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Friday, September 23. 2022

Friday morning links

Hurricane Fiona Is Harbinger Of Climate Doom Or Something


VDH:  Martha's Meltdown Model


 A New Counterculture? If the Right captures some of the Left’s youthful energy and rebellious cachet, it would represent a tectonic cultural and political shift.


 Stacy Abrams announces that ‘fetal heartbeats’ are a conspiracy of the patriarchy


 Spinning the Tavistock Story - Activists are twisting the closure of Tavistock as a win for gender ideology.


 Border Patrol Arresting Thousands Of Illegal Immigrants From Africa, Middle East


Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 09:48 | Comments (24) | Trackbacks (0)

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Free the J6 protestors. Investigate the FBI and DOJ in this unconstitutional purge. This is shameful and unjust. Taje it to the Supremes, even though they have failed us in the past on critical constitutional questions at least need to hear from them on this one. Shut down the DC gulags and investigate the mistreatment there. Move these kinds of trials to courts where there is equality and a chance of a jury of their peers.
#1 OneGuy on 2022-09-23 10:52 (Reply)
QUOTE:
J6 rioter gets five years for "celebrating"

Williams got five years for attacking a police line, among other crimes.

QUOTE:
So enthusiasm is a factor now? Seriously?

If remorse is a mitigating factor in sentencing, then going to Washington with the intent to violently disrupt the constitutional transfer of power and afterwards bragging about it is an aggravating factor.

OneGuy: Shut down the DC gulags and investigate the mistreatment there.

Everyone arrested has been accorded due process. Conditions in the jail are at least as good, and often better, than what other accused prisoners experience. Funny how "law & order" conservatives are suddenly worried about the prison complex in America.

OneGuy: a jury of their peers

The general procedure is trial in the jurisdiction where the crime was committed. Can't imagine why you think a jury of their peers can't be found in DC.
#1.1 Zachriel on 2022-09-23 12:42 (Reply)
"Can't imagine why you think a jury of their peers can't be found in DC."

That's a serious lack of imagination right there. I'm surprised you have the self-insight to admit it!
#1.1.1 Eeyore on 2022-09-23 12:55 (Reply)
Eeyore: That's a serious lack of imagination right there.

This might be a good time to provide an answer to the implicit question.
#1.1.2 Zachriel on 2022-09-23 13:06 (Reply)
Ladies and gents, this is someone who watched the Sussman trial and saw nothing wrong...

Remember this when leftists claim to defend equal standing before the law.

By the way, RIP Cayler Ellingson, whose killer is already out of jail...
#1.1.2.1 SK on 2022-09-23 14:56 (Reply)
SK: Ladies and gents, this is someone who watched the Sussman trial and saw nothing wrong...

You have introduced a specific case without explaining why the unanimous verdict of acquital is relevant. All that can be gleaned from your answer is that you didn't like the outcome. The Cayler Ellingson case is in North Dakota. Did you have a point?
#1.1.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-09-23 15:29 (Reply)
Everyone here is familiar with the Sussman case, including you, and you full well understood my point but as usual didn't respond to it.

This is why you have credibility around here.

Now would be a good time for you to explain how the release after a few days on a low bond of a man who intentionally ran down an 18 year old and said he did it because he considered the young man to be a "Republican extremist" isn't another example of the uneven scales of justice.
#1.1.2.1.1.1 SK on 2022-09-23 15:50 (Reply)
Zach knows exactly the point you are making but the Zach (male, female, or bot) will always pretend to never understand the point.

For a reference, note that I have had a discussion with the Zach for about 3 days. (the Tuesday morning link) I made a comment to Just Me on the GDP referencing the historical measurement of the US GDP measured in gold vs the US GDP measured in dollars. The Zach was right there to defend the 2001 crash as it didn't look good for Clinton on the chart. It then expanded to the Per capita GDP measured in dollars and gold. The Zach simply refuses to accept the data... no comprendo, can't possibly be, and absurd. The Zach is either a great pretender, a dead beat intellectual, or something poorly programmed.
#1.1.2.1.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-09-23 16:45 (Reply)
SK: you full well understood my point but as usual didn't respond to it.

If you make a point in a tangible form (not just in your own mind), we'll respond.

SK: Now would be a good time for you to explain how the release after a few days on a low bond of a man

North Dakota, Rule 46: "At the initial appearance before a magistrate of a person charged with an offense, the magistrate must order the person released pending trial on the person's personal recognizance or on execution of an unsecured appearance bond in an amount specified by the magistrate, unless the magistrate determines, in the exercise of the magistrate's discretion, that unconditional release will not reasonably assure the appearance of the person as required."
https://www.ndcourts.gov/legal-resources/rules/ndrcrimp/46

However, if the government can show the person is a continuing danger, they can be held before trial. Perhaps, the magistrate made a bad decision. Without more details, you can't know what conditions were imposed or whether the accused constitutes a continuing threat.
#1.1.2.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2022-09-23 16:24 (Reply)
"If you make a point in a tangible form (not just in your own mind), we'll respond."

Absolutely adorable!!!

Quoting YOU here: "This might be a good time to provide an answer to the implicit question."

If you could, I assume you would do so, without the rhetorical gamesmanship about a statement everyone here including you understood perfectly well. But that's what you do when you run out of argument.

And pretending that a politically motivated killer is NOT a danger to community is another example of your dishonesty. As is pretending that if the politics were reversed you'd be making the same argument.
#1.1.2.1.1.2.1 SK on 2022-09-23 16:42 (Reply)
Now you went and did it.
Here comes the "handwaving" meme.
#1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-09-23 17:43 (Reply)
SK: And pretending that a politically motivated killer is NOT a danger to community is another example of your dishonesty.

Actually, we granted the magistrate may have made a bad decision. (See previous comment.) This is the question at issue:

OG: Move these kinds of trials to courts where there is equality and a chance of a jury of their peers.

Z: why {do} you think a jury of their peers can't be found in DC?

Then, you posted about Cayler Ellingson, who was allegedly run down and killed for what is reported to be political reasons, complaining of the "low bond". Leaving aside the presumption of innocence which mandates the opportunity for pretrial release in the vast majority of cases, the killing occurred in a small town in North Dakota, a town Trump won overwhelmingly in a state Trump won overwhelmingly, and in which all branches of government are controlled by Republicans. Rule 46 is their rule.

So, let us see if we can track your argument: Ellingson's death, something, something, something, J6 gulag. Are we following you so far?
#1.1.2.1.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-09-24 09:04 (Reply)
You can always tell when an issue critical to the identity of the Progressive-Leftist-Totalitarian mob appears on the Morning Links: Zachriel crawls out of bed and starts typing.
#1.2 Erasmus on 2022-09-23 14:08 (Reply)
This is not a case of appropriate sentencing. It’s a case of making an example of perceived political opponents to cow everyone else into submission.

Mr. Shaw summed it up nicely.
(((QUIBBLE-DICKZ))) tend to exaggerate and play loose with the facts.
#1.3 Zachinoff on 2022-09-23 15:48 (Reply)
Tavistock:
They may be right, the gender manipulators of children. By decentralizing the T clinic, they will have much more freedom and less oversight on gender changes upon minors.
In the U.S., at UCSF, for instance, a surgeon brags that he's removed breasts from over 2,000 girls and sees no lower limit for his surgeries. One might consider this misogynistic.
The most effective approach would be for malpractice lawyers to sue the Universities as was done in the Tavistock.
#2 ns on 2022-09-23 11:50 (Reply)
Hurricane Fiona aka death march of climate doom. For anyone that likes to keep track of weather events, there is a fairly good internet weather tracking site that you can follow.
search Ventusky.com
#3 indyjonesouthere on 2022-09-23 11:52 (Reply)
Since we are now actively encouraging illegal aliens to cross into the US, and since this year's world harvest is now compromised thanks to drought and high prices in the energy and fertilizer sectors, and since we already have the usual famine hot spots showing signs of stress: I guess it's only a matter of time before the Biden Administration decides that the very worst places on Earth are now entitled to automatic amnesty when it comes to illegal immigration. Congratulations! You too can live in the New Sweden.
#4 Aggie on 2022-09-23 11:57 (Reply)
An upside to the Sweden debacle is the replacement of the Sweden leadership. Perhaps New Sweden can look forward to change as well.

After the Minnesota migrant criminal probes of the last few years along with the diversity street parties, maybe even the Minnesota authoritarian party will be shown the exit.
#4.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-09-23 12:15 (Reply)
The important thing about Hurricane Fiona (she/her) isn't that she is a harbinger of climate doom, it's that she's racist, a remnant of the white colonialist patriarchy, and transphobic.
#5 Jerryskids on 2022-09-23 12:55 (Reply)
The left employs "Lawfare" the right sits on it's ass. Maybe all the right wing lawyers are too honest to stoop to those tactics but we are getting our ass kicked here. Our country is a disaster thanks to the left. The left wing lawyers have exploited the migrants who got a free ride and a weekend vacation at Martha's Vineyard and are using them to sue DeSantis for giving them the ride and vacation. So where are the lawyers on the right? Why aren't we finding migrants who were flown in the middle of the night to bumfuck ND and use them to sue Biden??? Why is the left the only side that can misuse our legal system to punish political rivals???
#6 OneGuy on 2022-09-23 16:33 (Reply)
O/T Erasing history can be expensive.

QUOTE:
Announced this week, the Democrat and Republican-backed Naming Commission has said the entire endeavor of attempting to rewrite American history will cost around $62 million, and involve around 1100 sites, statues, and properties.

Most notably, the Commission targets the grave and Confederate Memorial of Moses Ezekiel – an artist once likened to Michelangelo – calling it “problematic from top to bottom”.

The issue, they claim, is that the memorial lauds the Confederacy as a “noble” cause. But that was scarcely the artist’s intention, nor does that claim appear to be reflected in even the liberal media reports from the time. Ezekiel’s statue originally focused on State’s Rights as well as free trade, being decided upon in 1906, and unveiled to critical acclaim in 1914.


https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/09/21/congress-to-spend-62m-demolishing-monuments-including-world-renowned-jewish-american-artists-gravesite-at-anti-slavery-confederate-monument/
#7 Zachinoff on 2022-09-23 18:01 (Reply)
If Putin uses any nukes in his war against Ukraine take my advice and get yourself as quickly as possible to a remote location where you believe you could survive without 20th/21st century amenities for a few years. The likely scenario is that once a nuke is used, or multiple nukes, the genie is out of the bottle and more nukes will be used. Once a nuke is used against a nuclear power there will be a massive use of nukes. You cannot fight a limited nuclear war. Simply because a nuclear power that chooses to not use nukes when nukes are used against them will be destroyed. Similarly a nuclear power who decides to use nukes AFTER a massive use of nukes against them will be destroyed. The only way to "win" is to massively use nukes either first or simultaneously against your enemy. And by "win" I merely mean that you totally destroy them regardless of the fact or likely fact they too totally destroy you.

So imagine the thinkers and plotters in charge of making such a decision in the hours after Putin uses a small nuke or multiple nukes in Ukraine. If they wait, they lose. If they act with a full nuclear strike, everyone loses. What would YOU do in their position? And understand that we aren't simply talking about American tacticians because the Russians would be forced into the same decision process. If you wait you lose!!! If you strike first everyone loses BUT maybe your enemy looses more than you. What would you do?

Within hours to days of the first nuke comes Armageddon. It is estimated that nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia will kill half a billon people in the first few minutes and after 7 weeks the death toll would be 2 billion and counting. Most everyone in North America, Europe and Russia and many people in the rest of the world (mostly in the Northern hemisphere).

Why bother running and hiding? Well the smartest thing you could do would be to go to downtown Manhattan and you will die suddenly and painlessly in the first salvo. BUT hope springs eternally so I'm just saying that within seconds of hearing that a nuke was used in Ukraine be in your car with your family driving to whatever you think might be a safe place.
#8 JustMe on 2022-09-23 18:09 (Reply)
Please highlight the murder of Cayler Ellingson, a Republican teenager run down by a Democrat in ND, for being a Republican. Tim Ryan, his blood is on your head. This is just heartbreaking.
#9 Deb on 2022-09-23 19:45 (Reply)
This was a terrible tragedy. The FBI told Brandt that he was supposed to use an assault rifle so that they could use this incident to get more gun control. Now they are trying to figure out if they can use it to get more gasoline auto control. The FBI is so pissed at Brandt that they might take him off the payroll.
#9.1 IdahoBob on 2022-09-24 10:38 (Reply)

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