Althouse: At the Allium Café...

May 22, 2019

At the Allium Café...

... you can go all in.

122 comments:

Mike Sylwester said...: Because of the Constitutional crisis, I have been afraid to go outside.

However, the weather is so nice that I am going outside to stroll for a while later today.; 5/22/19, 3:02 PM
Sebastian said...: Allium is nice. Spem in Alium is better.; 5/22/19, 3:11 PM
traditionalguy said...: How does your garden grow? Take Good seeds and add love.; 5/22/19, 3:12 PM
Carol said...: I've been reading Vol II of the Report and Trump really is a shit.

LOL; 5/22/19, 3:13 PM
Jersey Fled said...: So apparently the investigators could not exonerate Ralph Northam.; 5/22/19, 3:15 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Will Nigel Farage of the Brexit Party be the next PM of Great Britain?

No. It's some bullshit European Parliament election, where he might win the seat as a delegate.

Well, I guess if he wins, he'll get some good press and have the last laugh on the milkshake dousing.; 5/22/19, 3:23 PM
stevew said...: It's so nice out I think I'll go for a milkshake, strawberry is my fav. Wink, wink (I don't DRINK milkshakes!).; 5/22/19, 3:26 PM
Phil 314 said...: Relative of the onion.; 5/22/19, 3:42 PM
JPS said...: Carol, 3:13:

I hope they get you to draw up the articles of impeachment. If really being a shit isn't a high crime, or at the very least a misdemeanor, what is?; 5/22/19, 4:14 PM
YoungHegelian said...: @Sebastian,

Spem in Alium is better.

Oh, oh, Tallis all about it, Mr. Wise Guy!; 5/22/19, 4:23 PM
J. Farmer said...: @Bay Area Guys:

Well, I guess if he wins, he'll get some good press and have the last laugh on the milkshake dousing.

There's a lot more to Farage's actions than that. If the Brexit Party delivers a good showing in European Parliamentary elections, it will put pressure on the main parties to take a more hard lined towards Brexit. It was his deft handling of UKIP, which pretty much fell apart after he stepped down, that put pressure on the Tories to promise a referendum in their manifesto. David Cameron would never have otherwise agreed to that. He's one of the most pro-EU politicians in Britain.; 5/22/19, 4:33 PM
J. Farmer said...: Michael Avenatti charged with ripping off porn star Stormy Daniels, trying to extort Nike in new indictments

Is Michael Avenatti's downfall the single greatest incidence of schadenfreude or what?; 5/22/19, 4:35 PM
stevew said...: My current opinion is that Beto O'Rourke will be the first to drop out of the race for the Democrat nomination for POTUS. And anyone that is paying even just a little attention to this stuff would likely say the same.

@J.Farmer: if not the greatest, certainly in the top 2. HRC losing to DJT in 2016 is still top of my list.; 5/22/19, 4:45 PM
JaimeRoberto said...: You know what's a real shit? Raising bogus allegations in order to create a special investigation, and then dragging out that investigation for years in the hope of finding something you can claim is obstruction even after the original allegations have been proven to be BS.; 5/22/19, 4:49 PM
J. Farmer said...: @stevew:

@J.Farmer: if not the greatest, certainly in the top 2. HRC losing to DJT in 2016 is still top of my list.

Damn, that does make it difficult to decide. Generally speaking, anything the Clintons fail at is cause for celebration.; 5/22/19, 4:51 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Like Stevew, I don't think Shelob's defeat in 2016 will ever be topped, at least from my POV.

If James Comey ends up in prison, that might be in the running, but I ain't holding my breath.; 5/22/19, 4:51 PM
Molly said...: I'm concerned that we are entering a Presidential race in which the Democrats don't have anything to say except Orange Man Bad. If asked "what about this policy or that policy?" they can only say "I'm opposed. Because how can anything good come from Orange Man?" So Trump and the republicans will be the only people talking about actual policies, and how good Republican policies are and will be, and that will make it look like the Democrats don't have anything constructive to bring to the debate. In my opinion we need a discussion of trade policy, of immigration policy, of tax and general fiscal policy, and of regulatory issues and proper role of the executive branch. Trump has put these issues in the forefront and has specific ideas that are part of his first term activities. I know we can say in defense of Democrats that they are pushing issues like climate change and health care; but they refuse to even vote in favor of Green New Deal, and I expect that they would refuse to vote for a socialized health care bill should one be introduced and brought to the floor. It makes them look non-serious, and along with the emphasis on "investigation until we find the evidence we want," it erodes confidence that they can be trusted with the Presidency.; 5/22/19, 4:51 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Stevew,

I think the fake Hispanic will be the first candidate to drop out that had at least 10% name recognition.; 5/22/19, 4:52 PM
Yancey Ward said...: On Brexit, it was clear to me that when May was selected to be the PM after Cameron's resignation, there was no intention of actually leaving the EU. Everything May has done has been to make it look like plans were being made, but only as a long delaying tactic. What May the Remainers have always wanted was a 2nd referendum where they would do whatever was necessary to win. They just haven't quite figured out how to square that circle. The problem for May, though, is that she is destroying the Tories in the process- I don't think she expected that to happen.; 5/22/19, 4:56 PM
Achilles said...: stevew said...

@J.Farmer: if not the greatest, certainly in the top 2. HRC losing to DJT in 2016 is still top of my list.

The fall of Mitt Romney and the Bush clan is a much bigger deal.; 5/22/19, 4:59 PM
J. Farmer said...: @Yancey Ward:

The problem for May, though, is that she is destroying the Tories in the process- I don't think she expected that to happen.

May should have resigned after her disastrous call for a snap election that saw the Conservatives lost seats in Parliament and forced them into a coalition government with DUP. Having a pro-EU MP lead the Brexit effort was always an absurdity.; 5/22/19, 5:00 PM
Hagar said...: The Democrats are leaderless and the way their mob is acting debating policies with them is futile. These people have no intention of abiding by any legislation that might ensue anyway.; 5/22/19, 5:02 PM
rcocean said...: "May should have resigned after her disastrous call for a snap election that saw the Conservatives lost seats in Parliament and forced them into a coalition government with DUP. Having a pro-EU MP lead the Brexit effort was always an absurdity."

Of course May should have resigned. She should have resigned when her "Deal" was voted down by a majority in her own party - 4 times. But she didn't. Why? Usually leaders resign because they'll be booted out otherwise. Yet, the Tories stick with her. Obviously, a lot of Tories are "Remainders" first - and conservatives 2nd. And their first priority is staying in the EU. Just like Paul Ryan and all the Never- trumpers would rather lose, then let Trump win.

I wouldn't put it past the Tory leadership to let Labour win in the next election, rather than fulfill their promise to abide by the referendum.; 5/22/19, 5:10 PM
Big Mike said...: The problem for May, though, is that she is destroying the Tories in the process- I don't think she expected that to happen.

@Yancey, certainly the Conservative Remainers didn’t expect that to happen.; 5/22/19, 5:12 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: @Farmer,

Yeah, your take on Farage and the EU vote is much more helpful and in depth, than my superficial take.

I just don't care that much about England (maybe I should). Of course, I am a big supporter of Brexit, but have no idea why it hasn't happened yet.

I do not want that leftwing asshole Corbyn to get power, but think May is pretty much an ineffectual ditz.

Oh well.; 5/22/19, 5:15 PM
rcocean said...: Brexit is the most important thing. What happens to the Tories is less important in the long haul. I'd rather see a Labour government with Brexit than a Tory Gov't with the EU.

Remember the song "They'll Always be an England"? Well, there won't be if the EU gets its way.; 5/22/19, 5:24 PM
Tommy Duncan said...: Speaking of gardens:

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said yesterday that growing cauliflower in community gardens is part of the “colonial” attitudes that her Green New Deal will stamp out.

The New York Democrat, who introduced the proposal to tackle climate change by radically transforming the economy, posted a series of Instagram videos filmed in her home state talking about community gardens as a “core component” of her proposal.

“What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community. It’s so important,” she said as she filmed a community garden in the Bronx.

“So that’s really how you do it right. That is such a core component of the Green New Deal is having all of these projects make sense in a cultural context, and it’s an area that we get the most pushback on because people say, ‘Why do you need to do that? That’s too hard.’”

“But when you really think about it — when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something — what you’re doing is you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“That is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them.”"; 5/22/19, 5:34 PM
Yancey Ward said...: AOC should probably work on growing a brain.; 5/22/19, 5:45 PM
Fernandinande said...: I'd grow cauliflower if not for those colonial lenses on them.; 5/22/19, 5:47 PM
JackWayne said...: May’s rats are deserting the sinking ship. I bet May is gone after tomorrow.; 5/22/19, 5:51 PM
Achilles said...: Bay Area Guy said...

I just don't care that much about England (maybe I should). Of course, I am a big supporter of Brexit, but have no idea why it hasn't happened yet.

Because May and the "conservatives" are just like Mitt Romney and the republicans here in the US. They are bought and paid for globalist tools.

I do not want that leftwing asshole Corbyn to get power, but think May is pretty much an ineffectual ditz.

Oh well.

It was better for us that Obama beat Romney. It would be better for the UK long term for the leftists to have to take responsibility for their failures than to have some traitor like May to implement their desires and let them bash "conservatives" with the failure. May was and is a Remainer just like Romney and Bush were and are cuck wing democrats.; 5/22/19, 5:53 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: this is her real aversion

In humans choline converts to acetylcholine, a key neurotransmitter for brain function.Cauliflower is rich in this compound and it keeps the brain in tip top shape, especially the frontal lobe (responsible for memory, reasoning, and decision making).; 5/22/19, 6:00 PM
FGH said...: Has anybody been watching Masterpiece Theatre's "Les Miserables"? I was troubled by the screen adapter's depiction of Enjolras and Jean Valjean, particularly the latter's deathbed scene. Fantine's depiction was spot-on and perfectly Hugoesque, but I suspect the great Romantic French author is rolling in his vault at the Pantheon with what his modern-day adapter has done to two key protagonists, transforming them into something more naturalistic, and more sympathetic to 20th century progressive sensibilities, in effect dumbing them down from Hugo's flamboyant and heroic projection.; 5/22/19, 6:00 PM
Achilles said...: Yancey Ward said...
On Brexit, it was clear to me that when May was selected to be the PM after Cameron's resignation, there was no intention of actually leaving the EU. Everything May has done has been to make it look like plans were being made, but only as a long delaying tactic. What May the Remainers have always wanted was a 2nd referendum where they would do whatever was necessary to win. They just haven't quite figured out how to square that circle. The problem for May, though, is that she is destroying the Tories in the process- I don't think she expected that to happen.

How long are you people going to let them fool you?

May is a traitor. She hates her voters. Mitt Romney is the same. George Bush 1 and 2 were the same. McCain. Dole. All the same.

If you see a "conservative" anywhere in the world not facing constant threats of violence it is because you know they are trying to screw their voters.

If you see a "conservative" that is being called a fascist and facing constant threats of violence from the leftists little shit heads you know they are listening to their voters.

This is an open class war and it is occurring all over the planet as we speak. The primary component of this war at the moment is the rise of politicians who are taking on the traitorous shills lying to that group of voters. The political class "conservatives" are being ousted all over the world and the globalists are losing control of many countries.

They will start a war after 2020.; 5/22/19, 6:02 PM
Hagar said...: The name Bronx comes from a Dutch family named de Bronck who had a farm there when New York was Niewe Amsterdam.

I don't quite see yucca as being native to the area, then or now.; 5/22/19, 6:02 PM
Tommy Duncan said...: Regarding AOC and cauliflower: Are there garden plot Nazi who control what gets planted in community gardens?

I thought they provided a plot of black soil for you to use and you got to choose what to plant?

Has AOC ever gardened in a community garden?; 5/22/19, 6:16 PM
Narr said...: Wife has become involved with some "Outlander" fan orgs and spinoffs (charities etc) and now has quite a few Scots friends. They all seem to want to stay in the EU but not the UK--they want to be "a free country."

After going to all the trouble to essentially create and run the second British Empire (and watch its decline and disappearance), the Scots have had enough, I suppose.

Whether it will do them any good is another question.

Narr
George MacDonald Fraser is spinning in his grave, I'll wager; 5/22/19, 6:16 PM
mandrewa said...: Yancey Ward: "On Brexit, it was clear to me that when May was selected to be the PM after Cameron's resignation, there was no intention of actually leaving the EU. Everything May has done has been to make it look like plans were being made, but only as a long delaying tactic."

I think it was only after May's speech in September 2018 at Chequers that it may became clear that she was really trying to stay in the EU and call it an exit.

Before then all of her speeches were consistent with her being committed to taking the UK out of the EU in some substantive sense. It was understood that May was a lukewarm Brexiteer, and therefore was trying to negotiate a moderate sort of Brexit, but still it would in the key essentials be the real thing.

But what she said and did in September 2018 made it clear that what she had previously said was all a lie. That is unless one has some highly unusual sense of what words mean.

Even now May still talks as if she is pursuing Brexit, and no doubt there are still people that believe her.; 5/22/19, 6:19 PM
Rory said...: I hate to say this, but I think if you read the Thinker's full passage copied above very closely, her hypothetical community garden is collectivized.; 5/22/19, 6:22 PM
rcocean said...: A cauliflower is a just a cabbage with a college education.; 5/22/19, 6:25 PM
rcocean said...: Whenever I hear "constitutional crisis" i play this:

Constitutional Crisis.; 5/22/19, 6:27 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: the Brits pronounce it Alliuminium; 5/22/19, 6:30 PM
tastid212 said...: Re @stevew and @Yancey Ward, what's the over/under on Beto being the first? You might be right: Beto's got a ton of $$ and surely realizes that he's not qualified for anything more serious than ambassador to Costa Rica. Since Beto's not going anywhere, he could give the money to other candidates (perhaps in order to "fail upward" once again). There's a slew of 3rd-tier candidates (Tulsi, Inslee, Delaney, Swalwell, Moulton, et al.) who should drop out now, but they're NOT spending any money and so don't have to retire just yet. The 'killer bees" - Biden, Bernie and Buttigieg - are raising pretty good money for now. I'm interested in Harris and Booker - both showing political lameness out of the gate, raising some $$, and desperately needing the Af-Am vote in SC, which the unlikely Uncle Joe may "garner"! Yeah, Beto's the first one out bc the money he has raised is worth something in the future.; 5/22/19, 6:38 PM
mandrewa said...: The United Kingdom is not really a democracy in the same sense as the United States is. The key difference is that both Democratic and Republican parties have open primaries where the public, or at least that part of the public that cares about these things, elects someone to represent the party in the actual election.

But in the UK the party leadership selects the candidates.

In a key sense there are no elections in the UK. The most important part of the decision is made by the party leaderships. Of course, the voters will elect one of the various candidates the various parties put up, but whoever that is, he or she wouldn't be there if the party leadership hadn't selected him or her.

So guess who the MPs really represent.

So that's how we get things like the Brexit mess, where both main parties were opposed to Brexit, and the selection of the MPs by the same small group of people over the years assures that all the MPs have a rather similar mind. And then in the last election, Brexit was so popular that both main parties ran on a pro-Brexit platform. And we end up with 80% of elected MPs being elected on a promise to implement Brexit.

And yet in reality most of them were opposed to it.

It has exposed the whole system as being an organized lie.; 5/22/19, 6:41 PM
Big Mike said...: The Democrats are leaderless and the way their mob is acting debating policies with them is futile. These people have no intention of abiding by any legislation that might ensue anyway.

@Hagar, historically, even when the Democrats have had a unified caucus lined up behind a well known leader, they have declined to abide by any agreements they have negotiated. They do not negotiate in good faith, they do not argue or debate in good faith, they will not agree to be bound to any agreement they make.; 5/22/19, 6:44 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Very not-trash for Althouse to refer to her post as "the" cafe. Not "my" cafe.

But what about "At thee Allium cafe"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w0KYax5lmc

That'd be next level AF. Like sliding in DMs.

IMHO.; 5/22/19, 6:53 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Also, Jesus was a hipster.

And, his dad.

Hence: The Bible. Not "my Bible."

Duh.; 5/22/19, 6:55 PM
Sprezzatura said...: I think I spotted not-at-all-geriatric Althouse somewhere around the two minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QryoOF5jEbc; 5/22/19, 7:09 PM
gilbar said...: In a key sense there are no elections in the UK. The most important part of the decision is made by the party leaderships. Of course, the voters will elect one of the various candidates the various parties put up, but whoever that is, he or she wouldn't be there if the party leadership hadn't selected him or her.

Not only that; but (as i understand it), you have NO INPUT for national leadership. Your only vote would be like for your house representative; then which ever party makes a majority, That party's Nancy Pelosi becomes the national leader.
You have No Vote for Higher House (Lords/Senators), or for Commander in Chief (Queen/President).
So, your LOCAL voice, is your ONLY voice.
Oh, and; your Queen is from some family of Germans, that STOLE the Kingdom from GOD's intended Stuart Family; 5/22/19, 7:32 PM
Hagar said...: It is beyond bargaining in bad faith when they declare up front that they do not care about the Constitution or the statute laws; they are going to make their own laws out of doors.; 5/22/19, 7:34 PM
Fritz said...: Hagar said...
The name Bronx comes from a Dutch family named de Bronck who had a farm there when New York was Niewe Amsterdam.

I don't quite see yucca as being native to the area, then or now

Yucca filamentosa is found from southeast Virginia south to Florida, and as far west as south and southeast Texas. It has become naturalized along the Atlantic coastal plain north to Long Island Sound and into areas of the lower Midwest. - Wikipedia.

We have some on the beach here. It doesn’t look especially appetizing.; 5/22/19, 7:35 PM
mandrewa said...: Correction. It was in July 2018 that Prime Minister May gave the speech at Chequers that revealed her intent to betray Brexit.; 5/22/19, 7:42 PM
Grant said...: Surely AOC meant yuca, not yucca.; 5/22/19, 8:09 PM
J. Farmer said...: @Gilbar:

Even more essentially legislative and executive authority is fused together in the form of Parliament. But in the House of Commons you're basically voting for a political party more than any individual candidate, since MPs are largely expected to follow the party line. Maintaining this discipline is the essential job of the parliamentary whip.

I'm not entirely unopposed to monarchy, given that the monarch's powers are ceremonial in nature. I've said it many times before, but I think fusing the head of state and head of government into a single executive was a bad idea.; 5/22/19, 8:10 PM
Fernandinande said...: "Following discovery of 'circle game' photos, OPRF will pay $53K to reprint student yearbooks"

"The “circle game” hand gesture began as part of a juvenile “made-you-look” game but" (...rest of the sentence is false).; 5/22/19, 8:19 PM
Quaestor said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/22/19, 8:24 PM
Quaestor said...: Wife has become involved with some "Outlander" fan orgs and spinoffs (charities etc) and now has quite a few Scots friends. They all seem to want to stay in the EU but not the UK--they want to be "a free country."

Refrain from putting trust in persons befriended through the dunderheaded romanticism of hogwash like Outlander. The fact these acquaintances can put out of the UK but in the EU and free country in the same thought suggests they are thinking with the same clarity of mind as did the clansmen who followed Charles Edward Stuart on that prolonged meander to Culloden. In case one doubts my sincerity keep in mind Quaestor is the descendant of real Jacobites, and not just unwashed loons who swung broadswords at redcoats, but influencial types who wore full-bottomed wigs and pounded gavels. Aligning with the Stuarts was the dumbest thing we ever did.; 5/22/19, 8:27 PM
J. Farmer said...: @Quaestor:

The fact these acquaintances can put out of the UK but in the EU and free country in the same thought suggests they are thinking with the same clarity of mind

The Scots like the EU for one simple reason: it's left-wing. It's a way of running roughshod over national politics in order to get desired policies. It's the same reason it wants out of UK. It knows that in the UK it will always partially be run by southeast England, which is considerably less left-wing.; 5/22/19, 8:36 PM
Molly said...: Grant at 8:09: I think you are right, and I'm surprised that no one in the press has corrected the spelling. Yuca is a form of cassava root and is therefore a food that would make up the diet of very poor people in some developing countries. Yucca is grown as an ornamental plant. Whether or not it was a good point, the point AOC was making (well maybe) was that ... sorry I can't finish this sentence.; 5/22/19, 8:39 PM
Sprezzatura said...: I want to run roughshod over national politics. Assuming that's what it takes to get a black gal on the twenty. Assuming the loser minority (re total population) from the loser parts of the country will always be running stuff.; 5/22/19, 8:44 PM
Sprezzatura said...: No, I'm not into listening to what these folks who fuss re a black gal on the dough have to say.

F them.; 5/22/19, 8:45 PM
Birkel said...: Republican Harriet Tubman would be great on the $20.; 5/22/19, 8:47 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Hilarious

flashback When the Mainstream Democratic Hack Press (the press) Gushed over Avenatti.; 5/22/19, 8:55 PM
Narr said...: Quaestor and J. Farmer: ha'e nae fear, lads. I wager I know as much British Isles history as ye, and somewhere there's a bog out of which the first McCallum staggered. That's my Scots, by way of various troubled parts, to here at the loveranch.

That I would put my trust in dunderheaded hogwash (nice!) from Euroloons is to misread me, considerably. I don't watch the damn show BECAUSE I know the reality. (Also, my religion forbids speculation about time travel and sex.)

Narr
My DAR/UDC Granny Etta Mae McCallum taught me to suck eggs long ago; 5/22/19, 8:55 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Assuming she's black, how about Stacey Dash?; 5/22/19, 8:57 PM
Quaestor said...: The Scots like the EU for one simple reason: it's left-wing.

Too simple. Don't make the mistake that romantic idealism plays no role in the Scottish mind, particularly the Highland variety. The results of the Brexit vote shows that the further north the voter the more Remain he is. The past dies hard in the Celtic mind. The tales of Cromwell's army and "the bluddy Anglish" I've heard in Ireland are unmatched for mad passion except by the opinions of the most revanchist "sons of the Confederacy" in this country, and for the same reason. The Scots may be stupid, but they are never simple-minded. Nothing in Scottish history or politics is simple.; 5/22/19, 9:04 PM
Quaestor said...: Refrain from putting trust in persons befriended through the dunderheaded romanticism of hogwash like Outlander. wasn't directed at you, Narr. I took your meaning correctly, I think. It was offered as a maxim of the Confucianist sort.; 5/22/19, 9:08 PM
Sprezzatura said...: So, now that the libs see that this guy is (re the legal system) being proven to be a swindler, they are cutting ties. So, they're not supporting a proven swindler.

Makes ya think.

Right?

No? No thoughts? Yur sure this is a total own the libs thingy. Cause they do not support someone who is shown (re the courts) to be a swindler.

Carry on.; 5/22/19, 9:09 PM
buwaya said...: Catholic Bishops are generally anti-populist, anti-nationalist, in re the EU elections.
Which is interesting.

When I was young the big deal in Catholic politico-economic thought was subsidiarity, that is pushing political and policy decisions down to the lowest level. There was some praise for, say, Basque autonomy as being a good example of subsidiarity. Also was a bit of a Vatican II tweak of the nationalist centralizer Franco. Those big bureaucracies squashing all were not good, most definitely not good, and all this concentration of power was a fount of temptations and an occasion for sin.

But now there seems to be this pro-imperialist thing.

The good Bishops could use a platoon of Jesuits to reconcile it all, if it is even possible.; 5/22/19, 9:11 PM
J. Farmer said...: @Quaestor:

Too simple. Don't make the mistake that romantic idealism plays no role in the Scottish mind, particularly the Highland variety.

You're right. "One simple reason" was too simple a construction.; 5/22/19, 9:11 PM
rcocean said...: The UK Parliament is much more democratic than the system in the USA.

If the Uk had the USA Govt system, the British would've elected a House that favored Brexit, but then the British Senate would've "Filibustered It". And if the British people elected a Senate filibuster proof Brexit, then the "British Supreme Court" would've ruled it "Unconstitutional".

The USA is the most undemocratic Republic in the world. Who voted to ban all abortions? Who voted for busing in the 1970's? Who voted to ban prayer in school? Who voted to make it impossible to deport illegal aliens? Nobody. It was all done by judges.

You have the insane situation of Obama giving illegals amnesty by executive orders and then Trump being told he can't Reverse Obama's DACA by executive order because its "Unconstitutional". There is no rhyme or reason, its just rule by un-elected judges.; 5/22/19, 9:13 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "There is no rhyme or reason, its just rule by un-elected judges."

At least they don't pick the POTUS who picks them.

Right?; 5/22/19, 9:17 PM
walter said...: WTH is dear Sitter prattling on about?; 5/22/19, 9:17 PM
buwaya said...: British MPs however are easier to buy.
You have to look beyond political structure, into society and economics.

Actual economic power was traditionally even more concentrated in Britain, in London.
It’s a mirror of France, where nearly always Paris is all.

The US was much more decentralized, but it’s been getting more concentrated, in the New York-Washington axis, plus parts of California.; 5/22/19, 9:19 PM
wishfulthinking said...: They will start a war after 2020.

5/22/19, 6:02 PM

Ok. Let's let them.

AOC cannot possibly grow a brain. There's no matter there from which to do so. Grey or otherwise.; 5/22/19, 9:23 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: oh FFS !! Too funny!!

Peak Handmaid’s Tale: NYC Woman Calls 911 on Red Umbrella She Mistook for Suicidal Liberal

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/peak-handmaids-tale-nyc-woman-calls-911-on-red-umbrella-she-mistook-for-suicidal-liberal/; 5/22/19, 9:24 PM
Narr said...: Quaestor, I'm good. Thanks.

Narr
G'night all; 5/22/19, 9:24 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/22/19, 9:24 PM
buwaya said...: The judges could pick a POTUS indeed, someday, but not the one that picks them.
This is an American problem, this law-worship.
It’s a religion of a sort, without a moral foundation.
It’s not that the actual laws matter, objectively, being as they are vastly mutable by judicial opinion.
The entire legal system is just a portion of the hegemonic overclass.
Control is in the hands of that class, with only episodic delays.

The American arguments on all these things seem weirdly channeled into obsessions over process and words.
The fundamentals of power drive everything, and all that structure and process is incidental, weeds before the bulldozers.; 5/22/19, 9:29 PM
wishfulthinking said...: Is it a coincidence that May, Merkel and the French head of state (his name escapes me now - Alzheimer's moment) all have no children of their own? Why so? What is most important to them if their country's wellbeing and safety (nationalism) is not good according to them? No families to leave behind when they die. Is their goal of globalization just or mostly their reason to exist? Or perhaps that and the mighty dollar/euro? What benefit do these globalists in the EU and USA get out of globalization? Most of them are already wealthy and powerful. What do they want that they not already have?; 5/22/19, 9:34 PM
buwaya said...: American lawyers and judges are immensely more skilled at reinterpreting words than even in he Jesuits I knew.
I mean, a Jesuit, by reputation, could argue black white, and vice versa.
But 35+ years here have taught me that US legalists are beyond compare, and beyond any restraint, moral, rational or empirical.; 5/22/19, 9:35 PM
Michael K said...: The entire legal system is just a portion of the hegemonic overclass.

I was down at LA Harbor one time with two daughters, one a lawyer. We saw one of those Japanese auto transport ships unloading about 10,000 cars. I told the girls that we loaded the ship with 10,000 lawyers for the return trip. The lawyer daughter did not think it was funny. If only we could do it.

I understand the Pentagon has 10,000 lawyers. No wonder we cannot win a war,; 5/22/19, 9:37 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "I understand the Pentagon has 10,000 lawyers. No wonder we cannot win a war"

If DJT is gonna pardon folks convicted of war crimes, it seems like going through the legal hassle of convicting war criminals should stop. Hence fewer lawyers. And, according to doc Mike, more war victory.; 5/22/19, 9:43 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Rodrigo and DJT and Doc Mike.; 5/22/19, 9:47 PM
mandrewa said...: Observing Scotland from afar it seems to me there are lot of Scots who maintain an great dislike for the English. And it seems to be about tribal identity and past grievances and not current events.

I don't see how Scotland would benefit by leaving the UK and joining the EU.

The EU, for anyone that is paying attention, already has this dynamic of wanting to control everything, and it is only going to get worse. Brussels already probably has more actual impact on what goes on in Scotland than Westminster does. It's not difficult to anticipate that Scotland out of the UK and in the EU would have far less autonomy than it does now. Not to mention the increased self-rule it would gain if part of an independent UK.

In addition to that, and more practically, a very considerable amount of money flows each year from Westminster to Scotland. Under the EU all this money would disappear, and in fact the net flow of money would be from the Scotland to the EU (if we assume that the Scottish economy does not collapse somewhere along the road to this point.)

And although it's true that the majority of the Scots voted to remain in the EU in the referendum three years ago, some 40% still voted to leave. If they were really talking about leaving the UK and joining the EU, I think it's a mistake to assume 60% would be in favor of it.; 5/22/19, 9:50 PM
buwaya said...: War crimes are a funny sort of thing.
It is almost always a victors justice, if not by a victorious enemy, by a victorious faction in the country, against those whom they saw as their policy-opponents, or their social opponents. This is a very corrupt business.
The US committed a huge number of war-crimes in WWII, as did all the combatants, the only difference between the bad guys and the good guys being matters of scale and the justifying arguments, or rather the rationalizing arguments. But the US prosecuted few of its own and those mainly for the sake of maintenance of order and discipline.; 5/22/19, 9:58 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Buw: a big fan of the Rod.; 5/22/19, 10:02 PM
buwaya said...: The rod?; 5/22/19, 10:03 PM
David Duffy said...: Today we had rain in Central California. Rain in late May with a 70 degree temp! Please, whatever you do, keep pumping in CO2 into the air so we can escape the fate of those who came here to farm in the broiling heat of 105 degree early spring temperatures (without air conditioners) to make this the most productive farm land in America. For the sake of our ancestors who suffered to feed the world, please turn every available source into gas hydrocarbons.; 5/22/19, 10:04 PM
StephenFearby said...: Times (London)
May 23 2019, 12:01am

'Theresa May is expected to announce her departure from No 10 tomorrow after a cabinet mutiny over her Brexit plan.

"The prime minister defied an attempt to force her from office last night, insisting that she would spend today campaigning in the European elections. Her allies believe, however, that she will declare that she is leaving after a meeting with Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee."

'...The first sign of trouble came when it was revealed that David Mundell, the Scottish secretary, had asked to see Mrs May to express his discontent at the move, which could open the door to a referendum on Scottish independence.

A little later it was disclosed that Sajid Javid, the home secretary, had also asked for a meeting at which he intended to tell her that her “bold” offer to Labour MPs of a vote on a second referendum must be ditched.

Mrs May refused to meet them, instead attending her weekly audience with the Queen. As she did so Tory MPs on the executive of the 1922 Committee met while demands grew for another vote of confidence in the prime minister. After a short meeting with Julian Smith, the chief whip, backbenchers were told that Mrs May had agreed to meet Sir Graham tomorrow. Her allies said it was clear that she intended to set out her departure timetable. “She thought she had a duty to have one last go but if that’s not going to be possible then she’s out of road,” one said.

Conservative MPs were frustrated that the 1922 Committee’s executive did not change the rules last night to allow a new confidence vote in Mrs May but it later emerged that the group had voted on whether to change the rules. According to ITV, they each placed their votes in a sealed envelope and will open and count them only if Mrs May does not tell Sir Graham tomorrow that she is stepping down...'

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/theresa-may-prepares-to-quit-after-cabinet-mutiny-9mmjthtv8

(Behind a paywall, but I believe access in the USA is only 5 pounds a month. If you have a WSJ subscription, you can get 12 months of the London Times for free.)

https://www.wsjplus.com/offers/times-of-london; 5/22/19, 10:17 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Buw,

Cool people add "the" to stuff.

Like 'Rodrigo' becomes 'the Rod.'

In a sentence it'd be used like: 'Buw slid the Rod in his DM.'

Althouse taught me/the how the yutes do stuff.; 5/22/19, 10:19 PM
Michael K said...: the only difference between the bad guys and the good guys being matters of scale and the justifying arguments,

There were not nearly the number of lawyers, then. Especially in the Pentagon.; 5/22/19, 10:19 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Boy the way Glen Miller played.; 5/22/19, 10:20 PM
walter said...: Useless Sitter Pitter Patter; 5/22/19, 10:26 PM
Michael K said...: And, according to doc Mike, more war victory.

I would strongly suggest you read Dakota Meyers' book, "Into the Fire"

You won't of course.

The lawyers and the Obama ROE actually saved his life. Because he was being punished for shooting back at Taliban mortarmen who were firing mortar rounds into his fire base, he was not allowed to accompany his civil affairs into the village where they were ambushed and killed. Instead, he and a motor pool sergeant were outside the village. They attempted to rescue the unit and did rescue a bunch of Afghan soldiers. It took hours before they could get artillery support because the local officers could not get permission. More ROE/lawyer crap.; 5/22/19, 10:29 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Reading is for nerds.

No thnx.; 5/22/19, 10:36 PM
narciso said...: A marvel themed move against the deep state hulk smash:

https://youtu.be/nsUWSPgIp7w; 5/22/19, 10:50 PM
Ralph L said...: The Scots may be stupid

The smart ones left centuries ago.; 5/22/19, 10:54 PM
narciso said...: Et tu

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/exclusive-general-mattis-planned-primary-run-against-trump-pence-was-also-considered-nikki-haley-was-tested-as-running-mate/; 5/22/19, 10:59 PM
Gahrie said...: The USA is the most undemocratic Republic in the world.

I agree that the Courts have gotten out of hand. (It goes all the way back to Marbury...how the Hell was Marshall not forced to recuse himself?) However the US was purposefully designed to be anti-democratic. I believe that one of the main reasons we are the strongest republics in the world is precisely because we are undemocratic.; 5/22/19, 11:01 PM
narciso said...: Yes, go with that:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/05/21/time-cover-picturing-the-buttigieg-first-family-is-a-display-of-heterosexuality-without-women/?fbclid=IwAR3kYtOFGfpKpttXXQRVvVjxs-CkOSt0a8IDCrjzxosG3tOut0Cb1WinH-A; 5/22/19, 11:03 PM
David Duffy said...: People (Americans mostly) figured out how to take a five pound glob of tar from a hundred feet below the surface of the ocean off the coast of Texas and turn that glob into a a gallon of fuel that magically makes its way to Central California and will propel me comfortably down the highway at 75mph while in an air conditioned compartment and listening to songs from the 70's for about 30 miles. All that for about 10 minutes of my actual labor. Damn, we live in the best of times that jackasses want to destroy.; 5/22/19, 11:04 PM
William said...: Instead of going full Hitler, I would have preferred to see Daenerys as an AOC figure. She could have lectured the Dothraki about their toxic masculinity. Maybe nagged the Dragons about their carbon footprint. In such a case, the character development would be consistent with her high mindedness, and we could all have rejoiced in her early demise.; 5/22/19, 11:04 PM
Sprezzatura said...: ""The Scots may be stupid"

The smart ones left centuries ago.""

Hence, Turnberry = reverse of the smart ones = not so smart.

Math.; 5/22/19, 11:05 PM
Danno said...: Blogger JaimeRoberto said...You know what's a real shit? Raising bogus allegations in order to create a special investigation, and then dragging out that investigation for years in the hope of finding something you can claim is obstruction even after the original allegations have been proven to be BS.

Even worse, Mueller probably knew this was a bullshit assignment from the get-go and let it continue for almost two years.; 5/22/19, 11:11 PM
narciso said...: Well her scorched end techniques left something to be desired cleansing or zachistas have a way of backfiring; 5/22/19, 11:14 PM
David Duffy said...: My first son was conceived at the most inconvenient time in my, and Mrs Perspective's life. I can't imagine what life would have been like if he, my oldest son, the baby, were aborted. Let the child live. If it's tragic, well at least you gave him a chance to live. Living is better than not.; 5/22/19, 11:15 PM
Ralph L said...: general-mattis-planned-primary-run-against-trump

What a misleading headline. Someone else studied it, not the general.; 5/22/19, 11:19 PM
walter said...: Biden 2020 Sitter!
Say it!; 5/22/19, 11:20 PM
David Duffy said...: Too much of my earnings are spent on taxes to public employee retirement. They didn't earn the hours of my labor the tax man gets from me.

I didn't receive from them a fair balance of wages.; 5/22/19, 11:23 PM
walter said...: LP,
You're not supposed to consider that...public servants and all..; 5/22/19, 11:27 PM
chickelit said...: “But when you really think about it — when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something — what you’re doing is you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

Cauliflower is white so wouldn’t you expect AOC to despise them?; 5/23/19, 12:03 AM
Fen said...: “But when you really think about it — when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something — what you’re doing is you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

The cute little nazi is two steps from allowing whites to eat corn (maize). Because appropriation.

I'm tempted to mail her a bottle of bleach and ammonia and see what she does with it.; 5/23/19, 2:44 AM
Fen said...: Alexandria Cortez's ancestors hail from Puerto Rico, descended from the the Taíno tribe

Let's see if we can find them in the book ...(flip flip flip)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico

The first known settlers were the Ortoiroid people, an Archaic Period culture of Amerindian hunters and fishermen who migrated from the South American mainland.

Ortoiroid... nope, that's not them. (flip flip flip)

The Ortoiroid were displaced by the Saladoid... between 430 and 250 BC.

Whoops. "Displaced" eh? Sounds kinda colonial. But still not her clan. (flip flip)

The Igneri tribe migrated to Puerto Rico between 120 and 400 AD from the region of the Orinoco river in northern South America.

Wait what? The Igneri? What happened to the Saladoid?

The Arcaico and Igneri co-existed on the island between the 4th and 10th centuries.

Uh-huh. Sounds like the Arcaico couldn't dislodge those pesky Igneri. (flip flip flip)

Between the 7th and 11th centuries, the Taíno culture developed on the island. By approximately 1000 AD, it had become dominant.

Aha! Here are the ancestors of Alexandria O Cortez. They "developed" and became the "dominant" culture, presumably appropriating the island from the Arcaico and Igneri, who took it from the Saladoid, who took it from the Ortoiroid, who probably ate the bones of whatever tribe came before them.

At the time of Columbus' arrival, an estimated 30,000 to 60,000 Taíno Amerindians inhabited the island.

60,000? That's sounds like a flourishing colony

...

Cortex also claims to be descended from African Moors, which makes it likely her ancestors participated in the Barbary Slave trade. Would be just lovely to get her opinion on reparations. And how much she thinks she should pay.; 5/23/19, 3:31 AM
Fen said...: The Wiki Edit :)

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish tribe immigrated to the island and co-existed with the Taíno, developing a culture that grew dominant as the Taíno were displaced by disease.; 5/23/19, 3:50 AM
Fen said...: Instead of going full Hitler, I would have preferred to see Daenerys as an AOC figure.

She orders her Dothraki to bring every wagon they can find into the Red Keep. She arrives as the last are pulled into place, carrying a small hammer. Uncomfortable glances from horseman to horseman ...and then slowly, a dawning realization that drains the life from them as she takes the hammer to the wagon wheels. "Break the wheel! It's easier if you take out a few spokes first. Like this.."; 5/23/19, 4:29 AM
wildswan said...: Just for yucks I wish someone would ask AOC which kind of yucca/yuca she meant. But she may have a good idea for a new Prime series: A Yucca Grows in Brooklyn. And then is uprooted by supporters of yuca. A Yuca Grows in Brooklyn. Then they grow both. A Yucca and A Yuca Grows in Brooklyn. But the supporters of cauliflower are not idle. Lens bearing cauliflowers are found displacing the native yuccas. Should yucca build that wall? A laugh a minute as a manioc time is had by all.; 5/23/19, 6:01 AM
Fernandinande said...: Fen said...Let's see if we can find them in the book ...(flip flip flip)

Somewhere a kindergarten class is missing its substitute teacherette.; 5/23/19, 7:14 AM
Fen said...: Were you trying to be mean to me? Because that was funny.; 5/23/19, 8:22 AM
mockturtle said...: Buwaya's post last night regarding war crimes was spot-on. If one is to consider mass killing of civilians war crimes, then Hiroshima and Nagasaki would qualify. He's right, it's just another way of punishing the loser. BTW, I don't think Truman's use of The Bomb was wrong.; 5/23/19, 8:42 AM
Michael K said...: Blogger anti-de Sitter space said...
Reading is for nerds.

No thnx.

Exactly what I expected.; 5/23/19, 10:18 AM
iowan2 said...: ...CO2 into the air so we can escape the fate of those who came here to farm in the broiling heat of 105 degree early spring temperatures (without air conditioners) to make this the most productive farm land in America.

Working in and around Grundy Co. IA, and growing up, in and around Cedar, Clinton and Scott Co. IA. I must take exception to the claim of 'most productive'.; 5/23/19, 11:33 AM