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TallulahtheTiger
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re: Espionage
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 8/12/22 at 3:37 pm to DayDrinker
Yeah, he's guilty a.f. Just perp walk the bastard already.
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re: Proof the raid was a fishing expedition for the January 6 committee
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 8/12/22 at 3:35 pm to jatilen
He's guilty a.f.
re: Two days later and they rub this in our faces to show they are above the law.
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 8/10/22 at 8:10 pm to FlexDawg
Digging deep to gin up some outrage today? But whaddabout Hunter Biden! LOL.
re: El Rushbo at MAGA Rally
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 8/8/22 at 10:32 pm to Padme
Must be a blow-up doll full of hot air.
re: Eric Holder: “Trump Will Be Arrested & He Will Go To Prison”
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 8/8/22 at 10:25 pm to Schmelly
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Trump ain’t going to prison
Nah, he'll probably pull a JoePa and croak shortly after the indictments are unsealed.
re: The gop is toothless
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 8/8/22 at 10:06 pm to LChama
I thought it was Republican voters who were toothless, not the party itself.
re: Trump should declare in the morning
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 8/8/22 at 10:03 pm to CamdenTiger
Declare bankruptcy?
re: Nice clear review of Ivermectin Studies From a Pro Vaccine source.
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 8/29/21 at 3:12 pm to Fububutsy
Go drown in phlegm you little incel flunkie.
See, I can dish the ad hom too.
See, I can dish the ad hom too.
re: Nice clear review of Ivermectin Studies From a Pro Vaccine source.
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 8/29/21 at 1:42 pm to Bard
Folks . . . for god's sake, don't eat the horse paste. Unless you want to $h!t your drawers while gargling phlegm.
Seriously, y'all are some gullible-arse people if you believe that.
Seriously, y'all are some gullible-arse people if you believe that.
re: “We live in a world of Biblical Values. Liberals are trying to dismantle it”
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 6/16/21 at 1:58 am to FooManChoo
Well, you are granting Putin more presumption of sincerity than i ever would.
re: “We live in a world of Biblical Values. Liberals are trying to dismantle it”
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 6/16/21 at 1:07 am to FooManChoo
Well I guess every now & then a Christian leader needs to assassinate or imprison a political opponent or two or three. You know, in the name of "Christian morality".
I sure as hell woudn't want to live* in a country as autocratic & repressive as Putin's Russia. But I do give the man his due as a politician & player in world affairs. His military has a tiny fraction of the global power & reach of the USA, & Russia's military spending is roughly 1/9 of ours. But he always seems to get a lot of geostrategic bang for his buck - Georgia 2008, Syria 2013-present, Crimea 2014.
More to the point, Putin understands the USA better than most Americans themselves; better than our establishment media commentariat for sure. He understands us as we are rather than what we like to think we are. Most important, he knows where our weak points are & knows how best to attack them.
Maybe one agrees with his politics, maybe not. I don't. But it's important for all of us to see Putin for what he is rather than what he poses as. I'm sure some Americans will just lap this $h!t up. But come on, "biblical values" my arse.
* Wouldn't want to live in Russia, unless I was Ed Snowden. Russia may not be the freest country in the world, but it's a lot freer than an American federal prison.
I sure as hell woudn't want to live* in a country as autocratic & repressive as Putin's Russia. But I do give the man his due as a politician & player in world affairs. His military has a tiny fraction of the global power & reach of the USA, & Russia's military spending is roughly 1/9 of ours. But he always seems to get a lot of geostrategic bang for his buck - Georgia 2008, Syria 2013-present, Crimea 2014.
More to the point, Putin understands the USA better than most Americans themselves; better than our establishment media commentariat for sure. He understands us as we are rather than what we like to think we are. Most important, he knows where our weak points are & knows how best to attack them.
Maybe one agrees with his politics, maybe not. I don't. But it's important for all of us to see Putin for what he is rather than what he poses as. I'm sure some Americans will just lap this $h!t up. But come on, "biblical values" my arse.
* Wouldn't want to live in Russia, unless I was Ed Snowden. Russia may not be the freest country in the world, but it's a lot freer than an American federal prison.
re: Charlottesville unanimously votes to remove Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson statues
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 6/10/21 at 5:05 pm to StaticSurfer
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No, we need to exterminate our enemies
Okay, it's one thing to advocade this in theory, but when we get down to the actual business of murder, terror & genocide, your call-to-arms leaves several pertinent questions unanswered.
What method(s) do you believe should be employed in this extirmation project? Are we talking mass arrests & deportations? Show trials & public denunciations? Forced marches? Forced-labor camps? Gas chambers? Lining people up beside open pits & spraying them with bullets? After all, there are plenty of historical examples to choose from: the Holocaust of 1938-45 the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal of 1837-38, Armenia/Turkey 1915, Bosnia/Yugoslavia 1994-95, Rwanda 1994.
What would qualify an American as one of these internal enemies? Is it a matter of skin color, ethnic identity or language or sexuality? Or simply a matter of espousing alien or incorrect political ideology? Suspect occupation or career, like journalist or professor?
And then, how, precisely, would you sort the enemies from the worthy? Simple litmus test, or would it be the result of information gathered by surveillance & investigations? Or would Americans simply be ordered to turn in suspects to police?
And then, do you advocate carrying out this extermination by legal means - e.g., with trials & executions - or extrajudicial means such as pogroms, arson & random gunfire?
It's easy to advocate mass murder, but the devil as always is in the details.
re: CAN YOU FEEL IT PATRIOTS?
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 6/7/21 at 8:23 pm to Jack Carter
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Worried much?
Nope. Even if there were some constitutional mechanism for undoing an already-certified election & deposing the elected official - which there isn't - the 2020 presidential election wasn't even that close - no "audit" can possibly reverse or discredit the outcome.
What is more, Fvckface ain't getting any more popular. Going into the '22 elections, i want him to be the face of the Republican Party, if only to guard against complacency among Democratic voters. If the Republicans are foolish enough to renominate him in '24, that's a sure pathway to defeat & oblivion (& possibly another attempt at a putsch, but that's another matter).
re: CAN YOU FEEL IT PATRIOTS?
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 6/7/21 at 6:28 pm to Cshaw91
Bonnie Prince Charlie at least had his rump navy. What have you guys got beyond these ridiculous, way-after-the-fact "audits"? I mean, who precisely is going to "restore" the vanquished ruler to his throne? Ammon Bundy? The 3%ers? The remnants of the Capitol posse?
Dang, you Trump cultists are some sore-arse, butthurt losers.
Get over it.
Suck it up, buttercup.
Dang, you Trump cultists are some sore-arse, butthurt losers.
Get over it.
Suck it up, buttercup.
re: We and Britain failed Hong Kong
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 6/5/21 at 8:33 pm to Adam Banks
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The only lease to expire was the new territories.
True. And while Britain could have held onto Hong Kong Island & Kowloon after the lease on the New Territories expired in 1997, they would have been difficult to defend militarily & city would have been cut off from its hinterlands.
So Margaret Thatcher offered Deng Xiaoping a deal: Britain would hand over the entire territory - including HK Island & Kowloon - & in exchange Communist China would allow it internal self-government & respect Hong Kong residents' liberties for 50 years. "One country, two systems" became the mantra. This last provision is where China obviously has reneged on the deal.
I suppose that back in 1984 Thatcher could have derecognized the Communist government & recognized the Nationalist government on Taiwan as the legitimate government of all of China, but by that time that ship had sailed - almost the entire world, including the UK & the US, had by then switched their diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. Such a move would have left Britain diplomatically isolated & might have even provoked a war.
It's lamentable the state of liberty in Hong Kong nowadays. But what, precisely, should the USA do about it?
re: University Of Arkansas Dropped $10K On Virtual Drag Show For Students
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 5/28/21 at 3:36 pm to DavidTheGnome
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I'd be livid if I were forced to pay for this shite.
I'm sure a lot of undergrads feel the same about being forced to pay for football whether they attend games or not. Likewise, i felt that way about being forced to fund the College Republicans & all their little stunts. But i don't recall when i was in college being able to opt out of said fees because of any moral objections to any of the student groups that received some (modest) funding through this channel. Considering that student activity fees cover so many things, why is this particular thing so upsetting to you?
re: Dr Fauci is a liar and a fraud
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 5/24/21 at 3:24 pm to Lynxrufus2012
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But it cannot survive treason from within.
Self-awareness maybe isn't your thing. This is actually a description of the present iteration of the Republican Party - an authoritarian movement contemptuous of democracy, beholden to hostile foreign actors, & which has tacitly approved the tactical deployment of violence against not only its political opponents but also against the institutions of the American state.
re: The “journalist” that Belarus brought in on the flight is a propagandist
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 5/24/21 at 12:23 am to IceFrogBC
Words like yours sure make it look like you don't love America. But at the very least, it's safe to say you don't love democracy & don't love liberty.
Granted, if the US had similarly detected an opportunity to grab Edward Snowden from his asylum in Russia, it would have acted in much the same manner. Because such an act is piracy when US adversaries do it, but not piracy when it's carried out under the imprimatur of US law (as when Canada apprehended Meng Wangzhou at US behest while she was en route to Mexico).
That said, this is certainly a chilling display of a dictator's power & reach. To all the activists wanted by Belarussian authorities, Lukashenko has made it abundantly clear that while the EU may grant them asylum, it can't protect them. Well, maybe the EU can issue a sternly worded letter if all 27 countries agree on it, but probably not, since Hungary's strongman Viktor Orban will have Lukashenko's back.
Granted, if the US had similarly detected an opportunity to grab Edward Snowden from his asylum in Russia, it would have acted in much the same manner. Because such an act is piracy when US adversaries do it, but not piracy when it's carried out under the imprimatur of US law (as when Canada apprehended Meng Wangzhou at US behest while she was en route to Mexico).
That said, this is certainly a chilling display of a dictator's power & reach. To all the activists wanted by Belarussian authorities, Lukashenko has made it abundantly clear that while the EU may grant them asylum, it can't protect them. Well, maybe the EU can issue a sternly worded letter if all 27 countries agree on it, but probably not, since Hungary's strongman Viktor Orban will have Lukashenko's back.
re: You can role play Hitler murdering Jews on Twitter but don't you dare share Trump quotes
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 5/11/21 at 9:05 pm to Lsuhoohoo
O, the oppression!
re: Norwegian Cruise Line threatens FL... Vax passports or we skip FL
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 5/9/21 at 12:34 am to Jjdoc
Considering all the Covid-19 outbreaks that happened aboard cruise ships, & considering the PR disaster & financial hit that would ensue if there are more outbreaks, requiring that passengers & crew be vaccinated just seems like a no-brainer.
re: Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski arrested by SWAT on freeway for holding church service
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 5/9/21 at 12:25 am to xGeauxLSUx
This story & others like it are sure to gin up more outrage in the US than in Canada itself. Canada is a highly secular country, & 20% of its population is foreign-born. While Canada does have a Christian
-conservative movement, it's nowhere near as influential culturally or powerful politically as in the US.
And while Canada does have freedom of religion written into its constitution, the notion that Christians can claim some sort of exemption from civil law hasn't really gained much traction there.
-conservative movement, it's nowhere near as influential culturally or powerful politically as in the US.
And while Canada does have freedom of religion written into its constitution, the notion that Christians can claim some sort of exemption from civil law hasn't really gained much traction there.
re: From The Desk of Donald J Trump 5/7/2021
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 5/7/21 at 6:37 pm to CU_Tigers4life
Sore arse losers sure are butt hurt today.
re: From The Desk Of Donald J. Trump 5-5-2021
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 5/5/21 at 1:47 pm to CU_Tigers4life
Dang you righties are some sore-arse LOSERS.
re: More Canada COVID Tyranny
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 4/16/21 at 8:21 pm to cardswinagain
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a Democrat's wet dream come true
Last i checked, Ontario had a right-wing government. Indeed, the Conservative Party government.
re: Joe Biden is evil
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 4/10/21 at 6:35 pm to AURaptor
Dang y'all are some sore-arse losers.
re: Does the military have a role in sorting out the results of the election back in November?
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 3/8/21 at 9:27 pm to buford4LSU
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who else has the feeling that shite is about the hit the fan in this country? have a sense tensions are high and some big news may come out in next 7-10 days
What, y'all gonna launch another insurrection?
But seriously, anybody who thinks the senior leadership of the U.S. armed forces wanted Trump over Biden must be drinking some heavily spiked kool-aid.
re: Trump called Nancy Pelosi today
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 2/15/21 at 6:16 pm to 56lsu
Haha Trump & Pelosi aren't even on speaking terms. If he tried to call her she'd block the number.
Things will start moving fast once the indictments hit. He'll probably end up in exile in Dubai, or else some other country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the USA.
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i'm still waiting for trump to leave the country like he said he would if biden beat him.
Things will start moving fast once the indictments hit. He'll probably end up in exile in Dubai, or else some other country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the USA.
re: The Democrats and the Constitution
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 2/10/21 at 12:17 am to David_DJS
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Let’s start with enemies and the secret police thing.
On the point of "enemies within" - The demonization of Muslims, asylum seekers, journalists & black people rising up against police abuse, for starters. In real terms this led to the Muslim travel ban, the family-separation policy, the open embrace of violent far-right or white-nationalist groups, police repeatedly firing on & arresting journalists, & the excusing & encouragement by the president of police & vigilante violence.
On the point of secret police or "storm troopers" - How else should we describe armed agents of the executive branch, deploying without insignia or identification, over the objection of state & local authorities, to act as personal enforcers to the president? These police acted with complete impunity & beyond all accountability, on specific orders from Trump or his henchmen, in places both inside & outside of federal jurisdiction.
Scary to think of what this little tinpot despot would've done had he succeeded in pulling off his autogolpe.
re: The Democrats and the Constitution
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 2/9/21 at 11:50 pm to ShoeBang
I don't claim to be smarter than anyone else, but I'm learned enough to think for myself & not fall for such obvious bull$h!t as this "stolen election" narrative. I'm learned enough to distinguish real journalism from fantasy & propaganda.
So, what say I to the question you posed? "Statistical anomalies" my arse. Trump is a pathetic loser & you guys can't take it so you just start spouting a bunch of conspiracist diarrhea.
So, what say I to the question you posed? "Statistical anomalies" my arse. Trump is a pathetic loser & you guys can't take it so you just start spouting a bunch of conspiracist diarrhea.
re: The Democrats and the Constitution
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 2/9/21 at 10:56 pm to Madking
Well I did predict that Trump would not willingly leave power after losing the election.
Quite to the contrary of what you insinuate about me, I do know a lot about history, government & in particular how democracies become dictatorships. Do I really need to list all the boxes on the authoritarian checklist that applied to Trump? Serial abuse of power. Retaliation against whistle-blowers. Demonzation of marginalized people & groups as "enemies within". Deploying literal secret police to act as storm troopers against street protesters. Contempt for Congress's constitutional prerogative to set the budget & dictate spending. The ridiculous cult of personality around the man & the truly frightening cult of obedience within his party. INCITEMENT OF AN ARMED MOB TO ATTACK CONGRESS, with the intent to interfere with the dicharge of its constitutional duties & to OVERTURN AN ELECTION BY FORCE. I mean, the putz literally ordered an attack on American democracy. He deserves a fate like Mussolini.
Quite to the contrary of what you insinuate about me, I do know a lot about history, government & in particular how democracies become dictatorships. Do I really need to list all the boxes on the authoritarian checklist that applied to Trump? Serial abuse of power. Retaliation against whistle-blowers. Demonzation of marginalized people & groups as "enemies within". Deploying literal secret police to act as storm troopers against street protesters. Contempt for Congress's constitutional prerogative to set the budget & dictate spending. The ridiculous cult of personality around the man & the truly frightening cult of obedience within his party. INCITEMENT OF AN ARMED MOB TO ATTACK CONGRESS, with the intent to interfere with the dicharge of its constitutional duties & to OVERTURN AN ELECTION BY FORCE. I mean, the putz literally ordered an attack on American democracy. He deserves a fate like Mussolini.
re: The Democrats and the Constitution
Posted by TallulahtheTiger on 2/9/21 at 10:21 pm to burger bearcat
Ok I'll bite.
First off, as a left-leaning liberal I believe strongly in constitutional government, full stop. But it does not follow that I should speak of "The Constitution", particularly as flawed as ours is, with an air of veneration & holy reverence.
After all, what is a constitution, but the set of rules by which a government operates? Literally nothing more & nothing less. Or to be more precise & definitional, a constitution is the set of laws, rules, traditions & precedents by which a government operates; the basic law. Almost all countries (including free & authoritarian ones) have a constitution, whether written or unwritten. Many of them go so far as to enumerate personal rights & freedoms, even those of some of the most repressive governments in the world. My point being: absent a willingness or enough political/legal incentive by those who actually wield power to respect individual rights & limits on their governing prerogatives in practice, "constitutional rights" are nothing but words on paper. This is the case in many countries; in fact, historically it has often been the case in our country.
The fact that the present constitution has lasted 233 years isn't so much a testament to the wisdom or vision of the politicians who wrote it, as it is testament to what has been our country's shared commitment to the rule of law & respect for constitutional boundaries. When this breaks down, no constitution is going to save us, no matter how much we wrap it in mythos & reverence.
This is precisely why I sounded the alarm so loudly in 2016. I didn't care for Hillary at all, but I fell into line & voted for her because I understood full well the threat that Trump posed to democracy, liberty, the rule of law & constitutional government. For this I was often dismissed as hysterical, or altogether got laughed out of the room. It turns out such fears were well-founded - & the events of 6 January 2021 have erased all doubt.
No, "The Constitution" couldn't save us from despotism. Only a determined majority of American voters was able to do that, & that was only by a whisker.
First off, as a left-leaning liberal I believe strongly in constitutional government, full stop. But it does not follow that I should speak of "The Constitution", particularly as flawed as ours is, with an air of veneration & holy reverence.
After all, what is a constitution, but the set of rules by which a government operates? Literally nothing more & nothing less. Or to be more precise & definitional, a constitution is the set of laws, rules, traditions & precedents by which a government operates; the basic law. Almost all countries (including free & authoritarian ones) have a constitution, whether written or unwritten. Many of them go so far as to enumerate personal rights & freedoms, even those of some of the most repressive governments in the world. My point being: absent a willingness or enough political/legal incentive by those who actually wield power to respect individual rights & limits on their governing prerogatives in practice, "constitutional rights" are nothing but words on paper. This is the case in many countries; in fact, historically it has often been the case in our country.
The fact that the present constitution has lasted 233 years isn't so much a testament to the wisdom or vision of the politicians who wrote it, as it is testament to what has been our country's shared commitment to the rule of law & respect for constitutional boundaries. When this breaks down, no constitution is going to save us, no matter how much we wrap it in mythos & reverence.
This is precisely why I sounded the alarm so loudly in 2016. I didn't care for Hillary at all, but I fell into line & voted for her because I understood full well the threat that Trump posed to democracy, liberty, the rule of law & constitutional government. For this I was often dismissed as hysterical, or altogether got laughed out of the room. It turns out such fears were well-founded - & the events of 6 January 2021 have erased all doubt.
No, "The Constitution" couldn't save us from despotism. Only a determined majority of American voters was able to do that, & that was only by a whisker.
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