Iuz the Evil Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 I thought this was fascinating… Tom Cowan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 Because of Vladimir Putin, the Russian economy has been devastated. The Russian military has been publicly humiliated and critically degraded. Russia's global reputation and influence have been cut to shreds. Russian society is being driven by state-sponsored paranoia and repression. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Russia's best and brightest have fled the country. A "lost generation" of young Russians is being chewed up in a pointless war. It will take generations before all this damage is healed, if it ever is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 And Putin doesn't care. It was never about Russia. TrickstaPriest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 2 hours ago, Clonus said: https://reason.com/2023/01/30/the-most-popular-police-reforms-cant-stop-the-next-tyre-nichols-from-being-killed-heres-what-might/ Still reading the whole story but there's a very early comment that's notable: the National Fraternal Order of Police is NOT defending the officers. QUITE the opposite, in fact. From The Hill: Quote The nation’s largest law enforcement organization spoke out on Friday against the “brutal assault” of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, who was fatally injured during a traffic stop by Memphis police earlier this month. “The event as described to us does not constitute legitimate police work or a traffic stop gone wrong,” Patrick Yoes, the national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said in a statement. “This is a criminal assault under the pretext of law.” One of the points in the article is big, to me. From the Reason story: Quote Stop buying police propaganda. The initial Memphis Police Department statement about Nichols' death bears little resemblance to the horror and brutality that five officers actually visited upon him. Here's how the department described the situation at first: "a confrontation occurred," and "afterward, the suspect complained of having a shortness of breath." Yeah, we do hear this regularly. People are lying...many people in this case. (A question in my mind is whether the EMTs feared reprisal if they said anything.) It's a repeating pattern...downplay, downplay, downplay until it explodes in your face. The story indicts the media too; they're not critical enough, too often. There have to be red flags here...the duration of the event feels like the first one. The timeline includes a 3 minute period after the police caught up to Nichols, where they beat on him for 3 minutes. That is a LONG time. There's about a 20 minute interval before he's treated. Got to think that's another flag. TrickstaPriest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 Quote Still reading the whole story but there's a very early comment that's notable: the National Fraternal Order of Police is NOT defending the officers. QUITE the opposite, in fact. IS that because they're actually disgusted or because these (Black) officers blatantly got caught? Joe Walsh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 U.S. Rep. Santos to recuse himself from committee assignments It's a start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 56 minutes ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said: U.S. Rep. Santos to recuse himself from committee assignments It's a start. He's lying. Tom Cowan, Cygnia, archer and 3 others 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 Most likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickstaPriest Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 Yeah. I'll believe it when it happens... and only for as long as it happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 George Santos will not serve on any committees. However, Anthony Devolder, Anthony Zabrovsky, and Kitara Ravache will. Ranxerox, aylwin13 and Joe Walsh 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 1, 2023 Report Share Posted February 1, 2023 Besides, it means he gets the privileges, and doesn't have to do much work. One could argue that NOT serving on committees means he's derelict in representing his district, but there's no mechanism to recall him, so he's nothing more than a placeholder in any case. There is 0 chance he'll get Party support in '24; likely very little chance he can beat almost any primary challenger, and probably could only beat a really bad Democratic candidate. Wait a sec. I take that back. Just looked up the 3 names Bolo mentioned. 0 chance of support. Lucky to receive 1% in the primary. Lucky to receive 5% against ANY Democrat, no matter how liberal. But, you know why he's not resigning. These are likely the last paychecks he's *ever* going to get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted February 1, 2023 Report Share Posted February 1, 2023 Lawyers Ask Why the One White Cop in the Tyre Nichols Case Escaped Termination Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted February 1, 2023 Report Share Posted February 1, 2023 The cynic in me says the headline provides the answer to the question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 1, 2023 Report Share Posted February 1, 2023 That’s not cynicism, that’s realism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 Imagine my surprise. Republicans vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 That's all anyone can do, as any surprise here would be entirely imaginary. These are the House Republicans, after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 Capitol Rioter Breaks Down Crying After Receiving 68-Month Prison Sentence Logan D. Hurricanes, aylwin13, Cygnia and 2 others 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 "I let my emotions take control" Dude, when you drive to DC, then spray police officers with your chemicals as you try to over throw a lawful election, then BOAST about it later, this wasn't just some slip of temper. It's premeditated, and as a Ex Marine, you're an Oathbreaker and a damned traitor. I'm all for mercy in many cases, but in this situation? Zero sympathy. rravenwood, tkdguy, Ternaugh and 9 others 8 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 Can I get an Amen from the Congregation for Brother Hermit!!! aylwin13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 37 minutes ago, wcw43921 said: Capitol Rioter Breaks Down Crying After Receiving 68-Month Prison Sentence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 47 minutes ago, wcw43921 said: Capitol Rioter Breaks Down Crying After Receiving 68-Month Prison Sentence I nominate this guy as the poster child for "F*** Around, Find Out". Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 I'm not saying this to try to exonerate the guy, but what I'd love to know is what he was thinking throughout 2020? What led to this, why did he do it, how did he become so willfully blind to the nature of what he was doing? What can be done to mitigate it from happening again?? Maybe nothing. If the root causes lie in the decades-long effort to marginalize and dehumanize the "Liberal Establishment"...probably nothing because it's a practical impossibility to muzzle the vicious media elements who create this. But if we can't identify the causes of radicalization, we can't even start to address them. TrickstaPriest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickstaPriest Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 the whole James O Brian "hate the conman not the conned". At some point though someone (in this case the ex-marine) has to be responsible for the harm they caused, and most importantly others need to realize that person will continue to harm people if not dealt with. So punishment / imprisonment is our only capable action here. Been pretty interesting to think of this culture war in the superhero context, and the g****mn nightmare that would look like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 No question. The git deserves the time. If anything I think he's getting off lightly. But if we can't work out the underlying factors, it's going to continue to happen. Elsewhere... https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/02/fake-it-till-you-make-it-00080877 Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 38 minutes ago, unclevlad said: No question. The git deserves the time. If anything I think he's getting off lightly. But if we can't work out the underlying factors, it's going to continue to happen. This. This right here. 38 minutes ago, unclevlad said: Elsewhere... https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/02/fake-it-till-you-make-it-00080877 Was it P.T. Barnum who said, "There's no such thing as bad publicity?" It seems like that's the operating philosophy here. Which reminds me of something else that P.T. Barnum said.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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