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And What Does That Mean Exactly?
The actor who played Riff, leader of the Jets in West Side Story, put us all on notice:
Okay. I recently rewatched West Side Story, and was reminded how good he was, particularly in the dance-at-the-gym scene. He was hilarious in the third season of Twin Peaks, broadcasting madman diatribes from a trailer in the woods, and his long, crazy, irrelevant story had a sweet ending. It’s still maddening that Twin Peaks also featured Richard Beymer, and the third season didn’t find a way to bring them together, if only to look at each other and grin and snap their fingers.
He’s 85. This is Asner-level bluster. But:
Nothing?
Assassination?
Well no obviously that’s not on the table
Okay so some things are off the table. What, then, remains on the table? Burning down cities in protest? Unchecked riots? How about a strategic bombing of the Senate to get everyone’s attention?
Well no those are extreme measures
So what do you mean? Would it be too much to ask what, exactly, can be found on your table?
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Gideon from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. He’s still alive?
The left’s answer to everything is violence. Violence on the right is almost non-existent, for good reason. The left would be stomped out real quick if the right retaliated.
Until then, they’ll burn down their own leftist slums. More of the same.
Assassination? They have already tried that at the softball practice in WDC. Burning down cities and relentless rioting? Done and done (and still in progress). Leaving town to prevent a quorum for voting? Check! Not sure that there are any unused radical arrows in their quiver.
Have you asked Blumenthal this and gotten replies? I’d like to see him say that assassination and bombings are off the table?
Don’t be too tough on the guy. He and I had the same dentist for a decade or so.
Yes, in Hollywood, that’s a good enough reason.
Tamblyn or Blumenthal?
Tamblyn. I saw two files lying out: Tamblyn, Russell and Tamblyn, Amber.
But the left claims that the violence is all on the right. Have you seen Biden’s latest ad? My liberal friends have the same view. All of the violence in the cities are due to white supremacists. At best, they say there is violence from both sides. I just received a group email from one claiming that she fears violence if Trump gets elected. But no one fears violence if Biden gets elected, not even her. Yet still they persist in saying that violence is a problem of the right.
You should turn that back on your friends by asking them if they think that 7% of Tea Party or pro-life protests turning violent would be acceptable. Because these “mostly peaceful” protests we are seeing now are only peaceful 93% of the time based on the data. 7% violence is very high when you consider that there have been over 10,000 of these protests since May.
The percentage of right-wing protests that turn violent is negligible.
Well, it’s a good thing he doesn’t have an army.
I don’t care what he tweets, he did some great work. Work over HERE and political rants over THERE. The man has talent, and let’s all enjoy that.
When you’re in PIT
You’re with us all the way
From your first doubtful joke ’till they ban you away,
When you’re in PIT
You’re the swingingest thing,
Little boy, you’re a man, little man you’re a king!
The PIT is in gear, our cylinders are clickin’
This year is a drear, ’cause all our politicians
Are lousy chickens!
Yeah! Here comes the PIT and we’re going to beat every Left blogging gang on the internet street,
On the web logging, ever blogging street,
Yeah!
She says that because when the right wins, leftists get violent. So I guess it is our problem.
What? They are actually saying this? Not just on psycho Twitter feeds but on TV ads?
I predict that if there is a vote before the election which is only 45 days away, the Dems will wipe out the legislative filibuster, expand the Supreme Court, and admit DC and Puerto Rico as states. I also predict that we will lose the Senate.
So, by war do they mean that they go out with their guns and we go out with our guns and see who wins? Seemed like a forgone conclusion.
You have to take ground that can be kept. The Democrats are much better at this. I don’t see a better alternative.
Lame duck sessions effectively violate the Constitution by refusing elected representatives their full terms in office. We elect politicians to serve from election to election, not from season to season.
We on the right keep saying this, but it’s bullsh*t. When has there ever been a serious right wing effort to stop leftist violence with our own violence?
Once you start, it is hard to stop.
No we don’t. They are sworn in in January and leave in January. Elections are the choosing process, not the serving process
Bad time for an ammo shortage in this country.
While he mis-stated that part slightly, his point still stands. The current PotUS and Congress are all in office until next January. Saying they can’t act during those months has nothing to do with legality.
Without paper ballots and with modern technology, there is no reason why we could not have a much shorter time between election day and the newly elected taking office severely reducing the lame duck possibilities. It just takes appropriate legislation.
First, my city still uses paper, and we like having them to verify things. Second, wasn’t there an election in New York that took months to count the ballots? Third, what about lawfare, as happened in Florida in 2000, among other times and places?
Yes, as you say, it can easily be done. But do we have the will and inclination to change the law and to follow through with it?
A Thumb in the eye of the Constitution.