Althouse: At the Tuesday Night Cafe…

March 22, 2022

At the Tuesday Night Cafe…

… you can talk about whatever you want.

40 comments:

Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Some nut job pulled out a gun inside a (presumably) NY bound greyhound bus here in Georgia.

It made a traffic mess because everybody had to be diverted onto side roads.

👉🏽 https://twitter.com/johnjspink/status/1506336757725667329?s=20&t=N-rybPf-4qPRltD-I9oM0w; 3/22/22, 6:29 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'Bongino, Hannity, Dana Loesh, they all suck. Esp hate O'Reilly talking. real. slow.'

Dana has a face for TV but have never heard her show.

I like Wilkow as he has passion but usually tones down the screaming.

Hannity is unlistenable as is Levin these days...they are both in warmonger mode...; 3/22/22, 6:50 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: I listen to Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager and Charlie Kirk on the radio. Can't stand Hannity's voice; 3/22/22, 6:51 PM
tim in vermont said...: Sen. @JohnCornyn: "Why in the world would you call Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and George W. Bush war criminals in a legal filing?

Judge Jackson: "I don't remember that particular reference...I did not intend to disparage the President or the Secretary of Defense."

Neocons are now made members of the Democratic Party.; 3/22/22, 7:14 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Reports say Influencers who went to fight Russia on behalf of their online followers aren’t doing as well as they thought they could.

👉🏽 https://youtu.be/1udDZIByHd4; 3/22/22, 7:17 PM
David Begley said...: I’ve been watching Creighton basketball for over 50 years. This season’s cheerleader squad was the best ever. The NCAA should be prosecuted for “war crimes” for making those young women wear masks at the tournament. /sarc; 3/22/22, 7:42 PM
rehajm said...: I’m old enough to remember when they said Merrick Garland would be a moderate and fair SCOTUS pick…; 3/22/22, 8:10 PM
wildswan said...: You've never been a waitress, bar tender, taxi driver or hairdresser if you oppose tipping as Nikole Hannah Jones now does. I think if we keep bringing it up we can end her influence. Her academic theories are just that- academic - but this other theory is just like rising gas prices in that it is something everyone can understand and thrash out.; 3/22/22, 8:17 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'You've never been a waitress, bar tender, taxi driver or hairdresser if you oppose tipping as Nikole Hannah Jones now does.'

One of the great things about living in Japan was never worrying about tips.

The price is the price.

I felt bad about it for a couple of weeks, but soon it was normal.

And I figured, 'When in Rome...'; 3/22/22, 8:23 PM
wildswan said...: Some on the right seem to oppose supporting the Ukraine because our regime is supporting it. These people suspect a lie or cover-up which is the correct default attitude toward the regime. In this case, this war is caused by Russia being Russia, living in the past and being an imperial landgrabber. The Ukraine is being defended by its people and the cause is so just that our regime is trying to cover itself with the mantle of Elijah, so to speak, by making a point of how it supports the heroic Ukrainian struggle. For the rest of us a reason to support the Ukraine is that if Russia gets the Ukraine it will then want Poland and the Baltic states. It will start tearing strips of land off them and setting up puppet governments on their edges and it will be stronger because it will control the resources of the Ukraine and will know we succumbed to bullying the last time it was tried. And we can see that the Ukrainian people think the Ukraine is worth defending. Corrupt? Well, what if Russia invaded here - would you just say "Biden is corrupt" and sit back?; 3/22/22, 8:38 PM
Carol said...: Dana has a face for TV but have never heard her show

She'd be listenable if she didn't do that hard whiny AAAAAND... between thoughts all the time.; 3/22/22, 8:41 PM
Bender said...: "The" Ukraine is how Russia refers to Ukraine.; 3/22/22, 8:43 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: "The" Ukraine is how Russia refers to Ukraine.

That's how it was referred to in the past, in the Soviet era. It took some effort for me to stop using the "The."; 3/22/22, 8:47 PM
FullMoon said...: Do the fanatical haters of anti-maskers/vaxxers hate them as much as Germans were taught to hate Jews?

Watched a couple of documentaries and seems to be a similarity.

Not to mention the joy the haters get when an anti vaxxer dies.; 3/22/22, 8:55 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Disneyland's and Disney World's slogan has been "The happiest place on Earth." Now, after Florida passed its anti-grooming bill, which many at Disney hate, Disney has updated its slogan to "The happiest place on Earth for groomers."; 3/22/22, 9:14 PM
StephenFearby said...: Daily Beast

Ex-Black Ops Agent: This Is How Putin Could Meet His End

'...The retired DGSE agent—an elimination specialist whose attention to detail receives high praise from his fellow liquidators—said the most efficient method would be poison.

“The attempt will be from within the Kremlin. This is not an outside job,” he said.'

'...“Russian intelligence is likely the only one left that deploys poison as a default,” says the Frenchman, citing a long roster of Russian potions used to eradicate Kremlin enemies from 1957 KGB defector Nikolai Khokhlov (coffee laced with thallium) to a 2004 assassination attempt on Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko (dinner seasoned with dioxin).

Putin prefers poison. Polonium-210 triggered the 2006 death of Alexander Litvinenko and Novichok was responsible for the nearly fatal 2018 attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in England.

Back on home turf, Prince Felix Yussupov in 1916 allegedly took out the mad monk Grigori Rasputin with cyanide and a few bullets in the head; more recently, Putin’s people in 2020 attacked opposition leader Alexei Navalny with Novichok. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at the time disagreed it was a “trend,” adding, “you’ll agree that in many countries in the world, every day a lot of poisonings happen,” he said.

“All true,” says the DGSE agent, “but nobody does it better than the Russians.”

'...The former DGSE black operations planner says any hit on Putin most likely will have someone in his inner circle, or a phantom just outside the perimeter, as the trigger man. “It will be an expensive job, a fortune,” he says. “In my experience, I’d wager an asset is already in place. There always is.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-black-ops-agent-explains-how-putin-could-meet-his-end

Another, perhaps more certain avenue to get the job done, is using one of the small Switchblade drones the Ukrainians are supposed to be getting soon on the car transporting Putin to his palatial dacha just outside Moscow:

'...Switchblades come in two sizes: the Switchblade 300 and Switchblade 600. BOTH can be carried by ONE PERSON, though the weight difference is substantial—a 300 weighs just 5.5 pounds and can fit inside a backpack. The 600 is heavier, with the missile itself weighing 33 lbs and the components needed to transport it much heavier.

The [American] company that makes the Switchblade, AeroVironment, describes it as a “tactical missile system,” which hints at the weird dual roles of the machine. It is both a flying scout and an armed weapon. Formally this category is called a “loitering munition.”'

https://www.popsci.com/technology/switchblade-drones-explained/

Only downside: provoking a Russian reply with nuclear bombs.; 3/22/22, 9:28 PM
gspencer said...: Senator AB, "Judge Jackson, Would you give us a description of how affirmative action has benefited you?"; 3/22/22, 9:36 PM
gspencer said...: The replacement duo for Rush's show are just fast-talking hucksters. They try to seamlessly go from content right into a commercial (of which there are a huge number to feed the greedy investors of Limbaugh's company). I find these two are quite easy to turn off. I might tune in, get the drift of the day, and then find something else.

Hannity is just plain dreck.; 3/22/22, 9:43 PM
JaimeRoberto said...: The Russian language had neither definite not indefinite articles, so I don't know how they can refer to it as The Ukraine.; 3/22/22, 9:44 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'That's how it was referred to in the past, in the Soviet era. It took some effort for me to stop using the "The."'

I don't care anymore.

And I still say 'Key-ev.'; 3/22/22, 9:47 PM
FullMoon said...: Who does the administration have lined up to replace Putin?; 3/22/22, 9:57 PM
effinayright said...: JaimeRoberto said...
The Russian language had neither definite not indefinite articles, so I don't know how they can refer to it as The Ukraine.
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There's not much logic to it. We're dealing with English usage here, not Russian.

We still say "The Netherlands" and "The United States". Brits used to say The Yemen, The Levant, The Lebanon, The Caucasus, The Sudan..... The Sudetenland...

We say The Hawaiian Islands and The Azores, because they're a group, but we don't say The Bermuda or The Madagascar, because they're not.

NOw don't get me started as to why we're being told to pronounce Kiev as Kiv, "because the latter is how Ukrainians pronounce it.

Italians call Rome "Roma" and Venice "Venezia", right? Germans call their country Deutschland, right? Japan is Nihon, right?; 3/22/22, 10:10 PM
Saint Croix said...: Several years ago, maybe a decade ago, I was working on a project with an African-American attorney who went to the University of Wisconsin law school. I asked her if she took a class with Althouse.

"Oh no, she was retired when I was in school. My friends were talking about Althouse and I said, who's Althouse? Because I'd never heard of her. And my friends couldn't believe it. They said, you don't know who Althouse is? She's a rock star!"

I thought that was funny, calling Althouse a rock star. Anyway, if you can believe hearsay upon hearsay, some of the students at Wisconsin think Althouse is a rock star.

(Probably they don't mean trashing the hotel room and peeing in the swimming pool, but maybe).; 3/22/22, 10:19 PM
n.n said...: The Russian language had neither definite not indefinite articles, so I don't know how they can refer to it as The Ukraine.

It's implied in the [historical] context and as a descriptor of the unincorporated territories.; 3/22/22, 10:19 PM
n.n said...: Who does the administration have lined up to replace Putin?

The 2014 Biden/Maidan/Slavic Spring in the Obama Spring series, but with an acutely divergent reaction by special, peculiar, and interested parties a la Xhosa vs Zulu progressive conflict that motivated an apartheid regime in South Africa. Also, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, etc. A Spring from Tripoli to Kiev in progress. So, Biden or someone similarly selected.; 3/22/22, 10:24 PM
William said...: Nothing is more apt to make a man paranoiac than being part of a successful conspiracy theory. The Bolsheviks were part of one of the most successful conspiracies of all time. A small handful of dedicated revolutionaries, backed financially by a foreign power and with no real popular support, were able to overthrow a three hundred year old government. All the Bolshies were wary that another group of revolutionaries or reactionaries would overthrow their shaky regime and none more so that Stalin....Stalin was involved in any number of plots. There were rumors that he may have, on occasion, been a double agent for the Czar. In any event, he escaped arrest on some occasions under suspicious circumstances.... The Soviet agents who supervised spies in foreign lands or the soviet generals who directed military units in the Spanish Civil War all ended up dead. They had been subject to foreign influences, and it's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to foreign plots... There was a story that Stalin had suborned the doctors treating Gorky and had that writer poisoned. Stalin was suspicious of his doctors not just because he thought the debilities of age were some kind of Jewish plot but also because he himself had used physicians to eliminate problematic people. If he had done it, why not others?.....Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, but the people surrounding Stalin had far more troubled nights. I suppose you could say that Stalin died in some kind of passive-aggressive murder plot, but mostly he died of old age.....Putin has studied with the masters. Anyone in the Kremlin plotting against Putin might very well be entering into a conspiracy with one of Putin's agents.; 3/22/22, 10:27 PM
Saint Croix said...: Gee, talk radio is awful now. I really miss Rush.

Is Dennis Miller still doing radio? His show was awesome. Hard to find, though. Miller's probably not polemical enough and way too interesting for radio. (Miller was famous for comedic rants, but the radio shows I heard he was talking back and forth with guests).

Weird that Joe Rogan has become youtube famous and Dennis Miller kind of disappeared into nothingness. Miller was an incredible talent. And his conversations with guests were a lot of fun.; 3/22/22, 10:27 PM
Joe Smith said...: 'Who does the administration have lined up to replace Putin?'

Who does the administration have lined up to replace Biden/Harris?; 3/22/22, 10:56 PM
Howard said...: Remember Air America, the failed Lefty libtard radio syndicate? They couldn't replace Rush neither. Say what you will, Limbaugh was a force of nature.; 3/22/22, 11:06 PM
Drago said...: Judge Jackson doesn't know what a woman is because she is not a biologist.

Similarly, Judge Jackson is not a veternarian, so she probably cant tell the difference between a cat and a horse.

Judge Jackson is not an astronomer so when she looks up at a clear nightime sky, she has no idea what those strange twinkly lights are.; 3/22/22, 11:55 PM
heyboom said...: Judge Jackson will lie, obfuscate and deny her previous actions and judgments. And she'll get confirmed anyway.; 3/23/22, 12:23 AM
StephenFearby said...: Just the News

'A lot of hiding': Senators kept from seeing Sentencing Commission records on Supreme Court nominee

'...The Biden administration is keeping more than 48,000 pages of records about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson from senators reviewing her nomination, including documents about her time at the U.S. Sentencing Commission that she has made a central part of her professional story.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is "hiding" records from Jackson's time as vice-chair of the Sentencing Commission, where she championed leniency for child predators, says Michael Davis, former chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee.'

'..."Judge Jackson, for whatever reason, has been maneuvering to try to lessen the punishment for child pornographers," Davis claimed.

The former Senate Judiciary attorney said that a "major problem" is that Jackson operates on the "empathy standard," which he defines as "whatever the heck that judge feels that day."

'..."This is a 25-year pattern," Davis said. "This proves to me that she doesn't think that people who possess and distribute child pornography are that bad."'

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/ex-top-senate-judiciary-attorney-says-durbin-hiding-ketanji-brown-jacksons

OK, par for the course. Prescedent: Hunter Biden's laptop.; 3/23/22, 1:13 AM
Beaneater said...: Our home church supports a missionary family in Ukraine. They explained the whole Ukraine vs. the Ukraine thing to me this way. The word Ukraine means hinterland (in which language? I don't know). When you say the Ukraine, the implication is that that country is the hinterland... of Russia. When you say Ukraine without the article, it's just a proper name – it's its own place.

For what it's worth.; 3/23/22, 4:18 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1506317554448584709.html; 3/23/22, 4:53 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: A little reminder... https://twitter.com/western_bester/status/1506411404928208896
You were warned.; 3/23/22, 4:58 AM
gilbar said...: 'A lot of hiding': Senators kept from seeing Sentencing Commission records on Supreme Court nominee

i'm Sure that all this is Just Russian disinformation.. Precedent: Hunter Biden's Laptop
</sarc; 3/23/22, 5:30 AM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: @wildswan last night-
Sounds like the Domino Theory, v. 2. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that we have heard such before, and acted on it tragically.
Also, please stop deadnaming Ukraine.; 3/23/22, 8:33 AM
TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...: Haven't heard much from the "free Tibet!" people lately. Since a lot of them are entertainment and sports people, I wonder if their gravy train coming from China has anything to do with the recent quiescence. Nah, that certainly couldn't be it.

Could it?

Semi-related, I wonder if there is any correlation between the "Ukraine is part of Russia" and "Tibet is part of China" groups.; 3/23/22, 9:18 AM
Narr said...: The Ukraine-- the mostly steppe frontier or border regions south of the marshes and forests and north of the Black Sea, contested by (among others) Ottomans, Poles-Lithuanians, and Russians in the last six or seven centuries.

Ukraine-- the modern country whose borders take in most of the area described above.; 3/23/22, 2:44 PM
wild chicken said...: Gee, my comment about talk radio is gone. But not the responses; 3/23/22, 9:19 PM