Month: December 2019

Athenae, Kids Today, The Kavanaugh Mess3 Comments

You Guys It Is HARD Telling Boys Not to Rape

Allison Hantschel

I mean, how even are you supposed to do this job?  Fallout from the #MeToo movement continues to be one of the most polarizing topics in our current political climate. For parents of sons, navigating complex and sensitive conversations with their boys about sexual consent, harassment and assault, and respect for women and LGBTQ people is difficult enough, especially when they’re young. And, it’s only compounded by the fear President Trump is helping to spread that young men could be unjustly accused. Here’s an idea. Just spitballing. Just throwing this out there. A suggestion for you to pass on to your young men. DON’T RAPE … Continue reading You Guys It Is HARD Telling Boys Not to Rape

Free Republic, The Darnold, Tommy T6 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Defending the indefensible edition

Tommy T

Good morning people!  You’ve watched the Freeperati lower and lower and lower the bar on acceptable behaviour until someone in China screamed that the bar just poked him in the ass, but first…..Biden – his time!

Biden Sides with Foreign Leaders Mocking Trump: ‘The World Is Laughing’
Breitbart ^ | 12/05/2019 | Haris Alic

Posted on 12/5/2019, 1:00:05 PM by ChicagoConservative27

Joe Biden released a campaign ad Wednesday siding with the foreign leaders caught on camera mocking President Donald Trump at the recent NATO summit.

“The world sees Trump for what he is: insincere, ill-informed, corrupt, dangerously incompetent, and incapable, in my view, of world leadership.” the former vice president says in the one minute ad. “If we give Donald Trump four more years, we’ll have a great deal of difficulty of ever being able to recover America’s standing in the world, and our capacity to bring nations together.”

1 posted on 12/5/2019, 1:00:05 PM by ChicagoConservative27
Just on the off-chance that you haven’t seen that ad yet, here it is :
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That was classic.  The only thing they missed was Melania trying to avoid holding his hand, and The Darnold walking up the steps to Hair Force One with the toilet paper trailing from his shoe.
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Any Freeper reactions to the ad itself?
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Are you kidding?
To: ChicagoConservative27

 

It’s a good thing that Cornpop wasn’t a world leader. Cornpop was a bad dude.

4 posted on 12/5/2019, 1:03:42 PM by cdcdawg (“So I learned about roaches. I learned about kids jumping on my lap,” Biden said.)

Cornpop could kick your ass, “cdcdawg”.  And he’s dead.
BTW – If your handle means you have a job with the CDC, thanks for sucking on the government teat.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Boy this guy makes me SICK.
I felt bad the other day for him for a little while. 

Now I hope his parkinsons or whatever it is lasts DECADES and is HORRIFYING for him and his family.

(while the poster’s own family is quietly picking out a bargain-basement nursing facility)

A far greater man and President suffered with it for almost a decade.

If you were talking about Regan, that was Alzheimer’s, you ignorant fucktoy.

Or, in the words of someone who was actually there (his own son) :

“At 73, Ronald Reagan would be the oldest president ever re-elected. Some voters were beginning to imagine grandpa — who can never find his reading glasses — in charge of a bristling nuclear arsenal, and it was making them nervous. Worse, my father now seemed to be giving them legitimate reason for concern. My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered.”

I hope biden decays to 70 pounds over 15 years and can’t utter one sensible word.

Maybe then he could run as a Republican and you’d vote for him.

Well..that wouldn’t be a change  Trump press conference…

8 posted on 12/5/2019, 1:05:50 PM by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don’t point fingers at me I’m a small town white boy Just tryin’ to make ends meet)

FIFY.
To: ChicagoConservative27 

If the ‘world’ is laughing at us,

No, you lickspittle, the world is laughing at HIM.

Us, the world just feels sorry for.

 

then why are so many trying to get to America by any means necessary, legally or illegally?

Tell me if this rings a bell:

StatueOfLiberty

If it’s so awful, why aren’t the Democrat Socialists leaving in DROVES for greener pastures? There are still plenty of Communist countries to live in!

17 posted on 12/5/2019, 1:16:00 PM by Diana in Wisconsin (I don’t have ‘hobbies.’ I’m developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)

AGAIN with the commie-hating – while your Gropenfuhrer is sucking commie wang like a low-rent pool boy.
Don’t make me break out the “Putin on the Ritz” gif again.
The defense of the indefensible part after the break…

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Athenae, So Called Liberal Media3 Comments

Above Ideology

Allison Hantschel

Douthat always flaps his mouth-butt when it’s my goddamn turn to blog:  In the Democratic coalition more than the Republican one, meritocracy and technocracy have long been unifying forces. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama represented somewhat different party factions, but they both embodied wonkery, a vision of competence and expertise governing to some extent above ideology, in which there are assumed to be “correct answers” to policy dilemmas that a disinterested observer could acknowledge and the right technocrat achieve. Well, when one judges a solution “correct” on the basis of “how many Americans will this solution keep alive,” then yes, Clinton … Continue reading Above Ideology

Athenae, Big Damn Heroes, Epic Blogger Win

Not Everything Sucks: YOU DID IT!

Allison Hantschel

I gave you a week and you did it in almost a day:  Every year they do a MASSIVE toy drive for the little kids so they can have some holiday presents and they’re well-supplied, but need $500 for gift cards for the 50 or so older kids. Think about how in high school your buds want to go out for a burger, or over to the Starbucks to study, and you don’t have any money to buy anything. Wouldn’t you like to be able to give some kid the ability to feel normal for Christmas? You raised $500 for the … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks: YOU DID IT!

Adrastos, British Politics, Diary, Film, Fog Of History, Music, Odds & Sods, Television1 Comment

Saturday Odds & Sods: Suspicious Minds

Peter Adrastos Athas
Charing Cross Bridge by Andre Derain.

It’s Pearl Harbor Day. This Saturday might live in infamy for another reason: we’re attending a top-secret event in an undisclosed location this evening. I can’t tell you what it is but if you’re a member of a certain benign but bawdy organization, you know what I’m talking about. If not, you may be feeling thoroughly befuddled. So it goes.

Speaking of bombs, the 2019 British general election is heading into the homestretch. I haven’t written about it because it’s so depressing. The two big parties have terrible leaders neither of whom is fit to be Prime Minister but Corbyn is the lesser of two evils. Bozza the Bozo who currently holds the job has bad hair and an even worse slogan: “Get Brexit Done.” The pro-European Union Liberal Democrats shot themselves in the foot by declaring they could win the election when they currently have 20 seats. They’re still limping away from that absurd declaration. Making matters worse is that the Tories deserve to lose and there’s a good chance that they’ll win.

This week’s theme song was written and recorded by Mark James in 1968. His version bombed but Elvis Presley’s did not. It became the King’s’ biggest hit of the Sixties.

We have multiple versions of Suspicious Minds for your listening pleasure: Mark James, Elvis, Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter, and a reggae version by the Heptones.

Now that you’re suspicious, let’s clear the air by jumping to the break.

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Athenae, Do Something1 Comment

Giving Tuesday, Get On It

Allison Hantschel

I know all y’all’s favorite nonprofits are all over you today because it’s Giving Tuesday but I wanted to find out if we, The Blog, could get together and raise some funds for the St. Hyacinth Food Pantry this year. Remember the pantry? It’s the one we started boosting back in 2016 to help out the folks most likely to be hurt by what we’re all now just calling The Way Things Are Nowadays. Every year they do a MASSIVE toy drive for the little kids so they can have some holiday presents and they’re well-supplied, but need $500 for … Continue reading Giving Tuesday, Get On It

Free Republic, The Darnold, Tommy T

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Back and forth edition

Tommy T

Short one today, as recurring #^@#& back issues preclude sitting for very long.

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First up – it’s good not to be da king!

Former White House counsel Don McGahn must obey subpoena to testify before Congress, judge rules
NBC News ^ | November 25, 2019 | Pete Williams

Posted on 11/25/2019, 5:15:37 PM by Coronal

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled late Monday that former White House counsel Don McGahn must obey a subpoena for his testimony issued by the House Judiciary Committee.

Federal District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said McGahn must appear before Congress but retains the ability to “invoke executive privilege where appropriate” during his appearance. The judge did not put her own ruling on hold, but the Trump administration will likely seek one to put the effect of her ruling on hold while it pursues an appeal.

“It is clear to this Court for the reasons explained above that, with respect to senior-level presidential aides, absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist,” Jackson said in her ruling

(Inexplicably left out of the above excerpt by the poster, for some reason 🙂

Judge Jackson also explicitly said the president “does not have the power” to stop his aides from responding to subpoenas from Congress – adding that “presidents are not kings”.

1 posted on 11/26/2019, 12:46:25 AM by Berlin_Freeper
I’ve replaced IDJIT  PDJT with Folgers crystals “Kings”. Let’s see if anybody notices…
To: Berlin_Freeper
not true, they can be forced to show up but still trump can claim executive privileged(sic) and they don’t have to say a word.
Someone really needs to read the court decision on this one. 

2 posted on 11/26/2019, 12:52:13 AM by oldenuff35

But the important part – what colour is she???
To: italianquaker

 

Affirmative Action judge.

8 posted on 11/25/2019, 5:20:28 PM by bkopto

Well, there you go, then.
To: Coronal

Affirmative Action judge.

Actually no. Getting into Harvard could easily be through AA; however, graduating magna cum laude can only be done through talent. Same with Harvard Law where she graduated cum laude. Udumbo was an AA slacker dullard. Not this one, though.

20 posted on 11/25/2019, 5:37:35 PM by KevinB (“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” – Charles Darwin)
What about the “King” thing?  Didn’t any Freeper take objection to that? Didn’t any Freeper actually READ the linked article? Or is it just a case of :
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DangerClose
To: Berlin_Freeper

A federal judge has ruled…

He says breathlessly.YAWN!…BFD.

4 posted on 11/26/2019, 12:52:36 AM by lewislynn (STOP SUPPORTING CHINA AND ANTI-AMERICAN GLOBALISTS! DO IT NOW!)
shootthemessengerbugs
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You gonna let him talk to you like that?
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To: lewislynn
lewislynn, how about you donate a single dollar to FR after 20+ years?
10 posted on 11/26/2019, 1:05:21 AM by Berlin_Freeper
Bazinga!
To: Berlin_Freeper

 

If YOU had donated to FR,you would know that there is an option to donate anonymously. Some of us use it to avoid tit4tat bullschiff with leftist trolls like you.

21 posted on 11/26/2019, 1:33:04 AM by SanchoP (Yippy,the next generation search engine.)

To: SanchoP

If YOU had donated to FR,you would know that there is an option to donate anonymously. Some of us use it to avoid tit4tat bullschiff with leftist trolls like you.

The problem you have with that is, I am the one being trolled and we are posting anonymously so why wouldn’t someone simple(sic – I think, anyway) say “I have donated money to FR”?

27 posted on 11/26/2019, 1:41:15 AM by Berlin_Freeper
To: Berlin_Freeper

 

Because it’s none of your business,dumbass.

28 posted on 11/26/2019, 1:43:56 AM by SanchoP (Yippy,the next generation search engine.)

ClownSlapFight
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More clown slap-fights below the fold….
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Athenae, Science1 Comment

It’s A Mystery

Allison Hantschel

This is a lot of words about why “we” don’t believe in science anymore just to NOT say “Republicans:”  We are abandoning our last greatest hope and assuming enormous risk when our policy makers stand at odds with science without any rational foundation for their dissent. The U.S. has long led the world in scientific discovery and putting science into practice to advance human health, energy, agriculture and food safety. Yet, now, amidst impending crisis, are we to deny our own strength and step back from leadership? I mean … I can’t imagine why one political party in one country … Continue reading It’s A Mystery