to her, but I know that Wolf was once considered an important, cutting edge intellectual, and her reputation has faded since her time in the spotlight. She seems to be angry at a liberal establishment that won’t give her due recognition anymore. Mere intelligence doesn’t protect smart people from waging bitter vendettas, and Wolf wouldn’t the only one.
Wolf and her husband seem to have gone full horseshoe, with Wolf tweeting pics of her firing an assault-type rifle at trees, and the hubby explaining that people on the left are training with weapons on account of the Chinese threat.
Just Chuck
@Ken: Far as I know, it is Dunning-Kruger, some kind of corollary anyway: people expert in one field are terrible judges of their knowledge in other fields.
Brachiator
@PsiFighter37:
Unfortunately, I think that the US and the West should understand the limits of their influence. When China took back Hong Kong from Britain in, what, 1997, it allowed the UK some face saving, but it was clear that Hong Kong’s former masters were now simply irrelevant and in no position to make any demands, or even requests.
Neither BREXIT nor the 2016 elections would have had any effect on Chinese oppression of Tibet (old story), its Muslims or Hong Kong.
Another Scott
@Ken: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism
Word of the day!!1
(It’s amazing the things that Google can help one find with just a few keystrokes and a couple of minutes, isn’t it?)
Cheers,
Scott.
rikyrah
Mr. President, 44???
Talking with
Mr. President, 46???
https://twitter.com/moonbeamguv/status/1401223747848179714?s=19
smith
@Another Scott: Thanks for that — there had to be a word, didn’t there? In my experience, physicians are the worst of the lot.
There’s another related phenomenon that I think underlies a lot of belligerence among Goobers: it’s when they know that someone else has expertise they don’t have (so not the lack of awareness in Dunning-Kruger), but it chafes their self-esteem so mightily to be intellectually outclassed, that they completely reject any and all of the expertise offered. They react to someone else knowing things they don’t know as if the expert is bragging in an offensive way. Deep insecurity combined with massive shoulder chips.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Update about that American Legion post censoring retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter:
Baud
@rikyrah: ?
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): ?
zhena gogolia
@rikyrah:
So nice!
How can anyone be against that?????
Another Scott
@smith: Yup.
“You’re not better than me!!1”
You should hear my J’s stories about her days in physics grad school. ;-)
Honestly, I don’t know if physicians are worse – lots of people in every field seems to have chips on their shoulders.
A few anecdotes:
One of my favorite aphorisms is “where you stand depends on where you sit”. If you’re immersed in an insular group of physicians or physicists or RWNJs or anarchists or whatever, you eventually end up mostly thinking like them (with notable exceptions).
Just about everyone could stand to be more humble! :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Brachiator
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Good. The remarks were simple history, inclusive and inspiring. That anyone would deny people the opportunity to hear this man is insane.
Benw
That reminds me I need to put up the pride flag!
Mary G
CA Gov. Gav pulled the first set of 15 inoculated people for the first round of vaccine lottery yesterday on a set that looked like a cheesy game show. Prize is $50,000 each. They are not releasing any information on the winners, except the county they live in, which is nice. From SFGate:
(Note entries switched to be in time order.)
All of these very blue close to the coast and full of elites. The other 50 counties struck out, including the people who want to secede to worship Trump and live in a state called Jefferson; sucks to be them. Their odds were lower because they won’t get the shot, of course.
I have not heard from the governor that I won. ???
My chances in the OC were approximately 1 in 1,901,840, which is how many people had received at least the first shot as of Thursday. Oh well. I rarely win at casinos or drawings or lotteries; I wasn’t holding my breath.
Would’ve been nice since the bathroom I am renovating keeps getting dinged by the city for not being up to code. The house was built in 1950, of course it’s not up to code! Between waiting for an electrician to deign to both appear and write an estimate (contacted 11, 8 said too busy or we don’t want to deal with the building inspectors from hell. Three showed up and promised estimates, only one did. Easy choice.)
The guys doing the work thought I was as rich as my neighbors and were disappointed. Still it was OEM and even my budget upgrades are a million times better than what was in there, including yellow tile with maroon edges. I did splurge on a lighted vanity mirror and I am now the proud owner of a three-switch light control at the door.
It is very fancy. It turns the lights, fan, and mirror on with a motion sensor. The fan turns itself off automatically when the humidity lowers to a set amount. The motion sensor is extremely sensitive and turns it all on when you pass by in the hall even if the door is only open a crack. We will be keeping it closed when not in use.
If it is ever finished I will be happy. Four people using my bathroom has been hard on all of us, plus the garage is full of tile, vanity, toilet, vanity top, etc. and it’ll be nice to put my little car inside again.
Central Planning
@J R in WV: my college roommate was from Guam, and they have a huge brown tree snake problem. I’ve seen reports of up to 30,000 of them per square mile. This article states 13,000. Either way, it’s an invasive species causing major problems: https://www.sciencealert.com/guam-s-plague-of-snakes-is-having-a-devastating-impact-on-the-trees
Brachiator
@Another Scott:
This kind of illogical thinking also fed the lie that older people who died because of Covid-19 were going to die soon anyway.
Historians as well as lay people still misunderstand the relationship between average life expectancy at birth and human lifespan. I sill see crap that implies that in the past everyone died around age 40.
ETA: I still love this great bit of conversation between then 90 plus year old comedian George Burns and a 60 minutes reporter:
60 Minutes: You still smoke a cigar every day. What does your doctor say about that?
Burns: Nothing. He’s dead.
Central Planning
FYWP. My post didn’t post unless it’s been moderated. TL;DR: brown tree snakes: https://www.sciencealert.com/guam-s-plague-of-snakes-is-having-a-devastating-impact-on-the-trees
Central Planning
Are my posts going into moderation?
WaterGirl
@Central Planning: Yes. Give me a minute to see what’s going on.
germy
@Mary G:
I want a lottery for those of us who made sure to get vaccinated as soon as we could.
Another Scott
@Central Planning: If so, this one snuck out!
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@Brachiator: rofl.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Central Planning: They were actually going into SPAM. Maybe it was all that talk of snakes! shudder
Just kidding about that being why you went into spam.
Try to post something right now and I’ll see if it shows up or goes into spam again.
Feathers
@Geminid: Also, the work she was known for back in The Beauty Myth days, was about recognizing patterns in popular culture. When you become famous it can place you at a distance from being able to spend a great deal of time simply observing the world around you. I recall someone talking about the problem of being famous as having to maintain an inner motivation and direction, while existing as an object that is observed and acted upon, and constantly having to react to that.
Conspiracy theories are basically pattern recognition gone awry. The errors found in The Beauty Myth and her other work suggest a certain intellectual laziness, which compounded with the talent for pattern recognition shown in her early work. She was trying to do independent research and journalism without a support structure, whether this was narcissism or the best path available to her, she chose the wrong path
Apologies for not currently having the bandwidth this afternoon to come up with different ways of saying pattern recognition.
JPL
@germy: Same. My second shot was 2/2/2021. The peace of mind was worth it though, since I was able to help out with the great grand imp.
Brachiator
@Mary G:
It’s absurd that these dopes get rewarded for their stubbornness or stupidity. I also bet a lot of them complain about “wrongheaded government spending.”
rikyrah
Until 46 came in and proved that competence in government was possible, they pretended that the DELIBERATE MALICE of Dolt45 was just fine, with regards to COVID. But, him and everyone who followed him are culpable.
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1401254130363031560?s=19
Central Planning
@WaterGirl: here’s a test. How to escape from a python: https://stoneageman.com/surviving-a-reticulated-python-or-constrictor-snake/
Also, too: Thanks for finding the posts.
ETA: it worked
germy
This is bad… how?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator: And there’s a street at Cedar’s named for George Burns(as well as Gracie Allen).
germy
Dorothy A. Winsor
@germy: One can only hope
WaterGirl
@Central Planning: I did not have to intervene at all on this comment, so you are good.
Ugh on all the snake talk. shudder
WaterGirl
@germy: That’s great news!
germy
@WaterGirl:
I have a feeling she pays more attention to her backers than her constituents.
Geminid
@germy: Netanyahu is desperate to hang onto power. He and his political allies have mounted an intense pressure campaign to derail the 8 party “change coalition” before an expected Knesset vote around June 14.
Others are making death threats: both Bennett and Yamina deputy Shaked are under enhanced state security, and Meretz MK Tamar Zafkind vacated her home last week after fake death certificates were circulated on the internet, with her name on them.
Mary G
@germy: We are included in CA; the big lotteries are for all vaccinated people regardless of date givem. There are $50 gift cards which are limited; I am hoping to use that as incentive for the teen who is needle-phobic. I found that the pharmacy right across from the high school school is giving the Pfizer shot walk-in all day, so there is no excuse for distance.
Another Scott
Ooof. This sounds like an own-goal by Adams.
We don’t need Democrats running on some sort of “Tough on Crime™” platform. Grr…
Cheers,
Scott.
Mary G
@Brachiator: Believe it, in the end of article they talk to a Democrat saying whatever works is good, and before him three or four Republicans who are screaming about the poors getting their precious tax dollars and are convinced it will ensure the success of the recall effort. Whatevs.
Another Scott
Is there some horrible, yet karmically predictable, golden escalator incident in TFG’s future??!
Cheers,
Scott.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Another Scott: Apparently, TFG doesn’t like to pay for maintenance, so maybe.
Mary G
Bots, trolls, and the 27% are thrilled about this, because they think it will ensure the recall of Gov. Gav:
WaterGirl
@germy: I feel like it’s more performance art with her. Backers would absolutely hold more weight than voters. I also get the feeling she thinks she’s hot stuff.
Not what I am looking for in a senator.
edit: Now I want another backer to speak up and say the same thing. That increases the chances of getting the ball rolling.
WaterGirl
@Geminid: Seems like if your current guy is of the death threat variety, everybody is safer in the long run if he is OUT.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Now you have an inkling of my reaction to mention of cats.
LosGatosCA
When it comes to Hypocrisy, America is absolutely #1.
Fuck, yeah!
We’re gonna need some more candles next January 6.
JoyceH
@rikyrah:
Awwwwwww!
What’s interesting is that in 2008, Biden seemed to be perfectly cast as The Sidekick. But he turned on the Presidential like a light switch!
Omnes Omnibus
@LosGatosCA: Non sequitur much?
Matt McIrvin
@germy: I’m just glad to be out of the lottery for who gets COVID. Or at least playing with better odds.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Really?
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Pretty sure he is talking about the first tweet in the thread. I checked with the judges, and they unanimously ruled that this comment is on topic. :-)
Brachiator
@JoyceH:
Cool observation. Well said!
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Unless they are arguing that there is some moral equivalence between the T Square protesters and the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, I stand by my comment. And if they are…. Well, I can’t even.
satby
@Elizabelle: Well, the Hudson VFW is gonna be sorry now: https://www.stripes.com/Veterans/2021-06-04/American-Legion-Post%E2%80%99s-charter-is-suspended-leader-resigns-in-wake-of-Memorial-Day-microphone-cutoff-1637813.html#.YLvwt2YSlAE.link
Sister Golden Bear
@Just Chuck: More than a nice touch. It’s a worldwide political statement — TFG banned all U.S. embassies from flying the Pride flag.
Anne Laurie
Naomi Wolf’s not dumb, she’s just… lost the plot. Literally. When I was growing up, there would’ve been murmurs about her ‘change of life’ (menopausal psychosis). Which, given how she made her name in the first place…
Remember who the Rhodes Scholarship is named after? Their board has always been biased towards articulate, well-dressed candidates who are willing to perform in a fashion that tickles elderly white men’s ‘we of the elite’ fantasies. Some of those candidates are now women and/or POC, but the presentations remain, as far as I can tell, pretty much the same.
Kristine
@rikyrah: That was so good to see–thanks. I reshared over on Twitter.
Anne Laurie
Yep, what I meant when I called it a great photo.
We Americans don’t believe in killing one’s citizens to keep them in line. Also, we support LGBTQ+ rights. Because we *can*.
Sister Golden Bear
@Feathers: I recently ran across an article by someone who went back and re-read “Beauty Myth” and found that Wolf’s paranoid streak showed up even then. It wasn’t just the patterns Wolf pointed out how about advertising, etc. reinforced/created societal stereotypes — Wolf perceived this as a deliberate effort by an unspecified them to do so in order to oppress women.
Kristine
@Kelly:
Rotating tag nom.
Kristine
@Geminid: I’ve seen hognose snakes do that, too. When they’re not playing dead.
Geminid
@Feathers: Perhaps in a few years Wolf will have the self-knowledge and humility to understand how she and other intellectuals can be lead astray by false pride and narcissism, and write a book titled, “The IQ Trap.”
Geminid
@Another Scott: Erick Adams’ statement was prompted by Representative Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement of Maya Wiley. Wiley was endorsed a couple weeks ago by Democratic Congressional Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn). Kind of interesting to see Jeffries and Ocasio-Cortez on the same page.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Another Scott: you mean sportstalkbarry’s cousin, don keedic?
i remember him dying of a marijuana overdose.
LiminalOwl
@Nora: https://youtu.be/ubWQHdHTLRI
sab
@satby: I am impressed that my local paper 1) covered it (if they even turned up I knew their reporting would be excellent), 2) also put it on the front page, although below the fold. I am also impressed 3) that they quoted the colonel’s whole speech verbatim.
Good day for the Akron Beacon Journal. Sucky day for our part of the state.
Mary G
@rikyrah: That’s the America I love.
Anne Laurie
Remember TFG defending his lord & paymaster, Putin: What, you think we’re so great? Like America’s never done anything wrong?
Mary G
This is a huge fucking Biden deal, if it goes through:
Finance Leaders Reach Global Tax Deal Aimed at Ending Profit Shifting
The Group of 7 nations agreed to back a new global minimum tax rate that companies would have to pay regardless of where they are based.
From the FTFNYT, so I just copied the heads.