The Old Hack

At least the dogs don't become politicians.

I wish. They are representative of the GOP. For example, Ron de Santis could not have gotten his law put through without the backing of the entire Florida GOP among both Senate and Representatives. Marjorie Taylor Greene is Kevin McCarthy's right hand woman, a position she would not have if she were an individual nutcase. Mike Huckabee was *cheered* by the crowd he voiced his violent rhetoric to, and he is by far not the only Republican using violent and threatening rhetoric. Poorly thought out laws are enacted with depressing regularity in every political system I have ever heard of. You would need to do a lot of talking before you could convince me that the Republican party was the sole exception to this rule. I do not consider these in any way the equivalent of hate rhetoric aimed at promoting civil violence and genocide.

I am curious about this as well. Please give examples of Democrats who have said or enacted more unhinged things than: Marjorie Taylor Greene, who claims Jews have started forest fires in California by means of orbital laser cannon Mike Huckabee, who recently stated that if Republicans do not win in 2024, the next election will be decided by 'bullets not ballots' Ron de Santis, who has effectively enacted the death sentence for being a trans woman in public by 1) making child molestation punishable by death and 2) claiming that being a drag queen or trans woman is child molesting. Oh, and changed procedure so you only need 8 out of 12 jury votes for a death sentence rather than an unanimous jury vote. Of course it might be that you find all of the above perfectly reasonable, in which case I suppose I have earned a death sentence from any reasonable government. ~tOH.

I dunno about that. It wasn't a high ranking Democrat who accused me, my family and a whole lot of other people that share our religious ancestry of committing massive scale arson on the US west coast by means of space lasers.

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Anyone in Florida please take care. I know that forecast has it arrive as a category 1 or 2. But I worry that it might pick up more strength on its way.

I feel honestly relieved. The county clerk of Hodgeman County, Kansas is somewhat less likely to start making speeches about how neighbouring Pawnee County historically belongs to Hodgeman.

As Hitler demonstrated in 1936, democracy is a lot easier when there is only one candidate available to vote for.

Ah, that must be why his three day special military operation is now on day 548, NATO is bigger and stronger than ever, the Russian military is an international laughingstock and Russia's standing in the world is in the toilet.

So it was literally foaming at its mouth?

I don't know. I have no personal experience with being a megalomaniacal genocidal dictator but this does not strike me as having been Putin's smartest possible move. It just seems like taunting the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Well I am kinda bored so I decided to do something silly. People love to argue about which superhero could beat which so I am creating a list of what would happen if Homelander got into a fight with various heroes. With no further ado here goes. -- Homelander vs. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Homelander stands no chance here. Squirrel Girl wins hands down. She's unbeatable. It says so right there in her name. -- Homelander vs. Deadpool Deadpool wins. It will most likely take him a whole movie and will certainly involve fourth wall breaking, ludicrous amounts of weaponry and gratuitous violence, completely undeserved luck and a lot of really terrible jokes, but at the end of the day Homelander has no chance here. -- Homelander vs. the Spider-Verse Obviously Homelander has no chance here, I am just really amused by the mental image of infinite Spider-Heroes dogpiling that POS. -- Homelander vs. Kermit the Frog Kermit wins. You'd think that even Homelander could beat up an innocent nonviolent plushie frog, and yes he can, but as soon as Miss Piggy notices what he is doing he is done for. -- Homelander vs. Cyclops Homelander wins. He will make that whiny-ass Scott Summers his b-word. Congratulations, list, you finally found a 'hero' I hate even more than Homelander. -- Homelander vs. Thanos Who wins? Who cares? Nobody likes either of them. Let them fight. -- Homelander vs. Galactus Galactus eats the Earth and wins. It was a mistake to let Homelander handle that one. You need real heroes to handle the Planet Eater. -- Homelander vs. Mr. Incredible While Mr. Incredible's victory is a foregone conclusion, Homelander will nonetheless somehow be defeated by the fact that his costume has a cape. He should have listened to Edna Mode. And finally... -- Homelander vs. Elon Musk Obviously Homelander will pound Musk into a thin paste but once again the mental image is so very satisfying so I am including the matchup anyway. That's all I can think of this time. More silliness may or may not follow later or you can add your own. Have a good time. ~tOH.

Obviously Grace is completely nuts about her.

I wonder if there is a FAFO server. If there is, it must have been RED HOT for a while now and this won't have helped much.

Awesome, I just bought popcorn.

Obviously. She is unbeatable after all.

It varies. It is usually the Fantastic Four but occasionally other heroes have fought him, too. Squirrel Girl took him down once. Another time Hercules so hilariously failed to stop Galactus that he actually made the Planet Eater laugh and decide to spare the planet Hercules was trying to protect because he couldn't even remember the last time he laughed. And Galactus has a LONG memory.

Oh dear, how sad, however shall the world cope with their loss. I weep bitter tears, or would if I cared.

We don't know that. Maybe he fell out of a plane window just before the plane crashed. Yeah, I know, planes don't normally have windows. But never underestimate Russian defenestration technology.

I personally restrict Drunken Master to Jackie Chan movies.

It didn't work that well for them in the war of 1904-05 either.

Well sure, if Henry had had an arms depot hand out free bishop assassination weapons to all visitors as well as giving them full information about the Archbishop's home, its security and his patterns of movement.

The youtuber Perun has made some truly outstanding videos on the lamentable state of the Russian military. They are each quite long -- usually an hour or so each -- but very enlightening. Allow me to in particular recommend How Corruption Destroys Armies, How Lies Destroy Armies and How Politics Destroy Armies. In these he goes into detail of how a culture of corruption, political patronage and feuding as well as misrepresentation and outright lies has formed to, well, completely bootscrew the Russian military from top to bottom. Mind you, these three problems are of course not isolated to Russia. All nations have to deal with them. It's just that in Russia all three have grown systemic and endemic. Worse yet, they act as force multipliers for one another. I myself had not kept up and I was astonished by merely scraping the surface of the troubles of the Russian invasion. One of the first things I heard was that they had not been able to keep the advance properly supplied and that alone almost made me fall out of my chair from shock. Keeping your army supplied is one of the most fundamental necessities if you want to win a war. Just the fact that they could not even do that was enough to tell me that something was a lot more rotten in Russia than in Denmark.

I stand corrected. Putin's demonstration of the Russian Army's exact power was a resounding success! It merely did not provide the impression he had hoped for. Ah well.

Actually he was impeached over it. Not even a month after. And no, there was nothing peaceful in his call for rioting. Unless you would argue that four police officers was murdered peacefully during the protests. The counterargument was that this riot happened spontaneously, which I am having some trouble imagining given the large number of weaponry and paramilitary equipment the 'peaceful' protesters brought along. Presumably the gallows that was erected was intended to send a peaceful sign of protest as well? And they merely had the materials at hand through happenstance? Ah. This is a 'polite aside' as opposed to a not very subtle ad hominem where you accuse us of being trained dogs. How nice. No-one even brought up that term, and yet you are throwing it out simply to justify insulting us. Thank you. In any event the employment of dog whistles is moot. There was plenty of evidence during the January 6th hearings that the riot was planned and prepared for. I spent a great deal of time listening to them in toto so I would not have to rely on selected sound bites from biased sources. (Yes, I include MSNBC and CNN in that. There is no substitute for direct observation.) Could you give us a source for this remarkable claim? Also, even if true, did he demand that they provide falsified evidence that his principal opponent in the upcoming election be engaged in corruption? Remember, the former president was not impeached for corrupt exercise of power. He was impeached for an attempt to corruptly influence the outcome of the upcoming election. As you have correctly pointed out, corruption is terrifyingly common among politicians. It is employing their power to affect elections that steps beyond that. That has only happened once before as far as I am aware. A fellow named Nixon, I do believe. He was not impeached as he resigned before it could happen -- and it most likely would have. And yet all of Trump's 44 predecessors managed to get through their elected terms of office without attempting to violate the peaceful transfer of office. I do not really see how you can place an equivalence between that and all other politicians when none of them has ever tried to violate anything as fundamental as the people's right to choose which politician to put in office.