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Schreiber is one of those guys who was never going to make it under Avila, and had to go someplace else to have any kind of decent career.

I think there's room in this big, wide world for more than one type of political action, and I also don't believe that a protest is invalid if it doesn't transform an entire system in a utopia. Peaceful protest in support of a people in the process of being bombed and starved out of existence is valid and, in my mind, desirable.

That's fair, but eventually, the realization is going to have to be that the scales can't be balanced by continuing to load everything onto only one side of it, in the service of working practically. That's what makes the Republican position so seductively easy: there is no pretense to wanting to balance any economic scales between the classes, and as with the word 'class" itself, they have basically made "equity" a dirty word.

Your definition of Hamashole appears to be anyone who doesn't agree with your positions of "Israel right or wrong" and "Bomb 'em all and let God sort 'em out". I guess by process of elimination that makes me a Hamashole, too, and to the degree that's true, I guess I'll have no choice but to cop to that. Criticizing people for having the temerity of being concerned about things that exist beyond their fingertips is pretty on brand here.

I’m sure I’ll be dismissed by some here as an antisemite now for posting what I just did and for saying this, but I promise you, just as with the student protests in the 60s and early 70s, there’s going to be a turning point when the majority of white people will turn against the blunt force of police power to suppress dissent, because that’s what it’s going to take to finally rein it in. It won’t happen today and it won’t happen tomorrow, but it will happen at some point, because state power always escalates until it goes too far, and it will go too far, because that’s what it’s practically designed to do, and it will be too much for even the white middle and upper classes the system is designed to protect and serve.

Pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas reported by multiple local media outlets as being peaceful. No reports of any threats to life, limb, or even property. No pictures of protesters being violent. No reports of protesters calling for killing Jews. Just a large group of people standing in a public area of the campus and chanting. Yet, multiple arrests of protesters. Plenty of pictures of police in riot gear and on horseback bullying protesters and dragging them into paddy wagon. All courtesy of our good friend Governor Greg Abbott. So this is always where this was really going: the suppression of inconvenient political dissent. Party like it’s 1968.

Couldn’t be clearer where his sympathies lie. Otherwise it would’ve been “Tigers vs. Dombrowski 23rd Rounder. Starts now.”

This one is the key. I find it hard to believe that SCOTUS would Seal Team Six themselves in the service of Agent Orange.

Best use of generative AI I’ve seen yet!

I don’t really understand the presumed benefit to the company of forcing a non-compete on a traffic reporter. It’s not like you have any trade secrets you can take over there that will put the other guy out of business. It simply seems punitive to you, and a way for colluding duopolists to maintain complete monopolistic control of its labor market.

If they’re really looking for wage/income/wealth equity, they need to balance the scale on the other side by raising taxes and slashing abatements and subsidies on the ultra wealthy and their business activities. Otherwise all that’ll happen is they push the dollar down by making it cheaper overall and everything just costs commensurately more.

It’s not being used in the same way anymore. Now it’s a word MAGA uses to delegitimize all the court cases being brought against their election stealing.

I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing the term “lawfare” a lot during this one.

That checks out. He was also the same guy who said gays already have the right to marry, as long as it's someone of the opposite sex. I believe he was an attorney.

Because rights are enumerated in the consecrated Constitution, and not in hubristic man-made laws. Amirite?

Well, all I said was it's a core campaign tactic. I didn't say it's going to win him the election ... 😁

For a very good hitter to get 3,000 hits in his career, he has to (1) start his career no later than their early 20s; (2) strike out and walk at below-average levels; (3) hardly ever get hurt; and (4) play into his late 30s at the very least. That's a tall order, especially #2.

Isn't being in court a core campaign tactic for him?

Projection Junction, that's their function!

From the story: Jim Hoft published a message on the website that read, “TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet.” I have been hearing the word "lawfare" more and more as an attack on liberals, and I have no idea where that comes from and how it applies to anything. Are they simply trying to make it sound like the reliable bugaboo word "welfare"? Or is there something more to it? EDIT: I suppose a simple googling of the word would have quickly revealed to me that lawfare means "the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter an individual's usage of their legal rights." So MAGA are, ironically, using it to delegitimize legitimate court cases. Now that Agent Orange is in court, I suppose this will be overused to the point which it will appear on the list of Lake Superior State's banished words by the end of the year.

You may be right.

I remember going round and round with OMF on this one. Certain as can be he still believes it's a privilege that should be withholdable by discretion of the lord of the manor, but he's been out of my life for maybe 15 years now, so I don't know for sure.

We might be seeing the end of polling as we know it.

They are otherwise engaged for the time being.

Agree with much of what he says, although I strongly disagree with the idea that voting is a "civic privilege". It is a civic right. A right is something that accrues to you by dint of your citizenship as long as you otherwise qualify (e.g., minimum age). A privilege can be withheld from you at the sole discretion of whoever deems themselves, and whoever you agree is, the holder of that discretion. After all, it is not called the Voter Privileges Act.