Trump Releases Law Enforcement Executive Orders, General Wants More Troops for Afghanistan, Have You Heard About Ivanka's Products Lately? P.M. Links

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  Richard B. Levine/Newscom

  President Donald Trump signed a trio of "law and order"-focused executive orders today after Jeff Sessions was sworn in as attorney general. They're mostly just declarations that Trump wants the feds to be more active in fighting transnational drug rings, protecting the police, and enforcing federal law. But he also wants federal law enforcement to play a larger role in helping local police crack down on crime and calls for a possible new federal law to punish those who target law enforcement for violence.

• Trump's first real test on whether he actually wants to restrain military involvement overseas might have just arrived. The commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan told a Senate panel today he needs more boots on the ground—thousands of them.
• Meanwhile, everybody is up in arms today over White House spokesperson Kellyanne Conway encouraging people to go buy Ivanka Trump's products at Nordstrom, which is likely a violation of federal ethics rules.
• If you're a veteran and all this White House drama is freaking you out, a clinical trial evaluating whether marijuana can help treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has officially started.
• Conservative farmers in central California voted for Trump thinking he was maybe exaggerating how serious a crackdown he was going to implement against illegal immigrants. Now they're worried that he was not and what that means for finding field workers.
• "Indiana Governor pardons wrongfully convicted man passed over by Mike Pence."

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[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Trump's first real test

He already passed it.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello!

[Rufus The Monocled]

!!!!

[Col. Chestbridge]

Five exclamation marks. The sure sign of an insane mind.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Danger 5 is also a sign. Keep it up. We want to know how it turns out.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Already wrote the finale. Will post it in the morning.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Sweet.

[Charles Easterly]

Already wrote the finale. Will post it in the morning.

Are you planning to re-post your previous "episodes" for those of us who missed any of them?

[Col. Chestbridge]

This morning's. Each part has a link to the previous part, sometimes as a comment because I've usually posted before I've had caffeine.

[Tonio]

Chesty, I'm enjoying your fiction.

[Rufus The Monocled]

!!!!

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

!

[Jerryskids]

?

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Trump's first real test

He already passed it.

[C. Anacreon]

But apparently B-M failed the first-poster no-squirrels test.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

That just means that I have the power of the squirrels. Recognize and despair! *blood-shot eyes light up

[C. Anacreon]

I always suspected you might be Squirrel Girl!

[C. Anacreon]

Theme song:

Squirrel Girl!
She's so tough!
Squirrel girl!
She's got a furry muff.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

That is not me, but I do have access to her now. *grabs furry pussy

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Wtf? I can't comment?

[Col. Chestbridge]

I suspect Fist tried a voodoo curse, to hinder his competitors.

Tried.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm boycotting until they fix commenting.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Boycotts finish last.

[Ted S.]

Looks like the server squirrels are fucked up again. 🙁

[Rufus The Monocled]

Ted, do you know where I can get a poster of this? I can't seem to track it down anywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arq-340mIUQ

[Col. Chestbridge]

I picked the wrong week to quit drinking post serialized HnR fiction.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Oh I can! Squirrelz, ATTACK! *sicks on all you Tulpas

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Crusty at work. Click my name to see visual evidence.

[BakedPenguin]

Low taxes and low regulation mean more beer.

[lafe.long]

Three times in one week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer alluded to a terror attack in Atlanta that never happened.

Spicer eventually admitted he misspoke; he appeared to be referring to the deadly Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando last June -- the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

It was yet another example of a high-profile Trump administration official making statements about a terror attack that never occurred.

[C. Anacreon]

Atlanta, Orlando -- both trisyllabic words beginning and ending in vowels, that's an easy enough to understand mistake.
Plus, they're both down there some place in the Southeast, both landlocked, both hot as Georgia asphalt, etc, etc.

This media TDS just goes really over the top on their attention to every single damn word someone from the administration says, don't they? Where were they when Obama said we have 57 states? Had Trump said that, it would be wall-to-wall coverage and interviews with smirking geography teachers for weeks.

[Basketball Uber Alles, Jr.]

Media, 2001-08: ALL OF THE PRESIDENT'S SO-CALLED GAFFES REVEAL THE INNER WORKINGS OF A DISEASED MIND

Media, 2009-16: This president is so well-spoken, isn't he? Never a botched word.

Media, 2017-??: ALL OF THE PRESIDENT'S SO-CALLED GAFFES REVEAL THE INNER WORKINGS OF A DISEASED MIND

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

+1 "Corpseman"

[Basketball Uber Alles, Jr.]

+1 Asthmatic children need breathalyzers

[XenoZooValentine]

It happened in Alternative Atlanta. Like, on Earth-2 or something.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Some good news for once.

Mike Pence hires CATO Institute's Mark Calabria as his chief economist

Vice President Mike Pence has hired Mark Calabria, a libertarian advocate of free markets, as his chief economist, according to a Pence spokesman.

Calabria was director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, where he was a prominent voice on financial and economic policy and an expert on mortgage and housing reform.

He gives President Donald Trump's White House "a voice around the table that will give them their philosophical true North," said Jim Parrott, a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama's National Economic Council.

Before joining Cato in 2009, Calabria worked for the Senate Banking Committee, where he handled housing, mortgage finance, economics, banking and insurance for then-ranking member Richard Shelby (R-Ala.).

[Juice]

Interesting.

[C. Anacreon]

The VP's economist, eh?
Now we can know the economic implications of a warm pitcher of spit.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

But he also wants federal law enforcement to play a larger role in helping local police crack down on crime and calls for a possible new federal law to punish those who target law enforcement for violence.

Ugh.

[We are all Sloopy's mom (RBS)]

new federal law to punish those who target law enforcement for violence.

Why? They are already subject to summary execution...

[Citizen X - #6]

For very large values of "violence."

[Juvenile Bluster]

Cops and campus liberals agree: Words are violence

[BakedPenguin]

15th most dangerous job in the US.

[Pro Libertate]

How many injuries/fatalities are from cops driving like bats out of hell?

[We are all Sloopy's mom (RBS)]

86%

[BakedPenguin]

Or 'friendly' fire from other cops who can't handle their weapons?

[Charles Easterly]

I had to go here , BP.

[lafe.long]

Exclusive - In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty

In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.

When Putin raised the possibility of extending the 2010 treaty, known as New START, Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was, these sources said.

[creech]

I'm actually impressed he stopped to find out what something was rather than pretend he knew all about it.

[Juice]

Who the fuck is prepping him for these meetings? No one?

[lafe.long]

Who the fuck is prepping him for these meetings? No one?

It talks about that in the link:

Trump did not receive a briefing from Russia experts with the NSC and intelligence agencies before the Putin call, two of the sources said. Reuters was unable to determine if Trump received a briefing from his national security adviser Michael Flynn.

[Conchfritters]

Omarosa

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

I still have not seen a single Apprentice show. Do you think they will be archived in the Presidential Library(or whatever the fuck the fancy smancy records place is called)

[We are all Sloopy's mom (RBS)]

You mean the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Casino?

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

*hands RBS a complimentary .05 cent casino token

[paranoid android]

I'm super-excited to hear from the Trumpalos about the shrewd, brilliant negotiating tactics at work here.

[The Last American Hero]

Wait, I thought Trump was just Putin's pawn. Now, we're going to war with Russia? Or does it just change every week.

Also, fucking amateur hour, Mr. Trump.

[TheZeitgeist]

Trump's first real test on whether he actually wants to restrain military involvement overseas might have just arrived. The commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan told a Senate panel today he needs more boots on the ground?thousands of them.

Another President, another surge. And the great cosmic dance goes on.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

The first irony is that, yes, in order to keep things from falling into a complete ISIS-like clusterfuck a la Iraq post-withdrawal, we probably do need more boots on the ground there to meet the mission demands of the current and previous administrations. The second irony is that no one is thinking to ask, "If we pull the fuck out of there, will it really hurt us that bad in the long run?"

[Square = Circle]

to keep things from falling into a complete ISIS-like clusterfuck

Afghanistan has been an ISIS-like clusterfuck for several centuries. Foreign meddling has only aggravated this throughout that period.

[TheZeitgeist]

Over sounds of a sandstorm's wind blowing dust clouds over hordes of dead people...

"Whoa, Afghanistan is a clusterfuck. But I can fix it!"

-Alexander the Great, ~337BC

[Slammer]

Alexander was no Mad Dog Mattis

[Raven Nation]

And the great cosmic dance goes on

Anyone want to trade seats?

[C. Anacreon]

Or trade dance partners?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Thought of the day: Progs who sing the words to 'Another brick in the wall' don't realize THEY ARE THE BRICKS IN THE WALL!

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

So true. You have/have been on acid to appreciate Pink Floyd.

[BigT]

By pointing this out they'll call you another prick in the wall.

[cavalier973]

Sounds painful

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

The Squirrels are mine! Fly, my pretties! Find me all the yokels so we can bash the fash! *wicked witch/Hinh laugh

[lafe.long]

Wikipedia bans editors from citing Daily Mail as source

Wikipedia editors voted Wednesday to bar The Daily Mail as a source of reference in its entries, saying that the news website was "generally unreliable."

The editors said the vote in favor of the ban stemmed from the website's "reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication."

Wikipedia is reportedly relying on volunteers to scour through 12,000 links to the Daily Mail already on the website and replace them with a different source.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Sarcasmic hardest hit.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Daily Mail is what makes him hard.

[John]

Except when they call Mellina Trump a whore. Then it is a reliable source.

[Col. Chestbridge]

I gave up on Wikipedia's accuracy for anything remotely political when they started treating Salon (or maybe HuffPo?) as a reliable source.

[Password: pode$ta]

There's always Infogalactic, although they probably treat Vox Day's blog as a reliable source.

[cavalier973]

Vox Popoli: no

Alphagame: sure, why not?

[Chipwooder]

They also have an entire category covering the invented word "Islamophobia". Fuck em.

[mr simple]

There apparently has been a large project by neo-keynesians/socialists to rewrite every article remotely related to economics that include citations of sarcastic blog post comments as sources and easily refutable "alternative facts." These people have to ruin everything.

[Slammer]

Wikipedia editors ...saying that the news website was "generally unreliable."

Is there a wikipedia article about pots and kettles?

[XenoZooValentine]

Wankypedia will never be a reliable source of anything but trivia, plagiarism, vandalism, edit wars, and lulz.

[Gadfly]

Funnily enough, there is.

[BakedPenguin]

Shackleford killing it w/ the alt-text again.

[lafe.long]

Rochdale grooming gang are facing deportation to Pakistan after immigration judges rejected their plea not to strip them of British citizenship

Four members of a child sex grooming gang are facing deportation to Pakistan after immigration judges rejected their appeals against their British citizenship being revoked.

Handing down the judgment, Mr Justice Bernard McCloskey, president of the Upper Tribunal, said the cases were 'of some notoriety', and described the men's crimes as 'shocking, brutal and repulsive'.

He dismissed five different grounds of appeal - including an argument advanced by three of the men that the Government had failed in a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of their children.

The ruling also dismissed a complaint of a 'disproportionate interference' with the men's rights as EU citizens and rejected claims concerning human rights laws.

Warning: Story is from Daily Mail - so probly unreliable.

[Citizen X - #6]

-1 Wikipedia citation

[Juice]

Grooming gang? Like a barbershop quartet?

[C. Anacreon]

You'd think good grooming would be important for kids who want to have sex. What's the problem?

It certainly seemed to be one of the topics when the school taught sex-ed to my son's fifth-grade class.

[Private Chipperbot]

Are they sending them back via howitzer?

[Pan Zagloba]

True fact - PM Zoolander finds stripping citizenship for any reason other than lying on the application disgusting and un-Canadian.

[lafe.long]

From the Outright Libertarians FB page:

Milo Y brings out the worst in people for his own amusement and then calls it free speech. It is damaging the libertarian brand by false association, it has the potential to set back GSM people by galvanizing queerphobic points of view, and it is beneath the dignity of a free and open society of equals.

Transcription of image:

Milo Yiannopoulos is a collectivist of the worst kind.

He wants to lump all these groups that he's decided he doesn't like together, rob them of their individuality, and vilify them for the benefit of those he views as collectively good.

[jesse.in.mb]

GSM

But what about CDMA people?

[Krabappel]

In a world of 4G, we're all CDMA people now...

[jesse.in.mb]

Wait, I thought LTE was the natural progression of GSM and that newer buildouts of CDMA networks (Sprint, Verizon and...nobody else) were switching over to GSM-style communications for the newer generation network protocols.

Also this is way outside my area of expertise and I only know what I know because I travel a bit and need a maximally compatible phone.

[Krabappel]

I dunno, I only spent 10 seconds googling it.

[Lee wishes he made the list...]

4G is a performance standard. LTE is a polite way of saying they haven't met the 4G performance standard yet so they call it something that sounds cool instead.

I used to design equipment for cell stations. Verizon and Sprint use CDMA, ATT and T-Mobile use GSM.

[jesse.in.mb]

LTE is a polite way of saying they haven't met the 4G performance standard yet so they call it something that sounds cool instead.

That's a fantastic tidbit of information. Thank you.

[lafe.long]

tbh, I kinda like the GSM thing instead of the word salad... but it'll never catch on.

[lafe.long]

GSM thing instead of the word salad alphabet soup

[jesse.in.mb]

A straight friend turned the campus Gay Straight Alliance from whatever the cumbersome acronym was to GLoW (Gay Lesbian or Whatever). She was ousted by the pod of lesbians the next year, who took over one corner of the party dorm (and managed to be the only people not to get the chlamydia going around that dorm that year) and they changed it back and made it boring enough that nobody attended the meetings ever again.

[John]

"pod of lesbians" and "party dorm" are two phrases that really don't go together.

[jesse.in.mb]

You sound like a man who doesn't watch much porn, John.

[John]

I don't. But I have seen a a fair amount of porn. I just don't believe it.

Think of it this way. Straight people occasionally go to gay clubs. Have you ever heard of straight people going to a lesbian club? I mean ever? And I don't mean chicks looking to get some feminist street creed. I mean actual straight people deciding "hey that lesbian bar down the street plays great music and is a really fun scene". I don't think any straight person or gay man has ever uttered such words. Hell, most lesbians probably haven't.

[jesse.in.mb]

I mean sure, but in this case "gay club" is usually shorthand for "club that primarily but not exclusively caters to gay men and lesbians". The shitty local gaybar in my town averaged out to about 50/50 on gay men and lesbians.

I accidentally ended up at a lesbian night at an otherwise gay (in the broad, not exclusively gay men sense) a few years back with a straight lady friend. It was a blast, but neither of us were interested in the go-go girls.

[John]

I stand corrected. Maybe some lesbians do know how to have a good time.

[jesse.in.mb]

Dinah Shore agrees wholeheartedly.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

It was a blast

Jesse, I imagine you bring the party wherever you go.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm so glad I opened that in an incognito window on my work computer.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Ha ha.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Jesse,
Did you click my name yet? It's in honor of our gay bar comments from yesterday and Crusty's roasting of me.

[jesse.in.mb]

That's both hysterical and disturbing.

[Krabappel]

I've been to lesbian nights at the bars and the music *was* actually better (we're talking mid 2000s).

[We are all Sloopy's mom (RBS)]

When you say "pod" I think of whales...

[John]

If you had seen many real life lesbians, rather than TV ones, you would understand why pod is the proper collective noun.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Hmmmm, story checks out.

[jesse.in.mb]

My friend group had an extensive "what is the collective noun for lesbians" discussion while drunk and we figured pod (more in the vein of dolphins than whales), and it stuck. We did not tell the tight knit group of lesbians that though.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Them ladies would've turned into a lynch mob real quick. Flannel and trucker wallets w/attached chains flailing everywhere. *hangs head in shame at stereotype

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

Wait a minute. Dolphins have been known to be rapey. Are you implying that lesbians can be rapey?
On a side note: what do you think they name the gay guy groups? How about the straights?

[Slammer]

what do you think they name the gay guy groups?

A bundle

[Slumbrew]

A fabulous of gays.

[jesse.in.mb]

No idea. My college friend group was predominantly straight men and women, so this wasn't an intra-orientation thing.

[Bacon-Magic et tu Crusty?]

I think the straight groups should be called the Cis-hetero Hegemony.

[Slumbrew]

Dude, we already have 'shitlords'.

[Pan Zagloba]

what do you think they name the gay guy groups?

A splendor?

[CatoTheChipper]

or hippos

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

GLoW (Gay Lesbian or Whatever)

Maybe they thought she was trying to rip off the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.

[John]

Can someone please translate this?

[Slammer]

Wahh waaah Milo is more popular than us waah waaah

[John]

Milo Y brings out the worst in people for his own amusement and then calls it free speech.

Nice to see these ass clowns have a good grasp of human agency.

[Juice]

I didn't think Milo claimed to be a libertarian.

[lafe.long]

Milo video from which I learned the term "Uncle Chang"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-VD2bgGeM

[Slammer]

Chicken tendies!

[lafe.long]

The Alaska Libertarian Party posted a nice Betsy DeVos meme:

Click for image

[Citizen X - #6]

Nice.

[Pro Libertate]

Most excellent.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm wearing a kicky little floral print A-line dress from her collection right now.

*spits tea*

[Citizen X - #6]

Phrasing!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

It could work with the right shoes, girlfriend.

[lafe.long]

Georgia white supremacist under FBI investigation after police find evidence of ricin in his car

William Christopher Gibbs, a 27-year-old man from Fannin County, Georgia is under FBI investigation after driving himself to the hospital last week, claiming he came into contact with the deadly substance ricin.

Fannin County Sheriff Dane Kirby confirmed that Gibbs' car tested positive for ricin, a deadly poison that is found in castor beans.

According to local news reports, last Friday, residents of the Morganton neighborhood of Fannin County said nearly 100 officers in unmarked cars swarmed the area. Morganton Mayor Mike England told Fox 5 Atlanta, "All of the sudden a whole host of law enforcement vehicles showed up in our parking lot, somewhere between 30 to 40 vehicles. And around 100 law enforcement individuals."

"All of the sudden, it was pandelerium!"

[XenoZooValentine]

Lemme guess, he spilled some castor oil in his car and a built-by-the-lowest-bidder field test "confirmed" it?

[lafe.long]

Glenn Greenwald: Tom Perez Apologizes for Telling the Truth, Showing Why Democrats' Flaws Urgently Need Attention

THE MORE ALARMED one is by the Trump administration, the more one should focus on how to fix the systemic, fundamental sickness of the Democratic Party. That Hillary Clinton won the meaningless popular vote on her way to losing to Donald Trump, and that the singular charisma of Barack Obama kept him popular, have enabled many to ignore just how broken and failed the Democrats are as a national political force.

[TheZeitgeist]

With Afro-Glitter gone, Dems are reduced to what they sell: which is more DMV. Hillary, Lizzie, Nancy, Debbie...they're all clerks in respective booths bingo-titled "B37" and so forth. Keith Ellison is the bitter janitor skulking about with a spray-bottle as the unwashed hordes wait ever more.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Greenwald, and his other sane liberal colleague, Michael Tracy, have been desperately arguing for the Democrats to exercise something the party and its sycophants have had difficult with for decades--humility and self-awareness. I wish them both luck in their quest.

[Slammer]

In addition to being fairly honest, Greenwald is a very good writer.

[Krabappel]

I still wish I could read this whole article posted to reason that got "disappeared" this morning:

Leftists looking to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four for an idea of how the Trump era might look could realize they've already brought parts of the seminal dystopia to life themselves.

Leftists looking to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four for an idea of how the Trump era might look could realize they've already brought parts of the seminal dystopia to life themselves.

Brendan O'Neill writes:

I was delighted to read that leftists and millennials and others are snapping up George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in a bid to make some sense of Trump's presidency. Because I'm hoping that when they get deep into this dystopian tale?into the Newspeaking, sex-fearing, history-rewriting meat of Orwell's nightmare vision?they might just realize that it describes their authoritarianism better than Trump's. I can picture their faces now: "Guys? is this novel about us?"

[Krabappel]

The book shot to the top of Amazon's bestseller list after Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway used the phrase "alternative facts" to describe the Trump administration's belief that the crowds at his inauguration were larger than the media had let on. People pointed out that "alternative facts" sounds creepily like something the Party in Orwell's story would say. Like the Party, Trump seems to believe he can mould reality, fashion fact itself from thin air, to boost his own political standing.

"Alternative facts is a George Orwell phrase," said Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty. MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid tweeted the following lines from the novel: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." Within hours Nineteen Eighty-Four was a bestseller again, people buying it as a guide, a map, to what promises to be the liberty-challenging era of Trump.

[Krabappel]

But the novel is a better guide to what preceded Trump, to the nannying, nudging, speech-policing, sex-panicking, P.C. culture that Trumpism is in some ways a reaction against. Consider the Junior Anti-Sex League, the prudish youths in Orwell's story who think the "sex impulse" is dangerous and who devote themselves to spying on interactions between the sexes. "Eroticism was the enemy," they believed. "Desire was thoughtcrime." If this prissiness finds its echo in anyone today, it isn't in the creepily oversexed, pussy-grabbing Trump, but in the stiff buzz-killers of the campus feminist movement.

[Password: pode$ta]

Jesus Christ!

Memory-holing it is probably the most ironic thing I've heard in a very long time.

Props to O'Neill, btw, that looks like good writing.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

See my link below. They demanded an all-powerful federal government, and boy are they getting it.

[Not a True MJG]

Just got to search his name, babe.

I think - or at least hope - he's getting the Friday midday slot from here on out. The link you got this morning was likely a premature posting.

I am interested in what kind of comments it will get, given the last paragraph. Will O'Neill be deemed cool or cuck?

[Krabappel]

Ah, I hope that's the case.

[lafe.long]

In memory of LH and Derpetologist

[BigT]

My guess is that they will return at some point. After all, where else can you get this level of skepticism served with a strong dose of humor? Huffpo?

To say nothing of the dismembering of prog thought.

"Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity." - Marshall McLuhan

[Basketball Uber Alles, Jr.]

Derp left too?

[Juvenile Bluster]

UC Berkley alumna and "Nevada Democratic Party field operative" writes that it's a violent act to say that protests should be peaceful

Come for the team blue idiocy, stay for the Soave-level equivocation.

Also recently seen in the Daily Californian:

"Violence helped ensure the safety of students

[Juvenile Bluster]

Also also seen:

Black Bloc did what the campus should have

Violence as self defense ("Last week, a violent protest erupted on campus, in response to a scheduled speaking event by Milo Yiannopoulos. Many people soon began to decry the protesters. Here are a few arguments in favor of the use of violence in protests.")

[Krabappel]

Violence is safety, war is peace...

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I don't have a problem with the broad concept: Violence is sometimes necessary.

It's interesting and unintentionally funny how they're debating it. It's also laughably selective.

But hey, the left just discovered that things like right to self defense and how an armed populace might be, you know, a bulwark against something.

[The Grinch]

Don't bet on that. They just think the wrong people are in charge. After they win the next election all will be well.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Well of course... but hey gun owners and believers of distributed, democratized security, let's take advantage of it while we can.

[Suthenboy]

Now you know why 1984 was such a big hit with proggies Krabapple. They are using it as an instructional manual.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Something something purpose of second amendment.

[GILMORE?]

. This speaker has never provided an insightful look at conservatism nor provided intellectual debate to the arena. He has fabricated a tool to sensationalize himself with while providing a platform for white supremacists to come together. He, in fact, wanted to use the power of the state (immigration officers) to deport some of the most outspoken of us, therefore threatening our freedom of speech with the power of the state.

My campus did nothing to stand between my undocumented community and the hateful hands of radicalized white men ? the AntiFas did. A peaceful protest was not going to cancel that event, just like numerous letters from faculty, staff, Free Speech Movement veterans and even donors did not cancel the event. Only the destruction of glass and shooting of fireworks did that. The so-called "violence" against private property that the media seems so concerned with stopped white supremacy from organizing itself against my community

This was actually the most coherent and least-gramatical-error-ridden bit of the piece.

[Rufus The Monocled]

/Gilmore applies Strawberry Shortcake scratch and smell sticker.

[mr simple]

So the fascist kids are the AntiFascists and the Free Speech Movement stands against free speech. They really are using 1984 as a guide.

[Free Society]

More disturbing was the possibility of him outing and targeting specific undocumented students on campus, much like he did to a trans student at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. As an outspoken undocumented student at UC Berkeley, this frightened me.

If he's so afraid of bad outcomes resulting from his euphemistic "undocumented" status, then he wouldn't be outspoken about it. Fuck this guy and his problems.

[Scotticus Finch]

Mike Spence

Governor of Indiana2.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Semi-relate

[Password: pode$ta]

Modern American conservatism is based around an anarcho-capitalist economic policy

Ok, I can't go on.

[Free Society]

If only....

[Zunalter]

I tried my best, but I just couldn't work through all the derp.

Though on a side note, is this article dumber, or the one Bailey wrote last night?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The punchline of the joke is all that was written in 2012.

[BigT]

-1 laboratory of democracy

[Zunalter]

Indiana Governor pardons wrongfully convicted man passed over by Mike Spence.

I hate that Mike Spence guy.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

If you're a veteran and all this White House drama is freaking you out, a clinical trial evaluating whether marijuana can help treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has officially started.

What the frack? Just drive to the VA for some group therapy.

Good people don't smoke marijuana!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

group therapy.

Is this one of those euphemisms that my fellow Hit'nRunners keep going on about?

[BigT]

"Good people don't smoke marijuana!"

Exceptional people do!

[Fatty Bolger]

NEEDZ MOR TRUMP LINKZ

[The Grinch]

They've gone completely off the rails.

[Password: pode$ta]

Trump tweeting to bully Nordstrom over Ivanka's clothes line is a really bad look. "Daddy to the rescue" isn't adorable when the daughter is an adult married to a billionaire.

[We are all Sloopy's mom (RBS)]

He's only been president for like, what? Three weeks?

[american socialist]

Agreed

[XenoZooValentine]

But she only gets rescued 77% as much as a male princess. And that's Not OK.

[american socialist]

Are there any other interesting topics that font contain trump? Would be nice

[John]

http://www.popularmechanics.co.....inst-isis/

Inside a stealth bomber strike against ISIS.

[That's A Bingo!]

Stealth bomber? ISIS has better capabilities than I thought.

[Password: pode$ta]

Lol. I had never actually thought of that.

Francisco d'Aconia was informing the commentariat the other day that the B-1 performed the most strikes during the Iraq (I *think* it was Iraq) war.

They kind of explain it here:

But a bomber is an absolutely essential part of the equation. Nothing else can drop thousands of pounds of explosives on targets at the same time quite like a bomber. The U.S. bomber fleet includes non-stealth B-1s and B-52s, but it's the B-2s that can loiter for long stretches. Just because the B-2 can stay over a target doesn't mean the pilots want to.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The B1 which was chided in the press as flawed and expensive is actually a pretty good platform, according to the pilots that fly it. I remember something about its countermeasures suite being problematic, but as a bomb delivery combat platform, they rate it highly.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The way back has its own risks, fatigue chief among them.

You have to admit, we're a long way from the risks of coming back being ME-109s with the world's most skilled pilots tearing your B-17 to shreds over the countryside north of Munster.

[AddictionMyth]

What is the appeal of going to Afghanistan for months at a time? I honestly don't get it.

[TheZeitgeist]

Heroin.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The booze and the women of easy virtue.

[That's A Bingo!]

Organic, free range, hormone-free goat.

[C. Anacreon]

Afghan sweaters at discounted rates.

[thrakkorzog]

World's greatest Mardi Gras and Oktoberfest.

[That's A Bingo!]

Meanwhile, everybody is up in arms today over White House spokesperson Kellyanne Conway encouraging people to go buy Ivanka Trump's products at Nordstrom, which is likely a violation of federal ethics rules.

Turning the daily press briefing into a QVC-style infomercial would be an improvement.

[Free Society]

Conservative farmers in central California voted for Trump thinking he was maybe exaggerating how serious a crackdown he was going to implement against illegal immigrants. Now they're worried that he was not and what that means for finding field workers.

I can't think of a single group of voters whose votes cast were more irrelevant than some conservative farmers in California.

Oh well. I guess welfare subsidized foreign labor isn't going to be the boon it once was. My heart is breaking.

[Enough About Palin]

If you're a veteran writer for Reason and all this White House drama is freaking you out

FIFY

[american socialist]

Lol. This drama has come about cause journos need to embellish for hits. They are creating more drama than there needs to be

[Free Society]

"Indiana Governor pardons wrongfully convicted man passed over by Mike Pence."

In 2006, Cooper was offered a deal: if he withdrew a petition that sought exoneration, he'd be able to leave his cell and return home. Cooper agreed to the terms and reunited with his three children, but the felony remained on his record.

Cooper, as a result, has been seeking an official pardon since 2009 ? his request remained in limbo on the desk of former Governor Pence for more than two years.

When the Indiana Parole board unanimously recommended Cooper be issued a pardon in 2014, Pence insisted the man exhaust all of his options in court first.

Okay so an executive was deferring judicial outcomes to the judiciary. I thought, in light of recent coverage, Reason would see some principle or merit in that position.

[GILMORE?]

The Frenchest Ruling of All Time

[GILMORE?]

Nearly 1 in 5 illegal immigrants are in NYC and LA areas

which i suppose accounts for the bazillions of cheap-restaurants in both places - and is the best possible rationale i can think of for 'amnesty'. yes, that's hipster-logic, but whatever.
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[american socialist]

I wonder how do the NY and Cali progs who care oh so much about worker rationalize lack of labor law enforcement for illegal immigrants? They seem to be pretty hush hush

[Slumbrew]

That's different because this kale salad is divine.

[GILMORE?]

"Whales Signal Solidarity in #ResistTrump"

[OneOut]

This might be a repeat since i haven't read any comments yet.

Has anyone ever complained about the ethics of aPresident or the Sec of State selling books while in office ?

Has anyone investigated if there were volume purchases that were warehoused or given away ?!