No wonder people hate prosecutors, the Justice Department and lawyers in general. From The Treehouse: 
but:
Fucking hell… why not just bring charges against Cain for whacking his brother, while we’re there?
Oh wait, I know: “That happened outside our jurisdiction.”
And you thought it was fiction… no wonder we don’t believe in our “nation of laws” anymore. Fucking clowns.
Seen at C.W.’s place a while back, this:
You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh hysterically. “Diverse rolodex” ?
By the way: the only “beautiful and diverse” thing is an actual rainbow. As a social construct, diversity is unnatural and doomed to failure, but we’ll let the Loonies find that out all by themselves.
As for the title of this post, I have coined it to describe the death process that is intrinsic to Insty’s “Get Woke, Go Broke” expression. So when some organization starts going into the crapper as a result of wokism, we’ll call it “doing the wokey pokey”.
It’s a happy little dance… well, for us, anyway.
I understand the concept of “provenance” — I sometimes call it “touching history”, in that when one can establish through an object some kind of lineage which can take one back in time, it’s always interesting. It’s why people continue to brave all the hassle and potential ills of going to Egypt, just to see and stand next to the Sphinx and the Pyramids.
I get all that. I’ve spoken how it felt to show the kids a church in Austria which had been built in 937AD, or going to a pub somewhere in southern Germany which had first served beer in 1256AD (and smelled like it — Daughter: “Eeewwww do you think they’ve cleaned the floors since then?”).
Those are all Good Things, and that kind of provenance is wonderful.
Much less wonderful is this nonsense:
The pistol used by the late Sir Sean Connery in the first ever James Bond movie – the 1962 classic Dr. No – has sold at auction for $256,000 (£190,000).
Now granted, the James Bond movies brought the old Walther PP/PPK back from the dead — it was never that great a pistol, despite being the sidearm of several European police departments — but… a quarter-million for a studio prop?
I don’ theenk so, Scooter.
I’ve never understood “collectibles” when applied to movie rubbish — Judy Garland’s Wizard of Oz shoes fetched some ungodly amount of money a while back (can’t be bothered to look it up) — and I’ve always considered this kind of thing to be akin to the groupie syndrome. I mean, who wouldn’t pay a boatload of money for Sonny Corleone’s bullet-riddled and (fake-)blood-drenched shirt from The Godfather, as somebody apparently did back in 2003?
Well, I wouldn’t, for starters, nor for any piece of make-believe “heritage”. Lord knows I love guns, but emptying out the old bank account for a piece of historical gunnery — even for Frank James’s Remington revolver? Nuh-uh.
And coming back to the Bond thing: Ian Fleming was a fine writer, but he didn’t know shit about guns. I think his original Bond gun was a Beretta .22 pistol, later “upgraded” to the .25 ACP and finally to a Walther (.32 ACP, not the .380 ACP as in the movie prop), as though this was the very apogee of weaponry a spy should use. Hell, even back in the late 1950s, those guns were already in disfavor as sidearms.
As the expression / cliche goes: A fool and his money are soon parted. And this is just the latest proof of the thing.
“If only the criminal had obeyed our laws, none of this would have happened!”
As statements go, this has to rank as the most pathetic — for reasons obvious to all except, it appears, to asswipes like this one:
“Guns have no place in shopping malls or other places in which crowds of people gather. Mayfair has a strict no-gun policy,” Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis R. McBride declared Saturday in a statement about Friday’s Mayfair Mall shootings when eight people were injured. “If the shooter had complied with that policy, no one would have been hurt yesterday.”
Do these whiny little farts even know how ridiculous they sound?
Okay, this is genuinely funny. Via Insty comes this little bit of mirthmaking:
Follow the link to see why I, and the rest of Trump Country, cannot stop laughing.
I found this linked SOTI (can’t remember where, sorry):
And it gets worse:
Now I don’t know who these people are, but they sound seriously unhinged. I’m trying to see how any rational person could define supporters of a Manhattan businessman (and one-time Democrat) as a “conspiracy-fueled belligerent death cult”. Taking each word in turn:
What conspiracy? The only people who have been obsessed with conspiracy have been Leftists — Russia, Ukraine — and this despite the fact that the real conspiracy has been by ex-Obama staffers, the various intelligence services and government bureaucrats against President Donald Trump. Sheesh, just the Strzok-Page email exchanges alone are proof of that, and there’s so much more that I barely know where to begin. This does not exist in the imaginations of Trump supporters: it’s all been exhaustively documented — and despite that, Trump has only fired a few of the more egregious offenders, and prosecuted not a single one, not even the most obvious transgressors like Hillary Clinton (having a private — and illegal — email server while Secretary of State) or John Brennan (leaking classified information).
Belligerent? Who’s talking about gulags, about the State coming to confiscate guns from private citizens? And who is rioting in the streets, demanding to “burn it all down” and “destroy America”? Trump supporters? I wish we were that belligerent. Every single act of belligerence — from attempting to assassinate a Republican Congressman at a ballgame, burning and looting, and threatening the lives and livelihoods of people working in the current Administration — has come from the Left. Who screams invective at restaurant patrons, demanding support for the self-confessed Marxists at Black Lives Matter? Not Trump supporters, for sure.
And a death cult? What fevered imagination came up with that one? Where are the Trumpian suicide squads, the Trump-sponsored bands of thugs roaming the streets and beating up political opponents, the conservatives en masse bellowing “Death to Marxists”? (Although sometimes I wish we would, if only to drown out these assholes’ endless screams for a minute or two.)
No. All the above are activities engaged in by the Left.
Ask yourselves this: are these people to be taken seriously? I mean, it’s all very well for lone loonies like this David Atkins to call for mass “deprogramming” pogroms (taking a leaf from the Stalinists of the 1950s, who must be nodding their gray heads with satisfaction from that Great Collective In The Sky). But didn’t a former Cabinet Secretary (the snarling dwarf Robert Reich) first suggest some foolishness like this? Is this suggestion of Atkins about to become policy, if Biden ever becomes President?
Just the magnitude of such an undertaking is astonishing. Let’s remember that upwards of seventy million people either voted for Trump, or else were motivated to vote against “whatever it is that you Leftists want to implement”: open borders, high taxes, gun confiscation, wealth redistribution, “hate speech” (we already have “hate crimes”), civil unrest and all the other foulness that the Left has been supporting and threatening for the past fifty-odd years.
But when a massive segment of the population says in no uncertain terms, “We don’t want that, because such lunacy has caused death, destruction, poverty and misery in every single country it has been implemented”, then we — all 70 million of us — are the ones in need of “reeducation”?
These twerps are getting worked up into a frenzy — anyone who’s ever had to deal with a thwarted child’s growing tantrum recognizes this progression all too well — and this unreasoning hatred towards people who reject their political philosophy is simply setting up a situation for bloodshed. As much as we conservatives are called “Nazis” by the Left, the plain fact of the matter is that this demonization of political opposition has its roots in the Left: whether by the Jacobins of Revolutionary France or by Hitler’s own National Socialist Party, we all know from their example that the elimination of political rivals begins with dehumanization and demonization.
My biggest fear, and it is very much a fear, is that the Left have been building themselves up into a febrile frenzy, and at some point, it’s going to burst into mass violence towards us conservatives.
And while we may chuckle and load up our spare magazines, I’m pretty sure that few of us want that mayhem to actually come to pass.
But I think they do, because when fanatics see that they’re losing, they often choose self-sacrifice as an alternative to failure.
And we’re the “death cult”?