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Thursday, November 10. 2016Thursday morning linksPhoto via Eratosthenes Huge Gallo-Roman villa found in Brittany Nice estate If McDonald’s goes under it will be because they followed liberals to disaster The UK: Cranes back to Elizabethan numbers thanks to surrogate human 'parents' The Higher Education Monoculture AVI: The Sadness Of NPR Christmas 241st Birthday Salute to United States Marine Corps (video) Boys do talk about girls. And vice-versa. Why Low-Skilled Immigrant Men Work More Than Other Low-Skilled Men In DC, A Changing Investigative Landscape I Support Government By Experts State of Washington Votes No On ‘Climate Change’ Initiative America: A Republic, Not a Dairy Trump Won Because Leftist Political Correctness Inspired a Terrifying Backlash GOP scored big in state races, too WikiLeaks Reveals How Billionaire 'Progressives' Run The Democratic Party Colorado’s single payer health plan initiative failed spectacularly yesterday How two polls predicted Trump's surprise victory "Tell Me About Your Emotional Journey Last (Tues) Night" "Donald Trump’s election victory is a win for the Deplorables—you know, those uneducated racist, ignorant brutes in fly over country, who America’s political elite and the mainstream disdain." "In an electoral tantrum for the ages, angry U.S. voters have elected an impulsive, thin-skinned, ignorant con man to the presidency. I have serious doubts that the American experiment will survive his reign." Sullivan: A country designed to resist tyranny has now embraced it. Sheesh. Cornell students hold ‘Cry In’ over Trump victory "Asylum"? That is funny 'Anxious and fearful' students demand day off to cry about Trump Afraid of what, exactly? Post-election self-care at UMass Cookies and milk Or try some weed? "Even Canadians stunned, realizing they are now stuck with Lena Dunham Schneiderman: Les Deplorables strike back Is Mrs. BD really a deplorable? How Caddell Got It Right: ‘This Is the Rising of the People’ Exit Polls Suggest Latinos Rallied For Trump Despite Rhetoric From Left Exit polls show Trump won more than just white males. Ryan: What Reince Priebus 'Has Done to Rebuild Our Party is Remarkable' Will Clinton Foundation donors demand a refund? Commenter at Zero: This hangover is so FUCKING worth it! Horror and disbelief at Clinton HQ as stunned supporters watched Hillary's humiliating loss Kudlow: If Trump Asks Me to Serve, I'll Have 'Positive Response' Good Meet Trump's Cabinet-in-waiting "In Canada, we’ve got people running for the party leadership who appear After Trump and Brexit, populist tsunami threatens European mainstream Experts Question If Clinton Foundation Will Survive Richard Engel on the Trump Presidency Man needs a Valium THE UN'S 10 NEW ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTIONS - While ignoring worldwide human rights abuses. Trackbacks
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By demonizing the Trump support and pushing it underground, they couldn't measure it, analyze it, or, even more importantly, counter it and adjust their message. Instead they continued to scapegoat and smear the working people, whose only crime was concern for their own livelihoods and the future livelihoods of their children. It's incredible that they learned nothing from the Republican primary. The underlying message, is that it was not about Trump; it never was. It was about the Middle pushing back.
It is still not safe to come out as a Trump supporter. They have a YouTube video from yesterday showing a gang of ferals dragging an old white man out of his car and beating him because he had a Trump bumper sticker on his car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmljpCj27tk Are you sure it was a Trump sticker? Zachriel said it was Trump who was the hater!
The Zach Brigade would claim that the guy was trying to exert white privilege over those poor oppressed African Americans, still struggling with the legacy of slavery.
mudbug: Zachriel said it was Trump who was the hater!
Trump has made many bigoted statements, however, he is not the only "hater". Jim: The Zach Brigade would claim that the guy was trying to exert white privilege over those poor oppressed African Americans, still struggling with the legacy of slavery. Hardly. Such an act is illegal, and the perpetrators should be brought to justice. Zachriel: Hardly. Such an act is illegal, and the perpetrators should be brought to justice.
They will be, under a Trump administration.
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2016-11-10 18:45
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Jim: They will be, under a Trump administration.
The case will be handled under state law. It has nothing to do with Trump.
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2016-11-10 18:57
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No, these folks engage in this violent behavior because they knew they were protected by the Injustice Department that claims that any police enforcement of the law against blacks is per se racist. I mean, look at the travesty of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, two violent gang banger thugs who were turned into innocent martyrs by the Injustice Department.
Unfortunately for their ilk, there is a new sheriff in town, and Loretta Lynch, Al Sharpton, and BLM's shelf life just expired. African Americans will be expected to act to the same degree of lawful behavior that whites and other groups are held to.
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2016-11-11 15:37
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Jim: No, these folks engage in this violent behavior because they knew they were protected by the Injustice Department that claims that any police enforcement of the law against blacks is per se racist.
Are you claiming the Illinois police will not enforce the law? Shall we bookmark this discussion and revisit it after the state police finish their investigation?
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2016-11-12 10:10
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QUOTE: Authorities say 26-year-old Julian Christian, 21-year-old Rajane Lewis, 20-year-old Dejuan Collins and a 17-year-old girl who wasn’t identified were each charged with vehicular hijacking in the Nov. 9 incident. Christian is from Broadview, Illinois, and Lewis and Collins are from Chicago. Glad we could resolve that issue.
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2016-11-20 16:35
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No worries. Just some of the left wing militia blowing off steam.
Engle needs more than a valium. He needs a reality check. Welcome to the ranks of those disappointed with an election. I have been saving you a seat for 8 years. The difference is that I haven't been making wild, specious claims or spewing hatred.
The shallowness and bias on their part, that lead them to using the working people as scapegoats and smearing them cost the DNC.
It was already obvious during the primaries; it may have actually helped Trump. How is insulting half the electorate a winning strategy? Maybe it is all about the bile. Re: Richard Engel on the Trump Presidency
This guy is an idiot. The things he said in his first minute (Constitutional crisis, potential impeachment, etc.) fit a Hildebeast win much more than an Trump one. The second minute starts with his assertion that the military leaders are reading the Constitution to see if they could be compelled to deport millions of Americans. Americans? What planet is this guy on? Then he makes a comment about if we make ourselves irrelevant, others will step in... What does he think has been going on for the last seven and a half years? Ok. I don't watch the MSM much so I didn't know who this guy is. But now that I find out that he works for NBC, it all makes sense. Of all the MSM, NBC's may be the worst and most dishonest news organization. I'm almost surprised that anybody took the time to capture this video and post it on youtube. Richard Engel can't even comb his hair like an adult! His mother is ashamed he showed up on TV looking like that. How can he be taken seriously on any subject?
She's even more ashamed that he's missed the course of BHO's foreign policy for the last seven years! He is so wrong and so doctrinairely dumb in what he says, that his mother must be doing several face palms when she watches him! For weeks and months before the election we were warned that with a Trump defeat that the right wind militia would riot and commit violence. This was hyped right along with the standard fare of Democrat divide and conquer rhetoric about the deplorables and racists and homophobes. Well it seems the predictions were 'kinda' true. But Hillary was defeated and it was the left wing militia that showed up and rioted and committed violence. The violent left wing hate groups promise more to come right up to and including the inauguration. The social websites are full of hateful comments and threats from left wing haters and hate groups. How will this all be spinned by the left wing media?
I think it is premature to pronounce the death of PC. The corps of liberal intelligentsia has too much at stake. There are so "zero sum" in their thinking that they will only see one choice: escalate.
"In an electoral tantrum for the ages, angry U.S. voters have elected an impulsive, thin-skinned, ignorant con man to the presidency. I have serious doubts that the American experiment will survive his reign."
Funny, I'm of the opinion that a society that needs an impulsive, thin-skinned, ignorant con man to save them from the ravages of a feeble old immoral grifter ain't worth worrying about the survival of. You know, the sort of society where people like Eric Zorn are allowed to pass themselves off as part of the morally-superior elite rather than being pelted with dead cats, vulgar epithets, and derisive mocking every time they dare open their fat stupid yaps in public. Exit Polls
Re: Mexican vote. I get a smile when I understand that while the liberals were destroying this nation in order to "care for" millions of undocumented workers--and, by the way, in order to bring in hundreds of thousands of cheap and grateful employees for Nevada and other cities. The obvious intent was to bring new "democrats". While they were doing all this to show how wonderfully good they are--the Catholic Church inbedded in those communities has been demanding they vote Republican (anti abortion, pro marriage, anti gays). Sweet Irony ! Second Item: While we will be hearing forever and ever and ever that the reason Hillary lost was because of the very hateful mysoginistic white males, who typically didn't vote, we cannot expect that liberals will have the self discipline to look at themselves and the direction the women's movement has taken in the past twenty five years. It is no longer a movement with few, clearly defined ideals--it has become a "female mafia" intent on controlling every job in America, intent on re-writing "Our" constitution, intent on and on and on. I know many young women (under 45) who will tell you loudly that "everyone else has a mafia why shouldn't women?" Well there you go rule by the lawless as the stated ideal. I don't suppose the women in Seattle who dominate the movement will ever take a look at their own involvement in their failure? In fact I know they don't have the intellectual ability to do that--nor, do they have the will--only the world's third greatest appetite for power which must be satiated! My thought is that the exit polls cannot tell us truly how many women actually voted against Hillary and more importantly against the corruption of the women's movement. I'm too old to remember how McD's fries used to taste.
Yale: You're stupid if you don't agree with us. WA Vots No On Climate Change: "Washington Democrats were against the measure, since it gave citizens tax breaks, and they wanted people to feel the pain for daring to drive fossil fueled vehicles." Ze peepul musssst not be allllllowed to dezide for zemselfs! Did The Democrats Help Trump? A sterling example of "Be careful what you wish for." Can America survive President Donald Trump? Of course. Chicago still exists. "As a lefty I'm discouraged...", but TRUMP will fulfill all of the Gang Of Z's worst (WORST) fever dreams. 'It's a nightmare': Horror and disbelief at Clinton HQ as stunned supporters watched Hillary's humiliating loss: I just feel so sowwy for those pwecious snowfwakes. Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sowwy. Weally, I do. Would I lie to you? Engel has to be the biggest embarrassment on TV…remarkable as there are so many of them now. I, as a retired journalist, public relations and marketing person, thought I had seen every idiot in the field. Wrong. In my day, he wouldn't be carrying water for the gaffer.
The FCC needs to re-establish their role of interviewing the public regarding the veracity of those who hold the licenses allowing them to communicate with the public via the air waves. Sufficient complaints = pull the right. Something is critically wrong with 6 (SIX) corporations controlling most (90%-plus) of the media in the world's industrialized nations. BTW, I have no issue with various viewpoints. Great debate is refreshing. I have an issue with outright lies. RE A FREAKOUT AT UMASS LOWELL
QUOTE: Today there is a Post-election self-care session from 12-4pm in Moloney. The event will include cookies, mandalas, stress reduction techniques and mindfulness activities. in '43, Dad was an 18 year old sailor. His "mindfulness activity" was watching the skies for Jap dive bombers. I'm sure he didn't know what a mandala was much less give a shit. 1943, North Africa...My Dad (WWII veteran and proud of it) was engaged in the "mindfulness activity" of trying to stay alive for another day.
D-day, 1994, asked Mum and aunt were the men in the family were back in 1944. Knew Dad was still in Canada - he'd done really well in basic training and ended up as an instructor with the RCAF. But their two brothers and aunt's husband were all somewhere in England. None went over on D-day, but all ended up in Europe somewhere along the line.
On husband's side, one group were all working in a seriously protected industry, the plant where they were working surrounded by wire and heavily guarded. The two other uncles - one spent his war in the merchant marine, working in the engine room of the merchant ships plying the North Atlantic. The other was back home, having been wounded at the Battle of Ortona in December, 1943. Tomorrow, November 11, is Remembrance Day here in Canada. As I remember our family members who fought, I will remember yours also, Will and roc. The men came home and picked up their lives. It was not easy; there were a fair few stressed and unhappy families in the "war time housing" (as in built cheaply to house returning vets and their families) I grew up in. But, overall, the men did well in overcoming what today is PTSD and doing the best for their wives and families. The deplorableness of their opponents is the main argument liberals rely on. Liberalism is spread by social desirability and enforced with social punishments. They fear ridicule. Like high school and college.
Other arguments are thin on the ground. It's not that liberals never have a logical argument or are incapable of it. They are generally more socially aware - even hyperaware - and therefore respond to those arguments, and are furious with those who don't "get it" and just pipe down. I am old enough to remember how good McDonald's fries tasted. Huge difference between then and now. Coca-cola too. In the 50's a coke was refreshing, crisp and so satisfying. Now it is clingy in the throat, has an after taste and the 'fizz' seems to disappear. But, oddly, what I miss most from my childhood is my mother's Boston baked beans. I've tried to recreate them and I know what she put into them. The one thing I haven't done is used an old stule bean pot and cook it all day in a bakery oven at our local bakery like she did. I assume if I showed up at my local bakery with a pot of beans to be baked they would look at my like I was from Mars.
The Harvard Soccer team will pay the price of being men in a feminist institution. Misandry is alive and well and actively encouraged. Sadly what began as an effort for equality in race and gender has seen the pendulum swing all the way to outright racism by people of color towards whites and outright misandry by women towards men. It is a true irony that the law of the land allows only one legal form of discrimination and that is towards white men (and to a lesser extent towards white women).
While Zack is off today attending a post-election grief counseling session, we are here to explain to all of you Disputables the reason why Hillary lost to The Trump.
After careful evaluation, we have concluded that Climate Change (c)(r)(tm)(pat.pend.) was responsible for Hillary's defect. According to our Assistant Villiage Idiot, poor Zach was triggered into a stupor by some of the commentors her, who did not welcome him as one of our cool kids, and even wrote some things that Zach did not completely agree with. This caused him to feel excluded from the group, rather than being bathed in social desirability. Zach fears ridicule, so it was very triggering for this group to even hint at social punishment for his religious faith in hillary's purity and goodness.
Perhaps some cookies, and some remorse shown by this group about hillary's tragic loss will help Zach snap out of his feelings of self-awareness and reality-intrusion. I agree that climate change causes all kinds of bad things you would not ordinarily expect. It did in the dinosaurs, killed the Neanderthals, precipitated some light rain in my back yard a couple of weeks ago, and caused me to lose my keys for a while yesterday. But is even Climate Change powerful enough to induce even a small a defect in the perfection that Zach believes is embodies in hillary!!!, who is the smartest and most wonderful woman ever to be on the planet? I doubt it. Well, I think Zach is wrong but he (she?) does seem to deal with criticism without folding in a heap. CWCID
Zach might be in a safe space with Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders announced today that he might run again in 2020. Sanders praised Hillary !!! saying “She has served the public for many, many decades and has broken many laws barriers"
QUOTE: Political Correctness in the United States 1965-2016 1965? Oh yeah, that was the year the Civil Rights Act was passed that ended legal barriers to voting for African Americans. At that point it became unfashionable to use the n-word in public. We, we mean the GOP, put an end to our favorite Democrat Jim Crow laws and practices.
(remember, please don't use the word "N*****" here. We're supposed to ignore the 150 years of oppression and carnage we Democrats imposed on our Black brethren. as far as our spin is, it never happened, or we blame Climate Change.) "At that point it became unfashionable to use the n-word in public."
Unless you're a rapper of course. Then it's excruciatingly fashionable. Can you give me a citation for that? I know that the truthiness of that statement seems like it should be enough for me to believe it, but I don't. Try again.
Dangerous Dean: Can you give me a citation for that?
President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Text of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: "No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color." Oh, the good old days, when you could use the n-word without people looking at you funny. We are embarrassed that the Democratic Party was responsible for nearly two centuries of true fucktardedness towards Blacks and other minorities. The civil rights and voting rights acts of the 19th and 20th centuries were intended to stop our Democratic Party's vicious treatment of Blacks. We Democrats gleefully hanged Black men for most of the 20th century.
But we never talk about it and we never apologize. In many ways, we Democrats are among the worst humanity has ever spawned. So, sorry, 'bout that. Zack, one more time, please stop using the n-word. If McDonald’s goes under it will be because they followed liberals to disaster
A childhood friend, of the well-intentioned liberal tribe, worked in upper management at McDonalds for years. The friend is now retired. Hope the pension is not tied to McDonalds stock. "Canadians stunned, realizing they are now stuck with Leah Dunham" Only if she embraces Islam and dons the burka.
Just saw this at the PuffHo:
"Donna Brazile, the interim leader of the Democratic National Committee, was giving what one attendee described as “a rip-roaring speech” to about 150 employees, about the need to have hope for wins going forward, when a staffer identified only as Zach stood up with a question. “Why should we trust you as chair to lead us through this?” he asked, according to two people in the room. “You backed a flawed candidate, and your friend [former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz] plotted through this to support your own gain and yourself.” Could this be our Z? |