Taking back a “clarification” Underhoused. Overhoused. Differently housed. Mayor Adams yells at a Holocaust surviving slave master Drinking coffee with pictures of dead cops Who lost the cocaine? Kamala speechwriter video The worst person in America is…
I was afraid to click on the link. Not for any NSFW reason, but because I figured there'd probably be a 50/50 chance I would recognize the clip. I didn't. My German porn knowledge goes down once we get into the shot-on-video era.
I don’t want to be that guy, but I’m that fucking guy. Remember this is a big ass continent and the later the better for us in the west. But I get it, y’all have families and shit.
Quality stuff as usual. Good coverage on the Supreme Court stuff, especially for non-lawyers (not to say that one has to be a lawyer to cover legal topics well, but it's often the case that non-lawyers don't do as well as lawyers). This comment probably applies more aptly to Ep. 413 w/ Damon Root (which got me successfully though the hell that is Denver airport security), but the quality of thought and writing from Justices Jackson and Sotomayor in their Harvard and 303 Creative dissents is pitifully sub-par. Prior to J. Sotomayor's appointment, I can confidently say that the Supreme Court going back decades was filled with the most brilliant legal minds in the land. 9 out of 9, brilliant minds. That isn't a comment on outcomes. Justice Breyer wrote a lot of opinions with which I disagreed, but in reading his opinions, one couldn't deny his brilliance. The same is true of Justice Ginsburg. I thought she was wrong a lot, but you knew you were reading the output of a brilliant mind when you read her opinions. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson's recent dissents were not in the same class. This isn't the first time J. Sotomayor has embarrassed herself. I hope J. Jackson will grow into the role.
Regarding the media coverage of these cases, which I regard mostly as lazy, partisan and irresponsible, these yapping heads on TV seem to forget that the Court handed down a number of victories for progressives and Democrats. US v. Texas delivered a victory for the Biden admin on immigration. Moore v. Harper squashed the independent state legislature theory, resulting in the Democrats picking up House seats in N.C. In Haaland v. Brackeen, the Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act in the face of some pretty egregious, heartrending facts relating to adoption of Native children.
The yapping heads aren't talking about these cases. Why? Because they're interested in delegitimizing an institution that used to give them everything they want and now only gives them what they want sometimes. It's about power, not the truth.
Spot-on across the board, and “the quality of thought and writing from Justices Jackson and Sotomayor in their Harvard and 303 Creative dissents is pitifully sub-par” — truly. They were making emotional arguments, not intellectual or even factual. find it depressing. I was prepared to give Jackson the benefit of the doubt despite a weak performance during her confirmation hearings, but she has far from exceeded expectations.
Yes, they were editorials, not legal opinions. This line in particular from Sotomayor's 303 dissent: "Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class." No it did not. That's not my opinion, it is fact. The Court did no such thing. I would expect to hear that kind of hot take on NPR, but not from a Justice of the Supreme Court.
The weird thing is that she's characterizing an opinion she disagrees with as broader than it actually is. Shouldn't she be trying to argue that the decision was narrow, limited to its own specific facts? The only reason I can think of why she would be broadening the impact of the ruling is that she's throwing a fit and catastrophizing feels good. That sweet, sweet catharsis of abandoning all hope is just too good, way better than laying the groundwork for a future Justice more sympathetic to her viewpoint to erode the 303 precedent.
She knew she would get a lot of validation from the talking heads, and indeed she did. In any case, it degrades the institution.
Catastrophizing is exactly what it is, which, in today’s political climate, makes her a hero to partisan who share her ideology.
I was recently searching for the story about Sotomayor’s wildly exaggerated claims regarding the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19, and in doing so, found that she has really made the rounds on TV over the last several years, even going on late night talk shows. I find this to be unbecoming of a Supreme Court Justice. I imagine that she loves the attention and celebrity status, and is determined to maintain it.
When I read this from Sotomayor's 303 dissent... “'What a difference five years makes.'” (internal cite omitted). And not just at the Court. Around the country,
there has been a backlash to the movement for liberty and
equality for gender and sexual minorities. New forms of
inclusion have been met with reactionary exclusion. This
is heartbreaking. Sadly, it is also familiar. When the civil
rights and women’s rights movements sought equality in
public life, some public establishments refused. Some even
claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional
rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on
As somebody who lived in my 2001 Saturn SC1, couch surfed, and stayed with family and the occasional tinderella for 3.5 years, i was deffo homeless, not underhoused.
Everyone knows what homeless means. Renaming stuff like this is a distraction tactic which is used to divert from the actual problems and suffering of those affected.
I live in Scotland where we have the highest drugs death rate in Europe. Our local government spends money on adverts telling us they're not addicts, they are people experiencing addiction.
No matter what they're called they're still dying, in part because funding for addiction services has been slashed.
What has happened with your national health service that addicts are being ignored? I thought on this side of the pond we treated our addicts the worst.
Yeah, that seems most likely. I kinda want it to be Joe’s coke, because that’s a way more interesting plot twist, but that’s probably not something I should be wishing for. 🫤
I had it once in an Indian restaurant. I literally had to spit it out. Wasn't actually the taste, I am big on the texture of a lot of food, and, we'll, I don't want to describe what it felt like I was eating.
Those milk producing goats have baby billy goats, and they go somewhere. And that somewhere is probably in bellies but they don’t want to advertise that because we live in a very stupid time. I’d reach out to them. But be very low key, bordering on conspiratorial, when discussing the fact.
Yeah, good point, but given the supply, I bet the restaurants get it first. To be honest (and I feel bad about this), my best year of cooking was spring to spring of the first year of the pandemic. The "food hub" that I'd been using (local food distributor/wholesaler for industry/CSA aggregator for civvies) opened everything up to household consumers a la carte. I could buy a 25# sack of flour while the grocery store was out, and fun stuff like oxtails and pork shanks. It was an efficient redistribmarket reallocation of goods, but...
I just want to say that I find that story about cocaine in the White House very distressing for many reasons, not the least of which being that I haven't been able to find decent coke myself in close to a decade. I would also like to take this moment to address those of you who may be involved at some level of the production or distribution of cocaine and say you need to think about the kids who never got to try great coke and quit cutting that shit down and washing it in octane 86 or whatever the fuck you are doing because the lingering back of your throat after-taste is annoying and doesn't hit for shit. Fuck you.
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Frankly, this seems like a solid market opportunity. Get some seed capital, take a sourcing trip to find good, reliable producers. Once you've got your procurement strategy, start developing a distribution system. Work with your distributors to implement a compensation strategy that rewards adherence to quality standards. Or better yet, establish a direct-to-consumer network.
Here's a free tagline for your new company: "Cocaine shouldn't be a coc*pain*"
I agree in principle. But the Walmart of coke, the Mexican cartels, make this very hard. We need some hardcore trust-busting against the cartels. A true free market in blow will give the kids the blow they need and deserve. As a kinda old, I want that for them.
Well. . .I can get weed delivered to my door by a teenager who smells like orange blossoms and bubble gum. I sort of feel as though it is my God given right as an American to have primo shit available to me wherever I happen to be in these United States.
Maybe some good will come out of this. With the media so loathe to criticize anything even tangentially Biden-esque, maybe we'll start seeing some op-eds about how random our substance criminalization policies are.
You are not wrong about how July 4th is being handled. On July 4th Public TV News had a very long segment about an author who wrote a book about slavery. Furrowed brows and long faces about slavery and a bit about the book.
I thought at the time, it was a downer for a forth of July news broadcast but after listening to the pod today, it very well fits in with the America is evil narrative. I am someone who can’t stand flag waving right wing stuff, by the way. But, damn it, can’t we just lighten up a bit on the 4th of July?
I see it on the uniforms of fighter pilots sworn to defend the Constitution that protects all of us. People in the Trump cult of personality can try to appropriate it, but it's not theirs, and we shouldn't cede it to them.
I see it mostly at work, which I am sure the boys would love because I work in a building with a USCIS office. Everyday you see newly naturalized immigrants taking their pictures in the lobby in front of an America mural and waving their flags.
Nope. It belongs to all of us. If a voter of a particular political stripe thinks they have a stronger claim to it, that’s in their heads. Don’t let it be in yours, my friend.
No liberal is going to drive around with a flag. He or she or they would be horrified that he she or they would be considered a Trump right winger and if his hers or they’s friends saw his flag they would shun him for joining the enemy.
I was thinking more along the lines of flying one off their house or on a flagpole. But yeah very few people are going to be cruising around with one draped on their pickup
It is sad but the Trumpy right wingers claim to be the only real Americans and the flag is their flag in their minds. I know of a few people who won’t display a flag so they don’t look like Trump nuts. They aren’t big liberals at all. Mostly old fashioned conservative types or middle of the roaders.
"The place that speaks most negatively of itself in the world is America"
An ironic side effect of it being the safest place to do so. Any country where people are constantly complaining about it being fascistic is the opposite of fascistic because in a truly fascistic country no one would dare do so.
A further irony is that the only reason it is so popular is that the people who want to complain about America have become the dominant cultural force while simultaneously trying to maintain persecuted victim status.
It’s the Fifth’s celebration of the Fourth. 5 + 4 = 9. Happy July 9th, Fifthdependence Day! (We depend on them for sanity, they depend on us for subscriptions so they can provide that sanity. It’s a healthy co-dependence.)
It's a high point even for Red Eye's incredible summer 2011 run. My mind immediately went there when Moynihan brought up the anonymous missing coke story. Even if he didn't have Beckel (RIP) in mind, it certainly warrants a mention.
Progressives use “unhoused” as a way to say that the government/society is responsible to provide homes for folks without. It shifts responsibility away from the individual.
ALERT! ALERT! Second Sunday now penciled in for 6 pm ET! ALERT!
The "ALERT! ALERT!" just reminded me of the second-best safe-for-work German porn scene of all times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApG5p9RRLmA
(The best, of course, is the one that includes a broken fuse box and lots of straw.)
That woman's about to get a train run on her, isn't she?
Great minds think alike.
I was afraid to click on the link. Not for any NSFW reason, but because I figured there'd probably be a 50/50 chance I would recognize the clip. I didn't. My German porn knowledge goes down once we get into the shot-on-video era.
I don’t want to be that guy, but I’m that fucking guy. Remember this is a big ass continent and the later the better for us in the west. But I get it, y’all have families and shit.
Quality stuff as usual. Good coverage on the Supreme Court stuff, especially for non-lawyers (not to say that one has to be a lawyer to cover legal topics well, but it's often the case that non-lawyers don't do as well as lawyers). This comment probably applies more aptly to Ep. 413 w/ Damon Root (which got me successfully though the hell that is Denver airport security), but the quality of thought and writing from Justices Jackson and Sotomayor in their Harvard and 303 Creative dissents is pitifully sub-par. Prior to J. Sotomayor's appointment, I can confidently say that the Supreme Court going back decades was filled with the most brilliant legal minds in the land. 9 out of 9, brilliant minds. That isn't a comment on outcomes. Justice Breyer wrote a lot of opinions with which I disagreed, but in reading his opinions, one couldn't deny his brilliance. The same is true of Justice Ginsburg. I thought she was wrong a lot, but you knew you were reading the output of a brilliant mind when you read her opinions. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson's recent dissents were not in the same class. This isn't the first time J. Sotomayor has embarrassed herself. I hope J. Jackson will grow into the role.
Regarding the media coverage of these cases, which I regard mostly as lazy, partisan and irresponsible, these yapping heads on TV seem to forget that the Court handed down a number of victories for progressives and Democrats. US v. Texas delivered a victory for the Biden admin on immigration. Moore v. Harper squashed the independent state legislature theory, resulting in the Democrats picking up House seats in N.C. In Haaland v. Brackeen, the Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act in the face of some pretty egregious, heartrending facts relating to adoption of Native children.
The yapping heads aren't talking about these cases. Why? Because they're interested in delegitimizing an institution that used to give them everything they want and now only gives them what they want sometimes. It's about power, not the truth.
Spot-on across the board, and “the quality of thought and writing from Justices Jackson and Sotomayor in their Harvard and 303 Creative dissents is pitifully sub-par” — truly. They were making emotional arguments, not intellectual or even factual. find it depressing. I was prepared to give Jackson the benefit of the doubt despite a weak performance during her confirmation hearings, but she has far from exceeded expectations.
Yes, they were editorials, not legal opinions. This line in particular from Sotomayor's 303 dissent: "Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class." No it did not. That's not my opinion, it is fact. The Court did no such thing. I would expect to hear that kind of hot take on NPR, but not from a Justice of the Supreme Court.
The weird thing is that she's characterizing an opinion she disagrees with as broader than it actually is. Shouldn't she be trying to argue that the decision was narrow, limited to its own specific facts? The only reason I can think of why she would be broadening the impact of the ruling is that she's throwing a fit and catastrophizing feels good. That sweet, sweet catharsis of abandoning all hope is just too good, way better than laying the groundwork for a future Justice more sympathetic to her viewpoint to erode the 303 precedent.
She knew she would get a lot of validation from the talking heads, and indeed she did. In any case, it degrades the institution.
Catastrophizing is exactly what it is, which, in today’s political climate, makes her a hero to partisan who share her ideology.
I was recently searching for the story about Sotomayor’s wildly exaggerated claims regarding the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19, and in doing so, found that she has really made the rounds on TV over the last several years, even going on late night talk shows. I find this to be unbecoming of a Supreme Court Justice. I imagine that she loves the attention and celebrity status, and is determined to maintain it.
Well said. Jackson has had some signs of interesting textualism but Sotomayor is the Washington post opinion page
When I read this from Sotomayor's 303 dissent... “'What a difference five years makes.'” (internal cite omitted). And not just at the Court. Around the country,
there has been a backlash to the movement for liberty and
equality for gender and sexual minorities. New forms of
inclusion have been met with reactionary exclusion. This
is heartbreaking. Sadly, it is also familiar. When the civil
rights and women’s rights movements sought equality in
public life, some public establishments refused. Some even
claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional
rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on
this Court decisively rejected those claims."
... I'm reminded of this Simpson's clip... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqjhHVUzl8o
"Always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"
As somebody who lived in my 2001 Saturn SC1, couch surfed, and stayed with family and the occasional tinderella for 3.5 years, i was deffo homeless, not underhoused.
Everyone knows what homeless means. Renaming stuff like this is a distraction tactic which is used to divert from the actual problems and suffering of those affected.
I live in Scotland where we have the highest drugs death rate in Europe. Our local government spends money on adverts telling us they're not addicts, they are people experiencing addiction.
No matter what they're called they're still dying, in part because funding for addiction services has been slashed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY&pp=ygUWZ2VvcmdlIGNhcmxpbiBsYW5ndWFnZQ%3D%3D
I have a lot of problems with the
later George Carlin, but this bit is a throwback to the good old days and a prescient look at the future(I.e. right now).
This is going to be the “shell shock” but isn’t it?
Yes, it is the “shell shock” bit. Absolute classic.
Do you guys still call homeless people “Tramps”? I’ve heard people in the UK say “sleeping rough “
What has happened with your national health service that addicts are being ignored? I thought on this side of the pond we treated our addicts the worst.
Even if there’s care, you have to walk in to a hospital and ask for help. That’s the hardest part
So, if I'm following, Bernie Sanders is overhoused.
As a former addict, ive always done all my drugs. I have doubts it was Hunter, but maybe.
100% agree. Why so many (mostly on Twitter) assume it’s Hunter’s kind of surprises me. 🤷🏼♀️
Could see it maybe being a friend of Hunter’s or like WH staffers!
Yeah, that seems most likely. I kinda want it to be Joe’s coke, because that’s a way more interesting plot twist, but that’s probably not something I should be wishing for. 🫤
The idea of losing a bag of coke is akin to walking out of a restroom and I have apparently dropped my dick in the urinal and left without it.
Actually, that’s more fucking likely.
I’m going to pretend that Kmele wasn’t being facetious about sharing recipes on Threads and request his aunt’s jerk chicken recipe.
And curry goat!!
Yeah, I do like goat. I wish I could buy a honk of it around here, instead of freezer-burned mystery cubes.
I had it once in an Indian restaurant. I literally had to spit it out. Wasn't actually the taste, I am big on the texture of a lot of food, and, we'll, I don't want to describe what it felt like I was eating.
Yeah, it’s probably an acquired taste. I came to goat as a childhood lamb enthusiast (of the shoulder chop & roast leg type), so...
I do love lamb chops, even though I haven't had one in ages.
Gotta find a goat farmer near you and buy off the hoof.
Well, there are a lot of dairy goat farms around...
Those milk producing goats have baby billy goats, and they go somewhere. And that somewhere is probably in bellies but they don’t want to advertise that because we live in a very stupid time. I’d reach out to them. But be very low key, bordering on conspiratorial, when discussing the fact.
Yeah, good point, but given the supply, I bet the restaurants get it first. To be honest (and I feel bad about this), my best year of cooking was spring to spring of the first year of the pandemic. The "food hub" that I'd been using (local food distributor/wholesaler for industry/CSA aggregator for civvies) opened everything up to household consumers a la carte. I could buy a 25# sack of flour while the grocery store was out, and fun stuff like oxtails and pork shanks. It was an efficient redistribmarket reallocation of goods, but...
I just want to say that I find that story about cocaine in the White House very distressing for many reasons, not the least of which being that I haven't been able to find decent coke myself in close to a decade. I would also like to take this moment to address those of you who may be involved at some level of the production or distribution of cocaine and say you need to think about the kids who never got to try great coke and quit cutting that shit down and washing it in octane 86 or whatever the fuck you are doing because the lingering back of your throat after-taste is annoying and doesn't hit for shit. Fuck you.
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Frankly, this seems like a solid market opportunity. Get some seed capital, take a sourcing trip to find good, reliable producers. Once you've got your procurement strategy, start developing a distribution system. Work with your distributors to implement a compensation strategy that rewards adherence to quality standards. Or better yet, establish a direct-to-consumer network.
Here's a free tagline for your new company: "Cocaine shouldn't be a coc*pain*"
I agree in principle. But the Walmart of coke, the Mexican cartels, make this very hard. We need some hardcore trust-busting against the cartels. A true free market in blow will give the kids the blow they need and deserve. As a kinda old, I want that for them.
Sounds like a wonderful excuse to take a trip to Cartagena
Well. . .I can get weed delivered to my door by a teenager who smells like orange blossoms and bubble gum. I sort of feel as though it is my God given right as an American to have primo shit available to me wherever I happen to be in these United States.
Maybe some good will come out of this. With the media so loathe to criticize anything even tangentially Biden-esque, maybe we'll start seeing some op-eds about how random our substance criminalization policies are.
You are not wrong about how July 4th is being handled. On July 4th Public TV News had a very long segment about an author who wrote a book about slavery. Furrowed brows and long faces about slavery and a bit about the book.
I thought at the time, it was a downer for a forth of July news broadcast but after listening to the pod today, it very well fits in with the America is evil narrative. I am someone who can’t stand flag waving right wing stuff, by the way. But, damn it, can’t we just lighten up a bit on the 4th of July?
Thing is, flag waving doesn't have to be right wing; it's *your* flag too, and mine.
It has become a right wing symbol sadly. I see Trump fanatics in pick up trucks with huge flags in the beds.
I see it on the uniforms of fighter pilots sworn to defend the Constitution that protects all of us. People in the Trump cult of personality can try to appropriate it, but it's not theirs, and we shouldn't cede it to them.
I see it mostly at work, which I am sure the boys would love because I work in a building with a USCIS office. Everyday you see newly naturalized immigrants taking their pictures in the lobby in front of an America mural and waving their flags.
Trump and the Evangelicals have taken the flag for themselves.
Nope. It belongs to all of us. If a voter of a particular political stripe thinks they have a stronger claim to it, that’s in their heads. Don’t let it be in yours, my friend.
They don’t think that but what you say is a nice ideal.
Fuck them. The Sane Brigade can take it back.
The sane brigade has left the building. Angry right wingers drive around with huge American flags and Trump signs
in pickup trucks and angry extremist liberals drive around stewing that America is a white supremacist hell hole.
The sane are gone.
Well then, liberals need to take it back. I still have some patriotic liberal friends but they are fading
No liberal is going to drive around with a flag. He or she or they would be horrified that he she or they would be considered a Trump right winger and if his hers or they’s friends saw his flag they would shun him for joining the enemy.
I was thinking more along the lines of flying one off their house or on a flagpole. But yeah very few people are going to be cruising around with one draped on their pickup
It is sad but the Trumpy right wingers claim to be the only real Americans and the flag is their flag in their minds. I know of a few people who won’t display a flag so they don’t look like Trump nuts. They aren’t big liberals at all. Mostly old fashioned conservative types or middle of the roaders.
Everybody calm down and have a hotdog.
"The place that speaks most negatively of itself in the world is America"
An ironic side effect of it being the safest place to do so. Any country where people are constantly complaining about it being fascistic is the opposite of fascistic because in a truly fascistic country no one would dare do so.
A further irony is that the only reason it is so popular is that the people who want to complain about America have become the dominant cultural force while simultaneously trying to maintain persecuted victim status.
The great Martin Gurri, who’s been a guest of TFC, penned an excellent patriotic piece for The Free Press:
https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/all-immigrants-are-born-on-the-fourth-of-july?r=7ep5l&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
WHAT HOLIDAY IS THIS? A new ep on a Second Sunday?! 🎁🎉
It’s the Fifth’s celebration of the Fourth. 5 + 4 = 9. Happy July 9th, Fifthdependence Day! (We depend on them for sanity, they depend on us for subscriptions so they can provide that sanity. It’s a healthy co-dependence.)
That is spectrum level brilliance
Thank you. I hope they make it an annual tradition, even if it can’t always be, calendar-wise, on a Second Sunday.
And I’m both blessed and cursed.
Bob Beckel told the lost cocaine safety deposit box story on Red Rye back in the day.
The relevant segment begins around 8:30. https://youtu.be/sUUuFHUjYhU
That is classic! I posted the Beckel cocaine clip on Twitter back in 2020 in response to a Bill Schulz tweet. Here it is!
https://twitter.com/ajwimsatt/status/1223824938534162432?s=20
RIP to one of the funniest people ever, Bob Beckel.
It's a high point even for Red Eye's incredible summer 2011 run. My mind immediately went there when Moynihan brought up the anonymous missing coke story. Even if he didn't have Beckel (RIP) in mind, it certainly warrants a mention.
Ive never felt so sympatico with kmele. Hit up a Sheetz on July 4 and drove past Frederick and Hagerstown today
Progressives use “unhoused” as a way to say that the government/society is responsible to provide homes for folks without. It shifts responsibility away from the individual.
"Some of our listeners are pure"
Anyone want to raise their hand for this one? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Whenever I hear “Bueller” I reflexively start to monologue about the Smooth Hawley act and why tariffs are bad.
For the "Who left the coke?" bet, it's always a secret service fuck-up if it's never revealed.
See Colombia, JFK security detail, etc.
These dudes are not CIA.
They are fully staffed with Hunter Biden clones.