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SNL Weekend Update: President Biden works to prevent Russia/Ukraine war

Samantha Bee: But God didn’t say that—Religious community members talk God and abortion

Black History Month Moments:

The Daily Show: Outrage Court—Are colleges limiting free speech?

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Brownshirts, Blowhards, Bullshitters and Other Disciples of The Dotard Трамп:

Jon Steward and friends: Conspiracy theories we (kind of) believe

New York Times: Meet the people getting paid to kill our planet

This Week in ТрампPlague:

Robert Reich: The deficit double standard

Trevor: Green burials–the sustainable solution

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    Will be interesting to see how Flores suit fares. Looks like he may prove the Rooney Rule is a sham. Ironically named after an owner who doesn’t have a revolving door for coaches.

  4. 4

    I sure hope Comcast can make it to the NRA headquarters and Whidbey Island at some point this weekend and restore their internet service.

    Courage!

  6. 6

    #5
    The only thing that would have given any legitimacy to 1/6 would have been the deploying of several hundred NG troops to arrest and detain all those who had breached the capital.

  7. 7

    @ 6

    …the deploying of several hundred NG troops…

    Now is a good time to remind that had Capitol Police heeded the numerous warnings given to it by federal authorities and others, and deployed a few hundred additional law enforcement personnel in response to the credible warnings, none of this would have happened, and troops would not have been necessary.

    There was a reason for the resignations and the suicides. People were taking responsibility for obvious failures.

  8. 8

    Recall that liberals relied on Michael Avenatti to rep Julie Swetnick in order to take down Brett Kavanaugh.

    And CNN and MSNBC thought that was a great idea.

  9. 9

    Nobody treats a woman more viciously than another woman.

    Unless it’s a liberal .

    Josh Kraushaar
    @HotlineJosh
    “A former clerk for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson spent the last week amping up his former boss’s Wikipedia page while trying to plant seeds of skepticism about other high court hopefuls.”
    politico.com
    Behind the blowout jobs report — and how the Fed could kill the buzz
    The report was so solid that it provides more fuel for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
    6:02 AM · Feb 5, 2022

  10. 10

    Gee, YLB, if your kid aren’t asking “Would you like fries with that?”, they’re falling behind in Bidenworld.

    Heather Long
    @byHeatherLong
    ·
    Feb 4
    This is telling: Yes, wages are growing quickly, but the only industry outpacing inflation is hospitality.

    Y/y wage growth:
    Hospitality: +13%
    **Inflation 7%**
    Biz +6.9%
    Warehouse/transport +6.8%
    (Avg for all jobs: +5.7%)
    Retail: +5.4%
    Manufacturing: +5.1%
    Construction +5.1%

  11. 11

    @7

    because some have resigned and others comitted suicide means the police were at fault? Troops would not have been necessary if Trump, along with several other congressional republicans had not been planning to overthrow the government.

  12. 12

    SCOTUS candidate Michelle Childs might not be sufficiently pro-union to satisfy libbies like The Unserious YLB.

    Man, that would be a shame if Biden nominates her, wouldn’t it?

  13. 13

    @ 11


    because some have resigned and others comitted suicide means the police were at fault?

    Pretty much, yeah.

    There are numerous objective findings that fault police. The resignations and suicides are because those at fault knew what would be learned once the investigations began.

    Police Told to Hold Back on Capitol Riot Response, Report …https://www.nytimes.com › U.S. › Politics
    Sep 29, 2021 — 6, Capitol Police were ordered not to use their most powerful crowd-control weapons, according to a scathing new watchdog report.
    People also search for
    police told to stand down 2020
    capitol police board reports to
    capitol police intelligence report pdf
    police riots 2020
    capitol police refused help
    who does the capitol police board answer to

    Behind the Strategic Failure of the Capitol Police – Politicohttps://www.politico.com › magazine › 2021/01/08 › ca…
    Jan 8, 2021 — Supporters of President Donald Trump clash with Capitol police as they attempt to enter the U.S.. Photo by Stephen Voss for POLITICO.

    The catastrophic police failure at the US Capitol, explained – Voxhttps://www.vox.com › capitol-police-mob-trump-stor…
    Jan 7, 2021 — The Capitol Police are supposed to protect Congress. … “But make no mistake, these were violent people who were swinging lead pipes at the …

    Troops would not have been necessary if Trump, along with several other congressional republicans had not been planning to overthrow the government.

    Police would not have been necessary had George Floyd not been high and had he not tried to pass a counterfeit bill. It’s a truth which does nothing to diffuse the jury’s verdict that Chauvin fucked up, and bigly.

  14. 14

    @7 “There was a reason for the resignations and the suicides. People were taking responsibility for obvious failures.”

    Yet your orange man-crush is still 1) Alive, and 2) standing up and spreading his lies about “massive voter fraud” (no proof whatsoever) and 3) collecting massive amounts of money based on his Big Lie.

    Donald has yet to take any responsibility for his obvious failure to democratically win a second term as POTUS. When will we see either A) acceptance he lost and promoted an insurrection or B) some form of Seppuku (oh wait, that is an honorable death, Donald has no honor)?

  15. 15

    Hey Bob! Glad to see you got your cable back.

    Had any chance to check that BLS report yet?
    How’d that turnout?

    Check in! We miss laughing at you.

  16. 16

    Blame the police left unsupported on purpose by trump operatives. That’s vile. Please be better than that.

  18. 18

    Over nearly three full decades of rising right wing domestic terrorism, with major domestic terrorist attacks like Oklahoma City, Waco, Olympic Park, Sikh Temple, Dylann Roof, and GOP Deathcar, the Republican Party has fought every effort to organize, centralize, and coordinate federal law enforcement efforts to track right wing domestic terror networks.

    They fought with all their might to protect the deadly cancer growing in our communities.

    Because they had plans to make use of it.

  19. 19

    @ 17

    Over nearly three full decades of rising right wing domestic terrorism, with major domestic terrorist attacks like Oklahoma City, Waco, Olympic Park, Sikh Temple, Dylann Roof, and GOP Deathcar…

    Graph those incidents according to date and casualties, QoS McHillbilly, and you’ll demonstrate that what you claim to be “right wing domestic terrorism” is declining, not rising.

  20. 20

    Interesting, isn’t it, that QoS McHillbilly has no interest in fatality trends involving inner city residents in cities under total or near-total Democrat control.

    Instead he reaches back 25 years or more for events, and attempts to tie them to…

    What, exactly? A riot in which the only intentional fatality was by a cop, via a shooting that was not subject to proper investigation?

    The reason nobody misses Deathfrogg is that QoS McHillbilly has done such a good job mimicking him.

  21. 21

    Graph those incidents according to date and casualties,

    Impossible.

    Because prior to this year, Republicans in Congress blocked the legislation that would have enabled the DOJ to compile these statistics.

    “The reason nobody” can cite fatality statistics for right wing domestic terror events is because “conservative” Republicans in Congress going all the way back to Newt Gingrich, along with right wing media and even trolls here at HA have fought to prevent that (recall that only a short time ago the performative troll idiot “Bob” declared that only “fat grandmothers and tourists” took part in the Jan 6 attack).

    Because for at least that long “conservative” Republicans have found right wing domestic terrorism to be useful. They’ve protected it in preparation for this moment.

    Believe them when they tell you exactly who they are.

  23. 23

    no interest in fatality trends involving inner city residents in cities under total or near-total Democrat control.

    Again the dimfuk fantasy:

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/

    And now look at the most violent cities..

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-violent-cities-in-america

    What? No “concern” about inner city violence in red leaning states? Hey look at Chicago! So “violent” compared to Little Rock.

    Now look at crime in widbee:

    https://www.bestplaces.net/crime/city/washington/whidbey_island_station

    oops! trouble in paradise… better trade up to orcas..

  26. 26

    Nother!

    His expertise included U.S. foreign policy, missile defense, the Arab-Israeli conflict and domestic political issues. His writings covered a variety of subjects, including California politics, free speech, and the roots of Jewish conservatism and cancel culture. Outside of the Journal, his writings also appeared in various conservative publications, including American Greatness, American Thinker, Investor’s Business Daily and PJ Media.

    https://jewishjournal.com/news/344570/prominent-conservative-commentator-larry-greenfield-passes-away-at-58/

    American stinker, IBD, pj media… A true loss to lovers of always wrong wing propaganda like the HA trolls. No indication if it was anti-vaxx.

    And it will never collect a SS check.. So according the deranged babbling of teh kreepah of the “legitimate rape” paradise of widbee..

    this is GOOD..

    for my kids..

    AMIRITE?

  27. 27

    25,
    Wasn’t that asshat bankrupted by his own Ponzi scheme?

    IIRC he has a long line of former clients victims in Southern California waiting to file on his ass seeking recovery of funds. I guess they’ll be filing against the estate now.

    With modern “conservatives” there is always a grift.
    Some are just more successful than others.

  28. 28

    @ 15

    Blame the police left unsupported on purpose by trump operatives. That’s vile.

    That’s imbecilic, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. Assistance and intel were offered numerous times. Police were left unsupported because that was the staffing elected by Capitol Police leadership. On purpose. Plenty of support was offered, but declined.

  29. 29

    @ 25

    What point is the unserious twat YLB making? Is she celebrating the death of a Jew? Perhaps she is celebrating the death of someone who donated one of his kidneys, anonymously, to a matched recipient.

    The article to which she has linked makes no mention of a death due to The Wuhan. One can conclude that YLB’s kids are beneficiaries whenever there is mention of one less Jew in the world.

    Except when that dead Jew was RBG, of course.

  34. 34

    Aaaaaaaaaand….

    Joe Rogan caught using the n-word.

    Lots.

    Of course.

    It’s not that this is going to cost Spotify tens of millions and obviously hundreds of millions over time. And it’s not that the stock price will continue to tumble at the worst possible time.

    It’s that their CEO left them with no way out.

  35. 35

    The greedy racist incel lies as usual.
    Agents of Trump delaying support.

    November 9:
    Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and replaces him with Christopher C. Miller as acting Secretary.

    Monday, January 4, 2021
    Secretary of Defense Miller issued orders which prohibited deploying D.C. Guard members with weapons, helmets, body armor or riot control agents without his personal approval.[71]

    Tuesday, January 5, 2021
    Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund holds a teleconference with top law enforcement and military officials from D.C., including the FBI, U.S. Secret Service and the National Guard; Sund later wrote no entity provided any intelligence indicating that there would be a coordinated violent attack on the United States Capitol by thousands of well-equipped armed insurrectionists.

    Wednesday, January 6, 2021
    1:05 p.m.:
    Acting Secretary of Defense Miller receives open source intelligence reports of demonstrators moving towards the U.S. Capitol.

    3:04 p.m.: Secretary Miller, with advice from senior Defense leadership, formally approves “activation” of the 1,100 soldiers in the DCNG. Army Secretary McCarthy orders the DCNG to begin full “mobilization”. Despite this, Miller “did not approve an operational plan to deploy the National Guard to the Capitol until 4:32 p.m

    Miller testified that he was concerned in the days before Jan. 6 that sending National Guard troops to Washington would “fan fears of a military coup” or that “Trump advisers were advocating martial law”.

    He gave the domestic terrorists time to succeed if they could, before he allowed the guard to move in.

    And you get no push back from me that the Mayor of DC was wrong when she was not prophetic and she didn’t ask for more troops ahead of time. She thought support would be forthcoming if needed.

  36. 36

    Or this

    On January 6, 2021, during the storming of the United States Capitol and an hour and a half after the west side defensive perimeter had been breached,[10] according to Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund and DC National Guard leader Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, Piatt critically delayed or ignored Sund’s request for National Guard support, stating, “I don’t like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background”, despite this being a stark contrast to the protests of the previous year.

    Lieutenant general Prait was fine with releasing troops to beat down liberal protestors, but not conservative domestic terrorist.

  37. 37

    Joe Rogan caught using the n-word.

    Buh buh buh Andy Ngo! Milo!

    Nothin’ a little Ivermectin, zinc and a vit D drip couldn’t cure.. Heh.

  38. 38

    Doc said @7: “There was a reason for the resignations and the suicides. People were taking responsibility for obvious failures.”

    Oh? Really? Let’s put names and faces on who you’re impugning:

    #1 USCP Officer Howard Liebengood, 51, son of a Senate Sergeant At Arms, “worked three 24-hour shifts without sleep” prior to his Jan. 9, 2021 suicide. https://coffeeordie.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Officer-Liebengood-1-scaled.jpeg

    #2 MPD Officer Jeffrey L. Smith, 35, who “was struck by a metal pole thrown by rioters that hit his helmet and face shield” and “was ordered back to work despite his wife later saying he was in considerable physical and emotional pain” shot himself in his car while driving to work. https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/4/y/q/y/h/y/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.1420×800.4yqyi1.png/1613181953998.jpg

    #3 MPD Officer Gunther Hashida, 43, was married with 3 children. https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/08/NINTCHDBPICT000670424933-1.jpg

    #4 MPD Officer Kyle DeFreytag, 26, was found dead in his home on July 10. https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/BB-4TH-METRO-OFFICER-OFFPLATFORM.jpg?w=2640

    Leave the horse alone and go fuck yourself, cop-hater.

  39. 39

    @10 The reason fast food workers are getting bigger raises than anyone else is because in Republican states they were still being paid wages nobody can live on.

    By way of reference, fast food workers previously making $7.25 an hour who got 13% raises now make $8.19 an hour, which they still can’t live on.

    Oh, and Doc doesn’t tip.

  40. 40

    @11 We’ll take what we can get. Anybody Biden nominates is bound to be better than anyone Trump would nominate.

  41. 41

    @12 Doctor Dumbfuck says the Capitol riot was the cops’ fault, not the rioters’ fault, because he’s a dumbfuck.

    We can’t all be intellectually gifted. Somebody has to occupy the stupid end of the IQ curve. Doc elected himself to that position.

  43. 43

    @16 “Fuck off, Bob. Really, just fuck off. And stay fucked off.”

    I have a better idea, see last sentence of #37.

  44. 44

    @18 “Graph those incidents according to date and casualties, QoS McHillbilly, and you’ll demonstrate that what you claim to be “right wing domestic terrorism” is declining, not rising.”

    How comforting.

    I suspect, though, this assertion would fall apart if you counted every Capitol rioter who assaulted cops, and especially if you added in every rightwing terrorist who has threatened an election worker, and/or the thousands of anti-maskers who’ve threatened or assaulted flight attendants.

    No, I don’t agree that rightwing terrorism is declining. The only way you can get there is by defining terrorism out of existence.

  45. 45

    @19 “a shooting that was not subject to proper investigation”

    Let’s skip over your implicit defending of a terrorist who was killed by police while engaging in criminal activity and go right to the question of “proper investigation”:

    “Following the routine process for shootings by Capitol Police officers, the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia and the United States Department of Justice investigated Babbitt’s death and made a determination that the shooting was ‘lawful and within Department policy’.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Ashli_Babbitt#Investigation

    Noteworthy about this police shooting is that (1) the perp was shot only once, not a dozen, four dozen, or 100 times, (2) the police did not do an end zone dance after shooting her, and (3) the police immediately attempted to render medical aid instead of standing around picking their noses while waiting for the (usually black) shooting victim to die.

    In other words, this one was an actual perp, shot by professional police acting within training and policy, in actual self-defense, with good and sufficient legal justification.

  47. 47

    35,
    Yeah. Piatt was cleared by the Army IG for no reason given. Literally just issued a report that said “Meh”.
    I get that Biden doesn’t want to jump the chain, but that doesn’t mean the Sec Def can’t launch his own independent inquiry.

  48. 48

    @25 “Larry Greenfield, Fellow of the Claremont Institute,” a fascist think tank whose specialty is undermining democracy and providing a philosophical home for coup plotters like John Eastman.

  49. 49

    @28 So the argument, as I understand it, is that donating a kidney to a stranger partly makes up, in a small way, for being a shithead in all other respects.

    Well, I guess now he’ll donate the other kidney.

  50. 50

    37,

    I have a simpler explanation. It’s the one Bob wants to distract you from.*

    Every single one of them was a Trump voter. Really.
    Acute existential crisis in combination with severe physical exhaustion, sleep deprivation, and drug abuse.

    *It’s the one Bob neeeeeds to distract himself from.

  51. 51

    48,
    Well, I guess now he’ll donate the other kidney.

    Provided he didn’t put a bullet in it.

  52. 52

    43,
    Defining right wing domestic terrorism out of existence has been the law since 2011.

    Until just a few weeks ago, anyway.

  54. 54

    @52 His name is Ryan Taylor Nichols, he’s from Texas, and was 30 years old at the time, he appeared on “Ellen DeGeneris” for rescuing dogs from a hurricane, and he’s charged with

    “Civil Disorder

    “Obstruction of an Official Proceeding

    “Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon [a crowbar]

    “Theft of Government Property

    “Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon [a crowbar]

    “Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon [a crowbar]

    “Unlawful Possession of a Dangerous Weapon on Capitol Grounds or Buildings {a crowbar]

    “Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building

    “Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings [assault with crowbar and pepper spray]

    “Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building”

    Status: Awaiting trial, last update says “Defendant remains committed”

    https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases

    As of November 2021, he was complaining about being “force-fed” critical race theory while in jail, alleges he has been “regularly discriminated against for being White,” and is “forced to endure disgusting racial animus and slurs regularly” in prison.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/alleged-capitol-rioters-claim-they-were-force-fed-critical-race-theory-in-jail/ar-AAQBclr

    IOW, he’s taking BBC* in the ass.

    * not a British news bureau

  57. 57

    32)Plus, didn’t the NHL pull their players from the Olympic team? Are the Russians clean enough to compete under their own name, again?

  58. 58

    55)Being denounced by Twitter trolls and bots claiming to be in the Convoy as frivolous. Halifax protestors found out, the NS Government is not Rob Ford, invoked a state of emergency. Quebec City, the truckers trying to get to the National Assembly found limits on how many trucks could be there, and had to be inspected.

  59. 59

    @57 They should appreciate Canada more. If they did that in China, they’d all be sent to the Mongolian coal mines.

  60. 60

    58. No wonder people like the greedy racist incel wants to make America into an authoritarian state. He’d love to be able to do that to the people he hates.
    If only he’d change and be a better person.

  61. 61

    Today is the 1000 day of the Durham Investigation announcement.

    Celebrate it. Gonna really mail someone before the midterms.

  62. 62

    Today is the 1000 day of the Durham Investigation announcement.

    Celebrate it. Gonna really mail someone before the midterms.

  63. 63

    It’s been a while since Bob had sex outside of the animal kingdom too

  64. 64

    Steve Bannon is Satan.

    Best thing for him is that he burns in his own hell.

  65. 65

    Dwayne Johnson has pulled his support for handbill.us after spews from Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit referring to Muslims as towelheads, North Vietnamese as gooks, and blacks as eggplants resurfaced recently on little-read Seattle liberal blog horsesass.org.

    Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Pulls Support From Joe Rogan After N-Word Clips Surface

    Johnson was also said to be “concerned” about Steve’s explicit use of the N-word in his HA spews, but relented after the context of Steve’s use was explained to him, and after learning that Steve was fathered by one of several black men with whom his mother consorted in exchange for cash and cocaineclaims to have several black friends.

  66. 66

    First Vegetable Joe Biden is too weak to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

    Tens of millions of Americans are doing it for him.

  67. 67

    How Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit went from towelheads to eggplants.

    How Democrats went from defund to refund the police
    As crime rates rise ahead of the midterms, Black mayors of the nation’s largest cities are leading the call to crack down on lawlessness.

    As violent crime surges ahead of the November midterms, President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are toughening their talk on crime, and refunding the police only two years after some progressive activists took up the call to defund them.

    “People are still against crime and people want to be safe,” said former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in an interview. “You’re seeing in communities all across the country that when folks actually came to grips with the conflict of rising crime rates and an effort to quote unquote take away from policing, the public, being way ahead of the politicians as usual, figured out ‘no no no, that’s not a good idea, we want to be safe.’”

    Violent crime will surge as long as unserious twats like YLB are unrefuted.

  68. 68

    @64 where were you when Puffy called gays fags and me a fudgepacker ?

    Really Bob, do you attend Fuckhead School?

    Keep up the good work Roger!

  69. 69

    So woke to cancel Atticus Finch.

    Jake Tapper
    @jaketapper
    Another school board removing another heralded book from its curriculum: “To Kill a Mockingbird” will be removed from the Mukilteo WA School District’s ninth-grade English/Language Arts required reading list.

    https://king5.com/video/news/education/to-kill-a-mockingbird-will-be-removed-from-ninth-grade-required-reading-list-in-mukilteo/281-4458a068-6f87-471e-a01d-f356b89b4810 via
    @KING5Seattle

    Mukilteo is full of nearly as many unserious twats as the YLB household. Jake Tapper even took notice.

  70. 70

    IOC: Winter Olympics viewership is down 43%, OMG!

    Washington Commanders: Hold my beer.

  71. 71

    If handbill.us readership were to decline 43%, the only remaining readers would be Mark Adams’ anus and armpits.

  72. 72

    Perhaps I am overly critical of handbill.us. After all, it’s now # 3 on the list of Seattle Liberal Blogs Administered by Bigots.

    That’s gotta count for something.

  73. 73

    RCP, today:

    Favorability Ratings: U.S. Political Leaders
    Favorable Unfavorable Spread
    Joe Biden 41.8 52.2 -10.4
    Kamala Harris 37.7 52.2 -14.5
    Donald Trump 42.7 51.7 -9.0
    Nancy Pelosi 33.2 56.2 -23.0
    Kevin McCarthy 24.0 40.0 -16.0
    Chuck Schumer 30.5 44.8 -14.3
    Mitch McConnell 24.0 56.8 -32.8

    Trump’s favorability number is higher than anyone else’s.

  75. 75

    Chuck Schumer is the de facto Senate Minority Leader.

    Manu Raju
    @mkraju
    ·
    4h
    Murkowski on why Washington is so polarized: “Outside groups that say this is an either/or proposition”

    “I’m not a Washington Democrat. I’m a good ol’ West Virginia Democrat,” Manchin says on
    @CNNSotu

    Manchin then says voters should go “vote for Susan” in Maine and Lisa in AK

    Kamala Harris is worse than useless.

  76. 76

    The only accomplishment during Biden’s tenure had nothing to do with Biden.

    Manu Raju
    @mkraju
    ·
    5h
    The infrastructure law, which Murkowski and Manchin helped put together, was put together by a group of senators and went straight to the floor, bypassing committee

  78. 78

    “Mukilteo received one request to remove the book from the district’s curriculum saying the “n-word” is used more than 50 times with no context about its negative connotations.
    The complaint also states that the book marginalizes characters of color and celebrates the notion of “white saviorhood.”

    The Mukilteo School Board unanimously approved a resolution Monday night to remove the novel from the curriculum. The novel remains on the district-approved list and is not banned. ”

    Score one for the book burners. No longer are the kids forced to read a racially charged story of a Black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman.

  79. 79

    after learning that Steve….claims to have several black friends

    One of those friends is named Puddy, ya dumb twat.

  80. 80

    68,
    It’s a seriously flawed story.

    I would not expect you to even be capable of the analysis required.

    But its removal from a required curriculum reading list opens space for works of equal literary merit not burdened by Mockingbird’s crippling flaws.

    By some estimates there are about 5 million English language novels published, and of course a great many more translations. I’m quite sure that scholars of English literature can recommend fantastic alternatives. And they’d certainly be better suited to that task than any degenerate, lying blog troll who spends most of his time counting imaginary earnings and masturbating to horse porn.

    And fight the urge to think of this as a “ban”. It isn’t. Students may only have so much time in any given academic year to devote to reading literature. Some will devote more. Others, like you, will instead devote their time to pointlessly pining for a celebrity sports career you could never really have. The point is, any one of them can still find Mockingbird in the school library waiting for them. They are still free to select it as an elective text. And all the decade’s worth of support materials celebrating it will remain.

    Given enough time and expanded perspective, eventually Mockingbird can be placed in its proper context and appreciated for what it is. And also for what it is not.
    And certainly what it is not is an insightful exploration of the emerging issues of racial inequality in a small southern town of the Great Depression. If you even ever bothered to read it (instead of merely watching the film) and you came away thinking that, you missed some very significant plot and character details.

  81. 81

    @59 “If only he’d change and be a better person.”

    There’s about as much chance of that as him getting a human wife someday and laying off fucking the horse. See #62 for further details.

  82. 82

    77,
    You get it.

    The word is not and never has been the issue with Mockingbird.

    Here’s one suggested path to insight about the novel and its approach to the fate of its Black characters: What happens to Tom Robinson in the end, and how is his fate treated by the author?

    By the end of the novel, Scout and Jem may lose a little bit of their childhood innocence. But Lee is very careful to preserve most of the reader’s innocence about racial justice. Seventeen bullets. “After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.”

    Personally, I don’t think the problem with Mockingbird is with the novel itself. I think the real problem lies in the way most white people think about it and teach it.

  83. 83

    @64 Cites “Handbill” but his link takes you to “Daily Beast.” What a dumbfuck. He probably saw that stuff on one of the rightwing conspiracy websites he regularly peruses, not on Handbill, because it ain’t on Handbill (if it was, you can be sure he’d link to it).

  84. 84

    @66 Yes, we’ve noticed the Democrats are cracking down on crime in Atlanta, Manhattan, Washington D.C., and other places, of which we’re fully supportive.

  87. 87

    @71 We’re well aware that Goldy is completely absent, Darryl is mostly absent, Carl is frequently absent or only passing through, and you pretty much run this place now.

  88. 88

    58)A little background from yesterday on Nova Scotia’s response.

    https://globalnews.ca/news/8596492/ns-blockade-ban-all-roads-streets-highways/

    Got curious on who was in charge in the Province, turns out, it’s a Progressive Conservative Majority Govt, just like Ontario. Although Federally, Atlantic Canada is a sea of Red on Election Day(Party colors are different in Canada, Tories are Blue). I’ve learned over the years, that at the Provincial level, conservative parties try to avoid being the same name as the CPC. British Columbia conservatives did the furthest running away, first going with the Social Credit party, then when they collapsed, coalescing with the B.C. Liberal Party.

    Now the Mayor of Ottawa, whose a Lame Duck(not running again because of the O-Train fiasco, specifically issues with the Confederation Line), has declared a state of emergency. One of the city councillors considering running, is the head of the Police Board.

    https://globalnews.ca/news/8599205/ottawa-state-of-emergency-trucker-convoy/

  91. 91

    The House committee has now learned that White House officials both shredded and burned some of the subpoenaed records relating to President Trump’s efforts and the efforts of others to pressure the Vice President into disrupting the electoral vote count. The records destruction appears to be part of a much larger, ongoing pattern of records destruction routinely practiced by the White House during Trump’s four years.

    Who ordered the destruction of those records, when it was ordered, and which records were destroyed may result in more referrals for prosecution.
    Preservation of presidential records is required by law. And while the knowing, intentional destruction of such records is itself a crime, it’s one that probably can’t be prosecuted. Obstruction of justice is a crime however that can be prosecuted. And very frequently is in such cases.

    Prior to the terror attack on Jan 6, there were already a number of federal court orders to the White House for records preservation arising from lawsuits as well the first impeachment investigation. Subsequent to Jan 6 additional orders had been issued. A separate investigation will now have to be undertaken to determine which if any of those orders were violated, by whom, and for what purpose. Because it is specifically a criminal investigation relating to violations of court orders, and because many of the records intentionally destroyed related to legal matters outside the House committee inquiry, it may require the appointment of a special counsel by the Attorney General.

  92. 92

    For Darryl, if he’s reading:

    RRH Elections
    @RRHElections
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    Feb 3
    An interesting tidbit from the lawsuit filed against NY’s Congressional maps. The plaintiffs drew 5,000 computer-generated maps without partisan considerations & the map NY Democrats passed was more biased towards the Democrats than any of those 5,000 maps

    Here’s the petition. See # 113 on page 25.

    173. On February 3, 2022, Governor Hochul signed the Legislature’s congressional map into law, thereby blessing her fellow Democrats’ blatant gerrymandering efforts.

  93. 93

    91,
    Party bias is perfectly legal and constitutional you soaring idiot.

    Racial bias is not, “ya fuckin’ moron”.

  94. 94

    I for one, wholeheartedly applaud New York.

    For the most part, large, prosperous, well educated, healthy, progressive states like New York turn redistricting over to either independent non partisan or bipartisan commissions. While beer drunk, pig ignorant, backward, rural red state sewers retain control of redistricting efforts within the confines of the dank, fetid, historically inbred, superstitious Klan lodges they call “legislatures”. By doing so we give the fucking game away before the first kickoff.

    It’s not nearly enough to make up for it. But New York’s efforts at least gain back a small bit of the ground surrendered by all the other progressive states.

    Thank You New York!

  95. 95

    @87 What they have in Ottawa right now is anarchy, and now, a government trying to reassert control to restore law and order for the protection of residents who have nowhere else to go.

  96. 96

    @90 “Preservation of presidential records is required by law.”

    Lots of things are required by law, and as you well know, laws aren’t self-enforcing, they’re effective only to the extent of someone’s willingness to enforce them.

    Trumpublicans have positioned themselves outside the rule of law. They’re like Russians, the only thing they understand is force.

  97. 97

    @91 A Republican complaining about Democratic gerrymandering. LOL

    Tell you what, let’s end gerrymandering by both parties. That’s a deal I’ll gladly make.

    But that won’t happen, because Democrats don’t need to gerrymander, and Republicans do. There’s no other way for a party as unpopular, racist, and criminal as the GOP to get political power in this country.

  98. 98

    94’Also, Republican AGs are going after Go Fund Me. What, are they afraid that they might have to fight extradition requests? Although they probably would only want the big donors.

  99. 99

    “GoFundMe took down the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser page on Friday, saying it violated its terms of service. ”

    “Protesters have shut down downtown Ottawa, the Canadian capital, for eight days now, with some participants waving Confederate or Nazi flags and some saying they wanted to dissolve Canada’s government. To the increasing fury of residents, Ottawa police have largely stood by and watched as some protesters smashed windows, threatened reporters and health-care workers, and abused racial minorities.”

    I remember Republicans became apoplectic when rioters broke windows in Portland. The difference seems to be that was done after a liberal rally, while this was done after a conservative one.

    I can’t speak for republicans, but I wouldn’t want to promote or associate with that racist bunch of thugs.

    I know that the greedy racist incel is going to whatabout BLM! and ANTIFA!. They were not waving confederate and nazi flags. I condemn the property damage done by the rioters after the rallies. Republicans cant do EVEN that.

  100. 100

    98)Saw many Canadians on Twitter say that money should not be returned. It should go towards the clean up. At least other cities learned. In Toronto to protect hospitals they used TTC busses as barricades. I would have used TTC Streetcars as rolling barricades. Many were saying that the truckers should at least be ticketed for all the city regulations they had been breaking. In Toronto, one extra one besides the no-idling, passing a streetcar on the right while the streetcar is stopped . It’s a legacy system, tracks in the center lanes, passengers waiting on the curb. They got cameras on board now.

    Right now watching the Seattle Seawolves play the Toronto Arrows in MLR. Games in Tukwilla, only loud horns blaring will be train horns, and AMTK508 hasn’t left Portland yet.

  101. 101

    @97 They’re accusing GoFundMe of fraud, but they don’t have a case if GoFundMe returns the donations to the donors. At one point, GoFundMe floated the possibility of distributing some of the donated funds to other charities. DeSantis and the GOP AGs claim that’s fraud, although legally that’s a very questionable argument given that GoFundMe never intended to mislead donors but instead is reacting to a change of situation. What the GOP saber-rattlers are really upset about, though, is GoFundMe not passing those donations on to Confederates, Nazis, and thugs.

  102. 102

    @99 GoFundMe can’t do that. It’s not their money to spend as they like. That money is still the property of the donors. GoFundMe possesses those funds as a fiduciary, not the owner. To legally access those funds and divert them to a different purpose than the donors intended would require a court order. You’d have to sue the donors, get a judgment against them, then attach the funds belonging to them in GoFundMe’s possession to enforce the judgment. This is not a workable scenario, because the donors have no legal liability for the actions of the truckers. You simply can’t make them pay for the damages caused by the truckers. I doubt GoFundMe can be forced to release those donations to the truckers, but if they don’t, they have to return them to the donors. If the donors can’t be located, the money is supposed to be turned over to a state unclaimed property repository (like Washington has), so I don’t think they have an option to give it to other charities without the donors’ permission. The AGs could have a case against GoFundMe if the latter doesn’t follow these procedures. But, as I said, I don’t think they can force GoFundMe to send the donations on to the truckers. GoFundMe probably has a legal right to withdraw from providing their services.

  103. 103

    What they have in Ottawa right now is…

    a whole lot of Proud Boys swapping semen behind the dumpsters, flashing Nazi salutes, and smashing Kokanee bottles in homeless people’s faces.

    Oh Canada.

    This is fucking payback for Gavin McInnes.

  104. 104

    101)Tough spot for GoFundMe to be in. Seen some say they are biased because they didn’t do this with BLM. Surprised the Republican AGs haven’t sued the City of Ottawa, but that would be International law, and thought they don’t like that.

    As for the Major League Rugby game, Seattle beat Toronto. Feel sorry for the Arrows, because they have not played at home in about a 1000 days because of this pandemic. The 2020 season was canceled, and border restrictions prevented them from playing in Canada in 2021, as they are the only team in the league from Canada. Love the sport, it’s what both Americans and Canadian Football were adapted from. Before downs, pads, and what saved the American game from being outlawed in its infancy, the Forward Pass. Seattle sports fans sure can fill almost any stadium, but then again Starfire Stadium isn’t that big.

  105. 105

    Ottawa Police have made a move against the Convoys fuel supply. Going to be a lot of big rigs needing towing. Not sure how much longer they could idle. Big Rigs usually have 2×125 gallon tanks, unless they are ice road rigs, those usually have bigger tanks. Although they should be out on the ice this time of year.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2376821&taid=6200a75995d73c000168a8c5&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

  106. 106

    102)They were fighting Nazis for 2 years before us, well about one year, we were sort of at war with Germany throughout 1941. U.S. Navy vessels doing enhanced “neutrality “ patrols while escorting Lend-Lease aid, and Marines occupuying Iceland.

  107. 107

    https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/07/lgbtq-books-texas-school-boards/

    During an interview with Doc Greene, a self-described conservative activist radio show host, Graft described the moment her daughter encountered “This Day in June” by Gayle Pitman.

    “She picked it up, turned to the page and showed it to me, and I was appalled,” Graft said. “There were political issues. Signs like love over hate, equal rights, things that a child certainly can’t understand.”

    She continued, “They have an agenda and an indoctrination for our children. It’s not enough to tolerate. They want us to participate. And they want our children.”

    “If you’re not willing to kill for what you believe, you’ve already lost the war. Our children are worth saving,” said Greene, who did not respond to requests for comment.

    >> You leave those LGBTQ books in the library and Greene will murder you.

  108. 108

    Why do conservatives demand other people’s kids be ignorant and vulnerable? It’s not going to make their kid less gay.

  109. 109

    Wow.
    Shocking.
    So criminal.
    So corrupt.
    So APPALLING.

    Willfully shredding and stealing vital government records and other documents from her HIS time in office.

    There can be no other option than to launch eleven separate investigations spanning four years by six House committees, two Senate committees, and three Executive branch agencies costing $50 million. Obviously.

    BENGHAAAAAAZIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!

    Even a single vote for a single “conservative” candidate is a vote to destroy democracy in America.

  110. 110

    107,
    For almost precisely the same reason they demand that legal marriage be denied to same sex couples they’ve never even met in order to “protect” their own marriages.

    Bigotry is not rational.
    Every attempt ever at describing or justifying bigotry in terms of reason has always suffered fatal flaws.

    It is for this reason that White bigot Karens attacking school boards have chosen to define their crusade in terms of their own feeeeeelings. If any subject they choose is said to be “hurtful” to their feeeeeelings or to the feeeeelings of their precious little mini-bigots, then it can be banned. IT SHALL BE BANNED!

    And how dare you attack them for their feeeeeelings?

    After all, Karen is a “Christian”! /s

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