May 2, 2023

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Write about anything you like in the comments.

CORRECTION: Originally, this post was titled with the quote you see below and consisted entirely of that tweet. I wrote over it by accident, but the comments are still there, beginning this thread. As rewritten, it's an open thread, so those old comments, by chance, fit. 

74 comments:

Dave Begley said...

KJP has cute hair and nice clothes. Really! Am I allowed to say that?

Yancey Ward said...

Biden: "Uh, William Burns? Who is that? Epstein? Oh, you mean that guy from Welcome Back, Kotter. Let me tell you about, Eps..............Ep.......uh.....Hepburn. Yeah, I knew her when we had breakfast at Tiffany's place. I had the best ham I ever ate, and we didn't get ham when I was growing up in Scranton after my dad died and me and my brother ended up in the orphanage......"

rhhardin said...

Epstein was probably a CIA asset.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"Does President Biden have any reaction to CIA Director William Burns meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in 2014?"

"Thank God that guy is dead and those girls are buried." - Sniffles McGrabbyhands

Saint Croix said...

wow

Inga said...

What should Biden say? Nothing is the correct response. If Epstein’s list ever gets fully published, I’m pretty sure there would be names of men and women from both sides of the political spectrum and from the business world.

rehajm said...

What? No circle back???

RNB said...

Biden's reaction: "William who? Jeffrey who? President who?"

Fredrick said...

"I'm just not going to comment on that from here" is becoming a go to line. Almost like they are becoming a meme.

RNB said...

If she screamed, that's proof positive she was being raped. If she didn't scream, that's proof positive she was being raped. Simple.

Jupiter said...

The POTATUS had a soft and copious bowel movement this morning. That's pretty much all he has reacted to recently.

Gusty Winds said...

Makes you wonder if Epstein was working for the CIA.

ColoComment said...

Karine Jean-Pierre's pressers are a huge waste of time for everyone involved. She displays little personal intelligence, reads verbatim from her briefing book, will not (can not?) comment on any subject in a substantive manner, and from her mouth issues extemporaneous babble even beyond that of Robert Gibbs, who was a veritable master at babbling verbal strings of nothing.
...and for that she rakes in $180k/year, plus benefits & perquisites.

William said...

So let me see if I understand this: Justice Thomas goes on trips with a lifelong friend who happens to be rich. Oh the horror!

But the director of the CIA is connected to Jeffrey Epstein—a fine, upstanding citizen, RIP—and sound of crickets.

If this isn't emblematic of the corruption/double standard of the swamp/media, pul-eeze tell what is.

I’m glad I’m old so that I won’t have to watch our beloved Republic crumble around me.

Joe Smith said...

'Epstein was probably a CIA asset.'

And Mossad as well with Maxwell's connections.

Everything I've read points to Epstein having his multiple homes wired to the hilt with video cameras.

And yet not a single video has surfaced (not even of himself) and not a single 'client' has been arrested.

How can Maxwell be found guilty of sex-trafficking young women if there are no clients?

ga6 said...

Cue Sgt Schultz

gspencer said...

The new stupid hairdo has given her neither gravitas nor intelligence. But good try.

Jim at said...

If Epstein’s list ever gets fully published, I’m pretty sure there would be names of men and women from both sides of the political spectrum and from the business world.

Bullshit. If there were Republicans on that list, we'd already know it.

DanTheMan said...

>>What should Biden say? Nothing is the correct response. If Epstein’s list ever gets fully published, I’m pretty sure there would be names of men and women from both sides of the political spectrum and from the business world.

Your desire for justice for exploited children is awe inspiring.

Quaestor said...

"What should Biden say? Nothing is the correct response. If Epstein’s list ever gets fully published, I’m pretty sure there would be names of men and women from both sides of the political spectrum and from the business world."

If it weren't for non-sequiturs Inga would have nothing to say.

Drago said...

Gusty Winds: "Makes you wonder if Epstein was working for the CIA."

Its probably much bigger than that. If you haven't had a chance to do so yet, look up Ghislane Maxwell's father and what he was all about with British intel as well as the Mossad and other foreign services.

Leland said...

What should Biden say? Nothing is the correct response.

When Democrat government officials associate with a person that trafficked minors for sex, the correct response is not to discuss it at all?

Well, it does explain why Democrats don't care about the sex trafficking happening at the border, why the #MeToo movement no longer exists, and "liberal feminists" don't care if Hunter Biden is a dead-beat dad.

This also explains why I'll never vote for a Democrat nor call them liberal. There is nothing liberal about stealing minors from their families and using them as sex slaves for powerful elite. This is nothing liberal about remaining silent about such abuses for the purposes of retaining power.

Don't tell me the fight for "the right" to abortion on demand, require remaining silent on the topic of sex trafficking of minors; because I see how the former enables hiding the latter. I think "the right" for those minors to live a life of freedom, rather than slavery, is a bit more important. If you won't fight to stop slavery, then I don't really believe you really want abortion for the lofty reasons you claim. I believe you want abortion to hide the horrors you are willing to let happen when it benefits you.

Gospace said...

Inga said...
What should Biden say? Nothing is the correct response. If Epstein’s list ever gets fully published, I’m pretty sure there would be names of men and women from both sides of the political spectrum and from the business world.


And we know none of the names will be Trump because that hasn't leaked.

Old and slow said...

Of course Epstein worked for the CIA. I wonder if he is even dead.

narciso said...

she came from bernie sanders campaign and move on no accountability) you could have a progressive, that new the subject matter, but not someone that lipsynchs,

Jupiter said...

"Sexualizing children is now, perhaps, the most important goal of the Democrat party. They are putting all the political capital they can into this political project."

Maynard said...

Epstein was probably a CIA asset.

Epstein was undoubtedly an asset for more than one intelligence agency.

Gator said...

@Jupiter that was indeed a Joe Paterno moment at Ohio State when he crapped his pants. There is no other reason to leave a public arena that quickly

Iman said...

With everything - including clean-up - run behind the scenes by the FBI and CIA, don’t have expectations of seeing any list. These patriotic people will be sure to continue the lies, obfuscation and cover-up.

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rehajm said...

Apparently the White House Non-Briefing post has gone into receivership, usurped by the Talk About Anything You Like post...

wendybar said...

Tell me again, that we aren't a 3rd world country, because this is now America....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12039053/Big-Lots-manager-says-fired-following-shoplifter-store-stores-cart-back.html

Inga said...

Ooops, I think this cafe sunrise post ate the Epstein news conference post.

Bob Boyd said...

I see Bud Light is now getting boycotted and cancelled by the LGBT and Trans community. They didn't like the back pedaling.

That Bud Light would get involved in this issue in the first place is mind-boggling. Why? The whole thing is a friggin' mine field.
Why on earth would you deliberately walk out into an obvious, clearly marked mine field? It's so incredibly stupid. Only a very smart person with the very finest educational credentials could possibly decide it is a good idea to walk out into a minefield.

Pro tip: If you see a mine field, don't go in there. Keep out. Nothing good could possibly happen for you in a mine field.
I can't help but laugh.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Huge if true: "University of Texas creates device that reads minds, turns thoughts into text"

“Our real hope is that this could help people who have lost the ability to communicate for some reason,” said UT computer science and neurology assistant professor Alexander Huth. “So, people who have locked-in syndrome from like brain-stem strokes.”

That's all well and good but... can you think of other uses?

Ann Althouse said...

Sorry I accidentally wrote over the Epstein post. I 'm not going. To reconstruct it.it was just one tweet. This is an open thread so fine to have comments about Epstein and burns. This is a kind of mistake I worry about making. Too annoying!

Inga said...

“This is a kind of mistake I worry about making. Too annoying!”

No worries, it was pretty funny there for a moment, I thought I was losing my mind.

Chuck said...

Lem the misspeller said...
Huge if true: "University of Texas creates device that reads minds, turns thoughts into text"



Lol. The University of Texas can’t even create a quarterback that can read defenses.

n.n said...

"Sexualizing children is now, perhaps, the most important goal of the Democrat party

From that movie director what's his name to Epstein to Biden.

Sexualizing... grooming in schools, scouts, churches, etc. and the planned butterfly... fetus... baby... human... whatever effect.

Drago said...

Inga: "What should Biden say? Nothing is the correct response. If Epstein’s list ever gets fully published, I’m pretty sure there would be names of men and women from both sides of the political spectrum and from the business world."

just "pretty sure"? Not absolutely sure?

Have you actually learned something from your 7 straight years of lunatic conspiracy theories and easily debunked transparent hoaxes?

Here's the key takeaway: Every single name will be an establishment lackey, uniparty toady, deep state supporting shill.

Without exception.

Which means not just NOT Trump, but also not ANYONE that supports Trump...or Tulsi Gabbard, or Robert Kennedy Jr, or probably Vivek Ramaswamy as well.

Drago said...

DanTheMan (to Inga): "Your desire for justice for exploited children is awe inspiring."

You have to remember, Inga called Biden's own daughter a liar for claiming in her diary that "Pedo Joe" (a popular Biden family name for Joe) showered with her as an adolescent and sexualized her early on.

Lets face it, there are some women Inga and the lefty lunatic crew are never going to believe and its all based on which democratical Inga feels compelled to protect....which is all of them apparently.

DINKY DAU 45 said...

Doping 20 runners and 2 (ae's) for May 6th event. Downloaded PP'S from DRF and they have a few new added symbols and stats. FORTE has been awesome, didnt like last race win at 1-5 and numbers easing off and at 3-1(more likely 5-2 at post there are a few to look deep at. Weather looks good and all horses last workouts are what they needed to be ,no drama. This year I'll invest around $500 on Win ,Exacta ,Triple and pick 4's,not a super great crop this year but its always an event. There does seem to be some value at this point. My wife will as usual just pick names and colors she's rather be at the Casino! Maybe after the races!Not going to Kentucky just got back from Jersey And grandkids got ton of events coming up (6 grandkids,5 great)dance competitions ,girl Scouts,Martial Arts and ART CLASS expos will keep us poppin!Back to rewatching all the graded races leading up to the Derby to see what I can see before I send it in!

wildswan said...

The left would only engage in a bizarre project like sexualizing children if they were sure they had the vote locked up. But why are they so sure? Ballot harvesting for one thing. That eliminates the secret vote for a lot of poor people who see officials of various kinds show up to "help" them vote.
But maybe there's more to it than that. I'm formulating a speculation, a theory that the black community is basing its vote on what I call the Siege of Sorrow Mountain. It's as if this community underwent a siege trapped on a place called Sorrow Mountain and even after the siege lifted they maintained a siege mentality. By the Siege on Sorrow Mountain I mean slavery/segregation. This is is usually considered in its political and legal aspects but it must have formed a community with specific characteristics. So to answer the question, "why would the black community vote for politicians whose policies have doubled the murder rate specifically inside the black community" I answer or I wonder if the answer might be that this community kept its honor and its pride in the face of a siege of sorrow and pain by sticking together and helping each other. You vote together. But what if the party you are supposed to vote for suddenly shifts its policies and in the name of social justice begins to harm your community. As a result of the siege mentality no one can call the Dems to account for de-schooling and de-policing inside the black community in the big Dem cities because no one can lead if they break faith with the other besieged and call out the Dems; yet neither can anyone lead if they refuse to acknowledge that the Dems failing social engineering projects.
The first failed project was de-policing by defunding police and funding social workers. The social workers were to rehabilitate violent and dangerous criminals by psychology-based processes which will not work unless the criminals first freely choose to give up crime and work to improve their social skills. The criminals, facing no opposition, have simply increased the number and severity of their crimes.
The second failed experiment was de-schooling which tried to prepare the children of the black community for success in a hard, dangerous world by replacing knowledge, skills and discipline with CRT-based training. The result is schools in the black community in which not even one student is proficient in reading and math but in which the teachers feel quite successful because they've taught the anti-racism curriculum.
But why don't black leaders object? Is it because they haven't left the siege mentality behind? and because if they did, they'd lose their followers? And so, their followers lose?
This is something I speculate about as I watch catastrophe unfold in Milwaukee City while black leaders do nothing.

Saint Croix said...

Begley at the top.

Awesome!

Saint Croix said...

Sorry I accidentally wrote over the Epstein post. I 'm not going. To reconstruct it.it was just one tweet. This is an open thread so fine to have comments about Epstein and burns. This is a kind of mistake I worry about making. Too annoying!

thanks for the 4:00 AM paranoia that the CIA had attacked the Althouse blog!

had me going for a second

Big Mike said...

Inga said...

I thought I was losing my mind.


Inga assumes she has a mind to lose. Hilarious!

Big Mike said...

I read that up to 1/3 of all nurses plan to leave the profession. I assume this is because their union reps care more about working to elect Democrats, any Democrats, than about improving the working conditions of their union members.

Andrew said...

At Althouse, there has been a disturbance in the Force.

wendybar said...

WHO knew they had dumb writers for the WGA that wrote for the View?? I can't see how they can get any dumber (they were NEVER polished...they are downright rabid Progressives that will stomp out if they disagree with you...but we will see)

Shows such as “The View,” are continuing without their guild writers, the show's co-host Whoopi Goldberg apologizing in advance that their banter would be less polished with all its writers out on strike.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/hollywood_writers_strike_reveals_further_hypocrisy_of_showbiz_elites.html

Crimso said...

So the Burns post disappeared but we can comment on it here? Sorry, but I'm just not going to comment on that from here.

Bruce Hayden said...

“I see Bud Light is now getting boycotted and cancelled by the LGBT and Trans community. They didn't like the back pedaling.

“That Bud Light would get involved in this issue in the first place is mind-boggling. Why? The whole thing is a friggin' mine field.
“Why on earth would you deliberately walk out into an obvious, clearly marked mine field? It's so incredibly stupid. Only a very smart person with the very finest educational credentials could possibly decide it is a good idea to walk out into a minefield.”

I am wondering if we are seeing some of the limits of power. My memory is that the bimbo who was in charge there was Harvard/Wharton. Probably couldn’t have better paper credentials. Period. VP of marketing of such a huge product should have probably been at least 50 and probably male. But she was so smart, and, so well educated, and, yes, a woman,etc. Except that she wasn’t that intelligent. She just had the right credentials. She blew one of the central maxims of Marketing 101 out of the water: Know Your Target Market. She made a mistake that I wouldn’t have made, and I took Marketing 101 almost a half century ago. She’s gone now, but why are the people who hired her still employed? We know the answer - they are likely just as well credentialed as she. It’s a club. That’s why people so desperately want to go to Harvard - to join the club.

Now pissing off the LBGTetc community was a good move here in trying to recover market share. The LGBTetc crowd aren’t going to drink Bud Light. Nor are those sympathetic to their cause as a movement. Craft beers or triple malts for them. So they aren’t losing an appreciable number of current or potential customers. But it does show alignment with their core customer base, entrenched in the working class, that considers all of them, and esp the transidiots, as pansy asses, well deserving of a good natured beat down, if caught alone.

Inga said...

“You have to remember, Inga called Biden's own daughter a liar for claiming in her diary that "Pedo Joe" (a popular Biden family name for Joe) showered with her as an adolescent and sexualized her early on.”

The Moscow Trained Propagandist certainly learned how to LIE while a star pupil back at home in Mother Russia.

wendybar said...



YOU need to walk, take a bus, or train, or just stay home so these assholes can pollute the world with their spewing of lies and showing how much they despise us all.


"Barack Obama has come to Spain to dirty the air, and he has been remarkably successful at it.
“All of us have a part to play. All of us have work to do. All of us have sacrifices to make,” he said then. “But those of us who live in big, wealthy nations, those of us who helped to precipitate the problem, we have an added burden to make sure we are working with and helping and assisting those who are less responsible and less able but more vulnerable to this oncoming crisis.”



Acting accordingly, the former president has visited Barcelona to attend a Bruce Springsteen concert, and he has done so in his private jet, accompanied by an entourage of more than 20 vehicles, underground units, K9 units, secret police in delivery vans, and the additional autonomous police of Catalonia and the Guardia Civil operatives. Some sources speak of 30 vehicles. Whatever. The least I expected from Obama was that he would travel by electric scooter so as not to harm the planet."

https://spectator.org/the-man-who-polluted-too-much/

n.n said...

Big-Lots-manager-says-fired-following-shoplifter-store-stores-cart-back

Social justice, social progress, and DEI.

Bruce Hayden said...

Re: Siege of Sorrow Mountain

The reigning or driving principle for the Dems over at least our lifetimes has been a group of people, sitting around a table, each representing a power group, as they divvy up the spoils of power. You can see which power groups currently have power by how they divvy up the government when they have the Presidency. The Presidential Press Secretary is a good example - brain dead but Black LGBTetc. Competence just gets in the way of slicing up power, and shoveling tax money to constituencies. The FJB Administration probably sets a record over recent decades in having awarded political fiefs based on group membership, and incompetence in its cabinet membership. I should note thatDem controlled cities do just the same.

Demographic groups move here, and find that they do better if they stick together as a group, and join the Dem alliance, where their share of the pie as a group depends on how many resources they can contribute to the common endeavor. Mostly, they contribute votes, but for Jews, it was probably mor their money. But as they assimilate, they become more independent, and tend to vote more their own interests, which historically, were more Republican. Throughout the 20th Century, we saw this happen with the Irish and Italians, and now seeing it with Hispanics. We haven’t seen much of it with Blacks and Jews, who seem to face even more group pressure for solidarity. Both groups suffer for their enforced solidarity. BLM, Defund the Police, reform Justice, have devastated Black communities by turning them into war zones between competing gangs and drug dealers. When theft is decriminalized, merchants flee the communities involved. 50 years of progress destroyed almost overnight. As for Jews, antisemitism is rising quickly, again reversing an even longer trend, and it is inevitably by other Democrats.

The thing that is interesting is that it is all so self destructive. But part of the answer may be seen with the BLM riots. The shortly followed the rise of AntiFA and related groups. And what we saw repeatedly were AntiFA leading the BLM riots. White AntiFA would walk up to a business, break the glass to allow people to get in, encourage the Blacks around them to enter the store and loot it, then walk off, without entering the store themselves. Very much like Ray Erbes is accused of doing at the Capital on 1/6/21. These people are well funded, and well protected by Dem politicians, even while they destroy the cities that provide the power for those Dem politicians.

The answer, I suspect, are the new crop of mega billionaires. Often from tech companies. But some inherited wealth too. I suspect that they are trying to change the world, and that most of us wouldn’t like where they are going, which is towards a significantly less populated, “greener” utopia, where they make the big decisions. Soros may have been the first, but by now, far from the only one. We are talking the One World Government, Great Reset, etc crowd.

Gahrie said...

I suspect that they are trying to change the world, and that most of us wouldn’t like where they are going, which is towards a significantly less populated, “greener” utopia, where they make the big decisions.

Read Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy and then review the last three years.

Gahrie said...

You vote together. But what if the party you are supposed to vote for suddenly shifts its policies and in the name of social justice begins to harm your community.

The Black vote shifted from Republican to Democrat in the 1930's while the Democratic Party was imposing and enforcing Jim Crow and segregation on the South, where most Black people at the time lived.

Aggie said...

It's a sad state of affairs when a vapid, empty-headed, politically-correct-but-otherwise-poorly-informed Presidential Press Secretary has nothing to say, and it's still an improvement over hearing the President try to say it.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

watch it - Moscow Inga - I saved your quotes regarding your true feelings on Joe Biden.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

"Supreme Court justices pen unanimous letter slamming Dems over ethics complaints against Clarence Thomas"

__________________________________ &

"Major Democratic donors are thrilled that an elderly man who has been his party’s standard-bearer for years will likely reappear on the 2024 presidential ballot — and they’re talking about Republican Donald Trump."
"Many of President Joe Biden’s biggest contributors are heartened by Trump’s emergence as the Republican frontrunner and are hoping for a 2020 rematch. Pitting the current president against his predecessor would create a race that they say advantages Biden politically, policy-wise and from a fundraising perspective.

Having Trump on the ticket will motivate the networks of wealthy contributors who can write big checks, according to several Biden donors, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Trump as the GOP nominee would also allow Biden to tap some financial support from conservatives who would otherwise be open to giving to a business-friendly Republican, one donor said."

Wow - the left are telling us Trump is a one-man Democrat party get out the vote machine.


Democrats are thrilled they get to nominate Trump to be the R candidate. NOW they know what to do.

wendybar said...

Corrupt Progressives protecting other Corrupt Progressives. They all belong behind bars!

Vanessa
@Nessakins_
This makes perfect sense when you look back at the body of Peter Strzok’s work and his attitude towards his own behavior. He was simply acting politically, not illegally.
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Former fed @PeteStrzok defends @SecBlinken falsely testifying in 2020 that he never emailed with Hunter Biden: "There’s a difference between catching somebody in a criminal act and catching them in a politically problematic act."

Iman said...

“Sorry I accidentally wrote over the Epstein post.”

The post didn’t kill itself.

Jupiter said...

"The answer, I suspect, are the new crop of mega billionaires."

The value of urban real estate is falling fast. As most of it was bought with borrowed money, secured by the value, it will need to be sold cheap when the loan is called. Once enough of it has changed hands, we may see a strange new respect for Law and Order among Democrats.

wendybar said...

THIS is what a Classic Liberal looks like. Not the Progressive turds like Chris Murphy or anybody who is in the Biden or Obama's administrations. THOSE are the people who are fundamentally transforming America into the shithole we are becoming.


@JonathanTurley
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...So it turns out no one is at fault. Not the “impetus,” not the organizer, not the signatories, not the media. Indeed, maybe it is the public for being chumps in buying this scam.
8:21 AM · May 3, 2023

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/05/03/jonathan-turley-sees-antony-blinken-at-forefront-of-political-version-of-the-immaculate-conception/

wendybar said...

THIS is what a Classic Liberal looks like. Not the Progressive turds like Chris Murphy or anybody who is in the Biden or Obama's administrations. THOSE are the people who are fundamentally transforming America into the shithole we are becoming.


@JonathanTurley
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...So it turns out no one is at fault. Not the “impetus,” not the organizer, not the signatories, not the media. Indeed, maybe it is the public for being chumps in buying this scam.
8:21 AM · May 3, 2023

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/05/03/jonathan-turley-sees-antony-blinken-at-forefront-of-political-version-of-the-immaculate-conception/

Drago said...

Inga: "The Moscow Trained Propagandist certainly learned how to LIE while a star pupil back at home in Mother Russia."

LOL

Well, you can clear this up right now, can't you?

Do you believe Ashley Biden and what she wrote in her diary about Pedo Joe (the Biden clans actual nickname for Joe) showering with her as an adolescent and sexualizing her earlier than she should have been?

Do. You. Believe. Ashley?

Or do you still think the Biden family is "perfectly normal"?

Go ahead Inga. Clear it up. The ball is in your court! Now is your chance.

And while you are at it, do you still believe Trump colluded with Russia and do you still believe the hoax dossier was "mostly proven true"?

Now I'm going to pop some popcorn and get ready for the next classic example of the Inga Two-Step.

Gem Quincyite said...

I say Epstein is Mossad, and is now near Tel Aviv, having completed facial reconstruction.

Free Manure While You Wait! said...

At least Justice Thomas and his wife weren't being flown to Pedo Island by their billionaire friend.

Free Manure While You Wait! said...

"Lol. The University of Texas can’t even create a quarterback that can read defenses."

This is how we know Chuck is blinded by partisanship, a form of severe intellectual retardation:

"Texas is now the nation’s leading powerhouse state in one key category – the number of Fortune 500 companies that call the state home. When the 2022 edition of the Fortune 500 was released this week it showed Texas with 53 of the top 500 companies headquartered here, edging out California (52) and New York (48).

According to Frank Holmes, a Forbes contributing writer, the process of companies leaving their homes to come to Texas isn’t over yet either. He writes:

“This is no accident. As I like to say, money flows where it’s respected most. If that’s true, then we should continue to see Texas, which has among the most business-friendly policies in the U.S., take additional market share of corporate headquarters away from other states.”"

Free Manure While You Wait! said...

"It's as if this community underwent a siege trapped on a place called Sorrow Mountain and even after the siege lifted they maintained a siege mentality."

Close. It's that they are in bondage to the Slave Mentality. And Hollywood and the media are doing everything they can to maintain the status quo. See: The Brown Sugar Network.

Brown sugar is a racial slur and yet they choose that name for their network. It wasn't by accident. And the channel's promo is a master class in how to keep the myth of the inherently criminal nature of black folk in the forefront of the American mind.

I have an 8-year-old African American nephew and I am deeply concerned that he lives in a society where in just a couple of years he will be universally feared not because of who he is (what MLK call the content of his character) but instead because of what he looks like. And I blame the Corporate Media, the Corporate Entertainment industry and our Corporate Government.

Republicans tell us that government needs to be run more like a business. But here's the thing, it already is. It has a larger revenue stream than any corporation in America.

Inga said...
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Inga said...

@ The Moscow Trained Propagandist…

I have never opined on Biden showering with his daughter Ashley. You LIED and continue to LIE about that and have accused me many times of saying I approved of a father showering with his child. You have accused me of saying I didn’t believe Ashley. I believe what Ashley has said, I have no reason to disbelieve her and I’ve never said anything about her at all, much less disbelieving her.

Now you should admit to being a LIAR and if you want any credibility on these Althouse threads going forward, YOU need to stop lying about other commenters and then repeating the lies in order to have these lies internalized by commenters and actually believed. That sort of underhanded manipulation is something a Moscow Trained Propagandist might do.

Big Mike said...

She’s gone now, but why are the people who hired her still employed?

@Bruce Hayden (6:15), I understand that her boss has also been put on “indefinite leave of absence.” But more heads should roll.

I understand that in the past it had been standard to present ad campaigns to the distributors ahead of time for their feedback. And I’m sure they’d have gotten an earful! But no ad preview this time “because I was not ready.” I’ll bet the “bimbo,” a you called her, is still proud of putting one over on those hicks. It cost her and her boss their jobs, and her company millions, but I’ll bet she’s still proud.

Drago said...

Russia Collusion Truther Inga: "I have never opined on Biden showering with his daughter Ashley. You LIED and continue to LIE about that and have accused me many times of saying I approved of a father showering with his child. You have accused me of saying I didn’t believe Ashley. I believe what Ashley has said, I have no reason to disbelieve her and I’ve never said anything about her at all, much less disbelieving her."

So are you now prepared to state unequivocably that your pronouncements of the Biden family as being "perfectly normal" was incorrect and you no longer consider them a "perfectly normal" family?

Of course, you still have your 7 straight years of lunatic and debunked conspiracy theories to atone for and thats going to take some time to walk all those back given the sheer volume of the hoax conspiracy lies you have pushed.

Still, every journey begins with a single step and in your case that begins with you explicitly calling out the sickness of Joe Biden showering with his adolescent daughter in at least as strong language as you pushed your earlier incest lies about Trump and Ivanka and your lies about Melania being an escort.

Did you think we forgot about those lies?