Flying Ashtrays & Lamps, Batman! What's missing from this picture? Smoke coming out of her ears? Firebolts shooting out from her eyes and other orifices? Flames on her pants? Nooses and smoking guns drawn around the border to trim up and keep things tidy? As it is, the simply drawn but clearly crazy eyes the artist chose to use as the focal point are enough to invite and call all else to mind.
To be clear, it's not just the American Queens currently situated in the Senate, the Media and the White House who've been toting around and delivering bags of foolishness.
More at: https://mobile.twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1542170162304106498 With an anonymous H/T to a respected discord commenter for this link to news I'd not previously seen. And this photo compilation offered in a tweet by Mairtan, at the link under the heading:
The Windsor boys always up to no good
The Dukes of hazard
Elsewhere it was noted today that Kamala Harris’s name hasn’t shown up in the Washington Post in 20 days. Her name did, however, show up recently in the Washington Free Beacon, in an article published yesterday entitled, “Analysis: Kamala Harris Is a ‘Petty Ass Bitch’ - Kamala Harris pulls the ladder up on Karen Bass”. Another small window opened to reveal more ugly stink. Not the same scent as the one that rolls out the door of a tractor trailer full of dead human bodies - there as the result of policies you refuse to adhere to or address; but similarly odious nonetheless.
H/T to Michael K
Added:
This one’s fun. The View sent their five female hosts to stay at the Baha Mar luxury resort in the Bahamas as part of the show’s 25th anniversary celebration. On a set situated on the beach there, they filmed a show where the five ladies held forth on their views regarding the recent SC ruling. What a trip!
Stacey Lennox, in her post today at PJMedia, entitled “After the Hot Takes on Dobbs, Who Wants to Tell the Ridiculous Ladies of ‘The View’ About the Bahamas?”, wonders if "someone should tell the ladies they are sitting on a beach in a country that forces women to have babies?” According to her, “The U.S. State Department says that in the Bahamas, 90% of residents report a religious affiliation, and 70% are Protestant. According to the Bahamian penal code today, anyone involved in an abortion can be sentenced to 10 years in prison. That includes the women. Some state laws in the U.S. seek to hold the abortion provider accountable.
Maybe the staff at The View should check abortion access before booking their next trip. Why would they want to give all that money to a country that doesn’t share their values? Most Caribbean countries have similar laws. Even Europe is far more restrictive than deep-blue states like California and New York. Perhaps the ladies of “The View” would be more comfortable in China or North Korea, which have abortion policies as expansive as those Roe and Casey forced nationwide, for their next big shindig."
h/t to Instapundit
With an additional h/t to this blog's founder, and all who've appreciated or resisted the levity, insights, slights and foolishness posted here over the years.
Here we are, status quo ante bellum. Roe has been overturned. Summertime and the Lefties are rioting.
The Court couldn't find a rationale for a right to abortion (duh). If you look at how they arrived at the rationale, you see they could find no explicit basis in the Constitution, nor one based on the history and traditions of this country. What's more important, the 3 Lefties in their dissent could make no rebuttal. So it's pretty clear a lot of new "rights" are in trouble.
Top of the list - Lawrence (sodomy) and Obergefell (homosexual marriage). I think the next few years are going to undo a lot of Leftist nonsense.
That alone moves the Overton Window back a few notches, but wait, there's more.
Clarence Thomas has stated in his concurring opinion a lot of cases should be reviewed in light of this decision including, here it comes, Lawrence and Obergefell.
This is because Lefties, finding no explicit justification for advancing their agenda within the Constitution, fell back on cherry-picking clauses which could be twisted to allow their nonsense. Chief among them was the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment.
Clarence Thomas thus makes the case this has the power to nullify a lot of old decisions. Further, he seems to invite a case to decide "whether our entire Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence must be preserved or revised".
A lot of bad Leftist decisions are based on an elastic reading of the 14th Amendment. This could be the beginning of the end on most of them.
It's often been said Donald Trump did a lot to move back the Overton Window. It would appear he isn't done yet.
“Wait a minute,” Raymond said. “No, I think the way we ought to do it—pick up the gun and hold it at your side. Go ahead. I think that’ll be better.” Raymond brought the Colt toward him and held it pointing down, the barrel extending below the edge of the desk. “Yeah, that’s better. See, then when you bring it up you have to clear the desk and there’s less chance of getting shot in the balls.” “Come on,” Clement said, “cut the shit.” “All right, then you reach for yours and I raise mine,” Raymond said, “it’s up to you.” He waited. Clement’s right hand edged over to the Walther, touched it, hesitated, then covered the grip and brought it toward him, off the table. He said, “I don’t believe this.” “Okay, you ready?” Raymond said. “Any time you want, do it.” “Wait just a minute,” Clement said.
The speculation is that they didn't buy into the new trans agenda of the liberal admirals who think being a social justice warrior is more important than being a warrior. The not-so-secret gay agenda is dominating the policy of the military and those who don't go along are being separated from the service. Christians and other devout military men are being driven out of the armed forces so they can implement the social engineering demanded by the ultra-liberal members of the democratic party. The covid rules are also part of the mix as many were separated instead of getting the vaccine.
The military is in sad shape.
Mayor Eric Adams insisted Monday he’s not worried about police officers leaving the NYPD in droves this year — declaring that being a Big Apple cop is an “amazing career,” and that the departures present a chance to “diversify” the force.
Hizzoner’s comments come after The Post exclusively reported Saturday that over 1,500 officers have either resigned or retired in 2022 – a rate that represents the largest exodus of officers since the statistics have been available.
About 520 cops have resigned, and more than 1,000 have retired as of May 31, according to NYPD pension data previously obtained by The Post. The 1,596 total departures from the police department represents a 38% spike compared to the same period in 2021, when 1,159 cops called it a career, and a 46% increase from 2020, when 1,092 left the force by the same point.
Asked Monday morning by “Good Day New York” host Rosanna Scotto if those figures “concern” him, Adams replied, “No, it does not.”
“[The] New York City Police Department is an amazing career. I know it first-hand, and we are going to find young men and women who are going to want to be a member of the New York City Finest,” the retired NYPD captain and former transit cop continued on Fox 5.
(Adams was the head of the original Black officer's union back in the day. The brass hated him with a passion as he was always demanding affirmative action promotions. Now he is going to fill the department with people who can't pass the written or physical test. So, you are going to have 90-pound chinese broads becoming cops. A couple of years ago a tiny Korean cop was walking down the stair well of a housing project. He was so scared he had his gun out and his finger on the trigger. When a mook opened the door, he shot him. He went to jail. Cops should be six-foot-tall Irish kids from Long Island. Or maybe some blacks or Spanish who can keep the peace in their neighborhood. Not the riff raff that they are going to hire. They will bring in the dregs of society to fill their quotas. Some drug addicts. Some trans-sexual. Perverts. Every piece of shit under the sun will be represented to honor diversity.
Good luck with that pal. What could go wrong?)
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead, or on the next. It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.
You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you."
From remarks delivered by President Ronald Reagan on June 6, 1984 commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Invasion of Normandy,with a H/T to Real Clear Politics for posting the entire speech today
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/06/06/the_boys_of_pointe_du_hoc_140500.html
Two lines from Stephen Spender's poem, I Think Continually, were quoted in the speech, with both from this verse of the poem:
Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields
See how these names are feted by the waving grass
And by the streamers of white cloud
And whispers of wind in the listening sky.
The names of those who in their lives fought for life
Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre.
Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun,
And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
