Month: July 2020

Athenae, Elections1 Comment

We Gotta Get Rid of the Whole Lot

Allison Hantschel

This is all very true:  McConnell and the Senate Republicans will put the brakes on every meaningful policy initiative that Biden advances. Hundreds of measures that have been approved by the House since the Democrats took over in January 2019—including the Heroes Act package of Covid-19 relief measures that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues passed in May—have been laid to rest in what Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer describes as “Leader McConnell’s legislative graveyard.” The Republican lawmaker and his cadre of obedient partisans have made it perfectly clear time and again that they will not be moved by … Continue reading We Gotta Get Rid of the Whole Lot

COVID-19, Free Republic, The Darnold, Tommy T2 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – shits and pieces edition

Tommy T

Still catching up from my crash-bang-aplooza, so let me start with the oldest first – Parlour games!

(you may have already heard that Parler is the alternative social media outlet for morons who have been kicked off Twitter and / or Facebook for being Nazis)

Parler Is a Trap. Stay away!
Thread app /twitter ^ | 6/28/20 | Brian Cates/Various

Posted on 6/28/2020, 11:36:27 AM by Revel

He tells how you need to give them a selfie and a drivers license scan in order to direct message.

They can delete anything anytime they want even without reason.

Account deletion by email only. And forced arbitration

Terms of service can be changed any time without notification to users.

If one of your posts leads to legal action against them then you agree to pay all legal fees.

They may have the right to use the information in the contact lists of your devices.

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Then we have the obvious:

“Are millions of Conservatives being led into a new Conservative ghetto from which they will become completely invisible to the outside world?”

“It’s brilliant if this was an actual strategy. Get the Conservatives to SILENCE themselves outside a bubble to promote ‘free speech’.”

“We retreat in the culture war into a silo where we all talk to people who already agree with us.”

“Any Conservatives who retreated behind the Parler login wall and abandoned their accounts on this platform is now invisible for the upcoming election.”

1 posted on 6/28/2020, 11:36:27 AM by Revel
Freepers?
To: Revel

And Twitter can kiss my grits.Probably few are abandoning the bloated forums until they are personally banned outright. I’m reminded of some great advice given immediately after the 1994 election:

“Abandon all illusions of media sympathy,” and “find, forge and maintain your own lines of communication.”

7 posted on 6/28/2020, 11:45:20 AM by Prospero (Lex est rex)
For reals?
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Pretty soon, you asswipes will be down to using two tin cans and a piece of string.
And Free Republic.
But I repeat myself.

To: Revel

Other then FreeRepublic I do not feel compelled to share my wisdom with the world.

The world weeps silent tears of joy.

That is what my two dachshunds are for and even they usually ignore me.

13 posted on 6/28/2020, 11:52:57 AM by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Livestreamed)

Ignore you?
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You’re lucky they don’t tear your throat out while you sleep.
To: RandFan

 

So we should just allow ourselves to be run off the Twitter platform and made to setup camp in a backwater echo chamber that nobody ever visits?

33 posted on 6/28/2020, 12:11:07 PM by SamAdams76

IronyMeterPegged
To: Revel

 

Conservatives need to stop retreating, we are running out of places to retreat to.

10 posted on 6/28/2020, 11:49:06 AM by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

Ah – but we’ll always have Paris.
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And Stormfront.
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“Endut” indeed.
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Click “read more” to read more…

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Athenae, COVID-191 Comment

No Good Choices

Allison Hantschel

If we wanted the schools to be open, we should have left everything else closed:  I want schools to open. I’ve got a five year old and a fifteen year old in a 900-square-foot house with only two bedrooms, and I’d love to have them literally anywhere else. And we’re among the lucky ones. Public schools don’t just teach. They provide subsidized breakfast and lunch for many of their students, plus access to counselors, community, and nurses. Figuring out how to deliver food and healthcare to these children is more important than how to stagger classes. But it’s time to … Continue reading No Good Choices

Adrastos, Diary, Film, Fog Of History, Law/Justice, Music, Odds & Sods, Political Crack, Television1 Comment

Saturday Odds & Sods: Heart Of The Sunrise

Peter Adrastos Athas
Wheatfield with Rising Sun by Vincent Van Gogh.

It’s been a difficult week in New Orleans. Mayor Cantrell has, quite wisely, rolled back the “reopening” to what amounts to Phase 1.5. Here’s hoping that people get the message and stop acting as if we’re back to normal. Even Gamaliel wouldn’t find this normal and he lived through the last great pandemic. That’s great as in big, not good. Pandemics are never the latter.

I’m trying to bring some beauty to an ugly era with this week’s theme song. It was written by Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, and Bill Bruford for Yes’ 1971 Fragile album. It was the first track they rehearsed and recorded with Rick Wakeman.

We have two versions of Heart Of The Sunrise for your listening pleasure: the studio original and a 21st Century live version.

Before jumping to the break, another song from Fragile:

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Athenae, Current Affairs

Things We Learned in the Fire

Allison Hantschel

HEY C’MON COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE WE NEED TO HAVE THIS MEETING AT THIS TREE AIN’ EVEN BEEN PLANTED YET — June Jordan, Calling On All Silent Minorities I’ve written before about how Mr. A has been nesting. He’s mostly done now. The yard is enclosed by a 6-foot fence with a double-lock gate; Kick can leave her toys absolutely everywhere and I don’t have to yell at her to bring her scooter or her ponies or anything else inside every night. I forget to lock doors, still, so we bought a family “calendar” to assign chores and one … Continue reading Things We Learned in the Fire

Athenae, Television

Not Everything Sucks

Allison Hantschel

Michaela Coel exists, and is astonishing:   When she first began pitching the concept for I May Destroy You in spring 2017, Netflix offered her $1 million upfront — $1 million! But when she learned they wouldn’t allow her to retain any percentage of the copyright, she said no. No amount was worth that. She fired CAA, her agency in the U.S., too, when it tried to push her to take the deal after she learned it would be making an undisclosed amount on the back end. Throughout the fallout with Netflix and CAA, Coel asked questions relentlessly. She is eager, almost giddy, to … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks

COVID-19, Free Republic, The Darnold, Tommy T1 Comment

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – What power! edition

Tommy T

Morning everyone – let’s get into our ISO suits (I wear mine all the time these days) and crack open some of the simmering barrels of Freep Power!

Video retweeted by Trump shows supporter yelling “white power”
Axios ^ | 6/28/20 | Axios

Posted on 6/28/2020, 10:21:37 AM by sam_whiskey

President Trump tweeted, “Thank you to the great people of The Villages” on Sunday morning in response to a video of protesters verbally clashing with Trump supporters — including one man who yelled “white power” while passing pissing in a golf cart.

FIFY.

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I’m sure the senior citizen’s remark was toungue(sic) in cheek, but, Mr. President, if you’re going to retweet videos please WATCH the video first.
1 posted on 6/28/2020, 10:21:37 AM by sam_whiskey
What makes you think he didn’t?
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So – he didn’t mean it?
To: sam_whiskey

 

So Black Power is just fine, but heaven forbid someone espouse White Power?

2 posted on 6/28/2020, 10:24:35 AM by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)

So he did mean it?
To: sam_whiskey

 

After watching the video I’m pretty sure the intent was to annoy the foul mouthed leftists, but you’re right, this is is the sort of unforced error that emboldens the Satanic left.

10 posted on 6/28/2020, 10:28:20 AM by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)

Funny – I thought this was the kind of  unforced error  shit-stupid thing that emboldens his re-election staff to jump out of windows.
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Now, where did I put that pentagram?
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And WTF is keeping the tinfoil hat brigade??
To: sam_whiskey

 

This is very likely a Democrat Set-Up. The old guy in the golf cart, the Trump signs, the shouting of white power, the videographer and Twitter.

11 posted on 6/28/2020, 10:31:01 AM by Meatspace

SlimPickensCahoots
Much much more stupid after the white powder below…

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Athenae, COVID-19

Solidarity and What It Gets Us

Allison Hantschel

I’ve been thinking about this since reading this tweet: The Iraq and Afghanistan war dead, too. Once it became clear the wars were going badly and also were never going to end it became convenient to act like "we" were no longer at war. https://t.co/YyuOV3Qj9C — Allison Hantschel (@Athenae) May 24, 2020 That every movement turns on itself eventually, that every fire burns out, that nothing can be sustained forever, are I think things we all know. That you can’t stay in the middle of the war forever, or it wins. But Jesus, this, we barely tried. A month ago … Continue reading Solidarity and What It Gets Us