Althouse: At the Monday Night Cafe…

March 27, 2023

At the Monday Night Cafe…

… you can write about whatever you want.

40 comments:

madAsHell said...: I think Joe Biden has lost his mind, or does the biological woman behind the Nashville shooting break the trans-gender narrative??; 3/27/23, 8:27 PM
madAsHell said...: The Nashville shooter was carrying two assault rifles.......whatever the hell that is.....but I think she saw a way around the 10 round magazine limit!!; 3/27/23, 8:33 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: 6 people dead - killed by an angry trans.

Biden talks Ice cream with a fawning d-hack press audience.

Jane Fonda wants pro-lifers murdered.

Team D!

Flashback - "Flashback: In November 2022, a #trans nonbinary suspect named Anderson Aldrich allegedly carried out the deadly mass shooting at gay nightclub, Club Q. The shooting was quickly blamed on the right by left-wing activists, Democrats & Antifa. When it emerged Mx. Aldrich is trans nonbinary, they said they didn't believe it." Andy Ngo; 3/27/23, 8:34 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Media narrative within hours: Copy pasta to your browser 👉🏽 https://twitter.com/bonillajl/status/1640471501508956160?s=46&t=l7AwAEtkT-tXUq39kUwnyA

Translation: If we can’t trans your kids, we will murder them?; 3/27/23, 8:35 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: the right and non-left are funny.

The corrupt fascist woke left are... threatening, stabbing and shooting people.; 3/27/23, 8:51 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Daily Caller: "NPR Issues Correction After Claiming There’s ‘Limited Scientific Evidence’ Men Have Physical Advantages In Sports"; 3/27/23, 8:58 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "8 year old Mongolian boy born in the US was just named as the reincarnation of the third most important spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism by the Dalai Lama."

omg... the Dalai Lama is a groomer?; 3/27/23, 9:06 PM
gspencer said...: Are we the Byzantines?

by Victor Hanson, compares the long-gone Byzantines with us. Scary because it hits the mark.

https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2023/03/16/are-we-the-byzantines-n2620664

The once canny and shrewd Byzantines grew smug and naive. Childlessness became common. Most now preferred to live outside of what had become a half-empty, often dirty, and poorly maintained city.

Meanwhile they underestimated the growing power of the Ottomans who systematically pruned away their empire. By the mid-15th century, Islamic armies were ready to exploit fatal Byzantine weaknesses.

The Sultan Mehmed II grandly announced the Ottomans were now the real, the only world power. Ascendant Ottoman armies would eventually move on to the very gates of Vienna in an effort to rule all the lands of the ancient Roman empire.

. . .

An ascendant China seems eerily similar to the Ottomans. Beijing believes that the United States is decadent, undeserving of its affluence, living beyond its means on the fumes of the past - and very soon vulnerable enough to challenge openly.

Left and Right seem to hate each other more than they do their common enemies.

Like the Byzantines, Americans gave up defending their own borders, and simply shrugged as millions overran them as they pleased.; 3/27/23, 9:22 PM
Dave Begley said...: Last Friday, a Nebraska state Senator used the “n” word in a legislative hearing. The hearing was about banning drag shows for kids under 19. Somehow, Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” comes up. All on video tape.

There has been NO media reports on this. This woman was the Dem candidate for Governor. She’s not an average state Senator.

The thing that really irks me is that two years ago the Creighton basketball coach used the word “plantation” in a private conversation with the team. Giant national media attention. People wanted him fired. He apologized profusely. Thankfully, the AD and President didn’t sack him.

The Dem media is so, so dishonest. They are just shills for the Dem party. If they don’t report it, then it didn’t happen. Same crap everyday with Biden.,; 3/27/23, 9:24 PM
Narr said...: Back in September another atrocity here was lost in the glare of the Eliza Fletcher rape and murder--young Ezekiel Kelly went on a driving and shooting rampage (on FB) that left three dead, including the off-duty nurse (White, driving her daughter somewhere) who stopped to help after Kelly crashed his car.

The newly elected DA, lefty law prof Steve Mulroy is seeking the death penalty. I'm a little surprised but will call it a win for sanity.

No mostly peaceful protests so far.; 3/27/23, 9:34 PM
Maynard said...: I heard that Althouse was serving chocolate chip ice cream here.; 3/27/23, 9:58 PM
Creola Soul said...: The transgender community first wanted acceptance, then equality then YOUR advocacy for their cause. Now it seems they may want even more……; 3/27/23, 10:11 PM
Josephbleau said...: “Jane Fonda wants pro-lifers murdered.”

If we can’t kill babies, we will kill adults! OK!; 3/27/23, 10:11 PM
Chuck said...: Trump tells Sean Hannity that he will end the Ukraine war in 24 hours if he is elected President. But he won't say how. It would be a very simple negotiation, he says. But if he told Sean Hannity, then it wouldn't work.

What does this sound like? Oh yes! Of course! Trump said the same thing about his healthcare plans that would replace "Obamacare." And that it would be "so easy."

This could all be more Trump hilarity. Except that the Ukraine war is serious. And another Donald Trump presidency is thoroughly unserious.; 3/27/23, 10:43 PM
Chuck said...: Here's a wonderfully bloggable story for Althouse.

In Trump's interview with Hannity tonight, he was asked about the conjoined pictures of him with a baseball bat, together with a closeup picture of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

Trump's response was, well, Trumpian.

Trump begins by saying that he didn't put up any pictures. Clumsily, Trump tries to explain that his Truth Social feed put up a story, and that either "nobody noticed, or saw, or that nobody thought was bad" regarding the fact that the original online story contained that very same photo mashup, and it displayed very prominently that way on Trump's Truth Social feed. Trump Re-Truthed the whole damned thing and only after all hell broke loose with the reactions to all of Trump's many outrageous insults aimed at Bragg, did Trump take his post down.

"The National File" is an almost indescribably Trumpist agitprop outlet. This particular "story" about Bragg is is an insanely unhinged diatribe. I suppose that exposure at the Althouse blog might just get The National File a bunch of new subscribers.

Anyway, the real story in a nutshell...

No, Donald Trump didn't create the inexplicably threatening photo-juxtaposition of him with a baseball bat, next to Alvin Bragg. The National File did it, and their reasons for the juxtaposition cannot possibly be any better than Trump's reasons for re-posting it.

But yes, Donald Trump certainly did re-Truth it, and his rambling, bumbling attempt to explain how that re-Truthing occurred is laughable. There can be no doubt; the maniacs at The National File thought that it was funny, perhaps reminiscent of the baseball bat scene from "The Untouchables" (1987). Which is to say "funny" in a profoundly malevolent way. And with all of that in mind, Trump re-posted it.

Just about the only thing that we didn't get to in the Trump-Hannity interview tonight is Trump claiming that somebody took his cellphone, or that his Truth account somehow got hacked.; 3/27/23, 11:29 PM
Gospace said...: I wonder if Audrey Hale was gently parented...

Oh, crap- major faux pas there- I dead named her. Darn, there I go again, misgengering him...

USA Today is really upset the police dead named and misgendered the killer of 6 people including 3 children.

She's a she- born with the name Audrey. Reality 101. On my family tree I have a 5th cousin born a he now goes by another name. I have him listed under his birth name, the one on the birth certificate. Though still alive I've tagged his profile with "No children". 'Cause he ain't gonna have any. Evolutionary dead name. One of my wife's cousins has unfriended us on Faccevbook and won't communicate with us because we won't bless her same sex marriage, which is, of course, not actually a marriage. Despite what THE LAW says.

My son's church holds Latin Masses. They're the ones attended by all the married couples with children. According to him the feds have reently tried to infiltrate his local Latin Mass group. Someone with a Twitter account a whole 3 months old with 3 months worth of any other social media posting or internet history. All very stringently anti-government. When you try to infiltrate a group that's not actually political but religious, when one of the leaders is ex-MI- as is his better half, and they're both rightfully paranoid... your infiltration isn't going to happen.

All this may seem disconnected, but it isn't. Anyone who thinks about for a bit can connect all the dots.

It's amazing going throug threadreaderapp and other blogs seeing the contortions leftists are going through trying to say both- Audrey's violence was justified and it's really the fault of the guns and even more so intolerant consrvatives, but nt really her fault at all- and she's a he and don't you forget it!; 3/28/23, 12:54 AM
gadfly said...: Elon Musk has decided that real celebrities like Labron James, AOC, Ben Shapiro, Joe Biden, and @catturd2 plus 30 other such celebs will have to pay $8 per month to keep their blue checkmark. @realDonaldTrump has a blue checkmark as well but perhaps he is paying the $8 after reinstatement.

"It’s more about treating everyone equally. There shouldn’t be a different standard for celebrities imo," Chief Twit said.

But in the end, there is no money to be made and no savings to omit any or all of the blue checks.; 3/28/23, 3:02 AM
wendybar said...: THIS is what we are fighting against. Progressives are NUTS!!

"So here is what I think about free speech on campus. Although I do not advocate violating federal and state criminal codes, I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down."

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2023/03/27/prof-its-more-admirable-to-kill-a-racist-homophobic-transphobic-speaker-than-shout-them-down/; 3/28/23, 4:15 AM
wendybar said...: "Even more outrageous is claiming that Trump was guilty of treason or inciting a riot because he asked his supporters to walk from the Ellipse to the Capitol on Jan. 6 “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” That’s not incitement; it’s First Amendment-protected political speech. And when Trump said, “We fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore,” he wasn’t talking about invading the Capitol; he was specifically talking about fighting against election fraud. Any other interpretation is disingenuous."

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/03/27/the_real_insurrection_and_the_dirty_politics_of_jan_6_149032.html; 3/28/23, 4:16 AM
wildswan said...: DC is talking about cutting down on AC. The government wants to cut down on air conditioning so some say "let's start with DC; let's cut DC's AC." But temperatures get so hot in DC that that would kill people over in Anacostia who are still living in little flat-roofed hot-box brick houses. I lived near DC in such a house and the temp was over a hundred by 5pm without air conditioning. I had to pay for the electricity so I cut down on expense by turning the air conditioning on in the late afternoon and then going to the air conditioned library for several hours. Thus I brought the temp down to 85. So I'm sure you really would kill people without air conditioning in a lot of DC houses. And think about the August sun's heat pouring in to those new glass-fronted apartment buildings - and no air conditioning. Impossible.
But Congress in the Capitol building is a different story - those cool marble floors and halls; those high ceilings. The Capitol was built before air conditioning in such a way as to survive DC summers. Mandate these regulations be given a tryout in the Congress; sadly, they won't die. Or better yet - in the DC Federal building from which this air conditioning proposal emanates, turn off the air conditioning. The regulators would be out of the building, shouting "no mas" after a single July day.; 3/28/23, 4:36 AM
wendybar said...: "Despite lofty campaign promises in 2016, they squandered their majority in opposition to their party’s leader, President Trump, simply because elected Republicans were part of “the big club” and Trump wasn’t in it.

Obamacare was not repealed, Planned Parenthood remained funded. Benghazi and Hillary Clinton’s emails were not seriously investigated, while fully fabricated Russian collusion dossiers, paid for by the Clinton campaign hamstrung the first years of the Trump administration. Most elected Republicans sat on their hands and thereby condoned the Trump witch hunt."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/why_vote_gop_.html; 3/28/23, 4:54 AM
tim maguire said...: A popular “if you could go back in time” scenario is killing Hitler. Sometimes I think it would be more beneficial for humanity to kill Thomas Malthus.

Https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/world-population-bomb-may-never-go-off-as-feared-finds-study; 3/28/23, 5:00 AM
Humperdink said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/28/23, 6:12 AM
Lewis Wetzel said...: What happens to an incel who puts on a dress?
He becomes a proud trans-woman, lesbian, anti-terf human rights activist.; 3/28/23, 6:19 AM
wendybar said...: Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
The Colorado Springs shooter identified as non binary.

The Denver shooter identified as trans.

The Aberdeen shooter identified as trans.

The Nashville shooter identified as trans.

One thing is VERY clear: the modern trans movement is radicalizing activists into terrorists.; 3/28/23, 6:34 AM
Enigma said...: With the Nashville shooting some people are again rambling about banning "assault weapons." Note that Biden came out a few months ago and "slipped" when saying it was sick for anyone to own a semi-automatic weapon rather than an "assault weapon." This likely wasn't a slip but a mangled distortion of an internal briefing on the potential lethality of different types of guns. Following 30 years of "assault weapons" bans, most finally realize that this concept was always cosmetic and superficial. I led to the creation of a gun subindustry that serves California, New York, New Jersey, and other places with assault weapons bans -- they remove the banned cosmetics and sell semiautomatics with the same lethality.

The Nashville case involved an AR-15 (cosmetic assault weapon) and a Kel-Tec folding rifle. It's not an assault weapon in a technical sense, and could either be called a semiautomatic version of a "submachine gun," or a simple "pistol caliber carbine." But the media don't have a clue so they lumped it in with the AR-15.

Finally, they are going after semiautomatics because magazine bans (>10 rounds) are pointless. First, some mass shooters such as the Colorado theater clown used 10 round magazines. Second, a magazine is a metal or plastic box with a spring inside -- very low tech and easy to build. Third, 7 people died in Nashville and that's less than 10 so this shooting might have had the same outcome with any gun.; 3/28/23, 6:42 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: ICYMI Tucker's guest pointed to the truth.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6323488416112

And, yes, we are the Byzantines.; 3/28/23, 6:53 AM
Humperdink said...: Dr. Marc Siegel was interviewed last night. He stated the average time for in-hospital depression treatment is 7-10 days. Our beloved US senator, John Fetterman (D-Where's Waldo) is pushing 2 months in the psych ward. When questioned, Fetterman's staff refused to respond, citing "sources and methods". FBI director Wray nods.; 3/28/23, 7:04 AM
Kai Akker said...: Instant Coffee needed a little more flavor down at the Fair Grounds Saturday. No bargain as the 3-2 favorite ran a tepid 6th in the Louisiana Derby. Sorry, Dinky Dau.; 3/28/23, 7:42 AM
wendybar said...: "A couple years ago, Ibram X. Kendi spoke at the university without opposition from these faculty over his one-sided and controversial views.
The fact is that I would not oppose Kendi coming to my campus or insist that he should not be allowed to give a “one-sided” presentation. His views are provocative and controversial, but they are precisely the type of diversity of viewpoints that higher education should foster."

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/28/washington-lee-professors-join-students-in-seeking-to-ban-conservative-speaker/#more-202798; 3/28/23, 8:05 AM
narciso said...: Hes just bidens horse were way past caligula more in neros territory at this pojnt; 3/28/23, 8:08 AM
wendybar said...: BongBong
@BongBong
Harassment and intimidation. I’m guessing Mr. Taibbi is rethinking his political leanings thanks to this nuthouse of an administration.
1:31 AM · Mar 28, 2023
https://nypost.com/2023/03/28/irs-visited-twitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbis-home-same-day-as-congressional-testimony/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow; 3/28/23, 8:20 AM
Humperdink said...: Has anyone watched Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin testify lately? She is approaching the Joe Biden level of articulation. It's embarrassing to watch. More geriatrics please.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1638981574891905026; 3/28/23, 8:24 AM
Quaestor said...: "Second, a magazine is a metal or plastic box with a spring inside -- very low tech and easy to build."

Enigma was doing fine until that sentence. It reminds me of Michelangelo's explanation of sculpture, just chip away anything that does look like Moses.; 3/28/23, 8:54 AM
Enigma said...: @Quaestor: "Enigma was doing fine until that sentence."

I'm not going into detail or linking because Blogger is a Google platform and Google has often censored the relevant details/instructions. It's safe to say that a motivated person can find widespread online plans and methods to construct magazines or expand magazine capacity. I leave it to you to search for yourself...perhaps not with Google...; 3/28/23, 9:17 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: D.C. in the summer is a hot house. One August afternoon, I drove from Lexington Park, MD, near NAS Patuxent River, to Ronald Reagan National Airport. It was pleasant in Lexington Park, but the steam bath hit me like a brick wall after I got out of the rental car in the return lot. Then I had to wait for the hotel pickup van. Just horrid.

Congress needs to rescind the EPA's authority to finalize regulations. The EPA can do all the work to propose new regulations, take comment on them and then create the final proposed regulations. Then, then final proposed regulations must be put into law by Congress and the President. Congress can modify them at will. The EPA is the foe of all Americans and must be on a short leash.; 3/28/23, 9:21 AM
Big Mike said...: @Quaestor, Enigma is right, and even if he wasn’t there is no big trick to practicing changing magazines, without looking, in a couple seconds or thereabouts. We were trained to change magazines during a firefight back in Basic. I don’t know if I could still do it today — more than a half century later, but I could do it once upon a time. And that was with the much heavier M14, not the lightweight M16 (or AR).; 3/28/23, 10:13 AM
Narr said...: I spent a summer (summer of '69) in Alexandria VA and working at the CFSTI in Springfield. The car after a day in the sunny parking lot was an agony. It may not have been worse than Memphis, but it was just as bad, and I understood when I read later that DC
was considered a hardship post by European diplomats in the 19th C, who had to be paid extra.

Good point about the grander public buildings from the time--and the deathtraps that so many modern structures may turn out to be.; 3/28/23, 12:00 PM
walter said...: Humperdink said...
Has anyone watched Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin testify lately? She is approaching the Joe Biden level of articulation. It's embarrassing to watch.
--
Indeed. And she was reeled back in on her way out.
Her departure was transitory.; 3/28/23, 3:11 PM
ngtrains said...: Some older buildings in DC can be cooler for awhile due tl tall spaces and lots of stone, but give them a month, and they will be hot - and stay that way for a month or so when it gets cold. once the stone warms up, it stay that wayI forget the ratios for material insulation, but it's something like 6" os stone = 1 of wood.; 3/28/23, 4:44 PM