SP spent most of the week driving across the country to visit her family, so Wonder Dog and I are leading the bachelor life, other than not chasing girls. What we are doing is making a mess, farting at will, and scratching.
Highlight of my work week: in response to an inquiry to HR to clarify the company policy about weapons, the president responded, “This is an open-carry and concealed-carry facility.” I do like working there…
Highlight of my personal week: I was blocked on Twitter by Michael Malice. He’s the first one since Ben Roethlisberger.
Oh yes, birthdays. Today has a great actor who would be canceled today (and he still might); the best guitarist in my lifetime; a woodwinds wizard; the Man Who Would Be Lugosi; the quarterback playing Football of the Future; a brilliant singer saddled with material of Canadian-level banality; and a guy who was Walter and Cyclops.
Let’s see what the news brings.
Just another Friday evening in DC.
Outraged! Outraged I tells ya!
The downside of Arizona is people like Sheriff Joe. The upside is the other sheriffs.
Hate everyone and everything involved.
Fuck you, I’d do this in a hot second.
Brown on the outside, white on the inside.
Old Guy Music was an easy choice- a classic song with an insane solo from one of today’s birthday boy.
Love your dog, Bella is sick….
Our old girl is soon to go on her last road trip, her back legs are all but shot.
that’s a bummer, Belly is only three, and the seizures are all of a sudden real bad and constant, Yusef is scared….
I had a dog that would have a grand mal seizure at least once a week, usually more, and that little shit lived to be 16. Bella is a tough girl, I’m sure she’ll pull through for you Yusef.
“Outraged! Outraged I tells ya!”
adblocked
Fuck you, I’d do this in a hot second.
Best thing I ever did, and Trip charge!
Eskimo Pies to drop ‘derogatory’ name over racial insensitivity
Oreo cookies soon to follow.
Them Watermelon,
In other news, Watermelons, Bananas, and Coconuts have been summarily sentenced to extinction.
Happy bday, Lenny the Cool! Subject of the best football sidelines photo evah:
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1055742996.6363/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750×1000,f8f8f8.jpg
Hey Festus, you around? I meant to say Cushing’s, not thyroid, in the now-dead thread. Again, cat or dog? If former, how old is kitty?
(IANAV / VT)
Sigh. I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
Hey Festus, you around? I meant to say Cushing’s, not thyroid, in the now-dead thread. Again, cat or dog? If former, how old is kitty?
(IANAV / VT)
Bella is finally asleep, I haven’t been, Vegas is there if I need to drive, but some sleep first,
Sorry about your pup, Bob.
Didn’t Clinton fire all the US Attorneys on his first day in office?
Yes, but as always, it’s different when TEAM BLUE does it.
So I’m reading about the Jefferson administration — and the contention about replacing officials of the outgoing Federalist administration(s). Some things never change.
Marbury v Madison.
Interesting. I did something yesterday that I’ve only done once before in my life; donated to a political campaign. Y’all can hate me, but I sent 50 bucks to the Orange Bad Man. On the survey part, where they had an optional “anything you want to tell the president?” block, I wrote “clean out the DOJ and get some indictments”. Or something to that effect.
I sent some bucks to the state R party after Obamacare passed. Pretty much an impulse donation, and you can see how much good it did. Depending on how things seem to be going over the next couple of months, I may be tempted to do what you’ve done. In ’16 I held my nose and voted for GayJay, but I’m definitely voting AGAINST the Ds this time around. They’ve gone too far off the deep end, and I don’t want to take any chances that they end up in charge.
It seems it’s been that way my whole life.
“Amazon said the choice of venue and the poster were made by diverse local leadership, including the facility’s site leader, who is Black. The business is one of employees’ favorite restaurants, so they felt it was appropriate to show support on Juneteenth, the company said. ”
So fried chicken is only racist when it’s free?
Also, capitalizing the word “black” now.
I’m just assuming that means they had really dark skin.
Any opportunity for taking offense will be used.
Also, opportunities to offend should not be wasted.
Would it have been worse if the site’s leader had been White?
‘“This legislation will cause an exodus of our best police officers and make hiring and retaining qualified employees next to impossible,” the union added.’
Why do I get the feeling we have very different ideas as to what constitutes as the “best” and “qualified”?
They say it as though it’s a bad thing.
But, but,…they NEED sociopaths with middling intellects who are willing to look the other way and keep silent about the criminal activity being perpetuated by their fellow Blue Heroes! Civilization would cease to exist without them.
All identity designations will henceforth be created by a random number/letter generator.
It’s the only way to be sure.
Ok THX1138
I guess I’m not buying North Face any more. Nobody actively calling for free speech restrictions gets my money.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-north-face-boycotts-facebook-amid-pressure-from-several-organizations-2020-6
Meh is there anyone in the fashionable outdoor business that doesn’t promote leftist ideas?
I seem to recall an article that Patagonia wasn’t going to do bulk orders to Wall St firms
LL Bean. ISTR they did or said something pro-R or pro-Trump in the recent (not immediate) past. Don’t know how to DDG it, at least before coffee.
Does Duluth Trading count? Or are they more for work than play? So far I haven’t noticed any politics on their website or in their e-mails. ::knocks wood until knuckles bleed:: (Note: sometime within the last few days I swear I saw an anti-racism message on a yarn-craft site.)
I can tolerate the Anti-racism stuff. It’s when they are trying to get others deplatformed or cancelled that I change my buying habits.
#metoo, to a point. I am not happy with everyone throwing millions of dollars at grifters.
But this is even worse.
The antiracism movement is a CULT.
I listen to idiots like this guy Kendi and Di Angelo and all I can say, is ‘it’s cult’ and ‘but this is a cult’ and ‘that’s how a cult act’s.
But to see it spread like this. It truly is weird. Man, troubling. When you see the CEO of Chick-fil-A doing crazy shit like he did, you know this is not going away anytime soon.
Yeah, Duluth probably counts.
This is old, but it must have been along these lines: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/should-consumers-boycott-ll-bean-over-a-political-donation-2017-01-13
Remember “woke knitting”?
Oh, lordy – that’s right. I’d repressed that. ***SIGH!!!*** People are insane.
Duluth is probably OK.
This is old, but: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/should-consumers-boycott-ll-bean-over-a-political-donation-2017-01-13
Check out Sierra Trading Co.; they have good stuff at reasonable prices and, far as I know, don’t have anything to do with the busybullies.
I’ve been boycotting them my entire life.
?
Personal estetic or something deeper?
I don’t like logos on the outside of my clothing – especially when they attract attention from unsavory characters.
I don’t have any of their jackets, but do have a few North Face casual button down shirts, which are some of the best I’ve ever had as far as fit (I have a slim/athletic build and most shirts are freakishly wide) and quality, and don’t have any visible logos.
Yeah, it’s hard to find stuff that’s not cut for CostCo width.
Best ski jacket (shell) I ever owned was North Face. Still have it and use it for wintertime runs and such. Prolly 15 years old.
Their new shit absolutely sucks by comparison. So…add another nail to their coffin.
Really don’t understand why some companies think they’ll increase their bottom line by alienating a percentage of their customers? I suppose if they believe the vast majority of their customers lean in one direction or the other, they’ll think more of them for being on the “correct” side and buy more of their product because of it. But outdoor wear? Prolly need to fire your marketing director.
Gotcha.
Like a yellow star?
I agree with you Rhy. However, North Face made some running shoes about 5 years ago that were really good. I had two pairs. Sadly they discontinued the line. And it is impossible to find them, even on the internet.
Yeah I should probably shut up now considering I wear Adidas sneakers.
I hear ya. I’ve avoided “branded” clothing all my life as well — it offends me that, after I’ve given them my money, they expect me to walk around advertising their stuff until the end of my days.
Well that’s disappointing. I have a high collard zip up jacket of theirs I rather like. Guess I won’t be buying a replacement from them when it wears out.
It is. I like their stuff. Too bad they’re woke assholes that want to regulate others’ speech.
Isn’t the North Face owned by a larger company these days? VF Corp if I remember.
How many black people ever bought anything from North Face? 10?
It’s got to be the whitest brand of stuff on the market.
By 1997, purchasers of North Face attire had expanded beyond those looking for technical clothing for skiing, climbing, and other outdoor pursuits to rappers in New York City, but remained only a small part of the company’s business.
They were the main customer base from my POV.
I guess I am the only person that wants to know the reason Malice blocked OMWC
No, I was just about to ask too.
And the honest answer is… I have no idea. SP speculates that my handle is the issue.
Did you respond to him? He always talks about how he likes to block people, even if they are followers of his work, if they annoy him in the slightest.
I’m more curious about why Ben Roethlisberger blocked him.
The key difference in the pandemic-induced wave of relocations could be that the movement is organic, led by employees themselves rather than their bosses. But even that could falter. Smaller towns, away from buzzing business headquarters and bustling city life, might struggle to retain their charm for transplants unless they attract a critical mass of big city refugees. While the promise of more land, more space and less commute may sound compelling, there is the threat of boredom or, a worse fate for many, career marginalization.
Another dispatch from the “Nobody I know voted for Nixon” school of journalism.
a critical mass of big city refugees
That would be my signal to move on.
there is the threat of boredom
Yep, it’s totally true. Big city refugees should stay wheee they are.
Agree wholeheartedly
I’m sure it’s just the pandemic causing this trend.
I’ve been seeing versions of this think-piece my entire life. Yawn.
Seems like that’s on Tulsa, not the president. Do better, Tulsa.
Also, a weekend? Not only was Juneteenth unknown to most of America before a couple weeks ago, it is a “day” – not a “weekend”.
…but the Super Mega Juneteenth Savings Spectacular will be going on all week at [insert name of car dealer or appliance store]!!
I cant wait for Juneteenth so I can get a good deal on a mattress!
99 years and they’re still trying to make amends? How many residents of Tulsa are there left who were alive when the incident happened? How many of those were old enough to remember it happening?
I’d heard about twice. Years ago as a minor celebration along the lines of Kwanzaa and Sloopy’s kid naming. His choices are a bit nontraditional for my tastes, but I loved the spirit of it.
They’ve been having Juneteenth celebrations in Miami for some time. It’s always good for several mass fights and shootings.
Yeah, that was the takeaway when I lived in Buffalo too.
And they might not feel so much wealthier after relocating. Companies like Facebook are planning to offer remote employees “localized” compensation, commensurate with a lower cost of living.
They can’t do that!
Can they?
Yep. That was/is my company’s policy (pre-pandemic, at least).
FedGov does it too – local % on top of standard GS salary. Aberdeen Proving Ground is considered for such purposes as part of Washington DC/Capital district, so it is a tidy sum of money for a low cost of living area (being north of Baltimore).
I’m sure almost every private company does this.
I still don’t completely understand why they prefer to cluster in high cost of living areas. Inertia? Whim of the CEO?
Seems you can get the same or more work out of people in low cost areas for less.
Depends on the business. I work at a big law firm, the thought of not having a “prestigious” downtown address would send the partners into coniptions, but with what they charge per hour it really doesn’t matter. Sucks a bit for us non lawyer people, but what the partners want the partners get.
I don’t want to sound snobby because I really do not like silicon valley to live in. But there you cannot spit without hitting 20 engineers with exactly the skills and experience you want. I manage teams in upstate New York and Dallas. In the former, it can take me 3x longer to find a junior engineer who has specialized technical skills from her first job at a bank or insurance company. She will be cheaper to hire, but she will also require much more on the job training. Hiring in Dallas is a little bit in between. It is building a pretty good pool of IT talent.
Further, In the bay area, there is a lot of entrepreneurial spirit- a lot of people thinking about new businesses. This can help fuel innovation, but it also feels a bit of a rat race. The other locations, people are generally more family focused and there is just a sense of more work-life balance.
If you are in a company where every month of project delay can mean millions of dollars in lost opportunity, you are willing to put up with high costs in order to have that talent pool. Other times you want value. You are willing to give up some speed to improve overall cashflow.
I work for a tech company – our headquarters is right next to MIT, from whence we sprang.
A large number of new employees are already here when they get out of school & a second tranche is attracted to the area by the other tech companies – if they come work for us there’s some value in knowing they wouldn’t necessarily have to move to get another job they like.
We started an official remote-work program about 10 years ago – I was part of the pilot and still work from home (all of 4 miles away – long story) – but they quietly have let it wither on the vine a bit. The idea was “if the best candidate is in Tulsa and won’t move, why not accommodate them”, but I’m not sure that has quite worked out.
The Wu Flu has upended everything, of course – the whole company is WFH through 2020 (if they desire) and 75% have said they’re comfortable working remotely indefinitely.
The big headache, from they company’s POV, is taxes – employees want to change localities while working remotely and the local tax authorities in that new locality want their cut.
Pre-pandemic, the biggest issue was our (large) contingent of Indian employees stateside – a popular move was to take several weeks off to go home & see the family, then work from the Bangalore office for several more weeks. They had to put a stop to that since the Indian tax authorities came calling with their hand out.
Inertia. If you were to be a company with a presence and a name, you had to be located in a large city and have the usual fancy offices, etc.
“Seems you can get the same or more work out of people in low cost areas for less.”
Like India?
Yes absolutely. Your company can change their pay to you for any reason assuming you are in an at will state. I have a relative by marriage who had to take a pay cut this year because her business was taking it in the shorts due to COVID.
For what its worth, just because they can, doesn’t mean they will. My company won’t make you take a pay cut, but when you move, it will put you in a localized pay band. When I moved to Colorado with my bay-area salary, I was probably making about 50% more than similar jobs in my town. But I also didn’t get much better than a 1% raise for 5 years because I was FAR outside of the top of my company’s (localized) salary band.
The more interesting thing to do is to become semi-remote. Several employees in my organization are moving out to rural northern California. They are still earning the bay area salary, but they are paying just under $1 Million for an acre in the mountains with a 1970’s house plopped down on that. For some of the DINK’s earning $200k a year, this is a very attractive option. Sure, they are 1.5 – 2 hrs from their office, but they only commute in once or twice a month and crash at a friend’s house. Or in the case of coronaggedon, they never go in at all.
When we moved back to california, we explicitly chose to move to an area that wasn’t near my office. I am still in a city, but an hour drive away. I go in (pre-pandemic) once a week and work the rest of the time from my home, and my location is just slightly below the bay area salary band.
Overall, the point is that remote working allows everyone to be more flexible. People can go out to alaska, or they can just expand their housing options to be within several hours of the office in order to get the right combination of housing prices, schools, and proximity to family and amenities.
Why does the Desert want to kill us?
Wait, Why the the Earth want to kill us?
It weeds out the weak.
A second source with knowledge of the matter said Berman was asked to resign and refused. Barr asked Berman to resign in an in-person meeting in New York on Friday, the source said.
Okay, then. That’s everything we need to know.
Our company policy on weapons – “Hey, you wanna see something cool?”
Self ownership, “wanna see something cool?”
George Floyd protests: Who are Boogaloo Bois, antifa and Proud Boys?
The difference in handling the uncapitalized group kind of gives away their bias.
The media sure is eager to explain everything to us these days.
LOLOLOL
Yeah, that got a snort out of me too.
“Followers have a variety of views and levels of seriousness towards the movement, but most could be described as extreme libertarians and sign up to two fundamental beliefs: A desire for an armed overthrow of the government, and an unwavering commitment to gun ownership.”
My desire is to be left the fuck alone. Full stop.
I don’t identify with any of those factions and do not own any Hawaiian shirts. In the event of teotwawki, bring bacon and bourbon.
Bacon and bourbon is the traditional Glibs housewarming gift.
Soooo….not a deep-dish Hawaiian pizza? ::glances at oven nervously::
Now you did it.
It’s OK – I’m going to cut it into squares.
*redflag*
‘extremist right wing revolutionary known as Sean threatens to destroy country with his McNuke’
“an unwavering commitment to gun ownership”
Someone can’t be passionate about their rights? Describe to me abortion activists in the same light.
“That’s different!”
“Boogaloo Bois
This relatively new anti-government subculture is perhaps the most dangerous of the bunch. ”
Ok then… Find me some. Assuming you actually find some, show me something they’ve done. Like… ever.
I’ve never heard anyone call themselves a boogaloo boi.as far as I know it being organized is a fabrication of the corporate press.
They have a picture of a morale patch, what more proof do you need?
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The guy who shot the Santa Cruz deputies supposedly wrote “BOOG” in blood on a van. He certainly looks like a white supremacist to me.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/us/steven-carrillo-california-officers-deaths-suspect-boogaloos/index.html
So much gaslight.
I am hoping the relocation article is correct. I didnt buy and move out here so I could live with the same people I bought and moved out here to get away from. Stay in the city you bunch of goddamned Karens.
How long before someone starts bitching about me burning my trash on my land? Bitching about how I keep my yard? Raising my taxes?
After ten years in a rural county in Florida my brother started getting that, city folks bringing their shit and moving in. He went to a county board meeting to weigh in and came back red in the face with anger. “What happened?” I asked.
“Every motherfucker on that board was wearing sandals and had a ponytail.”
Me – “Let me know when the next one is. I will lend you my Saiga.”
The perils of living in a country with free movement.
I am all for free movement. What I am not for is the ability of chickenshit bulllies to stick their noses in my business.
I was seeing that in the traffic as the city encroached upon us in DC. What started 3 years ago as a quiet, secluded farm road had turned into something where I couldn’t get out of my neighborhood during rush hours, DC assholes were honking at each other all the time, and there were crashes at the end of the street every week or two. Our area had retained its rural character (by fiat), but we had been encircled by row after row of the boringest little $450k townhomes. All the government drones had figured out that they could shortcut through our area and fuck it up for us.
I wish that I could move actually rural. Far enough away from big cities to avoid the bullshit. Realistically, our “permanent” house is going to be within an hour of Dallas, or my wife will pitch a fit. I’m gonna have a hard time trying to convince her to look 10 years out, not just in the here and now, when deciding where to live.
My wife is making me live within eyesight of our neighbors too ?
We found a good temporary refuge. Still close enough to Tampa to have a reasonable commute (30 minutes when there is no traffic, thus the reason I start work at 05:00). All the land here is zoned AS-1, which means single family homes on no less than one acre plots. Our house is set off the road, with two houses in front of us (one is 4 acres, the other a single acre). Nothing but wetlands behind us for a mile, so no encroachment possible there.
The Karens are already starting to make noise about all the gunfire out here (nearly everyone has a range on their property). Thankfully the response has been “move back to the city if you don’t like it.” Don’t think this area will ever be incorporated, so we will fall under the county rules, which allows for home ranges on properties of at least 1 acre (I think that’s what it is).
Still plan to retire to the mountains though – the kind of property that advertises that a 4wd vehicle is mandatory to access the property…
Sulphur Springs is really pretty. Still inexpensive too.
Gilchrist or Putnam?
Caught the raccoon that was getting into the bird feeders and the garden. The middle daughter wants to learn to shoot this summer, so I’m making her watch what a gun will do to a living thing up close.
You couldn’t shoot it without trapping it? If you’re just going to dispose of it with a bullet anyway. I dunno, I mean, what the hell are you supposed to do with shit like that, it’s not like drowning or asphyxiation is any nicer. Drive it 20mi away to release it?
Totally not Asking For A Friend with an excess of groundhogs, skunks and rabbits.
I don’t think he meant he literally caught it…
If you move a wild animal away form its habitat by so far it will likely die of starvation anyway. Shooting them is the most humane.
I would never try to get close to a trapped raccoon. Those bastards can be mean.
The year I finally moved away from Colorado, a raccoon got into our chicken pen and tore the wings off of 5 chickens and left the rest for me to clean up. I hate those fuckers. That same night, we had a tornado warning and went down to the basement to find that one of our gutter spouts had broken, and had created a 100 gallon aquarium out of the window well. I left the kids down there and bolted outside right as the marble-sized hail started coming down. I fixed the spout and started bailing out the window well while being pelted with hail. At that point I learned that the window well was where many baby rabbits had gone to die. Hail and Decomposed Rabbit soup for the win.
It’s illegal to transport raccoons and release them in VA because of disease spread.
Generally, they show up in the middle of the night and tear stuff up. Getting a clean shot on one is near impossible. Once they get too homey, it’s time to go and out the trap comes.
One 22LR is sufficient and humane.
I dated a young lady in Carmel, CA whose cat was killed by a raccoon that tore through the screen door to get at the bowl of kibble. While trying (unsuccessfully) to save her kitty, she got bit and had to undergo some rather unpleasant rabies treatment. I’m not a fan of the trash pandas.
They get into my construction equipment on occasion. They can and will absolutely destroy everything surrounding the engine; wires, hoses, insulation, etc…
Sometimes they get into the container with the concrete insulating blankets and get stuck. We’ll find them the next season completely mummified.
Speaking of cities…
I’m still in Indianapolis. Just about everywhere I go, I see offices, warehouses, light manufacturing facilities and just about any kind of business enterprise you can think of. People doing things, making things, adding value to things. Wealth creation is rampant. Why would anybody want to live in a place like this?
If there were mountains, I would not have left.
Also= I was perusing some commercial real estate listings in eastern Idaho yesterday and i found a very tempting property in Pocatello. A couple of shops and a little house, right next to the train tracks, in what looks like an industrial ghetto area not far from the Idaho State campus. If I had any kind of ready money, I’d swing through there and look at it on my way home.
Idaho seems like it’s being Californicated. I think in Spud’s area, the predominant population is retired CA cops, firemen, and other civil “servants.”
We’re still pining to get back to Butte. It seems to have California-repellent, unlike Bozeman.
Some unique variety of lichen maybe? Gravitational anomaly? We couldn’t bottle that, unfortunately.
“Looks like an industrial ghetto” That’s the definition of Pocatello’s charm. East Idaho hasn’t been as Californicated as the Boise area; you just have to worry about carrot snappers from Utah.
so Wonder Dog and I are leading the bachelor life, other than not chasing girls.
“Wouldn’t know what to do with one if they caught it.”
I’ve been seeing versions of this think-piece my entire life. Yawn.
Value is subjective? Stop the presses!!
Eskimo Pies to drop ‘derogatory’ name over racial insensitivity
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“Hey who cares what the Eskimos think, they don’t buy records!”
so Wonder Dog and I are leading the bachelor life, other than not chasing girls
You’ve been hitting the town, and it didn’t hit back?
We’re still pining to get back to Butte. It seems to have California-repellent, unlike Bozeman.
Butte cops seemed to be quite aggressive about enforcing the plague lockdown, based on the stories I saw. Not a good sign. But they are a far cry from the parasitic assholery of Gallatin and Park counties.
Someone around here said years ago he wanted to move to Montana and did so. Now he cant wait to retire and leave. He said the place is chock full of commies. The more I hear about the place the more I think he is right.
The cops and enforcement thing isn’t surprising.
Miss Marple anime
I almost bought a Hawaiian shirt at Walmart, the other day.
Better shirt – https://www.shirtpunch.com/frank-and-rum-ham
That actually sounds delicious.
I tried but just doesn’t fit my Punk style
I was buying tshirts at Walmart a few weeks back, passed the rack of Hawaiian shirts and got snagged by an alluring pattern before remembering I hate button-down shirts and moved on.
I leave the top two unbuttoned and just used them a pull overs.
*use *as
I am not a writer. Nor do I play one on TV.
I want to buy a Hawaiian shirt or two in the retro pin-up style like that poor canceled Astronomer wore a few years back. Can’t recall the links at the moment – I thought Iowahawkblog listed it at some point.
Any suggestions?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/14/rosetta-comet-dr-matt-taylor-apology-sexist-shirt
well yeah…I think that one was custom made for him by a friend, but are there any boutique type places out there that do similar designs? Maybe I’d need to hit up Viva Las Vegas to find links?
I got one of these once. They seem to discontinue the patterns pretty frequently, so I can’t find the exact one — more of a mandala design than a floral print. It seems light to the point of being flimsy but is actually in the same condition as when I first got it despite the abuse. I thought it was a bit too whimsical but I’ve gotten several compliments on it for some reason.
I like some of those. Especially this one. Bit pricey.
Yeah, you have to really like them for that much money.
I grabbed this one when I was in Kona for my honeymoon.
The blue is much darker than it shows on the site.
Pricey, but a good memory every time I wear it.
For 100% polyester? Good God.
I’d pay that for 100% silk (gladly!), but 100% polyester is my “three for twenty-five bucks U.S.” kind of purchase.
Why does WP hate me? Third try here at posting:
Duluth is probably OK.
This is old, but: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/should-consumers-boycott-ll-bean-over-a-political-donation-2017-01-13
Cops called to the CHOP:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1274328549445513216
All the peace and summer of love. It’s overwhelming.
I wonder if they were put against a wall, execution style. That is the commie way.
“In a mostly peaceful shooting….”
/CNN headline
Apropos of nothing-
I watched “American Ultra” last night. I was definitely in the mood for some mindless amusement and gratuitous violence.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Remember when they ignorant cow Kim Davis refused to do her job? Being defiant agaist your boss is all the rage now.
That was different, she’s an icky religious person.
I’d want to gtfo of DC too, so can’t blame them for that. Of course they may have trouble finding another 100k+ job that only requires a highschool education.
He’s stepping on their toes.
You’re making me want to move, but I hate the heat.
I can’t even.
“Lower taxes? Cheaper housing? Shorter commute? For some knowledge workers fleeing the big city amid the pandemic, the perks of relocating to a distant burg will soon grow stale.”
Sounds horrible.
That is how I like my women.
“Brown on the outside, white on the inside.”
Also applies to Halloumi cheese…
“I hate the heat“
Northern AZ. No cities, but lots of cooler mountainy places.
hm… the no cities part may be a deal breaker for my wife. Q.Q
She likes people too much.
It is actually cooler there than here right now… (of course, it is earlier in the morning there, but still…)
Maybe Flagstaff? Technically a city, if on the smaller side, but it’s up in the mountains of Arizona so it doesn’t get that hot.
win/win
*Replying to Sr. Dean. With the other comment, which I didn’t see before posting, it seems to imply I think Lack should leave his wife.
My cousin just relocated from San Luis Obispo to Prescott. Looks nice.
Can’t you live at elevation in Arizona and somewhat avoid the heat? I’ve heard you can in NM, anyway.
Yes.
The challenge in those parts of AZ is water.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/politics/joe-biden-campaign-event.html
Quick, someone tell me about those poll numbers again.
????
“As one candidate plays to a nearly empty room, another prepares for a rally with health risks.”
Yeah okay Lisa. Whatever you say. I’m sure a lefty like you was a–kay fine with the protests.
These people are beyond full of it.
I think the news media is ecstatic about Trump’s rally. They now have something to blame the COVID spike on. God forbid anyone figure out what is actually causing the COVID spike… gee…. I wonder what that could be.
I imagine that will be how most of Joe’s events will be.
Lately it seems like every time he opens his mouth, his numbers go up. I don’t get it, either.
So, has anyone here been paying attention to the LP party or their candidate JoJo?
The LP FB page posted something she wrote essentially saying she’d force them to bake the cake (but for healthcare). They’re getting roasted int he few comments I saw (around 1000 on that post). So, is the LP completely skinsuited now?
I think there is something of a battle going on between people who make Nick Gillespie look like an anti-establishment radical and the outsider Mises Caucus, who enjoy the works of Tom Woods, et al.
Right, but the mises caucus is in a pretty clear minority. Doesn’t seem like that is going to turn around anytime soon.
I guess the question I have is… is it already too late?
I don’t know. I’d like to see it, because Jo has generally been good.
Linking from FB is hit or miss, so I’ll try to find the tweet:
https://twitter.com/Jorgensen4POTUS/status/1272374660726960128
part 2? https://twitter.com/Jorgensen4POTUS/status/1272374665294602240
These sites make it so difficult to be coherent, but my understanding is that she is basically saying she disagrees with letting people discriminate based on sexuality.
The replies I scanned are terrible.
https://twitter.com/serkif/status/1272405943301468161?s=20
So basically since government has its hand up every company and industry’s ass, it’s perfectly ok.
what… what is wrong with her face?
The rule never took effect (paraphrasing)
Seems like a lot of people aren’t being honest about this. I am shocked.
For healthcare? What does that mean?
I was buying tshirts at Walmart a few weeks back
I was there to buy a t-shirt. The Walmart in Brownsburg, Indiana did not have a single 100% cotton, no-pocket, color-dyed t-shirt.
WTF, Walmart?
https://teefury.com/products/tee-mens-heavyweight-i-dont-want-to-live-on-this-planet-anymore
I can get them no problem at Sam’s Club.
Inuit Pies it is!
Oh well. What happens to the Edmonton Eskimos now?
Seriously. People and companies who pile onto this crazy ass woke shit can straight fuck off and die.
Inuit Pies? Still might be offensive. How about “Cow Pies”?
Edmonton Rotten-Blubber-Eaters.
C’mon. It’s like you never SJWed, d00d.
Buh-bye!
I heard on the radio yesterday that Polis signed a bill into law ending qualified immunity in CO yesterday, however, this story makes no mention of immunity so who knows. I am not up for reading the actual bill right now.
The group’s name is a reference to a poorly-reviewed 1984 film, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. The phrase “Electric Boogaloo” has since become an online meme meaning a low-quality sequel.
But Boogaloo Bois use it to refer to armed conflict with authorities, something akin to a second US Civil War .
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Like other online movements born out of 4chan, Boogaloo Bois are steeped in the vernacular of internet memes and in-jokes.
Of course they do.
And you dopes fall for it, hook line and sinker, every time.
Meanwhile “antifa” is steeped in decades of history reaching back to inter-leftist squabbles in inter-war Germany, but let’s not bother investigating that history.
Ooofta…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8442085/Trump-slams-D-C-police-doing-protesters-topple-Confederate-monument.html
The DC Mayor is a real POS – she seems to be hoping for a breach of the White House security perimeter – borderline treasonous.
I am beginning to hear the same kind of noises about Trump. I am hoping he is making a smart political move and will take action after the election. Standing by and doing nothing while armed gangs stake claims on sovereign US territory seems weak. This is how the war with Mexico started.
I believe the Trump strategy is to provide their rope. Their internal polling must show a significant silent majority effect.
What career would you like to embark upon, if you had to?
(I have to. The convention/trade show business is not coming back any time soon.)
Fireman maybe? Seems like a sweet gig.
Good advice. My only slight reservations are 1) getting woken up is fucking annoying and 2) while many are cool, a certain percentage of firemen are oafish knuckleheads I wouldn’t want to spend 20 hours straight with.
Yeah, I’m not sure I could deal with the second half of that. Some people never grow up…
FWIW, I really like being a an engineer (structural), but you need the schooling for it.
a certain percentage of firemen are oafish knuckleheads I wouldn’t want to spend 20 hours straight with.
I see you’ve met Spudalicious.
Yes, but you’ll be drowning in chicks (or dudes if that’s your jam() when the calendar comes out.
Hooters hiring manager.
Hooters? Are they still in business? I haven’t been in one in 15 years.
Yes. I was delivering food for Uber Eats during the lockdown, and they had takeout under a slightly different name, like Hooty’s Cajun Grille, or some shit.
Learn to code? That’s what I did anyway; can’t say I really recommend it.
I respect you for that but I fear I might find it tedious to be confined to a screen all day. Do you find that’s the case?
Im thinking about a building trade. Can be frustrating in its own right, but at least it would be in a new location every day.
Offers the potential of making my own bids on jobs someday. Been replying to every apprentice electrician ad I see, but no responses.
It can be tedious, but I don’t mind it much personally. It does depend largely on what kind of programming you’re doing though. Most of my stuff is front end and higher level stuff so the screen it’s at least somewhat interesting, but lower level guys that deal with database stuff have screens that make excel spreadsheets look fun.
I hate tedious sprocs and analyzing reams of data but that’s kind of what I got stuck in 🙁
But I’ve done it all so it’s pretty easy to find something interesting eventually.
Hey, Rhy, I remember when you said your job went somewhere else and you were half-heartedly looking. Did you ever find something? If you said, I missed it. If you didn’t say, I’m sorry if I’m stepping on toes.
Nothing permanent and with my current health situation I’m not looking for a while yet.
Oh, I’m sorry to hear about your health problems.
If you don’t mind feces, the term licensed plumber means license to steal. Large rates are demanded and paid. In the non feces field electrician is a fine gig.
I tried to get my kid to go that route, but we’ve had so many plumbing problems, she got a front-row seat to the filth and demurred. This is the one working at Walmart and eyeballing management positions. She has already gotten a promotion and a raise to go with it. *proud mama* She is going to a trade school for IT for her senior year of high school and then hopefully another year after that.
My other kid is into landscaping, but since he wrecked our equipment last season, I’m going to make him get a job to finance his startup. He has actually spoken of going to college for landscape design.
According to my nephew-in-law who is a licensed journeyman electrician, I’m an electrician in all but title already. I’ve saved stupid amounts of money simply by doing it myself. I can typically beat a quote from an actual electrician by around 75% (i.e., do it myself for two grand, rather than the eight grand I was quoted for a basement reno). Those folks make serious bank, and the jobs are normally a lot cleaner than what a plumber has to go through.
Yeah, tried to get the tax deductions to go for that, too, but as XX explained it to me, electricity math is akin to voodoo and she isn’t up to the task.
While I have wired stuff up myself, I totally understand this. Whenever I play with electricity, I have to hold my breath and hope I did it right.
Downside: front row seat to homemade electric chair
Ditto, but yeah it’s not for everyone. It suits me fine. The bad part is corporate BS. I wish I was motivated enough to avoid that.
Cult leader?
My composition is such that, while I enjoy the company of adoring bimbos, I make the world’s worst salesman.
You could be a cam whore.
You could always be a cop.
(I’m not serious)
If lots of time away from home wasn’t an issue; commercial fishing, remote/rural contracting.
No financial obligations; writing or charter boat captain.
A bit of extra money and no obligations; flip houses for rent or sale, back end it with a real estate license, maybe start up a property management company.
Day trading looks interesting but it can be brutal. I don’t think I have the right personality for it.
Owning a landscaping business was pretty nice and rewarding. I’d do it again.
Getting into building custom boat, cars or guns would be a lot of fun for a decade.
commercial fishing *looks @ Cy’s avatar* Are you in that line of work? I think you may have mentioned before but I was probably intoxicated so memory is vague.
Yes. But I don’t actually get to do any of the fun stuff. Not yet at least.
I am trying to think of a non fun stuff position on a commercial fishing vessel. Unless you are the one cleaning the boat.
The guy who has to buy the coke for the crew.
The one who pays for everything, does the paperwork, sources the equipment, files taxes, deals with the banks, does the payroll, does the hiring and liaisons with the canneries but never actually gets to be on the boat.
Daytrading was a peace- and sleep-thief. I found out I am a complete nervous Nelly and should stick with dollar-cost averaging.
My son wants to own a landscaping business.
Custom guitars. I think I’d like to apprentice to a luthier.
A guy I know makes custom electric guitars. He loves it, but selling his output is a constant problem.
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
That was beautiful, LAH.
My favorite time of year.
I don’t understand the Lonely Jew image on the main page, and I need to know how offended I should feel about it.
Be careful with the name changes. It’s going to move up from stuff like Columbus to even just places named after European cities like Athens and Rome. Watch.
The goal is to erase memory.
There’s no end to this unless it’s stopped. Did anyone complain about Eskimo pie? Eskimos (now the Dene) aren’t exactly the whiny bunch so why would a company willingly step forward and put themselves on the Crucifix this way?
Yep. The only reason the Cultural Revolution ended is because Mao started putting bullets in his Red Guards.
Ya mean like…..?
People Want to Rename Columbus, Ohio ‘Flavortown’ to Honor Guy Fieri
Seems fitting.
When chefs become celebrities….
We have reached the boaty-mcboatface stage.
But Fieri is white and dare I say … Italian?
If these commies can do this:
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/article243660337.html
Than I have no sympathy for what may happen to them in the future. The backlash for all of this will be both breath taking and violent.
*looks around*
What backlash?
I keep wondering the same thing. I see folks here and other places claiming it will happen, but have yet to see much evidence of it.
Things have to get pretty bad to motivate people that have something to lose to actually risk losing it. We aren’t quite there yet but we’re getting close.
Are we? I’m not sure I agree. I know this is anecdotal, but folks in my neck of the woods show no signs of pushback. Things are opening up, and they seem a bit less stressed because of it. As long as folks have their livelihood, I just don’t see it.
The rioting and looting is also happening in areas that mostly agree with the political angle being pushed. It’s hard to get worked up about something you don’t see effecting you in your daily life, assuming you come from a less liberal area. When the purgers really start going after normal people and get them fired from their jobs en masse for things they posted to Facebook ten years ago they’ll take it more personally.
Yep. Months of conditioning the public to cower in place and shut up seems to be working swimmingly so far…
Fyi, I wasn’t being facetious. Of course the protesters and rioters are the exceptions. Most people still seem to just want to keep their heads down and ride it out for the most part. And to be fair, I should probably include myself in that category.
No matter how this turns out there will be backlash for the Antifa/BLM useful idiots. If they lose they will probably end up in prison. If they win they will end up in front of a wall. There is no good outcome for them.
Or they will continue to find jobs at universities, public schools, diversity and inclusion positions at corporations, and eventually Congress.
It’ll hit when people start not making the rent. Not before.
On that topic: A FB acquaintance of Mr. Mojeaux’s was behind on rent because of the Kung Flu, but had a benefactor to catch her up. The landlord won’t accept the money.
Some rando: That means they already wanted to evict you.
Mr. Mojeaux to me: That’s fucked up.
Me: Maybe they have a good reason to want her out.
Ballot box backlash when DeuceScoopz wins again.
Upstate NY is littered with Roman and Greek names. Probably missing the critical mass of wokesters to upend it all, though. Syracuse might have to look out, though. And of course Ithaca.
Funny thing is, the original Syracuse is possibly the most invaded city in world history. And for many years possibly one of Earth’s most culturally diverse outside an Imperial capital.
Hints in my newsreel this morning that the next celeb on the (il)liberal chopping block is Joe Rogan. I have hopes that he will take the Terry Crews approach and tell them to fuck off.
Telling them to fuck off is the only thing that works. Then again, if they can manage to jeopardize his Spotify deal…well, 100,000,000 dollars is a lot of money.
If he tells them to fuck off, they’ll just move on to the next target and come back later on hoping that he has repented of his non-wokeness. They won’t just go away until every single wrong think has been cancelled. But they won’t stop going there either. Envy and hate gives them 24/7 fuel and there will always be enough of that until Western civilization has been burned to the ground.
No one could destroy the USA from the outside, but they finally, through public education and the media, were able to light it afire from the inside. And the firefighters have all went on strike.
Presently, I’d say the hope of the USA surviving in anything that resembles it’s current form with free speech, other guaranteed rights, or any sort of freedom, for another decade, is almost zero. We’re going to a Chinese form of government, very soon. It was good while it lasted. Like the founders said, if you can keep it. Well, we gave up on that.
You optimism is overwhelming (though I don’t disagree).
I’ve always been a glass half full type of person. Always. But I don’t see anything positive coming up in the future, it’s all going to suck across the board.
If we go to the Chinese model the country will splinter. The left coast and scattered other areas of the country might be champing at the bit for that but that wouldn’t fly in most of the South or the Midwest. Considering how much we loathe each other a national divorce might not be altogether a bad thing.
I formerly have been saying the USA will split up into at least 2 different countries. I still expect that, but what I fear is that when the fighting starts, the left will bring in China on their side and then it’s going to get very bad for all of us.
Don’t forget that all sides will have nukes. I couldn’t see the Chinese involving themselves directly with their military because of that.
If Warren is president, she’ll make Hildawg SOS again and they’ll have all the nukes, and China on their side. We’ll have rocks and sticks.
Well, he had the temerity to say that Joe Biden is going into cognitive decline. That’s deserving of a cancelling.
What career would you like to embark upon, if you had to?
Diversity consultant? Contact tracer? Facebook content censor?
The goal is to erase memory.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Ugh. My on the spectrum son found a German army cap in my grandfather’s things and wants to wear it. He looks like a Hitler youth recruiting picture.
Once upon a time, after getting Tres Ver. 2.0 a fresh haircut, babymama made the mistake of leaving us unchaperoned. I did a quick comb-over on him, found a black grease pencil to make a mustache…
Hiliarity failed to ensue when she got home.
Just don’t say anything about the war.
That episode was pulled down recently until John Cleese raised enough hell to get them to put it back up:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/12/episode-of-uk-sitcom-fawlty-towers-pulled-over-rac/
Who knew Cleese still had that kind of pull?
A part of that episode for those who don’t know what we’re talking about.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zzICMIu5zFY
Cleese does Marty Robbins ?
Here you go, the clip in question. In fairness it is pretty spicy:
https://youtu.be/cN7L_cte7PA
Ugh I don’t know how that happened
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0fuBO9LMFLZwr4HNAxI0qJi6TWm6TAHT30k1662j0QTHH-HKeMmsJN8XM
They won’t stop until nothing is fun and nothing has any value at all. We’ll live in a cold (no fossil fuels) gray world, where everyone will have a little gray cubicle to live in and everyone wears the same gray uniform. Smiling and laughing will be outlawed as hate speech. In fact everything will be hate speech, so speech itself will be forbidden.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E12/843709
https://babylonbee.com/news/washington-post-calls-on-patriots-to-change-offensive-name
Since we’re now cancelling George Washington, what should the Washington Post change it’s name to?
Panem Post
Pravda is taken, to my understanding.
My on the spectrum son found a German army cap in my grandfather’s things and wants to wear it. He looks like a Hitler youth recruiting picture.
I laughed.
i will now go into the box and feel ashamed.
Your Grandpa was literally a Nazi!? Calling ANTIFA!
It’s just a fun summer camp!
You mean he was an an actual anti-fascist. But you knew this. I’m glad he’s not around to see this version of LARPers
My wife’s grandfather wasn’t a Nazi, but did serve in the German army during the war. Granted, he spent most of it in a Russian POW camp. Survived there for three years, and at the end of the war they basically just opened the gates and told him to go home. Had to walk 3k plus miles though territory that really didn’t like him that much. Miracle that he survived all that. Still has some of his stuff from the war (don’t want to know where he hid it…)
He’s still kicking today. I swear he’ll be sitting there, eating a Twinkie, talking to the cockroaches in the fallout of a nuclear war. I’m not sure anything will kill him…
“Eskimo Pies to drop ‘derogatory’ name over racial insensitivity”
Do Eskimos really give a damn about this? I can’t say I’ve seen groups of them raising hell and demanding this change.
I hear they have 30 different words for “woke”.
lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo#Nomenclature
I can find nothing even remotely racist in the term. The only thing that could possibly be objectionable is that it’s an umbrella term for several specific sub-ethnic groups of the Arctic. It’s like “Caucasian” instead of “Slavic” or “Nordic” or “Germanic”. There is no derogatory history or negative connotation.
And who gives a fuck anyway?
It seems like every generation burps up some wokesters who decide that [current term] is racist and therefore we need [new term]. I have little doubt that “Indigenous”, “Inuit”, “Black”, and the like will be replaced in a decade or two with whatever new euphemisms they come up with in order to control the discussion.
Analyzes Rhywun’s wrong speech rant:
wokesters: hate speech
“Indigenous”, “Inuit”, “Black”: multiple hate speech in one sentence
Off to the camps with you!
The CBC has become the IBC. The Indigenous Broadcast Corporation.
It’s 23/6 – gotta leave some content open to trick the listeners like fawning or acting as right tackles to Trudeau – Indigenous awards this, Indigenous art that.
In Australia they perform a “thanks to the Indigenous for this sacred land” ritual before sporting events now. Plus there are “Indigenous Weeks” where they drag out the didgeridoos and such. Pretty harmless as far as woke silliness goes, but one wonders where it will lead.
All of this is not about racism, it’s about ending free speech. Once they’ve determined that anything anyone can be offended by is off limits, and the ‘right people’ are in place to enforce it, free speech is nothing but a distant memory.
As I noted earlier of all the Natives, the Inuit and Cree do the least squawking. This is stupid white liberal fuckheads doing this on their own.
I think you are missing the point.
Just for the lulz.
I lulz’d
“Brown on the outside, white on the inside.”
Let’s just ban vanilla. How about white milk? The white part of eggs? White dresses for weddings? Let’s just ban the word white. Doing nothing here is just not enough.
Find a hot Latina and ask her if she’d like a little white on the inside.
I’ve done that several times. But it failed to stop all us whiteys from being cancelled. There won’t be any Latinx in the camps. We’ll all be staring at clones of Kelly Anne Conway, in the camps.
Since it’s the solstice, have some Summer Madness.
Silicone Saturday is all about sexy Deploranazis.
http://archive.li/N5hl0
1 and done.
What do a near-sighted gynecologist and a puppy have in common?
A wet nose.
I like my women like COVID:
19, breathtaking and easily spread.
Big yikes.
You’ll be here all week, I assume? Hmmm, I haven’t had veal in awhile.
What do you call an IT teacher who molests his students?
A PDF file.
If a guy remembers the color of your eyes after the first date, chances are you have small boobs.
Got an e-mail today from a “bored housewife 33, looking for some action!” I’ve sent her my ironing, that’ll keep her busy.
Right, it just sounds like “pedophile.”
Defund the policeDisarm the peopleMany differences between the U.S. and the European Union can partly explain these gaps, including our history of systemic racism and our porous social safety net. But without the mention of guns, no explanation for America’s record of police violence is complete.
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We should stop thinking about guns as just an acute threat, and start thinking about them as something more like lead poisoning—an environmental toxicity that builds over decades and leads to a host of social and cognitive problems. Gun prevalence increases civilian violence and officer shootings, which makes cops more concerned about getting killed, which in turn leads officers to bedeck themselves in quasi-military gear, escalate conflicts that don’t deserve escalation, and, too often, shoot and kill. “When police are involved in an encounter where guns are more prevalent in general, I wouldn’t be surprised that their level of anxiety were heightened,” says Matt Miller, a health-sciences professor at Northeastern and a co-director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.
The solutions are socially and politically improbable—but perhaps no more improbable than abolishing the police. They could begin with banning guns of war, requiring universal background checks, and instituting national “red flag” laws to keep guns from potentially dangerous people. These measures might sound small-bore compared with the challenge before us, but they could still make a difference. Deborah Azrael, also of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, has found that 40 percent of gun owners acquired their most recent firearm without a background check. There are not many issues that easily unite police reformers and police unions, but reducing the social toxin of gun prevalence, especially in high-crime areas, ought to be at the top of that short list.
In a country where guns are protected by the Constitution and cherished by tens of millions of Americans, meaningful change will require a major social movement. Perhaps we’re seeing the seeds of that groundswell right now. As long as reformers are imagining the future of an unbundled police force, they have to be clear-eyed about the roots of civilian and police violence. Which means they have to talk about guns.
Serious journalism, for serious people.
One of the Seattle commie camp’s demands was that they be allowed to open carry weapons. Have they been cancelled yet?
Wow, talk about tone deaf. What is it about videos of looting and arson, with the police standing by and allowing it to happen, would make people want to give up their guns?
But you see, that will all stop as soon as we ban racism and wrong think. So then we can get the guns and give people healthcare.
Starts honing spears, axes, and swords.
I should start going the same, because that’s what we’ll all be fighting with, shortly after we’ve banned fossil fuels. Too bad there’s no Wooly Mammoths left to craft nice warm clothing from.
There are a whole lot of assertions there with nary a source to back it up.
I wouldn’t be surprised …
That’s some good science-ing, Lou.
meaningful change will require a major social movement
You bitches aren’t bitching about the shit I want you to bitch about!!
“guns of war”
As I’ve said before, the only legitimate “guns of war” I own are a 70 year old M1 Garand and a surplus Italian Beretta 92. Neither one of them has the thing that goes up.
Lel, yes, a simple tool is the root of all violence. Such clowns.
When did they start letting high-schoolers write their tedious think-pieces?
My husband has to be very careful about what he says on FB because of his work. He already got a talking-to for posting something (off hours) someone else at work didn’t like, who took it to HR. If it were me, I’d just bail on social media altogether. But then, that’s easy for me to say since my IRL self has no social media. Still, as an author whoring books, I do watch what I say, what I like, what I bookmark.
This is why I deleted all my social media accounts a long time ago. Finally got wifey to cancel hers as well. She’d already lost all her frenz there anyway from not being adequately woke.
I hope your books are adequately woke so that they don’t get cancelled.
tl;dr: Not woke.
My first book has active politics in it, references to Ayn Rand and Fox News, a political blogger who describes herself as “right of conservative”, a prosecutor (the character the book revolves around) who’s identified as a Republican, and lots of libertarianspeak.
My second book’s hero is a bona fide politician, got elected prosecutor as a Republican, but libertarian-identifying-as-independent for the sake of future elections; the heroine is a hard-core libertarian who worships at the altar of Laura Ingalls Wilder (so much that she moved to Mansfield, Missouri) and hates that her boyfriend is a politician at all.
The third book hints at the previous political activities, but doesn’t commit.
Book 7 has politics in it. Aforementioned book 2 politician is now the governor of Missouri and has a fundraiser for his reelection campaign. Of course, you can count that as pure fantasy, possibly science fiction. Anyway, a tertiary character refers to Trump as a “fatherfucking cocksucker.”
And yet, I have a decidedly faithful fanbase that is ALSO proggy woke SJWs. Tell a good story, and people will follow you anywhere even if they don’t want to.
They also have cis-hetero sexual interaction in them. That alone is problematic and probably rapey.
It’s romance literature. The whole genre is rapey and problematic. I’ll let mojeaux weigh in on if that’s changed any.
I was going to kiddingly say “the rapier the better,” but that’s not really kidding. The problematic stuff sells like hotcakes and the woke crowd can’t understand why.
The women buying this stuff may or may not be SJWs, but they defend it by saying it’s fantasy and readers shouldn’t be policing other readers’ tastes.
So glad white male power is just a fantasy genre and not reality.
It’s the kind of power a woman wouldn’t stand for in real life. Some of it really is oogey (to me).
*brandishes rapier* I have 5+ cutting edge sword attack with my blade!
Are the ladies into me yet?
It’s the kind of power a woman wouldn’t stand for in real life. Some of it really is oogey (to me).
I’m kinda drunk from day drinking and I need you to spell this out for me. I think I might have been clever in my original response but I don’t understand yours at all.
Sorry.
Scenario 1 (which I love): Dude just intrudes on the woman’s personal space and kisses her (generally, “harshly”) and maybe or maybe not it will progress to sex. Sometimes the heroine will protest a little bit or too much, but never hits the sweet spot for “I really don’t want this. Stop. Now.” It’s euphemistically referred to as “forced seduction.” This works in romance because of the golden rules: 1) “She already wanted you, dude.” 2) Be attractive; don’t be unattractive.
Sexual power flexing doesn’t work in real life whether she wants you or not and even if it does, later will get you #metoo’d if she decides after the fact that it wasn’t consensual at all. Then she will go to court and mock your little cauliflower penis. SJWs say they don’t like this and it’s rapey.
Scenario 2: A whole lot of dudes want one woman, so you end up with “reverse harem,” which tries desperately to get ALL the dudes to be alpha but when you’re willingly/reluctantly/resigned to sharing a woman other dudes want too, you’re automatically a cuck and I don’t know how anybody can read that without feeling oogey.
Scenario 3: The woman somehow gets pulled into a “motorcycle club” (MC for short) and motorcycle gangs do exactly what they do. There are no heroes here and anti-heroes are few and far between (anti-hero = “one redeeming virtue”). I don’t get off on actual rape (not to be confused with forced seduction) and I don’t get off with the “hero” sharing his dick with other women. This is the white woman’s version. The black woman’s version is called “thug love”, which is a women competing to be the man’s number one woman, as opposed to being the ONLY woman. Oogey.
Oh jeez I’ll be in my safe space, thanks though
Oh, that’s LOVELY! Thank you!!!
Camera Obscura is just terrific and I can’t recommend them enough. Please give them all your love.
At Amazon now.
May I hopefully return the favor.
It’s not the same.
I know. I was hoping to give you something you might like.
Chapter 18-The Sequel?
The sequel is not going to be that sessy. Our hero and heroine must go on a quest. However, the romancey part will be with a secondary character from the first book and…some heroine I have to construct yet.
I’m so in love with you Mojeaux, you don’t even know. I want to make the love on you like you don’t even know.
That made me grin like a big stupid oaf. ?
Yep, all of that, and the patriarchy. Why does Moj support the patriarchy?
Because I like dick.
Gross. That’s gay.
Totally gay!
I keep telling my friends there’s nothing gayer than having children with women, because it involves dicks and that’s the gayest thing of all.
I don’t have many friends anymore.
I have a white gay male character who has chosen a life of celibacy to serve in the church for the sake of the disenfranchised. He was previously a manwhore, so it’s not like he’s self-loathing; he just feels called to serve.
Find me something MOAR problematic than that.
Still doesn’t explain Ayn Rand.
This is what I said about Ayn Rand in book 1:
Main character 1 (of 6) (female) is looking for a romance-novel hero who is remarkably like Hank Rearden. Naturally, because this is a romance novel, character 4 (male) shows up. He doesn’t like Rearden. He thinks he’s a Galt. She’s not interested in Galt. He doesn’t get it.
Character right-of-conservative (#6, female) compares Character #2 (male) to Hank Rearden, then expounds on what a horrible person Rand was and how her books are ridiculous. Character XY-1 tells her Rand wrote fairy tales and there is nowhere free men can exist, nowhere to run. Furthermore, he doesn’t want to know anything about Rand because he wants to keep the wall between an artist and his/her work.
This is what I said about Rand in book 2:
Heroine is talking about how she absorbed her libertarianism from her worship of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She is versed in the history of the libertarian movement because of Rose Wilder Lane, which led her to Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, the three of whom couldn’t get along because Rand was pissy that Lane and Paterson believed in a creator deity and Paterson was a full-on Christian. (I don’t remember why Lane and Paterson didn’t get along.) She is ambivalent about Rand and Paterson, except to note that it’s totally reasonable to expect that when you put three libertarian women in a room, none of them are going to get along.
“tl;dr:”
And don’t pretend that’s not a White Supremacy sign.
My current book is just the heroine trying to get out of the friend zone wrapped up in knights and jousts and wars and shit.
Queued up next on my Kindle.
Yay! Thank you!
*runs and hides*
I still have the FB account for invites and the like, but I don’t think I’ve posted more than “thanks for the birthday wishes” in about a year.
I’d seriously think about calling that Karen out for creating a hostile work environment, and for everything *she* posts to FB.
That would be retaliation, and strictly illegal or something.
That worked out so well for James Damore.
It would be sad if she suddenly disappeared.
We are going to need residents to lead the way,” Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said.
This is a city that cannot even enforce traffic tickets from red light cameras.
“This is a city that cannot even enforce traffic tickets from red light cameras.”
Sounds like a good destination.
Real name Kate Widland. Kept the “Gallego” in spite of getting divorced to keep cred with the Browns.
“lead the way”
That’s a funny way to say “comply”.
It was a bit of fun seeing Mayor Adler plead in the Austin Chronicle to “take COVID seriously” after the Governor reled back the worst of the mayor’s civil rights violations.
Fuck you, Adler. Get rid of the fucking masks and sweating restrictions in restaurants, you petty tyrant.
/venting
Meant “seating restrictions”, though plenty of sweating sitting outside in mid 90s temps waiting for a seat to open up in a half empty restaurant.
sweating restrictions in restaurants?
Because I like dick.
And Dick likes you
Don’t encourage her. When she gets cancelled and sent to the camps, she’ll be all alone until the rest of us show up… well, maybe there will be a few good says for her yet, before the latter part happens.
FUN FACT – My very first vote for POTUS was for Nixon in 1972. My grandfather took baby me to the polls and had me pull the lever.
Well he was tricky. What cis-het XX wouldn’t like that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
We do like our men to be clever, it’s true.
Nixon got pushed out of office. He wasn’t clever enough.
*sigh*
The link was supposed to read, “An unlikable dick.”
What about Rummy? Poor guy, he was almost Hitler and no one talks about him anymore. Fame is so short lived.
Grocery this morning: Coffee filters stacked to the ceiling, I bought two packs of 150 ct. 4 – 1.5 packs of 80% ground beef for $3.00/lb
Everything is in stock but there is a limit of 2 cases of bottled water, 1 pack each of TP and paper towels (they are in stock) and one carton of eggs.
Not bad.
About to be off to Sam’s club for bulk supplies of other stuff.
Have fun, don’t forget your mask and your hand sanitizer.
Insane that I still can’t find the TP I want after months of this. And ground beef is still $6.49 a pound.
I’m feeling very smug about that extra freezer and 270 lbs of ground beef (not to mention chicken and pork) that I bought way back in March.
We have so much TP my wife hoarded, running out will probably span into the decades range. Try Costco, that’s where she got our last truckload.
Amazon had TP last time I checked. It might be bulk office type stuff though.
Yeah, I just ordered a case of 60. 2-Ply is okay with me. I still have plenty of Kirkland brand anyway, but fuck Costco. Next time I go back, I’ll be cancelling my membership.
I got a package of cheap stuff from Kroger when they first started to restock. Turns out it’s single ply. I took a marker and wrote,”Emergency Use Only. Save for Covid-20 or the Zombie Apocalypse!”
“fuck Costco. Next time I go back, I’ll be cancelling my membership.”
You don’t need the membership, just order online. It’s only worth is if you buy a lot of stuff though.
I was, just last night, complaining on the Zoom thingie that I have many cases of TP sitting in the back of the store as dead-stock. All of the brands we normally stock are sitting in the back because the day manager keeps stuffing the shelves with Kleenex brand single rolls @ $1 each (we have several pallets that shipped during the warehouse/shipping disruptions). Nobody is buying that cheap-ass, thin TP so they just take up space on the shelves. Space that should be occupied by all of the Charmin, Cottonelle, Scott, Angel Soft, etc.
One dead, one in critical condition in early morning shooting at Capitol Hill protest zone
Who could have predicted this?
Mayor Woke said it’s the Summer of Love, baby!
Where was Trump last night?
Anyone know anything about this?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chaz+shooting&atb=v220-1&iar=videos&iaf=publishedAfter%3Ad&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsQhh7a7ou9s