I’ll leave ye a little something, then it is all yours. I’m for the back deck, beer and mulling over what it means to be a citizen of this here Republic (if we can keep it).
Concord Hymn
Sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, July 4, 1837
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By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
FREEEEEDOMMMM!!!!!!
Thank God I live here!
FREEDOM!
FREEDOM!
FREEDOM!
Sometimes you gotta break the rules to be free.
Really? Freedom!
Btw, notice the topless blonde chick.
Hamilton wanted the president to be the king. Why the hell is he singing about the Constitution? The musical is kinda disparaging to Thomas Jefferson. And that kinda pisses me off because TJ is my homeboy. Where the hell is Aaron Burr when you need him*?
*Asked the lady that while walking through the living room to get a refreshment. It was met with rolled eyes.
Suspension of Disbelief, it’s all the rage right now…………..
Where the hell is Aaron Burr when you need him*?
Blennerhassett Island
Aawon Buh! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gkqzxss8Ss
Behold! a new TULPA!!!!
/now go Fuck Off somewhere………….
This is another them Tulpas what Moj drug in!
Reminds me of the fytw song – “where’s Lee Harvey Oswald when you need him? “
MAGA, bitches.
I do not think we should deify politicians (or anyone else for that matter), but I will grant that Mt Rushmore is an incredible work of art.
I’m dismayed at the shit the commies are pulling. And it pulls me in the opposite direction. I was perfectly content to mostly not give a fuck, I’ve been dragged into this stuff kicking and screaming.
I’ve been dragged into this stuff kicking and screaming.
Same for me. It’s also why I am on the Trump Train and not ashamed of it.
Mt Rushmore is not my cup of tea. It is the Las Vegas of monuments. That said, It is a symbol to millions and any attempt to destroy it should be resisted by force.
No freedoms for you, Trumpet, get you to thee camps!
The Revolution of 1913
I about shat myself first time I got seriously shot at… I cannot imagine watching the best army, man for man, in the world marching right at me, and my militia buddies. And then slugging it out with them at musket reach. Dang… Those men had balls the size of church bells.
To be fair, weren’t the muskets of the 1770s a lot less accurate than the guns of today?
Hence the phrase “..until you can see the whites of their eyes.
I’ve been to several civil war battle fields and I was struck by how close together the lines were. Particulaly the cannon lines
Touring Gettysburg battlegrounds should be on everyone’s list.
We did it once. We will do it again. It’s a lot to take in at once.
Make sure to see the 20th Maine Monument. You expect the area of the famous defense and bayonet charge to be expansive, but it is small. You park where the Alabamans were and when you are at Chamberlain’s lines your car is still an easy traditional blackpowder rifle shot away.
This tiny area, which would fit on a football field, was for an hour on July 2d, 1863 was the spot which helped save the Nation. The Union Army doesn’t deserve the shit it is receiving from SJW and BLM types. Those pussies would never withstood the charges of the Confederacy, much less charged them with often empty weapons.
Every time I visit a Civil War battlefield I am humbled by the service and dedication of the Union Army (1861-1865).
We should celebrate Juneteenth in honor of the Union Army, whose sacrifices actually freed the slaves.
Then it should be Dec 6th. That was the day the XIIIth amendment was ratified. That was the date ALL slavery was abolished in the USA.
I’ve read that elite infantry in the US in the 1790s were expected to be able to consistently hit a piece of parchment at 200 yds. Idk if that is true. But I do think muskets are more accurate than they are given credit for. Volleys between companies/regiments/lines would usually be taken at 80-100 yds.
I own a musket and used to do Revolutionary reenactments.
The “sights” suck. Accuracy is also driven by how it’s loaded. Take the time to load with wad and it’s better. Never loaded that way after the first shot in combat.
But those reenactments – blasting volley fire at each other from less than 50 yards with .70 to .75 cal slug guns – would take crazy bravery if real.
Never loaded that way after the first shot in combat.
Gotta foul your barrel, of course. Tighter fit.
I don’t currently own any muskets, but I am interested in historical firearms and I have both a short and long list of replicas that I would like to own and play with.
I never fired ball. I used to blast cans with birdsong.
Shot – fuck spellcheck
Sing ’em outta the air. ///jk
Blasting things with song
I’ve owned and fired both smooth-bored flintlocks and muzzle-loading rifled percussion locks. Rifles are always much more accurate than muskets but muskets are much faster to reload and can be reloaded more times after they have fouled. This is the reason why armies of 250 years ago used smooth-bore muskets. Continental militias generally used rifled flintlocks because that was what the guys owned – these were hunting rifles pressed into military use.
Civil war muzzle-loaders had rifled barrels because they were using Minnie balls which could be pushed down into a fouled barrel and would expand to fill the grooves when fired.
In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip’
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in a town in New Orleans
We fired our guns and the British kep a-comin’
There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin’
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Now that’s a good kick-ass patriotic song featuring a guy whose statue they wanted to tear down.
Word. Sad thing for the people that got killed there is that the war was already over. But we won, so there’s that.
Better version
https://youtu.be/o0mGFjAySTw
Balls were bigger though. Both sorts.
Yet a lot of men ended up dead or wounded. Statistics work until you hit the jackpot.
It’s all about that tap-load.
“I about shat myself first time I got seriously shot at”
Me and my cousin and a friend were walking near the river to go scope out a place we wanted to put in for a canoe trip and see if the parking place we were thinking about was close enough to portage to there. We were cutting across some farmer’s field, and when I say cut across, I mean the corner of 2 rows of fence where there was no way around it. There was a steep ravine behind it, and the only way around was to climb over one fence, walk a few feet and climb over the other fence on the river side. as My friend climbed over first, started over the other fence, as I climbed over the first fence. I hear ‘boom boom boom’ and I see leaves above my head being shredded and falling in pieces around me and on me. I was already climbing up the other fence to get back on the river side and ‘boom boom boom’, more leaves and twigs raining down. That’s when I realized we are being shot at and lead shot is what’s making the leaves fall. My cousin was about half way up the 2nd fence, when he made a desperate leap at a tree branch because he was getting hit with the lead shot and I hear this ‘crack’ and saw him falling down into the ravine. I don’t know how he didn’t get seriously injured, but we climbed down there from the other side and got him out of there. That’s when I look up and see this big redneck buzzcut farmer looking down there, all red in the face and screaming at us ‘you damn drug pushers, you ain’t growing none of that dope on my land!’. Dude thought we were trying to plant some mareewaner in his corn field.
Well, you were growing marihuana, weren’t you?
I can only imagine. The first couple of times I had guns pointed at me, I could smell the powder burning and imagine the noise of it going off. Actual shooting? Hell no!
I’m for the back deck, beer and mulling over what it means to be a citizen of this here Republic (if we can keep it).
? There is a lot to mull in these trying times.
another poem about a battle on a bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lays_of_Ancient_Rome
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The first poem, Horatius, describes how Publius Horatius and two companions, Spurius Lartius and Titus Herminius, hold the Sublician bridge, the only span crossing the Tiber at Rome, against the Etruscan army of Lars Porsena, King of Clusium. The three heroes are willing to die in order to prevent the enemy from crossing the bridge, and sacking the otherwise ill-defended city.
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This poem contains the often-quoted lines:
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods.”
Haul down the bridge, Sir Consul,
With all the speed ye may;
I, with two more to help me,
Will hold the foe in play.
In yon strait path a thousand
May well be stopped by three.
Now who will stand on either hand,
And keep the bridge with me?
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The Lays were standard reading in British public schools for more than a century. Winston Churchill memorised them while at Harrow School, in order to show that he was capable of mental prodigies, notwithstanding his lacklustre academic performance.[
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So were they good lays?
QUIET, YOU!
No one can eat just one
‘Murrican titties.
http://archive.li/ALZBt
‘Murrican music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8KGHatrPWE
*holds up glass*
To the founding principles and those who inspired them, instilled them and maintained them over the years.
Hopefully none of us see the day when they are wiped away like incriminating emails on Hillary’s server.
Your last paragraph seems more like a possibility than I’d have guessed 10 years ago.
Indeed. Crazy times.
Gab’s CEO spitting fire and raining truth (not sure about Tucker Carlson, never watched the guy) :
He’s right. Tucker Carlson has been killing it the past few weeks. Saying things no one else on TV will.
I disagree with him on several things as the show continues over the hour, but the first ten minutes of his show lately, where he delivers an impassioned monologue with great oratory skills, has been must-see TV.
We’ve taken to auto-recording it every night, and the wife and I watch together, just about the only program on TV we both want to watch together. Afterwards she can go back to her chick-flick TV series. I’ll usually read a book instead, but if no one else is around, occasionally I’ll sneak in a few Mike Tyson Mysteries on TV. Love Norm McDonald as pigeon on that show, but all the characters are great, especially Tyson playing himself as a buffoon. Really raised my respect for him.
“Norm McDonald as pigeon”
Now I want to see it.
Yep – Tucker seems to be the only guy rising to the occasion right now. I don’t always agree either but he gets the basics right which is better than – everyone else unfortunately.
He no call Rand weak!
God bless the USA!
It’s still the best nation on Earth. Despite our self appointed Elites’ best efforts, the spirit of freedom lives on.
I just wish we’d keep the percussive celebrations to, you know, the night in question.
It terrifies dogs, and more importantly, it keeps me awake.
I know, I know. Total Karen. But I can’t afford enough lawn to keep you all off it and hold my peace.
Quit setting off fucking M80s at the fucking park, shitheads!
It’s so hot and/or humid here I have all the windows closed and the AC cranking. Go nuts, neighborhood youth.
I prefer the fireworks to gunfire any night.
Got your hound dog covered!
Apparently Trump is riding the razors edge.
“BREAKING: Protesters have slashed the tires on vans and are blocking the road leading to Mt. Rushmore where President Trump is scheduled to speak tonight in honor of the 4th of July”
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1279186186922332161
“Protesters”
The USSS MRAP drivers are going to have some fun when they get there.
The number of MRAPs in US police departments far outnumbers the number of qualified drivers of said MRAPs.
Isn’t that true of all their equipment?
Legal question: where is the line between peaceful and non-peaceful protesting? Is it violence against people that counts, or is property destruction also legally “violent”?
Follow the NAP
Protest means basically “to say publicly”.
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late Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘make a solemn declaration’): from Old French protester, from Latin protestari, from pro- ‘forth, publicly’ + testari ‘assert’ (from testis ‘witness’).
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legit protests are based on words, not actions
Thanks—well put, as is the NAP. I just wondered what the law says and then how it’s effectively enforced.
It depends on how the property is destroyed and how valuable. Vandalism, for example, can be a misdemeanor or felony. Arson is always a felony.
Under the current state of the law the distinction is simple. If the protestors destroy property that is linked to American history, or harm people who are not marxists then they are peaceful protesters, protected by the 1st amendment and any resistance to them is a hate crime. If the rioters oppose government restrictions of individual behavior by saying theings without damaging property or physical contact with another human, then it is violence
I’m so sad that’s true.
A properly equipped off-roader with a winch, straps and a snatch block can move those vans in a few minutes
Thanks for that Swiss
This. Thanks Swiss.
I have been listening to this every Independence Day since 1971. Since this turned into ‘Merican Day, here it is early.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhevfANM09Q
Back to my rum drinks now. Later dinner will be grilled fresh opa.
“…grilled fresh opa.”
Ewwwwww!
Opa = grandpa in Dutch
Opa, or Opah, fish are otherwise known as Moonfish.
What kind of people are the Dutch to have fish as grandfathers?
Well most Dutch DO live below sea level…
And German.
Opah is da bomb. I rarely see it at the fishmonger, but it is one of the tastiest fish around.
Mark Steyn made a good (and catchy) point recently when he remarked “The problem with meeting lunatics halfway is that it makes you half a lunatic yourself.”
Yet we keep kowtowing to the crazy wokesters and their penchant for critiquing art with prejudice.
Never. Apologize.
Party
https://twitter.com/damn_elle/status/1255669417343500288?s=09
que?
Michael Dukakis warns Biden to ignore the polls: ‘No guarantee of success’
One poll showed Dukakis up 17 percentage points on George H.W. Bush in late July 1988.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michael-dukakis-warning-joe-biden-election-polls
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Beam noted that Dukakis had turned 55 days before Election Day in 1988, while Biden is 77 and prone to “cringe-worthy gaffes.” Dukakis also presided as governor of Massachusetts over a sustained period of economic growth, he said.
“What can Biden take credit for?” Beam said. “A serviceable stint as a small-state senator, eight years of unremarkable vice-presidential yeomanry, and — lest we forget — an unblemished losing record in presidential campaigns.”
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Biden’s next ad should feature him driving a tank over a car labeled “Trump”.
Oh wait, he kinda did that already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlP3yfRZ5gg
“This Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!”
Comments are off?
That’s some crazy confidence there Joe.
I lived in MA back then. Dukakis was a lightweight hack. Nobody there ever thought he had a chance.
Crap. No ZOOM link tonight?
Eh, fuggit. 40 minute chat, if anyone wants to show up: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73584846196?pwd=Y3V2Yk1qbFRITkhRN0VCeUl4R0VFUT09
Neph dropped one in the afternoon links……….Nephs Link
Neph dropped a link in the afternoon links BP.
Thx, ws. Wasn’t around for that.
How long before ‘Townsends’ is canceled?
“My fellow musicians of color: it is time to accept that we are in an abusive relationship with classical music…
Classical Music is Inherently Racist
Western classical music is not about culture. It’s about whiteness. It’s a combination of European traditions which serve the specious belief that whiteness has a culture—one that is superior to all others. Its main purpose is to be a cultural anchor for the myth of white supremacy. In that regard, people of color can never truly be pioneers of Western classical music. The best we can be are exotic guests: entertainment for the white audiences and an example of how Western classical music is more elite than the cultures of people of color…
My fellow musicians of color, we need each other. While I wish to break away completely from this system that I have poured my soul into only to be diagnosed with PTSD in return, I admit that we can never fully break from classical music as long as capitalism exists.
White gatekeepers still control funding. And we are fortunate enough to have a few allies in these positions. We will need to cooperate in order to stay afloat. It is possible to engage without inflicting cultural harm. Simply knowing when you’re being tokenized is a major step in the direction towards decolonization…”
https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/its-time-to-let-classical-music-die/
Shut the fuck up and take your Thorazine you lunatic.
The comments mostly ain’t havin’ it.
So it’s time for that site to remove the comment section?
Those are some terrific comments.
This is really top notch derp.
Please kneel, good and faithful friend.
[dubs with rubber chicken]
Arise *Sir* Potato, Knight of the Derp Table. You are the 6th recipient of this prestigious award. I ask that all present please rise and salute, rebel yell, take a shot, or all the above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjDaPOWdx6s
I arise truly honored.
specious belief that whiteness has a culture
There are many cultures among peoples of the Caucasian persuasion.
Its main purpose is to be a cultural anchor for the myth of white supremacy.
Obviously white-supremacy is what I think of while listening to Beethoven’s symphony’s.
Go fuck yourself™.
If you think that every good thing is inherently racist, what does that say about your view of the race in question?
Exactly this. Most people gibbering on about white supremacy are the ones who believe in white supremacy.
The Soviet arts system fostered traditional stuff like classical music and ballet.
“Classical Music is Inherently Racist”
America is racist! And if you don’t agree with me, I’m a stab you!
“…we can never fully break from classical music as long as capitalism exists.”
And there it is.
Trump Rushmore speech PBS live stream, Lincoln re-enactor at -1:52:00 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQpWydz7J1Y
The Lincoln actor faithfully re-enacts Lincoln’s vocal idiosyncrasies (his voice was odd, according to primary sources). I was not expecting that.
Them there look like a whole bunch of racists to me! I’m a stab ya’ll!
Baby, I’m-a stab you
Baby, I’m-a knife you
You the only one
I care enough to hurt about
FREEDOM
Horrible, horrible freedom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAgpNdbnHLw
They make me wish I drank coffee
Those guys are great.
Nice full moon out there tonight.
PULL YOUR GODDAMNED PANTS UP,HYPE! NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THAT.
What pants? This is a holiday!
Breeches to match the founders?
Wait till you see the whites of their britches…
Then give ’em your full load!
Carry on, my wayward son
Keep on rocking in a free world
You can still rock in America (sans cullottes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Oka6fB_xo
I know I changed my would-be relevant avatar, but I thought this was America…
Something stupid I made to kill time waiting in the lobby for my kid’s electone lesson.
https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5eff62d8950be700158ebdff
Also stupid
I can’t believe you used my avatar.
You can edit it out. It’s open.
/JK
Good. Had me scrambling about how to delete that. Guess I can’t.
Just poking fun at you asking permission before. Couldn’t care less.
Huh, after the Lincoln re-enactor, a Lakota guy gives a speech about the Black Hills and what they mean to his tribe. He says the Lakota called the mountain Mt Rushmore is on “The 6 Chiefs”. He does a traditional song and dance too. He mentions the discovery of gold and the US govt’s crimes against the Lakota. He also mentions that Lakota and those of other tribes served in the US military in many wars. Basically, his message was “remember that we exist; let’s try to live together in peace”.
It appears that there are some Lakota who are not violently opposed to Bad Orange Man.
Oh my god, there’s a military fly-by by one of my 4 Horsemen of Overplayed Songs, Don’t Stop Believin’.
C’mon, how about some Sousa? Sheesh.
OK, that was preceded by a shot of Air Force 1 flying in with the song Thunderstruck in the background. All Trump’s sins are hereby forgiven.
Guy knows how to play a crowd, you gotta give him that.
Air Force 1 flying in with the song Thunderstruck in the background.
I referenced this above and no one seems to have gotten it. Oh, well.
I confess to not getting the connection.
The Razors Edge.
Ohhhhh, that connection…. I thought there was some connection between AF1 and Thunderstruck.
I figured you were making a Tyrone Power reference.
Your life is a path of suffering. A highway to hell, if you will.
Relevant
And it played twice in a row. Don’t get me wrong, I like the song, but it seemed a bit out of place (actually, the AC/DC seemed really out of place.)
Wait, the space force already has a song??
Please tell me it’s not Don’t Stop Believin’.
Your tax dollars at work.
Space Force Hymn
I wish it could be this.
C’mon. You know what it is.
The Space Force is worth nothing less than less anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-t2n_jk1QM
You like Don’t Stop Believin’?! And I thought I knew you…
I wouldn’t mind more AC/DC at the next State of the Union speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUNPMPrxvA
I agree that it’s way overplayed, but have a soft spot for Journey.
#metoo
Same here, especially that song.
I just saw them a couple of months back. That asian dude is the happiest musician I’ve ever seen. The whole rest of the band was just watching him have the time of his life. It was cool to see.
I saw them when he was new… Frankly, I prefer him over Steve Perry.
Oh Perry
C’mon man, Steve was one of the best female lead singers ever!
I thought it was terribly bad taste playing Foo Fighters for Trump’s entrance.
LOL really??
I wish. Maybe. I’m still watching the Lincoln reenactor.
Watched a bit of that. Dude seems a bit more flamboyant than I imagine Lincoln. But he got the lying, conniving, manipulative rhetoric of the skilled politician that was Lincoln down pat.
UH-60 flyover is a nice touch. Now do the F-15s.
https://youtu.be/SXJNmXOsau0
Where is that?
No idea. Studio? PT field?
Next up, a life-size Statue of Liberty will walk by while Higher And Higher plays:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjskzUlJOfc
“who can kill giant Abraham Lincoln?”
“Giant John Wilkes Booth”
+1 Joseph Smith ice breath
+1 Mohamed with the power of flame
Hanging out with a friend,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EqXSRJsVxg4uubDs5
Nice.
All this talk of independence got me to buy another 2 cases of Shot Shells, thanks Independence!
You’re having a rodent problem?
Damn. Just found out one of my oldest friend’s (30+ years) kid died suddenly yesterday. Nicest guy in the world. No condolences to me please, but this was a real gut check. Take care of yourselves guys and gals because it’s easy to forget what’s important sometimes. I’ll be hugging my kid a little more from now on.
What happened to the kid?
Dunno, Chafed. Just got the death notice on FB of all places.
https://twitter.com/RealToddParker/status/1279065768974602240
Steak is racist.
You know who has a warped view of masculinity and race? The person who gives half a shit what other people think of his steak temperature and blames his neuroses on toxic masculinity and white supremacy
(Shhh… nobody tell him how Trump likes his steak.)
“Bloody as hell or burnt to a crisp?”
Burnt.
I used to cook burgers rare, and eat them on pretzel buns with bacon, egg, and cheese. And spicy brown mustard too.
Happiness is having a burger, a beer, classic rock in your ears, and a good game of checkers. It’s even better when it’s cold and windy outside.
I aim for 3-5 on steak. Gotten pretty good at hitting 4. I like a 4 with toast. And I take my coffee as A.
Top round was only $2 a pound. I usually don’t cook it as steak, although tonight I did. #1 and then sliced razor thin. It was good.
Let’s go back to meat is murder. At least it makes sense.
Meat is murder.
Demanding to be the arbiter of what other people are allowed to like is in no way behaving like a supremicist sack of shit.
Yeah, but what drives their thought processes? Is it all just hatred and envy? We really are headed for (un)civil war.
https://twitter.com/FrancisBrennan/status/1279145148677607426
Is his skull just filled with moist dryer lint at this point?
for those wishing to skip ahead to the speech, here it is via CSPAN
https://www.c-span.org/video/?473617-1/president-trumps-remarks-mt-rushmore-salute-america-event
Oh, Melania.
And the Blue Angels. Nice.
It could be that I wasn’t paying attention in my youth but I do not recall events like this for Independence Day during other admins.
Maybe because of Covid? Usually there’s non partisan specials from New York or DC. Or people are just plain not home.
The late, great John (“halfwit!) said that the 2016 election was basically a slobs vs snobs comedy, like Caddyshack, and Trump was Rodney Dangerfield’s character.
That’s actually pretty clever.
So the last 3.5 years has been just a big popcorn fart.
“The Washington Redskins will undergo “a thorough review of the team’s name.””
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1279073541103800320
Fine, from now on, they’re the Lesbian Seagulls. There, happy now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjZ7f2Gib9E
That’s Seattle.
Washington Liberty. The whole point of a mascot is to identify yourself with what scares your opponents.
Washington Lizard People
Mike Gundy didn’t lose his job for wearing an OAN T-shirt. Just $1 million in salary and one contract year.
Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy’s contract reduced by $1 million, one year after internal investigation
What am I supposed to like about this country and its people?
The familiarity of a society destroyed by communism?
I managed to grow up in Russia during the freest period in its entire history. Communism was in the past.
Then I am stumped, because I grew up loving this country deeply and these days I am almost invariably disgusted by what I see.
What are you going to do? Defect to Antarctica and live with penguins?
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“You have, literally, several years to live on, unless the United States wake up. The time bomb is ticking; with every second, the disaster is coming closer and closer. Unlike myself, you will have nowhere to defect to, unless you want to live in Antarctica with penguins. This is it, this is the last country of freedom and possibility,” – “Okay, so what do we do? What is your recommendation to the American people?” – “Well, the immediate thing that comes to my mind is of course: there must be a very strong effort to educate people in the spirit of real patriotism, number one; number two: to explain them the real danger of socialist/communist/whatever welfare state, big-brother government. If people will fail to grasp the impending danger of that development, nothing ever can help the United States. You may kiss good-bye to your freedom, including freedoms to homosexuals, to prison inmates, all these freedoms will vanish, will evaporate in five seconds, including your precious lives. The second thing: at the moment, at least part of the United States population is convinced that the danger is real. They have to force their government, and I’m not talking about sending letters, signing petitions, and all this beautiful, noble activity; I’m talking about FORCING the United States government to STOP aiding communism. Because, there is no other problem more burning and urgent than to stop the Soviet military-industrial complex from destroying whatever is left of the Free World. And it is very easy to do: No credits, no technology, no money, no political or diplomatic recognition, and of course no such idiocies as grain deals to the USSR. The Soviet people, 270 millions of Soviets, will be eternally thankful to you if you stop aiding a bunch of murderers, who sit now in the Kremlin and whom President Reagan respectfully calls ‘government.’ They do not govern anything, least of all such complexity as the Soviet economy. So, basically, two very simple, maybe too simplistic answers, or solutions, but, nevertheless, they are THE ONLY solutions: educate yourselves, understand what’s going on around you: you are NOT living at a time of peace; you are in a state of war; and you have precious little time to save yourselves. You don’t have much time, especially if we are talking about the young generation, there is not much time left for convulsions and sexual masturbations to the beautiful Disco music. Very soon, it will go ‘click,’ just overnight. If we are talking about capitalists or wealthy businessmen, I think they are selling the rope on which they will hang very soon. If they don’t stop, if they cannot curb their insatiable desire for profit, and if they keep on trading with the monster of Soviet communism, they are going to hang, very soon. And they will PRAY to be killed, but unfortunately they will be sent to Alaska, probably, to manage the industry of slaves. It’s simplistic. I know it sounds unpleasant. I know Americans don’t like to listen to things which are unpleasant. But I have defected not to tell you the stories about such idiocies as microfilm-James-Bond-type espionage, this is garbage, you don’t need any espionage any more. I have come to talk about SURVIVAL. It’s a question of survival of this system. And you may ask me what is it then for me: survival, obviously, because unlike – as I said: I am now in your boat. If we sink together, we sink beautifully, together. There is no other place on this planet to defect to.” (Yuri Bezmenov, 1939 – ?, prominent Soviet defector of 1970, in this conversation with G. Edward Griffin recorded in 1984)
***
We won the open war. But we were deliberately and systematically infected by the covert virus from the 30s on and that virus has spread and infected every part of our society, and is moving into the terminal stages. Lavrentiy Beria killed us, and in our ‘Dead Nation’s
ten seconds50 years’ we killed the USSR. We were warned. We dismissed the warnings. We’re reaping that harvest.Oh, don’t be so sure. I was bombarded with leftist propaganda in my youth, but I watched Red Dawn a lot when I was a kid and so did most of the guys my age.
WOLVERINES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_HPEzwK1Jk
Operation Gladio has commenced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
While I was living in West Germany we had two planned missions in the event of WWIII. One, in the border region of the USSR. The other was a stay behind mission in West Germany. We would conduct training on a semi-regular basis in our assigned UWOA so we would know the region and develop contacts.
Trump going fishing would be quit a sight.
Wasn’t Mount Rushmore from Calvin Coolidge fishing South Dakota?
SD’s governor is hawt.
Trump should boot pence and put her in the VP slot.
Word. A debate between her and Stacy Abrams or Horizontal Harris would be awesome.
Fact.
https://store.redskins.com/washington-redskins-touch-by-alyssa-milano-womens-lana-v-neck-pullover-sweatshirt-burgundy/p-12969191497419+z-9720-940488376
So racist, I can’t even.
The custom text jersey won’t allow “racist” but “racists” is ok. Neither “Nazi” nor “Nazis” is allowed either
https://store.redskins.com/mens-nike-burgundy-washington-redskins-custom-game-jersey/p-81314274352094+z-896-604433457?_ref=p-DLP:m-GRID:i-r0c0:po-0
What is wrong with the interior secretary??
Hand gestures are a part of public speaking, but his are all wrong.
It was the darting eyes that got me.
Speaking of public speaking issues, looks like Donald’s spray-tan is sweating off and something is going on with his hair.
I guess it is just very hot and windy.
Swiss quoting from Emerson leads me to – embarrassingly – pull a short section from the piece on wrote on the Fourth Amendment a few weeks back:
“To illustrate the importance of property to men from other walks of life, let us turn to Concord, Massachusetts in 1775 as the British troops conducted house-to-house, warrantless, searches for weapons. The militia companies were standing ready just outside town when they saw fires, started by British carelessness, begin to burn in the town. Members of the militia, not the officers, “resolved to march into the middle of the town to defend their homes or die in the attempt.” And so the militia companies set off, the beginning of their march described in one of the most poignant paragraphs I’ve read in the hundreds of history books I’ve consumed:
‘Isaac Davis’s Acton company was in the front line, followed by the Minutemen units of David Brown and Captain Miles. As they marched, David Brown, along with Purchase [Brown], passed right by his own house…In that remarkably warm spring, the grain already stood green in his fields. And the apple trees were beginning to blossom. All that Brown defended lay about him: the British were trespassing on his home. Every single one of the Minutemen could have said the same.'”
A lesser known figure of the American Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Whittemore
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Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy, sent to assist the retreat. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British Grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols, killed a second grenadier and mortally wounded a third. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment had reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked.[7] He was subsequently shot in the face, bayoneted numerous times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. He was found by colonial forces, trying to load his musket to resume the fight. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore recovered and lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 96.
***
There’s only one song that could do justice to this man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCmONrFBTRY
He may be little known but I remember that guy. He and others like him were why we won.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
Sad to think what Massachusetts has become.
Apparently Trump didn’t get the program that states they are playing the whole introduction song. *chuckles*
I confess I unironically enjoy Trump’s entrance song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E
It’s a yokeltarian thing.
Family is watching Hamilton…
Holy revisionist bullshit batman… and RAP! The whole thing?
The fun part is he’s catching shit from the sliver of the population to the left of him.
Love that shout-out to OG: https://i.imgflip.com/1d6814.jpg
A legend in his time and forever immortal in the form of song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA
Greatest song about a president.
Both spouses of my children have become Americans. Reagan was correct when he said we were the shining city on the hill. July 4th is a traditional day for mass citizenship ceremonies. Plus I was honored to give the oath of citizenship to one my Soldiers in Tikrit, Iraq. Welcome to all our newest citizens!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTSLRbm8L9E
I’m surprised Tiffany Trump was allowed to come to the party. ///jk
Bunch of racist Trumpsters just supported the concept of actual tolerance among skin pigments, freedom of speech, rule of law and freedom of self-defense. Freaking fascists, man…
His speechwriter nailed this one. Not that I appreciate this turning into a campaign stop, but the tone and the phraseology are spot on.
Agreed. While I have problems with parts of it, it does hit all the points in the context in which those points need to be hit in order to do the “rah rah ‘Murica” thing to excite the base and tempt independents and disgruntled Democrats.
*awaits the angry email from the c-suite on Monday after Trump called them out*
I am so drunk, so stupid drunk
And I don’t know that I get to sleep tonight
I don’t know that I get to sleep tonight.
I don’t know that I get to be asleep tonight. .
http://archive.li/jmMCx/0e2f1803ff1d8bfdcae24c5833bce97dd373fcc7.jpg
NSFW.
Another last stand on a bridge: the standing death of Benkei
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkei
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In the end, Benkei and Yoshitsune were encircled in the castle of Koromogawa no tate. As Yoshitsune retired to the inner keep of the castle to commit ritual suicide (seppuku) on his own, Benkei stood guard on the bridge in front of the main gate to protect Yoshitsune. It is said that the soldiers were afraid to cross the bridge to confront him, and all that did met swift death at the hands of the gigantic man, who killed in excess of 300 trained soldiers.
Realizing that close combat would mean suicide, the warriors following Minamoto no Yoritomo decided to shoot and kill Benkei with arrows instead. Long after the battle should have been over, the soldiers noticed that the arrow-riddled, wound-covered Benkei was still standing. When the soldiers dared to cross the bridge and take a closer look, the giant man fell to the ground, having died standing upright.[7] This is known as the “Standing Death of Benkei” (弁慶の立往生, Benkei no Tachi Ōjō). Benkei died at the age of 34.
Atago-do, now called Benkei-do, features a statue of Benkei six feet two inches in height in the posture he stood in when he died at Koromogawa. It was built in the era of Shotoku (1711–1716), replacing an older monument. In olden times the Benkei-do was at the foot of Chusonji hill until it was demolished. The ruins and a single pine tree still remain.
***
“Perhaps we die this time.”
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x31wmqi
My favorite America song.
My favorite America song.
It was on this day at Gettysburg, and tomorrow at Vicksburg that the fate of the CSA was sealed.
This is the climax of Pickett’s Charge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnFk3lnDShc&list=PLnO5ceQvQFBg2gQPt8x18KLyl07THEjfz&index=6
I have walked that ground and Lee should be ashamed for even attempting that attack. Longstreet was correct it would never work it is self evident from the attack positions in the treeline. One point often missed is that the Union sent out a regiment to shoot into the flank of the attack. As I type this I am looking at a piece of Union grapeshot from Gettysburg. Imagine a racquetball sized ball of dense metal flying at 100’s of feet a second. It will leave a mark.
A group of soldiers from NC penetrated the furthest, but all were killed or captured..
I grew up close enough that we visited a couple times a year. I lack your perspective, obviously, but the place always influenced the way I think about war and morality.
I always tried to go on the most drizzly day possible so the crowds would be reduced. On a sunny weekend, furgetaboutit. Antietam is less than an hour away and I have never seen it crowded. I can understand the draw of GNB though. It was the largest battle ever fought in North America and was consequential. Antietam was the bloodiest single day of the war.
Back in the 1980s the US Army was trying to develop computer programs to predict outcomes of battles. To try and see the accuracy of the models they ran multiple Civil War battles. Antietam was an anomaly since the model always showed the Confederates being crushed. To get the actual result they had to “dumb down” the Union commander several times. Let us not discuss George McCellan as any kind of military mind ever again.
The Ford F-150?
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Dude knows his audience.
Going to Mars? This is highly irregular.
[hears ending song]
[holds up lighter]
America.
http://archive.li/7c6uL/701b890b8199c4123c793c2afd0b216deb3e73a3.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/Do72D/60c309c709aacc1463a5ccc38d49c4924260ab12.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/FNa8n/a7413ee3d2212f76f2b23cd48ea3a443b3880d99.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/bOXpw/39614b2c715c82931db32533da0aa7ea94345639.jpg
NSFW.
Yes, please.
This one. A solid set of choices, but love the laughing.
They make me feel… safe.
“Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid labelled ‘racist fish’
The Little Mermaid has not been part of this debate but last year, a Disney live action remake of the 1989 animated film of the same name was the subject of controversy after African American actress Halle Bailey was cast in the central role.
“I am having a hard time seeing what is particularly racist in the fairy tale The Little Mermaid,” Ms Ane Grum-Schwensen, researcher at the H.C. Andersen Centre at University of Southern Denmark, told local news wire Ritzau.”
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/copenhagens-little-mermaid-labelled-racist-fish
I can’t figure out what “logic” gets to concluding it’s racist.
It was made by white people.
That’s all it takes.
This fireworks show is boss.
Wow AP, what a fucking shitshow of an article on tonight’s show/rally thing.
That is quite the steaming pile.
My article from 3 years ago is becoming rather relevant.
We’ve lost quite a few commenters.
*dusts off the heat rock for Mr. Lizard*
Seriously, a lot of good folks who I wish would pop in and say hi from time to time.
Apparently we’re all Trumptard crypto-Team Red shills.
Funny thing is that the comments were much more unabashedly pro-Trump back then. This place has somewhat soured on Trump over the last couple years.
Triumph of experience over hope. Disappointments abound with Trump.
Yep. I also think he had a string of wins with the tax cuts, killing the individual mandate, Korean diplomacy, and the regulation repeal law that started him off well, but as the years have dragged on, his accidental libertarianism has become rarer and overpowered by his shitty moves.
Trump indeed had a few good things going for him liberty wise, especially when compared to the last several Presidents. His response since the rona has fairly well sucked, but he is running against the Dems. At this point I’m leaving that office blank (it’s by far the least consequential vote we make anyway).
At this point I’m leaving that office blank (it’s by far the least consequential vote we make anyway).
Ditto. The left scares the ever loving crap out of me right now. However, I’m not gonna vote for the lesser of two evils out of fear. The candidate had to earn my vote, and Trump simply hasn’t done it.
The swamp dirties everything it touches, guilty or not, and there is more than guilty grifter riding Trump’s coattails.
I have an article in the offing related to principle vs. practicality and the illusion of left vs. right. Hopefully it doesn’t suck.
I’m looking forward to it! Weve had a dearth of “thinking” articles lately, so I hope this inspires a resurgence of those types of articles.
I hadn’t realized how many. That is a lot. Some have been hanging out in Discord land according to those with a foot in both.
What I failed to comprehend in the past was just how much BS people would willingly believe to support their tribe.
I thought there were limits. I was wrong.
Totally objective, no spin at all.
Nope. Just an even-handed presentation of the facts.
Didn’t even make it 5 words before starting to spin. Impressive.
Why even pay for the expenses for a reporter to attend? It could have just been written from cowering in place at home:
“Trump is icky.
His supporters are morons and want grandma to die.
Noble protesters were justified in destroying statues, because all those people ever did was own slaves, including Teddy Roosevelt.
Everything Trump says is icky.
We sure hope he loses the election, because he is icky.
-30-“
Congratulations. You are now the managing editor of WaPo.
If you can flesh that out into a long form and change your gender you would definitely be in the running for a Pulitzer.
I watched a major chunk of his speech. Great speechwriter. The declaration of war on cancel culture was great. The history lesson was epic. But the trolling…. Oh, the trolling.
Teleprompter Trump is not real Trump. You lose the humor. But by declaring Rushmore as ground zero and saying it would never be defaced, he basically dared Antifa to vandalize Rushmore. And getting people to overreach is classic Trump.
I don’t buy the 34DD chess, but I do buy that he has great instincts for reading people. That’s the businessman.
I thought you bought into the 34 dd chest?
I’m on record that 34F is the perfect size.
I mean let’s be honest here, anyone who has ever bought a bra for a woman knows that there are no standards and it is all an impossible guessing game anyway (especially as the cups gets bigger). One brand’s 34F is another brand’s 36DD, and god only knows which size she takes in that weird looking thing that is such a turn-on.
If you can’t just go shopping with her and a Victoria’s Secret gift card is right out, my advice would be to err on the low side with the number and on the high side with the letter(s).
The fact that the mainstream media is so blatantly anti Trump has made me defend him on a number of occasions. It’s so over the top obvious that they cannot stand him it makes me root for him, hell at this point I want to root for America again. There has been such a shocking loss of liberty in a short time that I’m quite disillusioned with any return. Hope I’m wrong. I really hope there is some backlash against the commie shit. The worst ides of the last hundred years keeps coming back. It’s like the Freddie Kruger of ideologies.
hell at this point I want to root for America again.
Wife was saying the same thing tonight. She’s sick of the prevailing notion being that America sucks.
I believe very deeply that the United States is the best nation that has ever existed. The fuck ups don’t negate the good. I’m putting my flag out tomorrow. My great hope is that we can still get back to some semblance of the ideals on which it was founded. These months have been very trying to those of us that hold liberty as a primary basis.
I think that one of the strongest pieces of evidence as to the greatness of the US is that a major faction of the society has been operating under the stated purpose of undermining the constitution for 100 years, and they’ve only now gotten real traction to start dismantling things.
Those crafty classical liberals created something that unleashed prosperity like never imagined, it was almost too successful, in that it bread an apathy to how the riches came about in the first place. If slaves and stolen land were really the basis of prosperity, then there are many, many other places on the globe and through time that should have been richer.
I blame Trump, Jr’s junior.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/07/03/kimberly-guilfoyle-tests-positive-for-covid-19-ahead-of-mount-rushmore-fireworks/
This idea of holding people accountable for the crimes of strangers who share the same skin color…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcDjmTCUMAEqYgU?format=png&name=900×900
LACIST!
LOL
Yes, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki did a Jesus level of absolution. Except for Nanking.
It’s an interesting dichotomy to look at post-war Germany and post-war Japan. Would we have been so deferential to Germany if we had nuked Frankfurt and Dresden?
Bomber Harris says ‘hold my beer’.
Odd that they seem incapable of comprehending the profound racism of their core tenants.
Admittedly,when I was at Pearl Harbor and saw this old Japanese guy who was about the right age. I really wanted to ask him if this was his first time here. I held my tounge.
Prolly a good choice.
My Grandfather was there once, he saw the whole thing, then his ship shook itself apart from an explosion, not bad for a 17 yr old
One of my grandpas missed it by a couple months. Got sent to a naval school stateside for something or other. If it hadn’t been for that, I might not be here.
Too soon.
Too soon for who? Sick of that statement, too Subjective……….
*adjusts Yusef’s sarcometer*
Sorry, but the statement implies weakness, too soon for your feelings? Fuck you,
*tosses sarcometer in trash*
New one will be here Monday.
Seriously, “too soon”, when used unironically, is about not being an asshole by picking at the scab of recent loss. I’m not seeing the controversy here.
Well, maybe enough time has passed now.
It’s like Stairway, too over used, like Nazi, or Racist, it has no meaning,
Some songs should not be covered. Today I heard Motorhead’s and Motley Crue’s covers of Anarchy in the UK. They don’t hold a candle to the original.
Try Megadeths version, with Steve Jones
Sounds fun…
https://www.foxnews.com/world/americans-stranded-yemen-humanitarian-crisis
Attempted oil change on Wifey’s Nissan. Needed a breaker bar for the drain plug and I’ll need to jack it up tomorrow to get both hands on the filter. Fucking morons.
Just to simplify, her warranty ran out so now it falls to me to do that stuff. Apparently they don’t teach mechanics in high school anymore.
1st world problems, have fun…
Go fuck yourself, Bob. I ain’t in the mood.
Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the war room!
I’m drunk but he gets my goat sometimes. I’ve been nothing but supportive of Yusef for three years. I bashed my hands up last night and I took umbrage at his flippant attitude.
https://youtu.be/6h4ho5ISLoE
Ok, which Glib wrote in? TGA is too obvious.
And since it’s in the form of advice column, gonna need one of the cryptids to give their take.
It’s 1 in the blessed morning out there
STEVE SMITH NO NEED HIRE PORN STAR! STEVE SMITH MAKE EVERYONE HIS PORN STAR! AND BY “PORN STAR” MEAN RAPE!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShootyMcBeard/status/1279374647272890368
Voter fraud. Again.
Don’t play in traffic.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveRamsey333/status/1279357008030789632
Happy Independence day, Glibs.
Happy Independence Day to you & yours, Sean!
Mornin’, kids! Happy Independence Day! Or whatever is left our republic day.
????
Why are there no knock knock jokes about America?
Because freedom rings!
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1279366561732517888
Peaceful…
Soy on soy Slap Fu action. Hehe.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BubetteS/status/1279238590405345280
BLM protesting outside the McCloskey house.
Wut?
At this point, all references to BLM should automatically be changed to DNC. As in, DNC protesting outside the McCloskey house.