Althouse: At the Sunset Café...

December 27, 2019

At the Sunset Café...

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... you can talk all night.

61 comments:

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: nice one, Meadester!

...Like a background to a Christmas card!
******

aaaaand an interesting thread by @JohnWHuber

https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/994010702019989504; 12/27/19, 7:49 PM
FullMoon said...: Doc predicted , and provided a link,in 2016

"They will indict him for dealing with Russia. Hillary seems to be aware of this plan as she has introduced the topic a few times, in spite of her own Russian connection. There is no chance the Obama DoJ would be interested in her activities. See the FBI "investigation" if you doubt this."

has a backup plan in case it looks like Trump will win the election.; 12/27/19, 7:59 PM
tommyesq said...: Like this better than the sunrises, maybe waiting on the light to dim more is better - holding on to hope rather thzn waiting for the new glory?; 12/27/19, 8:01 PM
stevew said...: Reminiscent of a Northern Lights sort of sky. I like them all, though so.e more than others.; 12/27/19, 8:24 PM
walter said...: Joe Biden on subpoena; 12/27/19, 8:24 PM
Big Mike said...: I got up too early this morning; I'm not going to talk all night unless I start talking in my sleep.; 12/27/19, 8:25 PM
walter said...: A bit creepy when he leans in towards female reporter.; 12/27/19, 8:25 PM
chuck said...: Nice!; 12/27/19, 8:26 PM
Chuck said...: Althouse I’ve often seen several of your commenters claim that active duty members of the military overwhelmingly support Trump.

So this new poll commissioned by the Military Times was interesting. While Trump at one time enjoyed more support among active duty military than he did with the general American public (and more than Obama), now Trump’s numbers with active duty military are quite similar to other non-military polling:
Very unfavorable 45.1%
Unfavorable 4.8%
Very favorable 24.3%
Favorable 17.3%
Neutral 8.5%

A big shift toward unfavorability since April of 2017.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/12/17/half-of-active-duty-service-members-are-unhappy-with-trump-new-military-times-poll-shows/; 12/27/19, 8:35 PM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: I took a great picture of the crescent moon and whatever planet is currently hanging over it in front of a peach California ocean sunset. Palm trees silhouetted and everything. It’s a beautiful night and we are enjoying our customary last week of the year vacation in one of our favorite cities, San Diego. It’s beautiful here; too bad the state is crazy and careening toward disaster.; 12/27/19, 8:38 PM
narciso said...: As i pointed out in the earlier thread the times is behaving like the way peter jennings he would behave in the north kosanese segment.; 12/27/19, 8:41 PM
narciso said...: This is the other front of the forever war:

https://mobile.twitter.com/HamdiAlkhshali/status/1210684260182634497; 12/27/19, 8:44 PM
narciso said...: https://mobile.twitter.com/DSafavianEsq/status/1210663895867756545; 12/27/19, 8:48 PM
narciso said...: Re the gallagher case,; 12/27/19, 8:49 PM
Seeing Red said...: Via Rantburg:

...Used as intended, it has been a useful law enforcement tool. Abused as it had been by Obama administration officials up until Rogers’ discovery in 2014, it became a weapon. DiGenova said, "For more than four years before the election of Donald Trump, there was an illegal spying operation going on by FBI [private] contractors ‐ four of them ‐ to steal personal information, electronic information about Americans and to use it against the Republican Party."....; 12/27/19, 8:50 PM
Narr said...: That's Venus, loveliest and most mysterious of the Wanderers. The left coast must be a good place for sunsets and evening stars--I've only spent a week in SoCal in my life and wasn't a planet-tracker back then.

Narr
It ain't just CA; 12/27/19, 8:51 PM
Seeing Red said...: NATO's a joke. Nobody knows what they're doing," the SEALs reportedly told Trump. "We don't fight to win. The morale is terrible. It's totally corrupt."

Trump met with enlisted men.

He knows what he’s doing.; 12/27/19, 9:07 PM
wildswan said...: An opportunity for prison reform is opening up in Virginia. Prisoners have many rights guaranteed them by law which are disregarded by prison authorities, as I learned in the pro-life wars. It would be impossible to run prisons which gave prisoners all their mandated rights - to daily showers, to rec periods, to changes of clothing, to dietarily correct food, to clean sheets, to good blankets, to cells not overheated or freezing, to needed medications - without increased staffing and funding. But only the presence of middle-class prisoners who can call their families and through them their representatives in the legislatures can bring prison disregard for mandated rights to the attention of the public and the legislature. Prison administrators don't really want the middle class in there, exposing abuses and causing a public outcry for reform. But I doubt if the Governor knows this. I doubt if he really understands how badly prisoners are treated. Seems fine when he's visits; regulations on the books look good. They are good and it would be great if they were enforced.; 12/27/19, 9:08 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/27/19, 9:12 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: A White Christmas?
wazzap-- these kids raciss at Christmas in these 2 vids?

...is this statement true???:
"Play" is often a form of practice for roles a child will assume when then grow up." This is why boys tend to play fight (as warriors/in competitive games), and why girls play house and with dolls (where they're essentially practicing a maternal roles).

And whether you want to admit this or not, girls instinctively want their kids to look like them. So giving them a doll that's such a contrast to themselves - their brains go - wait, something's wrong. This isn't mine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDHv1K9roa4cc&v=Hv1K9roa4cc

There is nothing like the tradition of passing down some good ol' fashioned anti-Black racism to the kids during the holidays

https://twitter.com/i/status/1210457101098553344; 12/27/19, 9:16 PM
Josephbleau said...: I predict that everyone in prison is going to get a prescription for medical mj and all cons will lay on their beds stoned for their entire sentences, how humane. Especially for lifers.; 12/27/19, 9:20 PM
walter said...: A poll of 1600 subscribers...using same methodology since..2016.
How has subscriber base fared?; 12/27/19, 9:32 PM
Michael K said...: You've gotta admire Chuck blind persistence. Never gives up, no matter how stupid.; 12/27/19, 9:36 PM
mockturtle said...: Interesting sky and a great photo!; 12/27/19, 9:37 PM
narciso said...: Like life long acme subscriber wile w coyote; 12/27/19, 9:49 PM
traditionalguy said...: OMG.You seem to be downloading pics by the Hubble Space Telescope now. Apple can do anything.; 12/27/19, 9:56 PM
traditionalguy said...: Gallagher v. the NCIS. I guess they are as corrupt as the FBI. Can't believe TV series. Next thing we will find out is that Joe Friday was on the pad and the CHIPS officers too.; 12/27/19, 10:05 PM
narciso said...: Well gibbs was set for murder this season re his fmr fiancee, and denozzo in the warly seasons, well someone impersonating him. Of course he hunted dowm and killed his wifes killer something he had partially hidden for 25 years.; 12/27/19, 10:11 PM
William said...: I'm reading the second volume of Manchester's biography of Churchill. It's tough slogging. It's about Churchill's wilderness years in the thirties when he held no cabinet position and it was fashionable to mock his militaristic and imperialist views.... Did you know how preventable WWII and Hitler were?....Churchill believed in the Raj and despised Gandhi. He was wrong about Gandhi and India and right about Hitler and Germany. Which subject would you rather be right about?.....Not just Baldwin and Chamberlain but Atlee and MacDonald believed that Hitler would be sated after a few territorial concessions. Peace is the way to peace and all that.; 12/27/19, 10:25 PM
narciso said...: It wasnt that easy, because the colonel blimp version of ww 1prevailed, why would we want to return to that, theres also some memory of his time as chancellor of the exchequer, with tight money policies; 12/27/19, 10:36 PM
Inga said...: “So this new poll commissioned by the Military Times was interesting. While Trump at one time enjoyed more support among active duty military than he did with the general American public (and more than Obama), now Trump’s numbers with active duty military are quite similar to other non-military polling:
Very unfavorable 45.1%
Unfavorable 4.8%
Very favorable 24.3%
Favorable 17.3%
Neutral 8.5%

A big shift toward unfavorability since April of 2017.”

Not surprising and his pardoning of a war criminal doesn’t help him any with the military.; 12/27/19, 10:44 PM
narciso said...: The method to marcotte madness:

https://mobile.twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1210759494109581315; 12/27/19, 10:45 PM
Michael K said...: his pardoning of a war criminal doesn’t help him any with the military.

The great military expert and patriot weighs in. No wonder we haven't won a war since 1945.; 12/27/19, 10:47 PM
Michael K said...: Not just Baldwin and Chamberlain but Atlee and MacDonald believed that Hitler would be sated after a few territorial concessions. Peace is the way to peace and all that.

The Polish guarantee was nearly fatal. Pat Buchanan is right about that. It ended the Empire and might not have been necessary.; 12/27/19, 10:49 PM
narciso said...: It was the difference between one life andahalf dozen or so, in one of those green on blue attacks; 12/27/19, 10:55 PM
walter said...: Good times.; 12/27/19, 10:56 PM
Drago said...: LLR-lefty Chuck: "Althouse I’ve often seen several of your commenters claim that active duty members of the military overwhelmingly support Trump.

So this new poll commissioned by the Military Times was interesting."

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Oh boy, here we go again with LLR-lefty Chuck going Full Lefty Inga.

Hey dummy, every military member knows the Military Times and the Navy Times etc are all left-wing rags and have been since Gannett Media acquired them in the 90's.

Literally overnight the liberal/left Gannett turned these publications into pro-Clinton rags with cooked up polls lying about military voting patterns every single election.

Tough break there LLR-lefty and Long-Winded Excuse-Maker For Not Serving Chuck.

Next year Trump will receive a bigger majority of the Active and Reserve and retired vote than he did in 2016.

Like anyone would believe anything an obama suck up like you and your lefty allies would say about how military members will vote!!; 12/27/19, 11:00 PM
Inga said...: “As the Times reports:

In cramped interview rooms in San Diego, SEALs who spoke to Navy investigators painted a picture of a platoon driven to despair by a chief who seemed to care primarily about racking up kills. They described how their chief targeted women and children and boasted that “burqas were flying.”

… Some of the SEALs said they came to believe that the chief was purposefully exposing them to enemy fire to bait ISIS fighters into revealing their positions. They said the chief thought that casualties in the platoon would increase his chances for a Silver Star.

Special Operator Vriens told investigators he had wanted to confront the chief in Iraq but had worried that if he did, he would be cut from missions and no longer be present to protect other SEALs from the chief. As he spoke, he struggled to keep his composure.

“I can speak up, stand my ground,” he said in the interview. “He’s just going to do this to a new guy who he can manipulate. So I was like, I’m going to be his right-hand man, so — so no one else got hurt.”

He pressed his forehead into his fists and started to cry. Then he took several deep breaths, rubbed his hands together and tried to continue.

“So I worked for him and I kept my mouth shut,” he said.”; 12/27/19, 11:03 PM
narciso said...: Its a bizarre situation, where you send the troops and you have them play by marquise of queensbury rules; 12/27/19, 11:04 PM
Inga said...: “But Iraqi civilians and prisoners of war weren’t Gallagher’s only alleged victims. As the videos published by the Times make clear, his actions also terrorized many of the Americans who served beside him. Those conscientious servicemen did not command Trump’s sympathies; only the alleged slayer of innocents did. Which means that the impulse behind Gallagher’s pardon is even more nefarious than blind nationalism. In the Trumpist worldview, Gallagher is not a hero in spite of his alleged atrocities, but because of them; and his platoon mates’ scrupulous reporting of their chief’s lawlessness is not a testament to their patriotism, but an indictment of it. The war criminal is Trumpism’s perfect patriot; the whistle-blower, it’s quintessential villain.”

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/trump-edward-gallagher-ukraine-war-criminals-whistleblowers.html; 12/27/19, 11:04 PM
Drago said...: Inga is very very very upset that the obama administrations attempted framing of a Navy SEAL for murder failed.

Gee, uh, sorry that didnt work out for you Inga.; 12/27/19, 11:08 PM
Drago said...: If the question is when anyone will ever believe anything LLR-lefty Coward Chuck or Admiral Inga have to say about the military, a first-pass answer is never.; 12/27/19, 11:09 PM
walter said...: Not so good times.; 12/27/19, 11:11 PM
William said...: Swiftboating?; 12/27/19, 11:12 PM
Inga said...: “Throughout the ensuing decades, the president expressed an ecumenical respect for governments that privilege their own power above the rule of law. In fact, Trump’s reverence for such despotism is so principled, he extends it to even the most odious and despotic of regimes: In his telling, the Obama administration may have criminally betrayed the American people — but one has to respect the ruthlessness with which it concealed those crimes. “I will say this: [Attorney General Eric] Holder protected President Obama,” Trump told the New York Times in 2017. “When you look at the IRS scandal, when you look at the guns for whatever, when you look at all of the tremendous, ah, real problems they had, not made-up problems … and Holder protected the president. And I have great respect for that, I’ll be honest, I have great respect for that.”; 12/27/19, 11:13 PM
narciso said...: Ah because new york magazine is who i rely on for judgement calls remember when they lionized frank lucas, how they covered harvey weinstein with a cloth. How they covered for the ground zero mosque; 12/27/19, 11:13 PM
Drago said...: Its just like the good old days whem Admiral Inga just keeps cutting and pasting the thoughts of others that she doesn't comprehend but thinks it all sounds good.; 12/27/19, 11:15 PM
Ken B said...: This is a lovely cover of my favorite New Order song. Trust me on this and click through. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDl9M_AYO2g; 12/27/19, 11:16 PM
walter said...: Missing the 1/2 page hyperlinks though.; 12/27/19, 11:16 PM
Achilles said...: Inga stopped by to remind us she is a piece of shit and that she hates the military.

Posts a story with a bunch of garbage from a magazine that spiked stories on a variety of democrat rapists and traitors.

Chuck also wanted to remind everyone he is 100% in line with Gannet Inc. and the "Military Times" which nobody on base reads anymore because it is a bunch of garbage.

Have no fear people.

The vast majority of real people in the Army still hate them quite fervently.; 12/27/19, 11:22 PM
Drago said...: Achilles: "Chuck also wanted to remind everyone he is 100% in line with Gannet Inc. and the "Military Times" which nobody on base reads anymore because it is a bunch of garbage."

When Gannett purchased all the military times publications in late 1997 the change in content, editorials and polling results was so immediately and dramatically altered there was rampant speculation it was done because Clinton was catching so much flak from military members that Hillary and crew wanted it shut down.

In any event, the Clintons got their way and "suddenly" every 4 years the Military Times polls would "unexpectedly" show a closing of the military vote for dems....which later never materialized.

So same old same old for these Fake News artists.; 12/27/19, 11:28 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: I think the Raj was defensible to the extent that it was better than what it replaced, and created the circumstances for its own replacement with something better still. As someone said: Two cheers for imperialism.; 12/27/19, 11:47 PM
narciso said...: The colonial structure was probably unsustainable in the long run, however as we discovered gandhi wasnt the real face of india that was nehru, and his opposite in the rss.; 12/27/19, 11:55 PM
Gospace said...: I have one son Army active duty. What he sees and hears pretty much say those pills are worth less than the paper they're printed on.

Have another son 3rd year AROTC. That poll doesn't reflect what they think and group chat about. They are not a PC group.

Another son is former Army enlisted in MI. Keeps in touch with a bunch of his old buddies still serving. Those who see raw intelligence feeds seem to be very pro-Trump.

I'm retired Navy. I belong to one general Navy Facebook group, one submariner group, and 3 ship groups, all of which discourage or ban purely political posts. But sometimes one slips through. If it's anti-Trump in a very short time the comment section will be filled with comments in the polite and genteel manner that sailors are known to express themselves in. If pro-Trump the comments fill up rapidly with support.

Was down in Annapolis November 23 to watch Navy beat SMU. After the Scouts with us had entered the stadium with one leader, the other said he had read that Navy officers didn't support Trump. One of the tailgate vehicles had a Trump flag flying. We went there to talk. Let's just say no love nor admiration was expressed for ADM McRaven. There's a possibility there was a vehicle in the lot with a pro-Democrat sticker of some sort. It's a big lot. We didn't see one.

You can believe that garbage poll if you want to. But there's a reason Democrats fight to have military absentee ballots disqualified.; 12/28/19, 12:01 AM
Crazy World said...: Joey speaks with a forked tongue, that is actually sickening. Thanks for sharing!; 12/28/19, 2:41 AM
Crazy World said...: Drago and Archilles I salute you!
Admiral Inga LOL!
And Chuck, really? Is this now the Hill?
Love ya Althouses!; 12/28/19, 2:52 AM
Narayanan said...: But there's a reason Democrats fight to have military absentee ballots disqualified.
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So how come the "loyal patriotic Services" FUBAR the process repeatedly?; 12/28/19, 4:51 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: Retired Navy, with a son currently a mid-career Naval officer. My observations of the military and retired military being significantly pro-Trump are essentially the same as GoSpace's; 12/28/19, 5:23 AM
brylun said...: Who ya gonna believe, Chuck and Inga, or the military veterans?; 12/28/19, 6:32 AM
brylun said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/28/19, 6:34 AM
Michael K said...: The Ingas of the world had another shot at a serving member in Iraq some years ago.

He wrote a book about his experience with AG types. The book is "Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy." It is NOT the Mattis biography."

He had disciplined a sergeant in his platoon who then tried to get him prosecuted for one of Inga's "war crimes."

Months later, while successfully leading Marines during the explosive surge in terrorist activity, including the battles for Fallujah, one of his own men disputed Pantano's self-defense claim in the Al Anbar shootings. Pantano was relieved of his command and charged with premeditated murder, a crime punishable by death.

He was acquitted.; 12/28/19, 10:03 AM