These Louisiana Inmates Served Their Sentences, but the State Wouldn't Let Them Go
Plus: A potential fusion energy breakthrough, the possible return of the child tax credit, and more...
Johnny Traweek was supposed to be released from prison on May 3, 2018, but it wasn't until 19 days later that he was actually freed. Traweek did nothing behind bars to extend his sentence. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections simply hadn't processed his paperwork in time to release him on his release date.
Traweek's story—brought to the broader public's attention by The New York Times yesterday—isn't an anomaly. "Roughly 200 inmates are held beyond their legal release dates on any given month in Louisiana, amounting to 2,000 to 2,500 of the 12,000 to 16,000 prisoners freed each year," the Times reports. "The average length of additional time was around 44 days in 2019, according to internal state corrections data obtained by lawyers for inmates—and until recently, the department's public hotline warned families that the wait could be as long as 90 days." One inmate the Times talked to served an additional 18 months due to a paperwork snafu.
This is unconscionable. People in Louisiana are serving their sentences and then just…waiting. Behind bars. With no idea when bureaucrats will get around to letting them out.
Besides being cruel, this is a big waste of money. The corrections department estimates that these foulups are costing the state an additional $2.8 million per year in housing costs alone.
"Louisiana has one of the most overcrowded prison systems in the country," notes the Times. As a result, state officials often send inmates with shorter sentences to detention facilities run by local parishes (Louisiana's version of counties) rather than to state-run prisons. And these parishes have little incentive to make haste when it comes to releasing people.
Some "view inmates housed in local facilities as worth holding onto as free labor," reports the Times. ("They're releasing some good ones that we use every day to wash cars, to change oil in our cars, to cook in the kitchen, to do all that, where we save money," the Caddo Parish sheriff lamented in 2017.) And when the state pays parishes to house prisoners, that can be a significant source of income.
Louisiana faces multiple class action lawsuits for failing to release people in a timely manner. The U.S. Department of Justice is also investigating Louisiana over the issue.
The Justice Department investigation was announced in December 2020 but has not yet concluded.
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The Department of Energy plans to announce Tuesday that scientists have been able for the first time to produce a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain—a major milestone in the decades-long, multibillion-dollar quest to develop a technology that provides unlimited, cheap, clean power.
The aim of fusion research is to replicate the nuclear reaction through which energy is created on the sun. It is a "holy grail" of carbon-free power that scientists have been chasing since the 1950s.
More on the story here.
But some are skeptical that this is as big a breakthrough as it sounds. Bloomberg columnist Javier Blas lays out some reservations in this thread:
I have written only one story about fusion energy. For my university's newspaper 25 years ago. Thankfully, it isn't online.
Since then, I'm skeptical of surprisingly well-timed announcements by budget-starved laboratories about breakthroughs for technologies decades away |????1/10
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) December 12, 2022
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Is the Child Tax Credit coming back? Possibly yes—with some conditions. "The White House has privately signaled to Democrats that it would support a compromise deal to revive the expanded Child Tax Credit, even if it includes work requirements it once opposed," reports Politico. More:
A remarkable shift for an administration that has resisted applying such conditions to anti-poverty programs, it comes amid a recent push in Congress to include an expansion in a year-end legislative package while Democrats still control both chambers. And it reflects the growing urgency within the administration to salvage a policy that ranks among President Joe Biden's signature achievements.
Biden oversaw a sweeping enhancement of the Child Tax Credit during his first months in office, delivering up to $3,600 to parents—including to households previously ineligible because they had no income.
An extension of the credit was held up by Sen. Joe Manchin (D–W.V.), who said the scheme should have means testing and work requirements.
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These Louisiana Inmates Served Their Sentences, but the State Wouldn’t Let Them Go
Forget it, Liz. It’s Louisianatown.
They publish this article, yet still nothing on the J6 detainees held for nearly two years without bail.
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LOL. Thus the article is branded as bullshit, I wouldn’t get my hopes up on anything the authors have to say.
I’m confident the trillion dollar equivalent of a nine volt battery will save the planet.
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And it reflects the growing urgency within the administration to salvage a policy that ranks among President Joe Biden’s signature achievements.
No legacy more enduring than the 1994 crime bill.
What!?! Was Biden leading the smear campaign against Clarence Thomas chopped liver? Well, I guess it did fail.
As did his support for segregation. At least we’ll always have the Iraq War.
He used a Reason Magazine interview as “evidence “ as well.
“My Plate,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s replacement for the Food Pyramid, “is virtually unknown among the eating public…”
The bugs were sliding off the pyramid.
That statement does bring up the question: Is there a non-eating public?
Briefly.
In Soviet Russia.
North Korea on line 2
In Soviet Russia, line 2 norths Korea.
Soon
It’s not happening and it’s good for them.
Yes, but we replaced their plastic straws with paper.
North Koreans
Anorexics?
“Intermittent fasting” is a redundancy. All fasting is necessarily intermittent, since it takes place between two events. And fasting either ends with eating or death.
If you are cryogenically frozen and never woken up, are you technically dead?
What kind of person actively seeks out Gov’t advice for daily life?
Anytime I see an advertisement stating “gov’t approved” I think two things.
1) A gov’t employee was bribed
2) I will actively avoid the product or advice
Covid reenforced this personal policy.
So you won’t buy any food? Or use any prescription medications? Or drive? Or own a house?
Face it, government approval is required for most of the things we do every day. It doesn’t involve bribery and it can’t be avoided.
The government didn’t create or advocate those things, Shrike. They merely allowed them to be sold.
Fake news! If not for government, there would be no food, or medicine, or housing.
Some people actually believe this.
And they all shop at the store where I work.
You can tell them by their EBT/SNAP cards, WIC cards, and utility subsidy checks.
“The government didn’t create or advocate those things”
But it does have to approve those things before they are available to people. Unless you thonk the FDA, the DMV, and building codes are figments of the imagination.
They have to? Or you’ve accepted that action as required by government?
I don’t accept it in the sense that I think it is necessary, I accept it in the sense that it is reality.
The assumption that someone must have been bribed to gain government approval is slightly less unrealistic than thinking it’s possible to avoid products that have been approved by the government. But neither make a lick of sense.
Raise your hand if you’ve never farmed, fished, or hunted.
There are no building codes in most rural areas.
I am unsure why you included the DMV. The DMV approves nothing.
Really? Try driving without a license.
So what do they want for nothing? R-r-r-r-rubber biscuit?
https://youtu.be/kGSwlWRdtQY
“But it does have to approve those things”
No. They don’t.
If you were a libertarian you’d know this.
I’m not delusional, so I know they have to approve those things. Acknowledging reality is neither an endorsement of the situation or an litmus test for my libertarianism. It is merely identifying things that exist in the world today.
Building codes are created by an international council of “experts”, not by the government. The local governments merely adopt the code, and on some occasions add amendments to it.
And inspect. And approve. And zone. And interfere. And NIMBY. And a thousand other things. But mostly they require you to gain government approval of your plans and the work that is done. That’s not a good thing, but it is a true thing.
You live in a bubble. There’s a whole world were people do things, including trade goods and services, and build things, without government approval. It’s a scary world though, best you stay put.
Clearly you missed the word “advertisement”; as in bragging the dot.gov approved their shitty product.
Fair point. I read it as you assuming that government approval required a bribe to be given and that you were refusing to use anything the government had approved.
You are correct. I read your post wrong.
Show your work.
“I will actively avoid the product or advice”
And that would also be letting the government control your daily life decisions, as we have seen with all the people who stupidly refused to get the COVID-19 vaccines to their own detriment because they thought it more important to oppose their opponent’s judgement than to use their own judgement. It’s stupid.
Smart and independent would be, “I’m going to evaluate this using my own judgment, disregarding the government’s (or opposing culture war team’s) advice.”
Not shocked Mike thinks all the advice in vaccines given is still correct.
Really, Mike, how dumb are you? They have a right to question a vaccine that a) was rushed through development and certification, and b) doesn’t seem to be working as advertised. These folks should not be ostracized nor shunned by the likes of idiots like you.
Very dumb.
That’s an understatement.
The government experts said masks were more effective than vaccines anyway.
Yes, I’m sure some government expert said that at some point. There’s some government expert who has said just about anything imaginable.
Then why do you believe any of them?
He said that he believed that?
The CDC is STILL, to this day, recommending young healthy males (a group who we have seen have a higher risk of myocarditis as a side effect…a group that has statistically non existent risk from COVID) get vaccinated and boosted. Even in people that have had COVID.
They are similarly recommending it in young healthy children. Copy/paste the above risk/benefit ratio.
To take these people seriously on medical advice, while they are openly showing you they aren’t making any kind of rational decision, is retarded.
Sure. And my point is to automatically NOT do what they say is also a way of taking them seriously and letting them make decisions for you.
No it wasn’t you lying fuck.
as we have seen with all the people who stupidly refused to get the COVID-19
Why do you think that people who declined the vaccines weren’t doing just that? Government officials have made numerous demonstrably false statements about the vaccines. They have zero credibility.
“refused to get the COVID-19 vaccines to their own detriment”
How is this to my detriment? I didn’t get jabbed, didn’t get fired, my county didn’t lock down, and I may have caught Covid once. I also refuse to be tested.
I evaluated using my own judgment, and here I am still being trolled by you. You are free to stop commenting on my posts. JFC, I don’t post much, but there you always are.
I didn’t say it was to your detriment, personally.
Again your words.
as we have seen with all the people who stupidly refused to get the COVID-19
Liar. Why do you even come here? You’re not a libertarian. And your only allies here are the pedophile, the morbidly obese pedophile wannabe, and the raving alcoholic.
Perhaps you would be more at home creeping around WaPo, NYT, Worker’s World Daily, etc..
You are now saying: “I evaluated using my own judgment”
You originally said: “Anytime I see an advertisement stating “gov’t approved” I think two things … I will actively avoid the product or advice”
So which is it?
How am I “trolling” you if I am sticking to the very topic that you raised? I might be annoying you or pestering you, but I’m not trolling.
Mute me if you don’t want to see my criticisms of the things you say. It is not my fault that you say a lot of things that are worthy of criticism.
Caw caw!
“It is not my fault that you say a lot of things that are worthy of criticism.”
I say a lot of things that do not play into your submissive world view, so you criticize.
The trolling comment was because you still defend the vax. It’s either trolling or you are a True Believer.
You forgot option 3: Mike Liarson is a squawking bird named Dee and should be treated as such.
Here’s a hint: It’s all 3!
“Nobody’s gonna tell me what to do!”
Umm, automatically doing the opposite of whatever they tell you to do is letting them tell you what to do.
Interesting Mike Liarson uses quotes for something Bob didn’t say.
Still pushing the vaccines eh? Boy Mike is gonna lose his mind over the next Twitter files drop me thinks.
It’s good when government misinformation is “virtually unknown”.
After watching Twitters ex head if safety and his promotion of under age sex (linked below), seemingly thinking censorship of political thoughy is worse than child porn or underage rape… I need convincing Jeff isn’t Yoel Roth.
https://mobile.twitter.com/VictorTWolff/status/1602035702602104832
Jeff has spent years downplaying censorship by the left on major platforms. He even did so this weekend claiming government asking for censorship is fine because the companies obviously agreed. He has also spent the last week claiming if you’re against child porn or more recently online CC theft, you are pro censorship.
Last night Jeff demanded evidence that he was claiming sexual assault is speech. It’s like he thinks his previous comments disappear the moment they become inconvenient to his new narrative.
Anyway, in one of my examples there was a link to a news story about a drag queen sexually assaulting children by exposing his penis at them while reading.
I want everyone here to read Jeff’s response:
“lol. If what that transgender individual did was “sexual assault”, then Sharon Stone “sexually assaulted” the entire world in Basic Instinct. It is absurd. You are trying to magnify a small faux pas into SEXUAL ASSAULT in order to justify censoring the drag queens from the library.”
https://reason.com/2022/12/11/d-c-metro-goes-off-the-rails/?comments=true#comment-9832286
Jeff knew that adults consented and paid to watch Sharon Stone flash her beaver. Jeff knew the children didn’t and couldn’t consent to having a pervert get his kicks from flashing his cock at them.
Jeff knew that children can’t consent. Jeff knows this was sexual assault. The fact that Jeff handwaves it away by comparing it to adults watching a “R” movie tells us he actually approves of this. Even if he’s not a pedophile he obviously have no problem with men assaulting children.
Keep this in mind when you discuss similar things like this with him: Jeff is fine with the sexual assault of children and will be dismissive of it because he doesn’t view it as a problem.
Whole Jeffy comment for full ridicule.
chemjeff radical individualist 12 hours ago (edited)
lol. If what that transgender individual did was “sexual assault”, then Sharon Stone “sexually assaulted” the entire world in Basic Instinct.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7rqqh8
It is absurd. You are trying to magnify a small faux pas into SEXUAL ASSAULT in order to justify censoring the drag queens from the library.
Your team is USING children to push an agenda. It is no different than what Team Blue does.
I love this next one.
Team Blue USES children to push their agenda of a welfare state. You and your Team Red USES children to push an agenda of conservative morality.
It’s rather disgusting, actually. But, that’s you.
So morality is disgusting?
Edit: And just to be very clear.
am not at all stating that sexual assault is equivalent to speech.
I am stating that there was no sexual assault in this case, and that right-wing moralizing conservatives like ML are trying to justify censorship of drag queens in the name of “sexual assault”.
Jeffy is an idiot.
I mean at this point dont we all agree he is an idiot and at least pedophile adjacent?
Yes, Jeffy is Shrike-lite.
a concerning amount of the left is getting very flirty with pedophilia.
This is actually the second time that the left has flirted with acceptance of pedophilia. From the late 70s to the early 90s, there was open sympathy in some quarters. This was when “Pretty Baby” was in the theaters; the infamous “sex education” book “Show Me” was openly displayed in stores; man-boy love proponents appeared on mainstream talk shows like Phil Donahue; Camille Paglia was calling for the age of consent to be lowered to 14; and Allen Ginsberg announced he was a NAMBLA member and appeared in the sympathetic documentary film “Chicken Hawk”. That kind of open sympathy seemed to be washed away by the sex scandals in the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts, and by the increasingly anti-sex tone of feminism. Not sure why pedo-acceptance seems to be on the rise again lately.
That kind of open sympathy seemed to be washed away by the sex scandals in the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts, and by the increasingly anti-sex tone of feminism. Not sure why pedo-acceptance seems to be on the rise again lately.
It never really left the circles of gender-marxism, it just went on the down-low after a bunch of promiscuous gay men ended up dying of AIDS in 80s-early 90s and the community was working overtime trying to normalize them as sympathetic figures. You can’t really do that if you admit that grooming of minors was/is a relatively common feature in that community. Foucault, who influenced a lot of this crap about the supposed evils of social marginalization, was a notorious groomer himself.
It’s also rooted in the hedonistic musings of Marcuse’s “Eros and Civilization,” which basically argues that capitalism can be destroyed by orgies and people being massive sluts, and that any repression of sexual desire is bad. That’s how you get articles in Salon arguing that we can’t stigmatize pedophiles and that they should be called “minor-attracted persons.”
My guess is he’s into it, but is too scared of getting caught. So he promotes the pro groomer, pro pedophile agenda so it will be legal in the future.
For Jeffy, ‘libertarianism’ is just a poorly fitting disguise.
He thinks this is all just politics. With me real concept of decency. Nor does he ever consider that we just don’t want people sexualizing and harming children. And whenever there is a disagreement on a child sexuality related issue, Jeffy ALWAYS sides with groomers.
It isn’t gratuitous to label him pro pedophile.
He thinks this is all just politics. With me real concept of decency.
That’s funny, Team Blue would say the exact same thing. “It’s not mere politics to want to have single-payer health care, it’s just common decency!”
In reality, both you and they are exploiting children to push a political agenda.
Nor does he ever consider that we just don’t want people sexualizing and harming children.
No sane person wants people sexualizing and harming children.
The problem here, is that your definition of what constitutes “sexualizing” children almost invariably boils down to vaguely sexual activities that LGBTQ+ people might engage in, that would be considered completely unremarkable if straight people were to do it. Teaching kids that it’s okay if two men kiss and fall in love is “sexualizing children”, while reading them children’s stories about a prince and a princess who fall in love and kiss is considered completely normal and innocent. Your definition of “sexualizing children” invariably boils down to “teaching kids that gays aren’t immoral perverts”.
You’re a bigot who is upset that schools don’t reflect your bigotry, and that is what this boils down to. But openly labeling your beliefs as bigotry won’t win many converts, so you have to disguise it and dress it up as “protecting children”.
Jeff, is it OK for people to dress and act like strippers in front of minors?
“The problem here, is that your definition of what constitutes “sexualizing” children almost invariably boils down to vaguely sexual activities that LGBTQ+ people might engage in”
He was dressed as a hooker, and was getting his rocks off flashing his dick at kids. There’s no ambiguity here, sicko.
Hey, who hasn’t had their penis fall out of their clothes in front of a group of children all paying attention to you? It’s a simple faux pas.
— Pedo Jeffy
So morality is disgusting?
Creating a fake moral panic by accusing transgendered people of being deviants and perverts and pedophiles, and using that moral panic to provoke fear to justify imposing conservative morality into law, that is disgusting.
Jeff, simple question. Is it OK to act like and dress like a stripper in front of minors?
Good luck getting a straight answer to a simple question from Jeffy.
If I choose to voluntarily take my kids to an event where a performer is acting like a stripper, what will you do about it? Try to cancel me? Sic the government child protective services on me? Try to throw me in jail? How authoritarian do you want to go to try to punish an activity that harms no one?
If I choose to voluntarily take my kids to an event where a performer is acting like a stripper, what will you do about it? Try to cancel me? Sic the government child protective services on me? Try to throw me in jail? How authoritarian do you want to go to try to punish an activity that harms no one?
LOL, you’ll never have kids, you stupid fat fuck, and no one will want you to because you’ll molest them. But thanks for admitting that you support bringing kids to events where adults act like strippers, like the degenerate piece of blubber that you are.
I don’t want to use government force to prevent parents from raising their kids as they see fit even if it contradicts my morals. Do you?
What a wonderfully circular argument.
even if it contradicts my morals.
What morals?
What I’d do about it is think you’re a shit parent who cares more about signaling your progressive bona fides to other assholes than the welfare of your own children. That you think a person deliberately flashing their genitalia at children is a victimless crime says everything that needs to be said about you. Pedo groomer outed by his own words.
a person deliberately flashing their genitalia at children
There is absolutely no evidence that this is the case.
is a victimless crime
So you think it’s a crime? And who’s the victim?
Come on now, just go ahead and admit it, you would want the government to throw me in a cage and take my kids away if I were to parent them in a way that you disapproved of, even if it wasn’t literal child abuse.
I would be deeply concerned about you having kids at all.
“Transgendered” people are deviants by any useful definition of the word.
“a fake moral panic by accusing transgendered people of being deviants and perverts and pedophiles”
He was flashing children, you dishonest freak.
Here’s more projection from collectivist Jeffy. Objecting to specific behavior by trannies means you want to outlaw their existence.
I think you don’t mind broadly categorizing them as perverts and pedophiles.
Like I said, projection from the collectivist. Can’t help himself, really. Inherently dishonest, it’s one of many ways he displays it.
Instead of “accusing transgendered people of being deviants and perverts and pedophiles,” a much more accurate framing would be “noticing the large number of transgender/nonbinary/genderfluid people whose kink clearly involves making children part of their deviant, narcissistic displays and sexual activity.” And yes, “deviant” is the correct word. The whole point of “queer” ideology is to subvert and destabilize traditional and broadly accepted ideas of gender and sexuality, and part of that push is to normalize the sexualization of minors and mainstream pedophilia. This is what we oppose, for reasons that have been stated to you again and again. Many transwomen are autogynephiles who get off on pretending to be females, and boundary-crossing behavior is a critical part of that: forcing their way into sex-specific spaces and forcing real women and girls to not only accept their presence there but affirm them as women, even when (as has happened in some cases) they have an obvious raging hardon. “Queer” people today are often pedophiles and other deviants who see an opportunity to smuggle their behavior into the alphabet soup as another protected sexuality. That’s the reality. You want to paint opposition to this as simple right-wing bigotry, ignoring the large number of traditionally left-wing people, including many LGB people and many T people with genuine dysphoria, who also oppose it.
Me: Opposition to trans people is largely motivated by bigotry
You: I’m not a bigot! They really are pedophiles!
Anyway, in one of my examples there was a link to a news story about a drag queen sexually assaulting children by exposing his penis at them while reading.
Was that Jonathan Yaniv? That sounds like something he’d do.
This guy.
https://thepostmillennial.com/drag-queen-flashes-young-children-at-drag-queen-story-hour
“Partway through this year’s schedule, we realized the need for a performer dress code. We followed up right away with each of the performers to ensure that their costumes are appropriate for the audience and activity.”
LOL, the whole fucking point of 21st-century drag is as a sexual fetish. This isn’t like Harvey Korman, Flip Wilson, or Dame Edna putting on a dress and makeup for laughs; it’s to indoctrinate kids into gender marxism and leftist hedonism.
It’s to get their jollies from sexually assaulting children, the rest is just gravy.
The lack of judgement is stunning.
These grown-ass men are showing up in inappropriate costumes to the point where they needed to contact them and tell them to dress appropriately for a children’s event. But nobody saw that as any kind of red flag that MAYBE this whole drag queen story hour was a bad idea, even after some dude’s dick fell out.
These people are insane.
Seems like a stretch to call that sexual assault. Maybe indecent exposure or lewd behavior or something like that. I’m not seeing how that is an assault of any kind.
It probably goes to a different level when you’re flashing your dick (“oopsy, did I do that, tee hee?”) in front of little kids.
Regardless, Jeff simping for a pedophile that would expose himself to children isn’t unexpected.
Show your cock unsolicited to a group of adult women at a library and see if you can get away with telling the judge it’s not sexual assault.
Well, I’d have to look at the sexual assault statute for whatever state that happens in to be sure, I guess. But by the common law meanings of the words, I don’t see the assault part. I would expect indecent exposure would be the charge in that case. Assault would have to require some physical contact or a threat of physical contact that was sexual in nature.
I don’t think it is to the advantage of those of us who oppose this sort of thing to exaggerate or stretch the meanings of words.
I have to disagree with you Zeb. This isn’t a nudist colony where there’s consent to see genitalia and interactions are explicitly nonsexual.
This is a man dressed as a sex worker who is getting cheap thrills by deliberately showing children his penis. The children are the targets of, and nonconsensual participants in, his sex act. That’s assault by any metric.
who is getting cheap thrills by deliberately showing children his penis
He is? How do you know?
Oh I KNOW, it’s because all transgender people are sexual deviants, isn’t that right?
Again, is it OK to act like and dress like a stripper, someone doing an inherently sexual act in front of a minor?
Man, Pedo Jeffy really is afraid of this question.
Okay for my kids, or okay for your kids?
I don’t have the moral authority to tell you how to raise your kids. As long as it’s not literal child abuse, you ought to be free to raise your kids the way you see fit.
As long as it’s not literal child abuse,
The definitions of which you’ll continually massage, you fat pederast.
Okay for my kids, or okay for your kids?
For your kids. If you had kids, would it be OK with you if a man dressed as a hooker waved his dick in their faces. Yes or no, please.
“He is? How do you know?”
WHY THE FUCK ELSE WOULD AN ADULT MAN BE EXPOSING HIMSELF TO KIDS IN THE FUCKING LIBRARY??!! YOU DISHONEST, MEDACIOUS, LYING, FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!
COME ON JEFF! DON’T FUCKING WEASEL OUT, GIVE US AN ANOTHER REASON WHY HE WAS SHOWING KIDS HIS JUNK!
Maybe, your entire story is based on a lie.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-drag-queen-story-hour-photo-965766299271
But even if it wasn’t a lie, you would defend and have defended it.
But even though it isn’t a lie, you will continue to manufacture lies and push bigoted beliefs against transgender people because that is what you do.
All, no. This one, yes.
“It’s like he thinks his previous comments disappear the moment they become inconvenient to his new narrative.”
This happens nearly every single day with the resident defenders of the Dems. They appear to incapable of understanding that everyone can read all of their comments, past and present. I think their liberal use of the mute function may have caused this dysfunction in their minds.
Zeb is right. It’s not sexual assault. It is AT MOST indecent exposure.
For reference, here is the law for sexual assault in the state of Minnesota (where the incident took place):
https://www.findlaw.com/state/minnesota-law/minnesota-rape-and-sexual-assault-laws.html
Every single part of that statute requires there to be “sexual contact” between the accused and the victim. There was no contact here, sexual or otherwise. Seeing someone’s junk unsolicited may be lewd, indecent, and inappropriate, but it’s not “sexual assault”.
I challenge ML or anyone to find any statute anywhere which defines “sexual assault” so broadly as to include simply viewing someone’s genitals.
Incidentally, not even ML’s source for the story claimed the episode was one of “sexual assault”. That claim is purely a figment of ML’s imagination.
I’ll tell you what this looks like. It looks like a still shot from a video that is carefully timed to provoke maximum outrage. As he leans over to one side to put down a book, the weight of his body shifts momentarily and – presto – you have a crotch shot. I bet if I filmed you at a public event, I could cherry-pick a still shot from that video to generate maximum embarrassment at your expense.
But this is not surprising coming from Posobiec, a known propagandist and liar.
And this ENTIRE discussion is a complete derailment of the conversation that Jesse and ML really don’t want to have, which is that they support censorship but are too dishonest to admit it. Banning the distribution and possession of child porn is just one example of the censorship that they support. I’m pretty sure they also support their own right to kick out unwanted guests, i.e., exercise their freedom of association rights, if they should start spouting off on a topic they don’t want to hear. Or do they think that I should have the right to go to their house unannounced and berate their right-wing ideology and they should have no choice but to tolerate and accept *my* speech on *their* property against their wishes? Of course not.
“I bet if I filmed you at a public event, I could cherry-pick a still shot from that video to generate maximum embarrassment at your expense.”
Who the fuck wears a hooker skirt and no underwear and flashes his crotch at kids outside of perverts? Nobody. You could go to a filled stadium and still not find a guy waving his dick at kids. You’re such a fucking creepy apologist for this evil, you sound like a idiot trying to justify it to normal people.
“It looks like a still shot from a video that is carefully timed to provoke maximum outrage.”
There’s an entire fucking video of the guy doing it, shithead. You can’t handwave it away. What’s next, are you going to claim it’s been deepfaked?
“But this is not surprising coming from Posobiec, a known propagandist and liar”
And now Jeff goes after the guy who posted the video, so I guess he really is trying to infer it was faked somehow. Did he whip it up on his computer, Jeff? Some mad editing skills to create a video of a tranny flashing kids?
What utter human garbage you are, Jeff.
Maybe Jeff is defending himself?
Who the fuck wears a hooker skirt and no underwear and flashes his crotch at kids outside of perverts?
But that’s a lie.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-drag-queen-story-hour-photo-965766299271
I tried to tell you that Posobiec is a liar.
The photo is not fake. It is just extremely misleading. It’s an edited photo that was likely a cherry-picked still shot from a voyeuristic video that was selected to provoke maximum outrage.
He didn’t “flash” anyone. And even if he had, there is no evidence to suggest that it was intentional for the purposes of sexual pleasure, rather than an accident. And even still, it would not have been “sexual assault” at least not in the state of Minnesota.
Your response to this has been entirely full of emotion and rage, no logic or rational thought whatsoever. Either you are a dimwitted dullard who falls easily for these cheap tricks that right-wing propagandists like Posobiec like to play, or you KNOW that this guy didn’t sexually assault anyone, he likely didn’t “flash” anyone, but you will claim that he did anyway in order to push a narrative of “transgendered people are perverts and deviants” because you’re a bigoted piece of trash. Either way, it doesn’t look very good for you.
And, by the way ML, do you want to see this person kicked out of the library? Do you want his voice silenced if he chooses to read books to kids at the library?
“He never flashed his dick, but even if he did, that’s okay. And if I want to take kids to see that, there’s nothing you can do about it.”
“Sure, it’s a crime, but not THAT SPECIFIC crime, so it’s OK.”
And this ENTIRE discussion is a complete derailment of the conversation that Jesse and ML really don’t want to have, which is that they support censorship but are too dishonest to admit it.
Here chemfat gives the game away by creating a false equivalence between censoring right-wing arguments and censoring actual child abuse.
Because chemfat is a pederast who wants to fuck little kids.
lol you are a nutcase who is one small step away from a Nardz-level “murder the lefties” position.
lol you’re a groomer who wants to justify your pedophilia.
…fewer than one in eight Americans ‘had tried to follow’ MyPlate’s dietary recommendations—including, in the latter case, fewer than 1 in 25 men.
It was never going to have the impact of The Life of Julia.
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Biden’s administration often tells courts they don’t deport illegal immigrants using prosecutorial judgement, focusing on deporting criminals. Difficulty is deportations for illegal immigrant criminals is down 71%
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-removing-71-fewer-illegal-migrants-arrested-crimes
CIS has also obtained documents showing Biden basically has sanctuary country orders to not deport illegal immigrants. Mind you congress is pretending to trade amnesty of dreamers for border security.
Public records obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies show that the Biden administration has cut deportations of illegal aliens in all but two of the nation’s highest volume counties when comparing months in 2021 to the same period in 2019.
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Most significantly, Biden’s DHS cut deportations by more than 90 percent in four of these 50 highest-volume counties: Gwinnett County, Georgia; Plymouth County, Massachusetts; Bergen County, New Jersey; and Kankakee County, Illinois. Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Illinois are all sanctuary states.
Um, by definition, they are all criminals.
So are jaywalkers, by your definition. And people who speed. If every misdemeanor means you are a criminal, practically everybody in America is a criminal.
Illegal immigrants shouldn’t be here and should be deported back to their home countries. Any business owner who employs illegal immigrants should be fined and the fine structure should be progressive, per illegal employee. Multiple violations should endanger or eliminate the privilege of running a business. Fines should be assessed against everyone who knowingly participated within the company and none of the fines should be dischargeable in bankruptcy.
I also think that applications for asylum should be initiated at American embassies abroad, not at our border, and that the asylum process should include all elements of the naturalization process, including getting in line behind those who came before. Immigration judges would be part of the embassy staff, not physically present in the US.
The only challenge would be makkng sure they had legal representation, since the lawyers wouldn’t live abroad and in some of the more oppressive and autocratic regimes (like Turkey or Saudi Arabia) it would be a means of identifying and punishing those who were seeking to flee to safety.
Illegal immigrants don’t belong in the US. The easiest way to separate the actual asylum-seekers from the rest is to have that process happen entirely outside the US.
That doesn’t make illegal immigrants “criminals” in the way you are insinuating. They’re less likely to be actual criminals than native-born Americans, so pretending they are some sort of dangerous sub-group is dishonest.
Most traffic violations are civil infractions, not crimes.
Fair point. Not really the thrust of my post, but you certainly know that.
Just the entire first paragraph. But as long as just that’s incorrect, we should let it go and stick to your “thrust” (hopefully not a Freudian slip while discussing pedophilia).
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case involving the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
I’m sure their opinions on crypto in general will be very well informed. Sotomayor can give some equivalent of “over 100,000 children in serious condition and on ventilators” during arguments.
Sotomayor is genuinely stupid. She may be the lowest IQ justice we’ve ever had. It’s embarrassing to watch her in action.
The entire story of the Loudon administration coveting up anal rape by a trans if pretty fucking disturbing. The 2nd rape involved the student being released from jail and choking a girl out to rape her at school.
The administration spent more time going after the outraged dad than investigating the rapes.
https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2022/12/12/commentary-loudoun-county-school-districts-failures-were-massive-aided-by-obstructionist-lawyers-n672234
They want to rape your children and throw you in jail for objecting. This literally happened.
I loved how certain suspects tried the whole, “she was asking for it” dog whistle dressed up as “its more complicated than you think” explainers. You see, the first girl he raped was in a relationship with him, and they had gone to a bathroom to make out. So, you see, (wink, wink) maybe we shouldn’t be vilifying this poor soul.
Yeah, that was particularly disgusting. Multiple headlines made sure to point out that she had already had sex with him *multiple times.*
Welcome to police investigations of sexual assault. “She was in a sexy dress”, “she was passed out”, “she is my girlfriend”, “she’s a slut”, etc., etc. It’s disgusting. The victims are often smeared in the press long before they ever get to trial (IF they ever get to a trial).
People respond to rape allegations by talking about false accusations if they don’t want to believe it (Jerry Sandusky/Joe Paterno, the Baylor football team, Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson, etc.). The police are often the ones excuse-making or dragging their feet.
Rapists should go to jail. Pedophiles should go to jail for even longer. Gay, straight, trans, Catholic priest, Boy Scout leader, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy; it doesn’t matter. What the accused did is all that matters and if they raped someone, especially a child, their attempts to smear the victim should be an aggravating factor in their sentencing.
Like a pair of disaffected teenagers, the District’s Superintendent and the Sheriff were not on “speaking terms,” so they didn’t share information.
Absent other evidence this feels exceedingly slanted. Maybe the Sheriff was too busy shooting dogs to deal with the Super’s tranny rape bullshit but, absent evidence, it seems less like “disaffected teenager” not-speaking terms and an awful lot more like “LEO and someone trying to hide multiple rapes” not-speaking terms. I’m unconvinced that the Sheriff and the Super chatting about in-school tranny rape like a couple of housewives is a better situation.
I suppose the author deserves some credit for avoiding the ‘chatting like a couple of school girls’ idiom.
When Sen. Kyrsten Sinema defected from the Democratic Party, she sowed some welcome chaos among the political class…
Trump level event.
We already have a fusion reaction that produces net energy gain. It’s called the h bomb. The problem is having fusion controlled and sustained
The controlled and sustained part is where the energy potential in fusion is either used or dampened, making it a net loss. They just are not specifically saying what they mean, as anyone should understand the basic problem.
The problem is having fusion controlled and sustained
Given the combined zaniness and general disregard for the environment and human life of green energy schemes, I’m kinda surprised unstable nuclear fusion isn’t on the table.
Make a still just large enough to hold the amount of water an H-bomb could vaporize, fit several turbines into the condenser and just detonate once enough water has condensed.
Get a few artist renderings, have a CGI pogue do up some ad videos and sell it to some princes in the ME.
I would’ve rejected any such deal too.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-says-he-rejected-offer-trade-merchant-death-paul-whelan
“I turned down a deal with Russia for a one on one swap of the so-called Merchant of Death for Paul Whelan. I wouldn’t have made the deal for a hundred people in exchange for someone that has killed untold numbers of people with his arms deals,” Trump said on the social media platform he founded, Truth Social.
Viktor Bout is responsible for perhaps more sub-Saharan African deaths than any single man in history. Yet, not a peep regarding this comes from the chattering classes nor the Woke.
But, the got a black, non-binary person back in exchange for a sociopath mass murderer. And, she hates America. This is a win for Dems.
She’s kind of famous. Plus, who are we kidding to think that he really gives a shit about violence against black people? Especcially black people that can’t vote for him.
She’s kind of famous.
LOL. Even at that:
News: Intersectional WNBA star Britney Griner jailed.
America: Who?
News: Griner traded for Viktor Bout.
America: You mean “The Merchant of Death”? The guy Nicholas Cage loosely played in “Lord of War”?
“Viktor Bout is responsible for perhaps more sub-Saharan African deaths than any single man in history.”
No, he isn’t unless he pulled the trigger.
Same applies to Glock, Beretta, and even Hi-Point,
Well, he did deliver the weapons on demand a la Amazon to these folks after obtaining them, in many cases, illegally. All Glock, Beretta, et.al. do is to make the weapons. Bout is more like a straw purchaser for a gang.
I understand what you meant, but Bout didn’t kill any Africans.
He certainly did in progressive-speak.
The African Civil wars cooled down immensely after he went to prison
So, you are saying gun control works?
That’s not even close to what I said. He was stoking both sides of a Civil War in order to sell more weapons.
Total coincidence. Now stop asking questions and praise me for bringing back this retard who brought drugs to Russia. She scores super-high on the grievance pyramid.
Um, can we talk about that wife beating thing?
Dude, no. The Ray Rice jokes are played out. Give it a rest.
If you go to a gun shop and say, “I’d like to buy a pistol to murder my wife”, and they sell you one, the shop owner is in fact guilty of a crime, and, I would say, morally responsible for participating in the murder. Bout sold weapons to criminal warlords knowing they would be used in savage civil wars. Yes, he should be considered criminally and morally responsible for the deaths caused by the use of those weapons.
Was the money to buy arms in sub-Saharan Africa coming from the US or the UN?
A lot of it was from selling things like blood diamonds.
Viktor Bout is responsible for perhaps more sub-Saharan African deaths than any single man in history.
This is untrue. The people who used those weapons are responsible for the deaths they caused.
True, but he did supply them, and it’s no coincidence that when Bout was arrested, the civil wars there died down. These folks would’ve had civil wars using machetes and rifles, and he supplied them with fully automatic machine guns and rocket launchers. Stuff they might not have gotten otherwise. Bout would go so far as to fly them in, overnight, a la Amazon, to the middle of nowhere, on demand.
So, like a straw purchaser, he is indirectly responsible. Without him, it’s doubtful these wars would’ve been as big or gone on as long.
Sorry but this is like blaming narcotics producers for the market they serve.
half those weapons he sold went to a side that needed to defend itself.
From the other side he supplied weapons to. Your point stands that he didn’t actually kill them, but far less would be dead if he hadn’t been pumping weapons to both sides.
Those weapons would have arrived one way or the other. Who is to say when someone needs a self-defense weapon if they deserve it or not. Blaming the arms dealer for the violence in africa is child’s level understanding of how the world works.
“Somebody else WOULD HAVE done it!” is a child’s level excuse for bad behavior.
These Louisiana Inmates Served Their Sentences, but the State Wouldn’t Let Them Go
Sucks it was Louisiana. If it was California they could become vice president.
These Louisiana Inmates Served Their Sentences, but the State Wouldn’t Let Them Go
Supply chain issues?
And thus far, this includes Reason too.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-files-corporate-media-ignores-biggest-story-decade
The files simply confirm almost everything conservative and libertarian commentators have been saying for years; all those “conspiracy theories” about Big Tech censorship of conservatives turned out to be true. Not only that, but the theory that government agencies and officials from the DNC worked with Big Tech to silence and undermine their political opponents was also true.
Robbie had two light touch articles on it.
Reason was on the side of Big Gov and DNC. This is my shocked face.
That looks kinda like your exasperated annoyed face.
If the principals had been changed, say, where the Trump administration was working closely with Twitter to ban the accounts of drag queens and trans perverts skirting the line around child exploitation, the howls of outrage would be heard around the world.
Where’s White Mike to explain why Reason can’t tackle every massive first amendment violation, when there’s food truck regulations, arrested hookers and unaborted fetuses to complain about?
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The U.S. baby formula industry has been in trouble for most of 2022.
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And to make things worse, one of the more effective fixes—the suspension of prohibitive tariffs on imports of infant formula—is set to expire on December 31, 2022. https://bit.ly/3HoWfjT #StopTheBabyTax
Do what again? Pretend the shortages are due to tariffs and not regulatory requirements?
How a real libertarian magazine looks.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/12/our-political-police-are-a-menace-to-free-speech/
In a liberal democracy like Britain, where all are supposed to be equal before the law, the police are expected to be politically impartial. Yet, time and again, the police show themselves to be taking sides in the culture war.
Time to strip their royal titles.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/12/meghan-the-manufacturing-of-a-victim/
Yet whenever Harry and Meghan try to give examples of this alleged racism, this narrative quickly crumbles. For all the talk of the press’s endless racial abuse, the same handful of allegations of ‘racism’ are recycled endlessly. Quotes and headlines are taken out of context to paint a picture that is totally at odds with the broader tenor of the coverage, especially in the couple’s early days.
I can see how an old fogey like Phillip wasn’t all that thrilled with Harry marrying a mixed-race divorcee, but from everything that’s played out in this little drama, it’s obvious the fracture was caused by Megan’s self-aggrandizing personality, and Harry’s own lack of self-worth. William and Kate in particular have been a couple since university, and Harry’s clearly got some jealousy issues surrounding that, because Kate is a hell of a lot more like Diana than Megan ever was, as much as Megan likes to pretend that they’re the same type of person.
Rumor has it that Harry largely married Megan because he was irritated about Phillip telling him he needed to stop tomcatting around and settle down, so he deliberately married one of his yachting hookups as a “fuck you.”
I can see how an old fogey like Phillip wasn’t all that thrilled with Harry marrying a mixed-race divorcee
Yeah – probably more than just him, even, given that in this family the fact that Harry is a ginger gets comments. In fact, I think you’re probably right that Meghan annoying the rest of the royal family (for a variety of reasons) was probably a big part of her appeal to Harry.
But the whole media coverage thing is just silly – one of the articles they’ve been carrying around for years now proving this “virulent open racism” in the media is from some British rag saying something to the effect that the royal family is pretty close-bred and injecting some genetic diversity would be a good thing. This was supposedly a coded dog-whistle, or something.
Never mind, of course, that so few people can do the math in the first place on “coded dog-whistles” themselves being different from “virulent open racism” that it’s not surprising that so many people think we’re experiencing some new wave of open racism.
“It’s not that we’re racist, Megan, we just think you’re a pretentious bitch, and we’d still think that if you were the spitting image of Diana herself.”
Princess Margaret would have just called her a cunt. (Takes one to know one innit!)
I suspect that Harry and Meagan will get pregnant again just to have an abortion, because the controversy over aborting a member of the Royal family will get them the news cycle attention that they crave.
Well, she’s in her 40s now, so the likelihood of a miscarriage is already pretty high to begin with.
It’s pretty incredible that Harry had more respect when he was man-whoring with Hollywood sluts on yachting parties.
“Time to strip their royal titles.”
I will never understand why anyone cares about the royal family of England. The whole thing is bad high school drama. People need to grow up and get a life.
Ask Netflix, they paid $100 million for this. At least I get the entertainment for free.
New information released by Elon Musk to a small group of journalists details the uncomfortably close relationship between federal law enforcement authorities and social media leaders.
The large group of journalists have instead decided the small group are just the PR arm of a billionaire and they are reporting on old news.
ENB ‘curated’ the following for the Reason Commentariat.
Elon Musk, new owner of Twitter, has released thousands of pages of documents objectively proving that the FBI, DOJ, DHS and other government agencies were coordinating with a social media company to stifle free speech. I don’t think it is ‘Kosher’ for the federal government to use a private company to obtain an unconstitutional result (deliberate suppression of free speech).
I am watching the revelations with amazement, and growing unease.
uncomfortably close relationship
Uncomfortably close as in full on sexual intercourse.
Which is completely fucked
In the ass.
ENB, have any more comments for us here, or do you just despise us since we aren’t in lockstep agreement with you?
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1601256561086988289
Reason commenters make up a very small percentage of our readership, and are largely people who hate everyone on staff and all of our work, on any subject. They’re in now way representative of “libertarian audiences” overall
It might also help if you proofread your tweets.
Shes the most libertarian person Robbie knows.
Reason commenters are mainly MAGA republicans. ENB is totally correct as MAGA republicans are in ‘no way’ representative of libertarian… anything.
And what do you define as MAGA, moonbat? Some of us here voted for Johnson in 2016, but voted for Trump in 2020 as a) he wasn’t anywhere near as bad as thought, and b) Biden is a far, far worse threat to individual liberty, and free markets.
Is voting against Biden and strongly disliking Biden your idea of MAGA, moonbat?
Lol. Unless you’re a Democrat who like free sex and drugs but no other liberties, you’re MAGA!!
Man you leftists are deluded. ENBs choice of links daily shows she’s essentially on the left. You don’t much difference between her and other leftist journos at Vox based on the information she prioritizes.
Just because you’ve deluded yourself doesn’t mean you can trick others.
At the very least she is steeped in the left leaning press’s worldview and generally accepts their premises and framing of most issues uncritically, with exceptions for her pet issues.
“free sex and drugs”
Don”t forget rock ‘n roll. Sex and drugs without rock ‘n roll is like a gourmet meal witbout salt. Bland and disappointing.
Then prove them wrong with a principled argument that does not start with ‘But Trump….’
They feel that libertarians are leftists because it’s the only way they can explain any disagreement. Doesn’t matter if the person they disagree with also disagrees with leftists, they’re still a leftist.
Nope. You’re just an angry, bitter, Trump obsessed drunk.
there is some of that but lets be honest ENB does not much disagree with leftists.
That said, this comment above feels a bit liek obsession over her. I disagree with most of her takes but the vitriol is high.
Poor Sarc. He looks like a duck, moves like a duck, sounds like a duck and behaves like a duck, but don’t you dare call him a duck.
Uh oh…Did someone just dog whistle DONALD???
LMMFAO!!! Perhaps we hate the staff and their work because it’s far left progressive drivel. The content here is basically an extension of the MSM. Libertarians should hate that!
Exactly. The staff here seem to love themselves authoritarianism, when it comes from Team D and Joe Biden. Real libertarians are, and should be, abhorred by anything smacking of authoritarianism.
Seriously half their articles about things team d does bad is argued from the point of “okay the dems are doing this and it’s bad because then the Republicans might do it too and they are far worse
There’s also the classic “Team D shouldn’t have done this but the Republican pouncing is much worse” or some variation
Reason has done their part for every major psyop the cabal needs to grow their totalitarianism: lies about Trump, stoking racial resentment, and of course covid tyranny.
They’re just as guilty of the most massive crime against humanity ever perpetrated as anybody else.
There are some real gems in there.
From ENB: Thank you! The problem is that the regular commenters basically make it impossible to have cool, normal disagreements and discussions in the comments (it was not always this way, but it’s now an abandon all hope ye who enter kinda place)
Our old friend Sloopy (now in Texas) responds: Maybe all the good commenters left a few years ago because things that were important to them and used to be covered extensively became “too local” for the editorial staff.
And Warty, too: Maybe some of us canceled our subscriptions so that we didn’t continue to contribute to certain writer’s salaries
Then we have this:
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1601276740714008576
They hate us so much it would be hilarious if it didn’t freak out newcomers to the site so much. I get a lot of “wait is this really what libertarians think?!?” from people who’ve read our comments
And guess who.
https://twitter.com/MikeLaursen2/status/1601627710253854721
I have been told by Reason execs that is precisely why the comments are hidden by default.
He’s too ridiculous, and it actually is Mike Laursen.
https://twitter.com/MikeLaursen2/status/1601629085016674307
The addition of the mute button helped a lot. Sometimes the entire comments section is a sea of grayed-out boxes.
Cry harder.
Lol.
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1601310363353743361
It was still kinda fun when I started working at reason back in 2014, which doesn’t seem THAT long ago… then again, a bunch of Republicans were still pretending to care about limited government back then. Crazy times!
It was still kinda fun when I started working at reason back in 2014, which doesn’t seem THAT long ago… then again, a bunch of Republicans were still pretending to care about limited government back then. Crazy times!
Gee, I wonder what changed at Reason shortly after 2014 that caused most of the old commenters to go away and led those of us that remained to adopt a hostile attitude toward the writers….
And the Mises Caucus speaks up:
https://twitter.com/ReaCauc/status/1601278494226337792
For an organization that claims to be pro market you certainly do your fair share of rejecting the market.
Nice burn. This is fun.
At least Reason took the high road with an adult response
Jimmy the Jester gets it.
https://twitter.com/BotFromRussia69/status/1601319326849847298
Reason isn’t libertarian.
Reason is libertine.
The commenters see the problem, the rest of the audience are degenerates.
Glyph gets it too.
https://twitter.com/psyglyphik/status/1601603890373611521
Libertarians hate you because they see you as weaponized journalists on the payroll of powerful elites who are attempting to manipulate the libertarian movement into something more in line with the interests of progressives, neocons, and the fascist warfare/welfare state empire.
Reason defends the DNC narrative at all costs. But trust them, they’re totally Libertarians. Is there any DNC narrative that Reason hasn’t defended since 2016? And to be clear, defended while the issue was relevant, not 6 months later in a weak attempt to save face.
“They’re in now way representative of “libertarian audiences” overall”
Let’s also review the disdain that Reason staff had for the Mises Caucus takeover of the national Libertarian party. The previous LP regime was a bunch of TDS-addled ex-Dems that gave lip-service to Libertarian positions. Hmmmm, who does that remind me of…
The Reason comment section is not a ‘safe space’ like twitter. Alternative views points must be condemmed as hate speech and shut down. It is really the only libertarian stance to take when libertarian is defined by those like ENB.
She’s still on Twitter?
Yep, ENB is still there. How to figure out Mastodon must’ve eluded her.
Yes. She’s technically on Mastodon but hasn’t been posting any content there since 11/22.
I’m picturing her purple hair blowing in the wind as she rides a furry elephant.
Aw fuck I thought that was The Joker, not the bottle blonde. How embarrassing.
We know you’re on Twitter, MikeLaursen2.
Doesn’t that make her a Mastodon dinosaur?
Only time will tell.
Only to Ken Ham. According to his Cosmology, dinosaurs probably ended last month. 🙂
The majority of the people in the comments think anyone who disagrees with them is a leftist, even if the person disagrees with leftists.
Did I say “think?” I meant feel. I wouldn’t accuse people with that attitude of thinking.
The people supporting ENB in that Twitter thread seem to think anyone criticizing Reason from the Right is a Nazi.
Shikha was in the responses, playing the race card.
Commenter: When I came to Twitter, I was like “Wow, this is much healthier than the reason comment section!”
ENB: Sad but true.
Me thinking: We all share the same ideas and everyone agrees with me! Yay!
Yeah. Twitter had so much more child porn than the one reasom commenter. Much healthier.
Oh, so she does read the comments or does one of the other staff members troll her by sending her the pithier comments.
She only gets sent the ones starting with “C” and rhyming with “blunt”
Just 7% of Americans have “a great deal” of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have “a fair amount.” Meanwhile, 28% of U.S. adults say they do not have very much confidence and 38% have none at all in newspapers, TV and radio. Notably, this is the first time that the percentage of Americans with no trust at all in the media is higher than the percentage with a great deal or a fair amount combined.
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There are several notable findings in the degrees of trust registered by partisans:
-For the third straight year, the majority of Republicans indicate that they have no trust at all in the media. This figure jumped 10 percentage points in 2020 and has been at or near 60% since then. This year, 57% say they do not have any confidence, while 29% say they do not have very much.
-At 27%, independents’ confidence is at the lowest point in the trend. This is also the first time that it has fallen below 30%. Meanwhile, 41% of independents say they have no trust at all and 32% do not have very much.
-While the great deal/fair amount of confidence reading among Democrats has never fallen below the majority level, the proportion with a great deal of trust has not topped 26%, and it is currently well below that at 18%.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/403166/americans-trust-media-remains-near-record-low.aspx
[drops keyboard]
Crap like this probably has a lot to do with that:
“Fetterman, Pressley among New York Times list of most stylish people https://trib.al/m2GHB4s”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1602322655092379649?s=20&t=h63aAr0j5ty08cimEAiaiA
It’s The Guardian, but relevant.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/12/julian-assange-biden-press-freedom-legacy
“It’s the first time the US government has used the Espionage Act to go after a publisher and the implications are huge,” Jaffer said. Assange “has been indicted for activity that reporters are engaged in every day and that reporters have to engage in every day to inform the public. This would have dramatic implications for national security journalism.”
Glenn Greenwald on this:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1602304806881722370
Julian Assange is a classic political prisoner.
When he first reported in 2010 on war crimes by the US, he was a hero on the liberal-left.
Only one thing changed: in 2016, his reporting undermined Hillary Clinton, so now he’s reviled among liberals.
*That’s* his real crime.
Add to that:
In 2016, partially due to unified opposition against Trump, the marriage between the establishment DNC and intelligence agencies was complete and they function in lockstep.
indicted for activity that reporters are engaged in every day and that reporters have to engage in every day to inform the public. This would have dramatic implications for national security journalism.
this is the intent. this is what they want, these ‘dramatic implications’. it’s the point.
Gotta love them Wilsonian laws!
Are you impersonating Hank? 😉
‘Kiss of death.’ Mitt Romney blames Donald Trump endorsements for GOP midterm losses
The Utah Republican says the party needs to move on from the former president, who is now a 2024 GOP presidential candidate.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2022/12/07/kiss-death-mitt-romney-blames/
turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Is Buttplug a neocon hawk? Because his love for warmongers like Kristol, Frum, Cheney and Romney is pretty deep.
What does any of that have to do with you raping children?
Kangaroo Court close to issuing report.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3769061-jan-6-panels-eyes-new-beginning-with-doj-as-partner-in-trump-probe/
“The committee is engaged in very painstaking due diligence about all of the statutory events…and reviewing the record and the video and the testimony. Even though what we’re doing is just making a referral of our views, we want to take it very seriously,” Raskin said.
Yeah, about as seriously as it takes for a star chamber to railroad someone to a gulag.
The listing of all 8 chapter titles being solely about Trump kind of shows it wasn’t a full look into J6 from a neutral and bipartisan viewpoint.
Oh good, let’s make WWIII a priority.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/politics/biden-zelensky-phone-call/index.html
President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on Sunday to discuss Russia’s invasion and recent US efforts to strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses.
How long before Russia experiences drone attacks on their power infrastructure? Coming in the not so distant future, I suspect. I think the phrase the Brits use is: Turnabout is fair play.
By the end of January, I think there will be Russians in the cold (literally).
Maybe, but Putin just warned against this and USA has been careful so far to keep our weapons from being used inside Russia. Thing is Russia has nukes and Ukraine doesn’t. Also Ukraine needs to keep its western partners happy and they don’t want this war to expand to Russia – Europe keeps warm with Russian energy too.
Biden WH had to admit a week ago they gave Ukraine launchers capable of hitting into Russia.
I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean. Ukraine literally borders Russia; a pea shooter would be capable of hitting it from Ukrainian territory.
We don’t allow the launchers sold to Ukraine to have SW capable of over 60 km. The ones sent can hit 140 km.
We will see….seeing a few reports of odd drone strikes inside Russia proper. It is only a matter of time before Ukraine responds in kind (Russia attacks electric infrastructure; Ukraine reciprocates). I don’t think the US can ‘stop’ that.
EU VP in Deep Manure
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63941509
Among the arrested was European Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili – believed to be one of those charged.
And look where The Merchant of Death is heading.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/12/released-russian-arms-dealer-bout-joins-ultranationalist-party
“I am sure that Viktor Bout – a strong-willed and courageous person – will take a worthy place in it. Welcome to our ranks!,” he wrote in a post that included a picture of the two men.
Founded in 1991, the LDPR espouses a hardline, ultranationalist ideology that demands Russia reconquer the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Its good for business (if your business is gun running). If Russia does in fact attempt to ‘re-conquer’ all the countries of the former soviet union while at the same time being bogged down in Ukraine… well lets just say they are going to need lots of weapons to give to all the conscripts and freed prisoners sent to fight these ‘special military operations.’
Zhirinovsky?! LOL
Well, Bout can put the blast in Blast from the Past!
From the Al-Jizz-eera story:
The LDPR has a history of recruiting controversial personalities into Russian politics, with its founder and long-time leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky gaining a reputation as a political showman for his outrageous stunts and eccentric behaviour before his death in April.
My friends and I used to joke that he was sole proprietor of Crazy Vlad’s Used Cars. All he needed was a big inflatable Red Bear flapping in the breeze from the Steppe. 🙂
What business, “How To Invest While In Jail”?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/ftx-ex-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-wants-start-new-business
The 30-year-old told the BBC in an interview published Saturday he would “give anything” to start a new venture.
How about a business making license plates.
What ponzi scheme have you ever fucking created??? This man created jobs.
Yeah, I have automatic withholding every paycheck for my contribution to a Ponzi Scheme and I help create lots of jobs for the outfit that runs the Ponzi Scheme too.
😉
Would he give back the billions of dollars he stole?
The balls on this guy.
The odds are he’ll never see the inside of a jail and wont be Epsteined.
The second part depends on how much he’s perceived as a threat.
Clinton-ed? Arkan-cided? Parachute dropped into Hilary’s Lybia?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-users-applaud-elon-musk-getting-political-save-future-civilization
Twitter CEO Elon Musk caused a stir Sunday when he declared that his increased political involvement “must be done for the future of civilization.”
The comment came after a Twitter user named Gali wrote how he thought Musk “getting too political is a mistake.”
“Must be done for the future of civilization, without which nothing matters,” Musk responded.
Like others originally of the old left, Taibbi, Greenwald, et.al., Musk seems to be on our side.
The side of truth and integrity and upholding the Constitution. Of course, ENB and Reason staff think he’s a crazy billionaire that is ruining Twitter. But ENB is correct, we’re all just a bunch of fake Libertarians and MAGA supporters.
If you don’t support integration of the corporate sector with federal intelligence agencies to prevent the flow of information that they find harmful to their agenda, you’re a First-Amendment-hating MAGA Trumptard. /Reason
Maybe it will get somewhere. Most of the old left who are now considered right wing extremists were well left of center.
I think it’s really more of authoritarians versus libertarians. Remember the small political quiz (Nolan Chart) and that it has two axes? One that goes between right and left, but another between libertarian and authoritarian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Compass#/media/File:Political_Compass_purple_LibRight.svg
Most of the Reason writers seem to be on the line, maybe even edging into authoritarianism. Most of us, including people like Musk, Greenwald, and Taibbi seem to be on the libertarian side of that line, whether we are right or left.
This, authoritarianism versus libertarianism (not Reason’s lib-lite”) is the real battle here.
he got red-pilled hard and fast. It’s encouraging to see. Makes me hope that it is happenign all over.
“Like others originally of the old left, Taibbi, Greenwald, et.al., Musk seems to be on our side.”
And Peterson, Rogan, Brand, Weiss, Bret and Heather Weinstein.
This is why I’m starting to become hesitant of using “the left” as an epithet. The real libertarian left are now the ones largely leading our fight against censorship and authoritarianism.
Much of those we call “left” (e.g. ENB) aren’t actually left at all, but libertines, Gaia cultists and weird authoritarian, corporatist, aristocracy fetishists.
Fauci and Yoel Roth deserve it.
https://fortune.com/2022/12/12/elon-musk-anthony-fauci-former-twitter-head-safety-yael-roth-series-tweets/
One day before attacking Fauci, Musk targeted Yoel Roth—until recently the head of safety at Twitter and an ally of Musk—for advocating child sexualization. Musk posted a tweet of an excerpt from Roth’s 300-page doctoral dissertation, titled Gay Data, which argues that Grindr should not try to stop people under 18 from using the gay hookup/dating app (as they find ways to use the app anyway), but instead try to “focus on crafting safety strategies” to help safely connect queer young adults.
For the record Roth did this lovely tweet in 2010.
https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/5979003856879617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Can high school students ever meaningfully consent to sex with their teachers? http://bit.ly/bbpH68
No, they can’t. Next question, please.
If his conclusion was “no” then Yoel Roth doesn’t deserve any hate.
Roth’s other tweets and dissertation would say otherwise.
https://contra.substack.com/p/yoel-roth-gay-data-and-child-exploitation
But the story took an even stranger turn when it came to light that Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety, appears to have, let us say, “progressive” views of what constitutes appropriate relations between adults and minors. Some people, like human trafficking survivor advocate Eliza Bleu, have suggested that this might explain why Twitter has been unwilling or unable to combat things like child sexual exploitation on the platform.
Roth’s dissertation on the Wayback Machine as UPenn pulled it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20221209145512/https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/1985/
To be fair, what Roth posted there wasn’t all that different from those creepy photos that James Gunn put up. But Hollywood is a known pedophiles’ paradise to begin with.
It’s generally inappropriate for a teacher, but a 18 year old high school senior can meaningfully consent to sex with anyone he or she chooses to.
The call for surveys by Roth were explicitly for underage people on gay hookup sites.
In my state it is illegal for a school teacher to have sex with a student, regardless of the student’s age.
We have a term for people like Yoel Roth: Groomer.
It’s also why LibsOfTikTok got so many suspensions and the term “groomer” got banned on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1602152757808480256
The more we learn about Yoel Roth, the more I’m understanding why he despised my account so much and wanted to personally be the one to suspend my account all those times.
Im getting the same kind of vibes I was around the abortion/dobbs decision discussions….
When you let these people talk and really see what they’re interested in, it really starts to sound a lot like a eugenics / death cult…
Same with these progressives obsessed with sex/gender. The more you let them go on, the more it sounds like they are interested in fucking kids
The only safe strategy for Grindr when it comes to minors is to trick pedophiles to a hidden meeting spot, dome them, and leave the body for the local wildlife to munch on.
Democracy dies if gay kids aren’t free to meet up with people like Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Bruce McArther, Dennis Nilsen, Colin Ireland, Armin Meiwes, The Doodler, The Łódź Gay Murderer, three separate “Highway Killers” (William Bonin, Patrick Kearney, Randy Kraft)… through loose hook up social networks safely.
Really, it sounds like a case for some common sense homosexual controls. A federal registry, 7-day waiting period, limits on the number of partners, bans from schools and official government buildings, criminal convictions for 21 and under, home rule/no transactions across state lines, rate-of-fire castration controls, bans on things that go up, limits on pieces of flair… you know, safe, for the children.
Would you go along with all of this for yourself?
Why would gay kids need special safety strategies to meet other gay people? Does the gay hookup culture have a predator problem?
Uh…yes. Or was that sarcasm?
Yes. It was sarcasm.
I haven’t noticed a whole lot of academic papers arguing that straight teens need safe access to Tinder.
New information released by Elon Musk to a small group of journalists details the uncomfortably close relationship between federal law enforcement authorities and social media leaders.
Impossible. I was assured numerous times on this very website that that wasn’t happening.
“Johnny Traweek was supposed to be released from prison on May 3, 2018, but it wasn’t until 19 days later that he was actually freed. Traweek did nothing behind bars to extend his sentence. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections simply hadn’t processed his paperwork in time to release him on his release date.”
Supply chain. COVID. Abundance of caution. Delayed ballot counting. Disincentives for work. Commodity shortages. Understaffing. Inequality.
Don’t you know that not getting things done is the new normal?
“A fusion energy breakthrough?”
Assuming this is true, it will be interesting to watch the watermelons.
“See? Fusion is right around the corner. Stop pushing nuclear reactors, you The Science! (TM) deniers! Renewables will get us to the point where fusion takes over!”
excited for warp speed.
“New information released by Elon Musk to a small group of journalists details the uncomfortably close relationship between federal law enforcement authorities and social media leaders.”
If you feel uncomfortable about some relationships, you are probably trans-phobic, and therefore your feelings don’t count.
Suck the girl-dick, fascist!
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Bloomberg columnist Javier Blas lays out some reservations in this thread
Oh, sure. *Now* somebody gets skeptical about the panacea offered by the vague promise of technological advancements!
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I don’t plan on getting married at all, much less married by “The Religion Of Peace And Compassion” (TM)
You know, ‘The Religion Of Peace And Compassion” (TM) that vaporized 2996 human lives on 9/11/2001 and destroyed the source of capital for the marketing, merchandising, auditing, and mystery-shopping firms that gave me the best career of my life 21 years ago and whose closings and bankruptcies nearly rendered me homeless as a result!
And that’s not to mention all the other horrors done by Islam that have taken place from 732 C.E. to the present ones still playing in the background!
I never forgot and I’ll never forgive.
Fuck Off, you Islamofascist Spamming Shill!
Islamo-Bots?!?!?!
I…..That’s….. Ya know, I guess you can call me nonplussed.
(I wonder if they offer Sigheh—at least for Shi’ites that’s a really nifty temporary marriage!)
I think the fine print says: “Not available outside Iran.”.
Also, with men like Khameini and Ahmadinejad, a lot of Iranian women would say they put the “heh!” in Sigheh.. 🙂
By the way, you know what sounds like Sigheh and was said by The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al-Husseini in his Sigheh with You Know Who Else?
SPRINGTIME FOR HAJ AMIN AL-HUSSEINI! Yep, the lyrics and music match perfect! 🙂
By the bye, unlike Misek, I know this thing I replied to is a bot, but I did want to send my message to whomever planted it.
My hope is that they read it and know that as long as I live, Global Jihad is a failure.
“Besides being cruel, this is”
illegal?
If someone who was convicted of crime is in prison after his sentence is over, due to the decision (or inaction) of executive officials, without approval of a court, then how could this be constitutional, unless they’ve just been arrested for a new crime and are on their way to a prompt judicial hearing on their status?
The Department of Energy plans to announce Tuesday that scientists have been able for the first time to produce a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain—a major milestone in the decades-long, multibillion-dollar quest to develop a technology that provides unlimited, cheap, clean power.
Yeah we’ve been through this before.
And im sure if such a method was established, the envorinazi’s would fight tooth and nail to ensure we could never make use of it.
See also: nuclear power
• The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case involving the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The case concerns whether Coinbase can use private arbitration to contend with two proposed class action complaints.
You know how much of a DNC laundering machine FTX was when the guy responsible isn’t in jail, and the news has pivoted to this.
this is more offensive than usual.
The Federal Trade Commission has no business
trying to stop video game company mergers, writes Reason’s Scott Shackford.whatsoeverThere ya go! 😉
>>The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections simply hadn’t processed his paperwork in time to release him on his release date.
everything’s in French.
If someone is held in prison after their sentence is expired, are his friends and relations not entitled under the Constitution to use such force as is reasonably necessary to release him? Isn’t that one of the purposes of 2A?
I fully support you and your friends and relations trying to shoot someone out of prison.
I wasn’t saying anyone should, only asking whether they were legally entitled to.
Well, give it a try and let us know how it goes.
probably easier and safer to dig in from underneath.
Helicopters—they’re not just for parenting you know!
“Those who talk, don’t know. Those who know, don’t talk.”–Lao-Tzu.
Funny he should SAY that.
he’s been kidnapped and you should be able to use any means necessarily to free him, yes.
Bearing in mind, of course, that a “right to,” a “can,” and a “should” are all three separate considerations.
And if you’re in “too old for this shit” bracket, taking things by the smooth handle and camping out in front of the cell in protest may be the best route of first resort.
>>fewer than one in eight Americans ‘had tried to follow’ MyPlate’s dietary recommendations—including … fewer than 1 in 25 men.”
your covid didn’t take care of us we’re certainly not going to follow your dietary recs
It’s like I’ve said before: With Putin, it isn’t just “The Donbass but no further”:
Russia Paramilitary Group Asks for Intel on N.A.T.O States
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-paramiitary-group-asks-for-intel-on-nato-states-guardian-2022-12
Quoting Business Insider quoting The Guardian.
It gotta be more credible than RT citing Putin and Kirill.
Or Kirill citing the Orthodox scripture citing Catholic scripture citing Torah citing Assyrian, Egyptian, and Babylonian lore citing untold thousands of years of “telephone game” oral tradition.
Check to the Mate.
“households previously ineligible because they had no income.”
If a household has no income, their children should be put in orphanages until their parents can get it together.
no reported income
Including that of live-in baby daddies mooching on their girlfriend’s Section 8 housing and SNAP food.
yes, including that.
By the nature of underground economics, any place without reported income is most likely not safe for children and probably not too safe for other living things.
And NEVER adopt a Pit Bull rescue with that background!
You had me at “NEVER adopt a Pit Bull”.
Sadly, in many places practicing underground economics, the Pit Bull is the underfed, mistreated hired help, literally paid under the table.
And there is great rejoicing from Warren Jeffs’ compound, The Duggar mansion, and Holy Islamville and Holy Islamburg…and much sad groaning from the Childfree and Empty Nesters.
The Twitter Files: Part 5 is out!
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515
1. On the morning of January 8, President Donald Trump, with one remaining strike before being at risk of permanent suspension from Twitter, tweets twice.
The solution to plentiful energy is right under our feet. This planet is red-hot everywhere just a few miles down. All we have to do is learn to drill holes that deep and maintain pipes in them, and we’ll have all the geothermal electricity we could ever want. That won’t be easy but it seems more realistic to me than nuclear fusion.
The problem with geothermal is the wear on the pumps and turbines. The brine which gets pumped down (for better heat transfer) is bad enough, but it dissolves other minerals during the trip down and back. The pipes corrode and the pumps and turbines get crusted and less efficient. The maintenance makes the whole enterprise less profitable.
I’m not talking about conventional geothermal. I’m talking about pumping water deep enough to turn it to steam.
The people who kept those prisoners in jail beyond their sentences should be charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment
Some “view inmates housed in local facilities as worth holding onto as free labor,” reports the Times. (“They’re releasing some good ones that we use every day to wash cars, to change oil in our cars, to cook in the kitchen, to do all that, where we save money,” the Caddo Parish sheriff lamented in 2017.)
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So … slaves. Louisiana is lamenting their lost slave labor force. And the fat check the taxpayers pay to let them keep slaves.
It’s telling that they have notified relatives that they know they are holding the inmates past their end of their sentence yet they are still demanding the inmates do labor. That’s just out and out admission they are engaging in slavery.
Kinda makes me want to take my cousin Vinnie on a Louisiana road trip!
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