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Après Trump, le déluge
Despite the hopes of the Democrats, there is no one who will be able to defeat Donald Trump in the Presidential election of 2020. This observation should be incontrovertible: a Trump-killer cannot exist as he was not elected on policy, but on personality (as in “cult of”). Remember Tom Tancredo? A decade ago, he pitched what Trump is selling, but even as recently as 2018, no one was buying. In the motley collection of charlatans and mountebanks that pass for the Democratic presidential hopefuls, there is no one who can serve as a ideological banner to hoist that the living Rorschach inkblot of a man, Donald Trump, could for the white working class. Even if one wanted to, he or she could not, as the ascension of Trump was as much the product of a very specific set of circumstances as much as any charisma he may possess. Indeed, in this case, Democrats should take notes from we Libertarians in that the best they can hope for in the upcoming election is a protest vote.Having noted the uniqueness of Trump, the question of 2024 looms large: Who is capable of carrying Trump’s banner? Just as Hillary Clinton wasn’t able to hold together the coalition of voters that Barack Obama commanded, it is highly improbable that Mike Pence, if he chooses to run, will be able to draw the number of voters from the varied demographics that found their avatar in Trump. Again, remember that policy doesn’t come into play – whether or not we see a continuation of the Nu-GOP populist platform or a return to the quasi-free trade imperialism of the neo-conservatives, there is no one who could fill the role that Trump plays in the national epic narrative that unfolds before us with each social media post. At best, Donald Trump Jr. could perhaps pull it off – though, with the exception of the most die hard MAGA-ots, the typical American has shown a distaste for dynasty politics in the presidential arena (Jeb?). Indeed, a son being elected after his father would be unprecedented.
Leaving aside speculation of father passing the baton to son (or daughter?), it is safe to say that Trump will be leaving a vacuum behind for Republicans in 2024 that could be filled by whichever Democratic candidate successfully gains cult status with enough of Generations X, Y, and Z. (As an aside, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turns 35 on Sunday, October 13th, 2024.) Regardless of who fills that role, the Republicans will eventually be forced to answer if 2016 was worth, not only their souls, but 2024 and beyond.
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SEA SMITH SUNDAY EVENING LINKS OF SORRY
WHYCOME EVERYBODY LOOK SEA SMITH? SEA SMITH HELP OUT HURT CONFEDERATIO HELEVTICA LAND HOOMAN. HE GIVE GOOD LINKS SHOW SORRY! THEN GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS CAN COMMENT. ON GOOD LINKS SEA SMITH GIVE.
HERE LINKS;
- NO WANT! SEA SMITH NO WANT SEE!
- SEA SMITH THOUGHT THEM HAVE COMMON SENSE KNIFE CONTROL?
- SEA SMITH NO FAULT THIS ONE. HE NO LIKE ASBESTOS – TASTE FUNNY. THIS ONE MIGHT…SEA SMITH LAY SOME PIPE AFTER COLLISION, IYKWSSMAITYD.
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
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IFLA: The “There’s Nothing There” Edition of the horoscope for March 24
In honor of this week’s alignments, I will be relating no anecdotes. None. Which, not coincidentally, is the number of alignments in the sky this week. To celebrate, get a book in a language you don’t read and use it as a pillow while you listen to 4’33” by John Cage.
Which isn’t to say the sky is empty. MERCURY RETROGRADE is still fucking around up there (yes I’m still bitter about last weekend) but this is the last week we’ll have to deal with that little bastard. Sorry Pisces, but it just wasn’t your year.
Very high likelihood of fishing accidents.
It’s Aries turn in the sun, though this week (undoubtedly due to MERCURY RETROGRADE’s influence) you don’t get the double or tripling luck effects typical if it being your turn. Actually, I was “reading ahead” to see when Mercury direct and Venus would be blessing you, and frankly you got hosed, solar-conjunctionwise.
The rest of the sky hasn’t changed much. Mars is still in Taurus, Venus is still in Aquarius, Saturn is still in Capricorn ,and Jupiter is still in Sagittarius. For those of you who don’t remember from last week, that’s bad, good, bad, and conditionally good.
The moon is in Scorpio, which will be amplifying the effects of Venus in Aquarius, so that is good if you are either 1) female or 2) having sex with a female. It’s not bad news for anyone.
This weeks card draws:
Aries: 4 of Wands – Rest, relaxation, peace
Taurus: King of Wands – Friendly dark man, countryman, conscientious person
Gemini: Knight of Swords – Courage, competence, resistance, wrath, destruction
Cancer: King of Swords, reversed – Cruelty, evil intentions, barbarity, perversion
Leo: The Hanged Man, reversed – Selfishness, crowds, voters
Virgo: 4 of Swords, reversed – Wise administration, economy, caution, testimony
Libra: THIS CARD IS BLANK – I am not shitting you. I drew a card with nothing on the face. What does this mean? Should I count the deck? Do I have 79 cards, or am I missing one? I don’t think it can be a coincidence that this happened on a week with no alignments. Notice that the scales of Libra are also empty. Sky, sign, deck – nothing, nothing, nothing. This may be the only week in your life that you are completely beyond influence. Tell us next week how you enjoyed freedom.
Scorpio: 10 of Cups – Perfect fulfillment and contentment
Sagittarius: 2 of Wands, reversed – Surprise, wonder, trouble, fear
Capricorn: The Magician, reversed – A physician, mental illness, disgrace
Aquarius: The Tower – Misery, ruin, catastrophe, indigence, adversity, disgrace, deception
Pisces: 2 of Coins, reversed – Simulated enjoyment, enforced celebration, handwriting, correspondence, composition
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Sunday Morning Pew Links
Work crises have of course eaten my weekend. And then I have to hop on an airplane to go to Miami for the week. Here’s your links and be grateful, you demanding bastards. And of today’s birthdays, I’ll narrow it to the two most important ones: Harry Houdini and the guy I want to grow up to be, R. Lee Ermey.
I hear the Acme Wolf Supply Company may be getting in a new line of anvils. And tunnel paint.
Team Red says, “Hold mah beer.”
I guess it would be tasteless for me to say I got something in my eye.
Conversations that never happened. At least I dearly hope they didn’t.
Department of Really Terrible Ideas
Did you ever see a Commie drinking water, Mandrake?
And now it’s time to say goodnight.
SDNY- the hack lawyers’ best friend.
Old Guy Music! And someone mentioned Mingus yesterday. Yes, we should always be listening to Mingus, especially when Eric Dolphy and Jaki Byard are around.
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ZARDOZ SATURDAY EVENING ADVICE
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. NOW THAT ORDER HAS RETURNED TO THE CHOSEN ONES INTERNET HQ, ZARDOZ WILL ONCE AGAIN PROVIDE THE BEST ADVICE AVAILABLE – FAR BETTER THAN THE BRUTAL “DEAR ABBY“. THEREFOR RECEIVE THE GIFT OF ADVICE. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
Q: I’m a high school junior, and my school’s prom is coming up. I don’t have a date. I completely understand that I don’t need a date for prom to have fun. However, within my group of friends, we are organizing who will sit at our 18-person table, and I’m the only dateless person at our table, which means I’m the odd one out (eight couples plus me for a total of 17 seats filled).
I know I should try to have fun even if I’m the only one by myself, but the situation makes me feel so alone. I asked two different guys if they wanted to go with me: One ended up going with a different girl and will be sitting at our table. The other didn’t want to go with me.
How should I handle this situation and be able to have fun at prom, even though I’ll be sticking out as the only person in our entire group who couldn’t manage to find someone to go with — even as a friend? — ANONYMOUS IN PENNSYLVANIA
A: THIS IS A PUZZLER. HOWEVER, ZARDOZ HAS A PLAN FOR YOU. FIRST, YOU MUST CLEANSE THE FILTH OF A BRUTAL WHO REFUSED YOU.
ENJOY THE PROM! THEN YOU CAN JOIN EVERYONE ELSE AT THE TABLE.
“NO, I DON’T KNOW WHERE BRAD WENT?” WHEN THE OTHER OTHERS GO TO DANCE – AND THE ONE WITH THE CLEANSED DATE SEARCHES – POISON THEIR DRINKS. YOUR FUN WILL BE IN SEEING THEM ALL SUFFER HORRIBLY AND PERISH! THAT WILL INSTRUCT ALL TO NEITHER REFUSE YOU OR REMIND YOU OF SUCH.
WE CAN SEND BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS AS CHAPERONES. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN
Q: I have been married to my husband for four years, and before that, I knew him for about a year. At the time, he was very loving and considerate, but right after we got married, his true nature emerged.
He drinks heavily every night and says horrible things. In the morning, he has no recollection of it and expects me to be loving and warm to him. I can’t bring myself to do it. He is always accusing me of cheating on him, even though I have given him no reason. He has a GPS on my phone, and if I don’t answer his texts or calls immediately, he goes ballistic.
Abby, I’m not happy and have often thought about running away. During the day he helps me, but at night he becomes a completely different person. I have a full-time job and pay 85 percent of the bills. I take care of the kids, cook and clean, but nothing makes him happy. I would really appreciate your advice. — LOST IN CALIFORNIA
A: BRUTAL, PLEASE. IT WOULD BE TOO EASY TO SAY “DIVORCE”. SO ZARDOZ WILL HELP OUT. ZED WILL COME BY AND HAVE A LITTLE “CHAT” WITH YOUR BRUTAL HUSBAND.
LESS DRINKY, RIGHT, BRUTAL? AS ZARDOZ DOES NOT BELIEVE IN SECOND CHANCES, THE FIRST TIME YOUR HUSBAND ACTS UP – COMMUNICATE WITH THE VORTEX. BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS WILL BE DISPATCHED. YOUR HUSBAND CAN DRY OUT, AND LEARN REGRET SERVING THE ETERNALS AS A GRAIN SLAVE.
NEED A DRINK? ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN
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Enter the Twatter! (Part 2)
Previously, I wrote up a rant related to Joe Rogan’s interview with Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey. It got a lot of bad reviews because Joe didn’t ask any tough questions, other than an underhanded attempt at advocating President Trump be banned from Twitter….because apparently he might start a nuclear war with a Tweet. This rant resulted in my calling Rogan a bitch, and Dorsey full of shit.
Continuing my self imposed beer ban…meh. Screw it. I might need a drink if I have to listen to Dorsey again… This is my review of High West Doube Rye.
Not my photo To give credit where credit is due, Joe took a lot of flack for that podcast. The majority of his audience is probably right-leaning even if he insists he is a lefty. They let him know. He admitted he didn’t know a lot about Twitter’s rules, the controversy surrounding Twitter, and the few instances he did ask Jack direct questions, Jack didn’t have much of an answer. They agreed to have another podcast, one where Jack brought somebody familiar with the process of banning and specific circumstances leading to the bans: Vijaya Gadde, Global Lead for Legal, Policy, and Trust & Safety at Twitter.
“Blue checked people at ANTIFA continue to post death threats against me…no action by Twitter” 
“Um….Thank you for your feedback.” Joe on the other hand, brought on former Vice reporter, YouTuber, and beanie enthusiast, Tim Pool.
I will link it here if you have not seen it and would like to. Otherwise, here are a few notes I thought might be of interest to this group to skip around. All times are approximate since some of us have to work (Rufus).
2:50 Joe asks about Dr. Sean Baker—an advocate of the carnivore diet that had his Twitter account locked, recently.
– Vijaya assumed it was an algorithm, related to the banner being a lion eating a carcass.
– Making fun vs. targeting. Pool suggests the “mob” understands the system, its flaws, and consequently uses it against ideological enemies.
9:10 “Do you really want corporations to police whats true?” “But you guys do that…”
– Pool cites dead-naming and mis-gendering (again at 40:00) as explicit bias against conservatives in Twitter policies.
– Rule is against hateful targeting.
– “You say its about behavior, but I have a number of examples….”
16:30 “All the burden is placed on the victim.”
18:10 WOODCHIPPER!
20:20 Tim brings up Milo…
– “You have a verified user that called for the death of another user…”
– “That’s your impression, that’s not what happened.”
25:40 Chuck Johnson
– “I can understand why you feel that way, I don’t think that’s true.”
30:39 “We don’t have any PR constraints…”
– “So why did you ban Alex Jones?”
– Joe has a response from Jones ready.
1:00:00 “Shouldn’t you guarantee free speech as consistent with US Law?”
– “You do not allow “hate speech”, so free speech is not on your platform.”
– The next 15 mins is excellent and leads into “Learn to Code.”
1:28:00 “Intersectional POV”
– “What does that mean?” (Twitter lady seriously asked that)
2:00:22 Discussion about Jacob Wahl, fake news, accounts created to disperse news that was misleading vs. Twitter’s response to Rusian Botz 2016.
– “Did you investigate Jonathan Morgan?”
– “I don’t know who that is.” “Why?’
– Morgan created fake news, manipulated AL senate election with fake reports on Roy Moore.
– “…but…you investigated the conservative guy…’
TL/DR version: Pool was awesome. Not very often you get to see an actual journo, doing what a journo is actually supposed to do. So much so that another YouTube Channel called, Body Language Ghost did an analysis of an excerpt of the podcast, which I found interesting. In the end, Twitter insisted it wasn’t biased against conservatives, and Pool cited specific instances suggesting otherwise. As he put it, no single snowflake is responsible for an avalanche.
–Snob Alert– This whiskey is a blend. –Snob Alert–
That doesn’t make it bad. Its a blend of two ryes one that meets minimum requirements for rye (>50% rye) and another with a whopping 95% rye malts. I rather enjoy rye, and this one doesn’t disappoint. Though I should mention the first time I had it was in Salt Lake City, where local ordinances require ice.
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Saturday Morning Carnival Links
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends
We’re so glad you could attend, click the links, click the links.
Click the link, the show’s about to start, guaranteed to blow your head apart
Rest assured you’ll get your money’s worth, the greatest links in Heaven, Hell, or Earth
You gotta see the show! It’s a dynamo!
You gotta see the show! it’s rock and roll oh oh oh
Right before your eyes, we’ll pull laughter from the skies
And he laughs until he cries, then he dies, then he dies
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up, see the show!
Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of vaseline
Will perform on guillotine, what a scene, what a scene!
And for Old Guy Music… you knew this was coming.
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STEVE SMITH FRIDAY NIGHT CASCADIA LINKS
FANBOI STEVE SMITH SAY SORRY HIM THROW CHEESE PERSON. WHEN TRY TELL CHEESE PERSON, HE HOBBLE AWAY FROM STEVE SMITH IN HALL GLIBS HQ. IT OK. STEVE SMITH DO FAVOR AND DO LINKS TONIGHT, GIVE CHEESE PERSON TIME DRINK OR SLEEP. OR YODEL. MAYBE STEVE SMITH YODEL!
YO-DA-LAY-EE-HOO! SO HERE LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. FROM STEVE SMITH. WHO DID THEM.
- STEVE SMITH SIDES HURT. FROM LAUGHING…”“The City of Portland affirms walking as a fundamental human right and the most fundamental means of transportation, and that PedPDX ensures walking is a safe, accessible, and attractive experience for everyone in Portland by putting pedestrians at the forefront of City policy, investments, and design.” STEVE SMITH LAUGH – HIM FASTER THAN ESCOOTER. AND WALKING. HIM CATCH ALL SILLY PORTLAND PEOPLE. BY CATCH, MEAN RAPE SCOOTER, THEN RIDER.
NICE SCOOTER - DEAD PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE BAD TIME. THEM DEAD. WHY HOBOS MAKE WORSE FOR THEM? STEVE SMITH THINK HIM STAY AWAY SEATTLE FOR WHILE. IF RAPE HOBO, MIGHT HIT NEEDLE. OUCH.
- STEVE SMITH ASK “WHO GLIBERTARIAN THIS?” WAIT…”WHO GLIBERTARIAN GO THIS ‘NATUROPATH’?”
STEVE SMITH (((MUSIC))) LINK! FREE CASCADIA!
- STEVE SMITH SIDES HURT. FROM LAUGHING…”“The City of Portland affirms walking as a fundamental human right and the most fundamental means of transportation, and that PedPDX ensures walking is a safe, accessible, and attractive experience for everyone in Portland by putting pedestrians at the forefront of City policy, investments, and design.” STEVE SMITH LAUGH – HIM FASTER THAN ESCOOTER. AND WALKING. HIM CATCH ALL SILLY PORTLAND PEOPLE. BY CATCH, MEAN RAPE SCOOTER, THEN RIDER.
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Friday Afternoon Links
Hi ever’body. Sorry about yesterday. I had an unexpected thing happen. So anyways, after I got the baby alligator back to the trailer park, it was pretty late and I realized I had totally missed the links. My bad.
Florida Woman leads “Great St. Pete Parking Lot Revolt”, gets arrested. All I have to say is this is what makes America great. “$50 fine for breaking down the gate? I’m in!”
Model with Down’s Syndrome breaks stereotypes. For one thing, she’s too smart to be a normal model.
The Golden Age of Sleeper Trains returning. Some of them are… (gasp)… private!
Trump administration imposes sanctions that Trump immediately suspends. 9-D chess, bitches!
It was like a little vacation.