Buenos tardes! I am afraid Brett is busy and is unable to provide your afternoon links. No word on what he is currently up to, but feel free to use your imagination.
The news from beyond the wall:
Apparently another 500 migrants left from Honduras. Here is why are leaving:
“The situation here in Honduras has been bad for years. One tries to make it north, that’s our dream, because here even when you do have work, what you get paid is only just enough to eat.
“There’s no way to earn enough to get a decent place to live. There are four of us in my family and we all live in a wooden shack.
“It’s dangerous here. Two rival gangs operate where I live and both have tried to recruit me. They try to paint you a nice picture of gang life but I’m not stupid. I don’t want that life for myself. So I have no alternative but to leave because I don’t want to get into trouble. God willing, I will make it to the US.”
‘The gangs want me to sell drugs’ – Keilin, 21
Secretary of Stare Mike Pompeo says something productive.
“The Maduro regime is illegitimate and the United States will work diligently to restore a real democracy to that country,” Pompeo told reporters on Saturday in Abu Dhabi during his tour of the Middle East countries.
Pompeo said the United States would work with like-minded countries in Latin America to restore democracy in the Latin American nation.
“We are very hopeful we can be a force for good to allow the region to come together to deliver that.”
Hopefully that doesn’t mean “regime change.”
Brazilian Trump, does what every fascist did before him and….eases gun restrictions?
“This measure is for upstanding citizens to have peace at home,” said Bolsonaro, a former Army captain, at an event in Brasilia on Tuesday. He added that the decree ensures Brazilians’ “right of defense” and that further changes to the law depend on congressional approval.
Brazil is one of the most violent countries in the world, with a murder rate of over 30 homicides per 100,000, compared with around 5 per 100,000 in the U.S. Much of Bolsonaro’s electoral appeal came from his tough line on law and order, including a promise to free up police officers to kill suspected criminals and allow Brazilians to arm themselves. A poll taken last month, however, showed that a majority of Brazilians oppose loosening the country’s gun laws.
This article looked interesting but once again the journo writing it missed it entirely. Trump’s Policies help the Cuban government instead of the private sector.
He restricted Americans’ ability to travel to Cuba on their own, rather than with a tour group. At the same time, he allowed U.S. cruise lines to continue to take passengers to Cuba, where they pay millions to disembark at military-run docks and make quick trips onshore that are generally coordinated by government tour agencies that stejrer [their typo not mine] travelers to state-run destinations.
Cuban government figures from the first full year under Trump’s policy show occupancy of private bed-and-breakfasts in Havana plunged to 44 percent in 2018 after years at near capacity in the wake of President Barack Obama’s start of normalization with Cuba, said Michael Bernal, commercial director for the Ministry of Tourism.
First off, if the country is communist that means the state owns your business therefore by definition–your business benefits the government. Second, when a cruise ship stops at an island they leave the same day, which means the local B-n-B is not going to benefit from the ship stopping at that island.
Evidently, it is news that steel slats can be cut with a power saw! I guess that means we clearly need to build a wall out of something stronger.
But Department of Homeland Security testing of a steel slat prototype proved it could be cut through with a saw, according to a report by DHS.
No shit?
A photo exclusively obtained by NBC News shows the results of the test after military and Border Patrol personnel were instructed to attempt to destroy the barriers with common tools.
…so they tested it to the point of failure? I assume that takes a few seconds and is super quiet.
For some reasons, it feels like a Led Zeppelin kind of day.
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But can we get those sweet, Cuban, cigars now?
Now, Rapunzel….err, Raputa….hit that sweet motherfkin’ THEME MUSIC !
-Woobah Goombah w/green teeth
Good choice.
Bad assed song. Now that’s some motha effin theme music, right there!
It’s no Ram Jam, but it will do.
Meh. The only appeal those have anymore is the embargo. My favorite brand is Miami based.
I’ve been buying Cuban cigars through Switzerland for years. Heck, I won a box of Cohiba’s at a local Duck’s Unlimited dinner auction last spring. Given the quality improvement and price breaks though, I’ve been buying a lot of cigars made in Nicaragua.
SSSHHHHHHH!!
My biggest mistake was buying a 4-pack of Davidoff Nicaragua Toros.
I haven’t followed recently, but prior to any Obama era policy changes, the Cohiba’s we got in the US were Cuban seed grown elsewhere, unless of course you had connections…
The Cohiba’s were from last spring. What I’ve been buying for many years from Switzerland were labeled “travel books”.
My cigar of choice these days are Coschero maduros, grown in Nicaragua. Good smoke.
Yeah, if you don’t mind putting money in Castro’s pocket.
Pompeo said the United States would work with like-minded countries in Latin America to restore democracy in the Latin American nation.
Has he considered collaborating with Putin? Dude seems like a campaign ad whiz kid.
Obviously he’s plotting with Brazilian Trump – they will install a Venezuelan Trump to clean up the mess. When he’s done, the entire landscape of Latin America will be filled with Trumpañeros.
YES! Trumpeñeros is totally a thing!
That would be very latin American.
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1, 6, 7, 10, 15, 39, 53, 58, 78.
10. Lots and lots of 10.
42 has something special going on. 2 needs an ID check.
25 is hitting me in all the right spots
Who’s buying drugs if no one has money?
That’s a good question. A damn good question….do you have any interest in being a Journo?
I have ethics and a conscience. I think that’s an automatic dq.
I wonder if the BBC also prints a bunch of heartstring-tuggers about the migrants heading north in their hemisphere.
I would assume so. Most of the western media propagandize in favor of third world immigrants.
You don’t buy the drugs. You give blowjobs for drugs. Those gang members are just trying to get this kid off.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-teachers-union-contract-demands-20190115-story.html
unbridled greed for the children
unbridled greed for the
childrenstate pension holdersGIMME YOUR SHITZ!
Because the wealthy has bottomless well of money. So happy that I made the decision to leave the city 6 months ago.
And the wealthy have no ability or wherewithal to leave.
I’ve been trying to come up with a last minute exit strategy myself. Between this and the election of Pritzker, this city has gotten onto a much faster track toward self destruction than I ever thought was possible. I’ve been in the middle of a grueling home remodeling project for the past few years, and if Preckwinkle becomes mayor I might sell my house as-is and just absorb the loss.
When my wife and I decided to buy a house in the Northwest Suburbs, I told her that I will not even consider buying another place on the Cook County side because Preckwinkle and her cronies don’t need another dime from me.
Unfortunately we can’t really afford the burbs. Our building is a two-flat with rental income from one of the units. Without this homeownership would have been out of reach for us. There aren’t many opportunities like that outside of an urban area.
Lake Michigan’s coastline between Illinois and Indiana should be honorarily renamed after the Laffer Curve.
LOL.
Hey, all these ideas totally worked for Detroit.
We can take that.
The motto of the Democratic Party of Illinois.
Refreshingly honest, really.
It is. It exposes their belief that tax revenue belongs to them and their organizations. They could give two shits whether the services they provide becomes better or efficient. What matters is that they get their money.
From “You didn’t build that” to “We can take that”.
They are the Henry Hill of taxation. There mottos is: “Fuck you, pay me.”
Their….
DIY chronicles: just replaced the solenoid valve on my old Maytag washer. took about an hour all-in and the part was $18.
now i’m eyeing that old torn sofa for a repair and reupholster project.
Nice. I had to replace that last winter when my wife ran the washer in below freezing temps and ice cracked it.
For some reasons, it feels like a Led Zeppelin kind of day.
I would have said a Carol Channing kind of day.
Here she is in The First Traveling Saleslady, romantically paired with… a young Clint Eastwood.
And Carol Channing at the Super Bowl VI halftime show
Maybe Lou Reed will perform next year.
Hmm… that won’t bring out the Hammer of the Gods.
Why do you hate us?
I could have posted this one instead.
He’s a sadist.
He does it because he loves us.
Channing with Ann Miller, Ethel Merman, and Della Reese on The Love Boat.
Did I post Ginger Rogers’ Love Boat rendition of “Love Will Keep Us Together” when Daryl Dragon died a few weeks back?
Gah, I forgot to close an em tag. You figure out where the first one should have closed and the second one should have opened. The link works, and that’s what matters.
I get that in Communist Cuba, nothing is truly private, but I suspect local home stays and tourism not funneled through cruise ships probably puts a lot more money into the informal economy, as opposed to party coffers. This is a case of Trump doing something reflexively because Obama did the opposite. While in 90% of cases that is fine…
Without positing anything like an “answer” to the questions raised… I do marvel at the completely different way that Cuba and, say, China are treated in these matters. I know China makes a good show at dribbling out bits of policy to some of the masses that look like the “free market” if you squint at them, but in the end there’s really little difference between the two regimes. Principals, not principles I guess.
Principals, not principles I guess.
As long as the anti-communist Cuban Americans remain a pivotal part of the Republican party in the pivotal swing state of Florida, the Republicans will always deal more harshly with Communist Cuba than with Communist China. If a large group of anti-Communist Chinese Americans became a pivotal voting block in a swing state I’d imagine we’d be much less friendly with the Chi-Coms.
All the resorts and hotels are state owned. The workers get starvation wages, and the Party pockets the rest.
This is probably the strongest argument against the idea of a wall.
A wall which is unguarded is not a barrier it is a minor impediment that you need to account for and there are dozens of ways to circumvent any wall you could hope to design if you know it is there. That means if you build the wall you need to guard the wall. Thing is you could accomplish the exact same thing you get from a guarded wall by simply having a guarded border without wasting money building the wall.
If you want a secure southern border stretch a series of bases across the desert and permanently station 10,000 men backed up by technological assets that will spot anyone approaching the border 5 miles before they reach it and having transportation capabilities so that by the time the would be immigrants reach the border there is a platoon of guards waiting for them to turn them back.
This will be exactly as effective as a guarded wall with the wall maybe allowing you to spread the bases slightly further apart so with the wall you could get maybe a 10% reduction in the size of the border garrison
I wonder how many troops we currently have in Europe and the mid-east….
Oh we certainly have the manpower, that isn’t in question. The point is that the wall is little more than a political football, a meaningless waste of $25 billion (yeah they say $5 billion, when is the last time a government project at that scale came in anywhere near the projected budget) but it polls well and it shows that Trump, unlike any of the other Republicans who came before him in the last 30 years is actually attempting to deliver on his promise.
Actually securing the southern border is far more problematic because it requires taking the far less popular action of stationing troops of some sort along the border and then patrolling it, accepting the inevitable casualties as those troops are at least occasionally required to shoot someone attempting to illegal crossing the border, and that means occasionally you will have media images of US Border troops killing young kids trying to cross with their parents. Then once you get those troops in place all your work can easily be undone by the next administration simply by recalling the troops.
Did Obama teach you nothing? It’s not “murder” murder if you use a drone.
Electrify the fucking thing!
Easily disabled, if you want to secure the border there is only one way as Rasilio hints at. Men with guns willing to kill, that’s it, that is the only way, and even that won’t be one hundred percent effective.
It’s like you don’t even sci-fi, bro.
Phalanx guns hooked to motion detectors. Takes just a few people for basic maintenance and reloading.
Still easy to defeat and WAY more expensive than a wall since the effective range on each of those things is going to be less than 2 miles, that means you are going to need more than 1000 of them and at 5+ million each just for the weapons has you spending $5 billion and you still havn’t bought the ammo.
Then you have to deal with the fact that they are easily defeated, just use a couple of RC vehicles to run them out of Ammo
Swap them out for Gatling Lasers!
When the Phalanx gun fires, it sends a signal to the patrolling robodrones who come in and clean up with lasers. It also notifies the humans to respond.
You are NOT going to crush my sci-fi hard on, mister man.
Moat filled with acid. Filled with acid-resistant fire ants. On fire.
No, no, Not Adahn, the acid vats are part of the subterranian anti-tunnelling suite. They try to dig through and bam, puncture the membrane lining that cell and flood their tunnel with acid, triggering an immediate alarm.
Moat filled with acid. Filled with acid-resistant fire ants. On fire.
Look at you going all Bond villain.
The solar panels don’t work at night!
But you need to have the political will to keep the garrisons manned and to allow them to actually do something other than waive the illegals through. A wall is not the only solution, but once build it won’t completely disappear at the whim of politicians.
10,000? Ha! You grossly underestimate the scope of the task.
For any post to be manned 24/7 you need 5 headcount. 10,000 would put one post per mile – and that’s not counting the admin and logistics headcount.
A half million troops might cover it. But I don’t see that happening.
If you want a secure southern border stretch a series of bases across the desert and permanently station 10,000 men backed up by technological assets that will spot anyone approaching the border 5 miles before they reach it and having transportation capabilities so that by the time the would be immigrants reach the border there is a platoon of guards waiting for them to turn them back.
The thing is, we already have 18,000 border patrol agents assigned to the southern border. That’s 9 per mile, which is a number that would probably be able to deal with most illegal crossings if there was a wall (or other similar deterrent) that slows the attempted crosser down to within response time of an agent. A barrier of some sort is not an unreasonable asset if you want to control the border, given the other assets already assigned to that task.
How many of those 18,000 actually patrol the border? And how many of them spend their time far from the border harassing American citizens?
Fair point, but it still stands that the US is already spending the recurring cost of a sufficiently sized force to patrol the border if a barrier was constructed, so it is not an unrealistic proposition. Reassigning all those interior checkpoint agents to guard a wall would be both more effective and less intrusive than current practices.
What, the border needs to extend at least 200 miles. To keep us safe. From people crossing the border, that could be up to 200 miles away. I’m just waiting for the US border patrol to decide their jurisdiction extends 200 miles to the other side of the border.
Just enroll any that get into the US in the VA medical system. That will either be a deterrent or they’ll die waiting for their appointment and scheduled treatment. Problem solved
A poll taken last month, however, showed that a majority of Brazilians oppose loosening the country’s gun laws.
That country is quite whipped. At least they’ve elected a leader who has some sense on this issue (don’t know about on others, but self-defense is pretty important).
I would take that claim and that poll with a grain of salt. Gun grabbers will find ways to have “people & polls” say what they want, even when that is not true.
Do you want gangs to have easier access to guns legally? Yes or No.
How could their access to guns be easier than it is now?
Sorry that is an invalid response. Please answer the survey questions as they are written.
Should convicted murderers be able to buy a gun with no restrictions? Please answer Yes or No.
“A poll to which we can’t be bothered to provide a link or any background whatsoever such as which questions were asked but trust us they really don’t want guns.”
Exactly this.
Do you want more children dying due to gun violence? Please answer Yes or No.
Will these be the same children who toss their candy wrappers in my lawn on their way to school?
lol
Great. All this time I’ve been cutting steel with my teeth.
This explains so much, yet raises so many more questions.
Richard Kiel has a sad.
The long knives are really out in lefty circles for Tulsi Gabbard, it seems. Note that they used what must be one of the least-flattering pics ever taken of her.
Still would
Yeap
The MIC is never going to let her win.
I have to admit the Democrats becoming the unambiguously pro-war party is one of the more eye-opening turns in the last couple years.
All they need to do is embrace American exceptionalism and they’ll be indistinguishable from Nazis.
She’s not an enlightened aisle crossing maverick like Mccain?
Of course they are – can’t have anyone with actual principles survive long! Might set a bad precedent.
It’s nuts how a lot of my friends who rail against the war mongering GOP fully embraced war circa 2009.
One of my favorite LZ tunes?
Definitely one of mine.
On we sweep, with thrashing oar….
Oh – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OtzJtp-EM
Damn, didn’t see WTLB in the orig article, Glad I picked a different song, because that’s a damn good choice.
I wrote a sex scene to that song.
What song couldn’t you say that about?
“Karma Chameleon”
*golf clap*
Girlfriend in a Coma?
Nah, I think I could write a sex scene for that.
“He knew it would be wrong, and a part of him found the feeding tube and monitor wires horrifying, but he coukd feel his mercury rising as her chest sensually heaved up and down with assistance from the ventilator.”
Hawt.
“The pinging of the heart monitor became a goad, taunting and demanding that he increase its leisurely pace. He began breathing deeply, synchronized with the ventilator.”
“He wanted so badly to just push the call button and end this madness, but he was taken by an animal lust. He had to have her, whether or not she was braindead.”
“He envisioned his seed invading her body, and repairing the damage like a million tiny medical robots. To be thorough, he would need to fuck every orifice she had, and some she didn’t. It was going to be a long night.”
In other news, UK Parliment Rejects vassalage to Brussels as a means of “leaving” the EU.
What a mess.
The more muddied the arguing, the better the chances they default into the optimal ‘no deal’ exit and get all their sovereignty back.
I think it’s great they are leaving. It’s the way it’s being done that’s disheartening. May never had a clear plan, couldn’t marshal support, and never really told the EU how it will hurt them not to have a deal.
Well, May was a Remainer to start, and remained so at heart. She’s been deliberately ignoring the strong position of the UK in the negotiations and trying to get a squishy “not really brexit” from the beginning.
She is a Remainer. Her plan was to hem and haw and hope for another referendum, and in the meantime release an agreement that nobody wanted.
I doubt Trump would do it but the US should form a tariff free zone with Great Britain.
He keeps making statements in a ‘preferential agreement’ direction, but while there’s uncertainty as to the legal status of the UK, nothing can be hashed out.
Never stick it in crazy
https://www.foxnews.com/world/british-mp-delays-giving-birth-by-two-days-to-vote-against-brexit-deal
She didn’t need to given the margins (202 for, 432 against)
They’re fucken crazy the Brits.
I thought the people already voted for it. Make a damn deal assholes.
Some ‘democracy’ they have going.
If they find a way to undermine the will of voters then let it all sink and fall.
I think it will tip over before it sinks.
Perhaps the voters should have spent more time voting into power people who would implement their wishes, rather than just voting for their druthers. Admittedly it’s little I know of the ways of British election policy, have there been general elections since the Brexit vote? are the people voting out the pols that are standing in the way of Brexit?
There was a general election, which cost May some seats and forced her into a coalition with the DUP (Northern Irish unionists) who are pro-brexit, anti-screwing of NI.
The vote rejecting the “deal” was actually pro-UK, because the “deal” was essentaily “We have to accept all rules from Brussels without a say in it for however long the transition period lasts, but the transition period lasts for as long as brussels wants it to”.
I am pro-brexit, and am very happy with this vote.
The other odd/bizarre thing is that the Eurocrats seem to be doing everything they can to stoke the leavers determination. They’ve been pretty arrogant and elitist.
“There’s no way they’ll actually go through it” combined with “If they do, it will have to be painful so no one else dares try”
Who saw that coming?!
*raises hand*
Yeah, true. But you’d think if you’d watched the Brits vote to Brexit largely because of the arrogance of Brussels, you’d at least tone down the public smug during negotiations. But, then, if you believe Brexit was solely due to racism maybe you wouldn’t.
Or it’s the Russians’ fault as I noted on the previous thread.
“MILTON, FLA. —
A Florida man threatened to kill someone with kindness, then stabbed a neighbor with a machete with the word “kindness” written on it, investigators said.”
https://www.ajc.com/news/national/florida-man-threatens-kill-someone-with-kindness-the-name-his-machete-police-say/9ewMhsRjuADMaov98pduqI/
Yeah, baby, the 850 REPRESENTIN’!
Not as good as Old Painless.
Looks like we found Brett.
Despite this, I am still considering retiring to Florida..
All you ’rounders’ that think flat-earthers are nuts can just go cram it since it appears that the science is settled .
And they won’t have the nerve to give her a failing grade.
who rocked the Arab scientific community when she presented her thesis
Stone her or hang her sure, give her a failing grade not so much.
Great, Not only do we have to worry about our islands tipping over but the entire planet as well.
Fear not, for the Great Turtle will not allow the earth to tip over. Plus I hear it’s turtles all the way down, so he has plenty of reinforcement to stabilize it if it starts slipping.
“stabilize”
Jesus speaks to FloridaMan™, but probably didnt build that Hot Rod .
“It’s pronounced ‘hey-suess’, gringo”
Why doesn’t Jesus ever give advice like “Stay in school. Be nice to people. Save your money for a rainy day.”. It’s always stuff like this.
How do we know he doesn’t? Isn’t that a ‘dog bites man’ story? “Person exibits good values, credits Jesus” doesn’t make the news outside of a few faith circulars.
I don’t blame Jesus, who buys a blue Ferrari?
Florida Man, duh.
Five hours in class is brutal. Only fourteen weeks and two days to go…
I wonder if Gillette has figured out that hiring a U.K. advertising firm to create a virtue signaling commercial for the U.S. is a bad idea?
They knew it was gonna cause this backlash all the way at the top of the company.
I wonder if this sort of stuff would be subject to a shareholder lawsuit. I’m typically not a big fan of those types of suits, but that ad is a fairly clear “fuck you” to their customer base.
I buy my ish here, anyhow: https://www.dorcousa.com/
I have a couple Gillettes but they’re both older than my parents, and were probably made by shitlord straight white men, so I’ll keep shaving with them and never buy any new stuff from Gillette again.
There are plenty of high quality alternatives .
Were you going to keep buying their product before the ad?
Probably. I have some of their razor blades that I’ll now replace with Feathers or something when they run out.
I’ll still probably buy the old safety razors that pop up on Ebay, but I’m not gonna give the company business when there are so many quality competitors in the safety razor space.
Their product was the one you preferred at that price point, but because they made a stupid commercial you’ll switch brands. Why are you shopping against your own interests?
Normally I don’t give AF about this stuff and just buy whatever is best. In this case, it’s similar to Ben Affleck in a movie: all I hear is “That’s gross! It’s racist!”. I’ll just watch something else or shave with another brand. No hair off my balls.
Why are you shopping against your own interests?
My subjective valuations of their product and their competitors products were close enough that aesthetic considerations altered their favorability in my mind.
By the way, this dynamic applies in a whole bunch of contexts. I’m not much of a brand loyalty person, and unless there is a significant price or quality difference , I’m happy to change brands to chase the deal or to express disapproval for a company’s business practices.
Fair enough. You worry more about that kinda thing than I do, but that’s the beauty of libertarianism.
You worry more about that kinda thing than I do,
I worry about it more than zero worry, but not too much more than zero. To me its lumped in with customer service. It breaks a tie (or near tie) when price and quality are about the same between multiple competitors.
I have my principles, damnit, and if you don’t like them…
Where I’m at. I don’t give a shit, I just grab whatever brand I recognize in cases where I don’t care and price isn’t too out of wack. It costs me nothing extra to reach a couple inches to the side and grab a Bic or something else.
To me, it’s just brand damage. In the microseconds that I scan the shelves, I’ll pass over their brand without going through any thought process at all. Pretty much like how people normally process brands.
Yeah, what is the matter with Kansas?
They stopped sacrificing strangers to the Old Gods, and so corn harvests are poor?
I’ll be curious to see what this does to the bottom line. It’s definitely a “WTF were you thinking?” moment.
I said at the beginning that this was a death knell for a marketing firm. This is the kind of thing that scares other clients off, and rightly so.
If so I hope I get an e-mail. I probably have $120K in P&G stock. It is a “sentimental” asset for me (I know, a terrible thing to do when investing), since my late father was quite proud of working for P&G.
The stock actually gained today, but there have to be storm clouds forming.
From a fellow coworker in the advertising industry:
“P&G believes that the only real metrics are reach and frequency. YouTube analytics are notoriously slow at showing their actual stats. That number is at least double the 3 million. Assuming it keeps up the pace, it will likely break the 30 million mark. They will reach 10% of the US population with this ad. And, that’s the 1:30 version and doesn’t include the numbers around the :30 spot!
Maybe it’s lazy, and maybe they would have done better strategically focusing on threats from direct ship subscriptions, pricing challenges, stalling product innovation, or just the fact that beards have been in vogue for over a decade. But, by the measure that made P&G, P&G? It seems to me like a wild success. I don’t know of any way they could have more successfully reached more people with a resurrection of their campaign – the best a man can get. Or, maybe I’m just biased because I’m a sucker for this kind of shit put to sad music. That is a real possibility. “
P&G believes that the only real metrics are reach and frequency
Then they should hire Trump.
So they have phenomenal reach with an ad that will drive away some of their customers? Yay?
Something something forest something trees
They’re already doing damage control – deleting YouTube comments and their ‘Likes’ have mysteriously shot up from 1 in 10 to 1 in 5, quite rapidly.
I noticed that, too. Is that YouTube push the likes up? There’s no way that video gets anything better than a 4:1 dislike/like ratio.
1:10 like:dislike is probably the organic ratio.
Some have suggested damage control by the ad company, purchasing likes from botnets – no idea how plausible that is. It does, however, seem unlikely that the ‘Likes’ would have shot up without a corresponding increase in positive comments.
I’m sure all the SJW sites are rallying the troops. (And vice versa.)
Even at The Guardian’s video of that ad it’s getting 22k ups and 50k downs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UYaY2Kb_PKI
Top comment on that link “My wife’s boyfriend’s son loved this. Thank you Gillette”
That was on the original ad, too. Gillette responded with, “Thanks!”
It sure gave Gillette tons of free publicity.
Who?
I buy disposables in bags of fifty from Sam’s club. It is just a sharp piece of steel. It shaves. I dont even know the brand.
Yeah, I have my dad’s old steel safety razor from the 60’s. Love it. Blades are ultra cheap and super sharp. There’s no way I’m paying the kind of money they are asking for those fancy ass four blade thingys and what not. It’s just friggin shaving.
Fuck that, I shave with a Bowie knife like a real man.
Not your machete?
I wonder if Gillette has figured out that hiring a U.K. advertising firm to create a virtue signaling commercial for the U.S. is a bad idea?
Honestly, i don’t think they care. When was the last CEO fired for underperformance? Not a scandal. Not a getting in the sights of the social justice mob. Actually not making the stockholders enough money? The government has rigged the market for corporate control. And executives understand that they’d rather avoid political problems than lose money.
Carly Fiorina?
That was in 2005. Almost a decade and a half ago.
Fired? Not often. Forced to resign? Every day of the week.
The name a few recent instances. It hasn’t been happening.
Bonus points for omitting the ones who got fat parachute payments.
Jan Singer – Victoria’s Secret
Steve Schussler – Kona Grill
John Milligan – Gilead Sciences
Peter Hancock – AIG
Of course, they all got their golden parachutes.
Dimon says JP Morgan ‘won’t be stupid’ with loans as end of business cycle nears
Jamie Dimon has a message for his employees and investors: When the time comes, J.P. Morgan Chase will rein in loan growth at the nation’s biggest bank
Finally got around to watching the infamous Gillette commercial. It seems that they want to alienate their primary market. Go figure.
the United States will work diligently to restore a real democracy to that country
Iraq 2, South American Boogaloo?
“One nation under a groove Gettin’ down just for the funk of it”
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1085009675744145408
My eyes are rolling so hard I’m giving myself a colonoscopy.
She is the fucking worst.
I didn’t particularly care for her before the Kavanaugh hearings but after her performance, I would hold my nose and vote for Trump before I would ever vote for her.
She had your vote before the Kavanaugh hearing?
Trump wouldn’t have his vote, anyway.
I paused Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major to check that out.
I don’t know who’s the bigger asshole, Harris for making it, you for linking it, or me for clicking on it.
Why not all three?
Her favorite song is “shallow”.
Right on! She has better taste that I thought.
Ok, that was better than I’dve guessed. So fuck you.
I shouldn’t be such a dick. Slumbrew was far nicer below.
Ah fuck it, I’ll be a dick.
Only dicks don’t like Catherine Wheel, but not everyone who likes Catherine Wheel isn’t a dick.
Only two more years of this to go…
Had enough?
ThirdTimesTheCharmHillary2020
@jssjanetss
Replying to @KamalaHarris
Hillary first she deserves that right and to ignore her is an ultimate slap in the face to 65 millions voters she’s the Historical Madam President of our time and she’s not finished yet,she has unfinished business of achieving Being President it was Stolen,no more spoilers ‼️?
7:17 PM – 14 Jan 2019
The ultimate bitch slap?
Well,she’s a bitch,and needs to be slapped… (shuts up)
I am unsure if this is a sentient person. But I, too, want Her Shrillness to run again because the entertainment value would be priceless.
Only Joe Biden can debate Trump the way the debates should be. I call it The SugarFree Effect.
Like, okay, I get that it might be a cool thing for some people for the first woman president. I get that some people might take that concept overboard and vote for a woman no matter what (a real woman of course, Republicans need not apply). But Hillary, the most corrupt candidate in history Hillary. What do people find appealing about her in the least. Name one aspect of her personality or career that I should admire. In fact, name one aspect of her personality or career that doesn’t make me want to vomit.
Umm… she got kicked off the Watergate investigation because she was too radical? No wait, she made a fortune in sketchy investments? No wait, she became a national figure because her husband was elected president? No wait, she intimidated her husband’s rape victims into silence? No wait, she has good server hygeine?
I give up
“You know what I’m talking about Phife.” No, no he doesn’t Kamala, he died in 2016. It was either Trump or diabetes that killed him.
including a promise to free up police officers to kill suspected criminals
Bad. (context pending, of course.)
allow Brazilians to arm themselves
Good.
A poll taken last month, however, showed that a majority of Brazilians oppose loosening the country’s gun laws.
Stupid.
Since I’m posting old vids, here’s an extra one Burn.
Sick burn, dude.
Dammit: No idea why I’ve lost the ability to link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnebZnysmI
You more than made up for it by linking to an awesome song.
Blackmore was/is awesome. I think it’s Don Airey on keys, and he’s a badass, too.
I post old videos, and everyone treats me like a pariah. 🙁
I thought you were treated add a pariah for different reasons. If I shunned everyone who linked bad music here, I wouldn’t have barely anyone to talk to.
…so they tested it to the point of failure? I assume that takes a few seconds and is super quiet.
Stop blowing holes in my
shipnarrative.I would have gone with Immigrant Song
“Opinion: I’m an Anime Body Pillow, Here’s Why I Voted Republican”
https://thehardtimes.net/opinion/im-an-anime-body-pillow-heres-why-i-voted-republican/
Finally, voices long ignored are beginning to be heard.
Up next: Catgirls question why they can’t get veterinary insurance under Obamacare.
Why is my Waifu giving interviews?
“The Washington Post ACTUALLY fact checked Trump saying that 1,000 burgers was “piled up a mile high.””
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1085266239788851200
“FACT CHECK: At two inches each, a thousand burgers would not reach one mile high.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/15/president-trumps-extravagant-sandwich-celebration-clemson-university/
“WaPo thinks common figures of speech are declarations of fact”
When your pedantry has lost UCS…
I LOL’d
It would be one thing if this were presented during open-mic night at the local comedy club, but as it is the WP is just proving how ridiculous it has become.
Meh, the article reads like someone having a bit of a lark with the stupid news cycle, Like XKCD’s “What If” blog – take a stupid question and run the numbers like it was serious. Everyone in the country needs to step back and take a few deep breaths. Fuck’s sake.
Have you read their serious articles? How can you tell?
More than once I have looked at their site and literally every single story was a hit piece on Trump. Every one of them.
literally every single story was a hit piece on Trump
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $1000.
I think he’s being hyperbolic.
I never saw Sutherboy as being the type to use “literally” in the stupid way that is literally the opposite of what it means.
I think he’s being hyperbolic.
I quit reading CNN.com because in 2016 every single article was about Hillary. I am not exaggerating, there was an article about the California fires and the author wondered about how this was going to affect the Hillary campaign. This was before she was even the Democratic candidate. It was extremely obvious who their preferred candidate was.
Life imitates Used Cars!
The WaPo’s popups can eat a bag of dicks.
The principles/principals dichotomy needs no better example than the stupid, stupid debate over whether to dump Farrakhan from this ideologically bankrupt movement.
Er, intellectually bankrupt
You Mean Former Reason employee Dave Weigel?
It’s almost like the “Women’s March” wasn’t always far-left agitprop cooked up by a bunch of commies who managed to completely hoodwink the MSM and much of the “feminist” movement into playing along or something.
Can Max Boot be more of a complete hack?
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1085190290162380800
Probably not
Can Max Boot be more of a complete hack?
Somewhere, I can almost hear Mr. Boot making a request that someone hold his beer.
I’ve never seen him without a stupid hat on. Him and Evan McMullin should put their heads together and make an ass of themselves.