Althouse: At the Third Quarter Café...

June 13, 2020

At the Third Quarter Café...

... you can talk about whatever you like.

35 comments:

h said...: Viewed with calm dispassion, the first 6 months of 2020 were obviously a carefully choreographed conspiracy by DJ Trump to kill off large numbers of political opponents. Too clever to think he could get away with gassing them in internment camps, DJTrump did the following: (1) allow a deadly virus to be introduced to the US which is spread primarily from close and lengthy contact with an infected person; (2) encourage political opponents to join in frequent marches in which they will come into close and lengthy contact with one another greatly increasing their risk of catching the virus. By November the legions of Trump opponents will be so decimated, or so weakened by disease, that Trump will cruise to an easy overwhelming victory.; 6/13/20, 1:10 PM
Original Mike said...: Entering the Dark Window (3rd quarter through new to 1st quarter.; 6/13/20, 1:16 PM
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...: Reading over at PJMedia 'bout the 11 yr old reported to police by school authorities because of the BB gun on his bedroom wall, seen during virtual class session.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2020/06/11/teacher-spying-on-student-during-virtual-class-sends-cops-to-search-11-year-olds-home-after-spotting-a-bb-gun-n518679

Many nice green screens available from Amazon, but can be made from disposable green plastic party table covers, $1 each at the Dollar store. My rig is a double wide, completed with 8 ft 1x2, some light duty ceiling hooks and chain.; 6/13/20, 1:25 PM
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...: When the pandemic first started I was somewhat angry that we had gotten stuck with a clown like Trump as our leader. Then I heard about the labradoodle breeder and I realized that God was just fucking with us and there was nothing to worry about. Since then I have have been reasonably happy with how things are going. It's all over for Trump, of course, but who couldn't be happy about that?; 6/13/20, 1:31 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: A friend of mine asked for an old recording of me, performing live, so - once I found it - I posted it here in case anybody else wants it.

There's also my unfinished project to "Search For A Cure" which you guys should be desperate for by now.

And, finally, don't forget to fight the damn Nazis with me: I might be able to make better music if I win.; 6/13/20, 1:33 PM
Michael K said...: A very good essay on part, at least, of what is going on with BLM.

Why did the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd in police custody arouse a national wave of revulsion? There are two vectors to this wave: The humiliation of American blacks and the horror of white liberals.

If police are restrained, or even de-funded, as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat of New York) demands, the crime rate will rise sharply, and blacks are far more likely to be crime victims than whites.

Why black Americans should want to undermine the police forces that protect them is a sensitive question that has a simple answer: The price of such police protection is humiliation.; 6/13/20, 2:09 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: I got my hair cut and styled yesterday on the East Side of Milwaukee - hippieville.

My hair stylist was a staunch liberal Democrat 4 months ago. (I always avoided political conversations with her.) She is closing down shop and moving to the suburbs. She lost her shirt during the lockdown and some mainly peaceful protester threw a brick though her windows last weekend, although there was no further damage. A customer who had an appointment with her last Saturday was an hour and a half late because of a Floyd march.

She is angry about the shut-down, angry at her neighbors, angry at the rioters and angry at the media. She still can't stand Trump, but she said she's not voting for Biden "because everyone can see that he's senile."

She said, "All of us are being played. And I can't talk about it to anybody around her because they believe everything the media tells them."

She's starting to connect the dots. Congrats, Dems, you lost a voter.; 6/13/20, 2:45 PM
Kai Akker said...: The Biden comments about Trump "stealing" the next election and the possible need for military forces to prevent him from continuing as President are instructive. Every accusation the Democrats have made for the past four years has been false except as it concerns themselves. All their accusations have been true about their own activities (Russian collusion first and foremost), so this Biden accusation now is probably another admission that stealing the election is precisely what the Democrats are working on at this moment. This is not news to anyone here, but it does seem a slightly premature admission.

Alternatively, it is a call for mutiny by the military now. This seems farfetched to my logical mind, but nothing has been too farfetched for the Democrats to try to subvert and reverse the last election. If I were Trump, I would suspend habeas corpus and then arrest most of them. Then I would instruct a willing volunteer to feed them poison gelato where I had imprisoned them at Gitmo. Problem solved.

Then I would declare myself Caesar for life. No, maybe that one's going too far.; 6/13/20, 3:17 PM
Charlie said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/13/20, 3:34 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: “The Biden comments about Trump "stealing" the next election and the possible need for military forces to prevent him from continuing as President are instructive.”

The really bizarre thing about it is the detached clueless Establishment presumption it betrays. Sure, you can always find a political general to give the orders but good luck finding a platoon of privates to follow them.; 6/13/20, 4:18 PM
Michael K said...: Alternatively, it is a call for mutiny by the military now.

Generals, especially Obama generals, are better at Powerpoint slides than M16s.

I think we are safe. The warfighters mostly retired at 0-6. The EM are not going to take the transsexual's side in battle.; 6/13/20, 4:20 PM
narciso said...: I pointed out in the other thread, how the kente clothes that pelosi were wearing were ashanti, who were slave traders put out of business by robert baden powell, the founder of the scouts, and a staff officer in the boer war,; 6/13/20, 4:46 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: The EM are not going to take the transsexual's side in battle.

6/13/20, 4:20 PM

The military rank-and-file are deplorables. They overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

The military brass used to have a better feel for their own troops.; 6/13/20, 4:46 PM
Jon Ericson said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/13/20, 4:55 PM
Jon Ericson said...: Suggested topic for a poll:

Do you see what is happening?; 6/13/20, 4:58 PM
Mark said...: It's time for the entire police force of Minneapolis and other cities to go on strike.

You don't want police? Fine, go without them for a day or two.

And they should not go back until people ask and beg them to.

(By the way, it may be the Chinese hacking you that is causing attempts to comment getting repeated error messages.); 6/13/20, 5:19 PM
William said...: King George V once said that the decent thing to do for any public figure caught up in a homosexual scandal was to commit suicide. George was a King of England in the 20th century. People used to twist themselves into pretzels trying to avoid such scandals or even to avoid admitting to themselves that they were gay. Such scandals and denials are on their way to becoming outdated, but there are fresh new opportunities for pretzel making. The human race is sadly cursed with many urges and feelings that do not reflect what is permissible or encouraged in their time and place. This is especially true of sex, but class and race also offer their share of verboten thoughts. I think that this era will probably produce more pretzels than many previous times.; 6/13/20, 5:35 PM
Francisco D said...: She said, "All of us are being played. And I can't talk about it to anybody around her because they believe everything the media tells them."

Your hairdresser reminds me of my conversion 40 years ago.; 6/13/20, 5:46 PM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: I understand that there is going to be an attempt by some bikers to retake the area of Seattle that is under the CHAZ rule.

Now I don't want to encourage violence, but....here is my suggestion for the Biker's marching song. Nothing quite as stirring as bagpipes and drums. There is a reason that the British used the Scottish troops on their front lines.

March of Cambreadth; 6/13/20, 5:54 PM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: I'm mean :-D

I don't really want violence. That would be bad optics. It would be counterproductive. Just let the Chazionians crumble apart and destroy themselves from inside

Seriously, these Chas guys can't even play a game of dodgeball without crying and falling apart.; 6/13/20, 6:01 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: Mark said...
It's time for the entire police force of Minneapolis and other cities to go on strike.

You don't want police? Fine, go without them for a day or two.

And they should not go back until people ask and beg them to."

It's been tried. In 1969, the Montreal cops went on strike because they weren't paid as much as the Toronto police. This is what ensued:

"This riot is why Steven Pinker, the popular science author, gave up on the philosophy of anarchism. In his book, The Blank Slate, he describes what happened:

“As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin’s anarchism. I laughed off my parents’ argument that if the government ever laid down its arms all hell would break loose.

“Our competing predictions were put to the test at 8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, when the Montreal police went on strike. By 11:20 A.M. the first bank was robbed. By noon most downtown stores had closed because of looting.

Within a few more hours, taxi drivers burned down the garage of a limousine service that competed with them for airport customers, a rooftop sniper killed a provincial police officer, rioters broke into several hotels and restaurants, and a doctor slew a burglar in his suburban home.

“By the end of the day, six banks had been robbed, a hundred shops had been looted, twelve fires had been set, forty carloads of storefront glass had been broken, and three million dollars in property damage had been inflicted, before city authorities had to call in the army and, of course, the Mounties to restore order.”

And that happened in boring Canada. It will be much, much worse here.; 6/13/20, 6:05 PM
walter said...: Great sense of awareness for Dems to worry about Trump refusing to give up power while Russiagate plot has been increasingly exposed.; 6/13/20, 6:13 PM
narciso said...: Some items

https://amgreatness.com/2020/06/11/the-real-reform-we-require/#.XuVRwiz22nM.facebook; 6/13/20, 6:19 PM
Michael K said...: “Our competing predictions were put to the test at 8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, when the Montreal police went on strike. By 11:20 A.M. the first bank was robbed. By noon most downtown stores had closed because of looting.

I was in Boston for the 1965 electrical outage. It took two hours for the looting to start.; 6/13/20, 6:22 PM
walter said...: Grinder is going to remove ethnicity filter.
All cocks matter?; 6/13/20, 6:34 PM
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...: Dust Bunny Queen said...
There is a reason that the British used the Scottish troops on their front lines.

The English were a bunch of genocidal maniacs?; 6/13/20, 6:56 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: I saw a rainbow flag outside a school today and wondered why it was out there. Then I remembered it's Pride Month. I had completely forgotten about it.

Gays must feel triggered. We're almost halfway through Pride Month and nobody cares.; 6/13/20, 7:08 PM
Michael K said...: narciso, Black has a hard on for prosecutors for excellent reasons. His conclusion about the Floyd thing is less well supported. Floyd was drugged up and 6 foot 6.; 6/13/20, 7:19 PM
wild chicken said...: Did you know that the reason black women need all the fancy hair products is because whites stigmatize their real hair?
Not because of Beyonce or anything.

But I'm old enough to remember a lot of white people paying to get their hair permed in afro style. And damn, you had to keep doing it! Til it fell out.

So who "stigmatized" it? People are so full of shit.; 6/13/20, 7:25 PM
Mark said...: And that happened in boring Canada. It will be much, much worse here.

(shrugs) Not the police's problem.

You don't want police, you don't get police.

Live with your choices.; 6/13/20, 8:13 PM
Michael K said...: Dust Bunny Queen said...
There is a reason that the British used the Scottish troops on their front lines.

The English were a bunch of genocidal maniacs?

History began this morning for ARM. It isn't just Inga. The reference was to the bagpipes but you did not know that. Bill Millin was the bagpiper for Lord Lovat at D Day. I've seen Millin's bagpipes at Pegasus Bridge. Too bad you are so ignorant.; 6/13/20, 8:28 PM
Readering said...: Someone has Inga on the brain.; 6/13/20, 11:51 PM
Readering said...: Sorry to see POTUS ridiculed for walking gingerly down a ramp today. Anyone over 65 should take care on a ramp. Especially if one is wearing leather soled dress shoes.

But then he invites ridicule with his tweet about running the last 10 feet. Anyone who knows what he is referring to saw the video. Forget what he actually did, Don't run the last 10 feet!; 6/13/20, 11:59 PM
Michael K said...: eadering said...
Someone has Inga on the brain.

Some day you will post a comment that is not a Trump hate example. I hope I am still here to see it.; 6/14/20, 10:32 AM
Mark said...: ramp is in many ways more dangerous than steps; 6/14/20, 12:45 PM