I went to Art Walk yesterday. There was some interesting art, but I want to talk about masks.
I don’t understand how in some places everyone was masked up, and in others hardly anyone did. One had a sign saying that masks were still required, but even in several galleries that didn’t, everyone, or almost everyone was masked. In another, it was maybe a quarter. Presumably it’s the same people going from one gallery to the next.
I really love the vibe of Art Walk. That kind of free fun in old, cramped Pioneer Square buildings. I have been going since I was a kid. But the last couple years learning about disease spread, and COVID-19 in particular, I think I’ll keep the mask for a while.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
On the day KBJ was confirmed to be seated on the Supreme Court of the United States following a week of Senate Republicans smearing her with lies about child pornography a senior advertising designer for the RNC and digital designer for Mitch McConnell was sentenced to 151 months of imprisonment for taking receipt of videos of babies being sexually penetrated.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/district-man-sentenced-151-months-prison-receipt-child-pornography
Steve is 100% correct. Everything is projection with “conservatives”.
That’s nasty. Expect he will have a long 12 years in prison. He can say hi to the other Republicans
Maybe it was wrong to allow such countries as Lithuania, Poland, Estonia and other Eastern European countries into NATO. Maybe the NATO crew should have waited 50 years or so before expanding the membership roles. They should have waited for Putin to die, at least. Just being a little patient might have been the better course of action.
3,
Why?
So Republicans and other child molesters would have more time?
@3 I get it. You weren’t born in time to appease Hitler or Stalin, so Putin will have to do.
@1 I wonder when Republicans in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will try to “decertify” Jackson’s confirmation? There’s a couple routes they could take.
First, if the GOP wins a Senate majority they could demand that Republican senators “repeal” her confirmation by simple majority vote.
Alternatively, GOP legislatures could conclude that “recognizing” Supreme Court rulings is optional and pass state laws saying their states won’t “recognize” Jackson’s rulings or more broadly, won’t “recognize” any Supreme Court decision they disagree with, a new way of expressing the old idea of states’ rights.
Neither of these actions would be constitutional. That technicality wouldn’t stop them any more than it does now.
‘Nuther top Proud Boy just inked his Rat Deal:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1492881/download
Donohoe ran their coms. So he set up their Telegrams that the used during the planning and execution of the terror attack.
Which also means he can give them anyone else who was involved with the planning and used their Telegrams.
So for those getting anxious about Garland and the pace of the Jan 6 DOJ investigation, this is the way. This is how complex conspiracy cases get built. By rolling up key cooperating witnesses in methodical fashion. Link by link, cooperator by cooperator.
The stock indexes were mixed today with the S&P 500 down 0.27% and Nasdaq down a whopping 1.34% and even the blue-chip friendly DJIA was up only 0.40%, but my stocks are up 0.62% today, more than 1½ times the Dow. It can’t be attributed to my shitty stockpicking so it must be due to blind, dumb, random luck.
That makes three days in a row that my stocks have beaten the averages because of blind, dumb, random luck. I wonder how Doctor Dumbfuck’s options trades are doing? I can visualize him flipping baseball cards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP0AwI6t9_Y
Profiles in Partisanship:
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1512109194328956928
This is the most powerful elected Republican in America right now proclaiming that he would support Donald Trump for President in 2024 even though, in his own words, Donald Trump “was practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day”, a terrorist attack on Congress, and whose conduct that day was “a disgraceful dereliction of duty”.
And he explains this contradiction in purely partisan terms. He recognizes absolutely no obligation as an elected official, or as a Republican to oppose such “disgraceful dereliction of duty” or immoral conduct, if his party supports it. He is declaring that there is no moral or ethical red line where his party is concerned. And that his obligation is to his party before his own country.
And this is not exceptional among modern “conservatives”. This is the norm today. The party first and always. In such a framework it really is impossible for any “moderate conservative” to portray themselves as “independent”. Any vote for any Republican is a vote for this belief system that places party ahead of everything, including the constitution, the voters, and democracy itself.
@9 Why should anyone be surprised? 160 years ago, people like him owned slaves, and were willing to kill their own countrymen, and tear their own country apart, to retain the “right” to treat human beings as property. Extreme partisans have no boundaries. It’s up to us to force boundaries on them. Otherwise, there will be none.
Shame on Kentucky for electing and reelecting this man. Decent moral people should have nothing to do with Kentucky.