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The Milwaukee Public School system is also committed to these evil dogmas and policies. I don’t think telling black kids that their own criminal behavior is due to them being “oppressed” by a “racist system” is going to persuade them to study hard in school and learn marketable job skills and social skills, much less turn them into law-abiding citizens.
What is it with these people – not a single marshmallow…. #!@ vegans…
I can see why son and grandson joined the firm – what could be more badass?
We don’t really know what his motives were. (Unless there are papers and tapes somewhere recording what he said in private.) But we do know about how she was railroaded, the perjured testimony and the suppressed evidence of her innocence.
Your attitude seems to be “She should not have been pardoned because other people suffered more”.
I have read some very recent reports of growing Swedish opposition to “migrants”, so we can hope.
The results did not amaze me 🙁
Hands across the water – US and UK Gen Z idiots (BIRM) discover (cleans glasses) loaded baked potatoes.
[ Looks at Karl. ]
[ Puts comforting hand on Karl’s shoulder. ]
Or she’s deeply autistic
We really need to stop this grotesque mischaracterization. She’s not autistic.
She’s badly malsocialized and has a hypersensitive amygdala as a result of growing up in a broken, dysfunctional or abusive home. Like children of the 80’s divorce epidemic, she’s been raised by media rather than her parents (in this case, TikTok and other tumblr ex-pats rather than sitcoms and rom-coms).
If it were the 1990s and she were wearing an opera cape, plastic fangs, white pancake makeup and insisting on being called Princess Gothika, Queen of the Night, no one would be calling her autistic.
Also, the state of the Daily Mail’s goddamn website. The overlay videos that you can’t close; the sheer volume of shitty advertising that slows everything down; the visual cacophony of it.
[ Soothes offended sensibilities with large glass of red. ]
There are days the fulminating stupidity is too much to bear.
[…] the state of the Daily Mail’s goddamn website.
I’ve found the Tor browser best for viewing that site.
[ Refills glass. ]
Sigh…heavy sigh….I will say that Ford was somewhat cornered here by his previous pardoning of Nixon and all the BS that went with that. I’m sure this wasn’t terribly important to him one way or the other and as this occurred on the last day of his presidency (I had wrongly presumed this occurred during the campaign) he probably just wanted to go home…that said, the other context here was an earlier 1976 (presidential election year…go figure) story on her by grievance softy Morley Safer on the “news” show 60 Minutes. They were working very hard to elect Jimmy Carter, they felt they had conservatives on the ropes (heh, Nixon and Ford…”conservatives”) and thus dug around for a nice wedge story to divide the WWII generation. Especially from its children. Surely you understand that context.
Shoehorning what I said to fit the narrative in your head…Your attitude seems to be “She should not have been pardoned because other people suffered more”. No. It’s not whether or not she should have been pardoned. My point was, and still is, the irrelevance of this issue in 1976*. Unless someone knows otherwise, this was only brought to national attention due to the 60 Minutes story. She wasn’t clamoring for a pardon per se. Maybe she would have liked to get her citizenship back, I don’t know, but near as I can tell she was living an obscure life and her privacy was invaded by Morley Safer. Most normal innocent people in her position would not appreciate getting dragged back into the limelight after three decades of just getting on with it. Though I suppose that’s presumptuous of me to infer what normal innocent people would think. What would I know of “normal” people anyway?
* And even less relevant 48 years later.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Also, the state of the Daily Mail’s goddamn website. The overlay videos that you can’t close; the sheer volume of shitty advertising that slows everything down; the visual cacophony of it.
Ad blockers are your friend
Unfortunately they work differently on different browsers.What pisses me off are the newish youtube “ads” (read infomercials) that are 3+minutes long and can’t be skipped.
Copy url, paste in a friendlier browser (they all suck in one way or another). PITA workaround, but better than someone banging on about the miracle cure for galloping epizootis, so simple it will amaze you.
[Screw the wine, where’s the vodka?]
This.
Thanks for that. For some reason I have not been able to view Instagram and a few other sites, getting a “Name not resolved” or similar BS error. Most T/S has been down the “clear your cache” (yeah, thanks…never thought of that one) and reboot your modem/wifi/whatever (not exactly an option right now and didn’t work at a previous location anyway) variety. I was fairly certain it was a browser-dependent issue and not a network-dependent thing for various other T/S reasons but it was happening on all my browsers on just my iPad.
Or perhaps there is a “why would anyone pardon her?” narrative in your head. Why not pardon an innocent woman? Her innocence was independent of what anyone else did or did not do. Why not just leave it at that, and the anniversary as a small item of note about a long-ago injustice which was finally corrected?
And I am unsurprised that a Japanese woman would not have been loudly demanding a pardon, given Japanese culture, but I am sure she was pleased to get a full pardon and restoration of citizenship. She continued to live a quiet life afterwards, working in a quiet shop which was just another shop in the neighborhood.
Firefox with NoScript works pretty well: I only get one overlay video in the lower right corner when I go there–and no more such videos for the rest of the day, I believe. It even stops the infuriating redirects at Ace of Spades that happen when you click a link.
[ Lifts Karl back into chair. Hooks up vodka IV drip. ]
Appropriate response.
Such a personality disorder is horrifying. But the greater horror is that so many professionals in the “helping professions” facilitate this rather than try to give genuine help to the sufferers. Remember the McMartin satanic child abuse hoax, which so many “smart” people bought into?
S. Weasel’s prize chicken.
Well, somebody had just sicked up on that poor woman’s baked potato.
And here is a video that starts a little earlier.
FEDS!
FEDS: ok, let’s see, a conservative group that is NOT made up of middle-aged men all wearing random baggy clothes but instead are all wearing identical khakis? With brand new identical flags? what BS
Reloading the page when they start seems to work for me.
There is nothing about Nazis or Neo-Nazis that is conservative, classical liberal, or right wing.
One observer: “If Patriot Front was actually a real organic white supremacy group, the media would be all over this story to expose every member and ruin their lives.
“The fact that this is NOT happening confirms they are Feds.”
Supposedly they were arrested, or at least the ones in Coeur d’Alene ID some time back.
Me, I’m still skeptical. Notice that all the body types are the same: no obese guys, no lumpy guys, no short guys. They all conform to the body type that feds look for in law enforcement.
And these days you can’t be sure that those mug shots aren’t AI. Really good AI, given the level of detail, but AI nonetheless.
Notice that all the body types are the same: no obese guys,
And an allegedly “conservative, patriotic” group is carrying a large banner “No Zionists in Government”??? WTAF? Since when does a “conservative” group use the language of Hamas and Iran?
Oh, yeah, this is a few days after wanker Blinken advances the New Improved Biden for “peace in the Middle East” … reward Hamas with a Palestinian state.
Many liberal Jews are now pulling away from Democrats, and voila! up pops the Patriot Front spewing anti-Semitism.
Could the Biden cabal be more transparent?
Also, they’re silent. Not chanting, not looking around defiantly, no confrontational affect, nothing to suggest that they’re upset about Zionists or about anything else.
I’m not going to try watching it, as I am not fluent in Swedish. Rats.
We could try to persuade dual-language Swedes to visit this blog, although we might have to stop posting Muppet Show Swedish Chef jokes.
“The fact that this is NOT happening confirms they are Feds.”
Or useful extremists protected by the Feds and media. Just as the Democrats see Antifa and BLM as useful allies.
Remember the TEA Party protests? And how leftists would infiltrate the crowds in an attempt to discredit them with racist or deranged slogans? The establishment news media and government were happy to go along with that–only TEA Party people and bloggers were interested in exposing the infiltrators.
Another commenter:
Well, I did used to know one man, otherwise seemingly conservative, who kept going on about Jews (they’re all traitors), in addition to his rants against gays (they’re all pedophiles) and blacks (they’re all inherently inferior and criminal-minded). And didn’t William F. Buckley write some essays highly critical of the anti-semitism of various conservative pundits?
That is indeed the most likely explanation, although it’s conceivable that such people might cover their faces because their employers would “not look kindly” on such views.
Hey – I have a question for all the magical negroes out there desperate to keep Wytey happy: Why don’t you just magic “all yo’ asses” back to Africa and solve everyone’s problems?
A unique take on sous vide, and by unique I mean disgusting.
This seems a stable marriage.
Hoist the yellow jack, lads!
Well yeah, this. White supremacists tend to be kinda loud and proud. And tattoos. Though you would think that the FBI or whoever would be able to fake up a few decent tattoos. Heh, decent tattoos. It might be fun to try and goad them into a fight. Even at my age the temptation would be hard to resist. Imagine if on their way to “work” (the riding the subway thing was quite the moment) a fight were to break out in front of them between a white guy and a black guy? Or maybe any person of color. Odd this hasn’t happened.
I worked one summer in my teens for a white supremacist who owned a restaurant. He made no secret of his unshakable belief in the inherent inferiority of black people. He wasn’t loud, but he was certain. No tattoos, dressed conventionally.
Doing it for the rage clicks?
A happier ending would have involved the victim driving over the carjackers.
Never.
Highly critical of his own hire. He was trying to distance himself and National Review from Joseph Sobran – who was on the payroll until some of his less savoury views surfaced.
Meanwhile, I will rail against the International Swedishist Conspiracy to destroy Ry-Krisp and conquer the world for Wasa crackers.
Also Pat Buchanan. I had to go back and look this up. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few other names. As I recall, Buckley’s efforts to push out racists and Jew-haters and other identitarians began in the 50’s.
I think you’re right. Also, through the 60s, 70s, 80s there was a surge in interest in evangelical Christianity which also supported Israel and looked to Jews as having a shared heritage in the OT. Now, over those same years (and even today) you have the Left dismiss or demonize any Christian’s support of Israel as just wanting “the return of Jesus and the elimination of Jews”.
Leftist “Jews” are rarely religious. Some even boast of being atheist Jews. They don’t support Israel for the same reason they don’t support USA. And they are embarrassed by their ethnic cousins who are observant Jews. It ain’t “modern”.
The Left is constantly looking to drive a wedge between Christians and Jews.
His big push in the 1950s was to anathematise the John Birchers (they’re still around but haven’t much in the way of influence). He missed the boat on the civil rights movement – he apologised later but his resistance to the 1964 Civil Rights Act did him no good. He was never a racist or anti-Semite, and NR was pretty much free of that sort of thing – the abandon with which those terms are bandied about these days makes recollection suspect – but pushing them to the fringes wasn’t his main focus.
Lest there be any confusion, that is not the name of a tribe of Scandanavian wypipo, the yte crew of a ship that sank on its maiden voyage, a brand of Christmas decoration containing a paper crown, dad joke, and a small gift, but a crispbread frequently used as shingles and siding.
Which isn’t to say that the 1964 Civil Rights Act itself doesn’t have problems that we suffer from today. Though to be fair much of those problems stem from the abuse the Federal Government has done to the Commerce Clause as a function of greater federal power grabs that accelerated after the Civil War. The whole thing gets so bloody messy whenever I dig into it, I get lost in the weeds but I generally end up blaming the railroads and Rutherford B. Hayes…Somehow. Wickard v. Filburn should have been a where things got worked out but that SCOTUS decision coming as it did in that sweet spot (foul spot?) between the New Deal era and early WWII doomed us.
I thought WASA Crackers were the guys who put men on the moon? No?
I was thinking about valorizing “feelings” and “lived experience”. One’s feelings can be terribly wrong in terms of the facts. Fat people often think others are looking at them with disapproval, whereas strangers generally don’t care. So their feelings are hurt for a factually incorrect view. Same with people who see racism everywhere. We see lots of posts here of people who think it is “unfair” that they have to work or don’t get praised, when IRL everyone has to work and most of us rarely get praise. Based on “feelings” there are so many running around angry and resentful for objectively BS reasons. Feelings are not a measure of truth.
Your truth or mine?
[ Ducks ]
Heh. I wonder if Terry Pratchett’s dwarf bread was inspired in part by those crackers (not to mention hard tack) or entirely by the varieties depicted in The Lord of the Rings.
I confess that I liked Ry-Krisp much more than Wasa, as the latter is rather bland. Come to think of it, there is very little real variety and character in the crackers found in most supermarkets.
Should there be a special correction booth for the “woke”?
Little Ease , Tower of London
Certainly a just punishment, but I was hoping for something comically appropriate.
Is our children learning?
More details:
“[Sahara Dula] mentors kids to stay off drugs” and “graduated from New England College in 2022 with a major in criminal justice and communications.” but “admitted to smoking marijuana” before the road rage incident.
She is known to the police, with a prior hit-and-run and an assault in a hospital, so it is guaranteed that she will never become a good citizen but will always be a danger and a detriment.
She boasted “F*** these cops – it’s a lesson to him and hopefully he doesn’t want to be a cop anymore.” Well, I hope she doesn’t want to be alive anymore: The world would be better off without her and everyone like her.
It turns out that if you have a primary source of pain, such as being abused as a child or sexually assaulted, then all of the little things hurt disproportionately.
Imagine that your humerus is broken, and your arm is not in a cast but a sling. Someone barely bumps up against your arm as they walk by.
That pain is going to put you on the ground, yelling. So you lash out at People Bumping Into Arms as the great evil in the world that must be conquered.
Strangers witnessing the encounter would wonder what your problem is that you’d collapse onto the ground over a little bump. They’d likely think you’re some idiot drama queen.
But the degree of pain you experienced was 100% real, and it would put anyone on the ground. It’s just that the real problem isn’t the bump, it’s your broken bone. You’re misattributing the cause of your pain as the behavior of others rather than recognizing it’s your own injury that’s the problem.
A lot of people complaining about microaggressions are people who have a broken bone (or three) that has not yet healed, so they are unable to handle the little things. They experience pain disproportionate to the offense, so they look ridiculous to us, but at the same time, they are blaming the wrong thing for their pain. They really do need to heal their insides, but that’s a project of years, and it’s hard to pull off, so it’s not like we can just pop off with “You need to look to your own problems,” and have it be effective.
ALSO.
The language of injury and harm is intensely useful for manipulative Cluster B types. Accusing their opponents of causing harm, thereby cowing normies into submission, lest they be thought monsters, is effective and also a lot of fun. When dealing with people one-on-one you can counsel them about how it only hurts because of a primary wound, but if it’s “sensitivity training” at the office, it’s probably not coming from the best of impulses.
I detected an urban accent among the students, who had adult voices. I suspect they weren’t so much confused as they were incredulous, and not at all interested in participating in her psychodrama,
In the interest of fairness or perhaps clarity, we have this: https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1749062910188425262
Meh. I’m not convinced so much. I still smell a honey pot.
Another interesting little point about the “Patriotic Front” marchers, is that when they finished their march and loaded up their flags and banners and hoped into vehicles, those vehicles had blank number plates ! If you need a bigger pointer for “here be feds” I’m not sure where you will find one…
OTOH, if Patriot Front is real, everyone insisting that they’re feds is a good way to mess with them.
Something real needs to be connected to them. Arrests with convictions, like I say above, a fight or something with real consequences. Another possibility would be for some reporter type or undercover person (ooh, didn’t we used to have government agents who did this?) try to join their organization. Haven’t heard from any of James O’Keef’s sting operations in a while.
It’s the pain they can inflict, not a purported experience of pain, that motivates them.
They still need to be told that they must not lash out at good people. I’ve had some experience with supposedly traumatized people, and learned that being nice only brought abuse.
Hence my frequently expressed view that the “progressives” who exploit and weaponize these people–and criminals–are the greater danger and greater evil.
Once they get past a certain point, the pain crystalizes into a personality disorder, and then all sympathy is wasted.
More proof (as if you needed it) that the Supreme Court can be filled with cowardly fools. Another way to phrase that would be it’s filled with human beings who can, and sometimes will not, fail to do their duty. There’s a very recent decision from our current (2024) Supreme Court around Texas and the southern border of the US that fills me with the similar disgust that I felt when I learned of the Wickard v. Filburn decision.
Almost like owning a cat.
I would point out the differences between the handling of American citizens of German and Italian descent versus those of Japanese descent during WW2. I’ll point out that Japan (as was Italy) was an ally in WW1.
As for Emperor Hirohito, his insistence that the war was lost and that Japan should surrender meant that all of those Purple Heart medals that were created for the expected casualties for Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet weren’t needed then and have been available for use until ~2008 (https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/176762 was my source, although it’s rather coy about the numbers).
OTOH, the Japanese are current removing themselves from the human race by not replacing themselves, so you may view that as justice delayed.
I’ve had some experience with supposedly traumatized people, and learned that being nice only brought abuse.
As a psychiatrist friend of mine used to say: it’s not a rabid dog’s fault that it’s rabid, but that doesn’t make it any safer to be around.
The grifting and riots have turned white attitudes from being very very accepting to being rather…less so
Well, that’s the entire point. There’s a reason every yt-injustice-to-black-ppl cause involves a white person who is behaving rationally and within the bounds of the law. There are plenty of actual abuse of police power cases with a racial dynamic out there, but when revealed they’re universally condemned. They can’t be used to stoke resentment between the races by getting people to choose their side based on a false narrative. Cultural Marxism isn’t about making anything better, it’s about destroying social cohesion so the violent revolutionary phase can’t be effectively countered.
Indeed.
Furthermore: Glenn Reynolds and other bloggers have been reporting for many years on abuses of police power, and suggesting solutions, but the left has largely been uninterested in rational solutions because they do stoke racial resentments, do not make it impossible for the police to do their jobs, and do not put more power in the hands of leftists bent on tyranny and societal destruction.