As we conclude yet another round of Culture War: Red versus Blue, it’s important to realize that just because Jussie Smollett hired his coworkers/friends to simulate a bigoted hate crime doesn’t absolve the bigotry of the situation. There is still hatefully bigoted behavior happening, and it’s a growing trend that is quite troubling. Smollett may not have been lynched, but a lynch mob was formed, and it was the usual suspects that were holding the noose and wearing the pointy white hats.
That’s right, the progressive left is at it again! They may have admitted defeat in the 1960s when the Klan began to collapse and Jim Crow was given a swift boot into the rearview mirror of history, but the racial supremacist instinct of the progressive left has been simmering in the dark recesses of academia, mass media, and activist organizations across the country. The progressive left up to the 1960s had always been composed of two rival factions that agreed on more than they’d like to admit. The elitist northerners were the scientific eugenicists, the social Darwinists, the people who cheered the Supreme Court on when they ruled that mentally handicapped people should be sterilized in Buck v. Bell. Their superiority didn’t attach to whiteness, per se, but it was attached to a misplaced Protestant work ethic (a remnant of the original Progressives who, by the early 20th century, had been jettisoned by the progressive movement to eventually become the social conservative movement). Immigrants, catholics, and blacks were in the inferior working class, and the elites lorded over them, secretly despising them. The dixiecrat southerners approached the dynamic a bit differently. They came from a long tradition of looking down on blacks due to the slave relationship, and the fact that the South got their noses rubbed in their mess during Reconstruction still smarted. Add in the religious dynamic of 2nd Great Awakening revivalism emphasizing anti-intellectualism, and the dixiecrats were much less nuanced, much more emotion-driven racists. They were your true “white supremacists” in a less effective caricature of the German model that eventually became Nazism.
Some people believe the vapid notion that the parties “switched sides” in the 1960s or 1970s, but the reality is much different. In the middle of the 20th century, there was a shift going on, but it was much more limited and much different than your self-conscious progressive know-it-all friend realizes. Essentially, the dixiecrats all died off. In the “greatest generation” (I hate that moniker) and the prior generation, they lived knowing people who had seen the Civil War and Reconstruction. The roiling hatred the rebels felt for the yanks was passed on to those younger generations. This resulted in two things: 1) a regional pride that still exists to this day; and 2) white supremacy. In the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, those two generations were in their primacy, and the worst abuses of Jim Crow were in effect. By the time the 1960s and 1970s rolled around, those two generations were waning, and the baby boomers were supplanting them. The baby boomers never knew the scars left by Reconstruction. Their great-great grandparents were dead before they were born, and the boomers in the South only got second hand hatred. The boomers were also the first generation to be unified under a central and pervasive mass media. Sure, Hollywood had been king since the end of the vaudeville days, but news and entertainment was still highly localized until the mid-to-late 1950s when shows like American Bandstand were in the zeitgeist. Once the mass media took hold, the boomers were exposed to a very northern mass media, and their voting habits reflected that.
The 1976 presidential election is probably the best microcosm of this shift. George Wallace and Jimmy Carter were the two Democrat frontrunners in the primary. Wallace was the last gasp of the Dixiecrat contingent, and Carter was the compromise candidate. Carter was a northern elitist in a southern peanut farmer’s body. Carter won out, and the last nail was placed in the Dixiecrats’ coffin. The more erudite and cosmopolitan boomers were the main force in politics. However, they didn’t just magically flip to being Republicans. Party identification doesn’t tend to flip on a dime, and you can see that there are only a few Republican cracks in the Democrat southern hegemony in 1976. However, these were votes for a Democrat that was, by lineage, style, and heritage, a Southerner, but by ideology a northern elitist. The southerners were holding their noses and voting for a progressive because voting Republican was out of the question.
You can really see the death of the dixiecrats when you compare 1976 (above) to 1968 (below) where Wallace swept the south and Humphrey swept the northeast. Note that in the 1968 map, all of the states in blue and orange were won by Democrats in spite of there being two Democrats on the ballot in the general election (Yes, technically Wallace was an Independent).
Anyway, all of this has a point. The northern elitist bigots never went away. The dixiecrats died off and the southern boomers voted Republican in large numbers in the 1980 election, but the huge contingent of new england Democrats didn’t go anywhere, and became entrenched in positions of power. They were elitists, and thus they became elites.
Through the 20th century, the northern elitist progressives carried with them the identitarian philosophies that flowed from Marxism (class conscious reality morphed into critical theory, feminist theory, etc.), and in true leftist fashion, the target of their ire settled on their idiot political bedfellows, the dixiecrats. It was just happy chance that the “backwards hillbilly bible thumper” stereotype was shifted over to their rival party when the southern boomers revolted en masse in 1980. The progressives also did a pretty damn good job of making the dixiecrats’ perception of racism carry over to the GOP, too. However, the progressives had been undergoing their own changes in the middle of the 20th century. They quickly recognized that the civil rights movement was exploitable and they sloppily cut and pasted their “working class oppression” schtick from the 20s and 30s onto the civil rights struggles in the 60s and 70s. Scratch out “Irish” and replace with “black”.
Those roots they set in the civil rights movement didn’t strip away their eugenic, bigoted foundation. They are and have always been elitists who only see the world skin deep. They will do and say anything to have the cultural upperhand, and they’re not above stoking racial tension, sexual tension, or any other difference between people to cause the public to give them social power.
Jussie Smollett may not be aware of the history of the progressive movement, but he’s influenced by it. He’s the latest to throw himself on the sacrificial pyre of identitarian leftism, and the frothing mob that backed him up is the culmination of 100 years of work by the American progressive left. The prevalence of bigoted identitarian strife seemed to be tailing off through the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, but the progressive left, which was dealt a massive blow in the 1980s with the near extinction of their fellow traveler dixiecrats, has recovered to national prominence in the past 15 years by rebuilding a coalition of identitarian groups of all stripes, all deluded under the Marxist lie that their truth is in their identity. Bigotry is back, and it’s likely going to stay for a while.
I’m drunk. You want me to read that?
I’ll try again tomorrow. ?
Bigotry never went away.
And Iowa had 9 electoral votes instead of the current 6. They all went south and west.
There was a big exodus of young folks from Iowa in the late Seventies/early Eighties. I should know – I was part of the Great Iowa Diaspora.
The government class in Iowa is large, indolent, and incompetent.
So you’re saying that Iowa is a normal place…
Nixon took California. Wow, things have changed.
Another thing we can blame California for.
And Humphrey took Texas.
California was usually Republican until 1992.
They all suck.
Can’t forget that it was the Jim Crow South that provided Egghead Adlai Stevenson almost all of his electoral votes and his running mate in 1952 was a segregationist.
Or how from 1930s until the 1960s the Democrats successfully managed to become the party of Segregation and the Blacks at the same time. It seems the Muslim and Jewish voting blocs are causing similar issues in the modern Democrats.
And in 1974 The Man With Golden Gun has a Louisiana Redneck express his loathing of Republicans.
See 2:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZIyMD46M-U
Loved those old movies
Vermont used to the most rabidly Republican State of them all yet it elected Bernie Sanders today.
Not just “today.” Sanders squeaked to victory as mayor of Burlington in 1981.
Old-School Northern Republicans always had a socialistic tinge: see Horace Greeley or all the Populists and Lafollette…
Also, Robby is on Tucker…
Prediction, Fruit sushi will get a nice job on Fox and he will learn how to change a tire.
Getting a job on Fox is a possibility, to be sure, but him learning to change a tire is not going to happen. He’s proud that he doesn’t know how.
His wife could learn though.
Literally?
Oh God, thanks for that.
Thanks for this breakdown of the “party switch” story. It’s been a subject I’ve been wanting to learn more about. It’s been especially annoying when my more lefty aquantainces smugly pose that the Democrats of today were the Republicans of old, thus showing #theirsideofhistory has never been wrong or bigoted.
How do they explain how Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Bill Clinton continued to be elected as Democrats after desegregation?
Seconded. One thing that I don’t understand is how today’s Democrats can distance themselves from the brand that what openly racist. I mean you can’t rebrand the KKK and still use the name even if the KKK started funding college tuition for inner city black kids. I suppose the Democrats had no choice but to stick with the name for a while because it happened slowly over time, but how do the supposedly non racist Democrats of today not push for a change of name?
Let us not forgot how modern Democrats seem to loath Jefferson and Jackson and if anything prefer Alexander Hamilton.
They’re trying to rebrand as “Progressives”.
You know, the movement that advocated for eugenics.
That’s what they want to rebrand as.
They like to disassociate from eugenics, kind of like how the resemblance between socialism and national socialism is purely incidental, but they’ve got no problem lionizing the heroes of the Progressive movement contemporary to their espousal of eugenics. Nor do they have a problem with the fact that the roots of their driving ideology go straight to eugenics.
Not that I’m expecting it but I would love to see them rebrand themselves the National party. Just to see them declare to be National Socialists without the faintest glimmer of recognition.
Need to take back the KKK. Imagine the exploding heads if you had a Filipino civil org showing up and giving out scholarships ;p
They don’t even believe the “party switch” thing happened, they’re just flat out lying and arguing in bad faith to cover for their party’s racist history.
Start asking them about specific “pre-switch” Democrats (*cough*FDR*cough*) and watch them start talking about how awesome that guy was and how the Republicans at the time were evil.
Woodrow Wilson, that great Democratic statesman who also happened to be a firm proponent of segregation. I wonder if they’re getting ready to tear any statues of him down, or maybe rename anything in light of his terrible lack of woke.
There was a controversy at Princeton over Wilson a while back though…
Sure. The great thing about being a Cultural Revolutionary is you get to use that sort of thing to uproot the existing leadership while you cherry pick what you want from history. Current year uber alles.
Also the New Deal is still great despite the most heavily Democratic areas during that time being the Jim Crow South.
Nice read, trish! Thanks for the effort.
Belly full of homemade tomato soup, grilled ham and cheese, and beer. My recliner, a glass of Single Malt and I have become one.
I will never not see it as ‘trish-master’ now.
Then my work here is done.
OT: Galaxy Quest is on TV. It’s a terrible movie, but Sigourney Weaver is smokin hot in it.
*falls out of chair*
I know right
I like the first half of it, then lose interest.
“It’s a terrible movie”
WTF is wrong with you?!? Some people’s kids.
https://youtu.be/-ZrrWj_y3Mc
As a spoof on the original Star Trek and Trekkie conventions, it’s a work of art. Almost Jaws-like.
“You all had raisin bran with ba-na-na!”
Dude, he’s Canadian. I’m not advocating for forgiveness, merely understanding.
Ah. “Special needs”. Thanks for the heads up.
Not as parable-y as I had hoped, but a very good read! I’ve always wondered about the supposed party switch. Great topic, Trashy!
Nicely done.
My grandfather, who was that old-school, in the bone kind of racist you get when you grow up around people who are just racist without even thinking about it, was a solid Democrat until Carter. We have a picture of him riding a pony for his I think 8th birthday in Bull Connor’s yard, who was a neighbor, if that gives you some idea of where he was coming from. When Reagan ran, he voted Republican and never stopped until he died. I never knew how much of the switch was spite for the end of the Dixiecrats or just because the Dixiecrats’ non-segregation positions really represented him and when they were gone the Republicans were the next best thing. I’ll say this much: he had no respect for black people, but he straight up hated Communists. He’d hit the brakes for a black person in the crosswalk, that was the main difference.
Did he ever vote GOP for Congressional or state offices before or after Carter?
Also since 1980 was 16 years after The Civil Rights Act this was obviously not the final straw for him.
I don’t know about before Carter, but I know afterwards he voted Republican down the line.
You know, he never said anything to me in favor of legal segregation. He was obviously dead-set against affirmative action, but that’s not the same thing. He wouldn’t miss a chance to say something racist if someone not white was on television or came up in conversation but he was never anything but pleasant to people of other races. In the privacy of the home, mind you, I learned every single racial epithet known to the English speaking world, but that was it.
With that said, his kids, my dad and aunts, were right in the middle of the busing era in Prince George’s County, and my grandmother was a high school teacher in the county at the time, and that heavily, heavily influenced his opinions. This was in the mid-70s, so I could see that followed by Carter being the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Did he vote for George McGovern?
That I don’t know. I know he had a more favorable opinion of Nixon when he talked about him to me in the late 80s and the 90s, but I don’t know if that was influenced by his attachment to Reagan or his hatred of the Democrats. I also know he absolutely detested the Communists and I can see McGovern’s antiwar stance turning him off.
My union loving, lifetime Dem supporting, immigrant grandfather was a huuuuuge racist. ( In fact he taught the young DblEagle that Brazil Nuts were called “N+g++r Toes” which was something that did not amuse my teachers in AZ.) Being from Wisconsin he voted for Humphrey instead of Wallace in 1968, but was a Wallace supporter in 1972.
The biggest racist in my neighborhood, a postal clerk, hated Goldwater and loved LBJ. It made sense, didn’t it?
My ex-girlfriend (born in 1990 if I recall) is a huge Bernie Sanders supporter who wants all student loan debt wiped clean. She also openly hates black people.
As an aside, she came from a family of average means and had a full ride to “The” Ohio State University using the variety of public and private scholarships, but she decided to go to a more expensive private college instead. Now she has massive student loan debt and became a Bern victim hoping to get it all written off.
That right there is the danger. People will do crazy shit when they believe that there is no way out or that the way out is terribly difficult. Student debt, government debt, corporate debt, consumer debt. Nothing could be more effective at destroying a country than having all these forms of debt at sky high levels.
relevant
Or I could’ve just linked that. LOL.
I believe you mentioned before your grandfather is from Kenosha, where I grew up. Kenosha was a heavily unionized town in the 70’s – early 80’s when I was growing up, and racism was pretty rampant among the union crowd. Hearing racial epithets growing up was pretty common. It probably didn’t help matters that many of the old Italian immigrant neighborhoods eventually turned into black and hispanic neighborhoods that you just did not go to if you were white. Most of the union jobs are now gone and Kenosha is basically a suburb of Milwaukee and Chicago.
Paternal great grandfather swept floors at the AMC plant. Grandfather was a sheetmetal worker for a RR and then for a heating and cooling business. Maternal grandfather was an accountant at Snap Tight Tools. Kenosha was hurting in the 80’s and 90’s. But thankfully Tenuta’s is still there and still great.
I grew up two houses away from Snap-On Tools, a couple hundred yards from where the tools were stamped. There was a loud boom every couple seconds 24/7. Luckily they built a large earthen berm after a few years that blocked out the sound pretty well. In HS moved to Pleasant Prairie with just some farm houses around us. By the time my parents sold about 10 years ago, they were surrounded by McMansions. Kenosha was pretty depressing when I was in HS and early college in late 80’s and early 90’s. Me and most of my friends and family moved away with no plans of ever returning. It’s recovered well now and grown like crazy. I rarely go back, mainly just to stop in town to see a couple friends and stock up on Tenuta’s! I totally get why SP and OMWC wanted to get the hell out of that area.
I grew up in the northern Chicago suburbs and was a teenager in the mid 70s, when the drinking age in Illinois was 19 for beer and wine, 21 for liquor. But Wisconsin was 18 for everything, Kenosha was a short drive away from us and right across the border, and drivers licenses were made of paper with no photo and were ridiculously easy to doctor. So once you hit 16 and got your license, Kenosha was practically our high school commons for classmates wanting to drink. There was even a bar right on the Wisconsin side of the state line called “Jumpers”, clearly understanding their target audience. Cold beer, bright lights, my sweet romantic teenage nights…. in Kenosha.
My older cousin from Waukegan used to do the same thing with his friends. He knew more about the Kenosha bar scene than I ever did. The drinking age changed right around the time I entered HS.
Man I just made Bull Conner reference today or yesterday.
Guess this is a good place to drop the Gillette Prequel.
FUBAR
An OT OFFS:
There’s a new, risky social media challenge striking fear into parents.
Near the bottom is an admission that it doesn’t actually happen.
He is correct that social media is a cancer though, so there’s that.
The 48 Hour challenge:
Watch an entire episode of the TV show 48 Hours without turning the channel?
or
Watch the movie 48 Hours without once copying Eddie’s laugh?
Or
Take a trip to where they shoot The First 48
I wouldn’t argue with any of that, but I will make a couple of observations that might or might not reconcile:
FDR yellow dawgs in the South generally didn’t go Reagan or Bush; they faded away (including my grandparents and CommieMommie).
FWIW, I don’t know any Republican Southerners today who didn’t vote for Nixon if they could: the law-and-order and stop-communism-now stories we a solid buy even as their brothers and sons came back from the Nam mangled in every way (my father).
Last, the more “conservative” a Southerner is, the more likely he’s three trailer payments behind and hasn’t a prayer beyond Medicare and Social Security. Voting is easy; walking the talk is quite another thing. They’re not a nation of epic shitlords: they’re a bunch of toothless losers.
I find no string of logic and predictability that reliably runs through the whole of Southern electoral behavior . . . or anything else in the South. It’s just a Doctor Phil episode with 50 million guests.
Or Jerry Springer.
“now stories we a solid buy even as their brothers and sons came back from the Nam mangled in every way”
The Vietnam War was lost by the feckless incompetence of Johnson and McNamara, Nixon was elected to salvage a fucked up situation, and still found himself hamstrung by a truly stupid entrenched foreign policy and military establishment.
You win wars by attacking the enemies strategic center with the utmost effort you can muster, and stopping only when they surrender. Then, after they surrender, you decide whether to impose a Carthiginian peace or not. If you aren’t willing to do that, don’t go to war.
Yes
but I don’t care who lost a war I didn’t believe in; I only care that my family and neighbors were chewed up so Larry D Bell could sell more choppers.
Well, you see, Presidents are willing to send men to die (or return chewed up and worn out) because they fear HISTORY will judge them for losing some country. Even today you will see some moron writing about how Trump is going to lose Syria, etc. Even more than capitalist capitalization on warfare economies, it is about stupid, vain, fucking ego at the top.
It really is. I think that’s mostly what Obama was after with his constant warmongering. Every president wants to be Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, or FDR. Nobody fantasizes about going down in history as Calvin Coolidge.
The fact that people died in large part over one man’s ego makes it all the more infuriating. Nobel Peace Prize, my fucking ass. If that committee had any integrity, they’d revoke it.
This is oddly where Trump is pretty much immune, because he is so in love with himself that he isn’t concerned about the judgement of HISTORY.
“The Vietnam War was lost by the feckless incompetence of Johnson and McNamara, Nixon was elected to salvage a fucked up situation, and still found himself hamstrung by a truly stupid entrenched foreign policy and military establishment”
I don’t think you can separate lost without including started by the same incompetence, including Ike and JFK.
This was the beginning of my search for a meaning in a political environment. I drifted aimlessly for the next 20 years. By the 90s I discovered that there were others with the same problem but they were more anchored by Hayek and Mises philosophy. The awakening had begun.
Exactly.
I voted (for the first time!) for McGovern because the Democrats were against the war (and I was draft-age).
In 1980 I voted for Reagan because he was going to reduce the size of the Federal government.
Boy, was I an idiot.
My last vote was Reagan, ’80. I realized soon after that the fruitlessness of believing any politician.
Last, the more “conservative” a Southerner is, the more likely he’s three trailer payments behind and hasn’t a prayer beyond Medicare and Social Security.
Amen. I mean, I know lots of people who are socially conservative who have real jobs and real futures, but the real race-haters are all people who have no hope of ever succeeding if they aren’t given preferential employment and treatment.
This. It’s really just pure tribalism. “We’re going to get free shit for your tribe, and make the evil white male tribe pay for it”. The backlash is already brewing and will come to a full boil in a few years.
It didn’t have to happen this way. I was a kid in the 70’s, we accepted the whole MLK thing then and lived that way in the 80’s. I was still walking around in the 90’s thinking a “colorblind” society was the big goal and we were close. Turns out the goal was votes and there are lots of votes to be had by stirring up racism and tribalism.
a coalition of identitarian groups
Absolutely. Is there any other way? How else can evangelicals vote for “two Corinthians?” It’s tribal rationalization all the way down. The disease is the same whether folk break out in the red rash or the blue.
So back to being not colorblind because team blue plays identity politics? Makes sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia
Back then Georgia Republicans won a Senate race very narrowly due to Atlanta and environs…
I could see that with my wife’s red neck family (Florida panhandle – really south Alabama). With her parents and grandparents and their friends racial epithets were just part of casual conversation. Carter was the last Dem at the national level they voted for. Voting R at the local level took a little longer. MIL would fret “Daddy would kill me if he knew I voted for a Republican.”
One of those little longers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_McDonald
Second most conservative voting record (behind Ron Paul) during his time.
Speaking of tribalism isn’t that the cause of a lot of gun politics? Urbanites associate guns with backwards Rednecks hence why they should be banned. Meanwhile Rednecks associate gun control with smug liberals who hate them hence why guns are so important.
Also the classical liberals of the past used to think urbanites would be liberals forever but that didn’t work out. Classical liberalism did involve a lot of tribalism directed against the aristocracy and the church after all.
Not really. At least around here (NYC) we* associate guns with gangsters and drug dealers. Rednecks don’t really enter our thoughts as much as people like to think – I would guess because they’re more distant.
*Not me “we” but I say “we” because I am an “urbanite”.
That might be in local politics but with State and National gun control politics focus heavily on the rednecks. The MSM loves its white male mass shooters after all…
Well, you said urbanites, so I gave you the urbanite position.
I see your point. How about this: State and Federal politicians (usually from big cities) who advocate gun control like to focus on gun rights advocates being rednecks. Most of the attacks on Gun Culture and the NRA don’t generally focus on gangsters and drug dealers.
I think there’s plenty of scapegoating of both rednecks and inner-city criminals.
This I agree.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/749504001
Most of the attacks on Gun Culture and the NRA don’t generally focus on gangsters and drug dealers.
In the black community they do.
I believe you. It is just that the MSM loves its white male shooters. They don’t want to argue that black criminals or Muslims are a danger so that’s why guns should be banned.
Well here us knuckle dragging gun loving white boys are fucking that up for them by turning on all our black friends to shooting. I can tell you that the gun ranges here not only are way more packed than the’ve ever been, and that’s with a lot more them, but the clientele is a lot more diverse. I love seeing that, even though I bitch about waiting for a lane.
If you go to my house, this is basically me, but brown.
I hope you spell gooder.
Nice bed set up
I can’t find a link but I recall a polling company in Canada essentially arguing that gun control is a winning argument for the Liberals since only rednecks like guns.
Not on this side of the border. They focus on crime and danger and fear. If anything the gun grabbers try to outflank those redneck hillbillies by claiming (falsely) that they aren’t against hunting and sporting use (while doing numerous measures behind the scenes to limit them).
Same in the more northern metropolis. Guns are icky things that thugs in Dorchester use on each other, so they should be banned.
To be fair, the residents of Dorchester say the same thing.
True
Livestream from tonight’s Glibs meetup
Funny. Red head is hot.
Complete and total fail. He cut into the middle of the chicken to see if it was done while it was still in the pan. They need the ISIS “throw the gay off a building” treatment.
Yeah, the redhead is hot.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/18/politics/jussie-smollett-politics/index.html
He could be a hypocrite but he isn’t wrong.
Okay, as much as I dislike Winston, the article he links to is accurate (to the facts as I know them, and American law). Unfortunately, it doesn’t mention the rights of the accused…
The only time we get told we need to wait for the facts is when the perp is a democrat and it is blatantly obvious they did it.
Good article. The switch took decades after the 1980 election to be felt at the US House and Senate level and even longer at the state electoral level. Even today states like NC (Jesse Helms-R) is frequently a dem majority at the state level.
I think that at the Prez level part of the issue for the Dems is that unless they are supporting a southern boy (Carter, Clinton) over a clear Yankee (Ford, elder Bush, Dole) or a demographic powerhouse (Obama) the majority of Dem Prez candidates push the wrong buttons to get a critical level of southern support. Leaving aside the shear difficulty of winning three consecutive Prez elections (one time since FDR/Truman) Gore did not strike southern voters as southern. If Gore had taken his home state of TN then it wouldn’t have mattered about FL.
I have vivid memories of driving home from work past downtown Nashville and seeing the lights where Al Gore had set up his victory party at the state capital. I was a little puzzled since he hadn’t even campaigned in Tennessee at all. If he had spent some time in what was billed as his home state, he probably could have won it. Hell, he got 47% of the vote without even trying.
I wasn’t sure at the time if he just figured he had it in the bag so he didn’t bother to visit, or if he didn’t think the potential return in terms of electoral votes was worth it. As it was, I knew a lot of people who were pissed off that he never came back once he went off to Washington with Bill.
Everything’s fine. I don’t need to retire yet. I’ll just stop going to work.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-says-shes-just-fine-after-health-scares
This was my favorite response to the revelation that this Smolletts thing was just another bullshit story. The proggies are crying because they had finally felt.. Well here are some samples:
““I needed this to be true,” said liberal columnist Hanna Spalding. “When I first heard the news of this attack, I was filled with so much hope. I felt so validated. Then that was taken away. Now I just want to cry into my pillow.””
Get that?
““While Smollet’s attack may have been a hoax, our emotions have undergone a modern-day lynching,” said activist Andrea Jones at a vigil in Chicago. “If you think about it, this is even worse than if the crime had actually happened.”
Priceless.
“Candlelight vigils are being arranged in liberal cities across the country as millions mourn the loss of one of the most potentially divisive crimes in the last decade. “There was so much promise there. Now there’s just emptiness,” said one mourner in Berkley, CA.”
Hah hah hah!.
I know it is supposed to be a parody, but I actually had someone hint they felt the story being debunked was horrible. They felt there finally was a validation of all that anger/hate they felt towards the unwashed masses. Now they have egg on their face again…
There was the WaPo columnist this morning who literally said she needed story to be true. You don’t even need to write satire: the real thing exists.
The Bee is great:
Entire Baptist Church Still Pretending Not To Drink.
That’s gold.
When it fell apart, what did the people who didn’t buy the story expect the true believers to do? The ones who got it right from the start feel the urge to take the true believers and rub their noses in it until they tap out. The ones who got it wrong are going to spin and spin because they don’t believe this one episode disqualifies their overall world view. The concept of letting people “save face” is probably the only way out of this shitstorm. Show weakness, however, and they continue. It’s fucked up that showing mercy and just being generally nice is demonized. Has any public figure come out and just said, “Yea, I got this completely wrong. No caveats. I apologize.” That is a person I’d respect and listen to on other topics even if I disagree politically with most of their other positions.
Well, hold on to your hat, because there is at least one moving in that direction. You won’t believe who it is!
“I, among many others when hearing of the report, said that the reports were horrific and that we should come with all that we can come with in law enforcement to find out what happened and the guilty should suffer the maximum,” Sharpton said Sunday night on his show “PoliticsNation”
He’s just shifting the blame to Jussie instead of the MAGA hats. I’m talking about a simple statement of “I was wrong. Sorry. Period.” Scott Adams gave that style apology when his hot take on Covington was proven wrong.
You’re right. I didn’t expect that.
The progressive left are like The Blob. I notice they tend to appropriate/expropriate the parts of history they like. Because they have pull in the media and entertainment (and music) they were and are able to rewrite history at their leisure. For example, classical conservatives like Calhoun were progressive on the issue of slavery (which eventually led to the creation of the Republican party in 1854) but somehow the left gets credit for being ‘on the right side of history’ on the issue despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary. Think Clooney’s speech about Hollywood a few years back for more phony interpretations of the past. In short, they just flat out ‘steal’ history and take credit for it.
If the truth does eventually prevail, one can only hope and presume their collapse is pending.
Or. If you prefer, consider the comics and how they want to appropriate a character (cultural appropriation projection) for their own. Since it’s all a social construct anyway, why not just make Bruce Wayne black or Mary Jane transgender? Heaven forbid they just create their own, they’d rather just steal. Which, I guess, all ends up making sense they like coercive measures to push their agenda a population would not accept voluntarily.
Good article.
/spread maple butter on raisin bread.
They’re like The Blob in like they just maniacally spread swallowing everything in their path.
Maniacally and brainlessly
So Rufus what do you think about Trudeau’s puppet-master resigning?
And on Family Day, a holiday he created. Oof.
Now I have Master! Master! running though my head.
He’s a coward. I can’t believe he and Justin ran a country together.
You?
He helped run Ontario into the ground so why not the whole country?
I do wonder how bad he will flail now that he is on his own.
Oh if Warren Kinsella is to believed this is not the end and maybe a caucus and cabinet revolt could be in the offing..
That’s right. He was behind the Wynne thing.
I find it hard to believe normal, moderate Liberals like what Justin is doing. I hope there’s a revolt.
He did bring them back from third place…
Take off, Gerry.
Stay gone.
This whole thing is my new fetish.
Mine just stare at me for a couple hours until I break down and feed them. I hadn’t thought of making them do stupid cat tricks first.
Asiatic work ethic, bro.
It is true that I am lazy af.
Asiatic?
Nice.
I trained a cat to sit once. By that I mean he sat down once for a treat. After that he’d just walk off and lick his nuts.
How did you train him to do that second trick?
Peanut butter.
Or is that only dogs?
I, no shit, trained a cat to talk.
There were two doors blocking the cat from going where she wanted to go. Before I opened the front door I would go “mrow”. Before I opened the door to downstair I would go, “mrow, mrow, mrow”. After a while the cat would tell me which door she wanted opened.
I didn’t train mine to understand the one word “hungry”; it just sort of happened.
I think they’ve got that one built-in.
HM is all about that Japanese pussy. It is known.
Let’s see her do that without use treat rewards. Think we’d see more blood.
My cats won’t eat cat treats. But they can smell an open jug of milk from the other side of the house and come running.
I’ve heard both, “never give cats milk” and “no problem”. Which is true for yours?
Like most mammals, most adult cats are lactose intolerant. Cow milk will tear their ass up. Lactose-free milk is fine.
They never get more than what’s left at the bottom of a bowl of cereal I eat maybe once a week. Same with other no-no’s like tuna.
The Indiana Jones theme really ties it together.
HM’s new entrance music:
https://youtu.be/a1vNFJMpIUo
I was also amused by “A Pirate’s Life for Me” for no reason other than whimsy.
It’s like having my granddaughter over.
It gets worse. Here’s a visualization of my daughter’s brain.
That is scary. My granddaughter would totally jam to that though.
Children are the worst.
Grandchildren are the best ’cause you can give them whatever they want and then send them home.
I’m tapping out and gonna watch some Gun Jesus videos instead.
That’s adorable.
So about 7 hours ago there was apparently a article from someone calling themselves “Winston’s Mom” that was deleted. What was the content of that article and why was it deleted?
Are you trying to tee one up for someone to come along and hit?
Winston’s mom seems to get hit a lot.
7 hours ago is was….
…WORKING.
We serve no wine before its time.
Are you suggesting it will be posted later?
From what I understand.
So when?
And what kind of article is it then? In good fun or is it a direct insult to me?
No one is interested in directly insulting any of our readers.
Except commodius. Fuck that guy.
Why you always shitting on commodius?
I love you, AJB.
Aim was never my strong suit.
Considering how the banning of FOS emphasized the importance of manners I would hope so.
I don’t want to give any spoilers (and I’m not your mom’s ghostwriter, btw) but there is nothing in it that directly references you as a commenter, much less in a mean-spirited way (imo) and it just plays on the well-established meme.
You know I was thinking of submitting an article to this site. Can I expect a fair appraisal?
Of course.
Did SugarFree write it?
Nope. I did.
…but I got a long day tomorrow. Off to bed I go.
Can’t afford an apostrophe? I’m teh disappoint.
Can’t afford an apostrophe? I’m teh disappoint.
Not gonna lie, I like you more than I did 5 minutes ago.
That phrase is incredibly evocative
Some my 1984 parody piece was rejected for something other than the Winston joke? Probably my grammar. *Shrugs*
Hey, they won’t even let me do the links!
This is why I never have the ring of power. I’d encourage you.
You saying it wasn’t an article about good whine and cheese pairings? Shit
Winston’s mom was spilling all of our secret kinky fetishes we would do with her and to her. She had to stopped.
Be stopped
Our lawyers suggest we take a look at it.
Can’t tell if serious.
You’d sign the waiver, wouldn’t you? You seem to take the ribbing pretty well.
Cytotoxic telling me to hang myself didn’t bother me so…
The prevalence of bigoted identitarian strife seemed to be tailing off through the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, but the progressive left, which was dealt a massive blow in the 1980s with the near extinction of their fellow traveler dixiecrats, has recovered to national prominence in the past 15 years by rebuilding a coalition of identitarian groups of all stripes, all deluded under the Marxist lie that their truth is in their identity.
It cannot be left off that the resurgence was in large part due to their “long, slow march through the institutions.” Not enough people are able to combat nearly evey teacher, professor and cultural personality telling them that the only reason we’re not socialist is because of oppression and they’re really smart for knowing that. Add in some twisted history and redefinitions and people seem to be buying in wholesale.
Very thoughtful, trsh. Well done.
Holy shit. There is one guy who gave a legit, no caveat apology.
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1097656450560806924
Carolyn Haynes
@AskMe_idareyou
4h4 hours ago
It’s called being a man, a leader. Marines know something about that. Thank you for your service. @USMCmatt. #respect
Get that girl a drink of water, she thirsty!
Don’t read the responses. It’ll ruin what happy moment you’ll have. Also, ignore Swetnik.
“Don’t read the comments” was my introduction to Reason…
Look who’s taking a vacation from meatspace. Good to see you stranger.
howdy howdy. I even did the afternoon links last week because Brett was (as usual) incapacitated by drugs and familial responsibilities.
I love how it takes about 10 seconds flat to devolve into the exact shit the same people were bemoaning 10 seconds earlier.
LOL.
Hatfields and McCoys. Ugh.
Yup.
“I really wish we could all just come together, since the ‘left-v-right’ stuff is so bad. Bad-just like Kavanaugh, Trump, W, etc., etc., etc…”
I find myself quietly ugh whenever I see anyone express the “let’s all get along and drop petty politics” sentiment, and I hate that I have that kind of reaction. Because, it would be nice if it were an honest live-and-let-live idea. However, it’s seems to almost always be more along the lines of why-can’t you-just-do-it-my-way.
#TeamBeRuled!!!
“Cause baby I could build a castle,
Oh with all the bricks they threw at me.
And every day is like a battle,
But every night with us is like a dream.”
Wait I did not vote trshmnstr for SUPREME OVERLORD
Good morning glibs
I was just telling a British fellow why I would not be keeping shot-for-shot pace with him and came across this. Congrats on #5, I expect you to kick Russia’s ass in the next accounting (no offense to Grriz)
No one votes for Supreme Overlord, it is taken by force.
No one votes for Supreme Overlord, it is taken by force.
I can’t tell if you’re really good at setting these up, or if “your mom” jokes are just that easy.
Both. It has to be both.
Saw the minor kerfuffle upthread. We can rule out Ted S. as “Winstons Mom.”
https://img3.hotnessrater.com/4818874/lucy-pinder-topless.jpg?w=4000&h=6000
NSFW.
And with that, it’s off to bed for me.
Actual headline
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/trudeau-gets-his-fall-guy-gerry-butts/
Lara is looking damn fine and speaking some truth about the media.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/cbss-lara-logan-calls-media-mostly-liberal-in-scorched-earth-interview-im-committing-professional-suicide/
KS speaks Truth.
I didn’t recognize her name, so I had to look her up. She’s had it rough in some parts of her career.
Married…dammit.
Had to listen to that without video. Wandering eye syndrome.
Moral Panic!
https://www.theweek.co.uk/96248/what-is-the-momo-suicide-challenge-and-is-it-dangerous
Um, no, doxxing doesn’t need hacking. Satanic Panic 5.0.
Of course this was made.
https://mobile.twitter.com/FuctupMike/status/1097030914725552128
You mean, “Of course this was made in 2019”.
Ha-ha. Funny stuff.
When unwanted change comes from without, the tendency is to vote against it; ideology has little to do with it.
When northern Republicans forced their ways onto the Southeast, the reaction was to vote Democrat. When the northern Democrats (via LBJ, ironically) started forcing their ways onthe southeast, they started voting GOP. Those were my formative years and those national Dem policies were veiled as rcobatting acism to get blacks aboard, but they were at their heart classism – aka Marxism. As long as the lower classes were the ones feeling the brunt of the policies, the Dems could count on the majority of the unaffected middle and upper classes to continue supporting Democrats. Carter did nothing to stop the northern Democrat itch for gun control – which again (in the north) is nothing but classism/Marxism – and most of rural America saw that for exactly what it was. Add in the high inflation during Carter’s administration – his fault or not it’s a stealth tax increase which AGAIN was felt more by the lower classes which the Marxist party was fine with and it only helped :the flip”.
The Dem Party is now pretty much the elites, their indentured servants (Hispanics and blacks are slowly waking up to this), and infantilized youth who want to believe that followingthe leader is the easy path to their own elitism and can’t see that they are merely going to be subdivided by the elite when the next generation of youth comes of age.