Hillary’s stomach rumbled and she growled, “I hunger,” in the dark confines of the limousine.
“We’re almost to the book signing,” Chelsea whispered.
“The Book of Gutsy Women,” Hillary said dismissively. “Why did they name it that? It makes me hungry every time I see it.”
“They paid us well enough to use our names,” Chelsea murmured.
“Your name is all you have in this life,” Hillary told her. “That’s why you have to keep it free from scandal, like I have.”
Chelsea turned to look out the window and rolled her eyes so hard there was an audible click.
“Names,” Hillary said. “Names have power.”
“I know, Mom,” Chelsea said.
“Names are the oldest power, ancient and terrible. The Demiurge named all things and in turn brought them into being. That’s scripture.”
“I don’t believe in all that, Mom,” Chelsea said. She squirmed against the leather seat of the limousine and pulled at her blouse and pants. Human clothes never fit her very well.
“Belief is nothing when you behold the Sleeping God!” Hillary snapped.
Chelsea closed her eyes and counted backward from twenty. When she opened her eyes, her mother was staring at her.
“Did it help?” Hillary asked. “Did your little anxiety exercise help? I should have never let Bill take you to that fraud.”
“He’s a psychiatrist, not a fraud,” Chelsea said in a small voice.
“A man,” Hillary spat. “Of course Bill sent you to a man. Fifty-minute gaslighting sessions!”
“That’s not what ‘gaslighting’ means,” Chelsea said.
“Hungry,” Hillary said again. “When are we eating? I need food.”
“Is there anything in the minifridge?” Chelsea asked.
“Food,” Hillary said, her voice dropping an octave.
“OK, OK, I’ll look in the minifridge for you.”
“Hunger drives transformation,” Hillary said in the same booming tones.
“Why didn’t you eat at the hotel?”
“Meat,” her mother croaked. She opened her mouth too wide.
“There’s just tiny bottles of booze in here,” Chelsea said.
“Silicates and ethanol,” Hillary said. “Feed.”
Chelsea took a fistful of tiny bottles and shoved them into the gaping maw of her mother. Hillary’s eyes had gone black and the clicking bones in her breasts had begun to shift menacingly. The noise of breaking and chewed glass filled the back of the limo.
“More,” the Hillary creature demanded, streams of liquor and ichor running down her face.
Chelsea fumbled open a small shelf over the bar. “Nuts and a bunch of Luna bars,” she reported.
“Nutrition for women,” Hillary croaked. Chelsea threw them into her mother’s mouth without even unwrapping them. Mashed in a beige paste, they were quickly gulped.
“It’s so gross when you get like this,” Chelsea said.
“Born in blood and blood you shall be,” Hillary said. She used her clawed hand to peel off a long strip of leather from the seat and fed it into her mouth.
LIZARD people? Good stuff!
She squirmed against the leather seat of the limousine and pulled at her blouse and pants. Human clothes never fit her very well.
Wearing clothes over a skinsuit is like wearing two coats at the same time.
It isn’t clear, though, whether that’s referring to Hilary or Chelsea.
I took it as Chelsea.
Those two sentences end a paragraph that begins with Chelsea dialogue, so presumably Chelsea.
I…uh…
Frankly I’m not sure whether to applaud or go hide.
Human clothes never fit her very well.
Perfect.
Yes – Truth.
Hey, Tundra, I now have photographic evidence that you go out of your way to meet and hang out with all sorts of Glibs, groups of ‘em, in fact. I’m apparently the only one you repeatedly dis.
It’s very hurtful.
“ooooooooooooooooo”- glibs classroom
You moved halfway across the country to avoid me.
That was merely a bonus. 😉
Eh, it worked out, I found out one of my college friends had ended up just across the Illinois border, so I gave him a visit instead.
Think of how amazing it will be when we finally meet.
i assume you are referring to the HH photo?
Indeed, I am. It’s from an unimpeachable source.
Lol. I shared it with the group. Unfortunately, Fourscore and his pal were back at the homestead working.
Were you able to figure out who was who?
Yep, the only one I didn’t get was Pistoffnick, because I didn’t know he’d attended.
And, of course, I’d already met 4 of the group, because they hadn’t stood me up.
Some people are just naturally easy.
I’m the handsome one. [snort]
That was my impression, indeed.
Although, with the hat, sunglasses, and lens flare, it’s difficult to tell what MikeS actually looks like. I’d not be able to pick him out of a lineup.
I’ve seen him without the hat and lens flare. I can describe him –
Nondescript
Well, that’s…helpful.
That was a joke.
/not conventionally handsome
You guys had JJ Abrams take your picture!?
Trump?
I was waiting for someone to say that.
Glad to be of assistance.
In that case, please walk over to your magnificent bar and make me a cocktail? I’ll be right over to drink it.
I choose….hide.
“Human clothes never fit her very well.”
Brilliant!
Amazing what some people can do with 7 words.
Or annoying…
Revolting?
Squamous.
What is this? A pineapple “pizza” fan convention in MY comment?
Is this what happens when you get out of bed before noon?!?
Who said I’m out of bed? (Ban leaf blowers!)
Oh, yeah.
*cues the funky music*
You have leaves to blow? what sorcery is this?
There are other uses for leaf blowers.
Driving air to a coal forge, for instance.
Though in Arizona, they should just set up a magnifying glass and heat the work piece with solar power.
My brother uses an old bike contraption for that.
I just had some for lunch!
At least with you, I can put it down to being a misguided youth.
“It’s not a phase, mom!”
“Hillary” and “gaping maw”
*sees breakfast*
Never mind.
Luna bars?
Maybe the lemon one. Citric acid to burn that away.
What a diet. No wonder she’s gusty.
Ha! I read that as “musty”.
gunty?
Still speciesist
Passengers on board Air Canada won’t hear flight attendants say “ladies and gentlemen” any more. Soon they will hear gender-neutral terms.
During onboard announcements, the term “everybody” will replace the terms “ladies and gentlemen,” according to CNN news partner CTV.
“We will be amending our onboard announcements to modernize them and remove specific references to gender,” a media spokesperson for the company told CTV.
“We work hard to make sure all employees feel like valued members of the Air Canada family, while ensuring our customers are comfortable and respected when they choose to travel with us.”
I doubt Hillary flies commercial.
Brooms are commercially available.
I’m sorry I feel disrespected and erased by not being called a gentleman
Oh! The other day, your comment about being named Steve… I LOLd.
Huzzah! Nice installment. And I must add, every time I see that header image I am still quite pleased with my own work.
I had forgotten about Make America Moral Again slogan, that’s even more hilarious.
RNC Raising Money To Help Democrats Televise Five Debates A Week
“Look, it’s tough for us to raise money by just saying the same talking points we’ve been using for years,” said RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel. “Frankly, a lot of our policy positions are kind weird and not all that conservative. But if we can just let the Democrats talk for hours every night, we’re sure to win.”
The RNC is looking to raise over $100 million for the campaign strategy.
Proposed debate topics include The Evils of Capitalism: A Town Hall, When Should You Force Your Toddler To Change Genders?, The Merits of Men Beating Women In MMA, and A Bidding War on Taxes: How High Can We Go?
That’s actually a good plan. The GOP really don’t need to do anything, just let the dems talk and make sure as many people as possible hear it.
The GOP really don’t need to do anything,
So you advocate their usual strategy?
Yes, do nothing is my best advice to all of them, you already did too much, assholes.
“Hunger drives transformation”
Amazing what some people can do with three words. This is the truly disturbing part of the story.
I’m planning on getting an email to you later today about that other thing. Assuming I get more than 3 minutes to myself. *sigh*
Incidentally, I just finished lunch.
Yet I still read this. I never learn.
Me neither. Troubles of the eastern timezone.
“I hunger!”
Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne. Thanks SF for this candid shot at a day in Hillary’s life.
You can’t just say it mildly, man, but some emotion into it.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
*revvs chainaxe and charges, screaming*
Praise be to Khorne!
That book photo… that’s not real, is it?
As real as anything involving Hillary ever is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/hillary-clinton-is-the-one-that-got-away-and-wont-go-away/2019/10/05/4988459e-e619-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html
I feel nauseous…
Whatever you do, don’t read the actual article.
I did. And I was fine until I saw Fraud and Fraud Jr. there standing in front of a wall of books, about them.
JESUS, Chelsea is STILL butt fucking ugly. I mean, a lot of ugly children bloom and become attractive adults. She ain’t one of them.
If I had a dog that looked like her…
But she makes up for it in personality.
“Lack of…”
Just imagine, she’ll be more like Hillary every day from now on. The Mumus are coming out soon, maybe some Mao Pantsuits.
She’s not THAT bad once she’s makeuped and coiffed and dressed to the nines.
I know a girl who is hopelessly lost in the ugly tree. Chelsea doesn’t come close.
Hurtful. *sniff*
*nose in air*
I was not talking about you. I would totally take you out for a spa day if I had any money.
Yeah, she’s extremely plain but I wouldn’t go quite as far as butt ugly.
Not until you really get to know her, right?
Oh, yes she is. She’s a zero (on both scales).
Not even with Warty’s dick!
She has money, and she has access.
First you produce heirs, then you get a mistress.
Nope! I’d rather a Walder Frey daughter!
Heir and a spare.
What do they say? Everybody looks the same in the dark?
“All cats are gray in the dark.”
“All cats are gray in the dark.”
Not the glow in the dark ones.
Maybe, but you know damn good and well that was a calico that followed you up the stairs.
They had to do something with all the unsold books.
I bet Amazon had to hire extra stuff just to try to delete all the negative heckling reviews on the site.
You had me curious…so check out this review, 5 stars of course:
I haven’t read the book yet , but I went to order it and I wanted to read the reviews on here and how sad people that hate these two women , they did not read the book but yet decided to come on here and make it be about their political bias against the Clintons , went out of their way to do so .. I am buying the book and I hope that others do too.. too bad you hateful people on here can’t read , Just decided to think by leaving a bad review will not make others buy it and see for themselves, try reading the book , it’s not even about politics , so I am not understanding why you all hating
“haven’t read the book yet”
But I’m totally going to pass judgement on everyone else who hasn’t read the book either, while giving it 5 stars, having not read it. OK.
If you haven’t read the book you aren’t writing a review. Take this into consideration when evaluating the merits of this voter’s argument. And then explain to me why popular representation is a good thing? At least with a dictator you’ve only got one guy to whack.
staff, damnit!
Even better than that one is her Costco book signing one.
And, of course, her fake presidential desk at an art museum.
~ef~
So Edit Faerie is shy now? Nevertheless, my thanks.
The Costco pic is fantastic. She’s on a raised table underneath pallets. Tarps have been bungeed to the racking so the overstock doesn’t show in the photos (but it does anyways).
WalMart should stock her book next to the guns. Might sell better that way – as range targets.
“Hillary Clinton is the one that got away”
Three years later, they still can’t wrap their pointy little heads around the fact that she lost. To TRUMP.
Really? Does anyone seriously believe that Hillary could get near the turnout if she ran again? Because I don’t.
Her health problems alone would be a deal breaker for many voters. They were scrambling to cover them up in the 2016 election, and I don’t imagine the stress and frustration of losing to Trump has made her any healthier.
+ a whole shitload of chardonnay and weight gain.
Colostomy bag.
The fact that she’s closer to death finally gives her one POTUS qualification IMO.
I remain unconvinced that she is not angling to run again. She will swoop in at the last second to be the “voice of reason”.
If she doesn’t I predict a Warren/Beta ticket.
Warren/Wookie 2020.
DubyaS
Biden/Buttigieg. They were hanging out after the debate doing photo opps like they were out having a few beers and catching up on old times.
Biden is a real amateur then. If he wanted to do it right, right before the nomination, Michelle Obama comes out as Lesbian, after he wins the nomination, Biden tags Michelle for VP. Imagine, checking all the right boxes. Only former First Lady to come out as LGBTQPYMVCXTU… did I use enough letters for the current iteration? Because there are still some on my keyboard. Anyway, first gay Former First Lady, vagina, people of color. And it would be just like The One has returned, just as promised! Good ol Uncle Joe up to his usual jests, and return of The One, the real one, the vagina one! It will for sure be a one thousand year reign this time!
Joe might as well paint a target on his own rugose forehead. Some lefty crackpot will do whatever it takes to put her on the throne and make the world right.
She won’t. But it’d be hilarious to watch her try again.
The left wing will not come out for her again. They already hate her for losing to Trump and they blame her not being far enough left. I wouldn’t even be shocked if she would lose the Hispanic and Black vote to Trump. She would lose a lot worse than last time. Which is exactly the same thing that Warren will do, lose I mean. I don’t see an answer for the dems, and maybe that is why they are not even serious about winning. Continuing to stay in the shadows, playing victim, and blaming it all on Trump seems to be their best, maybe only, option.
Yeah, like others mentioned last night during the debate, I believe they’re just gonna throw as many far-left talking points out there and keep the Overton Window shifting.
Funny how democrats have their own rule set. So shady stuff like the Biden’s get up to, is excused merely by uttering the words ‘used poor judgement’. Can you see any of us accused of shady and possibly illegal business dealings saying ‘Sorry, I used poor judgement, so it’s totes OK, right? One of us goes on twitter and spouts off with a bunch of racist rhetoric, we get banned from Twitter for life (who cares), but if a lefty does it, ‘I misspoke’ gets immediate and full forgiveness. Assholes.
And he got cover from Anderson Cooper last night.
Did you see the latest Project Veritas video on CNN? They caught some guy saying (off camera) that Hunter Biden’s arrangement “looks bad, and it stinks” and admits that they’re criticizing Trump for doing pretty much the same thing the Bidens were doing.
Even they don’t believe their bullshit.
From vox of all places.
The problems Hunter Biden creates for Joe Biden
Hunter Biden isn’t a natural gas expert, and he’s not a Ukraine expert. But he was son of the then vice president of the United States. And that’s why he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit on Burisma’s board — among others. The New Yorker’s investigation, which predates the revelation of Trump’s call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, put it well:
Hunter was qualified for that job because he was on the Amtrak Board. His qualification for that job – he spent a lot of time on trains.
And his dad likes choochoos too.
As long as we’re ripping unqualified nepostistic appointees, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn…
He makes a good filet.
I don’t think it’s funny. The fact that at least half of our political leaders absolutely refuse to follow any rules scares the shit out of me. It gives me a real late Rome Republic feel – when the Republic died as everyone gave up on the rules that had worked for 2 centuries.
I’m Konmari-ing my house. I am not a hoarder, but there are some things I haven’t used in >20 (sometimes 30) years I hang onto. They are out of the way in otherwise empty cabinets and I know they are there but unseen but loved. They need to go. I know this. I have few enough of them but too many. Art that once meant something to me with expensive frames… But they’re 20 years old. If I javen’t put them on the walls by mow I’m never going to.
And my cat wants to play fetch.
I know Facebook is evil, but I have had pretty decent luck selling crap on marketplace.
Yep, me too. I have also never had a bad experience with Craigslist.
Just not sure how my “BEWARE: PICKPOCKETS AND LOOSE WOMEN” vintage sign will sell.
Do you have a pic of the sign?
I’d have to dig it out but here’s a pic I found online.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61nrQm1KO8L._SX466_.jpg
I have a shit-ton of New Orleans art. Now I look at it and think, “Cheesy,” but 20 years ago I loved it.
Thank you. I was kind of expecting some interesting PSA graphic, oh well.
Good luck in offloading your excess stuff.
Thanks!
Most of this I bought when I was single and had a decorating plan in mind. Then I got married and then it just seemed silly.
My worst experience buying/selling stuff was on Ebay. It’s amazing how dishonest people can be.
My only bad experience there was the share taken by the marketplace. Made it impractical to sell anything.
Yes. eBay made it very seller-unfriendly and I mostly stopped using it.
I’ve had good luck there, too. I had the unforeseen luck to have bought and kept (back in the day) certain cross-stitch patterns.
As I killed my love of cross stitch (by making it into a business), I finally decided to let those patterns go. It was a defining moment for me.
What I did NOT expect was that 10 measly patterns would fetch me almost $1,000.
I bought an item there (Ebay) and talked to the seller right after I saw I had the winning bid. He assured me he was on his way to ship the item. I was really busy and didn’t check back for a couple of days to see where my package was, when it would arrive, only to see the transaction was ‘cancelled by seller’. WTF? So I emailed him and asked what is up. I could tell by the response that he was lying. He had sold it to someone else who offered him more, which is against the rules on Ebay. That really pissed me off, because not only did I waste my time, but now my money was in limbo until Ebay got the refund processed. I left a negative rating for him and contacted Ebay to complain. I don’t know if they did anything, but after a few days and the guy was gone as a seller though. Amazing the shit people will pull despite the possible consequences.
Ebay no longer lets you leave negative feedback.
He deserved it, but that shit blows back on other sellers in the form of new, tighter rules.
Upon reflection, I did have one problem in the early days of eBay.
Somebody bought a VHS tape from me and then I got an email a couple of days after I’d shipped it. It was from the dad of the person who bought it, who was a minor and it was an R-rated filme. He wanted his money back, and I’m like, “NOOOOO. Your kid is not my problem.” We went back and forth over that for several emails.
“How could you sell to a minor? Why didn’t you check?”
“Why did you give your minor kid your account information?”
He complained to eBay and Paypal (yes, I’ve been with them for almost 20 years) and they both sided with me.
Yes and no. Last I checked, the seller cannot leave negative feedback for the buyer, but the buyer can leave negative feedback about the seller and seller beware.
On my most recent purchases, they won’t let me warn people that the seller adds your email to a spam list without permission. And I mean multiple mailings a day trying to sell more crap.
The kind of feedback that other customers need to hear and a private convo with the seller won’t cut it.
That’s unfortunate.
eBay has made the site almost unusable for sellers/buyers like me who used them in the beginning years.
From a buyer’s perspective, eBay has shit the bed with counterfeit crap. For any kind of outdoor power equipment parts, it’s a total crapshoot if the stuff is genuine.
Amazon is having the same problem too. Minor electronics items, all the same, but with different never heard of before brand names.
See: Birkenstock.
Birkenstock pulled their products from Amazon. If it’s on Amazon, it’s fake.
Probably quiet well. It’d fit into my basement bar decorating scheme (if I had any room left on the walls).
I have other things, too, like a BOURBON STREET street sign (metal). That particular sign is also metal.
Yeah, metal signs will sell. I’d guess around $10 – $20 a piece.
Most of my basement wall is brewery tin signs, comic book art, and alcohol related items. There’s not much more room for me to put up anything more though.
*considers buying Mojeaux a ‘plane ticket to advise my MIL*
You may think you’re jesting, but I would totally do that.
I am an anti-packrat and even though I keep stuff that means something to me, I tuck them away in empty cabinets. My version of security is having lots and lots of empty space to put stuff if I ever bought any.
Ah, that’s very sweet. But it would be a waste of your time sadly.
I have had people ask me before to do that for their relatives, but the relatives would balk badly.
Yeah, our current plan (in order to get them out of the house they’ve lived in for 35 years) is to buy my MIL a vacation in the Caribbean. While she’s gone me, my wife, and my SIL will go through the house and throw most of the crap away and sell the rest.
Following that, we’ll all move into Witness Protection for about 5 years.
“Raven, what did you do with the bearer bonds and bullion I stashed inside my stuff?”
Ohhhhhhhh. *winces* *winces hard*
I made my daughter purge things she really loved but wouldn’t tell me she really loved, and I feel terribly guilty about that.
Is it trash trash? Like, she’s hoarding trash? Or things like flatware/silverware in a nice box that’s been packed away since dirt?
RIGHT?!?!?!?!
Both my kids are hoarders. When they get too brain-fogged I make them purge–with my help.
It does help their brain space to clear out, but it also foments resentment.
I cannot STAND their hoarding.
My grandmother used to do that to my grandfather. Problem is, she’d sweep up things that were actually valuable alongside junk. Eventually he just stopped leaving without her for extended periods. He figured there was only so much mischief she could accomplish during 18 holes of golf and a couple screwdrivers with the guys.
Collectors need to keep their shit together and catalogued if they don’t want the anti-hoarder to throw it all out.
I, as an anti-packrat, can appreciate valuable collections, but I wouldn’t know the value of, say, the aforementioned cross stitch patterns on the open market.
“Is it trash trash? ”
Yes & no. She’s a bargain hunter. So, for example, there are closets full of material that she bought years ago because she got a deal and she was going to make dresses or other clothes out of. But, it’s been there for decades, she’s 70+ and so nothing’s going to happen with it. Ditto for things like plastic silverware, etc., etc. Clothes she hasn’t worn in years.
Oh, right. The fabric can go.
Yes, you get attached to the projects you had in mind, but they’re never going to come to fruition.
I would notice if someone went through my fabric stash, but it needs to be gone through. I am the one who has to make the decision to let go of my craft fantasies, though.
In my grandmother’s defense, he was definitely a packrat. But it was sort of a territory, power dynamic type of thing, too. Sure, he’d have a bunch of old golf bags sitting around, but she’d have three mainsails bagged up and rotting away. Somehow they never got caught up in the purge.
Mainsails?
Like, for a ship?
Yep, she owned a Cal 25 for years. She used to race it in the local races and did the Annapolis to Bermuda once. She took it down to the Bahamas once and back, too.
That’s totally bad-ass.
Unfortunately, one needs to leave one’s accomplishments in the past. I threw away all my karate belts after I acknowledged to myself that it was too late to reclaim that accomplishment.
Yeah, she enjoyed it. It was a good outlet. I raced with her a few times, but let’s just say that captaining a small crew in a race in a boat that was more or less a bathtub with a mast did nothing to improve her already testy disposition, so I didn’t make it a habit.
“Raven, what did you do with the bearer bonds and bullion I stashed inside my stuff?”
When my wife’s Grandma died. We cleaned out her house. We were just about to take all her clothes to Good Will when somebody thought to check shirt pockets. Good thing we did. All her diamonds were hidden in the clothes in her closet.
“Good thing we did. All her diamonds were hidden in the clothes in her closet.”
As someone who has had his wallets, as well as all my credit cards, driver license etc, washed several times by my wife, I mean I have the cleanest credit cards in town, I can’t stress enough, always check pockets!
Collectors need to keep their shit together and catalogued if they don’t want the anti-hoarder to throw it all out.
/winces so hard his eyes bleed
If it is in your space, like with your kids, Ok your house your rules and all. Otherwise, mind own business! Odd does not equal mentally ill.
No, but I would think that if something has monetary value, you would actually, you know, VALUE it enough to give it a place of safety.
Would you leave valuable baseball cards lying around where somebody who doesn’t know they’re valuable can throw it away like it’s trash?
When my wife’s Grandma died. We cleaned out her house. We were just about to take all her clothes to Good Will when somebody thought to check shirt pockets. Good thing we did. All her diamonds were hidden in the clothes in her closet.
We suspected my Aunt had a fortunate hidden away, but we never found it. Not that we felt entitled to it by any means, just that it was such a strange situation. No children, no spouse, and she died suddenly without a will or instructions. She lived in a million dollar home, spent tens of thousands each month according to the statements we received (paid in full each month), but had nothing meaningful saved in any account. We found several keys to what we believe were different safe deposit boxes, but had no idea how to find them. Same with some clues about safes.
“Would you leave valuable baseball cards lying around where somebody who doesn’t know they’re valuable can throw it away like it’s trash?”
But… who is going to throw it in the trash? Not my wife, that’s for sure, no way either of us would ever throw away anything without asking the other, that’s just a rule. Now my wife cleans and makes things disappear until I find them again, which is why she’s now forbidden from ever cleaning my work desk again, but that’s another thing.
Yeah, but… Naptown Bill’s grandmother would.
Damn right she would, then she’d lie about that shit right to your face. And she taught high school for twenty years, so she’s got that weird teacher tone where you immediately feel like you’re in trouble.
In 2010, I moved out of my first apartment into a better one, then I bought my house in 2014. I still have boxes sitting unopened from the first time I moved. Probably should have a yard sale.
Now don’t be too hasty. I’ve been using my boxes as furnature for three years. I’m slowly replacing them with shelving and tables.
I’ve been in and out, so not sure if this has been linked yet, but it would be hilarious if the end of the world they were hiding from was the one from the church of climate change.
I expect they’ll be cited for tax evasion.
You know who else was from Austria and put people in confinement?
Johann Brahms?
Josef Fritzl?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/austrian-man-pleads-guilty-to-incest-at-confinement-trial-1.819369
Josef Fritzl?
Kindergarten Cop?
Marie Antoinette?
Imagine the shock when they emerge and get on the internet. They’re going to be wishing they were never discovered. ‘It’s worse than we could have even imagined! Why did it have to not end!?’.
An interesting six minute video on the unspoken deal reached between Turkey, Syria, Russia, and the US:
https://youtu.be/DvZvvp6jdro
This makes a lot of sense and seems to be a good explanation of what’s happening over there vis a vis the Kurds.
If that’s accurate, the warmongers look even worse than they would otherwise.
It can’t be right, we’re doomed! Even the NYT said so!
That would be quite an accomplishment.
I’ve been watching them for years and they’ve been fairly prescient on Syria so far. I’m almost certain that they’re a Russian funded organization but they do seem to have some kind of connection to a source for inside information. Hopefully they’re right on this one.
Very informative video, but what is a leppo?
Aplut Ton shown in the mirror noT tulpA
Tulpa confirmed.
What do you expect – he’s commenting here.
So it’s #PronounsDay on Twitter.
I’ve gone through some tweets, but I haven’t seen any that express my personal position: I will address you how you present yourself. If you’re dressed as a girl, expect “she/her.” If you’re dressed as a boy, expect “he/his.”
Very simple. Don’t give me your pronouns because I don’t care and don’t want to know. Show me your pronouns so I don’t have to care or know.
Fuck a duck. Gilmore’d.
^this^
No one gives a fuck what your pronouns are. I speak a language, I use the pronouns that have been used in the language, since like forever. Wait until these snowflakes try to make everyone speaking a romance language change the way they use masculine/feminine gender in every single word spoken in the language. Losers, no one cares. Look at me, I’m special! Umm, no, you’re not, get over it.
You know what I notice about snowflakes? Not that they’re all unique and special. I don’t notice that. I don’t notice individual snowflakes at all because they’re all moving together in the same direction at the same speed, all doing the exact same thing.
And often, they instantly melt on contact with anything solid, like reality.
Speaking of snowflakes:
For your amusement.
Or, if they really want to play. My pronoun is ‘Supreme Overlord Xer Highness of the Andromeda Galaxy of the Greater Virgo Super Cluster’. Now say it. No? Then shut the fuck up.
To me, “Xer” still looks like “her.”
Why not “Xis”?
Still gendered.
I’d be fine if they wanted to resurrect pronouns. Old English was a far more gendered language, and we used to have dozens of pronouns, somewhere north of 40. You want a gender neutral singular third person pronoun? It’s hit. Fuck off with the xer nonsense.
Neuter is for objects. People are male and female. Why the hell do people think they gain dignity by naming themselves as objects?
Grammatically, people are objects. But pedantry aside, you’re correct, which is why hit stayed around as a pronoun in modern English, we just dropped the initial h and shortened it to, well, it. I’m still confused why people care about “their” third person pronouns at all, by definition if someone is using one of term to talk about you, they aren’t talking to you.
“by definition if someone is using one of term to talk about you, they aren’t talking to you.”
I propose a new pronoun for those who don’t like the existing ones: fos.
That’s a reasonable stance. And not at all what the people pulling this crap want. Take a look at most of the people trying to claim “they/them”. Almost invariably, the person refers to him or herself as “I”. That’s pretty much throwing in your face that they know the claim is BS. It’s just a matter of forcing everyone else to obey.
May I suggest Japanese…
There are gender specific ones, gender neutral ones and casual and formal versions – naturally.
However, to an English speaker, the language goes through great pains not use them at all. After you have established the subject of a sentence the pronoun is omitted. And you generally refer to other by name and not the second person pronoun.
Or how about Hungarian?
It completely lacks grammatical gender, so the pronoun for a man is the same pronoun for a woman, or a cat, or a rock; of course they change depending upon the case, and if it is the object or the subject, or if it’s standalone or being appended onto another word in the aglutination process, and they sometimes change to harmonize with other words nearby… but hey, no gender!
Declensions in Latin were awful.
It wasn’t the declension itself, but remembering what set of declensions the word was supposed to use.
They ain’t hidin’ it no mo’.
“Let’s have another Civil War” is an interesting campaign promise.
Is that a threat?
?
Oh, and this followup thread.
Response: “Are you new to this country?”
At least she recognizes that every law is passed under threat of the cops coming around and blowing you away.
Huh. So she’s either lying through her teeth or incredibly ignorant. Given her Twitter background is the quote from Beto I’m going to go with blatantly dishonest.
Channeling Suthen here: No one wanted to disarm you for your own good.
Beta’s just testing the water, like they always do. Once they got the first gun law on the books, and any gun law in Unconstitutional, including background checks, the goal was ‘how far can we go now?’. Looks like the next goal of the serious gun grabbers, not the ones running for president and testing which way political winds are blowing, will be what they call ‘Universal Background Checks’, which is basically if I give me son an old rifle I don’t want anymore and I didn’t do a background check, I just created 2 new felons. Then it will be Red Flag laws. Once they have both of those, then it will be on to Beta’s, let’s just take em.
OK, which one of you wrote this?
Who Did This?
Love it!!!
Amy Klobuchar (Running for class president, ended up here by mistake)
that’s funny
I’ll bet she didn’t think so!
Well, I do have ample evidence I believe, to prove one of you did it.
“Biden took a nice question and turned it into a screaming Orange Man Bad rant.”
“Beta: I shared a ride with a Republican once. We tried to buy weed but it turned out to be oregano.”
Need I say more?
Every time I look at heads-up displays for a lark, I keep seeing overwrought, expensive devices with built-in computing capability. I keep asking why they don’t just make a display you can connect your existing computing devices to. Like this. Why doesn’t anyone make something like that?
Did you not just link to someone that does?
*monotone* That’s the joke */monotone*
/monotone laughter
My wife just made the most wonderful pasta, angel hair with homemade marina, yummy!
Sounds fishy.
There’s no fish in it. I’m confused here.
Oh, fer fuck’s sake! LOL. marinara.
“marinara”
Thank you, oh
albinoglows in the dark one.Covering for Ted.
[rubs palms in glee at how successful my plan to get everybody to do my bidding is going]
2 weeks in a row I had to look up a new word. This week was “ichor” – well played use of it.
Every time I look at heads-up displays for a lark
A Lark, for UCS. Heads up display not standard.
You’d look right at home, I bet.
Nice car.
Looks like the Hong Kong folk ain’t giving up the ship. How soon until Xi sends in the tanks?
It does seem as if they are thirstier than everyone thought. It’s heartening.
Looks like neither are going to back down. Pooh Bear is in between a rock and a hard place. He either looks soft by giving into the Hong Kong uprising, which is unthinkable, or he sends in the tanks, which is really going to have serious political consequences for the Chicoms. Sadly, my guess is that eventually a military crack down is coming and a lot of people will die. Pooh Bear is just buying time hoping this will go away.
No. No, it really won’t.
The chicoms have the world by its testicles.
Mother Gaia transitioned?
No, they don’t. They’re weak, despite CNN telling you how they’re the greatest next thing ever since creation. They’re economy is shaky and just when they really were emerging, they made the mistake of creating a hardcore commie dictator for life. If they were really so invincible, the Hong Kong protesters would already be in re-education camps.
Then they’re putting up a good front. They haven’t made any bones about telling the world to fuck off.
Look at how they’ve got Nike, Apple, and the NBA on the hook. That may seem like “oh, it’s just three companies,” but what would it do to our economy if they got kicked out of China completely?
Actually, that’s not a rhetorical question. Now that I’ve asked it, I’m totally seriously curious.
“Then they’re putting up a good front.”
When has their even been a case when an authoritarian regime wasn’t putting up a good front?
“They haven’t made any bones about telling the world to fuck off.”
When the world decides to take them up on that, meaning no more trade, let’s see how that works out.
Our economy can easily survive not trading with China. Maybe the survive no US trade, but they would be the real losers in that case, it will affect them a lot more than it will us.
If the Chinese kick out foreign companies en mass I’d give 10:1 odds they have a revolution within a decade. They have a lot of power against any singe company, but the Party could not hold the country at this point if they tried to withdraw from global trade.
I don’t see that happening.
I do not know about political consequences, but it will have economic consequences and Xi knows this. They have held back the tanks so far because they want to keep HK the golden goose while curbing HK the beacon of liberty. The basic issue that started all of this was not elimination of the special economic status, but rather an extradition law designed to pull ‘trouble makers’ out of HK before punishing them.
“I do not know about political consequences, but it will have economic consequences and Xi knows this.”
That’s really what I meant.
The world only cares about China as long as China buys its worthless debt.
It’s amazing how a little economic minor threat (not the band) gets others in a panic. Propose a tariff (not even a new idea) and China gets panicky. The very idea of Brexit gets the EU panicky. If China and the EU are that overleveraged, they 1) make natural allies, and 2) make you wonder what small ethno/poltical group is going to get its wealth seized next. Luckily they have the US DNC to do half the dirty work for them.
Like the time he was wedged in Rabbit’s door?
I expect the founders here will be getting a nice joint email from Pooh Bear and the NBA warning them of ‘serious consequences’ over the shit poster calling great leader Pooh Bear.
So, anybody know anything about ductless mini-splits? I want to install one (or possibly two, depending) at my house to replace the floor furnace and window units. We don’t have duct work and we’re talking about maybe 1100 sqft., so it looks like it’ll be cheaper to go ductless. But, I don’t know how big I need, and I don’t know if I’m better off getting a three-zone, four-zone or two two-zone units.
I can’t advise very well, but I am a fan of mini-splits. How many walls do you have in your 1100 ft2?
Well, it’s kind of a whacky setup. It’s one of those Sears kit homes, so it’s basically a Cape Cod with the big attic space finished into a second floor. Imagine the first floor is a box split lengthwise in half, with the front half being one big main room and the back half being divided into a kitchen, a bathroom, and an office. Towards the middle of the first floor is a stairs to the second, with a master bedroom and then a second, smaller bedroom at either end of a hallway.
At a minimum, I want to have one head unit (?) at one end of the main room area, which would be a straight shot across the length of the house. The kitchen opens into that room but it wouldn’t get direct air from that unit. The office and bathroom would be blocked off, but might get whatever ambient effect. That main room is probably 30′ by 10′. The next two units would be in the two bedrooms, which are small, like 8′ x 8′ and then 12′ x 10′. If the price isn’t awful, I’d consider another unit in the kitchen, which would be on the opposite wall and face towards the opening to the main room.
Rufus.
AH HA! Here’s a link to the model: It’s the very first one.
It’s the top floor plan, “A”, except flipped so that the stairs is on the left and the living room and kitchen has had the center wall removed and is one room. The “bed room” adjoining the staircase is our office, and the other one is the kitchen. It has a small addition on the chimney-side wall that is a laundry room. Oh, and the kitchen doesn’t have a closet; that space is open to the “hall” instead.
Oh, I LOVE that site! And I love those old kit homes.
If you’ve got a straight shot from the head through the house, then I don’t think you need the zoned.
The upstairs would be the issue, though. If you look at that floor plan, imagine the top floor being basically an open space the width of the stairs, with half the floor being a master bedroom and then another one of those small bedrooms on one side of the stairs. The one place I could imagine putting a head in that top floor would be at the top of the stairs, and then it’s pretty much just pumping air down the stairs. I’d be worried that the bedrooms wouldn’t get any of the HVAC love.
I thought you were talking about putting the minisplit in the attic for just the attic.
Oh no. This is for all the marbles. We have no ductwork, so this would be to heat and cool the whole house. So the downstairs big honkin’ room and then the two upstairs bedrooms. I looked at what it might cost to have ducts and all that put in, and even if we found a way to tuck them away so they didn’t stick out like sore thumbs it winds up blowing past $10k.
We outgrew our 1200 sq ft apartment about 2-3 years ago. We have two 10x10x10 sq fit storage units which are so crammed full you can’t get in the door and there is no place in the house for anything else. We’re looking for a house with 2000 sq ft min, storage, a basement, and a garage, with at least a min of land, an acre or two would be ideal.
Yeah, we’re busting our humps to get the house in shape to sell. We’re looking for something along the lines of what you’re describing, likely in southern Anne Arundel county or possibly northern Calvert. Two dogs, a cat, two adults, one kid and another on the way. There’s just no room. Plus, living in town sucks, particularly in this town.
We’re mostly looking in Carrol Conty, or even over the line into PA. Of course, given your location, Calvert makes a lot more sense.
A lot of corporate press journalists are really pissed that Tulsi rightly noted during yesterday’s debate that the US armed ISIS. This hurts the myth of the “good war” and there are no greater propagandists for war than corporate press journalists. Unfortunately for journos some people have attention spans longer than a week.
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1184303212712615943
FATALITY!
Clint Watts
@selectedwisdom
Tulsi Gabbard’s take on Syria is completely false. US did not start the war in Syria nor did we initiate a regime change. US did not back al Qaeda in Syria. Why didn’t the moderators or other candidates challenge her on these falsehoods?
RESPONSE:
Max Blumenthal
Verified account
@MaxBlumenthal
Replying to @selectedwisdom
Did you write this bro?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG99fRTWsAoOR1G.jpg:large
REKT!
“Tulsi rightly noted during yesterday’s debate that the US armed ISIS”
Yeah, but Hillary and McCain both assured us that they were only going to arm the ‘good’ terrorists.
That came very close to criticizing Obama the Great, which is practically treason. She’s lucky that they let her stay in the party at all.
The Twat Squad probably already got Sugah Tits… that is Tulsi’s nickname, right?, in their cross-hairs.
Democrats have been funding a primary opponent to her since she mocked Russia Fever Dreams.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/05/hawaii-teachers-union-backs-gabbard-opponent-for-congress/
The kicker: “In its endorsement of challenger Sherry Campagna, the union sharply criticized Gabbard’s human rights record because of her stance on Syria.”
Irony of ironies.
Behind every “humanitarian” war is Bill Kristol smiling
I consider compulsory schooling a human rights violation.
Whatever you think of unions, their purpose, at least in principal, is to serve the financial interests of their members (Yeah, yeah, I know, haha!). But, Syria has about as much to do with the financial interests of Hawaiian public school teachers as recipes for poutine. The only beneficiary of this is the national progressive establishment. This really shows what the unions think about their loyalty to their membership.
Holy crap! I never thought I’d see the day where Max Blumenthal was the voice of reason or sanity.
If you’re looking for someone to push back against warmongers, you’re going to see Max Blumenthal, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Tracey, and people who write for the Nation. They’re the only anti-interventionists left, except for the rump of libertarians who aren’t parroting Lindsey Graham which is just basically Mises people and Scott Horton.