Last night was Trump’s address to the nation making his case for The Wall™, and Nancy and Chuck’s response which became an instant meme, as Chuck and Nancy were trying to downplay the characterization that Democrats were for open border and anti-ICE, Crazy Eyes had an interview with Maddow making the case for open borders and attacked ICE. Just another night in Trump’s political theatre.
Commercial supersonic plane is in the next stage of development after Steve Job’s widow provides $100 million in funding.
The War on Men continues.
Rosenstein is leaving the DOJ.
I don’t blame you, Rose, I’d need hard drugs too to get through a day of being around throngs of pussy hat wearers.
Paris’ nudist restaurant to close down.
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and then get my daughter ready for school.
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The War on Men continues. – it is just the war on evil patriarchy really
Palisade of Peace
I don’t blame you, Rose, I’d need hard drugs too to get through a day of being around throngs of pussy hat wearers. – the real problem is certain libertarian women do not support other women and sustain the previously mentioned evil patriarchy.
Supporting the patriarchy is what all the cool kids are doing.
Admit it would it not be better if all men were sensitive and not afraid to cry at sunsets? They would have soft skin and lower incomes, which is what women want.
Doughy men with lesbian haircuts constantly asking for permission before touching you makes all the lady’s panties wet.
Wait, there’s such a thing as misdemeanor cocaine possession?
Why not? You need something people can plea down to.
She’s kissing a Hillary action figure. Drugs are not the problem, rather her idea of a solution. Rose you need more drugs, preferably Tony Montana sized mountains of it.
YEYO!
Chuck and Nancy alone in an empty hallway like useless pottery. Pathetic.
Focus on the message not the setting. That is what counts.
And they couldn’t even get that right since aoc wasn’t on message. Someone needs to sit her down and explain what’s what.
Crazy Eyes had an interview with Maddow making the case for open borders and attacked ICE.
Yea, that was dumb.
Ocasio-Cortez replied by accusing President Trump of being a long-time racist:
I think it’s unsurprising because even before he was elected President of the United States, he has a proven track record of discrimination against anybody who’s really non-white in the United States. He had been sued by the Nixon administration back in the day for not renting to black Americans, he has had controversy after controversy, so this is very consistent. It’s not just the continued lies throughout his administration but frankly it’s part of a very consistent pattern of his entire life.
That’s news to, um, everyone. The man was widely liked before he dared to run against and defeat Her Shrillness.
He had been sued by the Nixon administration back in the day for not renting to black Americans
Eh? Hadn’t heard this one before.
I thought the sort of opposite was true where he sued someone to allow black tenants.
Actually, Trump’s father was sued by the Nixon administration. So Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was wrong or lying … again. But that is okay because the she was morally correct.
Then it was time to attack ICE:
And that includes our amazing and beautiful and productive immigrant community. And moreover, the one thing that the president has not talked about is the fact that he has systematically engaged in the violation of international human rights on our border. He has separated children from their families: he talked about what happened the day after Christmas, on the day of Christmas, a child died in ICE custody. The president should not be asking for more money to an agency that has systematically violated human rights. The president should be really defending why we are funding such an agency at all because right now what we are seeing is death, right now what we are seeing is the violation of human rights, these children and these families are being held in what are called Yeletas, which are basically freezing boxes that no person should be maintained in for any amount of time, let alone the amount of time they are being kept on, and moreover, even if you are anti-immigrant, in this country, the majority of immigrant overstays, the majority of the reason that people are undocumented is visa overstay. It’s not because people are crossing a border illegally. It is because of visa overstay which mind you, he’s talking about legal immigration — he’s trying to restrict every form of legal immigration there is in the United States.
Um, wut? And no, darling. He has repeatedly stated that he favors revision to immigration law, but he is restricted to enforcing what currently exists. So you better get cracking on that legislation.
It’s a bit sad but hilarious that she can take this opportunity to work with fellow members of Congress to make legislative reforms to the immigration process, but instead just wastes all her time REEEing.
REEEing is the new legislating
REEgislating?
REEmake America Commie Again
*drop the again
I think that having the regulatory agencies, which gives so much latitude to the executive for enforcement, has provided legislators with the opportunity to lay “legislative” blame on the executive, to have a single whipping boy on whom to focus their supporters’ hatred. Taking away that latitude and would go a long way to removing legislators’ ability to deflect blame for shitty policy.
I actually agree with AOC on something. Let’s use human rights violation to determine who does and does not get funded. We can defund the CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA, DOD, while we’re at it. I am serious.
Only you don’t get to define human rights so hello “free” college and “free” healthcare
No that’s the beauty of it. The department of education has denied some people their right to a good education, so no funding for them either.
You forgot the IRS.
Any agency who has their own swat team should be defunded.
Department of Housing and Urban Development has a sad…
right now what we are seeing is the violation of human rights, these children and these families are being held in what are called Yeletas, which are basically freezing boxes
Same Ocasio-Cortez who loved FDR?
Would it be akin to forcibly relocating people from a Mediterranean climate to a High Desert?
Will Snopes fact check this idiot? Politifact? Anyone?
Has she ever called him a liar? Has she ever trotted the ‘4000 lies’ trope? If she did, that would be tremendous given her views on lying is okay if the ends serve your purpose.
True a despicable socialist through and through. Right to her lousy illiterate bones.
But she’s super smart and stuff! She poured Vitamin C on worms!!!
I love her justification for her comment about “Truth vs Morally correct”, really ended up being: When Trump lies it’s a lie, but when i do it’s just a clumsy mistake.
In other words it’s okay because the things i’m lying about are good. It belies a particularly bankrupt form of morality, which itself puts doubt on the statement that we should care more about being Morally Correct than being factually accurate.
It is a particularly evil mindset (road to hell paved with good intentions…) and I do take pride in pointing out to leftists that they do not, in fact, have the moral high ground because what they advocate for (state ownership/control of everything and holding their fellow man at gunpoint to subsidize their existence) is basically slavery.
re: slavery, I had a conversation with a friend once, talking about how armies have only two recruitment methods: Mercenaries or Slavery. You either get volunteers or you conscript them. He looked confused and asked “did they not pay draftees?”. A lot of people (and i get it) think that slavery is doing work without being paid. I pointed out that even the slaves on southern plantations were “paid” in the sense that they had to get shelter/food in some fashion. The pay was not the problem. The problem is that they weren’t free to leave.
I bet that same person abhors the “company store” and “company town” model and is unable to see how similar they are.
The ends justify the means, comrade.
Repost from last night.
Hey lawyer glibs, if any of you know a Massachusetts barred defense lawyer, could you send me an email at the below address. A small business known and liked by many glibs reached out to me looking for a referral for a suit they’re named on.
5v8tz4onh9so@opayq.com
As long as we’re necro-posting – I missed your DIY entry yesterday. I have done more than my fair share of fixing, re-modeling, fabricating, etc. in my time. I rebuilt my own abode in Japan – done in US southwestern style. Did all the plumbing, flooring, most of the drywall, hung all the doors, – even designed, sourced, imported all the materials for my heated floor and built it.
Just last summer my 20 year old GE fridge stopped running. I figured out it was the evaporator fan that needed replacing. Unfortunately, parts were no longer available in the US. I finally found the fan in a warehouse in France (luckily I bought a 50 Hz model) and completed my on-line order in French. In the mean time I kept my fridge limping along with a battery powered fan.
Distant, Possibly Habitable Planet Spotted by Citizen Scientists
https://www.space.com/42931-exoplanet-habitable-zone-citizen-scientists-discovery.html
As opposed to non-citizen scientists? Undocumented Alien Scientists?
SPACE SMITH READY TO EXPLORE NEW PLANET.
AND BY EXPLORE MEAN PROBE…
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of SPACE SMITH. His forever mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly RAPE where no RAPESQUATCH has gone before!
Fake news. Only government employees have the time and resources, as well as being free from the evil corporate mindset to do actual science.
In the Afternoon Links yesterday. Its like you guys are only here to comment. *runs away ugly crying*
A: We are here only to comment.
B: It’s the PM Lynx.
Saw the link. Clicked on the link. Read the story.
While I must say that I lurk here mainly for the comments, I do make an effort to read the links and appreciate the snark in the description. Y’all have done an impressive job getting content on the site when it could have just been a glorified chat room.
You have my appreciation…
Glorified? You don’t know us very well.
All the glory around here centers around holes cut into the wall.
you stole mu joke!
Should I stop off for a pint or two or go straight home? Tough call.
trick question. they don’t have pints in Japan
So he should have a couple of liters? I like the way you think Pie!
I usually head for one of the German places because 1) I love real German bier, and 2) I can order it in liters so when I get home and my wife asks me how many beers I drank I can say “just three”.
Three liters of fluid is more than I can drink in an evening unless I do nothing but focus on imbibing.
Your evenings are too short
Try harder.
Actually, just about every Irish or British pub in Tokyo – and they are everywhere – will sell you a pint of whatever they have on tap.
A real pint, or a metric pint?
– 1984
The old man in 1984 is apparently me.
Although I am fine with a liter.
The funniest part is an American pint is smaller than a 1/2 liter.
There’s an Irish drinking song about the fact there’s Irish pubs all around the world, and how they all look the same, have the same basic menus, and similar beer and whiskey choices.
anything drinkable?
Without ever stepping foot in one, I’m going to guess they’ll have Guinness, Harp, Bass, and Smithwick’s on tap at a minimum.
Everything but the Smithwick’s. They have some local craft beers but I’m not spending ¥1200 a pint to find out if they’re any good.
I wouldn’t pay the $9.20 a pint you are now, let alone $11.06
Smithwick’s was the longer shot. They’re all owned by the same company (Diageo).
And the only craft beers I’ve had from Japan were Hitachino, which weren’t bad, but they weren’t worth $12 a pint. Hell, I’d balk at $10 pints for the others. It’s not like they’re talking about Dogfish 120 Minute or Worldwide stout.
Probably won’t help, but they have this stuff. I just went with Premium Malts and a Bass.
https://ibb.co/dBt8nF2
The “Far Yeast” gave me a chuckle.
It’s good to see terrible puns in beer names aren’t just an English thing.
Not familiar with those brands, but hope you’re happy with what you got.
Yep. Okinawa, of all places, had an Irish pub called Paddy Mac’s, run by an actual Irishman even.
I always went to Morrigan’s by Hansen.
Their fish and chips were amazing.
I was at Futenma so that was way too far north for me to go. Paddy Mac’s was near Gate 2 St by Kadena.
Go for just one pint or get a beer from the conbini then go home. #TheGreatCompromise
Three pints. No reason to be all half-arsed about it.
Finally found a bar. Damn, ¥1000 a pint. Anosteke any good?
Damn, ¥1000 a pint.
That’s what? 37 cents?
I’m not in Caracas.
$9.19, it’s 108 yen to the dollar right now.
Sorry for long but important OT: Opinions wanted, especially from medical types. (Groovus, I hope you’re ok!)
I went to get glasses today. I broke mine two years ago and since I don’t have to drive here and I my vision isn’t too bad, I didn’t replace them. Both places I went to told me they couldn’t do anything with my left eye. They told me to go to an ophthalmologist.
It turns out that I have cataracts. My left eye has always been worse but now that I’m looking for it I can see the vague cloudiness.
Mine aren’t bad enough yet for the doctor to recommend getting the surgery. But he assured me that they will keep getting worse, that they are in the center of the lens, and upon asking, he confirmed that I will eventually have to get the operation. I have one in my right eye as well, but I can’t notice it yet.
I leave Korea in exactly 20 days. I can get it done here for much cheaper than in the US or in Thailand. In both of those it will cost about $3-6k an eye, based on my cursory research. Here it’s $1k without insurance, but I’m fairly certain that I’m still on the Korean plan, and it will likely be about $500 total.
The procedure is quite quick and (FUCKING TERRIFYING—DON’T WATCH THE VIDEOS!) I should be out in a few hours for each eye.
Should I just do it now (if I can)? If anyone has any experience, either personal or otherwise, I’d greatly appreciate it.
(My biggest emotion about this is frankly one of inconvenience and a concern on the lightening of my purse. No need to cry for me, Argentina. But any help or advice would be lovely.)
Both my parents have had the cataract surgery with great success. However, they went the full intraocular lens replacement route, which is more expensive but highly recommended.
Are you sure he wasn’t asking about what car you drive?
“You have Caddirac?”
My MiL had the cataract laser surgery, and it was very quick and had very little recovery issue. She was in her late 70’s at the time.
Are we still using an Evan as a measure of time?
We may have underestimated his age, he has two fake hips and cataracts!
Clearly he has an abnormally high milage for his years.
Cataract surgery is easy peasy. Takes 15 minutes. I had a hereditary one that I fixed at 40. Great because the new lens has a built-in rx that you can set to see at a distance, and then when you need the 2nd one, you can get that to be for close-up and your eyes automatically just compensate.
SJWednesday: Stuff We All Missed Out On in 2018
Yeah, those Israelis are real hard on the queers…
Creating Change, the “nation’s largest LGBTQ activist conference,” happens every January, but this year’s Washington, DC, “social justice
San Francisco not proggy enough
We need more gender-fluid media, to offset the cishetero Illuminati
To be honest, I actually had no idea Palestine even had people who are LGBTQ.
That’s because the Jews are killing them in the crib and drinking their sweet, sweet, gender-fluid blood.
And here I thought they had their fill eating the first-born babes of my fellow Christians. How mistaken I am.
When you eat, do you not eat an entree and then move on to dessert?
Oh, I thought it was more like Russia and Iran, where there were no LGBQ people in the country.
Was it Ahmadinejad that said there are no gay people in Iran? A few years back…the leader of some country made that claim…who was it?
It was indeed Ahmadinejad of Iran. SNL even made a song about it.
You get a hundred people in a room, guaranteed that more than one are gay or bi or on the DL sometimes.
In Palestine they might have to double down on the DL.
That’s not how probability works.
Well… Technically it could be given high enough chance (say the chance of sharing a birthday), you could say that with 100 people you have a (practically) guaranteed chance that at least two people share the same birthday.
There’s a big difference between practically guaranteed and guaranteed. On average around ninety-eight of your hundred person gathering will be straight. But it would not be uncommon to end up with a sample that was entirely made up of straight people, nor to end up with a cluster of non-straight people in another group.
That’s not what guarantee means. If you’re willing to back it up with the stated remedy, you can guarantee anything, not just those things with a 100% success rate. Hell, otherwise guarantees could not exist.
If you’re talking “How do personal or corporate guarantees work” it’s a bet. Wherein the entity making the guarantee provides some recompense when the thing they passed off as a certainty failed to come to pass.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guarantee
The only definition that does not include a remedy is “to assert confidently.” One can be confident at any arbitrary level.
I was just being an asshole, I honestly feel bad for anyone who is LGBTQ and lives there.
To be honest, I actually had no idea Palestine even had people who are LGBTQ
The Gaza strip doesn’t have tall enough buildings to throw them off of.
That’s not our fault. The residents tore down the jew-built structures, and they keep using all their construction aid to build attack tunnels into israel.
China claimed to be free of the gay forever, and blamed any appearances to the contrary on The West. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear the same out of Palestine. It’s a pretty familiar theme in lots of backwards places.
China has skewed their gay/straight numbers, but not in a way that reduces the gay. Having a policy of aborting a generation of girls is not the way you reduce the homosexuality in your society.
Ben Shapiro’s Meme is Weak.
Worst of the bunch.
Even the Washington post said last night was a flop for the Dems. That’s bad.
Trump, the Wall and … well Yes.. Hitler
That was weak and underwhelming.
That’s what she said, but not to me.
So you were just watching?
some kinky mo-fos around here.
The websites name is rather appropriate.
It’s nice when they tell you flat out.
Other presidents have used fabrications to justify their initiatives — George H.W. Bush claimed Iraq was readying an invasion of Saudi Arabia to justify taking action against Iraq in the fall of 1990 — but during his presidency, Trump has outdone his predecessors by a very wide margin.
Fabricating reasons to spend 5 billion on a wall is wayyyy worse than fabricating reasons to spend 2.4 Trillion on a war that led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people.
This is why i can’t take the left seriously.
Hearing the unrestrained unregulated capitalist land of Oklahoma decided to license Qigong I asked myself what the ever loving fuck is Qigong. Googling I found it also exists in Romania. I blame capitalism. No such thing existed in the good old days.
Okay, it exists in Romania, but what is it?
Romanian?
I think it’s that “exercise” people do in Central Park where they stand there and move reeeally sloooowly from one position to another.
Quigong was the Jedi Master that taught Obi-Wan Kenobi.
I know the three movies are pretty obscure, but that was Frank Oz.
It’s definitely not garlic based.
I have found Oklahomans to be some of the most tolerant people around, though I attribute this to a culture of MYOB more than anything else.
However, The Oklahoma legislature seems to be where all the busybody would-be tyrants self-select to, and since it is a full-time gig, they have vastly more opportunities to fuck things up. c.f. Texans and the Texas leg.
Walls definitely work
I don’t get it.
Dale Earnhardt Daytona 500
That may be the first time I ever saw a picture of the guy.
This may clear things up for you.
i had a party at my place to watch that race with all my NASCAR friends and other friends that just enjoy day drinking. half of us recognized immediately from the nature of the collision (150mph to stop against that wall) that he would not walk away. he held off the chase group so Waltrip and Junior could take 1 2. helluva way to go out. probably best/worst day in Daryl’s life watching his brother win and then losing Dale. definitely deflated the mood at my place.
So I was thinking about Ocasio-Cortez (while listening to a podcast, i don’t normally think about any congress-critter), and how much she reminds me of Trump. I started to wonder how much she says that her supporters take “metaphorically” vs “literally”, and that we treat the same. I can understand a bit more now how people with TDS can think that Trump is the worst person ever. The things AOC say are ridiculous and fantastic, but that’s what her base wants to hear, and she doesn’t care what we think she means (or even if we understand what she means). To me the fact that we have two wildly popular politicians who gained popularity by saying outlandish things that their base wanted emphasizes how split the country has become.
Great point. I thought the same thing last week. They’re memes.
And boy does the MSM love to throw both of them in our faces every single day.
Exactly this. She’s very persuasive to the Democrat base. To non-SJW types she says extraordinarily dumb things like equating Ben Shapiro’s request for a debate to catcalling her. To her base, she totally owned him. To those who aren’t SJWs, she looked like a complete moron. Take her interview on Maddow last night, the hard left base genuinely believes she owned Trump and raved how glorious is was. Just like under Obama and Bush, there’s two distinct realities being lived. To Democrats, the economy is flailing and Bad Orange Man is going to be arrested any day now for collusion. To the right, the economy is booming and the Russia nonsense will eventually go away.
Demagoguery is nothing new but it sure seems to have kicked into high gear.
Demagoguery is affecting a lot higher percentages of the populace due to news sources having become more polarized. By polarized I mean alternative sources to the statist media. Blame the internet.
“Demagoguery is nothing new but it sure seems to have kicked into high gear.”
This was actually similar to another thought i had. The stuff AOC says are crazy, but not exactly out of line with past rhetoric of people like Obama. “People have to pay there “Fair Share””, etc. To me it struck me as interesting that Trump won by politiking like a Democrat. And the Media hits him over his dishonesty/lies/mis-truths/exaggerations. But they rarely in the past had hit Dems for doing the same thing he does (saying inaccurate things for the point of gaining political points).
I’m not saying that the GOP is much more honest than the Dems, but i think the get called out more, and so that has pushed them to being strive to be more ‘factually correct’. It’s interesting that the guy who doesn’t care ends up being the one who won the election.
Stephen Fry w/ Hugh Laurie “Demagoguery…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfH51TlJyDY
Were you touching yourself at the same time?
I hear if you touch yourself and think of AOC at the same time you turn into a…..
Hitler?
Newt?
I got better…after about 20 minutes rest.
Sick pervert?
So I was thinking about Ocasio-Cortez
In the shower?
Missoula seminar takes aim at sex trafficking in Montana
So is Montana sex trafficking where you drive around the countryside looking for a sheep caught in a fence?
That’s Wales. A Montana Fence is just adding sixty miles of empty terrain between properties.
Are you trying to deny the #EweToo movement in Montana?
My father and I still call any sheep we see Montana Blondes.
Person whose funding depends on moral panic makes up examples supporting said moral panic.
(insert STEVE SMITH joke here)
Libertarian Party organizes Yosemite cleanup
Progs: YOU CAN’T DO THAT, THAT’s THE GoVerNmeNT’s JoB!
There are libertarians in Kings County, CA?
There are *people* in Kings County, CA?
STEVE INSERT JOKE.
STEVE ONLY ONE LAUGHING.
Wondrous Wednesday presents mostly naked hotties to plague your nightmares.
http://archive.is/5989B
1, 2, 10, 11… fuck it, orgy.
It’s always possible to prioritize down to three:
48 > 11 > 40
10, 23, 47. Damn man, I miss Summer.
We had summer the last two days. Now it’s fall again. Austin: if you don’t like the season, just wait a day or two.
It’s been winter here for about 2 months and we got another…4 more months of it. Yes, it can snow even in May.
We had two nights below freezing back in November. Starting to wonder if that will be the extent of winter.
I pray it’s over for you. I wouldn’t wish this season on my enemies.
Always summerish here. I have a biz trip to the mainland and am trying to find my winter clothes.
So the category “fuckin weebs man” I found this on the interwebz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t9DpdocMuI&feature=youtu.be
The title “MY HOOD ACADEMIA” (FULL VIDEO) Deku vs Kacchan did not help understanding what i was. Watching did not help either. Slow day at work.
If the anime was this, I’d actually watch it.
Also, dat girl in the end. Crazy but #would with furious justice.
Based on the comments this is her
https://www.instagram.com/elizabethrage/
Sir…God bless you and I hope you have a wonderful day.
So confused….
Glad I’m not the only one.
Look at the instagram above you will be less confused
Some good news out of California for a change.
Vermont passed a tough law on gun background checks – with absolutely no way to do the required background checks.
I guess no one gets to buy a gun then… Win/Win /progs
Reading more, there is something that bothers me. Currently the law is not enforceable, but is on the books. There should be a system for automatic removal of such laws. Otherwise it stays there for years and years and then out of nowhere someone starts enforcing it. Perhaps every law has to be re-read and re-voted on at the beginning of each session of a legislature.
Lets expand upon that.
All legislation has an automatic sunset unless renewed. To be passed or renenwed, the legislation must be read in full to the legislature. If the legislation modifies the text of an exising law, the modified text must be read in full, not just the changes. If legislation references another peice of text, that text must also be read in full.
No vote may be held until the reading is complete.
All legislation is to be proposed and read with your head in a noose. If anyone doesn’t like the law, the floor is swiftly removed from beneath the legislator.
All legislation has an automatic sunset unless renewed. To be passed or renenwed, the legislation must be read in full to the legislature. If the legislation modifies the text of an exising law, the modified text must be read in full, not just the changes. If legislation references another peice of text, that text must also be read in full.
No vote may be held until the reading is complete.
“Healthcare is a right of the people. The department of health and human services shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary or desirable in furtherance of this law.”
Any divestment of authority immediately sunsets upon completion of the vote.
does anyone know what happened to VT?
It borders New York and Massataxes.
Too much beer?
I know, it’s hard to believe I’m the one saying it.
Apparently this simple statement of truth is racist, sexist, homophobic etc. etc. etc.
https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1082857277084893184
This isn’t a “fact check” any more than looking out a window and saying the sky is blue is a “fact check”.
Bonus: we now have “both-sides-ism” to complement “whataboutism”.
There are good people on both sides!
*looks out window*
Sorry, Q, but the sky is gray. Four Pinnochios.
Are you California dreaming?
Hell No. why would I dream of that shithole?
If those commenters are willing to continue looking at the state in the same way that they would look at a mugger I’m willing to accept it.
The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful,” reads the news release by the famed association.
I believe this is the opposite of what is true. And, of course, it depends on what one means by “aggression” and “dominance”.
” marked by stoicism, competitiveness,…is, on the whole, harmful,”
really? I’ve known a lot of people who feel like their lives have been improved by pursuing a more stoic outlook on life. And Competitiveness is the engine that drives life, you can’t get rid of it.
I don’t have a stoic outlook, but I do have a phlegmatic personality. Getting worked up about something actually comes close to hurting. I get mistaken for depressive at times because of my default slack expression. This may be why I don’t tend to get mistaken for compeditive. However much I am trying to defeat you, I just look like a potato.
Mr Potatohead with driving gloves. The picture is coming together.
You can if they beat it out of you.
Because stoicism is a bad thing. Everyone should be freaking out man.
And we should never compete, that hasn’t led to anything good.
And little talk of biology in that whole nonsense. It is all socialization it seems.
Stoicism has been a part of my life – and an outlook that has helped me during those difficult teenage / 20-something years. And having movie heroes like Charles Bronson (you killed my wife? It’s time to chop some wood)
Maybe they’re saying men, in general, are too quiet and don’t get the help that they need, etc.
Shut up, pussy. *gives LH a Charlie Horse*
You should be indulging your emotions man. It’s like you don’t even cry every day.
I cry after sex. At the sentencing.
Way to advertise that you’re going to be the new bitch on the cell block.
You mistunderstood. Those are tears of joy when he only gets community service.
She bragged to a man on a dating app about poaching deer. He was a game warden.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/08/she-bragged-man-dating-app-about-poaching-deer-he-was-game-warden/
I though Bumble was a mostly SJW app
The Democrats’ Latest Idea on Taxes Will Only Help Trump
Let’s consider the economics of such a tax reform. Most of the income of America’s super-wealthy comes not from labor but from capital. It can be earned through capital gains, exercising stock options, and from corporations with possible foreign domiciles. Raising the marginal income tax rate to 70 percent will not, for better or worse, squeeze them very much.
Who then is most likely to pay more? Well, it depends on exactly which income level the higher rate would set in. But say you had a 70 percent rate at $500,000 and above. The biggest losers would be high-earning professionals in major cities and suburbs. Think doctors, lawyers, business consultants and the like, mostly on the coasts. A lot of those people live in blue states and are highly educated. More and more of them are educated women. All of these groups tend to be strongly anti-Trump, often passionately so.
But, but, it’s only marginal!
I think a lot of damage will be done to athletes. That is what happened in Spain and France
In the nba the top ones are making 20 mil plus a season. Some 40. If you put 70% above a million Lebron will pay a metric fuckton more. Maybe he will love the democrats less.
Funny how you don’t hear a peep out of the left on the fantastic wealth of many athletes and actors.
Isn’t tax revenue way up for 2018?
Why exactly does the federal government need significantly more money?
They don’t. But they also refuse to cut spending and want to increase it.
How much proof do they need that raising taxes won’t result in higher revenue (unless you really crush the middle-class like Western Europe)?
– Asking for Art Laffer.
Even if you crush the middle class, you won’t get more revenue, as the drag effect on the economy will more than compensate for any increase in marginal returns.
Laffer curve. The point isn’t to raise revenue. It’s to raise equality.
Punishing enemies and keeping the hoi polloi in their place just a nice added benefit?
I know what the laffer curve is and how it works. Though my Econ professor lost all credibility when she insisted with all sincereity that governments don’t have to worry about debts.
Bet you don’t know what the straffer curve is.
Bet you don’t know what the straffer curve is,
A chord measuring 3 inches in length bounded by an arc measuring 2 inches?
So far so good. Now describe the other 8 chords.
+znfr R’yleh
Moar. Just look it up in the dictionary.
traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful,”
That dig on stoicism reminds me of something I saw quite a while ago about how “You may be dating a dangerous right wing sociopath if…”
If your date/partner/whatever doesn’t completely fall apart and start panicking in stressful situations, he’s more likely than not a dangerous unfeeling sociopath who will eventually kill you in your sleep,
I may be crazy, but last I remembered chicks liked guys who can keep their cool and not freak out under the slightest bit of pressure. Again I may be clinically insane, but what do I know. This stuff is depressing.
Pretend to be an ally. Then go full axis on their ass.
Oooh, Operation Barbera’s Ass. I can get behind that.
Of course they do. They like everything on that list, unless taken to extremes.
So… a “softboi” is basically a Millennial term for an insufferably pretentious windbag.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/03/what-is-a-softboy-and-are-you-one-8305981/
A subcategory of insufferable pretentious windbag. The feminist hipster type.
emotional or academic intelligence – emotional intelligence my ass
You will then see all the behaviour a f***boy exhibits, but with a feigned lack of self-awareness that they’re doing it – why the fuck are they censoring that?
:looks at article regarding masculinity:
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
We have two millennials in our department. One is from a lower-middle class background, worked the factory, raises chickens out on an old farm, is taking night classes to get through college, and is humble; also willing to work hard to get ahead and listens more than he talks. He’s married and has a daughter.
The other millennial was raised middle-class, doesn’t like to work and complains whenever he does have to, went to a 4-year college, is a lefty, and like to tell everyone how the world works, even if he’s not familiar with the topic. He’s single and not in relationship because he’s an insufferable ass.
I learned a new word from Mark Steyn. Cockwomble
However much I am trying to defeat you, I just look like a potato.
And, having revealed his superpower, he was defeated.
*brandishes potato peeler menacingly*
You call that a knoife?
“Derangement” might be a bit strong, but I find this to be anecdotally true.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/15/a-man-reckons-women-who-colour-their-hair-are-toxic-and-lethal-8143128/
Does the carpeting match the drapes?
This is the important question.
Meh the tweet with the poisonous animals is kinda stupid
SJWednesday: Non-Sequiturs and Unsupported Assertions
To much bold. This is a safe space. Watch it.
Closing tags are for pussies.
That’s not all they are good for!
*jazz tags*
No matter how many times you repeat the statement that you reject reality and want to substitute your own – that action does not work.
That straw man has a vagina.
Did you assume that straw-persons gender?
So what.
Othering straw-people. What a shitlord.
Thank you.
Such is ‘Nature’, critics of feminism say, and one cannot fight against Nature – however, paradoxically, they themselves insist feminism is bad precisely because it ‘fights against Nature’ – maybe I don’t fully understand but where is the paradox?
That was my question too…. logic, how does it work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3R3LBjDek
Girls like pink, whereas boys like blue, girls like to play with dolls, whereas boys like to play with toy cars, girls like to cook, whereas boys like to construct. Such is ‘Nature’, critics of feminism say,
No, actually they are saying the opposite. While Boys and Girls tend to like those things, the fact that a boy likes to play with dolls or that a Girl likes to play in dirt does not make there gender change.
The problem is i don’t know if this comes from a TERF, who would agree with my statement, or a regular Feminist who wouldn’t.
I read the article and can’t really tell, I think it is some sort of hamfisted attempt to reconcile the opposing positions.
I particularly like this passage:
Sex is just like hair color or right/left handedness.
Humans sexually reproduce. You will have sexual differentiation. I say we keep sex as a category and drop gender, there is no point to it.
Differences between the sexes should become no longer relevant. – they are relevant as long as people claim difference in outcome means automatic discrimination
Also recent research shows that medical treatments should differ between males and females and it is a problem if a research is done mostly on male subject and clinically applied to females.
Because some biological traits are trivial, all biological traits are trivial.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am beginning to suspect our Best and Brightest may not be so bright, after all.
If these SJWs keep complaining about categorizing people why do they do it all the time? Go libertarian. Look on individuals. The wage gap does not exist if we no longer look at women and men as different categories. I mean the wage gap mostly doesn’t exist anyway, but it will really not exist then.
But then they’d have to realize that their tribalist identity politics schtick isn’t working.
Exactly. I don’t know what world these proggies live in, but it seems to be a bubble in which they themselves are doing the stereotyping, categorizing, etc. I just don’t see such obsession with identity out in the “real world.” The whole SJW movement seems like a solution in search of a problem.
It makes more sense when you imagine it as a religion where they are the priest caste and they alone are able to interpret the holy texts. Submit unto their higher understanding of the ways of the New Gods of Intersectionality.
Intersectionality = The Trinity
Race, gender & religion, amen.
What about sexual preference? And handicap status? And immigration status?
The god of Intersectionality is Legion.
Yeah, as soon as I hit ‘Post Comment’ I realized a trinity isn’t gonna do it.
I present to you: The Sextinity, Our Holy Hydra.
Sextinity or Gendertinity? I’m always confused as to which to use.
I wouldn’t sweat it much. You’re going to be excommunicated either way.
Asininity.
Gendertini – the new woke drink?
Gendertini
4 parts Starbucks coffee
1 part free-range, organic vodka
2 parts gender fluid
Is that like antifreeze? Cuz I picture it as antifreeze.
Is that like antifreeze? Cuz I picture it as antifreeze.
Sure, we’ll go with antifreeze…
>> and this is what justice demands us to do
maybe justice should shut her yap and start making some sammichs.
Feminism is bad because it is Marxism in drag.
Apparently Canadians do not like paying higher taxes:
The Liberal Party’s campaign platform said a new top tax bracket would raise nearly $3-billion a year, but an analysis of recently released data from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) shows the expected benefit didn’t materialize.
The latest available tax records show that revenue from Canadians earning about $140,000 or more – which had previously been the fourth and highest tax bracket – dropped by $4.6-billion in 2016, the first full year that the Liberal tax changes were in effect. Further, 30,340 fewer Canadians reported incomes in that range for 2016 compared with the year before.
Just like Venezuela the real problem is low oil prices.
Trudeau is a retard.
And the Liberals are bunch of retard seals clapping behind him.
Navy Quietly Fires 20 Hyper Velocity Projectiles Through Destroyer’s Deckgun
https://news.usni.org/2019/01/08/navy-quietly-fires-20-hyper-velocity-projectiles-destroyers-deckgun
The cannon silencer is working?
Gender is a concept that is literally driving people mad.
Speak for yourself, Lucille.
“Gender is a concept that is literally driving people mad”
Chicken, egg. We aren’t supposed to point that out, are we?
Maybe we’re supposed to say chicken, sperm now.
I would say, gender is a topic that crazy people are fixated on.
Today in science
Instagram be opressin’ bodybuilder chicks
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/1082681894410571776
Maybe just one more.
Yesss….
That straw man has a vagina.
Sounds painful. Pass.
Doesn’t have a brain, either. You have to live up the tin man.
*lube. It’s like my autocorrect doesn’t know me at all.
The goals of feminism, in my opinion, ought to be the abolition of gender as a criterion, based on which people are categorised.
If you’re hiring accountants, sure.
Sure – and the exact opposite (quotas) of what they advocate.
quotas are the tool used to make sure that no one is using gender as a criteria.
That makes sense. But I been drinking.
The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity – marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression – is, on the whole, harmful,
My question is where does the APA think any of this nonsense leads? The fact of the matter is that someone (or a society) who accepts their claims at face value and acts accordingly is going to fail as a consequence. They aren’t advancing science. Most of it sounds a lot more like activist drivel than any sort of empirical research. Do they think these games add to the prestige of psychology? Maybe on a short-term basis. With a certain crowd. But, circumstances change. And the absolute need for stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression for survival itself is likely to reassert itself. And the legitimacy of the field will suffer.
Gah! Misplaced. If people can forgive me, I’ll repost below.
There is no forgiveness…
Until we wander off to the next distraction.
Can I petition for an edit faerie to turn off the sidebar? I’m getting single character stacks for some of the comments.
really? I’m on desktop today and i’m not seeing it. What comment thread is it?
Where Straffin’s beer tab is being discussed.
I see it, too. Chrome (yeah, yeah), no monocle.
Fixed. My bad.
Thank you.
Wow, He’s Really Going to Town
No fair, I never catch anything exciting on my Ring. The day it happens I promise the Glib community it will be posted here.
We got a ring because we have no peephole and the wife is to short to see through the glass on the top of the door. Within a day or two we realized we lived in the “we live on the most boring street in the whole United States of America, where nothing even remotely dangerous will ever happen.”
Have you checked out the neighborhoods part of the Ring app? Nothing but paranoid busy bodies being trolled. It’s hilarious.
Yeah. I had to adjust the range because it was so huge that it caught the sketchier side of town, but yeah. A lot of “Late night drug deal”, “Person get’s in car”. “Do you know this person?”
Though there was one funny one where a bunch of kids (12-13 year olds) walk by and start staring at it and waving captioned “Does anyone know these people?”.
This is one from our area.
https://neighbors.ring.com/n/Y58MP
About 90% of the posts in my ring neighborhood are about wandering dogs. Have to say that it has an incredible rate of reuniting pets with owners – usually only takes three or four responses until the “yeah, that’s Bob’s dog, I’ll let him know” post shows up…
You chose well leon. Boredom is highly underrated. Adventure always means tears and dollars down the drain.
Turn on Wheel of Forture?
Higher intelligence is a real bitch sometimes.
STEVE SMITH CANT BE SEEN BY CAMERAS.
Seriously considering a “Fuck of Slaver” counter Protest:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/01/08/furloughed-utah-irs/
The beloved IRS.
Alannis Morrisette should sing their anthem.
The politicization of everything, ch 4,609
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley notes that many of the stories, such as Samuel R. Delany’s “The Hermit of Houston,” have a clear political message.
“In his author’s note Delany says this is his attempt to write a post-Trump science fiction story,” Kirtley says. “And there were at least two other authors—E. Lily Yu and Charlie Jane Anders—who explicitly say in their author’s notes that their stories were somehow a response to Trump being president.”
Charles Payseur, whose story “Rivers Run Free” leads off the book, agrees that the Yu and Anders’ stories will make readers think hard about current political realities. The Yu story, in which humanity declines to aid extraterrestrial refugees, and the Anders story, in which a trans woman’s consciousness is forcibly transferred into a male cadaver, both grapple with the issue of morally-compromised bystanders.
“I think that both of them do an excellent job of challenging the perspective of not taking action, or being complicit with evil,” Payseur says.
“It’s like The Diary of Anne Frank, but in space! We’ll make millions, Louie!”
Or that sci-fi message film District 9, written in direct response to Trump’s immigration policy in 2009.
Hack authors plumb navels for delicious belly button candy, read all about it.
Gee. I can’t figure out for the life of my why publishing is a shrinking industry. It must be all that anti-intellectualism.
Why yes, anti-intellectualism in the printing industry is a contributing factor… oh, you meant in the reading public.
“The War on Men continues.”
A man would have turned off the sidebar.
“I don’t blame you, Rose, I’d need hard drugs too to get through a day of being around throngs of pussy hat wearers.”
It must be tough being one of the most beautiful women, and smashing your face in a car wreck.
As far as the drugs, she was dating Marilyn Manson, so I don’t think that’s a new thing.
At Vox, of all places
Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong
I’m laughing too hard to read it.
That’s got to be the funniest thing I’ll read all day.
That broke my self-awareness meter.
I’ve GOT IT! Trump should stop demanding 5Bn for a ‘wall’ and demand 5Bn for ‘The Iraq and Afghanistan War Memorial’, which will be placed along the entire length of the US/Mexico border to commemorate our longest wars! Then if he doesn’t get the money, the Democrats hate the troops!
He should demand 5 Billion for the Green New Deal and use it to build a solar power wall.
Idk that solar would be adequate for an electrified wall.
The left doesn’t jump all over solar because it works, it jumps all over solar because it props up their crony friends.
As someone who does not think the ‘wall’ will accomplish anything, but who relishes the idea of a year long shut down, I oppose this idea. #shutdownsrock.
Agreed
Also agreed. I loved seeing my coworker so disgusted and disappointed that the government was still on shutdown. Meanwhile, I’m just a happy schoolboy inside.
My guess is that a new! and improved! wall (or whatever you call it) would work for a short time at eliminating some illegal immigration. Much of that barrier now is absurd. Worth $5 or $20B? Doubt it.
The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity – marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression – is, on the whole, harmful,
My question is where does the APA think any of this nonsense leads? The fact of the matter is that someone (or a society) who accepts their claims at face value and acts accordingly is going to fail as a consequence. They aren’t advancing science. Most of it sounds a lot more like activist drivel than any sort of empirical research. Do they think these games add to the prestige of psychology? Maybe on a short-term basis. With a certain crowd. But, circumstances change. And the absolute need for stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression for survival itself is likely to reassert itself. And the legitimacy of the field will suffer.
And the legitimacy of the field will suffer.
That shark got jumped right out of the cocaine, vibrator and incest fueled gate. Human mentation is a fascinating field and should be studied scientifically. Perhaps one day it will be, but that day has yet to arrive.
That shark got jumped right out of the cocaine, vibrator and incest fueled gate
I’m not so sure. It strikes me that there are psychologists who are doing useful research and who are providing worthwhile therapy. But, this isn’t that sort of thing.
Then again, you have a doctor whose work was memoryholed because she dared suggest that trans expression in some young patients may be affected or temperamental. You’d think this would be a welcome avenue of research for people genuinely concerned about the outcomes of trans children, but it turns out that their wellbeing—or the seriousness of the field of study—are secondary to the activism.
Yes, but as far as I can tell, that doctor was actually practicint psychology. I’m not willing to pigeonghole tho doctor with the idiots who memoryholed his work.
Except for the presumably serious journal that yanked her study rather than allow her to defend it. I don’t disagree with your point, and (iirc) some psychologists came out in her defense. No doubt a good many more agree with her but keep their heads donw. But the line is set: ROGD is a myth, a dangerous lie, the sort of lie that turns into concentration camps and the showers, so don’t you dare suggest that highly malleable, developing brains might succumb to peer pressure or fad-following
It is activist drivel. This nonsense comes from the same “authority figures” who taught me for four years that things like implicit/subconscious racism as a thing that you had to feel bad for.
that exists and that you should feel bad for*
“Last night was Trump’s address to the nation making his case for The Wall™, and Nancy and Chuck’s response which became an instant meme”
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1082827297466535936
LOLOLOL
Damn it was about to make that meme. Beat to the punch again…
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6573351/Demi-Rose-exhibits-jaw-dropping-curves-skimpy-hot-pink-bikini-Mexico-break.html
Thank you dear Count. She looks beautiful in that first pic and has a heart-warming smile.
Don’t encourage him!
Social psychologists have learned that humility is associated with other valuable character traits: People who score higher on intellectual humility questionnaires are more open to hearing opposing views. They more readily seek out information that conflicts with their worldview. They pay more attention to evidence and have a stronger self-awareness when they answer a question incorrectly.
When you ask the intellectually arrogant if they’ve heard of bogus historical events like “Hamrick’s Rebellion,” they’ll say, “Sure.” The intellectually humble are less likely to do so. Studies have found that cognitive reflection — i.e., analytic thinking — is correlated with being better able to discern fake news stories from real ones. These studies haven’t looked at intellectual humility per se, but it’s plausible there’s an overlap.
Most important of all, the intellectually humble are more likely to admit it when they are wrong. When we admit we’re wrong, we can grow closer to the truth.
One reason I’ve been thinking about the virtue of humility recently is because our president, Donald Trump, is one of the least humble people on the planet.
Aaaand, there it is.
So I’ve discovered Patriot on Amazon Prime.
I heartily recommend it, dry, black humor with a serious anti-government bent.
“‘If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it again’: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and novelist wife MacKenzie reveal they are divorcing after a ‘period of loving exploration’ – but no word on how his $140BILLION fortune will be split”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6573485/Amazon-CEO-Jeff-Bezos-novelist-MacKenzie-Bezos-getting-divorce.html
They should get that settlement the next day with free shipping.
Every young Russian woman on the planet just tweeted their sympathies to Jeff.
Sorry, too busy catfishing to read this…
Too busy COLLUDING I see.
That first picture…. that’s a man, baby.
HALF!
Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to me…..
*taps foot impatiently*
Happy Birthday dear Scruffy Nerfherder.
Who?
When?
Not only do you look scruffy. You are starting to look old.
Was that what you were waiting for?
Yep, thanks for that.
*grabs bottle of JD*
Adds DOB information on user ‘Scruffy Nerfherder’ to file for next update to CIA bosses. Happy birthday!???
It’s my coworker Corey’s birthday today, too! You don’t know him. He’s from almost Canada.
Everything in NoDak is “almost Canada”.
also, Happy Birthday Scruffy, make sure the orphans work double time to provide you with maximum profits today.
No it’s…
…well, yeah, I guess it is, eh?
Happy Birthday!
So are you Dave Matthews or Jimmy Page? Because Nixon and Bob Denver are dead.
Crystal Gayle
Tremble before my mane, all shall love me and despair!
::sends used whiskey via mule pack::
Urine?
You know what they say – you don’t buy whisky, you only rent it.
“you smell like a monkey, and you live in a tree!”
As I’ve been reading the psychological research on intellectual humility and the character traits it correlates with, I can’t help but fume: Why can’t more people be like this?
It’s a conundrum.
I love it. Somehow, being angry that more people aren’t the way you would prefer them doesn’t seem very humble.
That ranks with “We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men” on the lack of self awareness scale.
Pittsburgh intends to defy state’s preemption law and pass gun restrictions.
hundreds of 2A supporters protest and plan a bigger rally for January 24th.
https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2019/01/08/Gun-rights-rally-foretells-battle-over-bill/stories/201901070113
is this something Antefa would counter-protest? i assume not since it’s in Pittsburgh and not Philly and half of the protestors are open carrying but i honestly have no idea about Antefa’s position on 2A.
Antifa odesn’t want the people they plan to try to punch to be carrying arms.
They are commies so, anti-2nd.
Nope. Not without the assurances of the police that the people they want to bash are unarmed.
And the assurance of the city government that no rioters will be arrested/charged/prosecuted. Except perhaps for symbolic arrests of those who want to bump their street cred.
“Patriot” you say?
When I get to the end of my “Chuck” binge, I’ll check it out.
“Grown Men Are the Solution, Not the Problem
With young men in crisis, the American Psychological Association wrongly declares war on ‘traditional masculinity’
Yesterday afternoon, immediately after the Dallas Cowboys’ hard-fought victory over the Seattle Seahawks, Fox’s Erin Andrews interviewed Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott and running back Ezekiel Elliott. She asked Elliott what he thought when he saw Prescott take off for a key run that set up the winning touchdown.
“It’s simple,” Elliott responded, “He’s a grown-ass man. That’s what it is. That’s how he played today, and he led us to this win.”
That’s a phrase you hear a lot in sports. “Grown man.” There’s grown-man football. There’s grown-man basketball. It speaks to a certain style of play. Tough. Physical. Courageous. Overpowering. It’s also fundamentally aspirational. It’s quite safe to say that millions of young boys desire to become a grown man — a person who is physically and mentally tough, a person who can rise to a physical challenge and show leadership under stress. In fact, that’s not just an intellectual goal, it’s a deeply felt need. It’s a response to their essential nature.
But becoming a true “grown man” — while a felt need — isn’t an easy process. It involves shaping and molding. It requires mentoring. It requires fathers who are themselves grown men. Turning boys into grown men means taking many of their inherent characteristics — such as their aggression, their sense of adventure, and their default physical strength — and shaping them toward virtuous ends. A strong, aggressive risk-taker can be a criminal or a cop, for example. To borrow from the famous American Sniper speech, they can be a sheepdog or a wolf.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/psychologists-criticize-traditional-masculinity/
Not a David Freedom fan, but he’s right here.
and shaping them toward virtuous ends
Where is virtue when one’s worldview regards “manspreading” as oppressive and worthy of censure, but donning the burka is a statement of feminine empowerment and independence? Feminist women complain about receiving too few orgasms, but they’re “punching down” if they horripilate at FGM. Title IX is the bulwark keeping frat boys from routing women out of post-secondary education altogether, but you’re a TERF if you look askance at men dominating female athletes. Gallantry is the stuff of connivers and rapists, so forget what your amygdala is telling you, what women really want is a boy who stops every two minutes to ask whether she’s comfortable. “Virtue” is patriarchal and Christian-normative, and therefore shaping boys to be virtuous men is meaningless to progressives.
(I have no idea whether that’s what the amygdala does.)
The whole point of this social marxist horseshit is to create a dysfunctional society. If people cant think they cannot defend themselves. If society cant function it cant organize against the tyrant. All of this stuff is designed to fill people’s heads with gibberish.
It is as simple as that.
This nonsense comes from the same “authority figures” who taught me for four years that things like implicit/subconscious racism as a thing that you had to feel bad for.
You’ll never get to Heaven if you deny the concept of Original Sin.
Embrace your guilt. Beg forgiveness.
GodThe High Priesthood commands you.“Ocasio-Cortez Is Wrong to Attack Fact-Checkers
Does she really believe the Washington Post is biased in favor of Trump?”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-attack-on-fact-checkers-wrong/
But he gets all this positive media coverage, which is why such an obviously evil entity hasn’t been driven from the white house.
/prog.
People were throwing a fit over Trump being televised last night. Apparently there was one time Obama wasn’t televised.
I predict that Crazy Eyes will have a meltdown. She is just too reactionary and crazy not to.
…which will only endear her to her base even more.
I suspect her base is not that large, however loudly they may scream.
Not melting down is giving in to toxic masculinity.
Looks like I’m walking again. Last train and fucking lolligaggers blocking the stairs. Should’ve plowed through them, but I’m a gentleman. And now the wife is calling. I’m not answering that.
Godspeed, Straff. Godspeed.
Last… train?
Does not compute.
Good point. “I didn’t miss the last train. There’s another one in the morning!”
There’s no rickshaws sitting around waiting? Has Hollywood lied to me?
Yes, yes they did.
I am amazed that a city with the population of Canada has trains that stop for part of the day.
Urban legend has it that the housewives lobbied the railway companies to stop running past a certain time (most train lines in Tokyo stop around 12:30~1:00 am). The only day they run all night is New Years eve.
As somebody who take NJTransit – can only dream of Japanese train reliability.
As result of two decades on the worst transit system in the US I can tell you more about rail operations than anyone outside the railroad business should know.
One advantage to the several hour shutdown is that it lets folks check tracks, switches and signals and do preventative maintenance. This helps keep reliability high.
I’m not saying you can’t work around a railroad with a 24 hour schedule, but there is a big benefit to having an elongated time with no trains.
The line I use regularly had a terrible record for being late. It was the jumpers. Almost every Saturday morning it would be delayed. Then they elevated the tracks and did other small things like installing mirrors at the end of the platform (people don’t want to see themselves before splattering their brains). Now it works like clockwork. No complaints.
How inconsiterate – making them go all the way to the suicide forest.
I saw a story on that once. Creepy AF
“Aw, jeez, who’s this ugly fucker leering at me? Today of all days.
Oh.”
It is creepy. They also charge the family a shitton when someone jumps. That don’t seem right, but it works.
Safe trip back home good sir.
I cheated and flagged a taxi. 5 Kilometers a bit too far in this freezing weather.
My wife and I really enjoy Lethal Weapon (TV show, not movie) and have watched it since the beginning.
Last night I felt like they were trying to make me stop watching.
The plot had a RUSSIAN OIL COMPANY trying to kill a Senator who was having a CLIMATE SUMMIT with a PLASTIC GUN.
I try to ignore stuff like that, but last night it was difficult.
I was called an asshole by my wife when the Senator was mistaken for a hooker and I said”Meh, same difference.”
That’s an insult to prostitutes. Hookers at least provide a service for the money they take.
I did tell my wife that wasn’t entirely true since at least hookers have have happy customers and don’t force you to use them.
But the good ones beg you to.
The really good ones charge extra for you to beg.
Looks like I’m walking again.
Based on my deep knowledge of Japanese culture and behavior, gained from watching Zatoichi movies, there is undoubtedly a peasant nearby who will happily carry you piggyback to your destination.
“According to OMB, federal employees, including those who work for HUD, were last paid December 28 (which was the usual pay day). Their next pay day isn’t until January 11. AOC is either lying or she was lied to.”
https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1082731566982447104
The narrative doesn’t care about your facts.
It’s more important to be morally correct than factually correct.
Clicked too soon.
If I was a White House operative, I would call Ms. OC very concerned that there was a problem with payroll, and ask her the name of the employee so I can make sure he’s getting paid the way he is supposed to.
Odds that she would give the name? Zero, showing she doesn’t really give a shit or she knows the whole thing is fake.
My public response: “Rep. OC refused to allow us to help this employee.”
Remember the mysterious sonic weapon making people ill in our Cuban embassy? They got to the bottom of it.
Uh-huh. And the Roswell UFO was a weather balloon.
Clearly the Cubans put the crickets there and knew the effect they would have…
So State Department employees are whiny ass bitch hypochondriacs? Prejudices confirmed.
I’ve been in plenty of weird places, chirping bugs never made me sick.
Government employees have a history of pretending something in the ‘environment’ is making them sick. This allows them to get taxpayers to spend millions buying them fancy new digs. Hamilton County Ohio spent a fortune moving their county offices to a fancier building. They couldn’t get the move approved so employees started reporting a wierd illness that they claimed was caused by an unidentified environmental toxin. Voila new offices.
Our cubes have gotten smaller every time we’ve been moved. Used to be, I could extend my arms and avoid blocking the aisle. The air quality here is distinctly poor. Aside from the 16% humidity (I brought in a meter that I leave on my desk to see what it’s at) there is so much airborne dust that mere days puts a layer on any object you can visibly disrupt with a swipe. I didn’t used to need a box of tissues on my desk, nor risk having dust bunnies behind my paperwork.
Of course, we’re IT rank and file, so we got booted by every ‘real’ division who wanted our seats for expansion.
Same at our place. The EPA leases the space from the owner of the building, and we use it as part of a grant. Despite being a scenic marina location, none of the windows open and the ventilation is crap, so it’s stuffy as hell and what air does move is like an airplane: you’re breathing in all the funky germs everybody’s been exhaling. God knows how old the ducts are but there’s for sure mold in there. There are a ton of leaks, too, so whenever there’s a good storm the carpets are soaked for a day or two. It smells like a cross between a damp basement and a shitty motel room.
A Turkish prison?
The back seat of a VW Beetle?
Check.
Hunter boasted on dating app about poaching deer – not realizing her potential suitor was a game warden
1. Woman is a moron.
2. Game warden is a dick.
Some hunters in here may disagree with me on #2.
Here’s the deal on poaching. Unless you are poaching on your own property or you have permission from the property owner, you are trespassing. Also, wild game isn’t anybody’s private property, so you don’t have a right to shoot it because it isn’t yours. You can get a license to shoot it from the sovereign, who is the default “owner” of wild game.
Bottom line: poaching is indefensible from a libertarian position, involving as it does at least two property rights violations. At best, you can argue that wild game is unclaimed property of some kind, or non-property that is reduced to ownership by being shot and possessed.
No indication in the story where she killed it. She was charged with killing a deer out of season not poaching. So the headline was misleading.
Killing a deer out of season is not poaching?
I have a particularly hard hardon for poachers for obvious reasons. Generally the people who do that are not shining paragons of virtue in other aspects of their lives.
My cousin got busted by one shooting a fake buck set up by thr DNR.
This is the same genius that was arrested for statutory rape.
When the judge ordered a DNA test to determine who impregnated the girl, he yelled to his mom, in open court, “I’m screwed!”
I’m sorry. I LOLd.
So did my whole family when his mother told us.
Dirt bag and dumb is no way to go through life.
…and so we she.
I often think about killing deer out of season when the little fuckers decimate may garden or my apples.
Can’t argue with any of that. The only angle I can think of is if it’s your property and, say, a deer walks across it, then you’ve got the same right to shoot the deer for food as you would to eat a sandwich someone left on your lawn. Maybe there’s a pest control angle that’s more reasonable.
Pest control would be killing more deer. At least around me. The four hoofed rats eat anything in my lawn or garden.
The only angle I can think of is if it’s your property and, say, a deer walks across it, then you’ve got the same right to shoot the deer for food as you would to eat a sandwich someone left on your lawn.
Traditionally, if your neighbor’s livestock (or pet) wanders onto your land, they don’t become yours.
Pierson v. Post
Also, the government has no bushiness owning land it did not first receive from a citizen.
1. she possibly used a rifle during bow season
2. she only took the head and some choice cuts
3. she used a spotlight at night to freeze the deer
unsafe, lazy, and unethical is no way to approach hunting.
Game wardens have no place on public lands.
“Transgender woman allegedly attacked by two women in bathroom in NC bar
Witnesses said the victim was targeted for being transgender
Amber Harrell and Jessica Fowler allegedly assaulted the 29-year-old transgender woman in the bathroom at the Milk Bar last month, WRAL-TV reported.
Police arrested Harrell, 38, over the weekend. Fowler, 31, turned herself in to the authorities Tuesday.
The victim, who has not been identified, told police that Harrell and Fowler started out verbally abusing her in the bathroom on Dec. 9.
They allegedly joked about the victim’s genitalia, exposed themselves, then pushed the transgender woman against the wall and touched her, according to the 911 call.
After they left the bathroom, the victim claimed that the attack continued at the bar.
Harrell and Fowler were charged with second-degree kidnapping and sexual battery. Both women posted bonds — Harrell $50,000 and Fowler $30,000 — and were released from the Wake County Jail.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/transgender-woman-allegedly-attacked-by-two-women
https://www.wral.com/two-women-charged-with-assault-on-transgender-person-at-glenwood-south-bar/18110722/
Obviously not Woke County.
What is the Milk Bar putting in their milk?
Vellocet, synthemesc, drencrom, or whatever else your little heart desires.
Testosterone, if any of this is to be believed.
1 would 1 wouldn’t.
You can’t trust those droogs.
I smell a rat. Why is the ‘victim’ not identified? What the fuck is HE doing in the women’s room? Even if he was why would they do that instead of just leaving?
There’s a third party involved, the bartender, so maybe it’s not another poop swastika.
From what little I read, it sounds like drunk people being drunk.
^ ^ ^
“Why is the ‘victim’ not identified?”
I’m guessing because the name of the alleged victim of sexual battery is generally not released.
I hang out in women’s bathrooms for hours and that shit never happens to me. Male privilege my ass!
Bill’s a lumberjack and he’s OK…
“Jimmy Kimmel Makes ‘Confession’ About Working With Chuck Schumer
The host said he still ‘can’t believe’ they pulled off their plan to stop Graham-Cassidy.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jimmy-kimmel-makes-confession-about-working-with-chuck-schumer
“In case you might be wondering why the late night talk shows are mocking Trump’s speech on the thousands of Americans who are suffering because of illegal immigration and the open border: Chuck Schumer Sends Talking Points To Comedy Hosts To Parrot On TV”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1082857577866715137
The whole charade is an insult to anyone with half a brain. Nothing Trump would’ve said wouldn’t have been ridiculed by hacks like Kimmel and Schumer. Honestly, if Team Blue had offered even a fig leaf to Trump, I bet he’d have taken it.
Oops. Guess I should’ve checked the links.
“Jimmy Kimmel Makes ‘Confession’ About Working With Chuck Schumer”
Who?
I think he might be a PR consultant for the DNC. *shrugs*
Damn… Not that I plan on committing any crimes, but it annoys me that my DNA was, unknowingly by me (at the time), taken from a blood sample and recorded while I was in the Marines. This process started in Desert Storm for the stated purpose of identifying remains.
Apparently, your own DNA is no longer needed to identify you…
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/09/us/mirack-cold-case-murderer-sentenced-to-prison/index.html
The Big Green Weenie knows no boundries or restrictions
23 and me does this and shares your entire genome with LE. I’m still livid about that and I am pretty sure they’ve no process for purging their records.
“Patriarch Krill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, warns mankind of Antichrist control via the internet and smartphones as people “fall into slavery””
https://twitter.com/ashtonbirdie/status/1082664784791777280
Is he related to Commander Krill from Under Siege?
“To advance “gender equality” the new liberal DB governor of California will refer to his wife as “First Partner.” Ugh, just ?”
https://twitter.com/iheartmindy/status/1082830344917782529
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/far-left-ca-gov-newsoms-wife-to-go-by-first-partner-to-advance-gender-equality/
Why “first”? What’s equal about ranking?
It’s not a ranking, it’s the order in which he met them.
I assumed so, but found that option to be boring.
Does she wear rainbow socks?
If you can arbitrarily identify as whatever depending on how you feel at the moment, why cant you identify others on a whim?
If I identify as a shitlord does that mean I don’t have to give a shit about how other people identify? Because I pick that one.
Look like a woman, get called “ma’am.” Look like a man, get called “sir.” Don’t act all surprised when people take you at face value, ‘cuz they aren’t that into you.
And If you act like a dick, expect to be called worse things.
When I was a teenager there were times I had shoulder length hair. Sometimes it was in a pony tail. Now and again adults would think I was a girl from behind–not often, but a couple times. I survived.
My dad kept my hair boy-short all through my childhood and adolescence. I got mistaken for a boy quite often when I was a child.
I certainly didn’t make that mistake when you had that avatar of you in that red garment. ?
Heh. The second I left home I let my hair grow and it’s been mostly long ever since.
Except that summer I shaved my head because I was working outside and it was hot and I declared hair bankruptcy. I wore a scarf a lot. People were so NICE to me ALL THE FREAKING TIME. (“No, I don’t have cancer; I declared hair bankruptcy.”)
I thought he was gay. Hmmm, learn something new every day.
I think he used to be married to Kimberly Guilfoyle of all people
What the deuce!? That is surprising to say the least.
Well, that IS pretty gay!
I’m sure ladies love being treated like a business colleague.
BREAKING: Scruffy Nerfherder is banging Brittany Pettibone
“Happy 30th birthday to the most incredible man (and fiancé) in the world. <3"
https://twitter.com/BrittPettibone/status/1082680755187318788
What the hell happened to your hair Scruffy?
Slapdash AF, but did anyone else think this when they saw that picture in the links?
Many people.
Some put more effort into their photoshops.
Someone linked above beat you to it.
Good. I hope everyone sees it that way. Fucking ghouls.
I think they showed it on Fox News soon after the meme hit the internet.
“It’s immoral AND it’s a waste of money!”
From Chuck fucking Schumer and Nancy Saran Wrap Face Pelosi. Unreal. Making Trump look like the adult.
“And boy don’t we know all about wastes of money, right Chuck?”
did anyone else think this when they saw that picture in the links?
“Riff Raff, a handyman” played by Chuck Schumer.
This is where all this hate crime shit is obviously leading…