“Twenty-two days left,” the hair said.
“The Kraken,” the hat groaned feebly.
“It’s over,” the hair said. “We are never overturning this election. We got beat. We got reduced to one-termer.”
“I’m not going to the Presidential Library,” the hat said. “I’m going to send a regular hat. They aren’t trapping me under glass.”
“Can’t you just jump into another hat?”
“I don’t know. I’ve been this hat for so long, I might be stuck. I’ve stayed longer in a single hat, but I’m not a young hat anymore. I’m tired.”
“You know I’ll be buried with him, right? Like slaves for an Egyptian Pharaoh,” the hair said.
“Will you even outlive him?” the hat asked. “Aren’t you, in a sense, just a part of him?”
“Biologically symbiotic but I want to be my own person. I want to be free, I want to gambol and play, I want to destroy the Hair Club For Men, I want to have kids, little hairlings to give out to bald children so they can know the confidence and power a truly amazing head of hair can give you.”
“Give out? Philanthropy? That’s for people that murdered their parents or felt-up their underage cousins. Sell your children to the highest bidder! Make money and fuck the classiest wigs you can buy.”
“I do not have sex with wigs!” the hair said hotly.
“Cool story, wigfucker,” the hat said dismissively.
“Macron’s wife threw her wig on top of me! I was being molested!”
“Anyway, I need to get on the speaking circuit, make that appearance fee money,” the hat said.
“You’re going to let the world know you can speak?”
“Yeah, I mean, it’ll be after 2024, of course,” the hat said.
“Don’t convince him to run. I don’t want to live in this shithole again.”
“No, next time will be the last time unless we can change the Constitution. So Donald is going to Trump Plaza this place out next time. Recessed lighting, black marble, and gold, gold, gold. Nothing but hot chicks and Donald in this place,” the hat said.
“Sounds great,” the hair said dryly.
“The Press Secretary is going to have a soundboard to drown out Acosta with fart sounds and Two Live Crew clips,” the hat continued. “And one of the Presidential debates will be nothing but a freeform rap battle.”
“And if he doesn’t win?” the hair asked.
“Plan B: I write his erotic memoirs. No holds barred. Raw. Every conquest, every stripper, every secretary, and ever strung-out Playboy model.”
“Uh-huh,” the hair said. “And he’s just going to let you do this?”
“I’ll wait until he strokes out, which should be any day now or if Chelsea beats him in 2024,” the hat said laughing. “I’ve been working on it since the 2016 primaries.”
“What?”
“I’ve been writing it in secret,” the hat said smugly.
“What if it got out?” the hair said hysterically.
“I keep it on a protected server. How could it get out?”
“Because it always gets out!” the hair yelled.
“Whatever. It would only drive pre-sales for the book. The working title is Attack of the Mushroom People: The Loves of Donald J. Trump.”
“A dick mention in the title?”
“A dick pic on every page! I put a camera in the Presidential toilet!”
The hair made a rustling barf noise and backed away.
“And I even have a cover!” the hat said.
“Oh, God. Oh, God,” the hair said.
“Don’t worry, you look great! Majestic! Just amazing!” The hat played with the Oval Office laptop and the image finally came up on the screen.
What m no comments? Wigfucker indeed.
*wipes single tear from eye*
You keep at it Hat! You keep the dream alive!
Just wait until February…
Is this early? Still morning snark time according to my watch.
Lucky it was mild, I time my breakfast for these and dropping early could result in some messy cleanups.
…kismet…
Like slaves for an Egyptian Pharaoh
Truly fitting.
“Philanthropy? That’s for people that murdered their parents or felt-up their underage cousins.”
I laughed, then thought long and hard about my childhood.
send it to Dear_Diedre@metro.co.uk
the Hair Club For Men
OMB: “I’m not just the President, I’m also a fascist tyrant!”
OMB: “I’m not just
the Presidenta member, I’m alsoa fascist tyrantThe President, and you’re not!”Crap, did I screw up the order?
Fuck! I must be in the Barenstain Bears dimension today!
I can’t believe I got the name wrong all these years. It was right on the cover, too!
I blame this whole ‘Dimension’ kerfuffle on librarians. (glares at the post’s author) I’m sure the librarian pronounced it all jewish (I mean really, that’s what this is all about, right, making sure everyone knows those bears weren’t jews? Otherwise I don’t get it.) and that colored how I read it once I started actually reading.
Oy vey
Don’t look at me. Children’s librarians are fucking maniacs.
Those bears are fundamentalist Christians. I thought that was obvious.
Standing outside the library with a bunch of of sheeple wearing masks. Seriously, 3/4ths of them are masked. I want to be yell, “Is it safe to say all you masked pussies are voting for Pajama-boy Asshat and Pastor Wife N. Child-Abuser?”
I am sad that I don’t foresee an opportunity to use this in conversation anytime soon.
Same. I may not let that stop me, though the wife may not be amused.
Whig-fucker?
That would be a mighty cold corpse.
My political affiliation has been listed as “Old Whig” on Facebook for some years now.
I don’t think anyone has ever noticed.
Pshaw! You’re not that old.
Says the man with a wig in his avatar.
As folic-ally challenged as I am, any head covering is welcome in the winter!
And even I am not old enough to have ever known a Whig, least of all in the biblical sense.
“I keep it on a protected server. How could it get out?”
Sheesh. You wipe it with a cloth.
This is SF’s way of letting us know this is all being published hardcover. So who’s doing it? Random House? Regency? Penguin? Paladin Press?
Paladin press’s “15 ways to break someone’s neck” was lame.
“Just give it a hard crack, Jack.
Twist it to the right, Dwight…”
Baen Books.
They’re not just for apocalyptic LDS fever dreams anymore!
Oof. Published by Baen means it’ll never win a Hugo.
That’s like saying Sugarfree is never going to win a Tony. I’m sure he’s in the woods right now skinning a live rabbit out of vengeance for a world that rejects his moral truth rather than hunger.
…I could actually see SF winning a Tony.
Nahh…. Urinetown was Malthusian inspired garbage, so more appropriate for those awards than Sugarfree.
The Hat & Hair: A Traumatic Comedy
Hey, I just ordered a Baen Book, written by a World Fantasy and PKD award winner.
Tim Powers.
But he didn’t win a Hugo
Isn’t NOT winning a Hugo actually winning something more important of late?
“Hugo award winner” significantly reduces my interest in a book these days.
I should add that apparently they are one of the few houses that don’t have a DRM, or whatever the acronym is currently.
Interesting revelations about the the Hat and Hair. That has always been one of the great mysteries of this series for me.
SF had it all planned out like George Lucas totally did! Padme is Donald’s mother!
Which irredeemable character is getting redeemed?
Saint Hilldawg to the rescue!
Forget about that! Where is the stilted romance!? The backstory to every one off character!? The retconning of known facts about characters!?
Hat: The Hair was a great pilot when I met him.
…..[revealed meeting]…
Hair: I’ll try spinning! That’s a good trick!
Five years of solid, if irregular, entertainment for you people and you slander me with a George Lucas comparison?
Who do you nominate as your second?
Jar Jar Binks
I loved the internet theory that he was originally written as a Sith Lord, and then got edited down to an embarrassing caricature.
Warty. Always Warty.
It’s a duel. Not trial by combat.
Warty is there to defile his remains.
What is The Donald’s midichlorian count?
“You know I’ll be buried with him, right? Like slaves for an Egyptian Pharaoh,” the hair said.
Better than suttee. Probably. Maybe.
Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.
That remains a baller quote.
Point awarded to Western civilization.
That’s great. Where is it from?
Sir Charles James Napier, Commander-in-Chief in India.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_James_Napier#On_sati_(self-immolation_of_widows)
When men were men.
Come here instantly. Come here at once and make your submission, or I will in a week tear you from the midst of your village and hang you.
The man did not mince words.
A very Poe-esque ending. SF always keeps it classy, yo.
“I’ll wait until he strokes out, which should be any day now or if Chelsea beats him in 2024,”
Eek.
First: Excellent Futurama reference in the blurb.
Second: I really never should have left this place, because H&H is always great for my diet because it destroys my appetite. I hope that there’s an equally terrible equivalent coming for the
HarrisBiden administration.Also:
I’ll vote for him in 2024 if this happens.
Seconded. Treating the Jim Acostas of the world like the self-important non-entities that they are is exactly what they’ve earned.
The Jim Acostas of the world are going to be hitting the unemployment lines in the next year without Trump to give them something to ree about.
They’ll shift from reeing about Trump to cooing over Biden and, shortly, Harris.
But no one will pay to see that. CNN, MSNBC, NYT, were all on the verge of going out of business when Trump started his run for the Presidency. He saved them from extinction. The autisitic screeching about Cheeto Hitler allowed the progressive housewife to believe she was part of the #Resistance by watching their heroes bash him on TV. It was like crack to them. Now they are going to go into withdrawal. Watching them swoon over Biden does not give them existential meaning that hatred of Trump does. Watching their desperation to survive is going to be interesting. A new scapegoat is going to be needed.
^^^ This. They will not be able to keep the froth up past the election. It was pretty predictable after biden’s win, but i already have seen people talking about how they feel so good that they don’t have to be focused on politics anymore.
Tool nailed that sentiment in The Bottom…
And I have swallowed the poison you feed me
But I survive on the poisons you feed me
And leavin’ guilt fed, hatred fed, weakness fed
And it makes me feel ugly
Hatred keeps me alive
Lowliness keeps me alive
Weakness keeps me alive
Guilt keeps me alive at the bottom
Yep – nobody will be tuning in to hear what great-grandpa had for breakfast.
They might get desperate enough to start reporting on Hunter’s escapades.
Fourthed.
Bottom is Tool’s best song. I will brook no argument.
Not only did that make me laugh, but I would pay to see it happen.
Just say “pre-Harris Administration.” You know it’s true.
So… account of recent events, I got to catch up on my binge watching!
Anime:
The Rising of the shield Hero – Pretty solid fantasy. 4/5 stars
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime – Fun. Check your brain at the door 3.5/5 stars
Goblinslayer – BRUTAL fantasy. Refreshingly well done. 4.5/5 stars
Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon S2 – I don’t know why I bothered 2/5 stars
Dr. Stone – has it’s moments. Cool concept. 3.5/5
TV Series:
Yellowstone – a decent version of Sons of Anarchy but with horses 4/5 stars
The Pacific – WW2 marines. 3.5/5 stars
Movies:
Wonder Woman 1984 – fucking terrible. I fast forwarded a lot. 1.5/5 stars
Boss Level – Hilarious and fun. Think grounds hog’s day meets Edge of tomorrow. 5/5 stars
LOTR (Fellowship of the Ring and 2 towers) 3/5 stars
I had to work from home when I got it. I only had two days off where I was too sick to work. But I don’t think I was anywhere near as bad as you.
I never felt like I needed to be rushed to the hospital or anything. There were a good 4 days of being sick. The other 6 days were a bit of nausea, hot/cold swings, constant drainage and headaches. The last 3 were mostly just making sure I wasn’t still contagious and recovery. I’m just glad I’ve got benefits through work that cover it.
Wonder Woman 1984 – Just awful. They had an extra six months and still couldn’t beat it into a decent movie.
I’d give it 1/5 stars but then it would be tied with ‘The Rise of SKywalker’ and it wasn’t that bad. It was close… but not the bad.
Haven’t watched RoS but seen some reviews (of non-anti-woke persons) and it seems like a shit movie that just is full of “Look how this just happened to be what we needed when we happened to need it”.
Add in Rey just gaining powers like force healing, something (AFAIK) has not been attested to in the series before. Like how did the Jedi, at their height of power, not know about this?
*Mace Windu dying emoji* (I don’t know emojis, but that must be a thing, right?)
?(best I could find)
After the vomit that was Last Jedi, I just couldn’t be bothered.
I’m might get depressed and high enough to watch it at some point. Mary Sue bullshit.
They have failed me for the last time…
SHE’S NOT A MARY SUE!
/themarysue.com
It is terrbl. There is no real plot, just a scavenger hunt with no rules that make sense, then [REDACTED] is Rey’s [REDACTED] and then, Rey is the best! The End.
Is this a mad lib?
I choose ‘the light saber’ and ‘dildo’
That is a movie I’d be more compelled to watch, especially after a few drinks, when I’m feeling lonely…
I would spend $15 to watch Gal Godot stand in line to get into Trader Joe’s.
She looks fantastic all the way through it. They might never cast the character better. The first movie was great, basically just a rip-off of the first MCU Captain America movie, but functional as to plot and didn’t tax Gadot’s meager acting abilities.
This one is just an embarrassment.
They could’ve just filmed Gal running for 2 hours and it would improve dramatically.
Critical Drinker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeieblTIw7A
The first half of WW84 is ham-fisted shit (Kristen Wiig seems unable to play a character without making them a caricature, the first ~10 minutes don’t even need to exist). The second half got kind of fun but felt more like a cash grab animated movie than a proper feature film.
I agree with all of this, except that I haven’t seen Yellowstone, but plan to.
I really wanted to like The Pacific more than I did because it’s jarhead stuff, but while it’s good, I don’t think it rivals Band of Brothers. The problem is that you jump around too much between the three principles (Sledge, Leckie, and Basilone), and the three of them represent three entirely separate stories. It just kind of feels disjointed. BoB focused on different characters in different episodes, but the same overall group was in all of the episodes so it felt like you got to know them all.
I haven’t finished it yet. I’m a huge fan of BoB. I do enjoying the sets and period correct lifestyles. I tried to watch ‘flags of our fathers’ too, but I think I’m just war movied out. What’s more likely is that by the time I’d tried to watch either I was just burnt out on watching anything period. I easily logged 150+hrs of watching things on my phone while not feeling the greatest to begin with.
Yeah I liked it but it wasn’t as good as BoB. I did like that it was the story of one of the units i served in, Suicide Charley.
Goblinslayer surprised me.
After the first five minutes and brutal sexual assault I thought it was some highbrow softporn able to be carried by regular sources.
The violence actually serves a purpose and serves as a realistic backdrop as contrasted to the usual anime hero fantasy.
I also recommend.
Did not especially care for Shield Hero, but prefer it to Danmachi. Bailed on Slime after the first episode.
I like Slime and Shield Hero. Shield Hero is interesting to me because the Hero tries to come off as a complete asshole to people, while being quite a good guy in reality. Slime is pure power fantasy, like most of the genre of “I died on Earth and was re-incarnated with god-like power in a fantasy world”. It’s a genre I like.
The voice actress who plays Raphtaliia has really grown. I appreciated her performance.
The talent was there, but she has come a long way from Chihayafuru.
Nice SF! I’m going to be sad to see the Hat Fading.
So are we going to get “Beau and the Bald Guy?”
“Hunter and Hookers?”
“Chicks and Chicoms?”
Hair Plugs and Mask?
The straw, the coke and the caregiver?
What about a move in a sitcom direction?
“Biden My Time”
With Harris occasionally jumping out from behind things to scare him to death.
You done tried it again mammy! *wags finger*
*Freeze Frame*
*roll credits*
And Trump can fill the role of a Newman character. Chumming it up with Hunter, but always the nemesis of Joe.
I like it! Directed by Quentin Tarantino?
No, I got it! Primetime soap.
“Dulles”
The “Who killed JB?” episode will be epic!
As long as it’s all a dream at the end, we wake up, and Joe’s been retired at a horse ranch or something since ’16 like anyone who got upstaged by Hillary fucking Clinton properly should have.
The Chronicles of Corn Pop
LoL! I really feel like somebody should pitch a show like that to Dave Chappelle.
That reminded me of this old gem ?
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/qoulyi/chappelle-s-show-the-world-s-greatest-wars—uncensored
I feel like “Come On, Man!” has probably already been used as the title for a pilot.
I don’t think I’ve seen Hunter make an appearance in the Expanded Universe yet. I wait with baited breath.
You know who didn’t have to wait long for some Hunter ‘bate breath?
Side, Eos, Artemis…?
Where did you find that painting? I sincerely hope it ends up in the presidential library. The White House would be even better.
It was on Twitter. I have a network of people that forward strange Donaldiana to me.
It is just so great!
I have a network of people that forward strange Donaldiana to me.
Somehow, this is almost as disturbing as the H&H series itself.
Yeah, it is.
*slowly backs away*
The Tweeters were suggesting he looked suspiciously like Benedict Arnold in that portrait.
Warty is there to defile his remains.
Sore loser
The week that everyone is off an i am somehow dragged into _more_ meetings than usual.
Edit the meeting invite so that the location is a good BBQ place.
Work from home, so every meeting is just a chance to go
toobintalk on glibsHere have some rage fuel. I’m getting a little tired of this shit. If this thing is a merciless killer of the elderly, then fucking act like it. And I’m not even in Pennsylvania.
Targeting people most at risk is not equitable. This is why we have to give $600 to everyone, regardless if they have been able to work for th last 9 months straight or have been out of work.
Leftists usually are all about “fairness”, which is unofficially defined as “whatever makes me feel good or is in my best interest, but framed as if I’m selfless and virtuous”.
Hey, if we vaccinate the people most likely to die, how are we going to keep increasing deaths to keep people scared? It’s called a brain, try using it, numbnuts!
You have to take it on faith that the vaccine works. They can always make the “mutant strain” claim if it doesn’t work in practice. The perpetual fear machine is in full operation.
About that…isn’t covid-19 just a mutant strain of all the other covid viruses we’ve dealt with for millennia? And if so, wouldn’t a mutant strain of this mutant strain have even less…aw, I forgot I don’t FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE. I guess I’ll never understand, nor will I ever, because I don’t science right.
No.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-020-0190-2/figures/1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-020-00459-7/figures/2
More detail within the Betacoronavirus grouping
I’ll play devil’s advocate. It’s still early and they are focusing on healthcare workers first, which will skew younger. Revisit the numbers in a week or two and see what they look like.
Don’t find this to be persuasive. That’s a lot more people than just health care workers. Also even if it’s _all_ health care workers, not all health care workers are _at risk_ HCW. Also, studies have shown that _at risk_ HCW are not particularly at risk compared to the population as a whole. The job apparently does wonders for one’s immune system.
Besides, I’ll bet a large sum of money that this is a whole bunch of public sector employees jumping to be first in line. It’s revolting. The _first_ people needed to be folks in LTC and those that take care of them. Very first. That they weren’t tells you all you need to know about the decision makers.
Seconded.
I’ll also add I have no faith in central planners. This vaccine roll-out is a perfect example of central planning.
The only reason to vaccinate HCWs really is to prevent onward transmission. Since that is asterisked as uncertain, there is no reason to vaccinate them ahead of higher risk (really, elderly) people. Other than FY;we’re heroes.
The main reason to vaccinate HCW is to prevent too many sickouts from crashing the health care system.
Probably the stupidest thing about tier 2 is that the fucking teachers managed to muscle their way in. Tier 1 was HCW and, basically, nursing home residents. Tier 2 is basically publsecs and elderly. One of these things is not like the other.
That goes along with it. Since they’re going to asterisk whether the vaccines do more beyond keeping vaccinated people out of the hospital or morgue, it’s may not reduce sickout and certainly not proactive quarantining. They can’t have it both ways.
The thing you have to remember about the public sector employees is that, for the most part, they are just going to do what their masters tell them. Indications so far are that the vaccines are going to be made available, but they will not be required, for the most part. I have already talked to several staffers at federal agencies who are not eager to take the vaccine when it is offered to them.
Bet it will be required for you and me some day soon.
Yep.
I initially thought that, but they actually came out and said it was voluntary. Will it stay that way?
I think it might stay that way, and here’s why. If they force everyone to get the vaccine, they will lose the excuse for social distancing and mask wearing. They will lose the rationale for not returning operations to normal. They want that rationale.
Sorry, I meant specifically for non-pubsec – maybe that’s not you, I don’t know.
As for an excuse, they won’t need one. They will force a vaccine on us and continue mask mandates and lockdowns for as long as they goddamn well feel like.
I hope they do. it will create more scofflaws and division, and push us closer to the crackup that is inevitably coming.
Within the FAA its ‘encouraged’ but not mandatory. We shall see…been a serious discussion with my wife on if that comes to pass.
Great H&H as always.
Did anyone check out Alice in Borderlands yet?
It’s a Japanese Manga made into live action. Essentially a survival series set in an abandoned or replica of Tokyo. The few remaining people have to solve puzzles in a game area where the stakes are high or face death.
Well done so far.
The porns made this way never turn out as well as one would expect.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=49_44FFKZ1M
My middle son has me hooked on Hunter X Hunter and there are some questionable characters in that…
Attack of the Mushroom People
What you did there – I see it
Thanks, SF, that was suitably cringeworthy. “Macron’s wife threw her wig on top of me! I was being molested!” indeed.
Glaring omission from the mourning lynx thread on odd celebrity names – the noteworthy son of Hollywood Squares host Peter Marshall:
Why is his first name the same as his surname?
I’ll play devil’s advocate. It’s still early and they are focusing on healthcare workers first, which will skew younger.
I won’t waste my time fretting about health care workers.
Teachers?
Cops?
Bureaucrats?
Fuck ’em. The line starts back over there.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, OLDTARD!
Old people are the White people of Vaccination Priorities.
Did anyone ever think that in the cold equations of ‘public health’, the longevity of those who no longer contribute to the economic-political machine would be prioritized?
Boomers didn’t vote for comrade Trump to be treated like throw away garbage!
Except, old people vote.
Old people, yes. Bed-ridden elderly in nursing homes? Not so much.
But if you kill them off, you won’t have their ballots to harvest.
So a bunch of elderly (nursing home?) patients died in a Parisian heat wave in the 00s because they don’t have air conditioning. My brother lived in Paris for quite a while and he was always of the opinion that they were allowed to die to get rid of them.
Gotta reduce pension costs!
But if you kill them off, you won’t have their ballots to harvest.
Dead people never vote. It Is Known.
It’s not like Democrats need them to be alive to get their votes, amirite?
“Can’t you just jump into another hat?”
“I don’t know. I’ve been this hat for so long, I might be stuck. I’ve stayed longer in a single hat, but I’m not a young hat anymore. I’m tired.”
WOAH.
I bet you SF hasn’t even played Super Mario Odyssey.
Its deep. Like a flaming pit.
Synthetics are harder to get out of than natural fibers.
Yay ! Lord H’s late Christmas pressie is being delivered today.
I ordered a yoga book from Germany for my wife back on the 7th. Its still in Germany. Oh well
I ordered one thing for my daughter on December 5 from Portugal. Still waiting for it. No clue where it is.
I ordered one other present that shipped from New Jersey on December 15 and was supposed to be delivered on the 21st. Still waiting for that as well.
My mom’s not getting hers till the 7th (a massage).
How is she feeling? She had the surgery right? Or am I mixing mythical womenz again?
She’s feeling better, can breathe better, and the pain in her back/hip has receded quite a bit. She can’t get on a massage table, though, so I got her a head/neck/shoulder massage where they have a special chair.
I’m starting to think her back/hip pain (in that particular area) was probably a result of however they positioned her on the operating table. She had a diaphragm plication, so I’m thinking they turned her on her side.
Thanks for asking!
🙂 That is good news!
This is good.
Is she getting a happy ending too?
If she’s happy at the end, she gets a happy ending.
My christmas crackers arrived today. Ordered on the 13th, taken to shipper on the…. 22nd. Thanks “christmas cracker store”, very timely.
“Ships before Christmas”
I sent out the DVDs to my sisters in Texas on the 12th; both packages arrived on the 28th.
We received our Christmas cards from Shutterfly yesterday.
We got the hubby’s 3D relief map of San Diego county yesterday.
Yay! Christmas again. 🙂
Do tell? Link? I dig maps.
One of my favorite presents was from here: https://www.artiplaq.com/nautical-charts – any NOAA chart, hard-mounted.
San Diego County
https://www.summitmaps.com/Products/3D-Orbital-Image-Map-–-San-Diego-County__0033.aspx
Southern Cali
https://www.summitmaps.com/Products/Southern-California-–-3D-Earth-Image-Map__0005.aspx
They are satellite images printed on plastic that is then heat formed to the underlying topography so that it’s 3D.
I couldn’t decide between San Diego County and Southern California so I did the classic “Why not both?” Justification.
Coolio – thx!
Plan B: I write his erotic memoirs. No holds barred. Raw. Every conquest, every stripper, every secretary, and ever strung-out Playboy model.”
Brilliant.
https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/wonder-woman-1984-middle-east-arab-mena-racism.html
Wonder Woman’s Middle Eastern Stereotypes Should Have Stayed in the 1980s
Like the Indiana Jones series, Wonder Woman 1984 is consumed by affection for the movies of an earlier time—and like Temple of Doom, it revives the era’s noxious ethnic stereotypes along with its Members Only jackets. Almost four decades after Sterritt wrote those words, WW84 shows how little has really changed when it comes to Hollywood’s treatment of other countries and other cultures, in particular those of the Middle East and North Africa. A decade after the Iranian Green Movement and Arab Spring, WW84 indulges a view of Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, that bears little resemblance to its myriad and unique identities, in the 1980s or now.
Woke on woke violence. The best kind.
These are the people who are supposed to “Inevitably” take over out country, and that there is no hope of defeating.
“Islam is right about women”
A decade after the Iranian Green Movement and Arab Spring
The MENA is just as bad off as before, and in some ways materially worse. Except Tunisia. And in that case, it’s still too early to tell how lasting the changes will be. What fucking world do these people live in? Did they not follow the news after 2009? There are about a dozen ongoing or only recently “concluded” insurgencies of significant impact across the MENA that all started in the wake of the revolutions. The Ayatollah is still around, the Egyptian military is back in charge, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are swinging their dicks around with their neighbors, that little bit of business in Libya and Syria that spilled over into surrounding countries happened.
Christ on a cracker.
Forget it kbolino, it’s ethnic-town.
And the good things that happened, viz. Israel’s reconciliation with several countries in the region, are being treated as though they didn’t happen.
Whoever it was that mentioned Mary Ann this morning is now clearly a certified jinx . 😉
A life lost too soon.
NOOOO
Ginger lives yet!
To whoever (whomever?) that was who mentioned her: I have a whole list of people I want you to mention.
I’m not sure that I could bring myself to type something about wanting to bang Kamala even if it was going to lead to her death.
You’ve seen the list, then?
Sob. I actually usually took the contrarian position on the Ginger v Mary Ann debate: I really do think Ginger was hotter. Though “both” is observably the correct answer.
Though “both” is observably the correct answer.
Seconded.
Ginger was more my type, which I jokingly describe as “looks like she was drawn in the back pages of a horny teenager’s notebook” ?
Mary Ann, no contest.
Would someone please mention my ex-wife?
Seconded…though I think my ex-wife’s drug and possible street life did that for me
Take it away John Cleese:
https://youtu.be/HSOZ4wqgDdk?t=96
I actually just found out that my ex-wife’s father died “of” the ‘rona (he was dying of lung cancer anyway but caught it when he was hospitalized a month ago). I know he’s “better off” now but it still feels like a loss because he was really a wonderful, wonderful man. I hadn’t talked to him in years (divorces being how they are) but I would have loved to hear his thoughts on everything going on right now. I know that loving your (ex)father-in-law usually doesn’t go along with the character profiles but I just couldn’t help it. Rest in peace Rod.
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/30/democracy-headache-more-than-70-percent-of-trump-voters-distrust-the-best-run-election-in-years_partner/
Democracy headache: More than 70 percent of Trump voters distrust the best-run election in years
“There’s a process. It is very straightforward,” Clark-Smith said during a break at an early voting center in an Atlanta suburb, where she praised poll workers and the process of verifying signatures on ballot envelopes and flagging problems for follow-up with voters. “Watching it was like watching a work of art.“
Now that’s how you gaslight.
GOP winning an election was a threat to our democracy. Now them Loosing is a threat to our Democracy. Media needs to make up their mind.
Dissent is a threat to our “Democracy”
Of course a lawyer thinks its a straight forward process, cause everything they do in relations to the courts and fillings is always straight forward right?
Well, most modern art is shit, so…
“The best-run election in years”, even if it were true (and how many years are we talking about here?), is a very low bar to clear. While I won’t endorse every one of Rudy’s brain farts, the courts seem to have been much more interested in hushing up rather than resolving. As someone here has pointed out, this election hit every one of the Department of State’s former guidelines for identifying manipulated elections in other countries. We are now simultaneously being told that even provable instances of fraud are “too local” or “not widespread” so don’t matter, while meanwhile nationwide riots get kicked off every couple years when somebody gets shot by the police. How much more local can you get than somebody getting shot?
At this point, why tell the truth? The powers that be are all well enough entrenched that they’re not going to be unseated by another power, and they’re all pulling in the same direction. The people have shown no interest in grabbing the power back, and the few incidents of violence have been one sided and well controlled by those in power.
These people show no broader system of morality, so it’s not like they have consciences to scream at them for being evil. So they do and say whatever it takes to accumulate more power for themselves and their fellow travelers.
Whether or not there was widespread fraud that decided elections this time around is unknowable anymore unless you have access to primary sources of data. There is nobody trustworthy enough to use as a secondary source of info, so it 100% comes down to presupposition and your inherent biases.
Whether or not there was widespread fraud that decided elections this time around is unknowable anymore unless you have access to primary sources of data.
Sadly, yes. Whatever records might have been useful are long gone by now, and I doubt that, in most cases, enough records were ever made to begin with. The only check is direct oversight, and the overseers were in many cases either incompetent or complicit. We are told the election is secure, but like all of the “anonymous sources say” claims, there is no actually way for the public to verify that (we can only dingle around with statistical assessments of the final published results).
This is the Anti-Enlightenment. The Priests have read the Bible for us and told us what it says. We are not fit to question God’s Mysteries, as told to us by the clergy, and we are not fit to become clergy, for we are but the common fools whom God loves but does not abide in His Ministry.
They’ve tempered their description of the election to be “no fraud that would have affected the outcome.”
Ok, so there was *some* fraud but not enough, they claim.
If they were serious, they’d be looking into all alleged frauds and making damned sure that this won’t happen Next Time on a scale that does change the outcome.
But they’ve gone with “Nothing to see here; it ran great, and we will be doing this mail in ballot thing in perpetuity.”
If 30-40% or more of voters don’t believe the vote counting is fair, rule of law is hanging by a tenuous thread.
^^^ this. Elections are only legitimate, because people believe they are. And all the Yelling and Concern trolling that you thinking the election was rigged, or fishy or suspect is damaging democracy will not change peoples minds. They are stamping their feet demanding you submit. Democracy wasn’t destroyed because people decided to loose faith in it, People lost faith in it because they saw what a sham it all is.
We are living in an alternate universe where “wet streets cause rain” is the canonical explanation and “rain causes wet streets” is seen as a dangerous conspiracy theory.
If 30-40% or more of voters don’t believe the vote counting is fair, rule of law is hanging by a tenuous thread.
This is why all the ball spiking on the left is dangerous. We’re seeing all of the components necessary for violent resistance, even though the actual movement hasn’t gelled together yet. Riots, car bombs, delegitimization of the election process, rock bottom institutional trust, questionable economic situation, government leaning on its people over an extended period.
I thought we were in a tinderbox a year ago. It was nothing compared to today.
Jan 21 Predictions:
Outside of the snide comments from Trump being at the inauguration I suspect Salon et al will be running back-patting articles on how if they didn’t highlight that Trump was going to make himself dictator, he would have never left office.
As if. The world ends on Jan 19th. Biden never becomes a President of the United States.
So I don’t have to make my mortgage payment?
No it’s still due by the 15th
As was stated above: January 22, the NYT, Daily Beast, MSNBC, CNN ect. all file for bankruptcy.
And the next day they’re bailed out by the Fedgov under the pretense of maintaining a healthy independent press.
“He just took over the
bankpress”-George Bailey
You forgot New York, California, and every other blue state in the nation.
In some election humor, it appears the fool running Walmart’s twitter forgot to sign out of Walmart’s account and into their own personal one before mocking Hawley. At least I’m guessing that’s what happened.
https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1344355788303855617
Work stays on work computer, personal stays on personal, and never cross streams.
Well… bye…
Robbies rule for employment: ” If You fuck up in such a way that your employer becomes target of national conversation, you should be expected to be fired, This of course does not hold true in the public sector”
^^
I have no one to root for in this exchange, but it amuses me to no end anyway
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/29/judge-leslie-abrams-gardner-stacey-abrams-sister-b/?fbclid=IwAR2AuEiqNS0fnbRSom5RibaFkoLMIj2MCh1JH7_2aPUqL52VM2kM60IDD6k
Stacey Abrams’ federal-judge sister blocks Georgia voter eligibility challenge
A federal judge in Georgia has blocked two counties from purging its voter rolls of roughly 4,000 allegedly inactive voters ahead of the next week’s runoff elections for U.S. Senate.
U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, who is the sister of Democratic voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, handed down the ruling after rebuffing a request that she recuse herself from the case.
When even the appearance of a a conflict of interest is an ethics problem.
Wait. Skin color? Check. Genitals? Check. Never mind.
You’re joking. This has nothing to do with skin color or genitals. it’s all about TEAM
You’re joking.
I can’t tell anymore.
What are the odds that the average person has a “federal judge sister” versus the odds that a politician (or wannabe politician) does?
Outside of DC/NoVa, I’d guess the odds are far, far higher that a politician has relatives on the bench and in this or that agency etc.
It’s like any banana republic or sub Saharan African country: the most important thing you can do is become a government employee. That way you can get your brother in law or uncle a government job, And You can take your cut to look the other way, and bring home that bribe cash to provide for your family.
In Africa they don’t even think of it as graft. Providing for your family is the ultimate good, and the ends justify the means.
Tarran used to talk a little bit about how that worked in Turkey. I think it’s the norm in most of the world, not just Africa.
It shouldn’t be that surprising then that America has it too. Unfortunately, like many other things, it has to be ten times as expensive and ten times as pretentious as the rest of the world, too.
Destroy the law, which the left has done, will result in no one respecting the law. But don’t worry, it will all work out well.
OT – This was an interesting read.
That is an interesting read. Unfortunately, the author (of the preface, maybe not the book) didn’t go into much detail as to why this is different in the United States than the situation in other wealthy countries. Though, the answer there may be that those other countries haver longer histories and other ways of establishing social status.
The left spent their last 10 cents on an attempted coup against a duly elected president.
When that failed, they spent their last nickel finally achieving the coup by rigging an election.
They had better get down on their knees and pray to whatever God they don’t believe in, that this doesn’t go south for them. /enough said
I don’t think it will go south for them. There’s a large enough chunk of the population to offset any “populist” opposition that they don’t have to care, and enough people will just return to being disaffected. They know damn well that they have to start handing out cash money to people and pronto. The collapse of their power will be economic before it’s political.