Viva Las Vegas, it’s a film, a song, and one of the longest running Rockabilly weekenders in the world. What’s Rockabilly? It’s a style of music that started in the 50’s (primarily in Memphis at a little studio called Sun), had a revival in the 80’s, and has been slapping a bass since then. It’s split up into a huge range of subgenres, some going more punk, others going more “classic” (in this case 1950’s style). Among the fans, there’s also usually an appreciation of classic cars, 50’s fashion, and Americana culture. Pompadours, facial hair, flatcaps, and tattoos are common.
Back to Viva… this year was the 22nd year that the event was held, and for as long as I’ve been going, it’s been held at the Orleans Casino and Resort in Las Vegas, off the strip. The Orleans is known as a locals casino. But over most Easter weekends (when Viva is held), they turn off the standard music, change it over to Rockabilly, and swarms of people with their classic cars and finest 50’s fashion fall upon the Orleans. The event is popular enough that rooms for the next year go on sale before the tickets for the event do, and the rooms sell out in under three hours.
The men have it easy, bowling shirts and work shirts are the standard, with a couple of zoot suits and the like being worn. If you have hair, it’s either a high and tight or held up into a pompadour. The women have a much harder time dolling themselves up, but they go through the work and it shows. However, there are some entire families who dress themselves up in matching garb for the day (I’m not too sure about how much say the kids have, but they’re there).
Over the course of the weekend, there’s burlesque shows, pinup contests, concerts, DJ’s, vendor rooms, dance lessons, make up lessons, fashion lessons, bowling, movie premiers, and other shows of interest to the attendees. And that’s not even mentioning the car show, it’s massive, with all cars (except the ones from movies/TV shows) being pre-1964. If you’re not careful, you could walk away purchasing one of the cars that are for sale.
Now that you know what’s going on there, you’ve decided you want to go. Great, what should you plan for? First, plan on walking a lot. I don’t think I’ve walked less than 5 miles any day out there. Realize that you’ll probably not be able to get a room at the Orleans; however, keep in mind that they have a shuttle to their sister property (the Gold Coast), and the strip. Tickets for the main event come in basically two choices: The High Roller, which gives you access to everything all weekend; or the Car Show, which gives you access to the car show only on Saturday (that will include the vendors in that area, and the bands playing there). If you don’t have appropriate garb, then the vendors will be more than happy to help you out there, but bring cash as some do not take credit/debit cards..
If you’re going for the first time, I’d recommend going to Sweet Pea’s Hooch and Smooch on Thursday afternoon. It’s the official meet and greet for the event, and then there’s more specific meetups for singles, LGBT, sober, black pin-ups, etc. I’d also recommend looking over the schedule ahead of time, and try to at least get a rough schedule of the events you want to see. Personally, I’d recommend at least one burlesque event, and the Charles Phoenix slide show. Most of the shows happen multiple times (but may be different for each of them), bands usually only play once, but then hang out around the weekender for the rest (I met one of the players from Los Straitjackets that way, it’s not like you can recognize them).
I’ve already got my room booked for next year, and I hope to see some of you there. If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s some pictures from this year, and some from years past.
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192 responses to “A Beginner’s Guide to Viva”
Looks like fun. I think my first exposure to Rockabilly was watching Reverend Horton Heat in the movie Love and a 45. I may have heard the style before, but first time I heard the term. Totally my jam.
I’ve actually never been to Las Vegas.
Rockabilly or pretender? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H8QbQ0NRAk
You’ve got slap bass, and there’s not really that much of a purity movement in the rockabilly scene. I’ll say I like this song with the same name though. You’ve got some people who only like the old Sun artists (and those who play that way), some who prefer the psychobilly/punk ones, and people generally get along.
Nice.
How about British rockabilly? By one of my all-time favorite bands, Rockpile, featuring Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds? Do they qualify?
(For those of you not in the know, I only recall one actual Rockpile-named album, but in their prime both Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds solo albums were really Rockpile albums splitting their lead singer/songwriters.)
Yeah.
Does Jake Bugg qualify?
Can I get a ruling on Southern Culture on the Skids? They don’t have an upright bass, but they are pretty country.
I like Southern Culture on the Skids.
SCOTS ???
Some SCOTS for Q
That can’t be the right link. Not enough bare skin.
Would.
It’s like I don’t know you anymore.
I mean…..If the shoe fits?
The car show looks cool.
It is. Even walking it two or three times, you’ll still see new things you missed the first time through. They do offer a ticket just for the car show.
I’m going to take the wife next year, sweet,
Thanks Neph, great writeup
Then I’ll see you there. Rooms are already booked, and Viva tickets go on sale June 1st. They’re at a discounted rate until spring next year, tickets usually sell out around March. If you sign up to the newsletter, they provide updates and usually average about an e-mail a month.
My Brother played with Brian Setzer once at a dive bar, they held hands after word, true story…
Describe “dive bar”…
No, I’m kidding; please don’t.
Describe “dive bar”…
Dive = Bar = Dive
The term is redundant.
Like an ATM machine?
Depends; what is your PIN number?
This joke is literally going to give me the HIV virus.
I think you need a relaxing bath; assuming your hot water heater is working.
I’ve been to Vegas once, as a kid when our Econoline suffered a blowout in the Mojave and we had to get it fixed at the Ford dealership.
Vegas by day seemed entirely unglamorous.
I am not generally a fan of Las Vegas, Nevada.
And by that I mean, I really hate the place. More and more.
The nice thing is that this is off strip, so almost everyone there is either a local or there for the show.
I have to go to Vegas on business on Friday. Fly in that morning, fly out that afternoon. Still more time than I would prefer to be there, especially because my business is in the middle of the Strip.
Have you been to the Wynn or Encore. Every restaurant has a vegetarian/vegan menu.
Everything has meat in it. Except for the meat loaf.
Wait, we got married there!
Fitting that she really hates it.
It’s like a bar. In the dark with music and women it looks ok. Go in during the day when no one is there and the lights are on. Dirty, seedy, grungy and not a surface in the place you would feel comfortable touching.
sounds more like New Orleans.
^DINGDINGDINGDING!!
I used to be in the gaming business. Turned down a lot of money to relocate there.
Then I was involved in a lot of trade shows in various industries – fucking Vegas was always on the menu. Many times per year. I hate the place.
I would go for this event, though.
I went a couple times for a user group conference. Every time I’d dump on Las Vegas as the choice of venue. Could have been worse. Could be a Mennonite like a guy I know that went to the same conference.
Econoline?
How many kids were in your family?
And, what were you doing in the Mojave?
A song I refuse to play, but is in our library.
Thanks, Neph. I love me some rockabilly.
My favorite group from Austin.
And their website.
Very nice, we’ve still got a small scene up here in Cleveland which is nice.
Sorry to OT so early but apparently Rosenstein is dumping on Comey. I wonder if the vultures are gathering?
Yes.
It can’t be bad. It may be good.
Thanks Neph. I like Vegas, hot rods, and Rockabilly, so this sounds like a good time.
The wife and I have a special place for the psychobilly side of the style. We met at a reverend Horton Heat show almost 20 years ago.
Then you showed her your Reverend?
It was more of a game of hide the Bishop.
The Rev was the headliner of the Car Show this year (and a couple years back).
Vegas is my favorite American city by far. I wish I could’ve visited it in her 70’s, but it was still great in the 80’s.
Nice Hemi in the hotrod.
I enjoy Vegas. I enjoy Rockabilly.
Sounds like fun.
What I really wanna hear about is the suburban forests of Cleveland. As a child of the West, I’m used to dryness such that “suburbs” is analogous to “tract housing with nothing else”.
PS: Go to Vegas on New Year’s. Your liver will hate you and you’ll catch an STD. NYE 2001 in Vegas and I caught the clap from one (I don’t know which) of two girls whose names I don’t remember. It was awesome.
There’s a whole series of parks all around (and through) the city of Cleveland. You can bike almost a full 100 miles through the parks with minimal road riding.
I’ve been to Vegas for a New Year’s. 2003-2004 IIRC. Three casinos lost power that day, and there wasn’t a peep about it in the news at all.
Because it was the heist of the century and the mob didn’t want anyone to know it was successful.
That was the joke we were telling the rest of the trip.
You da man!
My sis lived in Pittsburgh for 10 years and I was always envious. I think the Midwest is a great place. Beautiful sights, kind people and, from what I’ve seen, friendly beautiful women. I’m from the land of Blue Meth so the Mistake by the Lake is preferable 🙂 .
Why do you think it was just one of them?
Fair point.
1) How much of the denim was American made, and how much of it was Japanese?
2) What are the best Rockabillie albums put out in the last 5 or 10 years?
I can only assume you’ve never tried to actually work greasy dego hair into a high pomp with Murray’s
(Although every time I try to get into Rockabilly, I get sidetracked by Gothic Americana, so it might not stick anyway)
The vendors there are a mix of vintage denim and new American made denim.
The best albums one is a bit tougher… a lot of the classics came out over 30 years ago. if you’re getting sidetracked by Gothic Americana, you should definitely check out the Horrorpops. The Delta Bombers are more recent and play a more traditional style. I myself tend towards the psychobilly style which blends in some punk, faster beats, and classic horror films.
I’ll check them out. I’m not into punk… like, at all. But those might be a good fit.
What are the best Rockabillie albums put out in the last 5 or 10 years?
I liked this song, didn’t listen to the album so can’t say if it’s a winner or no.
Not my cup of tea but always appreciate these reports from the outpost!
Imelda May, Mayhem is pretty good. I saw this chick around 2010 and she was great live.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4qJXTR7SyBQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jxj5wlXY9No
Good guitarist. Also, she’s cute.
Nice writeup Neph. Did your girl go as Rosie the Riveter or as Bettie Page?
Also, Charles Phoenix is a gas, daddy-o!!
Catchy tune.
Some Fallout Cosplayers could join in and go unnoticed….
OT – Today in best timeline ever:
We will take your money.
Some honesty.
Yeah, I saw that. Like that wasn’t the plan all along. Like they aren’t going to do it no matter.
Fucking commies. Apparently there are enough morons in NYC to elect the guy.
Rhy… brother, you need to get the hell out of there.
I’m surprised he’s even in town rather than jetting off to Iowa or New Hampshire (again) on his “heal the Earth” tour.
Those dumb hicks aren’t where the money is.
NH ranks #7 of states with the most households 1M or higher per capita.
Yeah, seven, hence being ghosted, which makes them want him more.
No, we really don’t.
“Who You Callin’ We?!” *Tropic Thunder clip I can’t find right now*
that was so hilarious, the clip of him doing his speech while the Trump troll team went up and down the escalators behind him with their signs. A for effort guys!
LOL – I hadn’t watched that. Classic!! What a maroon that guy is.
Thanks for the article, Neph! I like Vegas in very small, expensive doses. Some of the restaurants are world class.
Speaking of restaurants, if any of you west coasters find yourself in Bend, looking for food, the bbq shrimp at Zydeco are a mandatory experience.
OT: A while back I described a conversation I had with my grandfather when I was about 15 years old and thought I knew something. I argued that prohibition was a huge mistake and a failure. My grandfather countered with “You weren’t there. You didn’t see it. Crime was out of control. Dopeheads and drunks were everywhere like locusts”
Someone here argued that that was an exaggeration.
I was reading today and someone touched on the contemporary drug war. They pointed out that the problems we have today are nothing compared to the post-civil war years. During the war opioids use became widespread, their discovery by American battlefield docs was considered a miracle. Remember that for most
of the war the only anesthetics available were half a dozen burly knuckleheads holding you down while the doc went at you with a bone saw. Medical professionals had little to no experience with the kind of addiction they were helping foment.
After the war the govt cut loose thousands and thousands (who knows how many?) of drug addicts. Out in the cold and on their own. Most of them became lifelong dopeheads. I have heard tell of those years and how bad it was, exponentially worse than what we see today.
I had previously argued that Prohibition was really the culmination of the Whiskey Rebellion. I am not retracting that, I will still argue that case that the Whiskey Rebellion dates from 1791-1933, but I had forgotten about the post war plague of dopeheads because it barely gets mentioned in history books. That was definitely an aggravating factor. What my grandfather saw was the tail end of that disaster. He wasn’t exaggerating it just seems like it now to us because as he pointed out…we weren’t there. We didn’t see it.
That just popped in my head because some bobblehead was on TV yapping about the opioid ‘epidemic’ now being unprecedented and ‘like nothing we have seen before’. That is patently false.
Why is addiction, in and of it’s self a bad thing? This is the question I’ve found no has an answer to. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but why is it a bad thing?
Whether it’s bad or not, you get to do bad things to yourself. As long as you’re not fucking with others, you have every right. Eventually, those who can quit, will and those who can’t will serve as an example. Mankind and government especially, have no business trying to thwart your self destructiveness. Never mind that the best we can do is to destroy you even more and faster.
+1 ‘best we can do’ added methanol.
I don’t think it’s the “in and of itself” that’s a bad thing, for most people. More the “being a layabout, shitting on the sidewalks, and being an enormous expense on the rest of us” part.
But, it seems the common attack is “You could get addicted!!!!” So? If you can point to a problem with said addiction that’s one thing, but the most common attack is on how one can become addicted. Believe you me, I’m not personally for drug use or abuse, but when they say water down alcohol abuse down to what was common drinking just a decade ago, it helps no one, and people who take opioids to manage pain aren’t the same as those who inject to get high, but it’s all veiled under this threat of addiction.
Availability doesn’t cause addiction, otherwise everyone would be an alcoholic.
Those people are politicians, or act like one. No surprise they are control freaks. I think what you’re talking about is not as common among regular folk.
Or I’m just being charitable – always a possibility.
Combatting Midwest Cons, addiction is always the tact.
That’s what Jane says.
The only way someone can make any convincing argument to me as to why a drug should be contraband is if they can show that using that drug removes a person’s agency. That argument can be made for certain drugs for certain people.
Whatever you think in principle the reality of it is that some people behave as if they have no agency. They become dysfunctional and so can’t hold a job or earn any meaningful amount of money. Their whole life becomes about acquiring more drug, often at the expense of others.
Of course the drug warrior has painted himself into a corner with that. If the person has no agency then they can’t be held accountable for their behavior.
I argue that those people should be penalized for whatever crimes they commit, not for the drug use itself. Toss them in the Clink for robbery or assault, not for use of or possession of contraband.
It’s prohibition that makes drugs expensive. Bayer marketed heroin as the most economical way to make cough syrup.
Authentic, Give this a listen if you have time. Pure evil government policies.
https://mises.org/library/reefer-madness-government-efforts-criminalize-marijuana-0
Autocorrect thinks “Suthen” is “authentic”.
What Suthen said.
The problem with a lot of drugs is that a certain amount of the users will really go off the rails and no longer be able to function.
If the government is going to “do something” about drugs, a far more humane and effective thing to do would be to legalize everything and use the sin taxes to build centers where addicts could get drugs. The center could also offer beds, showers and toilets. If they wanted treatment, there would be counselors right there.
Let’s be honest, legalizing all drugs will increase the number of addicts. However, that doesn’t mean that there will be more crime or disease.
*Yes, it would be even better if the govt did nothing and let private charity build and run the centers, but one battle at a time.
You missed the part where the proponents of Prohibition were directly tied into the first wave of the Progressive movement. It was the epitome of “Government knows best”.
Another factor rarely mentioned are the real motives of the govt…same then as now: Money. The Green New Deal is about the environment…my ass.
People regularly used whiskey as currency. Given a choice between whiskey (intrinsic value) and currency (useless paper with numbers printed on it) people chose whiskey every time. The govt is not going to tolerate that. That is why they started taxing whiskey and not corn or cotton…to force people to use the govt issued currency. By taxing whiskey and demanding payment in govt. currency they were trying to destroy whiskey’s value as currency. It was always about the money, thus the derogative prohibition era term ‘revenooooers’.
The progressives were and are all about power and money. They don’t give a fuck about any of the horseshit they crow incessantly about. Power and money, nothing else.
You are correct and the progs now are no different than their puritan ancestors.
Still, at the time, a lot of regular shmoes thought there was a good case for prohibition. Fortunately it didn’t take them long to figure out their mistake. That period passed not because of prohibition but because the flood of dopeheads got old and died off.
And currently, a lot of the regular shmoes are on board with socialism, the green new deal, and a slew of other proggy ideas. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Fortunately, it looks like we may be on the cusp of the current proggy movement going to same way as the last proggy movement. I think the average voter is getting tired of their shit.
I think so too. My grandmother told me at the end of their last run publicly admitting you were a progressive would get you lynched. Looking at the level of batshittery they are pushing now I think we are going to soon be eating our popcorn and laughing while we watch the lunatic fringe crawl back under their rocks.
I read that at one point, prior to prohibition, the typical opioid addict was a midwestern housewife. The Sears catalog used to sell heroin kits.
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
“My husband, some hotshot!
Here’s his ancient Chinese secret — smack!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudanum
You might find this interesting.
Gosh, that really changed my confidence in the DEA’s honesty. Or, you know, didn’t.
You will be right much more than wrong if you just assume everything you hear from a govt source is a bald faced lie.
Oh, and if the source is the UN or in any way connected to the UN making that assumption will put you in the right 100 fucking % of the time.
Part of the point I was trying to make is that history is complicated. It is a fool’s task to hold the past to todays standards. There are a million small and not so small factors that went into the decisions that people of the past made and we can never know what all of them were. The best we can do is hold ourselves today to our standards…something most people fail miserably at anyway.
Govt created black markets are evil and we should make the fuckers stop doing it. yeah, I know, fat chance. It creates to many opportunities for them to get their hands in our pockets. They will never give it up by choice.
Today’s baking. 100% sourdough ciabatta. Doesn’t suck.
Daaammmnnn.
It would be better if it was meat.
No, not really. This was truly carbohydrate perfection.
You guys missed my [REDACTED] BBQ yesterday, I know you wouldn’t have enjoyed, but I know SP would have and ‘thanked’ you real hard. It’s that good, something non meat can’t be.
Dammit, sorry. I was… otherwise occupied (if you read Twitter, you’ll know why).
Why…?
Follow him on twitter!
I probably should have specified which why I’m asking. All of them. All of the whys.
Is tacos the answer?
Red headed grifter?
Of course.
I missed it too. Looked and didn’t see a [redacted] post. Must have been [redacted]ed.
There wasn’t a post, but I did make comments.
This is what’s known as a “meat wrapper”.
How do you make that? Worth the effort?
Super easy. More than worth the (almost-non-existent) effort.
I could write a post….
For Dummies version, plees.
Just add water?
Seriously. Sourdough starter (which you can make at home from scratch in as little as 5 days), flour, water, a little olive oil (although not strictly traditional), and salt. That’s all that’s in it and the process is mostly hands-off.
That is begging for butter and honey or butter and garlic. Hell, do one half with each…and a touch of sweet basil on the garlic half.
I’ve done ciabatta before and that is one fine loaf. You are not wrong on the proper additions.
Awww. Thanks.
That loaf of bread, cheese, olive oil, and a superb bottle, or two, on the patio is a day worth living.
No kidding. Look at those air pockets..I mean unfilled butter chambers. They are perfection.
Thank you!
Man that looks good.
It is! 🙂
Yes, it’s bread like that which prevents me from becoming truly low-carb.
I can go for a few days on very low carb, and the pounds just shed right off (great to do if you’ve added a few pounds over a vacation, for example) but I just crave a good sandwich made with bread like that.
SP, if you can invent low-carb bread that looks and no doubt tastes like that, you will be a billionaire.
My best friend from college grew up in Vegas. He took me to the Orleans.
Do they still have the $2 steak and eggs after 1am?
The late night specials were the only way I survived as a college kid in vegas 16yrs ago.
No. Southpoint (another off strip hotel) offers 5.99 steak and eggs after midnight though.
Cheap food is no longer to be had in Vegas.
It appears that I’m older than I thought.
My best friend is rockabilly. Married a burlesque girl some years back. Took me to see the Flametrick Subs in Deep Ellum 20-odd years ago, and it was one of the best concerts I’ve been to, even though it isn’t really my cup o’ tea, and I don’t really like live music.
After the first 2-4 years after they got married, contact has dwindled to almost nothing between to two of us. Hell, I talk to his son more than him. I don’t know if it’s a perceived lack of common ground, or their continued travel that seems to take them away to various rockabilly-ish things, or if I said/did something wrong. Of course, not a slam against rockabilly culture.
/smdh
Funny, one of my oldest/best friends has been doing the bowling-shirt and two-tone shoes thing for 15 years or so and married a burlesque chick. But I don’t think they’re “rockabilly”, at all. We all hung out together at the goth clubs before going our separate ways. He was a new-wave kid when I met him. *shrugs*
My friend has been in ‘the scene’ for quite some time now. The couples got along fine, so I’m not quite sure what made them ghost us. I know they’ve been trying to start their own lounge, and have been having a rough go at getting it out of the idea stage. That seems to have sapped some of his will to communicate directly with me.
I know he does FB, but, I refuse to get back on. My wife will let me know about some of his updates every once in a while.
A rough go, huh?
In Louisiana if you want to open a bar you are required to give some ownership to the mob. They control liquor distribution. Want to serve liquor in your bar? Ante up.
When old Joe Korn died his succession contained a small percent interest in every bar in the state. Every single one.
I just assumed it is that way everywhere.
From what little I know, this has been more of finding a “suitable” location. That’s more about whatever would be good for them, their perceived customers, $, etc. I think there might have been another person involved on the cooking side of things. Don’t know if they factor into the difficulties.
Sucks being out of the loop for a friend’s struggles.
A real billboard?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6Y5REIXsAAEPsX?format=jpg&name=medium
Well, closer to my thing than Marky Mark…
There is no ‘your truth’. There is truth and falsity. Truth is objective, not subjective. dummy.
I will give them one thing: If they wanted to shoot their credibility right in the dick they accomplished that in spades.
*ducks*
Wait, “speak your truth” doesn’t mean “deuce your drawers”?
I am trying to work out a play on the old ‘shit in one hand and put your feelings (in this case ‘your truth’) in the other and see which weighs more.
Ambien isn’t cooperating with my attempt.
Hold your truth in one hand and your shenis in the other…
I dunno, but, a real reason to gouge my eyes out.
Gonna need more than 3 billboards in Ebbing.
That was fantastic, straff. Of course, the fat will burn a lot more easily.
Google Maps shows a different Calvin Klein ad in the same space.
Suppose it could’ve came out after google took the pic. Honestly, if that isn’t real and someone just used that chick’s pic, that would be a nasty thing to do. I couldn’t find it with a google search.
Oh, sure. Those billboards change all the time.
Huh.
So much acid was consumed that day the world supply dropped by 80%.
Umm….Matthew? Who is this ‘We’ you bring up?
Seems to me his examples were all individuals making decisions for themselves, not some collectivist bullshit.
So, Matty–you don’t like it, you foot their bills.
Ok, I am poor enough that I am on medicaid. But I’m not so poor that my $160 a month meds should be $1 a month. The evil of this program is that it does that. One of my meds is $160 a month without insurance BECAUSE programs like medicaid and insurance underpay. Our system is so fucked up that no one can keep their hands clean.
“Underpay”? The government?
Someone’s been co-opted by the Patriarchy…..
And I’m sure you’re just the right person to make those decisions.
Well, he’s a damn sight more compassionate than those Rethuglikkkan assholes, so, why not???
You should not encourage classic cars. new cars for everyone. The automotive semiconductor market is not as strong as it could be.
Good morning glibs.
Good evening.
I saw a documentary about your home country once…
That’s great. I had no idea someone used Type O Negative as the soundtrack for the movie. Totally appropriate.
Good morning.
Rhywun I don’t think you were around when I posted this during the afternoon.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/13/blacks-attack-hasidim-brooklyn-deblasio-blames-trump-white-supremacy/
How does DeBlasio get away with this? I get TDS is popular in NYC. There is also a significant Jewish community. Are they letting him skate?
He gets away with it because his base is white progs and they take Jews (and blacks) for granted. This same story could have been written in any of the last five or six decades with only the names changed.
Are you sure? I would guess Ed Koch would have handled it differently.
Woodrow Wilson is the root cause of the warfare state we currently pay taxes to.
Prove me wrong.
Christ on a crutch. I’m watching an Oliver stone documentary on WW2. Oliver stone is anti-war guy. (Like I am) and this motherfucker keeps on heaping praise on FDR.
I dont get it. How the fuck can one square that circle.
Just look at all the
Japanese he interredsocial/jobs programs he forced others to fund–how can you not worship that???Infuriating. To say the least.
Surprising* that “anti-war” leftists are such authoritarians.
*not surprising
FDR is one of the saints of the socialist religion and is expeshully relevant now.
“Progressives” will gleefully tar and feather any figure from history who may have made some racist remarks against blacks but otherwise did nothing, yet they worship this president who ordered the only explicitly race-based internment in modern history.
It’s one of my missions in life to deny them that comfortable contradiction whenever the opportunity arises. They’ve gotten away with it for far too long.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/13/dominos-launches-revolting-hawaiian-spaghetti-pizza/
Get the fuck out.
“The canned pasta and pineapple chunk pie no self-respecting New Yorker would touch will run you $7.99, but it’s only available in New Zealand — for now.”
Well, New Zealand.
Your ciabatta looks amazing.
Thanks!
Between the gun control and this abomination, my desire to move to NZ went from small to nonexistent.
It takes a seriously twisted mind to come up with something that monstrous.
I’m not fancy enough for any place with a dress code.
-1 shirt
-2 shoes
-all service