Trump and Pence vs. Free Markets, Jury Deadlocks in Walter Scott Shooting Case, Cops Won't Investigate Post-It-Note 'Hate Crime': P.M. Links

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  Jurors are currently deadlocked over whether to find a South Carolina cop guilty of murdering Walter Scott. A single hold-out juror is refusing to consider a guilty verdict, according to reports.

• So the police don't think that "suck it up, pussies" post-it-note is a hate crime, after all.
• Paul Krugman predicts that Donald Trump will betray the white working class voters who gave him so much support, which could be the first accurate prediction he has ever made.
• Trump and Mike Pence aren't so keen on the free market.
• Members of the Clinton and Trump campaign staffs insulted each other during an election post mortem at Harvard University.
• The new Legend of Zelda trailer looks amazing.
• Have you donated to Reason yet? I will be doing a Twitter "Ask Me Anything" on Monday afternoon to promote Reason's annual webathon.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The new Legend of Zelda trailer looks amazing.

Legendary?

[Brett L]

But is Link's (or whoever's) hair better than Robby's?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Robby has a magic mirror that he asks every morning "Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who has the fairest hair of them all?". He's got the huntsman ready to cut out the heart of anyone who dares to have finer hair than he, but the mirror's never wavered, Robby's hair is always the fairest.

[Acosmist]

The mirror takes you back to the Light World from the Dark World. Nub.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Well, that's a great looking picture of Zelda with the article for sure.

::runs and hides::

[esteve7]

mistaken hero identity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZK509PQuEg

[C. Anacreon]

That doesn't look anything like Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[rts]

In further TDS news:

Fears of Trump prompt Internet Archive to make mirror site in Canada

The Internet Archive, a U.S. non-profit that has been archiving the internet for the last two decades, wants to make a duplicate copy of its vast digital library on computer servers in Canada.

It says it fears what Donald Trump could do to internet freedom, once he becomes the president of the United States.

[Injun, as in from India]

With all this pants-sh1tting, I should have bought stock in diaper manufacturers.

[Tonio]

^This. While not so much actual diapers, there has to be a way to profit from the anxiety of these people. And they love them some non-western anything, so Injun you are uniquely positioned.

[Injun, as in from India]

Brilliant idea, Tonio!

Time to start a post-election Trump-era stress-busting yoga studio/spa.

[RBS]

busting yoga studio/spa

I read that as "busty yoga studio/spa...

[bacon-magic]

Get them hip to the meaning of the 2nd amendment. (I really don't think that's a good idea)

[Injun, as in from India]

Their hypocrisy is incredible.

When Obama droned a 16-year old kid, how many of these people built underground bunkers because Obama was going to drone them?

[Hyperion]

Oh come on now, Obama droned that 16 year old for the right reasons. Trump would do it for the wrong reasons.

[Cy]

It's like the 'N' word, only people you deem allowed to use it are cool, everyone else is just a horrible person.

[Pro Libertate]

Diaper futures.

[tarran]

What's hilarious is that in Canada, there is no freedom of speech, and they have laws that would allow them to censor "hate speech" that the web archive archives.

I guess redundancy is good.

[rts]

The ironing is delicious.

[John Titor]

Nope, one of the few good things the Tories did was kill that part of Section 13.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Monster!

[tarran]

I thought the liberals were bringing it back to prevent people saying mean things regarding Prime Minister Zoolander's biological father?

[John Titor]

Not that I'm aware of, they're riding the anti-discrimination bills for transgenders wave right now.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Canada found its own birth certificate scandal.

[John Titor]

You have to admit it would be the funniest thing ever if Zoolander was Castro's bastard. I mean, I'd probably laugh for a week straight, and his career would be over. It'd be fantastic.

[Rufus The Monocled]

It would be fitting and INCREDIBLE.

I wonder if anyone is demanding a paternity test.

[OneOut]

"I wonder if anyone is demanding a paternity test."

Bill Clinton's son ?

[Pro Libertate]

But they could change their minds. That was an advantage when the U.S. had a written Constitution.

[Playa Manhattan.]

What are they going to do when Donald Trump shuts down the internet and invades Canada?

Idiots. Always two steps behind.

[Agammamon]

They should be less afraid of what Trump *can* do and more afraid of what Obama *has already done* - turn the internet over to the UN.

[The Elite Elite]

Exactly what I was thinking. Obama already destroyed internet freedom. What the hell can Trump do to make it worse?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Members of the Clinton and Trump campaign staffs insulted each other during an election post mortem at Harvard University.

At least they were invited. Couldn't Jill get in on that?

[Flakfizer is Ballet, Jr.]

What, did you already forget about GayJay?

[bacon-magic]

No one forgot his VP pick.

[Fist of Etiquette]

How would he be there? You know he can't find things on a map.

[Injun, as in from India]

Ouch.

You're an arsonist today, FoE.

[Jerry on the sea]

Whats'a Harvard?

[C. Anacreon]

It'sa the first part of that song, you know, Harvard Nagila.

[Flakfizer is Ballet, Jr.]

I will be doing a Twitter "Ask Me Anything" on Monday afternoon to promote Reason's annual webathon.

Yeah, that's gonna go real well.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I assume the topic will be collegiate in nature.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Sure. Sure it will.

[Brett L]

"What do you feed your hair?"

[Zero Sum Game]

Bedpans filled with french fries lead to a totally different hairstyle. It is known.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Uh oh.

[Mr Drew]

i'm not sure i dare witness that

[rts]

Venezuela's currency value depends largely on one guy at an Alabama Home Depot

His name is Gustavo D?az, and his website, DolarToday, has become a handy financial tool for Venezuelans trying to navigate the underground economy ? so handy, in fact, that it affects the price of just about everything in Venezuela.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Isn't that how we set our interest rates here too?

[commodious got a stew going]

Glad I refreshed, I was about to post that story.

Making an enemy of Nicolas Maduro means you're doing something right.

[Aloysious]

+1 Gustavo.

[Michael]

That dude is awesome, but I take umbrage with how the article claims that his website is in any way influencing prices like he's some kind of wizard. All he is doing is reporting the prices set by the market and thus giving Venezuelan authorities the vapors in the process. However, seeing that the source here is PRI, my guess is that their understanding of currency market value is right in league with Maduro's understanding of it.

[sesuncedu]

You are correct that the site cannot set exchange rates. but that does not mean that it doesn't affect prices.
The website does influence the exchange rate in that it is the trusted source for the shadow exchange rate.

By reducing variation in prices between dealers, and giving better information to all market participants, it lowers transaction costs and improves shadow market efficiency.

[sesuncedu]

You are correct that the site cannot set exchange rates. but that does not mean that it doesn't affect prices.
The website does influence the exchange rate in that it is the trusted source for the shadow exchange rate.

By reducing variation in prices between dealers, and giving better information to all market participants, it lowers transaction costs and improves shadow market efficiency.

[Michael S. Langston]

Agreed. It's like most odds makers following a few trusted ones. The site is now an "expert" & thanks to the great socialist experiment, it's the only one, which effectively makes them the only trusted odds maker which many others simply follow.

[Tyler.C]

Very good point.

[Injun, as in from India]

Jurors are currently deadlocked over whether to find a South Carolina cop guilty of murdering Walter Scott. A single hold-out juror is refusing to consider a guilty verdict, according to reports.

Solution? Shoot that holdout juror and plant a gun by his/her body.

/sarc

[rts]

Let the name of MosesAdolfo Mu?oz Alonso be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of EgyptSpain:

Spain is getting rid of streets named after fascist leaders, dedicating them to women instead

[Aloysious]

Eva Braun?

[bacon-magic]

Bloody Mary?

[I can't even]

Still fighting that civil war. The commies lost the shooting war but won the peace.

[Free Society]

Like pretty much everywhere else. A wound that might take centuries to heal.

[Tyler.C]

Its hard to lament that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So the police don't think that "suck it up, pussies" post-it-note is a hate crime, after all.

How long to make that determination?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Well, first they had to research whether the person had a dog they could shoot. Then they had to see if the person had a gun permit, so they'd be able to do a SWAT raid. Then they looked up the guy's bank accounts to see if there was anything they could seize. Once they figured they wouldn't be able to have any fun, they decided on no charges.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Overtime on a weekend.

[some guy]

Uh, it was also First Sunday of Advent, which is a Holiday, so that's an extra time and a half, right?

[RBS]

Was a cop posting the notes?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

So the police don't think that "suck it up, pussies" post-it-note is a hate crime, after all.

They said, "That's just locker room talk."

[Injun, as in from India]

Members of the Clinton and Trump campaign staffs insulted each other during an election post mortem at Harvard University.

In other words, US politics has devolved to chimpanzees flinging sh1t at each other.

[bacon-magic]

That is politics throughout history.

[Brett L]

I mean, if someone publicly accused me of promoting white supremacy, I would have been less kind than Trump's advisors. I think I would have gone full Bill Buckley.

[Flakfizer is Ballet, Jr.]

+1 "...and you'll stay plastered."

[Florida Hipster]

I don't know why Buckley regretted that. Gore Vidal had that one a comin'.

[RBS]

I heard a few clips this morning on my way to work. Everyone was trying to talk over everyone. I don't think either group came off as particularly mature.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Paul Krugman predicts that Donald Trump will betray the white working class voters who gave him so much support...

Well, Trump is basically a Democrat.

[Injun, as in from India]

Ouch.

[Fist of Etiquette]

My truth bombs always find their mark.

[Tonio]

Your child-support payments must be astronomical.

[Playa Manhattan.]

He's shooting blanks.

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

So krugman was calling them a bunch of ignorant racists and now is concerned they will be betrayed?

Also this confirms trump be great for the working class due to his prediction which always turn out wrong

[Injun, as in from India]

Paul Krugman predicts that Donald Trump will betray the white working class voters who gave him so much support, which could be the first accurate prediction he has ever made.

Why is Krugman so concerned about the deplorables?

[Playa Manhattan.]

He's not. It's just a tantrum.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

It keeps him up at night!

[Zero Sum Game]

Honestly, I'm amazed that anyone still listens to Krugman about anything at all. That Swedish Bankers' Prize has given him about all the authority it can lend, hasn't it?

[Mad Scientist]

He says the right things, so the echo chamber loves him.

[Injun, as in from India]

That Swedish Bankers' Prize has given him about all the authority it can lend, hasn't it?

Totally.

Another recipient got that prize and started drone bombing lots of people to prove it.

[Zero Sum Game]

On a lark, I searched for that phrase. Google may well be becoming sentient, as it knew exactly what I was referring to. Who taught Google satire, or did it just develop a sense of humor on its own?

[Tyler.C]

It learned it from us...

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Has this made it into the discussion yet?

Dispatches from the Alternate Reality Where Hillary Clinton Won the Election
MARIN COGAN (contributing editor, New York magazine, but this piece was prepared for Vox.com)
And yet: Hillary Clinton's victory is historic--a triumph that should not be overlooked. It marks the end of centuries of exclusion of women from the nation's top job. Even more remarkable was the way she won it: by running as a woman, who championed policies aimed at women, against an avatar of reactionary sexism. She won under politically tainted investigation, in spite of plenty of legitimate criticism, and in the face of an incredible amount of sexism. In voting for her, Americans rejected Donald Trump's old, macho vision of leadership and embraced a new paradigm, one that values not only a new style of leadership but also a policy outlook that prioritizes women and children.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Original Newsweek article

[Injun, as in from India]

Flash Poll: What did the author take?

1) LSD
2) Psilocibin
3) Other

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

Estrogen.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Licked a toad?

[rts]

I'm not not licking toads.

[Injun, as in from India]

And the toad turned into a handsome prince Madam President?

[Playa Manhattan.]

She took a giant hit of drug called echo chamber. There has been an alarming increase in use lately.

[some guy]

Obviously she was reading a lot of those newfangled fake news articles too.

[John Titor]

Judge Trump: Inhabitants of America, this is Trump. In case you have forgotten, this country operates on the same rules as before. Clinton is not the law, I AM THE LAW. Clinton is a common criminal, guilty of murder, guilty of the manufacture of the drug called Echo Chamber, and as of now, under sentence of death.

[bacon-magic]

Obamacillin.
Progressotin.

[Suell]

I want a new drug.

[bacon-magic]

One that won't make you sick?

[Suell]

The only drug I am aware of that could do anything close to that is burundanga. It's gotta be Devil's Breath.

[Rich]

Jenkem.

[Injun, as in from India]

LOL. I had to look that up. It's 100% appropriate.

[Mongo]

Scraped skin off of the skull.
Placed shoe polish on the raw patch.
Tightly wrapped a bandana on the head to maximize absorbency.
(Like I'm sure what they do in Russia).

[gaoxiaen]

Datura

[C. Anacreon]

And again, somehow, women are superior to men and have been 'excluded' from the top job despite this -- but of course, we need to remember that we should lump 'women and children' together as delicate flowers needing the most of our attention.

How do these people continue to see women as invincible and yet needy and helpless in the same paragraph?

The fact that a majority of white women voted for Trump is driving these assholes completely off the deep end.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Hey, where are the white women at?

[VG Zaytsev]

At Trump's rally.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

Paul Krugman predicts that Donald Trump will betray the white working class voters who gave him so much support, which could be the first accurate prediction he has ever made.

-Deportations
-Prosecuting Hillary
-Obamacare
-Fence vs Wall
-Wall St.

Hell, this weather vane hasn't even been sworn in and he's already signaled he's going to fuck his supporters on most of the issues that got him elected.

At least Obama kept his mouth shut until he got into office (whereupon he proceeded to fuck his supporters).

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

Uh he still is planning to do all those things except the hillary thing

What was his wall street thing?

[SimonD]

To be fair, President Obama wasn't fucking his supporters as much as he was fucking everyone except his crony financiers. His supporters were just in the line of fire.

[Crusty Juggler]

Have you donated to Reason yet? I will be doing a Twitter "Ask Me Anything" on Monday afternoon to promote Reason's annual webathon.

Who is Spain?
Why is Hitler?
When is right?

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

Is college still exist?

[Flakfizer is Ballet, Jr.]

Does Bruno Mars is gay?

h/t Heroic Mulatto

[GILMORE?]

""Define "Okay" ""

[Rich]

So the police don't think that "suck it up, pussies" post-it-note is a hate crime, after all.

But *that* is a hate crime, right? RIGHT?!

[Hamster of Doom]

Systemic racism. That sound you hear is a thousand thesis papers being printed.

[Rich]

Think of the JOBS!

[Aloysious]

I will be doing a Twitter "Ask Me Anything" on Monday afternoon to promote Reason's annual webathon.

Will you shave your head for munny?

[Tonio]

Locks for Love. You grow your hair out and they cut it off and use it to make wigs for cancer patients. Wonder what Robbo's tipping point would be?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

So the police don't think that "suck it up, pussies" post-it-note is a hate crime, after all.

Safe space puppies hardest hit.

[esteve7]

Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time are still the best Zelda games, hands down

[AceDroman]

+1 OoT best ever

[BestUsedCarSales]

Link's Awakening and Majora's Mask are both better than those two, son.

Also, the best Zelda game ever is Alundra.

[Crusty Juggler]

Professor Watchlist website elicits both fear and ridicule in US universities

The website first appeared on 21 November and includes 200 professors from across American universities. Professors are added to the list for a range of perceived offenses, that are sourced from media articles. The site also accepts tips from the public. Professor profiles include a picture of each academic and a description of why they have been added.

Joe Kuilema, a professor of Social Work at Calvin College, was added to the list for an article he wrote in the student newspaper responding to an incident in which a swastika was drawn on the snow on a car. Kuilema's piece discussed correlations between white privilege and white supremacy. The piece was picked up by conservative sites such as the Daily Caller and Info Wars.

"I am an associate professor at a small Christian liberal arts school in the midwest United States, I don't consider myself particularly dangerous," he said. However, Kuilema said that this is not a new phenomena and there's been a long history in the US of social workers who speak up being labeled as "dangerous".

[Rufus The Monocled]

"I don't consider myself particularly dangerous"

Particularly?

[jesse.in.mb]

Mostly harmless.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I assumed that the website was for professors who aren't liberal enough.

Now I understand the outrage.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

You today, me at some future date.

[C. Anacreon]

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

I've worked with scores of social workers.
None of them could frighten crippled old me with any thoughts of violence, the weaklings.

Keep dreaming that people in your 'profession' are thought of as dangerous, "Professor of Social Work".

[Rufus The Monocled]

"Paul Krugman predicts that Donald Trump will betray the white working class voters who gave him so much support, which could be the first accurate prediction he has ever made."

Get a load of Edgar Cayce over there.

[Rich]

Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98

NOOOOOO!!!

[Playa Manhattan.]

Buy this and support Reason!

Seriously, Minor's is the gold standard, but they don't sell in consumer sizes.

[B.P.]

Yeah, I could tar a roof with 83 ounces of General Tso's sauce.

[John Titor]

General Tso, you were a bloodthirsty warlord, but your chicken is delicious.

[I can't even]

His victims truly did not die in vain.

[Libertarian]

First the inventor of the Big Mac, now this. Who's next, Colonel Sanders?

[C. Anacreon]

My money's on Wendy's dad.

[Brett L]

You guys are assholes.

[BestUsedCarSales]

If Norm MacDonald dies, then I will finally be convinced that 2016 was a horrible year.

[Cy]

THIS, is truly a national tragedy! Rest in peace you beautiful man!

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Opinions of the 4 day CW "Invasion!" crossover?

[Brett L]

Wut?

[Fist of Etiquette]

You're actually counting Supergirl as one of those days?

[bacon-magic]

You are not linking a Roosh blog? Trump is the 7th sign of Armageddon. *continues digging bunker

[C. Anacreon]

Opinions of the 4 day CW "Invasion!" crossover?

Does this have anything to do with when you used to 'crossover' and comment here as a girl?

[Rich]

I will be doing a Twitter "Ask Me Anything" on Monday afternoon to promote Reason's annual webathon.

Q: *Anything*?

A: Yep. Now, cough it up.

[Crusty Juggler]

LBJ ordering pants.

If the words "nuts" and "bunghole" are NSFW, then it's not NSFW.

[Libertarian]

Leave it to a Democrat to think that his bunghole is different than everybody else's. Sheesh.

[jesse.in.mb]

The insanity of that makes my day every time. Much like this video of a desert rain frog vocalizing.

[VG Zaytsev]

Someone should make a transcript of that and send it to the media with as Trump ordering pants.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

I will be doing a Twitter "Ask Me Anything" on Monday afternoon to promote Reason's annual webathon.

If your hair fought Milo's, who would win?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Soave's never changes, whereas Yiannopoulos has a chameleon on his head. Soave's would never even know it was under attack until it was too late.

[bacon-magic]

Both of you are wrong, how can you fight yourself unless you're in Fight Club. Hmmmmm...

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

From The Spectator, another lesson in how to write good headlines:

How was a gay Islamist porn star able to penetrate Germany's intelligence agency?

Had he not plotted to blow up the country's intelligence HQ, a German Muslim with a gay porn star past would ordinarily be hailed as a great integration success story. But anti-climactically it seems that the whole thing carries few lessons for the integration industry. The retired porn-star jihadi is not only a convert to Islam but also of Spanish descent, and thus cannot present a viable integration strategy for all the young African and Middle Eastern males who Angela Merkel has chosen to make up the next generation of Germans.

[Injun, as in from India]

How was a gay Islamist porn star able to penetrate Germany's intelligence agency?

Angela Merkel provided the vaseline?

[PBR Streetgang]

Star of such films as "The Suspicious Package"

[Fist of Etiquette]

YOU SEEM TO KNOW AN AWFUL LOT ABOUT GERMAN GAY PORN MOVIES.

[jesse.in.mb]

Hey! That's traditionally my area of expertise.

*breaks PBR Streetgang's knees with muddy steel-toed boots*

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Maybe you all are ISIS spies, too!"

[jesse.in.mb]

Probably best to assume so.

[jesse.in.mb]

Has anyone released his gay porn name yet? I hate it when news sources try to be classy.

[C. Anacreon]

Herman die Schei?e

[Pro Libertate]

Chad N. Freude.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Isn't the guy in his late 40's or 50-something? How long ago was he doing porn?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Can someone PLEASE point to me who exactly in politics gives a shit about the working class?

I see a whole lot of words and yapping but not much else.

[Rich]

Ahem. It's working *families*, Rufus.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Working stiffs, families, class, whatever.

[Ted S.]

The Working Families party doesn't seem to give a shit about me.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Yea, let's fight against "fake news".

A POEM COMPOSED ENTIRELY FROM EMAILS SENT BY HILLARY CLINTON

[Rich]

Beautiful.

[OneOut]

I read that in the cadence of Green Eggs and Ham without prior thought.

[ant1sthenes]

Don't blame me, I voted for SMOD.

[Zero Sum Game]

Anyone who shortens "please" to "pls" deserves every bad thing that comes to them.

[The Last American Hero]

Oh pls, give me a break.

[C. Anacreon]

You ppl, I swear.

[Dick N. Bimbose (n?e Cooper)]

Prolly instead of probably is THE WORST EVER.

[BakedPenguin]

I couldn't get past this:

"Pls call the house."
"Would you pls call my berry
So I know the ringer works?"

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

I will be doing a Twitter "Ask Me Anything" on Monday afternoon to promote Reason's annual webathon.

What did you do in the great skeltal war, Robby?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Fight on the fuccboi side, obviously.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

That goes without saying. I was curious what, if anything, he did.

[Hyperion]

"So the police don't think that "suck it up, pussies" post-it-note is a hate crime, after all"

How far America has fallen. From a country who took on and defeated the most powerful military power in the world with a band of rag tag volunteers, to a bunch of quivering pussies who are afraid of a fucking post-it-note.

[Rich]

Oh, I basically agree, H.

But I can't think of this as "afraid" -- it's something much more perverse.

[esteve7]

I'm pretty sure many were not volunteers

[Hyperion]

They also were not life long trained military people right before they were forced.

[Dick N. Bimbose (n?e Cooper)]

Revolutionary War, dude.

[Libertarian]

A slice from Taki's column on post election histrionics:

One memory I shall never forget is my piano teacher hiding underneath the instrument she was teaching while an air raid was going on during World War II. So my brother and I went to the garden and played. British and German kids went to school every day and the only time they did not attend classes was when the school had been blown up. Not to mention the poor Japanese kids who were boiled alive daily in their wooden schoolhouses by Curtis LeMay's B-29s. Seventy years later American kids do not go to school because 60 million of their fellow citizens did not vote the way the little dears wanted them to and that upsets them greatly. Would you say the Western race is improving?

http://takimag.com/article/cry.....z4RUvCapDZ

[ant1sthenes]

Unless we're talking about college students, who are already failures if they are "kids" considering how many people in the referenced generation were working and starting families before 20, that's a load of bull. If actual kids are not attending classes, it's because too many teachers are unaccountable political extremists.

[Zero Sum Game]

quivering pussies

That's my fetish! (Click only if you would also click Crusty links).

[Hyperion]

The 'quivering' feature will be available in my Fembot model 2017d, pre-order today, supplies are limited!

[Cy]

They're not afraid, it's something much more sinister. They see their 'right' to be offended as a form of power over others.

[Hamster of Doom]

The V. Secret Diaries of Rico Suave

Day 2

KM-W has really been killing it lately with the fundraiser. She stalks through the office saying something about "all shall love me and despair". I dunno, her generation really did the whole affirmation thing. Nick Gillespie still not the king.

People are starting to offer me hair product on the subway. I see no problem with this.

Fisher seemed to work well with Kennedy the other night. Welch will kill him if he tries anything.

Still the prettiest.

[John Titor]

Rico WISHES he was the prettiest. ENB best waifu.

[Tonio]

Bravo! [applauds]

[Homple]

I like this, especially the offer of hair care products on the subway.

More, please.

[John Titor]

Good news, Protomen fans!

Your favourite 80s Objectivist Megaman Rock Opera has a short film coming out sometime soon.

[RAHeinlein]

Et tu Iowans....

http://www.breitbart.com/milo/.....waive-fee/

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Members of the Clinton and Trump campaign staffs insulted each other during an election post mortem at Harvard University.

God that must have been glorious.

[Mad Scientist]

I think you meant "tedious."

[Suell]

"I will be doing a Twitter "Ask Me Anything" on Monday afternoon to promote Reason's annual webathon."

Robby, you spend a fair amount of time on college campuses. Them college bitches still be eatin' dick like eggs and steak?

[GILMORE?]

EPA = Insists New Rules Are Necessary To Protect The Public In Case They Fuck Up Again

[Agammamon]

Paul Krugman predicts that Donald Trump will betray the white working class voters who gave him so much support, which could be the first accurate prediction he has ever made.

That's not a prediction - Trump's whole campaign has been on how he's going to screw over the working class (whatever their skin color). What do you think trade barriers, tariffs, etc *do*?

Its just that people do not understand what should be middle-school level economics.

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

Seeing his track record of predictions i suspect trump will be a great president

[Calidissident]

I can't understand how the hell the shooter in the Scott trial might get off. Blatant, clearcut murder. But I suppose this comment from the linked article provides an insight into the sort of mind who thinks he's not guilty.

"The BLACK has TEN ARRESTS...and is stopped for having a non-functioning tail-light...(a LEGITIMATE stop).

* Rather then co-operating with the police officer, he GET'S OUT OF HIS CAR and attempts to LEE.
* When the officer catches up to him (Scott), there is a PHYSICAL ALTERCATION.

* Scott is shot.

Bottom line...don't be a "career criminal". If ever stopped by a cop for a traffic violation...CO-OPERATE...DON'T try to run away...and certainly DON'T physically assault the police.

As far as I'm concerned...this is just another JUSTIFIABLE shooting."

[RBS]

The all caps really tie it all together.

[AlmightyJB]

[HERC] would do better

[Juvenile Bluster]

Attempting to lee is truly dangerous. Totality of the circs. Good shoot. h2h.

::flexes, goes surfing::

[GILMORE?]

This sounds like the intellectual-giant who was insisting to ENB yesterday that police arrests of people just 'standing around' were perfectly reasonable 'considering their history'....

...or the tulpa-sock demanding "Proof" that marijuana wasn't ever dangerous when it was unregulated. Somehow the lack of a single death (or even significant illness) attributed to it over millions of users over decades failed to register.

[chemjeff]

"This sounds like the intellectual-giant who was insisting to ENB yesterday that police arrests of people just 'standing around' were perfectly reasonable 'considering their history'...."

You would be disappointed to learn how many people don't understand the connection between loitering laws and the First Amendment.

[Agammamon]

Members of the Clinton and Trump campaign staffs insulted each other during an election post mortem at Harvard University.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2EQvdzmY

Appropriate?

[jack sprat]

I have a question for Monday: Who would win in a confrontation- Sugar Free's Trump hair or Robby's hair?

[RBS]

Hilary's...whatever.

[RBS]

Hilary's...whatever.

[Rufus The Monocled]

You have to ask?

[AlmightyJB]

Hitler

[GILMORE?]

Sort of an interesting story which has been going on all year, but not-much-covered due to election... Roughly summed up as,

"A Series of Exposes of Corruption In How Foreign Students Access US Universities"

Ranging from the 'ACT Testing-Fraud'
...

to the more recent "New Oriental Investigation"

it all just amounts to so much "pay to play", where these intermediary organizations collect a vig for placing (*what i assume are mostly Chinese) foreign students in US colleges. Everyone involved gets a bite. None of it is surprising, but its interesting how 'institutionalized' the processes became.

[Homple]

If it's profitable it eventually gets institutionalized to some degree.

[GILMORE?]

sure, but the interesting thing here is to *what* degree. Basically 100s of colleges, and most of the major testing firms, the AIRC, etc.

I was just pointing out that Reuters has done a long 8-part investigative report (2 entries linked above) on this over the past year, but none seem to have either made the front pages of newspapers, or ever showed up @Reason at all.

There was a similar investigative thing they did earlier in the year about the industry built up around "hustling chinese gamblers in Vegas", but this is more interesting because its more widespread and more 'normalized'.

[Homple]

Good point about "normalized". That goes quite a way beyond "institutionalized".

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

On a side note, I was listening to a story on the local NPR station of an undocumented student at the University of Washington.

Not explored in the story: He had health insurance. He was a law student at the University of Washington. He had a government job. He had a prescription for Xanex for the anxiety of being an undocumented immigrant, darting around in the underbelly of society in the Era of Trump.

I have to agree, I'm not sure I like how we're treating our undocumented workers.

[The Last American Hero]

How did the government hire him with no SSN or proper paperwork. Where was the I-9?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I have no idea. It was a strange interview. There was all this wealth the guy had access to, and he was undocumented. I totally understood that wasn't the point of the story, but in the process of talking about what his life was like, he kept rattling off all of these facts that to me were like elephants in the livingroom.

What I seriously suspect? He had a fake ID.

[Cy]

Usually, they just 'buy' one and use it.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

This story?

[OneOut]

I'm curious as to how many of these Chinese students flunked out after admission ?

How many flunked out compared to affirmative actions admissions ?

Is there any difference between these admissions and affirmative admission students ?

They both crawled in under the wire while many students of tax paying American families were denied entrance because of this program and others like it.

[AlmightyJB]

Post it: You like Nickelback.

[Libertarian]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/30/.....-dui-trnd/

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

What is Nickelback and what does everyone hate them?

[Hyperion]

There was just a new article. I tried to post a pretty lengthy post there and guess what? 404 error. Nice.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Save early and often.

[AlmightyJB]

When it used to be real bad, I would use WordPad and then copy/paste.

[Crusty Juggler]

Former Special Forces officer: Gen. 'Mad Dog' Mattis left 'my men to die'

According to witness accounts in the book, Mattis reportedly questioned why a rescue mission was needed and worried about whether the situation on the ground was secure.

Later, when a special forces Sergeant, David Lee, protested his decision, Mattis threw him out of his office, Blehm wrote.

In this case, another military unit had to act because Mattis did not, Blehm said.

"The Air Force Special Operations Command had the same exact information as Mattis. They launched immediately," he said.

Blehm spent three years researching the book, including a long interview with Karzai, he told NBC News.

He interviewed six of the surviving eleven Green Berets involved in the operation.

"Every one of them said, when they were this mass casualty situation, either wounded tending to the wounded of their buddies, every one of them were thinking, where in the hell are the Marines?"

[Brett L]

"Every one of them said, when they were this mass casualty situation, either wounded tending to the wounded of their buddies, every one of them were thinking, where in the hell are the Marines?"

Hoping not to get bombed by the same "friendly" fire incident?

[John Titor]

Also holy shit, Ron Bailey is still going on about the 'CURE AGING BEFORE I DIE' thing again? Jesus Christ, it's like a transhumanist version of the Jehovah Witnesses.

[Brett L]

Curing aging after you die is ironic, huh?

[Zero Sum Game]

Like rain on your wedding day.

[jesse.in.mb]

Not "A death-row pardon, two minutes too late"?

[ant1sthenes]

That would be a little on the nose, don't you think?

[Homple]

This wish for life extension through technology has been around a long time.

A French nobleman upon seeing the, Montgolfiere Brothers' first ballon flight, began weeping and said, "In a hundred years they will learn how to live forever and we will all be dead."

[DenverJ]

Benjamin Franklin wanted to be pickled so that future generations could revive him after they have conquered death. I think this time might be different. I'm at least confident that radical life extension technology is coming soon. Won't help you if you get hit by a bus, but you know, I'll take it.

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

Anyone think lefties are starting to get scared trump may be a fair to great potus?

What i think helps him is he really has no bar to clear expectation wise whereas obama was seen as a chocolate jesus coming to bring heaven on earth

If trump is slightly better than hitler he will be seen as a success

[chemjeff]

"Anyone think lefties are starting to get scared trump may be a fair to great potus?"

No.

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

There are legitimate reasons to dislike him like his policy on trade or infrastructure for example

But yet they are out trying to convince people he is the next hitler. When he doesnt become hitler, then what can they hit him on? People will just stop taking the rhetoric seriously

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

Imo where you start as a baseline matters in people's minds and go from there

He has such a terrible rep there is no where else to go but up

[A Thinking Mind]

The solution is simple. Declare victory and walk away. Ignore the facts, blow up about some minor thing, and continue repeating it until it's enshrined in history. In five years they'll be saying, "See, he really WAS Hitler, and we told you about it all along!"

Remember that for most of the country, Ronald Reagan hated gay people so much that he was happy about the growing AIDS epidemic, even though the story about him "ignoring the issue" is a complete fabrication. It's such a wide-spread fabrication that Clinton's attempt to say something nice about Nancy after her death drove people into a frenzy.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Lay off the Apple Jacks, jack.

[ant1sthenes]

Oh, so you're boycotting Kellogg's now too?

Eh, probably for the best. Progs are natural cultural warriors, but everyone else should learn through pain to just stay out of it.

[The Last American Hero]

No, but I can't wait to call them out for utter hysteria in 3 years or so when things are more or less the same as today. I don't think the Donald will be a good or even effective President. But he is not Hitler and the pants-shitting must stop. Especially when 2/3 of the stuff causing the pants-shitting would have occurred under President Rubio.

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

I agree but im not talking about fair or good in your or mind but rather the electorate

He has such a low bar to clear to gain support and hysteria keeps lowering it for him

And now leftie tactic is to act like he has let down his supporters which is terrible when 3 weeks ago they were all deplorable and racist

[Tornado35235gsg35423ttg3gt3g3g]

Paul waldman, dana milbank, krugabe for example

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

The leftist's worst nightmare is that the Trump Presidency will be anything but a disaster.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Trump and Mike Pence aren't so keen on the free market.

But you know damn well that Democrats will still call it free market.

[DOOMco]

not until we have grocery store #3542 as our only outlet of shampoo #4 and "milk".

[AceDroman]

Ocarina of Time on N64 is the best video game ever. That is all.

[Acosmist]

Not even the best Zelda game.

Not even the better of the two Zelda games on that console.

[AceDroman]

"Donkey Kong sucks!"

[Crusty Juggler]

Yes. I don't think he's a bad choice at all. He seems to have the personality and leadership ability to enact positive change at the Pentagon.

[DenverJ]

Of course he's a bad choice, he only banned power point, he didn't lead a platoon of Marines into silicon valley and destroy the terrorist organization responsible for releasing PP onto the planet!
(Actually, I don't do that kind of meeting; I doubt I've ever seen a power point presentation in my life)

[Bubba Jones]

I am pretty sure I get paid by the PowerPoint slide.