“Time to start on the other hand, bitches!”
Happy Super Bowl Sunday, Glibertariat!
Birthdays, anyone?
Let’s start with the gorgeous Aussie ginger, Isla Fisher.
Also born on this day was former hottie and mother of whack job and health products grifter Gwyneth Paltrow, Blythe Danner.
Indian heartthrob, Kishwar Merchant.
Some non-hotties such as not Pretty Boy Floyd, American Icon Norman Rockwell, famed writers James Michener, Paul Auster, and Gertrude Stein.
I would also be remiss in not mentioning superb actor Nathan Lane, and world famous wrestler, Tonga Fifita.
And last but not least, this man born on February 3, 1811 deserves solo mention for his contributions to this country. “Go West, young man.”
There’s only one bit of history that really matters today because, this is the day the music died.
The links!
The halftime show needs to go the way of Kaepernick’s career.
“Who gets typhus? It’s a medieval disease that’s caused by trash.”
What happens when you take dolphins to the desert.
No need for war, just a few well placed ICBMs in the home of the Guardian Council.
Monkey cuck, glory hole?
Yeah! A race! NASCAR, F-1, Boston Marathon?
And lastly, in honor of Super Bowl Sunday, and my sincere distrust of the AI wave that’s just starting to break, tech spies predict the outcome.
Apropos music for today:
/Yawns
/Scratches
/Farts
/considers bed
Looks like it’s you -n-me out here, Tres.
I’m just reheating some of last night’s pizza and getting ready to go sing about Jesus for a while.
/lurk mode activated
You’re singing this?
Come on. It’s Super Sunday. They’ll be singing this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWg0bt9kp4
Actually, Mr. Insomnia had me up since 03.30, so what did I listen to while I spent an hour on on the elliptical ?
“on the the elliptical”
/Points
Ha. Haaaaa Fag! /Nelson
https://youtu.be/Qzk18NFPFDU
When I first opened the site and saw the Jaws illo I thought something was wrong with the site.
Time to start uploading that clipart I promised SP…
Jaws illo used recently…
Protest planned as fourth dolphin dies at Dolphinaris Arizona
It’s not the heat, but the humidity that does it.
Instead of the dreadful “American Pie”, you should have linked to Bobby Vee, who performed in lieu of the performers killed in the plain crash.
Plane, goddamit!
“yeah, they may have all died, but it was just so damn boring to watch!”
It was a spectacular crash!
You know that “American Pie” is really about Jesus of Nazareth, right?
I was always under the impression it had to do with the Russian revolution or something.
Not Jesus of Guadalajara.
I thought it was about losing one’s virginity.
Ahem; North Dakota native Bobby Vee
Fun fact:
I spent a year in the same home for juvenile delinquents as Ritchie Valens’s brother, back in 1982.
Since everyone asks, I tried to steal a car battery. Yeah, a whole year AND I eventually had to apologize out of there and start a new life under an assumed identity. No, I’m not related to Mcafee.
Dogamn phone. I had to AWOL out of there, not apologize.
That’s crazy. Are you still using the assumed ID or have you been able to go back to your real ID?
No, I went back to my name after I turned 18.
A car battery?
Now I want to know what you were planning to do with it.
My friend got fronted 4 qualludes and had no means to pay for them. I brokered a deal to give the guy a battery as payment. Fucked up (pun) by taking them first. Never even got the terminals off. Just tried to rip the battery out bare handed. Ludes make it seems feasible. The residents of the apt building all came out with guns. I was 15. They held me at gunpoint until the cops got us. Long story, long.
Harsh punishment. There was this old black guy I used to play at the pool hall back in my early 20’s. My 1984 Caddy’s starter when out one day and he told me he could fix it for me cheap. “Show up at the shop on XX street at 7am tomorrow morning”. That was in the very black neighborhood of Denver. I showed up and he was waiting in his car that was parked in front of a garage. He handed me a screw driver and pointed at another Caddy parked down the street. “Go get the starter out of that car and I’ll get you hooked up.” I get the damn thing out eventually and bring it back to him. “Get in! Let’s get the fuck out of here!” I ask him what the hurry was. “You want to get caught by the owner?” SOB could’ve gotten me killed.
You weren’t a swift one back then, eh?
No, I wasn’t. We used to fix each other’s cars all the time. I could do brakes, another guy was good a the electrical stuff etc. We’d do work on each other’s cars for a case of beer and a pizza. Had no idea that old guy wasn’t on the up and up.
Wasn’t the “very black neighborhood of Denver” circa 1984 that one street that had like 5 black families?
The car was an 84, but that was in 95 or so. It was in a neighborhood called 5 points and it had a decent number of AA families.
Over a….battery?
It gets worse. They kept me so long because I got sober in a a on a weekend pass, so I started being inspirational during group sessions. They milked it by keeping me as long as possible. Eventually, they sent me to a foster home run by a pedophile. He kept trying to get me sent back to juvie so I wouldn’t rat on him. That’s where I AWOL’d from.
I finally got a day off and have been hanging out here hoping to get a chance to thank Animal for his articles on six-guns. I’ve really enjoyed them but it seems we live on different time zones so I never catch him posting here.
Seconded this. The Six-Gun articles have been fantastic and it blends two things i love a lot, Guns and History.
^This.
Also, a shoutout to all the other glibs authors whose posts I read hours or days after they are published.
Same to you. Thanks for your pieces. Like Tejicano, I tend to miss out on stuff other than the links.
Thing is… my own interest is so deep I could have written the articles myself. Slightly different emphasis here and there – and that’s (part of) what made it interesting for me. It actually kicked out a few kernels of ideas for articles I might write – should I get the time.
Do it. Srsly.
And it’s okay if you write it in fits and starts.
JEWS
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how that blackface used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance that I could break that MJ moon dance
And maybe they’d be happy for a while
But Kamala made me shiver
With every presser I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about this political suicide
But something touched me deep inside
The day the Coonman died
*raises his lighter*
LOL.
I dislike the decrying of racist at every turn, but I do find it amusing it’s getting used on their own team.
The real issue with Northam is that he ran that fucking truck ad, and at every turn was all about “THIS IS A NEW VIRGINIA WITH MUH DIVERSITY AND TOLERANCE AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST.” He ran against Strom Thurmond, but his opponent was Ed Gillespie who is as squishy and moderate as Mitt Rommney.
It’s one thing for the woke to lecture, it’s another thing to be lectured about MUH RACISM by a guy who dressed up in a KKK outfit.
When all you have is projection it is inevitably going to boomerang on you. Yeah, it is amusing to watch these fuckwits shoot themselves in the dick.
*rises to bein prolonged and thunderous ovation*
*snap* *snap* *snap*
Who’s going to win the Superbowl, that’s easy… The refs. The refs are going to win the Superbowl.
As a side note… I just got the gag about the Ground Hogs day title. I definitely need more coffee.
I need more coffee too, based on the misspellings in one of my previous comments. 🙁
I am of the opinion you misused it which is far less of a transgression than misspelled. I believe I am of that opinion to make myself feel better about how often I misuse the correct spelling of a word. At least you didn’t call someone a ‘looser.’ THAT one makes me cringe at the irony.
How about “Democrates”? See that one all the time.
My personal bugaboo is “scrap” and “scrape,” and all its misused conjugations.
That was plane to see.
*narrows gaze *
You do realize he’s referring to my error above, right?
That makes it no less punny.
No need to ‘splain everyone knew you were jus playin’.
OT: Any reason blogspot would be setting off spam filters? I’ve had three sites this week where my comments were going straight to the void, and it seems as though after experimenting, not putting a link to the blog in the “Website” portion of the submission form kept the comments from going to the spam filter.
I cant decide how I feel about this. I’m a horrible person.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/tsa-officer-dies-at-orlando-airport-after-jumping-from-hotel-into-atrium-all-flights-briefly-halted-report
The comments were surprisingly snarky.
St Peter’s gonna do a cavity check just to be safe.
Watching tyrants self correct themselves and smiling about it, makes you a patriot, not a horrible person.
If it had been that fucker from the Tampa airport, I’d be wondering if karma was real. But it was Orlando and not the right age.
getting ready to go sing about Jesus for a while.
and drink wine all day?
I think it’s time to trash all of the nuclear weapons treaty’s with Russia. They are making the world safer for China, Iran, and Pakistan not the US or Russia.
We need ABM and hypersonic missle defenses, and more freedom to protect against space based threats.
I’m not a big proponent of high military spending, but I believe that the one of the primary points of the Fed gov is self defense.
I never much understood the point of such treaties, at least when it comes to their stated and actual purposes. The world doesn’t become safer because we have 6,000 instead of 8,000 nukes. What, we can only destroy the planet 2 or 3 times over instead of 5? It’s the sort of thing that on paper most people wouldn’t object to that politicians can make a big to do about that has no real consequences of any kind.
The more nukes we have and types allow us to strategically position them to hit a target. Who ever nuclear strikes an area first disables most of that area. Having our capabilities spread out and in a lot of cases mobile is a huge deterrent from someone actually starting a nuclear war.
I can’t wait for Europe to go apeshit over nukes again ?
The best bit in the otherwise meh Josie And The Pussycats is when the band manager walks into the cockpit and tells the pilot “Take the Chevy to the levy.”
Good soundtrack, though. Also, Rachel Leigh Cook, rawr.
Also, Rachel Leigh Cook, rawr.
Did she put your drugs on brains?
I’d fry her eggs, if you know what I mean, nudge nudge.
Wink, wink. Say no more, say no more!
I’d let her smash up my kitchen.
Totally rawr, but everyone misspells her name.
Rachael Leigh Cook, stupid biblical names.
My deep and sincere apologies to Ms. Cook. Who totally reads this site, I have no doubt.
Meanwhile in Proggyland:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/02/politics/northam-racist-yearbook-investigation-evms/index.html
They’re investing their publication process from 35 years ago? Seems like wasted effort but whatever.
“Who gets typhus? It’s a medieval disease that’s caused by trash.”
“contracted typhus from fleas in her office at City Hall East. Fleas often live on rats, which congregate in the many heaps of trash that are visible across the city of LA, and are a breeding ground for typhus.”
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended. Congratulations left coast. Mission accomplished.
I cant think of a better reason than the situation with Iran for B.O. to have his ass kicked. If we had a real, no-shit manchurian candidate there isnt anything they would do different than that despicable shitweasel. For everyone that voted for him in 2007, you are a dumbass. I have nothing but a giant ‘fuck you’ to everyone that voted for him the second time.
As for Russia not complying with our treaty….I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Superbowl sunday? Oh shit, today is Super Bowl sunday. Huh. Ok.
Obama or McCain? Talk about a shitty choice. Probably the worst two choices the public has been given by the two major parties.
Trump/Clinton?
Gotta go with that shit sandwich. I fucking voted for Johnson and Weld, Weld. Fucking Weld.I was actually thinking about voting for the Constitution Party.
Probably should’ve. Not that it’d have mattered.
Trump/Clinton in October 2016 looked like an awful choice.
From the viewpoint today, Trump is the best President of my lifetime, and it’s not particularly close.
Sad, but true.
Same.
Perhaps you forgot about Hillary versus the Donald? I’d say that was subjectively much worse.
Nah. I’d much prefer Trump to McCain.
McCain would make a decent president now that he’s dead and would have to pocket veto everything.
And looking at the second place finishers — Hillary versus live McCain? Ugh.
I’d rank the selling weapons and providing air cover to ISIS over money to Iran, but lets not quibble.
That TSA guy- Trump’s shutdown killed him. Just you wait and see.
Yep. I didn’t want to comment on it because I don’t want to be ghoulish, but the second thought that crossed my mind was, “Will they still be able to run this as shutdown-related now that the shutdown’s over? Has there been a full pay period yet?”
Dear God, it’s Don McLean…that’s downright inhumane. Holly et al really deserve a better epitath.
It’s one thing for the woke to lecture, it’s another thing to be lectured about MUH RACISM by a guy who dressed up in a KKK outfit
That was then, man. It’s the 21st century. Democrats are, by definition, inclusive and welcoming and not even a little bit racist. If you don’t believe that, just ask them.
Spiritually, Northam is a Republican. So, really, this is the GOP’s fault.
Hey, yeah, didn’t the parties switch or something?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyXy0F-X4AcAeDC.jpg
But don’t call them fake news.
Heh – that reminds me of the extremely obese HR woman who tells us to eat better.
“A Fridge Too Far”
Hah! Her male twin works at my company. Always love hearing that fat fuck (not that I’m any slimmer) lecture everyone on wellness initiatives.
Someone get Northam an all white one.
“World Hijab Day”. WTF?
The replies are delicious.
The more nukes we have and types allow us to strategically position them to hit a target. Who ever nuclear strikes an area first disables most of that area. Having our capabilities spread out and in a lot of cases mobile is a huge deterrent from someone actually starting a nuclear war.
But we have vowed, time and time again, never to use nukes in a first strike. Well, except for that one time. And the one after that. But seriously, we promise not to do that again, so don’t worry your pretty little head about it.
Bring on the Doomsday Machine.
We need to maintain a nuclear stockpile but verifiably take them off hair trigger alert along with the Russians. An launch due to a false alarm is probably the biggest danger.
And who’s going to convince China and the rest to do the same?
China doesn’t have enough nukes to wipe us out even if they wanted to and, from what I understand, theirs aren’t on hair-trigger alert and are used mostly as a deterrant. The others are relatively minor players who couldn’t successfully take on our conventional dorces even with their nukes.
The US has been steadfast in NOT renouncing first use. We maintained strategic ambiguity with regards o the USSR for a reason.
Yes, it’s a shitty solution to a shitty problem. But it appears to be the most practical and best solution to the shitty problem.
7-YEAR-OLD BOY DIES AFTER BEING PUNISHED FOR NOT KNOWING BIBLE VERSES, 3 CHARGED IN CONNECTION TO DEATH
According to the criminal complaint, Timothy and Tina Hauschultz were the court-appointed guardians for Ethan and two siblings. It is unknown how or if the couple are related to Ethan and his siblings.
Good job Mr. State at choosing guardians.
But also important to note that had the state turned down the Hauschultz family as foster care providers then they could have possibly played the religious victimhood card.
Apparently fundamentalist Christians of the Hauschultz sort are way over-represented as foster parents versus in the general population.
Nothing against Christianity in particular, but the more moronic religious types seem to always want to save someone, even it kills them.
“Apparently fundamentalist Christians of the Hauschultz sort are way over-represented as foster parents versus in the general population.”
Yeah, and the religious give more to charity and volunteer more often.
My wife’s fat diabetic retired grandfather spent a few weeks last year rebuilding houses in the gullah islands of SC. This guy needs to sit and take a rest after about a half hour of work around on his own farm, but he spent weeks building houses for complete strangers. White Christian guy who votes straight GOP spent weeks of his own time, on his own time, helping desperately poor black people. All because his “stupid sky daddy” told him to. What a rube, right?
I think of all the embarrassing things I did in my youth, the year I spent being an edgy Internet atheist was the dumbest. I kinda wish I did believe in God, it seems like a good church is really enriching to a lot of people’s lives.
Same here.
it does enrich people’s lives. I’m not a Church goer but I’ve been around people like that all my life and they’re the most fulfilled people I know. For years I was suspicious of it. It all changed when I had to go to Church for my daughter and she insisted on being an Altar-girl. I sat there observing for weeks saying, ‘how bad can this be for people?’ and ‘I can see why they find comfort and joy in this’. The message, at its roots, is good.
I still don’t go to Church but I’ve moved on from my suspicion and won’t speak ill of such people.
https://theblast.com/jussie-smollett-troubador-chicago-attack/
Letting go of his sandwich would have meant MAGA, people. MAGA would have won.
What’s going on with this? Has anything new come out?
Since it’s being investigated by the Chicago police I’m sure it will be solved in no . . . sorry, I couldn’t keep a straight face.
The last update we got was a relief. Smollette was able to save his sandwich during the attack and had it with him when he returned to the apartment.
Dude, it’s just like one more weird thing about an incredibly weird story. Nothing about this fits.
Use this one weird trick to save your sammich in the event of a freak Maga racist attack…
I’m sure we can expect a 3-page report from the FBI in about 18 months that will clarify everything.
Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
And as through your life you travel,
Yes, as through your life you roam,
You won’t never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.
– Pretty Boy Floyd by Woody Guthrie
Caption contest. Not that it really needs one.
EXCUSE ME, IT’S “MA’AM”!
Yeah… I couldn’t tell which it was.
“I wish that gaijin sitting across from me would ask me to hook up.”
“Sigh, I think I paid too much for these shoes.”
Love the shoes, though.
“Never too young to be a lonely old cat lady”
Speaking to cat under hat “they hate us, because they ain’t us.”
Meh. I see a cuter heartthrob every day. (also, is heartthrob the correct term for a hottie? I usually see it associated with men)
i.e.heartthrob; yes, I assumed Kishwar was a guy’s name and didn’t click link.
Rookie mistake.
The biological imperative to hit dat is strong.
Had some rabbits who bred through the holes in the adjoining chicken wire cages. No one saw that coming.
Phrasing?
That’s hilarious, bunny glory holes.
You’ve got it all wrong.
“America is not a company,” Furman, now a professor at Harvard University, told CNBC this week. “And in fact, many successful companies are much more leveraged than the United States,” he said, adding that the present value of America’s growth far exceeded its debt obligations.
Both Furman and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers insist that it’s time for Washington to end its “delusion” with debt reduction. In a Foreign Affairs essay, the economists argued that large deficits are a function of falling revenues, rather than surging entitlement spending.
“More spending is not, by itself, something to be afraid of,” they wrote, arguing that high levels of debt could be sustained in the medium-term, given that low interest rates mean borrowing costs are lower.
Given the areas in which America requires large investments–such as infrastructure, education and public services–the problem is less about cutting spending and more about increasing revenues, Furman told CNBC. While he called the debt “like termites slowly chipping away at the wood,” he insisted it wasn’t an immediate danger.
We’re just not spending hard enough. Everybody knows what sort of stimulative multiplier we can release by building gender-inclusive bathrooms across America.
+1 Wheelbarrow of cash
It’s like the dotcom implosion and 2008 never happened.
There just aren’t enough retired-at-50 public sector workers pulling in mid-six-figure pensions. We must do more.
>>Officials said the orangutans apparently managed to mate through the holes in the fence separating their enclosure.
STEVE SMITH NEVER LET ANYTHING GET IN WAY OF RAPE
Dudes got game.
But enough about government employees.
The Big Number: Almost 2 percent of high schoolers say they are transgender
Suddenly they’re all trannies.
It’s like an evolutionary spasm occurred.
Or they’ve slowly been educated into a mindset of “find a way to be a victim”.
Or it’s now socially acceptable for kids like my trans son to come out, without getting beat up.
So trans is the new goth then. Most of them will grow out of it.
Yes, people will choose to do something that will get them harassed and socially stigmatized and beat up, because “it’s a phase”, and then years later, stop.
I don’t think trans works the way you think it does. You gotta really want it to do it.
For some it’s legit, for some it’s an edgy fad. I claimed to be a Satinist in highschool, I’m not a Satanist now and never really was.
I’d argue the second “some” should be “most”.
Why did it go from 1 in 5000 to 1 in 50 in about a decade?
When my trans son cut off his breasts when he turned 18, after three years of binding them every day and taking hormone shots, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a manifestation of an edgy fad.
When my vice-chair of the Hawaii LP donned a dress as a kid and had to get a different job, and kept at it for all the decades since because dressing as a man didn’t work for her — not an edgy fad.
Yeah, gonna be some posers, but mainly people who really really want to identify as the opposite biological sex, consequences be damned.
You’re being a bit sanctimonious here but you’re standing up for your son which is laudible. If you can point me to some stats that say that most trans kids/teens don’t grow out of it I’m open to persuasion but for now I’m just not buying it.
Didn’t know it was coming off as sanctimonious. Certainly not my intent. Just pointing out how my personal experiences who people who are trans seem to be at odds with the notion that most trans kids are posers.
Don’t have time to google it, but open to persuasion if the facts show otherwise.
“Gay” went from “something you don’t talk about” in my school days to something kids try out like a new pair of jeans now. I strongly suspect something similar is going on here.
Part of the problem is that “transgender” has become too inclusive a term.
In the 90s I and my friends were runnin’ around wearing a lot of Bauhaus shirts, silver jewelry, and black eyeliner. You’d have thought the drama club was holding auditions for “The Crow: The Musical”. I was too big to easily fuck with, plus I had some crossover cred as a skater that got me in with the punks, but the jocks definitely weren’t friendly.
I knew a few gay kids, mostly dudes but a couple girls, and they seemed to do ok. One guy won a lot of respect by meeting a lacrosse player for a fight after school. He didn’t win, but he gave good account of himself and they actually wound up being friendly afterwards. I’d say that in my crowd and culturally-adjacent crowds, “bi” was the trendy thing, and I’m going to guess based on subsequent behavior and Facebook feeds in the decades following that it was over-reported. At any rate, nobody was getting their asses kicked for being gay.
Interestingly, one girl who always acted tomboyish and had several lengthy lesbian relationships went on to get a sex change and is now living as a man, seemingly content. It surprised absolutely no-one. I think the main reason she didn’t do the transition at the time was money, because her father seemed to be supportive (or at least indifferent) and her sister was 100% behind her. “Meeting” her as a him afterwards, he’s been totally accepted by people from back in the day and seems to be doing just fine as a dude. I suspect that in addition to a lot of support from family and friends holding off until his mid-20s to be absolutely sure was key. I think there’s some therapy involved, too, but I wouldn’t swear to it.
Sorry Prole, I withdraw the sanctimonious bit, I’m not a mind reader. Your personal experiences have obviously given you a strong personal viewpoint on the matter which is fine.
Didn’t know it was coming off as sanctimonious.Meh, just depends how one reads it.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/19/transgender-regret-is-real-even-if-the-media-tell-you-otherwise/
“One such study commissioned by The Guardian of the UK in 2004 reviewed 100 studies and reported that a whopping 20 percent (one fifth) of transgenders regret changing genders, ten times more than CNN’s Costello reported.”
That isn’t a majority, but I believe less than half of transpeople go to that extreme in the first place. These are likely adults, but I’ll admit to not clicking the study itself. The next link more closely addresses this question:
http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html
” Despite the differences in country, culture, decade, and follow-up length and method, all the studies have come to a remarkably similar conclusion: Only very few trans- kids still want to transition by the time they are adults. Instead, they generally turn out to be regular gay or lesbian folks. The exact number varies by study, but roughly 60–90% of trans- kids turn out no longer to be trans by adulthood.”
Again, I didn’t follow up on the cited studies, but they’re there. One of my nieces was ‘trans’, then she started dressing like a girl again. *shrug*
^Bam. I’ll bet there’s a bunch of dudes running around right now wearing dresses and talking about pronouns who are going to find out around age 21 that there are much, much easier ways to get laid.
How many of them just make shit up on the survey, and how many of them are claiming it as the new rebellion?
Better a hormone-free rebellion in drag than things that are harder to undo like tattoos and piercings.
I’m not sure how these things work but if a trans male and a trans female are dating, that’s not gay then, right?
See, this is why I’ve always been terrible at algebra.
Only not gay if neither or both have had srs.
Or if drunk.
As long as your balls don’t touch, it is straight.
If you’re doing what it takes to become trans, and the biggest worry is whether the sex you’re having is gay or not, you’re doing it all wrong.
I’m just gonna let Reddit explain this one for you.
Tip – learn the difference between a man penis and a girl penis, shitlord.
Ok, dammit, I’m just gonna say it: I don’t believe women have penises.
Otoh, calling people who are otherwise overwhelmingly feminine “men” just seems silly.
It’s contextual. Unless you’re at a nudist colony or a medical provider you’re going to assume gender based on secondary sex characteristics. Genitalia will be irrelevant in most social situations. Now if I’m out with a friend and he’s attracted to a trans women and I know she’s trans, I am definitely not going to tell him she’s trans because that’s what friends do.
This is also true. It’s all very confusing.
Words are merely lables we attach to things to help us communicate. They don’t fundamentally change what things are. If I point across the room at someone who looks female and say “see that guy over there?” While genetically accurate, I’ve failed to communicate properly because you’re not going to know who I’m talking about.
And a front hole from the back one.
To each their own. My only thing is that children shouldn’t be starting hormone treatment or surgeries. I don’t know what the right age is because everyone matures differently, but given how extended childhood has become later seems better than sooner IMHO.
I told mine if they wanted any elective procedures or tattoos or whatnot, they’d have to wait until they were out of the house and could pay for all that shit themselves.
Yeah, that’s my take on it as well.
denying a 16 year old girl a tramp stamp is a violation of human rights.
I wasn’t going to let mine get her ears pierced until she was 14, but by the time she was 11, I knew the shine would wear off quickly when she had to take care of them. So I got her ears pierced and was firm about her taking care of them. She abandoned them before the 6-week healing period was up.
I told her when she started wearing makeup, I was going to take her to Macy’s and have the counter lady go the through the whole hour-long process, then I would expect her to do that every morning. She doesn’t wear makeup except for church dances and Halloween.
If she won’t take care of a simple ear piercing and bother with makeup, I doubt she’s going to stick with anything else.
I think that is Pie’s goal.
church dances – lol. this notion is so foreign to me
You’re such a good Mom.
Same with me. My daughter had her ears pierced twice at 14, she took out the pins because of hygiene problems, no pierced ears today and she doesn’t seem to care. Worries more about her own daughters but not about their ear piercings
You should ask boys if thy are transgender in front of a little guillotine
Halftime (especially a halftime show) is the answer to the question ‘how can we make football games seem even slower and longer?’
Carol Channing was the first celebrity to perform at a Super Bowl halftime show.
I’m going to see this duet in about 10 days and thought it was music you might enjoy. They mostly cover 30’s and 40’s jazz and swing tunes with some originals mixed in. Great singers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8lFnDgGLKw
Army bosses order SAS troops to stop wearing (The Punisher) skull badges celebrating their first kill on operations – because it looks too much like chilling Nazi emblem
“‘We have been told that it could be upsetting to other units and disrespectful to enemy forces.'”
Never go full retard.
The Brits are fucking pathetic.
Isn’t it disrespectful to kill your enemy?
It’s racist in less it’s your own citizens.
Unless
Are we the baddies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
British army ban killing of enemies because it’s intolerant.
SAS sure does sound alot like SS..
TBH, it seems to to me that wearing a badge to celebrate your first kill is like dancing in the end zone. Attention seeking, humility lacking, and bush. At best.
It’s as nauseating as those news stories of “Government worker commits violence and then surprises his kid at school” that are always portrayed as heartwarming.
I know hating on the military is your shtick, but calling a soldier a “government worker who commits violence” is disingenuous and actually, a bit childish.
And, a child getting to see their parent for the first time in many months, is heartwarming if you can get over your hatred of the uniform that government worker is wearing.
Ted once lost a girl to a sailor. Not even a solider or a marine. But a sailor. So you have to understand where he’s coming from.
A “girl” to a “sailor”? I don’t know.
Lady sailor
I remember joes arguing in Basic if they mercenaries. The ones that said they weren’t were very unhappy at being insulted.
All government workers are heros, by default. Well then, I guess the word means nothing.
He was also told not to wear his Military Cross medal anymore because it looks too much like the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.
Dear Iran,
Oh, shut up already.
And kiss my ass.
Best,
Rufus.
Persia was great once. Sad. I blame Islam. I really do. Fucked everywhere up.
Pretty much this.
O.o
https://dailynews18.com/movies/zombieland-2-double-tap-released-86826468
SAWEEEEET!
Excellent!
Loved the first one. can’t wait for the second.
The data also showed that transgender teens are more likely to have been victims of violence than their non-transgender peers.
Listen, son- being a big fat pussy doesn’t make you “transgender”.
Hey, quick, do a study on how often kids who don’t fit in with the popular kids at school get beat up compared to, say, a varsity quarterback!
“I can see on the one hand he’s doing it for his city,” he said. “But a lot of people are upset because they don’t want to play second fiddle to a white artist in Atlanta, a black city.”
This shit is pure evil.
Who wants to play second fiddle to a black artist like Prince in a white city like Minneapolis?
THAT’S DIFFERENT!
Been hearing about that. These people are insane.
As for the half-time ‘controversy’, is it really? Let them squawk. I think the league knows precisely who its fan base is and shouldn’t have to worry about the likes of Kap or over rated, faux-righteous, racist artists anyway.
Time for the big middle finger.
“But a petition urging the band to back out amassed more than 100,000 signatures, saying “until the league changes their policy and supports players’ constitutional right to protest, no artists should agree to work with the NFL.”
Vic Oyedeji of North Carolina launched the petition, calling a boycott “the only way to affect the bottom line.”
Constitutional rights?
/slaps Vic off the side of the head.
THEY’RE AT WORK. It’s a place of business. They play with a piece of leather, the one who crosses a line more times wins, they get paid fabulously for their contribution to mankind by their employers (or how giant intellects like Lebron calls them ‘slave owners’) and they go home. There are no bloody constitutional rights to do jack shit in a place of business. This victimhood stuff passing off as justice is getting stale fast.
Also. Jay-Z. He’s another one. Isn’t he a fricken former crack dealer? He should just count his lucky stars he lucked out with whatever it is he does or else he’d still be in the ‘hood’ dealing.
These people.
OMG NOT AN ONLINE PETITION!
*faints*
A Democratic politician is about to lose his job because he dressed up as a Klansman decades ago. Meanwhile, this sorry sumbitch thinks Atlanta is Wakanda and wants to change the schedule because white people are bad. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Fuck Colin Kaepernick, fuck #BLM, and fuck the kneeling Taliban.
Fuck Dom Capers for letting Kaepernick continue to run roughshod over at least one team.
I hope Kaepernick gets humiliated in court.
I’m not sure if Kaepernick is a con-artist or a dummy or both, but this shit is bad for the country and the sooner he fades into obscurity the better.
He’s probably being egged on by unsavoury people like Sarsour behind the scenes.
For instance, about 24 percent of transgender teens said they had been threatened or injured with a weapon at school, compared with 6 percent of boys and 4 percent of girls who were not transgender.
How much is that in pesos?
1000 kids
2% trannie= 20 ……. ~25%= 4
98% NOT trannie= 980 …….. ~ 5%= 49
NEEDZ MOAR TRANNY POLICE
A source said: ‘The SAS are professional killers – that’s the job. So what if they wear a skull on their uniform.
‘We have been told that it could be upsetting to other units and disrespectful to enemy forces.’
i… uh… isn’t that pretty much the point?
Yes it’s incredible how far the Brits have fallen. From literally massacring French troops in Africa so that they couldn’t surrender their ships to the Nazis during WWII to….punishing their only remaining warriors so as to avoid…hurting their enemies FEELINGS. Sad.
So I’m listening to WTKS in Orlando, which is my usual Sunday show while I cook breakfast. A commercial for the heroin epidemic came on, regarding use of Narcan.
Jesus Aaron Koresh- they actually referred to the addiction as “opiate use disorder”.
Let your hate flag fly
Sean McSorley, an Atlanta resident who was turned away at the park before finding the protest in the city, said he had never been to Stone Mountain before but was pleased the white nationalists were not allowed in. Stone Mountain, which is known for its carving of Confederate leaders, has long been a gathering point for the groups.
“As long as these backwards, racist … people are not able to do what they intended, I’m happy with the results,” he said.
Disjointed story about people protesting a protest which had previously been cancelled. The cops shut down the park, anyway, because you can’t be too careful.
Just remember, hate hurts, so only do it to bad people.
““As long as these backwards, racist … people are not able to do what they intended, I’m happy with the results,” he said.”
This guy would happily load the ovens if enough people in authority told him it was the right thing to do.
Using your 1A rights to get someone else’s 1A rights violated. *Mind blown*
‘We have been told that it could be upsetting to other units and disrespectful to enemy forces.’
Reminds me of a Monty Python bit:
Corporal: (Eric Idle) Sir!
General: Yes, what is it?
Corporal: News from the Western Front, sir.
General: Yes?
Corporal: Big enemy attack at dawn, sir.
General: Yes?
Corporal: Well, the enemy were all wearing little silver halos sir… and they had fairy wands with big stars on the end and…
General: They what?
Corporal: …and they had spiders in matchboxes, sir.
General: (in disbelief) Good God! How did our chaps react?
Corporal: Well, they were jolly interested, sir. Some of them, I think it was the 4th Armoured Brigade, sir, they they… well, they went and had a look at the spiders, sir.
General: Oh my God! All right, thank you, Shirley.
(A girl emerges from under the table. She is a blonde WAAF.)
Corporal: Sir!
General: (to a sergeant) Get me the Prime Minister. (the sergeant opens the door, Churchill stands outside) Not that quickly! (the sergeant shuts the door) Gentlemen, it’s now quite apparent that the enemy are not only fighting this war on the cheap, but they’re also not taking it seriously.
Are costume parties out now? If I put on my faux cowboy clothes real cowboys are gonna kick my ass. Oh, I’ll go as a fireman? What? Still getting my ass kicked. If I put on my monkey suit I have to be looking over my shoulder for STEVE SMITH. Looks like the only safe bet is to dress as a politician, like everyone else at the party. Have money falling out of every pocket.
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Unfortunately, the amount of fossil fuels burned each year is equivalent to burning down a forest the size of Africa each year. Annual carbon emissions are now over 35 billion tons per year. Converting all agricultural land would help but would only slow the increase in CO2. Obviously, that is not a feasible solution.
So if I understand this guy correctly. Fighting nature with nature is not feasible.
Okay. But I bet you they advocate for carbon taxes. If nature can’t beat nature, how the hell can we?
Oh. Right. In order for his scheme to work you have to accept the premise that it’s all man-made as ‘settled’.
Remember, they’re not a death cult.
Until most of what I hear from the greens is “more nuclear” I ignore them
I feel the same way. Put up, or shut up.
^THISTHISTHIS! We’ve already got a carbon-neutral, efficient source of energy, and the technology is there to handle the very, very minimal waste product. If “environmentalism” doesn’t mean Luddite anti-capitalist, prove it by showing some interest in an established energy technology that checks all the boxes they want.
“First, the extraction of uranium from seawater would make available 4.5 billion metric tons of uranium—a 60,000-year supply at present rates. Second, fuel-recycling fast-breeder reactors, which generate more fuel than they consume, would use less than 1 percent of the uranium needed for current LWRs. Breeder reactors could match today’s nuclear output for 30,000 years using only the NEA-estimated supplies.“
March 2009 issue of Scientific American.
Northam: Wait. I thought the parties…..SWITCHED!?
My response.
See my post above: CNN has moved Northam from Democrat to Republican so none of the super well informed people who watch CNN will be confused.
If I put on my monkey suit I have to be looking over my shoulder for STEVE SMITH.
Monkey suit!
Monkey joke ?
Love the dichotomy here.
The state that wants to save turtles from plastic straws and oceans from bags tolerates shitting in the streets in SF and now has a Medieval disease breakout.
Awesome. Keep it up retards.
OMG NOT AN ONLINE PETITION!
Did it happen to mention whether the “petitioners” offered to buy out the contract?
I’m making my breakfast and Drown by smashing pumpkins came on the IPod.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N66Ki1iMMjY
This is such a great combination of my favorite early 90’s music. Hard rock, psychedelic rock, noise, and alternative.
I love that song. I seen the Pumpkins a few times at really small clubs in MIlwaukee after Gish came out. At one of the shows they said they were gonna try out a new song, and they played Drown. I don’t think the song had even been released yet. Me and my buddies were all kind of blown away, wondering what the hell we had just heard. They took the organized distortion to a new level. That show they played Drown is still in my top 5 concerts.
Same for me. I saw them during Gish and this song was the standout for me.
Nice. This is my jam from Summer 1992.
https://youtu.be/0MW-dR45c2Q
Very good.
To me the 90s was a wasteland for music – with some exceptions like Moose, various NZ groups, and Jellyfish
Wasteland? That’s unfortunate, man. In my experience it was an amazing time for music.
Matador alone had a bunch of absurdly good artists.
And of course, my personal fave.
Matador’s discography from 1990 on
Incredible catalog. Teenage Fanclub, GBV, Pavement, Liz Phair, Yo La Tengo, Thurston Moore…
Dang.
Matador, Merge, SubPop, Touch n Go, Epitaph, AmRep, Lookout!, Dischord, Taang, Cruz… plenty of good music in the 90’s.
Meh – it sucked compared to the 80s. Grunge was just bad.
Though I like a lot of Britpop – mostly Gene and Suede
My 90s were kind of chaotic with finishing up college, relocating a couple times, and just generally being a fuck-up. I still managed to collect a lot of great music from that decade but it seems like settling down during the 00s had some impact on me finding even more music that I like during that decade.
What’s grunge? Pear Jam? It was a tiny sub-genre that got an outsized block of radio play.
Sugar (Bob Mould) released Copper Blue in 1992. It’s about as un-grungie as can be. It could have been from pretty much any decade and still be as incredible.
If I Can’t Change Your Mind
I can understand Madonna or Lady Gaga playing halftime, because they’re women. But why do they pick the least “football” men to play, like Moron 5? Shouldn’t it be Kid Rock or ZZ Top? No one in history has ever drank canned beer in front of a BBQ grill while listening to Coldplay.
The game is for the men, the halftime show is for the women.
The women like the puppy bowl.
Compliments of Dr. Hook, have some yodeling.
Pretty low standards for their leaders. You seem insane, you’re now our leader.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/03/snow-queen-aoc-documentary-wins-sundance-film-festival/
And I always thought the “Snow Queen” was the gay guy my buddy used to get coke from.
Huh.
Oh FFS.
Lime curd made and cooling in the refrigerator, boiled part of ermine (or boiled) icing cooling in the refrigerator. Cakes baked and cooling on the counter.
Ermine?
You boiled a weasel ?
She’s wearing the fur, waste not, want not………….
HEY YUFUS!
Sup tres! Going to get some Stouts for day drinking!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sadly, I’m still enduring my self-imposed alcohol abstinence.
I’ll just sit at the temperance table with Mojeaux.
I compensate with sugar, our only collective socially acceptable drug.
Where are you guys at on over the counter stuff? Cold pills and the like?
And you mentioned your experience with Wellbutrin (Im on that too)….does the church have an opinion on psychotropics ?
There are no restrictions on cold medicines or anything medicinal that you need, prescribed by a doctor (I’m fuzzy on medical marijuana; there have been recent changes I haven’t paid much attention to).
I use NyQuil occasionally and the only thing that USED to work for a bad cough was Robitussin with the alcohol in it.
There are people who will forego those things because they think their salvation depends upon not having a drop of alcohol, coffee, or tea, which is fine for them. The problem comes in when they start trying to impose their will over others, and then if enough people do it, it starts sounding like it’s doctrine.
Caffeine has never been verboten but somehow morphed into being verboten despite the leadership saying over and over again that caffeine is not verboten. Finally people are getting the message, since BYU finally put caffeinated drinks back on the soda fountain menu.
Today on Glibertarians.com, I learned…..
Let me clarify: OTC meds are fine, as are anything rx’d by a doctor.
Weasel glands make the best icing.
You laugh, but this icing is the bomb.
Of course, that reminded me of this.
I want some!
Aaaaaaannnnnd now I really want lime curd. Thanks, Tulip. *huff*
It’s going between the cake layers. I’m pretty proud of this one.
Sounds awesome. I’m not a cake/sweets guy, but I’d be willing to learn. ?
Literally had never heard of ermine before, but I read this comment and then flipped on America’s test kitchen where they made an ermine icing for ginger cake.
GODDAMN PHOTOSHOP WON’T WORK! GODDAMN IT! They fucking had to change everything worthwhile just to piss me off. FUCK YOU ADOBE. DIE IN A FIRE.
Not that I’m completely bitter or anything.
Go back to ps7, stable
Agree. Bought it used off eBay a decade ago and still going strong.
You guys are right. Sorry for the loss of poop. New PS is horrific.
I kind of miss MSPaint for basic things like cropping and putting text over pictures. I have Gimp for Ubuntu Linux, but it’s massive overkill for simple functions like that. I almost wish there were some program of intermediate complexity – more capabilities than MSPaint, but not so much as The Gimp.
I don’t know about Linux but there are a *ton* of these for Macs. I’m sure it’s similar over there. Check here – my go-to for finding software.
Tx Rhywun!
Seconded. That’s a helpful site.
We will hunt you down
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) sent a warning Friday to the bigots who flood her offices with hateful telephone calls.
The freshman lawmaker tweeted that all the threats were forwarded to Capitol Police “to build files.” She added: “For all those who think your bigoted calls + digital threats are anonymous: Enjoy!”
“Your right to express your opinion about my policies? No such thing.”
Ah, “without evidence”. That wonderfully selective phrase that is only used on people of a certain political persuasion. The phrase that never seems to be used towards a Democrat who makes ludicrous claims in the media.
I’m sure she’s just building a Christmas gift list. Nothing sinister about that.
Authentic frontier gibberish:
“Women in prairie dresses aren’t dressing like fringe religious groups in a delightfully odd turn of fashion. They’re dressing like their own great-great-grandmothers, in a claim, conscious or not, to a racialized and gendered history.”
https://twitter.com/Jezebel/status/1090641778456358912
I really don’t know why I click on Twitter links.
From the very 1st sentence in the cited article: “Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic novels, based on her childhood in the late 1860s and 1870s in Minnesota’s Big Woods and on land belonging to the Osage nation in Kansas..”
The author sure doesn’t waste any time.
My consistent reaction to Jezebel is “You don’t speak for me!”
I can’t even imagine how it must feel to have such a group of lunatics claiming to speak for your entire demographic, and worse, being accepted in that role by most of the media.
Really? Have you seen GQ lately? It’s every bit as insane.
bitches be racist
“bitches and shit but ho’s and tricks” -Eazy E
*ain’t
Today, in politics ruins everything:
“Slate wants you to know that if you take hormones for gender dysphoria and find yourself only getting more fixated on and unhappy with your appearance, you should… ignore this as even a *potential* warning sign. Very responsible health/science writing.”
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1092084849366716416
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/01/gender-dysphoria-treatment-transition-process.html
We went to Trader Joe’s last night – and the place was packed – and the shelves were mostly empty. I didn’t make the superbowl connection until later which shows just how much I care about the NFL.
My Kroger at 8am this morning was a mess. Same reason, I suppose.
is this “superbowl” some natural calamity that forced people to stockpile food? Or some weird ritual you Americans have where you have a giant bowl which you must fill with foodstufs to please your gods?
Yes
You didn’t go to the one in Annapolis, Maryland, did you? Because my wife did and said the lines went all the way to the back of the store.
Our Walmart was surprising empty this morning. For the first time ever, i didn’t have to wait in line.
Check your food privilege, shitlord:
“It’s funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing! In other countries people don’t line up for food: the rich get the food and the poor starve to death.” – commie shitweasel Bernie Sanders
I know he’s a commie but… I’m not sure if that quote isn’t really just demonstrating that he’s a moron.
“Smollett has previously said he was talking to his manager on his cellphone during the attack and still had that phone after the attack. Chicago reporter Rafer Weigel of Fox32 News tweeted that police sources had confirmed that Smollett also still had the Subway sandwich on him when he turned up at an apartment building shortly after the alleged attack.
So Smollett underwent a vicious beating by two attackers that apparently lasted less than 60 seconds, since that is the reported gap in surveillance footage between an image of him without a rope around his neck and an image of him with the rope. Smollett now says he fought back, but apparently he lost neither his Subway sandwich nor his cell phone in this brawl. Also he didn’t immediately call the police on that phone to describe the suspects and inform the police which way they had gone when they suddenly ran away from him, but instead waited about 40 minutes to inform the police.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/more-strange-details-in-the-jussie-smollett-case/
Maybe he wanted to eat his sandwich first?
The noose tightens
Donald Trump Jr. will be indicted and used by special counsel Robert Mueller to ensnare his father President Donald Trump, a former prosecutor predicted.
During a segment on MSNBC’s AM Joy on Saturday, Paul Butler, a former Department of Justice public corruption prosecutor, and host Joy Reid discussed the latest developments in Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between Trump’s campaign team and Moscow officials.
“Does Mueller have to indict Trump in order to put the proper coda at the end of the long symphony?” Reid asked the ex-prosecutor.
“Mueller is not going to indict Trump, because he’s going to follow the DOJ employee handbook, but he has leverage over the president in terms of Donald Trump, Jr.,” Butler explained. “We’ve seen Mueller use people’s kids to get to folks in the past. He could do this with Donald Trump, Jr.”
We know it’s true, because we want it to be true. Have faith, and put your trust in the
LordDeep State.I’m surprised they haven’t suggested enhanced interrogation yet. I’m sure Ms. Reid would be all for it.
Ah! The same tactics the mob and other criminal organizations use to manipulate unwilling people to do their bidding.
Yeah, not sure how saying that doesn’t make you sound like the bad guys
*cue baddies clip*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
Maybe he should also indict Barron Trump.
Smollett now says he fought back, but apparently he lost neither his Subway sandwich nor his cell phone in this brawl.
Shrieking like a terrified little girl counts as fighting back, shitlord.
Wheeeeeee!
And, watch as that same axis of avarice will make the case that the only way to restore the nation’s credit worthiness will be to reduce the size and scope of the social contract we have in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This will be hailed by so-called moderates as courageous, because “it requires everyone to sacrifice something.”
What is entirely ignored is the direct correlation between the explosion of wealth inequality and income disparity and the way the White House and Congress managed the federal government’s balance sheet since around the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Which party was in charge did not matter.
Throughout the 1950s and the Eisenhower years the marginal tax rate for the highest income earners was at 90 percent. It was during this period that the country paid down the debt racked up fighting Germany and Japan, followed by rebuilding both.
A progressive(?) who doesn’t like the national debt. Because rich people suck.
You guys are all shit weasels. How dare you ignore Tonga Fifita‘s 60th Birthday?
Happy Birthday King Tonga! I remember him more as Haku, and he is/was supposedly one of the toughest real fighters in the sport. Two of his sons perform today for New Japan Pro Wrestling. On one of my trips to Tokyo I made sure to visit Korakuen Hall to take in the rich history of Puroresu.
No, I would say 70 percent for the highest marginal tax rate is too low, in light of our track record for the last 70 years. Call me an Eisenhower “radical”. I am holding out for 90 percent.
I love how people will pluck some random variable out of a system so complex as to be fundamentally chaotic and say, “If we change this, we’ll fix everything!”
Anyone who references Eisenhower and those high tax rates is either pig ignorant or a fucking liar.
Or thinks JFK was some right wing conservative for backing off from 90 percent plus marginal tax rates.
This is such an easy race to win – just propose 100% taxation on 100% of income earners. I win, suck on that AOC.
Italian pot roast (Stracotto), served alongside lemon caper rice, and a little pickled radish/cucumber salad. Evan Williams on the rocks. Pinot grigio. Super Bowl.
Chile verde, guacamole, maybe some wings. Beer and mezcal.
Amanda Marcotte has Howard Schultz’s number. Him, and all them other evil Scrooge McDuck motherfuckers
Whether or not Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is sincere about conducting an independent presidential campaign, the media blitz he has received makes clear that this particular billionaire has nothing but contempt for the concept of the public good. Consider the way Schultz speaks about politicians who want to ameliorate economic inequality through progressive taxation: He has said they are “ridiculous,” “misinformed” and even “un-American” for wishing to return to the tax rates of the mid-20th century. Schultz appears to be using the threat of a spoiler campaign in order to intimidate Democrats out of even talking about higher taxes on the rich.
But one story out of Seattle from the early 1990s regarding a public park and a private driveway perfectly illustrates the toxic brew of entitlement, contempt for the commons and overblown self-regard that is fueling Schultz’s presidential flirtation.
———-
Like many of America’s much-touted billionaires, including the one who somehow wound up in the White House, Schultz likes to describe himself as “self-made.” This sort of rhetoric is normalized and mundane in the U.S., but it should be treated as the ridiculous joke it is. Schultz would be nowhere without the thousands of people who actually do the work every day of running Starbucks: The baristas, the construction workers, the coffee growers, the shipping employees and the office dwellers who run everything from customizing the holiday-specific drinks to the design elements that shape the brand.
Schultz, like every other successful capitalist, built his wealth on other people’s labor and the support of communities like Seattle, which offer him roads and other infrastructure to operate his business with — and also bought his coffee long before it became a global lifestyle brand.
His response to all his home city’s help and support was to sell Seattle’s basketball team and build a driveway through a city park.
Honestly, I’m glad Schultz is doing this media blitz and threatening to run for president. He may think he’s working to defend the low taxes and substandard regulatory structures that have allowed economic inequality to flourish. But he’s not. On the contrary, every day his smug, entitled face is visible on people’s screens, he makes the case for taxing people like him until they’re brought down a peg, or maybe a billion pegs. He’s a one-man showcase for why it’s immoral to have billionaires at all.
He made billions off of barista sweatshops. He laughs at the common good. He sold our basketball team, just like a slave master. Lynching’s too good for him.
I’m still amazed that anyone that dumb still remembers to keep breathing. Or hasn’t rebelled against the oxiarchy and withheld their inhalations in protest.
You’d think the Left would love this guy… He’s provided jobs for untold numbers of graduates from the fields of English literature, women’s studies, gay & lesbian studies, social justice, poetry, and other useless programs.