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Right-Wing Populist Party "Brothers of Italy" Stomps Rivals in Sunday Election, Led by Firebrand and Implacable Foe of Lockdowns Georgia Meloni
Updated, With Parliament Balance-of-Power
Projected number of seats (seggi) in the Senate (top)
and the Chamber of Deputies (bottom); Center-Right in blue
The left is, of course, melting down. They cannot believe that Italy has chosen a pro-family, pro-religion traditionalist party. Italy! Can you believe it?! The New York Times:
The Italian fascist party was destroyed in 1945. What the hell does it mean that these are the "descendants of fascism"? That they have similar concerns? Is the Times suggesting people should stop being concerned about their borders Because 1941 Fascism? That is what they're saying, of course.
Giorgia Meloni Wins Voting in Italy, in Breakthrough for Europe's Hard Right Italy turned a page of European history on Sunday by electing a hard-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni, whose long record of bashing the European Union, international bankers and migrants has sown concern about the nation's reliability in the Western alliance. Results released early Monday showed that Ms. Meloni, the leader of the nationalist Brothers of Italy, a party descended from the remnants of fascism, had led a right-wing coalition to a majority in Parliament, defeating a fractured left and a resurgent anti-establishment movement.
In Italian, she said, "L'Italia ha scelto noi, e noi non tradiremo L'Italia." The "tra-" in that last word is seen in "betray" and "treason" in English. The Times frets that the "hard right" is winning across Europe, and chooses to highlight skinheads as decisive parts of winning coalitions, as if they account for more than 1% of the population. They ignore the millions of farmers and workers and mothers and fathers deciding that they must vote against the left to merely survive. No, it's all about the skinheads. Skinheads are the Soccer Moms of Europe.
It will still be weeks before the new Italian Parliament is seated and a new government is formed, leaving plenty of time for political machinations and horse trading in a coalition with major differences. But Ms. Meloni's strong showing, with about 26 percent of the vote, the highest of any single party, makes her the prohibitive favorite to become the country's first female prime minister. While she is a strong supporter of Ukraine, her coalition partners deeply admire Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, and have criticized sanctions against Russia. "From the Italians has arrived a clear indication," Ms. Meloni, known for her crescendoing rhetoric and cult of personality, said in a victory speech at nearly 3 a.m., "for the center-right to guide Italy." After saying she had suffered through a "violent electoral campaign" filled with unfair attacks, Ms. Meloni spoke about "reciprocal respect" and recreating "trust in the institutions." She posed flashing a victory sign. "We are at the starting point," she said, adding, "Italy chose us, and we will never betray it."
The victory, in an election with lower turnout than usual, comes as formerly taboo and marginalized parties with Nazi or fascist heritages are entering the mainstream -- and winning elections -- across Europe. This month, a hard-right group founded by neo-Nazis and skinheads became the largest party in Sweden's likely governing coalition. In France this year, the far-right leader Marine Le Pen -- for a second consecutive time -- reached the final round of presidential elections. In Spain, the hard-right Vox, a party closely aligned with Ms. Meloni, is surging. But it is Italy, the birthplace of fascism and a founding member of the European Union, that has sent the strongest shock wave across the continent after a period of European-centric stability led by Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who directed hundreds of billions of euros in recovery funds to modernize Italy and helped lead Europe's strong response to Russia. "This is a sad day for the country," Debora Serracchiani, a leader of the Democratic Party, which underperformed and will now lead the opposition, said in a statement Monday.
In case you haven't seen Ms. Meloni speaking yet, let me show you why the left is so terrified. Note that she uses "identity" in a way that we in America aren't accustomed to. It has a different valence, as they say. She's talking about an argument between the globalists and the nationalists, for example, where the globalists say "There is nothing particularly 'Italian' about Italians, we are all interchangeable consumers and workers in the planetary market." Whereas she says, "No, we are Italians, that means something important." Similarly, when she says, below, "Yes to sexual identity," she means that there is an identity of "man" and "woman" and these are neither interchangeable or changeable.
"Yes to natural families, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology, yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death, no to the violence of Islam, yes to safer borders, no to mass immigration, yes to work for our people”
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) September 25, 2022
pic.twitter.com/xvxH1UbLO2
— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) September 26, 2022
Note she's not Prime Minister yet. She's not guaranteed the slot; she's just the prohibitive favorite. The center-right got 44% of the vote, and her party alone got 26%, the most of any party. They surged to that level from 4% in 2018.
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@1smaine Italy's New Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's speech.
Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frightening? There is a single answer to all these questions because it defines us because it is our identity, because everything that defines us is now an enemy. For those who would like us to no longer have an identity and to simply be perfect consumer slaves and so they attack national identity. They attack religious identity. The attack gender identity. they attack family identity. I can't define myself as an Italian, Christian, woman, mother. Nope. I must be Citizen X, gender X, parent one, parent two. I must be a number. Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators, the perfect consumer. that's the reason why that's why we inspire so much fear. That's why this event inspires so much fear because we do not want to be numbers. We will defend the value of the human being. Every single human being because each of us has a unique genetic code that is unrepeatable. And like it or not, that it's sacred. We will defend it, we will defend God, country and familyA fuller version of the Chesterton passage she's quoting reads:
those things that disgust people so much. we will do it to defend our freedom. Because we will never be slave or simple consumers at the mercy of financial speculators. That is our mission. That is why I came here today. Chesterton wrote more than a century ago. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and to make for four. swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.
"Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape. We who are Liberals once held Liberalism lightly as a truism. Now it has been disputed, and we hold it fiercely as a faith. We who believe in patriotism once thought patriotism to be reasonable, and thought little more about it. Now we know it to be unreasonable, and know it to be right. We who are Christians never knew the great philosophic common sense which inheres in that mystery until the anti-Christian writers pointed it out to us. The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face. We shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible. We shall look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage. We shall be of those who have seen and yet have believed."The Times says this:
More leftist fear:
Ms. Meloni came of political age in a post-Fascist, hard right that sought to redefine itself by seizing on new symbols and texts, especially "The Lord of the Rings" and other works by the British writer J.R.R. Tolkien, to distance itself from the taboos of Fascism.
As usual, and as in the United States, most of the evidence of "fascism" comes from opposition to open borders:
Ms. Meloni's victory showed that the allure of nationalism -- of which she is a strong advocate -- remained undimmed, despite the breakthroughs by E.U. nations in coming together to pool sovereignty and resources in recent years, first to combat the coronavirus pandemic and then Mr. Putin's initiation of the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. How, and how deeply, a right-wing coalition in Italy led by Ms. Meloni could threaten that cohesion is now the foremost concern of the European establishment.
If you're not a globalist, you're a fascist. If you believe that countries are real and that citizenship means something -- if you don't join John Lennon in "imagin[ing] there's no country" -- you're a fascist. The same as in America.
She grew up with a single mother in a working-class area of Rome, and being a woman, and mother, has been central to her political identity. Being a woman has also distinguished her, and marked a major shift, from her coalition partners, especially Mr. Berlusconi, the subject of endless sex scandals. But Ms. Meloni, Mr. Berlusconi and Mr. Salvini share a hard-right vision for the country. Ms. Meloni has called for a naval blockade against migrants and spread fears about a "great replacement" of native Italians. The three share populist proposals for deep tax cuts that economists fear would inflate Italy's already enormous debt, and a traditionalist view of the family.
NeverTrumpers are all globalist pricks. Among the worst and most cultish of them.
.@GiorgiaMeloni in 2020: "Our main enemy today is the globalist drift of those who view identity, in all its forms, to be an evil to be overcome, and constantly acts to shift real power away from the people to supranational entities headed by supposedly enlightened elites." pic.twitter.com/ACftxdtqBB
— Woj 🇵🇱 (@Woj_Pawelczyk) September 26, 2022
Giorgia Meloni: "Thanks Italy!" History is written. Italy belongs to the Italians, not to Ursula von der Leyen! pic.twitter.com/ebDdL65m2g
— RadioGenova (@RadioGenova) September 26, 2022
According to the Opinio Italia latest projection, in #Italy the center-right alliance is estimated to get 43.4% of the votes for the Senate and 42.9% for the Chamber of Deputies
— Ioannis E Kolovos (@ioannisekolovos) September 26, 2022
The vote for #Meloni's #FdI is estimated at 25.5%-25.7%#italyelection https://t.co/lDK940rea2 pic.twitter.com/zd21QcSe6Y
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip's phone at September 26, 2022 12:16 PM (nG50M)
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at September 26, 2022 12:17 PM (daUIH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:18 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at September 26, 2022 12:18 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: Gran at September 26, 2022 12:18 PM (GM3/s)
Anyway as a American Thinker article pointed out a European Conservative would be a Democrat here.
Posted by: Skip's phone at September 26, 2022 12:18 PM (nG50M)
Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at September 26, 2022 12:18 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at September 26, 2022 12:18 PM (sn5EN)
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Someone posted links earlier (JJ's thread?) where the EU is openly stating that they intend to punish her and her voters for their insolence.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 12:19 PM (nWVaO)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at September 26, 2022 12:19 PM (TNyrE)
Posted by: Iris at September 26, 2022 12:20 PM (foa6+)
Posted by: Skip's phone at September 26, 2022 12:20 PM (nG50M)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2022 12:20 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 12:19 PM (nWVaO)
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With what army?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:20 PM (LvTSG)
Amazing how effective they are.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, w new lease on life at September 26, 2022 12:20 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at September 26, 2022 12:21 PM (sX1BW)
So glad you are covering this. I totally identify with this woman. I have been sending this speech to everyone I can think of this morning. This is what a feminist really is. Proud of everything that makes a woman a woman.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 12:21 PM (Y+l9t)
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Say, remember when Biden literally gave a speech and stated that this sort of thing was 100% happening in America, that he supported it, and that it couldn't happen fast enough?
"Conspiracy theory!!!"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 12:21 PM (nWVaO)
As far as I know there are no Democrats (unless they are DINOs) who are endorsing County, family and faith. Certain no Democrat politician are.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2022 12:21 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 12:21 PM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: Muldoon at September 26, 2022 12:21 PM (cPDW+)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (w2Z7l)
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (nWVaO)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
Meanwhile, Communists still control entire countries, with standing armies and nuclear weapons.
Guess which group is actually the more significant threat.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Kenny Bania at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (Geoni)
She looks a bit rough, but Italy,
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Idealize manhood?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:23 PM (LvTSG)
They're lunatics. Don't overthink it.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:23 PM (ayzS/)
You mean like he did right in the very first line?
Posted by: Oddbob at September 26, 2022 12:23 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: Catherine at September 26, 2022 12:23 PM (ZSsrh)
Posted by: REDACTED at September 26, 2022 12:23 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 26, 2022 12:23 PM (MkuC5)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2022 12:23 PM (SIZS3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2022 12:23 PM (vH/6k)
So glad the Italians woke up! I was stunned when I saw them meekly fall in line behind the plandemic lockdowns. Italians have traditionally been more individualistic.
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2022 12:23 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Fender fan at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (sn5EN)
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As an older 29 year old man I think she's a lovely middle aged / upper middle aged woman, and with a charming smile and attitude I bet she's downright hot when she enters a room.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (nWVaO)
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Iris at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (foa6+)
She's no Sophie Marceau, but I think she's very attractive. She's an adult, a thinker, and courageous.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: DB at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (geLO8)
She looks a bit rough, but Italy,
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (ufFY
My guess is it is supposed to be Prime Minister I would fornicate.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (V6f9+)
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He messed up their plans to have a big half a billion dollar successful GRRRL POWER streaming franchise.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (nWVaO)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
IIRC, Tolkien was a pretty devout Roman Catholic, and LOTR has veiled religious themes in it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (WSVNH)
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (+wdeh)
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Ah, yes. It's a very different approach to the problem than in our system. In our system, they steal the election itself. In their system, they engage in back-room skulduggery to subvert elections through power processes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (t0OGg)
Dude. Giorgia.
All the Italian I know is "Ferrari" and "Piaggio", and even I could tell you that.
Posted by: spindrift at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (h5TKJ)
>> Italy changes governments more frequently than I change my underwear.
That's because Italy's parlimentary impliamention is even more fugazi than Canada's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: REDACTED at September 26, 2022 12:26 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: SFGoth at September 26, 2022 12:26 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Idealize manhood?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:23 PM (LvTSG)
Believe in right and wrong?
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 12:26 PM (bhRsz)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2022 12:26 PM (anj39)
We're letting chemistry into the blog now? Soon it will be math, leading to complete chaos and community breakdown.
Don't become bonded with this! Remember, if you're not part enough the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 26, 2022 12:26 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2022 12:26 PM (IRFCi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (WSVNH)
He was explicitly writing mythology of a world in desperate need of a Savior.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 12:26 PM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: SFGoth at September 26, 2022 12:27 PM (KAi1n)
I am sure she is a firebrand in more ways than one.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 26, 2022 12:27 PM (ufFY8)
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I don't know how the political code language works in Italy, but to my American ears, that sounds like a declaration of war. Restoring "trust in the institutions" means (to my hearing) "purge those institutions and replace them with my people who will at least pretend to do what they're told to do in the interests of the populace."
I reckon there are some bureaucrats swilling down alcohol at the moment.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:27 PM (t0OGg)
You should change them more frequently. You never know what you might have an accident and have to see a doctor.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2022 12:27 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 26, 2022 12:27 PM (tDEa7)
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Them's fightin' words.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:28 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2022 12:28 PM (OTzUX)
She must be destroyed.
-the average leftist.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 26, 2022 12:28 PM (4olE8)
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IIRC, Italy is partially reliant on certain EU policies in order to maintain it's standard of living.
Posted by: junior at September 26, 2022 12:28 PM (kVOVB)
And we know why the right is hard, don't we boys?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 26, 2022 12:28 PM (GYIa4)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
IIRC, Tolkien was a pretty devout Roman Catholic, and LOTR has veiled religious themes in it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (WSVNH)
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Yea I get that. But why NOW all of a sudden? Nobody ever said shit before, and not even when the (over-rated) LoTR movies were making tons of money. But now literally overnight he's some boogeyman for the left.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
If you're Russian, you never no when you might fall out a window.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:28 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: Archer at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: ace at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (B3oWe)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (w2Z7l)
Nothing quite like a pissed off Italian, though she could have used her hands a bit more.
That said, I quite like her.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: Charlie Crisp (D)imwit-Florida at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (QSPZM)
Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators, the perfect consumer. that's the reason why that's why we inspire so much fear. ...
That is why I came here today. Chesterton wrote more than a century ago. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and to make for four. swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.
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Well, you can't say that she has a weak rhetorical game.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: DB at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (geLO8)
You mean, as opposed to Left's "Animal Farm" styled globalist authoritarianism? 😱
Posted by: Marcus T at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (tDEa7)
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They've been doing stuff like that so long that it has become ingrained, almost force of hobbit.
Posted by: Muldoon at September 26, 2022 12:30 PM (cPDW+)
BTW, we should have a “Brothers of America” group. Love that name.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2022 12:30 PM (apsfW)
Posted by: That NLurker guy at September 26, 2022 12:30 PM (eGTCV)
Not if Liz Cheney has anything to say about it!
(Which she will, unfortunately, to the detriment of all)
Posted by: Just Lily at September 26, 2022 12:30 PM (Jp2Se)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 26, 2022 12:30 PM (J2vNu)
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"Pooled sovereignty." What a delightful bit of word play. Someone got a bonus for coining that, I'm sure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:30 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Muldoon at September 26, 2022 12:21 PM
??? You never know when you might see a doctor, you know.
Posted by: Moms Everywhere at September 26, 2022 12:30 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2022 12:30 PM (apsfW)
Sons of Liberty. For the win.
Posted by: Archer at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (gmo/4)
He forgot to include black people and transgenders in his books.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
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The Left can never create anything to rival Tolkien. So all they can do is tear him down and destroy his works. They'll fail in the end since LOTR has always withstood the test of time and will continue to do so.
They are Orcs.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (YIVH2)
She's a LotR enthusiast?
Well, if she channels OMG!! Super Elven Slay Kween Guy-Ladriel from LotR's Rings of Angry Ex-Wife Glower to attempt to reverse Italia's 70 year slide into irrelevant decadence then she's doomed.
If she channels Galadriel from the LotR Novels (not the Jackson movies), then she may have a chance.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (4SAb1)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (anj39)
Ignorant, infantile moral narcissism is the most destructive force in the world today. It's almost exclusively a pathology of the most developed societies, and probably largely a direct result of etiolation via prosperity and comfort.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (OTzUX)
Interestingly, Naples, Rome, and Florence were all left or other. IOW, the urban divide applies to Italy as well as the US.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (ayzS/)
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The GOP will in 2024.
Because Trump will walk to the nomination and make it the GOP's platform despite Mitch wanting to run on nothing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (WSVNH)
THIS.
You beat me to it.
Tolkien converted to catholicism.
When he wrote LOTR, he didn't want to make it overtly Christian, but he did incorporate many themes.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: junior at September 26, 2022 12:28 PM (kVOVB)
Yeah, the first move from Brussels would be to cut off EU funds, direct and indirect, to Italy.
I'm not so sure that "soft power" will work anymore, though; they've tried it with Russia, and Putin's just responded by cutting off their oil.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (bhRsz)
Only the beginning...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: fluffy at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (UqnOO)
>>how do you claim a mandate with 26% (or whatever) of the vote
Justine Treudue was able to finagle being PM with his party getting about 35pct of the vote, which gave him all the power and mandate to crush Canadian citizens.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (iFTx/)
Ciao
Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (xAAUL)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (z0DEK)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (ytSiK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (vH/6k)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (ayzS/)
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Would the Florentines be willing to tear down the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore to install some windmills?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: InZona (formerly InCali) at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (ep37o)
Posted by: Muldoon at September 26, 2022 12:33 PM (cPDW+)
The problem isn't nationalism or sovereignty or bilateral negotiations, the problem was secrecy. But dictators - and they are *all* dictators - thrive on and need secrecy. So they solved the wrong problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:33 PM (t0OGg)
That's "hard right"?
Posted by: Caliban at September 26, 2022 12:33 PM (ni2c1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (WSVNH)
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Yea I get that. But why NOW all of a sudden? Nobody ever said shit before, and not even when the (over-rated) LoTR movies were making tons of money. But now literally overnight he's some boogeyman for the left.
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I think they're just lashing out at Tolkien fans for criticizing Amazon's Rings of Wokeness
Posted by: Cave Johnson at September 26, 2022 12:33 PM (9bp5t)
Posted by: Infidel at September 26, 2022 12:33 PM (+J0HH)
The problem isn't nationalism or sovereignty or bilateral negotiations, the problem was secrecy. But dictators - and they are *all* dictators - thrive on and need secrecy. So they solved the wrong problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:33 PM (t0OGg)
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WWI was caused by the elite who ran the governments of Europe feeling like they could run everything better without the people's knowledge about what they were doing.
This led to the murder of tens of millions of people.
Yes. The problem was little flags being waved at rallies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
There's a lot of Christian themes in Lord of the Rings as well.
Posted by: InZona (formerly InCali) at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (ep37o)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (w2Z7l)
The Vatican is independent of the Italian Republic, so technically that would constitute an international scandal. And probably blasphemy.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (bhRsz)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (ESjRY)
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She's quoting Chesterton? It moved ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (l0Tk4)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (LvTSG)
Don't give them any ideas.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 26, 2022
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Mister, we could use a man like Roger B. Taney again!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (tDEa7)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 12:19 PM (nWVaO)
They've been doing that to Victor Orban in Hungary for years. The EU's now pushing to deny Hungary EU funds and various EU member states (particularly Germany) want to amend EU rules so that individual nations like Hungary (and Poland, ect) no longer have veto power over proposed EU rules.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (lz5hY)
A lot of countries have a City Party and a Country Party (for example, Orban lost big in Budapest and won big in the rest of country).
Only the City Party is politically legitimate, of course.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (I2/tG)
At 12 bucks it's low enough for anyone to pick up a few and low enough if it ultimately doesn't grow into an alternative you're not losing much.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2022 12:35 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Cave Johnson
Cave Johnson is right! Good insight.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:35 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 26, 2022 12:35 PM (bC9HI)
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 26, 2022 12:35 PM (JOtiF)
Well, I don't like the way my stand in Morgoth is portrayed to be honest. And Sauron? What a clown. "I've got my eye on you" hahaha.
Posted by: Stan head of the Biden junta at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (ESjRY)
they're in a parnership with other parties of the Center Right, who have 44%. Also, their vote share translates to more *seats* than actual votes.
In addition, there is one other party, I think the 5-Stars Party, that wasn't, I think, part of the center-right coalition but will join them, and they have a few seats.
Posted by: ace at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (B3oWe)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM
I, for one, prefer it.
Posted by: The Barrel at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 12:21 PM
What...fake tits and a dress aren't enough?
Posted by: "Rachel" Levine at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (4p7Em)
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I think they're just lashing out at Tolkien fans for criticizing Amazon's Rings of Wokeness
Posted by: Cave Johnson at September 26, 2022 12:33 PM (9bp5t)
Yep. Tolkien was cis-het-white and thus worse than Hitler, but LOTR made a lot of money and gained a lot of fans, so he has to be torn down and his creation 'updated for a modern audience'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (V6f9+)
If there was ever an event that should have - according to all their theories - led to a broad communist revolution, it was that war. But it didn't happen. It didn't happen for a number of reasons, but a big and important reason is that class pales in comparison to faith and nationality when it comes to motivators. The Italians acknowledged that, rejected globalism and embraced nationalism to achieve socialism.
They were among the first to try this last time, too. I just hope the new nationalism isn't also socialist. I suppose time will tell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (t0OGg)
Why run on that when we have Mideast wars and the Ex-Im Bank?
Posted by: The GOP at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (bhRsz)
Posted by: ace at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (B3oWe)
History demonstrates that Germany is the natural leader of Europe.
Posted by: The Left! at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Sam Drucker at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (IRFCi)
BTW, we should have a “Brothers of America” group. Love that name.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2022 12:30 PM (apsfW)
Sons of Liberty. For the win.
Posted by: Archer at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM-
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We can declare these terrorist organizations as fast as you can come up with them.
Posted by: Teh Fibbies at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (8rX4S)
Posted by: That NLurker guy at September 26, 2022 12:37 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 12:25 PM (WSVNH)
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Yea I get that. But why NOW all of a sudden? Nobody ever said shit before, and not even when the (over-rated) LoTR movies were making tons of money. But now literally overnight he's some boogeyman for the left.
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I think they're just lashing out at Tolkien fans for criticizing Amazon's Rings of Wokeness
Posted by: Cave Johnson at September 26, 2022 12:33 PM (9bp5t)
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Hmmmmmm . . . you could be right
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:37 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (ayzS/)
I think she's incandescently hot...I like passion!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at September 26, 2022 12:37 PM (BgMrQ)
It would be like a baby seal clubbing, but it would be glorious.
Posted by: Defenestratus at September 26, 2022 12:37 PM (9V81o)
Nothing personal, it was just beloved and not leftist so clearly it had to go and anyone who loved it the way it was cowed into submission.
Posted by: Just Lily at September 26, 2022 12:37 PM (Jp2Se)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 12:19 PM (nWVaO)
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Viktor Orban can provide some pointers. They've been turning the screws on Hungary for years. The people of Ireland can provide pointers on what *not* to do. They got to vote on the Lisbon Treaty until they came up with the right answer...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:37 PM (t0OGg)
the answer is - because Mr Tolkein inspires us.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:37 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2022 12:38 PM (ZLI7S)
In addition, there is one other party, I think the 5-Stars Party, that wasn't, I think, part of the center-right coalition but will join them, and they have a few seats.
Posted by: ace at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (B3oWe)
I'm no expert in Italian politics, but from what I read yesterday, anything over 40% is a majority. Has to be, because of how unstable their political structure usually is.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 12:38 PM (bhRsz)
Good luck EU. With Europe tacking to the nationalist right the EU will eventually be a single rain drop in a rain storm.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at September 26, 2022 12:38 PM (AWtdr)
But the left has become so extreme, so far left, so radical, and so offensive that even such people are driven away from them to ignore the scare phrases.
Someone like this was not elected by crazies, she was elected to shut down and drive away the crazies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 12:38 PM (Ivdso)
https://tinyurl.com/2gt2d3uh
It's the Ukraine flag with the caption "The international symbol for "You're about to read a really stupid tweet"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 12:38 PM (nWVaO)
How about we meet you halfway and compromise with a true, conservative fighter? Mitt Romney? John Kasich? Evan McMuffin? Maybe even someone EXTREME, like Nikki Haley!
Posted by: GOPe leadership at September 26, 2022 12:38 PM (JCZqz)
worth repeating
Posted by: fluffy at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (UqnOO)
Have you been to a European football match? There's a reason they are called football hooligans.
Posted by: Moki at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (JrN/x)
That sounds like a good way to get member nations to become ex-members.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (U9TBn)
no it's not this b/c they are using their changes to that property to destroy the things in LOTR that inspired people like us - look at what they've done to the Hobbits, for example. they decide to buy that property, kill it, and wear it as a skin-suit on purpose.
to take it away from our hearts.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (uJuBh)
>>She's quoting Chesterton? It moved ...
It's reminiscent of Margret Thatcher and Hayek, whose book, The Road to Surfdom which she slammed on the table when asked, well what do you believe in by a finance minister.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (up/3i)
The Commies nearly won in the Italian elections of 1948.
The CIA went big against the Communist parties in Western Europe - interestingly, by pushing non-Communist socialist parties.
The CIA figured that you would always have a Left in Western Europe - they just wanted a Left that wasn't controlled by Moscow.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (I2/tG)
How about we meet you halfway and compromise with a true, conservative fighter? Mitt Romney? John Kasich? Evan McMuffin? Maybe even someone EXTREME, like Nikki Haley!
Posted by: GOPe leadership at September 26, 2022 12:38 PM (JCZqz)
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David French as chief of staff?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (LvTSG)
You know the GOP is the other half of the uniparty and that the "right" has about 10 people in it, right?
Gop is gonna Gope, as always. If necessary, we'll get to see the feckless and spineless show the iron fist under the velvet glove, but only to the right flank.
Same as it ever was. Except now we notice.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (5r4XQ)
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EVERYTHING about that show is bad. Even the CGI in many places. Sure they have some pretty New Zealand scenery, but that can only carry a show so far.
Third graders could write a more coherent story and interesting narrative...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (YIVH2)
My guess is because people rightly and accurately note that Mr Tolkien would not like what they are doing to his property. And, old white man.
That quote from Chesterton is chillingly, shockingly prescient and insightful, as is usual. As brilliant and amazing a mind as both Tolkien and Lewis had, their mentor Chesterton was even greater a mind and thinker.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (Ivdso)
At 12 bucks it's low enough for anyone to pick up a few and low enough if it ultimately doesn't grow into an alternative you're not losing much.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2022 12:35 PM (up/3i)
The SPAC I bought at 11 is now rumble and it seems worthwhile to hang on for a few years to see what develops.
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2022 12:40 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2022 12:40 PM (ItG0X)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (ayzS/)
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Would the Florentines be willing to tear down the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore to install some windmills?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:32 PM (LvTSG)
My sister did a college internship at the university in Florence several years ago. She told us later that although the city is beautiful, the people are assholes.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (bhRsz)
I preferred Endless Summer.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (w0NJk)
EVERYTHING about that show is bad. Even the CGI in many places. Sure they have some pretty New Zealand scenery, but that can only carry a show so far.
Third graders could write a more coherent story and interesting narrative...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (YIVH2)
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Jay from RLM had a handful of tweets about it, calling it horribly boring. That entertained me. I still haven't watched any of Rings of Power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (uJuBh)
She has just the one ovary, then?
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (aursc)
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 26, 2022 12:35 PM
Is this an Ewokian equivalent of Pon Farr?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: SJW activist at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (IRFCi)
Posted by: REDACTED at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (us2H3)
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Imma making spaghetti tonight.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (uJuBh)
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (uJuBh)
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I was told that if women ran the world there would be world peace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: kulak anachronda at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (v3pYe)
remember the thing with the American student getting imprisoned for murder right? Florence/Tuscany is a corrupt mess (even for Italy)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (w0NJk)
And risk being called Nazi's, fascists or being accused of raising Christian hands to God in prayer and having it called a "salute"?
Nah, then they would have to actually explain what they stand for and why those pejoratives are not just simply untrue, but articulate demonstrably why they are not.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (tDEa7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (LvTSG)
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They've turned the hobbits into literal murder hobos. In the latest episode one of the hobbit characters wants to "take the wheels" (i.e., the wagon in which the family lives) from another hobbit family and leave them to die in the wilderness. It's horrific.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (YIVH2)
BTW, we should have a “Brothers of America” group. Love that name.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2022 12:30 PM
Just stay out of 'the City of Brotherly Love' late at night if you know what's good for ya.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (y3pKJ)
gotta hand it to the American system though- we can steal a nationwide election in a single night
Posted by: DB at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Fender fan at September 26, 2022 12:24 PM (sn5EN)
More like PM-ILF
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (FCbAQ)
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Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (ufFY
I could be wrong, but I think the closest we've come before this is PM'sWILF.
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (Ed8Zd)
I read this morning that their first action in '24 will be to get rid of the 87k new IRS agents. I don't know how that's possible, given current Federal hiring regs. Possibly they could just defund the IRS, but IDK.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (ayzS/)
Several points:
1. The EU uttered not a peep about the predecessor Five Stars government, a party founded on Marxist-Leninism;
2. Ursula is the very definition of a c***.
3. Meloni can lift the sanctions against Russia the nanosecond the EU tries anything.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (nMx88)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (aursc)
hope you like sloppy seconds
Posted by: REDACTED at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (us2H3)
The "threat to their democracy" bullshit is what's enabling the federal law enforcement leviathan to go after anyone who even appears to threaten "their democracy" in the name of defeating fascism.
As usual, the Democrat left and their willing dupes the GOP have allowed the narrative and language we're seeing now to root and bear fruit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (w0NJk)
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Amanda Knox. Or, as my buddy called her, "Foxy Knoxy."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Dr. T
>What do you call it when Cadaver Joe Biden shit his trousers at the Vatican?
I'm thinking overtime for the secret service.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (w2Z7l)
I preferred Endless Summer.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (ayzS/)
Great double album of Beach Boy songs by Capitol Records. My first album purchase.
Also a fine surfing adventure movie.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (4I/2K)
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Imma making spaghetti tonight.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (uJuBh)
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You a tell a the joke. I a cutta da hair.
Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld's barber Enzo at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (BDZWU)
no no don't you remember - it took weeks and weeks for places like PA to print up enough fake mailins
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (M9XmQ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (LvTSG)
When a real woman is really and justifiably pissed, there will be no peace.
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (MkuC5)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (SIZS3)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (Ivdso)
He was brilliant and an amazing writer, but I do agree he has a way of going on in flowery prose to lull you into a false sense of security and then swings a battle axe into your skull to end the piece. It is a very distinctive writing style.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of BAD TRUMPY MANS! at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (Vw0Yo)
There's a reason globalists want to force people into cities.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (ZLI7S)
"Nationalism" is of course a totally neutral thing, in itself. Can be used for good, or ill.
What crushed Nazi malignant weaponized delusional ultra-nationalism*??
Glad you asked. American nationalism. British nationalism. Russian nationalism*. In resistance form, Norwegian, Dutch, Serbian, Greek and other nationalisms. Hmmm. Doesn't seem like "nationalism" is a negative in any meaningful way, neccessarily.
* Stalin's reversion to traditional/national themes and symbols, like new military decorations named for historic Russian, not Soviet, heroes, etc, in the face of the German onslaught
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (OTzUX)
He is correct. It is an utter snoozefest.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (IRFCi)
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (uJuBh)
She has just the one ovary, then?
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Most likely. Nice tits, though.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (uJuBh)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (M9XmQ)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (w0NJk)
Preach!
Posted by: Dante at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:31 PM (ayzS/)
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Not really surprising. Seems to be almost a universal constant...Get enough people living in close proximity to one another and they turn hard left.
Keep them spread out and they tend to be more conservative...perhaps because they are in close proximity to reality through nature.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (YIVH2)
However, portraying Galadriel as stupid even though she's thousands of years old has broken their patience.
Posted by: That NLurker guy at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Drew in MO at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (cGlgB)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 26, 2022 12:34 PM (tDEa7)
I actually could decipher the above to some extent.
I also found it interesting that I understood a good deal of her speech for not being versed in Italian. I studied Spanish and could get by in a pinch...but that was decades ago.
I understand it's all from the same root language, but still it surprised me.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (tDEa7)
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Yup, but blaming it lets you ignore the real problem when you're an old-world power player.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (t0OGg)
"The victory... comes as formerly taboo and marginalized parties... are entering the mainstream."
Suggesting that traditional morality is "extreme" just punctuates how far the navel-gazing Left have pushed the Overton Window of normalcy to not simply include the formerly unacceptable but to shove what was common knowledge and decency out of the frame. It says a hell of a lot more about those who are defining "normal" than it does about any fundamental shifts in human behavior.
The Chesterton quote Meloni referred to to wrap up her victory speech is dead-on -- being at a juncture where we have to FIGHT to define 2+2=4 and that summer leaves are green. And if, in fact, Italy and the rest of the world's decent people are being pushed to "extreme-right" politicians, it's the insane Left that are doing the pushing, and they brought any fierce blowback directly on themselves.
Posted by: red speck at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (gS3OW)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (w0NJk)
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Amanda Knox. Or, as my buddy called her, "Foxy Knoxy."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (t0OGg)
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I'm still not sure she wasn't involved in the murder, though. The whole story was weird as fuck.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: GOPe leadership at September 26, 2022 12:38 PM
Have I ever mentioned that my father was a uniformed Postal Carrier?
Posted by: John Kasich at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2022 12:44 PM (SIZS3)
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I've kiboshed before...and I'll kibosh again.
Posted by: Crazy Joe Davola at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (BDZWU)
Posted by: Muldoon at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (cPDW+)
Posted by: ace at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (B3oWe)
Damn, this place generates some excellent ideas.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (YIVH2)
WTAF?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 26, 2022 12:36 PM (V6f9+)
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Worse yet, LOTR was based on Norse Mythology -- and everybody knows that the invading & raiding hordes of Northmen Vikings with the original skinhead "white supremacists" ...
/Only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (wVh49)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (iFTx/)
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Oh yeah. She may well have killed the guy. I have no idea. But pretty girl from America coupled with abject corruption means ain't nobody ever gonna know the truth.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (t0OGg)
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Maybe the Italians will hang her from a lamppost for us?
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (uJuBh)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (up/3i)
"The Road to Surf and Turfdom"
Posted by: Muldoon at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (cPDW+)
*golfclap*
Damn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (Vw0Yo)
Posted by: BignJames at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (AwYPR)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (w0NJk)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (OTzUX)
Worse yet, LOTR was based on Norse Mythology -- and everybody knows that the invading & raiding hordes of Northmen Vikings with the original skinhead "white supremacists" ...
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Hey, we only shaved the back of out heads.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (uJuBh)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (IRFCi)
Posted by: Drew in MO at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (cGlgB)
Those Glutenists? *spits*
Posted by: Gluten Free Lesbian Bestiality Party at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (cupoy)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: DB at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (geLO
Parliamentary system. Ever so much better than ours. Made up of thousands of fringe parties each of which exists to ensure the system won't work.
That's how Europe does deep state, baby.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (GYIa4)
Posted by: Drew in MO at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (cGlgB)
Posted by: Muldoon at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (cPDW+)
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (wVh49)
However, portraying Galadriel as stupid even though she's thousands of years old has broken their patience.
Posted by: That NLurker guy at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (eGTCV)
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You can only polish that turd so much...It's still a turd. AZ from Heelvsbabyface pointed out that the so-called "superfans" who were hired to promote the show in a promo video haven't posted a single thing about the show since it began.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (Ivdso)
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Maybe the Italians will hang her from a lamppost for us?
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (uJuBh)
Perhaps this is why Nancy was wanting the job...to stop this.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (sI15f)
Eric Zemmour: If you want to preserve France, you can't erase the French.
Donald Trump: If you want to preserve America. . .
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (MXm5i)
Posted by: Marcus T at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (tDEa7)
Oh yeah, just try to share some Lennon music without "greedy" Lennon getting his cut from his "possession".
Posted by: doesky2 at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (X5MAF)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 26, 2022 12:49 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:49 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2022 12:49 PM (OTzUX)
The reaction across the world to gay rights is just stunning. It appears to be a key driver in a lot of places. I saw that Hispanics in South Texas for example are clearly animated by gay marriage and abortion opposition for example in a piece on MSNBC Friday night. I'll never understand why people care so much about what other people are doing that has zero effect on them.
Hungary, Poland, Sweden, now Italy. A fascist Domino effect without firing a single shot.
how much right wing talk radio in italy? fed by putin
This is the result of massive demographic changes across Europe. Native populations are in decline. Immigration is needed just to make the countries function, but this comes at a price, intense xenophobia. Countries hostile to immigration will see the overall quality of their lives decline.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at September 26, 2022 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (YIVH2)
Wow, I suddenly feel much better about not watching that. Well, actually I was just fine with not watching already, but still.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 12:49 PM (bhRsz)
Put us all into nice little bins, make us all fit their tidy algorithm.
People who won't fit, won't comply, won't submit will be marked for correction and elimination.
Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot didn't kill millions because they opposed communism, they killed them because they didn't fit-- the plan was perfect, the people were not.
As the hero of the liberals once said, "One death is a tragedy, a million is just a statistic."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 26, 2022 12:50 PM (Zf0+a)
Posted by: BignJames at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (AwYPR)
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They're still there, it's still a disaster, there's still too much debt, there's still too much corruption, there's still not enough economic activity, the ECB is still trying to be the glue that hold the whole mess together.
But now the core is catching up to the periphery. Two years of COVID spending and associated insanity - coupled with the war in Ukraine and the energy disaster - has caused widespread inflation, crippling debt and catastrophic problems *everywhere* and so they stand out a lot less than they used to.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:50 PM (t0OGg)
The GOPe-certainly not. Trump could but has to make a pretty big spectacle throwing the "experts" and lockdown governors under the bus hard and often.
Non-lockdown governors, or those who at least learned from the mistake of listening to the quacks at the CDC, are going to have a much easier time of it.
Posted by: Methos at September 26, 2022 12:50 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at September 26, 2022 12:45 PM (BgMrQ)
Ditto.
I took a few years of Espanol in HS and was surprised that I understood a lot of her words. I think her pronunciation and slower speed helped too.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2022 12:50 PM (ufFY8)
Digging deeper you find that they are all instagram "influencers" who mentioned almost nothing about Tolkien, geek culture, or fantasy in their profiles and have at most 1-2 Tolkien-related images in the thousands of pictures on each site... all of which were around the time that lame "superfans" ad came out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 12:50 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: REDACTED at September 26, 2022 12:50 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (24fqN)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (5/Hp1)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (OuH7W)
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at September 26, 2022 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
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Man, that Putin guy really gets around!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM (uJuBh)
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Heh.
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (BG/Pe)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (5HBd1)
But Republicans running as MAGA candidates, particularly those with a Trump endorsement, were getting huge support.
McConnell should take note, but he won't. Because he really doesn't care if Republicans win or lose, he only cares that he wins or loses.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (iTk1g)
Posted by: Muldoon at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (cPDW+)
to take it away from our hearts.
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Maybe, but I kinda think you're giving the left too much credit here. I don't think the showrunners or writers on the new Amazon show know or understand enough about Tolkien to want to destroy it. They're just a bunch of dumbass 20-somethings who saw the movies when they were 5 and thought were cool, and now they're making some lame fanficiton using the same woke grrl-power rulebook that Disney uses.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (9bp5t)
They must be terribly confused people.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at September 26, 2022 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
Huh.
Kinda like average Joe going to church on Sunday and having the feds take your picture.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (iFTx/)
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Yup. And fables serve a similar purpose. It's one the reasons I get so annoyed when people screw around with fairy tales, fables, folklore, etc.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (w2Z7l)
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (24fqN)
Now, lets do "Democrats".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2022 12:53 PM (iTk1g)
Double ROWR
Posted by: wth at September 26, 2022 12:53 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 26, 2022 12:53 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2022 12:53 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (5HBd1)
This is easy once you control the narrative and the media.
You can make up any word you want. "Hate" crime comes to mind.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Muldoon at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (cPDW+)
ur killin me
Posted by: Merideth Kercher at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (us2H3)
I guess I will not eat Rings of Power harder than I already am.
Thanks for the heads-up on it. Now I'm no longer interested in ever seeing it.
Posted by: Just Lily at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (Jp2Se)
Posted by: kulak anachronda at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (lgPNG)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (w0NJk)
Try south of Rome. I spent quite some time around Anzio, Gaeta, Cassino and the Amalfi coast. Never had a bad experience with the Italians. All of them were more than gracious and eager to have us visit their country.
Only bad thing was that we got a parking ticket - which had to be paid at the police station. Turned out to be a not-so-bad experience as the lady at the station that I paid the ticket to was... how do I say this tactfully... Italian woman are gorgeous. How about that?
Posted by: Defenestratus at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (9V81o)
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (bhRsz)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
Rings of Power on Amazon Prime. Not even kidding. The smooth-brains over there decided Tolkien needed to be 'updated to reflect the world today', the Tolkien fandom revolted, and BOOM! just like that Tolkien's legendarium is crypto-fascist and anyone objecting to Amazon's fanfic is a Nazi.
Posted by: J. Random Dude and his amazing tablet at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (dsNxU)
This is the result of massive demographic changes across Europe. Native populations are in decline. Immigration is needed just to make the countries function, but this comes at a price, intense xenophobia. Countries hostile to immigration will see the overall quality of their lives decline.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at September 26, 2022 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
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Think there's a connection between gay sex and lowering of birth rates?
Hey...if you don't want fascists to take over, maybe try to make the countries you rule appealing to the people who live there? Maybe don't shit on the countries themselves, import new populations, or directly antagonize the people that live there.
Just a thought.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (q7YwT)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 26, 2022 12:53 PM (lz5hY)
It has some of the oldest structures built by man on it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (UuD2k)
Interesting that around the world, the Left has decided that they get to define the opposition party.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM
Alinsky is probably printed in every language by now.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (y3pKJ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:48 PM (YIVH2)
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Now, that's hilarious.
If there were people who latched onto these superfans because they thought they were genuine, they're not even getting any encouragement to watch.
Amazon deserves all the fail. They're even failing at astroturfing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (LvTSG)
Meanwhile, the EU supports Ukraine, where there are actual nazis... Just noting the contradiction.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (iTk1g)
I'm sure that the fact that Providence is Catholic, and refuses to do abortions and transgender surgeries, has nothing to do with the NYT's choice of targets. I'm sure that Providence's bill collection tactics are uniquely bad.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Just Lily at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (Jp2Se)
Casu marzu for everyone!
Hooray?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (2gbgu)
This could be tricky, as the whole episode, including at least individual Trump dust-ups with certain non-lockdown (or weak, and recovered, lockdown) governors, like Kemp, put him on the wrong side of the question.
Being polite and soft-edged here.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (OTzUX)
I hear the Savoia-Marchetti SM 79 with the latest service packs and upgrades is really something else!
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at September 26, 2022 12:56 PM (oedLL)
Posted by: wth at September 26, 2022 12:56 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (UuD2k)
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like the roof on my house?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2022 12:56 PM (iTk1g)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
To be fair, that's what bureaucrats normally do and it is party time in Italy.
Posted by: SFGoth at September 26, 2022 12:56 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (YIVH2)
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That sounds like a scene out of the "Yellowstone"
TV series prequel "1883."
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (HyAgf)
Posted by: Defenestratus at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (9V81o)
It was a bit of culture shock when I went out into the world and saw that all women didn't look like my mom and her sisters, SILs.
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2022 12:50 PM (ufFY
Absolutely.
If she had been speechafying at "cab driver" speed, I would have been lost.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (BgMrQ)
The CGI and New Zealand scenery made the Lord of the Rings movies tolerable, barely. Wokism wasn't a thing yet, fortunately, or they would've been a complete disaster.
Posted by: Ripley at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: That NLurker guy at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2022 12:47 PM
Per the interwebz, not married, but "partnered" with a guy. They have a daughter.
Sorry.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (4p7Em)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:29 PM (t0OGg)
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It’s more than that. It’s inescapable logic. The Left globalists want you to be a number the Right respects you as a person.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (apsfW)
rhomboid I heard him in a recent interview STILL pushing the vaccines. he will NEVER admit to being wrong on the shots or the interventions. it's a weak spot; he should shut up about it.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (w0NJk)
McConnell should take note, but he won't. Because he really doesn't care if Republicans win or lose, he only cares that he wins or loses.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (iTk1g)
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Dave in Fla mentioned this.
The GOPe is dying. It's not dead, but it is dying. It will cling to power for as long as it can, but the eventual retirement of Mitch McConnell (2026, I guess) will be when we might see real change in Congress at the federal level. Until then, it's happy fun time at the state level.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (UuD2k)
Not a good place for catching really big fish, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (WSVNH)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2022 12:58 PM (IRFCi)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (UuD2k)
They took three weeks to construct my hovel!
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at September 26, 2022 12:58 PM (h5TKJ)
Double ROWR
Posted by: wth at September 26, 2022 12:53 PM (v0R5T)
I still remember the Money Honey showing off her rack at that dinner after Trump got elected.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 26, 2022 12:58 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (2gbgu)
Gotta' have crackers.
Posted by: BignJames at September 26, 2022 12:58 PM (AwYPR)
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM (Ed8Zd)
There was that scandi PM who got in "trouble" recently for partying. Don't recall what country.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 26, 2022 12:58 PM (GYIa4)
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A daughter?
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 26, 2022 12:59 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at September 26, 2022 12:59 PM (24fqN)
Posted by: ace at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (B3oWe)
Nice. There's a Netflix (?) show from a few years ago about a woman elected PM of Denmark(its subtitled); the first few episodes deal with her forming a coalition government , negotiating with the various factions she needs, and shows a lot of the pitfalls and how hard it is.
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2022 12:59 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 12:39 PM (uJuBh)
........
I think she's more of a Mussolini.
Posted by: wth at September 26, 2022 12:59 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 26, 2022 12:59 PM (u4CEu)
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at September 26, 2022 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
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Man, that Putin guy really gets around!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM
They call Marco Levini "The Great One". Not even a dog whistle at this point with the right wing fascists!
Posted by: Zombie Rusho Limbaughni at September 26, 2022 12:59 PM (JCZqz)
Italy has been suffering economically ever since they switched to the Euro. The pain reached fever peak lately though. Right before the plandemic, some visitors from Italy told me how college graduates have to work for a year or two without pay in order to establish their creds. Only then can they start applying to other employers and start earning actual money.
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2022 12:59 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 12:51 PM (iFTx/)
I've never heard that...I like it.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at September 26, 2022 01:00 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (w2Z7l)
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Pay per view home run!
Posted by: Hollywood Exec at September 26, 2022 01:00 PM (iTk1g)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 12:42 PM (YIVH2)
That's just because you are insufficiently aware of JRR Tolkien's true meaning of The Hobbit.
You might think it was a sweet and wonderful children's fable to be read to the little ones, but the reality is that it is a critique of the heteronormative patriarchy of depression era England.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2022 01:00 PM (XIJ/X)
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This sounds right, but power is a funny thing. Mitch seems reluctant to change, but he's not the first politician to change when the voters start voting differently. I don't have a lot of hope, but maybe he will see the light.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at September 26, 2022 01:00 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 26, 2022 12:58 PM (GYIa4)
Finland. Forget what the PM's name is.
Definitely a looker, but just as definitely millennial trash.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 01:00 PM (bhRsz)
"HARFOOTS! THEY'RE HARFOOTS!"
--Amazon executives worried about lawsuits
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 01:00 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - pro murder hobo at September 26, 2022 01:00 PM (2gbgu)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 26, 2022 12:55 PM (UuD2k)
Not a good place for catching really big fish, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (WSVNH)
It's a great place to make bait.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 26, 2022 01:00 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2022 01:01 PM (IRFCi)
So they'll be just like Switzerland. Which, BTW , the globalist elites never manage to boycott for their racist immigration policies.
Posted by: Ripley at September 26, 2022 01:01 PM (MxEKc)
Meanwhile, orcs are shown mourning their dead and burying them with respect and ritual.
Harfoots: evil and cruel
Orcs: thoughtful and respectful
Got it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 01:01 PM (Ivdso)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 26, 2022 12:59 PM (u4CEu)
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When the GOPe is the only power in the GOP, they can make that happen.
They're fighting yesterday's war, though. With Trump in the picture, who is affirmatively putting forward a vision for the future of the party, they can't just counter with nothing. They have to counter with their own vision.
The problem is that their vision doesn't include us, they know it, and they can't present anything else without pissing off their donors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 01:01 PM (LvTSG)
State Senator Doug Mastriano, running for PA Governor is the only Republican who publically spoke out against the FBI raiding the home of the pro-lifer
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2022 01:01 PM (dCxaZ)
It's definitely already happening, but I think '24 will be the main inflection point. To quote Dylan:
Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows, And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 01:02 PM (ayzS/)
Sigh. I've been a Gugino fanboy since she first appeared as Wayne's girlfriend on Wonder Years.
Posted by: red speck at September 26, 2022 01:02 PM (gS3OW)
Per the interwebz, not married, but "partnered" with a guy. They have a daughter.
So there's a chance then?
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 26, 2022 01:02 PM (ufFY8)
Funny they did this to Poland and Hungary too, but they're completely silent about Zelensky going full dictator and barring opposition to run for office.
Hopefully Italy starts with their EU exit now, and we're end this decade with all EU leaders being taken out to the chop-chop machine.
Posted by: Rbastid at September 26, 2022 01:02 PM (Ri6cH)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - pro murder hobo at September 26, 2022 01:00 PM (2gbgu)
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Everyone wants the pelts but nobody wants to think about where they come from.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 01:02 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Muldoon at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (cPDW+)
Frankly, I have never read nor cared anything about the Amanda Knox deal. Not that it isn't important to some people; it just never piqued my interest.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 01:03 PM (bhRsz)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 26, 2022 01:03 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: John Kasich at September 26, 2022 12:46 PM (a3Q+t)
So a chip off the old block, huh?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 26, 2022 01:03 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 01:02 PM (ayzS/)
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If Trump (or DeSantis) becomes president in 2024, they'll be met with the same hardheadedness of a Mitch McConnell led Senate. Neither Trump nor DeSantis will be able to get rock-ribbed conservatives through the Senate with Mitch still in charge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 01:03 PM (LvTSG)
The GOPe is dying. It's not dead, but it is dying. It will cling to power for as long as it can, but the eventual retirement of Mitch McConnell (2026, I guess) will be when we might see real change in Congress at the federal level. Until then, it's happy fun time at the state level.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM
No! There is another. (looks at John Cornyn, Joni Ernst, Lindsay Graham)
Posted by: GOPe Yoda at September 26, 2022 01:04 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Hollywood Exec at September 26, 2022 01:04 PM (iTk1g)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 26, 2022 12:54 PM (lf83v)
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No way a babe like that would wear nipple rings, either ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 01:04 PM (HyAgf)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 01:02 PM (t0OGg)
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The Revenant, starring Ace of Spades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Archer at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (gmo/4)
Orcs: thoughtful and respectful
Got it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 01:01 PM (Ivdso)
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Yep. They completely invert their moral compass to depict the hobbits as murderous cretins, while the Orcs are noble and worthy of respect. Hollywood does not have any clue how to depict "good" v. "evil" because they don't know what those actually are.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (YIVH2)
Hey, they were shown doing that in The Two Towers, too!
You know, if by "burying them with respect and ritual" you mean "eating them."
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (bhRsz)
Posted by: John Thune at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: Dr. T
___
There's a lot of things in the past 20 years or so that made news, but I didn't hear about or, or just refused to pay attention.
Had other things going on besides video games, movies, or celeb gossip.
Posted by: SMH at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (xzNDG)
All scare terms by the media. No one is ever labeled "Far Left."
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (H8QX8)
They were called racist for heavily advertising in black areas and on black media (with black actors), thus leading to obesity and ill health in black communities.
So McDonald's said "shoot, okay we won't do that".
Now the left is suing them for discriminating against black media companies by not advertising on them.
https://tinyurl.com/ynxe6kzu
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (Ivdso)
The Beach Boys lesser-known B-side.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM
We're the Serf Patrol, we're comin' to your town
(nuh, nuh, nuh, nuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuh)
We're gonna take your chicks and pound you to the ground
(nuh, nuh, nuh, nuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuh)
Posted by: Beto Ochoa at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (dzZCL)
Posted by: Hollywood Exec at September 26, 2022 01:04 PM (iTk1g)
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Agreed, and loved how Ace included the full Chesterton quote.
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (HyAgf)
Really good.
True story.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2022 01:06 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: steevy at September 26, 2022 01:06 PM (yezA1)
Posted by: Domino's Pizza at September 26, 2022 01:06 PM (5/Hp1)
Same as how liberals always ignore how the Nazis were socialist.
And how the Russian commies they love so mitch, pretty much helped the Nazis gain power and start the holocaust.
If you actually learned history they'd realize every horrible thing from the 20th century onward, was caused by leftist, which today's leftist all try to deny.
Posted by: Rbastid at September 26, 2022 01:06 PM (Ri6cH)
_________
Like the merkins?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 26, 2022 01:06 PM (lf83v)
I really don't think so. At that point, it will be beyond obvious what happens to the the old GOPe types who stand in the way of the revolution.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 01:06 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: GOPe Yoda at September 26, 2022 01:04 PM (JCZqz)
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I did say might...
The presumptive successor is apparently Thune. This is why the Rick Scott challenge to Mitch is so important. I seriously doubt Scott beats Mitch for leadership in 2023, but he's put his hat in the ring and will be able to build on his previous effort for next time. We shall see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 01:06 PM (LvTSG)
GOPe looks at democrats, and says they keep us from the #1 spot, but #2 is still very good.
GOPe looks at MAGA and says they will boot us from #2 to #3, and that is worthless. I will fight these fuckers tooth and nail.
Of course positions that don't have a solid raison detre and following are built on sand, which wasn't the case ten years ago.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 26, 2022 01:06 PM (44ww/)
They were called racist for heavily advertising in black areas and on black media (with black actors), thus leading to obesity and ill health in black communities.
So McDonald's said "shoot, okay we won't do that".
Now the left is suing them for discriminating against black media companies by not advertising on them.
*
I'm lovin' it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 01:07 PM (nWVaO)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 26, 2022 01:07 PM (w2Z7l)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 26, 2022 01:07 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: SMH at September 26, 2022 01:07 PM (xzNDG)
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Insurrectionists. Castraters of Our Democracy!
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 26, 2022 01:07 PM (uJuBh)
So there's a chance then?
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 26, 2022 01:02 PM
And the Horde doesn't disappoint.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2022 01:07 PM (4p7Em)
Meanwhile, orcs are shown mourning their dead and burying them with respect and ritual.
Harfoots: evil and cruel
Orcs: thoughtful and respectful
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 01:01 PM
The orcs are evil and white...whatever their culture does in colonizing and offensive. The harfoots are charming and inoffensive ethnic. We can't judge their culture with our tainted Western values!
Posted by: SJW Rings of Power fan at September 26, 2022 01:08 PM (JCZqz)
"If the executive finds that it is unable to equally and effectively apply the law, then the law is deemed null and void until Congress votes for re-authorization."
-An idea (that will never, ever come true)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 11:16 AM
Arguably, that's what a "veto" is for. As far as convincing the executive branch to apply the law fairly and as written goes, that's what "impeachment" is for because, arguably, failing to apply to equally and fairly apply a law is a violation of the oath to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States". I might suggest amending the oath to include equal and fair application of the laws, to make that explicit.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 26, 2022 01:08 PM (GNhqo)
>>The GOPe is dying. It's not dead, but it is dying.
Perhaps, but not fast enough, if MAGA and America First Nationalists don't wrest the party away from the GOP within the next couple of election cycles, there isn't going to be much of America left to salvage at the rate the maniacs in control are busting out the joint.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2022 01:08 PM (up/3i)
I hope Providence sues NYT for defamation.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 26, 2022 01:08 PM (U9TBn)
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (bhRsz)
"Alas, poor Orcrick. I chew him well."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 01:08 PM (WSVNH)
Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows, And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Posted by: Archimedes
I know I am the only optimist on the blog, but I really think we are at a tipping point. People have had enough. They don't want green energy, people sexualizing their kids, illegal immigrants, crime and political persecution.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 01:08 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: wth at September 26, 2022 01:09 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (LvTSG)
Might. Once McConnell goes, you still have Thune, Barrasso, Blunt, Ernst, Rick Scott and Grassley. Out of that lot, maybe (maybe!) Barrasso and Scott are worthwhile. Most will be there for a while.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 26, 2022 01:09 PM (Z9VB8)
Clearly Mussolini was NOT a socialist.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 26, 2022 01:09 PM (u4CEu)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: wth at September 26, 2022 01:09 PM (v0R5T)
Italian beef sammichs for all!
Posted by: Archer at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (IRFCi)
*
I'll sadly refer you to the TEA Party and Trump's election.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (nWVaO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
____________________
Mitch is as unpopular here in Ky as he is nationwide. If he should choose to run again at 102 or however old he is, he's toast with any descent primary opponent.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (SIZS3)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (ZCool)
"When the moon hits your eye
Like a Maloni pie --
That's a Chewy ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (BG/Pe)
Agree, although there can be a slight delay between that sentiment and the actual revolution, as people get organized. That's why I'm predicting '24 as the inflection.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (ayzS/)
Harfoots: evil and cruel
Orcs: thoughtful and respectful
But the orcs are also the whitest orcs you've ever seen, for exactly the reason you'd guess, which leads to some mixed messaging.
Posted by: Methos at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (lf83v)
>>If you actually learned history they'd realize every horrible thing from the 20th century onward, was caused by leftist, which today's leftist all try to deny.
This is about us isn't it?
--
Democrat Party 1828 - 2022
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2022 12:52 PM (iTk1g)
Pithy and true.
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2022 01:11 PM (Ed8Zd)
Clearly Mussolini was NOT a socialist.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 26, 2022 01:09 PM (u4CEu)
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"He just used the socialist label as marketing to win votes. He was dangerous because he was a right-wing populist."
-Lefist
"So...he was a right wing populist who only gained power by using left wing rhetoric?"
"Yup! Left wing rhetoric is really popular! We should follow anyone who is a populist leftist!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 01:11 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 26, 2022 01:11 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 01:07 PM (nWVaO)
You deserve a break today.
Posted by: Barely ManEnough at September 26, 2022 01:12 PM (ufFY8)
Star Wars taught me all the new takes on F/SF are going to suck and shit on their earlier incarnations so why bother.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2022 01:12 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 01:04 PM
Mine are nipple dumbbells, you putz!
Posted by: Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) at September 26, 2022 01:12 PM (a3Q+t)
No way a babe like that would wear nipple rings, either ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 01:04 PM
Fine, fine...only one way to know for sure, so I volunteer to check.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at September 26, 2022 01:12 PM (JCZqz)
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I know I am the only optimist on the blog, but I really think we are at a tipping point. People have had enough. They don't want green energy, people sexualizing their kids, illegal immigrants, crime and political persecution.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 01:08 PM (Y+l9t)
In one of H. Beam Piper's stories he has one character hassle another about the ineffectiveness of social "sciences"; he says they always try to work *against* social forces rather than *with* them.
Funny how the vast majority of people start to get ... irritable ... when you try to mess with their children. And on top of all the other bullshit, well...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2022 01:12 PM (llON8)
Mitch is as unpopular here in Ky as he is nationwide. If he should choose to run again at 102 or however old he is, he's toast with any descent primary opponent.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (SIZS3)
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!
He won his last primary by over 60 points.
He's in for as long as he chooses to run.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 01:12 PM (LvTSG)
Really good.
True story.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2022 01:06 PM (ufFY
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The actual story is actually better and more interesting, though. Google it. The movie makes Stu out to be pretty much a saint and blindly accepting of his condition. In real life, he suffered denial, anger, and resentment before finally reaching acceptance. That’s more interesting and realistic -- and more human.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 01:12 PM (iFTx/)
The Beach Boys lesser-known B-side.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 26, 2022 12:43 PM
We're the Serf Patrol, we're comin' to your town
Serf City, here we come
Posted by: JoeF. at September 26, 2022 01:12 PM (mR6Gs)
That is why I say the senate is NOT 50/50 but 55/45 maybe even 58/42.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 26, 2022 01:12 PM (u4CEu)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 26, 2022 01:13 PM (64VyN)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at September 26, 2022 01:13 PM (nMx88)
When I was there it seemed to be a college town, and yeah, beautiful, but definitely filled with assholes as you would find in a college town. I hear people go there to study cooking, which is surprising, because the worst food I had in italy was from there. Wprst pizza I ever had. The joke is I had to go to italy for the worst pizza. Everywhere else the pizza was great, but in florence it was shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2022 01:13 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 26, 2022 01:07 PM
You're talking about me, right? I made Washington squeal like a pig!
Posted by: Senator Joni Ernst at September 26, 2022 01:13 PM (JCZqz)
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*cough*
Posted by: John Thune at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (ayzS/)
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there might be sixteen or eighteen others.
Posted by: I prefer not to know at September 26, 2022 01:13 PM (wKrqy)
You know, if by "burying them with respect and ritual" you mean "eating them."
Posted by: Dr. T
MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!!!!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 26, 2022 01:13 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2022 01:10 PM (IRFCi)
I don't know. Maybe she took a job a Vandersexxxx, Amsterdam's most erotic club.
Posted by: Archer at September 26, 2022 01:13 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem
*
Sheeeeeeet
- Nike
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 01:13 PM (nWVaO)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 26, 2022 01:13 PM (64VyN)
Obviously not! Putin rigged it so Italy would drop sanctions! Recount NOW!
REEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Posted by: leftists at September 26, 2022 01:14 PM (llON8)
I pray that you are right.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 26, 2022 01:14 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Julius Caesar at September 26, 2022 01:14 PM (lf83v)
needs at minimum the slogan:
did you LIKE the last 30 months?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2022 01:14 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 26, 2022 01:14 PM (x000d)
If you are a socialist it does matter - but to expect non-socialists to see this as a fundamental difference is...stupid.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2022 01:14 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 26, 2022 01:15 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 26, 2022 01:15 PM (ZCool)
Yeah that was a pretty obvious and painfully woke decision. Orcs are dark skinned, thats RAYCISS! Our orcs are properly light colored.
Also they are damaged by sunlight, except when they aren't.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 01:15 PM (Ivdso)
needs at minimum the slogan:
did you LIKE the last 30 months?
At least since Nov 2020 its been great!
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 26, 2022 01:15 PM (ESjRY)
++++
I'm hoping for the "things happen slowly and then all at once".
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 01:15 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 12:57 PM (LvTSG)
Might. Once McConnell goes, you still have Thune, Barrasso, Blunt, Ernst, Rick Scott and Grassley. Out of that lot, maybe (maybe!) Barrasso and Scott are worthwhile. Most will be there for a while.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 26, 2022 01:09 PM (Z9VB
Don't forget me!
Posted by: John Cornyn at September 26, 2022 01:15 PM (AMIL/)
You said it.
Posted by: Pin-Dancing Angels at September 26, 2022 01:16 PM (ayzS/)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 26, 2022 01:16 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 26, 2022 01:16 PM (x000d)
- Nike
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 26, 2022 01:13 PM (nWVaO)
Sheeee-iit.
Posted by: Clay Davis at September 26, 2022 01:16 PM (ufFY8)
https://tinyurl.com/yck7vwdv
goes to the tw@tts
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2022 01:16 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 12:41 PM (bhRsz)
___________________
Rome is worse. Amazing city but full of major-league assholes. And in serious need of deodorant. I thought Florence and everyplace else I was in Italy the people were OK.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 01:16 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Frank Luntz's Odorous Vagina at September 26, 2022 01:16 PM (ZCool)
He won his last primary by over 60 points.
He's in for as long as he chooses to run.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
__________________
I said serious primary opponent. That dude was cannon fodder and a lot has happened since then. Mitch is very beatable in a primary now.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 26, 2022 01:16 PM (SIZS3)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 26, 2022 01:17 PM (ayzS/)
I think i could remember the company this happened to about 20 years ago, but in reverse (could have actually been McDonalds then too) where they were sued for ignoring black areas or advertising to blacks, then when they started to they were sued for targeting blacks for unhealthy lifestyles.
The left knows they can switch their grift around again and again, because there addres enough weak companies, and stupid jurors, that whol always side with giving the freeloaders money.
Posted by: Rbastid at September 26, 2022 01:17 PM (Ri6cH)
Serf City, here we come
Posted by: JoeF. at September 26, 2022 01:12 PM (mR6Gs)
Serfing Bird...Well a bird, bird, bird, bird is the word....
Posted by: Archer at September 26, 2022 01:17 PM (gmo/4)
They say things like, "Fight the power! We need the FBI to round up all of the people who questioned the 2020 election and put those fascists in jail."
Posted by: MJ at September 26, 2022 01:17 PM (zwDuR)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2022 01:17 PM (VwHCD)
Here is my hands-down favorite story from the last week: LA Unified School District had some video on their Instagram, featuring the usual parade of ultra-woke freaks, but this time pushing "Food Neutrality."
This is the idea that no foods are "good" or "bad" for you, that ideas like "junk food" are based on "false food standards," and "systems of oppression" that create "false hierarchies." Really crazy woke shit, this time telling kids that donuts are just as good for you as vegetables.
Unsurprisingly, LA parents were less than enthusiastic about the District telling Junior that healthy eating habits are bigotry, and people began digging around, and turned up the fact that the preachy, woke BIPOC "nutritionist" in this video is actually a flack for... Mondelez Int'l, the global megacorp that makes a ton of America's most unhealthful foods, including Chips Ahoy and Oreos.
Ya couldn't make this shit up if you tried.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2022 01:17 PM (oINRc)
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I think it's very diverse and inclusive that the Italians named a city after the Jefferson's maid.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 26, 2022 01:18 PM (lf83v)
The horde has more wisdom in their nics than the MFM and Hotgas have in their entire publications.
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2022 01:18 PM (Ed8Zd)
Tolkien did have people from the regions south of Gondor but i think they were supposed to be Arabs and Berbers. But the point remains...the people in Gondor and the area around it were white because they were Europeans. There were people in other parts of the world but...they weren't in Europe except coming in as armies to conquer it.
Which is...pretty damn historical accurate
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2022 01:18 PM (ESjRY)
Hate to break it to you, but the young Italian women have thrown off their aprons in favor of the smartphones.
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2022 01:18 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: illiniwek at September 26, 2022 01:18 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: John Cornyn at September 26, 2022 01:15 PM (AMIL/)
What am I, chopped liver?
Lindsey you know who.
Posted by: BignJames at September 26, 2022 01:18 PM (AwYPR)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 26, 2022 01:19 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 01:08 PM (Y+l9t)
They don't? We do, and we're going to make it mandatory. Or else you're racist, or something.
Posted by: Joe and Hunter Biden, with an army of MAPs at September 26, 2022 01:19 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 26, 2022 01:19 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Clay Davis at September 26, 2022 01:19 PM (ufFY8)
Ya couldn't make this shit up if you tried.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2022 01:17 PM (oINRc)
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Corporations are good. Just ask a leftist about Pfizer and Moderna.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 01:19 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2022 01:05 PM (YIVH2)
You say they inverted the moral compass, but don't have a clue?
I say they do have a clue, which is why they choose to invert the moral compass.
They know. They know whom they serve too.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 26, 2022 01:19 PM (FCbAQ)
Exhilarating.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 26, 2022 01:19 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 01:20 PM (Ivdso)
Pedants, help me out
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 26, 2022 01:20 PM (FCbAQ)
>Mitch is a bottom feeder. He's the deep state swamp at its worst. Or he's just stupid.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 26, 2022 01:20 PM (w2Z7l)
Posted by: Czech Chick at September 26, 2022 01:20 PM (J9wxX)
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2022 01:18 PM (dCxaZ)
I could stand to watch Giada de Laurentis cooking while wearing only a strategically-placed smartphone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 01:20 PM (WSVNH)
Posted by: Beto Ochoa at September 26, 2022 01:21 PM (dzZCL)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem
........
The U.S. obesity prevalence in 2020 was 41.9%
(if you believe the CDC)
Posted by: wth at September 26, 2022 01:21 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 26, 2022 01:20 PM (Ivdso)
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The funniest part is he interviewed this rail thin runner who ate two Big Macs a day since the Big Mac was introduced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 01:21 PM (LvTSG)
I know I am the only optimist on the blog, but I really think we are at a tipping point. People have had enough.
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True... but the problem is, people don't matter. The ruling class is long past giving a damn about public opinion.
Unless people start running around with torches and pikes and tumbrels and so forth, nothing changes. Their course is set and they don't plan to alter it just because a bunch of grubby peasants don't know what's good for them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2022 01:21 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2022 01:17 PM (oINRc)
++++
They have a PR man who is ultra-based and, possibly, somehow, more cynical than I am.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2022 01:21 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: LASue at September 26, 2022 01:18 PM
*sidles slowly away from Charlie Brown*
Posted by: Linus at September 26, 2022 01:21 PM (4p7Em)
Posted by: WIsh I could be there at September 26, 2022 01:21 PM (ebLy4)
Posted by: MJ at September 26, 2022 01:17
That's where I'm nicer than they are. I'd only be seeking to round up the FBI. NYT staff and Antifa.
Posted by: That NLurker guy at September 26, 2022 01:22 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Dr. T at September 26, 2022 01:22 PM (bhRsz)
Ya couldn't make this shit up if you tried.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2022 01:17 PM (oINRc)
==========
Corporations are good. Just ask a leftist about Pfizer and Moderna.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 26, 2022 01:19 PM (LvTSG)
A vaxxed and boosted cow-orker not long ago made an off-hand mildly negative remark about "big pharma". Not expecting cow-orker to refuse the next jab, unfortunately.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2022 01:22 PM (llON8)
Posted by: SMH at September 26, 2022 01:22 PM (xzNDG)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 26, 2022 01:20 PM (FCbAQ)
I prefer broaches.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 26, 2022 01:22 PM (AiZBA)
HA
My buddy had a mad crush on her and went to a Food Network event in Philly to get her autograph.
His kids mocked him for being in love with a midget.
Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2022 01:22 PM (dCxaZ)
______________
You came for Giada DeLaurentis.
You'd settle for Lidia Bastianich.
You'll get Mama Celeste.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 26, 2022 01:22 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2022 01:23 PM (5r4XQ)
Sea Turtle then.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 26, 2022 01:23 PM (ZCool)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 26, 2022 01:23 PM (IRFCi)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2022 01:23 PM (RMN7W)
Everywhere else the pizza was great, but in florence it was shit.
Posted: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
She would have learned this if she basically just asked any Sicilian, hell or any Italian south of Rome.
Florence is basically the Upper East Side, or Martha's Vineyard, of Italy.
Posted by: Rbastid at September 26, 2022 01:23 PM (Ri6cH)
Clearly Mussolini was NOT a socialist.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 26, 2022 01:09 PM (u4CEu)
Understand, though. The POSITIONS and POLICIES of the Italian Fascist party were all over the place and best described as incoherent.
Ralph Raico had a lot of lectures on Italian Fascism, which he held in amused contempt, referring to it once as being, "philosophically incapable of running a gelato stand"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2022 01:24 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2022 01:20 PM (WSVNH)
Except Giada never eats her food, is a wino, and has a pencil neck Mrs DIG hates her with the heat of a thousand suns. She likes the cooks who are a bit chubby, like Ree Drummond and the singer/actor chick Trisha Yearwood. She says they are fat because they like the food they make.
Lol, can't argue with that logic.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 26, 2022 01:25 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 26, 2022 01:15 PM
We have a few...the trouble is, they don't always follow through with action after the strong words that get them elected. Kari Lake certainly speaks well, so I'm interested in seeing what her future holds.
Posted by: Grimmy at September 26, 2022 01:27 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem
We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love your money too much, baby
Posted by: McDonalds at September 26, 2022 01:27 PM (4I/2K)
I watched Georgi's speech and found it absolutely charming when she dug through her notes for the Chesterton quote. Probably staged, but, still, a very nice touch.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 26, 2022 01:28 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2022 01:31 PM (0OP+5)
Drag Queen story hour and then
Lia Thomas winning gold in women's swimming and then
A hospital bragging about mutilating children and then
Parents being labeled domestic terrorists and then....
Now do that with energy starting with recycling and ending up with rolling blackouts and mandating electric cars.
Then Crime ending with releasing without bail for moderate and emptying out prisons.
The left always wants more and will never be satisfied.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 01:31 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: Grimmy at September 26, 2022 01:27 PM (JCZqz)
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Ditto, and hope we get more than a one seat majority in each house of the legislature (which gave every weak-ass R an effective veto over any legislation.
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 26, 2022 01:31 PM (TYD8r)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 01:32 PM (Y+l9t)
Serf City, here we come
Americans don't Serf. At least we didn't used to. Now I'm not so sure.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 26, 2022 01:32 PM (eqk2H)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 26, 2022 01:32 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem
I had no idea the 6 or 7 sausage biscuits I get each Sunday for Sunday school made me a statistic.
Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2022 01:35 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2022 01:35 PM (0OP+5)
You're putting my kids through college.
Posted by: McDonald's Manager at September 26, 2022 01:37 PM (yQpMk)
The WEF really is not interested in sovereign countries looking out for the interests of their own citizens.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at September 26, 2022 01:42 PM (5pTK/)
Well, amazon spent a billion dollars to make this "Rings of Soy" thing they've got going on.
The actual LOTR fans, the ones that know Tolkien's works backwards, forwards and sideways have caused the show (again, that Amazon spent a BILLION dollars on) to be regarded as a failure and a laughing stock.
The lefties, as a proxy for Amazon, have decided that the best way to delegitimize the fans or decrease their attacks on the show is to delegitimize the author.
Posted by: GMan at September 26, 2022 01:43 PM (GfWuY)
Btw the story of Amanda Knox took place in Perugia, my mother's hometown, not in Florence, my own city of birth. And it had nothing to do with people, it was just corrupted magistrates. Nobody with a brain believed she and her BF were guilty.
Posted by: Anacleto Mitraglia at September 26, 2022 01:44 PM (G7lxV)
Serf City, here we come
Everybody goin' serfin' (three kicks of the bass drum) serfin' USA
Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at September 26, 2022 02:03 PM (zSyrn)
Posted by: m at September 26, 2022 02:03 PM (r8enq)
Posted by: m at September 26, 2022 02:04 PM (r8enq)
Posted by: m at September 26, 2022 02:04 PM (r8enq)
Meanwhile over at RedState.com, Trump hater and unmitigated asshole - RS writer Mike Miller - continues his personal war against Trump by doing his best to stir up dissent between Desantis and Trump. And he writes for a site that claims to want Republicans to win. Keep the anti-Trump editorials going and I can guarantee you less wins, even in this economic enviroment.
Posted by: Tracy at September 26, 2022 02:06 PM (ajI0T)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 26, 2022 02:08 PM (vN+oL)
Posted by: Dune is a harsh mistress at September 26, 2022 02:10 PM (JOqTG)
Yes, siamo pronti. I hope.
Posted by: Ultra pj at September 26, 2022 02:21 PM (G1dq6)
The Establishment GOP is going to fight “this” tooth and nail. To the extent any GOP candidate wins running on “this” the national/state GOP are going to run to the Biden Junta’s Gestapo for assistance in finding the “crime” for each of these “domestic extremists.”
Let’s realize what we are up against, and stop ridiculing those on our side, such as Jim Jordan, for not doing more. Before criticizing allies, criticize yourself and think about what more YOU can do.
Posted by: Just a dummy at September 26, 2022 02:26 PM (U2W4Y)
Posted by: DaveA at September 26, 2022 02:48 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Here in Italy at September 26, 2022 02:58 PM (JOYpZ)
Posted by: Ralph at September 26, 2022 03:30 PM (Qf//C)
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 26, 2022 03:48 PM (q43pd)
Posted by: Parody Song Enjoyer at September 26, 2022 04:41 PM (H0sa3)
Posted by: A. Landmesser at September 26, 2022 07:26 PM (EcD5Y)
Florence is basically the Upper East Side, or Martha's Vineyard, of Italy."
Having been to Firenze (for whatever reason, the English translations of Italian place names suck donkey balls. The worst example is Leghorn for Livorno), I think that is probably true of downtown Firenze. Suburban Firenze, on the other hand, where my high-school group and I stayed, is the Akron or Gary of Italy: grimly industrial. I remember being very surprised that you could have such ugliness in such a stereotypically lovely country.
Posted by: Joe Smith at September 26, 2022 11:24 PM (YlQsV)
Posted by: Joe Smith at September 26, 2022 11:47 PM (YlQsV)
Posted by: Joe Smith at September 26, 2022 11:59 PM (YlQsV)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Italian_general_election
(I know, Wikipedia, but still). Keep in mind that in the proportional maps, the overall color for each district is the coalition/party that got the most votes, but you have to look at the little circles to see who won the actual seats. For example, the Five Star Movement, a weird kind of populist party that is pretty left on the economy and environment but pretty right on immigration and getting out of the EU, got the most votes all over Southern Italy: however, they still didn't win a majority of any seats in any district, because the other parties got a lot of votes as well.
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