Althouse: At the Saturday Night Café...

December 19, 2020

At the Saturday Night Café...

... you can write about whatever you want.

74 comments:

David Begley said...: Saw “Fatale” with Hillary Swank. Bad. Borderline copyright infringement with “Fatal Attraction.” Even used Glenn Close”s apartment.; 12/19/20, 8:24 PM
Political Junkie said...: I think the DJT and MT Xmas photo in matching tuxes is very cute.
When I think how MO was in all the fashion magazines and MT was not, I wish evil upon the fashion bastards.; 12/19/20, 8:26 PM
Big Mike said...: “It’s unfortunate that some people do not have enough education to keep their mouth shut for a moment so we can talk,”

That comment was made by LA’s new Democrat DA, when a Hispanic family was protesting his softening of punishment for the men who had murdered their son. Nice people, you liberals.; 12/19/20, 8:30 PM
narciso said...: Fwiw

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18953301.lockerbie-appeal-lawyer-raises-questions-timing-us-suspect-announcement/; 12/19/20, 8:39 PM
DavidUW said...: “It’s unfortunate that some people do not have enough education to keep their mouth shut for a moment so we can talk,”

That comment was made by LA’s new Democrat DA, when a Hispanic family was protesting his softening of punishment for the men who had murdered their son. Nice people, you liberals.
>>
His lifespan will be short.
A Hispanic family member is more than likely to take him out.
Cops won't care. Cops might even "find" some cash in the evidence room and help "Jose" on his way to some R&R in Mexico.
Feds come in. Cops say whoops, we fouled op the crime scene.; 12/19/20, 8:48 PM
narciso said...: Hes the anti harvey dent
In other news:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/12/18/are-there-anti-semitic-tropes-in-obamas-memoir-n1219881; 12/19/20, 8:50 PM
DavidUW said...: Who is Gascon's constituency?
Hispanics? Uh no
Blacks? No, he beat a black woman with Soros ca$h.

Wine moms in West LA? yep. Guess what, they're like 5% of LA's population and if you think they care who the DA is rather than just having voted for the most anti-Trump moron Soros put up now that Trump's gone, you're smoking the weird stuff.; 12/19/20, 8:52 PM
mockturtle said...: I'll miss Melania. Looks like we'll be stuck with Shrill Jill. :-( But Melania will no doubt be relieved if they have to 'retire'. She's the most abused First Lady in my lifetime and the least deserving of abuse.; 12/19/20, 8:53 PM
narciso said...: Fascinating backdrop to the rivalry

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2018/02/27/2003688328; 12/19/20, 9:00 PM
narciso said...: Firing tupolev spread

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/racism-the-dalton-school-gang-shoots-itself/; 12/19/20, 9:03 PM
Narr said...: I think Biden should go after some street cred the next time he's asked about Humper--

"Come on, he's a grown-ass man!"

Narr
That might garner some respect; 12/19/20, 9:07 PM
Mutaman said...: "I'll miss Melania. Looks like we'll be stuck with Shrill Jill."

Jill Biden lost me when she said "F--- Christmas", Also when she plagiarized that speech. or when she posed in the nude. Send her back to Slovenia.; 12/19/20, 9:12 PM
narciso said...: That is a school that includes matt yglesias and christian slater as alumni.; 12/19/20, 9:27 PM
narciso said...: She was also in black dahlia with scarlet johansen, an interesting adaptation of ellroy.; 12/19/20, 9:36 PM
wild chicken said...: Twitter is chock full o' "martial law" talk tonight. By God, they're racked and ready!

To prevent the communist takeover!

Lulz; 12/19/20, 9:38 PM
narciso said...: Swank was in that, good noir suffers from too much dark in the world.; 12/19/20, 9:39 PM
stephen cooper said...: It is always a mistake, while thinking about someone going through a hard time, to laugh a little and to think it is not your problem and they probably deserve it anyway.

By the way, my friends, do not take the vaccine that is being pushed on you by the same halfwit people who wanted the old people dying from the Wuhan flu to die alone, with no human consolation. (There are tens of thousands of such people, who were young in the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s, and every single one of them who died alone, without a single loved one nearby, without a single human touch in their last moments of agony, without a single kind look except form a nurse dressed in extraterrestrial level plastic - every single one of them suffered needlessly because of the halfwits in our midst).

Or go ahead and trust the halfwits who told you not to wear a mask before they told you you should go to jail if you do not wear a mask. Go ahead and trust Cuomo and his friends. Go ahead and trust a company that refused to create a vaccine unless they were told they could not be sued for the side effects. Go ahead and trust the selfish old Pope in Rome who abandoned sick old people in their hour of need, because "science" and "progress", go ahead and trust the creepy long-haired liar in Downing Street, go ahead and trust the halfwit governors who want you to inflict that vaccine on your children, who have nothing to fear from the coronavirus. But remember you too, absent comorbidities, have nothing to fear from the coronavirus, but you might have a lifetime of side effects from a vaccine produced by people whose names you do not know and whose names you will never know, because if you ask who they are you will be demolished in court. Remember the people pushing the vaccine are the same people who would have put you in jail if you wanted to spend a few moments with a dying relative. They will destroy you and call you a liar if you suffer lasting side effects and you try to find out why. And remember they have not tested for side effects. And remember they lied and told you not to buy masks, just nine months ago, and they have lied about many other things. But go ahead and trust them to stick you with a needle filled with a substance that they will never let you find anything out about.

Have a nice day, remember God loves you, and remember there are people who care about you.; 12/19/20, 9:39 PM
mockturtle said...: Go Tide!; 12/19/20, 9:39 PM
narciso said...: Indeed stephen cooper, they are a colllections of ghuls strigoi oordalaks; 12/19/20, 9:41 PM
Big Mike said...: But Melania will no doubt be relieved if they have to 'retire'. She's the most abused First Lady in my lifetime and the least deserving of abuse.

She has two fatal flaws: she loves Donald Trump and she loves America. Cannot be allowed!; 12/19/20, 9:47 PM
Flat Tire said...: @mockturtle I agree with you about Melania. Well said. In a country that can't seem to teach a second language (or much of anything else) to little kids like most of the rest of the world manages to do, she should have been a guiding light.; 12/19/20, 9:48 PM
narciso said...: Historical perspective

https://youtu.be/_Iwea41ua0Y; 12/19/20, 9:55 PM
Readering said...: So hopefully Congress can get budget resolution and stimulus package passed by Wednesday, when first family head sto Palm Beach for vacation.

POTUS returns Jan 3 with new Congress. Senate 51-48 with Perdue seat vacant. Run-off Jan 5. Will results be final and new Senators sworn in by next day. Seems doubtful. Electoral college results go the Congress that day. Objection assured in House. Senate?

Then 2 weeks to Inauguration.; 12/19/20, 10:05 PM
Robert Cook said...: "She has two fatal flaws: she loves Donald Trump and she loves America."

I doubt very much she loves Donald.; 12/19/20, 10:21 PM
stephen cooper said...: Robert, I doubt very much you understand women.; 12/19/20, 10:23 PM
Readering said...: Does a guy with 3 wives?; 12/19/20, 10:25 PM
narciso said...: Very clever

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/18/china-suffering-mass-blackouts-following-aussie-coal-embargo/; 12/19/20, 10:27 PM
narciso said...: It took them two weeks to count the vote in georgia last time.; 12/19/20, 10:33 PM
stephen cooper said...: Nothing personal, Mr Cook. "Understanding women" is not a skill that helps you with women - why would they want to be around a guy with that skill, when there are so many other guys with more useful skills? Seriously, most people do not really want to be understood. It is sort of embarrassing, or even uncanny, to "be understood", if you know what I mean.

Still, why would you needlessly insult two people who obviously are a loving couple? I don't get it. I mean, I have no respect for Jimmy Carter, but I don't think I would say his wife doesn't love him.

Does a guy with 3 wives understand women?

When you are a billionaire who is not physically repulsive, why would it matter to you if you understand women or not?

For the record, the Bible teaches us that none of us understand each other, and that, because we all are foolish in our hearts, we need to treat each other the way the Lord God teaches us how to treat each other. I reckon the Book of Proverbs has the most direct advice, but I might be a little too partial to that wonderful book, because my favorite chapter in any book in the whole wide world is Proverbs 8 : you might find more useful advice elsewhere.; 12/19/20, 10:40 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Re: China blockades Aussie coal:

May China get it good and hard. Chairman Xi strikes again. Such a forward thinking leader.; 12/19/20, 10:43 PM
Chuck said...: These are almost always beautiful and interesting photos by Althouse. I usually enjoy them without commenting.

But this made me think so much about JMW Turner — the colors and texture of the haze-filtered sun — I just had to note it on this comments page.

The Fighting Temeraire by Trurner:
https://pixels.com/featured/1-the-fighting-temeraire-william-turner.html; 12/19/20, 10:48 PM
effinayright said...: narciso said...
Very clever

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/18/china-suffering-mass-blackouts-following-aussie-coal-embargo/
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Yes, this had me wondering, when Rush said last week that China was *exporting* coal to the US.

Does not compute. We have more than 350 years worth of coal, even assuming it's eventually phased out by other energy sources. WE export coal.

Why would China piss off and freeze its own populace and throttle down its economy in favor of a low-value, low-profit commodity?; 12/19/20, 11:05 PM
Joe Smith said...: Did a search in the NYT for ‘Swalwell’ with the date range of the past month.

Zero results.

Newspaper of record my fat white ass.

Not sure why anyone (AA included) keeps supporting this rag.; 12/19/20, 11:16 PM
Joe Smith said...: Can we all agree that Tump is a Galactic-level Grandmaster Troll? I think both sides can.

Here’s how to fuck with the woke crowd if he does leave office:

A week or so before the inauguration, Trump resigns.

Pence is president, and then chooses Candace Owens or another black, conservative woman as vice president.*

Pence then resigns and Candace becomes the first black female president in history.

Kamala’s entire ‘first’ schtick goes up in smoke and exposes the entire race-baiting garbage for what it really is.

Hilarity ensues.

*Yes, I know that both houses of congress must approve the VP pick. But how can libs argue against a black woman?

If you want someone less controversial, use Condi instead…; 12/19/20, 11:17 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: I agree with Stephen Cooper. Understanding women is a vague and trivial pursuit, and has never gotten me or any other man anywhere with them. It's a form of navel gazing; It's gazing at someone else's navel. Understanding what women WANT, on the other hand, is very useful.; 12/19/20, 11:17 PM
walter said...: If you want someone less controversial, use Condi instead…
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Oh boy; 12/19/20, 11:22 PM
walter said...: Will Cruz and Paul join Tuberville?; 12/19/20, 11:26 PM
Readering said...: Congress has to approve a successor veep. Until then, Speaker next.; 12/20/20, 12:14 AM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: should fulfilling the obligation to defend the US against enemies
foreign and domestic

...be cast "crossing the Rubicon"?

Will the Average Joe know the difference between that, and a 'military coup'?

Either way, we gonna party like it's 49 BC?; 12/20/20, 12:14 AM
Qwinn said...: The barbarians aren't just within the gates, they've ransacked the institutions and are wearing the carcasses like skin suits, demanding we submit.

Which does have one benefit. We might've been hesitant about harming those institutions if we still had any respect for them. Instead, pretty much every single one has been weaponized against conservative patriots.

No reason at all to hesitate anymore. Don't even know anyone *inclined* to hesitate anymore.; 12/20/20, 12:37 AM
Qwinn said...: The only institution worth preserving is the Constitution itself. As written, the plain text, not the abominations imagined from emanating and penumbras.

But damn, do we need an epic personnel purge.; 12/20/20, 12:41 AM
Qwinn said...: Because the price of liberty isn't *just* eternal vigilance.; 12/20/20, 12:43 AM
sterlingblue said...: Readering, Joe Smith addressed that in his post.

Joe Smith, that is brilliant. Trump and Pence should TOTALLY do that. Candace Owens has just as much right to the presidency as does Harris, who had to drop out before the Iowa Caucuses due to lack of support and then come back with a face job over the summer to even appear reasonable.; 12/20/20, 12:44 AM
n.n said...: ... But how can libs argue against a black woman?

Diversity is a many Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic, relativistic quasi-religious dogmatic belief, not limited to racism, sexism, genderism, etc. Their religion enables them to avoid the inconvenience and cognitive dissonance of the irreconcilable.; 12/20/20, 1:02 AM
J. Farmer said...: @mockturtle:

I'll miss Melania. Looks like we'll be stuck with Shrill Jill. :-( But Melania will no doubt be relieved if they have to 'retire'. She's the most abused First Lady in my lifetime and the least deserving of abuse.

While I do think Melania comes off as rather frigid, she certainly never did not do anything to justify the absurd personal attacks leveled against her. But I still don't think the abuse rose to the level of unadulterated loathing and detestation a lot of right-wingers had for Michelle Obama. Sadly both were predictable given the partisan derangement dynamic in the country. Laura Bush, though, managed to avoid it. She's still my favorite first lady and seemed to effortlessly combine elegance and grace with warmth and approachability.

Of course, if I had my druthers, the "first lady" title and position would be retired. From the obsession with their fashion to the expectation that they pick a pet cause, the whole thing reeks of royal cart socialites.; 12/20/20, 1:41 AM
Humperdink said...: @Farmer: Michelle O has earned the right to be detested. Recall her famous statement: "This is the first time I have been proud of my country". This from a lady who has been handed everything in her life, including a high paying job at a hospital. A lady who has been glamorized on every magazine cover.

What has Melania done to deserve the vitriol bestowed upon her? The lady speaks five languages and yet was mocked by the left for her accent.

False equivalency.; 12/20/20, 4:01 AM
Marcus Bressler said...: It's getting late in the month: Merry Christmas, everyone. May God bless you and keep you. May you have good health, fair weather and people who love you unconditionally. No matter what situation you are in, it could be much worse. Glad to have been born an American. I have an attitude of gratitude that carries me through my day, dark though it may be.

THEOLDMAN; 12/20/20, 4:36 AM
Breezy said...: Xi and Putin know that Harris has no constituency except possibly those who think simply being female is a qualification for the job. She won’t get away with nonsense like “I’m speaking...” on the foreign front.; 12/20/20, 5:47 AM
Big Mike said...: But I still don't think the abuse rose to the level of unadulterated loathing and detestation a lot of right-wingers had for Michelle Obama.

First of all, you’re wrong on the facts. Quite clearly the level of abuse sent towards Melania was at least as great as anything leveled against Michelle Obama. And, second, Michelle Obama abused her position, first with her wildly unpopular (among its alleged beneficiaries!) school lunch program, and again with ridiculous expensive vacations at taxpayer expense, thus earning the contempt she received. Melania did nothing to earn hatred, besides being beautiful, having superb taste, and loving this country. Terrible sins of one is an ugly, tasteless, biddy, as so many female Democrats so clearly are.; 12/20/20, 6:39 AM
Gahrie said...: I doubt very much she loves Donald.

But Hillary is totally devoted to Bill... right?; 12/20/20, 7:06 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: The only thing I'm sure of is how much I've hated being deceived.; 12/20/20, 7:34 AM
roesch/voltaire said...: Malaria and Donald love money more than the love each other or America.; 12/20/20, 8:00 AM
tcrosse said...: I doubt very much she loves Donald.

Never a good idea to judge others by oneself.; 12/20/20, 8:07 AM
Rusty said...: Blogger roesch/voltaire said...
"Malaria and Donald love money more than the love each other or America."
And you became a lawyer, to what? Help people? For free?
Trump lost money being president. He could of stayed home and made more. Envy is an ugy sin R/V.; 12/20/20, 8:12 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: I'm with J. Farmer at 12/20/20, 1:41 AM; 12/20/20, 8:38 AM
Michael K said...: But I still don't Michelle think the abuse rose to the level of unadulterated loathing and detestation a lot of right-wingers had for Michelle Obama.

This is so silly, I wonder if R/V got access to your keyboard. Michelle began with her "the first time I've been proud of my country" and it went down from there. It got so she actually had some sort of press event to deny that "she is an angry black woman."; 12/20/20, 9:29 AM
Michael K said...: Why would China piss off and freeze its own populace and throttle down its economy in favor of a low-value, low-profit commodity?

To punish Australia for resisting the Chinese attempt tp take over. The idiots in Victoria have banned the use of coal for electricity generation for "Green Power" which left them with blackouts last summer. They have been exporting that coal they won't use to China.; 12/20/20, 9:34 AM
mockturtle said...: Farmer, the abuse of our First Lady to which I refer is that by the media. Show me where the media ever abused M.O. in like manner.; 12/20/20, 10:05 AM
Readering said...: National Enquirer and other supermarket tabloids. Murdoch media.; 12/20/20, 10:36 AM
Achilles said...: J. Farmer said...

While I do think Melania comes off as rather frigid, she certainly never did not do anything to justify the absurd personal attacks leveled against her. But I still don't think the abuse rose to the level of unadulterated loathing and detestation a lot of right-wingers had for Michelle Obama.

Typical Farmer. Stupid surface observation arrived at from an incorrect perception the he is somehow superior to those he disagrees with.

Why was Michelle Obama hated?

Compare this to why Melania was hated?

This was not the same thing. You need to actually think about the things you say.; 12/20/20, 10:41 AM
Narr said...: First Ladies, ugh. I liked Laura Bush OK-- she married well for a very average lady librarian
anyway; I don't know or care much about Melania except that all the mean girls don't like her; and Michelle is a preening, preaching fraud like her hubby.

Hilary is an abomination under heaven.

Narr
Seemed appropriate on Sunday morning; 12/20/20, 10:43 AM
tcrosse said...: That sunrise probably looks magnificent from the cocktail lounge on the top floor of Van Vleck.; 12/20/20, 10:47 AM
Chuck said...: About Swalwell and the media;

I do not understand the complaints that “liberal media” hasn’t covered Swalwell and the Chinese spy investigation.

Here’s the Washington Post, on December 11:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/11/what-we-know-about-rep-eric-swalwells-ties-an-alleged-chinese-spy/%3foutputType=amp

Here’s NPR, on December 18:
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/948210355/fbi-briefs-reps-pelosi-mccarthy-on-rep-swalwells-ties-to-suspected-chinese-spy

Forbes, Newsweek and Business Insider all have reported the story. Snopes confirmed the fact of a 2012 photo showing Swalwell and Christine Fang posed together at a formal event.

Then, there is the entire world of right-wing media; the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Washington Times and the Washington Examiner. Dozens of other right wing outlets, blogs, radio programs. And now, at least three wildly pro-Trump cable news channels. Anyone who wants news on Swalwell has no trouble finding it. I share the curiosity about an apparent decided ignorance of the Swalwell story on the part of the New York Times. It might well say something about the Times’ editing but nothing about the national news environment in terms of what information is available to the public.; 12/20/20, 11:36 AM
Lurker21 said...: I got banished from Wikipedia editing and I don't know why. I usually commented very timidly in the "Talk" section: "Don't you think that maybe you should ..."

I must have changed something in an article that they didn't like. I was offline for a month at the time when the ban came down.

And they call it repeated "vandalism, abuse, and disruption" when I barely ever changed anything.

Methinks they are even more power-drunk after suppressing enough information to get Biden elected.; 12/20/20, 12:33 PM
Rusty said...: “It’s unfortunate that some people do not have enough education to keep their mouth shut for a moment so we can talk,”
This is what the progressive left thinks of you.; 12/20/20, 1:23 PM
İrem Gölboyu said...: "Don't stop remind yourself,
Don't stop, let's look at the sky."
~Turgut Uyar.; 12/20/20, 2:45 PM
Michael K said...: Chuck defending Swalwell. Two peas in a pod. How's your farting, Chuck?; 12/20/20, 2:45 PM
Michael K said...: Blogger roesch/voltaire said...
Malaria and Donald love money more than the love each other or America.

The lefties sure are into mind reading, aren't they ? Yours needs work, R/V. Lots of work.; 12/20/20, 2:47 PM
Narr said...: CSpan segment at 5pm cst on A. von Humboldt and the US.

Narr
Cain't hardly wait; 12/20/20, 3:11 PM
I'm Not Sure said...: "The lefties sure are into mind reading, aren't they ?"

I'm not so sure it's mind reading as much as expressing their own preferences...

Lefty: "If I were in X's position, that is how I would act" and expecting that everybody else would respond similarly.; 12/20/20, 4:58 PM
320Busdriver said...: Op ed page at wapo today has full page cartoon with rats depicted, named.

Caption...“All the Republican Rats”

Where do we go from here?; 12/20/20, 6:58 PM
Chuck said...: Michael K said...
Chuck defending Swalwell. Two peas in a pod. How's your farting, Chuck?

My farts are under better control than Giuliani’s are.

But seriously; where did ai defend Swalwell? Point out one single sentence that I wrote which defended Swalwell. To the contrary, I noted that the New York Times might be Open to criticism for apparently and inexplicably not covering the story.

No; my real point was to fact check the commenter(s) who claimed that the national media and particularly the Washington Post had ever mentioned the story. They have.

And you didn’t get it. Because you are such a lazy thinker and so wrapped up in your cocksucking Trump cultism. You can’t even see the excesses of Trumpism anymore. You just reflexively react to anything you think might be any-Trump. And so in that process, you’ve gotten stupid. You’re not even a good advocate for conservatism anymore. You’re not much of a competent advocate for anything when all that you do is murmer chitchat with other credulous Trumpists.; 12/20/20, 7:06 PM
Marcus Bressler said...: Why is Chuck still here?; 12/20/20, 7:27 PM
Chuck said...: Blogger Marcus said...
Why is Chuck still here?

To keep it real. As a service to you.

You’re welcome.; 12/20/20, 8:26 PM