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[Frank Drackman]

Good morning losers

[Moderation4ever]

You woke up grumpy. Have another cup of coffee.

[Kazinski]

Has the Overton window shifted that once more it is acceptable to advocate and agitate for Violent Revolution, again?

Its hardly the first time, it was pretty widespread in the 70's, but lost a lot of steam when the Vietnamese war ended and the hanger-ons decided they didn't have skin in the game anymore.

But it seems the last few years its back, and its OK to be violent again on the left. The support for Luigi Mangione was the first real sign, the wave of support for murdering someone in cold blood because you don't like their business. A business with a government mandated business model I might add and heavily regulated on just what products they have to offer too.

I don't think it is much of an insight that quite a few of the people out on the streets chasing ICE are not that committed to offering shelter to immigrants, after all probably a good part of them were supporting Bernie when he was nearly as anti immigrant as Trump. I think it is more opposing anything and everything Trump, and of course e!listing undocumented immigrants in their cause of violent revolution. Most immigrants (legal.or illegal) are pretty apolitical so they need an issue near and dear to their hearts.

Is violent Revolution cool again?

And I certainly am not pretending there isn't a far right revolutionary cohort, but it is not now, nor do I think it ever has been for than just a fraction of a percentage of support, while I would estimate the fraction supporting violent revolution on the left would go into high single digits, or even the low teens.

[Frank Drackman]

If you’d spit on Alex Pretti and kicked out the taillight of his Prius (no, wait he’s an ICU RN making 6 figures probably a Tesla or Volvo EV) he’d have probably shot you.
And since when did VA Nurses become Florence Nightengale? Remember “Born on the 4th of July”? (I was actually born on July 4th, having a big Shindig this year, everyone’s invited)

Frank

[Dr. Ed 2]

Frank raises a good point, he should’ve been fired from the first incident where he allegedly obtained the purported broken rib.

And this isn’t the 70s anymore, nurses do get six figure salaries, and a lot of them do not deserve it.

[Frank Drackman]

1: 6 figures isn't that much anymore, "$100,000" is technically "6 figures"
2: Even with "45/47/(48?)" VA reforms its still virtually impossible to fire a VA Employee short of something really horrible, like physically abusing a Veteran or praying in front of an Abortatoreum
3: Look at when he got his RN, after several years of trying to get a PhD, he's one of the Nurses who's certain he's smarter than the Idiot Doctors (many are, he isn't, I mean "wasn't") especially when 90% of the Doctors today are Jug-Lish and Kumar.
4: Because I'm Psychic I'll predict Pretti's Tox Screen, +SSRI, +SNRI, +ADD Med, +THC (Of Course) and probably a little of the Colombian Nose Candy, of course it'll be harder to find than Jerry Nadler's (Redacted)

Frank

[Dr. Ed 2]

Congresscritter Omar is either the most irresponsible and self-centered person on this planet, or she knew that she was going to be sprayed with vinegar.

It’s one or the other.

Let’s assume she didn’t know. This is 2026, not 1926 — terrorism is real, and as a Congresscritter, she’s dealing with the consequences of that on a daily basis. Back in 1926 anybody who wanted to could walk right into Congress, young people often ate their lunch on the steps — but not today. She knows she has to wear a special pin to identify herself as a member of the Congress.

She was 20 years old at the height of the Anthrax scares, and remember that not all of those were hoaxes, people died. As a member of Congress, the US Capitol Police have (or should have) told her about the ever present danger of chemical attacks.

If she wants to recklessly endanger herself, well, it’s a free country.
But she has no right to endanger everyone else, and it was the height of irresponsibility not to presume that there’s something hazardous in the air of that room — unless she knew what the mystery liquid was.

And she is from Somalia, not South Portland, the Somalia. We’re throwing sulfuric acid — battery acid — in people‘s faces is one of the many lovely things they do there. Again, it’s a free country and she has the right to ignore her own safety and well-being, but not that of her audience. So for acid fumes do nasty things I could do even more nasty things if they mix with salt which in the winter time is gonna be on track in on that floor.

She’s either the most irresponsible self centered person on this planet — or she knew. Maybe didn’t organize it but at least knew that ALL he was gonna do was spray her with vinegar, not follow up with a knife, not have something lethal in the syringe, not be somebody whom her security should already have been responding to before it got this far.

So which is it?

[Frank Drackman]

That attack was more fake than that “Faces of Death” Video from the 80’s

[Dr. Ed 2]

I know.

I’m merely pointing out what we are expected to believe if it wasn’t.

[Moderation4ever]

Would she be more believable if she had taped a piece of medical gauze on her ear for a week?

[Mr. Bumble]

I suppose you would have been happier if instead of gauze Trump wound up in a body bag like Corey Comperatore.

[Dr. Ed 2]

The real question is do we or do we not still believe in the concept of rule of law in this country?

We had the caravans of illegal aliens who knew that we were not the type of people who would simply machine gun them all, and that if they overwhelmed the border guards, they get into the country with impunity. So they came storming in, essentially giving us the middle finger.

Their presence in this country is a violation of federal law, it continues to be if the word “illegal” is to continue to mean what it always has.

So now they cry, hard hardship that was sending them back when they never should’ve been here in the first place. That’s like the auto thief claiming hardship when we take his stolen car away from him or the rapist claiming hardship to both himself and his family when we throw him in jail for his crime.

And as to the AWFULs — the Affluent White Female Urban Leftists — they might want to take a few minutes to think about their own personal self interests. Forget short skirts, the people they want to see imported in this country have a cultural belief that any woman who isn’t escorted by a man deserves to be raped, and domestic violence is a God-given male prerogative.

American women enjoy rights and freedoms that women nowhere else in the world have. Forget letting them drive automobiles, we allow them to fly 747s and F-15s. Do they really want to lose all of this and instead live the cloistered life of a woman in Central America or the Arab world?

And one other thing about the AWFULs — an hour after male semen is deposited in a woman’s body, various male hormones can be detected in her blood. How dare we suggest that biology is destiny, and the problem these women have is a lack of a husband depositing the semen….

[Mr. Bumble]

"Activists are calling for a national strike to protest ongoing immigration enforcement presence and President Donald Trump’s handling of mass deportations. The strike, which is set to go down this Friday (Jan. 30), follows a general strike organized in Minnesota just last week."
Are the usual suspects honoring this by boycotting the Open Thread?

[Frank Drackman]

I heard Nurse Pretti hasn't shown up for work all week.

[Frank Drackman]

I did say "Good morning Losers" and so far it's only been you, me, Kaz, and Dr. Ed.

[Moderation4ever]

I read that Republican in Congress want to change voting laws including allow rank choice voting. Because being on of the two major parties they don't want to lose their monopoly on power.

[bloocow2]

Even if the motivation for it is dodgy, I hope it happens! Ranked choice is so much better overall than first-past-the-post voting.

[Mr. Bumble]

We don't need no stinkin' Chinese menu voting.