I don't do twitter and so I don't care a whit about it.

Professor, here.

Grammatically I think it's peace.

But regarding the potential exercise of one's Second Amendment Rights in a Saloon the Bartender might implore you not to shoot somebody in which case I believe it would be piece.

Nice try.. But Vindmann is not an officer of the court..

And my not having said anything about Vindmann is not proof of support for those against Vindmann..

Unless you want to confirm here for everyone that you DO believe that SILENCE does, indeed, give consent??

Hmmmmm??? :D

You haven’t said anything about the threats to those investigating the failed 01/06 insurrection attempt. Why not? Because you do not actually care about any of this

So you DO believe that SILENCE GIVES ASSENT??

What I believe about the 6 Jan committe is that it's a joke.. It's NOTHING but political kubuki theater.. JUST like ya'all's Russia Collusion delusion..

And NOTHING will come of it...

JUST like ya'all's Russia Collusion delusion..

:D

Age of rage indeed...

Funny, I remember when Alexander Vindman’s family had to go in hiding because of threats to their safety and people protesting around their home and what was your reaction at the time? Something to the effect that “traitors get what they deserve”!

You haven’t said anything about the threats to those investigating the failed 01/06 insurrection attempt. Why not? Because you do not actually care about any of this.

What's ya'all's thoughts on this??

Both Musk's buying Titter and the Democrats hysterical fearmongering response to that..

Inquiring minds want to know. :D

Media, Elon Musk go to war as experts guess new Twitter chief won't ‘adhere blindly to left-of-center dogmas’

'Musk is a threat to the establishment media outlets because he intends to expand the rhetorical marketplace instead of restricting it,' Jeffrey McCall said
https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-elon-musk-experts-twitter-dogma

I especially like this part..

On ABC’s "The View," co-host Sunny Hostin said that Musk was planning to "unleash the trolls" and "take away the guardrails" of Twitter safety, so users can say whatever they want.

OH THE HORROR OF IT ALL!!!!!

PEOPLE WILL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO SAY WHATEVER THEY WANT!!!

HOW CAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY SURVIVE IN A WORLD WILL PEOPLE ACTUALLY SAY WHATEVER THEY WANT!!!??????

BBBBWWAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Can ya'all BELIEVE how far the Democrat Party has fallen into the abyss!!???

It's MIND BOGGLING....

That could explain the comments being closed...

I could. Well, something had better explain it and soon.

Hawley aims to revoke Disney's 'special privileges' with new legislation
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hawley-bill-end-disneys-special-copyright-protections

Go Woke.. Go Broke..

Disney has no one to blame except themselves and a small, VERY small minority of Disney LGBTQABCXYZEIEIO employees...

Yes, I am reading the commentaries now..

It's possible that either the dog ate the rest of the Weigantian administration's home work or there was an error in transmission.

That could explain the comments being closed...

Elon Musk says Twitter obviously has a 'strong' left-wing bias

The Tesla CEO cast shade on Twitter after a verified journalist cheered on violence against pro-lifers
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-twitter-obviously-strong-left-wing-bias

So, if black lives truly DO matter to Democrats...???

Well, I am sure ya'all can figure out the rest...

I regret the tone of comment #274.. Your reasonable discussions and comments made after the comment that prompted the #274 response made me regret the tone of comment #274.

I sincerely render my sincere apologies..

As a GRAMMAR ASIDE, I turn to our esteemed professor here..

Is it 'peace' or 'piece'?? An argument can be made for either...

Both parties have blood on their hands. That is undeniable..

But Democrats have the blood of 63 *MILLION* babies on THEIR hands.. Which FAR FAR outweighs the blood the GOP has on their hands.. Far enough to be on a different planet..

But I will concede that both Parties do have blood on their hands.

It doesn't justify harassing and terrorizing CHILDREN.

The actions of these protesters in the here and now violate Federal Law...

Not to mention common decency..

HAVE {DEMOCRATS} NO DECENCY!!??

There are the extreme fringes on any issue..

I believe it was YOU who pointed out that the entire group should not be painted with the brush of a fringe group..

'YOU' of course being the Democrat Party and not you personally..

Just wanted to clarify that..

But Republicans want to ban it less than one month into the 2nd trimester.

I can see and understand their position, though I may not fully agree with it.. A baby at 4 weeks is less of a baby than a baby at 32 weeks.

But a 4 week baby is STILL a baby..

As far as the current situation.. Democrats only have themselves to blame. If they would have been satisfied with SAFE, LEGAL and RARE, then RvW would not be being thrown on the trash heap of history..

But NOOOooooooo... Democrats had to get in the face of the pro-life and anti baby killing people and #CELEBRATE their infanticide and #SHOUT OUT their baby killing..

So if yer looking for someone to blame for *80%* of Americans supporting baby killing restrictions you need to look no further than your own Democrat Party.

"afw'ein Mnhei'sahe"
-Romulan Proverb

TRANSLATION: You deserve no pity, I will give you no sympathy and it serves you right!!

If they can induce labor and it survives, then you might have an argument..but you are still forcing the woman to go through an unwanted pregnancy that could kill her.

IF it's an unwanted pregnancy.. It's entirely possible/probable that MANY babies are killed by a woman who WANTED a baby but then changed their mind because a job opportunity came up or she got pregnant to corral the father into marriage and the father bolted..

Irregardless of that, wanted or unwanted pregnancy does not change the fact that we are talking about a sentient human life form here..

I'll concede that you may have a good argument about a rape or forced incest victim..

But the argument that the baby should not endure capital punishment for the crimes of the father is a far more compelling and factual argument..

NO ONE is forcing ANY woman to be a mother.. The woman still has that choice.

You keep posting that Americans overwhelmingly support a woman’s right to an abortion within a set time period.

Yes, 80% of Americans support abortion restrictions.. I am betting that most everyone here is part of that 80% but just doesn't want to admit it...

Call my naïve but I simply cannot see ANY Weigantian being so callous and heartless that they would support a woman's right to kill her baby as she is being wheeled into the delivery room..

I could be wrong. It's been known to happen..

You are the ones trying to go against what the public wants.

And WHOSE to blame for that??

I refer you to the point made above.. I don't like to repeat myself..

Awww who am I kidding.. I LOVE repeating myself!! :D

Democrats had to get in the face of the pro-life and anti baby killing people and #CELEBRATE their infanticide and #SHOUT OUT their baby killing..

So if yer looking for someone to blame for *80%* of Americans supporting baby killing restrictions you need to look no further than your own Democrat Party.

Do I agree with the 6 week stance on baby killing?? A decent argument can be made against it, I'll concede that much.. But the other side of the argument is, based on SCIENCE, more compelling..

If you have a heartbeat it is unequivocally and inarguably a human. SCIENCE says so..

And we know Democrats are ALL about "science".. Right?? :^/

It's not like THAT hasn't happened before, eh? :D

I think I still have that Odumbo shirt.. :D

I might have to eat my own words...

When I was a kid I loved PLANET OF THE APES TV series.. Even though I was quite young I realized that when a show starts being preempted a lot for TV Specials and such that said show is being cancelled..

Despite my previous words it's possible that the Weigantian administration is weaning us off our Weigantia commenting addiction...

What are you talking about?!? Trek had people of all races, sexual orientation, humans and aliens working together, demonstrating that we can show each other respect and be inclusive to those we don’t think we have anything in common with and it doesn’t destroy us — it makes us better and stronger when we do? Those Democratic Party values that can be found in the DNC Party Platform.

Really?? Democrat Party is all inclusive???

REALLY?? :eyeroll:

So, Democrats didn't just firebomb an anti-baby killing office??

Democrats are not harassing and terrorizing the children of SCOTUS Justices AT THEIR HOMES??

Democrats didn't support and condone with their silence 22+ years of Democrat violent riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings all over the country?? Attacks where at least 8 cops were killing tens of thousands injured and tens of billions of dollars in damage??

And you have the gall to sit their and claim that the Democrat Party reflects STAR TREK TOS VALUES!!!???

Yer eyes must be brown because that statement is full of shit... :eyeroll:

Well, that's two days in three with no comments.

Yea.. weird...

Once is a mistake. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is an agenda..

I might have to eat my own words...

You mean like those good folks at Westboro Baptist Church that ya’ll love so much did?

I am on record as voraciously and as passionately opposing their actions as ya'all are about 6 Jan 21...

It appears that by ya'all's silence (yourself included) you support those "good folks at Westboro Baptist Church" by ya'all's continued silence...

SILENCE GIVES CONSENT
-The Democrat Party

Do people celebrate and support just living with cancer?? Or covid?? or alzheimers???

Why, why, WHY MUST you insist on demonstrating just how uneducated they truly are by continuously spouting false bullshit as if it were true?!?! Back in the early to mid 1900’s, it was people like you that insisted on speaking on topics they couldn’t understand that led to tens of thousands of gay men being forced into having lobotomies against their will!

Families couldn’t stand by as their loved ones lived with such a horrible mental disorder that, if left alone, could have resulted in their sons living happy, love-filled lives that their family just wasn’t comfortable with or willing to learn about.

I cannot tell if it is sheer stupidity on your part to compare being trans to having a disease, or maybe you truly are a closet case with unchecked anger issues. Did Lincoln freeing the slaves make freedom less enjoyable for white men like you?

Why am I not surprised..

And here is Michale, thinking that demanding he provide evidence to prove his accusations are true is somehow me “moving the goal posts…”.

Why is no one surprised???

PURE... UNADULTERATED... TREK!!!!!

LOVE IT!!!

What are you talking about?!? Trek had people of all races, sexual orientation, humans and aliens working together, demonstrating that we can show each other respect and be inclusive to those we don’t think we have anything in common with and it doesn’t destroy us — it makes us better and stronger when we do? Those Democratic Party values that can be found in the DNC Party Platform.

What values do we find in the GOP’s Party Platform??? Looks like it’s the Mission Statement that you’d expect a suicide Cult to have — We live for Donald J. Trump and we believe whatever he tells us to believe; no matter how many times he changes it or how bat-shitting-crazy it is!

Slik Toxik - Doin' The Nasty (Full Album)

Very, very nice! I enjoyed that very much ... it could be your theme song!

Me neither. :)

What wouldn't Meat Loaf do for love?

What say ya'all?? YEA or NAY??

You mean like those good folks at Westboro Baptist Church that ya’ll love so much did?

You complain about civility in protesting, but your side has already set the stage for years when it comes to abortion. Harassing patents heading to abortion clinics even if they are going for other purposes. Planned parenthood does a hell of a lot more than abortions. Bombing abortion clinics, killing abortion doctors. Anti abortion protesting has been quite ugly. A bit hypocritical making apples to oranges comparisons when apples to apples comparisons are well documented...

And the state law requires that the victim be removed from the mother’s care if the mother was the abuser; which means the state will have to remove the fetus and hope it lives.

It will also require any couple that has had fertilized eggs frozen attempting IVF to become pregnant to use all of them. You may have only wanted a single child, but the Republicans want Octo-Moms to become the norm!

But Republicans want to ban it less than one month into the 2nd trimester. Those are very different stages of development. If they can induce labor and it survives, then you might have an argument..but you are still forcing the woman to go through an unwanted pregnancy that could kill her. You keep posting that Americans overwhelmingly support a woman’s right to an abortion within a set time period. You are the ones trying to go against what the public wants.

Ya caught me heading out the door..

"Hasta lasagna, don't get any on ya.."
-Emilio Estevez, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

Virgin Galactic’s commercial service delay sparks downgrade

Virgin Galactic will push back commercial service for its spaceflights from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023

Shares of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic tumbled Monday after the aerospace giant's stock was downgraded from a buy to a hold rating by Truist Securities analyst Michale Ciarmoli. The firm has slashed its price target on Virgin Galactic from $24 to $8 per share.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/virgin-galactic-commercial-service-2023

This is the first time I have seen someone spell Michale the way I spell it..

I hope the poor guy doesn't get any hate mail on my account.. :D

The facts prove otherwise..

House Conservatives Ready Law-and-Order Agenda Ahead of Midterms
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/09/house_conservatives_ready_law-and-order_agenda_ahead_of_midterms_147576.html#2

This plan might even get Russ to vote GOP... :D

I cannot recall exactly when it was and I don't have (credit where credit is due) Kick's prowess in searching Weigantian archives...

Wonder if we'll see that level of voracious passion in condemning the protesters at the residences of SCOTUS Justices.. :^/

“I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”

Guess no one wanted to partake..

That was none other than Joe Biden...

Rep. Chip Roy and Sen. Mike Lee press for organized protection of churches from Roe v. Wade protesters
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-chip-roy-sen-mike-lee-garland-protect-churches-protesters-threaten-services

Will Biden's DOJ protect churches and Justice's residences as voraciously and as passionately as the protected School Board meetings??

Time will tell..

I don't like it.. :^(

Democrats... In all their glory... :eyeroll:

Biden's Disinformation Board is a Gift to Republicans

If you worked really hard, you might be able to come up with an idea as unappealing as a government disinformation board. Voters already distrust the government and are especially concerned about its excessive intrusion and unchecked regulatory power.

If you worked even harder, you might find as bad a person to lead it as Nina Jankowicz, a self-styled "disinformation expert" whose real specialty seems to be spreading disinformation to support her left-wing views.

If you tried hard to justify this mess, you might come up with a defender as ineffective as Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security. The secretary, already in deep trouble because of the porous southern border, faced a hostile Senate hearing and admitted he knew nothing about Ms. Jankowicz's dismal history of ideological fulminations and partisan statements. He refused to say whose bright idea it was to hire her—only that he was clueless about her background. Still, Mayorkas refused to apologize, refused to replace her and refused to back down from creating this ill-conceived (and ill-defined) board.

If you did all these things, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has, you would be committing political malpractice. You would be mocking the Constitution's fundamental protection of free speech, encoded in the First Amendment. Although a few ideologues might applaud you, you would hear only groans from moderate Democrats running for reelection. This ill-conceived board would lash them, at their peril, to a high-profile effort to monitor private speech, conducted by a very unpopular administration. That's dangerous constitutionally and incompetent politically.
https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-disinformation-board-gift-republicans-opinion-1704256

This is the LAST thing Democrats need before the mid-term elections..

Someone in the Democrat Party or the leadership (such as it is) at DHS is a plant, secretly working for the GOP..

Obstruction of Justice at the Supreme Court

The Biden regime has made it absolutely clear there’ll be no justice in the leak case.

18 U.S.C. § 1507 provides, in relevant part, the following:

“Whoever … with the intent of influencing any judge … in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge … or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

Similarly, 18 U.S.C. § 1503 provides, in relevant part, the following:

“Whoever … by any threatening … communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate or impede any … officer of any court of the United States … in the discharge of his duty … or by any threatening … communication … endeavors to influence, obstruct or impede, the due administration of justice” shall be fined or subject to “imprisonment for not more than 10 years” or both.

And then, there is 18 U.S.C. § 371 which makes it a crime for two or more persons to conspire to commit any offense against the United States. If such persons conspired to violate § 1503, they face imprisonment for a term up to 5 years. For conspiracy to violate § 1507, they face imprisonment up to 1 year.

Based on what we know so far, it appears that the demonstrators, those who organized the demonstrations, the person(s) who doxed the Justices, the person(s) who provided Alito’s draft opinion to Politico, and the person(s) at Politico who published the opinion face arrest and prosecution under the foregoing statutes. All of them appear to have acted and conspired to influence, intimidate, and impede Justices of the Supreme Court as they adjudicate a case pending before them.

In short, these conspirators appear to have made history by endeavoring to obstruct justice at the highest possible level of the judiciary.

So, will these history-making events cause the Biden regime to task the woke warriors of the FBI with getting to the bottom of this conspiracy to obstruct justice at the Supreme Court? And, if given the job, will the FBI act in the manner of its January 6 Capitol Hill manhunts by mounting an aggressive and thorough round up of these miscreants?

Equally important, will the FBI use the same aggressive investigative technique that it used against Project Veritas by raiding Politico’s offices to learn who leaked the draft opinion?
https://spectator.org/obstruction-of-justice-at-the-supreme-court/

And THERE it is.. Will Democrats pursue and condemn these scumbags as voraciously and as passionately as they have the 6 Jan protesters???

Apparently.... Not.. :eyeroll:

The Democrat Party... The Cop Hate Party... :^/

Democrats need to condemn this blatant attack as passionately as they condemn 6 Jan or parents speaking out in schoolboards or their condemnation is meaningless..

What say ya'all?? YEA or NAY??

Silence gives assent.. :D

BLM... Just a money-making con...

What say ya'all?? YEA or NAY??

Heh

yeah, that's intimidation and completely unacceptable.

Ditto.

Heh.

So, if Roe is overturned, Americans will wake up the next morning and discover that the justices have not in fact banned abortion nationwide but have simply upheld the right of states to impose restrictions — including restrictions that most of them support. That is unlikely to spark the kind of popular outrage Democrats are hoping for.

If the Supreme Court does send abortion decisions back to the states, Democrats will have to own their abortion radicalism. Democrats used to argue that, in Bill Clinton’s famous phrase, abortion should be “safe, legal and rare.” No longer. In 2012, they formally expunged “rare” from their party platform, declaring their support for “safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay.” Polls show that a majority of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. Yet in 2016 Democrats approved a platform that called for repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortions. To secure the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, Joe Biden had to surrender to the pro-abortion radicals and renounce his more-than-40-year support for the Hyde Amendment.

And in recent years, Democrats have increasingly embraced unfettered abortion access far beyond what the majority of Americans support. In 2019, Democrats in New York lit up the Freedom Tower to celebrate the passage of a new state law that removed almost all restrictions on abortion, even in the third trimester, while in Illinois, Democrats repealed the state’s Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.

The new Democratic orthodoxy is taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand up to the moment of birth — a position supported by a tiny minority of Americans. So, if the battle over abortion moves from the Supreme Court to the states, Democrats will have to fight 15-week abortion bans (which most Americans support) and defend second- and third-trimester abortion (which most Americans oppose).

Democrats are their own worst enemies in this issue....

They should have been satisfied with SAFE LEGAL AND RARE...

Watch out, Democrats. The abortion ruling may help Republicans.

Yes, polls show that most Americans say they don’t want the high court to overturn Roe. But polls also show that most Americans don’t know what overturning Roe actually means. A 2019 study reported that 65.7 percent of Americans incorrectly believe that if Roe were overturned, abortion would be illegal everywhere in the United States. It would not.

But a Fox News poll released this week finds most Americans agree with the Mississippi abortion law at the heart of the Supreme Court case. The survey found that 54 percent favor state laws banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, except in the case of a medical emergency — exactly what the Mississippi law does — while just 41 percent oppose such a law. This is consistent with the results of a 2018 Gallup poll that found most Americans want abortion restricted to the first trimester (the first 12 weeks of pregnancy), while only 28 percent support allowing abortions in the second trimester and just 13 percent in the third trimester.
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/watch-out-democrats-the-abortion-ruling-may-help-republicans/

If one asks the poll questions factual and apolitical, the vast majority of Americans support abortion restrictions in the 3rd trimester..

This is fact...

If the US institute this restriction nationally, it would be on par with the rest of the civilized world..

“I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”

The attack comes as the Supreme Court is expected to overturn Roe v. Wade
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-condemns-molotov-cocktail-attack-wisconsin-anti-abortion-group

I'll believe that Biden's handlers are sincere when Merrick Garland opens up a DOJ investigation into the blatant insurrection aimed at the Judiciary branch of the US Government.. :eyeroll:

That's acceptable protest???

From court packing to leaking to doxing: White House yields to a national rage addiction

Nearly 70 years ago, a little-known lawyer named Joseph Welch famously confronted Sen. Joseph McCarthy (D-Wis.) in defense of a young man hounded over alleged un-American views. Welch told McCarthy that “I think I have never really gauged … your recklessness” before asking: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

It was a defining moment in American politics as Welch called out a politician who had abandoned any semblance of principle in the pursuit of political advantage. This week, the same scene played out in the White House with one striking difference: This was no Joseph Welch to be found.

After someone in the Supreme Court leaked a draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a virtual flash-mob formed around the court and its members demanding retributive justice. This included renewed calls for court “packing,” as well as the potential targeting of individual justices at their homes. Like the leaking of the opinion itself, the doxing of justices and their families is being treated as fair game in our age of rage.

There is more than a license to this rage; there is an addiction to it. That was evident in March 2020 when Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stood in front of the Supreme Court to threaten Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh by name: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Schumer’s reckless rhetoric was celebrated, not condemned, by many on the left, even after he attempted to walk it back by stating that “I should not have used the words I used … they did not come out the way I intended to.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3480452-from-court-packing-to-leaking-to-doxing-white-house-yields-to-a-national-rage-addiction/

That came out EXACTLY as Schumer intended..

Even here in Weigantia, we see people saying by commission and omission that protesting at judges HOMES and harassing judges' FAMILY and CHILDREN is acceptable..

Age of rage indeed...

It was just one week after both Obama and Clinton called for greater government action against online disinformation that Homeland Security announced it is “standing up a new Disinformation Governance Board to coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security.” The trend here could not be clearer: Western governments are seeking greater and greater control of what information is and is not allowed on the internet, and are using both formal power (the force of law) and informal power (threats of legal and regulatory reprisals) to force tech companies to censor the internet in the name of fighting “disinformation.”

For that reason, whoever wields the authority to decree what does and does not fall into the scope of that elastic, vague and ill-defined term has immense power to control what information populations around the world can access, and conversely what information is barred. That is what makes it so disturbing that Homeland Security has just seized this power for itself. An agency with a long history of lying, run by life-long disinformation agents, has just created a board to issue these official decrees, all overseen by a person who is so partisan and ideologically motivated that it is hard to take her seriously. Whether or not you take her seriously, the power that Homeland Security has just secured for itself is anything but a joke.

The danger simply CANNOT be over-estimated...

This scam is the critical context for understanding why the Biden Administration casually announced last week the creation of what it is calling a "Disinformation Board” inside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). There is no conceivable circumstance in which a domestic law enforcement agency like DHS should be claiming the power to decree truth and falsity. Operatives in the U.S. Security State are not devoted to combatting disinformation. The opposite is true: they are trained, career liars tasked with concocting and spreading disinformation. As Politico's Jack Schafer wrote:

Who among us thinks the government should add to its work list the job of determining what is true and what is disinformation? And who thinks the government is capable of telling the truth? Our government produces lies and disinformation at industrial scale and always has. It overclassifies vital information to block its own citizens from becoming any the wiser. It pays thousands of press aides to play hide the salami with facts….Making the federal government the official custodian of truth would be like Brink’s giving a safe-cracker a job driving an armored car.

This same strategic motive — to vest accusations of “disinformation” with the veneer of expertise — is what has fostered a new, very well-financed industry heralding itself as composed of “anti-disinformation" scholars. Knowing that Americans are inculcated from childhood to believe that censorship is nefarious — that it is the hallmark of tyranny — those who wish to censor need to find some ennobling rationale to justify it and disguise what it is.

They have thus created a litany of neutral-sounding groups with benign names — The Atlantic Council, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, various "fact-checking” outfits controlled by corporate media outlets — that claim to employ “anti-disinformation experts” to identify and combat fake news. Just as media corporations re-branded their partisan pundits as "fact-checkers" -- to masquerade their opinions as elevated, apolitical, authoritative decrees of expertise -- the term "disinformation expert" is designed to disguise ideological views on behalf of state and corporate power centers as Official Truth.

Yet when one subjects these groups to even minimal investigative scrutiny, one finds that they are anything but apolitical and neutral. They are often funded by the same small handful of liberal billionaires (such as George Soros and Pierre Omidyar), actual security state agencies of the U.S., the UK or the EU, and/or Big Tech monopolies such as Google and Facebook.

It's like AntiFa claiming they are anti Fascist yet the employ ALL the aspects of fascism..

As I am fond of saying..

Biden's Disinformation Board is to REAL anti-disinformation what The Democratic Republic Of North Korea is to REAL Democracy...

The most egregious and blatant official U.S. disinformation campaign in years took place three weeks before the 2020 presidential election. That was when dozens of former intelligence officials purported, in an open letter, to believe that authentic emails regarding Joe Biden's activities in China and Ukraine, reported by The New York Post, were "Russian disinformation.” That quasi-official proclamation enabled liberal corporate media outlets to uncritically mock and then ignore those emails as Kremlin-created fakes, and it pressured Big Tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to censor the reporting at exactly the time Americans were preparing to decide who would be the next U.S. president.

The letter from these former intelligence officials was orchestrated by trained career liars — disinformation agents — such as former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Yet that letter was nonetheless crucial to discredit and ultimately suppress the New York Post's incriminating reporting on Biden. It provided a quasi-official imprimatur — something that could be depicted as an authoritative decree — that these authentic emails were, in fact, fraudulent.

After all, if all of these noble and heroic intelligence operatives who spent their lives studying Russian disinformation were insisting that the Biden emails had all of the "hallmarks" of Kremlin treachery, who possessed the credibility to dispute their expert assessment? This clip from the media leader in spreading this CIA pre-election lie — CNN — features their national security analyst James Clapper, and it illustrates how vital this pretense of officialdom was in their deceitful disinformation campaign:

That act of cheating alone, had it not occurred, would have swung the election to President Trump..

Anyone who claims that the 2020 election was fair is simply ignorant or deluding themselves..

Homeland Security's "Disinformation Board" is Even More Pernicious Than it Seems

The power to decree what is "disinformation" now determines what can and cannot be discussed on the internet. It is now in the hands of trained disinformation agents of the U.S. Security State.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/homeland-securitys-disinformation?s=r

There was a time that **ALL** Weigantians without question would be against a Government run Ministry Of Truth, regardless of whether it was a Democrat or a Republican government..

That was before the onset of PTDS..

I miss the old Weigantia...

There are no facts to support this claim.. The "system" voted for a black American for POTUS... That same "system" put in a black American as VPOTUS...

There is simply NO WAY that a racist "system" would have accomplished that..

black people can still be racist, but the criteria for racism are different, depending on the identity of the racist person and the identity of the person they're being racist against.

That concept is, by definition, racist..

If the criteria is race-based, then the criteria is racist..

, but it's certainly not based ONLY on ideology.

The fact that it's based on ideology AT ALL completely negates the validity of the point..

If it makes you feel any better, you are one of two here that I enjoy going around in circles with.. :D

Alabama law criminalizing gender transition surgery, drugs for minors takes effect

Those convicted under the law would face up to 10 years in prison

An Alabama law making it a felony to provide puberty blockers or perform gender transition surgery on minors took effect Monday.

Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed the law in early April. The law makes it punishable by up to ten years in prison to provide puberty blockers, hormone treatments, or transition surgery to anyone under 19 years old.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/alabama-law-criminalizing-gender-transition-surgery-drugs-for-minors-takes-effect

It's time we stopped catering to psychological/psychiatric abnormalities and disorders in children and start CURING them...

Do people celebrate and support just living with cancer?? Or covid?? or alzheimers???

No.. We CURE them...

The racist system is created by racist individuals. There is no need to totally change the definition of racism to encompass systems...

pre-civil rights, it wasn't necessary to differentiate the two because they went hand in hand. there were typically racist systems, populated by racist individuals. perhaps some people within the system weren't racist, but they were the exception, not the rule. the reason that aspect of the definition had to change wasn't some sort of political plot, it was actually a very positive development, namely not as many racist individuals. so why did a disproportionate percentage of black people keep getting mistreated even though the majority of the people mistreating them didn't have any racist intent? the system remained racially biased even after most of the people within it ceased to be intentionally racist. therefore, the definition of the word needed to change to reflect that difference in the facts on the ground.

(please correct me if I am wrong) that, under the Democrat definition of racism, black people simply CAN'T be racist..

black people can still be racist, but the criteria for racism are different, depending on the identity of the racist person and the identity of the person they're being racist against. think of it as sort-of being in different racism tax brackets. i'm sure you still disagree, but it's still useful for you to know exactly what it is you're disagreeing with.

Except that, in the case of gender and racism, the definitions are attempting to be changed SOLELY on the basis of a specific political ideology rather than actual facts..

that's simply not the case. there are many reasons why definitions change. we can rationally debate the percentages, but it's certainly not based ONLY on ideology. facts on the ground are indeed different.

JL

The racist system is created by racist individuals. There is no need to totally change the definition of racism to encompass systems...

The ONLY reason to change the definition is to fit the Democrat ideology..

I believe it was you who told me (please correct me if I am wrong) that, under the Democrat definition of racism, black people simply CAN'T be racist..

If that is an accurate representation of the facts then that alone PROVES that the Democrat definition of racism has nothing to do with facts or reality..

long story short, facts on the ground sometimes change, sometimes don't, and language needs to keep up to accurately reflect those facts.

Except that, in the case of gender and racism, the definitions are attempting to be changed SOLELY on the basis of a specific political ideology rather than actual facts..

As such, such changes are simply unacceptable and not in keeping with the facts or reality..

The attempts to "tweak" global warming facts to fit the Democrats global warming theory is a prime example of this..

In REAL science, the theory is changed to fit the data.. In Democrat "science", the data is changed to fit the theory..

Just as in the case of racism, the definition of racism is changed to fit the Democrat ideology, rather than Democrats changing their ideology to fit the definition of racism..

This is probably another one of those agree to disagree areas.. But I am glad we can discuss and debate it rather than argue about it.. :D

over the past fifty years, the commonly accepted meaning of racism has expanded to include systems as well as individuals. it's only hold-overs such as yourself who adhere strictly to the definitions of fifty years ago.

the definition of gender, on the other hand, has barely changed at all in the past fifty years. it meant the social and cultural aspects of one's sex then, and it means the social and cultural aspects of one's sex now. for whatever reason, you seem to have fixated on sexual orientation, which is not part of gender, because it's one's attitudes toward others rather than oneself.

long story short, facts on the ground sometimes change, sometimes don't, and language needs to keep up to accurately reflect those facts.

JL

We’ve seen enough of the fashionable arguments about racism to know that they’re only detrimental to that fight. The claim that “we know significant racism exists because the thing we have defined as significant racism exists” is not serious. If we were to accept it wholesale, it would mean, among other things, that the United States is a Korean-supremacist country. According to the proposed definition of racism, there’s no other way to interpret the outsize success of Korean Americans. This is why words must mean something. Rather than embracing the absurd, or choosing to deny the reality of continuing residual racism, thinking liberals, centrists, and conservatives need to reclaim the classic meaning of a critical term. If not, the proposed definition will become the definition. In a haunting indication of what’s to come, Merriam-Webster revised its definition of “racism” in 2020 to include “systemic racism.”

Ibram X. Kendi was born Ibram Henry Rogers. It is time we left Mr. Rogers’s intellectual neighborhood and got back to consensus reality before the real meaning of the word becomes a cultural artifact.

Let's just keep definitions as they are commonly accepted and adjust our ideology to fit the facts rather than adjusting the facts to fit the ideology..

Mmm kay?? :D

Exactly... And that's the problem with a lot of the "analysis" that comes from the Left Wing vis a vis racism..

They are out to prove their point so they only look at data that supports their point and ignore the data that would indicate other factors are in play..

The criminal justice/sentencing parameters is a perfect example of this...

In addition to its insufficient explanatory power, another weakness of the newly proposed definition and theory of racism is its lack of any coherent causal mechanism. To provide an example, Michelle Alexander argues in The New Jim Crow that black and Hispanic overrepresentation in the criminal-justice system is due to bigotry. To this claim, a quantitative scholar of political science or criminal justice would respond by saying that group crime rates explain the gap in incarceration rates. The next argument, chess-match style, would be that some form of subtle racism must explain the crime-rate gap.

But we then have to ask: How? What is the mechanism that inflicts a given set of social problems on black Americans today (and often afflicts working-class whites to the same degree)? And why did this mysterious mechanism have far less influence on genuinely abused black folks in the past—with all “non-whites” making up 24 to 27 percent of sentenced prisoners even during the 1930s (blacks make up 52 percent of non-Hispanic prisoners today)? What’s more, how is it that this mechanism is ineffective when it comes to virtually all African and South Asian immigrants in the U.S. today? During the fairly typical year of 2018, all Asian Americans combined—including dark-skinned South Asians—committed just 127,651 violent crimes in the U.S. versus 2,531,480 for non-Hispanic whites and 1,087,895 for the smaller black population?

On a per capita basis, the Asian violent-crime rate breaks down to one such crime annually for every 153 citizens or residents of Asian descent, versus one crime per 79 among white Americans. And according to a somewhat classic but methodologically sound 1998 article produced by the National Bureau of Economic Research, native-born black Americans are “much more likely to be incarcerated” than black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean. Why? Such questions are never answered, and the argument dies on the spot.

not doing such a good job at that going back to sleep thing.

Hehe. I am probably not helping on that point.. We can table this discussion for later in the day if you wish.. :D

The Kendi definition of racism so popular today simply fails when subjected to logical analysis. This leaves thinking people facing an obvious question: “So what does racism mean?” Fortunately for us, this is a query with a simple answer: Racism continues to mean what it has always meant. Tribalism is an ancient human vice, dating back to before the Bible, and virtually every dictionary, at least until the Great Awokening of the past few years, has defined “racism” in much the same way for decades: genetically or ethnically based animus against members of a human out-group. The Free Dictionary definition is typical of the genre and quite good. It says that racism is the belief that genetic race “accounts for differences in character or ability” and that “one race is superior” to one or more other races, and it is almost always combined with dislike, prejudice, or “discrimination.”

And therein lies the problem with changing time worn and accepted definitions solely based on a political ideology..

Words that have had common meaning lose ALL meaning..

It's like throwing the word NAZI around to describe anyone or anything one doesn't like...

If EVERYTHING is 'NAZI' than nazi loses all it's meaning.. We're seeing that in the Ukraine Russo war...

So it is with racism.. If EVERYTHING is racist then NOTHING is racist and racism loses all it's horror and there is no need or desire to avoid racism because racism is everything we say or do regardless of what we actually say or actually do..

"Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror. That’s what war is all about. That’s what makes it a thing to be avoided."
-Captain James T Kirk, STAR TREK, A Taste Of Armageddon

The New Definition of Racism
Can we find a way out of Mr. Rogers’s neighborhood?

For Kendi in particular, racism is properly thought of not as simple out-group bias, but rather as any system that produces disparate outcomes between or across racial and ethnic groups. He says this openly. In his book How to Be an Antiracist and again in an interview with Vox just after he had been minted a MacArthur “genius,” Kendi argues that there are only two possible explanations for a measurable difference in performance between two large groups in a given undertaking—say, standardized testing. These are (1) some form of racism within a social “system,” no matter how hidden and subtle, or (2) actual (I read him as meaning genetic) “inferiority” on the part of the lower-performing of the two groups. “There’s only two causes of, you know, racial disparities,” Kendi said on a Vox podcast. “Either certain groups are better or worse than others, and that’s why they have more, or racist policy. Those are the only two options.”
https://www.commentary.org/articles/wilfred-reilly/racism-ibram-x-kendi/

It's a long read, but I highly recommend it.. It explains perfectly why the changing in word definitions to fit political agendas is not only blatantly and utterly fact-less, it's also wrong to attempt to do so..

Yer up early??

:^/

Watch now: Madison anti-abortion headquarters hit by apparent Molotov cocktail, vandalism, graffiti

Vandals set a fire inside the Madison headquarters of the anti-abortion group Wisconsin Family Action early Sunday, police and an official with the group said Sunday.

Investigators are calling the fire at the building, on Madison’s North Side near the Dane County Regional Airport, an arson.

Julaine Appling, president of the lobbying and advocacy organization, said she was getting ready for a Mother’s Day brunch in Watertown when a building staff member informed her of the break-in. A person on the way to the airport before dawn saw smoke rising from the building and called police, Appling said.

Police said flames were seen coming from the building shortly after 6 a.m.
https://madison.com/news/local/watch-now-madison-anti-abortion-headquarters-hit-by-apparent-molotov-cocktail-vandalism-graffiti/article_526660ea-776d-50ca-9baa-4b4a9337dca7.html

I know, right!!! It was awesome.. Star Trek at it's finest!!!

If anyone physically assaults a judge in any way they should go to jail for a long time. However, citizens are entitled to voice their opinions in any public place they wish. If anti choice activists can picket a doctor, then pro choice activists can picket a judge.

Not according to federal law..

Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or
with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
-Title 18 US Code § 1507

Of course, since the Democrat protesters are doing the Democrats' biding, the Biden Administration won't apply the law to these scumbags that break the law..

Biden and his handlers only go after concerned parents and labels them "domestic terrorists".. :^/

Skip to 1:30-ish if the vocal annoys you. It grows on you after a couple of listens.

Jon Luc Ponty followed by George Duke followed by FZ in anABSOLUTELY fabulous instrumental interlude that is looove playing bass to.

Why then, herewith I offer Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's Apostrophe. (5:51)

Paul Simon - Mother and Child Reunion

for aficionados of rock n' roll and other children's records

yup, you guessed it.

Mama Let Him Play!

Fountains of Wayne - Stacie's Mom

thank you so much, that episode was amazing! great mix of TOS and TNG themes, almost like the entire franchise coming full circle.