From Pine View Farm

January, 2021 archive

Immunity Impunity 0

Get out of Jail free cardThe card that enforcers always use to trump their way out of being held responsible for their venality.

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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier considers the role played by “social” media in fomenting insurrection. A snippet:

Social media platforms are not serving you. They are selling you to advertisers based on your clicks and “likes” and what activates you online, and they are not just trafficking in data analysis to click-motivate your idiot cousin who lives in the flat-Earth chat room, but members of the Senate and the House of Representatives as well. One House member contended in chambers Wednesday that Mr. Trump won the election in a landslide, because he believes it, and he believes it because social media fed him all kinds of conspiracy theories and disinformation its algorithms correctly predicted he could not resist.

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Choosing the Low Road 0

Thom discusses why the Republican Party fears honest elections.

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Taxonomy 0

PoliticalProf suggests that three distinct types of rioters participated in the storming of the Capitol last Wednesday.

  • Insurrection tourists.
  • QAnon believers.
  • The true crazies.

Follow the link for more about each.

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Lost in a Lost Cause 0

Elizabeth City, N. C., is trying to give away its Confederate monument, but it seems that no one wants it.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Innocent until proven guilty the jury sees the video he himself shot of his Capitol cosplay.

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QOTD 0

Stephen Leacock:

With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.

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Parler Talk 0

He’s a braver person than I am: Bryan Parker joined Parler to see what it was like.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

A polite society is a clean society.

The teen, whose name is not being released by the Star-Banner because of his age, told Detective Ian Simpson in an interview that he was given a gun to clean. He said he took the gun and went to his residence, which is nearby, and wiped the firearm.

He said he and his girlfriend, identified as Kelsey Lynn Smith,17, were in a room and she was on the bed. The teen said he was walking around the room playing with the gun, spinning it around his finger.

While playing with the weapon, he said, it accidentally went off.

“Accidentally” is not a synonym of “negligently.”

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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Hawley Moot 0

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Unloosed 0

GOP Elephant as Dr. Frankenstein with Right Wing Media as Igor in their laboratory.  Beside them, a platform with broken straps on which sits a brain in a container.  Elephant says,

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The Promise 0

Frame One, labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Reaction 0

Three ordinary citizens and Donald Trump reading newspapers with the headline,

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

A Trumpled brick through a window.

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QOTD 0

Albert Camus:

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Twits on Twitter 0

Self-censoring twits.

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“The Red Hats Are Coming! The Red Hats Are Coming!” 0

Stephen’s monologue from Wednesday evening was a tour de force.

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Sinking Ship 0

Deserting–er–voyagers.

Aside:

Jody Hamilton floats a theory as to why some cabinet members are resigning towards the end of yesterday’s Bob Cesca Show. She may indeed be onto something.

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Parler Talk 0

Jason 330 eavesdrops so I don’t have to.

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