You know why. Because hardly anyone is writing anything lately.
Aren’t you all bored at home under house arrest/curfew/quarantine? Seems you’d have plenty of time to write! (For a site that rewards you in absolutely no tangible way for doing so.)
OK. Talk amongst yourselves, then. I need a glass bottle of wine.
Hello? Is this thing on?
No.
Well shit…
*wanders off stage*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7jGLNZkZJ8
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I’ve been trying. I lost a few paragraphs to power failure.
Speaking of, does rust impede cutting iron with a torch?
If it’s thick it can act as an thermal insulator of sorts because you have layers of rust with air gaps inbetween. But typically, you scale the metal first to remove the excess. It’s risky to hit it with a torch otherwise because if there’s water in there in between the layers it can pop or even cause a minor explosion.
Same reason you never take a torch to concrete. The vaporizing water in the material causes it blow out.
I should mention that with very rusty metal you can bring it up to temperature more slowly to dry it out before attempting to cut.
Ah, so he really needs to clean it off, since this metal was just exposed by low tide, do it definately has water in there.
An experienced cutter would probably run the torch sideways across the surface to blow off some moisture and scale. I would prefer to mechanically scale the excess oxidation first. Once you’re down to solid material, the moisture is not an issue.
Thanks, man.
I always end up writing characters who know more than me for some reason…
Rust impedes cutting with a torch because it is oxidized iron. It won’t burn when the jet of oxygen is directed against it. So you have to melt the rust before you can burn the steel below it.
I had a dead thread comment.
It’s nice enough to be outside though so I might put down the phone for a while.
I saw it.
My Hawai’ian shirt is solid blue-gray with yellow letters stitched above the pocket reading “Hawai’i”.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/rightwing-shitheads-trying-ruin-hawaiian-155300184.html
Dead thread reply at the bottom of this thread…
It’s gonna be hilarious if this hits the press.
I own that exact red Hawaiian shirt shown in the link- but not the tacti-cool gear. I guess I need to wear that shirt to work soon. (It has to get to the top of my rotation of Hawaiian shirts that I wear each day in the office.)
I have a difficult time picturing you going to an office every day.
He’s showing up in Hawaiian shirts, “office” could mean anything from “commercial alligator farm” to “carnival ride”.
Heck Tulip has seen me in a Hawaiian shirt in a Virginia restaurant and seen me in an office building. BOOM, mind blown.
Now a Hawaiian office is a special office and not like a square’s office.
I wrote a short horror story to entertain myself during quarantine. I can submit that and everyone can mock my terrible writing. I also tried to teach myself to draw and paint, if you want to see some terrible art.
IRT: You know why. Because hardly anyone is writing anything lately.
Yes, please.
I’ll sub soon as I get home.
Kinky! Especially as a reply to SP.
“Aren’t you all bored at home under house arrest/curfew/quarantine? ”
*Ahem.*
As the most libertarian person here (apparently), I haven’t missed a single day of work. Even when called non-essential by the .gov. All the while, carrying a gun or two and driving like the devil himself was chasing me.
All the while, carrying a gun or two and driving like the devil himself was chasing me.
Beautiful.
He was just rushing to get to the kitchen to take pictures with raw beef.
Unrelated, I’m 2/3 through Scintilla Vitae. I like it.
I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
What’s happening at the spot you’ve reached?
Missile launcher + big mutant.
Ah, okay, I know the spot.
yup, busier than usual here. barely have time to read any comments.
I’m going to make some nice pork chops tonight. Like, reeeaally nice pork chops. https://twitter.com/egould310/status/1268314416463798272?s=21
Rock on. ???
Ooooh, that’s gonna be good.
Kurabota?
Yeah probably. Snake River Farms I guess? I’m not sure of the provenance, I just know they got plenty of pork fat.
We sent a package from them to one of TPTB for a Secret Santa last year. It was well-received.
Iowa Chops or GTFO
Sandwiches?
Sandwiches!
Oh, shit! Get the fuck out of here!
Have you exhausted your supply of sandwiches?
Funny, I heard a similar thing on an all-hands a few weeks ago about everyone having all this extra time not having to commute and so forth. That’s probably true for other people. I was one of the small minority of people who not only have a baby at home who can’t go to daycare yet but also am sharing WFH time with my wife, which means I’m squeezing in about half a day of productive work during the waking hours when I’m not taking care of my children, cooking, cleaning, or self-medicating with Cheap Whiskey. I actually have a lot of writing planned, among other things, but I’ve got to get these damn kids shipped off to daycare or school as the case may be and likely have time in the office, God help me, before I can find the free time to do it.
*starts writing my long-promised Dave Ramsey article*
Did you get moved in yet, trashy? If so, how’d it go, etc, etc?
Not to be insensitive, but, it’s just a trash can – how much “moving in” can be required?
Awwww….that’s…..oooooohh!
I’d kick in a chapter on the 10% of the time he’s 10% wrong, but it would be for everyone to just take a portfolio management class.
I made a shrimp etouffee tonight, only I misjudged how much liquid would cook out of the onions and peppers and I left the lid on too long so it came out more like a stew. Still good, but not really an etoufee. Is there a term for that? If you make a dark roux, add onions, green onions, green peppers, and shrimp, and then cook it down with a cup of chicken broth, what’s that called?
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I just saw your post. I stayed outside for an hour after curfew to see what would happen. Nothing happened. It seems fairly peaceful in Philly today. The big news is the city removed a statue of Frank Rizzo from city hall, and some people with bats and axes were out protecting the cops in Fishtown, to the chagrin of the new police commissioner, who’s main concerns appear to be vigilantes and applauding cops who kneel with protesters.
Between the rona and the riots, I’ve discovered that I know have a mayor and Governor almost as bad as NYC residents.
*now
It’s Philly, what did you expect?
And cops almost always hate “vigilantes”, they’re the competition.
And yet, Chicago gangs can support the cops. Crazy Town. (No music videos – we’ve all suffered enough).
In China, that dish is called “cream of Sum Yung Gai”.
I heated up a frozen chicken pot pie in the oven tonight.
And sipped on some Knob Creek.
See, the problem with the written word is that, especially online, I can do this sort of reductive….heheheheheheh–“knob”.
I don’t see the problem.
Looky-loo…
There’s nothing wrong with that as long as it isn’t one of the el cheapos.
#metoo!
I am no southerner but I think so long as the shrimp isn’t overcooked that is an etoufee. Needs moar crawdad tail meat though. Even here in bumfuck white trash parts of CO they can be found (once again praise jesus!) in the freezer fish section at walmart.
Yeah, the shrimp was on sale and I figured I’d do something other than grilled beast or Red Baron pizzas, which seems to be the menu most nights these days.
Et tu, fee?
I’ll have plenty to write about after this.
Love it. Best of luck on Saturday, and hope for gorgeous weather.
Thanks!
SP, you have to assign people to write articles, if they don’t meet your standards (which can be completely arbitrary) you can make that person shamed by all the political refugees that inhabit these pages. There would be some exceptions, of course.
TPTB are to be commended for keeping us sane, within limits, during these trying times. I am grateful and I get up early to read the overnight/early morning comments. There are some dependables that make the mornings brighter.
Hear, hear!
I’m trying to to think…. oh yeah, good luck on the semi-colon.
Heh thanks
Hmmmm. So I can assign an article to you right away, Fourscore?
You can but I thought I’d be the exception. Make a deal, I’ll have one done tomorrow, quality notwithstanding.
You’re my third favorite old man! And depending on the day, sometimes you move up a spot.
I wouldn’t *really* put that expectation on you.
Is it really worth ten hours on the road to get to someplace that’s properly open?
no
Is there a girl/lady involved?
No.
No.
Plus, I’m probably only about 3 1/2 hours away and have better steaks. And we can go to the range after eating.
Aren’t you busy on Thursdays?
Yeah. That pesky job.
Weekends are ok.
Maybe some weekend I can drop in.
I started to write something but didn’t know where to go with it and then offered up the question in one of the zoom chats and it ruined the whole thing. I blame you people. I might be able to reinvigorate that lumpy gravy that you people ruined but I am, well lazy and now they
makelet me go to work.Well, it might be hilarious. We *do* like to laugh at people.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1268267957215309824
Contradictory nonsense.
They are communists.
Somebody should do a “Profiles in Toxic Masculinity” on this ballplayer – Oil Smith:
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/b50e1307
“Oil” Smith is my spirit animal. Cantankerous and full of beans! Goddamn I miss calling pitches… By the end of my playing days it was about 20/70 whether or not I’d get the boot. Scouts liked it.
Well that’s the issue…
Sorry, I hate double posting, but posted this in the dead thread and thought was worth posting again.
Damn, is this quote ever relevant today for the apologist democrats, covering for antifa scum.
Winston Churchill, who understood them well, once said.
“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough it will eat him last.”
I also tried my hand at a cooking video for submission but was hammered. I had the Go Pro mounted on the bike helmet and commenced to cooking. So hammered I don’t remember what I was cooking and haven’t looked at the video yet. I am sure it is Oscar worthy but it felt odd cooking while wearing my bike helmet.
It most definitely needs to be posted here. As an article.
Surprisingly, I am agreeing with Spud on something unrelated to OMWC.
Absolutely.
GoPro – are you crazy? That’s what got Michael Schumacher. Stick with floaty toys.
GoPro + Hammered usually results in a bad outcome.
At least he was in a kitchen, not 200ft up a sand dune.
Since this has been a shitty day for our band of misanthropes, and lovely people, here is one more nut punch. Today is the day (US time) that the Tiananmen Square massacre occurred in 1989. At least 10,000 dead.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/tiananmen-square-massacre
And tens off thousands of American want to bring that murderous ideology here. What the actual fuck?
I think your estimate is low.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution#Tasu'a_and_Ashura_marches
Gulp…
“Oh, that would never happen here.”
History is on our side! Modernity, progress, cosmopolitanism, weed, Mexicans, Ass-Sex!
And tens off thousands of American want to bring that murderous ideology here. What the actual fuck?
Ya, a bit disheartening. They know it will be different this time though.
Never been tried. Heard it a hundred times.
Someone close to me was today accused of being racist when they asked a client to actually pay their fucking bill for services already rendered per the signed contract. This person close to me has not one racist cell in their body.
I hate where society is presently.
I had some work done about a month ago, sent the check (5K) to the guy’s home address. Last week I got the check back, not at this address. I called him and he gave me is current home address. Today I called his office, talked to the office lady, she hadn’t seen the check yet. I teased her that if she wanted to get paid she’d have to get on the boss’s butt. She said he’s very busy (roofer) and not the concerned and will eventually bring her the check.
To be fair, I worked at Tony Roma’s in Bowie, Maryland twenty years ago as a waiter, and inevitably every other Friday and the first day of the month you could expect to be called racist because you wouldn’t comp the ribs or the salmon. And maybe we were, because damned if the people involved didn’t eat every last bite to be totally sure it wasn’t up to par.
My only race-specific memory from being a waiter at an all-you-can-eat restaurant back in the early 80’s was the table of seriously overweight women who would eat plate after plate of seafood. They always ordered the black sea bass… which was much less common than the fried shrimp or flounder.
They’d eat pounds of food… each.
The first time I had them at my table, they got really mad at me because we didn’t have sweet and low for the iced tea. I guarantee that each of them plowed in over 4,000 calories… but they were worried about the sweet tea.
Bonus… at the end of the meal the were unhappy that we didn’t offer deserts.
There were five of them…. they ate for 2 hours and I made at least a dozen trips for more food for them. And they left about three bucks in change.
Not my favorite group. They were regulars for the time that I was there… and they always ordered the black sea bass and complained about sweet and low, and always tipped poorly. I think they thought they were big tippers though.
We had other hefty groups… but that was the only one that had a “type”.
When I worked at Grandma’s greasy spoon there was one customer that came in for the weekly Sunday turkey buffet. She’d order and then retreat to the Ladies for about ten minutes, eat her fill (which was about three days worth of food to me at the time) and then revisit the washroom. Never once left a tip unless you counted the tiger shark hiding in the toilet bowl. Just awful.
The chi-coms have successfully controlled information to the point that young adults don’t even know about it. There was a kerfuffle at this time a few years ago where a couple of families ran a joint ad of remembrance, no particulars—just names, dates, and “Remember.”
It passed the censor because she was a young gal in the ads department and that date and reference didn’t mean anything to her.
Bizarre. The protesters have been well and truly memory holed.
Trading with them will get the information out…wait…
You’d feel less odd if you were The Man With The Golden Helmet. https://youtu.be/GgZb6TZDNnM
You might even be considered the “Top Man in the Language Department”…
Or more odd if you were “The Man with the Golden Arm”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048347/
Top man in the chemistry department
Great flick. Sinatra’s the best.
And Kim Novak makes me tingly in my bathing suit.
Also starring Arnold Stang. If you’re not familiar with Arnold Stang, and you happen to like bees, check this tune out.
https://youtu.be/adOPiV_M8iY
Or you could be “The Man with the Golden Gun”:
https://images.app.goo.gl/pHK9N8o7qtL4vdBV9
Today’s dun-did list is a page and a half long and I’m not done yet.
Gotta go get mulch for my mom tomorrow (x3 loads/trips) and XY convinced me to purchase this do-hickey: load handler. If it does what he thinks it will do I’ll buy him an ice cream cone.
Once when me & OG-2X-OG went out of town to the Keys, I parked my truck @ Tres Sr’s, cause hes close to the airport. Of course I left the keys, and he called and said “I need some mulch and I see this 3/4 truck here, do you mind if I use it?” How am I gonna say NO to my Dad, when my truck was parked in his drive and he gave us a lift for our flight.
I get home, and he was complaining- “Tres, that truck of yours is too big. You dont need anything like that. I nearly broke my leg on the clutch! Some plastic piece of shit fell from the dashboard. Sell that shit.”
Old fucker couldnt handle the clutch. His feeble leg came off the pedal, his knee hit my electric trailer brake controller, which caused an ABS short that cost me $1500 to fix, once I realized what happened.
Bastard turned 81 yesterday.
Maybe I don’t have enough sense of familial duty, or maybe I’m just too jealous of my own toys, but I wouldn’t let my own father drive my truck. I know my dad hasn’t driven anything that large before, and sorry, that toy cost way too damn much for me to let people who don’t know what they’re doing try to drive it. I would have offered to take him to the store to pick up the mulch in it, though.
I was in Key West, and supremely drunk. How was I to say NO ?
*SLD those pics are from my other time in Key West over Christmas that dont accurately reflect mulch-time in Ohio
I was in Key West, and supremely drunk.
You can just say “I was in Key West”.
I was in Key West and I was never supremely drunk.
I was with a then-girlfriend-now-ex-girlfriend, and while we went drinking, we had more important things to do which involved quality time with each other.
You look like you had a fabulous time. I would have totally taken my keys with me.
When it starts off like this….
It just makes me think, “THAT guy. Now, I want to party with that guy!”
Choose your words- I was bounced out of Hemingway’s bar (Sloppy Joe’s) for being of all things…..too drunk.
The same bar he’d get fucked up in before he went and cheated on his wife.
I was marched out by a m̶i̶d̶g̶e̶t̶ little person that had one of this kubotan key-ring things.
I stand by my statement, but my husband would want to join in the fun. Especially in the first photo you linked.
Did he like the cake?
Yes. Since I told him he could have it Sunday cause I wasnt baking a damn cake from scratch in the middle of the week, old fucker nearly knocked me over for it when I walked in with it. As usual, he ate a giant slice, took a break with ice tea and a cig, then checked his sugar. He blasted some insulin in his gut and got another piece. I started to say something when he said, “what do I care? Im 81? Do you really think Im concerned for my health?”
Going home now. There’s no boogaloo at the office tonight, thank gawd.
Huzzah! Sorry you had to go out, though.
Huzzah!
OPEN POST ANARCHY
http://archive.li/ndhox
Can’t we go for more of an Open Post Minarchy?
Open post benevolent monarchy!
Not bad.
I’m not really an ass man but #4, #5, #11, and #14 changed my mind.
I like Rockets,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4xBFHjkUvw
I have watched two Starlink “trains” of the satellites after launch. They are interesting with 10-20 “lights” following each other in the night sky.
Well, I should really write up some of my hassled by the man stories, but I’m not a writer. I’m just a guy with a crazy assed life. It’s very hard for me to type up my story. I can stand at a podium and tell my story to hundreds of people with no problem. Writing is like telling it with both hands tied behind my back. And I’m a quarter Sicilian!
Record it and find some kind soul here to type it up.
Yo!
Try dictation software. I understand it gotten pretty good.
@Rhywun, good luck and have fun on your adventure tomorrow(?)! If it’s not tomorrow, then whenever your event is, have fun!
Tomorrow is just the opening act (colonoscopy). Whee!
Thanks
With a milestone birthday upon me, I’ve been told I’m due for one of those :-/
Speaking of milestone birthdays tomorrow I turn 59 1/2. Now, half birthdays haven’t really been a thing for me since the days I subscribed to Jack and Jill magazine, but this one means for the first time, if I want, I can legally withdraw money from retirement accounts without penalty. So I guess I am now officially an old man, and will never “retire early” as this is apparently when one can legitimately retire and not raise eyebrows. Goodbye youth, get the hell off my lawn.
Congrats?
FIRE is, sadly, out of reach. The RE part, anyway. Maybe I’ll get the FI part for a bit.
Given your prior writing, I will eagerly read anything you submit.
I maintain that Lachowsky is the manliest glib (steel mill – c’mon), but you seem to have had the craziest life – e.g., you mentioned in passing (paraphrasing) “so when my mom and her boyfriend took us as they were fleeing from the law …”.
Man, your life…
Don’t forget: blackjack is quite obviously a virulent raycist!
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Seconded
Poll!
Should I watch Magnolia or Moon on Netflix tonight?
Don’t know what either of those are. I’ve been watching Magnum, PI.
Both are good. Moon is probably better.
Loved Magnolia.
Red Dawn, the original, is always in order for days like today.
OK it’s a tie. Will watch Moon, as Magnolia is 3 hours long.
Thanks!
SpaceX, almost like they know what they are doing……
For dinner, I made homemade corn tortillas, and then used them in a green chile cheese enchilada casserole. OMWC brought home sweet corn from a nearby farm, so we’ll be all set this evening.
That chile is some I canned last autumn. There’s a little heat there.
But we’re out of bubbly, so I’ll have to make do with a margarita or two.
That sounds delicious. Enjoy!
The wife and I like this champagne. Inexpensive enough to have just whenever.
https://www.louis-bouillot.com/en/
Of course I’m sure OMWC will have a stroke at this suggestion.
I’m a fan of New Mexico’s finest bubbly
That’s the house bubbly. Ever since my decade living in Santa Fe.
We also drink cava, and prosecco, and cremant de Loire, and…oh yeah, we have some excellent grower small batch Champagne for actual occasions.
As promised, I’m sipping on a nice Riesling and I raised a glass to Brett L and all the other Glibs who are having a rough go of it. Cheers and good luck.
Earthquake. Is there anything else that we can pile on to this shit?!?
When the rioting started I thought, Maybe this is the year Yellowstone finally goes.
My friend who lives in the Philly area just texted photos, a storm blew threw knocking over a tree which destroyed his tool shed.
Plague of frogs next?
Didn’t feel it down here. Maybe it bought us all a little time before the Big One(TM).
I……wa-…..umm….
/yup–phrasing
https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/06/tuesday-afternoon-links-85/#comments
Ayn Random Variation on June 2, 2020 at 5:26 pm
Volcanoes? Earthquakes? Avalanches? Hillary as President?
My brother predicted it yesterday, no shit. Something about it always comes in threes. Wimpy assed earthquake, though.
We had a tornado warning and a really cool/scary electrical storm tonight that looked like the Tom Cruise War of The Worlds.
Unsurprisingly, The Nation hates families
Bernie for President? I mean, is anybody else bringing this up?
Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders
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Jun 2
The American people are sick and tired of police abuse without consequences. Congress must end “qualified immunity” now so that police can be held accountable for wrongdoing, just like everybody else.
Who the fuck is going to round up the rich and forcibly march them to the camps?
People’s Revolutionary Guards?
Are you suggesting that Congress actually create law, rather than wait for the 9 Wise People to create national policy out of emanations and penumbras?
FASCIST!!!!!!!
I mean, I agree, but has Sen. Sanders been in some different Senate that I’ve never heard of? In some other country? Because I don’t think there’s anything stopping him from proposing that bill.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking when I caught a glimpse of Old Joe saying all the things he will do about police brutality when he’s President.
I mean Sanders is kind of the Rand Paul of the Democrats. If Sanders got to actually write laws, you could judge him for them.
Joe Biden wrote the fucking 94 Crime Bill. If there’s anyone more responsible for the last 30 years of policing in this country, I don’t know who it would be.
I think it’s been a looooooooooooooooooooooooong time since any senator wrote an actual bill. If it isn’t written by lobbyists it is written by staffers. Someone like Rand I expect reads the bills his staffers write for him, but I’d put that kind of commitment in the .01% range.
‘And go against the unions?! Unions built this country! In fact, no one needs a choice of unions, there should be one union to rule them all! Controlled of course by a smart person, like me, Bernie Sandas.’
As far as I can tell, he was pounding the QI drum last year. I mean, I will say for Sanders, hes been gun friendly throughout.
I expect citizens to arm themselves, to shoot violent criminals dead, that’s their civic duty. Shoot the violent criminals in the act of committing violence, so we don’t have to rely on incompetent government workers acting in our names, putting the wrong guys in prison, abusing them in custody, killing people when they don’t need to die.
And yet, all of my coworkers think I’m insane for thinking like that. They can’t understand why I could both totally support an end to police brutality, and also want every property owner to arm up and shoot anyone trying to loot their property. I’m pretty sure if we had a naming contest, I could name far more murder victims by the police than they could, because it’s something I actually fucking care about rather than just jumping on it because it’s the headline of the day.
The thought of talking to my co-workers about such things is alien to me.
Some co-workers become friends and I’d talk to them about such things but, for the rest, I don’t want to talk about anything that’s not related to the giant pile of work we all have.
yeah: I don’t talk about this stuff outside a tight circle
I work for a news organization. I can’t escape it, and sometimes, I just have to open my mouth, if only to try to rescue some poor UGC poster from being deleted for a totally sensible opinion.
Stinky Wizzleteats posted this in the dead thread, I thought it was worth more folks seeing: (TW: ZeroHedge)
_________________
How long will Zuckerberg manage to hold out?
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/talkspace-pulls-out-facebook-partnership-says-platform-incites-racism-violence-and-lies#comment_stream
I give it a week.
I read the article and the guy trying to “merge” his psychotherapy website “Talk Space” with Facebook says he’s walking away from a deal somewhere in the “six figures”.
Wow, someone at Facebook offered you $125,000 for your easily-replicated company? I’m sure Facebook will survive without your one million views a month, doesn’t Glibs itself get close to that?
I’m thinking he’s hoping his virtue signaling gets him some more cash, why not walk away from Facebook right now? It’s not like he’s risking fuck you money. Maybe Google will want the favorable press and acquire his site for $140,000 instead.
Aren’t those text therapy services pretty much nonsense anyway? Still, the pressure to censor the President of the United States is becoming intense. If they really do think he’s Hitler it seems like they’d want to be able to keep an unfiltered eye on him.
It’s always projection with these people. Anything they are accusing anybody of, it’s an admission.
Not only that, he’s the fucking President. If they can justify censoring him, what’s to stop them from censoring anyone whose politics they don’t like next?
1984 was not intended to be an instruction manual.
Who would trust a psychotherapy website? Seems ideal for blackmail material.
No big payday for Michael Phelps, the human sewing machine?
I have something written, but it most likely sucks. Not sure it’s better than an open post.
Anything is better than yet another lame open post from me.
Alright. I’ll try to submit it by Friday. It’s a reporter interviewing a strand of cop DNA.
Don’t cut your self short. As SP said we will make fun of you before we go on to open posting.
Of course you know I am joking. Well, sort of. I find writing funny. (not ha ha) I used to be good at it. During my short stint in the several universities I dropped out of. I could be given an assignment and whoop something up in an hour or so after a few beers. Now, I struggle and think about it too much. English 1 Prof told me I should be a writer. Our assigned material to write/comment about was the New Yorker magazine. I can’t sit down and slag that in short order like when I was in my mid to late twenties. I think too much. I know too much. The humor is gone because it is now real.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/06/03/poll-58-percent-of-americans-support-calling-in-military-to-assist-police-n487239
Another in the “the opinions of the media and political classes are nothing like the opinions of the actual country.”
In John Ringo’s The Last Centurions, set during a plague and massive global cooling event in the year 2020, Hillary Clinton attempts to cancel the election, and the Army opens up the polling places, using force in deep blue precincts, so people could vote.
I thought old Doc Holliday took care of Johnny Ringo back in ‘81. Could be wrong though. Might’ve been Earp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Ringo
I think someone might have walked over his grave.
More than one in five (22%) say that demons “definitely exist” while slightly more (24%) believe that they “probably exist.”
Many of these people’s vote count for more than mine
I’m getting to the point that I’m sick of everything and everyone and should go live far, far away in the Alaskan wilderness, where I don’t have to hear any more political bullshit from anyone.
It pisses me off that I’ve disconnected to the best of my ability, and I still cant avoid this shit. Every company who has ever gotten my email address is sending me shit about BLM and racism. Every other email at work is about BLM and racism. I go to technical documentation websites and they have BLM banners.
I would literally have to turn off my internet and throw my phone away to escape this shit.
Fuckin’ Kindle: “Antiracism Books To Read Right Now”
Fuck. You. And Ta-Nehisi Coats.
Is it recommending Lovecraft?
Ha. I was just online looking for a book for my father and was looking through the best sellers lists and half seemed to be about racism. I ended getting him a new Churchill book – The Splendid and the Vile.
I’ve started responding “Every Individual Matters.” No “you racist” feedback yet.
That phrase hasn’t been logged in their auto response system yet. It has to be jammed into their medulla oblongata before they start Pavloving up the accusations.
It most certainly has around here. I’ve gotten three “racist” accusations because of that already. And, two “drop your privilege” admonitions which is really rich.
Exactly how I feel. I don’t do social media. I don’t talk to anybody since I’m in lockdown and live alone. I get almost all of my news from here and TOS (which has fascinatingly turned into Democrat Underground – I need to stop).
And I can’t avoid this shit.
When I do have to talk to someone at work or go on a zoom meeting it’s all about the rona. . I get texts from my lefty friends. I go onto the Athletic, a site I pay for because I ran out of places to read about sports without the SJW nonsense, and the top story is about racism and the comments are all “wypipo”. I go my NY Giants blog and it’s all virtue preening.
If I had any real money I’d love to move to a cabin in the mountains of Utah or WV something.
I’m unsubscribing from anyone who sends me that shit. Fuck ’em.
Thankfully, my fiancee and I are completely simpatico on this – life would be pretty trying otherwise.
You lucky bastard
I don’t find it as insulting as I did the Covid banners. I find it very funny that the Maoists have had their slogan appropriated by corporations and the white gentry. That, and painting “BLM” on freshly installed plywood barriers, as if to advertise the deficiencies of a movement promising the return of Depression-era boarded up storefronts by the block, with of course the ransom note undertone.
Jim Rome was bitching about people saying he should stick to sports because people tune in for a break from this shit. He jumped on his high horse about how this is so important it must be talked about by everyone otherwise you’re a piece of shit or something…Even more annoying than normal, and yes I listen to sports radio, even to some dumbass with a juvenile shtick that I find annoying, because I don’t want to be listening to political talk radio and all the music radio stations around here suck.
Yes, that is every sportswriter/sports site now.
Except for good old Phil Mushnick, who continues to hate everything that ever happened after 1960.
Better hook up with Elon, he might actually be able to get you off the planet. Nowhere on this one you can escape from toxic politics.
This is how we got America and freedom. We escaped vast distances, in that day’s time, away from them. And then, we had an enormous land mass to spread out from each other.
Apparently, dense population and inability to get away from each other, leads to retardation and totalitarianism. Just look at our major cities. Any questions?
You’re not wrong.
This guy fucking nails it here. I don’t know if he’s from Baltimore, but that’s the Harbor and Harbor East in the background of the video entry.
Socialism doesnt’ work
I have tacos to eat. Adios.
Hasta lumbago!
Vaya con queso!
Cultural appropriation!
Did you just assume his ethnic identity? That’s problematic.
I know he’s not Latino, and so he is not permitted to eat Taco, which is by the way, a racist term.
I thought eating taco was encouraged. Not done enough, really, as I understand it.
Can confirm.
Well, now…not all menus are created equal.
Just sayin’
Hyp’s not wrong…
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/democrats_are_using_antifa_to_foment_revolution.html
Makes me so optimistic.
Of course this is true. The problem is, how many people will even be able to see that to consider it? How many people only see CNN or some other left wing democrat controlled media, as their only source of news? It is 90% or more? Anyone know?
And if Trump loses in November, which may very well be inevitable, what to do?
“which may very well be inevitable”
OK. No way to 270, all that. Is that you Madcow?
Considering how the first five months of 2020 went, November seems like an absolute eternity away. The Earths polarity could have reversed by then if this keeps up.
I predict nothing with any confidence at this point.
You know me, I’m quite pessimistic. And never take anything for granted. It can Happen Here.
I’ve been assured by my CNN watching friends that Trump, Hitler style, gassed a bunch of peaceful protesters so he could do a photo op at a church.
Ask them for links.
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/02/trump-church-nazigasses-photo-bible-lynch-cnn-nbc
Links that work?
I got you to click on that? My work is done. Good night.
You magnificent bastard.
I watched that presser live on CNN. That’s precisely what they said immediately afterwards.
They had Anderson Cooper on and he reported that Trump ordered the military to clear the square immediately during his press conference (from what I’ve seen, it was an independent decision by the DC park police due to bottle throwing).
He reported that the walk to hold a bible up was a bizarre photo op that defied explanation – no mention at all that the church had been burned the night before.
His White House reporter told us that a “white house source” told her that the photo op was because Trump was upset about criticism that he was hiding in the bunker.
Meanwhile, another CNN reporter told us that Trump was so far off script that he sent the secret service scrambling to nearby rooftops – displacing their team. They had no idea that he was going to do that walk. So Cooper commented on how crazy and unprofessional Trump is because of that.
So here sits Cooper, reporting those facts to me, and editorializing continuously about how irresponsible and crazy Trump is and how the nation is in deep trouble because of that…
Meanwhile… he just reported that Trump planned and ordered the clearing of the square for a photo op – and at the same time reported that his staff and the secret service did not know anything about the photo op…. it was spontaneous.
This was all within a 10 or 15 minute period… by the same guy. It isn’t like he didn’t have the facts. He just chose to ignore the fact that his version of reality was completely inconsistent with the facts he was reporting.
This is the world that we live in today. The ministry of information might not be in control of the facts.. but there is definitely a similar force at work.
If Trump really is our last hope then well that says more about the state of modern America then Trump himself I would think.
It should be telling that a bunch of ragtag libertarians would view him as a bulwark against totalitarianism. Where the leftists view him as every authoritarian boogeyman all rolled into one. Who’s delusional?
Both?
Interesting comparison to Trump is that he is the Modern American Gracchus. The steps the Deep State is willing to do to undermine him and oust him from power shows the sham that is Modern American Democracy.
The question is, after the rona and the riots are over and the economy gets moving again and the Dow is approaching or passing 30k, what’s next? Another impeachment with a fake whistleblower ? For crimes committed re: the rona or the riots?
A school shooting?
A hurricane?
Shooting up an empty school wouldn’t make much sense.
Example #5372
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/06/city-commissioner-rejected-portland-police-chiefs-request-to-use-city-dump-trucks-to-block-off-streets-during-protests.html
So perfectly ok to allow other city owned property to be damaged. Because it belongs to her personally. Arrest these criminals, starting with Eudaly and Hardesty.
More than 5 years and these protests are still against something without being for anything. Yeah, police brutality is bad, mkay; what you gonna do about it?
It’s not even police brutality. It’s now racism, just racism. That’s the message. RACISM IS BAD.
Twelve words: End Qualified Immunity. Abolish Police Unions. Damages Come From Police Pension Fund.
I know its not the three word elegance of Black Lives Matter, but its actual fucking policy.
None of the people in charge want to solve problems. Then we wouldn’t need them and they wouldn’t get the $ and the power, and thus, the women.
The solutions aren’t complicated, but they all run counter to progressivism. Shrinking the state is never on the table with them. They’ll never go against a public sector union. And they need qualified immunity to ensure enforcement of all the petty laws and regulations that feed the beast in the shithole cities they run.
Racism, though? A nebulous concept that they can use to rile up the base and shame their opponents? That’s political viable.
Sad I didn’t made it down the river today but we went ot Lake Mead and enjoyed. Sat at an actual bar too…though signed a waiver with frivolous names so we can sit together.
Down the river, heh. I remember one time I canoed a section of river about 15 years ago with a guy and we badly underestimated how long it would take. So we wound up portaging through swamps with biting insects in pitch black darkness. It wasn’t pleasant, but the guy was crying, lol. I’m not mean or anything, but I wanted to slap the shit out of him. We finally made it to the landing where I had parked my truck, but not before he had cell phoned everyone he knew telling them that he was going to die, fer Christ sake. I was laughing on the way home, but the poor guy was seriously traumatized, like he’d never experiencing anything challenging before. He told everyone I tried to get him killed and laughed about it and he’d never go anywhere with me again, lol.
But did he squeal like a pig?
I’ll get to work on some stuff, SP.
(1) My heart just hasn’t been in writing. I’m watching the world burn and it’s kinda tripping me out;
(2) I’ve been trying to get a bunch of other shit done, including haranguing the AZ Bar to let me practice law here (over a year’s worth of paperwork shuffle to get admitted here. No joke. It’s fucking awful to try to get admitted on motion in some jurisdictions – AZ is one of them.)
Cheers to everyone.
So according to reddit right now, Mattis making a statement against Trump means Trump is done. Makes me wonder how many military types will just vote against Trump because Mattis told them too. Thoughts?
I can’t see how this affects any particular electoral vote
what state in play would this matter in? NC is the only one I can think of, but I’ve got no theory one way or the other
It’s not difficult to discredit Mattis – Theranos, dumped by two Presidents, I don’t think this moves the needle.
I completely agree that he’s easy to discredit. But you know how well informed the general public is.
Holy cow. I wasn’t paying any attention to the fraudster and missed the whole board thing.
https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-former-board-members-henry-kissinger-george-shultz-james-mattis-2019-3
Who?
Thats the correct answer.
Mattis is a meme and not much more to the rank and file. There’s some in the officer class who fancy themselves warrior poet-monk-intellectual types like Mattis does who probably already didn’t like Trump who are going to get a boner over what he said. That’s the extent of it.
So he’s this year’s Evan McMuffin?
Is a military coup in the offing?
What’s this?
https://twitter.com/thejointstaff/status/1268239884013142017?s=20
And WTF does the JCS need a twitter account anyways?
And then there’s gun grabber Mike Mullins
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/american-cities-are-not-battlespaces/612553/
How about the 2A, you oathbreaking little shit?
Fox News Poll: Biden leads Trump in Wisconsin
Biden’s lead comes from strong backing among women (+20 points), suburban voters (+14), and independents (+8).
Theories that reactionary outrages about Kavanaugh, about MSM over-reach, or flight to law-and-order don’t seem to be coming true, but he’s got five more month of being the most biblical and libertarian president of all time to pull it together.
#TwoCorinthians
Honestly, I don’t think its being a Trumpalo to say that if Biden spends 5 combined hours on a stage debating Trump, he’ll get fucking slaughtered.
Hell, 2016 Biden would probably win walking away. I don’t see how he can go up on stage in 3 debates, react in the moment, on live TV without the voters seeing just how much of a an empty shell he is.
Biden should sit out the debates: nothing in it for him. Just let it go to the jury.
I mean, do you think a POTUS candidate can actually get away with that with the electorate? Yeah, he can scream about the COVID, but Trump will rip into him and I think the majority of the country will agree that if you’re not strong enough for three debates, you’re not strong enough to be POTUS.
can actually get away with
Mr Trump has well established that there are no standards about anything any more.
The question is what people in the middle in purple states think. That might be better shaped with platform appeals than wrestling in the mud with a pig.
There’s not the same standards of Decorum and Propriety.
I do not think the majority of the country will vote for a man whos too sick and feeble to take a fucking debate stage.
I expect his people will decline any appearance by saying Biden doesn’t debate Nazis, he punches them. They’re already laying the groundwork by depriving Trump of what he loves most, airtime, because fascism. And I bet it works, or at least it works better than if Biden had to spend hours on camera unscripted without a handholder.
^ this is pretty close ^
That might be true except Biden is not running for President. The candidates are:
Whoohoo Trump ‘murica fuck yeah!
and
Orangemanbad
Jorgensen’s slogan should be: Jorgwomangood.
I see people here claiming Trump wins in a landslide. Trying to predict what will happen between now and November is like trying to predict what porn I’ll be spanking to next week.
The landslide quip was formally withdrawn this past week.
It never made any sense if you can read a map, tell blue from red, and do long division.
We can’t all do long division like you, Don.
Is short division when you’re doing math problems involving little people?
That’s funny, long division is the genre of porn Straffinrun will be spanking to next week.
Northam removing Lee statue – what a POS.
Mark my words. In more than 5, but less than 20 years, they’ll dig the Confederates out of Hollywood Cemetery in their retarded belief that the only thing holding back black people is bones and marble. Fucking barbarians.
If Trump was the troll his fans think he is, he’d order the FDR memorial removed out of sensitivity to the Japanese-American community.
So much for the civilizing effects of public schools, universities, trade and urbanization.
Looking forward to Jeff Davis’ Cadaver Synod.
“ If Trump was the troll his fans think he is, he’d order the FDR memorial removed out of sensitivity to the Japanese-American community.”
If only he were so clever!
It looks like Forrest might not be headed back to Elmwood
So are there going to be any monuments left on Monuments Avenue or just that of Communists?
Arthur Ashe wasn’t a communist, as far as I know. But yeah, the rest will have to go. Stuart, Stonewall, Maury, and Davis all Confederates. They’ll probably replace them with some woke monstrosities.
Next will be some movement to remove their names from history books. The opposite of the “say his name” going on now.
I wonder if they’ll come for my Civil War Chess Set.
Then Jeb Stuart won’t ride again!
The one saving grace of the Civil War was that it essentially ended April 1865, and not with mass executions of southerners or 50 years of insurgency (yes, there was resistance against reconstruction and terrorism against newly free slaves, but those quickly became part of the legitimate government not an opposition against). Lee had much to do with that.
And look how America still very not upset about 150 years later!
*upset about it 150 years later!*
Why the hell is Ducks/Beaver game called the Civil War?
/ too lazy to google
Because it divides the state’s loyalties between the two main schools.
They gonna make Grant a devil for letting Lee keep his sword. It’s counterproductive to say the least.
Why is it counterproductive? The only people who care are racist redneck yokels who should be ignored.
You’ve got to step it up. Those who don’t oppose whitewashing history are traitors, just like the confederates were.
/seen on another discussion board
Hehe. That’s why the only thing I posted on FB this week concerning the Floyd stuff was: I don’t care if you’re a protestor, a looter, a business owner or a cop, if you say, “If you aren’t with me, you’re against me!” I’m against you.
That triggered my prog friends and not my law’in order friends. Wonder why.
Turns out GWB43 didn’t invent the phrase
Age old trick that works.
There’s this fat lady at work that I can’t stand. Pure bitch. The other people just gut her nastiness, but the entire atmosphere is sour because of her. She’s not the boss, but thinks she is. I only work with her a couple times a month. Wish the people who are working with her everyday would grow a spine and tell her to STFU.
Give us her e-mail address. Problem solved.
For the first time in a long time, I’m going to bed without crying, I’m looking forward to tomorrow, Business is looking good, and more fun ahead.
I thank you all for saving me, I would be dead without you all,
/Really
Have good rest, Bud.
Tangerine Dreams Yusef.
Or how about Tangerine Dream?
So, question for the Glibertariat: File this under “Boogaloo comes to my Backyard.”
Some “Karen” on Facebook – one of the worst of all examples – has organized a Derpbook event for our local shopping center. Important notes of context: I live out in the fucking middle of the Sonoran Desert, truly. We are a relatively new, planned community behind the Sierra Estrella Mountains. Lots of new construction, most homes are in the $400K range (and maybe some areas more than that), HOA requires landscaping, etc. Around me are mostly retired military, some LEOs, there’s an over 55 community, golf course, etc. IOW, I’m about as far off of the beaten path from the stupidity as one could think of being (intentionally, btw), but suddenly businesses in the shopping center are closing and events there being cancelled in light of this. According to the local barber where I was this morning, the Facebook post said “No rules.”
Now I’m trying to decide if I should go by tomorrow to watch this thing unfold or avoid it entirely. On the one hand, I don’t need to be there particularly, on the other hand, I’d like to see what kind of idiocy and idiots are going to show up to this thing. If someone is going to be there advocating “Death to Whitey,” I
d just assume be there to ID fuckheads for future reference. This is just down the street from me and where my wife and kids shop for groceries, get haircuts, etc. I just talked to my wife about it and I’m going to file it under “intel gathering op” and just stay to the side and see what happens, but this Virtue Signaling bullshit from facebook has now started to turn the dickheads who get attention there into “activists” who want to show their virtue in real life. None of which I would mind, but it seems to attract and combine opportunists and stupid people into a maelstrom of Puritanical zeal that can lead to bad outcomes if left unchecked.
Question: open carry or concealed?
Concealed. Don’t make yourself a target.
Agreed – concealed this time. If there are other such events, you can decide based in part on how this one goes.
Maybe open carry if he’s in a small group. By yourself? Not unless he’s got eyes in the back of his head.
Seconded.
It happened here, Drive by, Recon, check for outside influences, go home and check your firepower,
I’d like to see
skip it; read about it tomorrow; there’s no coherence from any corner worth putting on sunscreen for
Depends. Are asking about a gun or a Pepe poster?
Sorry, missed the end, Concealed Carry Bro, legal and safer, IMO
Concealed carry, video it. Be objective, don’t try to create a narrative; report back here with an article.
Well, open carry it is! j/k (Good points by all).
My wife wants me to just stay in the shadows, which I am inclined to do, but it’s a bit disconcerting to think that the stupid has leaked this far south and off of the beaten path.
Maybe I’ll take some pics and do a write up.
Thanks. G’night.
Please tell me they’re leaving that sandwich shop we ate at alone. That was some good food.
Concealed, with a Glibs hat?
That logo isn’t very woke.
Why does it feel like the violent ‘protests’ of 2015 and 2016 have been completely memory-holed? Like, do people even remember where BLM started?
They started when Trump strangled Chris Brown because he was going to reveal his ties to Russia. Duh.
WTF am I hearing a leaf-blower at 11:52 pm?
Covering up the gun fire?
Because you didn’t buy a big enough property.
tear gas?
That’s pretty great.
re: my leaf blower – I’ll assume it’s city-related, since there’s no way a
serfregular citizen would be doing that without fear of reprisal.Trump should use the Defense Production Act to force Johnson and Johnson to make no more tears gas.
I got in so much trouble because I wouldn’t sign DFAR documents. Eventually I was fired and replaced by a guy who knew that sales were more important than profits and sucking off government suppliers was an alpha move.
It’s laughable: when they want your plant, they won’t wait on any paperwork.
Are you sure it’s not a wood chipper?
In honor of the occasion, I offer you one of my favorite poems. It’s my favorite for a very good reason.
my favorite poem:
Open your presents
No, you open your presents
Kaczynski Christmas
I want to make a sign that says End Qualified Immunity, and see what happens,
/Dipshits
Which glib is this?
I knew it! Fucking Incels are behind it all!
that’s excellent
PS: his vote counts for more than mine
turns out DJT45 isn’t a singularly stupid president
You do know people have been whoever is president is a moron for a long time? Mencken thought Harding was really stupid.
*have been saying*
I don’t have anyone on mute anymore
We can all laugh at that LITERALLY HITLER now because a new LITERALLY HITLER is the White House.
https://archive.li/sAl16/dfc061976b035a7db25a2fe91e68bb3350e5a4cf.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/PH0wo/04695db2df8801a8ad5d07eaed05a70d403f7f02.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/cXhP0/adbb32b8d66fe3844d4b116239f5a0c2e0b7e070.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/oqyXD/af3c871aa43d4267f10f02ce035c7256d2c870f9.jpg
NSFW.
our prayers will not be answered
The asteroid is estimated to be between 820 feet and 1,870 feet, making it potentially taller than the Empire State Building at 1,453 feet, and it’s traveling at a speed of 11,200 miles per hour. Scientists don’t expect the asteroid to collide with Earth, rather it should zoom safely past, but they will keep an eye on it in case it enters Earth’s atmosphere.
Adult Film Star Arrested in Connection to Death of Man Who Inhaled Toad Venom Fumes
Apologies if toad venom fumes fall out of my ass.
Colorado River toad
+2 Gila Monster, coral snake
what is it what that part of the country?
https://twitter.com/ACLU_OR/status/1268351280428101632?s=20
So can’t use tear gas against rioters, looters, vandals, and criminals because of the vid, but perfectly okay to be in cramped close proximity to people forcibly expelling the contents of their respiratory system for an extended time? Got it.
More maddening proof of the stupidity of people.
‘No true libertarian yadda yadda” Yeah, yeah–the protests that include fires, beatings, burglaries…? Those “protests”? Because, you sure as hell aren’t differentiating.
Yippee! Raiders! I just stood on the porch with my Shotty and they walked on by,
And Amazon has joined the BLM crap.
And I still love JP Sears.
I’ve been trying to think of a way to actually overcome white privilege.
My idea is “African Americans Always Get Cuts”.
Spread the word, whenever you are standing in a queue, if a black person arrives and you’re white, you will always let them step in front of you.
If this becomes a big thing remember it was my idea. June 3, 2020.
Please–if you have children, do NOT let them be taught by anyone this stupid: https://www.theblaze.com/news/teacher-protester-defends-rioting-looting
https://mobile.twitter.com/TPCarney/status/1268355778173378561
And libertarians did the same…
We need to face facts: The SJW Woke crowd has won the Culture War and will crush us. It may be too late to stop. We let it happen since we thought it Could Not Happen because Libertarian Moment. We are just as foolish as those classical liberals who thought educated urbanites would never support Socialism or Communism.
Pass.
?
What do you mean exactly? Perhaps I was being too collectivist by saying “we”?
You were. And, my meaning is, I pass on participating in whatever–that conversation, or giving up, or, whatever you’re advocating.
I’m not trying to be either flippant, or, insulting to you–apologies if that’s how this is coming across. But, I don’t feel like I’m crushed, nor do I feel like being crushed by culture.
Besieged? Yeah, I suppose so. Certainly at odds with many people. But, I’m going to stick with individualism in as many ways as I can. Anyone who wants to oppose me on it can lick the dirtiest part of my hole. If they want to get violent, or, put me in any kind of danger, I’ll respond with sufficient force.
And, that’s about as much as I want to ruminate on the matter.
Point is I think libertarianism may soon go from an ideology of a bunch of kooks to full blown Enemy of the People who deserve no space whatsoever be it online or offline.
It occurs to me that I might be cut off entirely from this wonderful community by my benevolent leaders to protect me from “dangerous” and “hateful” ideologies online. Ironically I don’t find many kin among the “dangerous” and “hateful” ideologies among those in the UK because most of those just take collectivism in the other flavor, wanting the jackboot of government to enforce their agenda instead.
Help me Freedomland, you’re my only hope!
As I’ve said before this also reveals a key flaw in the arguments over Social Media censorship and such. What if libertarianism or classical liberalism ever became one of those racist hateful ideologies that no decent person could support? It was predicated on the assumption that there would always be some media outlets willing to publish minority viewpoints and the majority would be willing to accept this since they fear government censorship or the mob turning on the them. But what if the majority is fine with government censorship or the mob suppressing views they don’t like?
We’re all either evil white supremacists, or feeble-minded victims of gaslighting by evil white supremacists. I think the women and anyone with “minority” heritage (>1/1024th Cherokee) are given the benefit of the prog doubt by some so may be considered the feeble-minded “victims” of evil Koch propaganda (you know, the radical open borders, “Trump is icky”, hold police accountable, Koch propaganda), and the rest of us are just plain evil. You’d better get on your knees and repent.
Excuse my #whitefragility. You see how even though we’re above all this identarian cult of bullshit, any disagreement with the dogma of The Narrative is just decreed to be “white fragility” or “racism”, etc. It’s almost like the argument is so weak that the cultists have found convenient (and sadly, highly effective) ways of completely avoiding any need to ever offer any reasoned response.
I guess I’ll leave this here because I’m a bit at a loss and you all will probably understand it. I still check in and read stuff daily but I apologize for not interacting more. Life has just been busy, but now I am just angry. I’m bitter all the time and depressed (but not in a “end it all” way). I thought the reaction to the coronavirus was bad, but now I see we are just getting warmed up. It really hit me when my mom, a pretty staunch neocon, messaged me and expressed her frustration at the government’s reaction to the virus and then the police brutality we all know and love. She is upset by the possibility of not being with us. The wife and I are expecting our first child and I am being promoted soon, but my family may not be able to witness any of it because of the boot that is crushing them, and I have to admit something of an identity crisis because I know that I could be considered a piece of that boot. I still believe that my place is to stand in defense of others and their rights. I still believe that is the role of the military. Now, however, those rights are being trampled at home by both government and their unwitting (or perhaps, witting) puppets, and I’m stuck overseas just hoping that it doesn’t reach my family’s doorstep. Even my pregnant wife is ready to strap a gun to her waist and stand in front of storefronts and homes to make sure no harm befalls them and I couldn’t be more proud of her for the things she’s expressed to me.
Military leadership has now picked their side. I am a bit floored but based on recent life experience I am not surprised at all. The rot goes deep. I know it’s an intensely personal decision but I wonder where to draw the line. I know the overt act necessary for me to say “no more” and that line was crossed in DC, but I was not personally involved. At what point does it become tacit support though? I see what’s coming, and fast, from the top brass to the ranks and I don’t like it one bit. I want to believe that people will do the right thing. I want to believe so badly to the point of being naive about it, and that we can come back from this precipice, but I don’t think that’s going to be possible.
All I ask is please, wait until I get back to the US. I don’t want to be stuck here while the country and culture that I love burns. I am so tired of feeling helpless.
I can only be with you in spirit but I will be with you to the bitter end, Internet Stranger! Thank The Force of your choosing but I’d be fucked right now without Glibs and the Founders that made this community happen. I hope that all goes well for you and yours. Enjoy the new Baby! This too shall pass…
You are a good man. The world needs more good men.
Mustang, I’m glad you posted this. I wish I could respond with words of wisdom or meaningful support, but I feel woefully inadequate to the task as I have no experience with the military. As you know, though, many Glibs do, so I hope you’ll continue to talk with us as you’re able. I can say that I agree with you – the military DOES have a legitimate role in defending our rights, as does law enforcement. The trouble comes when the human beings involved forget that or develop a perverted perception of their proper role.
As Festus said, this weird little online community has become a refuge and a vital source of support for many of us, so I hope you will stay in touch and keep us posted. Best wishes!
Follow your wife, Mustang. Only met her once, but I can tell when people have a love for life. That you’re wrestling with the question means your are the type of person we need. Nice to see you checked in with us miscreants.
I also don’t have any words of wisdom to add, but it’s good that you checked in. It sounds like you have a good wife. Best wishes to you and and yours.
Has anybody seen/talked about this? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dea-gains-power-to-conduct-covert-surveillance-for-george-floyd-protests
Fuuuuuck.
Also, Mustang: You know I’m not in exactly the same spot as you are. That said, I feel a lot of the same, for the same reasons. Keep on keepin’ on. If you want to email me, TPTB have my permission to give my email.
“Mission creep” at its creepiest.
“Hey, hey, ho, ho. The DEA has got to go.”
Phone data, banking information, it’s already happened. “Citizen X went to the brew pub again. Let’s roll!”
Mornin’ GT, mornin’ Festus.
Festus make snu snu with stuporvisor to ease tension yet?
Mornin’, JD. : )
Festus, you may want to invoke your rights under the fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (Yeah, I know you’re Canadian. You can borrow my fifth amendment rights for a few minutes.)
“Like tears in the rain… Time to die…”
No! Bad Limey! Bad!
The Commonwealth ain’t what she used to be!
*retreats*
Thankfully Chairman Gru decided that delivering mail was much more fun than dealing with the rank and file. She wasn’t all that bad but just ill-sorted for the task at hand. Of course everybody will hate her from here on in because she went to the dark side. Fuck I hate politics…
https://twitter.com/WeaponOutfitter/status/1267362468453429248/photo/1
We need more of this.
As an uninitiated neophyte who has been largely “protected” from the big black fully semi-automatic assault things that go up, I’ve know idea what a “cloud defense owl” is, but I like the sound of it.
This makes me so happy.
Popular Mechanics has joined the revolution. What’s with ostensibly apolitical publications now joining the fray?
I love this fucking place.
I get to join the early crew today! The roofers showed up at 7 AM Eastern to get started on my house. I shook hands with the site supervisor. It was delightfully normal.
Shook hands? That’s a shunnin’!
I walked past a cow-worker last night and played the old trick of tapping the opposite shoulder as you pass and asking “How’s it going!” Might be up on charges soon.
Well, when that co-workers grandma dies, I hope you’ll take full blame.
Rape, too. She identifies as a female.
Mornin’, DEG! Welcome to the Glibs Breakfast Club (for lack of a better name as of yet.)
When I coined it I didn’t know about the other one. Maybe the cold cereal bunch or get your own damn food, ya ingrate club. The “Pop-Tarts”?
Morning!
I see I am posting on a dead thread. Time to join the new thread.