Althouse: At the Saturday Night Café...

July 29, 2023

At the Saturday Night Café...

... you can talk about whatever you want.

61 comments:

wendybar said...: "The son of the president has been arrested for allegedly laundering money to his father...

… but don’t get too excited, folks: We are talking about the President of Columbia."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66349570?; 7/29/23, 6:48 PM
Narr said...: I'm making progress with my cradle-D wife; she now agrees with me that a vote for Trump or Biden in '24 (assuming they and we make it that far) is a vote for continued decline and corruption.

The situation should embarrass a great nation of 330+ million.; 7/29/23, 7:10 PM
Humperdink said...: At the spouse's family reunion today, a cousin related that he was stricken with Covid while in Costa Rica. He was prescribed Ivermectin and healed in three days.

The foremost medical expert in Michigan, Governor Wretched Whitmer*, prescribed jail for any physician who did the same.

*Frequently mentioned as a presidential candidate should you-know-who falter.; 7/29/23, 7:14 PM
J. S. Vila said...: Saturday night is a good moment for to have a reflexión about all the past week. And It is a good moment for to prepárate the next week too. The good reflexions give more good options for reasonable people.; 7/29/23, 7:21 PM
Drago said...: Humperdink: "At the spouse's family reunion today, a cousin related that he was stricken with Covid while in Costa Rica. He was prescribed Ivermectin and healed in three days.

The foremost medical expert in Michigan, Governor Wretched Whitmer*, prescribed jail for any physician who did the same."

Readers of Althouse blog at thst time will recall that Whitmer threatened prosecution against physicians AND pharmacists for any ivermectin prescription and/or prescription fill.

Readers will also recall that the biggest reflexuve liar in defense of Whitmer's horrendous corrupt overreach was none other than our very own LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck.

And Chuckie maintained his passionate lie-filled defense of Whitmer right up to the moment political pressure reached the breaking point and Whitmer backed down.

Lesson learned: do not ever get between LLR-democratical Chuck and a democratical he is defending....which is all of them.

But only all of them...all of the time.; 7/29/23, 7:28 PM
Chuck said...: In the comments under Althouse's post for the George Will-on-Doug Burgum topic, a commenter asked...
Blastfax Kudos said...
...My understanding from reading some of the comments here is that Althouse blog didn't always have comment moderation and for a period of time the comments were even disabled, is that correct? My observation is intricately tied to another question, which is does anybody know the reason why?...

Continuing further in;
...For secondary research purposes alone I'd love to hear Althouse's explanation. I have no problem being wrong but I think I have pretty good pattern recognition skills and this hits home for me. The reactions of the lefter-of-center center crowd, especially transgenders, to loss of narrative control since 2016 has been positively viscous. How much you want to bet Althouse getting brigaded by the antifa-adjacent has something to do with it, and Chuck and Hpudding strike me as extremely far left/antifa-adjacent. It oozes through the pixels as your read them.

I am standard-issue GOP/Federalist Society, pre-Trump. MIGOP and NRLA election-day volunteer. What is "oozing through," no doubt is my loathing and contempt for Trumpism. Not leftism. You cannot find a comment from me anywhere on this blog's comments that is "far left/antifa-adjacent."

Now, a couple of preliminaries: yes this is an unusually interesting, well-written and eclectic blog as curated by Althouse. And yes, there has been a patchwork history of moderation (and no-moderation) schemes over the years. You asked for an explanation from Althouse and I agree that would be valuable. But honestly, I can well understand that the only thing worse for Althouse than actually having to do moderation, would be to discuss moderation. I can well understand why it is a sore subject for her. Who would really want to do it?

Now, since you name-checked me, I'm happy to correct you. I have a very long history on these comments pages. Beginning before 2010, during the ascendancy of Scott Walker, when the Wisconsin state capitol square was a nonstop protest zone, when WI Supreme Court Justices were engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and before SCOTUS had decided Lawrence v Texas ; the Althouse blog was excelling. And for years I had the persona of a quiet, little-noticed, reliably conservative Republican.

When the Trump phenomenon emerged, Althouse was 'interested in Trump's interestingness.' I was appalled, and so I wrote a great many such comments on her blog comments pages. That was when things changed. The Trump phenomenon is marked by nothing so much as intense, attacking, dislike. The odd thing about Althouse comments pages, however, was that when I attacked Trump, the reaction wasn't to defend Trump or to even discuss Trump; no, the reaction from many of Althouse's commenters was that when I attacked Trump, the Trump fans would attack me.

What bothered me about that -- and still does -- is that whenever Althouse would post any commenting rules/guidelines, they would tell commenters to keep their comments aimed at the subject of the post, don't be repetitious, and don't engage in personal attacks.

Far too many times to count, I begged Althouse to enforce her commenting rules. The personal attacks -- the repetitious personal attacks -- were bothersome to me, to Althouse, to other readers. I did not understand, and still do not understand, why Althouse would tolerate so many of them. Look, for example, at comments by Drago aimed at me. You could get the lowest-grade AI comment generator to do the same. The repetitious litany of personal attacks (which I used to protest, to no avail); I feel certain you see them as such. They are all hysterical fabrications. Ask me about any particulars if you have questions.

I just hate Trump. And Trumpism. And Trumpists.; 7/29/23, 7:51 PM
rehajm said...: More evidence Musk intends to kill Twitter: he announced the company will remain in San Francisco…

…meanwhile, in feel free to shoot up and defecate in the street San Francisco, city officials investigating a permit violation for new X sign atop headquarters…; 7/29/23, 7:55 PM
rehajm said...: No ONE is above the law…but ALL Democrats are…; 7/29/23, 7:56 PM
Gahrie said...: More evidence Musk intends to kill Twitter: he announced the company will remain in San Francisco…

It probably has to do with the long-term lease signed by the previous owners that Musk has been unable to get out of.; 7/29/23, 7:58 PM
Drago said...: Banned Commenter (he forgot to mention that, didn't he?) LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist (Rod Dreher may never be the same) Chuck proudly and loudly declared 2 explicit reasons for posting at Althouse:

- To smear and lie about Trump and conservatives.

- to drive a wedge between Althouse and her readers.

Context matters, in addition to the 8 straight years of pushing the daily democratical/media matters lies come rain or shine while defending the indefensible actions of the dems.

Its Lawfare and Schiff and Maddow and Weissmann and Swalwell day in and day out with the Chuckster.

Chuck even defended and excused Blumenthal's Stolen Valor!

Poor Chuck.

The jig is up, there is nowhere to hide and he'll never be able to reset his rhetorical boundary conditions that he clearly believes made him effective in his quest...at least for awhile.; 7/29/23, 8:04 PM
Drago said...: My favorite Chuckism of the day:

LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck: "Far too many times to count, I begged Althouse to enforce her commenting rules."

Morgan Freeman Narrator Voice: Of course, LLR-democratical Chuck was actually banned by the blog moderators and assumed a very strange...familiarity...with the blog hostess....; 7/29/23, 8:09 PM
Rabel said...: Althouse gives us some rope by loosening moderation and we start making nooses by turning the comment section into a smack board.

Great job.; 7/29/23, 8:26 PM
rehajm said...: It probably has to do with the long-term lease signed by the previous owners that Musk has been unable to get out of.

The man has $44b in mad money to buy Twitter but doesn’t leave SF to save money on a lease?; 7/29/23, 8:37 PM
Owen said...: As a frequent reader and pretty-rare commenter I see this internecine warfare and it gives me no joy. There are IMHO very few places on the Interwebz where people can put up their best shot and get an honest response, by which I mean a debate that rests on, you know, facts and logic. Why should we encourage or even tolerate a feud (or six) that weakens or forecloses the kind of hammer-and-tongs debate we all come here for?

Good point by Rabel "...making nooses by turning the comment into a smack board." We should be challenged much harder.; 7/29/23, 8:41 PM
Rusty said...: Rabel said...
"Althouse gives us some rope by loosening moderation and we start making nooses by turning the comment section into a smack board."
All that needs to happen is for Chuck stay banned, but since he isn't a man of his word let alone honor, he keeps showing up.
That being said. Our heatwave in N. Illinois has broken and I finhed mowing the back yard. Our tomatos are going to brucheta. There have been cranes in the mown over wheat field for the past week. Tomorrow I hunt skeet.; 7/29/23, 8:43 PM
Rusty said...: Well Owen. Should we debate the dishonesty of the left?; 7/29/23, 8:45 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Know your memes: Take me to your leader; 7/29/23, 8:54 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Jimmy Dore via RFK Jr Before Covid "doing your own research used to be called READING"

"What are you, Henry Ford?"

Had me LOLing; 7/29/23, 9:15 PM
Narr said...: I've mentioned the failing power infrastructure here quite a bit lately, but even worse has been the contamination by diesel fuel of the water supply of Germantown TN, an eastern suburb.

The problem did originate in a power failure IIUC, when a diesel generator leaked fuel into a reservoir.

They are coming back on line after a week and more when the only use for water was toilet flushing. No boiling, no washing. In an affluent suburb of 41k people.; 7/29/23, 9:17 PM
Leland said...: Althouse once booted all commenters. She allowed them back under moderation, because too many commenters thought the blog was there to say what they wanted. It’s Althouse blog. Says it all in the title. And while she supports free speech; this is her forum to speak freely and she’s the dictator of it. If I didn’t like it, I’d go elsewhere instead of crying like a baby. I’m not crying, and I enjoy it here.

Don’t forget to support the blog by buying via her Amazon portal.; 7/29/23, 9:28 PM
Lilly, a dog said...: Even though Chuck is the villain, he will always be the hero of his own version of the story.; 7/29/23, 9:36 PM
Narr said...: "Peer review," like any other academic practice, is still a real and useful thing in traditional disciplines such as history. Without it, things would be a lot worse. Trust me,
as someone who peer-reviewed and was peer-reviewed in turn.

At the same time, because human beans (and nuts) are involved, the system sometimes seizes up or goes off course. History grad school is largely a matter of having one's work subjected to the critical eyes and tongues of the other students, not to mention potential savaging by the profs, individually or in committee assembled. That prepares you for MOTS if you get a decent job and seek promotion and tenure.

Of course, the 'peer' part is the catch. As anyone with graduate degrees in history can tell you, a lot of people who have read two books and watched a lot of documentaries about (frinstance) World War II consider themselves expert.; 7/29/23, 9:42 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Big if true: "China's social credit score experiment gains momentum."

"Now, if a person with a low rating calls you, your phone emits a siren instead of the usual ringtone. Then there is a voice reminder that a conversation with this subscriber will lead to a decrease in your score."; 7/29/23, 9:42 PM
planetgeo said...: I happen to believe that San Francisco is a beautiful city full of interesting and sometimes brilliant people that is still worth visiting even though you occasionally have to skip over the crap that some people just can't help themselves from dumping on the sidewalks.

I feel the same way about this blog.; 7/29/23, 10:36 PM
Big Mike said...: Far too many times to count, I begged Althouse to enforce her commenting rules. The personal attacks -- the repetitious personal attacks -- were bothersome to me, to Althouse, to other readers. I did not understand, and still do not understand, why Althouse would tolerate so many of them.

@Blastfax, is you’re still around, what Chuck does not say in his interminable whining — what he doubtlessly lacks the self-awareness to comprehend — is that he himself is one of the biggest violators of the very rules he demands Althouse and Meade enforce (not “pleads with,” but demands). People hit back and he runs off to whine again. Originally he tried to pass himself off as a lifelong Republican (LLR), a successful lawyer of the “country club Republican” type, but he gave himself away a few years back by making crude racist remarks in some of his comments (real country club members don’t do that — not in public, anyway). Eventually he gave up the charade and exposed himself as a hardcore hater of everything Republican. Don’t let him fool you into honking he’s merely “Never Trump.” He’s never anything Republican. And don’t let him persuade you that he is any more honorable than Brutus or Cassius in the days of Caesar. He is an equal opportunity smear machine.; 7/29/23, 10:41 PM
Narr said...: The worst thing about Chuck IMHO is that he's a bore. A boring one-noter, tootling perpetually Trump! Trump! Trump!

We get it, Chuck. Trumpea delenda est.

This moderation moderation tempts me to stay up late, but I have a historical society board meeting tomorrow so will say goodnight now.; 7/29/23, 10:52 PM
Mutaman said...: Blogger Drago said...

"Humperdink: "At the spouse's family reunion today, a cousin related that he was stricken with Covid while in Costa Rica. He was prescribed Ivermectin and healed in three days."

Whenever I want to know how to deal with a deadly plague, Humperdink's cousin is always my go to guy.; 7/29/23, 10:53 PM
Mason G said...: "The worst thing about Chuck IMHO is that he's a bore. A boring one-noter, tootling perpetually Trump! Trump! Trump!"

It's easy enough to just skip over his posts. Life's too short...; 7/29/23, 11:09 PM
gadfly said...: Chuck said...

I just hate Trump. And Trumpism. And Trumpists.

I agree and let me add that I hate the name-calling posters throughout the blogosphere, especially those who have taken to capitalizing deceitful comments as Trump has taught them to do.

Ann posted well-written emailed compositions that she deemed pertinent to her blog posts the last time she shut down direct comments and name-calling flat-out disappeared.; 7/29/23, 11:12 PM
chickelit said...: Chuck is a one-dimensional “character” in the Althouse commentariat: He is just the voice of anti-Trump and nothing more.
Yawn, super-fucking yawn. Hpudding verges on the same, but at least he had some semblance of awareness of other things in life.; 7/29/23, 11:33 PM
chickelit said...: Mutaman wrote: “Whenever I want to know how to deal with a deadly plague, Humperdink's cousin is always my go to guy.”

Ah, enthralled with Big Pharma, I presume. I made a good living off of Big Pharma for a time as a chemist. But then I wised
up and gave Big Pharma the finger. Absolutely no regrets. Big Pharma can fucking die and they should.; 7/29/23, 11:55 PM
Political Junkie said...: Hi all. Just wanted to share my positions on various issues. I identify as conservative/traditionalist. I will vote for any R nominee over SOB Joe and Silly Kamala. I am almost 53.

Guns - I do not own a gun, but I believe in 2nd amendment. I believe bad people will always get their guns. I suppose I am open to intensive background checks, etc. I know that private gun ownership leads to thousands of crimes of passion and suicides.

Death penalty - For it at off the charts levels. I think we need to do a lot of killing.

Abortion - Think it is morally wrong. As science advances and viability moves earlier and earlier, I think the "believe in science" folks will have less time to kill off pregnancies. The woman control over her body carries a lot of weight, however. But I also think "you took your chances, so bear the responsibility".

Parents matter.
Neighborhoods matter.
There are winners and losers.
Life is not fair.

I don't believe in equal outcomes for all. I don't really believe in equal opportunity for all. A rich doctor or lawyer should be able to send his children to better schools, etc.

National Defense - While I believe in a "strong" national defense, after serving in Iraq with active duty army, I think there is a lot of "right wing approved welfare" in the military. There are people there that could not make equivalent incomes in private sector. Many have nontransferable skills. I don't believe we should be the world's police.

Policing - I am pro law and order and would almost never convict a cop, sheriff, etc. when they have dealings with folks who are uncooperative.

Taxes - I believe in low taxes and the Laffer Curve, but I believe we have to look at the deficits we have had since Clinton/Gingrich ran surpluses 2 years, I think. We can't run huge deficits every year. We can't cut spending enough. I say raise taxes on the wealthy/high income and also tackle wealth inequality. Do it in smart ways and go after, subtly, the liberal left. Go after colleges, college endowments, passive income connected to music/entertainment royalties. Also lower the estate and gift thresholds back to pre George W levels. Eliminate all EITC and free school lunch programs, etc. Eliminate lots of corporate welfare.

Immigration - I want the wall. DJT running on the wall and then not delivering the wall was a real disappointment. Very few countries have changed their racial makeup in such a short period of time. It is conservative to wonder if this is a good thing. Also realize this cannot be said in open forums.

There are more, but gonna go watch a show with the wife.

Please share why you identify conservative.

Thanks.; 7/30/23, 12:00 AM
Mutaman said...: hickelit said...

"Ah, enthralled with Big Pharma, I presume."

No I'm enthralled with my internist. He's given me good advice and I trust him. He says that Engelbert's cousin is an idiot.; 7/30/23, 12:32 AM
Gospace said...: I guess DEI offices wasn't enough to disable the military. Now Biden has ordered Zampolits into the system. Ought to complete the job of destroying a functional military.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/28/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-implementing-bipartisan-military-justice-reforms/; 7/30/23, 12:37 AM
Jaq said...: If it's "bipartisan," it should not have needed an executive order. Don't you guys get sick of the lies, or do you only think that they lie about certain things, not about everything.; 7/30/23, 4:15 AM
Jaq said...: "No I'm enthralled with my internist"

Finally a comment that displays some self-awareness. It reminds me of the meme:

"I believe the science!"
-- "No, you believe the television."; 7/30/23, 4:17 AM
wendybar said...: DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Now that we know the Bidens took $10M+ in bribes from Ukraine do you understand why President Trump was impeached for a single phone call to Zelensky asking about Biden’s financial dealings?

Nancy launched impeachment proceedings the next week and came up with the reason later

Trump was digging around in their Deep State laundromat and the regime punched back
10:48 AM · Jul 24, 2023; 7/30/23, 4:19 AM
wendybar said...: Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmm???!!!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/obama-spotted-golf-course-injured-fingers-days-after/; 7/30/23, 4:27 AM
Inga said...: Hi all, I’ve been enjoying my summer. I woke up early this AM and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I dropped in to see what might be new here at the Althouse blog’s comments section. Nothing, apparently.; 7/30/23, 5:34 AM
Inga said...: Oh! My comment posted immediately, well that’s new I suppose. Well then carry on good people of the Althouse blog’s comments sections. I’ll check in again after the next Trump indictment.; 7/30/23, 5:37 AM
Humperdink said...: Muta responded to my comment re: Ivermectin: "Whenever I want to know how to deal with a deadly plague, Humperdink's cousin is always my go to guy."

Mutaman your go-to guy/girls are The Fauc, Rachel Wolinsky and of course the Governor of Michigan - what a trustworthy bunch. Your comment actually astounds me. With all evidence available subsequent to inception of the plague, you still cling to initial lies. Fen's law in a nut shell.; 7/30/23, 6:20 AM
Mr. Forward said...: ""Now, if a person with a low rating calls you, your phone emits a siren instead of the usual ringtone. Then there is a voice reminder that a conversation with this subscriber will lead to a decrease in your score."

Comments about the comment section should trigger a loud obnoxious siren with an X in the upper right hand corner that makes the siren louder.; 7/30/23, 6:36 AM
Rusty said...: Inga said...
"Hi all, I’ve been enjoying my summer. I woke up early this AM and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I dropped in to see what might be new here at the Althouse blog’s comments section. Nothing, apparently."
You're back! Pity.; 7/30/23, 6:49 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Welcome back Inga. Strangely, I kind of like some of your posts.; 7/30/23, 7:07 AM
farmgirl said...: Chuck seems to “know” Althouse &her reasoning very, very well.
Chuck could also be full of crap.

You choose…

Be best.
America 1st.; 7/30/23, 7:09 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: I am standard-issue GOP/Federalist Society…

You say that but everything you write contradicts it. If you’re really from MI and work with the GOP then you’ve done a great job getting Whitmer re-elected. Kudos chuckie.; 7/30/23, 7:46 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Inga - not sure we understand why you care?

Part 2 - Only-Trump and Die-Trump-Die-Never-Trump Die factions of this blog are beyond tired.; 7/30/23, 8:36 AM
Iman said...: Some wait for Jack Smith’s next ham sammich. Others enjoy Summer.; 7/30/23, 9:16 AM
planetgeo said...: Saw a most interesting article that oddly seems to have escaped the notice of the climate-obsessed MSM: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/overheated-friday-july-28-2023-c

It appears that in January, 2022, the suboceanic Hunga-Tonga volcano had a massive eruption that resulted in the ejection of super-heated water vapor into our atmosphere. Subsequent analysis indicates that "[D]ue to extreme altitude reach of the eruption, volcanic plume circumnavigated the Earth in only one week and dispersed nearly pole-to-pole in three months. The observations provide evidence for an unprecedented increase in the global stratospheric water mass by 13% as compared to climatological levels. As there are no efficient sinks of water vapour in the stratosphere, this perturbation is expected to persist several years."

Say, you don't think that has had anything to do with the asserted "hottest year on Earth ever" or all those "atmospheric rivers" dowsing our West coast or the unprecedented heating of our oceans, do you? I mean almost as much as my gas stove and my SUV caused?; 7/30/23, 9:24 AM
Chuck said...: Big Mike said...
...
...Originally he tried to pass himself off as a lifelong Republican (LLR), a successful lawyer of the “country club Republican” type, but he gave himself away a few years back by making crude racist remarks in some of his comments (real country club members don’t do that — not in public, anyway). Eventually he gave up the charade and exposed himself as a hardcore hater of everything Republican.
...
That is a straight up lie. You are baselessly accusing me of being a racist and I'm not going to take it. Quote me. Link to a page of comments where I have made "crude racist remarks." You cannot do it, because you are lying about me.

Do you see, "Blastfax Kudos," how this works? Trump fans attack me, because I criticize Trump. And the Althouse Trump fans lie about me.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
"I am standard-issue GOP/Federalist Society…"

You say that but everything you write contradicts it. If you’re really from MI and work with the GOP then you’ve done a great job getting Whitmer re-elected. Kudos chuckie.

Oh, the MIGOP is in chaos; ruin. It is completely dysfunctional.

The E. Lansing headquarters building that was essentially gifted to the party by donors/Ambassadors Peter Secchia and Ron Weiser is now vacant because the current post-Trump party couldn't even make expenses. They now have a P.O. Box in a Grand Rapids-suburb strip mall. The Party will be broke by the end of the summer.

The Party co-chair who rose to the top during the Trump years as a full-blown Trump acolyte, Meshawn Maddock, has now been indicted as a fake elector. She and her bail bondsman (ha!) husband Rep. Matt Maddock, were at the Capitol on January 6.

Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley just pleaded guilty in DC federal court on his J6 charge, and is awaiting sentencing.

TrumpWing maniac attorney Matt DePerno -- the hostile-takeover Party nominee for MI AG -- is expected to be indicted within weeks for his role in a voting machine "examination" conspiracy.

The donors have all fled the MI GOP. The TrumpWing extremists took the Party over, drove it into the ditch, and lost every statewide elective office for the first time in a lifetime, along with both the state senate and the state house. The most reliable and most-read conservative columnist in Michigan, Nolan Finley of the Detroit News, has called for a "takeover" from the current MI GOP Chair, Kristina Karamo. Karamo was the Trump fanatic who ran for Secretary of State after making a name for herself by leveling unbelievably (per a state senate investigative committee led by Republicans) phony election fraud claims out of the 2020 election. Trump didn't so much "endorse" the losers Tudor Dixon (Gov.), Matt DePerno (AG) and Kristina Karamo (SoS); Trump basically created them. All three were nowhere on MI political radar four years previous. They got their (failed) nominations because they alone were so far out there into Trump-conspiracy land. Michigan voters rejected them all by big majorities in the general election. A pattern repeated in PA, AZ, and elsewhere. But laughably so in MI.

So yeah, Big Mike. The Michigan Republican Party is a smoking ruin. Ruined, perhaps for a generation, by the TrumpWingers. We told them so. Direct, proximate cause. Cause, and effect. The Michigan Trumpers drove out the mainstream Republicans. And immediately lost on historical levels.; 7/30/23, 10:27 AM
Narr said...: Testing, testing.; 7/30/23, 10:53 AM
Chuck said...: Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
I am standard-issue GOP/Federalist Society…

You say that but everything you write contradicts it. If you’re really from MI and work with the GOP then you’ve done a great job getting Whitmer re-elected. Kudos chuckie.

Mike, upon reflection, I thought I'd provide you a little list of some other "standard-issue GOP/Federalist society" guys, whose GOP/Federalist Society connections are a matter of indisputable public record.
The Hon. Michael J. Luttig.
Former USAG Bill Barr.
Former Yale Law School Federalist Society Chapter President George Conway.
Steve Calabresi; Northwestern lawprof; founder and co-chairman of the Federalist Society; former law clerk for Judges Ralph Winter and Robert Bork, and Justice Antonin Scalia.
Ilya Somin; George Mason lawprof; Federalist Society contributor.
Jonathan D. Urick
All of them (and far too many more to list) staunch opponents of Trump's big lie, Trump's general lawlessness, and another Trump term. I think that they all expect Donald Trump to be convicted of multiple federal and state felonies, and be sentenced to a long term in prison.; 7/30/23, 11:08 AM
FullMoon said...: Beloved commenter Chuck breaks his silence to address the scurrilous slings and arrows infrequently cast in his direction.

Absent mindingly neglecting to mention his multiple threats against diminutive former Fox News hostess Greta Van Sustern, which included insinuating breaking her arm and giving a sensitive part of her upper body a good twisting.

Not to mention, of course, the infamous Pecan Pie incident, where he excitedly contacted our hostess via e-mail, (while speeding down the highway) in order to defame another woman by accusing her of purchasing said pie, rather than creating it from scratch.

Just two quick examples of a myriad of vile, obnoxious, sexist, misogynistic, AntiFa like behavior.; 7/30/23, 11:57 AM
Mason G said...: " I know that private gun ownership leads to thousands of crimes of passion and suicides."

Guns are used that way, obviously. What's not so clear is whether having an available gun is the motivation for the action taken. Do you think there would be fewer crimes/suicides if guns were not available?; 7/30/23, 12:12 PM
John said...: Can anyone here tell me the electronic or physical point of contact for the New York Times travel section? In 1991, through strokes of luck never explained, I got paid for two pieces submitted to that section's Sunday endpaper. Now I'd like to try again. The problem is that I don't even know if that endpaper, or some similar space, still exists. I haven't seen a physical copy of the Times in years, and the online version pretty much requires that one subscribe. Which perhaps you do. 'Course I could too, but the idea has always been that the Times pays me, not the other way around.

I may just try e-mailing my latest composition - which is about all the fame I won from those 1991 publications - to travel-at-nytimes-dot-com. But I thought I'd ask here first! Thanks.; 7/30/23, 12:31 PM
Gospace said...: Since it's still the open thread- remember- we have to make gender transition operations available do transgenders won't commit suicide because they can't be surgically mutilated, uh, transformed.

But I guess letting state assisted euthanasia in Canada after they discover that the aftermath is too painful to bear is ok, because it's medically assisted suicide.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/07/30/transsexual-requests-euthanasia-in-canada-over-pain-from-sex-change-surgery/; 7/30/23, 12:58 PM
iowan2 said...: Chuck is a one-dimensional “character” in the Althouse commentariat:

More accurately. He's an NPC, non player charecter; 7/30/23, 2:28 PM
Jamie said...: I second the welcome back to Inga and haven't bothered to look back at Chuck's previous posts. I just like being here because I do get to hear the other side's point of view (assuming for the sake of argument that Chuck is on the other side, as he certainly seems to imply that he'd vote D rather than "Trump" if that's the choice). Most of the time it only clarifies why I hold the positions and opinions I hold, but sometimes one of our lefties makes me examine and then explain, to myself, at least, my premises.

So far so good.; 7/30/23, 6:27 PM
Drago said...: I think someone ought to do a wellness check on LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck before he dives even deeper into his vat of gin and tonic.

And you might want to review MI Red Flag laws first.

And for the love of all that is Holy, keep your children at a very safe distance!

Exit Question: If Trump is the electoral "problem" in MI, why was the last Rep Senate win in MI in 1994 (and that guy lost his very first reelection race 6 years later)?
And the last Rep Senate win in MI prior to that was in 1972!

If the MI GOP was so very "healthy" pre-Trump, shouldnt there have been another Rep Senate pickup somewhere along the line then?

And what was the term used by everyone to describe the midwest industrial states prior to 2016?

Oh, that's right: The Blue Wall.

Looks like someone is living up to his explicit vow to lie about and smear Trump and conservatives...while once again attempting to resurrect his faux "conservative" online persona.

Tsk tsk

The MI dems must positively adore having political "opponents" like Chuck (wink wink) that are for every major democratical policy and passionately advocate for republican surrender across the board!

Needless to say that Chuckles couldnt help himself again by tossing in another very supportive comment and hat tip to the democraticals Soviet-like lawfare weaponization of the federal govt.

Because everyone knows that's how you "conserve conservatism"!

LOL; 7/30/23, 9:46 PM
Drago said...: Fullmoon: "Not to mention, of course, the infamous Pecan Pie incident, where he excitedly contacted our hostess via e-mail, (while speeding down the highway) in order to defame another woman by accusing her of purchasing said pie, rather than creating it from scratch."

The Infamous LLR-democratical Chuck Great Pecan Pie-Gate Incident had to be seen to be believed.

LLR-democratical Chuck remained in such a state of spittle-flecked speech rage over Trump's 2016 victory over Chuck's beloved Hillary that Chuck went positively bonkers over a democratical hoax a year later (Chuck loves his democratical hoaxes!) that claimed Sarah Huckabee Sanders did not actually bake a couple pecan pies that Sarah did in fact bake.

Chuck went around for days calling Sanders a liar and demanding, DEMANDING(!) that every member of the White House communications shop be put under oath and made to answer questions about that particular national crisis!

FYI: Chuck routinely called for "investigations" of the entire Trump White House staff every month or so and for precisely that sort of pecan pie insanity.

To this very day, Chuck STILL has not retracted his lunatic claim/lie that Sanders, now Gov Sanders, lied about the Pecan Pie baking!

Chuck's epic meltdown will never be forgotten and probably has been thoroughly documented by his, likely, large team of therapists.; 7/30/23, 10:17 PM
rhhardin said...: I just bought 60 7w nightlight bulbs to power a flea trap. After July 31, if I understand it, it's illegal to sell any incandescent bulb. LED isn't going to cut it when the point is heat.; 7/31/23, 10:54 AM