Open thread 8/4/21
The world’s most charming dancer in a short excerpt from her most exquisite role, Giselle.
She’s a peasant who has a weak heart. She thinks she’s just met the love of her life. But he’s actually a nobleman in peasant disguise, and he’s going to betray her.
But that hasn’t happened yet. So she’s dancing in all her innocence, transported by joy:
If you want to see the whole film, it’s here. The director got a little carried away at times with fancy camera angles, but it’s a precious and wonderful filmed record.
HEADLINE “Nearly 50% of Republicans believe there will be a time soon where ‘patriotic Americans’ will ‘have to take the law into their own hands'”
BULLET POINTS
The YouGov survey for George Washington University was conducted in June
It asked those polled to respond to the statement that there will be a time coming when ‘patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands’
The poll found that 47% of Republicans surveyed agreed with the statement
Just 9% of Democrats agreed with that same conclusion, in a shocking difference of opinion on partisan political influence on laws in the United States
More than half of Republicans – 55% – also supported the use of force to ‘preserve the traditional American way of life
Just 15% of Democrats supported the use of force to preserve the nation’s values.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9846027/amp/Nearly-50-GOP-think-patriotic-Americans-soon-law-hands.html
There is a definite Leftist tilt to the framing – maybe the poll design itself.
“She thinks she’s just met the love of her life. But he’s actually a nobleman in peasant disguise, and he’s going to betray her.”
Peasants in noble disguise are also versed in the art of betrayal: as evidenced by Fauci and the rest of the CDC crew.
A boot stamping on a human face — forever:
TheHill.com
House passes spending bill to boost Capitol Police and Hill staffer pay
BY CRISTINA MARCOS AND NAOMI JAGODA – 07/28/21 08:44 PM EDT 228
The House on Wednesday passed a bill to increase funding for the Capitol Police months after the Jan. 6 insurrection and boost Capitol Hill staffer pay as part of a spending measure for legislative branch operations.
….
The bill would provide $604 million for the Capitol Police, an increase of $88 million from the enacted level for this year. That funding would allow the Capitol Police to hire up to 2,112 sworn officers and 450 civilian members of the force.
“It gives these heroes the funding, the resources, and the training they need to ensure what happened on January 6 never happens again, and it also says, we respect what you do,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.).
Another provision would direct the Architect of the Capitol to procure a plaque that “commends the examples of bravery and service-above-self” shown by the police officers and law enforcement agencies that defended the Capitol on Jan 6.
The plaque would be permanently displayed at an unspecified location on the Capitol’s west front.
[That performance was likened to the “Keystone Kops” by no less than the Washington Post immediately after the event]
TJ:
It could be argued that Democrats have been taking the law into their own hands since the 1960s with scant consequences. (Even further back, if one includes the Klan.)
Certainly Occupy Wall Street (2011), CHAZ/CHOP etc. by BLM/Antifa in 2020 would qualify.
Nancy B.:
Your comment reminded me of some choice 70s computer lore:
______________________________________________
The Six Phases of a Project
1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Praise and honor for the nonparticipants
Speaking as a layman, that is indeed a wonderfully charming performance.
Carrying on the spirit of the post on objectifying men and women, I observe that no one on that stage, male or female, is fat or ugly.
House of Cards: Honest investigative reporter digging for info proving disgusting Congressman guilty of murder is set up by FBI to commit a crime. They teach him how to do the deed and encourage him. He is now facing 30 years.
Seems familiar somehow.
Wonderful! Thank you very much 🙂
Fred Reed on Taiwan
https://www.unz.com/freed/how-taiwan-will-fall-into-beijings-lap-like-an-overripe-mango/
“Now, who would actually defend Taiwan—that is, go to war with China? Japan? Note that Japan is within missile range of China, and probably does not want missiles of large warhead raining down on Tokyo. Japan gets ninety percent of its petroleum from the Persian Gulf and, If Tokyo’s reserves of oil run out, Japan stops. All of it. China has pretty good submarines these days. The beltway Hawklets might say, “Don’t worry. We have magic anti-submarine stuff, no prob.” Given America’s military record, would you buy a used car from these people?
Do you suppose the Japanese have thought of this?
Washington might say, not to worry, we have antimissile gadgets, THAAD, and Patriot, and Aegis, and we can escort your tankers. But none of these weapons has much of a track record, and neither does America.
Further energizing Japan’s likely unenthusiasm for fighting Washington’s wars is that trade with China is crucial to the Japanese economy, and that Taiwan isn’t all that valuable to Tokyo. Today Japan trades with Taiwan, and with China. If Taiwan became part of China, this trade would probably continue with nothing changing but the letterhead.
Lastly, Japan may have noticed America’s propensity for getting its vassals (or allies, clients, or poodles, take your choice) into wars and then leaving them in the lurch. Think Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan and, soon, Syria and Iraq. This would leave Japan in a shooting war with China, all by itself. If the gringos lose a war, they can just go home. Japan is not mobile.
The Japanese might whisper into American ears, “All cool, Round Eye. But it’s just your empire on the line. It’s our ass. we’ll sit this one out.”
South Korea might think similar thoughts regarding use of its air bases, especially given that the Korean peninsula has a land border with China. Washington doesn’t. Seoul needs a war with the Middle Kingdom like it needs smallpox. “Tell you what, Round Eye, bugger off….”
Taiwan would get wind of this through back channels if not by sheer deduction.
How would a regional war over the Taiwan Strait look to an adult commander of an aircraft carrier? He might think, “Hmmm. Squinty-eyed rascals good engineers. Make’m Mars probe, worke’m. Train go three hundred sixty miles hour. Work’em. Maybe make’m missiles work’em good too. Hmmmm. Bad juju.”
I concur.
USN would do well to avoid having Durians rain down upon them.
Don’t know much about this site and don’t really care to… but it sure looks like a good source for occasional stuff to rub the faces of Normies in:
https://nationalfile.com/lgbtq-activist-accused-of-soliciting-sex-from-14-year-old-claims-to-work-for-pelosi-hillary-major-democrats/
Perhaps some Normies might experience an awakening. Worth a try.
Zaphod, who would go to war vs china?
Raises hand.
The god hands are already in a war with totalitarian human qabals.
How much of it’s oil
does the CCP
get by the sea?
Don’t sleep under the Durain tree in the arms of the CCP. The arms of the CCP. ….You know the song.