Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 5:54:15 AM

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vxbush 7/30/2020 6:20:34 AM

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In #1 Occasional Reader said: What is it with Democrats and collaborating with communist dictatorships?

Like calls to like? It's where the money is from, most likely. 

Morning, campers. 

Closer to my house, a local university has decided that one of the residence halls' floors, which are named after various secretary of states (some which then went on to be presidents), must be renamed because of our terrible past of building this country off the back of slaves. The university president basically cowered before the entire campus and the former RAs who brought this issue up (even though there was already action going on to get rid of the names) and proclaimed them "strong leaders" to bring up this issue. This guy doesn't have a spine anywhere to be found. He thinks he is appeasing these people, rather than realizing that he is feeding them. It's only going to get worse.

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 6:32:13 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

I guess this sort of political craziness is the new Normal.

buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 6:50:16 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

It's not as though these stupid name changes alter anything in the past.

vxbush 7/30/2020 6:50:28 AM

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In #3 lucius septimius said: I guess this sort of political craziness is the new Normal.

You know, these people keep doing this because they say "this is not who we are" and "we want to provide positive role models for our students." Okay. So why haven't I heard of a single plan to mentor those students who need role models? Why haven't I heard about any programs to work with underachieving populations and tutor them in the skills they lack? Why hasn't there been a single action to work on resolving the issues that students have, the group they are supposedly doing this for? 

It's all cosmetic. It's easy, low-hanging fruit that can be done with minimal work from anyone. 

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 6:56:19 AM

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In #5 vxbush said: It's easy, low-hanging fruit that can be done with minimal work from anyone. 

And it is addressed at non-existent problems so there is no worry that their efforts might fail.  It's the stupid and lazy path to narcissistic virtue.

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 6:56:39 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

Did you like my very Illinois specific pun there?

buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 7:00:27 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 7:

Nicely done.

vxbush 7/30/2020 7:04:17 AM

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In #7 lucius septimius said: Did you like my very Illinois specific pun there?

Heh. Yes, and it is cause for many good jokes.

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 7:06:44 AM

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Here is an example of fighting back:  John Kass refuses to bend the knee after calling out Soros.

The more people refuse to cave, the less power the micro-Maos will have.

Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 7:38:42 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 7:42:14 AM

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In #11 Occasional Reader said: Idiotic tweet-blunder?  Genius trolling?   Other? 

I can imagine that his suggesting---quite rightly---that mail-in voting is subject to massive amounts of fraud and suggesting that the election therefore be delayed may be a pincer movement against the Left, in that they will thereby insist that the election be held as scheduled but possibly dial back their push for mail-in voting.

By taking the initiative, and forcing their reaction---a basic deal-making strategy---he has a better chance of controlling the argument.

buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 7:43:47 AM

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It's a shame that Marcel Duchamp has left this mortal coil.

In light of the current gender-and-"transgender" madness, to his classic cubist work "Nude Descending a Staircase" he could add a new painting: "Testicles Descending a Nutcase."

Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 7:49:34 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 12:

That seems to be the prevailing "he's playing 3D chess"-type interpretation.  I sure hope it's the right one. 

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 7:53:16 AM

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In #12 buzzsawmonkey said: By taking the initiative, and forcing their reaction---a basic deal-making strategy---he has a better chance of controlling the argument.

That was my thought as well.  

buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 7:57:29 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14: Reply to lucius septimius in 15:

It's classic Hammett: "stirring things up," as the Continental Op says, or, as Sam Spade says, "My way...is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey wrench into the machinery.  It's all right with me, if you're sure none of the flying pieces will hurt you."

JCM 7/30/2020 7:58:35 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 11:

Trolling....

With a core of truth. We can prove mail in balloting is rife with fraud.

Remember he's a pro negotiator. He stakes his first position at "lets delay the elections".

The goal is to have a serious discuss, if possible, about mail in ballot security.

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 8:00:24 AM

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In #14 Occasional Reader said: "he's playing 3D chess"-type interpretation

I don't know if it's that so much as he has a gift for pushing their buttons and forcing them into reaction mode.  At that point, they are so driven by their visceral hatred of him that they can't think.  If nothing else, it keeps them chasing their tails for a while.  

It seems to me that the best strategy is to show voters that the Democrats are the party of chaos and disorder.  They have already brought it to the cities -- if people see the Democrats trying to make voting chaotic it will only increase their distrust.  People don't like being told that their votes don't count; the idea of massive, state-sponsored voter fraud is a raging insult to the voters.  And you don't win elections by insulting the electorate over and over.

Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 8:01:44 AM

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In #17 JCM said: We can prove mail in balloting is rife with fraud.

No evidence!  No evidence!  No evidence!  BRAWWWK

-NPR, etc.

Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 8:02:41 AM

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In #18 lucius septimius said: And you don't win elections by insulting the electorate over and over.

It worked for Obama.

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 8:03:25 AM

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In #19 Occasional Reader said: No evidence!  No evidence!  No evidence!  BRAWWWK

Too late.  Everyone knows this story by now.

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 8:06:01 AM

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In #20 Occasional Reader said: It worked for Obama.

Not necessarily.  He was aided by the GOP being the palooka party.  He was hurt by the Bishop Wright fiasco and the "bitter clingers" line.  Had he faced more determined resistance those along could have sunk him.  In any event, they established a pattern that came to bite Hillary on the butt when she made her deplorables remark.  The line might not have been so devastating had it not followed on Obama's earlier remarks.

buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 8:14:54 AM

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In #18 lucius septimius said: And you don't win elections by insulting the electorate over and over.

I said over and over and over again

Mail-in voting's an invite to fraud

---the Dave Clark Election Commission

Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 8:18:31 AM

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In #21 lucius septimius said: Too late.  Everyone knows this story by now.

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting evidence of vote fraud.

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 8:21:23 AM

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Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 8:38:20 AM

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Rest in peace, Herman Cain.

JCM 7/30/2020 8:42:05 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 26:

I always like him, not necessarily for President... but I did like him.

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 8:47:58 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 26:

Damn.

doppelganglander 7/30/2020 9:00:07 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 9:09:23 AM

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In #29 doppelganglander said: Okay, so how does Trump prevent mail-in voting when that decision is made at the state level? Federal lawsuits invoking the Voting Rights Act? 

If he proposes postponing the election on the basis of mail-in voting being an invitation to fraud---not only tinkering with the election schedule, but suggesting/implying that the states pushing mail-in voting will have their votes ignored/discounted (if for no other reason than their obvious inability to report the votes in a timely manner, not to mention chain-of-custody issues), that might---might---manage to cause the mail-in advocates to back down and abandon mail-in voting.  

In other words, he's negotiating with them to have them abandon their fraud scheme of their own volition.

vxbush 7/30/2020 9:25:11 AM

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In #25 lucius septimius said: Obama was the first presidential candidate to successfully exploit social media.  It seems that the Democrats have failed to learn from his example and continue to pin all their hopes on the legacy media.  

I think it only works when it is the top presidential candidate. Which means Biden would have to be tweeting and posting to FB, and that is just too dreamy to consider, to watch him losing his train of thought between the first word and the tenth. 

doppelganglander 7/30/2020 9:33:13 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 30:

I don't think that would have the desired effect. They already think he's plotting to become dictator for life. I would probably hire a swarm of lawyers to observe the ballot counting in states like Washington, with US attorneys on standby to charge every single person who touches a disputed ballot.

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 9:41:43 AM

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lucius septimius 7/30/2020 9:42:06 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 33:

By the way, why do all the people a the SSA have Indian accents?

Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 9:42:46 AM

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In #31 vxbush said: Which means Biden would have to be tweeting and posting to FB, and that is just too dreamy to consider, to watch him losing his train of thought between the first word and the tenth. 

Except that it doesn't have to be Joe Biden, himself, doing that.  

buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 9:43:56 AM

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Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 9:43:58 AM

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In #33 lucius septimius said: Oh dear!  I just got a call saying my social security number is being frozen and that unless I call them and give them a whole bunch of information they will swear out a warrant against me for money laundering.  Literally shaking right now.

Any fines you incur I'd be happy to cover, with the money I'm about to receive from a Nigerian prince.

buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 9:44:57 AM

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In #34 lucius septimius said: By the way, why do all the people a the SSA have Indian accents?

Because you have to curry favor with them.

Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 9:46:27 AM

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At the moment, I'm "participating" in yet another Zoom management-workshop dealy.

What a joke.

Hey, did you know that in times of disruptive change, it's better to be proactive than reactive?!  Srsly!  it's true! 

I need to get in on this gig.  Beats workin'. 

buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 9:46:58 AM

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In #32 doppelganglander said: I don't think that would have the desired effect. They already think he's plotting to become dictator for life. I would probably hire a swarm of lawyers to observe the ballot counting in states like Washington, with US attorneys on standby to charge every single person who touches a disputed ballot.

The idea is to get as many of the states proposing mail-in balloting fraud as possible to back down---and to force them all to declare what they'e doing earlier rather than later, so that the field is thinned and plans can be formulated to deal with those who remain committed to the mail-in option.

buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 9:48:47 AM

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In #33 lucius septimius said: Oh dear!  I just got a call saying my social security number is being frozen and that unless I call them and give them a whole bunch of information they will swear out a warrant against me for money laundering.  Literally shaking right now.

A call?  It is all but certainly phony, like those bogus IRS calls that were popular a few months ago.

Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 9:50:24 AM

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In #41 buzzsawmonkey said:  It is all but certainly phony

(I think he knows that...)

buzzsawmonkey 7/30/2020 9:52:38 AM

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In #42 Occasional Reader said: (I think he knows that...)

Yeah, realized that after I wrote it.  It's hot here, and it's a fast day.

JCM 7/30/2020 10:24:11 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 33:

That's TERRIBLE!

Got that call while driving in the truck with the kids.

They ask me to accept the call.... when it connect they all screamed "WERE CRASHING AND GONNA D....." and cut off the call.

Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 10:34:41 AM

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doppelganglander 7/30/2020 10:35:31 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 40:

I understand that, and I don't think it's going to work. Imagine if Obama said he would seek to postpone the election unless all the states used mail-in ballots. Conservatives would have gone nuclear, and rightly so. This idea makes Trump look like an idiot and a tyrant. There are much better ways to achieve the goal of a fair election.

vxbush 7/30/2020 10:39:24 AM

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In #35 Occasional Reader said: Except that it doesn't have to be Joe Biden, himself, doing that.  

Oh, I know, but then the Republicans point out that their candidate isn't hiding behind someone else to tweet. Shame Biden into doing it.

doppelganglander 7/30/2020 10:41:54 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 47:

Democrats have no shame. In any case, most candidates have staffers to manage their social media. There's nothing sinister about it. It's just that we know Biden can't string three words together without a teleprompter. 

Occasional Reader 7/30/2020 10:59:41 AM

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In #48 doppelganglander said: It's just that we know Biden can't string three words together without a teleprompter. 

Oh, he can string lots and lots of words together! 

Now, if you want coherence, well... 

doppelganglander 7/30/2020 11:27:25 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 49:

Point taken.

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 1:33:40 PM

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And as is to be expected, leftards are busy crowing about Herman Cain's death.  You see, he wouldn't wear a mask so he deserved what he got -- real Darwin stuff.  Ha ha -- conservative black man had it coming!

These people are disgusting.

PaladinPhil 7/30/2020 2:33:29 PM

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doppelganglander 7/30/2020 3:08:50 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 51:

I couldn't get over the sheer viciousness of the reaction to Mike Adams' suicide. Even though he technically won, they wouldn't rest until they hounded him to his grave. If they have souls, which I sometimes doubt, they are made of some black and rotted thing.

doppelganglander 7/30/2020 3:09:23 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 52:

Great news! And the Squire can get the services he needs!

lucius septimius 7/30/2020 3:42:05 PM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 53: .

Cut a little too close to home for me.

Kosh's Shadow 7/30/2020 3:49:58 PM

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In #33 lucius septimius said: Oh dear!  I just got a call saying my social security number is being frozen and that unless I call them and give them a whole bunch of information they will swear out a warrant against me for money laundering.  Literally shaking right now.

In #34 lucius septimius said: By the way, why do all the people a the SSA have Indian accents?

I had a call like that. Because it came in similar to those from the security clearance people, I called back, to get a recording saying it was the Social Security Investigators, and then someone with an Indian accent came on. Meanwhile I saw voicemail was left, so I said I should listen to that first, and hung up.

It sounded more live than the typical robocall, but had the same problem of starting before the recording.

I went to the Social Security website and reported the call.

That was last week, and I haven't been arrested yet.

Kosh's Shadow 7/30/2020 4:10:53 PM

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The person in charge of fundraising for BLM is a convicted terrorist (partway down  in this article)

the fact that the person in charge of fundraising for the BLM movement—to which many well-meaning Jews are likely donating—is a far-left radical who is a convicted terrorist.

Susan Rosenberg was a member of the May 19th Communist Organization, which organized and carried out bombings of federal buildings including the U.S. Capitol and armed robberies in the 1970s and ’80s, including a notorious attack on a Brinks armored car in 1981 in which two policemen and a security guard were murdered. After being caught and convicted of multiple charges, she was sentenced to 58 years in jail. But she served only 16 because President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence on his last day in office.

Today, Rosenberg, who considered herself a political prisoner while in jail, is vice chair of the board of Thousand Currents, and effectively helps lead the group that handles fundraising and “provides the legal and administrative framework” that lets Black Lives Matter “fulfill its mission” in accordance with their website. While she may no longer be responsible for running guns to terrorists, her views don’t seem to have substantially moderated.

doppelganglander 7/30/2020 4:11:09 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 55:

I know, and I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought up something so painful. 

Kosh's Shadow 7/30/2020 4:35:43 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 7/30/2020 4:37:57 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 60:

Twitter should also have an Ayatollan Khamenei sticker. They have no problem with his calls to destroy Israel