We ride! No face masks!
I had given up on the Catalans dedication to their independence from Spain, once their leaders were stuffed into prison and little came of it. We are watching the same sort of thing, but worse, happen to Hong Kong.
As I opined at the time of the Catalans failing, the only sure way to secure your independence was through force of arms. Note, I am speaking of people who seek independence from a larger, central state – not the disintegration and loss of will of empires such as the British in India, or the USSR collapsing. Spain is very much there, and will not let it’s richest part walk away. The CCP manages an aggressively postured empire that has seized Tibet, grabbed parts of India, is staking out sea territories none of the world recognizes …and is now squashing Hong Kong.
Unless you can shoot your way out – you will remain part of such states.
The only bit that gives me a bit of hope for Hong Kong is not for the place. That is gone, now…but the people. The British version of The Hair has made a rather startling offer. What good is Hong Kong to the CCP if it is devoid of all her productive citizenry – the people that made such a small place so very valuable.
I will be keeping a wary, but hopeful eye on how this plays out.
What is the Hong Kong version of Don Quixote?
Too Local………..
*raises tall can tentatively*
…Tall cans?
Does a tall tumbler count? ?
Count? Hell, it’s a vast improvement over the swill I’m currently drinking.
Cheers!
Hong Kong was fucked as soon as the UK gave them back to China.
RIP.
Yep.
Hong Kong
iswas my favorite city.It’s am interesting question for our Maoist agitators in the US.
“What’s your opinion on Hong Kong?”
Answer: Who?
See also: Xinjiang
“Gesundheit.”
Kashgar and Dzungaria. It’s not been Sinisized yet.
“Sinisized for your protection.”
/Yeah, I don’t think so.
What’s a honkon?
HK was fucked as soon as the CCP won the Chinese civil war. Hong Kong couldn’t be held, even if the UK had the willpower, without the New Territories and that lease was expiring. The HK deal was probably as good as it got.
Yeah, I shed a tear at the time, watching the flag changing ceremony. The Brits looked grim, HK looked nervous, and CCP looked like the cat that got the canary.
Also, check out China Uncensored on YT,
Chris Chappel is probably a dead man, the CCP no Likee him,
“What is the Hong Kong version of Don Quixote?c
Tilting at Terracotta warriors?
Those are in Xi’an.
/pedant
“What is the Hong Kong version of Don Quixote?”
Jackie Chan?
UK should have made the residents of Hong Kong British citizens before the hand over.
As long as they converted to Islam first.
UK should have told the CCP to fuck off and that their agreement was with the Emperor of China.
^this,
…so, how long would it take the PLA to run over HK in that case? 45 minutes?
This is the unfortunate truth. If the UK had tried to hold Hong Kong, it would have been as successful as when Portugal tried to hold Goa.
old story: I read Homage to Catalonia in Catalonia
I read an Agatha Christie book (don’t remember which one) in Catalonia – in German.
I still remember my car ride from Shenzhen to HK. You cross the checkpoint, then you change the side of the road you drive on, and then everyone drove over the speed limit.
No one speed in Shenzhen.
So like a military base…
Like it’s a police state or something.
That’s what it felt like.
Prior to reunification, I was too young to experience the drive from West Germany proper through all checkpoints to get to West Berlin to visit my Oma. Apparently if you hit the checkpoints too soon, you got a fine. Hit them too late, you had the “police” searching for you.
All I remember from driving around East Germany is the potholes everywhere. The roads were complete shit. Oh, and the smog.
East Germany is Syracuse?
Heh. I grew up in the similar Rochester so I can compare. East Germany was worse.
I remember everyone changing their sim cards in their phones at the border. I had a global phone . Then again I was probably paying $3-4 per minute on that snazzy phone.
So like alternate universe without the Spock Beards?
Chinee Beard, FTW!
I remember taking a hovercraft from Guangzhou back to Hong Kong in 1988. After having spent about four weeks backpacking around China it was a rush to travel like that back to what at the time was a developed country. The Chinese in Hong Kong were strikingly sophisticated in comparison to the people in the CCP.
Outside air temp 78 degrees. Dew point 75 degrees. Relative humidity, 90%.
The 4th of July must be just around the corner.
102 and 10% humidity, going to 113 by Sunday
I rode my bike home from work that day:
https://www.12news.com/article/weather/heat/122-degrees-might-be-phoenixs-hottest-but-arizona-has-seen-hotter/75-567788474
I did 121 in Cali, 122 at the Slabs, and 119 here, so far,
and if the the wind is up, we play in it,
I saw 130 twice at FT Irwin, and above 120 regular.
The humidity was below 5%. Chapped lips was almost a terminal condition.
And you are nuts…….
I didn’t know it was going to be 122 when I left for work in the morning.
One never does,
So Ducey fucked my Friends Family bar again, and then decides, no tubing, Tubing? are inflatable kayaks OK? what if you can steer your Tube?
Fucking Asshole………
The local village/hamlet/whatever the fuck thing within the city limits just a few minutes walk away has decided not to participate in the new, or pretty much the old for that matter, ordinances put in place, thank the heavens. That includes the bar there. No masks, no Karens, the only place for miles where I can still sit on a stool in a dark room and have a smoke with my beer. No shits are given…
…All things considered, I should probably try to tone down on the dramatic statements I sometimes post here while drinking. Many of you have it far worse.
Appreciate the small things now, I can go insane later.
Republicans are almost entirely useless except as a check on Democratic power overreach. And Ducey can’t even manage that. He’s managed to get everyone on both sides pissed at him. How the fuck did he manage to become governor with these horeshit instincts?
“Republicans are almost entirely useless except as a check on Democratic power overreach.”
Not even that, as we’ve seen every day since Obama was elected, and doubled in uselessness after Trump was elected.
What on earth does banning tubing have to do with epidemic control??
FYTW?
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-canada-is-able-to-do-things-better?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Hey ya Hosers!! Tell us how you get the government to pay for what you want.
Well, yes, when it costs ten times as much to build a mile of subway in NYC as in a major European city, I can see why there isn’t “enough”.
First the government tells you what you want. Then it delivers it.
Some shifting of goal posts might have occurred during transportation.
Let’s see,
Tubers like to raft together
Tubing is fun
Fun causes laughing
Tubing is not protesting
Therefore tubing will cause spreading of the CCPV
This was supposed to be under the tubing ban question
Comparing Canada to the United States is idiotic other than in the case of fast food. We own them. I don’t see a Tim Hortons in my town. Taking population into account and percent of said population that is actually paying taxes makes that whole argument mute.
Is there anything good about this year?
I learned to kayak, learned to golf, made some potential friends, saw some Wonderful landscapes, so yes, even though Wendy is gone, it’s been alright.
Around mid-April a lady gently inserted her pinky finger into my anus.
Gently…yeah. Tell me another one.
Ok.
Around late May a lady lifted her feminine sundress and gently inserted her erection into my tight tuss.
…..Robitussin?
FInger me gently,
Finger me slowly,
Take it easy, nice and slow,
‘Cause I have never been fingered like this before….
Blimps? Or have they been canceled too?
MacArthur Park
Gorky Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ
Walking through the park
Trailer Park
“That’s one fuckin’ nice kitty right there.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQc-ldoX3yI
South Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vn2xrSG24w
Itchykoo Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fayL1WTR1Go
Central Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UuKJjBFfXM
Paisley Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mhL5ynXzB0
Ass Wednesday provides curvaceous callipygian creatures for your consumption.
http://archive.li/9do7e
LOL
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1278481319651991552
“What is the Hong Kong version of Don Quixote?”
Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow?
I’ll take Stephen over him. Well…..almost.
Double tap
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1278384677867286528
So I was looking at the map in the St. Louis area where that couple held off the mob. The owner claimed their place wasn’t on the way to the mayor’s house, but it sort-of is. On the other hand, they are in a gated community, and the mob had to get through the gate to get to their house, and going that way meant they had to go too far west and double back because the street to the mayor’s house doesn’t go through. The couple’s house is on the corner, but still inside the gate.
I’m not positive about where the mayor’s house is, but the owner said it was at Lake and Washington, which is the intersection shown on the map.
Anyway, if they really did break down the gate to get into the neighborhood, I can see being concerned.
I should say that it was clear from the video that the mob was on Portland Place, not Kingshighway (which is outside the gate).
Speaking of Kingshighway, how soon before that name gets changed.
What I understood was the Police had the road to the Mayor’s house blocked and the tried to cut thru the McCloskey’s property.
…and the *protestors* tried to…
That makes sense, but they still had to go through a gate to get where they were.
We are all short pink-haired douchey lawyers.
An generation summed up in one short video
Haha!
*points and laughs*
Everything > plain > cinnamon raisin > blueberry > onion > whole grain
Wow, Coco Puffs has really expanded it’s flavoring options, huh?
So, you’re saying you don’t like bagels?
“Sexual racism is racism. If you’re white & you find yourself writing off an entire ethnic group from your dating or sex life because you can’t imagine finding them attractive, recognise this as a learnt behaviour which originates in white supremacy. Here’s some more info: (1/2)
Before you ask:
– no, it’s not comparable to other sexual preferences which are either innate (gender) or don’t uphold a system of structural oppression (height)
– no, it’s not racism if POC exclude white people from their sex lives (this is often done to protect from racism)
And before you get mad in the comments (not my first time at the rodeo) I even have a YouTube video which explains this in more detail. I’ve given you all the info – I’ve made it easy.
Will you take the time to be actively anti-racist today?”
https://twitter.com/alexand_erleon/status/1278227862898774016
No.
Also no.
We need to bring back bullying. Bullying had value. These people were too shielded in their childhoods and never learned the consequences of being an insufferable asshole.
Too late. They have all the power now.
You are probably right. But I think it is reversible using the pwoer of Pinochet.
Rotary winged aircraft drop offs……..
Yep. Said it for years. Bullying and corporal punishment.
We still have “bullying” it’s just over social media now. Bullies were big strong idiots who backed down if you fought back. It’s much harder to fight against against a mob, even if its individual members are cowards.
I’d say the SJWs are the bullies and they have been egged on by their parents and teachers for years. The only way to get rid of a bully is to fight back, but many people lack the courage for it. Conflict is risky, which is why most people avoid it.
A bully is someone who deliberately seeks a fight with a weaker opponent. By that definition, everyone in a rioting mob is a bully.
When I was in school, if someone fought back against a bully, they both got punished. It happened to me, albeit I got the lighter punishment.
I don’t think children should be subjected to violence. They are often dumb and impulsive. As for insufferable adults, wood shampoos for the lot of them.
And as always, an armed society is a polite society.
I was bullied incessantly in high school. I _always_ fought back. I _always_ got the harsher punishment, sometimes they didn’t get punished at all. The Dean’s logic was that since I was in there every week, but it was a different bully every week, it must be my fault. I was eventually threatened with expulsion, so I had no choice but to stop fighting back and just take it for the last two years of High School.
Bullies only stop when somebody stops them. It’s like an animal that gets a taste of blood.
I told my kids that if they fought back, I would back them up as far as I needed to.
I had basically one friend in middle school. We both got bullied by the same guy. My friend was a more violent sort. I didn’t see it happen, but I do know there was an altercation which began with the bully bothering my friend on top of the bleachers and ended with the bully on the floor of the gym with a fractured skull. That was the end of his bullying career.
Unfortunately, my friend kept getting in trouble and ended up in juvy and later prison for a while. I wrote him letters. He said I was the only one who did. Anyway, he got out and made a decent life for himself. We still stay in touch.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m short, so people who want to get violent with me usually go for it. Whatever. I like a good fight once in a while. A recurring pattern in my life is that people will annoy, insult, or harass me and when I get angry at them, they stop. It sure would be great if they would just treat me with respect to begin with, or failing that, ignore me. Alas, that has not been the case.
Pimpin’ ain’t easy.
Whatever munchkin
People who try to drag you down are already beneath you.
People who try to drag you down are already beneath you.
That’s a great line. I’m surprised I haven’t heard it before.
I discovered early on how not to be bullied in high school. Make a couple “cool” friends, play sports, etc.
Seems to me that they were, and turn-about is fair play, to them.
Up next: You’re A Bigot If You Don’t Fuck Everyone And Everything In Every Hole, Anywhere, At Anytime!!!…this comment excludes[subgroup].
Christ these people’s lives are empty.
I disagree. They are stuffed to gills with impotent rage and hate.
Oooh! I just remembered that John Mayer once said that he loves other people from different ethnic groups but his dick is racist.
Please cancel John Mayer, please cancel John Mayer, please cancel…
I’m safe. I am not sure I can think of an ethnicity a women held who I did not make a financial transaction to do the nasty. Take that back. Never had a girlfriend of Indian heritage or banged an Indian hooker. Dot or feather. I never thought of a bucket list until now.
…I’ve never seen an Inuit woman I’ve found attractive but, I’ve never really sought one out either.
/dicksoutforeskimos
Do a search for Divini Rae
That resulted in photos of a white girl with fake tits.
I consider them, since we seem to be into collectivizing these days, as Native and I have seen lots of that group I find attractive I have just never been approached by one.
Fair enough. In my reflexive mind’s eye when I think Native, I generally think Plains Indian, many of which I find drool inducing.
Maybe it’s the lack of genetic diversity due to a mostly isolated lifestyle or their average diet that causes my sexual disinterest towards their faces and body structures in general, I don’t know…
I know one.
No, she won’t play slap and tickle with me.
Hold on here….isn’t Mr. Fruity McSkittles basically telling the white folk that they owe it to non-whites to shag ’em? As in, the non-whites are losing out on the magnificence that white people supposedly bring to the table? Er, bed?
Why else would he be so adamant in seeing whites diddle non-whites?
Huh, I’ve noticed it’s usually the female minorities who want to stick to ‘there own’, or at least choose them over me. But, anecdotal evidence is not evidence.
My sole sexual preference these days is for people who aren’t simpering idiots. Sadly, this means I have to be pretty selective.
Oliva de Havilland > Joan Fountain
If I had a time machine, I’d totally for a three way with Olivia and Vivian Leigh. Forget never stick it in the crazy.
If you have to pick a historical figure to switch sex lives with you can do worse than Errol Flynn.
I’ll even wear the mustache!
Wilt Chamberlain.
Way too much work. Go for quality over quantity.
Quality > volume
Re-posting because it’s deserved
Wolf hair, yalls.
^
My favorite Olivia is Wilde.
Truth
Well, she is a cunte…
If you had a time machine you have an easy out to escape the crazy after the deed is done, so as long as you aren’t doing it with a proverbial black widow that rule does not apply in this situation.
Is Dave Grohl our last rock star?
Discuss.
No, because we still have Lou Reed.
Yeah, but also still have Roger Waters so we’re still zero sum.
I’m not a fan of the Foo Fighters, but Dave Grohl seems like a pretty good guy.
He’s apparently a pretty serious sporting clays shooter, so he can’t be a *complete* asshole…
I dunno. The Foo Fighters peaked like 20 years ago.
He is the last greatest rock star. Fuck Springsteen peaked in liked ’77 and that mug sells out everywhere.
“Rock” isn’t really my forte – especially recent rock – so I can’t really answer the question you posed. But I like the Foo Fighters FWIW.
It’s less their music – a lot of which is pretty good but it is not epic – but he is a rock star.
He’s no Chad Kroeger.
*flat stare*
He’s the last rock star to actually make new rock music.
3 Albums in the last decade, and they’re working on one now, supposedly.
Oh. I don’t give two fucks about that. I only care about the music.
No. W. Axl Rose.
Both of him?
fun facts
Hong Kong means fragrant harbor. Xinjiang means new frontier- the Chinese conquered it in the 19th century.
Xin got garbled into shin in Japanese where it means new, true, or god, depending on the context.
And now for no reason at all, a scary-looking moth: the Gangis Moth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoGRmiVioTE
kowtow
Means “knock head” in Chinese, as in “knock your head on the ground”.
Legend has it that it was invented by the Chinese philosopher Bang Ding Ow.
Great, now I just remembered a racist joke I heard in my youth about how the Chinese name their children. It involved a marble and a sink.
Not garbled. It’s similar sound. Different romanization systems makes it appear more different.
OK, but shaolin in Chinese definitely got garbled into shorin in Japanese.
Shaolin means young forest in Chinese. Kung fu was invented at the Young Forest Temple.
Not by much
https://youtu.be/V2wzUuGm7yw
I must confess a little bit of a jape.
Onyomi readings in Japanese is basically Chinese from several hundred years ago, so while there’s been divergence, its much more similar than kunyomi readings which are native japanese.
Yeah. Sun Tzu is called Sonshi in Japan. I mean, it’s not too far off but it probably sounds to Chinese speakers the same way eh-reh-bay-tah sounds to English speakers.
The Japanese word for to bow is rei but in Okinawa it sounds more like dei. Kind of Geddy Lee phenomenon I guess.
規律。礼。
Essentially as a command bow is rei.
An bow as a noun is commonly ojigi. お辞儀. Not enough strokes in the last kanji.
You’ve probably seen this before, but here goes:
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たいと(taito) is the most difficult Japanese Kanji on the record with a total of 84 strokes. It is formed by combining 3 雲 (くもkumo) with 3 龍 (りゅうRyuu). 雲means cloud and 龍 means dragon in English. たいと is said to be a type of Japanese surname.
***
Sounds like a order at Denny’s: “3 clouds, 3 dragons, and 1 moons over my hammy.”
If the HKr’s take British citizenship and move to the UK is it really a big step up toward liberty? That situation sucks ass. Both do.
Seize/buy Greenland, move them there as a fully independent nation and watch Greenland become the richest place on earth.
We ought to offer them visas. That’s a goddamn win-win right there.
Do they want to come to another country being taken over by communists?
Bring them over! They’re Antifa Antimatter!
They might appreciate coming to a country where they could actually fight back against the commies. They could become the new Roof Koreans.
“Sorry you had to leave your country because of the commies, you may shoot a couple of ours”
This.
Someone needs to meme this with the scene from Superbad where the guys talk about offering to by the girls booze.
UK is going to get 3 million voting anti-communists. They will move the Tories in a more freedom friendly direction.
Ha, ha, ha. Oh man the salty ham tears are tasty. I needed a pick me up and this did it. That chick that was threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter” got her job offer rescinded. The tear filled video brings joy to my blackened heart.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/01/harvard-grad-claira-janover-lost-deloitte-job-over-tiktok-stab-threat/
A rational person would see the degree as a red flag.
This^^
The Internet is forever, HA HA!
Like the poor dear will suffer for job offers. ?
Future bureaucrat
She’ll fit right in
^Exactly.
9:1 odds she makes bank. The swamp is not deep, but it’s fucking wide and long. A shitstain will pick her up.
+1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn
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The Weather Underground was a domestic terror group responsible for bombings of the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and several police stations in New York, as well as the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three of its members.[16]
Dohrn was a principal signatory on the Weather Underground’s “Declaration of a State of War” in May 1970 that formally declared “war” on the U.S. Government, and completed the group’s transformation from political advocacy to violent action.
…
In the article, Dohrn clearly stated support for communist ideology:[17]
We are building a communist organization to be part of the forces which build a revolutionary communist party to lead the working class to seize power and build socialism. … We must further the study of Marxism-Leninism within the WUO [Weather Underground Organization]. The struggle for Marxism-Leninism is the most significant development in our recent history. … We discovered thru our own experiences what revolutionaries all over the world have found — that Marxism-Leninism is the science of revolution, the revolutionary ideology of the working class, our guide to the struggle …
According to a 1974 FBI study of the group, Dohrn’s article signaled a developing commitment to Marxism-Leninism that had not been clear in the group’s previous statements, despite their trips to Cuba and contact with Vietnamese communists there.
***
Wonder what her net worth is these days. Gotta be several millions with all the cushy law jobs and professor jobs she got.
Yummy and sweet.
Damn, seeing those was a pick me up for a rather meh day. You were hired by an accounting firm, the very definition of a grey corporate environment. You decided to be a special rainbow and were handed a huge learning experience. Learn from it, or not, snowflake.
Deloitte dodged a bullet.
No crab ever thinks it is responsible for the infection.
Here ya go, right now we are vulnerable, and an EMP hit would wreck us, no invasion needed, Discuss……
Without social media we’re doomed.
We all Converge at Sloopy’s, stock up on bacon, bourbon, bayonets, bazookas, bud, beer, have Mexican butt sex, immigrate just south of the border, fight off a cartel, then claim our own CHOP zone.
I like your thinking…
#metoo
Buuutt, we need air support and armor.
Drones, I have them,
I like the way you think
Weaponized drones?
Hell yes, someone I know? figured out the tech………
A Crowdsourced Kinetic Harpoon, FTW.
You know…there are those among us, here, who could help out on that front.
If we were to ask nicely enough. Maybe offer up sufficient, compensational trade.
I’m sure Sloopy can get a couple of D11s from his auctions
Sitting in one of the places I like to get dinner. Despite Inslee, no patrons are wearing face coverings. Neither walking in, standing around nor sitting down and talking. I might have to go to Idaho to get a hair cut.
My county just put in mandatory mask wearing in all public inside spaces.
Assholes.
What pisses me off is my only mask doesn’t match any of my outfits, Orange doesn’t work with Pink,
That’s a combo I might wear in a bellydance outfit, though! Or not. Orange isn’t my best color. Actually, orange makes me look dead.
I have 23 different colored T Shirts, Orange is at the bottom, next to White,
/Clothes Whore
I would be more of a clothes whore if I looked good in the kind of clothes I like.
I’ve written entire scenes and books that started off with fashion porn.
I am now imagining a line of women’s high-dollar tees, with bejeweled, swooped writing on the front
CUNTE
Trust me–this is much better than the child-sized t-shirt I saw in Florida, back in ’06…”Future MILF”
Imagine the person that puts that on their 3-year-old.
Ugh, the early 2000s when they sold childrens pants with words like ‘juicy’ on the ass. WTF is wrong with people?!
2003 Strawberry Festival in Pontchatoula, LA. I saw a girl, who couldn’t have been older than 15, wearing a t-shirt that read – “Young, Able, Willing!” I felt dirty just walking past her. Also, David Duke was there with his family. I was too full of Abita Strawberry Ale (they brew a couple hundred kegs just for the fest, using locally grown strawberries), and deep-fried strawberries, and strawberry wine to care.
I’ve found refuge in Avondale. As stated in an earlier comment of mine: No fucks are given.
I’m in Clay County. Did Avondale say “Nah, bruh”?
Pretty much.
I’m not convinced these things are going away. They’ve managed to get people deranged on this topic. Folks legitimately think folks not wearing masks are murderers. People don’t stroll back from that after a few months.
I don’t want to bars to be shut down until 2028. I’m too fucking old for that.
I agree but I hope we’re wrong.
I dipped my toe in a FB post of my proggy friends. According to him only Republicans have politicized Covid. I quickly took my toe out of that rancid water.
man in wingsuit flies through cloud cave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueQHrFtnUNE
FUUUUCK!
“”Black Lives Matter is a movement that was given to us by George Soros and his fucking boys” | Lord Jamar”
https://twitter.com/wearescum_/status/1277985863817928705
Ass Wednesday.
http://archive.li/euCoz/f207f985abcbfa690ea5df7ac4ac895046d07e1b.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/S1V1Z/227ed88286c0d6f85ce1eb2dfbd02f0037bf2443.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/wwAEI/fce772c97b58e73b5f546ff917193d875a0d7e13.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/luwo4/dbebaf6aaee6d18f934473a26530030110196fd7.jpg
NSFW.
Each one better than the next.
Good for
Owen WislonBorris Johnson. But, we really oughta just ship them arms.This just popped up in my Google feed.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/30/fact-check-democratic-party-did-not-found-kkk-start-civil-war/3253803001/?utm_term=upNextModule
For those who doubt that Orwell was under selling it, just read the article.
“Our fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.”
Here is my shocked face ?.
It wasn’t started by the Party. It was started by a group of people who happened to belong to the party, just because that group of people happened to include most of the leaders of the party, and the Klan actively supported and worked for Democrat candidates, and attacked, intimidated and occassionaly killed opponents is no reason to associate the two!
Historians agree that although factions of the Democratic Party did majorly contribute to the Civil War’s start and the KKK’s founding, it is inaccurate to say the party is responsible for either
“Majorly contribute” and “responsible for”? Wut?
Whew, thank goodness.
I liked that you noticed that too. I literally laughed out loud when I saw that. Some ideological comedian made fun of it, therefore it cannot possibly be true. LOL
Oh yes, LBJ. Noted supporter of blacks and totes not a racist. *snicker*
A paternalistic government program designed to destroy black family structure, society, and social mobility would differ little from LBJ’s Great Society programs.
Yet there are basically no actual examples of these racist Democrats who turned to the GOP, and the South continued to vote Democrat into the Clinton era.
Sure. Ronald “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me” Reagan and all those other racist Rethuglicans that were once Democrats.
(Ignore that he had already become a Republican well before 1964)
About ~10% of the Southern Democratic politicians who opposed the Civil Rights Act later changed parties (including one of the most prominent, Strom Thurmond, who endorsed Barry Goldwater). This is the main source of evidence for the myth that the parties switched, conveniently ignoring the other 90% who never switched.
+1 Byrd
I’d be remiss if I didn’t throw this in
https://youtu.be/9Gc4QTqslN4
Good job
Lol.
“Historians agree that although factions of the Democratic Party did majorly contribute to the Civil War’s start and the KKK’s founding, it is inaccurate to say the party is responsible for either.”
Not to say they didnt but they didnt.
https://twitter.com/GoFasRacing32/status/1278411516937723906/photo/1
rolling Trump billboard
MAGA vs BLM grudge match
Sorry, I’m a little OCD, if you haven’t already seen it
sodium at proton mail dot com
For a glib meet up. Tripacer has added himself to the list.
I saw it.
Am I wrong to hope he and Bubba end up in a head on?
From that NYT article on HK you linked:
We might need a program like that over here, and for similar reasons.
Cancel culture already has it weaponized. What you tweet can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion. Struggle sessions with the perp wearing printouts of tweet screen grabs hung around their necks.
Wanna add a head onto an existing video clip and have the new head move as the dude’s body moves. Don’t need professional level editing, but I can’t find any decent software online. Ideas?
Call Weinstein ?
Depends on the level of automation you want. Easy to do with open source video editing software, if you take the time.
Which open source do you recommend? I’ve looked at a few.
I checked out OpenShot a while ago, and except for not having wavforms for audio editing seemed pretty good.
It says it supports layers and animation key framing, which are the features you’d need to do what you’re asking.
Great. Thx.
Just found out a friend of mine has to close his gym permanently. Fuck Pritzker.
Sorry.
And the guy who ordered your friend’s gym closed owns the Hyatt chain with his family.
Surely he closed that too.
We are #1. More progressive than anyone else in the country.
Somerville recognizes polyamorous relationships in new domestic partnership ordinance
I don’t know. I supported gay marriage but in my mind polyamorous marriages may actually have negative effects on society. At least polygamous ones.
Not a Big Love fan?
I concur. Polyamory is wrong. It’s fucking wrong, wrong, wrong.
You cant mix greek and latin word roots. Either its polyphilia of multiamory.
No. But Ioves me some Big Data.
You are correct, sir
When gay marriage became the law of the land I knew it wasn’t far behind. There is no good legal or moral justification that polyamorous marriages would not also be accepted. I don’t think government should be involved at all expect to possibly be the last resort in contract disputes. The problem is that it is.
What does the ordinance cover? Is it only about hospital visits? I has confuze. Great journalismizing.
“I don’t feel it’s the place of government to define a family,”
Leave it at that.
So why did Obama feel it was so important to get gov’t involved and announce to the world that the US thinks gay-marriage is awesome, just a few years after he said it was wrong?
Oh- thats right! Pandering. And he ‘evolved’ on the issue.
“Leave it at that.” If only they would.
The left has the keys to the way back machine, there is no way to prove Obama did or did not hold those beliefs.
When my dad grew up there it was full of Polish and Russiam immigrants now it seems to be full of wokesters
Really? The Poles are in South Boston and Dorchester. The Russians are in Brookline and Allston. The latest wave of immigrants in Somerville were Brazilians, they can no longer afford living here.
Of course it was 85+ years ago. My dad (92 years old) was born there. His parents were immigrants from Poland. He has a story about being a local hero for beating up the local Russian bully, lol.
See leave the libs at it and people will be marrying their pets soon. Why do libertarians support bestiality?
Vet bills are expensive. It’s just about being able to get them onto the insurance plan, no funny business.
It is the only way they can visit their pets in the hospital.
There was a Drew Carey episode about that: Speedy the retriever had some serious ailment. I think it might have been the one where Drew wears a Reason t-shirt.
When I debated getting the government out of marriage my conservative dad said, “What if the farmer down the road decides to marry his cow?” My reply was, “Then I know to stay away from him because he fucks cows. If he hadn’t married it I might never know that disgusting fact.” Similar arguments can be made for ‘public accommodation’ laws, you might be giving your money to racist.
That place has changed since the 80s.
Let me know if this ordinance applies to the city pension plan. Then I’ll know they are serious.
WTF is going on anymore?
Protesters in Manitowoc respond to offensive pictureThe picture, now taken off social media, was of a local business owners posing with a rope.
“This happened days after the FBI reported Bubba Wallace, a NASCAR driver, found a rope in his garage that resembled a noose.”
Really, WBAY? You want to walk that back ? Who reported it ?
And what did the FBI discover?
‘posed with a rope’, the only guy they talked to said he didn’t realize it was there, they don’t show the picture because it was ‘removed from social media’ I guess, because nothing on the internet is forever. In the video, not mentioned in the written article, it says the picture was posted with ‘this is a garage pull rope’. Given all these facts, I can only guess it was an old picture that this guy happened to be in and there was a looped garage pull rope in the background.
So I have had very slight digestive system discomfort last couple of days and now I am starting to think I have covid without any other symptoms. What are the odds of that?
I think you likely don’t have the vid, but Glib Lives Matter.
A glibertarian riot?
Nope. Glibs either don’t drink, or they can hold their liquor.
By the ears, like a French woman?
You’re a bad person.?
Leggo of my ears! I know what I’m doin’! -Tim Allen
It’s in the eyes…blue eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
It’s probably cancer.
Honestly, I don’t even know what the symptoms of COVID are. Stuff has been pretty stressful and your routine has changed again (you’re back at the office right?). Maybe your body is readjusting.
The biggest recent change is that the weather got hot this week.
Wine induced ulcer, you lush. 😉
It’s that ball of hate that you suppressed for decades screaming to get released. Go kick your neighbor’s cat and you’ll be right as rain.
I could never get close to it, runs away all the time
Is that what “hadouken” means?
I prefer the Bob Iger Upper Cut
Can’t listen to Tucker anymore. Not that he’s been wrong the last few months, but it’s getting depressing watching the insanity every day. I wanna call it a moral panic, but that infers that it has an end. Screaming loonatics, arson, assault, censorship, complicit politicians, debt, disease, meth heads, sexual mutaliation, blatant racism…
Glad I bugaroo’ed.
You mean boogaloo’ed?
At least you’re there and not here.
Night all. First, you know who else, and wood chippers to all.
Night, Dj
Wonder what the wife would say if I said I needed to confront my sexual racism? Would she be a supportive ally in my, uh, struggle?
While you’re at it, tell her she needs to confront that with you, along with her sexual homophobism.
Smart thinking.
Of course she may ask him to overcome his homopobism in a MMF threesome. Probably with a well hung Black man.
As opposed to a poorly-hung man?
Why milk the cow, when you can fuck the bull for free….or, something like that.
In today’s politics?!
Just a heads up, the new cartoon ‘airs’ here 7 pm tonight (7-2). That was some quick scheduling.
Not even the 4th, and fireworks!
Our fireworks were last weekend while I was at work, and I’m working on the 4th, so works out for me.
I posted this in the Afternoon Links, but I’ll post it here for the late nighters because it’s fascinating: Why there are 4 seasons of a Blazing Saddles TV show that never aired.
After…noon? Wait, wait, wait….there is shit going on around here when the sun’s up??
I know, right?
I miss good ol’ Leslie….dammit.
+1 mechanical fart
Oh, my Ft Worth darlin’
Miller Lite AND two (count ’em; TWO) boxes of Milk Duds.
Buy what you like, of course. Still, that is some juxtapositioning.
Also–allow me to liberpedant: Yes, dear–you don’t have to wear a pask. Also, it’s private property, so, if you don’t like the rules, get your SkittleBrau somewhere else. Or, don’t.
They’re giving it 110%, huh?
What part of the body does a pask cover?
This may be an interesting game…what combination of things should you not buy together.
It’s much like a perkin.
I had a girl come up to me in the parking lot of a Best Buy in Las Vegas and ask me if I had a fire crotch. I was very confused. Took me several months to realize she was asking me if the carpets matched the drapes (my hair isn’t red, but my beard gets quite red) and was possibly hitting on me.
I’m going to say it is probably a good thing that you were unaware of her intentions until much later.
She was quite good looking and around my age (18 at the time). But yeah, given that I’m still celibate (by choice) almost 20 years later, that kind of talk doesn’t do much for me. But it sure sounds like sexual
assaultharassment!my hair isn’t red, but my beard gets quite red
You’re obviously evil.
::looks sideways at BP::
Heheheheheheh….
My friend–this innocuous phrase has the makings of comedy greatness. If you don’t incorporate this into any H&H cartoons, we absolutely have to do some kind of vanity project that uses it.
It’s like The South Jersey Shore location in ATHF.
In that very same parking lot I had the stereo stolen out of my car, so there are already a few stories to build on.
Damn. That’s a downer. Sorry to hear that. Maybe it was her?
It could be, but it is a fun story.
I went to Best Buy with roommate, who was a star True Freshman Running Back on the football team. When we came out the stereo, along with the CD that was in it, were gone. So we go to the police station to report it. They say they can’t help because I didn’t know the serial number. Meanwhile, my roommate had to take a piss, couldn’t find a bathroom in the police station, so we get outside and he pisses right in the police station parking lot. ‘Naw man, if they catch me, I’ll just tell em I’m on the football team.’
And, when I put a new stereo in I drove to a casino parking garage and did it in the middle of the night so no one would see; but now I just think about the casino surveillance guys being very confused.
That is good… I guess.
The serial number thing is interesting. Unless you’ve left something out, they still could take a report, just not enter it as stolen into the NCIC Articles database. If they refused to do so, that’s malfeasance (IMO)…well, dereliction.
Humorously, CSI had already started airing, making it look like Vegas cops could perform magic. No CSI for my car…
I don’t remember any further details, I’m guessing they were just lazy.
Probably. “It won’t do much good, therefore, why bother? I’d have to write shit down, then, type up a report…I could be out stomping crack-heads.”
Uh-huh….
Never forget that this is the same locale that was going around confiscating legally-owned and -carried firearms, when the people stopped couldn’t produce sales receipts for said guns. With the aid/covering of the mayor and DA. May not be related. Practice may have stopped (not sure). But, corruption is embedded.
How else are you supposed to restock the armory?
A White Supremacist name if I ever saw one.
Dhus too?! White Supremacy is everywhere!
Self-Haterz!!!
I remember once my dad once mentioned Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, I guess I get my love of schlock from him. But also makes me think of my aunt and uncle telling me about that time they went on a date to a porno movie. I don’t need to know these things! The 70s were fucked up.
Dirty….DIRTY SCHLOCL LOVER!!
Oh, wait….I think that should be reserved for old people going to phreaky films.
/like my mom telling me (when I was still pretty young) that she and my dad once went to see the double-feature of “I Spit on Your Grave”, and “I Passed for White”….omg, mom.
In my defense, the L and K are right next to each other. Plus I’m laughing.
Originally when my dad talked about Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein I just assumed he confused Any Warhol with Mel Brooks. So it wasn’t as awkward as when my aunt and uncle told me the story about how he took her to a porno, which they were very clear about. Very awkward.
Alt Right, I got another day off left, so I’ma ‘sleep’ now, whatever that means.
It’s a period of low conscious brain activity, with variation in metabolic function and other regulatory systems.
But, that’s not important right now.
BTW–keep an eye out over the next few days for an email. Got some interesting items in subscription boxes you may want to see.
You got a Nerd Box!?
Of a non-SW variety….yeah.
But also makes me think of my aunt and uncle telling me about that time they went on a date to a porno movie.
So the saw the overrated “Taxi Driver”?
Probably was a lie. Stag films have been around since Edison. I remember mother whilst in her cups telling us about a cartoon wherein the Coyote finally catches the Roadrunner. She didn’t go into detail but the ramifications were clear. The early 70’s were a different time.
Fes, I gotta admit–I have no idea what that phrase means. You know me–I’m conditioned to make a bra joke, but…
Oversharing is apparently a genetic trait. Sorry Diggy 🙂
Nope, I won’t accept it! You share all you want.
“Are you sure that I don’t need a Loy-yer?”
This is what my downtown area will look like in two days if the rain don’t stop soon. That photo was from 1972 and all of those buildings are gone now and replaced by a river side park.
Fuck me.
Be gentle. I am learn-ding. In all seriousness it hasn’t stopped for weeks and the city core sits on a hundred year flood plain. It is projected to rain for at least the next few days. The Fraser River that ate a City.
I thought you were only happy when it rains?
Oh, right….that was Shirley Manson
Heh. We went to school with a girl that was a dead-ringer for Miss Manson. Her name was Fern but we called her Furnace. Because she was so hot… Get it, Diggy? Can you dig it?
I can! OK, I wish I could….although, Ms. Manson hasn’t aged well over the last few years.
#StageLivin
Close your eyes and think about 1995.
Just because.
Morning people.I hate the feeling of looking at a project and despairing that it’s insurmountable, even when I know it can be done if I just actually start doing something, and that it must be done.
Ugggh! “Work”…..
I don’t want to wake up demotivated, but that’s the state I’m in.
Good morning to you as well. Today, I get to do a portion of my job that I must do completely bass ackwards at my employer’s insistence despite my protests. This will cause hours of delays and the job is already under a time crunch. Hooray.
I think I have it easier at my day job. No matter how stupid the directive, at the end of the day, we don’t have any impact on real people beyond the portion of the tax dollars wasted. Extended delays or rapid response, it doesn’t impact the citizendry.
Ah, it’s a “non-profit” deal. That takes all the pressure off!
No pressure then.
No, I’m a state employee. The people I support manage records on other state employees.
The Mobius strip of a productive workforce. I lived that today.
Good Morning, TH. Yesterday my betters insisted that I go into work on Canada day. I was there for two hours and got paid for eight at double time. Assholes. Every once in a while you get a win.
*waves at Festus*
I really must start getting ready for work. Have a good rest today and good day to the rest of you as well.
I’ve got a shit-ton of projects that need seeing to. Getting started is the hardest part. Over-analyzing during the actual construction throws me for a loop. It made me a very meticulous modeler but a less than proficient builder of actual things. I have the skills but always end up tripping over my own dick. “Stupid Brain! Shut the fuck up! I’m working here…”
#HowDoYouEatAnElephant
Good morning, gentlemen!
Hey there, shaking what she’s got!
I was fueling up this evening and there was this sorta fat-assed white girl in jorts doing the same. As I drove away I gazed at her bum and actually said to myself “Damn, she thicc!” Do you guys see what you’ve done to me? HM and Q and Tres have infiltrated my libido. Either that or every girl between the ages of 18 and 40 that isn’t hideous gets a ton of leeway on the lustful sliding scale. Probably the latter…
? The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand..?
The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin’! Frank knew. Frank knew.
I was sorely disappointed a couple of days ago when I learned that there would be no minor league baseball this year, but I just found out that maybe it’s just as well we won’t be going to any games. And thank goodness I no longer work within the city limits.
Wearing a mask in 95 degree heat in order to watch a game would be an exercise in masochism anyway.
This sucks. Dreams are being crushed. Athletes that were hoping for a scholarship, everyone set back at least a year. This is purposeful anarchy to an evil end. My dreams were crushed long ago but these are the people that will help us wipe our asses in thirty years.
That’s who I pity the most – all the young people affected by this. These Single A ball players hoping for their big break. Every student athlete. Every kid who had his/her senior year of high school or college ruined. As I said to my boss yesterday, “2020 is where dreams go to die.”
Yes
Wait, I thought BLM rallies were virus free…
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/watsontown-black-lives-matter-rally-attendees-advised-to-be-tested-for-covid-19.html
The Covid flew above the sainted until it didn’t. Morans.
If you don’t look for it (some of the contact tracing agencies have been specifically warned off from asking about protest attendance) it’s kind of like it never happened.
And LOL at this pic: https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/harrisburg-official-charged-with-3-counts-of-indecent-exposure-after-naked-gardening.html
I read about a counter protester mooning a crowd with “All Lives Matter” written across his bum. Which one of us was that?
Ha! The CBC won’t allow html links. Wonder why? They shut down comments on “indigenous issues” some time ago. Dang. I wanted to show you people how insane they have become. They are like NPR if NPR grew a set of ovaries and bought their male toddler that pair of pink sneakers.
Tell me again how important masks are.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1278643387969617921
I see a lot of no masks and no social distancing. (CHOP arrests)
Look at the first dude. He thinks he’s the Christ Child writ large. Cops on bikes should become a meme.
https://twitter.com/ShootyMcBeard/status/1278645523122212865
Hehe
End Elk Supremacy
They don’t like Fraternal Organizations. Look out Masons, you’re next!