The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Are we our own worst enemy? Because reading this sort of bilge makes me think that we don't deserve to win if people like this are representing our interests in the media.

I'm not sure what has me exercised the most; the assumption that the conservative body politic is going to accept the status quo of unceasing Republican failure theater, or that he continually conflates Republicans and conservatives. Oh, he also tosses in acceptance of the politics of division as an offhand remark...he clearly has internalized the idea that Black America is uniquely penalized by conventional free markets, and different solutions must be developed for them. That is arrant nonsense and should be rejected as forcefully as the idea of CRT or that American Blacks are too stupid to get government IDs.

Critical Race Theory Is Going to Win

Numerous Republican leaders, lawmakers, and pundits have publicly denounced CRT, condemning its use to further divide America. After Critical Race Theory became part of the national conversation, conservatives and Republicans responded by pushing for bans on the material in public schools. As of this writing, 21 states have introduced legislation designed to ban or limit critical race theory.
However, the question that nobody seems to be asking is: “What happens after the theory is banned? What then?”
It’s a question we should all consider because if we assume for one second that banning Critical Race Theory will destroy this ideology we will be in for a rude awakening. As conservatives, we know that the government is rarely the solution to a problem, so using the government to silence an idea should not be seen as the end-all, be-all.
Even when it is banned, Critical Race Theory will still be disseminated to the American masses and most will be persuaded by at least some of its ideas. (It just won’t be called Critical Race Theory.) The reason why is simple.
Racial disparities when it comes to income, wealth, education, healthcare, and other areas still exist in this country. These are glaring problems that need to be fixed. While several factors play into these disparities, it cannot be denied that government policies in the past – and some even now – have been responsible for ensuring that white Americans are placed ahead of blacks and other minorities.

Here are a few suggestions for the writer: open your eyes! Look who is fighting against CRT. Sure, state legislatures are pushing back, but the conservative grassroots is up in arms, taking the fight to school boards and city councils. That's how conservatives change things! Not by accepting the premise that there is a political or legal answer for every problem.

Will we win this? Will we be able to shift the Overton Window back to an evenhanded view of race? I don't know, but I do know that if we rely on our Republican representatives to fight this battle we will lose.

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1 st?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:01 AM (Jsjd7)

2 Monkey!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2021 10:01 AM (Cx4ts)

3

Axios reported on Thursday that unemployment fraud has been on the rise during the pandemic, with Blake Hall, the CEO of ID.me, a fraud prevention service, telling the news service that America has lost $400 billion to fraudulent claims and that as much as 50% of unemployment claims might have been stolen.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 10, 2021 10:02 AM (63Dwl)

4 Well. Top five.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2021 10:02 AM (axyOa)

5 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:02 AM (LvTSG)

6 Can we just get on with getting this country back? All this pre-posturing on race/class/status is becoming tiring.

Posted by: IP at June 10, 2021 10:04 AM (pWrfh)

7 I'm critical of race theory!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 10, 2021 10:04 AM (d9FiS)

8 I'm old enough to remember when Critical Race Theory was about whether or not your tires would last two more laps.

Posted by: f'd at June 10, 2021 10:04 AM (Tnijr)

9 Good morning y'all!

Posted by: tbodie at June 10, 2021 10:04 AM (VzbI8)

10 Racial disparities when it comes to income, wealth, education, healthcare, and other areas still exist in this country. These are glaring problems that need to be fixed. While several factors play into these disparities, it cannot be denied that government policies in the past -- and some even now -- have been responsible for ensuring that white Americans are placed ahead of blacks and other minorities.
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*This* was in Red State? It's ostensibly a conservative paper, right? Red State is now actively promoting the "systemic racism is responsible for divergent outcomes because otherwise outcomes would not be divergent" circular trap? And also promoting the "policies of the past justify extreme response in the present despite those policies being ended" post-facto insanity?

They appear to be flatly accepting the entire Postmodern premise.They're done. Stick a fork in 'em. And then thrust them into the slag heap of intellectual history where they belong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:05 AM (Jsjd7)

11 Axios reported on Thursday that unemployment fraud has been on the rise during the pandemic, with Blake Hall, the CEO of ID.me, a fraud prevention service, telling the news service that America has lost $400 billion to fraudulent claims and that as much as 50% of unemployment claims might have been stolen.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Someone filed a fraudulent UI claim in my name.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2021 10:06 AM (TtorR)

12 Glancing at the internet I saw this tweet from Bob Woodson. The cultural rot he has fought for so long, which he believes is the root cause of most (if not all) of our worst social problems, is suddenly not abstract but in-your-face real.

https://tinyurl.com/j94wx9u6

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 10, 2021 10:06 AM (Zny85)

13 Races are critical in bearing design.

Posted by: Tribology Guy at June 10, 2021 10:06 AM (jYQlA)

14 Rashida Tlaib
@RashidaTlaib
I am tired of colleagues (both D+R) demonizing @IlhanMN. Their obsession with policing her is sick. She has the courage to call out human rights abuses no matter who is responsible. That's better than colleagues who look away if it serves their politics.

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With Ratshit Taliban for you, who can be against you?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 10, 2021 10:06 AM (d9FiS)

15 We are winning the CRT fight.

Don't let the surrender monkeys tell you otherwise.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 10, 2021 10:07 AM (5p7BC)

16 CRT is going to win for the same reason gay marriage won.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 10, 2021 10:07 AM (XvPQV)

17 14 Rashida Tlaib
@RashidaTlaib
I am tired of colleagues (both D+R) demonizing @IlhanMN. Their obsession with policing her is sick. She has the courage to call out human rights abuses no matter who is responsible. That's better than colleagues who look away if it serves their politics.

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With Ratshit Taliban for you, who can be against you?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 10, 2021 10:06 AM (d9FiS)

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Omar calling out Biden for the treatment of the 1/6 political prisoners?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:07 AM (LvTSG)

18 Fraud in UE claims? Next thing you tell me there is gambling in Casablanca.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:07 AM (LEQCI)

19 "Commercial carrier, JB Hunt, to test self-driving trucks in Texas"

Well, that ought to be worth watching just for entertainment.

Posted by: IP at June 10, 2021 10:08 AM (pWrfh)

20 A lot of what is confused with Race is Culture. Race has nothing to do with how some cultures behave.

Posted by: f'd at June 10, 2021 10:08 AM (Tnijr)

21 Red State is as conservative as Mitt Romney.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 10, 2021 10:08 AM (2JVJo)

22 Ok we will not teach crt anymore. We will rename it to what it really is Kill Whitey Theory.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:09 AM (LEQCI)

23 "it cannot be denied that government policies in the past -- and some even now -- have been responsible for ensuring that white Americans are placed ahead of blacks and other minorities."
_____________

That is certainly true of the past. But it is not true now, and has not been true for decades.

I read the entire article to see if there were any examples offered of these current government policies that place whites ahead of blacks and other minorities. Of course, there were none. No examples of such current policies were cited, because no such policies exist.

The "systemic raaaaaacism" that we're always hearing about does not exist, and has not existed in this country for decades. It's time to stop pretending otherwise.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 10, 2021 10:09 AM (k4dH2)

24 So if I read this properly he's saying, "We should be opposed to Critical Race Theory, while embracing the fundamental truth of its core premises."

Posted by: Muldoon at June 10, 2021 10:10 AM (m45I2)

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And also promoting the "policies of the past justify extreme response in the present despite those policies being ended" post-facto insanity?

The only remedy for racism is more racism.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 10, 2021 10:10 AM (63Dwl)

26 CRT mixes the best parts of racism with deadly part of Marxism. What can go wrong?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2021 10:11 AM (yrol0)

27 Had a young homeless guy sleeping in front of my neighbor's garage door this morning. Told him to move on but he didn't respond. Told him again to move on or I would have to help him move on. Luckily he got up and walked out of our complex. 5 minutes later the police showed up. Apparently one of my neighbors had called earlier. 5 minutes after that EMTs showed up . I guess the neighbor also has a kind heart thinking the guy was in trouble.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 10, 2021 10:12 AM (2DOZq)

28 Oddly, I partially agree with Red State. Not in their premise, but in their misbegotten conclusion.

Banning Critical Theory in any of its permutations is the wrong approach to the schools and government contractor problem. The thing with Postmodernism in general is that it is extremely fungible. It's easy to change the window dressing and do the same thing under a different name but with the same toxic nucleus. A better approach, perhaps, is not to ban CRT or its analogues but to mandate strict constructionist Constitutional concepts in all instruction. Schools and government contractors are forbidden from calling for anything that would involve the state use of a non-enumerated power.

I don't know, but fighting CRT as its own thing is unlikely to succeed because everything is so damn mutable within Postmodernism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:12 AM (Jsjd7)

29 I was late to the art thread (would hang btw), but re: the screenplay where a bunch of undercover cops out themselves, that's how the LAPD Rampart scandal blew up. One undercover cop killed another undercover cop in a gang-related road rage shooting. When the regular cops got there to investigate, they were like, "shit, this is going to be bad."

Posted by: Trog04 at June 10, 2021 10:12 AM (wfZwW)

30 23 I read the entire article to see if there were any examples offered of these current government policies that place whites ahead of blacks and other minorities. Of course, there were none. No examples of such current policies were cited, because no such policies exist.

The "systemic raaaaaacism" that we're always hearing about does not exist, and has not existed in this country for decades. It's time to stop pretending otherwise.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 10, 2021 10:09 AM (k4dH2)

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Affirmative action has been the law of the land for DECADES.

More education has been the gateway to higher standards of living for a long time.

Fuck off with this nonsense that whites are advantaged through policy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:13 AM (LvTSG)

31 The only remedy for racism is more racism.
__________

Which is exactly what the fake scholar "Kendi" argues in his "anti-racism" (which is more accurately "anti-white racism") bullshit.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 10, 2021 10:13 AM (k4dH2)

32 The way you battle CRT is with non-compliance.

Refuse, get punished, sue.

Over and f*cking over.

And while you are at it, make note of every female in the office that says something the flirty and take it to HR. And then sue over that shit, too.

It has to hurt to make them quit.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 10, 2021 10:13 AM (CTL5u)

33
While several factors play into these disparities, it cannot be denied that government policies in the past -- and some even now -- have been responsible for ensuring that white Americans are placed ahead of blacks and other minorities.

Is that so? Please elaborate, be specific, stick to the last 40 years, and show your work.

Posted by: LASue at June 10, 2021 10:13 AM (Ed8Zd)

34 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:05 AM (Jsjd7)

Corporatism. Breaking the political body into disparate interest groups, and then organizing said groups in the interest of the State. It is the opposite of the American ideal of the Sovereign Individual Citizen. It is about Collective group treatment, not individual Liberty or Freedom.

Mussolini said 'Fascism IS Corporatism'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 10, 2021 10:13 AM (oHd/0)

35 I just read the article, and Jeff Charles clearly accepts the premise that 'government policies in the past - and even now - have been responsible for ensuring that white Americans are placed ahead of blacks and other minorities. He doesn't even waste the pixels to tell us what policies do this.

I'll give him a clue: The Great Society.

I will grant him this: just like we need to articulate a viable alternative to Obamacare - even if it is the status quo - we need to articulate a viable solution to CRT. One that doesn't encompass 'theory', but showing real people who achieved real success using principles that are in use today. You will always be able to make a claim that correlation=causation, but you an only refute that with visible facts, not more theories.

Oh, and he talks about what happens after CRT is refuted? I'd rather just start with simply refuting CRT. Conservatism hasn't had a real win in the domestic square since Schlafly defeated the ERA 40 years ago, or maybe Broken Windows 30 years ago. I'll settle for baby steps here.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 10, 2021 10:14 AM (mdjgu)

36 While several factors play into these disparities, it cannot be denied that government policies in the past -- and some even now -- have been responsible for ensuring that white Americans are placed ahead of blacks and other minorities.
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This is cowardly. It's technically true ("in the past" goes a long way), but is misleading. What specific modern-day government policies are "ensuring that white Americans are placed ahead of blacks and other minorities"? Hasn't the United States been consumed by an effort to discriminate on the basis of race for the past several decades, in order to *ameliorate* past de jure discrimination? (Hello, Affirmative Action).

Here, John Roberts was correct: the way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. Instead, the US has enshrined such discrimination, and it continues to metastasize through American society. It must be fought, but it cannot be fought if its opponents begin by accepting the narrative of those who seek to discriminate further.

Posted by: Revenant at June 10, 2021 10:14 AM (OMFQ5)

37 The demand for hate crimes far exceeds the supply.

Man I really love that quote.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 10, 2021 10:14 AM (2DOZq)

38 The left doesn't lose bc they don't stop.

Oh they may suffer a temporary setback or have to repackage something but they'll get what they want.

We totally destroyed ACORN, right?

Posted by: Just Saying at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (K0DWI)

39 Gonna get me a shotgun and kill every whitey I see...

Posted by: Garrett Morris at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (jYQlA)

40 Racial disparities when it comes to income, wealth, education,
healthcare, and other areas still exist in this country. These are
glaring problems that need to be fixed.

This is bullshit. Nothing is equal for everyone. Life isn't fair.

Leave it to the progtards to twist reality into something that it isn't. CRT will not win and we need to make damned good and sure it will not by denouncing it as the bullshit that it really is each and every time the subject comes up.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (HaL55)

41 I just found something interesting. Here's the summary of a documentary:

"An unknown South Carolina candidate inexplicably wins his U.S. Senate primary in a landslide, despite never having campaigned. Filmmaker Jason Grant Smith sets out on a personal odyssey to expose the loopholes and pitfalls of our electoral system. On the way, he opens a Pandora's box of questions about America's voting process."

Now, guess the year this was released.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (LvTSG)

42 Red State is as conservative as Mitt Romney.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 10, 2021 10:08 AM (2JVJo)

They were smart enough to dump Patterico and Erickson but that's a very low bar to surmount.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (y7DUB)

43 Why ban CRT when the solution is to destroy those that indoctrinate with it? Turn CRT around on them. It's like banning guns because some people are natural born killers.

There's a book with rules about this sort of stuff. Some dude named Alinsky wrote it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 10, 2021 10:16 AM (3H9h1)

44 The reason why "CRT" is capable of gaining any ground is because conservatives defend a fiction that there are no racial disparities, or that the only other alternative view is being "racist." The truth is that there is a better solution and it involves rejecting both the false gods of Diversity and the Enlightenment. It's ok for people to be with those who share culture, values and genetics. It's not a zero sum game to have ethnic and racial separation. Diversity+proximity=conflict and civic nationalist Egalitarianism creates resentment and bitterness.

Posted by: bob at June 10, 2021 10:16 AM (4Sx1X)

45
We totally destroyed ACORN, right?
Posted by: Just Saying at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (K0DWI)

Lol.. A lot of nasty oaks have sprouted from that group

Posted by: It's me donna at June 10, 2021 10:16 AM (Zmnko)

46 39 The left doesn't lose bc they don't stop.

Oh they may suffer a temporary setback or have to repackage something but they'll get what they want.

We totally destroyed ACORN, right?
Posted by: Just Saying at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (K0DWI)

Is this not too, the story of Obama?

Posted by: Flyguy at June 10, 2021 10:16 AM (3sOO0)

47 From the tiny ACORN a mighty hoax doth grow.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 10, 2021 10:17 AM (m45I2)

48 Our high school proudly announced that they are the first Democracy School in the county. Democracy School is CRT in all but name. We are unenrolling my daughter today.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 10, 2021 10:18 AM (kTF2Z)

49 "We totally destroyed ACORN, right?"

Eric Clanton cracked up 6 conservative skulls with a bike lock over political speech and got 3 years probation.

TBF, same thing happened in my Alternate Timeline, but he had a tragic accident walking back from the courthouse.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 10, 2021 10:18 AM (83lwH)

50 Red State is as conservative as Mitt Romney.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 10, 2021 10:08 AM (2JVJo)

They were smart enough to dump Patterico and Erickson but that's a very low bar to surmount.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (y7DUB)

We're rapidly getting to the point where the HQ is the only website to read to know what's really going on in the world.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 10, 2021 10:18 AM (2JVJo)

51 Synthetic hate crimes step up to fill in the gaps.

Posted by: klaftern at June 10, 2021 10:18 AM (r4sI4)

52 Anyone here keep up on Nick Searcy? I saw something recently that makes me think he's putting together something factual on the January 6 protest.
I sure hope so.

Posted by: LASue at June 10, 2021 10:18 AM (Ed8Zd)

53 Affirmative action has been the law of the land for DECADES.
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Yes, and that is REAL "systemic racism" as government policy, but it's racism directed against whites and Jews and Asians, not blacks and hispanics and muslims, so the race grifters have no problem with that racism. "Systemic racism" that works in their favor is totally cool.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 10, 2021 10:18 AM (k4dH2)

54 Oh they may suffer a temporary setback or have to repackage something but they'll get what they want.

Doesn't hurt that they control all media and most courts

Posted by: It's me donna at June 10, 2021 10:18 AM (Zmnko)

55 We're rapidly getting to the point where the HQ is the only website to read to know what's really going on in the world.

Ain't that the truth?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 10, 2021 10:19 AM (HaL55)

56 56 We're rapidly getting to the point where the HQ is the only website to read to know what's really going on in the world.

Hopefully we can go to the same camp

Posted by: It's me donna at June 10, 2021 10:20 AM (Zmnko)

57 44 The reason why "CRT" is capable of gaining any ground is because conservatives defend a fiction that there are no racial disparities,
_________

We don't deny that there are racial disparities. Of course there are racial disparities.

What we deny is that "systemic raaaaaacism" is the reason for the disparities.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 10, 2021 10:20 AM (k4dH2)

58 I've personally been involved in cases of under performing or violation of employment rules black employees that were retained with warnings instead of terminated solely because of EEOC exposure. It's an insult and a detriment to the superior performing employees who happen to be black.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 10, 2021 10:20 AM (2DOZq)

59 57

I call top bunk.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:20 AM (LEQCI)

60 Bravo!

Posted by: Just Saying at June 10, 2021 10:21 AM (5MSK2)

61 Critical Race Theory will not win IF mobs of angry parents show up at the residence of principals and school board members houses, and anyone else pushing this crap. Harass their kids, harass their wives. Do what the leftist street thugs do to people they disagree with. When these assholes fear the possibility of getting their heads caved in, then you'll have their attention.

________ is the answer.

Posted by: JROD at June 10, 2021 10:21 AM (0jZnq)

62 In 2020, Alaska voters adopted a new ballot procedure initiative that changes the state's nomination system into a unique "top four" jungle primary. This means the four candidates attracting the most votes in the initial election all advance into the general election.

Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2021 10:21 AM (RHGPo)

63 This means the four candidates attracting the most votes in the initial election all advance into the general election.

So I gather Murkowski will be re-elected

Posted by: It's me donna at June 10, 2021 10:22 AM (Zmnko)

64 48 Our high school proudly announced that they are the first Democracy School in the county. Democracy School is CRT in all but name. We are unenrolling my daughter today.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 10, 2021 10:18 AM (kTF2Z)

I've never heard about the Democracy School until this post, but I just looked at their website.

What the $#%! is an American school doing using principles from the European Leadership Institute (?!) which says it

'gives activists a supportive learning environment, which in turn allows them to develop their political positions and leadership skills within a culturally diverse European (supranational) context'

Huh?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 10, 2021 10:22 AM (mdjgu)

65 Many moons ago I worked on a team that included this black dude, lets call him John. John was a ducking imbecile. Like to the point where some of us were wondering if it was all a troll, and Ashton Kutcher would show up and tell us we had been punkd. Not only did he never get fired he got promoted, but luckily never to positions of actual power just in name only with titles.

So much systemic racism I cant even.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:23 AM (LEQCI)

66 In 2020, Alaska voters adopted a new ballot procedure initiative that changes the state's nomination system into a unique "top four" jungle primary. This means the four candidates attracting the most votes in the initial election all advance into the general election.
Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2021 10:21 AM (RHGPo)

We have that here in WA, except I think it's the top 2, not top 4.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 10, 2021 10:23 AM (Ez6QX)

67 'gives activists a supportive learning environment, which in turn allows them to develop their political positions and leadership skills within a culturally diverse European (supranational) context'

Soooo.... Socialism

Posted by: It's me donna at June 10, 2021 10:24 AM (Zmnko)

68 We're rapidly getting to the point where the HQ is the only website to read to know what's really going on in the world.

Hopefully we can go to the same camp
Posted by: It's me donna

Dibs on top bunk!!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 10, 2021 10:24 AM (Rvt88)

69 Affirmative action has been the law of the land for DECADES.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:13 AM (LvTSG)

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so right. I remember a talk Hunter Rawlings gave in 1996 (newly named President at Cornell), when he explained how he had unthinkingly got himself into a massive battle with the most liberal of Cornell alumni. His crime? He tried to eliminate a racially-based housing dorm at Cornell, called "Ujamma". He thought it was obviously discriminatory and racist on its face. The libtards said, "so what?!- we owe black students this much, at least!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 10, 2021 10:24 AM (Zny85)

70 Gotta fight CRT, otherwise it steamrolls thru the institutions unimpeded.

Posted by: Zeera Hunkering down here, Boss at June 10, 2021 10:24 AM (NQxvu)

71 68

bro I called it already. See 59.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:24 AM (LEQCI)

72 We're rapidly getting to the point where the HQ is the only website to read to know what's really going on in the world.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 10, 2021 10:18 AM (2JVJo)

The Horde's squish detecting is very finely calibrated. I think Baris and Barnes have a good idea what's going on because of Baris's insistent polling on the ground and Barne's willingness to point out the individual personnel disasters Trump made.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 10:25 AM (y7DUB)

73 "this sort of bilge makes me think that we don't deserve to win if people like this are representing our interests in the media."

Who is the "WE" you speak of? I keep pushing the idea that behind all the Drive to Divide are central powers, but not the ones we see so much, it is the shadow men that pull strings. Soros is rather obvious, but there are many others that run the MFM, and who runs Biden and the other puppets.

imo it is the 20 "world banks" that have most power, but also foundations, and I suppose CCP and Putin also represent certain Mafia Structure Families that have a UN official nation status, but also a crime family presence in drug/human trafficking, and coercive operations.

(China Uncensored does a good video on CCP cartels in Vancouver ... New Zealand also seems under the China thumb, threatening our Five Eyes powers ... but which cartels run Five Eyes?)
https://tinyurl.com/7xmb43sf

Posted by: illiniwek at June 10, 2021 10:25 AM (Cus5s)

74 Man, Joe - you are always one step ahead of me!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 10, 2021 10:26 AM (Rvt88)

75 Yoeman farmer is now ungrateful servant

Posted by: ungrateful servant at June 10, 2021 10:26 AM (BYNHj)

76 The reason why "CRT" is capable of gaining any ground is because conservatives defend a fiction that there are no racial disparities, or that the only other alternative view is being "racist." ...
Posted by: bob at June 10, 2021 10:16 AM (4Sx1X)
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I don't think so. Offering a better solution or acknowledging "yes, but you're wrong about how to fix it" won't matter. Keep in mind that the Left is not results-oriented in that way. They don't care about solving any particular problem, they care about total overthrow and implementation of an alternate system. Whatever battleground they choose - race, in this case - is merely a wedge to be used toward the actual goal. Solving the discrete problem and clearing the wedge does nothing long term because fixing that problem was never the enemy's goal to begin with.

It gains ground and becomes embedded like a tick because the real goal has nothing to do with the framing of the problem, and the operators pursuing it are in total control of all institutions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:27 AM (Jsjd7)

77 "We're rapidly getting to the point where the HQ is the only website to read to know what's really going on in the world."

Instapundit has fallen. But most of you were quicker than me to see the rot. He wants me to pay him money to have Driscoll rub my nose in Treacher filth.

Is that some kind of fetish?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 10, 2021 10:27 AM (83lwH)

78 We need strong leaders at all levels. President Trump carried the weight alone, essentially. To fight he culture we ned culture warriors on our side. Who are they?

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:27 AM (6Je/Q)

79 CRT is genocidally racist. I should have a reasonable expectation that the FUCKING GOVERNMENT not push such genocidal racism and, unlike the twatface at RedState, I will not kowtow during this blatant struggle session.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 10, 2021 10:28 AM (DTX3h)

80 Man, Joe - you are always one step ahead of me!
Posted by: Tonypete at June 10, 2021 10:26 AM (Rvt8

You don't have to fight, I'm sure there will be more than one bunk.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 10, 2021 10:28 AM (Ez6QX)

81 Now, guess the year this was released.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (LvTSG)

Alvin Greene? 2010?

Posted by: BignJames at June 10, 2021 10:29 AM (AwYPR)

82 70 Gotta fight CRT, otherwise it steamrolls thru the institutions unimpeded.
Posted by: Zeera Hunkering down here, Boss at June 10, 2021 10:24 AM (NQxvu)

CRT is breaking people up into groups, then treating them differently. It is Coporatism. Mussolini said Corporatism is Fascism. Nazi were Fascists... ergo...

CRT is Fascist... can we get AntiFA to go fight THEM?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 10, 2021 10:29 AM (oHd/0)

83 Damned keyboard...

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:29 AM (6Je/Q)

84 Inflation is officially running at 5%, the highest since summer 2008 when oil hit $120. But no mean tweets. Carry on food citizen comrades.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:29 AM (LEQCI)

85 Assuming this thread is still alive...

Tweet of the Day about Xi and masks, both!

https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/
1402999118713163794

And Raykon can suck on it as for the EMT.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 10, 2021 10:29 AM (UHVv4)

86
*Munkey*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 10, 2021 10:29 AM (n+4am)

87 You don't have to fight, I'm sure there will be more than one bunk.
Posted by: Jordan61

You never know. It might be that kind of camp.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 10, 2021 10:29 AM (Rvt88)

88 Gotta fight CRT, otherwise it steamrolls thru the institutions unimpeded.
Posted by: Zeera Hunkering down here, Boss at June 10, 2021 10:24 AM (NQxvu)
++++
That's over. It already happened. The institutions are too far gone to be saved. The solution is extrainstitutional attack from without, and it needs to happen on all fronts. Without millions of boots-on-the-ground activists pressuring them at every turn, in every forum, at every store front and every community meeting, it doesn't change. Change from within is impossible. In their own terms, the problem is systemic oppression. They have full and total institutional control.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:30 AM (Jsjd7)

89 And this related one for Raykon's asshoe too:

https://twitter.com/JDHuston_SOCEUR/status/
1402999139567165451

Posted by: andycanuck at June 10, 2021 10:30 AM (UHVv4)

90 "The AP claims, without evidence, that they didn't know Hamas was using the building"

Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2021 10:30 AM (RHGPo)

91 "Dibs on top bunk!!"

You sure? You can catch one rat a night down here.

Midmorning snack.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 10, 2021 10:30 AM (83lwH)

92 82 Now, guess the year this was released.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (LvTSG)

Alvin Greene? 2010?
Posted by: BignJames at June 10, 2021 10:29 AM (AwYPR)

=========

It was released in 2016. Produced by Katie Couric.

The title is "I Voted?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:30 AM (LvTSG)

93 Babylon Bee is fighting back against the culture. Who else?

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:31 AM (6Je/Q)

94 *This* was in Red State? It's ostensibly a conservative paper, right? Red State is now actively promoting the "systemic racism is responsible for divergent outcomes because otherwise outcomes would not be divergent" circular trap? And also promoting the "policies of the past justify extreme response in the present despite those policies being ended" post-facto insanity?

That's not exactly wrong though. It's just the policies are things like Jim Crow, made by Democrats, and gun control, made by Democrats, and the Great Society, made by Democrats.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 10, 2021 10:31 AM (ZGrMX)

95 In 2020, Alaska voters adopted a new ballot procedure initiative that changes the state's nomination system into a unique "top four" jungle primary. This means the four candidates attracting the most votes in the initial election all advance into the general election.
Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2021 10:21 AM (RHGPo)

So I gather Murkowski will be re-elected
Posted by: It's me donna at June 10, 2021 10:22 AM (Zmnko)

If she is - and I think she will - despite Teh Donald showing up to campaign for her opponent, the Dems, their propaganda press and the treasonous GOP will wet themselves with glee. All you'll see for weeks are headlines and dick-stroking editorials about how the shameful era of Trump is over.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 10, 2021 10:32 AM (2JVJo)

96 CRT is winning because MOST white people in charge of everything don't have the stomach to fight it.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2021 10:32 AM (mR6Gs)

97 the dialectecs versus history

Posted by: ungrateful servant at June 10, 2021 10:33 AM (BYNHj)

98 Put another way, there is institutional racism, and that institution is the DNC.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 10, 2021 10:34 AM (ZGrMX)

99 One of my clients employs about 7000 people. The group I deal with is about 100. Within that 100 they have hired a lot of people lately, 7 or 8 that I know of. Of those new hires there are 3 black women. Black women make up about 7% of the population and about 40% of the new hires.

You can ban CRT all you want, it is already institutionalized in corporate America.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:34 AM (LEQCI)

100 95

If she is - and I think she will - despite Teh Donald showing up to campaign for her opponent, the Dems, their propaganda press and the treasonous GOP will wet themselves with glee. All you'll see for weeks are headlines and dick-stroking editorials about how the shameful era of Trump is over.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 10, 2021 10:32 AM (2JVJo)

I do not understand the demographics of Alaska.

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:34 AM (6Je/Q)

101
This crap is percolating down to youths in high school.

There is a black youth in my troop who has taken to saying "That's racist" at practically every opportunity. He and I will have a little heart-to-heart on that matter (with his father) during our summer camp week.

He's a smart enough person to know what he's saying is complete crap, but it is corrosive behavior. nonetheless.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 10, 2021 10:34 AM (pNxlR)

102 We have that here in WA, except I think it's the top 2, not top 4.

That was on the ballot last Nov. down here as well. Voted agin' it, because Quincy Wagstaff is my political muse.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 10, 2021 10:34 AM (HaL55)

103 Races are critical in bearing design.
Posted by: Tribology Guy at June 10, 2021 10:06 AM (jYQlA)

fit of the race in the land, plus proper lubrication, plus sized for application, plus proper operation will ensure you get the most out of your races...

Lubrication Engineer

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 10, 2021 10:35 AM (8D42x)

104 Now, guess the year this was released.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:15 AM (LvTSG)

I'm gonna guess 2016. And by guess I mean I looked it up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2021 10:35 AM (Cx4ts)

105 *This* was in Red State? It's ostensibly a conservative paper, right?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:05 AM (Jsjd7)

Not sure when it was a conservative site, I got banned for being a Trump supporter when they were pushing Cruz, and the writing was already on the wall.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at June 10, 2021 10:35 AM (wAnMi)

106 101
This crap is percolating down to youths in high school.

There is a black youth in my troop who has taken to saying "That's racist" at practically every opportunity. He and I will have a little heart-to-heart on that matter (with his father) during our summer camp week.

He's a smart enough person to know what he's saying is complete crap, but it is corrosive behavior. nonetheless.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 10, 2021 10:34 AM (pNxlR)

He wants that " Stunning, and Brave " cred, sounds like....Narcissism is rampant..

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:36 AM (6Je/Q)

107 Instapundit has fallen. But most of you were quicker than me to see the rot. He wants me to pay him money to have Driscoll rub my nose in Treacher filth.

Is that some kind of fetish?
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 10, 2021 10:27 AM (83lwH)

I glance at Insty just to know what the mushy middle and never-Trumpers have on their mind. Otherwise, since the demise of the late, lamented Acidman, I really only ever read Mike Hendrix at Cold Fury. He is a righteous dude who tells it like it is.

Oh, and Remus and The Daily Gouge, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 10, 2021 10:36 AM (2JVJo)

108 What does conservative website even mean anymore?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:37 AM (LEQCI)

109 RE: the sidebar about the Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.

FWIW, back in the 60's some of the street tough guys wore black boots or high topped shoes with high heels and pointed toes. Many of them also wore cleats on their heels that clicked as they walked. The epitome of cool in the tough guy, ducktail hair mode a la Fonzie before Fonzie was on TV.

No condescension whatsoever intended, some were jerks, some were my friends, like any other group.

Posted by: RM at June 10, 2021 10:37 AM (U3LtS)

110 CRT is winning because MOST white people in charge of everything ~~don't have the stomach to fight it~~ aren't affected by it.

It's the whites who AREN'T in charge of everything who are affected by it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2021 10:38 AM (Cx4ts)

111 I can run through Instapundit in around 10 minutes now... between Driscoll, and Reynolds' virus and health obsessions, and the repetition, a Lot can be bypassed...

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:38 AM (6Je/Q)

112

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 10, 2021 10:38 AM (K2SnJ)

113 Remember when race was a social construct?

Posted by: Avi at June 10, 2021 10:39 AM (fE/+w)

114 It has come down to Here, WZ and Breitbart, more or less...

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:40 AM (6Je/Q)

115 Remember when race was a social construct?
Posted by: Avi at June 10, 2021 10:39 AM (fE/+w)

Good times, good times.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 10, 2021 10:40 AM (Cx4ts)

116 Wow. In a company all-hands. Just spent a bunch of time on supply chain difficulty globally due to silicon products shortages and how we're keeping the wheels turning but it's difficult and then the boss put sales on the hot seat to make sure forecasts are correct because of all the supply difficulties.

That ain't good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:40 AM (Jsjd7)

117 Racial disparities will continue as long as each group has different evolutionary pressures

Posted by: Avi at June 10, 2021 10:40 AM (fE/+w)

118 regarding Critical Race theory- where are the prominent voices loudly telling the truth? That CRT is unmitigated bullshit and needs to be sent into a black hole? Africa STILL can't dig a well. The native Americans didn't have the fu*kin' WHEEL! No one but themselves kept anyone down.

Posted by: free tibet at June 10, 2021 10:40 AM (JN9iK)

119 What does conservative website even mean anymore?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:37 AM (LEQCI)

The NTs coopting the term conservative was Soviet level disinformation leaving the term useless.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 10:40 AM (y7DUB)

120 The Poor Blacks don't live the way they do because they have to, they live the way they do because they WANT to.

That absolutely true statement is unfair to the Blacks that have worked and struggled to make their lives better but it's just the way it is.The fact that so many Blacks are ding extremely well, is a testament to that statement.

You don't want to live like you're in a Jamaican Ghetto? Get a job, don't steal, don't lie, go to school and most importantly........

LEARN HOW TO SPEAK THE FUCKING LANGUAGE!

Who's gonna hire a street negro that can't keep his lips from flopping like a nightgown on a clothesline?But if a Teacher (there are one or two that actually care. Maybe) tries to teach the kids how to speak proper English, she is chastised for taking away their heritage or some such shit.

Posted by: Uncle Rick at June 10, 2021 10:41 AM (48/MM)

121 Affirmative action has tarnished and diminished every minority who excels because many (most) believe they are where they are because of their race and not because of their accomplishments.

Posted by: LASue at June 10, 2021 10:41 AM (Ed8Zd)

122 When Dr. Jill invented the coronavirus vaccine in the White House kitchen using the giant potato masher, she decided to give it a name that would appeal to people of color. She wanted it to be suitably scientific sounding so she used the word "institutes." She also wanted it to remind people of the heroic Tuskegee Airmen. So she named the vaccine the "Tuskegee Institute Vaccine." In private conversations Dr. Jill admitted being miffed about ungrateful people of color not wanting to receive her miraculous vaccine.

Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2021 10:41 AM (RHGPo)

123 I have a dream...

...oh, who the hell am I kidding?

Posted by: zombie MLK at June 10, 2021 10:42 AM (m45I2)

124 I don't care if Dr Jill is the President, she shouldn't bring her "whiteness", a "malignant, parasitic-like condition" that is "nearly impossible to eliminate" into the confines of Harlem.

Posted by: SMOD at June 10, 2021 10:42 AM (RHGPo)

125 "Racial disparities when it comes to income, wealth, education, healthcare, and other areas still exist in this country. These are glaring problems that need to be fixed"

There will always be "disparities," racial and otherwise. They aren't something that can be, or should be, "fixed." They exist everywhere in the world, not just in the USA. Conservatives engage in the same folly as the left when they campaign for "anti-racism."

Radical egalitarianism wants us to believe that everybody is equal in every respect, which is self-evidently false. Conservatives, confused by the "all men are created equal" language of our founders, think that means that we are all equal in every way. But the founders meant only that we all have equal rights granted by God, not that we are have the same height, same strength, same intellect, and same chances for success in the world.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at June 10, 2021 10:42 AM (qpX6U)

126 Who's gonna hire a street negro that can't keep his lips from flopping like a nightgown on a clothesline?But if a Teacher (there are one or two that actually care. Maybe) tries to teach the kids how to speak proper English, she is chastised for taking away their heritage or some such shit.

Posted by: Uncle Rick at June 10, 2021 10:41 AM (48/MM)

This applies to all races. The blueprint for success has been delivered to generation after generation. And yet, there are some who choose to go a different way, for whatever reason. Whether they can't see past their upbringing or not, a lack of success does seem to be generational, which means that there is either an inability to progress or a lack of desire to.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 10, 2021 10:43 AM (KbCG3)

127 About 11 or 12 years ago the Alexandria, Louisiana Copeland's restaurant went out of business. It was strange because that was the most popular chain sit down in the area. Anyway, the story behind the closure, was that the owner had financed the opening of the restaurant with a lot of debt. His plan was to sue his employer, the local electric company for racial discrimination and, I guess hope they would settle. They didn't, his lawyer dropped out when the guy ran out of funds, the guy was fired from his day job, and the restaurant closed.

Posted by: Mishdog at June 10, 2021 10:43 AM (cqAUI)

128
Lubrication Engineer
Posted by: SturmToddler at June 10, 2021 10:35 AM (8D42x)

Pronhub has an opening for that special skill set...

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 10, 2021 10:43 AM (VcFUs)

129 Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE MIKE PENCE SENIOR at June 10, 2021 10:41 AM (Pzzpr) is a DICK!!!

Posted by: jeff spicoli's brother at June 10, 2021 10:43 AM (UHVv4)

130 MUMR still entertains after all these years.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:43 AM (LEQCI)

131 >>Affirmative action has tarnished and diminished every minority who excels because many (most) believe they are where they are because of their race and not because of their accomplishments.

Outside of Professional Sports...it's a hard sell to think otherwise.

Posted by: garrett at June 10, 2021 10:44 AM (jIiTW)

132 "Will we win this? Will we be able to shift the Overton Window back to an evenhanded view of race? I don't know, but I do know that if we rely on our Republican representatives to fight this battle we will lose."

You are not expected to slay the Dragon
You are expected to try

- The Book of Fen, 3:9-10

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 10, 2021 10:44 AM (83lwH)

133 Radical egalitarianism wants us to believe that everybody is equal in every respect, which is self-evidently false. ... But the founders meant only that we all have equal rights granted by God, not that we are have the same height, same strength, same intellect, and same chances for success in the world.
Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at June 10, 2021 10:42 AM (qpX6U)
++++
It's why the Left did their little language trick. Notice that they don't talk about "equality" anymore at all. They talk about their new concept of "equity" - or "equitable outcomes." Any non-proportional outcome at any level is suddenly evidence of systemic oppression. It is strictly single-variable. If there is a disparity of outcome anywhere, it is because of systemic oppression and the majority (that is, the liberal west) is at fault.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:45 AM (Jsjd7)

134 Gotta fight CRT, otherwise it steamrolls thru the institutions unimpeded.
Posted by: Zeera Hunkering down here, Boss at June 10, 2021 10:24 AM (NQxvu)

i mean, Prometheus is bad, but i don't think it required actual violence...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 10, 2021 10:46 AM (8D42x)

135 Evidently, criminals have stolen 400 billion dollars in unemployment claims and a lot of the fraud came from foreign countries like China.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2021 10:46 AM (NpAcC)

136
Chose [sic] establishment and be safe!

You spelled "slaves" incorrectly, MUMR

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 10, 2021 10:46 AM (pNxlR)

137 We lost the Language War 25 years ago. We talk on Their terms.

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:46 AM (6Je/Q)

138 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 10, 2021 10:46 AM (arJlL)

139 135

Yep equity and equality sound the same so nobody really picked up on the change. But it was a radical shift.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:47 AM (LEQCI)

140
Remember when CRT referred to cathode ray tubes?

Remember when BLM referred to Bureau of Land Management?

Good times!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 10, 2021 10:47 AM (pNxlR)

141 *waves to JT*

Posted by: SMH at June 10, 2021 10:47 AM (bgWIn)

142 Remember when POC was a proof of concept?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:47 AM (LEQCI)

143 137 Evidently, criminals have stolen 400 billion dollars in unemployment claims and a lot of the fraud came from foreign countries like China.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2021 10:46 AM (NpAcC)

=========

I knew I should have signed up for it even though I never lost my job.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:48 AM (LvTSG)

144 There will always be "disparities," racial and otherwise. They aren't something that can be, or should be, "fixed." They exist everywhere in the world, not just in the USA. Conservatives engage in the same folly as the left when they campaign for "anti-racism."
___________

Yep. The NBA and NFL have blatant racial disparities. The teams are heavily dominated by blacks, even though blacks only make up about 13% of the U.S. population. Why aren't the race-baiters demanding "equity" there? Those NBA and NFL player contracts are very lucrative -- hundreds of thousands and millions per year. They should be more "fairly" distributed! The teams should look more like America!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 10, 2021 10:48 AM (k4dH2)

145 LEARN HOW TO SPEAK THE FUCKING LANGUAGE!

Who's gonna hire a street negro that can't keep his lips from flopping like a nightgown on a clothesline?But if a Teacher (there are one or two that actually care. Maybe) tries to teach the kids how to speak proper English, she is chastised for taking away their heritage or some such shit.

Posted by: Uncle Rick at June 10, 2021

***
Wearing face diapers and talking from behind plexiglas "shields" made it far worse. I kept having to ask Walmart clerks in my area to repeat what they said. More than once I told them, "I can't hear you. There's something in front of your face."

I have a hard time understanding their mumbling anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 10, 2021 10:48 AM (/XOcP)

146 Yep equity and equality sound the same so nobody really picked up on the change. But it was a radical shift.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:47 AM (LEQCI)
++++
And their beloved Sweden puts paid to the entire notion and demonstrates clearly that their premise - that all disparities are socially-constructed consequences of self-perpetuating oppressive structure - is wrong.

Like all good ideologues, though, that doesn't phase them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:48 AM (Jsjd7)

147 Hiya SMH !

Posted by: JT at June 10, 2021 10:49 AM (arJlL)

148 I read in CA inmates in state prisons were signing up for UI and having checks sent to family members to cash. The state was just approving every claim no questions asked at the start of the PlanDemic.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:49 AM (LEQCI)

149 I personally find MUMR to be a fun Easter egg on the site.

Often times the MUMR rant is amusing, sometimes it is right on point.

Then Minx deletes the post and we are left with the Spicoli comment to know it was there.

You have to be lucky to see the post.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 10, 2021 10:49 AM (5p7BC)

150
CRT is winning because MOST white people in charge of everything don't have the stomach to fight it.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2021 10:32 AM (mR6Gs)

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Don't have the stomach?

Proponents of CRT control all institutions, and perhaps their strongest grip is on education.

This is like if Social Democrats and the Catholic Center in 1935 were standing there saying "How can we keep the Fuehrerprinzip and the paganism and the primitive racial weltanschauung out of our kids' schools?!"

The answer is: you won't, unless you overthrow the government. It's their call. This has been decreed from above, and the decree will be carried out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 10, 2021 10:50 AM (o+DQg)

151 Any non-proportional outcome at any level is suddenly evidence of systemic oppression. It is strictly single-variable. If there is a disparity of outcome anywhere, it is because of systemic oppression and the majority (that is, the liberal west) is at fault.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:45 AM (Jsjd7)

This kind of equitable outcomes bullshit is becoming very apparent in my large company. a 1% population of gender/race now makes up 75% of the corporate executive vice president positions. It's fucking disgusting.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 10, 2021 10:50 AM (VcFUs)

152 Government coercion is a problem, i.e. goverment forcing CRT on everybody in their employ and in schools, especially given it's wrong, plain and simple. There are bad people of every race, color, and creed. There were slaves owned by people of every race, color, and creed. Slavery was ubiquitous. The United States ended slavery with the sacrifice of more than half a million people on both sides, yet blood sacrifice is not enough. Islam STILL has slavery on the down-low, yet nowbody in govt seems concerned about it. Islam STILL has second-class citizens paying jizya, yet nobody is talking about it in govt.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 10, 2021 10:50 AM (ynpvh)

153 Man, this company meeting I'm in reminds of what it must've been like to listen to Stalin. It isn't new (this was also true at my old company), but it always strikes me the same way. The flooding company-wide team chat next to the meeting video is almost entirely people very loudly describing how they love everything and no one will be the first to stop clapping. It's spooky and weird and always has been.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:50 AM (Jsjd7)

154 I knew I should have signed up for it even though I never lost my job.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:48 AM (LvTSG)

Maybe you did and didn't even know it!

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 10, 2021 10:50 AM (Ez6QX)

155 We lost the Language War 25 years ago. We talk on Their terms.
Posted by: kraken

My HS basketball coach back in the *cough, cough* late 60's said if you did the 'soul shake' with a member of an intercity team when you met at center court before the game and, you didn't really want to, you already lost.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 10, 2021 10:50 AM (Rvt88)

156 147 remember when KFC was good chicken ?

You mean like when the managers actually spoke English and there was a diversity in the workforce?

Posted by: Vintage Knickers at June 10, 2021 10:50 AM (qTA+8)

157 Racial disparities when it comes to income, wealth, education, healthcare, and other areas still exist in this country. These are glaring problems that need to be fixed.

-----

It primarily begins and ends with fathers (or the lack thereof) in the home. As a white boy who grew up dirt poor with two younger brothers and a single mother, I would know.

Until you have the courage to scream this from the rooftops, GFY! And it's more a function of class than race (though there obviously is some overlap), asshat ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 10, 2021 10:51 AM (c3dw6)

158 Company offices reopening, and the language around vaccination was odd.
"We expect all employees returning to be vaccinated and to attest to that."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:52 AM (Jsjd7)

159 151 I personally find MUMR to be a fun Easter egg on the site.

Often times the MUMR rant is amusing, sometimes it is right on point.

Then Minx deletes the post and we are left with the Spicoli comment to know it was there.

You have to be lucky to see the post.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 10, 2021 10:49 AM (5p7BC)

Have to agree... as far as thorns in the side goes, he is pretty benign...

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:52 AM (6Je/Q)

160 is almost entirely people very loudly describing how they love everything and no one will be the first to stop clapping. It's spooky and weird and always has been.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

"Good meeting!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at June 10, 2021 10:52 AM (Rvt88)

161 Mannix, you work for a tech company right? Yeah I have experienced that too. Its like fuck people you know you can overdose on that kool aid right?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:52 AM (LEQCI)

162
Testify, Saint Vaccinia!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 10, 2021 10:53 AM (pNxlR)

163 Oh man. The karens (based on their names) are flooding the group chat with cheers over requiring vaccination as a prerequisite to return to normality, and fears that people might lie in their "attestation" and crowing about how "thoughtful" it all is.

I'm in the damned Twilight Zone.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:53 AM (Jsjd7)

164 It primarily begins and ends with fathers (or the lack thereof) in the home. As a white boy who grew up dirt poor with two younger brothers and a single mother, I would know.

Until you have the courage to scream this from the rooftops, GFY! And it's more a function of class than race (though there obviously is some overlap), asshat ...
Posted by: ShainS at June 10, 2021 10:51 AM (c3dw6)

+1000

Posted by: free tibet at June 10, 2021 10:53 AM (JN9iK)

165 165 Oh man. The karens (based on their names) are flooding the group chat with cheers over requiring vaccination as a prerequisite to return to normality, and fears that people might lie in their "attestation" and crowing about how "thoughtful" it all is.

I'm in the damned Twilight Zone.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:53 AM (Jsjd7)

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Why are they afraid of unvaccinated people if they're vaccinated?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)

166 "We expect all employees returning to be vaccinated and to attest to that."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

"I expect all employers to bite me and EABODs. And attest to that."

Posted by: Tonypete at June 10, 2021 10:53 AM (Rvt88)

167 Mannix, you work for a tech company right? Yeah I have experienced that too. Its like fuck people you know you can overdose on that kool aid right?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:52 AM (LEQCI)
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I do. This one is less cultish than my last one, but they're all cultish from what I can tell. It's weird.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:54 AM (Jsjd7)

168 157 147 remember when KFC was good chicken ?

You mean like when the managers actually spoke English and there was a diversity in the workforce?
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Yeah, that was a nice America.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 10, 2021 10:54 AM (/MaDp)

169 165

The IRS.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:54 AM (LEQCI)

170 Why are they afraid of unvaccinated people if they're vaccinated?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)
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There are questions, TJM, that must never be asked. This is one of them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:54 AM (Jsjd7)

171
I will not attest to my vaccination status, but I can certainly attest to you being a mindless idiot.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 10, 2021 10:54 AM (pNxlR)

172 You're vaccinated ? Act like it then.

Posted by: Jack Doe at June 10, 2021 10:54 AM (g741k)

173 172 Why are they afraid of unvaccinated people if they're vaccinated?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)
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There are questions, TJM, that must never be asked. This is one of them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:54 AM (Jsjd7)

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Who is John Galt?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:54 AM (LvTSG)

174 Why are they afraid of unvaccinated people if they're vaccinated?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It's sciency don't you know.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 10, 2021 10:55 AM (Rvt88)

175 167

I'm in the damned Twilight Zone.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:53 AM (Jsjd7)

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Why are they afraid of unvaccinated people if they're vaccinated?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)

See, that's the thing right there.... science and logic have nothing to do with what is going on...
this is a religious movement.

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:55 AM (6Je/Q)

176 165 Which government policies place whites ahead of any other race?
surely this is a trick question. any government policy that does not place non-whites ahead places whites ahead due to white privilege. have you not been paying attention, comrade?

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 10, 2021 10:55 AM (v3pYe)

177 161 Segregated America is the Best America.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 10, 2021 10:52 AM (/MaDp)

We were as close to being a color blind society as any society has ever been... yet its blowing up.

It's almost as if my very sad theory that a certain amount of Prejudice against those who don't look like you, is programed into us via Darwinian Evolution. It CAN be overcome... but unless reprogrammed, we revert back to the base program.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 10, 2021 10:55 AM (oHd/0)

178 Should people who were vaccinated against smallpox refused to interact with people who weren't vaccinated against smallpox?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:55 AM (LvTSG)

179 162 Segregated America is the Best America.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 10, 2021 10:52 AM (/MaDp)

I can accept commies over there and Americans on the other side. But I'm gonna fight like hell to prevent that. As for race baiting segregation...I've honestly been blind to what people look like my entire life. I only give a shit how other people treat me & mine. Politely, respectfully, honesty and openness in communications? Sure thing, we can get along. Pretty much anything else will get someone otherized without regard to what the hell the look like.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 10, 2021 10:56 AM (VcFUs)

180 What the fuck is a racial disparity and why the fuck should anyone care?

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2021 10:56 AM (u4qVw)

181 I always say that until 'acting White' is not an insult in the black community we will never have racial harmony.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 10, 2021 10:56 AM (2DOZq)

182 We are no longer a rational nation.... shades of the Middle East, here, now....

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 10:57 AM (6Je/Q)

183 157 147 remember when KFC was good chicken ?

You mean like when the managers actually spoke English and there was a diversity in the workforce?
Posted by: Vintage Knickers at June 10, 2021 10:50 AM (qTA+

I've been to a few here and in Montana that were not just good enough, but excellent. It might have to do with the quality of the management and access to high quality chicken ( perhaps they buy locally or regionally, but I am just guessing)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not a Beardy Leftist at June 10, 2021 10:57 AM (xPJvm)

184 The scales fell of a lot of parents eyes when they asked their kids "What the hell are you listening to?" and realized it was just the kid's remote Zoom class.

Posted by: Roy at June 10, 2021 10:57 AM (Di6CE)

185 175 Why are they afraid of unvaccinated people if they're vaccinated?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It's sciency don't you know.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 10, 2021 10:55 AM (Rvt8

STOP making fun of MEEEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: Anthony Fauci, heir to Joseph Mengele at June 10, 2021 10:57 AM (8/7u2)

186 I will not attest to my vaccination status, but I can certainly attest to you being a mindless idiot.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 10, 2021 10:54 AM (pNxlR)

OK, I'll admit... no vaccine for moi... but..

How the hell do you prove you are vaccinated? A Doctors signature? Were you given a Card to carry when you got it? And what about those who HAD the damn stuff, and its actually dangerous for them to get the vaccine?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 10, 2021 10:57 AM (oHd/0)

187 I worked for a few techs, consulted for some as well. It is like that at all of them. Part of it is the predominance of yuutes at those companies, especially startups. First of second job for. Lots of people who dont know any better and buy the company propaganda. We are changing the world everyone, and revolutionizing this and that, shifting paradigms!! All that blush it.

Nah bruh you make an app that creates spreadsheets, lol. Tone it down will ya?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:57 AM (LEQCI)

188 Back on the point of CRT, I'm taking a less hair on fire view.

I've been looking at various issues and policy positions that were popular in the US back in the 1800s. There were some really stupid and dangerous ideas that became the cause of all "right thinking people".

We managed to survive them.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 10, 2021 10:58 AM (5p7BC)

189 188 I worked for a few techs, consulted for some as well. It is like that at all of them. Part of it is the predominance of yuutes at those companies, especially startups. First of second job for. Lots of people who dont know any better and buy the company propaganda. We are changing the world everyone, and revolutionizing this and that, shifting paradigms!! All that blush it.

Nah bruh you make an app that creates spreadsheets, lol. Tone it down will ya?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 10:57 AM (LEQCI)

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My company was like that for a while. It was energetic and fun. A few months before I joined, the CEO swam across a lake that may or may not have had an alligator in it because he promised he would do it if they hit a revenue goal.

Then we went public and we've gotten boring. It's fine. Whatever. I still get paid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:59 AM (LvTSG)

190 Thomas Sowell called bullshit on this "racial disparities exist due to blah blah" decades ago in one of his appearances on Firing Line with William Buckley.

He stated that his research indicated that the disparities faded away within a generation or so if the kids were halfway decently raised by halfway decent, married parents.

Posted by: EXTERMINATE! at June 10, 2021 10:59 AM (MCtOo)

191 CRT itself is a bit of a distraction, in that it's just a marxist tool and not necessarily the endgame itself.

It doesn't matter if you defeat CRT - they're just going to pull some other bullshit. A fight is coming, and no amount of snarky punditing is going to avoid it.

We are not in that awkward phase where it's too late to fix the system with the system, and too early for more direct solutions - we're in the tail end of a decades long, drawn out phase where people keep hanging on to the civics class solutions because they're not being honest with themselves about the nature of our enemy and the consequences of losing.

Posted by: somedood at June 10, 2021 10:59 AM (BDDnd)

192 189 Back on the point of CRT, I'm taking a less hair on fire view.

I've been looking at various issues and policy positions that were popular in the US back in the 1800s. There were some really stupid and dangerous ideas that became the cause of all "right thinking people".

We managed to survive them.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 10, 2021 10:58 AM (5p7BC)

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Eugenics was all the rage. Whatever happened to that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:59 AM (LvTSG)

193 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

194 It's almost as if my very sad theory that a certain amount of Prejudice against those who don't look like you, is programed into us via Darwinian Evolution.
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Birds of a feather flock together is true. But birds don't watch TeeVee.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 10, 2021 10:59 AM (/MaDp)

195 I enjoy telling people I'm not vaccinated. It makes them stay the fuck away from me.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2021 11:00 AM (u4qVw)

196 One thing CRT has done is that it's gotten parents to pay attention to what is being taught to the kids.
It's gotten parent to start fighting back against the school boards pushing a curriculum that is poisonous. I hope this starts some kind of movement that crushes the Left.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2021 11:00 AM (NpAcC)

197 189 Back on the point of CRT, I'm taking a less hair on fire view.

I've been looking at various issues and policy positions that were popular in the US back in the 1800s. There were some really stupid and dangerous ideas that became the cause of all "right thinking people".

We managed to survive them.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 10, 2021 10:58 AM (5p7BC)

If it were only that, I might agree, but the cumulative assaults on us by Fascism has lit my hair on fire.

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 11:00 AM (6Je/Q)

198 What people have to understand more than anything is the Left doesn't want to end racial disparities.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2021 11:01 AM (u4qVw)

199 195 It's almost as if my very sad theory that a certain amount of Prejudice against those who don't look like you, is programed into us via Darwinian Evolution.
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Birds of a feather flock together is true. But birds don't watch TeeVee.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 10, 2021 10:59 AM (/MaDp)

I just look at all the ethnic neighborhoods that have sprung up the last couple of decades... ones that were not there before.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 10, 2021 11:01 AM (oHd/0)

200 @DailyCaller 6m

REPORTER: "Can you explain the message on the back of your jacket?"

.@FLOTUS: "Oh, the love? I think that we're bringing love from America."

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yzc8r72z

I must of missed her election.....

Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:02 AM (cF8AT)

201 What people have to understand more than anything is the Left doesn't want to end racial disparities.
Posted by: ... at June 10, 2021 11:01 AM (u4qVw)

Corporatism. Its really hard to buy off an individual. Its easier to buy off a group.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 10, 2021 11:02 AM (oHd/0)

202 How the hell do you prove you are vaccinated? A Doctors signature? Were you given a Card to carry when you got it?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 10, 2021 10:57 AM (oHd/0)

Yes, you get a card. Mom carries hers in her wallet at all times.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 10, 2021 11:02 AM (Ez6QX)

203 Hardly any of my circle of friends and acquaintances are vaccinated. Relatives are another matter, though... it has become a wedge issue, on their part...

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 11:02 AM (6Je/Q)

204 OK, I'll admit... no vaccine for moi... but..

How the hell do you prove you are vaccinated? A Doctors signature? Were you given a Card to carry when you got it? And what about those who HAD the damn stuff, and its actually dangerous for them to get the vaccine?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 10, 2021 10:57 AM (oHd/0)

It's why they will push for a vaccine passport and try to have it at the federal level and thus negate/ignore the states that have passed a law to make them illegal. I figure that begins after they hit their special 70% vaccinated stage. "We have no way to know if someone is lying about being vaccinated so we need a standardized identification to make it easier for businesses to know!"

Posted by: Buzzion at June 10, 2021 11:02 AM (G2zl5)

205 194 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

'mornin

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 10, 2021 11:02 AM (VcFUs)

206 1 st?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 10:01 AM (Jsjd7)

194 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

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AoSHQ Moron Hive-mind -- ACTIVATE!

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 10, 2021 11:03 AM (RQDhf)

207 I've been looking at various issues and policy positions that were popular in the US back in the 1800s. There were some really stupid and dangerous ideas that became the cause of all "right thinking people".

We managed to survive them.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 10, 2021

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Yeah . . . but our voting population was quite different. Landowners, male, possibly higher IQ generally.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 10, 2021 11:03 AM (/XOcP)

208 187 How the hell do you prove you are vaccinated? A Doctors signature? Were you given a Card to carry when you got it? And what about those who HAD the damn stuff, and its actually dangerous for them to get the vaccine?

yes, given a card when vaccinated. too large to laminate and put in my wallet, so i guess they expect me to carry a murse. virus doesn't give you a card, so you can't prove you've had the organic free-range vaccine.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 10, 2021 11:03 AM (sGtp+)

209 We expect all employees returning to be vaccinated and to attest to that.--------------------------------Translation: We hope not to hear complaints either way. Hopefully, all employees will mind their own business. Likely that the Karen's will provide evidence that certain employees did not get the vaccine. Perhaps a FB post saying they will never get the vaccine. Management is going to have to deal with this anyway, as much as they hope it just goes away on its own.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 10, 2021 11:03 AM (sX1BW)

210 Eugenics was all the rage. Whatever happened to that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 10:59 AM (LvTSG)

PP clinics are concentrated in minority areas and mothers are encouraged to abort Downs Syndrome babies. Eugenics has been mainstreamed.

Posted by: Emmie at June 10, 2021 11:04 AM (tcsxg)

211 My first tech startup had the beer fridge and ping pong tables and all that. I thought it kinda cringe personally, like I am here to work not get drunk, I can do that on my own outside of work. And that is the point of all those so called perks. It makes you spend all your time at work. Free food, free beer, workout rooms, video games, bean bags, company excursions. Why would you ever leave the office?And hence the cultish behavior forms where your entire life revolves around the company.

All I cared about were the stock options. The rest, whatever.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 11:04 AM (LEQCI)

212
I must of missed her election.....
Posted by: Tami

I can't find her vote totals anywhere. Quite strange, that.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 10, 2021 11:04 AM (pNxlR)

213
i tell people i identify as vax'd

good enough for me

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 10, 2021 11:05 AM (bTQ72)

214 212
I must of missed her election.....
Posted by: Tami

I can't find her vote totals anywhere. Quite strange, that.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 10, 2021 11:04 AM (pNxlR)

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To be totally fair, she did speak more on the campaign trail than Joe did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 11:05 AM (LvTSG)

215 What I think is funny most about the whole CRT thing is that it bases everything on racism and that the black community is oppressed by whites.

The FACTS are, no matter who's in the position of power, white, black, whomever, the leftist ideology is what's oppressing them. The Democrat party, which is now a socialist/communist party, is responsible for the KKK, Jim Crow, George Wallace and were against The Civil Rights Act. Look at the black leaders elected in the Democrat party and see what they did with their power. Enriched themselves and kept their constituents under their thumb, reliant on the government teat.

Until THEY wake up and see these facts, they'll continue to suffer under ANY color leftist oppression.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

216 yes, given a card when vaccinated. too large to laminate and put in my wallet, so i guess they expect me to carry a murse. virus doesn't give you a card, so you can't prove you've had the organic free-range vaccine.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 10, 2021 11:03 AM (sGtp+)

It doesn't matter if you've had it and recovered. They want you to get the shot anyway.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 10, 2021 11:05 AM (Ez6QX)

217 yes, given a card when vaccinated. too large to laminate and put in my wallet, so i guess they expect me to carry a murse. virus doesn't give you a card, so you can't prove you've had the organic free-range vaccine.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 10, 2021 11:03 AM (sGtp+)

They want you vaccinated even if you actually did have it.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 10, 2021 11:05 AM (G2zl5)

218 200 I must of missed her election.....

wonder if she holds a clearance that allows her to leaf through that binder on the president's desk like that.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 10, 2021 11:06 AM (sGtp+)

219 And hence the cultish behavior forms where your entire life revolves around the company.-------------------------Exactly. Big Corp has to find a way to get people back to the office to keep the cult of the company going. That being said, Big Corp is pretty wiley in how it keeps employees enslaved to Big Corp. Destroying Small Corp was a big step.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 10, 2021 11:06 AM (sX1BW)

220 If anyone asked me if I've been vaccinated I'll just tell them 'yes'. If they're not specifying the Rona vaccine, I'm not lying. I've had many, many vaccinations in my life.

Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:06 AM (cF8AT)

221 It's why they will push for a vaccine passport and try to have it at the federal level and thus negate/ignore the states that have passed a law to make them illegal. I figure that begins after they hit their special 70% vaccinated stage. "We have no way to know if someone is lying about being vaccinated so we need a standardized identification to make it easier for businesses to know!"
Posted by: Buzzion at June 10, 2021 11:02 AM (G2zl5)

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I look forward to pointing out two HUGE elephants in the room once this happens.
- Citizenship status.
- Voting privilege.

This will also tie in nicely to the argument we are continually making that existing gun laws do not seem to stop people who should not have guns from somehow getting them. Impose all the vaccine laws you want - I'm still going to the grocery store.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 10, 2021 11:07 AM (RQDhf)

222 "Why are they afraid of unvaccinated people if they're vaccinated?"

To question that is to question "Science Itself".

Posted by: illiniwek at June 10, 2021 11:07 AM (Cus5s)

223 Its not so much they want you to get vaccinated. They want you to get boosters. That's where the money is.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 10, 2021 11:07 AM (sX1BW)

224 Eugenics was all the rage. Whatever happened to that?

The Nazis kind of put a nasty stink on the concept, but its still around. Most of Dune was about Eugenics. Abortion clinics heavily target minority communities

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 10, 2021 11:07 AM (KZzsI)

225 i tell people i identify as vax'd

good enough for me
Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 10, 2021 11:05 AM (bTQ72)

As I've been telling people since this whole shitstorm broke, I AM IMMUNITY.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

226 If anyone asked me if I've been vaccinated I'll just tell them 'yes'. If they're not specifying the Rona vaccine, I'm not lying. I've had many, many vaccinations in my life.
Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:06 AM (cF8AT)

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Nice.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 10, 2021 11:07 AM (RQDhf)

227 I think the way to win is to pretend to accept the premise that systemic racism exists, and then point the finger at the teachers unions.

Nothing else in America has held blacks back more than lack of school choice. And the teacher's union gets rich off of their misery

Posted by: Jay at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (TiN8g)

228 Oh, great. I am on the Critical Theory segment of the company meeting now. Our queen of diversity is now bloviating.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (Jsjd7)

229 I will probably get the stupid vaccine because it will be needed to travel internationally.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (LEQCI)

230 200 @DailyCaller 6m

REPORTER: "Can you explain the message on the back of your jacket?"

.@FLOTUS: "Oh, the love? I think that we're bringing love from America."

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yzc8r72z

I must of missed her election.....
Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:02 AM (cF8AT)

It's a dig at Melania's "don't care" jacket. The reporter was supposed to ask that question, and the responding tweeter was supposed to make the comparison.

Posted by: Emmie at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (tcsxg)

231 If Joe wasn't senile I'm guessing Dr Jill would be about his equal in terms of intelligence.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (cSyAR)

232 They pivoted quickly away from trying to explain why some people just were not getting Covid because they were immune because they had previously been infected with a coronavirus and thus had antibodies that were able to fight it off to "you can't get natural herd immunity and you must get the shot!"

Posted by: Buzzion at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (G2zl5)

233
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To be totally fair, she did speak more on the campaign trail than Joe did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 11:05 AM (LvTSG)

And in return, he bit her finger.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

234 Huh. That's weird.

My comment posted and was replied to twice (and copied in one of the replies), but now the comment is gone.

But my next comment is still here, and (presumably) this one is too, so I'm not banned.

Posted by: EXTERMINATE! at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (MCtOo)

235 If anyone asked me if I've been vaccinated I'll just tell them 'yes'. If they're not specifying the Rona vaccine, I'm not lying. I've had many, many vaccinations in my life.
Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:06 AM (cF8AT)

That's my logic too, Tami!

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (Ez6QX)

236 "Everyone plays a role. No one can do anything individually, only as a group can any of us achieve."
-- Queen of HR

Not collectivist at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (Jsjd7)

237 He's going to start a war, isn't he?

@rtenews 19h

Addressing US troops at the RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, President Joe Biden quoted WB Yeats poem 'Easter 1916' - 'All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born' | https://bit.ly/3irw7bO

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 10, 2021 11:09 AM (nI1Kq)

238 Its not so much they want you to get vaccinated. They want you to get boosters. That's where the money is.
Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 10, 2021 11:07 AM (sX1BW)

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Just wait until your smartphone vaccine tracker app starts warning you every half hour that your toner - I mean, booster, is low.

The legal people at Epson, Brother, and Canon are probably contemplating lawsuits as we speak for this blatant theft of their business model.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (RQDhf)

239 I look forward to pointing out two HUGE elephants in the room once this happens.
- Citizenship status.
- Voting privilege.
This will also tie in nicely to the argument we are continually making that existing gun laws do not seem to stop people who should not have guns from somehow getting them. Impose all the vaccine laws you want - I'm still going to the grocery store.
Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 10, 2021 11:07 AM (RQDhf)

If Democrats didn't have double standards they would have no standards at all.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (G2zl5)

240 "Why are they afraid of unvaccinated people if they're vaccinated?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison (LvTSG)"

Honest answer: This is a complex bit of propaganda and political misdirection, just like the mask dance.

This exact argument used to be the sole province of washed up, *leftist* celebrity twats arguing against regular childhood immunizations. And the real answer to that is that the imperfect efficacy of those vaccines combined with their attenuation over time means that ongoing herd immunity requires a certain level of vaccination to work. This is precisely why my AO full of prog Karens kept getting measles outbreaks when they insisted on not vaccinating their special little snowflakes. It's been an embarrassment to the Dems for years.

But now the left has dumped this albatross of a position on us by shilling it over to the right in regards to the COVID jabs - where the less effective they are, the more relevant it is, setting aside whether the jabs are ineffective entirely or unsafe for certain (or any) groups. Remember - EVERY prog position is about contemporary political advantage.

Posted by: somedood at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (BDDnd)

241 And in return, he bit her finger.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

LOL, I forgot about that.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (Ez6QX)

242 He's going to start a war, isn't he?----------------------------The climate brought it upon itself.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (sX1BW)

243 233
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To be totally fair, she did speak more on the campaign trail than Joe did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 11:05 AM (LvTSG)

And in return, he bit her finger.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

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Tangential: The Charlie Bit My Finger video became an NFT and sold for over $760,000.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (LvTSG)

244 That's my logic too, Tami!

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (Ez6QX)

GMTA!
*fist bump*

Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (cF8AT)

245 We can't fight Hitler. He'll just stop calling himself a Nazi and start calling himself something else.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2021 11:11 AM (6FeV1)

246 But my next comment is still here, and (presumably) this one is too, so I'm not banned.
Posted by: EXTERMINATE! at June 10, 2021 11:08 AM (MCtOo)

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*looks up*
....did somebody say something just now? No?
*shrugs*

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 10, 2021 11:11 AM (RQDhf)

247
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Tangential: The Charlie Bit My Finger video became an NFT and sold for over $760,000.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (LvTSG)

DAMNIT!!!!!!!

- Carlos Danger

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

248 Oh, good. Our queen of HR is assuring me that diversity programs aren't random, but data-driven corporate strategy.

The king doesn't need to day he's the king. If they're saying this, they've failed. But whatever. Gender parity now!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 11:11 AM (Jsjd7)

249 237

He fucking better start a war.. I need my bonus to buy that 45 ft yacht I have on order.
- VP of Sales at Lockheed

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 11:11 AM (LEQCI)

250 Tangential: The Charlie Bit My Finger video became an NFT and sold for over $760,000.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (LvTSG)

What the actual f*ck?

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 10, 2021 11:12 AM (Ez6QX)

251 Ron DeSantis
@GovRonDeSantis

Florida's education system exists to create opportunity for our children. Critical Race Theory teaches kids to hate our country and to hate each other. It is state-sanctioned racism and has no place in Florida schools.

https://tinyurl.com/vdh8ztbc

Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2021 11:12 AM (NpAcC)

252 Racial disparities when it comes to income, wealth, education, healthcare, and other areas still exist in this country.

This kind of thing just makes me sigh. There's a basis of truth in this statement, but its incredibly misleading. And the focus of the article is that somehow its the fault of others that these disparities exist, particularly government.

The fact is, governments have been pushing to help non-whites and non-males heavily for over 40 years now, rather than keeping them back. Whatever official government drag there was on women and minorities were several generations ago and have been not just ended but reversed for decades.

What has not changed is the attitude of groups who demand others fix their problems and refuse to do anything for themselves because they'll just be kept down and I should get PAID!

Socialists have no answers for people who are deliberately lazy and refuse to make an effort, but demand more. The only socialist response is to actually give them more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 10, 2021 11:12 AM (KZzsI)

253 ttt

Posted by: rhomboid at June 10, 2021 11:12 AM (OTzUX)

254 but I do know that if we rely on our Republican representatives to fight this battle we will lose.

Hrrrrummmmph! This level of cynicism is ill-suited for one less-than-strongly-experienced in the real-world of bare-knuckled, no-holds-barred rules of wine-bar back-room politics.

If you'll chip in $5 right now, though, we'll take the battle to them this very evening in the battleground of a convivial establishment in Gerogetown!

Posted by: GOPe at June 10, 2021 11:13 AM (DMUuz)

255 250 Tangential: The Charlie Bit My Finger video became an NFT and sold for over $760,000.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (LvTSG)

What the actual f*ck?
Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 30% at June 10, 2021 11:12 AM (Ez6QX)

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I remember reading about the guy who originally posted it years ago. It had been on Youtube for something like a year, and he was considering taking it down. It was just a funny thing that he had shared with his family publicly.

And then it went viral.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 10, 2021 11:13 AM (LvTSG)

256 Yeah . . . but our voting population was quite different. Landowners, male, possibly higher IQ generally.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Nope - Prior to 1890 all elections were done by an open ballot where everyone publicly declared their support for a slate of party candidates. Most of the electioneering was targeted toward uneducated illiterate voters who could be swayed by promises of quick fixes and government largess to fix whatever problem faced us.

Don't make the mistake of thinking the voters in the 1800s were somehow smarter statesmen. They weren't. They had their own free shit army.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (5p7BC)

257 Send $100 today so my colleagues and I can repeal Obamacare, I mean CRT. Donate now!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (LEQCI)

258 Disparities exist... Big Time.... in every Socialist/Communist nation, past and present.Our Elita Yappers ignore this fact.

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (6Je/Q)

259 ttt
Posted by: rhomboid at June 10, 2021 11:12 AM (OTzUX)

You misspelled tits.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Disparities in Wealth occur WITHIN racial groups--and within families in fact.

Looking at it as only a black/white thing is a cheap way to score points and get pet projects passed.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (mR6Gs)

261 You destroy an ideology of lies by spreading the truth. We have no one who does that save anyone named Trump.

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (u4qVw)

262 This might be my last real job. They are pushing for perfectly reflective company demographics and pursuing minority and female hires - per their own surprisingly blunt statements - at 5:1 to close the gap.

I'm gonna be marginalized out of hiring opportunities within five years.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (Jsjd7)

263 So will be bombing Climate Change or will it be boots on the ground?

Posted by: Ripley at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (MxEKc)

264 While I don't like Apple products much, the new OS for the I Phone has a neat features that i hope hundreds of millions are taking advantage of: it by default opts you out of social media tracking and info gathering. You have to say "yes I want you to gather my data and sell it to advertisers".

Which, sadly, most people probably are doing anyway because they are imbeciles and want "personalized advertising"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (KZzsI)

265 207 I've been looking at various issues and policy positions that were popular in the US back in the 1800s. There were some really stupid and dangerous ideas that became the cause of all "right thinking people".

We managed to survive them.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 10, 2021

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Yeah . . . but our voting population was quite different. Landowners, male, possibly higher IQ generally.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 10, 2021 11:03 AM (/XOcP)

Technically IQs are much higher today than they were a hundred years ago, let alone back then.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (z5Vrg)

266 Disparities exist... Big Time.... in every Socialist/Communist nation, past and present.Our Elita Yappers ignore this fact.--------------------------------More like they exploit this fact.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (sX1BW)

267 Socialists have no answers for people who are deliberately lazy and refuse to make an effort, but demand more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 10, 2021 11:12 AM

We had the answer *for* a socialist, however.

Posted by: Vermont commune at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (DMUuz)

268 As I've been telling people since this whole shitstorm broke, I AM IMMUNITY.

LOL

I also like "I identify as vax'd" from "will choose a nic later'.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (k39e/)

269 200 @DailyCaller 6m

REPORTER: "Can you explain the message on the back of your jacket?"

.@FLOTUS: "Oh, the love? I think that we're bringing love from America."

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yzc8r72z

I must of missed her election.....
Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:02 AM (cF8AT)
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Jill: "Foreign Policy is Joe's forte." :eyeroll

Posted by: WisRich at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (G0vdT)

270 Hrrrrummmmph! This level of cynicism is ill-suited for one less-than-strongly-experienced in the real-world of bare-knuckled, no-holds-barred rules of wine-bar back-room politics.

If you'll chip in $5 right now, though, we'll take the battle to them this very evening in the battleground of a convivial establishment in Gerogetown!

Posted by: GOPe at June 10, 2021 11:13 AM (DMUuz)

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Weekend at Frank and Kevin's!

Posted by: ShainS at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (c3dw6)

271 Wut?! Is this because of stimulus/UE checks?

@Breaking911 3m

BREAKING: Fed says the net worth of U.S. households rose by $5 trillion to a record $137 trillion in the first quarter of 2021 - CNBC

Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (cF8AT)

272 "I voted for Joe Biden and there is nothing COVID fears more than President Biden. I don't need a vaccine because I have vicarious protection."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (Jsjd7)

273 Addressing US troops at the RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, President Joe Biden quoted WB Yeats poem 'Easter 1916' - 'All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born' | https://bit.ly/3irw7bO
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 10, 2021 11:09 AM (nI1Kq)

He should have quoted Neil Kinnock. ( By the way that British Commie endorsed Biden)

Posted by: Just a side note at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (2DOZq)

274 So will be bombing Climate Change or will it be boots on the ground?
Posted by: Ripley at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (MxEKc)

Space Force will nuke the poles from orbit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (6FeV1)

275 If Democrats didn't have double standards they would have no standards at all.
Posted by: Buzzion at June 10, 2021 11:10 AM (G2zl5)

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Fauci is now recommending THREE standards while out in large gatherings.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (RQDhf)

276 In 1800's...."Most of the electioneering was targeted toward uneducated illiterate voters who could be swayed by promises of quick fixes and government largess to fix whatever problem faced us."

That's still true TODAY

Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (mR6Gs)

277 But now the left has dumped this albatross of a position on us by shilling it over to the right in regards to the COVID jabs - where the less effective they are, the more relevant it is, setting aside whether the jabs are ineffective entirely or unsafe for certain (or any) groups. Remember - EVERY prog position is about contemporary political advantage.
Posted by: somedood at June 10, 2021 11:1

They did it before Covid. They switched to the right is antivax!" when it came to parents not wanting their 12 year old daughters to get the HPV shot. Before that it was all the liberals pushing that vaccinations made their kids autistic. Once it came time for the HPV shot it became the claim that its conservatives that thought it.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (G2zl5)

278 Disparities exist everywhere in nature. Some lions are stronger and franc more prey than other lions. Wishing for perfect equality for humans is beyond retarded.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (LEQCI)

279 *looks up*
....did somebody say something just now? No?
*shrugs*
Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 10, 2021 11:11 AM (RQDhf)

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Tommy! Can you hear me?!

Posted by: EXTERMINATE! at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (MCtOo)

280 Jill: "Foreign Policy is Joe's forte." :eyeroll
Posted by: WisRich at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (G0vdT)

Yes, through Hunter he can fleece money out of any country.

Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (cF8AT)

281 Posting difficulties. Odd.

Anyway, exec summary of what I was trying to post: does this guy offer even a single example to substantiate his claim of current policies favoring "non-minorities"?

Didn't think so. How does childish garbage like this get published, how do authors like this get into print anywhere?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 10, 2021 11:17 AM (OTzUX)

282 Looking at it as only a black/white thing is a cheap way to score points and get pet projects passed.

yep. Three tooth Oate Hardy living in the hollar of Kentucky is making 18 dollars a week selling raccoon skins he finds as roadkill, he's not being "kept down" by anyone and he's whiter than an albino polar bear.

Charles Barkley makes millions a year, nobody is keeping him down and he's not at all white.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 10, 2021 11:17 AM (KZzsI)

283 @Breaking911 3m
BREAKING: Fed says the net worth of U.S. households rose by $5 trillion to a record $137 trillion in the first quarter of 2021 - CNBC
Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (cF8AT)
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So net worth rose by less than the increase in the debt during the COVID response. So much for that vaunted multiplier.

Oh, sorry. I won't engage in dangerous heterodoxy or casual analysis and contextualization every again. I apologize for my sin.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 11:17 AM (Jsjd7)

284 271

Stimmie checks and the increase in home values and stock market holdings.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 11:17 AM (LEQCI)

285
nood

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 10, 2021 11:17 AM (bTQ72)

286 Following J.J.'s link I clicked the Daily Wire. After unblocking over one hundred (100) scripts I still had not reached the video.

I re-blocked and departed.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2021 11:17 AM (SjHwm)

287 Fed says the net worth of U.S. households rose by $5 trillion to a record $137 trillion in the first quarter of 2021 - CNBC
Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (cF8AT)

Wealth accumulation by the 0.1%, coupled with soaring house prices as a result of the Great Migration out of Democrat shithole cities.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2021 11:17 AM (6FeV1)

288 Wut?! Is this because of stimulus/UE checks?

@Breaking911 3m

BREAKING: Fed says the net worth of U.S. households rose by $5 trillion to a record $137 trillion in the first quarter of 2021 - CNBC
Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (cF8AT)

Thanks Joe Biden!!

Posted by: Dumbocrat LIVs, Prodded by Media at June 10, 2021 11:18 AM (mR6Gs)

289 Space Force will nuke the poles from orbit.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (6FeV1)

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The Poleskis are always among the first to get screwed.

Posted by: EXTERMINATE! at June 10, 2021 11:18 AM (MCtOo)

290 "Socialists have no answers for people who are deliberately lazy and refuse to make an effort, but demand more. The only socialist response is to actually give them more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 10, 2021 11:12 AM (KZzsI)"

Uh, no, that's for consumption of the rubes. The actual answer is to increase their government provided shitbox apartments from 900 sq ft to 700 sq ft in order to help fund more extravagant dachas from themselves.

Come on, man, let's stop pretending this is about altruism. It will get us nowhere.

The problem with conservatives is that they waste so much time trying to construct positions based on principle rather than fighting a war they don't even know they're in. Progs generally don't make the same mistake because they only principle they have is "win"

Posted by: somedood at June 10, 2021 11:18 AM (BDDnd)

291 While I don't like Apple products much, the new OS for the I Phone has a neat features that i hope hundreds of millions are taking advantage of: it by default opts you out of social media tracking and info gathering. You have to say "yes I want you to gather my data and sell it to advertisers".

Which, sadly, most people probably are doing anyway because they are imbeciles and want "personalized advertising"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (KZzsI)

Didn't Apple get bitchslapped because it was recording everything in the name of Siri and sending it to Apple?

They've taken the "if WE can't have your data, NO ONE CAN" approach, I see.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 10, 2021 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

292 263 So will be bombing Climate Change or will it be boots on the ground?

Posted by: Ripley at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (MxEKc) )

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Yes, comrade! Extreme White Global Warming is now our greatest national security threat ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 10, 2021 11:18 AM (c3dw6)

293

nnnnnoooooooooooddddddd

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 10, 2021 11:18 AM (bTQ72)

294 will it be boots on the ground?
Posted by: Ripley at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM

I misread that slightly at first.

Posted by: Nancy Pelousi at June 10, 2021 11:18 AM (DMUuz)

295 Fed says the net worth of U.S. households rose by $5 trillion to a record $137 trillion in the first quarter of 2021 - CNBC

I think fed is pulling numbers out of its rear end. I know that pharma billionaires popped up all over and some got a LOT richer, but most average families did not get wealthier and most lost money, especially when you look at inflation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 10, 2021 11:19 AM (KZzsI)

296 CBD,
Wasn't around for the art thread but it was a good choice. Aside from the talent displayed, that could have been me over 60 years ago. Great memories!

Posted by: JTB at June 10, 2021 11:19 AM (7EjX1)

297 Govt spent 8 trillion to increase net Worth of the citizenry by 5trillion. And we call this successful. JFC.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 10, 2021 11:19 AM (LEQCI)

298 271 Wut?! Is this because of stimulus/UE checks?

@Breaking911 3m

BREAKING: Fed says the net worth of U.S. households rose by $5 trillion to a record $137 trillion in the first quarter of 2021 - CNBC
Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (cF8AT)

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I think it might be due largely to the current housing market bubble. Is the "net worth" of my household based on the funny-money estimate that my house could conceivably sell for twice what I bought it seven years ago?

It sure ain't from salary / raises.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 10, 2021 11:19 AM (RQDhf)

299 �I will probably get the stupid vaccine�

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There's a stupid.vaccine? Geez Louise, we ought to mass producing that and forcing people to be vaccinated!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 10, 2021 11:20 AM (d9FiS)

300 My question is this: if DOCTOR Jill *biden is actually doing the prep work for this trip and the retard is just going to parrot back some platitudes and talking points, who gets the blame when this all blows up in his face?

Seems risky given what we know about the retard's mental state and thin skin.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 10, 2021 11:20 AM (3H9h1)

301 Uh, no, that's for consumption of the rubes. The actual answer is to increase their government provided shitbox apartments from 900 sq ft to 700 sq ft in order to help fund more extravagant dachas from themselves.

Did you cash your multiple dollar giveaways from the government? Have you see the government assistance available out there for people? Socialism gives tons away to people, just ask the brits. Sure, the middle class and rich pay for it all but Achmed Muhammad al'Muhammod gets free lodging, gasoline, power, medical, education, etc on and on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 10, 2021 11:20 AM (KZzsI)

302 "They did it before Covid. They switched to the right is antivax!" when it came to parents not wanting their 12 year old daughters to get the HPV shot. Before that it was all the liberals pushing that vaccinations made their kids autistic. Once it came time for the HPV shot it became the claim that its conservatives that thought it.
Posted by: Buzzion at June 10, 2021 11:16 AM (G2zl5)"

They tried but it was largely ineffective. Most people still didn't even know what the HPV vax was/is.

And speaking of an example of conservatives being retarded by wasting time circle-jerking around principles, there you go right there. Ohnoz! Muh daughter will be a harlot if she gets the shot!. FFS. And I guaran-fucking-tee you that whole campaign was teed up by prog shills in the first place.

Posted by: somedood at June 10, 2021 11:21 AM (BDDnd)

303 "These are glaring problems that need to be fixed." That's the key mistake in the above article. The US never had List Acts. To the extent we have racial disparities in wealth, either the blacks did it to themselves by pissing wealth away, as Thomas Sowell explained; or the wealthy earned it.
But CRT goes a lot farther than just trying to "fix" inequity -- it blames all disparities on malicious discrimination by whites, and not only ignores but spews active hatred against the principles and institutions whites brought to the table, and which have made our country great. If our ancestors had not colonized America this continent would still be primitive as well as poor, and the Africans who were sold into slavery would have just been shipped north or east from Africa instead of west.
In short, CRT supporters are ingrates and should be exiled.

Posted by: jdgalt at June 10, 2021 11:21 AM (3SFo/)

304 This might be my last real job. They are pushing for perfectly reflective company demographics and pursuing minority and female hires - per their own surprisingly blunt statements - at 5:1 to close the gap.

I'm gonna be marginalized out of hiring opportunities within five years.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2021 11:14 AM (Jsjd7)

so you're going the get rich quick scheme? i mean if they're explicitly saying they have hiring quotas, seems pretty easy your next promotion denial violates all sorts of EEOC regulations. some lawyer should be able to get you a pretty penny for that...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 10, 2021 11:21 AM (8D42x)

305 287 Fed says the net worth of U.S. households rose by $5 trillion to a record $137 trillion in the first quarter of 2021 - CNBC
Posted by: Tami at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM (cF8AT)

Wealth accumulation by the 0.1%, coupled with soaring house prices as a result of the Great Migration out of Democrat shithole cities.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 10, 2021 11:17 AM (6FeV1)

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While the U.S. National Debt increased by $10 trillion in that same time? It's okay, we'll make it up on volume!

Posted by: ShainS at June 10, 2021 11:22 AM (c3dw6)

306 221 I look forward to pointing out two HUGE elephants in the room once this happens.
- Citizenship status.
- Voting privilege.

it's interesting to note that, while obtaining id is too challenging for minority voters, the first thing i had to when i got vaccinated was fork over my driver's license and insurance card. how are folks that can't obtain an id getting vaccinated?

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 10, 2021 11:22 AM (sGtp+)

307 "Did you cash your multiple dollar giveaways from the government? Have you see the government assistance available out there for people? Socialism gives tons away to people, just ask the brits. Sure, the middle class and rich pay for it all but Achmed Muhammad al'Muhammod gets free lodging, gasoline, power, medical, education, etc on and on.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 10, 2021 11:20 AM (KZzsI)"

I know you know better than this. Printing several trillion dollars of handouts isn't giving more to the people because the printing itself is a subtle method of theft via inflation.

It's still stealing; they're just good at it.

Posted by: somedood at June 10, 2021 11:22 AM (BDDnd)

308 We had the answer *for* a socialist, however.
Posted by: Vermont commune at June 10, 2021 11:15 AM

And you got that one wrong. He's still here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 10, 2021 11:23 AM (m+jkK)

309 160 Segregated America is the Best America.

Black culture is a malignant cancer, killing everything it touches. I never thought in a million years growing up as a naive Midwestern kid that I would have to have 'the talk' with my kids about avoiding groups of blacks, crossing the street, avoiding entire business chains, having half the city be a no-go zone, not speaking freely about their beliefs or opinions... The blacks want to be segregated again? Bring it.

Posted by: Victor Viagra at June 10, 2021 11:25 AM (qTA+8)

310 My question is this: if DOCTOR Jill *biden is actually doing the prep work for this trip and the retard is just going to parrot back some platitudes and talking points, who gets the blame when this all blows up in his face?

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I'll take "Who is The Bad Orange Man" for $64,000, Alex!

Posted by: ShainS at June 10, 2021 11:26 AM (c3dw6)

311 Actually agree somewhat with the Red State author. However, couldn't help but notice that he failed to describe WHAT the competing policy idea ought to be. (This is an all-too-common failing on the part of conservative pundits.)

The key is to focus on specifics, not this generalized "CRT is bad" approach. The part of CRT that is most universally deplorable is the singling out and demonizing of one race (whites). Conservatives must repeat as a mantra: "You can't fix racism with more racism."

We must reject the strange notion that there is such a thing as a monolithic "white" culture (there is at most a European-American culture, but within that many cultures), and the idea that a strong work ethic, intelligence and family values are exclusively a "white" thing. This is repugnant and insulting to most people of whatever color or background.

Most people still prefer a color-blind society to one that is obsessed with division by identity. As for why disparities still exist, conservatives need to explain how this is the fault of a terrible education system that fails minorities most of all, and the solution is greater school choice and accountability.

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at June 10, 2021 11:34 AM (1gif2)

312 They tried but it was largely ineffective. Most people still didn't even know what the HPV vax was/is.

And speaking of an example of conservatives being retarded by wasting time circle-jerking around principles, there you go right there. Ohnoz! Muh daughter will be a harlot if she gets the shot!. FFS. And I guaran-fucking-tee you that whole campaign was teed up by prog shills in the first place.
Posted by: somedood at June 10, 2021 11:21 AM (BDDnd)

It's what they did the shift with. They didn't attempt to paint Trump as anti-vaccine in 2016 with Covid now did they. 4 years before Wuhan they had already definitely switched to the claim that conservatives are anti-vax.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 10, 2021 11:40 AM (G2zl5)

313 I think we really need to push to abolish government schools. Because even if we're able to beat back CRT, something else will come along. Rest assured its replacement is already percolating in the fever swamps of academia. And even if we gain back control of Congress in 2022 (I don't see how given Dai-Min-Yun) that Congress won't control the executive agencies that actually make policy. As Mr. Miyagi said, the best block is not to be there. Get rid of government schools and you rob the libs of the major artery they use to mainline their noxious ideology.

Posted by: Iblis at June 10, 2021 11:41 AM (9221z)

314 The guy who wrote the Red State article seems to be right, and you seem to be wrong.

GOPe governors can pretend to take it seriously, put on a concerned face. That will not make CRT unprofitable for woke capital, i.e. any less popular with large numbers who hate whitey as their personal calling.

Posted by: Swamposphere at June 10, 2021 12:34 PM (Xd/1o)

315 16 CRT is going to win for the same reason gay marriage won.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 10, 2021 10:07 AM (XvPQV)
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In 2021 America, the Left owns the "morality" lane. Popular elections inevitably center around moral disputes/status-striving (one reason behind James Madison's Critical Democracy Theory days). Ergo, the Left owns the election system/America.

Posted by: Swamposphere at June 10, 2021 12:41 PM (Xd/1o)

316 You can actually ban a theory?

Posted by: Kurt at June 10, 2021 12:41 PM (Ax1aR)

317 When self-identifying LIBERALS such as James Lindsay are at the vanguard against CRT cult madness, self-identified "conservatives" have no excuse whatsoever to simply grab their ankles and hope not to get screwed as hard.

Hell, Lindsay et al have already done the heavy lifting in terms of identifying CRT weasel words and laying out just WHY the cult is a toxic waste dump of the mind. All anyone has to do is just pass out even just one article from New Discourses any time this hot garbage rears its ugly head.

Posted by: Saber Alter at June 10, 2021 12:51 PM (Yd+10)

318 People push CRT need to visit socialist nations to see the racial harmony, the social cohesiveness, the universal trust and spirit. I've been in several in Europe, Middle East, Asia, South America, Africa and they are called people's paradises for a good reason.

People risk death to escape for good reason. Who wishes to live in Yemen, South Africa, Cuba, Cambodia, Russia, Boliva, Venezuela, Syria?

Or Detroit, NY, Rochester, Chicago, Philly, St Louis, Atlanta, or Minneapolis, SF or LA? All socialist paradises.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at June 10, 2021 10:36 PM (EcD5Y)

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