Pro-Choice Activists Protest Outside Homes of John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh

Plus: Elon Musk's plans for Twitter, officials want to tax NFTs, and more...

Pro-choice activists protested outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday, chanting slogans like "our body, our choice" and "we will not go back."

Footage from the protest outside Kavanaugh's house depicts a raucous spectacle, whereas the activity at the chief justice's residence were somewhat more restrained, according to eyewitness reports:

https://twitter.com/teedabb/status/1523340878940680193

We also stopped at Chief Justice Roberts' house. #BansOffOurBodies pic.twitter.com/waUxx82IFZ

— NotoriousMouse (she/her) (@LiteraryMouse) May 8, 2022

The street and sidewalk are public spaces, and it's legally permissible to protest there. The First Amendment rightly protects Americans whose displeasure with their government's policies compels them to engage in free expression—even if the form that expression takes is hostile and unpleasant. The Bill of Rights enshrines the people's right to protest; there is no right enjoyed by government actors to avoid witnessing protests.

Needless to say, that is separate from the question of whether such tactics are wise or worthwhile. Many people watching such protests are going to react like this:

I say this as someone who is not a conservative & disagrees with Kavanaugh on a whole lot: Harassing someone outside their family's private residence is grotesque. It's not healthy. And it says something that crossing this line is seen by many as virtuous. https://t.co/LVEbxRICpk

— Billy Binion (@billybinion) May 8, 2022

FREE MINDS

Elon Musk has a plan to change Twitter, and The New York Times obtained the details over the weekend. Musk reportedly told investors that he intends to fire as many as 1,000 Twitter employees. He also wants to quadruple the company's revenue from $5 billion to $26 billion by 2028. He plans to move away from Twitter's reliance on advertising to make money and instead adopt a subscription-based model, in which some users are paying a few bucks a month for more features or a better user experience.

Musk is also toying with eliminating the company's San Francisco headquarters and not paying salaries to board members.

REVEALED: Elon Musk plans to fire 1,000 Twitter staff, quintuple revenue, get 69 million users paying $3 a month and cut reliance on advertising income, his presentation to investors shows https://t.co/xJ6HkLv6MH

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) May 7, 2022

Musk was also the subject of a recent New York Times profile that attempted to frame his upbringing in apartheid South Africa as one where an environment of free speech allowed racist disinformation to shape his childhood. The problems with this framing are many, as Jesse Singal notes:

Ah yes… unchecked speech pic.twitter.com/q6L95eQMzp

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) May 5, 2022

The Times' reporters went looking for examples to demonstrate that Musk was a racist supporter of apartheid, and they came up completely empty-handed. None of his high school classmates "offered recollections of things he said or did that revealed his views on the politics of the time. But Black schoolmates recall that he spent time with Black friends." And Elon's father—Errol Musk, from whom he is estranged—said that his son objected to the apartheid regime from an early age:

"As far as being sheltered from it, that's nonsense. They were confronted by it every day," recalled Errol, who said he belonged to the anti-apartheid Progressive Party. He added, "They didn't like it."

Mr. Musk became friends with a cousin of Mr. Netshituka's, Asher Mashudu, according to Mr. Mashudu's brother, Nyadzani Ranwashe. One time at lunch, a white student used an anti-Black slur, and Mr. Musk chided the student, but then got bullied for doing so, Mr. Ranwashe said.

Mr. Mashudu was killed in a car accident in 1987, and Mr. Ranwashe said he remembered Mr. Musk being one of only a handful of white people who attended the funeral in the family's rural village.

"It was unheard of during that time," he said.

If anything, it sounds Musk's encounters with censorship and institutionalized racism as a child showed him the risks of letting the authorities restrict what people are allowed to say.

FREE MARKETS

States are trying to figure out how to tax non-fungible tokens (NFTs). But so far, the tax dollars aren't showing up, reports Axios, which notes that "the IRS hasn't addressed the taxation of NFTs in any of its guidance on cryptocurrency (or elsewhere)," leaving state officials somewhat confused. 

Two locales are nonetheless attempting to get more money out of the NFT craze, Bloomberg Tax reported in April:

Both Washington state and Puerto Rico are drafting regulations that would stretch their sales tax on digital products to include NFTs, unique digital assets that act as certificates of authenticity for digital products—including works of art, music, tickets, and collectibles. No other U.S. state revenue agency has yet introduced an NFT sales tax strategy.

Unsurprisingly, governments are late to the party: NFT prices have crashed, and sales are down 92 percent from a peak last September, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

QUICK HITS

• Russian leader Vladimir Putin defended his country's invasion of Ukraine in a speech during the country's holiday celebrating victory over the Nazis during World War II, arguing that "a pre-emptive response to the aggression" was "a forced, timely and only correct decision, a decision made by the sovereign, strong and independent country," reports The Wall Street Journal.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, offered a counter-story in a speech pushing back against Putin's telling of history. Zelenskyy argued that Putin had "appropriated" Russia's WWII victory.
• Taiwan is finally turning away from its zero-COVID strategy. 
• Groups that offer online abortion consulting for abortion drugs, which can be delivered by mail, are seeing a surge in interest, especially from Republican states. 
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are squabbling about the Democratic Party's role in the abortion fight. 
• Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she won't enforce the state's existing law banning abortion, which dates back to 1931, if the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade. 
• Marvel's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness delivered 2022's biggest domestic box office weekend yet, as people debated whether the horror-tinged movie should have been rated R.
• The BBC has announced a new Doctor Who: Sex Education actor Ncuti Gatwa.

Comments

[Commenter_XY]

There is no justification, none whatsoever, for demonstrating at the private residence of a SCOTUS Justice and threatening them (and their family). This is the stuff of banana republics.

[Don't look at me!]

It’s mostly peaceful.

[Idaho Bob]

Yeah, I'd like to see the reaction if/when conservatives protest outside liberal justice's homes.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

More likely a small "alt-right" group will hatch a plot to kidnap Sotomayor. But the group will be mostly FBI agents and informants.

[Mother's Lament]

"mostly FBI"

Are the rest DHS and CIA?

[HorseConch]

Maybe a capital policeman in there to keep an eye on the others.

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

Usually there's at least one or two non-spook idiots to take the fall.

[Overt]

I recognize the right of people to protest on public walk ways, which is the reason to live in gated communities.

But that notwithstanding, the appropriate response to this is to identify the people who doxxed the justices, and to march up to their house in protest.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

THAT'S NOT FAIR!

[Moonrocks]

the appropriate response to this is to identify the people who doxxed the justices, and to march up to their house in protest

That would be a direct assault on the free press and marginalized communities.

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

The worst assault on our democracy since the Civil War.

[damikesc]

That Ruth Sent Us is offering stipends for people who join them...it is vital to pursue their funding.

[Mother's Lament]

I wonder who*coughgeorgesoros* is providing the funding for the stipends.

[Minadin]

Yeah, the gated community thing worked well for the McCloskeys.

[Unable2Reason]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[CE]

What about the case where a mob breaks down the gate then? Is it still "brandishing" if you exercise your rights from the amendment after the one the mob is exercising?

[(Redacted)]

Won’t happen. Conservatives have jobs.

[Seamus]

Well, a few years back, pro-lifers were protesting outside abortionists' homes. It was wrong then too.

[(Redacted)]

This is orders of magnitude more widespread.

[ThomasD]

I'll accept your assertion but I'd like to see some links.

Mainly because I suspect the press was not quite so 'neutral' about the choice of protest venue then.

[Moonrocks]

Note: this is not Insurrection.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

As proven by the absence of fire extinguishers.

[CE]

and the fact that they're not on public property.

[Mother's Lament]

Yes, no unarmed protesters were shot.

[mad.casual]

In a moment of token both-sidesism: this should've happened after the 'penaltax' decision and didn't.

That is, this protest is stupid as the justices are correctly interpreting the law and aren't enacting anything. Protesting them doesn't fix or backstop your problem and only erodes The Republic. The opposite of all of that is/was true for penaltaxing.

[Weigel's Cock Ring]

It's actually a pretty clear violation of federal law. And scumbag Biden is not only NOT telling them they ought to knock it off, he's encouraging it.

Oh well, it'll be just another justification for when the lawless piece of shit criminal gets impeached next year.

[Commenter_XY]

Task #1, #2 of a Team R majority House of Representatives is the impeachment of Biden and Harris. That has to be on the docket.

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

McCarthy won't do that. Despite his rhetoric, he's a Uniparty bitch.

[(Redacted)]

He will likely be another Paul Ryan if he becomes Speaker. This “it’s his turn”. Shit needs to end. It isn’t, and it cuts no ice with the American people who give zero fucks about each party’s pecking order.

The republicans need real wartime leaders in each chamber to battle the Marxist scourge.

[Noriko Sneath]

It's a uniparty. Republicans *are* the Marxist scourge. They're just less aggressively obnoxious about it, and also aren't quite stupid enough to die on the hill of kiddie fucking.

[(Redacted)]

RINO’s are uniparty. Not all republicans are uniparty. Unfortunately any of the, that are worth a shit are outnumbered…. currently. There is more effort to primary the RINO’s. But it’s an uphill battle.

A revolution is becoming more likely.

[Longtobefree]

18 U.S.C. § 1507

[Seamus]

Enforcement of 18 USC 1507 would be racist. Or something.

[Griffin3]

How does everyone else on the street not have a cause of action, to get the police to do their damn jobs, and clear these people out after a certain hour? [Yeah, I know, the police don't even seem to see left-wing protesters. Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.]

Although, I always wonder if these are real protests. I suspect they show up like a flash mob, after calling the press. Holler for an hour, and then disperse to their dirty hippie dwellings once the film is rolling on the TV.

[Hank Ferrous]

'Their dirty hippie dwellings,' it appears that the vast majority are AWFL, so their chic neighborhoods that are largely free of those icky working class sorts. And, oddly enough, typically free of any but wealthy white folks with the need to virtue signal.

[Griffin3]

Yeah, I was just rolling with the groove. I also noticed the first day's protests were awfully uniform in their young white femaleness, like they had run over a couple buses from Trinity or summat.

[Ronbback]

its also illegal. freedom of speech does not include intimidation and there is actual law stating such about harassing siting judges

[Number 2]

What happened to all the talk about insurrection, fundamental threat to democracy, etc.? I forget that the current Senate majority leader personally threatened Supreme Court justices by name?

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

"It's different when we do it" is a core tenet of progressive politics.

[Think It Through]

Because good reasons, because we're right, because applying the rules to us is just the LATEST example of systemic _________.

[Joe Friday]

+1

[JFree]

There are many bananas in this republic.

[soldiermedic76]

Yeah and they are currently camped out in front of Kavanaugh and Roberts house. Not sure why the latter as he isn't supposedly voting with the majority.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Maybe they'll get an outcome they want. Some folks getting straight murdered is a small cost.

[CE]

Civilization ends when people stop acting civilized.
Which was sometime in the summer of 2020.

[R Mac]

I’d put it at 2016.

[Don't look at me!]

I see the market is responding to the booming SleepyJoe economy.

[Griffin3]

Meanwhile, diesel is up to $5.540! Whoo, a new record!!!

Gas won't be setting a new record until maybe Tuesday.

[CE]

But the rig count is up, so this is all transitory.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Who knew that printing trillions of dollars, and official policies to deal with Bidenflation would achieve economic justice by crashing investment markets and burning all those Richie Riches. (Never mind all the private and public pension fund investments.)

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

Equality!

[BestUsedCarSales]

I think we need to not take our eye off real systemic issues as well. We throttle trade, energy production, manufacturing, farming, in many ways. Even if this is just a regular recession (which it's at least partially it seems, the monetary inflation is concerning though and we should be concerned), we really should be aware of these things and work on these issues that have long term impact.

Even if people are against free-trade, however one defines it, things like the Jones' Act and incredibly inefficient port systems are big taxes that don't restrict trade, but raise prices.

[soldiermedic76]

Don't worry, Uncle Joe is about to forgive billions of dollars worth of student loans paid with even more deficit spending. That surely will help with inflation.

[Joe Friday]

The market is responding to the aftermath of Covid worldwide which includes global inflation and global high gas prices. Trump wrote hot check after hot check, passed a corporate tax cut which adds $1 trillion to the debt with minimal new investment or economic surge (as promised) and advocated for another hot check even after he was out of office. Biden passed a bi-partisan infrastructure bill which Trump tried to pass and which contains long term investments GOP governors - including DeSantis - are taking credit for. The one Covid high expenditure bill Biden brought up was the one Trump advocated for a higher payout ($2000) before the vote.

This is a Covid/Trump/Biden economy with responsibility in that order.

[damikesc]

Nah, it's Biden. And Biden is saved that his BBB bill got killed. Things would have been markedly worse had it passed.

Perhaps openly going after energy companies made stuff worse?

[R Mac]

Joe Friday, go fuck yourself.

[Idaho Bob]

Covid did nothing. Government response to covid is what fucked up the world's supply chain and economy.

[Mother's Lament]

Yup.

[DesigNate]

It was the right thing to do!!11!!!!

[I, Woodchipper]

Yup

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Yessir!

[Square = Circle]

So, to be clear, inflation is caused by spending, but only by Trump's spending, and Biden's spending hasn't contributed?

The one Covid high expenditure bill Biden brought up was the one Trump advocated for a higher payout ($2000) before the vote.

Trump advocated spending more, or he advocated that a larger share of the spending be dedicated to its actual stated purpose (i.e., checks for working families)?

[(Redacted)]

Joe should have his testicles beaten with his own shoes.

[Noriko Sneath]

It's a sarcasmic sock. He has no testicles, and probably no shoes either since he drinks away his entire welfare check by the 3rd of the month at approximately 8 AM.

[(Redacted)]

That’s why he’s always so testy late in the month.

[CE]

And yet, tax revenues went up after the tax cuts. The new debt and larger deficits are entirely due to increased spending (from both Trump and Biden).

[BestUsedCarSales]

The President is not that responsible for the economy. There's many factors at play, monetary inflation isn't good, but it's definitely that plus more.

[The Last American Hero]

Using executive power to restrict drilling impacts oil prices. So does the cdc rescinding lease agreements.

[Pear Satirical]

And cancelling the Keystone Pipeline.

[(Redacted)]

Actual tax revenues went up after the tax cut. All the spending was forced down Trump’s throat by your masters, with help from never Trump RINO’s.

But you’re a lying, faggoty cunt. Or you’re just too stupid to understand any of this. Probably some of both. On the plus side, since your party is bent on forcing America into a civil war, you will probably die an agonizing death. Which will still be better than what you deserve.

[JesseAz]

Tax cuts don't add to the debt. Spending is the only thing that adds to the debt.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"The First Amendment rightly protects Americans whose displeasure with their government's policies compels them to engage in free expression—even if the form that expression takes is hostile and unpleasant. The Bill of Rights enshrines the people's right to protest; there is no right enjoyed by government actors to avoid witnessing protests."

Unless the protest goal is "sedition", right?

[Overt]

"even if the form that expression takes is hostile and unpleasant."

Hostile...Unpleasant....

One of these words is different than the other.

[Longtobefree]

18 U.S.C. § 1507

[Cronut]

I agree, people have a right to protest, a d protest can be "hostile and unpleasant." The right to protest government policies should be vigorously defended.

But this isn't protesting. This is attempting to intimidate judges to change their rulings. When you go to someone's home like that, it's not simple "protest." It's a threat. It's telling them, "You are not safe anywhere, and neither are your family, your neighbors, your friends, or your property."

[Overt]

I don't understand how protest can be Hostile. Hostile seems to move into threat of force, which is coercion not protest, right?

[Cronut]

Hostility doesn't necessarily always have to involve the threat of force. It can just be anger or vehement opposition, or just antagonistic. You can be hostile toward something by just relentlessly and aggressively challenging it, like parental hostility toward CRT. Nobody is threatening violence, they're just agressively demanding accountability on the topic, and also taking their hostility to the ballot by voting out leftist school board members.

[mad.casual]

I think you're conflating the two definitions:
hostile-
1. Of or relating to an enemy or maliciousness. e.g. The soldiers were pinned down under hostile fire.
2. Of or relating to the opposing party in a business or legal controversy. e.g. Elon Musk perpetrated a hostile takeover of Twitter.

These people aren't taking their grievances to their local legislators (who would actually fix the issue) like the parents hostile to CRT are going to Parent Teacher Nights, School Board Meetings, and ballot boxes. They're in the street. They aren't adversarial, they're malicious.

[The Last American Hero]

Challenging school board members at school board meetings is domestic terrorism. Camping out at the residence of a judge is totally not intimidation.

Progworld is a strange place.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

But this isn't protesting. This is attempting to intimidate judges to change their rulings. When you go to someone's home like that, it's not simple "protest." It's a threat. It's telling them, "You are not safe anywhere, and neither are your family, your neighbors, your friends, or your property."

The left's will to power justifies anything in their mind. They legitimately don't believe that the right or Republicans should have any political representation whatsoever, which is why they chimp out whenever they're dealt any kind of setback to their marxist-style ideology of historic determinism.

[Don't look at me!]

“Dangers of unchecked speech”

I can’t even.

[Idaho Bob]

Like accusing the man of racism without a shred of evidence.

THAT is "unchecked speech"{.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Blue-checked speech.

[Idaho Bob]

Well done. 🙂

[Idaho Bob]

Well played.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"The Times' reporters went looking for examples to demonstrate that Musk was a racist supporter of apartheid, and they came up completely empty-handed. None of his high school classmates "offered recollections of things he said or did that revealed his views on the politics of the time."

Perhaps the Times staff could have more luck with Trudeau.

[Not Robbers=Nut Rubbers]

Is Elon Musk white?

They found all proof they need.

[(Redacted)]

Ok, you can rub them. Just leave my family alone.

[Mother's Lament]

It's only racist when "they" do it. Trudeau was just an unfortunate shoe polish accident and his heart's in the right place.

[HorseConch]

Same with a young Ralphie Northam.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Pro-choice activists protested outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday...

JANUARY 6TH TIMES A THOUSAND

[Mother's Lament]

The RNC needs to start collecting footage from these and the protests outside churches for their ads. The optics for the Democrats are terrible.

[HorseConch]

Yea, using your 1st amendment rights to try and make people also exercising their 1st amendment rights, to protest in favor of something that most people don't want and/or care about is not a winning strategy. Its like the brilliant idea of severely unpopularly canceling student loan debt for people that will vote for you no matter what.

[CE]

But what if they crank Disney songs in the background?

[DesigNate]

I'm not sure you have a 1A right to intimidate a sitting justice deciding a case before the court.

[HorseConch]

I agree with you on that, just pointing out that even if they were within their rights, it's political cancer.

[Noriko Sneath]

They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Why don't we just kill the people writing them?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Don't let Thomas get away with his bullshit either. This is all a Christian Theocratic takeover and the protesters should burn a cross on Thomas' lawn so that he knows we all know that he's a papal stooge.

[DesigNate]

I mean, it would be par for the course for Democrats.

[Fats of Fury]

This crowd ain't going into a black neighborhood, even if there's only one black there.

[(Redacted)]

I would love it if Thomas came out totaling a 12 gauge shotgun when these filthy hippies showed up. Screaming “oh hell no! You motherfuckers get the hell off my property! 2A bitches! 2A!!!!!” As he blasted away at them.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Musk reportedly told investors that he intends to fire as many as 1,000 Twitter employees.

Then who will be left to freak out??? WHO WILL SHED THE TEARS?

[Anomalous]

Think of all the content that never gets deleted!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Unsurprisingly, governments are late to the party: NFT prices have crashed, and sales are down 92 percent from a peak last September, according to The Wall Street Journal."

I'm banking my NFT investment losses to offset my unrealized capital gains wealth tax.

[Fist of Etiquette]

If anything, it sounds Musk's encounters with censorship and institutionalized racism as a child showed him the risks of letting the authorities restrict what people are allowed to say.

Yeah, Musk. White Privilege much?

[HorseConch]

He's fucking lucky. How many of the current population of young black men that weren't slaughtered by the police were killed by disinformation. He didn't have to deal with that growing up. Privileged little bastard he was.

[Griffin3]

You mean, the disinformation that it was better to be a gang-banger, hip-hop, sidewise-gun-toting baby-daddy than learning a trade and making big bucks in the doing-shit economy? Yeah, that disinformation screwed over a lot of black lives. Shame it was gov't sponsored.

[Commenter_XY]

MI AG Nessel now says she will refuse to enforce the abortion law on the books (assuming Dobbs overrules Roe/Casey). In the old days, when government officials could not carry out a policy because of the dictates of their conscience, they resigned.

Lady, you don't get to pick and choose what laws to enforce as AG. That is called anarchy and despotism. You enforce the law as written by the Legislature. That is your fucking job.

[Longtobefree]

More accurately, it is called fascism.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I wouldn't call it fascism, as that's a very specific kind of broad economic/political system, but this certainly is the kind of double standard that pops up when a society has grown so corrupt, rotten, and self-indulgent that its leaders know they can arbitrarily pick and choose which "laws" to enforce based on whether they actually feel like doing it or not.

[Moonrocks]

It's closer to anarcho-tyranny, though that's not quite it, either.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

It's really about the closest thing to it. A lot of this shit started with the "sanctuary cities" crap. This idea that law enforcement agencies don't have to enforce laws they don't feel like doing, based entirely on their locale or personal feelings, is a long-term recipe for disaster.

We either need a national divorce, or need to figure out a way to break the states up in to much smaller parts so this kind of thing doesn't become an issue.

[(Redacted)]

The democrat party is a domestic terror organization.

[Idaho Bob]

Notice how ignoring laws by government officials ONLY applies to leftist issues? Watch what happens when a conservatize AG says they will not enforce any gun laws.

[Overt]

Meh, we WANT government officials to refuse to do things that they think are unconstitutional. If many FBI agents had done that in the last 2 decades, we'd be in a much better place.

In a sane world, when a government official refuses to do something unconstitutional, they are either vindicated, or fired.

[damikesc]

Only concern is that it seems unlikely that they'd only refuse to enforce "unconstitutional" laws.

[R Mac]

I haven’t read the story. Has she made any coherent argument that it’s unconstitutional, or just said “nuh uh I don’t wanna”?

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

The later

[mad.casual]

If many FBI agents had done that in the last 2 decades, we'd be in a much better place.

Uh, do you get a vibe of forced compliance out of the FBI? I get a vibe of if you said, "You can refuse to do thing that are unconstitutional." You'd get a reply of, "We can do things that are unconstitutional. Got it."

[Quicktown Brix]

"Lady, you don't get to pick and choose what laws to enforce as AG."

Yes she does. Not defending her choice. Just pointing out fact.

[CE]

Every prosecutor should refrain from prosecuting people from breaking arbitrary and tyrannical laws. And if the voters disagree with the AG, they should voter her out.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Russian leader Vladimir Putin defended his country's invasion of Ukraine in a speech during the country's holiday celebrating victory over the Nazis during World War II, arguing that "a pre-emptive response to the aggression" was "a forced, timely and only correct decision, a decision made by the sovereign, strong and independent country," reports The Wall Street Journal."

Why repeat WWII when you can start WWIII?

[Mother's Lament]

"a recent New York Times profile that attempted to frame his upbringing in apartheid South Africa as one where an environment of free speech allowed racist disinformation to shape his childhood."

Anyone who can or wants to believe this is part of a cult.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Or an idiot.

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

Or a liar.

[Anomalous]

I'm old enough to remember when the New York Times was a real news outlet.

[Mr. Bumble]

No one is that old!

[Mother's Lament]

Even before Walter Duranty and their Holodomor coverage they were evil.

When the Bronx Zoo was criticized for obtaining and exhibiting a pygmy man named Ota Benga in a cage in the monkey section, the NYT put out an editorial calling critics idiots for thinking he was human.

[(Redacted)]

That….. actually happened. Had to look it up. Progs really are filth.

[Mother's Lament]

The New York Times' argument was that Darwinism scientifically demonstrated that pygmies like Benga were closer to apes, he was happier in the zoo, and if you thought that he had a soul then you were some sort of backwater hillbilly religious nut.

And that was the general left-progressive view at the time.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

At the time? Has that stopped?

[DRM]

Stop catfishing.

Walter Duranty started working for the New York Times during World War I, and there's no way in hell you're old enough to have started reading the Times before then.

[(Redacted)]

He could be C. Montgomery Burns.

[R Mac]

Cite?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

You must be REALLY old.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

1910? Before they stayed skimping for the ussr?

[CE]

Hey, he grew up in a questionable country, the burden of proof is on him.

Unlike the case where Biden's choice for Comptroller of the Currency grew up in a communist country, studied Stalinist economics, and wrote a theoretical academic paper way back like over a year ago about the Fed taking over everyone's bank accounts. That's just guilt by association.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Guilt? She sounds like the "correct" sort of person on the "right side of history".

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) and California Gov. Gavin Newsome are squabbling about the Democratic Party's role in the abortion fight."

Cat fight!

[Mother's Lament]

Lots of demonic shrieking and their bats wings and horns come out.

[R Mac]

Hopefully no one was below them, as their falling blood is like acid as it hits the ground.

[(Redacted)]

Someone should burn their coffins while they’re distracted.

[OpenBordersLiberal-tarian]

Looks like I'll have to spend another week filling in for Reason's leading economics expert. I wonder why he hasn't been around much lately? Probably out spending the millions of dollars he's raking in every week in the #BidenBoom.

Hey Peanuts have you seen the latest fantastic economic news? Warren Buffett is up $7.11 billion this year. That means everything is great. Don't believe wingnut.com disinformation about inflation contributing to Biden's low approval rating.

#DefendBidenAtAllCosts

[Mother's Lament]

Buttplug spends so much time scouring wingnut.com that, that I bet he singlehandedly boosts their ad revenue.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Buy gold!

[CE]

Or at least Gold Bond medicated powder.

[Hank Ferrous]

Finally arrested for possession and distribution of cp? Some of the writers and commentariat may think it's a victimless crime, but the LEAs that have to deal with its impact daily have a very different viewpoint.

[mad.casual]

Some of the writers and commentariat may think it's a victimless crime

Distribution is definitively victimless. Otherwise, it's theft or assault.

[Hank Ferrous]

I am of the view that with no market, there is no product. If there is no distribution, there is no production. Thus, distribution is not victimless. I am not certain it applies in all cases, outside of exploitation, though.

[soldiermedic76]

Did you see the story about a pair of transgender "females", who just were busted for producing child porn with a 7 yo. One of them was the girl's biological father who traveled from New Jersey to Oregon to get custody of his daughter (the girl) ,took her back to Jersey, and produced child porn with her, including very violent BDSM porn. They were independent "porn producers" who specializes in TG and taboo porn.

[Hank Ferrous]

I did, to my dismay.

[Aloysious]

I wonder why he hasn't been around much lately?

Managing his Fort Knox sized gold portfolio?
Personally counting new oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico?
Protesting outside John's house?

I don't know, but I'm looking forward to the new stories of his adventures.

[R Mac]

Off chasing “hobbits” to get his hands on their “rings”?

[BestUsedCarSales]

7.11 is one of the best numbers we have, and thus I'm excited what this portends.

[Fist of Etiquette]

States are trying to figure out how to tax non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Yet more scammers trying to make a buck off it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Russian leader Vladimir Putin defended his country's invasion of Ukraine in a speech during the country's holiday celebrating victory over the Nazis during World War II...

...saying the ruling class ordered him to do it. "Misdirection about something, they said."

[Fist of Etiquette]

Zelensky argued that Putin had "appropriated" Russia's WWII victory.

Hey, the commies worked hard throwing peasants at the Nazis to take that real estate.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Taiwan is finally turning away from its zero-COVID strategy.

WHAT DOES THIS STORY HAVE TO DO WITH UKRAINE?

[Don't look at me!]

Ukraine is so last week. It’s all about abortions now.

[Hank Ferrous]

Or abortion/the war on women?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Groups that offer online abortion consulting for abortion drugs, which can be delivered by mail, are seeing a surge in interest...

And now we know who is behind it all.

[Commenter_XY]

Re: Inflation

Inflation is going to be around for a while. Meaning years. The mainstream uber-lib media is talking inflation coming down bigly by the end of 2023. This is wishful thinking. I personally think we will still be talking about elevated inflation in 2031 (yes, 9 years from now).

I cannot think of a case after 1928 where high inflation (>5%) was ever tamed in less than a decade (to <2%). When the inflation horse runs out of the barn, it takes a while to get the horse back into the barn. Inflation is very persistent.

Right now, everything in on sale: US Stock, Intl stock and Bonds. I am a buyer. You should be too (if you can).

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Inflation is not happening and it is good for you.

[Don't look at me!]

Inflation is profit!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Then tax it to justify handing out more free dollars.

[(Redacted)]

I wonder how much longer Kiddie Raper/Shrike is going to continue with his inflation denier garbage?

[Moonrocks]

The mainstream uber-lib media is talking inflation coming down bigly by the end of 2023

Weren't they saying inflation would be over before the end of this year just a couple of months ago?

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

Yes, that was just after they spent months denying it was happening at all.

[Cyto]

And then telling me the whopper that inflation was "high" at 5% per year.. when I was looking at the price of goods leaping by 10-20% per month.

Pre-pandemic my buy price for a 2 liter of Mountain Dew was $0.98. I would buy a bunch when it fell to a buck. Last fall I wrote about the normal price jumping to 2 for $5. The cheap price had been $1.25 for a while. Since this fall, the cheap price has steadily climbed and is now $2.00. The regular price has jumped to 2 for $5.25. so in this sector we are way, way over 10% annual inflation. We are in the high double digits.

One of the few things that was holding the line was boneless, skinless chicken breasts. They have been stuck on $2 for years.

Both Public's and Walmart were out today. Aldi's, normally the cheap option, did have some in stock at $4.15 per pound.

Something really big is happening, and for some reason, the press is only hinting around at this point.

Today, the ice cream section was nealy half empty. Huge chunks of the chip section were empty. The drink section had lots of empty shelves. The meat section had huge empty areas.

It looks like stories from Soviet era Russia.

Now the news is telling me that there are (and have been) severe shortages of infant formula. Walgreens and CVS have restrictions on the amount you can buy.

This should be a much bigger story. Our government should be doing something to fix these bottlenecks, instead of wringing their hands and continuing to double down on the things that are causing the problem.

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

Yeah, the baby formula shortage is a big deal. My wife heard rumors about it, I dunno, about a month ago, so we stocked up (We have a six-month-old). I was in CVS yesterday and that section was cleaned out, as was Target.

[HorseConch]

If they thought inflation was a losing political issue, they haven't seen shit. People not being able to buy baby formula is 100x the concern of real people as abortion. It may not get the airplay, but it will be crushing at the polls.

[Don't look at me!]

When it was said that nobody needs 27 kinds of something, it was a warning.

[Cronut]

But, abortion, though.

Ukraine and Roe were political Hail Mary's to salvage this shitty presidency, but they were also calculated distractions to try and make people think about anything OTHER than the fact that their grocery bill is $50 this week, and they bought less stuff.

[(Redacted)]

Yeah, it’s just desperate. The midterms are still 6 months away. No one will focus on any of this, but their grocery bills will probably go up another 30% by then.

[HorseConch]

Plus gas prices are shooting up again. Who would have thought that pissing away our strategic petroleum reserve to knock a nickel off gas prices was a short-sighted maneuver.

[(Redacted)]

And begging enemies like Venezuela and Iran wasn’t a fruitful endeavor either. I wonder how desperate they have to be to reverse Biden’s bullshit executive orders?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I agree this is a much bigger deal than anyone wants to admit. The PPI is running way ahead of the CPI. Those added costs are about to drop on consumers. Gonna be ugly for a long time.

[(Redacted)]

The one silver lining might just be the complete destruction of the democrat party. America needs to go through an aggressively anti communist period to flush out all the leftist turds and end their rampant racism.

[DesigNate]

It's all Trump and his shitty tariffs fault. Gawd!

[(Redacted)]

People are finally going to figure out that we have to get rid of the democrats.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Mountain Dew tracks closely with the spittin’ tobaccy inflation since only rednecks and hillbillies use it. And even that is only like, ten cents. Other than those two items, inflation is nearly non existent.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

Yeah it took fdr dieing and congress growing the balls to tell Truman to foff meddling in the economy

[NJ2AZ]

There's basically no way it can't. with the promises the government has made to all the olds, the only way to keep them (in nominal values, at least) is to have inflation keep roaring.

i suspect we might be looking at rough times through the 2030s.

[Don't look at me!]

Joe won’t live that long.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I've been buying into it as well. We shall see if I live to reap the rewards.

I am hoping inflation causes a land crash though so I can finally buy a weird property out in the middle of nowhere where I can set up my compound.

[Dace Highlander]

Finally got an acre on the side of a mountain. I’m trying to see how much a tunnel system built into the side of the mountain is going to cost.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Nice. I've been looking a bit out in the mountains, though I want more ranching land than survivalist camp. I also just like quiet.

[Fist of Etiquette]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) and California Gov. Gavin Newsome are squabbling about the Democratic Party's role in the abortion fight.

Fundraising, you dumb cunts.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she won't enforce the state's existing law banning abortion...

Any other rights she's ready stand up to the government over?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Live birth is a public health crisis.

[mad.casual]

Where are we gonna find all the food to make these kids obese?

[BestUsedCarSales]

If you've never seen a live birth in public then you wouldn't understand how much everyone freaks out.

[soldiermedic76]

Don't you know we have a formula shortage crisis? If we allow more live births think of all the starving babies.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...as people debated whether the horror-tinged movie should have been rated R.

Deadpool or Logan can pull that off, but not Strange.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The BBC has announced a new Doctor Who: Sex Education actor Ncuti Gatwa.

Well, well, well. Genderswapping a female role to male.

[(Redacted)]

I was afraid they would go full tranny this time. I don’t really give a shit that Gatwa is gay. I’m just glad the Doctor is going back to being male.

The real plus is that goddamn Chris Chibnall is out. Jodie Whittaker could have been much better without his influence and all the bad scripts.

[Mother's Lament]

The BBC has announced a new Doctor Who: Sex Education actor Ncuti Gatwa.

He's a decent actor but i'm guessing that the Beeb didn't pick him for his acting chops. I wonder what it feels like to know that your true value is in how progressive your appearance makes your bosses appear, and not your talent.

[R Mac]

Those people are so empty inside, any feelings are welcome.

[BestUsedCarSales]

The money is probably an effective balm.

[Overt]

E-Truck company Rivian is busy losing lots of money:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rivian-shares-tumble-lockup-expires-ford-looks-cut-stake

People, this is why we have a fucking microchip shortage. It isn't Ukraine, or china, or tariffs or other such bullshit.

All told, Rivian has probably received north of $30 Billion in direct investment from Ford, JPMorgan and IPO. Today, you can go on their website and see that they have over 1300 job openings. *1300*!

We have a chip shortage because easy money has encouraged profit-seekers to invest in highly risky, highly speculative ventures like Rivian in order to get a decent multiple. Rivian hasn't produced even 10,000 trucks yet, and will probably be out of business in another 5 years. But they could buy up server farms, and desktops for thousands of computers, and integrated electronics, etc etc, while unexciting companies like Dell cannot find enough chips to fulfill basic requests of the companies that keep our economy running.

People always look for these simple fixes to economic problems, but this just shows how insidious free money is. It corrupts the entire economy, causing MASSIVE distortions in not just the pricing, but also the allocation and clearing of goods. It isn't just that prices are rising, it is that the people pushing the prices higher often aren't using those scarce resources for anything useful. In a world where Rivian- an unproven company with unproven technology- has to scrape and scrimp for cash, people are a lot more thoughtful of where they are spending that cash.

[Griffin3]

Same thing, where they had (have?) that program to give a tablet and 5 years' internet to anyone who can fog a mirror. It's the other end of the scale, but the same fucking problem. We should be getting viciously angry when they spend "free" taxpayer money on useless crap like this, instead of all just going along to get along.

Alabama gave $2.9 million in CRF funds to Alabama Interactive LLC for "medical expenses" Georgia company registry lists it as a foreign LLC, Bloomberg says it's a software co.

Alabama gave $3.4 million in CRF funds to CJH Inc, of Waterloo Alabama. According to DNB, CJH is in the motion picture and videos industry and has 5 employees? CJH had already gotten $200k in PPP loans. What is going on here?

Viciously angry.

[Cyto]

Do you know how hard it is to hand out $8 trillion in graft?

I used to meet with a team from deutsche bank who had $20 billion to place in specialty asset money. They talked about how hard it was to find $20 billion in worthy investments that fit their parameters. They got paid high six figure salaries to do that job. Probably 7 figure bonuses.

Imagine having to hand out more than 100 times as much money... And using government employees to do it.

[Overt]

DING!

I know someone who works at Rivian, and he said the biggest problem there is everyone wants to do everything. This is the problem that only free cash can cause. When you are scraping and scrimping and saving to make it through the end of the quarter, it focuses your business IMMEDIATELY on what it is going to take to sell a product.

Imagine if Amazon had spend 10 years and $5 Billion to never sell a god damn thing. They weren't profitable- but that was because they were reinvesting their revenues in the business. And even that was pretty controversial. But Rivian has spent ten years producing jack and shit, and jack got out of town.

Again, this is the evil of loose monetary policy. It isn't just these small effects of higher prices, or lost productivity. Prices represent the collective decision making of the entire market. Prices going up isn't just a sign of prices fluctuating, it is a sign that the entire machine of integrating data is broken.

[(Redacted)]

Rivian was vastly overvalued at it’s IPO. I just read that their market cap,is now down around $25 billion. Which is still way too high.

[Griffin3]

No, but I know how expensive it is!

God Almighty, Jefferson County AL gave ANOTHER consulting firm, Witt O'Brien's, $974,000 just to tell them how to give out the rest of the grants. What do Democrat local governments even do?

[BestUsedCarSales]

It's a very fundamental confusion about what money is and what it does to our economy. The solution is one that people don't seem to want though: set up a long-term stable regulatory environment for work and development, probably deregulate industries more, let companies fail and win on their own.

[soldiermedic76]

They yet to build a reasonable electronic pickup truck that would work as a work vehicle. The F-150 lightening has half of the towing capacity as the F-150 Ecoboost with the 3.5 liter V-6. That matters a lot to construction, landscaping, farming, ranching, etc. Maybe to the suburban warrior it doesn't mean much, but to us who actually use our vehicles for more than weekend trips to the state park, it's a big deal.

[(Redacted)]

It’s very similar to the damage Obama did with his green subsidy grift. Worthless companies like Solyndra existed to launder money to Obama’s allies. In the process, they sucked up finite materials and talent that could have gone to real companies that existed to produce things of value.

[Mazakon]

"The street and sidewalk are public spaces, and it's legally permissible to protest there. The First Amendment rightly protects Americans whose displeasure with their government's policies compels them to engage in free expression—even if the form that expression takes is hostile and unpleasant. The Bill of Rights enshrines the people's right to protest; there is no right enjoyed by government actors to avoid witnessing protests."

But the Capitol building is sacred ground and all heretics must be removed and punished. /s

[Mother's Lament]

Only one was interference with democracy and our sacred processes something, something.

[Quicktown Brix]

Sacred ground? No. It's not where they were, but what they were doing.
I think both cases are interfering with democracy, but protesting outside SCOTUS members' houses to attempt to influence a decision, while probably illegal, and definitely distasteful, is not the same magnitude issue as trying to overturn an election.

[Don't look at me!]

…trying to overturn an election.

LOL

[Quicktown Brix]

OK. Let me reword. ...trying to block the certification of an election.

[Dace Highlander]

When demonstrators were pounding on the doors as Kavanaugh was being sworn in, that was totally acceptable though right?

[Quicktown Brix]

It was not acceptable at all. You may have assumed I'm left-wing, but really I'm an equal opportunity hater of both parties.

The left is already well criticized in these comments, but I also try to be a baffle in the Trump echo chamber here.

[American Mongrel]

Just mute the 3 trump psychos and mute the worst 5-8 on the left side too. The comments are much more enjoyable that way.
There is also one commenter who I think is just an tweaked out troll that you'll have to mute once a month as he changes his handle.

[Mike Laursen]

By the way, the commenter you are talking to is the infamous troll named “Tulpa”.

[Noriko Sneath]

Just like everyone who isn't a psychotic left wing Marxist like you. Notwithstanding that Dace Highlander has been posting here for about 8 years longer than you have.

[(Redacted)]

You’re not one to talk Mikey. You are part of the problem. Most of us here just want Americans to be free and left alone by leftist trash like your friends.

[Noriko Sneath]

LEAVE BIDEN ALONE! TWUMPY WUMPY MADE ME SUPER SCAWED WITH HIS SCAWWY INSUWWECTION!

Just because the only time you comment is to carry water for radical Marxists and make idiotic comparisons to justify the actions of left wing psychopaths doesn't make you a radical Marxist left wing psychopath. You're just super committed to whataboutism, as all right-thinking people are.

[Noriko Sneath]

A better question might be why you couldn't be fucked to submit a comment when radical leftists burned down 8 square blocks of Washington DC, including the livelihood of an immigrant limo driver who they beat the shit out of, after Trump was elected, but got super super scawed and felt compelled to share your super super scawed feewings when a couple hundred rednecks wandered through open doors into the capitol after being escorted in by FBI assets on bullhorns until one of them got shot in the face for misdemeanor trespass despite a 4-man SWAT team with automatic M4 rifles shouldered and trained on her back standing less than 10 feet behind her.

It's almost like you're just a partisan shank who only expresses outrage, disgust, and of course your pathetic quivering manufactured fear when you need to rush to the defense of radical leftists psychopaths or something.

[Mother's Lament]

They weren't even trying to do that. Nobody was more surprised than the protesters when the Hill Police removed the barricades, opened the doors and let them in.

Watch the unedited footage and stop being so gullible.

[Noriko Sneath]

But he was super super scawed! That's what's counts!

[Quicktown Brix]

I see the fact in front of my face and try not to listen to partisan hacks. Perhaps you're the one that's gullible.

[R Mac]

Who is Ray Epps?

[Quicktown Brix]

Time will tell, but the evidence he is a federal agent or that he convinced another to charge the barricades is weak in my opinion.

[R Mac]

“that he convinced another to charge the barricades is weak in my opinion.”

Despite multiple videos of him specifically calling for people to break into the capital?

[Quicktown Brix]

Yes. He was indeed recorded calling for people to charge in the capital, but those videos are from the night before, didn't seem to get any traction with the crowd and don't seem very relevant to the eventual break in on Jan 6.

Although I was specifically referring to the video with Epps and Samsel.

I think Epps is all talk and afraid to put his money where his mouth is.

[R Mac]

There’s video of Epps on 1/6. But you’ve clearly made your conclusion, despite pretending otherwise.

[Quicktown Brix]

It's all irrelevant if he's not a federal agent though.

[Mother's Lament]

"Perhaps you're the one that's gullible."

I'm not the idiot that thinks that they were actually trying to block the certification of an election even after watching the footage.

[Quicktown Brix]

No, I see you're not that idiot.

[Noriko Sneath]

It's not where they were, but what they were doing.

You're so right! Walking around within velvet ropes inside a public building after being escorted inside by capitol cops while an FBI plant on a bullhorn outside directed traffic before an unarmed woman was shot in the face was super scawwy, while paid lunatics doxxing supreme court justices and then showing up at their houses to intimidate them into changing their legal rulings while blocking the street and public access areas, including emergency services and law enforcement, was not scawwy. Thanks for clearing that up! Without your false equivalence I might not have been able to see how evil Trump was!

Shut the fuck up or get lit the fuck up, faggot. Your buttbuddies are a half step from pushing their psychotic violent bullshit to the point where they'll be counting Rosenbaum lucky that Rittenhouse was such a good shot.

[Quicktown Brix]

I'm not interested in trading insults and I don't care if you don't believe I'm not left-wing just because I sometimes criticize the right.

[Mother's Lament]

You're left-wing because you believe and repeat their obviously dishonest narrative.

Everything turned out to be a lie. The fire extinguisher beat down, the zipties bullshit, the poop smear story, the molotov cocktail story, the firearm and baseball bat story, and yet you're still trying to say completely unarmed people were trying to overthrow the government.

[(Redacted)]

Which is laughable on it’s face. The whole thing was probably a set up to use as propaganda. That becomes more clear every day. I figured as much when it was revealed that the Sergeant at Arms, who is under the authority of Pelosi, refused repeated offers of additional security from the While House.

[Quicktown Brix]

I may be wrong. I may be a fool. But that doesn't make me left wing. We can agree you are to the right of me however.

Overthrow the government?! No just a mob's poor plan to keep Trump in power. Of course there were many there for many reasons and peaceful protesters were undoubtedly there to only show their discontent.

[Quicktown Brix]

And yeah, of course the democrats are going to take advantage and exaggerate Trump supporters' bad behavior.

[Sevo]

Or murdered if they might later do something lefty shits could dislike:
JasonT20
February.6.2022 at 6:02 pm
“How many officers were there to stop Ashlee Babbitt and the dozens of people behind her from getting into the legislative chamber to do who knows what?...”

[Sevo]

This thread is labeled "TAXES"?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hush. Editorial logic is racist.

[crtum]

I think they are at the wrong house. Congress has had 50 years to fix this

[R Mac]

And give up all those donations?

[Sevo]

"...But Black schoolmates recall that he spent time with Black friends..."

Was this confirmed by White schoolmates?

[R Mac]

“I have a black friend” is clearly a dog whistle.

[BestUsedCarSales]

"I have a black dog" is clearly a friend whistle. Everyone loves black labs.

[R Mac]

I have two black dogs. What does that say about me?

[(Redacted)]

I watched a movie called ‘black chicks with white sticks’. What does that say about me?

[Dace Highlander]

Isn’t EVERYONE who says they have a black friend racist? I’m sure I have seen that several times.

[(Redacted)]

And not having black friends is clearly racist. So it’s like being VC, or we’ll disciplined VC.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1523496042917900290?t=3p6HJk4iLXJnbSp0qG1mTA&s=19

Reporter on conservatives: “may these people never know a moment of peace or safety until they rot in the ground.”

[Link]

[Mother's Lament]

From the comments: "Pronouns in bio. Every time"

[Noriko Sneath]

Fuck around and find out, faggot. Last I heard these are the same pussy ass faggot cunts who got ventilated by a 17 year old boy.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

Come on robby if your replacing the retard lefty ENB you can atleat not talk about abortion. Any new in the department of environmental justice, or the ministry of truth?

[Moonrocks]

No, it has to be abortion. You know, because only Republicans can do Culture War.

[DRM]

The street and sidewalk are public spaces, and it's legally permissible to protest there.

Is it really? 18 US Code § 1507 is still a Federal law, and Frisby v Schultz (1988) hasn't been overturned.

[R Mac]

Robbie’s just reporting on the truth of the situation: with a lefty running DOJ, laws don’t apply to lefties.

[Dace Highlander]

Just wondering which herb/insecticide is legal to put on your lawn prior to protests?

[R Mac]

I was thinking tossing some stink bombs out the front door.

[(Redacted)]

Are there any acids that can be run through a sprinkler system that doesn’t ruin the lawn?

[Michael Ejercito]

What are the legal, moral, and ethical customs and traditions about protesting at the hones of jydges and justices about cases they may decide?

[Bill Godshall]

Every American should be outraged that FIVE intolerant Conservative Catholics are conspiring to impose sexist Papal decree into US law, and deprive ALL American women of their 49-year-old federal right to abortion services and contraception.

This is the same intolerant Catholic Church that enabled, emboldened and then lied about up hundreds/thousands of pedophilic molestations of children throughout the world, and that still refuses to allow women to become priests, bishops, cardinals or popes.

The Catholic Church banned abortion in every country where most people are Catholic, led the lobbying campaigns to ban abortion in virtually every US State and other nations where abortion was/is banned and/or severely restricted.

America is not a Catholic theocracy controlled by the Pope. But five obedient Catholics on SCOTUS are about to rule otherwise.

I predict two thirds of women in swing districts and states will vote for Democrat Governors, State AGs, State Legislatures, US House and US Senate in November.

Looks like the Pope's SCOTUS will allow the Democrats to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

[Nardz]

Eat a bullet, prog

[Bill Godshall]

Except I'm a freedom loving libertarian, and a registered Republican who voted for Trump twice.

[Nardz]

You're a decrepit piece of shit activist who declared allegiance to totalitarian leftism if your sacrament of fetal homicide is in question.

[Mother's Lament]

You're a panicky bien pensant who's deliberately and dishonestly misrepresented what I said every time I discussed the topic with you.

[Noriko Sneath]

Except you're actually a historically illiterate stupid piece of shit who sticks his shit-covered cock into other men's asses. No part of this discussion has anything to do with you, and it would be better for you and everyone else if you didn't flaunt your sub-average IQ in a conversation that you not only don't understand, but that quite literally will never affect you, since you do not have sexual relations with women and instead ejaculated your semen into a man's asshole. Regardless of what you might have heard from the CDC, NIH, WaPo and Democratic Underground, your ejaculation into another man's asshole carries with absolutely no possibility of pregnancy. Hope that helps ease your feeble mind.

[Bill Godshall]

Except I'm hetero and have been happily married for 32 years.

In sharp contrast, Popes have enabled and emboldened Catholic Priests to engage in homosexual activities (because they aren't allowed to have sex with or get married to women) with thousands of boys all over the world.

[Griffin3]

Nardz is kind of an asshole to anyone who doesn't follow the Nardz party line. I'm pretty sure he ran Ken Schultz out of here for the crime of having different, well-thought out opinions. Pretty much, don't feed the trolls is the correct move.

That being said, I don't think women are going to vote for democrats because of this, in any numbers like you are talking about. The women that would likely be swayed by this argument are already voting democrat. The economy is going to be down the shitter by October, and there will be no greater influence among the bulk of Americans by then, no matter how much free money the gov't throws at it.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Nardz is kind of an asshole to anyone who doesn't follow the Nardz party line. I'm pretty sure he ran Ken Schultz out of here for the crime of having different, well-thought out opinions. Pretty much, don't feed the trolls is the correct move.

Ken wasn't run out of here by Nardz, he left because he was getting shit from even less strident commenters that he'd gone way off the reservation by freaking out over Ukraine and Russia. There's a fucking mute button he could have employed on Nardz at any time, so any complaints about cyberbullying were entirely self-inflicted.

[American Mongrel]

Yeah. Many non psychos also participated in the non stop bullying. Ken tried to play their game and gave up. We still have SM76 though.

[soldiermedic76]

Not sure if I should be flattered or insulted?

[R Mac]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t you criticize Ken at one point as well when he was over the line on Ukraine?

[soldiermedic76]

Probably. I've been condemned by both sides. I am either a dupe who buys the Ukrainian propaganda or a tool of Putin. Depends on the day and who is responding.

[R Mac]

I like Ken and hope he comes back, but it’s not bullying to point out to someone that they’re treating a complex issue as a simple one, and calling anyone who was trying to discuss it in a complex way a Putin puppet.

[Nardz]

I'm a dick to disingenuous people who advance the cause of leftist totalitarianism.
I wasn't a dick to Ken until he started following me around calling me a "Russian/Putin propagandist" for disputing the State Department narrative. I think it's crazy that he melted down so badly, but so be it.
Bill is an asshole who brags about being an anti smoking activist, said he'd vote democrat if the R was anti tax subsidized abortion on demand, and above throws a tantrum justifying leftist mob intimidation of judges.
You can call me a troll all you like, or you can consider the big picture.
I may be harsh, but I'm reasonable when warranted.

[Griffin3]

Reasonable people can be on the left. "Eat a bullet" doesn't help any conversation, and doesn't help the big picture; comments like this just shit over all the threads so no one wants to read them.

Thanks, Red Rocks. I saw them going at it like 3rd graders at the time, then a week later saw Ken was gone. I assumed Nardz was at fault, but didn't see it happen, so guess I assumed wrong. As Lament sways below, it's a shame, because he wrote better stuff about the political economics than most of the Reason writers.

[sarcasmic]

Reasonable people can be on the left. "Eat a bullet" doesn't help any conversation, and doesn't help the big picture; comments like this just shit over all the threads so no one wants to read them.

If you can't engage with what someone says, call them names to shut down the conversation. It's a basic rule around here.

[Don't look at me!]

Ideas!

[Mother's Lament]

sarcasmic
May.9.2022 at 12:29 pm
Ken lost his mind after the election and his comments started going off the rails. He's probably gibbering in a padded room somewhere.

[R Mac]

Enough with the ad hominem ML.

[Noriko Sneath]

If that's the basic rule around here, you were the Moses who ascended the mount to receive it.

(now watch the pathetic drunken welfare queen call me a Trumpista and then say I'm Tulpa. even though I already called it. the poor fucking bitch can't help himself. it's a compulsion)

[Square = Circle]

I saw them going at it like 3rd graders at the time, then a week later saw Ken was gone.

Ken is brilliant and writes some great stuff, but once he's staked a position and someone else disagrees he can be . . . intractable.

When he started calling Nardz a Russian propagandist for posting something about Ukraine that Ken didn't like and implying that reason should remove it, a number of people took Nardz's side, which made Ken double down. There was something of a pile-on that went well beyond the usual suspects, and Ken hasn't been round since.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Ken is brilliant and writes some great stuff, but once he's staked a position and someone else disagrees he can be . . . intractable.

Ken was emotionally invested in the conflict on a level that was way beyond what even the ordinary commenters here thought was healthy. Ken was pretty transparent and I don't think he mentioned having family there, but that's the only reason I can think of for him being that strident about it.

[Hank Ferrous]

Intractable is generous on his Ukraine opinions. Biased to the point of feverishness is probably closer.

[Mother's Lament]

"I'm pretty sure he ran Ken Schultz out of here for the crime of having different, well-thought out opinions."

Ken was behaving just as poorly as Nardz was at the time, and if White Mike and Sarc's little harrassment campaign didn't force him off prior, I doubt Nardz could.

That said, I miss Ken and hope he comes back soon.

[Square = Circle]

The women that would likely be swayed by this argument are already voting democrat.

Yes, but this will drive turnout at a time when even Democrat loyalists are otherwise pretty 'meh' about the sitting administration.

[sarcasmic]

Ken lost his mind after the election and his comments started going off the rails. He's probably gibbering in a padded room somewhere.

[Mother's Lament]

Sarcasmic never attacks anyone, he's about ideas. It's everyone else who's tu hominem ad quoque and stuff.

[Don't look at me!]

Ideas!

[Noriko Sneath]

Coming from the guy who spent 2 years telling us that anyone who refused to wear a cloth nappy on their face was personally responsible for the death of his grandparents, after the previous 5 years breathlessly regaling us about Trump's pee pee tape and Russian hacking of the election, followed by celebrating an unarmed woman being shot in the face to own the cons, this is pretty rich.

[Noriko Sneath]

Nardz may very well be all those things, but at least he can fucking read a username before he replies like a retarded cunt.

[Noriko Sneath]

Except you're not actually a heterosexual, have posted in the past as a homosexual, and behave as a homosexual. Particularly the part where you shove your turgid penis, such as it is, into other men's assholes, and then receive their turgid penises into your own asshole in turn.

Also I don't give a fuck about anything catholics or their demigod have to say about anything because I'm not an obsessive-compulsive faggot like you are. I'm just not a historically illiterate retarded faggot who blames the pope for supreme court rulings when its convenient even if it's completely wrong. I didn't see you flying into histrionics like the female-mimicking overcompensating homosexual you are when the majority-catholic court made it legal for you to fuck your boyfriend in all 50 states, or when the majority-catholic court made it legal for you to get married to your AIDS-riddled partner so you could collect their social security, or when the majority-catholic court reinterpreted the word "sex" to mean "gender and gender expression" so they could force a Christian mortuary to employ a faggot like you who also liked to show up to work dressed in women's clothing. It's possible to be a bitchy faggot without also being a historically illiterate abject mouth-breathing moron. Just not for you.

[Hank Ferrous]

'Freedom loving libertarian,' there has been zero evidence of that. Your history of laughably false assertions and this 'theocracy' and 'Pope's SCOTUS' hyperventilating says progressive cretin though.

[DRM]

I predict two thirds of women in swing districts and states will vote for Democrat Governors, State AGs, State Legislatures, US House and US Senate in November.

So, you're an utter moron, got it.

[Bill Godshall]

Recent polling found that >60% of American women had already planned to vote Democrat in November (before the SCOTUS brief was leaked).

I also predict that Democrat Josh Shapiro will be PA's next Governor (as all GOP gubernatorial candidates have said their pro-life, while Shapiro said he'll veto any bill banning abortion enacted by PA's GOP legislature).

[Noriko Sneath]

Why don't you link to that data? Oh, right, because it doesn't exist and you pulled it directly out of your asshole along with your boyfriend's cock and a few teaspoons of semen.

[Bill Godshall]

The survey was highlighted by the WSJ a month ago (before the SCOTUS leak).

[Noriko Sneath]

Then it should be really easy to provide the source. And yet you haven't.

[R Mac]

Was that before or after the baby formula shortage and 6 dollar gas?

[Noriko Sneath]

Bill is one of those hyper-effeminate gay men who presumes to speak for all women just because he likes to take a chub. Women *must* vote as a monolithic bloc on the single issue of killing their offspring. They just *must*! Everyone Bill knows voted for McGovern!

[Bill Godshall]

Speaking of intolerant theocrats, the Taliban have banned all Afghanistan women from being in public unless their entire body (save eye slots) is covered, banned them from working in most jobs, and banned them from attending school.

They are now fining and imprisoning male relatives of women who go in public without covering their bodies (even in 110 degree heat).

[Nardz]

Says the piece of shit who's spent his life as an activist trying to get tobacco outlawed and claims leftist totalitarianism is preferable to personal responsibility.

[Bill Godshall]

In fact, I've spent the past 20 years campaigning against bills/regulations proposed in federal, state and local governments that ban the manufacture, sale and use (and that taxi) smokefree tobacco/nicotine products (including smokeless tobacco, snus, dissolvables and vapes) because smokefree alternatives are 99% less harmful than daily cigarette smoking.

In sharp contrast, Big Pharma, Big Medicine, Big Tobacco, and Big Government (especially the FDA) have teamed up to protect cigarettes, Nicorette, Nicoderm and Chantix markets by lying about and lobbying to ban and excessively tax all smokefree alternatives.

[Noriko Sneath]

Did you know that you are about 2 orders of magnitude more likely to die from complications of AIDS or Hepatitis as a result of shoving your penis into another man's asshole and allowing another man to shove his penis into your asshole than you are from any form of tobacco? Food for thought.

[Bill Godshall]

Seems like Noriko Sneath is obsessed with gay anal sex (just like many Catholic priests) .

[Dace Highlander]

Also like the Biden hunters.

[Noriko Sneath]

I'm just a concerned advocate for public health, Willy. You seem rather obsessed with gay Catholic priests and their sexual relations with children. Like, really, really, really obsessed. To the point where it consumes your every thought such that you fabricate insane conspiracy theories about a papist cabal on the same supreme court that legalized gay marriage and forced employers to hire trannies. But really, make sure you wrap up when you stick your shit-encrusted penis into your partner's asshole, and insist that he wraps up when he sticks his shit-encrusted penis into your asshole. I'd hate to see you waste away in a hospital bed dying of AIDS.

[Noriko Sneath]

Kinda funny how the United States, when it formally discriminated against Catholics, had no formal recognition of abortion and it was illegal or regulated in every single state in the union.

It's almost like you're a historically ignorant stupid cunt who is as dumb as a pile of week old dog shit and doesn't have a fucking clue what he is talking about.

What always amazes me is how faggot men who fuck other men in the asshole are so concerned about women being able to kill their children. This is an issue that literally doesn't concern you in any way, shape or form, faggot. Now scurry along back to Democratic Underground and see if one of the 86 IQ faggots over there can help you out with a talking point that's at least tangentially connected to reality.

[Bill Godshall]

Today's WSJ editorial delineates how the Catholic Church has campaigned to ban abortion in European countries, and succeeded most in countries with large Catholic populations.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-abortion-law-roe-v-wade-supreme-court-european-union-leak-alito-dobbs-pro-life-choice-civil-womens-rights-11651757568?mod=opinion_lead_pos2

Same thing happened in the US, as the Catholic Church led the lobbing campaigns to ban abortion in virtually every state where it was/is banned and severely restricted.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

If only the Supreme Court were seeking to "ban abortion" there'd be an argument here.

[Hank Ferrous]

Facts, these are not important when one has The Narrative.

[Mother's Lament]

delineates how the Catholic Church has campaigned to ban abortion in European countries"

So what? If you think that abortion is killing people you'd be a monster if you didn't. What a stupid attack.

"and succeeded most in countries with large Catholic populations"

How? Ireland was the only country in Europe where it was illegal, and they legalized it in 2018. This is flat out dishonest.

[Noriko Sneath]

This is flat out dishonest.

His entire papist conspiracy is. This idiotic cockholster is literally trying to argue that 18th century New England was rife with catholic svengalis who used their papist tricknology to force the 99% protestant population to ban abortion against their will. Dude is seriously fucked up, and even more seriously retarded.

[Noriko Sneath]

I call you out for saying idiotic shit about the history of catholicism and abortion regulations in the *UNITED STATES* and you link me to an editorial about the catholic church in *MAJORITY CATHOLIC EUROPEAN COUNTRIES*. Followed by repeating the same idiotic assertion from your original historically illiterate post that I already obliterated. Goddamn Willy, you're more retarded than I gave you credit for. Show me on the doll where the catholic priest helped you discover your no-no place.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Every American should be outraged that FIVE intolerant Conservative Catholics are conspiring to impose sexist Papal decree into US law, and deprive ALL American women of their 49-year-old federal right to abortion services and contraception.

Wait, what? They're doing nothing of the sort. If Roe V Wade went away tomorrow, abortion would still be 100% legal in my state.

[Mother's Lament]

In every argument I've had with Bill he's been dishonest.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Show us on the doll where the Catholic priest touched you.

[R Mac]

Pretty clear that’s what happened to him or someone he knows.

[mad.casual]

IDK, that side of the aisle, it seems like there are plenty who wish the priest would've touched them and consider themselves doomed to wander through a meaningless purgatory otherwise.

[sarcasmic]

Dude, Monty Python is not a documentary.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Damn it, I should have read further down in the thread before I used up my cross burning to fight the papacy joke.

[R Mac]

It was good enough to use twice.

[soldiermedic76]

Oh boy, another person who thinks it's all a religious conspiracy. Maybe it's time to stop reading Dan Brown books.

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

The First Amendment rightly protects Americans whose displeasure with their government's policies compels them to engage in free expression—even if the form that expression takes is hostile and unpleasant. The Bill of Rights enshrines the people's right to protest; there is no right enjoyed by government actors to avoid witnessing protests.

18 USC 1507

[DRM]

Musk reportedly told investors that he intends to fire as many as 1,000 Twitter employees.

The size of Twitter's staff went from 5,500 at the end of 2020 to 7,500 at the end of 2021 . . . and Musk has only "as many as 1,000" targets in his sights?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What do you call 1000 fired Twitter employees at the bottom of the sea?

[Don't look at me!]

A start?

[Hank Ferrous]

Not good enough.

[Griffin3]

A good step on the way to Twitter profitability?
[esp when censor in chief is making $17mm/yr]

[Spiritus Mundi]

Chum

[Quo Usque Tandem]

I was going to say shark food, but that pretty well covers it.

[Mother's Lament]

"Musk reportedly told investors"

I thought Musk was buying it outright. Who are the investors? The folks loaning him the money?

[Noriko Sneath]

He's taking on several large investors, including the Qatari sheikhs, to facilitate the purchase. Whether they are going to receive equity or he is simply borrowing in the form of loans or bonds is not clear from any of the reporting I've seen, because journalists, including "business journalists" are the dumbest motherfuckers to ever be shat out of an ax wound in the history of planet earth next to Bill "I fuck other men in their asshole and yet wrap up a significant part of my identity in women being allowed to legally kill their children before, during, and after birth" Godshall.

[soldiermedic76]

Science journalists are the worst. They can't even get basic shit right.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1523671001917050881?t=3azd9RDtNrVWu-S5bc7qjw&s=19

Justice Alito and his family have now reportedly been moved to an undisclosed location. The image of a justice and his family in hiding captures the collapse of our values as a nation.

...We can add that image to the trifecta of images discussed earlier: all three symbols of our constitutional branches surrounded by security fencing over the last two years -- protected from our own people.

[Links]

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

But don't worry, it's only Trump and his supporters who are undermining our norms and values.

[Mother's Lament]

Imagine if Trump supporters had forced Supreme Court justices into hiding over a ruling that hasn't even happened. Imagine if Trump had refused to condemn and even encouraged it like the current administration.

But this is the kind of thing that happens when an illegitimate junta takes over a country. Remember, remember the eighth of November.

[Cronut]

ENB says Alito has no right to the safety and sanctity of his home.

She also is apparently too fucking stupid to understand that if this is allowed to continue, all norms and institutions are moot and it's nothing but mob rule. She seems to think that things will just cruise along like normal, not realizing that this road leads to nothing but violence.

I suppose, like all idiot leftists, she's counting on the right's willingness to keep playing by the rules while the left does whatever they want.

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

she's counting on the right's willingness to keep playing by the rules while the left does whatever they want.

This is key, and I've been saying it for years now. The only reason the Left gets away with its bullshit is because those on the Right still play by the rules of Enlightenment Liberal values. Their calls for racial identitarianism and mass censorship only works when the other side opposes those things. If the Right decides to accept these as the battle lines, things will get very, very ugly.

[I, Woodchipper]

Can you imagine the media reaction if a bunch of MAGAs were protesting at a justice's house over something?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

There's no point in indulging in the "just imagine if the roles were reversed!" rhetoric. The left can do this because they have control of the institutions that encourage it and run top cover for these activities.

[Nardz]

^

[Quo Usque Tandem]

^^

You described the situation perfectly. Media being the main institution that, if not outright controlled, is nothing by sympathetic to them.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Mobs for democracy!

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1523631361545834496?t=9yb1LrpCCmvGX2EbvS3nPg&s=19

They stole an election.
Injected half the world with poison.
And are collapsing the supply chain, food supply, dollar, and global economy.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1523670182635667456?t=vHCdCP644cVQNVMAKxiCww&s=19

SCOOP: Utah public health officials were warned that allocating COVID drugs based on race violated federal law—but did so anyway with the backing of the Biden administration.

We've got the receipts.

[Thread, links]

[Derp-o-Matic 6000]

Joke's on them, though, because the vaccine doesn't work. And might give you blood clots.

[Noriko Sneath]

Considering that black men are the highest risk group for sickle cell anemia despite race being a social construct, I wonder if taking an experimental therapeutic that causes blood clots and myocarditis among young men was an accident of science and politics or yet another advancement in Margaret Sanger's moist dreams.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Look, if I can shout "Fire!" in a burning theater, then I certainly can shout "Fire!" if I don't like changes in theater policy, since I might then burn the place down.

[Cronut]

"The First Amendment rightly protects Americans whose displeasure with their government's policies compels them to engage in free expression—even if the form that expression takes is hostile and unpleasant."

Now do J6, you lying hack.

[Noriko Sneath]

The First Amendment rightly protects Americans whose displeasure with their government's policies compels them to engage in free expression—even if the form that expression takes is hostile and unpleasant.

Actually, you illiterate pig-ignorant cocksucking faggot pussy bitch who can't change a fucking tire, the first amendment text reads as follows:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Since you're such a stupid piece of shit, let me help you with the definition of a plain English word:

peace·a·ble (pē′sə-bəl)
adj.
1. Inclined or disposed to peace; promoting calm: They met in a peaceable spirit.
2. Peaceful; undisturbed.

See the difference between "peaceably" and "hostile" you sub-literate stupid bitch? Or do you need some more assistance?

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Nice, but don't prevaricate about the proverbial bush, tell them how you really feel!

[JimboJr]

So a retard in a viking helmet was an existential threat and his mere presence in the capitol made AOC and the other congress bitches fear for their lives but these same people are ok with intentionally encircling someone's house with the express intent of at minimum being hostile and most likely intimidation (based on how they normally "peacefully protest").

Its COVID hypocrisy all over again. It was "my body my choice" until their govt goons decided it was "your body, now STFU and do what the nanny state says".

These people will betray every one of their "principles" when it comes to gaining and keeping power. In case you ever feel like giving them the benefit of the doubt, dont

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

To understand the "logic" and "ethics" of progressive Democrats, you have to spend some time living with a certified drama queen 13 year old girl.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

I have a 29 year old niece who fits that description, and probably always will.

[Noriko Sneath]

but these same people are ok with intentionally encircling someone's house with the express intent of at minimum being hostile and most likely intimidation (based on how they normally "peacefully protest").

The McCloskey's had their lives and careers destroyed for standing on their lawn with firearms when a pack of Burn Loot Murder savages were threatening to drag them out of their house and kill them. Normally the king's men get special privileges that us mere peasants do not. To be honest, I kinda like it this way. Let them eat the cake they helped bake.

[Dace Highlander]

“ Let them eat the cake they helped bake.” I see what you did there.

[Dillinger]

>>Pro-choice activists protested

it's not like they had dates.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The BBC has announced a new Doctor Who: Sex Education actor Ncuti Gatwa.

Well at least this time it's a man instead of a white woman.

[Cronut]

".@POTUS strongly believes in the Constitutional right to protest. But that should never include violence, threats, or vandalism. Judges perform an incredibly important function in our society, and they must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety."

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1523649143951962115?s=20&t=TEyTvR3swTd5zfyVDOzDAw

Must have polled badlt over the weekend.

[Moonrocks]

What are the chances that the Dems' backlash have erased whatever political gains this leak could have gained them?

[Cronut]

If they STFU right now, they may be able to salvage something.

But they won't STFU. The dems traded their party to the Faith Militant. Predictably, they've lost control of them. The green haired pro-abort fatties will keep on with half naked shreiking, and morons will talk about how proud they are for courageously killing an inconvenient child.

Most people support legal abortion with some restrictions, but they find things like, "Shout your abortion" repugnant.

[ElvisIsReal]

They won't be able to. This is what I'm writing about today.

[Nardz]

It's as if their play... has been aborted

[R Mac]

Needed a “dons sunglasses”.

[soldiermedic76]

I said that this weekend. The optics have been terrible. It's almost like they want to lose.

[(Redacted)]

Look at them. They’re all twisted, ragIng freaks that hate the world. They don’t know how to do anything other than shriek and foam at the mouth.

[Illocust]

That is a surprisingly straight forward denunciation. Wonder why the administration didn't let the protestors run wild like with BLM?

[Cronut]

They were protesting in a rich, white Virgina neighborhood.

[soldiermedic76]

Someone has started figuring out this shit turns off most everyone but the most committed base.

[Hank Ferrous]

It did indeed, if I recall, the cnn poll showed that the Alito leak will have negligible impact on the mid-terms. If the dipshits do as they typically do: lie, burn, loot, harass and attack people with opposing viewpoints, shriek with glee when something awful happens, then any possible gains are likely to vanish. The opposite result is highly likely, the groundswell of anti-progressive sentiment will grow.

[Cronut]

I suppose it's somewhat hopeful that someone, somewhere in the party realized that's a losing strategy and that most people aren't on board with progressive policies. Too bad for them, it's too late. They already traded the party to the progressives in the name of TDS, and now they owe.

The progs aren't taking it well:

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/05/09/looks-like-jen-psaki-and-whs-weak-about-face-on-threats-and-violence-against-scotus-justices-pissed-off-the-pro-aborts-too/

[Hank Ferrous]

Rico, not for nothing, the protesting was not confined to sidewalks. It was very clearly in the street, and to (some degree?) hindering passage of traffic. This is the norm, it seems, for the in-group who believe that their right to express their outrage overrides all other rights of any other groups and people.

[Cronut]

I didn't even realize this was Robby today. Most of the links were about abortion, so I just assumed it was ENB.

Robby, when people mistake you for ENB, you have problems.

[Minadin]

Robby, isn't this one of your co-hosts?

https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1522784883885674496

That chick is unhinged.

[Hank Ferrous]

'Establishment Clause cancelled?' Except when & where the federal government has helped in the creation of a religion surrounding abortion rights. Or mask and vaccine mandates. Or rape on college campuses. Or 'anti-racism.' Yes, she's not very bright. Or, maybe she's bright but very delusional.

[R Mac]

Or just evil.

[Minadin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7cTR71-ltM

[R Mac]

11 mins? I’m not listening to Robbie talk for 11 mins. Summary please?

[Mother's Lament]

Just admire the hair. That's what most of us are doing.

[R Mac]

Did you put it on mute? That’s how I watch country music videos. Remember when rock videos had hot chicks? Sigh.

[Hank Ferrous]

Rico's hair could easily get a side gig selling tech futures, luxury aircraft, cryogenic pods, you name it. I'm surprised it hasn't lit out on its own.

[Minadin]

Summary is that she's a douche canoe.

[R Mac]

Thanks!

[Minadin]

"The BBC has announced a new Doctor Who: Sex Education actor Ncuti Gatwa."

Gotta check all those intersectional boxes. The show became unwatchable about halfway through Peter Capaldi's run.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

The BBC has announced a new Doctor Who: Sex Education actor Ncuti Gatwa.

Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chinballs destroyed the show. Go back to Capaldi's death scene, retcon everything after that, and go back to the stories and style of Tennant's tenure.

And bring Amy Pond back.

[Hank Ferrous]

+1 Amy Pond

[Dillinger]

^^ this. is Karen ready to give up her dreams of movie stardom?

[Briggs Cunningham]

Bring back Jenna Coleman. She is adorable.

[Hank Ferrous]

Clara was indeed fantastic. Am also a fan of Rose.

[soldiermedic76]

In a related note, watched the first episode of Strange New Worlds. Okay, female heavy cast, okay whatever. Last five minutes blatantly blaming conservatives for WWIII in the timeline. Hopefully this doesn't turn into another STD, as it was a fairly entertaining episode and much more like TOS and TNG. And was fairly episodic, which isn't a bad thing for Hollywood to go back to. I don't need an unresolved storyline for every show that takes all season to finish.

[(Redacted)]

Also need to get Murray Gold doing the score again.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

A quick reminder for the abortion maximalists that, if you insist on raw-dogging it with your Tindr hookup or significant other (which constitutes the vast majority of abortions), the rubber falls off, or he doesn't pull out in time and you have an "oopsie," and live in a modern-day Gilead (consoooooooooooome another teevee show, you masochists), the morning-after pill is about $50 at Walgreens or CVS. You don't even have to worry about making that appointment with Planned Parenthood.

Making that shit fully OTC would make things even easier.

Or, you could recognize that your support for abortion all the way up until even after the birth is actually in the minority, but most people do want at least some leeway for it to take place. Keep pushing quasi-infanticide, though, and you're going to see a lot more hardcore restriction laws passed.

[mad.casual]

Groups that offer online abortion consulting for abortion drugs, which can be delivered by mail, are seeing a surge in interest, especially from Republican states.

I'm calling absolute 100% fake news bullshit here. I don't even have to look beyond the 'politico' in the link to know that it's some stupid, "We saw a statistically insignificant uptick of 5% +/- 7.5% in eyeballs and they came predominantly from the most majorly populated states, which includes FL and TX. Ergo, even some Republicans are concerned about losing Roe v. Wade."

Astounding these stupid ghosts that the left believes exist, that can be looking into telemedicine months before a SCOTUS decision but can't seem to find contraceptives or abortion pills until months after they've conceived. I wonder if these stupid fictitious women are somehow related to the black people the left needs to show up at the polls but remain too stupid to know where their local DMV is the other 1460 days every 4 yrs.?

[Mother's Lament]

Well said

[soldiermedic76]

5% +/- 7.5%. So not even outside the margin of error. Yeah that's definitive proof.

[R Mac]

Any reason this story wasn’t included in your coverage? Other than it doesn’t fit the narrative?

https://madison.com/news/local/watch-now-madison-anti-abortion-headquarters-hit-by-apparent-molotov-cocktail-vandalism-graffiti/article_526660ea-776d-50ca-9baa-4b4a9337dca7.html

Reason continues to lose credibility.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I know of at least two Churches that have been vandalized as well.

[R Mac]

It’s amazing how peaceful protests can be if you ignore all those that aren’t.

[I, Woodchipper]

REVEALED: Elon Musk plans to fire 1,000 Twitter staff, quintuple revenue, get 69 million users paying $3 a month and cut reliance on advertising income, his presentation to investors shows https://t.co/xJ6HkLv6MH

This sounds like a great plan, how do I invest?

EVERY SINGLE member of any team that was involved in blocking or banning info that turned out to be true should be fired on day. They literally failed at their job, a job that shoudlnt even exist but nonetheless they failed spectacularly.

[JasonAZ]

EVERY SINGLE member of any team that was involved in blocking or banning info. End sentence.

Fixed that for you.

[Cronut]

Here is something not about abortion:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/05/09/the-password-for-hunter-bidens-laptop-from-hell-is-what-youd-expect-n2606926

The password for Hunter Biden's laptop was "analfuck69."

[Don't look at me!]

SPB uses analfuck13yo

[R Mac]

Lol.

[Mother's Lament]

He's a like every rich kid douchebag stereotype ever.

[Cronut]

Except he's in his 50s.

[HorseConch]

And he only got rich by multiple generations of grifting.

[(Redacted)]

Yeah, the Biden’s are worthless parasites.

[BestUsedCarSales]

This is funny, but I get it man. I get it. All my passwords are also long strings of profanity and rap lyrics.

[Cronut]

One system I used at work had absurd password requirments of 8 characters (total), one letter one number, and one of fhe following special characters: @#$&. And you had to change it every 90 days.

So I made it my mission to see how many obscene passwords Just could create within those limits.

[BestUsedCarSales]

They're easier to remember. AnalFuck69 is just funny to me. It's immature, but this is definitely closer to a Carlos Danger level embarrassing thing than a real issue. Hunter, unfortunately, has enough things that actually seem like a real issue to care about this.

I do love the story though, because it makes me laugh.

[Think It Through]

"or something to that extent" does a lot of work in the actual recollection.

"“My password is f–ked up. Don’t be offended!” he said, before announcing that it was “analf–k69” or something to that extent."

[(Redacted)]

It’s HUnter’s favorite thing. He loves being pegged.

[JohnZ]

First of all, the SCOTUS DID NOT overturn Roe V Wade. They simply made it clear that it was a matter of each individual state. So the media, as usual, spins it around, much as they did when the Florida Legislature and DeSantis passed the Parental Rights bill and once again the liberal media spun it to say "Don't say gay " bill.
The mainstream media is not to be trusted for one moment to report anything truthfully or with factual evidence. Most of the time they make shit up.
Secondly, the person who leaked the decision, obviously working inside the Court will become a pariah. Once their name is leaked out, their career in law is over before it began. They're finished. They might be able to get a job as a court appointed attorney somewhere in some backwater Mississippi or in western Washington but otherwise, they should consider a new career, like maybe a check out at a dollar store.

[Mother's Lament]

They'll go on a speaking tour, invites to the Oscars and the Met, a book deal, a nice job at a Soros political action committee, a congressional run which they won't win but will clean up in donations on, a summer house in Nantucket and an apartment in New York, etc.

[BestUsedCarSales]

First of all, the SCOTUS DID NOT overturn Roe V Wade.

Not yet, though the draft would in fact do that if it becomes the majority opinion. It's that overturning that allows it to become a state issue again. This is an important time to have one's facts straight. It also allows us to understand that this distortion is because of Roe V. Wade.

And if they do discover who did this, they will almost certainly be disbarred. They will also become a folk hero. I don't know if criminal charges can be brought, though I hope they do. I am not certain they will find them though.

[R Mac]

I predicted from the start if they don’t catch them within a couple days they never will.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Is there some Reasonable equivalent that exists for Reason anymore? So, some plug-in for the comment section to help make it more readable?

[Think It Through]

Taiwan: don't give a one-sentence teaser of a linked article, if the link is behind a paywall. Just don't.

[JeremyR]

It's pretty silly capitalizing Black (as in race) in the same paragraph as not capitalizing white (as in race). Pick one or the other.

[Dillinger]

by example, they did pick.

[middlefinger]

There’s the angry emotional mob violence surrounding the highest court in the land and most progressive cities, so that’s going on. There’s runaway inflation- no infant formula, construction materials out, up and over. It looks like the CCP makes water vaccines or they’re locking down Shanghai just for fun ( how much did the IMF transfer per vaccine?). Our southern border is open. We have no idea what the population of the U.S. is- sanctuary by plane, boat, border. A gang of lads just stole hundreds of Kevlar vests that were ready to be shipped to Ukraine. There’s been astronomical divestment from fossil fuels without alternatives or nuclear. There’s a new ministry of truth and a DOJ climate justice force… And the guy who wants to run Twitter thinks he going to be sethriched.

Now I can devote my life to positivity and non reality fiction.

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[(Redacted)]

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[Quo Usque Tandem]

Death mute to bots.