May Pete's end be as sticky and icky as anyone could come up with for a B movie (extended cut) with a count Rugen organized prelude.
At the minimum at the next security conference a bunch of foreign defense officials should gang up on him with knuckledusters and blunt instruments and then run the video of the event non-stop with laughing track and looney tunes sound effects attached. "Dick season! Rabid Season!" Then send him home (alive but wishing not to be) in an empty (American) beer keg with a big sticker: "Spoiled and rejected. Turn back to sender (Fox)" and another with "special/toxic refuse".
Some countries launched campaigns, made laws to rid themselves of loan words. Some did so with a certain creativity like Iceland where computer has become tölva, a portmanteau from tala and völva (=> "number prophetess"). France was pedantic and not much short of making it a misdemeanor not to use the prescribed neologisms. Germany did in WW1 with official dictionaries to give people guidance with which words to replace real or perceived French imports.
Although it went far over the top, quite a bit actually stuck and superfluous French words got replaced by fully suitable German equivalents. Some older purists had come up with simply ridiculous substitutes for words no one normal would have considered foreign*, like Nase (nose). I doubt the old Germans needed the Romans to get a word for this part of anatomy or would have gone for Gesichtserker (face oriel) as more natural. Dörrleiche (jerky corpse) for mummy did not catch on either.
A newer trend is to invent English terms for items that are not used by actual English speaking people. E.g Handy for cellphone or Beamer for video projector. They seem so fitting that most Germans do not even know that those are fake loans.
*admittedly some of their proposals got into common language but usually as alternatives not replacements.
That's why I made a distinction between the official reaction (to be delivered by Leavitt) and the (formally private) rants of His Orangeness. Leavitt will of course also sneer but the wording will be more conventional.
I guess the White House will officially be 'disappointed' and His Orangeness will commit the usual crimes against the English language in inexpertly expressing this sentiment via his social media account.
Not sure, but hasn't Congress passed a law to forbid the president to do that (i.e. rendering US citizens to foreign courts, the ICC in particular)? Apart from that, that's not how US politics work. Alas, I fear it would be political suicide.
But there is the 'Invade the Hague' Act, so one should use a different location.
The Nuremberg court room (Saal 600) is available (and has been reconstructed in its form used for the trials). The gallows was makeshift, so it does not exist anymore. It was a faulty construction anyway.
I would propose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_from_a_gun as more suitable. What about quartering by use of 4 Hellfire missiles?* Or the major Kong exit (bunker buster or MOAB, not nuclear).
For others nibbling to death by rabid chihuahuas or starving naked molerats could be an idea.
*expulsion from the forces has to happen before since quartering soldiers is unconstitutional
Should we applaud the mini star of whore for his honesty to publicly state that the US military will not feel obliged to obey any laws of war, that there will be no rules of engagement or any other woke or leftist stuff and that this war is definitely not about a changing Iran towards democracy?
I was thinking more of 'play with your prey' animals or some selected arthropods with a side dish of jellyfish.
Wood chippers would quickly lead to uncontrolled blood loss putting an end to the procedure.
And the European reaction is to condemn Iran for answering in kind.
The general problem of a conflict where all parties are despicable* and politicians feel obliged to throw in their lot with one of them.
*the Yahoo from Netanja, His Orangeness and Chamenei all lack any conscience or empathy. They should all be (very) slowly fed to some less than fussy carnivores on life TV.
That has become the norm. 'Negotiations' are a diversion to make the attack a surprise when it hits. Ideally it gives the location of the high level negotiators, so they can be targeted themselves (as happened the last time where it only failed because the attack hit the house before the guys arrived). First rule: His Orangeness and the Yahoo from Netanja NEVER act in good faith.
OK, this is not up-to-date in any sense but I remember studies from my own time at school (so, mainly the 1980ies) from Germany that stated that girls behave differently, when a class is girls and boys mixed from when they are separated (talking about the same class but taking some lessons mixed some separated). If the boys are present the girls were far more reticent, would raise their hand less often and would not speak about personal experiences. In separated lessons their behavior was far less different from the boys, they were more active, would also bring in personal experiences etc. The behavior of boys in class in the absence of girls was iirc only slightly different. So, there was a bit more show of dominance by boys in the presence of girls than in their absence but it was visible only in direct comparison. It also depended on what lesson was on the menu. On topics that were traditionally connoted as male (math, physics, chemistry, less so biology) the boys displayed more dominant behavior than in 'neutral' areas (humanities, geography) and the behavior of the girls showed the greatest difference there too. This led to public discussions, whether classes should get separated occasionally in the former. Administratively that would not have been a problem since classes were often split for science anyway since experimental setups for full numbers were often difficult to obtain (=not enough material/devices in store) and one could have done so along gender lines.
There were a few attempts in that direction and those proved successful (for the girls at least) but the experiment was soon ended because of protests and reservations/suspicions that this would be used (by conservatives) as a tool to abolish coeducation again and also that the girls should have to learn to counter the male dominance behavior while still in school (the separation seen as a step backwards there). When I went to university, the gender gap in the 'hard' sciences had more or less disappeared, in some cases even reversed.
I think at the school I went to the differences were much smaller than in general, so there would not have been much of an effect in having non-coeducative lessons (PE excepted, where there was separation in secondary school from iirc 7th to 10th or 11th grade where the emphasis was on athletics, which put the girls at a disadvantage).
To-day, at least around here, the problem has re-arisen due to the steeply rising percentage of children with Middle Eastern background. Now it IS about inculcated ideas girls and boys bring back from home. While the girls with that background 'know how to behave correctly' (from the boys' POV) this is not true for the German girls which leads to increasing conflicts with the boys of that cultural background, who try to display dominance and can get angry or even violent, if the girls don't put up with it (even worse, if it's a girl from 'their' side that has gone native (=Western)).
I have to add that at my primary school the percentage of 'foreign' children was exceptionally high for the time but that problem did not exist because they all were German in all but looks and some had to learn their 'native' language in afternoon courses because they did not use it in their day-to-day lives except to play translators for elder relatives.
„Wer zweimal mit derselben pennt, gehört schon zum Establishment“ (he, who sleeps with the same twice, is already part of the establishment) was an (in)famous slogan of the German 68ers ("student revolution"). In theory this was about "free love" but in reality it put pressure on young women "to be available".
A sane decision of any significance by this SCOTUS usually means that something really awful is just around the corner.
Remember, they have things like birthright citizenship on their to-do list.
OK, this is business-friendly and thus right in their lane but I would not be surprised at all, if this is not also rising the shields for some reactionary semisolid digestive final product already in the works.
Kassandra was an optimist with rose.colored glasses.
Europe as the Troy to the US Rome. The ancestry that gives a reputation in the face of other old powers while one can despise the effeminacy of the actual people (Phrygians then, decadent limeys and frogeaters to-day). It was the few decent ones that crossed over to build the new and better empire.
This year I skipped the Berlinale. I don't feel that well and it has become a wee bit too expensive too.
I also miss queuing for tickets in person. Now it's all online.
I have essentially switched to the Fantasy Film Festival (which also takes place around here with one or two additional shorter spinoffs at other times of the year).
...and they have to baptize Plato and Aristotle posthumously...
And then they use the less than pleasant aspects of both. See Aristotle's views on women and race (one of the few authors of antiquity that fit the modern definition of racist) or Plato's 'ideal state' where lying to the commoners is an integral part (not to forget the infamous idea of euthanasia: "Sick (=unable to work) for more than 3 days? You have become a parasite and should kill yourself or be treated as a pariah.").
Interestingly the Nazis presented Plato as the ideal Aryan while seeing Socrates as in essence a Jew (and found it difficult to explain how the former could be a pupil of the latter). In Plato's favor it has to be said, that he would have despised the Nazis and strongly objected to them citing him as inspiration.
As for Rubio, did he leave out the French contribution deliberately (and Russian Alaska)? Without French help the colonies would very probably have lost the war and France ruined herself financially by it, paving the way for the revolution (which was decidedly anti-Christian in nature). And the Brits took New Amsterdam by force while hunting for two guys involved in the execution of the previous British king. What is the US Right's official view of Cromwell btw? Tyrant or role model for a Kristian(TM) republic?
* Warehouses for human beings: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the country and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of immigrants, according to agency documents provided to New Hampshire’s governor and published on the state’s website Thursday.”
Well, all those lazy detainment center alien inmates need to do something for their upkeep before their deportation (which can then be postponed indefinitely). Send them into the fields (in chains wherever possible). That will keep labor costs low (let's not kid ourselves, that has always been the #1 priority) and be the closest thing currently achievable to the reintroduction of slavery. The inevitable (and desirable) culling effect can be compensated for years by tapping into the reservoir of millions of deportation candidates. When that is used up, enough progress will have been made into establishing a proper US gulag system (and finding a proper merkin name for it).
Don't tell me that this isn't the wet dream of some of those involved in the current mess.
Why don't they just use snow cannons?
[imagining what Mr. "Why not nuke hurricanes?" could say to the problem]. Next he would likely see water conservation as the root cause.
In early 20th century photographic evidence was challenged because photos were easy to fake. Arthur Conan Doyle famously fell for fake fairy photos (alliteration coincidental) and in turn used the argument in 'The Lost World' (where the claim that the dino photos were fake gets countered by presenting a living pterodactyl; movie adaptations tend to replace it with a T-Rex for effect).
I think we face a double danger: 1) people believing convincing fakes and 2) people not believing reality taking it for convincing fakes.
The 'filling the zone with <semisolid digestive final product>' is based on exactly that. They recognized that they can win by making people believe nothing is real anymore (just 'opinion') or making it near impossible to find the truth in a deluge of untruth (and meaningless garbage for further dilution). Some will believe anything said loud enough, few will seek the actual truth and a majority stops trying and turns away disgusted but passive. One can run the show with that mixture.
What (to my knowledge) has not yet happened is the administration getting someone (a major politician of the opposition in particular) convicted in a court of law based on fake AI 'evidence'. I believe that this is just a matter of time and would guess that it will first be tried on a (surviving) ICE victim by using AI doctored footage 'proving' that the victim tried to assault ICEistas with a deadly weapon first.
I'd say it is critical mass.
In Europe the Epstein associates are a tiny minority while in the US they occupy many positions of power (in and out of official politics) that allow for stonewalling and mutual support. Plus the tradition in the US not to hold the powerful accountable. So, in Europe it does not undermine the system to go after at least some prominent culprits. There simply is no long row of domino pieces to fall. In the US* Epstein seems to have (deliberately) infected the system itself with a rot so widespread that he probably hoped it would forever protect him. He is gone but the rot remains and fully uncovering - let alone thoroughly removing - it would shake the system to the core, which is why it is unlikely to happen.
*and, so some info I've seen but can't judge the veracity of says, in Israel
*Comment archive for non-registered commenters assembled by email address as provided.
On “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran”
May Pete's end be as sticky and icky as anyone could come up with for a B movie (extended cut) with a count Rugen organized prelude.
At the minimum at the next security conference a bunch of foreign defense officials should gang up on him with knuckledusters and blunt instruments and then run the video of the event non-stop with laughing track and looney tunes sound effects attached. "Dick season! Rabid Season!" Then send him home (alive but wishing not to be) in an empty (American) beer keg with a big sticker: "Spoiled and rejected. Turn back to sender (Fox)" and another with "special/toxic refuse".
On “A little language practice”
Some countries launched campaigns, made laws to rid themselves of loan words. Some did so with a certain creativity like Iceland where computer has become tölva, a portmanteau from tala and völva (=> "number prophetess"). France was pedantic and not much short of making it a misdemeanor not to use the prescribed neologisms. Germany did in WW1 with official dictionaries to give people guidance with which words to replace real or perceived French imports.
Although it went far over the top, quite a bit actually stuck and superfluous French words got replaced by fully suitable German equivalents. Some older purists had come up with simply ridiculous substitutes for words no one normal would have considered foreign*, like Nase (nose). I doubt the old Germans needed the Romans to get a word for this part of anatomy or would have gone for Gesichtserker (face oriel) as more natural. Dörrleiche (jerky corpse) for mummy did not catch on either.
A newer trend is to invent English terms for items that are not used by actual English speaking people. E.g Handy for cellphone or Beamer for video projector. They seem so fitting that most Germans do not even know that those are fake loans.
*admittedly some of their proposals got into common language but usually as alternatives not replacements.
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“In two words, impossible.” — Samuel Goldwyn
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That's why I made a distinction between the official reaction (to be delivered by Leavitt) and the (formally private) rants of His Orangeness. Leavitt will of course also sneer but the wording will be more conventional.
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I guess the White House will officially be 'disappointed' and His Orangeness will commit the usual crimes against the English language in inexpertly expressing this sentiment via his social media account.
On “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran”
Not sure, but hasn't Congress passed a law to forbid the president to do that (i.e. rendering US citizens to foreign courts, the ICC in particular)? Apart from that, that's not how US politics work. Alas, I fear it would be political suicide.
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But there is the 'Invade the Hague' Act, so one should use a different location.
The Nuremberg court room (Saal 600) is available (and has been reconstructed in its form used for the trials). The gallows was makeshift, so it does not exist anymore. It was a faulty construction anyway.
I would propose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_from_a_gun as more suitable. What about quartering by use of 4 Hellfire missiles?* Or the major Kong exit (bunker buster or MOAB, not nuclear).
For others nibbling to death by rabid chihuahuas or starving naked molerats could be an idea.
*expulsion from the forces has to happen before since quartering soldiers is unconstitutional
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Should we applaud the mini star of whore for his honesty to publicly state that the US military will not feel obliged to obey any laws of war, that there will be no rules of engagement or any other woke or leftist stuff and that this war is definitely not about a changing Iran towards democracy?
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Europe is already condemning Iran for shooting back (while only being 'concerned' about the US' and Israel's actions).
As had to be expected.
On “As it all falls down around our ears: An open thread”
I was thinking more of 'play with your prey' animals or some selected arthropods with a side dish of jellyfish.
Wood chippers would quickly lead to uncontrolled blood loss putting an end to the procedure.
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And the European reaction is to condemn Iran for answering in kind.
The general problem of a conflict where all parties are despicable* and politicians feel obliged to throw in their lot with one of them.
*the Yahoo from Netanja, His Orangeness and Chamenei all lack any conscience or empathy. They should all be (very) slowly fed to some less than fussy carnivores on life TV.
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That has become the norm. 'Negotiations' are a diversion to make the attack a surprise when it hits. Ideally it gives the location of the high level negotiators, so they can be targeted themselves (as happened the last time where it only failed because the attack hit the house before the guys arrived). First rule: His Orangeness and the Yahoo from Netanja NEVER act in good faith.
On “Perpwalk Imperial”
OK, this is not up-to-date in any sense but I remember studies from my own time at school (so, mainly the 1980ies) from Germany that stated that girls behave differently, when a class is girls and boys mixed from when they are separated (talking about the same class but taking some lessons mixed some separated). If the boys are present the girls were far more reticent, would raise their hand less often and would not speak about personal experiences. In separated lessons their behavior was far less different from the boys, they were more active, would also bring in personal experiences etc. The behavior of boys in class in the absence of girls was iirc only slightly different. So, there was a bit more show of dominance by boys in the presence of girls than in their absence but it was visible only in direct comparison. It also depended on what lesson was on the menu. On topics that were traditionally connoted as male (math, physics, chemistry, less so biology) the boys displayed more dominant behavior than in 'neutral' areas (humanities, geography) and the behavior of the girls showed the greatest difference there too. This led to public discussions, whether classes should get separated occasionally in the former. Administratively that would not have been a problem since classes were often split for science anyway since experimental setups for full numbers were often difficult to obtain (=not enough material/devices in store) and one could have done so along gender lines.
There were a few attempts in that direction and those proved successful (for the girls at least) but the experiment was soon ended because of protests and reservations/suspicions that this would be used (by conservatives) as a tool to abolish coeducation again and also that the girls should have to learn to counter the male dominance behavior while still in school (the separation seen as a step backwards there). When I went to university, the gender gap in the 'hard' sciences had more or less disappeared, in some cases even reversed.
I think at the school I went to the differences were much smaller than in general, so there would not have been much of an effect in having non-coeducative lessons (PE excepted, where there was separation in secondary school from iirc 7th to 10th or 11th grade where the emphasis was on athletics, which put the girls at a disadvantage).
To-day, at least around here, the problem has re-arisen due to the steeply rising percentage of children with Middle Eastern background. Now it IS about inculcated ideas girls and boys bring back from home. While the girls with that background 'know how to behave correctly' (from the boys' POV) this is not true for the German girls which leads to increasing conflicts with the boys of that cultural background, who try to display dominance and can get angry or even violent, if the girls don't put up with it (even worse, if it's a girl from 'their' side that has gone native (=Western)).
I have to add that at my primary school the percentage of 'foreign' children was exceptionally high for the time but that problem did not exist because they all were German in all but looks and some had to learn their 'native' language in afternoon courses because they did not use it in their day-to-day lives except to play translators for elder relatives.
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add "woman" between same and twice (It was there when I posted but then diasppeared)
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„Wer zweimal mit derselben pennt, gehört schon zum Establishment“ (he, who sleeps with the same twice, is already part of the establishment) was an (in)famous slogan of the German 68ers ("student revolution"). In theory this was about "free love" but in reality it put pressure on young women "to be available".
On “Open Thread”
A sane decision of any significance by this SCOTUS usually means that something really awful is just around the corner.
Remember, they have things like birthright citizenship on their to-do list.
OK, this is business-friendly and thus right in their lane but I would not be surprised at all, if this is not also rising the shields for some reactionary semisolid digestive final product already in the works.
Kassandra was an optimist with rose.colored glasses.
On “Take your’n and beat his’n”
I wonder how many of those also confuse Martin Luther with MLK jr. (or think that the latter is the former's son) ;-)
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Europe as the Troy to the US Rome. The ancestry that gives a reputation in the face of other old powers while one can despise the effeminacy of the actual people (Phrygians then, decadent limeys and frogeaters to-day). It was the few decent ones that crossed over to build the new and better empire.
On “Open Thread”
This year I skipped the Berlinale. I don't feel that well and it has become a wee bit too expensive too.
I also miss queuing for tickets in person. Now it's all online.
I have essentially switched to the Fantasy Film Festival (which also takes place around here with one or two additional shorter spinoffs at other times of the year).
On “Take your’n and beat his’n”
...and they have to baptize Plato and Aristotle posthumously...
And then they use the less than pleasant aspects of both. See Aristotle's views on women and race (one of the few authors of antiquity that fit the modern definition of racist) or Plato's 'ideal state' where lying to the commoners is an integral part (not to forget the infamous idea of euthanasia: "Sick (=unable to work) for more than 3 days? You have become a parasite and should kill yourself or be treated as a pariah.").
Interestingly the Nazis presented Plato as the ideal Aryan while seeing Socrates as in essence a Jew (and found it difficult to explain how the former could be a pupil of the latter). In Plato's favor it has to be said, that he would have despised the Nazis and strongly objected to them citing him as inspiration.
As for Rubio, did he leave out the French contribution deliberately (and Russian Alaska)? Without French help the colonies would very probably have lost the war and France ruined herself financially by it, paving the way for the revolution (which was decidedly anti-Christian in nature). And the Brits took New Amsterdam by force while hunting for two guys involved in the execution of the previous British king. What is the US Right's official view of Cromwell btw? Tyrant or role model for a Kristian(TM) republic?
On “Open Thread”
From maddowblog:
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Well, all those lazy detainment center alien inmates need to do something for their upkeep before their deportation (which can then be postponed indefinitely). Send them into the fields (in chains wherever possible). That will keep labor costs low (let's not kid ourselves, that has always been the #1 priority) and be the closest thing currently achievable to the reintroduction of slavery. The inevitable (and desirable) culling effect can be compensated for years by tapping into the reservoir of millions of deportation candidates. When that is used up, enough progress will have been made into establishing a proper US gulag system (and finding a proper merkin name for it).
Don't tell me that this isn't the wet dream of some of those involved in the current mess.
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Why don't they just use snow cannons?
[imagining what Mr. "Why not nuke hurricanes?" could say to the problem]. Next he would likely see water conservation as the root cause.
On “What fresh hell is this?”
In early 20th century photographic evidence was challenged because photos were easy to fake. Arthur Conan Doyle famously fell for fake fairy photos (alliteration coincidental) and in turn used the argument in 'The Lost World' (where the claim that the dino photos were fake gets countered by presenting a living pterodactyl; movie adaptations tend to replace it with a T-Rex for effect).
I think we face a double danger: 1) people believing convincing fakes and 2) people not believing reality taking it for convincing fakes.
The 'filling the zone with <semisolid digestive final product>' is based on exactly that. They recognized that they can win by making people believe nothing is real anymore (just 'opinion') or making it near impossible to find the truth in a deluge of untruth (and meaningless garbage for further dilution). Some will believe anything said loud enough, few will seek the actual truth and a majority stops trying and turns away disgusted but passive. One can run the show with that mixture.
What (to my knowledge) has not yet happened is the administration getting someone (a major politician of the opposition in particular) convicted in a court of law based on fake AI 'evidence'. I believe that this is just a matter of time and would guess that it will first be tried on a (surviving) ICE victim by using AI doctored footage 'proving' that the victim tried to assault ICEistas with a deadly weapon first.
On “Separated by a common language”
I'd say it is critical mass.
In Europe the Epstein associates are a tiny minority while in the US they occupy many positions of power (in and out of official politics) that allow for stonewalling and mutual support. Plus the tradition in the US not to hold the powerful accountable. So, in Europe it does not undermine the system to go after at least some prominent culprits. There simply is no long row of domino pieces to fall. In the US* Epstein seems to have (deliberately) infected the system itself with a rot so widespread that he probably hoped it would forever protect him. He is gone but the rot remains and fully uncovering - let alone thoroughly removing - it would shake the system to the core, which is why it is unlikely to happen.
*and, so some info I've seen but can't judge the veracity of says, in Israel
*Comment archive for non-registered commenters assembled by email address as provided.