The Silence of "The Right:" Why Do We Have to Turn to Leftwingers Like Tim Pool and Brett Weinstein to Hear Challenges to Leftist Mob-Rule that Paid Members of the "Conservative" Media Should Be Offering Themselves?

I wonder how long they think this can go on, as we ignore the official organs of the pseudo-right and instead turn to left-wing truth-tellers.

Andy Ngo's first person account of being attacked by a government-supported black-clad paramilitary is worth reading.

Ngo spoke with Brett Weinstein, both discussing their own stalkings by the leftwing mob. In both men's cases, the leftwing mob was supported by the local police. Brett Weinstein, if you've forgotten, was told that the Evergreen State College police had been ordered to stand down, even as baseball-bat mobs were actually, literally hunting him on campus.

By the way, Ngo's speech seems affected by his attack. He speaks fluently, but he takes long pauses sometimes. Maybe his brain needs time to organize itself periodically.

If you don't want to listen to the full discussion, John Sexton's recap notes some of the most important quotes.

Listening to that interview, I was referred to this great Brett Weinstein speech from 2018, about what Social Justice Warrior terror is all about. It's even better, I think, than the Ngo interview. He breaks down what antifa/the SJW movement is, and its various pieces -- from the dupes who think they're just joining a "pro-equality" movement, to the people running it, who, he notes, are not looking for equality, but actual black (or gay, or trans) supremacy, simply reversing Old Jim Crow into a New Jim Crow, to the "allies," who are really subordinates who agree to act as Second-Class Citizens to make up for past injustices, to the grifters, to the opportunists who think they can profit politically or economically from aligning themselves with the blackshirts, to the cowed and frightened masses who offer some public support of them just so they won't be targeted next, etc.

He is not shy about calling things by their proper names, either.

One point he makes very early -- but does not elaborate on, alas -- is that he finds the humorlessness of the SJWs and antifa types to be a big red flag or tell. He notes that humor is how rational people begin processing contradictions in their thinking and ironies and uncomfortable truths -but the zealots of the SJW movement and antifa are completely devoid of humor, either because they were born without it or they have brainwashed themselves that there are no contradictions in the SJW supremacy movement at all, and that to even acknowledge such with an ironical joke would be a ThoughtCrime.

It's an interesting idea -- but like I said, he just says it in even fewer words than I did and moves on. I'd like to read more on that idea.

Another point he made: White "allies" are expected to break the law on behalf of the black supremacists they're serving, I guess because their "White Privilege" should be used oh behalf of The Struggle, and this will keep their black supremacist masters from getting into trouble themselves.

I wonder if this sort of idea underlies the Pasty White Fatty-Fatty-Boom-Booms and mentally-ill droogs that make up the rank-and-smelly ranks of antifa.

Bookmark this for your future listening. It is Strange Times we live in, indeed, when a leftwing guy is bolder, more insightful, more incisive, and more courageous on this point than 99% of the alleged "conservative" media writers.

Now, Brett Weinstein provides, inadvertently, a partial defense of "conservative" media cowards. He notes his own background as a lifetime progressive and also as a Jew insulated him from defamatory attacks meant to make him unemployable as a racist. He notes that this sort of smear is routinely deployed by SJWs to get people to knuckle under.

And I guess that is a partial defense of conservatives and non-minorities, who cannot say "I'm a progressive" or "I'm a minority" in response to this ceaseless smearing.

But it's only a partial defense. At this time, only a fucking idiot would not realize the game going on here, and, while people who don't have careers as writers and alleged "thinkers" (and thus no media presence) should still be afraid to speak the truth, I'm not sure how that lets our various cowards off the hook.

If you have a job as someone paid to offer his true insights into cultural and political turmoil, and tens of thousands of readers, and a paid gig at a "conservative" outlet -- what is your excuse, I wonder, for being so easily cowed?

Shouldn't you be willing to take some of the heat that the leftist maniacs would otherwise visit on citizens without a megaphone?

That was Andrew Breitbart's philosophy -- "I take the heat so that others won't have to."

And that's why people loved him, and why people are disgusted with our current go-along-to-get-along cucks and cowards, the grifters and the opportunists, the check-cashers and clock-watchers which currently dominate, and I do mean dominate, the top positions of "conservative" media.

Obviously I don't mean warriors like Michelle Malkin or Colonel Kurt Schlichter. I mean the people you're already thinking of, the people who take the position that "this culture war is so beneath me" and "Let the Garbage People be savaged by antifa until they've learned enough manners to mix with the Civilized People of the nominal right."

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Posted by: Off the reservation at July 05, 2019 06:00 PM (vWMNq)

2 Corgis Called

Posted by: Off the reservation at July 05, 2019 06:00 PM (vWMNq)

3 wowza ... lunch time

Posted by: Off the reservation at July 05, 2019 06:01 PM (vWMNq)

4 Been here. Done that.

Posted by: DR.WTF at July 05, 2019 06:01 PM (aS1PU)

5 It seems like a lot of people are angry that conservative are not just giving up and literally drinking the Kool Aid. Or self-deporting.

Posted by: shibumi at July 05, 2019 06:02 PM (S6Pax)

6 where have I heard this before?

Posted by: cub reporter, fearless and seeking truth at July 05, 2019 06:02 PM (sy5kK)

7 >>>5 It seems like a lot of people are angry that conservative are not just giving up and literally drinking the Kool Aid. Or self-deporting.

some of these people work at Hot Air, "news and opinion from a conservative viewpoint"

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:02 PM (PbpT7)

8 Because they're afraid to.

Posted by: t-bird at July 05, 2019 06:02 PM (NAs56)

9 top ten!

Posted by: Gooshy at July 05, 2019 06:02 PM (xwgAJ)

10 Serious question.... how in the world doe the "racist" smear even work anymore?? Everyone, and I mean everyone, knows it is just nonsensical...

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:03 PM (bCLt0)

11

What's this?

Marvel is making Spiderman a pickle-smoocher?

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:04 PM (nF2SY)

12 Reading the post? Seriously?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 05, 2019 06:04 PM (oVJmc)

13 Scott Adams did a good thing on Ngo yesterday. He's trying to get himself kicked off youtube and all social media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Shntmgap4

So far it hasn't worked as this is still up and he has a new one today.

Posted by: Off the reservation at July 05, 2019 06:04 PM (vWMNq)

14 Hey, there's a groundhog...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at July 05, 2019 06:04 PM (HaL55)

15
🚢 ⛴

Ahoy!

Posted by: Capitan Kristol at July 05, 2019 06:04 PM (DMUuz)

16 some of these people work at Hot Air

HotAir's latest went up an hour ago and they've already got three comments!

Posted by: t-bird at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (Z1eux)

17 why do dogs and joe biden lick their balls? why do gators eat people? so fucking many mysteries. so little time.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (KP5rU)

18 Its a rhetorical question, Ace. You know the answer.

There exists a certain brand of Republican that would simply prefer to die rather than fight. And they would prefer those around them die quietly as well.

Thats all it is. The ultimate expression of form over substance.

Posted by: Ruger Guy at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (jlMI/)

19 Racist still works. See Betsy Ross, mother of grand dragons.

Posted by: NCKate at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (lknvV)

20 Andy Ngo does look like those Antifa thugs really effed him up.

The Antifa really are trash that needs to be left at the curb.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (sy5kK)

21 was Hot Air ever conservative???? And how did the sellout to Salem Media impac the site??

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (bCLt0)

22 "I will refer the right honorable gentleman to my previous remarks."

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (cfSRQ)

23 I'm glad Scott Adams is getting a clue, because he sometimes gets very, very silly.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (ykYG2)

24 One of these days a left wing mob is going to accidentally set upon an armed uninvolved stranger and there's going to be a body count.

Posted by: torabora at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (Z3h5e)

25
According to allahfraud, Republicans in the media are to be 1) fake, and 2) sit on fake news panels to "take lumps."

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:06 PM (nF2SY)

26 24; downside?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:06 PM (KP5rU)

27 I have heard a post-attack interview with a clearly injured Andy Ngo having trouble speaking fluidly.

One thing jumped out at me. He KNEW he was going to be targeted. Somehow, he failed to understand that this attack would be more violent and more prolonged with an evident attempt to cause serious bodily injury.

He even talked of how he decided against wearing a helmet as he thought that would be somehow indicate he was seeking trouble.

Why did he wade into this mob alone and unprotected? This is a serious oversight by people engaged in this kind of work. You need to have multiple people with you prepared for all manner of attacks.

They made a concerted effort to blind him, followed by a concerted effort to bathe him in chemicals and then throw heavy objects at his head. We all know head injuries are not to be ignored, and are cumulative and relatively slow to heal.

I hope he, and anyone following in his footsteps, now takes serious precautions when entering the domain of state-supported terrorists here in the US.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at July 05, 2019 06:06 PM (+Kpte)

28 I have the strangest feeling that I've been here before.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 05, 2019 06:06 PM (gC2IV)

29 This is not a test so I don't have to read it twice.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2019 06:06 PM (TDEVx)

30 Wordy.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2019 06:06 PM (RL1kK)

31 They can call themselves Dog Legs, but a dog still only has 4 legs.

If they don't act like Conservative Media, then they're not ...

Posted by: Adriane the Doonesbury Critic ... at July 05, 2019 06:06 PM (LPnfS)

32 Party like it's 1933!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 05, 2019 06:07 PM (+y/Ru)

33 Hopefully we can give the (R)s in Congress the popular vote so they can form a committee to study the effects of consideration of passing a bill addressing wearing masks solely to intimidate and suppress other people's constitutional rights.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. at July 05, 2019 06:07 PM (rKs0r)

34 23
I'm glad Scott Adams is getting a clue, because he sometimes gets very, very silly.

Weirdly, yesterday's video was the first time I'd watched one of his for 2 or 3 weeks. I'd started to get really sick of his fence-sitting and sales schtick.

Posted by: Off the reservation at July 05, 2019 06:07 PM (vWMNq)

35 If you have a job as someone paid to offer his true insights into cultural and political turmoil, and tens of thousands of readers, and a paid gig at a "conservative" outlet -- what is your excuse, I wonder, for being so easily cowed?

NRO fired Derbyshire. And, I want to point out, I can't stand Derbyshire and find him tedious and not even a quarter as insightful and witty as he finds himself so this is rather the opposite of special pleading.

But he did not deserve to be fired.

NRO fired Ann Coulter.

NRO and Steyn is more complicated because Steyn was and is being an asshole about that lawsuit so that's in an entirely different category.

I find Tim Pool interesting because he seems genuinely intellectually curious. He has his views and he's upfront about where he's coming from but he seems interested in hearing other points of view. Sadly, that's rare these days.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 05, 2019 06:07 PM (GbPPJ)

36 Serious question.... how in the world doe the "racist" smear even work
anymore?? Everyone, and I mean everyone, knows it is just nonsensical...

I don't get that either. All I have to say is, "Prove it." And they know they can't do that. "Poof" goes their accusation.

So yeah, how does this lie gain any traction at all?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at July 05, 2019 06:07 PM (HaL55)

37
I'm glad Scott Adams is getting a clue, because he sometimes gets very, very silly.

He says a lot of dumb shit. But I heard him call certain leftists "pieces of shit." So Scott Adams isn't a complete cucky pussy.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:07 PM (nF2SY)

38 >>They made a concerted effort to blind him, followed by a concerted effort to bathe him in chemicals and then throw heavy objects at his head.

One of those "Shakes" was nothing more than a frozen slab or some cured concrete. It bounces off his skull, then the sidewalk and never loses an ounce of liquid.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2019 06:07 PM (RL1kK)

39 There is a reason why every civilization prior to ours considered armed masked thugs roving the streets to be meat to be hunted by the citizenry.

They are the worst manifestation of humanity who only understand reality when it shoots them in the fucking face.

So it has been written. So let it be so.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 05, 2019 06:08 PM (NoKAc)

40 Somehow, he failed to understand that this attack would be more violent and more prolonged with an evident attempt to cause serious bodily injury.

I know exactly how he feels. It's seared into my memory!

Posted by: TJ Helmstetter at July 05, 2019 06:08 PM (Z1eux)

41 The GOPe are like the fat kid who stays at home sneering that all the girls are too stupid to see how wonderful he is and instead chase after the frat-bros and chads, rather than actually making changes to his life to attract women.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 05, 2019 06:08 PM (SgjGX)

42 Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Posted by: Johnny Rotten at July 05, 2019 06:08 PM (WPm0N)

43 What's this?
Marvel is making Spiderman a pickle-smoocher?
Posted by: Soothsayer

I'm looking forward to the "hanging upside down while having anal sex" scene.

Posted by: Biergood at July 05, 2019 06:08 PM (uGKH7)

44 I'm just perplexed that I have to turn to leftwing people for news instead of National Review and Hot Air. (Except for sexton, who covers this beat very well.)

I don't know what part of the market they imagine they're serving.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:09 PM (PbpT7)

45 32 Party like it's 1933!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 05, 2019 06:07 PM (+y/Ru)

Yes, I constantly get the feeling that we're doing the Weimar Waltz at double time.

Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at July 05, 2019 06:09 PM (1FhAQ)

46 As suggested by a Commenter on the previous Thread, Ace will be adding on his business card as another of his services:

Certifierad IKEA monterare

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 05, 2019 06:09 PM (DMUuz)

47 antifa are glorified brownshirts.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:09 PM (KP5rU)

48 Now, Brett Weinstein provides, inadvertently, a partial defense of
"conservative" media cowards. He notes his own background as a lifetime
progressive and also as a Jew insulated him from defamatory attacks
meant to make him unemployable as a racist. He notes that this sort of
smear is routinely deployed by SJWs to get people to knuckle under.
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Weinstein's partially correct.

The difference is that as a progressive, he's used to say what he thinks. It's a habit.

Fake Cons like Jonah Goldberg don't actually say what they think, they say what they think they can get away with.

They have to strike a balance between pleasing their readers, pleasing their paymasters, and not getting lumped in the bad-thinkers.

That last part is key. When has National Review *NOT* joined the leftist lynch mob howling for conservative blood?

If they think the beast is ravenous and hungry, they've been feeding it for forty years. They've trained it to wreck careers, they're just scared that it's outgrown their leash.

Did these guys fire *anyone* for defaming Catholic school kids?

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:09 PM (cfSRQ)

49 Oh, wow, I got willowed two threads back.

Anyway, someone said about Warren: It's lime nails on a chalkboard and that embarrassing Aunt who talks about Sasquatch being real and that we staged the moon landing.

Uh, guys...

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Who Had A B-Wing, and Called It Brad at July 05, 2019 06:09 PM (Clxcy)

50
Ace is now a mountebank?

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:09 PM (nF2SY)

51 All I have to say is, "Prove it."

The proof is they called you one. They would only do that to bad people. Therefore, you're a racist.

Posted by: t-bird at July 05, 2019 06:10 PM (Z1eux)

52 The time machine could have saved this, but I'll read it

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2019 06:10 PM (BbGew)

53 Willowed:

198 Would Kamala hit on Maddow? Really that's all us morons want to know.

Posted by: torabora at July 05, 2019 06:02 PM (Z3h5e)
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The actual question is; Could Kamala afford to turn down a Maddow hit?

Posted by: Judge Thong at July 05, 2019 06:10 PM (ibCu/)

54 Antifa is so last week.... we need Morals Police!!! Give us Morals Police....with cudgels to beat the Immoralwith...

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:10 PM (bCLt0)

55 Why did he wade into this mob alone and unprotected?

According to him, he actually expected the cops, whom he states were within sight of him, to do their job. Which they didn't.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at July 05, 2019 06:10 PM (HaL55)

56 I've always said the cucks are on the top of my non existent list . There are so many of them though that I've had to cut it back to include only the most loud and cowardly. They are all Lord Haw Haw.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 05, 2019 06:10 PM (2DOZq)

57 >>Ace is now a mountebank?

That story of him getting stuck in the snowbank still makes me laugh.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2019 06:11 PM (RL1kK)

58 >>>Did these guys fire *anyone* for defaming Catholic school kids?

Jonah Goldberg didn't even apologize. But he got very snitty that people thought that the Editors' apology was insufficient.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:11 PM (PbpT7)

59 No , I think ace is rather a jackanapes....

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:11 PM (bCLt0)

60 He says a lot of dumb shit. But I heard him call certain leftists "pieces of shit." So Scott Adams isn't a complete cucky pussy.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:07 PM (nF2SY)

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Compare his girlfriend to Mrs. Jonah Goldberg. He's a mench.

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:11 PM (cfSRQ)

61 One of these days a left wing mob is going to accidentally set upon an armed uninvolved stranger and there's going to be a body count.
Posted by: torabora at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (Z3h5e)

There was a protest where there was a left on left shooting because the attacker thought the guy he was attacking was one of those ebil reich wingers and the shooter thought the attacker was some white supremacist.

I really really need to reread Days of Rage.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 05, 2019 06:11 PM (GbPPJ)

62 47
antifa are glorified brownshirts.

Worse. They are also cowards. They only attack from behind with a 10:1 advantage in numbers.

Posted by: Off the reservation at July 05, 2019 06:11 PM (vWMNq)

63
That story of him getting stuck in the snowbank still makes me laugh.

Someone mistake him for a snowman?

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:11 PM (nF2SY)

64 willowed:

Doxxing mini AOC. Fer cryin out loud. Humorless SJW scolds. Some one needs to put a boot up their butts.
Posted by: Old Blue at July 05, 2019 05:42 PM (VNmG1)

You misspelled "AR-15 with fully packed 100 round drum."

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (WGL1r)

65 The proof is they called you one. They would only do that to bad people. Therefore, you're a racist.

Yeah, no. Not out here in the real world.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (HaL55)

66 is there a no paywall version of the wsj andy article?

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (dm05u)

67 Horde Ex-members of the Ravelry group!
I could use your help. I have a live forum ready to go at slippedstitches.com. I plan to make this politics free. I intend to set up a by invite only mailing list for political discussion. I think the forum is ready, but could use a few more folks testing things out.

Fiberocity is the forum that wants to challenge Rav. I don't. I just want a safe place to discuss craft. (there are also ourunraveled.com and openravel.com. I think there are a few more new ones coming out this week.)

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (Lqy/e)

68 >>>That story of him getting stuck in the snowbank still makes me laugh.

seared, seared into my memory.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (PbpT7)

69 Other than Breitbart, all of the media is left wing.....some more so than others.

Liars, scoundrels and sycophants.

It's what they do.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (Z+IKu)

70 don't know what part of the market they imagine they're serving.

-

The Salem paycheck market.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (rKs0r)

71 Ace is a fuzzy little rapscallion.

Which I believe is a type of Onion.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (RL1kK)

72 Wasn't this poat further down the page?

Anyway, good afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (/Ft4e)

73 I find Tim Pool interesting because he seems genuinely intellectually curious. He has his views and he's upfront about where he's coming from but he seems interested in hearing other points of view. Sadly, that's rare these days.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 05, 2019 06:07 PM (GbPPJ

Tim is an honest reporter. Right wingers couldn't get a job as a reporter for years so we don't have many of those aside from a few growing up on YT. Tim stands out because media has few to no reporters and fewer honest people.

Supposed MSM and print conservatives have been 90 percent cucks for generations, and are restricted to tame commentatiors, the tamer the better.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (D2Owq)

74 some of these people work at Hot Air, "news and opinion from a conservative viewpoint"

Which is why I stopped reading them soon after I dropped LGF.

/viva la horde!

Posted by: shibumi at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (S6Pax)

75 Why did he wade into this mob alone and unprotected?

He didn't "ask" for it. He's just one of those special brand of stupid fuckers whose minds won't go to the places necessary to consider such possibilities.

There are a lot ... a whole big heaping lot ... of such people.

Posted by: Ruger Guy at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (jlMI/)

76

In the next debate, biden will perform fellatio on pete buttgig to show he's a "friend" to bltg's.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:13 PM (nF2SY)

77 29 This is not a test so I don't have to read it twice.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2019 06:06 PM (TDEVx)
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Alertness test!

Posted by: Weasel at July 05, 2019 06:13 PM (MVjcR)

78 68 >>>That story of him getting stuck in the snowbank still makes me laugh.

seared, seared into my memory.
Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (PbpT7)

The frostbite, was it awful??

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:13 PM (bCLt0)

79 >>seared, seared into my memory.

Still can't read Milne?

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2019 06:14 PM (RL1kK)

80 i would listen to the ruminations of snoop dog, before i would listen to any of jonah goldberg's gastrointestinal leakage. his "live at berkely" is a can't miss.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:14 PM (KP5rU)

81 Jonah Goldberg didn't even apologize. But he got very snitty that people thought that the Editors' apology was insufficient.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:11 PM (PbpT7)

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People often resent apologizing when they don't believe they did anything wrong.

One hundred percent of NR's staff was utterly unconcerned about whether the kids were innocent or not. Red Hat of Racism was all they needed to see.

And then one of the cucks did a big thumb-sucker on the peril out outrage mobs. Shameless.

It says something that they're getting their rhetorical asses kicked by the gang at First Things of all places.

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:14 PM (cfSRQ)

82 Ngo's admission that he expected violence could be problematic for the lawsuits his lawyer says are coming.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 05, 2019 06:15 PM (oVJmc)

83 47 antifa are glorified brownshirts.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:09 PM (KP5rU)

except without glory.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 05, 2019 06:15 PM (sy5kK)

84 I'm just perplexed that I have to turn to leftwing people for news instead of National Review and Hot Air. (Except for sexton, who covers this beat very well.)

I don't know what part of the market they imagine they're serving.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:09 PM (PbpT7)

NRO was never, even in its heyday a voice for populism and conservatives far from the northeast country club set. The only thing they have apparently saved from the days of Buckley is distain for flyover states.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 05, 2019 06:15 PM (D2Owq)

85 Wait, how come Creepy Joe doesn't creep on men, is he one of those racists that won't date xhe'

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2019 06:15 PM (25Dt7)

86 What's this?

Marvel is making Spiderman a pickle-smoocher?
Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:04 PM (nF2SY)

Well when a guy gives up on a marriage to a hot redheaded bombshell it's not cuz he wants to see other women.

Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2019 06:16 PM (/Ft4e)

87 The GOPe are like the fat kid who stays at home sneering that all the girls are too stupid to see how wonderful he is and instead chase after the frat-bros and chads, rather than actually making changes to his life to attract women.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 05, 2019 06:08 PM (SgjGX)

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:16 PM (WGL1r)

88 was told that the Evergreen State College police had been ordered to stand down, even as baseball-bat mobs were actually, literally hunting him on campus.

-
And, although he's denying it now, Portland's mayor intentionally enabled Antifa. Tyrannical politicians enabling violent armed mobs + gun control = the end of liberty.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 05, 2019 06:16 PM (+y/Ru)

89 >>Ngo's admission that he expected violence could be problematic for the lawsuits his lawyer says are coming.

Maybe he expected to witness violence?

...hence his attendance as a reporter.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2019 06:16 PM (RL1kK)

90 > Ace is now a mountebank?

So, like a credit union for Canadian cops?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2019 06:16 PM (JUUk1)

91 Battle Space Prep.

Army 101.

Embrace the suck.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2019 06:16 PM (3H9h1)

92 antifa are glorified brownshirts.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:09 PM (KP5rU)

Actually they are the same German Bolsheviks that German Brownshirts clashed with in street fights. Again just another piece of evidence that the Patriotic Right is nothing like the Nazis. Unfortunately if the authorities don't start stomping on Antifa , we will be left no choice to do it ourself.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 05, 2019 06:16 PM (2DOZq)

93 People often resent apologizing when they don't believe they did anything wrong.

One hundred percent of NR's staff was utterly unconcerned about whether the kids were innocent or not. Red Hat of Racism was all they needed to see.

And then one of the cucks did a big thumb-sucker on the peril out outrage mobs. Shameless.

It says something that they're getting their rhetorical asses kicked by the gang at First Things of all places.
Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:14 PM (cfSRQ)

What was telling to me was the instant defense of the spitting on the cross guy that he is so devout and works with the youth group and the like.

Really? Because I think the parents of every kid in that church needs to be told that he is the kind of person who assumes instantly that your kid is guilty without bothering with finding out the truth.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 05, 2019 06:17 PM (GbPPJ)

94 >>>82 Ngo's admission that he expected violence could be problematic for the lawsuits his lawyer says are coming.

???

I don't see why.

If someone tells me he'll attack me if I show up to work, and then i show up for work, what defense does that provide?

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:17 PM (PbpT7)

95 "but the zealots of the SJW movement and antifa are completely devoid of humor, either because they were born without it or they have brainwashed themselves that there are no contradictions in the SJW supremacy movement at all, and that to even acknowledge such with an ironical joke would be a ThoughtCrime."

- - - - - - - -

I think they are perfectly aware of the power of the joke and that's why they are forbidden. The foot-thugs, I refuse to dignify them with the name foot-soldiers, are encouraged to find violence against those they hate as funny.

Posted by: Decaf at July 05, 2019 06:17 PM (nyFJf)

96 One of these days a left wing mob is going to accidentally set upon an armed uninvolved stranger and there's going to be a body count.
Posted by: torabora at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (Z3h5e)

Already happened, a rioter got shot attacking conservatives in Seattle, I think, in 2017 as Antifa was rising. The shooter was not arrested. This was just after they had prevously attacked ppl waiting in line and beat a man savagely the previous time.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 05, 2019 06:17 PM (D2Owq)

97 Its hard to express yourself when your significant other is being pounded in the arse by your opponent.

Posted by: Fritz at July 05, 2019 06:18 PM (JzsyW)

98 The important thing is to remember that black people can't naturally read, do math, study, look for work, get ID, find fruits and vegetables, care for their children, compete for jobs, qualify for college, or understand how voting works, and you're a racist if you don't accept these things.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. at July 05, 2019 06:18 PM (rKs0r)

99 I've mentioned previously that I was doing volunteer work at a fire refugee camp after the town of Paradise burnt to the ground. Some antifa were at the aid stations. They were not wearing the black bloc regalia. One group were from the SF bay area and were all Maoist red guard types and true believers in the cause. They co-opted and funded a group knowns as North Valley Mutual Aid. Funding came from socialist dupes and unnamed money men.

One of the leadership was a charismatic, the other a sullen type and quite humorless. Both were educated - one a mechanical engineer. The charismatic guy was the commisar-salesman.

I assure readers here - they were not snowflakes nor fat, pasty little pussy-cowards. One of the leaders was 6'2 ish and yoked. Underestimate these people at your peril.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:18 PM (K3B2k)

100 > And, although he's denying it now, Portland's mayor intentionally enabled Antifa.

Maybe someone acquainted him with https://tinyurl.com/y6b5d4rn

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2019 06:18 PM (JUUk1)

101 The left can't be humorous because that would mean questioning that which can never be questioned. I have a terrific book called Hammer and Tickle, which documents soviet humor in a time of secret police, neighbor denouncers, etc. It became a kind of code talk to buff against the ludicrous propaganda. Soft, subtle, but incredibly funny stuff: Why is there no flour for sale? Because they started using it in bread. Good stuff and it's exactly where we are heading.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at July 05, 2019 06:18 PM (99Nt9)

102
Ngo's admission that he expected violence could be problematic for the lawsuits his lawyer says are coming.

He's been covering Panti-fag protests for years without incident, IIRC. His lawyers know that by now, prolly.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at July 05, 2019 06:19 PM (HaL55)

103 Posted by: notsothoreau at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (Lqy/e)

I can help test

votermom at g mail

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 05, 2019 06:19 PM (dm05u)

104 82 Ngo's admission that he expected violence could be problematic for the lawsuits his lawyer says are coming.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 05, 2019 06:15 PM (oVJmc)

Ngo sounds affected from the attack on his head. Brain bleeding will do that.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 05, 2019 06:19 PM (sy5kK)

105 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home
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that's so cute.

now, $5,000 worth of ammo, that would be impressive.

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 05, 2019 06:19 PM (x0QRy)

106 The antifa guys remind me of skavenslaves.

Posted by: Someguy at July 05, 2019 06:19 PM (AZxL/)

107 Is murder less illegal if the person is told he's going to be murdered?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. at July 05, 2019 06:19 PM (rKs0r)

108 ... what is your excuse, I wonder, for being so easily cowed?

_____

"Two words: cock tail." -- Severely Conservative Beta Thot Leaders Everywhere

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at July 05, 2019 06:19 PM (2KkD9)

109 98: so, let it be written, let it be done. fuck them and their labels. i've been called worse.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:20 PM (KP5rU)

110 some of these people work at Hot Air

HotAir's latest went up an hour ago and they've already got three comments!
Posted by: t-bird at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (Z1eux)

- - - - - - - -

I don't understand how they can stay financially afloat with no readership.

Posted by: Decaf at July 05, 2019 06:20 PM (nyFJf)

111 He didn't "ask" for it. He's just one of those special brand of stupid fuckers whose minds won't go to the places necessary to consider such possibilities.

There are a lot ... a whole big heaping lot ... of such people.
Posted by: Ruger Guy at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (jlMI/)

I've known some - women especially, in my experience. And by that I mean some women who will just walk right into the worst places with some scary dude, or dudes, and just think "what? I'll be fine, nothing's gonna happen."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 05, 2019 06:20 PM (Kpl3J)

112 I assure readers here - they were not snowflakes nor fat, pasty little pussy-cowards. One of the leaders was 6'2 ish and yoked. Underestimate these people at your peril.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:18 PM (K3B2k)
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not a problem: everyone gets aimed at center mass, and serviced until they drop to the ground.

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 05, 2019 06:20 PM (x0QRy)

113 NRO was never, even in its heyday a voice for
populism and conservatives far from the northeast country club set. The
only thing they have apparently saved from the days of Buckley is
distain for flyover states.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 05, 2019 06:15 PM (D2Owq)

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To be fair National Review (the magazine, not the webzine) was better in the past. They had Mark Steyn and John Derbyshire.

Of course they also forced both to leave because they were actual true-believing conservatives. (Some folks date the decline as starting with Ann Coulter's ouster, but I think she's been a raging washed-up diva for a while.)

But we now know that even as the gay marriage debate was raging, the money behind the scenes was pushing to overturn the Defense of Marriage legislation the magazine itself claimed to support.

At that point they really started turning their guns to right, which is why there isn't a single conservative outlet they actually like.

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:20 PM (cfSRQ)

114 Because nobody in the professional right is a risk taker and if they are they tend to be propagandists or working a political angle instead of pure news people. None of them get into the field

Posted by: Former mass resident at July 05, 2019 06:21 PM (knNho)

115 Mr. Ngo.... love that intro.... has known what was instore for him. Provocative, yes. But he knew the score going in.

Right.

Wrong.

I dunno. But he should have had muscle. Otherwise it's and exercise in ego.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2019 06:21 PM (3H9h1)

116 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home
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that's so cute.

now, $5,000 worth of ammo, that would be impressive.

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 05, 2019 06:19 PM (x0QRy)

Working on it!!

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:21 PM (WGL1r)

117 There s a softness on the Right, and I can't quite pin down exactly where it stems from... the Left operates with no compunctions whatever....

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:21 PM (bCLt0)

118 history tells me goliath was a big ripped fuck too.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:22 PM (KP5rU)

119 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:16 PM (WGL1r)

I said nothing about excessive masturbation.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 05, 2019 06:22 PM (SgjGX)

120 related oldie

punch a nazi, the musical

https://youtu.be/2AhGYo9TExU

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 05, 2019 06:22 PM (dm05u)

121 I assure readers here - they were not snowflakes nor fat, pasty little pussy-cowards. One of the leaders was 6'2 ish and yoked. Underestimate these people at your peril.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:18 PM (K3B2k)
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2 to the body, 1 to the balls, THEN 1 to the head.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:22 PM (WGL1r)

122 104 82 Ngo's admission that he expected violence could be problematic for the lawsuits his lawyer says are coming.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 05, 2019 06:15 PM (oVJmc)

Actually I don't think so. He didn't do anything that a rational person would say initiated violence, and while he may have thought there'd be some pushing and shoving, he sure didn't expect what actually happened.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 05, 2019 06:22 PM (Kpl3J)

123 Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:18 PM (K3B2k)

No doubt they have a few who can handle themselves without resorting to mobs or sneak attacks but the percentage of fat, colored hair , bull dykes makes me not want to over estimate them too.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 05, 2019 06:23 PM (2DOZq)

124 Recall, how horrified they were that Kevin Williamson was fired.

Note that their biggest tears and most vigerous defense wasn't for what he had written--no, it was that they had hired him as a (conservative) writer.

The anger, the great fear, the horror was that he was being fired AS A WRITER!

Because there's no future for them if they have to write as a conservative first--and let the market decide if they're valuable. Put their work out there for free, if that's what it takes.

They are not writing from a conservative viewpoint to push conservative views and ideas into the mainstream--they are writing to get paid.
And, to them, the man paying is a liberal who needs comforted that conservatives are tame, silly-ninnies.

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 05, 2019 06:23 PM (k81AA)

125 > And by that I mean some women who will just walk right into the worst places with some scary dude, or dudes,

Like the "artist" whose "art project" involved her hitch-hiking unaccompanied through the Middle East dressed as a bride.
Grang-raped, murdered, dumped in a ditch. Now, who could have foreseen that?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2019 06:23 PM (JUUk1)

126 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:16 PM (WGL1r)

I said nothing about excessive masturbation.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 05, 2019 06:22 PM (SgjGX)

Define "excessive."

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:23 PM (WGL1r)

127
Christ Almighty, will you people please watch this?!?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsUvAm8GZIA

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:23 PM (nF2SY)

128 At that point they really started turning their guns to right, which is why there isn't a single conservative outlet they actually like.
Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:20 PM (cfSRQ)

Also standard. Buckley made his name for denouncing the Birchers. I suspect he exaggerated their danger, if any, for his own enrichment as the only alternate voice.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (D2Owq)

129 You misspelled "AR-15 with fully packed 100 round drum."
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM (WGL1r)

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You misspelled my regular locked and loaded SAW back in the day.

Posted by: SMH at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (RU4sa)

130 I can't help but notice that Mr Ngo waded into that crowd without a single onion tied to his belt.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (RL1kK)

131 It's not how you hit them but where you hit them

Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (TDEVx)

132 >>was Hot Air ever conservative???? And how did the sellout to Salem Media impac the site??

Hot Air always seemed to remind me of a parody of how others view conservatives. Rigid, humorless, scolding and always happy to kick people out of the club if they didn't toe their specific definition of conservatism.

It was like they were reading a script of how a conservative should act.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (PxX58)

133 > 2 to the body, 1 to the balls, THEN 1 to the head.
Sort of a Mozambique Drill with a side-trip to Swaziland?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (JUUk1)

134 Redc1 - you think these peple are dumb enough to bring a bike lock to a gun fight? That they've no access to firearms?

Again, you underestimate your opponents.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (K3B2k)

135 There s a softness on the Right, and I can't quite pin down exactly where it stems from... the Left operates with no compunctions whatever....
Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:21 PM (bCLt0)

The rule of law is the foundation of the Right. It is of no concern to the Left .

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (2DOZq)

136 >>>Recall, how horrified they were that Kevin Williamson was fired.

Note that their biggest tears and most vigerous defense wasn't for what he had written--no, it was that they had hired him as a (conservative) writer.

The anger, the great fear, the horror was that he was being fired AS A WRITER!

...

it was amusing to see so many drop their "Muh Private Business Decision" line and suddenly begin shrieking about how crucial it is to permit different POVs on a platform.

Then, at the next deplatforming of their ENEMIES, they were back on the Muh Private Business Decision jag again.

Ben Shapiro does this so many times I just can't credit him as being honest. His slippery lies must be obvious even to himself.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (PbpT7)

137 13times does have point about underestimating the enemy though.... never do that.... sometimes the Right seems surprised by the incivility ( not to mention violence) of the Left.... this is naive....

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:25 PM (bCLt0)

138
I don't see why.

In cross-examination, it would allow defense to say he was seeking a confrontation, maybe even provoked it.

"If you expected violence Mr. Ngo, why did you go there? Why go there undefended? You instigated this, didn't you, Mr. Ngo, for your own fame and glory...? And didn't you exaggerate your injuries, etc., etc., etc."

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 05, 2019 06:25 PM (oVJmc)

139 >>>82 Ngo's admission that he expected violence could be problematic for the lawsuits his lawyer says are coming.

IANAL, but I'd think that would depend entirely on what exactly his suit claims.

Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at July 05, 2019 06:25 PM (BD/yx)

140 Why did he wade into this mob alone and unprotected?

He didn't "ask" for it. He's just one of those special brand of stupid fuckers whose minds won't go to the places necessary to consider such possibilities.

-
Steven Spielberg was on TCM discussing The War of the Worlds (not his, the 1953 Gene Barry version) and commented that in several scenes, the humans reached out with friendship and understanding to the Martians and got rewarded with a face full of lazer. Spielberg describe this as the humans doing the "right"; i.e., suicidal thing. Same mindset.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 05, 2019 06:25 PM (+y/Ru)

141 It's not binary, you see.

-- Not-Binary Ben

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:25 PM (PbpT7)

142 What was telling to me was the instant defense of
the spitting on the cross guy that he is so devout and works with the
youth group and the like.

Really? Because I think the parents of every kid in that church
needs to be told that he is the kind of person who assumes instantly
that your kid is guilty without bothering with finding out the truth.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 05, 2019 06:17 PM (GbPPJ)

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They are the mirror image of Sowell's "The Anointed."

David French constantly brings up his biography as a defense. They all do it. They're just better than you and when this make a mistake, it doesn't count as much as when YOU, the little guy do, because there is no possible way you are as virtuous as them.

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:26 PM (cfSRQ)

143 The important thing is to remember that black people can't naturally read, do math, study, look for work, get ID, find fruits and vegetables, care for their children, compete for jobs, qualify for college, or understand how voting works, and you're a racist if you don't accept these things.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. at July 05, 2019 06:18 PM (rKs0r)

For your sake, I hope you don't live in the St. Louis area or southern Illinois.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:26 PM (WGL1r)

144 One point he makes very early -- but does not elaborate on, alas -- is that he finds the humorlessness of the SJWs and antifa types to be a big red flag or tell. He notes that humor is how rational people begin processing contradictions in their thinking and ironies and uncomfortable truths -but the zealots of the SJW movement and antifa are completely devoid of humor, either because they were born without it or they have brainwashed themselves that there are no contradictions in the SJW supremacy movement at all, and that to even acknowledge such with an ironical joke would be a ThoughtCrime.

The humorlessness is certainly telling. What's also telling is the absolute dogmatic conviction, with references to the most stark representations of genuine evil (Nazism, Extermination camps) in order to define their opponents. It really is an irrational cult with messianic delusions.

And breaking through it is seemingly impossible, as each member watches the other for heresies, such as even considering that the "concentration camps" run under #orangemanbad were in existence during the reign of The Precious or that full blown socialism might have unforeseen and catastrophic results. These people are creepy as fukc.

Posted by: WonkishRogue at July 05, 2019 06:26 PM (BRpqW)

145 2 to the body, 1 to the balls, THEN 1 to the head.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:22 PM (WGL1r)
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going for a trick shot before you finish them?

i guess 3 out of 4 rounds expended is okay, but it seems like a waste of ammo.

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 05, 2019 06:27 PM (x0QRy)

146 i have never underestimated an enemy. always over prepare. no, i'm not fucking paranoid. this is known. i think shih tzu said that.maybe.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:27 PM (KP5rU)

147 In cross-examination, it would allow defense to say he was seeking a confrontation, maybe even provoked it.

"If you expected violence Mr. Ngo, why did you go there? Why go there undefended? You instigated this, didn't you, Mr. Ngo, for your own fame and glory...? And didn't you exaggerate your injuries, etc., etc., etc."
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 05, 2019 06:25 PM (oVJmc)

Everyone is saying that anyway. Of course anti-fa came prepared with weapons and Ngo's "sin" was that he reports on them. Is that "instigating" in anyone's mind who (ha!) doesn't live on twitter?

Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at July 05, 2019 06:27 PM (BD/yx)

148 WHEN VEGANS ATTACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saKKD1celfs

Posted by: CLUTCH at July 05, 2019 06:27 PM (RL1kK)

149 i think shih tzu said that.maybe.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:27 PM (KP5rU)

yip!

Posted by: Shih Tzu at July 05, 2019 06:28 PM (dm05u)

150 >>>"If you expected violence Mr. Ngo, why did you go there? Why go there undefended? You instigated this, didn't you, Mr. Ngo, for your own fame and glory...? And didn't you exaggerate your injuries, etc., etc., etc."
Posted by: Mr. Peebles a

these are terrible questions. I mean, in a normal court. If this trial happens in Portland, that's different, but he should definitely try to get the venue changed.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:28 PM (PbpT7)

151 "Why Do We Have to Turn to Leftwingers Like Tim Pool and Brett Weinstein..."

I don't. Not anymore. I like Pool's analysis (Weinstein I don't think I've read) but he's not my go-to source.

Honestly, I have you and the cob-loggers, Ace. And as to the Big Platform people, I've become much, much better at Spotting the Loony. By default I now see them as grifters and paid stooges. They really have to earn their stripes over a much more critical review than I used to employ.

So, like politicians, I trust none of them more than I can throw them. And every once in a while, someone worth listening to and supporting gets added to the ledger.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 05, 2019 06:28 PM (6eEQ+)

152 146 i have never underestimated an enemy. always over prepare. no, i'm not fucking paranoid. this is known. i think shih tzu said that.maybe.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:27 PM (KP5rU)

I always carry now, and have a loaded gun on my nightstand.... I wish everyone carried....

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:29 PM (bCLt0)

153 Anyone going in proximity to antifa and not expecting violence is a fool.

Gee, I was a reporter in Faluja but I wasn't expecting any violence.

Yeah, I'm equating antifa with the thugs of Faluja.

Posted by: Billy Cole at July 05, 2019 06:29 PM (pA4nI)

154 >>>The humorlessness is certainly telling. What's also telling is the absolute dogmatic conviction

the two things are necessary reinforcements to each other.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:29 PM (PbpT7)

155 Ngo's admission that he expected violence could be problematic for the lawsuits his lawyer says are coming.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 05, 2019 06:15 PM (oVJmc)

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If the defense argues that it's okay to beat up journalists because they knew there might be a story, even a Left Coast jury might have problems swallowing that.

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:29 PM (cfSRQ)

156 Redc1 - you think these peple are dumb enough to bring a bike lock to a gun fight? That they've no access to firearms?

Again, you underestimate your opponents.
Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (K3B2k)

I don't think he's underestimating them at all.

Assume the worst, then work from there. That's why these scum need to be hunted down NOW, not later. The longer they run free, the bolder they get.

Millions of people in this country need a lead enema.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:29 PM (WGL1r)

157 2 to the body, 1 to the *balls*, THEN 1 to the head.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:22 PM (WGL1r)

I think one to the *crotch*, just in case it is an indeterminate xer/xim!

Modified Mozambique Drill

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 05, 2019 06:29 PM (AZxMX)

158 Gee, I was a reporter in Faluja but I wasn't expecting any violence.

Yeah, I'm equating antifa with the thugs of Faluja.
Posted by: Billy Cole at July 05, 2019 06:29 PM (pA4nI)

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And just like the thugs in Fallujah, they will grease the treads of our tanks.

Posted by: SMH at July 05, 2019 06:30 PM (RU4sa)

159 For Ngo, you can expect trouble and still not expect a beating for your life.

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2019 06:30 PM (BbGew)

160 was Hot Air ever conservative???? And how did the sellout to Salem Media impac the site??
Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:05 PM (bCLt0)

I'm starting to get a bad attitude about Malkin. She's kind of the Mutt Rombley of squishy arguably conservative blogs; buying them and gelding the pre eunuchs who, for lack of a better term, work there and then flipping them to Salem at a profit. Then she's like a Filipina Coulter, bravely going on lib covens like The View more to up her exposure than advance any conservative principles.

I'm willing to be talked out of those positions but you'd better make a good case.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 05, 2019 06:30 PM (y7DUB)

161 >>>Honestly, I have you and the cob-loggers, Ace. And as to the Big Platform people, I've become much, much better at Spotting the Loony. By default I now see them as grifters and paid stooges. They really have to earn their stripes over a much more critical review than I used to employ.

why is it that every conservative (alleged) taking a paycheck for a well-funded organization is a coward and tries to appear "moderate"?

Instapundit is woke, but he's independent.

I think these organizations are all overseen by cowards and milquetoasts. They always hire from the same pool of Safe-for-MSNBC non-talent.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM (PbpT7)

162 2 to the body, 1 to the balls, THEN 1 to the head.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:22 PM (WGL1r)
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going for a trick shot before you finish them?

i guess 3 out of 4 rounds expended is okay, but it seems like a waste of ammo.
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 05, 2019 06:27 PM (x0QRy)

The extra round is for my own personal enjoyment. Watch them suffer horribly before their life ends.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM (WGL1r)

163 I tend to avoid protests and demonstrations in areas where I cannot legally carry for self-defense.

However, I am very selective about which protests and demonstrations I attend in areas where I CAN legally carry for self-defense.

I am concerned that, should I need to exercise deadly force in self-defense, I will be persecuted by law enforcement and I am not currently properly insured in those circumstances.

That's not to say I never attend such demonstrations. I have, but I am incredibly selective. I don't seek to put myself into harm's way without a damn good justification. The thought of having to use the 31 rounds I normally carry (2 x 15 +1 rounds) during a random encounter with violent thugs is not appealing to me. And there were at least 31 bodies milling around Andy Ngo during his last attack.

I have no qualms about drawing to protect myself or my family where the assailant is easily identified. But putting myself in a position where I might end up firing into a large, milling crowd of masked thugs is simply an idiotic move. I'm not sure this isn't part of Antifa's MO though. In fact, someone opening up on such a crowd might in fact play into their agenda by creating martyrs to fascism. That leaves us in a "heads you win, tails I lose" proposition.

Be careful out there and think about things before you get in the middle of an urban melee.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM (+Kpte)

164 The rule of law is the foundation of the Right. It is of no concern to the Left .
Posted by: Can't resist temptation
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There is the fact that conservatives, by their nature, are simply polite. Also, far more likely to be possessed of character and integrity.

The Left/Prog/Lib/Dems are not bound by such niceties. Civil behavior is not an element of their personae.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM (4bd7D)

165 i have been out of the loop for a few days. no tv, intertubes, how was the parade in d.c.?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM (KP5rU)

166 #140 Jim Jones made bank out of susceptible people. He could pick them out of a crowd.

Posted by: torabora at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM (q+Dig)

167 13times does have point about underestimating the enemy though.... never do that.... sometimes the Right seems surprised by the incivility ( not to mention violence) of the Left.... this is naive....
Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:25 PM (bCLt0)

They were beaten back fairly handily by the organization of the Proud Boys and other allies, even when authorities used to strip them of sticks and NOT disarm Antifa, then vanish in the Berkeley and Portland skirmishes in 2017. Theyve been using legal means to try and break the PBs before trying again now.

Theyve been building morale in Portland for a bit now, and need to have the starch taken out of them, but from what I've seen they still have to use the women as front line troops to allow the black blockers to hit from behind.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM (D2Owq)

168 There s a softness on the Right, and I can't quite pin down exactly where it stems from... the Left operates with no compunctions whatever....
Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:21 PM (bCLt0)

I can. Faith that just being "Right" will be enough.

For ten fucking years, I've been saying that everything may not necessarily work out.

Being "Right" doesn't amount to shit. Whoever wins is "Right". The loser is "Wrong".

Republicans have a big, big fucking problem believing they're "On the right side of history".

And part of it really is Religion. Democrats want to win this world. Too many Republicans are just using it as an audition for the next one - where martyrdom is a free-pass to the next round.

Posted by: Ruger Guy at July 05, 2019 06:32 PM (jlMI/)

169 >>>I'm starting to get a bad attitude about Malkin. She's kind of the Mutt Rombley of squishy arguably conservative blogs; buying them and gelding the pre eunuchs who, for lack of a better term, work there and then flipping them to Salem at a profit.

she's a warrior. You can't fault her for flipping a business venture.

but, as with any restaurant, when the head chef leaves, the restaurant left behind isn't the same.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:32 PM (PbpT7)

170 They aren't conservatives, they are culturalists. They defend and protect the people of their culture, and we aint it.

Posted by: Max Power at July 05, 2019 06:32 PM (q177U)

171 158: now that's what we need! smh speaks truth!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:32 PM (KP5rU)

172 2 to the body, 1 to the *balls*, THEN 1 to the head.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:22 PM (WGL1r)

I think one to the *crotch*, just in case it is an indeterminate xer/xim!

Modified Mozambique Drill
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 05, 2019 06:29 PM (AZxMX)

Ok, I'll allow that. Because I do believe in equality.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:32 PM (WGL1r)

173 "If you expected violence Mr. Ngo, why did you go there?"
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Because I'm a journalist, covering a story.
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"Why go there
undefended?"
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Are weapons now expected in Portland? Journalists need to hire bodyguards to cover a story on public street?
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"You instigated this, didn't you, Mr. Ngo, for your own fame
and glory...? And didn't you exaggerate your injuries, etc., etc., etc."

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Are you saying if I didn't show up, there would have been no armed people roaming the streets?
If they try to paint him as the aggressor, their own logic will hang them.

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:32 PM (cfSRQ)

174 and you're a racist if you don't accept these things.
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For your sake, I hope you don't live in the St. Louis area or southern Illinois.

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I'm not sure how the circle gets squared, but I'm certain entire states think I'm a white supremacist because I believe black people are exactly like everyone else.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. at July 05, 2019 06:33 PM (rKs0r)

175 Redc1 - you think these peple are dumb enough to bring a bike lock to a gun fight? That they've no access to firearms?

Again, you underestimate your opponents.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (K3B2k)
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no underestimation on my part at all.

however, when the shooting starts, i'll be remembering what i learned at the Harmony Church School of International Diplomacy and Dispute Resolution.

"If you are in a fair fight, your tactics suck."

also, i plan to start with large caliber rounds, 30.06, 8mm, etc, to get more than one person per round, excepting the fat ones.

read about that in Rommel's book, where he was talking about the first skirmishes of Big Mistake #1, where their Mauser's would take out two French GIs due to their over penetration.

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 05, 2019 06:33 PM (x0QRy)

176 Ace vs. The Legacy Retro-Conservatives is like watching the Mensheviks vs. the Bolsheviks. Two groups who, from a naive outsider's vantage point seem to be "on the same side," and yet which are at each other's throats for supremacy within the movement.

We can only pray that this time, the Mensheviks win. Maybe with a non-metaphorical icepick to some non-memtaphorical heads.

Posted by: zombie at July 05, 2019 06:33 PM (oFcdC)

177 > i have been out of the loop for a few days. no tv, intertubes, how was the parade in d.c.?

It was great, and Trump's speech was even better. I recommend watching the speech on an archive site.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2019 06:33 PM (JUUk1)

178 More fight shown on this website than the entire Republican Party shows on any. given. day.....

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:33 PM (bCLt0)

179 Well it's good that the commies are alienating more moderate leftys anyway.

Posted by: kallisto at July 05, 2019 06:34 PM (T7bPb)

180 The Crotch Mothers are balls deep in this bullsit.

Posted by: Max Power at July 05, 2019 06:34 PM (q177U)

181 Anyone going in proximity to antifa and not expecting violence is a fool.

Gee, I was a reporter in Faluja but I wasn't expecting any violence.

Yeah, I'm equating antifa with the thugs of Faluja.

Posted by: Billy Cole at July 05, 2019 06:29 PM (pA4nI)

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If an American court issues a finding of fact that Portland = Fallujah, then Trump will have to invoke the Insurrection Act.

That's where this leads. In order to blame the victim, the defense would have to argue that Antifa owns the streets and can lawfully beat anyone who they don't like.

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:34 PM (cfSRQ)

182 Buckley made his name for denouncing the Birchers. I suspect he exaggerated their danger, if any, for his own enrichment as the only alternate voice.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (D2Owq)

Looking back, the Birchers made a lot of sense!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 05, 2019 06:34 PM (AZxMX)

183 177: thanks. i plan to.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:34 PM (KP5rU)

184 I have been in a 15 on one situation with me being the one.

I never get mad- I do get even.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2019 06:35 PM (TDEVx)

185 ELECTRIC WORRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ABpbxIPFI

(funny ass comments on this one)

Posted by: CLUTCH at July 05, 2019 06:35 PM (RL1kK)

186
Why Do We Have to Turn to Leftwingers Like Tim Pool and Brett Weinstein to Hear Challenges to Leftist Mob-Rule that Paid Members of the "Conservative" Media Should Be Offering Themselves?

Polite people don't embarrass others.

*sticks pinkie out*
*sips tea*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2019 06:35 PM (Wx/+I)

187 I really hate this loose talk about shooting people in the body and head.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:35 PM (K3B2k)

188 The humorlessness is certainly telling. What's also telling is the absolute dogmatic conviction

Both are signals that something is very wrong. As we've long observed here, socialism, communism, progressivism and leftwingism is/are mental diseases. You won't find someone who identifies with any of them who doesn't have a dumptruck full of issues and isn't a serious control-freak.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at July 05, 2019 06:35 PM (HaL55)

189 >>>Ace vs. The Legacy Retro-Conservatives is like watching the Mensheviks vs. the Bolsheviks. Two groups who, from a naive outsider's vantage point seem to be "on the same side," and yet which are at each other's throats for supremacy within the movement.

OUT: thinking it's always 1958

IN: thinking it's always 2003, forever, and ever, and ever after

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:35 PM (PbpT7)

190 In a Hallmark movie, this is where she finds her voice.

Posted by: JAS at July 05, 2019 06:36 PM (I5SAg)

191 Moron Robbie: "Hopefully we can give the (R)s in Congress the popular vote so they can form a committee to study the effects of consideration of passing a bill addressing wearing masks solely to intimidate and suppress other people's constitutional rights."

Moron Robbie Johnson is right!

Posted by: Howard Johnson at July 05, 2019 06:36 PM (6eEQ+)

192 a day or so ago, someone mentioned that only 30% supported the Revolutionary War, and 3% (?) participated in it. imo, this is normal, and is why people are easily manipulated in the way(s) Weinstein describes. It is because most are involved in their own little world ... and see no need to be involved in changing bigger world things. They either avoid or join the SJW/BlackPower charade, as the easy way out/up.

And of those that have egos and do get involved in bigger things, it is often mainly ego driven, so they too, can be conned into serving a "higher cause" ... but for selfish immediate gain.

No greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" might be a little extreme, but that is a Bible lesson, perhaps reserved for JC himself. Those that believe in a future (just, merited) reward are few and far between, especially as we move toward government that is "god".

But the reward offered by the left is "serve us, and you shall be like God". So they don't have to debate or learn or serve, they are given a script, and maybe even sweet Soros/Koch funding. And there is the white guilt tripping as well, the SJW favorite. Brett Weinstein breaks apart several of those parts ... interesting.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (Cus5s)

193 178. GOPes are PATHETIC. PA's RNC head had to resign due to sexting a DNC honeypot.

Posted by: kallisto at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (T7bPb)

194 he who bites and runs away
lives to bite another day

Posted by: Shih Tzu at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (dm05u)

195 ... these scum need to be hunted down NOW, not later. The longer they run free, the bolder they get.

Millions of people in this country need a lead enema.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:29 PM (WGL1r)

There are two levels upon which we live; the fantastic and the realistic, good sir, you are living in the fantastic.

Posted by: T. Lawrence Shannon at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (pA4nI)

196 187: don't play then. life gets shitty sometimes. it's the way of the world. always was, always will be. you can't fight fashion.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (KP5rU)

197 OUT: Conservatives fight for freedom

IN: Conservatives fight for "managed freedom," overseen by hard-left cadres installed by monopolistic mega-corporations, because monopolistic mega-corporations are the only true People, My Friend who have true freedom

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (PbpT7)

198 The venn diagram for "antifa" "mental health" and "substance abuse" is a circle.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (LxTcq)

199 I really hate this loose talk about shooting people in the body and head.
Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:35 PM (K3B2k)

Why? You know it's coming.

If it bothers you, maybe National Review is more to your liking.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (WGL1r)

200 why is it that every conservative (alleged) taking a paycheck for a well-funded organization is a coward and tries to appear "moderate"?

Instapundit is woke, but he's independent.

I think these organizations are all overseen by cowards and milquetoasts. They always hire from the same pool of Safe-for-MSNBC non-talent.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM (PbpT7)

The question is the answer. What man with principles wants to be moderate? You want to be RIGHT in tune with your beliefs. If everyone runs left or right you should stay right where you were, locked in by moral certainty.

When you try and hide in the middle so you won't be standing out, you've already given up your views to the crowd and are bankrupt.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 05, 2019 06:38 PM (x7BO0)

201 @189: "IN: thinking it's always 2003, forever, and ever, and ever after"

There's no political problem so difficult that it can't be solved by another Karl Rove direct mail fundraising letter!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 05, 2019 06:38 PM (I/iGu)

202 189 OUT: thinking it's always 1958

IN: thinking it's always 2003, forever, and ever, and ever after
Posted by: ace

THAT explains, finally, why everyone's 29 around here and never seem to get any older. Mystery solved.

Posted by: zombie at July 05, 2019 06:38 PM (oFcdC)

203 That's an easy one. They are not "The Right" to begin with. They're quislings.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 05, 2019 06:38 PM (VkWRL)

204 Some people cannot ever be reasoned with.... this is how I view in toto the Progressive Left.... I am through trying to...... they are just dangerous IMO...

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:38 PM (bCLt0)

205 >>>THAT explains, finally, why everyone's 29 around here and never seem to get any older. Mystery solved.

I'm ALMOST 29. The 29 year olds here are Oldy McOldheads to me.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:39 PM (PbpT7)

206 There are two levels upon which we live; the fantastic and the realistic, good sir, you are living in the fantastic.

Posted by: T. Lawrence Shannon at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (pA4nI)

Sure thing sweetheart.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:39 PM (WGL1r)

207 lol ace

Posted by: SMH at July 05, 2019 06:39 PM (RU4sa)

208 165 - Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM

powerlineblog.com/trumps-independence-day-speech
https://tinyurl.com/yxhmgyq7

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2019 06:39 PM (BbGew)

209 Posted by: Ruger Guy at July 05, 2019 06:32 PM (jlMI/)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2019 06:40 PM (+0VWg)

210 you know, the whole point of pc was to introduce humorlessness. as was noted, humor is really useful for lots of things, including bringing to light stupid.

the instant that pc was introduced whole swaths of culture were off limits for humor. now the rules are more or less black people get to make fun of everyone, women get to make fun of men.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 05, 2019 06:40 PM (HALdu)

211 Again, you underestimate your opponents.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:24 PM (K3B2k)

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Your report wasn't particularly ominous. Oh, they have a cool-sounding club. So do LARPers.

One of them was quite glib. Imagine that in California of all places! There was a tall guy, too. Okay, so not everyone is a soyboy, some are gym rats.

The fact is, they operate entirely in areas where law enforcement effectively backs them up.

When they try something in a shall-issue state where the legal system isn't openly covering for them, I'll reassess the threat.

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:40 PM (cfSRQ)

212 Do not let anyone else lick your balls
Else you find them gone

Posted by: Shih Tzu Bark of Grr at July 05, 2019 06:41 PM (dm05u)

213 208: thanks,skip.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:41 PM (KP5rU)

214
Ace vs. The Legacy Retro-Conservatives is like watching the Mensheviks vs. the Bolsheviks.

Just like the Civil War. Vic against Vic.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2019 06:41 PM (aKsyK)

215 #140 Jim Jones made bank out of susceptible people. He could pick them out of a crowd.
Posted by: torabora at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM (q+Dig)

Yup....he had that sixth sense of separating the weak and vulnerable from the herd and becoming their new Daddy.

Plus he was having sex with both his woman and men followers so he was ahead of his time for a progressive marxist.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2019 06:41 PM (Z+IKu)

216 Posted by: Ruger Guy at July 05, 2019 06:32 PM (jlMI/)

Sorry; Jumpy computer. You sound very much like a poster we used to have with a new handle.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2019 06:41 PM (+0VWg)

217 >> "NRO was never, even in its heyday, a voice for populism and conservatives far from the northeast country club set. The only thing they have apparently saved from the days of Buckley is disdain for flyover states."

Yes, even before the disastrous hiring of Lowry, Buckley had dropped his principled opposition to the dominant liberal ideology that he stated in the early days of NR, and had instead accommodated it.

Around 2008 Buckley actually wrote that the deportation of illegal aliens from the U.S. would be "as wrenching as the uprooting of blacks from Africa 300 years ago." Michelle Malkin was so outraged by the comment that she called it "idiocy."

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at July 05, 2019 06:41 PM (iDe5B)

218 Instapundit is woke, but he's independent.
...
Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM (PbpT7)

Ace, then Insty, then WZ are the only remaining bookmarks on my browser!

Oh and my yacht broker, but that's a different story!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 05, 2019 06:41 PM (AZxMX)

219 "If it bothers you, maybe National Review is more to your liking"

I don't think anyone here wants to have to shoot anyone, and I don't really want to publicly contemplate it.

Posted by: freaked at July 05, 2019 06:41 PM (UdKB7)

220 What kind of religion doesn't make jokes about it's god?

The ones that leave behind piles of bodies.

Islam is Def Comedy Jam compared to the leftist of today

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 05, 2019 06:41 PM (k81AA)

221
Young people today call everyone older than them boomers.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:41 PM (nF2SY)

222 Re: Mollie Hemingway. I find intelligence very sexy.

Posted by: JAS at July 05, 2019 06:42 PM (I5SAg)

223 you know, even the comics are no longer funny.

when I was in hs I would com home from school, read the front page section, the business section, then the comics. they were funny then but now they are nothing more than unfunny scribblings by failed would be editorial cartoonists.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 05, 2019 06:42 PM (HALdu)

224 I don't underestimate these folks. I went to high school in the Bay Area in the late 60s. But I will say, so far, they do not seem to be as hard core as those folks were. Funny how the Proud Boys are more diverse than the anti-fa. For now, I limit any trips into Portland.

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 05, 2019 06:42 PM (Lqy/e)

225 > Looking back, the Birchers made a lot of sense!

Also: Joe McCarthy was right.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2019 06:42 PM (JUUk1)

226 I used to listen to Val di Giorgio on the radio and wonder why he sounded so lame. Turns out he was using his time and energy to get an Ukrainian mole to suck his dick rather than getting R's elected.

Posted by: kallisto at July 05, 2019 06:42 PM (T7bPb)

227 I bookmark, also, VDH, American Greatness, and The Geller Report, because....

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:42 PM (bCLt0)

228 Ace, then Insty, then WZ are the only remaining bookmarks on my browser!

==

I only have ace and crayfisher.wordpress.com

Posted by: Shih Tzu Bark of Grr at July 05, 2019 06:42 PM (dm05u)

229

Comic strips were never funny.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at July 05, 2019 06:43 PM (nF2SY)

230 News you can use:

Humans wearing 'teledildonic suits' can now have sex with each other over internet...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 05, 2019 06:43 PM (+y/Ru)

231 197
OUT: Conservatives fight for freedom

IN: Conservatives fight for "managed freedom," overseen by hard-left
cadres installed by monopolistic mega-corporations, because
monopolistic mega-corporations are the only true People, My Friend who
have true freedom

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (PbpT7)

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Will Chamberlain (Human Events) did an extended riff on Wartime Conservatives vs Peacetime Conservatives. Worth a read if you haven't seen it.

As a side note, it's interesting that the counter-liberal charge is largely (entirely?) being led by orthodox Catholics. Make of that what you will.

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:43 PM (cfSRQ)

232 199 I really hate this loose talk about shooting people in the body and head.
Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:35 PM (K3B2k)

Why? You know it's coming.

If it bothers you, maybe National Review is more to your liking.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:37 PM (WGL1r)

Honestly, I don't like it either. And whoever it was pointing out that a riot or mob is the worst situation for self-defense because you can't control the field of fire, but of course that's the whole point of a riot.

Even so, here I am, deciding that maybe I ought to switch out my single stack carry pistol for my double stack pistol...

Liking the talk or not is sort of besides the point.

Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at July 05, 2019 06:43 PM (BD/yx)

233 Did Jesus have a sense of humor?

Posted by: JAS at July 05, 2019 06:43 PM (I5SAg)

234 Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2019 06:39 PM (BbGew)

I finally found the speech on YouTube. It was not a easy speech to find. Not surprisingly if you put a Bing search for his speech, you get a zillion short videos of critiques of it, but not the actual speech.
Thanks, Big Tech.

It was excellent and the peoole who say that it was a campaign speech and/or all about him were completely wrong. Well worth the listen to for people that didn't watch it before.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2019 06:44 PM (+0VWg)

235 >>Comic strips were never funny.

*Dad puts pipe in mouth*

Posted by: Family Circus at July 05, 2019 06:44 PM (RL1kK)

236 Comic strips were never funny.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at J

yes they were, have a handfule of strips cut out from the earlier time that left me choking on cereal and laughing aloud.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 05, 2019 06:44 PM (HALdu)

237 > Did Jesus have a sense of humor?

Of course. All the best comedians are Jewish.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2019 06:44 PM (JUUk1)

238 Mexico murder rate reaches all-time high; 94 killings every day...

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We need us some of that good stuff up here!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 05, 2019 06:45 PM (+y/Ru)

239 >>>222 Re: Mollie Hemingway. I find intelligence very sexy.

i would have mentioned her but she and Byron York are more on the journalistic side and I wouldn't want to push her as an opinion writer.

Byron York is the only real conservative at the Washington Examiner. He's the token conservative.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:45 PM (PbpT7)

240 Jesus said "I'll make you fishers of men", ie fishermen. So yeah, sense of humor.

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 05, 2019 06:45 PM (Lqy/e)

241 233 Did Jesus have a sense of humor?

Posted by: JAS at July 05, 2019 06:43 PM (I5SAg)

Considering his disciples, he had to have......

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:45 PM (bCLt0)

242 Posted by: Ruger Guy at July 05, 2019 06:32 PM (jlMI/)

Are you Scogg Dog with a new handle?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2019 06:45 PM (+0VWg)

243 219 "If it bothers you, maybe National Review is more to your liking"

I don't think anyone here wants to have to shoot anyone, and I don't really want to publicly contemplate it.
Posted by: freaked

That's why I recommend the Trotsky Icepick route. If you're compelled to do it up close and personal, it means you are viscerally committed to your beliefs. Bullets are so remote and impersonal. (Insert monologue from any random 1978 kung fu film in which the Shaolin master mocks the guy with the gun for being cowardly.)

Posted by: zombie at July 05, 2019 06:45 PM (oFcdC)

244 > Did Jesus have a sense of humor?

Sure.
The problem was the Romans didn't.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2019 06:45 PM (RL1kK)

245 I was too busy and I missed it yesterday: how many resisters did Trump's tanks roll over yesterday?

What was it like when he turned the tank guns on the crowd?

Really behind on the news....

Posted by: Axeman at July 05, 2019 06:45 PM (YOhRS)

246 I really hate this loose talk about shooting people in the body and head.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:35 PM (K3B2k)
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the Left is pushing for a hot Civil War.

there is nothing "loose" about discussing the appropriate response when they get what they want, so we can be sure they get what they deserve for starting it.

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 05, 2019 06:45 PM (x0QRy)

247 Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2019 06:39 PM (BbGew)

You reminded me, somewhere I have a link to powerline, but haven't used it in weeks. Even partial viewing of AoS is literally a full time job!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 05, 2019 06:46 PM (AZxMX)

248 I'm ALMOST 29. The 29 year olds here are Oldy McOldheads to me.
Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:39 PM (PbpT7)
---------------

Now you listen here, sonny! I was walking 10, no 20, no 30 miles, up hill, in the snow, to get my chai latte while you were still learning about Atkins and keto!

As soon as I catch my breath and I get my walker out of the shop, I'll take my cane to you!

Whippersnapper!

Posted by: blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun! at July 05, 2019 06:46 PM (WEBkv)

249 here in small town flyover jesusland, no antifa. no issues yet. i assume most people i meet are carrying. much respect. weird.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:46 PM (KP5rU)

250 Ah, ScoggDog... I remember...

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:46 PM (bCLt0)

251 230 News you can use:

Humans wearing 'teledildonic suits' can now have sex with each other over internet...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 05, 2019 06:43 PM (+y/Ru)

What was the name of that movie? Demolition Man?

Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at July 05, 2019 06:46 PM (BD/yx)

252 >>Mexico murder rate reaches all-time high; 94 killings every day...

It's racist to assume that Mexicans are doing the killing!

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2019 06:46 PM (RL1kK)

253 > Comic strips were never funny.

The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes were both brilliant.
From an earlier era, Charles Addams holds up well. The movie was shite. The TV show had its moments (Morticia...mmmm). The original cartoons were works of genius.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2019 06:46 PM (JUUk1)

254 I have also noticed that a lot of people seem to wade into these urban melees wearing backpacks. That is incredibly stupid. It offers a great leverage point for an assailant. If they can grab your pack, they can swing you like a rag doll and they will get you on the ground quickly. Once you are on the ground, every foot nearby is going to pound you mercilessly.

I cringe with I see this and it seem to demonstrate most of these people have little to know open-hand self-defense experience.

Again, be careful out there and think about things before you get in the middle of an urban melee.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (+Kpte)

255 Personally, I love the part where he appears on the road to Damascus to the guy that hates him the mostest. Comedy gold Jerry.

Posted by: JAS at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (I5SAg)

256 Anyone who is right wing gets deplatformed.

All we are left with are staunch abortionists like Tim Poole, IDW grifters more interested in policing right wing speech than fighting the left, or worst of all Paranoid Psychopaths like Ben Shapiro bloodthirsty for another war.

But people aren't falling for it anymore. Yes, Tim P seems like a OK guy. I'd have a beer with him but well all recognize he's not on the right and He'll gleefully vote for Kamala along with Weinstein Bros and the rest of the Ineffectual Dork Web.

Posted by: Asian Guy who says Gozrilja at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (aqpW6)

257 News you can use:

Humans wearing 'teledildonic suits' can now have sex with each other over internet...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at J

lol, you know, you must not have read the article because the funniest thing is not the headline.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (HALdu)

258 233 Did Jesus have a sense of humor?

Posted by: JAS at July 05, 2019 06:43 PM (I5SAg)

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Very much so.

Posted by: SMH at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (RU4sa)

259 It's racist to Notice the Mexican murders.....

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (bCLt0)

260 I'm old enough to remember when democrats donning masks and assaulting people exercising their first amendment rights was a bad thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (rKs0r)

261 What was the name of that movie? Demolition Man?
Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at July 05, 2019 06:46 PM (BD/yx)

yup, Stallone and a very cute Sandra Bullock

Posted by: Shih Tzu Bark of Grr at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (dm05u)

262 i have been out of the loop for a few days. no tv, intertubes, how was the parade in d.c.?
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:31 PM

Small crowd. Even smaller than the many photoshopped images of it suggest. People did not enjoy it. Much OrangeMan Bad.

Posted by: MSM Talking Points Memo at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (DMUuz)

263 I really hate this loose talk about shooting people in the body and head.

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2019 06:35 PM (K3B2k)

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You came to the wrong blog. Hell, pants aren't even required until Sunday!

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (cfSRQ)

264 >>wearing backpacks. That is incredibly stupid.

The motorcycle helmet guys are asking for a broken neck.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2019 06:48 PM (RL1kK)

265 The venn diagram for "antifa" "mental health" and "substance abuse" is a circle.

I often wonder what types of prescription drugs they're taking, too. Were they prescribed at an early age, possibly on the recommendation of a teacher?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at July 05, 2019 06:48 PM (HaL55)

266 We need liberal "no go zones" where anti-fa, trannies and maybe even the police aren't welcome.

Posted by: Max Power at July 05, 2019 06:48 PM (q177U)

267 I think, ace, the problem you are describing is that the rats are jumping off of the sinking, burning ship that metaphorically represents American free speech before it symbolically sinks into an ocean of leftwing door-to-door reprisals against anyone who bad thinks.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at July 05, 2019 06:48 PM (JziUy)

268 > That's why I recommend the Trotsky Icepick route.
That was a bad translation. It was an ice axe (like climbers use), not an ice pick.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2019 06:48 PM (JUUk1)

269 I like the part when he comes back and is up on the shore, cooking fish. The disciples bring their boat up on shore and he says "Hey boys, did you catch any fish?"

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 05, 2019 06:48 PM (Lqy/e)

270 yes they were, have a handfule of strips cut out from the earlier time that left me choking on cereal and laughing aloud.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 05, 2019 06:44 PM (HALdu)
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Calvin and Hobbes.

Pearls Before Swine is pretty good.

Bloom County was excellent until Berkely decided it was time to make a comeback.

Posted by: blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun! at July 05, 2019 06:48 PM (WEBkv)

271 Bret Weinstein wants to be Samson, tearing down the whole temple. I hope he is.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2019 06:48 PM (LxTcq)

272 Did Jesus have a sense of humor?
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I would guess he did.

There is a point where Jesus says "No ruler would" something, when it was common knowledge that the King had recently done just that.

Also, more contemporary scene-setting, when Jesus says about Herod, "You tell that little fox", it's the same as our word for weasel.

Jesus was mega-cool.

Posted by: Axeman at July 05, 2019 06:49 PM (YOhRS)

273 Ace: "why is it that every conservative (alleged) taking a paycheck for a well-funded organization is a coward and tries to appear 'moderate'?"

Institutionalized corporate fear. Any large organization, I guess by DNA, has trepidation about upsetting the apple cart. They do not want a "hostile environment" to detract from the mission. How that translates from standard corporations to "movement" corporations is beyond me, but it still happens.

They want to appear above the fray when the fray is where the fight is. So, right off the bat, they set themselves up for failure if their mission is to promote a philosophy, belief, agenda whathaveyou. On the other hand, if your real mission is to self-employ and dance for money, then creating conflict might cause the loss of some easy money.

Plus I think there's an air of superiority they try to create. Acting and speaking like a classical professor, I think, makes them think they are creating their own gravitas. So, they take a middling, lecturing tone to try to set them apart even from confederates.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 05, 2019 06:49 PM (6eEQ+)

274 @256: " Tim P ... well all recognize he's not on the right and He'll gleefully vote for Kamala ..."

Yeah, um, but no, and if you honestly think he'd vote for Kamala, then you haven't been paying attention.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 05, 2019 06:49 PM (I/iGu)

275 I also like the Born Loser. Yes, I'm in the latter half of 29.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. at July 05, 2019 06:50 PM (rKs0r)

276 Did Jesus have a sense of humor?

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Take these loaves and fishes. PLease!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 05, 2019 06:50 PM (+y/Ru)

277 269, yeah. He taught them a lesson.

Posted by: JAS at July 05, 2019 06:50 PM (I5SAg)

278 Jesus said "I'll make you fishers of men", ie fishermen. So yeah, sense of humor.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 05, 2019 06:45 PM (Lqy/e)

You know, an average size man would make a helluva fillet.

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy - 5,000 more rounds of ammo just found a new home at July 05, 2019 06:50 PM (WGL1r)

279 i was always taught,"right between the running lights." saves precious ammo. what the fuck do i know? pink mist and all that shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:50 PM (KP5rU)

280 I bookmark, also, VDH, American Greatness, and The Geller Report, because....

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:42 PM (bCLt0)

Hmm
VDH is great, thanks, I may need to update my bookmarks, but once upon a time I had at least twenty sites I thought were worth a visit!
Now, not so much. Life is too short to offer clicks to inferior web sites!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 05, 2019 06:50 PM (AZxMX)

281 We can thank the usual cuck suspects for the current situation too.

W and his GOP congressional cucks were peferctly happy letting John Doe I go unpunished and gleefully helped Mueller get John Doe II off and running.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at July 05, 2019 06:51 PM (JziUy)

282 Andy Capp, FTW!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2019 06:52 PM (Z+IKu)

283 I tried to put up a post about online security and privacy. I suspect the run up to the election will get even uglier. Too many people are using passwords that can be easily hacked. One of the anti-Rav Facebook groups had good intentions but accidentally set the group up as public then were restricted for 28 days. Anyone could look up the members. And I have seen screenshots of a "hit list" of conservative ex-Raverly members.

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 05, 2019 06:52 PM (Lqy/e)

284 she's a warrior. You can't fault her for flipping a business venture.

but, as with any restaurant, when the head chef leaves, the restaurant left behind isn't the same.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:32 PM (PbpT7)

I'm not an authority on how you add value to a website from a making it attractive to a buyer point of view, nor am I sure when Malkin's purchase and sell points were; but Hot Air has been a long smoldering tire fire from a user's point of view. Maybe by associating her name with it, value was added but I don't see it having flowed through to any current viability. Again this isn't an area of expertise for me so I could be missing something obvious.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 05, 2019 06:52 PM (y7DUB)

285 It's not Jesus exactly, but I always thought it was pretty funny when John (?) in Revelation has his vision and is talking to one of the apostles in heaven who is consoling him and then you realize that he's probably talking to himself.

Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at July 05, 2019 06:52 PM (BD/yx)

286 actually ice picks were pretty popular in "rumbles" back in the day

quite deadly

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 05, 2019 06:53 PM (dm05u)

287 Also, more contemporary scene-setting, when Jesus says about Herod, "You tell that little fox", it's the same as our word for weasel.

Jesus was mega-cool.

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reminds me, I always thought Jesus's reply to Pilate was lame "if you say so" and this year I realized he was basically thowing super-shade, basically making the up and down wank-wank symbol.

which is awesome.

Posted by: Keto not Beto at July 05, 2019 06:53 PM (JziUy)

288 I have also noticed that a lot of people seem to wade into these urban melees wearing backpacks. That is incredibly stupid. It offers a great leverage point for an assailant. If they can grab your pack, they can swing you like a rag doll and they will get you on the ground quickly. Once you are on the ground, every foot nearby is going to pound you mercilessly.

I cringe with I see this and it seem to demonstrate most of these people have little to know open-hand self-defense experience.

Again, be careful out there and think about things before you get in the middle of an urban melee.
Posted by: WarEagle82 at July 05, 2019 06:47 PM (+Kpte)

Generally those backpacks are portable streaming set ups. It's the equipment, not carrying punch and pie.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 05, 2019 06:53 PM (GbPPJ)

289 268 > That's why I recommend the Trotsky Icepick route.
That was a bad translation. It was an ice axe (like climbers use), not an ice pick.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I know that. It's just that there was a punk band from Los Angeles called Trotsky Icepick and I like referencing their name so I appear to be hep and cool.

Posted by: zombie at July 05, 2019 06:53 PM (oFcdC)

290 Max - right now it's only conservatives that have no-go zones

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2019 06:53 PM (BbGew)

291 of course jesus had a sense of humor. why else would he sacrifice himself for us? some people are beyond redemption. jesus didn't care. he just said, "whatever."

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:53 PM (KP5rU)

292 h, ScoggDog... I remember...

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:46 PM (bCLt0)

I'm still trying to forget...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 05, 2019 06:53 PM (AZxMX)

293 lol, hot air was great when malkin was running it, you should be able to tell when she quit running it because then it sucked.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 05, 2019 06:54 PM (HALdu)

294 Did someone say icepick?

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 05, 2019 06:54 PM (I/iGu)

295 >>>Yeah, um, but no, and if you honestly think he'd vote for Kamala, then you haven't been paying attention.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 05, 2019 06:49 PM (I/iGu)
____________
Who did her vote for in 2016?

Posted by: Asian Guy who says Gozrilja at July 05, 2019 06:54 PM (aqpW6)

296 kuklinski! i saw your biography?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:55 PM (KP5rU)

297 I'm not an authority on how you add value to a website from a making it attractive to a buyer point of view, nor am I sure when Malkin's purchase and sell points were; but Hot Air has been a long smoldering tire fire from a user's point of view. Maybe by associating her name with it, value was added but I don't see it having flowed through to any current viability. Again this isn't an area of expertise for me so I could be missing something obvious.
Posted by: Captain Hate at July 05, 2019 06:52 PM (y7DUB)

She sold Hot Air in 2010.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 05, 2019 06:55 PM (GbPPJ)

298 vmom. razor blades in girls hair was also very common.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2019 06:55 PM (TDEVx)

299 you know the get woke go broke thing describes hot air. when they quit being hard, edgy, trying to get advertisers, the screwed themselves.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 05, 2019 06:55 PM (HALdu)

300 Jesus made what is arguably the most famous pun of all time, with the Peter/rock bit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2019 06:56 PM (JUUk1)

301
Did Jesus have a sense of humor?

Posted by: JAS at July 05, 2019 06:43 PM (I5SAg)

He's funnier in the original Aramaic.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2019 06:56 PM (i9Wb/)

302 292 h, ScoggDog... I remember...

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 06:46 PM (bCLt0)

I'm still trying to forget...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 05, 2019 06:53 PM (AZxMX)

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Wait, what did I miss? Did Scogg have a meltdown?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 05, 2019 06:56 PM (gC2IV)

303 Here's an example. This is a gay guy that was homeless, started knitting teddy bears to sell, and wound up getting off the streets. He was on Ravelry but was upset by the new policy. He wrote a thoughtful post about why he was leaving. Now he's getting besieged by media requests and his little business is under attack. He thought he would be able to disagree.
https://bit.ly/2NAVmKM

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 05, 2019 06:56 PM (Lqy/e)

304 vmom. razor blades in girls hair was also very common.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 05, 2019 06:55 PM (TDEVx)

Peaky Blinders.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 05, 2019 06:56 PM (GbPPJ)

305
I'm not an authority on how you add value to a
website from a making it attractive to a buyer point of view, nor am I
sure when Malkin's purchase and sell points were; but Hot Air has been a
long smoldering tire fire from a user's point of view. Maybe by
associating her name with it, value was added but I don't see it having
flowed through to any current viability. Again this isn't an area of
expertise for me so I could be missing something obvious.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 05, 2019 06:52 PM (y7DUB)

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She built it up and flipped it at its peak. One think I liked was trackbacks, and so you could network other bloggers. She was smart to get out before social media started encroaching on blogs.

You could see the creeping decline in how they talked about her. She's always been feisty and they would link to the "boss emeritus" but those links went away well before Trump emerged. When they went NeverTrump, that was pretty much death for them.

I think Salem also owns Redstate and that was purged of NeverTrump a year or more ago. I wonder why Hot Air doesn't get the same treatment?

Posted by: Patriotic Author A.H. Lloyd at July 05, 2019 06:57 PM (cfSRQ)

306 68 >>>That story of him getting stuck in the snowbank still makes me laugh.

seared, seared into my memory.
Posted by: ace at July 05, 2019 06:12 PM

If it didn't make the hippocampus, it couldn't have been that bad

Posted by: Christine Blasey Ford at July 05, 2019 06:57 PM (j7G/d)

307 you know it was also helpful to hot air that michelle malkin was cute and hot. not sure what the current guys look like but would guess that were the hot and handsome they would leverage it to get clicks.

Posted by: yankeefifth at July 05, 2019 06:57 PM (HALdu)

308 HA was quality under Malkin, as was her own site. Allahschnook's always been the same though.

Posted by: ... at July 05, 2019 06:57 PM (uEbPt)

309 Shoe was pretty good. BC was funny. Peanuts was perfect for the times.

Calvin and Hobbes was my all time fave.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at July 05, 2019 06:57 PM (HaL55)

310 @288 Not everyone needs streaming gear. One or two on a team might but they need others unencumbered and ready to protect teammates.

If you are going to go hand-to-hand in a crowd you had better be ready to go all in. Once you are thrown to the ground things get bad very, very quickly.

I've been assaulted several times, thankfully always by a single assailant. I have always had my hands free to defend myself quickly. I emerged from each incident largely uninjured. My assailants did not.

It was difficult to explain to my wife why I would only push the pram on our walks but I would not strap a baby to my back or chest. Doing so rendered me helpless and unable to defend her or the children.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at July 05, 2019 06:58 PM (+Kpte)

311 Rain all around me but not much falling here. I watch this every year that storms head towards but never arrive in my little micro climate.

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2019 06:59 PM (BbGew)

312 b.c., calvin and hobbes. none better. andy capp, honorable mention.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 05, 2019 06:59 PM (KP5rU)

313 I think one of the reasons that Jesus said not much to Pilate, is he knew the gameplan. His audience was the Sanhedrin. He could prompt the knowledgeable in the Sanhedrin to recall scriptures that testified to him as the Messiah.

Just as he had amazed the Chief Priests as a 12-year-old (last year he was technically "a boy" "Mouth of babes"?) with his "questions" (a contemporary Rabbinical form of debate.)

As he had worked it all out in Gethsemane, he knew his fate (speaking in Christology, here), Pilate had nothing to offer him. Unless he was before the Sanhedrin, he had nothing to say.

Posted by: Axeman at July 05, 2019 06:59 PM (YOhRS)

314 illegal nood

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 05, 2019 06:59 PM (dm05u)

315 309 Shoe was pretty good. BC was funny. Peanuts was perfect for the times.

Calvin and Hobbes was my all time fave.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at July 05, 2019 06:57 PM (HaL55)
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BC used to be unabashedly pro-Christianity and would do strips commemorating our Lord and Saviour.

I don't know if BC still does.

Posted by: blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun! at July 05, 2019 06:59 PM (WEBkv)

316 Hagar the Horrible was good.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2019 07:00 PM (Z+IKu)

317 Calvin and Hobbs and Haggar the Horrible

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2019 07:00 PM (BbGew)

318 Both are signals that something is very wrong. As we've long observed here, socialism, communism, progressivism and leftwingism is/are mental diseases. You won't find someone who identifies with any of them who doesn't have a dumptruck full of issues and isn't a serious control-freak.

Well certainly some come off as mentally ill. But not all. The rabid-foot-soldier-in-the-streets Anti-FA certainly. But then there's the social media sympathizers. They aren't mentally ill. At least most don't come off that way. They're "concerned" about children. They want "improved conditions" for migrants. They seem genuine. But at the same time they're as impervious to outside information as the most obnoxious Anti-FA.

Case in point is a young lady I graduated from High School with. She was the class valedictorian. Bright. Kind. Interested. And my obsession I might add during those hormonal driven years.

But now she's a public school teacher. Insulated in that guild of the emotionally driven. Completely and utterly convinced that migrants are being abused. Utterly impervious to the notion that the hype might be a politically driven farce designed to rouse the Leftist base.

Posted by: WonkishRogue at July 05, 2019 07:00 PM (BRpqW)

319 This is a great essay Ace.

One of your best.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, red white and blue! at July 05, 2019 07:01 PM (tPjmG)

320 Walt Kelly and Pogo

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 05, 2019 07:02 PM (x0QRy)

321 Have a thousand links and use three.

Sick and tired of reading/listening to my literate betters from Dartmouth and other prestigious environs and the dehydrated carcasses of failed politicos tell me: If, But, When, and How.

The lot of them are not worth a bucket of warm piss.

Posted by: Nance Garner at July 05, 2019 07:02 PM (pA4nI)

322
Did Jesus have a sense of humor?
Posted by: JAS

He did a lot of stand-up.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 05, 2019 07:05 PM (aKsyK)

323 Ya know... all this link-talk makes me realize I need to do a Great Link Purge myself.... would be cleansing, and cathartic... a course I have a few " special" links I must keep....

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 07:05 PM (bCLt0)

324 Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic food.... dunno about his funny bone....

Posted by: kraken at July 05, 2019 07:06 PM (bCLt0)

325 Here's an example. This is a gay guy that was homeless, started knitting teddy bears to sell, and wound up getting off the streets. He was on Ravelry but was upset by the new policy. He wrote a thoughtful post about why he was leaving. Now he's getting besieged by media requests and his little business is under attack. He thought he would be able to disagree.

It's funny how the 'coexist' crowd now say they refuse to coexist.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 05, 2019 07:06 PM (oVJmc)

326 315
BC used to be unabashedly pro-Christianity and would do strips commemorating our Lord and Saviour.

Posted by: blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun! at July 05, 2019 06:59 PM (WEBkv)

It wasn't for much of its history but I suppose Johnny Hart had a conversion experience later in life.

Posted by: rickl at July 05, 2019 07:06 PM (sdi6R)

327 I don't know if BC still does.

Posted by: blake - my preferred pronoun is: Pronoun! at July 05, 2019 06:59 PM (WEBkv)

I seem to remember a closing outhouse door with a "crescent" on it and the phrase "I-slam" above it!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 05, 2019 07:07 PM (AZxMX)

328 She sold Hot Air in 2010.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at July 05, 2019 06:55 PM (GbPPJ)

Thank you. That makes sense because that's about the time I hit one of their vaunted open enrollment windows and, once in, noticed that the trolls were treated with greater deference than I was. Plus the content was namby pamby RINO shit. So I did just what I did at LGF: left without a word and came here.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 05, 2019 07:08 PM (y7DUB)

329 Walt Kelly and Pogo

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 05, 2019 07:02 PM (x0QRy)

So you're another commenter that is 30?

First time I ever saw the phrase

"We have met the enemy and he is us!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 05, 2019 07:09 PM (AZxMX)

330 Notsothoreau, I'll be happy to help test your forum, even though I'm not quite sure what that entails. I am a knitter--when my grandsons get sparky I say to them, be careful how you behave around a woman who is an expert with pointed wooden sticks. They laugh and laugh.

My email: wendamorrone @ gmail

And yes, that really is my name, I'm a genuine moron through my Sicilian husband. (Well, someone had to be someday.

Posted by: Wenda (sic) at July 05, 2019 07:17 PM (BCg2A)

331 When I think of what passes for "conservatism" these days, I thank God for Ace of Spades, my fellow Tribesman JJ Sefton, Julie Kelly, Michelle Malkin, Kurt Schlicter, and Victor Davis Hanson.

Posted by: ta-nehisi rabinowitz at July 05, 2019 07:36 PM (zzoJz)

332 OMG, another extremely important post. Ace, you are really carrying the torch these days. May G-d Almighty bless you for that.

I am going to listen to Bret Weinstein's speech right now, and I never do things like that.

THANK YOU!

Posted by: jocon307 at July 05, 2019 08:25 PM (HYa+m)

333 Hi Ace, I think that you would like my latest rant, "No Anarchists, Only Communists." It touches on related topics and is linked in my handle. Enjoy!

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