With so many things out there to set us all off, we could focus on something important. Something like jack boot thugs called in to beat up communists…nah. Lets phone it in.
This is my review of Chihuahua Mexican Lager.
Trader Joe’s was called to account this week via a Change.org petition requesting they change certain product names the petitioners consider racist. Product names like Trader José, Trader Ming, and Arabian Joe.
As of this writing fewer than 5000 people have signed this petition. I want to stress how easy clicking “I support ____“ on a Change.org petition is. You sign up with an email, even a throwaway email, and click. In spite of the ease in which one can support an online petition, and exposure by corporate media, fewer than 5000 people support this.
Oddly enough, my Trader Jose product says Joe although others say José. What I find offensive is they didn’t account for MY desire to be the focus of their marketing. When I buy something I want to be pandered to. I want these people to butter me up. I know its a meaningless tactic, an emotional appeal designed to trigger a small release of dopamine in my brain—but that tactic works! Thats why they they sell “Texas Package” pickup trucks. They want Sloopy to buy their truck.
Damnit. This is supposed to be a recession, I have the disposable income to waste $2.99 on a blend of salt, cumin, chilli powder, and dehydrated Parmesan cheese. Its priced at a level I can cross shop this product with nearly anything else. Nope. 5 thousand weenies in a country of 330 million think Trader José is offensive. Lets pander before we get cancelled…
…or we can tell Trader Joe’s there are more people with cooler heads and are not running around finding new and inventive ways to be offended by everything. Here’s my counter petition.
This is still America, and what makes America different is multiple cultures and people can coexist in the same place. If this is no longer possible then change the product line to appease the emotional well-being of people searching for reasons to be upset. But if America is still the multicultural melting pot it is purported to be, these products are perfectly acceptable and should remain.
The smart money is in this going nowhere, but if first they came for Mexican seasoning meant for grilled corn, but I did not speak out…
This beer is surprisingly faithful to its Mexican counterparts. When viewing through that frame of reference, its surprisingly not terrible. If you’re not into this sort of thing, or are not presently gorging yourself on elotes, your milage may vary. Chihuahua Mexican Lager: 2.5/5
I Am Arabian Joe!
I thought Traitor JoJo was a shitty candidate, but I didn’t realize it was a marketing ploy
*Golf ? Clap ? *
And why don’t the alcohol companies pander to ME!?!?!
I guess this no longer available.
Only amusing (mildly) bit from her.
Your bar low enough you will buy any so long as it doesn’t kill you?
I’m going to continue to not shop at Trader Joes.
Their store is inconveniently located, and their parking lot is too small.
I’m going to continue not shopping there because every time I drive past it there is a 4 mile line out the door
I’m going to continue to not shop there because, well . . . Trader Joe’s isn’t in Canada.
And Pirate Joe’s got shut down.
And once the get woke, there will be an 8 mile line out the door, but at least you won’t risk being blinded by cultural appropriation every time you walk in.
If there’s a line I don’t got. No line, I’ll go through and replenish some items.
Also, they sell food there.
Food has too much salt and flavor
You sound like Mad Scientist.
I like food. I just don’t like cooking.
You’ve told me what you eat, you don’t like food.
I seriously cannot ponder stepping through the doors of local Wholefoods right now. Their parking lot is the size of a postage stamp and 95% of it is reserved for their employees. I almost never went there already because of that, and the fact that social distancing was already required to get as much distance from the smelly unwashed douchebag yuppies who fill the store, as possible, despite the only thing smaller there besides the parking lot is the size of the aisles. I’ll just go to Fresh Market if I want to spend too much on food.
It’s incoveniently lovated for me too, which is why I don’t shop at Trader Joe’s.
(Seriously, it’s an hour away and the closest one to me.)
I have never in my life even set foot in a Trader Joe’s or a Whole Foods. From my understanding they offer so-so foods at inflated prices, so fuck those guys.
Inflated prices? Trader Joe’s? They’re one step above cash and carry.
So, just so-so foods then?
They have some quirky products I like.
TJs is worth a visit if you’ve never been. It’s not quite Aldi cheap, but it has interesting things that aren’t easy to find in the more traditional supermarkets.
Whole Foods doesn’t get my business. Their prices suck, and they try to appeal to the stupid soccer moms. We have Sprouts here locally, and it’s basically Whole Foods minus the price markup, minus half of the crunchiness, and plus more fresh local produce.
Trader Joe’s also has some decent beers (some brewed by Unibroue), mixers, frozen meals, and pre-marinated meats. Their produce usually leaves a lot to be desired though (except for the rare items that aren’t available at the regular stores).
I like Sprouts but every time I go in there I find I am the only one in the meat department and everyone around me looks like they are suffering from a protein deficiency.
Are you my wife?
Alright—I lowered the hammer on all my sports add-on subscriptions yesterday.
But I might restore hockey if the coverage is sports related.
Hoping that the fact that all black NHL players are Canadian will help with the anthem shenanigans.
I know of at least one Swedish black guy.
Now you’re just making shit up.
A sports listserv I’m on a few years back had one poster showing a photo of the Swedish Olympic team and bemoaning their lack of diversity.
Strangely enough, he didn’t do the same thing with a photo of the Chinese team.
I thought of replying with a photo of any other country’s team who were all, well, the people of that country, rather than a melting pot, but thought I’d rather not endure a deluge of ad hominem attacks, and took a nap instead.
To be fair, from the Chinese perspective, they are a multi-ethnic state with close to 60 recognized ethnic groups that display a massive amount of cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity. It’s not their fault they all look the same to us.
How many SJWs know that?
As many as can identify the different cultures of the US.
Except that guy is a chef.
Hoping that the fact that all black NHL players are Canadian will help with the anthem shenanigans.
Hmmmm, possibly not. NHL players seem to be remarkably good at adapting to the, erm, milieu of the city their latest team is located in.
What ever can you mean, eh?
Absolutely won’t help. Watch any English soccer match for evidence of how this narrative is playing out amongst non-Americans.
See also Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes with their BLM car.
Not beginning sports events with a silly little ritual of civic religion would solve the problem too.
Jus’ sayin’.
The shenanigans encompass more than just the anthem. Hell, they are now a religious ritual with or without an anthem.
Action/reaction. Nothing new under the sun. But if you take away the grandstand what are they going to do, just not play? Fine with me.
But what do I know? I want gay married couples to kneel during the anthem while burning an American flag in one hand and a Confederate battle flag in the other as they both open carry a fully automatic H&K MP7A1 and balancing a blunt in their lips while one foot stands on a portrait of Jesus.
The pregame shows aren’t the only thing; it would be easy to show commercials instead or not do them at all.
But the sportscasters fill every waking moment with SJW speak. It can’t be readily avoided.
The leagues could put a stop to this stuff anytime they wanted. Stop requiring players and staff to wear BLM shirts. Stop the “moments of silence”. Stop pretending they are a platform for “social justice”. The sportscasters would soon go back to talking about the game.
The fact is, they are afraid to.
*cracks beer*
Let’s see what’s in the news. . .
The US Supreme Court on Friday denied a petition from a church in Nevada that argued a policy limiting in-person church attendance to 50 during the coronavirus pandemic violated the Constitution.
The decision was 5-4.
The church argued that the state policy treated church services differently from other large gatherings including casinos, gyms and restaurants.
A lower court had ruled against the church.
Although the court’s order was unsigned, Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch dissented, meaning that Chief Justice John Roberts provided the necessary fifth vote by joining the liberals on the bench.
The order marks the second time Roberts has voted to reject a request from a church amid the pandemic.
Ah. Now is the time to thank the court for its wrong opinion, cite 1A and ignore illegal edicts of the government.
Well, they happily ignored the rest of the 1A, why not ignore the religion part?
Penaltax is no longer the swing vote. So basically, despite Trump appointing two judges, the court is now majority lefty. Apparently, Gorsuch is now the prerequisite swing vote. Did I miss something?
it’s a 4-3-2 court. 4 solid progs. 3 solid conservatives, two swing votes. Roberts is the left leaning swing vote, Kavanaugh is the right leaning swing vote.
All of the last 6 appointments have generally not affected the court’s ideological balance:
Ginsburg replaced White, a fellow liberal
Breyer replaced Blackmun, a fellow liberal
Alito replaced O’Connor, a fellow conservative
Roberts replaced Rehnquist, a fellow squish
Sotomayor replaced Souter, a fellow liberal
Kagan replaced Stevens, a fellow liberal
Gorsuch replaced Scalia, a fellow conservative
Kavanaugh replaced Kennedy, a fellow squish
In fact, the only sitting Supreme Court Justice whose appointment altered the ideological balance of the court is Clarence Thomas, who replaced William Brennan (a liberal Democrat nominated by a Republican, Eisenhower). And he was nominated by Geroge H. W. Bush, of all people.
Basically, and it is a hell of a coincidence (with a bit of forcing in Gorsuch’s case), 8 of the last 9 appointments have been like-for-like.
All of the last 8*
I guess we see who didn’t bother to read OMWC’s links.
Or who needed a laxative for the drugs in their ass.
Elote is taking some delicious things like corn and chiles, then mixing it all in with pus.
This is why we need a wall.
I use butter.
DO NOT DENY MY LIVED EXPERIENCE.
I thought you’d at least be happy about that,
Butter
I’ve got a gallon of potato salad with your name on it.
And a 55-gallon drum of it for Jesse?
So the shmucks you feed it to will blame me instead?
Don’t (((you))) get blamed for everything anyway?
Well this is not good. It’s 12:30 PM and I just blew a .046. I won’t be sober until it’s time to start drinking again. Whatever… my wife’s slow burn from Thursday was running out of fuel anyway.
If you have you own breathalyzer, you may have a problem.
Ya think? It’s for work TBH. The tolerance is zero. And by zero I mean 0.000. I was blissfully unaware until people got walked out for blowing a 0.001, then I got a breathalyzer. It’s a relatively new policy. I just need to go back to work is all. It reduces my alcohol hours substantially.
My work policy is .04, and requires a complaint for a drug test (after the initial one when you’re hired).
Their machines are perfectly accurate that there are no false positives?
I think my workplace’s policy is just a don’t be drunk (not clearly defined) on the job, but I don’t normally drink after dinner Sunday-Thursday evenings either.
The technology is pretty stable now. The units are calibrated. If you register on one, they retest you with another one, 15 minutes later. They used to not even display anything but 0.000 unless you were at 0.021 or higher.
Mine is 0.0 officially, but I’ve had employees come in still drunk from the night before.
…been there, brother
So nobody uses mouthwash?
Or is in ketosis.
I have not heard of mouthwash being detected on a secondary test. Since a BAC check always precedes a piss test, people drink a lot of water before arriving. I don’t know what they would do for a Keto failure. Blood test maybe?
I got one for the Mr when he came home after driving when he shouldn’t have been. I was livid.
It has come in handy at times when persuading a friend to crash in the guest room instead of behind the wheel.
I was livid.
Good for you. I like my beverages, but drunk driving is right out. When I go to a beer festival, I bring it with me. If the three of us have a drink at a restaurant, we make our son drive us home.
“Well this is not good. It’s 12:30 PM and I just blew a .046.”
Light weight. If I’m going to start drinking at noon, no way I could pass the test by 12:30pm. Someone take this guy’s Glib card and at least a few of his orphans until he’s on better behavior.
Geez, I’ll be under the influence for a full 24 hours. Doesn’t that count for something around here? Nothing is ever good enough for Glibs.
*pouts*
/opens the 1st double-deuce of the day
Challenge accepted!
/opens the 1st double-deuce of the day
Challenge accepted!
I’m confused. Are you challenging someone to drop a deuce?
Unless you accidentally added a zero in there, you’re fine.
Ha! If that zero wasn’t there, I’d sure I’d be in the morgue.
Headline: Dead Drunk Catches on Fire at Morgue.
I blew 0.31 once (at home). The fact that I was still fairly lucid was a warning to me then…
That’s pretty drunk for sure. Did you wait the 15-20 minutes from your last drink?
Never mind, that’s a stupid question. My apologies.
dehydrated Parmesan cheese
This is an abomination.
My husband insists that it’s the same powder that custodians use to help absorb and sweep up vomit.
Butyric acid either way!
I can’t disagree with your husband.
It’s basically sand. Do no be fooled by people who claim it’s grated off a cheese wheel. It is scooped up from beaches where dogs pee on it to add flavor.
Well….akshually…
Silicon Dioxide (sand) is often on the ingredient list for a variety of spice mixes. Its not to make your food taste like sand, its to keep it a granular and prevent the spices from “caking” in a humid environment.
Porch cat meets the kitten.
The results will astonish you.
Your kittehs?
Porch cat is a neighborhood cat,
My lovely calico kitteh has a new neighborhood cat to interact with.
He’s a young adult male yellow tabby, fixed, wears a red collar, in good shape so not lost.
He and Molly get very close together when Molly gets to go outside, but then they mutually freak out and Molly comes running home.
When she’s in the house, young male comes to the open window and they continue their staring contest.
I believe it’s friendly caution all around.
Nice to have cats outside again. The population was culled by coyotes a couple of years ago but now I hear the return of roosters and I see the kittehs.
Cute kitty. They grow so fast, it makes me sad.
Our Porch Cat and our Official Cat seem to be becoming buddies. I haven’t confirmed this, but I suspect Porch Cat may be female – she rubs up against the screen, and our neutered male Official Cat alternates between calm interest and agitation, as if he’s wrestling with feelings he doesn’t understand.
We have a guest cat that my daughter is cat sitting for a college friend who is out of town for the rest of the Summer semester. We are keeping him apart from our old kitteh who is fading. 🙁
I’m not used to having a silent killer in the house. I go down to the basement to get a drink, and he startles me.
It would be nicer if that website wasn’t pushing a BLM petition above yours.
Black people can enjoy elotes.
There must be something in the water…
The little lizards are frolicking around the back patio, showing off and hooking up.
Need lizard Barry White to provide background music.
This work?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1-T7SqgtrDk
Nice.
Just need to play it at 78rpm and we’re golden.
The Munchkins from the Wizard of OZ….. Where are they now?
Dead?
You get your answer at :07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ-7c7ryljs
In little tiny caskets?
FXX has been running blocs of old Simpsons episodes. It’s been beautiful.
I went through the first 12 seasons on Disney Plus with the kids this summer. We might have time to do it again.
Got stopping point. Season 13 is my official end of The Simpsons.
Good, not got.
What about Married with Children?
“Lizard Barry White”
Band name or album name?
You’re the first, the last, my every skink…
Hurricane Douglas took a not so good for Oahu jog and now we should get a full on tropical storm tomorrow. The hurricane strength wind belt is fairly narrow so that may remain offshore. Kauai may have the eye go right over the island.
The good news is the surf is already climbing and could be an awesome show tomorrow. We are near neap tides so flooding should be fairly moderate. This storm best bring some good rain since I let the pool evaporate off some.
I was wondering how you are doing! Hole up with plenty of wine. Basic survival skill.
Hope the storm is minimal chez vous and the refreshments hold out.
Is it going to be anything like Hurricane Lane?
https://youtu.be/-S7ECXu80Bk?t=43
Alright, um. That was something.
Can I get that emblazoned on a crest?
He should apologize for losing his composure
Cool video.
During Lane the Big Island did its job. Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea helped to disrupt the storm and on Oahu we got only some rain and sub storm level winds. Doug is going to skirt north of the island giving it a better shot at the rest of the state.
Today is some prep of the yard etc. I already am “prepper” in regards to alcohol and food. I am expecting nothing major at the house, but it will take only a small shift south of the eye to make life suddenly more interesting.
Yesterday I stopped in to grab some lamb for the grill. It was surprising to see what was empty on the shelves. Plenty of TP and bottled water but snack foods were gone. I mean not even the house brand stuff was left.
I’ve wondered about that. Costco lamb is usually from New Zealand, but their beef sources are from all over.
Is your steak from the mainland, or does it come from somewhere like Parker Ranch?
If the seas get rough enough, it could be a while before Matson can bring in new supplies….
My recollection from my time in Hawaii was that Parker Ranch is not allowed to supply the beef for the Big Island, but I don’t know about the others. DE, is that right?
You can get Parker Ranch beef on Oahu. I don’t know about the Big Island but it would surprise me if they can’t buy the local beef.
Once the Doug wanders off to the west the seas will return to normal quickly enough. I hope so since I have an offshore overnight race next weekend.
Sailing?
Bah, @dbleagle
Peter Green has given up the ghost. The Green Manalishi ghost.
My favorite British guitarist EVER.
Damn shame. I wish he hadn’t fried his mind in the early 70s. He was amazing.
I don’t recognize there being a Fleetwood Mac after he left.
The cut of your jib, this is something I look upon with favor.
Mick Fleetwood and John McVie may not agree (although according to Stevie Nicks, they’d trade it all to go back to their blues band with Peter).
Absolve Yourself by Canceling Others
At least Jesus sacrificed himself when he redeemed mankind. He didn’t grab some random peasant or even a Pharisee and nail ‘em to a cross. That would be the modern version.
#checkyourredeemedprivilege
I’m mildly entertained now. I was trying to sign up for an online game, and was told that my default display name (Nephilium) contained an offensive/banned word. Narrowing it down, it looks like Neph was the banned portion.
I’ve opened a ticket to try to find out what’s offensive about it.
Maybe the troglodytes programming the filter thinks all them classical words sound alike:
Nephilium/nymphomaniac/necrophiliac.
Or maybe they just hated the Russel Crowe Noah movie.
Now I’m just going to insert my handle every time someone says the N word.
Won’t that get you doxxed and cancelled?
Nah. No real name associated with it. While it is possible to link my handle to my real name, I do make it as difficult as possible for the average internet sleuth.
Probably the offensive word was “phili.”
It could be “ilium,” but most people I know think it’s pretty hip.
Hipper
Hippiest…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI
Do I need to link to Wheeler and Woolsey again?
Thanks for that!
Nah. I dropped it down to Neph, and it was still listed as Offensive/Banned.
I got my comment blocked in a newspaper the other day for using the word Redskins in an article about the Redskins. Paper emailed me with a “yes, this is odd but rules are rules” . I replied with a thank you comrade.
I got a response to my ticket.
“We cannot comment on account creation.”
Seriously? I want to know who/what I may be offending with Neph.
Are Key and Peele still allowed to make fun of football player names?
Or obnoxiously flamboyant homosexuals?
“I get it. Im not persecuted, Im just an asshole.”
I try to make that argument about people I dont like.
Husband Has No Idea If This Is A Fight Or Not
Concerning Rise In Independent Thinking Attributed To School Shutdowns
Husband Has No Idea If This Is A Fight Or Not
It’s more of a struggle session, and he doesn’t know the rules.
I’m feeling Sludgy.
Here is Alvin and the Chipmunks played at 16 RPM and sung with the original vocals.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I3hoS_memF8
Not going to click until I drop some acid.
Call Me is even better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49qKb74AXe8
Agreed that is good. I liked Refugee as well.
Kipling understood what people, corporations and governments don’t understand in 2020.
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —
“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”
They’d cancel Kipling, if they had any idea he existed.
“Do you enjoy Kipling?”
“I think think I’ve ever Kippled.”
“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”
Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute!
Somebody should tell the folks at Trader Joe’s.
Key & Peele – Auction Block
They’d cancel Kipling, if they had any idea he existed.
Good thing he’s not on twatter.
NFAC Starts Off With A Bang
Negligent discharge at the black militia march injures two. Shocking.
https://www.americanpartisan.org/2020/07/nfac-starts-off-with-a-bang/
Glad they got a militia. Better a quiet protest with guns, than a riot a law Portland.
Magic bullet?
That so-called “3 Percenters” are mustering to #BacktheBlue, as opposed to standing ranks with those protesting police brutality is exactly why this country is fucked beyond repair.
*nods emphatically*
Is anyone really protesting police brutality?
Doubtful. That phase lasted about two days – then the commies elbowed their way to the front of the parade, and everything went to shit.
Yeah people keep falling into this trap.
Breonna Taylor was police incompetence, not police brutality. They were at the wrong house. They thought they were raiding a drug house, and took fire, so they shot back. Breonna Taylor is not dead because some sadistic and/or rapist cop wanted to kill a black person. She’s dead because of a specific policy, the no-knock raid, part of a wider policy, the Drug War.
Whatever cop was in charge of verifying the address and navigating should be held responsible. Negligent homicide I suppose would be the charge. But it’s not murder for a cop executing a no-knock raid to fire back. It’s a natural result of a deliberate policy choice by legislators and by executives both governmental and in his department.
The vast majority of police killings are not police brutality, they are the inevitable consequence of American criminal justice policy. Training and dialogue is not going to change that.
Breonna Taylor is a case of lack of accountability.
And BLM doesn’t give two shits about police brutality.
The three percenters, whatever they are, are probably morons.
Precisely. The Taylor killing was a crime. But the criminals were the legislators and other officials who created the policies – and, aside from a few kooky glibs, who wants them to be held to account?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3955/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded
Simple, straight up ban on no-knock raids by federal agents, and uses the ol “federal money” club to basically ban it across the board, since I’m reasonably sure every LEO agency in the country gets some sugar from Uncle Sam.
Rand wrote it, Braun and Daines have cosponsored it (both Republicans). Problem is, none of those three are on the Judiciary Committee.
Now, I would expect a good portion of the 12 GOP on the committee to be copsuckers. But there’s 10 Democrats on that committee and none of them have signed on.
I truly don’t get the politicians on this issue. No-knock raids are unpopular.
#UnionVotesMatter!
“I truly don’t get the politicians on this issue. No-knock raids are unpopular.”
I don’t know if I would go that far. Honestly, most Americans get their opinions on criminal justice policy from police procedurals more than anything else.
But that Dems on that comittee include both CA Senators, and one each from VT, IL, RI, NJ, CT, DE. None of those will suffer an election loss by sponsoring this bill. But they refuse to.
Because they don’t want to solve the problem, they want to get the black voters to the polls in November to VOTE FOR JUSTICE.
Viking1865:
My dad (who was a substitute teacher for a while) thought it would be easier for the kids in high school to get a six pack of beer instead of hard drugs. Every other adult in the room disagreed with him immediately.
Law and Order SVU effect.
“We need no knock raids because Elliot Stabler needs to kick in the door and tackle the pedophile right before he pushes the big button that deletes his entire stash of child porn”
I notice the article doesn’t say anything about NFAC’s political affiliation, but uses a pejorative for the 3 Percenters.
Racist
Do they sell Injun Joe brand knives?
Ain’t gonna see this cartoon ever again:
Injun Joe
Worst hurricane ever. Damned thing was not going to be a hurricane because too disorganized. Became a hurricane. The forecast was rain from noon until evening. No rain.
The damned thing keeps veering south and now we won’t even get outer bands.
Hanna must have gained the power Gonzalo lost.
Another COVID death.
First Kathy lee, now this! A sad day in daytime TV…………………………..
Kathie Lee
You’re making me hate butter, you monster.
First Kathy lee, now this! A sad day in daytime TV…………………………..
Is this your final answer?
A young woman plays with a cock.
I can’t read that and not hear it in Jeremy Clarkson’s voice.
Tonight, …
Tom Sowell on School Choice (1hr)
The Mr’s daughter, a social justice warrior / college dropout, just Facebook reposted some shit about Elon Musk making $2 Billion last week YET still opposes expanding welfare benefits.
The Mr. replied “Admit it: you just don’t want an African American succeeding in the US.”
I can only assume hilarity is ensuing, because I have blocked her on Facebook.
lol
Ive seen this sentiment pop up a few different places, as if rich people are morally obligated to support welfare. I can’t imagine the “logic” that goes into supporting that belief. Granted, it’s clear that it’s 100% based on irrational, emotive envy.
The fact that people aren’t taught to recognize and temper their passions shows how much public schools are child abuse centers.
Schools really are crippling to the mental and emotional wellbeing of many children.
They want to play with their friends and climb trees, but they are taught that Gaia is dying, and it’s up to THEM to fix it.
Or they tell a perfectly happy kid that he is really disadvantaged or that he wouldn’t accomplish anything without the beneficent hand of government.
I’m jealous of how much you have; therefore you don’t deserve legal rights.
Reminds me of this story I posted last Christmas.
Why is succeeding in business always portrayed as stealing wealth? They really believe in a fixed pie that has to be divvied up more fairly. They don’t realize that only a few people take the risk and have the gumption to bake that pie…or build that reusable rocket ?
Because that’s more emotionally comforting than the thought that they are losers who will never amount to anything and pale in comparison to those who succeed.
“than the thought that they are losers”
I think in some cases it’s a little more than that. I figure I’m as smart as Musk, but, barring something extraordinary, I’m never going to be anywhere near as rich as him. A lot of that is that I’m wired differently (don’t have the entreprenurial gene), culturally I was raised to get a solid, decent-paying job, etc. Some of it is “luck” in that people like Musk have to be right place, right time.
But, for me, I don’t really care because Musk didn’t steal any money from me and I’m not middle-class because of him. What we have, we worked our asses off for and we’re good with our life.
IOW, a bigger issue is to say to people who are not losers, but also not Musk, “meh, this is the way the world works. Not because of dishonesty or anything, it just is. Learn to be content with what you have.”
Fair enough. I think a lot of people just see “better than me” and immediately pass judgement on themselves and the other.
In other words, stoicism is out of fashion.
The Amazon tracking story is maddening.
One of the arguments I’ve heard against showing citizenship on drivers license or against showing ID to vote, is that we shouldn’t require bureaucrats and volunteers to be law experts or identification inspectors.
Doesn’t the same argument apply to Amazon or other tracking services?
Notice that Musk is being singled out as a rich guy, not Bezos or Tyler Perry or the Clintons. This is because Musk refuses to pander and get political.
Then he committed the ultra sin :
Interestingly, it’s tough to find his original tweet. Now you just find
Never mind that the 2 billion is purely imaginary. I always laugh when someone says we should take everything over a billion in wealth. 99% of the time, that wealth is asset valuations and not cash.
We’re about to enter our second century of SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION as though the value in a factory, or now a data center, is intrinsic to it, and not completely based on the the human actions taken in running it.
These people seriously believe that the Amazon datacenter just goes beep beep boop and everyone not loading or driving a truck just fucks around on the Internet all day.
Exactly this. People have this idea that when he “made” $2 billion that wheelbarrows full of $100 bills rolled into his garage. If he actually tried to sell $2 billion of his stock, the price would plummet and he’d get far less than the reported value.
Those clamoring for a “wealth tax” of, say 3% annually on super-wealthy’s paper assets would likely be pissed what that did to their retirement accounts, as so many billionaires would have to dump stock to meet their levies. It’s not just shoveling greenbacks out of their swimming pool.
you just don’t want an African American succeeding in the US.
Excellent.
https://deadline.com/2020/07/wnba-new-york-liberty-seattle-storm-walk-off-during-national-anthem-1202995056/
Things happened that literally no one will care about.
“What does the ‘W’ stand for? The Worse NBA?”
Don Imus cares…
*snicker*
And no one other than deadline noticed.
I find it interesting that pro sports players seem to think we care about their pet causes. You’re an entertainer, ENTERTAIN ME.
I’m in the Lazy Boy with my Belgian Ale and an ice pack. I’ve been trenching gutter drains all day in hard clay. I’m whipped.
Hope I can get out of bed tomorrow.
I’ll start drinking, sometime later.
Probably.
Probably?
I am disappoint.
I might have to drive
This is what happens when you don’t teach your orphans important life skills. They probably don’t have any damn manners either.
I think my next bike will be a Trek
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a33398013/trek-womens-advocates-police-bikes-protests/
Actually, it was probably going to be anyway. Domane SL6
In reaction, parts of the cycling community demanded that prominent bike brands stop selling bicycles to police departments.
I can’t figure out the relationship between a bike and police brutality. Whatever. I have a ribeye to cook.
It is a bit involved, bear with me as Iexplain:
Riding a bike makes a grown man look like an idiot, or worse a euroweenie
Looking like a euroweenie causes humiliation
Humiliated people become angry
Angry people lash out and commit brutal acts unless they fear consequences
Cops do not fear consequences
Therefore, bike riding cops lash out and commit brutal acts
Brutal acts commited by cops are what we call police brutality
Q.E.D.
Glad I just look like an idiot then.
/starts looking up Trek touring bikes
Damn it. My preferred store doesn’t carry Trek.
Trek seems to have been franchising their own stores as of late. A local chain switched over to their name recently. Now all they carry is Trek.
Giant had a branded store in Scottsdale Az for some time, but I think they had to switch over to a more general offering
Whoever re-strung my acoustic guitar last time must have been drunk. What an asshole.
I flipped my kid’s “Tot-o-caster” to left handed. Even popped the nut off and flipped it. Now, he’s decided he might be right handed after all. Might just buy him another “kid-o-caster” because it’s prolly not easy to pop the nut back out after I glued it in. Imma wait until he seems more committed though. He’s seven.
When even the Chicago Italians lecture you for caving into violence, you might want to check your position.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8558249/Italian-Americans-slam-Chicagos-mayor-removing-two-Christopher-Columbus-statues.html
That woman is giving Deblasio a run for his money as “worst mayor in America”.
Well. Well, well, well. Expect this not to get coverage.
I heard a story on TV about the development of a vaccine for COV19 and the story was a bit vague. I guessed because they had found that immunity to some viruses due to prior exposure would give you some immunity or full immunity to closely related viruses but the story seemed to be deliberately avoiding that.
The other thought that made me give them a narrowed gaze was the possibility that COV19 might have been around a lot longer than they are telling us.
Expect this not to get coverage.
Not so novel, after all?
“Haha, we goofed. What are you gonna do?”
For those of you who missed the beer article today, mexican sharpshooter has started a change.org petition pushing back at the petition against Trader Joe’s “cultural appropriation”. I’m reposting the link because I don’t think a lot of people saw it.
https://www.change.org/p/trader-joe-s-trader-jos%C3%A9-is-not-offensive?recruiter=57488905&recruited_by_id=a73b1220-d70a-0130-92c5-3c764e049b10&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard
Hey! Thats my link!
Signed!