Women Attracted to Strength
Because Dinosaurs

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Sean Parnell(R-PA), Candidate for Congress
 

Yes, he said these words, on the record:

  • “From an evolutionary standpoint, it used to be women were attracted to your strength because you could defend them from dinosaurs.”
     
  • “The idea that a woman doesn’t need a man to be successful, the idea that a woman doesn’t need a man to have a baby, the idea that a woman can live a happy and fulfilling life without a man, I think it’s all nonsense.”
     

Returns Return, Jan 6, QTips, Dune, Haw Haw Hawley, Manchin, Economy

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FB Zucks, Willard, Small Members, Fauci’s Blasphemy, Groove w/Grover

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  • So Facebook will become Meta? Well, just the corporation itself, right? Facebook will still be Facebook?
     
    Andy Borowitz provides the under reported rest of the story. Mark Zuckerberg’s image also needs a restart. He will be changing his own name to Mother Teresa.
     
  • Mark Z says the new/old company/platform will be dedicated to the metaverse. There is some debate among the elites about just what that means, since the metaverse is supposed to transcend mere social platforms, and kinda sorta make them impossible.
     
    Sarah Cooper has her own reaction:
     

  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson reads about the big renaming. Color him skeptical:
     

  • The innocent bunch of tourists falsely blamed for their peaceful attempt to visit the nation’s Capitol building on January 6 was a narrative that didn’t last for a New York minute. So the story metastasized into the innocent rally that turned into an impromptu march and accidentally became a spontaneous riot, stunning the rally sponsors.
     
    Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged explores the exploding evidence from the Willard Hotel that Trump’s allies, including members of Congress, were coordinating the whole thing and getting their minute by minute instructions directly from the Trump White House.
     
    So… some of our worst conspiracy theories are suddenly passing the solid evidence test, complete with documentation.
    Yikes.
     
  • News Corpse examines Tucker Carlson’s latest effort to paint the Jan 6 insurrection as a false flag operation, with the FBI orchestrating the violence and blaming it on Trump.
     
    Well, it is different, I suppose. Most wingnuts I come in contact with on the internet, those thinking Trumpers weren’t really responsible, blame left wing infiltrators. Makes me wonder about anti-Trump antifa types dressing up like Trump supporters and storming the Capitol, trying to lynch legislators in order to overturn the election that Trump had just lost.
     
    But seeing the FBI now transformed into a leftist organization strikes me as even less likely.
     
    Freedom of speech did not apply to the lynch mob that succeeded in killing a few police officers and sending more to the hospital.
    It does apply to Tuck.
     
  • Hackwhackers doesn’t really need to make the case that Steve Bannon is tied to the violence of the Jan 6 lynch mob insurrection. Just quote Bannon’s own words.
     
  • Scotties Toy Box relates a sad saga through a series of Tweets as a Canadian Neo-Nazi plots with those of similar outlook in the US to hunt for minority victims to kill in the hopes of starting a race war.
     
    At sentencing, the would be race-based mass murderer tells the judge he had simply fallen in with the wrong crowd.
     
    Peer pressure. It’s a killer.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life suggests that the divisiveness of zero-sum Trumpism has turned political debate into a series of win-or-lose sporting events. You don’t seek solutions or even a mutually beneficial compromise in a gladiator death-match.
     
  • driftglass gives us the last few years as a wild interpretive movie script. Entertaining.
     
  • Green Eagle might be trolling rightists if it weren’t just on his own blog. He highlights the most widely circulated of wingnut messages, along with his pithy responses.
     
    Green Eagle is a VERY patient individual.
     
  • Tommy Christopher watches British television as a conservative host badgers an environmentalist who is also a carpenter for hypocritically using lumber that comes from trees. Okay, so trees can be grown but, says the host, so can concrete. Then dumps the guest, seemingly for his astonishment.
     
    Imagine, anyone thinking concrete can’t be harvested from concrete trees.
     
    Next time I need a new car, I’ll be out looking for a good automobile orchard.

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Colin Powell, COVID, Press & Protest, Truth Trumped, McCabe Trumps, Porn

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  • In the perpetual negotiation of the Joes: Green Eagle has an idea for Joe Biden on how to deal with Joe Manchin.
     
  • Glenn Geist, residing in MadMikesAmerica, is irate about the blithe misinformation, and lapses in logic, about COVID that have resulted in 700,000 deaths. He focuses on one self-proclaimed expert who is leading an unknown number into long stays in ICU units, forever damaged health and, for some, a final trip to the morgue.
     
  • A Million Parent March? Well… No, actually.
    Thousands protest? Nope.
    Hundreds turn out to oppose? Not that either.
     
    In a jurisdiction covering nearly 10 million residents, M. Bouffant at Web of Evil is irritated at news coverage about an anti-school vaccination mandate protest that numbers literally in the dozens.
     
  • The Propaganda Professor takes a look at the strange anti-vax narrative that conflates of vaccines with 1940s fascism.
     
    It is true that my high school education has faded, having been overrun with life experiences stretching out more than half a century.
     
    I confess I just don’t remember Nazi officials who had followed orders from Hitler or Mussolini having later been convicted of pounding on doors and begging inhabitants to accept safeguards from horrible death.
     
  • Scotties Toy Box contains news that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has turned back a challenge to Maine’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The unsuccessful challenge was based on religious grounds. Seems vaccines are tested on human embryonic cells.
     
    Scottie helpfully lists of lots and lots of medications similarly tested. So the same religious objectors will want to avoid aspirin, Trump recommended hydroxychloroquine, and ivermectin (even for parasites in livestock).
     
  • At The Onion, Florida’s educational system is going full speed to stay up‑to‑date, revising guidelines to reflect the very latest misinformation.
     
  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara says vaccine mandates work and vaccine mandates save lives. He goes on to say that vaccine mandates are wrong.
     
    Well, fair enough. Lots of things that work can be opposed on moral, rather than practical, grounds.
     
    He then quotes the Libertarian Gospel according to Ayn Rand. He thinks she supports his view. She doesn’t.
     
    Confronted with earlier epidemics, she opposed forced inoculation in which government agents might hold subjects down, if necessary, while administering involuntary vaccination. Mr. LaFerrara may be surprised to learn that nobody currently advocates that.
     
    He quotes her as supporting forced quarantines in order…
    …to protect those people who are not ill … to prevent the people who are ill from passing on their illness to others.
    He seems unaware that today her logic is the precise rationale, not for forced quarantines, but for requiring mandates by major employers.

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Colin Powell

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Jan 6 Flag, Trump v Jesus, 2024, Econ, GOP Fascism, Wings, Fox Tucked

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  • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson tells us that some fellow named Stephen K. Bannon is refusing to testify or produce documents in response to a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan 6 lynch mob insurrection. He invokes executive privilege as claimed by Donald Trump. She explains the legal issues, beginning with: This is a weird argument.
     
  • Okay, so Steve Bannon is relying on an obviously bogus claim of Executive Privilege.
    1. Donald Trump is not President, so he cannot claim the privilege.
    2. If he could claim the privilege it could not apply to criminal acts, like what looks to have happened in connection with the Jan 6 insurrection lynch mob.
    3. Even if, by some cosmic sleight of hand, the lynch insurgency was not criminal, Bannon was not employed by the Trump administration in January. So… executive what?
       

    The investigating committee will meet Tuesday to vote on holding Bannon in contempt. Some very smart people ask an obvious question.
     
    Since the obstruction is sooooo obvious, why in the whole wide warming world will they wait until Tuesday?
     
    The Palmer Report examines that question and explains why Tuesday is the absolute perfect time.
     

  • Every once in a while, we’ll hear of a special American flag connected with some battle or other historical event. Flags are flown for short periods of time over the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. When we are told we will be saying the Pledge of Allegiance to such a flag, it is intended to give us an additional connection with something special, something national.
     
    Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, watches a new tradition, saying the Pledge to a flag carried by the Jan 6 insurrection lynch mob.
     
    Connection with a special bit of American history, I suppose. Makes you kind of proud, doesn’t it?
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson becomes impatient with a fellow conservative who suggests the main Jan 6 lynch mob transgression was that the mob entered a government building:
     

  • In MadMikesAmerica, Joe Hagstrom compares Donald Trump to Jesus of Nazareth. Guess who wins!
     
  • Hackwhackers unexpectedly finds common ground, complete agreement with Donald Trump.
     
  • Andy Borowitz reports that, for the sake of efficiency, Donald Trump will avoid putting the nation through the trauma of a costly election. He will skip the 2024 campaign and go straight to claiming he won.

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Refusing Executive Privilege:
a Dangerous Precedent?

found on Twitter by Burr

 

 

Cost of Refusing to Vaccinate

found on Twitter by Burr

 
Employment loss
 

Greater likelihood of

terrible period of hospitalization

horrible death