The War Bird

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

None of them are remotely serious - one is a former school board member, another has no experience at all and is only running to try and recruit someone else à la Dean Phillips

All my life, Democrats have bent over backwards to run scrupulously scandal-free administrations, while Republicans have wallowed publicly and unapologetically in crime and corruption ... and Democrats have gotten zero advantage for it. Zilch.

From the hockey community on Reddit: Brady Tkachuk getting hit by Tom Wilson Explore this post and more from the hockey community

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That's fair, though at least in the races I'm tracking there really hasn't been that kind of movement either. I hope you're right, though!

Not a single substantial challenger for Warner yet, though I guess the deadline isn't until April

The Quintessential Epstein Files Email - The American Prospect Jeffrey Epstein and his friends standing up for Mary Jo White against Elizabeth Warren tells you everything about the class war at the heart of the files.

Guys I found the best Epstein Files email. The one that illuminates an elite class that's cocooned themselves into an unaccountable shell of wealth and privilege, fighting to protect their secrets and offenses.
I could write a novel about this email.
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Someone conduct a poll that asks "should the government inspect the genitals of children as they enter a public restroom" and use 85/15 "no" response rate to conclude that the public strongly supports trans rights.

she can’t stop thinking about the little kids in concentration camps. and, you know, putting them in there

Knight makes it 4-0, we love to see it

US Women’s Hockey team is just dominant against Finland right now, I wouldn’t be shocked if they’ve been in the FIN zone for more than 70% of play time

under different circumstances this is congressional-inquiry level scandal

The Washington Capitals have scored more goals shorthanded than PPGs in their last 3 games

I don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"

Benefit 1) the data center melts because there’s no way to cool it

Benefit 2) non-trivial data transmission delays, which make everything worse after billions spent to allow software to accommodate it

Benefit 3) Kessler syndrome

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

YouTube video by Technology Connections You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Let's do this.

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Really feels like our elites became increasingly insular and incestuous and what we are experiencing post-2016 is their collective temper tantrum at having their divine right to rule us questioned

Ah, this makes sense

I don’t understand what I’m looking at. Epstein was talking to Weiss’s girlfriend about purchasing a house from Bill Cosby?

The best way to farm clout as a leftist is to pull a Hasan and say Dems suck. The best way to farm clout as a centrist is to pull a Bari and say Dems suck. The best way to farm clout as a conservative is to pull a Charlie and say Dems suck. The best way to farm clout as a fascist is, you guessed it,

The current Democratic coalition is every single person who has any idea how society works, any interest in maintaining it, or any scraps of empathy for their fellow human beings, and that's about 47% of the country, tops.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

using federal resources to illegally seize the goods of another country and then diverting the proceeds to accounts only the president can control is the kind of thing the framers would’ve seen these men hanged for

this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough

Vindman announced yesterday, though IDK if you'd count that as "plausible"

The investigation is the coverup Trump's "pivot" on Pretti is just a head fake.

New in PN: The investigation is the coverup

"At the same time on Tuesday that the White House was speed-dialing journalists about Trump's supposed 'pivot,' it was weaponizing its own investigation to ensure Pretti’s murderer can never be prosecuted."

Tweet from Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Beyond disgusting. Gov. Walz is comparing the innocent Jews that the Gestapo were hunting for extermination—who were citizens—to the illegal migrant murderers, rapists, sex offenders, and child abusers that ICE is seeking to deport because they broke our laws again and again."

It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.

This goes so goddamn hard