Over the past year Bari Weiss has risen by several orders of magnitude in my estimation. She was on the Hoover Institute's Goodfellows podcast the other week and she came across quite confident and collected. She ever gets into foreign policy I might fall hopelessly in love.
I wish her Free Press read less like a collection of editorials and more like dry, desiccated, detached analysis but the coverage is varied and reads very well. I also have to concede if it did conform to my tastes it would probably have failed.
Anyway, she has earned every bit of recognition she has received and more besides.
ooh and also, the Colorado thing just lines up with the trend going around where people who make it their mandate to protect/defend/stand for an idea or set of folks end up being the threat to that vary thing. I can only imagine what team red's version of this looks like when it inevitably comes around.
I sometimes feel I am in an insane world where people I know insist Jan 6 was an “insurrection.” I feel I must be the crazy one to think “well, was it?”
Well it was an insurrection in the same way that some guy breaching the White House wall and running at the back door is an insurrection. After two minutes he gets tackled and carted away, insurrection over.
It was not an insurrection like in Benin where sone maverick colonel can put together a platoon with some tanks, surround the capital, and be dictator for life by day's end. In other words, one that had any chance of succeeding and ending democracy.
For me the insurrection is not just about the root and breeching the Capitol. It is the cumulative efforts such as replacing the electors with DJT’s and the consistent and direct pressure Pence was under to not accept the the ballots on J6. Breeching the Capitol was not the only measurement to create an insurrection. Another thing that sticks in my mind is - just because the riot at the Capitol didn’t succeed or wasn’t “violent enough” (?) in some people’s minds doesn’t mean it wasn’t an insurrection. Their intent was to disrupt or prevent certification of the ballots. But that’s just my opinion so...
Quite agree. It isn't about the violence, it is about the intent. It was an attempt to circumvent the established norms and institutions in a bid to retain power regardless of the cost or consequences. I would be inclined to believe that former President Trump was acting instinctually and almost certainly with a good faith certainty he had been robbed of a legitimate victory but that does not exculpate anything he did in pursuit of that belief. Especially since in the 2016 election upon hearing Clinton had gained greater popular support he immediately started alleging there had been fraud perpetrated then also. It is not evidence which animates him but hubris, nor is it justice he seeks but prestige. He is as far removed from Cincinnatus in spirit as he is separated by time.
As a native Coloradan, I'm just shaking my damn head again this week. It's important to note (for ME) that the justices in dissent earned their JDs from the University of Denver while those in the slim majority opinion are all East Coast law grads... Helps retain a small shred of CO dignity.
It's important to point out that this is only the latest assault on Democracy by my native state, however. In the November election, Prop HH failed 60/40. This was only the latest attempt by the government-needs-all-the-money-to-fix-all-the-problems contingent here to gut TABOR (Taxpayer Bill of Rights). Tabor is one of the best features of CO tax code as it keeps overall government spending in check by allocating any budget surplus directly back to the tax payers. The left, of course, hate this and always have. After the defeat of HH, the left-leaning majority in the legislature leveraged their power to pass a series of bills that closely replicate what HH was intended to do. I suppose we'll see if Democracy really does work by voting out those who enact laws that the majority don't want or approve of.
My gift to the boys this Christmas is the epic level of cope posted by Tim Pool today in response to the online influencer poll alleging he is unknown and untrusted by most Republicans.
Pool responded by feeling a hot rush of blood to his face, adjusting his beanie 3 or 4 times, and tweeting this banger:
“Your poll found 1 out of every 3 people knew me. That's fucking crazy. No wonder I get so many people trying to get selfies with.”
As far as assured violence that Matt was talking about: You can be certain the clock is running on someone getting panicked in their car and running people over. This kind of wide spread stupidity and collections of people who have never been hit before messing with people's day basically draws crazy people like a buglight as well. So seeing some "lone wolf" dude going bonkers on them in a lethal fashion seems very possible to me as well. Mabye I am wrong but I am fairly sure the guy that died was actually hit over the head with a megaphone, and then fell. so, I guess we started already?
Merry Christmas Matt, Happy Kwanzaa Kmele, and a joyful bartender appreciation day to Michael C. Moynihan!
I think it's Merry Christmas Matt, Happy Solstice Kmele, and a joyous Kwanzaa to Moynihan--time to feed the hostage in your basement!
If you’re left scratching your head about this one:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/31/kwanzaa-is-a-fake-holiday-invented-by-a-criminal-marxist/
https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-check-was-the-founder-of-kwanzaa/
River Page at Pirate Wires had a good piece on this, too.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/abolish-kwanzaa
Don't forget the they broke a menorah creating the first Kwanzaa candle holder thing
Over the past year Bari Weiss has risen by several orders of magnitude in my estimation. She was on the Hoover Institute's Goodfellows podcast the other week and she came across quite confident and collected. She ever gets into foreign policy I might fall hopelessly in love.
I wish her Free Press read less like a collection of editorials and more like dry, desiccated, detached analysis but the coverage is varied and reads very well. I also have to concede if it did conform to my tastes it would probably have failed.
Anyway, she has earned every bit of recognition she has received and more besides.
Moynihan, please develop a Jesse Singal impression, you would crush it.
LOL moment at the early attempt in this one! Haha!
GAY SEX! GAY SEX!
I don’t know why you guys find this so odd. This is what we chant when we’re in bed (or in the club, an airport bathroom stall, some bushes, etc.).
Is that . . . not what everyone does?
Benjy, there are only two sexes: “gay” isn’t one of them.
Jesse and Noam 💀
Jesse and Gnome. I hear Yale was there too!
Is that actually Eric Adams? Or Tracy Morgan (playing Tracy Jordan from 30 Rock)?
Joyeux noel, wondrous solstice, and feck off ya feckin bastard.
ooh and also, the Colorado thing just lines up with the trend going around where people who make it their mandate to protect/defend/stand for an idea or set of folks end up being the threat to that vary thing. I can only imagine what team red's version of this looks like when it inevitably comes around.
EDIT: Nvm, Matt is on it :D
It will be self defense, which is the number one crime that leftists want to prevent at any and all costs.
Nothing triggers the left like someone they view as a blasphemous subhuman, than that same despicable poor creature attempting to defend itself.
The key to doing a proper Jesse Singhal impression is to pretend the letter T does not exist
This is not wrong
Ive never noticed this, but now I will never not hear it
I sometimes feel I am in an insane world where people I know insist Jan 6 was an “insurrection.” I feel I must be the crazy one to think “well, was it?”
Well it was an insurrection in the same way that some guy breaching the White House wall and running at the back door is an insurrection. After two minutes he gets tackled and carted away, insurrection over.
It was not an insurrection like in Benin where sone maverick colonel can put together a platoon with some tanks, surround the capital, and be dictator for life by day's end. In other words, one that had any chance of succeeding and ending democracy.
For me the insurrection is not just about the root and breeching the Capitol. It is the cumulative efforts such as replacing the electors with DJT’s and the consistent and direct pressure Pence was under to not accept the the ballots on J6. Breeching the Capitol was not the only measurement to create an insurrection. Another thing that sticks in my mind is - just because the riot at the Capitol didn’t succeed or wasn’t “violent enough” (?) in some people’s minds doesn’t mean it wasn’t an insurrection. Their intent was to disrupt or prevent certification of the ballots. But that’s just my opinion so...
Quite agree. It isn't about the violence, it is about the intent. It was an attempt to circumvent the established norms and institutions in a bid to retain power regardless of the cost or consequences. I would be inclined to believe that former President Trump was acting instinctually and almost certainly with a good faith certainty he had been robbed of a legitimate victory but that does not exculpate anything he did in pursuit of that belief. Especially since in the 2016 election upon hearing Clinton had gained greater popular support he immediately started alleging there had been fraud perpetrated then also. It is not evidence which animates him but hubris, nor is it justice he seeks but prestige. He is as far removed from Cincinnatus in spirit as he is separated by time.
I love how Eric Adams just invokes 9/11 then says any other generic thing you could do literally anywhere.
As a native Coloradan, I'm just shaking my damn head again this week. It's important to note (for ME) that the justices in dissent earned their JDs from the University of Denver while those in the slim majority opinion are all East Coast law grads... Helps retain a small shred of CO dignity.
It's important to point out that this is only the latest assault on Democracy by my native state, however. In the November election, Prop HH failed 60/40. This was only the latest attempt by the government-needs-all-the-money-to-fix-all-the-problems contingent here to gut TABOR (Taxpayer Bill of Rights). Tabor is one of the best features of CO tax code as it keeps overall government spending in check by allocating any budget surplus directly back to the tax payers. The left, of course, hate this and always have. After the defeat of HH, the left-leaning majority in the legislature leveraged their power to pass a series of bills that closely replicate what HH was intended to do. I suppose we'll see if Democracy really does work by voting out those who enact laws that the majority don't want or approve of.
My gift to the boys this Christmas is the epic level of cope posted by Tim Pool today in response to the online influencer poll alleging he is unknown and untrusted by most Republicans.
Pool responded by feeling a hot rush of blood to his face, adjusting his beanie 3 or 4 times, and tweeting this banger:
“Your poll found 1 out of every 3 people knew me. That's fucking crazy. No wonder I get so many people trying to get selfies with.”
As far as assured violence that Matt was talking about: You can be certain the clock is running on someone getting panicked in their car and running people over. This kind of wide spread stupidity and collections of people who have never been hit before messing with people's day basically draws crazy people like a buglight as well. So seeing some "lone wolf" dude going bonkers on them in a lethal fashion seems very possible to me as well. Mabye I am wrong but I am fairly sure the guy that died was actually hit over the head with a megaphone, and then fell. so, I guess we started already?
No no, it's Merry Christmas Matt, Merry Yule Kemele, and Happy Festivus for the rest of us Moynihan.
Merry Christmas all of you magnificent bastards!
The Pogues - "Fairytale Of New York (Official Video)"
https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8?si=ZTVlS_pLEwS_q3DA
Listened to it twice today!