NFL News: Most of it today surrounds the reactions to what happened in Minneapolis, as well as the systemic racism inherent in most justice systems.
(Before anyone goes off on me as a Canadian trying to sound superior, I remind you that I didn’t say just the US system. Canada has its own racial injustice issues, starting with First Nations.)
- The man who blackballed Colin Kaepernick had this to say about the unrest in his league’s home cities, and I guess the rest of America too:
— NFL (@NFL) May 30, 2020
- And a very stupid man who used to work in that office chimed in about three years too late.
My latest on https://t.co/giyZDGDdfS I argue the NFL and the players have done great work on the substance of racial injustice but have failed to resolve the symbol of that injustice – Colin Kaepernick.Watching MN reminds us the symbols are important too. https://t.co/jgdl2NPZyE
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) May 30, 2020
- The Players Coalition, which came out of the NFL’s response to Kaep’s kneeling, had this to say:
Police chiefs, prosecutors, Mayors, and the highest Court in the land – we need accountability. pic.twitter.com/ZSWbJw1asP
— PlayersCoalition (@playercoalition) May 30, 2020
- Jed York released a statement & a financial pledge to local organizations, which was immediately swamped by people reminding him how he’d dumped Kaep in the first place.
— Jed York (@JedYork) May 31, 2020
The man people keep referencing throughout the NFL’s reaction had his own piece to say:
When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction.
The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance.
We have the right to fight back!
Rest in Power George Floyd
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) May 28, 2020
and the rest of the players followed his lead, with Russell Wilson adding his Russell Wilsonness to it all.
Jesus, We need YOU now.
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) May 31, 2020
Fortunately, corporate America reached out to its white fanbase to let them know there are greater priorities right now,
An official statement from EA SPORTS pic.twitter.com/MKdgJjvKJB
— Madden NFL 24 (@EAMaddenNFL) May 31, 2020
which, let me tell you, hosts a variety of colourful comments both for & against. YOU WILL want to wipe out humanity after reading those.
Well, while the rest of the world burns,
at least we can have the consistency that is MXC. Tonight’s episode – “Physical Fitness vs. the Music Industry”
“The highly toned versus the highly tuned.” Bobby Shoemaker will never be the same again.
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
- Wrasslin’:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
- NASCAR XFINITY Series:
- Cheddar’s 300 – 7:00PM | FS1 / TSN
- 30 for 30 – ESPN2
- 7:00 PM – “Lance” – part 1
- 9:00PM – “Lance” – part 2
- The Titan Games – 8:00PM | NBC
- Action continues in the Central division, where the winner moves on to face a pro Titan on Mt. Olympus in the consummate athletic test. Dwayne Johnson hosts, with boxer Claressa Shields and ex-NFL lineman Joe Thomas serving as pro Titans.
- Botched – 9:00PM | E! / 10:00PM | E! Canada
- A Cartel Crew bombshell can’t keep fat in her booty seeks advice from Dr. Dubrow, while another patient who had plastic surgery from a dentist hopes for a breast revision redemption. Dr. Nassif attempts an 11th rhinoplasty on a patient.
- KBO League:
- Lotte Giants vs. Kia Tigers – 5:25AM | ESPN / TSN3
- rebroadcast at 9:00AM (TSN3) and 2:00PM (ESPN)
- Lotte Giants vs. Kia Tigers – 5:25AM | ESPN / TSN3
A somewhat satisfactory evening of diversion from the chaos all around. Unless it’s your place on fire.
Jesus fucking Christ. LAPD Chief just said that George Floyd’s death is on the hands of the people who demonstrated or looted last night as much as on the officers.
THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, ASSHOLE
Of course, what he really means is, “cops have to kneel on n*****s necks because so many of them are violent thugs.”
This fucker needs to resign ASAP.
Im sure he thought Rodney King had it coming too.
He’s backpedaling already, of course, but his statement really encapsulates the cop-viewpoint in a nutshell.
…Or not.
Sorry, edited because I posted twice. The original is below; the dildo headline, since this is a + comment.
“Pussies”
-Brick
I hate violence by everybody. Besides, the shields block their shotgun blasts.
Good for them. I just hope they’re not busting heads five minutes after the photo-op, since that’s been the progression of events lately.
Hope everyone’s been staying safe
Which circle of hell are we in now?
we are in all circles at once.
Hey, Super Bowl XIII is on NBC Sports Network. That is one of the few scenarios where I openly root for the Steelers.
Poor John Daly. That man needs a drink and a smoke stat.
Benny Hill finally discovered Photoshop*
*or whatever they use for videos
Section 124?
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Guess I’ll continue to work from home until the civil war that the president clearly wants is over. It’ll be interesting to see which way my USAF bosses want to lean. Before last Monday, it seemed that there was an undercurrent of “we’re going to do what’s best” from leadership, rather than “we’re gonna suck Trump’s dick on the coronavirus reopening even if it kills all our service members.” But this new thing, I don’t know how that’s gonna play out. The 4-star in charge of my command had a couple of conciliatory rally-round-the-flag ooh-rah we are understanding emails out today, but they were pretty mealy mouthed, so who knows what our orders will end up being.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_pTtypgHQo
In case anyone needs a football fix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnFCAbR84RA
So much promise for that season coming off an AFC Championship Game appearance… and then Vinny went down and the season was over.
I dunno. To me its when they put Rick Mirer in.
Well, that was after Vinny went down, so that might be splitting hairs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=wChM7b8tH0k&feature=emb_logo
“Ribbed for her pleasure.”
I don’t think the concept of aging was properly explained to Jeri Ryan.
(First Picture: Early 30s Second Picture: 51)
They have doctors for that.
“I’m 7 of 9”
“Hi, I’m” (looks down) “2, soon to be 3”
“Your hair smells GREAT!”
*Uses any excuse to….. pull out that line.
They have phone apps that can do that.
Just think that Barack Obama became president because a guy decided that just fucking Jeri Ryan at home wasn’t interesting enough.
7 of 9?
Jeff Fisher approves.
You rang?
The Spam-o-lert (TM)
But are you a Viking?
Well, he’s always want to be a lumberjack.
Well, since you put it that way.
Trying to write tonight, and the distractions are causing typos.
WCS, apologies in advance if you’re referred to as WACS, WCA or WVD in the next ep.
WCA is my non-union, Mexican counterpart.
Just make sure I’m still handsome and witty, like in Episode, um…
FUCK. I have not put you in yet. Dammit, I apologize.
So, um… Do you want to be a chimpanzee or a mutant…?
Ok, I was really just doing my best Brick Meathook impression.
Love your writing, don’t need to be a subject. But if I were…maybe a sentient meat-like product.
Or a pretty princess.
Just say “Ook” with deep meaning. It’s all in your eyes.
Or both…!
There are many varieties of those meat-like products to which you refer.
https://www.spam.com/varieties?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItvKe_4Xi6QIVDdbACh1_VgOTEAAYASAAEgK1VfD_BwE
He can wait…..
Hippo has pulled himself away from futbol manager and taken to the streets
Gotta be a Drew Lock rally.
Quite correct; the stuff on top of the fridge doesn’t need touching.
Women can’t resist the Pyramid Power.
The fridge looks suspiciously like it’s color is Harvest Gold.
And really isnt a fridge just a pyramid with it’s top temporarily removed?
I had one that was the ever popular “avocado green” from that same era. It had cubes on it, so women were never as interested as they were with the pyramids.
My folks bought a place in 1998 that had been built in the 70s, complete with avocado green appliances and lime green shag carpeting. It was fucking horrible, but they got all that shit taken care of finally.
Had a few apartments furnished with such. But booze, weed, and sex made them tolerable.
*Whether anybody else was there or not.
My dad smoked weed at the time they moved in, and they both still drinks booze, but I don’t want to think about that other, since they were in their 60s at the time (as I am now, dammit).
I was talking about my apartments…… my parents had mush older furnishings.
I wish I lived right on the Queens-Nassau border to have a one-man loophole protest going back and forth between the city and not the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxBBBt4TdOQ
The things that are certain in America: Extrajudicial murder, corporate pillaging, and Jim Dolan being incompetent.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29253388/knicks-explain-lack-public-comment-email-msg-employees
Me reading Facebook and seeing everyone’s reaction to Trump’s speech:
Man, I don’t even….
The old style tanning salons gave you cancer, but were a lot better.
“Mom?”
-Cheryl Tiegs
Okay; that is some deep research into the ol’ spank bank!! Well done.
I’ve got a weird feeling about this scenario tonight…
I wonder how dude is going to munch muff with that helmet thing on.
America:
With all the violence and the rioting and the looting, let’s not forget that another 730 Americans died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
Lucky
This will hasten the second wave, then Twitler will (try*) to postpone the election.
*There is no way he knows the states set elections, not the feds.
It’ll be a lot more in a week and a half…
I have never been more ashamed of a President
Considering all since Feb. 2020, that is really saying something.
Finally, President Buchanan can rest in peace knowing he’s no longer the worst president ever.
Dubya gave him a run for his money. (Well, Cheney anyway)
Hello brothers. Its all over here in the old yew ess of ay. The south has indeed risen again, and the results are fatal. They have the presidency, the senate, the military, the cops, the AG, the Supreme Court, the lower courts, and a favorability rating (for Trump) at well over 40%, even in these dire times. Putin has won. He’s giggling and ordering up methuselahs of champagne one after the other. The democratic republic has swirled down the bowl and Americans are CELEBRATING IT. Flawless victory, Vlad. God help the righteous kiddos who’re gonna get the shit kicked out of them tonight. God love you all. And let’s hear it, for the memory of the United States of america.
The South never fell, and Russia has nothing to do with this. But in general, yeah, shit’s all fucked up. It’s always been all fucked up.
Think people still wish Joe Theisman to “Break a Leg” Whenever he goes on camera?
Every time I hear his voice
Yes.
Yes, because everyone hates him
The photos my brother is sending me of the national guard along Melrose and elsewhere reminds me so fucking much of living in D.C. after 9/11. I think of how instead of that going away (which I was for a while stupid enough to believe) it has in the decade since (when I was last in D.C.) and undoubtedly moreso since 2016 hardened like dogshit in a den into an ottoman of oppression where the entire city is militarized and under a bunker mentality that somehow blends in seamlessly with the gentrification and the security theater-happy bougie assholes living in Penn Quarter and erasing U Street from existence (fun fact: a friend from college is one of the biggest realtors gentrifying U Street because everyone I know IRL is horrible). L.A. is notorious for spending the last two decades Manhattanizing and turning the city into the hellhole Bunker Hill/DTLA has become. So the next decade or two are going to be miserable as fuck because this ratchet only turns one way and it’s not towards justice.
Gentrifying U street out of existence? I’ve got a lot more history in D.C. than you do, and U Street only started becoming anything again in the mid 1990s. Before that, it had been a burned-out hulk of destruction for 30 years. It had been destroyed by rioters in 1968 and burned to the ground, and no money would dare go near there again. Before the riots it was a stable middle-class neighborhood with a nice business district.
Rioting killed that neighborhood for thirty years, and left nothing but poverty and pestilence and misery.
But you keep on rooting on rioters. I’d be more impressed if you actually got out there with them instead of watching it on TV.
Yeah. Your approval carries so much weight.
Nobody needs my approval for anything. But if you’re going to root on mob violence, at least be a man and join the mob.
Ah, you’re saying he should become a cop
I remember riding into DC in 68 right after the 14th Street riots, my dad driving his 1966 Buick Wildcat with his .32 cal P Beretta on the bench seat between us. Can’t remember for the life of me why I was with him in such a fraught area, doesn’t seem like it would be a sensible thing.
I’ve been watching all the Andy Sidaris films lately. So good!
He seems like a new Russ Meyer
He was. I’m surprised you don’t know all about him.
Kind of, although I find Sidaris less interested in the occasional shock value Meyer indulged in, and more interested in a straight up mix of low-budget action and boobs.
I thought this was about Amy Sedaris’s brother David, and thinking this seems really out of a gay writer/journalist/comedian’s swim lane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sedaris
Bring back above ground testing so we can have a real dinocroc.
Gilligan is down front; this Latin monster is SERIOUS.
Can’t wait for the government-approved anti-police violence protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gje3HiouzvQ
They did that for G-8, why not now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mVPyfJv_v0
Need to call in some heavy hitter.
Ah, Bridgette Monet…! Truly one of the most beautiful women to do x-rated movies.
That’s when pubes were a thing!
Some people just can’t see the forest for the trees.
“My god, that woman is giving birth to a poodle!”
The good ol’ days!
Ooh, a Mike Hunt script. His vulva repartee is legendary..
^
^
^
Watches porn, reads the credits.
During cigarette of course. Good ole days you could smoke in an adult theatre
And in restaurants, schools, ball games, amusement parks…
Wait, how the hell are we not all dead already?
Coming soon, apparently, if you read the news..
Among other things!
—Paul Rubens
Ha! Speaking of getting set up by the cops!
“I’d like to point out that all of you are God-denying savages!”
-A guy wearing a red shirt
I never called you savages.
Channel 7 said that looters broke into a medical mj dispensary, but someone inside chased them off with a fire extinguisher. There’s a good joke in there, but I’m too sad to make it.
The only way to tell if that is true is if these same people then went and broke into the Doritos warehouse….. and then just stayed there.
Cheeto dust is probable cause
Doubles as fingerprint dust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMg5n9WF90
I will always approve of an Animal House reference.
Well, it’s definitely time for a really stupid and futile gesture.
I hate to give Trump credit but he held it together with that photo op, what with that Bible most assuredly burning his hand to the touch.
Surprised this didn’t happen.
Maybe this was it?
Can a GIF be a banner?
I’m really surprised that the “Covid19, up 28-3 over Racism at the half” comment didn’t make the banner.
Because they were up 21-3 at the half. They were up 28-3 with 2:17 to go in the 3rd.
Well, that’s my mis-remembering, not the original poster’s (can’t remember who made the original post). I probably was the one that inserted the “at the half” part. Old and memory turning to jello.
That’s why it was upside-down.
He does like a lot of shit in there, especially the old testament stuff….. well he would if he could read more the a few words at a time.
“Well, that its for Malachi. Time to see what this New Testament is all about. ‘Love thy neighbor’? ‘Those without sin, cast the first stone’? ‘HE TURNED DOWN ALL THE KINGDOMS AND GLORY?!’ What hippie bullshit is this?!”
I should have said ESPECIALLY.
In Luke 14:26 Jesus preaches that hatred is absolutely necessary to be a disciple.
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.”
Deuteronomy 25:11–12
If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.
I could go on and on, but what’s the point.
That second one also amuses me. Like, that’s an AWFULLY specific rule. I get the feeling that some scribe had an agenda.
“Again with the third person in genital grabbing? Let it go, Jebidiah, it’s been five years.”
“Yeah, and my balls are STILL SORE!”
Not sure what is happening in dahntahn Yinzburgh right now, but there’s been multiple protests all afternoon. These have been peaceful, and surprisingly large. Looks like things might be getting weird.
I’ll keep watching this.
There was a press conference in LA today with all the police organizations. The message was basically: we support peaceful protests. If looting starts, we will stop it.
So, essentially, the gloves are off.
No they don’t. They just want the narrative that the people they’re going after aren’t peaceful. All those tv cameramen were truly a menace to society and had to be stopped.
If they supported peaceful protests, they’d allow them to remain, y’know, peaceful.
Instead they fire tear gas into non-threatening crowds, pepper spray civilians with their hands raised in the air, and attack journalists for recording it all.
Again, that’s not the case everywhere. In LA, we went through it before. Things are different here. Not necessarily the case in the rest of the country.
L.A. ain’t that special. The history of the LAPD is problematic from its inception, yeah, but those problems were never properly addressed. And, given the city’s cultural mix, they should have been, decades ago.
But the end result is the same as it is in many other cities: rampant authoritarian aggression backed by unneeded militarization.
It’s not that way in LA.
Found a funny:
If unemployment exceeds 30% and distrust of the political process becomes widespread, there is a danger that the United States will enter what historians call The Cool Zone.
Well, just learned the people who planned the fiery protest in Lady Commander’s area on Saturday are doing one nearby me tonight now too. Considering it’s pretty blatantly in a Best Buy parking lot, I expect dumb people will do dumb things.
That reminds me, I gotta start a protest at Lowes. I need lumber to replace my deck.
Can you grab me a screen door? 72 by 30.
Meters? Fancy!
Why are you building a submarine?
Not a problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=httSHnNXN10&t=46s
Sexy press/field reporters walking along with the protesters are sexy
There was a protest today?
The really historically important entertainment tonight is going to come on news feeds from cities around the country. But who wants to watch that? I’m depressed enough as it is.
That’s why it’s MXC Monday, baby.
We need movies with big ‘gators.
Goddam right.
Bonus: gap-toothed Lauren Hutton.
‘Gator movies unite!
*Most should be “free” viewing somewhere.
I think people get CGI bitten in half and remain conscious, so they are obviously great.
Wonder how many people thought this wasn’t the reality in America. It was always going to be like this in the end. They were never going to let another civil rights movement happen. Now we have a rose garden speech about peace with explosions in the background while every PD in every major city is about to bring its fist down with the full blessing of the executive branch.
https://twitter.com/bbcease/status/1267582823428501508
Curious if the 2A guys who were calling cops nazis only a month ago are going to honor their word and stand up to police fascism
This isn’t about stopping another civil rights movement. It’s about stopping looters and riots and property damage.
Many protests have happened today peacefully. When shit turns violent, instigated by the assholes that don’t care about racial equality, this is what will happen.
The line is blurry; many PDs will use it as an excuse to use excessive force and violent confrontational tactics whether peaceful or not. Also there are people turning things violent with different agendas and employers. All kinds of peaceful protests have been squelched recently and that is the mode a lot of PDs are in.
“The assholes that don’t care about racial equality.”
So…the cops…?
They’re not all bad. It just seems that way.
If you have one bad cop and nine good cops that won’t turn him in, you have ten bad cops.
It’s not that simple
It is, which is the unfortunate part. You give someone unfettered authority with zero restraint or consequences, and this is what happens.
That’s not a vastly unsolvable equation, it’s instead a fairly simple formula for abuse.
Because this country today would never elect Lyndon Johnson as President.
(actually, back then they elected JFK and then LBJ had him bumped off)
Regardless, the greatest civil rights hero in American History is Lyndon Johnson, both as Senate Majority Leader in the 1950s and as President in the 1960s. Other people made speeches; LBJ passed laws.
Franklin Roosevelt couldn’t get elected today either, because the country would never accept a rich New Yorker who inherited all his money. Not unless FDR this time played up the whole crippled thing in order to get the pity votes from the left.
Actually, the 1957 Civil Rights Act LBJ rammed through as Senate Majority Leader was pretty toothless, mostly lip-service. He even told the resistant Senators to vote for it, telling them “C’mon, we’ve got to throw the ni**ers a bone.” (parphrased, but he did use the n-bomb in his pitch). But the Civil Rights stuff he got passed when he was prez WAS phenomenal, and probably much more significant than anything JFK might have had enacted. So maybe Lee Harvey was a blessing in disguise for PoC after all.
Robert Caro’s five-volume biography of LBJ is basically a history of the 20th century in America, and worth every minute you spend reading it. I’ve read the four already-released volumes twice already; I hope I (and Mr. Caro) live long enough to see the last one. He started the first one in 1972, was suppose to only be a trilogy, but Caro found too much about the dude to limit it to three books. He also wrote a really great book about Robert Moses, the dude that destroyed NYC with all his urban renewal and freeway projects. He was more of a cruel bastard than LBJ, who at least had some redeeming qualities, which have been buried by history and modern memory.
First electrical co-op in Texas was a result of LBJ lobbying FDR for a waiver on the requirements/rules regarding distribution of Rural Electrification Administration funds (by definition/rule, the TX Hill Country was too sparsely populated), and I still get my monthly light bill from that very same Pedernales Electrical Co-Op same as I have for 30 years now.
LBJ is what happens when the right sociopath at the right time gets drunk with power. Sometimes you get a Trump; sometimes you get legacy-obsessed psycho who recognizes the difference between the right and wrong side of history and can’t get his dick hard unless he thinks schools will teach about his greatness.
I regret that I have but a single +1 to give.
LBJ worshipped FDR and was a committed “New Dealer.” He understood power like no other person in American history, and he was committed to civil rights since his youth. He broke the “Solid South” by being one of them, becoming their leader, and then shoving the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act down their throats. They would never have passed otherwise and no one else could have done it. The Vietnam War ate him alive. Both of you need to read a real history book.
I don’t see where you disagree with what I posted, except my reading of it is that LBJ only worshipped FDR as long as it was politically expedient and he could get something out of it for his constituency while he was still in Congress; he was very opportunistic. He distanced himself from FDR and the New Deal as time went on and TX leaned further right (both Rs and Ds) from the 40s onward. But I definitely agree about how he played the civil rights stuff and Medicaid etc off against a lot of congress-critters that opposed him, and managed to get a lot of stuff done by playing off the memory of JFK. The first hundred days after the assassination were very productive for him and the country. Definitely a schizo; different aspects of his personality are hateful and other aspects quite admirable.
Unfortunately for LBJ, he stepped on a hard dick of history that was the Bouncing Betty called Viet Nam. Destroyed him as thoroughly as what’s happening now should destroy the Tangerine Nightmare.
because the country would never accept a rich New Yorker who inherited all his money.
Ummmm….. yeah.
Well, not a non-orange one…
Okay. Comment withdrawn.
I think we may be in store for a little ultra-violence this week.
—Alex
Military deployed! I saw it in 1992 and it was effective in ending the violence.
I just got a text alert saying they moved the curfew up to 5:00 PM. Better be getting my ass out of here soon. Good thing I’m only about 2 miles away from home.
Jesus.
I was at the Whole Foods in El Segundo when everybody’s iPhone gave off that screeching Amber Alert alarm announcing a 6:00 PM curfew. There could have been (and should have been) a riot in that store.
Plus, there’s an evil wind blowing tonight. I think it’s a Santa Ana.