Good morning my adorable little maniacs! It would be a glorious morning if I wasn’t for our evil shithead press irresponsibly running with a story that demonized teenagers. Maybe this will help.
Marxist scumbags being Marxist scumbags. Imagine a world where billionaires and all the value they created didn’t exist, it’s called abject poverty.
Trying hard not to give Crazy Eyes too much attention, but it’s hard not to when she’s such a fucking moron.
Democrats seeking to end mostly Republican practice of living in their office.
With the Russia insanity fizzling out, they’re going back to the Nazi/KKK rhetoric.
As new Chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, Senator Graham plans on investigating Clinton and Obama scandals.
Chris Brown arrested on rape charges.
Comedian Owen Benjamin was banned from twitter for making a joke about David Hogg, meanwhile calling for the doxxing and harassment of a group of conservative teenage kids is a-ok.
Creepy Uncle Joe blames laws that prevent voter fraud for the reason why Democrats lost in Georgia and Florida.
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Good morning my adorable little maniacs! It would be a glorious morning if I wasn’t for our evil shithead press irresponsibly running with a story that demonized teenagers. – but if you dig through their entire past you find objectionable things. Or if you don’t you can find things a prog can be outraged about. So they are bad and the previoous smear attempt does not matter. Also punchable face
The Democratic Socialist said the fight against climate change is war and that it’s “our World War II.”
That makes her a storm trooper, eh.
We shall fight the weather on multiple fronts
Just as soon as I clear my yard of 5 inches of new snow. Keep my place in the bunker, I’ll be back
/in my D. MacArthur voice/
But the Global Warming is hitting us tomorrow, with a high of 46! Of course, we’re dropping back into the single digits and teens for the next three days after that. So we’ll have nice floods for a day as the snow melts, and then it’ll all freeze. It is looking like we may freeze over Lake Erie if this keeps up. Which means an end to lake effect snow, and a beginning to even colder temperatures.
It’s called Extreme Climate now. Try to keep up.
Huh. Strange, considering Weather was pretty much the thing that saved the USSR, You’d think they would have more reverence for the original “Bash the Fash”
Marxist scumbags being Marxist scumbags. Imagine a world where billionaires and all the value they created didn’t exist, it’s called abject poverty. – they should just create all that pro bono. The very existence of a billion dollars is immoral. Also they did not create anything the workers did. Also think of the repercussions of allowing people billions.
The socialist it crowd sees that what they have done so far is taking us all off the cliff, and they are feverishly working to make sure they hold all the levers of power to keep their status quo when that happens. That’s why there is such an urgency in disarming the rabble and in upping the wealth redistribution effort so they can grab as much of the real wealth as possible before it all ends in Venezuela.
It is always the second raters with ambition that go down this road of envy. They see the billionaires and think that that should have been them. Except….
There is always a reason that it isn’t them and it is never their fault. (or the fact that they just aren’t that good).
I don’t get envy. Sure, I’d love to have a billion dollars, but I’m not sure I’d make the tradeoff in lifestyle to get it. It isn’t like they made that much money working 8-5 M-F only. My guess is that Buffet and Gates still work schedules that would make the average bar tender from the Bronx faint.
I actually get envy Jimbo. Personally I never look at someone else that has more than I have and think “That fucker doesn’t deserve that”, but rather wish it was me. On the very few occasions I might feel envy I am ashamed of the feeling and will immediately fight it. I have realized however that most people today no longer feel any stigma or wrong when they come out and show their envy or jealousy. In fact, the left has now legitimized envy/jealousy and turned reality upon its head, thus allowing the people feeling said envy/jealousy to make their target the one that is bad because they are greedy.
I was just at the Barrett Jackson car auction, full of rich people acquiring awesome cars that I would like to own. I think I can say I appreciated their new toys without being envious. Envy is appreciation corrupted by . . . anger? greed? You might just be appreciating what someone else has without being envious.
Did you see a lot of this sort of thing? https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1086634428347101184
Yikes! Quite a bit of envy on display there. I’m a little disappointed in him since the auction is an almost perfect market demonstration.
What’s the car worth? Whatever number the seller and buyer settle on. Duh.
That wasn’t the best tweet to represent what I had in mind – I was wondering if Dean had seen folks bidding up other cars and missing some of the more classic, classy options listed – not the actual amount of money sort of thing.
Eh. An auction is likely the worst place to find the actual minimum price the seller is willing to part with the object at. It is set up to establish the price the buyer who wants it 2nd most is unwilling to pay. Basically introduces scarcity and competition for resources that may be artificial.
We really didn’t watch the auction itself much at all. They have all 1500+ cars on the lot for the whole week, so we mostly wandered the lot (the staging area is the best, because you get to hear them run). They put the sales price on cars that have already sold, which is fun. The vendors are also fun – got to go through the AirStream lineup – really cool. Also some ocean-going boats and a helicopter vendor, to give a flavor for the demographic.
Saw some older Grand Cherokees – very tempting for us. Also saw some Bentley Continental GTs – amazingly, saw a couple of 8 – 10 year old ones with around 40 – 50K miles, clean CarFax and current service records, that sold for $40 – 50K. I’d be tempted, if it wasn’t for the cost and hassle of servicing one.
Pater Dean has been to a lot of livestock auctions. His take is that the “winner” of an auction is the only guy in the building willing to pay that much, which kinda takes the shine off.
Jealousy is part of human nature. What you do with it is what matters.
You’ll notice that the left is very selective over whom they choose to express their envy of. It’s political theater.
Yes. And the same for most CEOs.
I really like Scott Adams saying: “Find out what the price of success is… and then decide to pay it”. Bill Gates has talked about looking in the parking lot on nights and weekends in the 80s and noticing who wasn’t there. Obviously HE was there working.
Meh – I’m not jealous of rich people; they’re people like anyone else who, due to luck, hard work, or whatnot. But they can be stressed, unhappy, unhealthy, or lead a shitty life like anyone else.
Maybe I feel this way due to some of the exposure – via my dad – I had with some wealthy people. He had no problem going up to talk to them, tell them off, or make jokes at their expense.
“Creepy Uncle Joe blames laws that prevent voter fraud for the reason why Democrats lost in Georgia and Florida.”
NEEDZ MOAR VOTE HARVESTING.
Voter fraud only exists when we lose
Well DUH! Democracy means that democrats win! It’s right there in the name!!!!1!!eleventy!!
I think its indisputably true in FL that Dems lost the governorship due to ineffective, or not enough, fraud.
They didn’t have enough closets or cars with cases of votes for the dem candidate that were discovered last minute curing the recount?
Look Florida Man (and Woman) just isn’t very good at voter Fraud. Look at the 2000 election. In 18 years, they still haven’t figured out how to rig a fairly close statewide race for a Democrat.
I don’t know why I’m using 17th century capitalization. Just roll with it.
I’ve noticed that google voice dictation does that lately. Just random capitalizations in the middle of sentences. It makes me look like I’m some sort of internet conspiracy theorist who posts on obscure political web….
ah.. nevermind….
That lady in Broward sure tried hard to rig that recount…
In 2000 the Palm Beach elections supervisor (Democrat) said on national TV that they were going to stay there and keep counting until the ensured that Al Gore was elected. Nobody seemed to have a problem with it… well, except me. I thought it was a huge deal.
Trying hard not to give Crazy Eyes too much attention, but it’s hard not to when she’s such a fucking moron. – we should all sacrifice our living standard upon the altar of the green gods.
She, like the lot of asshats that think they are part of the liberal elite clique, wants OTHER PEOPLE to sacrifice. These top douches have no intention of having these demands impact them personally.
Creepy Uncle Joe blames laws that prevent voter fraud for the reason why Democrats lost in Georgia and Florida. – there is no voter fraud anyway, or if it is it is minimal
I wonder if Uncle Joe heard about the shenanigans that went down in Palm Beach County during the midterms.
“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'” Ocasio-Cortez said.”
Announcing the unofficial Glibertarian Earth Dead Pool. Pick a date in 2031 and I’ll do my best to notify you before you burst into flames. Assuming you didn’t already die from tax cuts and lack of net neutrality.
I get Oct 9th.
I am a tax-cut zombie. It killed me right quick, but the evul libbertarian magiks animated my corpse.
That was just worcestershire sauce.
*licks arm*
Huh….
*furiously consumes own limbs*
What do we win?
1 million bottle caps… Assuming that is the currency of the wasteland.
Guzzoline.
Too bad net neutrality killed us all.
“world is gonna end in 12 years”
Where’s my senior discount?
Are you selling reverse mortgages as well?
Drove through Johnson City west out of Kansas and into Colorado. Up to Animas and over to Pueblo. Beautiful. Big open skies, no traffic, no fog. I listened to the radio until the station would start to fade, try to find another one, or just turn it off and sing to myself, think, or zone out. Then Rich Girl by Hall and Oates would pop in my head – a consequence of the jukebox at the Bar and Grill in Bucklin – and I’d turn the radio on again to see if I could find another song to take its place.
https://medium.com/@BetoORourke/drove-through-johnson-city-west-out-of-kansas-and-into-colorado-171692ffbf36
Oh that explains that strange smell here in JOCO the other day.
I wonder if the irony of being EXACTLY LIKE the subject of the song ever scratched at the back of his mind.
No. No it didn’t.
“Graham angers Dems by digging into Clinton, Obama controversies”
Lol. But them doing it to Trump is a-okay.
Whatever.
Not gonna lie, but Graham better be careful. Especially since he’s got an eye on Clinton.
This just in…
Lindsey Graham found dead with and underage male prostitute.
“Graham found dead with two self-inflicted gun shots to the back of his head”
+2 Gun-shot wounds
He doesn’t have any choice. I have heard (from a very reputable source) that the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy has gotten the goods on Graham. If he doesn’t do their bidding, they will release a picture of him attending Covington High School commencement.
Survey time!
Clinton body count: Real or conspiracy?
Why not both?
At a minimum they drive people to suicide.
It is funny how many people end up dead around them. Statistically by now the odds that this is all coincidental is lower than the odds to be struck by lightning AND the gamma ray emissions gamma from a pulsar at the same time.
To be fair, that IS how Zombie Justice RBG is still hanging on.
I think they (or people understanding what the Clintons want) have had people killed.
If they did – and NSA I’m just horsing around here! – off that many people then there’s no doubt people associated with the dead are pissed and know about it. What I’m trying to say is ‘what comes around”. Karma. Come-uppance.
All that jazz.
I remember watching a Clinton body count thing on YouTube and seeing there were several small plane crashes, several suicides, other repeated circumstances. Made me think they’ve got one regular hit man with preferred methods.
My favorite one is the guy that got killed during a robbery attempt. The same guy that was fingered as releasing the Clinton emails that showed the DNC colluding with the Clinton campaign to hijack the democratic primaries for Clinton and fucking Bernie over. and that the Clinton campaign was colluding with agents in the Obama admin to rig the general election for Clinton as well. He was killed in a botched robbery attempt where they took nothing but made sure to plant a couple of bullets in his head.
I mean, statistically speaking, the last person you want to be is someone without much political pull but with some kind of evidence of Clinton malfeasance. You’re better off as a commercial fisherman with cancer in terms of survival odds.
Well, there were plenty of accusations (and accusers) so, by the “where there’s smoke there’s fire” theory of leftist jurisprudence that means the Clintons jointly must be personally responsible for at least three murders.
Obviously, in the Clinton case, there are several instances of graft of one kind or another that can be proven to have happened, but, as usual, it’s hard to put a Clinton in the room when something criminal and beneficial to them happens. They’re grifters, and they’ve been grifters for their entire political lives. Slick Willy has a lot in common with Lonesome Rhodes. Did they kill anyone or have anyone killed? Gun to my head, I couldn’t bet on one or the other, but that alone says something, I think. I know that people without much power who run afoul of the Clintons don’t have a good survival rate.
An off-hand muttered comment:
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
And then someone has an unfortunate accident. Maybe just a bunch of coincidences, but I would be very nervous if I had anything on either of the Clintons.
I like Simon Schama’s favorite version, supposedly from a contemporary of Henry’s: “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?”
I think it captures the deal with the Devil aspect of being a Clinton associate quite nicely. With no evidence whatsoever I tend to envision a cabal of people who’ve kissed the goat, so to speak, all enjoying the perks while nervously dreading the day someone they’ve never met asks them to do a favor for Bill or Hillary, up to and including the tying up of loose ends.
This is completely different!
They’re incredible.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “Yeah, I don’t — I’m not saying that, but I do think a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don’t have access to public health is wrong.
The road to hell is paved with non-sequiturs. And I wonder what she proposes to do with the billionaires that currently exist.
“ when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm“
High school wrestling teams?
I’ll bet $100 she’s never been to Alabama in her life.
Where does BU go for Spring Break, Daytona?
Palm Beach – to, uh, “intern” for Ted Kennedy.
Isn’t she too young for that? I thought the Kennedys were strictly 16 and up. Fifteen if she was poor because everyone knows they develop faster.
Nope: During college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez
Huh. Must be my wishful thinking that has him dead for longer.
A Pretty girl like her, she’s lucky she didn’t end up at the bottom of the Chappaquiddick.
We talking about the same Ted Kennedy? The U-Boat commander that has a confirmed kill with his oldsmobile?
I’m pretty sure some companies make billions fighting things like ringworm and other diseases. They make money and treatments become cheaper, win-win
How many ringworm treatments do we really need?
She must hold BU’s record for cum gurgling because I don’t see how someone this stupid could pass a class otherwise.
There have to be pics somewhere
Ask yourself this.
If you were one of her professors, and somehow not a marxist true believer as she is and you had a student as steeped in grievance studies as Occasio Cortez in your class would you fail them?
How do you think that is going to go for you? Even if you have tenure you know she is going to make your life difficult and you will be facing some kind of discrimination investigation, if you don’t have tenure you have no shot at keeping your job and since you will be labled a racist and sexist bigot you can kiss goodbye to any chance at landing another academic gig anywhere else.
She’s a retard.
A retard.
A complete fucken retard.
Congrats. She’s in Congress.
She’s too retarded.
How much would you have to be paid to go sit quietly and listen to Tahanesi Coates and Ocasio-Cortez talk? Talk about a dream team of fart sniffers who believe they are as smart and enlightened as the MSM tells them they are.
Enough to cover expenses to see a doctor after all the face palming and a physio for the shaking of my head and neck.
How much does a half ounce of medical marijuana go for? When I was buying it in Ziploc bags from Phish fans 25 years ago it was about $60. So, say $100 and a Nylabone I can chew on.
Ok, putting that idea in my head was cruel. It is like a black hole of pretentious idiocy wrapped around an ideology of disdain for humanity.
Take their money because people like her have better uses for it. Of course, as a reward for all that “hard work” she believes she is doing, she will get a big cut of that money they confiscate. People like her have earned that right because they are doing something to solve the inequality problems plaguing humanity and sticking it to the evil people that have more than these SJW types have.
Holy fricken moly Kathy Griffin is MENTAL. She’s a horrible human being. No, I mean literally a terrible person:
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Well we are not going to give them the privacy that they do not deserve. Remember Charlottesville? Heather Heyer was MURDERED because we wanted to hear from both sides. By the way, Charlottesville cops, we’re watching you. You look pretty fucking dirty right now.
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I can’t believe after all the video is available you still have the stance you have. What crime did anyone commit? By far the worst actions were those of The Tribe of Isreal DC who the SPLC recognizes as hate group.
She’s absolutely bonkers. She’ll still be keeping that nifty checkmark most likely though.
The check mark basically means you’re an asshole at this point.
Zuckerberg’s version of the yellow star
Not Zuckerberg. That other asshole who used Propecia so he could grow a beard
Jack Dorsey. Rumor has it that of all the big Silicon valley types, he was always considered the Dunce.
A proper thinking asshole at that.
They all will. Even though “journalists” who called for doxxing them, which Twitter won’t take down, because they’ve said that calling for doxxing is A-OK, but actually doxxing will get you in trouble.
I say someone test this standard- start demanding that people dox journalists who tried to dox the boys.
Heyer was killed as a result of a situation created and escalated by ProFa thugs and the Chancellorsville gov’t/law enforcement.
She is your typical liberal virtue signaling fanatic. People like her are desperate to show how dedicated they are to the cause, that they will go to any length to show their commitment. She is one of the ones that would love to run the camps and to think up whatever new form of brutality they could come up with to make the lives of those that the collective has deemed as nonredeemable as horrible as possible.
She looks exactly like someone who would enjoy running the camps.
For you, Rufus. “The goob is laughing at you!”
Maybe we can house our Congress critters in a barracks? Is there a squad-bay available at Eight and I? Or an Army barracks around there somewhere?
I like the idea of them not setting up a home in DC and getting comfortable there.
I’m sure there’s some sadistic Marine sergeant who would LOVE to put his Marines through all the bullshit that cleaning up after Congressfolk would entail.
Fuck that – A no-fucks-to-give Master Gunnery Sergeant can organize the Congress critters into a field day before they are allowed to go play politician.
“Police call commences in TWO MINUTES! That means YOU, Crazy Eyes!”
SIR! What should i do with all these dead hookers?
I’m 100% certain that the Marines have an eight-step process for that.
There needs to be a congressional dormitory. And standard-issue footie pajamas.
I have some serious doubts about some congressional delegates and their ability to use the restroom while wearing footie pajamas.
Feature, not bug.
With fully stocked hot cocoa.
Can we put them into Section 8 housing?
My favorite bit.
Lying sacks of shit.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, a black caucus member, said it’s also annoying that some lawmakers use sleeping in their office to boast to voters back home that they haven’t been seduced by the Washington swamp because they haven’t purchased or rented a home there.
Here is the kicker. They’re upset that it makes them look bad and expose their corruption. This is like when EU countries punish other EU countries for lowering their business taxes and increasing available employment.
“These are challenging times in the United States of America — we have a hater in the White House, a birther in chief, the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” Jeffries said.
“I survived the Grand Wizard of 1600” Can I get that on a glib’s T shirt?
Every time I see an adult use the term “hater” I hear it in LaVar Ball’s voice.
E.J. Dionne Jr.: Hating government won’t improve it
Reducing the size of government will improve it, and lesson it’s unnecessary expense. RIF!
But being a sycophant blindly supporting more government will definitely improve it.
Contrary to the evidence, these people still hold as fact that the only way to make government better is to make it bigger, more authoritarian, and powerful. Because the problem is that the people in charge have too many things in their way preventing them from implementing their final solution effectively.
“The basics of the job” is capitulation to our side
He literally cannot process the idea that maybe, just maybe, the government might be too big.
Here’s the thing, I don’t want to “improve it” and make it more “efficient”. I want to dismantle massive parts of it. I feel as much sympathy for a furloughed federal worker as I do for an unemployed journalist: none.
People on an extended vacation with deferred pay.
I saw Trump’s latest offer.
I’m sorry but TAKE THE BLOODY DEAL!
Wtf?
The DNC’s spectacular false righteous behaviour reminds me of when the PLO refused (or they accepted and then acted like shitheads after. I forget) the deal offered in the Clinton Accords.
The Clinton accords offered the Palis basically 98% of everything they wanted. Arafat rejected it and started another Intifada, because that best served his own personal greed.
Was that before or after his Peace Prize?
I just remember the deal being amazing. The stars aligned.
Trump’s utter indifference to the basics of his job
Let’s see, the main issues for a President are peace and prosperity. The prosperity is obvious, and Trump has not initiated any new military actions, and is looking to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan.
Dionne is an idiot.
Ummm, no, the only job of the President is following the Constitution, and providing a check on the other two branches of government when they don’t follow it. It would be a nice side effect that actually doing that would create a massive upsurge in peace and prosperity.
Well, no shit, I was just making a commentary on the modern idea of what supposedly makes a good president.
Buncha pedantic fuckers.
Zero words about Congress’s Constitutional duty to pass a budget (which a CR is not)
Why does JFK get thrown in there? He started reversing some of the FDR craziness with taxation.
Because leftists much prefer the mythical JFK of their imaginations to the flesh and blood JFK who was a hardcore anti-communist that got the ball rolling on the Vietnam War and used women the way most of us use tissues.
hidden radicalism that serves as a straitjacket on our politics.
You mean the concept of wanting the government to stay within (or return to) its legitimate, Constitutional bounds. Totes radical.
“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Yes, yes. Climate catastrophe is always a decade away.
The Democratic Socialist said the fight against climate change is war and that it’s “our World War II.”
True in a sense. I fully expect that climate nazi’s would round up and eliminate all the “climate deniers” if they had the chance.
They want to switch to cleaner burning (((fuel))).
Trains are a very efficient way to transport people.
Jews should start becoming outraged any time there’s a train, someone mentions a train, or government funds trains. “So if you were black, how would you feel about government paying for nooses?”
Everyone knows that (((you))) just want a reparations payment anytime anyone rides the light rail line. Outrage has nothing to do with it.
Systematic Catholic church antisemitism confirmed.
Some songs from the 80s I didn’t pay much attention to (despite having the 45″ singles) I appreciate more. MAW’s ‘Overkill’ is one of them.
The clip made me like it more. Solid lyrics.
Pretty large singles they got there in Quebec, eh?
Fine, fine. RPM.
They’re single because they’re so large. Not enuff chubby chasers north of the wall.
I prefer this version
This whole Covington Catholic incident has made me ponder, what I think is a legitimate question: Is it OK to punch a journalist?
If a journalist approaches you, nine times out of ten they are there to destroy you. How is your first response not to punch them? You know your side of the story doesn’t matter. Whatever you say will be spun to fit the narrative. They are more than willing to gin-up a mob against you. Especially if you are from one of their disfavored identity groups (these boys were doubly screwed for being white, male, pro-life, Catholic, and wearing MAGA hats). I think people can be justified for reflexively assaulting them if approached. I’ve “evolved” on this, as they like to say. I also think that widespread derision and disgust should be brought upon people who work in a profession that has devolved into nothing more than tabloid journalism.
This is by no means the first time the media has lied and their lies typically have more egregious consequences (Vietnam War Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Iraq War WMD), but now the media is spreading its lies to indict regular Americans, which is not as fucked up as their previous lies, but far more personal and disgusting.
The more I think about it the more I think people are more than justified to just assault journalists on sight.
FYI- This is all based on the popular “Is it OK to punch a Nazi?” that the media was asking shortly after Trump’s election, in which they defined anyone to the Right of Joseph Stalin of being a “Nazi”. So what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Right answer is to say “no comment, please don’t record me.” Then walk away.
Yeah, absolutely. I meant “in theory”. I certainly do not think assaulting anyone based on group characteristics is ever justified.
“fuck you, pay me” also works.
I’ll be taking that stance if the situation ever arises, that’s for damn sure. Whatever has me spending less time and more likely to keep me away from the spotlight is the way to go.
I remember when we were helping out a website that was garnering attention in the media. I was interviewed by McLean’s magazine. Being the rookie I was, I gave a tad too much info and the reporter basically used it to build her article without attribution:
http://archive.macleans.ca/article/2006/5/1/private-medical-care-in-canada
Tread carefully around journalists. They have an agenda and they will use you. I learned it the concrete way.
Maclean’s.
Journalists are like cops. They aren’t trying to uncover the truth. They are gathering evidence to support a predetermined outcome or conclusion. Which is highly unlikely to be one that is good for you.
^^^THIS^^^
And they will lie and subvert whatever you tell them to write the story they want.
“I’m not gay! NTTAWWT.”
ow the media is spreading its lies to indict regular Americans
Honestly they’ve been doing that for decades
Seems more recent a thing that they go after specific individuals in the same manner
This whole Covington Catholic incident has made me ponder how can so many people watch the same thing and see different things. Every journalist on twitter had 100 non journalists commenting the most vile shit. Insulting anyone who strayed from the narrative. I mean journalists are instigating in a way, but they would not get away with it if the public was not eager to be lied.
But journalists are and have been toxic to use their own words. I never get the respect some hold for the profession, it was always vile
It’s nostalgia for what a few of them were (honest reporters) many years ago. Now they are nothing more than the propaganda wing of the Democratic National Committee. Everything thing they film and say say will be designed to advance their ideology and/or attack their enemies.
I am not, as usual, talking of US reporters in particular. In Europe since the 20s much of the press was soviet propaganda with quite damaging effects, for example.
^ THIS
Pie is “Europe woke”. He knows that the press is always pushing a narrative, because his countrymen lived through it. There was never a time in American history where the same thing was occurring. The gravest sin of the American corporate press is its slavish repetition of war propaganda (Gulf of Tonkin, the sinking of the Maine, etc.).
The corporate press has convinced Americans that “yellow journalism” is a thing of the past, but it never ended.
Meh plenty of commie propaganda in the New York times in the 30s
Right through to the present day. They recently ran a series on the fabulosity of Soviet Communism.
Yup. The notion that there was ever a golden age of journalism is a myth.
I love the claim sex for women was better under communism, completely ignoring the fact that in the communist countries – because of regulations and the unavoidable shitty economies communism engenders – entire families where crammed into small apartments and people had no privacy whatsoever.
These fuckers will bend any truth or reality to protect the vile and murderous ideology they hope will put them at the top of the new feudal system.
+1 Enemy at the Gates sex scene
NAP.
Uffda. I’m still utterly baffled by why people have their panties in a bunch over those pols living in their office.
Is it really just wanting to make those people pay $2000/mo in rent? Just to hurt them financially?
And maybe those members of the Congressional Black Caucus should take it easy. It is part of our cracker heritage to move in on land that we don’t own and colonize it.
They want them to live in the imperial city full time? Get on the gravy train and forget about the rubes back home they supposedly represent?
The frugal Repubs are making everybody else look bad.
TW: Slate
My Girlfriend Is Outspoken About #MeToo but Wants Me to Degrade Her
Its almost like repressing one’s nature has to find an outlet.
Or maybe she is just getting evidence so that if this guy ever breaks it off when she is not ready for that, she can royally screw him over?
Run you fools. Run!
*nods*
If you think she’ll cry rape later, then run. If she wants to fuck your brains out in innovative ways to create balance in her life, enjoy.
He should stop whining and worrying and just be happy he’s found a wild one. Silver linings in the #metoo era.
Until he wants to end the relationship and gets hit with a false rape charge.
I like where your head is at.
Until she repents publicly and his boss has to fire him or get caught up in the witch hunt.
He can always whip out this whiny little advice-seeking letter as evidence of his wokeness. Maybe that was its purpose all along…
The only appropriate reaction
The black caucus has long been appalled by the arrangements.
“A lot of our Republican colleagues are very hard on people in public housing … when they in fact are living in public housing, without paying any taxes on it,” said Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-Louisiana, a former caucus chairman.
Thompson called the practice “nasty,” saying it’s freeloading on the government’s dime. He’s been trying to end the practice for years.
“Free janitorial, free cable, free security, free utilities. Ain’t a bad deal, is it?” said Thompson, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. “The reality is, you’re gaming the system.”
I wonder how far he would like to carry this line of reasoning, never mind the fact that the office and it’s amenities are the reps to use for the duration of his/her term.
“saying it’s freeloading on the government’s dime”
RACIST!!!
Oh its against Republicans? Nevermind.
So, he’s against people living on the government’s dime?
Nice to see that his “rent” is being plowed back into his own organization.
Given the recent trend of demonizing religious people, a guy getting a sweet deal from the Christers might want to tread softly. As we say in Minnesoda, people who live in glass fish houses shouldn’t throw frozen minnows.
“As we say in Minnesoda, people who live in glass fish houses shouldn’t throw frozen minnows.”
Barely a euphemism
I just had an inspiration for a crowdsourced replacement for the TSA. As you’re waiting in line at the gate, each person asks those near him, “Hey, are you gonna hijack this plane, or blow it up?”
“No? Good. Me neither.”
At least as effective as the current TSA. And I might be able to keep my leatherman and my flask
Sigh… I still pine for the Devil-may-care days of the 1990s when I would always have a sack full of Double-Whoppers (with cheese) and a sixer of Miller High Life in my carry-on because I’m not JUST a Florida boy but a frugal and thrifty Florida boy.
Longtime lurker here. I just wanted to thank whoever mentioned “They Shall Not Grow Old” a couple weeks ago. I was able to get tickets for me and my two sons for last night. It was a pretty great movie, and the interview with Peter Jackson after was very interesting. The guy had his own artillery they used for the sound effects. I always knew that trench warfare sucked, but seeing it in restored color video took it to a whole new level of suck.
Anyhow thanks again for bringing it up, it is something I would have never experienced without this website.
Tulpa old bean how are you doing?
Don’t Lurk around too much….Tulpa
Uffda, are we not telling Tulpa to fuck off anymore? Is the Family Friendly badge at risk?
Anyway, welcome aboard Tulpa
Fuck off Tulpa.
See? This is what I would want to hear if I was a lurker who was finally coming out of the closet. I’d want the full experience of being jumped in.
Welcome to the party, Tulpa!
I concur
I would encourage people to watch that video and if at all possible (if you aren’t up on your WWI stuff) to listen to Dan Carlin’s Blueprint for Armageddon first (another thing introduced by the Glibs). Having listened to Carlin’s stuff shortly before going to see it made the movie even more powerful.
I will definitely check out Dan’s podcast.
Any thanks all for the the official glibs welcome.
the whole podcast series goes about 20 hours, and every minute of it is pretty great.
FDR, JFK and LBJ were not Stalin or Mao, nowhere close.
They lacked commitment to the True Faith.
https://twitter.com/AllegroRubato/status/1087440630094221318
Lol I was a good feminist ally but got no pussy and if feminist don’t start putting out they will lose allies
Indeed. Most of this feminism shit is women angry that the guys they want to date don’t want to roll over and be betas. And the men supporting them are betas thinking they are going to score by showing how great they are being betas. Fucking idiots. These women want the beta guy to foot the financial bills and take on all other responsibilities but only want to fuck the alpha guys that then can’t be bothered after. Am I evil for not feeling sorry for these betas or these women?
I have a hard time believing it is real. it is too perfect.
Legitimate whiteout (RAAAAAACIST!) conditions here so Titty Tuesday will provide the warmth.
http://archive.li/VrwBr
In 20 years, there are going to be a lot of women with really nasty looking tattoos.
23 and 30 (boy, she lookin’ THICC).
30 looks like someone I’d have a chance at IRL, which is a wood.
8 has the prettiest face, 20 and 11 are nicely thicc.
FTFY
Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory
MUHUHUHUWAHA…
Uhhh… I mean, good thing they got that solved.
But can DNA put the Alger Hiss conspiracy theories to bed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=serIf92zTDc
I know this much is true.
That’s gold, Rhywun!
We got 10″ of global warming this weekend. 3 more inches expected today, then temps drop to fiercely hot single digit (F) and below. Then more global warming on Friday. Maybe AOC could help us with the truck loading for our move?
Seems a lot of snow for a desert area
No worries, once we’re there, I’ll complain nonstop about the heat.
Those vacuum tube amps y’know – next you’ll be expounding on the virtues of Class D.
Oy vey.
He was talking about snow? I thought he got a visit from Karla Marx’s fellow travelers…
The best part of moving in the winter is having the doors propped open…
Global Warming is a strange name for a bisexual male stripper. But what do I know about how you degenerate IL-ans live?
Don’t worry, -40 is the same in either scale.
Rankine and Kelvin both have sads…..
One of my favorite trolling debates is to point out that the Celsius scale is just as arbitrary as the Fahrenheit, but has less precision for normally experienced temperatures. Fahrenheit is a better system for measuring temperature in a day to day world.
Eh. The precision is arbitrary since fractional degrees may or may not have significance in both scales. Celsius is great for chemistry because you have an instant decimal reference to the states of water. However, since we humans mostly flourish in places where water is at or near its freezing point (relatively, but halfway to boiling is at the edge of survivability) it makes sense to use Farenheit for discussions of what the current temperature is outside. Different scales, different uses. Except Rankine. Fuck that stupid scale. No I don’t want to run the Farenheit scale to absolute zero.
Kelvin and Rankine are the same at 0. So they get to participate too.
I had a professor who suggested that since so many equations used 1/T that the best temperature scale would be something like the inverse of Kelvin.
“Absolute zero” would be at infinity.
Which is kind of sensible, since that temperature cannot actually be achieved.
Of course, that problem gets reversed to the hot end.
But there is no limit there.
Sure there is, the limit is 0 on the inverse scale.
There is no limit to heat. You can always add more energy, at least in theory. Absolute zero is complete absence, it is an actual limit. You cannot have less than no energy in reality.
There is actually an upper limit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_temperature
Technically, the Planck temperature is not a physical limit, just a limit of human understanding.
But that isn’t really a limit is it? Isn’t it just a theory that exceeding that temperature causes some catastrophic changes?
I’d come to help but I can’t get out of my driveway. Go ahead and start without me.
I once moved during the middle of an ice storm. Nothing more fun than hauling furniture while your feet were slipping around.
It was a weird move – we went from a rental to a house that was only two blocks away. So the snow and ice is coming down like mad and I’m pushing the lawnmower down the street.
I’ve always had that picture in my head somewhere, it was pretty funny to see you pushing a mower in the snow.
My last move was about 2 blocks. It makes a weird move. I am not sure if it is easier or harder than a normal move. When you move a carload or two every night after work for 2 weeks, it get kind of tedious.
The last move: everything but the furniture (rented a van for that) got moved in a Mini Cooper. Move one large box in. Drive a few blocks. Move box out. Drive back. Repeat… repeat… repeat.
-20 (-30 with wind chill) up here. Plus inches upon inches of snow.
Yeah, it is cold down here in south Florida too. Yesterday we took the kids to the state fair for MLK day and we had to wear long pants in the morning. I got a sunburn, and it was pretty warm during the afternoon, but still…. I had to wear long pants outside.
59 here, heading to a high of 68 here in Austin. Low at night in the high 30s, but planning on sleeping then. Almost as warm as the lovely south Florida weather I just left.
About to crack 20 here and I couldn’t be more thrilled, after two nights of near zero.
It got so cold here last night that I had to close the sliding glass doors. I left the windows open a bit…. but I had to close those big sliding glass doors overlooking the water. There was just too much wind coming in over the canal so it got a bit chilly.
Why are casting doubts here? I predict that a study of the OMWC environment will display an increase of at least 40 degrees in average temperature THIS YEAR ALONE!
10″ of global warming
STEVE SMITH WARM GLOBE.
“(Trump’s) reaction to Charlottesville was clearly inadequate, unacceptable, inappropriate, and for many people throughout America, led them to conclude that the President of the United States chose to pull the sheets off and reveal himself, in terms of his tendency to be a racial arsonist, fanning the flames of hatred,” Jeffries told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” at the time.
Blitzer later asked, “Are you suggesting he’s a racist?”
“No,” Jeffries replied. “He’s a racial arsonist. He uses race to advance his own ends — that’s troubling.”
The progjection…it burns!
“These are challenging times in the United States of America — we have a hater in the White House, a birther in chief, the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” Jeffries said. “One of the things that we’ve learned is that while Jim Crow may be dead, he still got some nieces and nephews that are alive and well.”
Something something divisive rhetoric.
“He’s a racial arsonist. He uses race to advance his own ends
He just described pretty much the entire Democrat party.
“It’s….inadequate. It’s unacceptable. Its inappropriate. A disgrace.”
It’s easier when you read it in Jackie Chiles’s voice.
It is impossible for me not to.
Who told you to put the cheese on it? I know *I* didn’t tell you to put the cheese on it!
For people still running cover for “Himey town” Jackson and “termites” Farrakhan, let alone the anti-white fundament of their coalition, it’s pretty rich reading such specific meaning into Trump’s famously incoherent statements.
I’ve got to question the Morality of a system that allows people to grow up so fundamentally retarded.
I blame billionaires
Bullied Into Bad Science?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2019/01/20/bullied-into-bad-science/#.XEcaQ82xVaR
Go ahead and read the responses, I dare you.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1087565455898877952
Jesus Christ, the left really is vile.
I read the responses asshole. No my turn. Truth or Dare?
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On a serious note, it is sad how some people are so intent on making people out to be worse than they are. I can get the journalists who spread the initial lie feeling shame for being wrong, but they are supposed to be professional and to take their hits. They lied. But the random person who has no stake in it, but really really really needs those kids and the school to be a cesspool of racism. The quote from C.S Lewis that y’all have been circulating is apt.
“When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.”
-Eric Hoffer
The philosopher of our times. Reading him now is so prophetic. Really interesting guy too
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No Michael, it is the overriding theme of the school. It is the way these kids tend to be. It is called white male privilege and this is how it all starts. We have suffered from this disease long enough. It is time to get real.
Maybe you need a vacation.
White males are a disease?
In 20 years, there are going to be a lot of women with really nasty looking tattoos.
Whaddaya mean, “in twenty years”, Shirley?
I’m very close to purchasing a MAGA hat simply as a “fuck you” to the people claiming that it’s the new swastika.
Someone please talk me out of it.
:Puts MAGA hat on:
Do what you want Cuck!
:Takes it off:
You see what kind of harm it can cause!!! Save your self the pain.
If you live in an area with a lot of proggies, you will be subject to harassment, vandalism, and potential mob violence.
I carry for a reason.
If I were to do such a thing, I would be tempted to OC my AR pistol. I wouldn’t, just because that’d scare off normies and provide confirmation bias that all MAGA hat wearers are violent, Nazi racists determined to go on a killing spree. But it would still be fun just for the looks you’d get out in public.
#metoo
It’s the libertarian “fuck you” I have in me.
#MeToo
When this site started, I – or someone else? – suggested the “Make America Glib Again” hat.
So why is that not available in the Glib store? Hm???
Please bring that up with our Marketing Officer… Mr. Smith, someone is here with a complaint.
STEVE SMITH SEE YOU NOW. RESOLVE COMPLAINT. BY RESOLVE…
They don’t offer red hats. It is very frustrating.
For shits and gigs I wanted to get one and put it on top of our Xmas tree and see if the gf noticed. Maybe next year. But I am with you on that. But I am not into hats, so maybe a t-shirt. (I still need to get my Brett K. shirt.
This one’s pretty good too.
https://yourtrumpshop.com/collections/best-sellers/products/how-many-genders-premium-t-shirt
It should have round selectors instead of square if we are only supposed to select one.
Q, you’re Jewish. You’re already trolling the Left by merely existing. Forget the noise about stupid apparel and whatnot.
I’m sure someone makes a MAGA yamaka. NPC’s would blue-screen because of the apparent contradiction.
I have an OG libertarian hoodie that is likely 15 years old, and even wearing it around here, I get some crazy looks.
I keep hearing the media telling us what that hat stands for. Well, what DOES it stand for and who gets to decide? The person wearing it or you partisan hacks in the media?
Oscar Nominations 2019: The Complete List
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/oscar-nominations-2019-list-1203112405/
Still too many best picture nominees, apparently the Academy thinks there were 5 good films this year (true, just not the 5 they think), and the fact that Solo (a movie shot in a dark warehouse) is up for best effects is silly.
Very disappointed not to see this one listed in Best Animation (or Foreign). Definitely looking forward to the Blu-Ray:
https://youtu.be/5dOZpivfNxw
The 15 Most Common Sex Injuries
Anyone who hasn’t broken a bed at least once had a sub-optimal high school and college experience.
Truth.
Hell, I broke one last year and I’m in my 50’s.
I’ve never broken my dick, but I got it severely bent once or twice.
We’ve kind of beat this into the ground, but AoS provides a pretty good analysis of the Covington Clusterfuck.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/379288.php
AOC may be dumb, but I still say Kirsten Gillibrand may be the dumbest person and emptiest suit in Congress.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2019/01/21/heres-how-kirsten-gillibrand-explained-her-former-hardline-immigration-stance-n2539371
She started life as a moderate (anti-illegal immigration, pro-2nd Amendment) upstate NY Rep. The chose her to succeed Hillary in the Senate because she’s a woman who will obey Chuck Schumer without question. She’s flipped on all her old positions and will tell you why with all the authenticity of a 3rd grader reading off the blackboard.
“I did not think about suffering in other people’s lives,” Gillibrand said.
In which case, even if I was a hard-line open borders type, I’d find Gillibrand even more repulsive than Trump. Basically, she’s saying she cynically went along with screwing people over because she found it politically expedient. Honestly, I’d have more respect for an honest opponent than someone who thought I was right but wouldn’t stand up for it.
If she was honest, she’d admit she was just reading the talking points she was handed – just like she is now.
What’s remarkable is that she never once talks about what is in the best interest of the American citizens she is supposed to represent. Somehow the welfare of Central Americans rushing the border is now more important than New Yorkers. In saner times, she would be arguing for or against more immigration on the basis of the interests of her state, not just ideological double-speak and nonsense.
Well that’s pretty much the entire pro-illegal alien movement in general. They pretty much reject that citizens (and lawful permanent residents for that matter) should have sole say on the matter or are the ones deciding the issue.
Why is encouraging making such a dangerous trek superior to deterring illegal immigration and working to make legal immigration easier?
Much of the world is suffering, though less than it used to. We’d be swamped in short order trying to succor all the world’s poor, and then nobody would be succored.
Have we retired Sheila Jackson-Lee from consideration?
Heard this from either a Federalist or a RedState author—the Jackson-Lee office lottery. Each day she insists on speaking up in the House, you put a quarter in the jar and pass it to the left. By the time a day rolls around when she doesn’t make a fool of herself in Congress, that day’s owner gets the payout.
You all want to make this an argument and you do in fact name some very stupid candidates, but Hank Johnson simply destroys all comers. He is the Yankees, the Patriots, the Golden State Warriors, and the 21 year old Mike Tyson of stupidity.
For me, this just never gets old .
Speaking of stupid and Mike Tyson; this always tickles my funny bone.
Years ago, there used to be a poll tax. Now, as our last speaker pointed out, just last year 24 states — 24 states — introduced or enacted at least 70 bills to make it harder for people to vote. They now use the voter ID laws like the poll taxes used to be used. Simply designed to keep people from being able to vote. We saw it in Georgia, in the governor’s race. We saw it in Florida. We saw it in other parts of the country. 2017. These guys never give up. We knew that. They never will give up. It’s like cutting grass, man. You cut it, it looks nice. But you let it go for awhile, it gets a little ugly, and it grows into a forest again. We can’t let this happen.
Go home, Joe. You’re drunk. I seriously don’t get how they push that voter ID is some kind of disenfranchisement. We use ID for everything. Everyone has ID. And if Dems really think “1 man, 1 vote”, voter ID is a way to ensure that.
(p.s. conveniently overlook the actual shady shit in FL and AZ.)
“Simply designed to keep people from being able to vote.”
I mean yeah. Designed to keep people from being able to vote illegally.
And if Dems really think “1 man, 1 vote”
What evidence do we have to support that assumption? The evidence I’ve seen so far is that they’re only interested in the methodology that gives them power.
Good morning, Banjos!
Only about an inch of fluffy, still-need-to-shovel snow here.
I really love that version of Overkill. Perfect palette cleanser after those nasty lynx!
Have a great day, maniacs!
Yep, great song and she linked to it instead of embedding the video. I can refresh the page for new comments.
What does embedding the video do? Does it auto-play with every refresh?
A sad/unusual story from the world of English football: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-46954922
Argentine footbal player on missing plane? Unfortunately all to common. I only hope the two other people are big enough to sustain him long enough to be found.
+1 Pass me some co-pilot
Hey, that was rugby players from Uruguay!
As if a soccer player would be able to do that!
Keep your damn government hands off my porn!
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2019/01/18/arizona-legislator-offers-genius-plan-fund-border-wall-tax-porn/2619364002/
How do you tax what almost no one pays for?
How can you tax something that can’t be defined beyond “we’ll know it when we see it”?
Thats the best thing to tax. You need some extra revenue? Just start seeing porn in a broader scope.
I have a fetish for the clothing store sale flyers they send out in the mail so good luck getting any money out of me.
CATALOGTAX!
Groupon Sex!
How about $1 per tweet tax. lol.
David Brooks is on the case
In this case the facts happened to support the right-wing tribe. But that’s not the point. The crucial thing is that the nation’s culture is now enmeshed in a new technology that we don’t yet know how to control.
In this technology, stereotype is more salient than persons. In this technology, a single moment is more important than a life story. In this technology, a main activity is proving to the world that your type is morally superior to the other type.
The Covington case was such a blatant rush to judgment — it was powered by such crude prejudice and social stereotyping — I’m hoping it will be an important pivot point. I’m hoping that at least a few people start thinking about norms of how decent people should behave on these platforms.
I fear you’re being unduly optimistic, David.
Self-awareness is a thing of the past. Thank the school system.
I’m going to look at the comments, now. I fear for my sanity.
WTF does technology have to do with any of this? If anything, if short-circuited the Dem/Op/Media Complex’s lies. Anything and everything about the “rush to judgement” here is that there was some extremely vague accusation that the Left jumped on because it fit their narrative JUST. SO. PERFECTLY.
Critical thought and reasoning left the building along with self-awareness. This is just the Long March Through the Institutions coming to fruition. And it’s going to get worse.
Technology was how everyone discovered that the original story was complete bullshit. If it had been filmed by a network 30 years ago, they would have burned the rest of the tape that contradicted their story.
This. Technology is undermining the left’s control of the narrative and they are getting increasingly desperate to regain it and/or squelch the opposition. See all of the pressure being brought to bear on online outlets like youtube.
In this technology, a main activity is proving to the world that your type is morally superior to the other type.
If the technology were genuinely to blame, you’d see this sort of thing happening randomly across the political spectrum. You don’t. It’s consistently conservatives you see unfairly smeared. I suspect David Brooks is providing the “respectable conservative” cover that the Times brought him on to provide. Any analysis of virtue signaling will reveal pretty quickly that it’s primarily a left-wing phenomenon.
Ebbs and flows. This is the same social defect that brought humanity witch hunts, McArthyism. After the Salem hysteria, things cooled off. Today’s conservative hunt may cool off, but the hunt will return.
Maybe the guy was just trying to offer a preview of the wedding night?
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/man-accidentally-plays-porn-through-speakers-at-girlfriends-sisters-wedding
“Too Local”?
Moron. Porn is for your tablet. Use your phone or computer for hooking to external devices. Also, who the fuck has porn up on their computer when they take it out in public? Besides the guy watching it in traffic.
“Besides the guy watching it in traffic.”
…or taxi stands in the Chicago area.
Supreme Court allows President Trump’s partial military ban on transgenders to take effect
The Supreme Court will allow President Trump’s partial ban on transgenders serving in the military to take effect while court challenges continue.
Responding to Justice Department requests, the high court Tuesday cleared away lower court actions that blocked the controversial policy from being implemented for nearly a year.
Private Private Parts?
Major Surprise
Say….weren’t you an O-4 ?
Oh, nevermind.
They are far to precious.
This came on after and its to great to not share.
Heh. Teachable moment.
First Look at the Foldable Moto Razr?
Kellen
Not sure how I feel about foldable screen phones. I like the idea of being able to expand a phone into a tablet. But the Razr appears to be a regular sized phone you can fold in half. Plus foldable phones add an additional shelf life as the screens can only be folded so many times before they need to be replaced.
That’s actually something that would be nice to have if they manage to get all of the kinks worked out.
get all of the kinks worked out
I bet porn wedding dude wishes he’d worked the kinks out of his phone.
$1500?!??!
meh. The iPhone Flex did that years ago.
Sorry, “Bend” for the iPhone 6.
NYT comments- not even worth quoting. People see what they want to see, believe what they want to believe.
Those boys were protesting women’s reproductive rights. They deserve everything they get. und so weiter
I seemed to have scored three consecutive days off after several months of six or seven day work weeks. I’ll pay Hell trying to catch up on Friday but for now, I’m drinking a strong beer (Dogfish Head’s 120 Minute IPA) and blasting some AC/DC while I clean house. When this buzz fades in an hour or so, I’m going to Costco. Truly, I live a life of excitement.
OT – I’m quite sorry I can’t remember which one of you was shilling for your bairn’s The Explosive Show YouTube page but thanks for sharing. That boy has the awkward teen charm going for him in spades and is a welcome antidote to all the current kulturkampf. Sunny-side-up V. Scrambled had me in stitches but por que no los dos? One of my fave meals is Three-Way Eggs – scrambled with cheese, topped with fried eggs, and slices of hard-boiled eggs on top of that.
Chris Brown is a piece of shit.
“News from 2011”
Truth.
Even if the rape story is 100% untrue you are 100% correct.
And a selfish basketball player, used to play pickup at a gym near my apartment. good handles awful shot. But would play hero ball all the time.
One of the best moments from Red Eye.
No, really, it’s for your own good.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has kick-started a much-needed debate about taxes. But the debate, so far, has been misplaced. It’s obvious that the affluent — who’ve seen their earnings boom since 1980 while their taxes fell — can contribute more to the public coffers. And given the revenue needs of the country, it is necessary.
But that’s not the fundamental reason higher top marginal income tax rates are desirable. Their root justification is not about collecting revenue. It is about regulating inequality and the market economy. It is also about safeguarding democracy against oligarchy.
Your premise is faulty. Everything you say is bullshit.
Other than that…
No, not bullshit.
Wrongheaded and evil. But it is their true belief. That people should not be allowed to accumulate wealth. Only the state should have wealth. And they should be the ones to decide where that wealth gets “distributed”.
“It is also about safeguarding democracy against oligarchy.”
Nothing keeps oligarchy in check like making sure there are no rich people but the government.
Nothing keeps oligarchy in check like taxpayer funded bailouts.
… But the debate, so far, has been misplaced. It’s obvious that labor — who’ve seen their free time boom since 1880 while their productivity increased — can contribute more to the public coffers. And given the needs of the country, it is necessary. Drafting additional hours of labor to the government would be a huge in kind boon.
So, they’re not even pretending that their goal here isn’t simply destroying people’s achievements. For them, any gains for the poor are simply a side effect. Confiscating wealth is what they’ve about.
How can any sane person not see that this is simply evil. It’s causing misery for causing misery’s sake.
When 70% of the people in favor start paying 70% voluntarily, I’ll reconsider my opposition. Until then, STFU or post your receipt from the IRS.
70% isn’t for them, silly. It is for other people. Those evil people over there. You see, we have to take their money to protect ourselves from them. It doesn’t protect us to take the money from us. Duh!
Politicians are true altruists. They’re there to protect us against ourselves.
“Socialism is for the people, not the socialist.”
It’s obvious that the affluent — who’ve seen their earnings boom since 1980 while their
taxesmarginal tax rates fell — can contribute more to the public coffers if tax rates are allowed to remain low.Artist’s depiction.
Wait a second, you know who else’s earnings have boomed since 1980? Everyone in their early 40’s/late 30’s. In the 80’s I had a paper route, and now I work in IT.
And given the revenue needs of the country
I’d call it a spending problem, but go on…
Their root justification is not about collecting revenue. It is about regulating inequality and the market economy.
Ah. There is something to be said for honesty. That said, what a fucking wannabe tyrant.
On the topic of the christian school kids – I had a rant on this in response to Soave’s article over at TOS. What people are missing is the larger context…
No, not the context of why some kid was standing there while an old dude banged a drum in his face. Not the context of a news media who completely blew a story because it fit the narrative. Not even the notion that the media demonstrated extreme bias in their reporting.
No, the big story here is about how in the world this became national news in the first place. OK, so one reporter got hooked in by the spokesman for some activist and it fit with her politics and she ran with it. That’s not a big deal. That’s what we have editors for.
In any sane idea of journalism, an editor of a major national news organization would say “that’s not news” and toss the article in the round file. But OK, an editor somewhere agreed with a reporter that it fit their narrative and got all excited and ran with it. Fine. It could happen in a world where loads of people are fired up about politics.
But in this case it wasn’t an editor. It wasn’t a couple of editors. It was all of them. On the same day, within a very short period of time, the editors at the NYT, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, HuffPo, the AP, all came to the same conclusion. That a brief encounter where no words were exchanged between an activist that nobody has ever heard of and a random teenage boy waiting for a bus was a national story. And not just A national story… THE national story. They all ran with it as their top story, with the photo of the two of them as the largest thing on the page. They all ran with the activist’s version without analysis, comment, research or context. They just took a story from an activist and ran it unfiltered as the top story for the nation. All of them. At the same time.
That’s the story here. The fact that it was all a lie is just icing on the cake. The actual cake is the fact that they all thought that it was a legitimate news story. There is no possible way that an honest and rational journalist thinks that this is a national story. That is just indefensible. They would never have run the story at all if it didn’t include a MAGA hat. That gave them a hook to call Trump and anyone who supports Trump a racist. But forgetting for a second that the whole thing was a lie, there still wasn’t a story here. Some kid standing still while some random old kook comes over and bangs a drum in his face is not news. Not even at the school paper level.
Can you imagine the school paper at this christian academy running a story about the field trip to DC and putting a huge picture above the fold of the street preacher dude yelling at them with the headline “Street preacher yells at students waiting for bus”. See, even in a stupid school paper, this story is too stupid to believe.
Yet the venerable NYT put it online as their number one story. So did CNN. Something that wouldn’t even be fit to publish in a high school paper had it actually been true, and they all spent a whole day vigorously pushing the story.
There’s your real headline. That’s just how corrupt the media in the US is these days.
They needed “the face of hate” so desperately they didn’t notice it was on a 16 year old kid. It’s visceral and they can’t control themselves and no one else can control them either. It’s crazy that all the outlets jumped on it in unison. Terrifying.
well said, good sir (or lady or other)
With 3 kids running around, middle-aged dad might be “other” in the gender box.
Journalism is dead.
It’s out there, just not at those places cyto mentioned. Greenwald and others exist at least for now.
But if they gain an audience, the politicos come hunting… dissent shall not be tolerated. See Doctrine, Fairness. See nutcases like Beck, Glenn and Jones, Alex. They came hard after Rush et. al. on AM radio when they gained an audience. And when that failed, they financed their own version to drown them out. 20 years later, it finally took root as MSNBC.
Even small time publishing by retweeting is under attack.
Dissent must be eliminated.
Journolist already proved that they coordinate their stories, often to fit a preferred progressive agenda. Just because that particular message board was taken down, it would be foolish to presume that another one hasn’t popped up somewhere. This happens quite frequently and they’re not even subtle about it. There are dozens of collages online showing multiple news outlets not only covering the same thing at the same time, but using identical wording in their headlines. These outlets are not trustworthy and they are not news organizations; they are propagandists pure and simple. Nothing and no one is going to stand in their way of advancing what they see as the capital T Truth. Hell, many of them have openly said that in the “age of Trump” they need to jettison objectivity in order to #resist.
I used to think that the proper response was to ignore them; but doxxing and attacking innocent children has crossed a line. I think opposition activists need to go on the attack. Wage lawfare. Sue anyone that is sue-able and don’t accept a settlement. Drag it out and make it painful. That includes random joes on Twitter. The process is the punishment. In addition, for the news outlets, go after their advertising. Arrange boycotts. Buy time on primetime network shows highlighting their lies to try and hurt their circulation. If people don’t fight back, they’ll keep advancing until reasonable people have nowhere left to go.
What would be more frightening: that there’s a conspiracy afoot throughout virtually all of corporate media to push a certain agenda, or that corporate media attracts a nearly-monolithic body of people who think so similarly that they will independently act in such a way as to create the appearance of a conspiracy?
The end result is the same either way.
An interesting thought experiment.
But in the end does it really matter if the serial killer cuts out your liver because he believes he’s saving your from a demon, or if he cuts out your liver because he believes he’s doing the bidding of a demon? Your liver is still being served up with fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Maybe he just thinks killing people and eating them is fun. One big dopamine rush.
You inhabit the mind of liver-eating killers way too easily….
I’m a writer.
I’m a writer.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
— RAH
something something nail… something something head
Once you accept that the MSM is just the propaganda branch of the Democratic Party, almost everything they do makes perfect sense.
News editing: another one of those old jobs that no longer exists.
So I have to do it myself. Or rather, I let glibs do it for me. I haven’t watched TV news in years, haven’t picked up a newspaper in months, and only click on 5% of the news links here (hovering cuts down on a lot of link-clicking).
You are missing virtually nothing, unless you miss heartburn and aggravation.
Just as the point of taxing carbon is not to raise revenue but to reduce carbon emissions, high tax rates for sky-high incomes do not aim at funding Medicare for All. They aim at preventing an oligarchic drift that, if left unaddressed, will continue undermining the social compact and risk killing democracy.
Sounds legit.
Shorter version
Bullshit.
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
Taxation is supposed to be for funding the legitimate operations of the government. These people, however, mean to use it for redistribution and social engineering. It is simply about control.
Well yes, in the end, I agree with both of you.
But the immediate goal of all these schemes is to fill the trough so they and their friends can feed off it. They just pick easy targets like “smoking”, “rich people”, and now “carbon”.
The object of taxation is taxation.
But redistribution alone will not be enough to address the inequality challenge of the 21st century. All societies that have successfully tamed inequality have done so mostly by curbing the concentration of pretax income — the inequality generated by the markets — for the simple reason that extreme market inequality undermines the very possibility of redistribution. Tolerating extreme inequality means accepting that it’s not a gross policy failure, not a serious danger to our democratic and meritocratic ideals — but that it’s fair and just and natural. It produces its own self-justifying ideology. It vindicates the “winners” of world markets. But vindicated winners, sure of their own legitimacy, seldom share much of their “just deserts” with the rest of society.
These people are evil.
Maximum wage, here we come.
It would be far more effective to kill the Fed if you wanted to shrink the inequality gap.
Agreed. If you read what they’re saying, it isn’t about helping anybody. It’s simply about taking away others’ happiness.
What’s the old joke? An Englishman, A Frenchman and a Russian find a magic lamp. Each get one of three wishes. The Englishman wishes for 1 Million Pounds. The Frenchman Wishes for 1 Million Francs. The Russian thinks for a second and wishes away the money the other two got.
So who do you think will be our first Handicapper General?
Policies based on this nonsense would make us all equal in misery. Not that they care though, just look at how they idolize Cuba.
So what you’re saying is….
Gah. Paste fail.
No, what you were actually saying….
successfully tamed inequality
By your own parameters no society has done this, ever.
It vindicates the “winners” of world markets.
In a voluntary transaction, all parties are “winners”.
These people are evil.
Indeed they are.
Saez and Zucman (authors of that NYT excrescence), and their ilk, are nothing more than modern day witch hunters.
They see the nail which stands up, and are compelled to pound it down.
Tin Foil hat: The whole kerfuffle was run by the entire media in order to save face about the damning fact that they had just Run with “Trump made Cohen LIE” BS from buzzfeed earlier that week.
Some kid standing still while some random old kook comes over and bangs a drum in his face is not news. Not even at the school paper level.
If only the kid had pulled out a dollar and dropped it in the drum…
When I was a little kid, we had a bunch of hippies who hung around the center of town. My Dad would laugh at them and call them losers. Walking with my grandmother once, she told one of them to take a bath and get a job – they laughed at her. None of these incidents made the news.
Don’t you wish you could be that smart in real time? That would have been epic!
I’mma Brooks my comment re envy. Obviously, I must be fixating because I keep bringing it up. Well, you’re my therapists, ladies and gents. Send me a bill.
So I am helping an old billionaire Wall Street type do his book on the economic crisis of 2008. I thought I was smart. Really, I did. I made a little money in the market day-trading when that was all the rage. I understand lots of broad theories about how to make money, except I can’t implement it in my own life, mostly because I have few marketable skills. Well, okay. Now I’m helping this dude do his book and I do not understand one fucking word. It’s got charts and tables and all sorts of gewgaws I can’t make heads nor tales of. Now I know I am not smart. Once I accepted this (but it was difficult, trust me), half my envy kind of dissipated.
I never meet my clients. I’ve been doing this for 10 years and have never met a client. This one wants to Face Time. No, I do not want to Face Time, but he’s paying me essentially a salary instead of piece work, so I will Face Time. I am pretty sure the wallpaper on the ceiling in his office cost more than my house. It wasn’t garish, but to me, it seemed overkill. I’d like a really pretty, fairly large house, but not a mansion. I realize that my wants are fairly modest, which did away with another portion of my envy. I don’t begrudge him the wallpaper on his ceiling. I found it a lovely oddity, like a tiger. Nice to look at, not something I wanna live with.
Also, he is a very nice and considerate man, so it’s easy not to be envious. (Of course, if he were an asshole, I’d have never taken his business or I’d have fired him the second he showed asshole colors.)
The last thing was, we are putting this book together and making it pretty so he can send it to publishers. He kept saying publishers, like he could just send it to one and they would publish it because of who he is. Well, I can believe that. He’s not like people like me, who have to beg at the foot of an agent (or, who like me, said, “Fuck you, I’m doing it myself.”) The other day, he said, “After I get some feedback from my colleagues, we’ll finish it up and I’ll send it to agents.” I told him my impression that he was sending it straight to publishers and he’d get a pass. He said no, he has to do it the way everybody else does it. And there went the most of the rest of my envy.
I’m grappling with the envy of aspiration. But I am not smart enough to be what I have yearned to be and/or I just don’t have that kind of intelligence. I also don’t have the same aspirations. I want to be able to do something I simply cannot do, and they happen to be things that make money. My husband could. He’s really smart–that kind of smart. But we’re trapped by decisions we made long ago that we have to deal with that make it impossible for him to get a degree and go to B school. We’re older now. We aren’t going to get that time back. (My husband thinks I should go to marketing school [whatever that is] and figure out how to get my books noticed, but I do not have that type of personality.)
When I take responsibility for the choices I/we made in the past that we are dealing with that hold us back, I feel like my envy just isn’t warranted. First, because when we were young, we were guided by people who didn’t know any better than we do now, or, in my husband’s case, actively held him back. I let that go. It’s not going to help ruminating on it in the here and now. We’ve done pretty well for people with our backgrounds. Yeah, we have a lot to work on, and it’d be nice to be able not to live paycheck-to-paycheck, but the only life that matters is ours, and what we do with it.
“Now I know I am not smart.”
Bullshit. Don’t compare skill sets with intelligence. I think I’m fairly intelligent but my math skills top out at a fairly basic level. I’m also completely incapable of fixing anything. You’re clearly intelligent and talented, you just don’t have the skill set to do what his guy does. And, remember, he doesn’t have the skill set to do what you do.
“And, remember, he doesn’t have the skill set to do what you do.”
^^^This. There’s a reason why he hired you. He’s clearly rich enough to hire the best, and he went with you.
Yes, and…
Smart isn’t the key step. Smart really helps with just about anything. But it isn’t the key.
Identifying the opportunity is key.
I used to work for a billionaire (indirectly – he was the venture capital behind a startup I worked for). He was a functional idiot, Trump style. A hedonist, egotist, narcissist who was not nearly as intelligent as the people who worked for him. In fact, they kept him intentionally out of the loop on many things because he’d just screw everything up stomping around in the middle of stuff if they let him.
But he could identify an opportunity like nobody’s business and push for it with relentless zeal. So he made billions.
If you have a passion that is nagging at you, run it down. Everyone I’ve ever known who was extremely successful had that in common.
Envy is pure poison. There is always someone smarter, prettier, or richer, and one of the tragedies of humanity is that instead of looking at our lives objectively we look at them comparatively. Objectively we all have enough food, a warm place to live, social interaction and the luxury of free time and numerous entertainment options. Comparatively we see in those entertainment options people with lavish lifestyles. supercars, super model lovers, grand estates, travel in luxury to the most exotic locales, and by comparison our lives are drab and empty. But they really aren’t, my car is old and utterly unexciting, but it starts, maintains a comfortable temperature and gets me everywhere I need to go, I eat food that I enjoy, have time to myself and time with those I love, and I get to come here and make jokes when I am bored. Life is good.
Yes, and I have struggled with it for years, only in recent years calling it what it really is and trying to deal with it and get the poison out of my system.
There is always someone smarter, prettier, or richer,
Could you get me her number?
867-5309
*snortlaugh*
But only if you type it like this: 8675-3 Oh niiine.
True — it’s a little known fact that holding a rotary dial phone in position for three seconds accesses a secret alternative switchboard.
/Cliff Clavin
Just my luck…
Her number is no longer in service…
I see it as life is full of trade-offs. Aside from the really stupid stuff, there’s no point in thinking “gee if only I had worked harder or chosen that pursuit”. No, I did what I wanted and it turned out pretty OK, actually.
Wealth at those levels almost always involves a trade-off. Usually it’s personal time and family relations.
1. Assumptions really do make an ass out of u and me. Never assume that someone who at first glance looks like they have a “perfect life” is any happier or more content than you are.
2. Comparing yourself to others is the shortest route to misery that I know of.
3. This may be morbid, but it gives me comfort when I feel envious and the first two don’t work; always remember that rich, poor, brilliant, retarded, attractive, ugly, etc., we all end up in the same place without exception. True equality in the eyes of G-d means we are all given a gift of life and it is always taken away.
Mojeaux, smart doesn’t necessarily translate to understanding the jargon and math behind someone else’s specialty. There’s a limit of understanding going on as well. In some of the brewing books I have (the ones that go on deep dives), I’m out of my depth. However, I’m sure there’s plenty of commenters here who would be able to easily understand the organic chemistry changes that are being discussed by different malting methods, or the changes in water chemistry and the effects on flavor by the addition of different salts. I’d also be able to bet that most of those same commenters wouldn’t be able to troubleshoot the issues I deal with daily on phone systems.
I can relate, generally. If I spend too much time comparing my life to that of a few of my friends, or one or two cousins, I’d lose my mind. I have one friend who will retire at 45 from his first job and is planning on his post-retirement career. I have a cousin who went to St. Andrew’s prep, then went to American for I believe CS and Theater as a double-major, and now works for Activision, mostly on Call of Duty. My soon-to-be brother-in-law just finished building another house for himself on the ranch that’s been in his family for like three generations; they breed race horses when they’re not spending a week fishing in Bimini. Over Christmas, my wife’s aunt and uncle gave us their old pop-up camper: it’s a Coleman, probably about thirty years old, and we’re excited because it has a sink. This guy’s family friends gave him their hand-me-down fifth wheel that looks like they bought it from Aerosmith; it’s basically a long, nice hotel room, complete with an LED television that’s bigger than the one we have in our living room. And don’t get me started on my own wistful daydreams about all the women with whom I won’t have lost weekends in New Orleans or meet in a seedy bar in which they clearly don’t belong, etc.
I had what I think fits the description of a mid-life crisis when I was about 30 and realized that between fate, random chance, and my own choices a lot of doors were now closed to me for good. That was the first time I realized that, no, I was never going to be an astronaut, so to speak. There were things in the world I would never have, experiences I’d never have, places I’d never go… It was tough, but I’m glad I knocked it out then, because as I get older and have a family and pay a mortgage and all that jazz I see people around me starting to wake up to the realization that they likely will never be able to retire, or in some cases they might be homeless and indigent, too old and unskilled to employ in any work that could support them, in maybe 15, 20 years. I’ve more or less made my peace with my horizon being more or less defined at this point, and shrinking with every year, but it’s definitely something I have to work at from time to time.
I’m 50. This is what I am going through right now. If my husband ever had one of those, I’d be surprised. He’s pretty phlegmatic.
Isn’t it odd how all the tropes of life that we all laughed at when young turn out to be real as we get older?
I always kind of found it sad, but…it is sad.
Oh, one other thing.
I was looking through my bookcase this morning and thinking about all the music I have in my library. Most of those people are irrelevant/forgotten too. No matter how famous they are in life, most people fade into history.
Rose Wilder Lane was a popular writer in her time. But she got forgotten in the shadow of her mother’s success. Nobody reads Rose. Everybody reads or has at least heard of Laura.
It shook me up pretty good at the time over probably a year or more, then I got over it. Last year I turned 40 and it started to pop up again, but at this point I can kind of look at it a little more dispassionately, maybe a little more evenly, and come to a better conclusion. Yeah, there are things I’ll never have or do and all that, but when I look around at my life I’ve got my health, I have a family I love, we’ve got a roof over our heads, good friends, not quite financial security but we’re not donating plasma, and we still go on the odd vacation from time to time. It’s a pretty good life. If I do manage to die a self-made millionaire living on a secluded plantation on a cliff overlooking the ocean, great, but if I buy the farm tomorrow I’ll do it without feeling like I’ve lost out on anything.
Now I’m helping this dude do his book and I do not understand one fucking word.
Sounds like he is not smart enough to write a book that explains his theories well.
Good on ya for recognizing that your envy is Not Helping. For me, the realization that others having something takes nothing away from me helps. Of course, I have also (finally) achieved a life situation where I really cannot in good faith ask for more. But even when I was struggling (and yes, there was a time, after I graduated from law school and had practiced for a few years, where I was living at the Y and selling plasma to buy Ramen), I don’t recall being particularly envious. It might help that in my line, I saw immediately and first hand the tradeoffs and the cost of being a big-time law firm lawyer. Frankly, I realized it wasn’t even something I really wanted to do.
Nothing keeps oligarchy in check like taxpayer funded bailouts.
That was buried in one of those Bloomberg “Fatcats Invade Davos” stories, the other day.
You may find this hard to believe, but central bank quantitative easing policies have been driving asset prices through the roof for the last ten years. Shocking, isn’t it?
*shocked face*
I don’t begrudge him the wallpaper on his ceiling. I found it a lovely oddity, like a tiger. Nice to look at, not something I wanna live with.
Nice.
Wallpaper is perhaps my one rule with my wife. I will not allow it. At all.
Mirrors on the ceiling are lot more fun than wallpaper.
I never understood that one. I have no desire to see myself in that moment.
Particularly if you live an earthquake zone.
And pink champagne on ice.
Checkout anytime you like.
Well, I don’t want to live with my popcorn ceiling, either. LOL
OMG. I hadn’t heard that of term – but after a little research I just flashbacked to my childhood where every ceiling in every room had to have a stucco finish.
That’s a knockdown. Still preferable to the popcorn. Finished ceilings are the nicest ceilings.
No sure about wallpaper, though.
I actually like knockdown.
I do, too. All my ceilings are popcorn, which I hate. When someone goes to the trouble to prep and finish the ceilings, though, that does it for me. My grandparents’ house had super-cool coved ceilings that were amazing..
Once my shoulder recovers completely, I’m gonna be back on the sheetrock grind so I think I’m going to go ahead and bite the bullet and take down the popcorn. I’d rather sand it out than put up knockdown, though. That’s a messy process I don’t want to do.
Use a wet process. Wet it and then scrape it off onto plastic tarps.
I recommend a cloister vault.
Yeah. My stupid idiot self a few years ago decided to paint over it, though, so it’ll be a bit of a bugaboo to get down.
A lot of it done in the 60s and 70s (maybe early 80s) has asbestos in it, so removing it is a gamble. I have asbestos floor tiles in my house, so I’m pretty sure my popcorn does, too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/us/viral-video-covington-kentucky.html
Covington Catholic parents are PISSED. And apparently so are other Catholics in the diocese who are withholding their kids from confirmation unless the Bishop apologizes for denouncing the students.
FTA:
“Using an expletive to express his outrage at the news media for its coverage of the students, Mr. Gerdes called the events a “nonstory.”
“It should be reported how great these young men did in the face of these protesters who were trying to bait them,” he said in a phone interview on Monday, calling the events a political attack against Catholics for their opposition to abortion rights.
“The left has an agenda,” he said. “Facts don’t really matter to them if it goes against their agenda.”
Other parents and friends soon changed their social media profile photos to a blue-and-white “C,” in honor of the school’s logo.”
If this ends with bishops being stoned I will be giddy. It’s been a long time coming for a hierarchy that has largely abandoned their flock.
Yes, he should be ashamed of himself. They should have known their kids better than that.
They were fairly ordinary “good kids” on a school trip and they performed as expected for fairly ordinary “good kids”.
Yeah, the school and the diocese rushing to throw them under the bus was possibly the biggest WTF moment for me.
I’m still utterly baffled as to what their supposed offense was. You have a bunch of jackasses on Twatter screaming about how they should be expelled…..for what??? Even if you bought the original bullshit narrative, they didn’t actually do anything. The grave offense was….smirking??
It’s right there in the article: “its overwhelmingly white, heavily Catholic, and largely Republican world”. That is the grave offense.
Exactly. If it were for any other reason, the Black Israelites would have received far more scrutiny than they did.
Well, the initial story was that the old guy was a Native American veteran who a bunch of punk MAGA kids ran up to and started berating and insulting, flinging racial epithets. Obviously the video doesn’t reflect that, so the kind of people who want it to be true are telling themselves that the fact that those kids aren’t on their knees pleading for forgiveness from the guy for wearing MAGA hats and being white is enough evidence that they must have done something wrong. Looking at it through that lens, a kid smiling means that he’s doing it specifically to offend.
Slandering and alienating Catholics doesn’t seem to fit very well with the long term plan of dominating Hispanics the way they dominate blacks.
Slandering religion is not going to sit too well with African Americans either, who tend to be more religious than their progressive white counterparts.
“who tend to be more religious than their progressive white counterparts.”
Well Progressivism is A Rich White Ideology. It’s not surprising that they have let their contempt for religion slip into it.
But I am not smart enough to be what I have yearned to be and/or I just don’t have that kind of intelligence.
Maybe(!) I’m compensating, but I don’t think I’m not “smart” enough to do what “normal” people do, or want what “normal” people want. I don’t want to.
I have been around a few extremely successful people, and much of what drives their success seems to be some variant of obsessive compulsive behavior. There is a commercial featuring Michael Phelps, promoting psychotherapy, or some bullshit. Something about how much he would have benefited from therapy for his cultural awkwardness. However true that might be, he would never have won those Olympic medals if some therapist had “cured” him of his obsessive behavior.
Also, I am pretty much cripplingly introverted; makes it tough to get out there and sell myself.
Yeah, I’ve been dealing with being extremely shy my whole life. I’ve learned to overcome and pretend I’m not shy…. to the point that people don’t believe me when I talk about it.. but it still holds me back when I’m required to be the prime mover in a way that only benefits me.
cyto is me? I suppose if I am Tulpa and cyto is Tulpa then I am cyto.
I am cripplingly shy, have been since childhood, but in casual social contexts, or public speaking settings I show no trace of my shyness/introversion/anxiety. But put me one on one with a woman I find attractive and watch me sabotage myself, and if you leave me to my own devices I will never leave my house.
Uh… shut up Tulpa?
I am an extroverted introvert, or introverted extrovert. I don’t know. Anyway, I can be ON in public and I like to be ON. But then I want to go home and hide out for a week to recover from people.
You put that much more clearly than I did. ^this
I get INTJ a lot on Myers-Brigg tests, which are of arguable worth of course, but one of the trademarks of that brand of introversion is that you’re really, really good at social interaction, it just wears you out. That about describes me. I’m very comfortable in social situations and have no problem walking up to strangers and starting conversations, but I need at least a few hours a day by myself or I start to get anxious and cranky.
First against the wall.
Some may say this is judging, and question my INTP validity, but I think it is just a get them before they get us reaction.
Hey now, you need us judgemental assholes.
It’s not judgement, it’s just the strain of watching everyone else be wrong all the time.
Yep. I even wrote a character like that. Celebrity/showman, not shy, just hates being with people too long (which is about an hour).
Talking to girls is definitely a skill that can be learned and become fun. I think there is a very small minority of people that are naturally good at it, and the other 90% have to learn it. Pretty girls terrified me during puberty, but I knew I wanted them so I forced myself to find ways of dealing with it.
One thing that helped me get over the nervousness talking to a pretty girl is thinking of her as just another human; in the most literal possible sense. Think about her internal organs and blood and nerves. It’s like one more step beyond imagining your audience naked. It sounds morbid, but it drives home the fact that underneath the attractive outside, we literally are the same. From there it’s easier to understand that she’s likely feeling the same nervousness you are.
Q: “Tell me about your organs.”
I had a hard time doing that at first, but before I got to the “embrace your inner bad motherfuckerness” or even “fake it till you make it” I started with “just go do it before the part of you that will tell you it’s a bad idea realizes what’s going on”. To this day whenever there’s something I’m about to do I try to tell if I’m having genuine misgivings or if I’m just trying to talk myself out of doing something I don’t want to do or am afraid to do, and if it’s the latter, I just throw myself into it before I can think about it too much.
Leroy Jenkinnnnnnsssss!
To paraphrase Hagakure, being right or wrong is less important than doing whatever you’re going to do good and hard.
I don’t like talking to people I don’t know. Getting to know people is a long process for me. That proved to be a bit of a impediment when I worked in sales.
#metoo
I spent my of my life – and still do – in small social circles, truly only feeling comfortable around my family. I was horribly shy when I was young and still feel like I’m “faking it” like when we hang out with neighbors or I’m in a meeting at work.
Being shy also limited the who I dated since I usually waited around for the gal to ask me; it has also limited my career choices, job hopping, and whatnot. Thank goodness I met my wife who helps me through so much of this; otherwise I would be living in shack somewhere or my parent’s basement!
But it has gotten better the older I’ve gotten.
Hard to believe but my old man is the complete opposite – can strike up conversations with complete strangers and was a senior manager/director for years. Oddly enough he really doesn’t have any friends because, to put it bluntly, he is a grade A asshole when it comes to getting things done. OCD, project driven, or whatever you want to call it – he just doesn’t know how to relax and enjoy the scenery.
And sure, he made a lot of money, but worked 70 hours a week doing it.
Funny thing is that I have no problem talking to people. Even strangers. But I am a loner at heart and prefer my own company most of the time.
I read somewhere once about Bezos that the money was secondary if not quasi-irrelevant. He was simply obsessed, in the true medical way, with Amazon. On a list of his top 10 priorities Amazon occupied the first 8 places with family and friends a distant 9 and 10. Which also might explain why his marriage is imploding.
Yes. Unrelenting drive makes these things happen, but there is a cost.
Right. I was thinking the other day about how Jobs was (so I understand it) a complete asshole and micromanager. That’s not an attractive look, in my eye.
That’s how he was portrayed in his biography. He wasn’t very good with people at all, but he had good ideas and was very driven. I read that about Prince, too. Musically he was a genius, and he was very successful at it, but he “fired” his band The Revolution by just starting to play with other musicians, and he never formally let them go.
Oh, shoot. I didn’t know that about Prince.
I read a great biography of Prince by Ronin Ro. It took a bit to get used to the writing style because the author was a journalist, so it didn’t quite flow like a story. But it largely avoided all the tabloid stuff you would expect, and it was a fascinating reading. I highly recommend it.
And yes, one of the most successful men I know (from nothing to hundreds of millions while I’ve known him) has terrible OCD. I helped him clean the light switches in his house one time. Not the switch, switch plate or anything visible like that. No, we cleaned the little crack alongside the switch (those big flat kind that are just very shallow rocker switches). We got little toothpicks and wipes and cleaned them out.
The same compulsions drove him to work from 9 am to 1 am every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for a couple of decades. We’d take a few hours off from time to time, but we always had work with us, even when diving a reef or jumping out of planes.
The guy would sit there wiping fingerprints off of the conference table during meetings. It turned into a pretty huge paycheck.
Yep, late to join this thread but here goes: I got ENTJ and INTJ on the Myers-Briggs, so who knows where that really falls. But most people would say I’m a natural extrovert – because that’s how I make it seem.
But I am quite guarded, thanks to the fact that 1. I was mocked a lot at school until I learned to be a rebel (9th grade or so) 2. two good pals stabbed me in the back later in high school, so I don’t trust people.
Courtroom stuff makes me have good short-term small talk; but I absolutely HATE being alone with people for more than 1+ hours as it gets to be like truth serum which I don’t want to take. Heading to mediation or settlement conferences with emotional clients is absolutely the worst thing in my job.
I’ve heard that described as being an “outgoing introvert.”
From the department of irony: Bikini Hiker Freezes to Death.
Just a reminder, two sitting US Senators identified the Knights of Columbus as an “extremist group”.
Here’s a blast from the past: that time when the Knights of Columbus fought physical street fights with the Ku Klux Klan when the latter was at its peak of political influence. The Klan, by the way, was most associated with progressivism at the time (they shared similar beliefs with regards to eugenics and prohibition).
https://www.kofc.org/en/columbia/detail/knights-vs-the-klan.html
“Sometimes, the Knights answered the Klan with their own show of force. In 1924, after hooded Klansmen abducted, severely beat and mutilated Father John Conoley in Gainesville, Fla., Knights armed with shotguns stood in the windows of the rectory, protecting another priest and the church itself from the Klan’s threats to burn it.”
Change the white hoods to black neckerchiefs and this could be a scene from the near future.
Yeah, but what does the SPLC say about them?
I’mma Brooks my comment
Could you imagine the hellscape we’d create here if everyone did that?
OMWC gave me a dirty-incredulous look when I said I kinda liked it.
Actually, TOS worked that way for a long time and it was better. You just had to quote who you were responding to.
I considered being a Brooks like poster when it changed, but couldn’t stick with it.
What I really miss was being able to change my handle for a one off joke post. But it caused other problems.
Spoken like someone who just couldn’t handle the refutations of their incoherent ideas by someone who would rather be crazy than libertarian. 😉
The Ewww girl, STEVE SMITH, Sandi, messing with Shriek… ah it was fun. That’s how I got my Lord Humungus handle – I used to lurk on TOS but joined a thread about the Road Warrior movie. And just never got around to changing it.
But spoofing Tony made it totally worth any problems it caused.
Not to mention Tulpa’s conversations with himself.
You mean our conversations with ourselves?
“Could you imagine the hellscape we’d create here if everyone did that?”
Cats and Dogs Living Together, Mass hysteria!
What you did there was seen.
I HAZ CONFUSE
TW: InfoWards
My brains says: Never punch a minor.
My boner says: Maybe just a jab, nothing serious.
It would be trolling like a boss for that kid to make a video of him punching himself in the face then tagging her in it and saying “When and Where?”
Classy girl…
I wonder if we can negotiate the price of that blowjob some more…
SNL WRITER OFFERS ORAL SEX FOR ANYONE WHO PUNCHES MAGA KID
Well that explains at least part of why SNL isn’t funny anymore.
“We’ve already established what you are, ma’am. Now we’re just haggling over the price.”
And Twitter hasn’t done a damn thing with any of these fools. Try this with anyone on the left and see how long that blue checkmark, or even your account, lasts.
“Beattie’s Twitter bio reads, ‘writer. comedy person. I hate your ex boyfriend. Sorry I meant mine. I have big tits.'”
The picture at least confirms the last part. The rest of it, especially the “comedy” aspect is open for debate.
lol
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/21/fox-friends-apologizes-for-a.html
Fox & Friends apologizes for announcing death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who lives
So now the other networks will apologize for wishing for the early death of Thomas et al?
Yeah, good luck with that.
Thomas is an evil Uncle Tom so wishing him dead is noble. RGB however is a hero of the people because… Well because. And thus, anyone wishing ill on her is evil. Like Thomas….
/progtard
Are they sure? A real journalist would want proof one way or the other.