Editor’s Note: Banjos can’t be here to bring you links this fine morning, but she left another article for you instead.
The Cathedral (how the great Michael Malice refers to the corporate media, academia, and the federal government complex) are not acting like a group that is winning and in control. They are acting like cornered animals. The recent and growing assault against Trump and right wingers on social media is the snarling and snapping of the powers that be, desperately trying to reinstate control.
As the late Breitbart use to say “politics is downstream of culture” and due to the internet, the Cathedral has been slowly losing control of culture over the past 20 years with it snowballing in conjunction with the improvements in technology.
Centralized media, first through radio, movies, then through television, was the great cultural unifier of America. It brought our disparate nation together during the 20th century until the advent of the internet which started the slow decentralization of media. The days of every household huddled around the radio and television to receive their Cathedral approved narrative is long gone. In effect, we are seeing Americans living under different realities. Those still living under the trance of the Cathedral and those who red-pilled at some point and broke free. Red-pilling as Malice defines as “the belief that what is presented as fact by the corporate press is a carefully constructed narrative intentionally designed to keep some very unpleasant people in power”
Although red-pilling and blue-pilling is not a 100% right versus left thing, the left overwhelmingly are more blue-pilled than the right. Being online more and watching television less attributes to red-pilling. You can see the differences in the sources of media that the right wing versus the left wing consumes with 2020’s national party conventions. Democrats won conventional network viewership and Republicans crushed Democrats in online viewership. The left is still attached to the cord while the right is more likely to have cut the cord.
How does consumption of online media attribute to red-pilling? The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is easier to break free when you read the comments on a news article on social media where an expert in the field tears the article to shreds, or a subject of the article on their social media page debunks/denounces the claims. It is easier to show the corporate media’s blatant hypocrisy when you can show side by side tweets they have previously made and articles they have written side by side. Most importantly, it is easier than ever to get your non-Cathedral approved viewpoints to a large audience.
The dying of the Cathedral’s media is no more apparent than in television ratings. Network television has been on a steady decline. 2015 viewership combined was shy of 32 million. Despite an increase in population and the government forcing the country to stay at home, viewership of network television over the last 5 years has dropped a third to shy of 21 million viewers.
Outside of cable news, one sees a steady decline of cable networks as well. The younger the intended audience, the bigger the drop; understandably so. The only time my children watch cable television is when they are stuck in a hotel that does not provide Netflix. My kids were confused as to why they couldn’t choose which episode they could watch and why they were incapable of rewinding, fast-forwarding, or pausing the show. They gave up and watched YouTube videos on an iPad. Cord cutting has been growing at a faster pace. Only 2/3rds of US households now pay for cable or satellite television with 27% saying they intend to cord cut in 2021.
You might say “So what? People are just switching over from Cathedral network TV to Cathedral streaming TV. Is the Cathedral’s influence actually declining?” Think about it this way. Despite having everything and the kitchen sink thrown at Trump in the last few weeks and being deprived of a platform to defend himself, his approval ratings are still steady.
For those of you still black-pilling (doom and glooming) with the encroaching totalitarianism of mainstream social media keep one very important thing in mind. Gab is still alive and growing at a pace that they cannot keep up with. Gab had everything thrown at them over the last four years in the just the same way Parler recently did—and they survived it all. The reason being simple: without government intervention, it is impossible to create a monopoly. There will always be a small alternative. These small alternatives will cater to the needs of the ousted and grow themselves. Even Standard Oil had small companies compete against them. I would not be surprised if Parler returns and overcomes the same obstacles that Gab overcame.
The recent assault by Big Tech should ultimately not be seen as a Black Pill, it should be viewed as a White Pill. The grasp that the Cathedral holds on the public is tenuous at best. They are dying and desperate. Instead of yelling at the sky, ask yourself how can you quicken their demise?
First, use alternative tech as much as you can. Use Duck Duck Go, use Brave, use Telegram or the myriad of alternative social media. Use Bitchute, use Rumble. Get your friends and family to do so as well. I am not tech savvy; many of you are. It would be great if one of you could start a new forum on Glibs on alternative tech. Avoid buying and using products from people that hate you. Stop giving page views to NYT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC. If you noticed, most of my morning links are from non-Cathedral sources. Homeschool your children especially if your local public schools are toxic. Start your own businesses. You do not have to go full Congressman Massie and go off the grid, but there are many things that you are capable of doing that is within your power. You have far more power than you realize.
sup’ fam
Buy your lottery tickets.
Some members of congress are looking at passing a new lottery tax that will take 95% of any winnings over $2K…. To make the lottery more fair, you know….
No kidding. I just read that. A former boss of mine, a mathematician, would regularly buy lottery tickets. When I mentioned “you know the odds- why are you throwing away your money?” he would say, “my chances are as good as yours”
He’s not wrong.
I thought Fourscore showed us that wasn’t necessarily the right thing to do…
Wasn’t offering a lottery prize that you didn’t own… fraud?
I wonder who actually gets rich off of the lottery.
The house.
That British motherfucker.
As a friend once pointed out to me: when the local mobs ran the numbers, their take was a third. When the state took it over, their take became 50%.
Pray the state doesn’t “renegotiate/redefine” the deal again….
Local news: NYS is going to eliminate some of their payements to some counties. To offset that, in those counties, the tax on slot machine revenue will be reduced from 45% to 25%.
NY is absurd. They tax you, and then if people complain loudly enough they “give back” some money rather than reduce the tax. I can only assume the churn allows for skimming.
The lottery is a tax on poor people #changemymind
I’ve always said it was a tax on stupidity.
Stupid tax is what my dad always called it.
Good morning everyone. Surprise, to me, snowstorm this AM.
We are getting a dusting here… Get out there and yell at the sky, man…
It stopped already 🙁
Nice big snowflake clusters coming down here.
The sun is out here.
Liar! A meteor is coming and has blotted out the sun. You’re dead soon.
Sigh… we got a good opaque ground cover but it suddenly stopped. The way it went from light mist to heavy clumped flakes so quickly gave hope for a decent day of playing in the yard with the kids.
Thank you for this. The situation wasn’t going to get better as long as the cathedral was able to pump it’s poison into people’s heads. Were they going to take it laying down? No, and there will be casualties, but it’s worth a shot because the alternative is unacceptable.
They sure act as if they believe they will get away with it….
If they can sell wars which end up killing hundreds of thousands, they of course think they can get away with it. Those wars were on foreign soil, though. Different monster they’re fighting now.
Sure as hell hope you are right, but living in a state where 2/3 of the people are infected by leftist stupidity, watching otherwise intelligent people gobble up the lies and propaganda and not only believing it, but living in fear, tells me too many of them would go along with it, even after they come to get some of them as well. That whole concept of some people being fine with their lives being ruined and their freedoms being crushed as long as their neighbor has it worse drives these sheeple’s reaction to things that should make them recoil.
I’m used to living in a state where 95% of people are infected by something I disagree with.
So not a Packer Backer?
SP will put you on her list of special projects.
More of a Becker Pecker maybe.
Being purple behind the yellow line. Story of my life.
Being purple behind the yellow line.
Your review of the Balldo?
Yellow labia should seek medial attention. Oh, wait, was that an Asian joke? If they’re normally a color besides yellow, seek medical attention.
Figured “purple and throbbing” would’ve been too obvious.
The US should not be a country. 330M people have too many diveregent vews to live under a single strict set of rules… and one major subgroup of people thinks that people should be living under a single strict set of rules.
At a certain size of polity, the only possible stable government is tyranny.
Make that “should not” a reality. Do it in any manner and as completely as is possible for you. Defeatism does not attract supporters.
I wonder how much of the wall around NYC I could get built before someone stops me? If I can get a big enough bribe to the Teamsters, it might be a lot.
I’m not sure I agree. It depends on the character of the polity as much as the size. You can easily assemble a group of 10 people that could not live under the same roof – you might not even have to venture outside of people you are related to to do it. For a long time, this country assimilated people from around the globe – for the simple reason that we offered something not available to them in their native lands; they were misfits within their home countries but their character was compatible with ours.
We are at risk of disintegrating now because our character is being undermined, and Ozy’s article yesterday is an excellent way to look at it. In a well functioning social group (of whatever size) the majority will be “the sheep” – those that comply with the rules without a hitch. We in this group are all perfectly willing to comply with rules – provided they give us sufficient latitude to live as we see fit. The whole question changes when the rules start to impinge. Our character as a country is becoming more rule-oriented, to cover more aspects of our lives with less latitude. It isn’t that we individually changed – but those cultural norms have.
I don’t think I’ve made myself clear.
“Character of the polity” is irrelevant. There is always going to be a certain fraction of any populace that is utopian/busybodish/Dunning-Krugered. Once enough of them exist to take control of the decison making body of a government (which never scales in size linearly with the population) then the rules WILL impinge.
At that point, things either become unstable if the government lacks the ability to enforce the rule of the utopians,t yrannical if they do.
Then you assume that idiot fraction of the populace isn’t constant but actually scales faster than population growth. Otherwise, any social group could be captured by that fraction – which undermines your assertion that scale matters.
No, it can be constant.
However, while the popluation of the US has grown, the size of the Congress has not. Therefore a smaller fraction of the population is required to take over. Ditto the number of actual decision makers in the executive branch.
Ditto the CCPCC.
The size of the group of people needed to make decisions on policy increases less quickly than the population as a whole. Therefore, given a constant rate of utopians, there will eventually reach a point where utopians can take control of the decision-makeing portion of a governement.
I don’t disagree with the big picture, that 330M people are too divergent to find much common ground, but disagree with the ultimate conclusion that we can’t and shouldn’t be a country.
We were set up to be separate state polities. Various laboratories of democracy, all living adjacent to one another with a loosely set up central government that only handles big picture stuff. Baseline rights, international trade and disputes, and trade between states. It’s the ever-growing power of the federal government that is the problem. If the people of Oregon and Kentucky weren’t made to live under One Rule via federal law, our problems would be much more manageable.
Being a country isn’t the problem. Having top down rule over virtually every aspect of our lives is the problem.
But a non-trivial fraction wantsto live in lockstep, and will do what it takes to make that happen.
Technocrats/utopians believe that:
-Every problem has a solution
-Someone knows what the solution is, or can figure it out given enough time and resources
-These solution havers/finders can be identified
Therefore:
-Solution havers/finders need to be given power to find and implement solutions
-Those who work against the solution havers/finders are causing suffering and making society worse
-In a very real sense, the dissidents are the actual reason problems exist.
Right. There will always be those types.
But the pressure to act is far lower when there isn’t a necessity to act, or acting isn’t somehow incentivized.
It’s much easier, even if you’re poor, to move to another state than to affect law and culture to suit your personal needs despite those around you. That we are only afforded that choice for a few reasons (legal weed, for instance) is the big problem. If we could find a way to decentralize most of what the federal government does, the pressure to use a central government necessarily lessens.
I think the only place we’re in disagreement is whether that decentralization results in something not being “one country.”
Is the EU one country? Maybe. Very close if not yet. Is the UK four countries? Hell no.
“Every problem has a solution”
This in of itself isn’t the problem. The problem is that these types believe “Every problem has a government solution”. That’s where the train derails and crashes & burns…
Since it’s a false statement, I’d consider using it as a foundational belief to be a problem.
Yeah, but that would require those that claim to hold that belief to have some sort of consistency in their supposed logic…
I’d go one further:
Every problem has a government solution, and only a government solution.
Civil society only creates problems. The government only creates solutions.
“Only 2/3rds of US households now pay for cable or satellite television with 27% saying they intend to cord cut in 2021.”
I pay a big chunk of change to my cable provider for a bundled service. I need business speed internet and I have a land line over IP because cell reception in my are sucks (remind me to tell that story in detail some day… bitch ass neighbor got every neighborhood moron to sign a petition to block a cell tower over 2 decades ago, moved, then left us all screwed because nobody wants to put a tower up now anymore). Because I travel a lot and my kid uses it, I also pay a lot for TV. Funny thing is I am always watching documentary channels and could care less about the other stuff. When I analyzed what it would cost to completely drop the TV part, I discovered their bundles were designed to make it less of a saving than it would be worth (I would end up paying about $60 less a month as the cost of the other services would double). Eventually I will cut it, but I have been lazy so far.
Story of my life.
Seriously, if all I save is $60 a month, and I still have to go out and find a way to get my documentary channels, I suspect that I will in aggregate end up paying more than I do now. I am hoping that when I no longer like having the TV on in the background I decide to go without that shit completely, and then cut the cord.
Huh. I’m pretty much youtube. I don’t watch any series anymore. Movies either. Sounds like I should go with something different, though. Thanks a bundle, Banjos, you are a peach!
We dropped cable some years ago. We have a gamut of streaming services, but while the same company delivers cable and internet services (and land-line phone, if you can imagine still having one of those) they do come a la carte.
Speaking of, I might just have kept the cable if it came a la carte as well. My chief frustration with even the minimum cable package was that about a third to a half of the channels I was paying for were sportsball channels that I would never, ever even look at. The only sport I was ever interested in watching was pro rodeo and they didn’t ever seem to cover that – not even in Colorado.
I dropped it because I was sick and tired of paying the “sports franchise fee” every month. Screw paying the NBA or the MLB for something I’m not even watching.
“Speaking of, I might just have kept the cable if it came a la carte as well.”
This is something I asked repeatedly for. They won’t do that, because this would mean the majority of the woke channels they peddle and charge big money for would suddenly have no takers.
So, instead, they lose subscribers altogether. Doesn’t seem real smart to me.
Their numbers somehow say it is far more disruptive to their business model and their bottom line to go fully a la cart then it is to keep bleeding people. Giving people choices might result in them exercising those choices in ways the company doesn’t want.
I read some articles a while back explaining the business model for the channels/cable companies. For some of the channels, they come in a package deal (you want to stream Disney Kids? You’ve also got to carry ESPN 1 – 8 in the same subscription tier). Other channels pay the cable companies a fee to carry them in the basic tier (think home shopping/infomercial commercials). That’s why the cable companies don’t want to go to a model where the subscriber just gets to pick channels. Some of them are under bundle contracts, and others would be available to you even if you didn’t pay for them.
Then you have the SJW’s who complain that a la carte would kill special interest programming. As in most cases, they don’t even watch the shite they say needs to be carried and produced.
This!
The Cathedral services will not offer a la carte because the channels that know their company would go to shit won’t allow it. Places like ESPN require cable outlets to bundle their stuff, especially now.
May they die a quick death.
I wouldn’t put all the blame on the cable company for that – the content providers can be real dicks as well.
a la carte is likely never coming to cable.
Has less to do with the cable companies unwillingness to do so and more to do with the content provider networks (A&E, Discovery, Disney, etc) unwillingness to allow it.
Each network has one or two flagship channels.
The content providers require that their flagship channel be in the standard cable lineup. You must agree to keep ESPN in the standard tier. It cannot be in a higher tier package, or something customers explicitly choose
The content providers require this because they want to be able to tell advertisers “our channel is in 70 million homes so”
The issue is that all of these companies, networks and providers both, are stuck in a dying business model. Disney is trying to create artificial demand, as it has worked for them in the past, and it might still work in China. All of the sports networks are stuck in this and don’t seem to realize that no one gives a shit about ESPN 8 (the Ocho!) but it allowed them to juice the numbers when it came time to negotiate contracts with the distribution networks, Comcast and ATT in particular.
But now, I can stream whatever and whenever through Netflix, Amazon, and such, but even that is going to die as video hosting online will become more ubiquitous. And at that point, people will be watching whatever floats their boat, which is appropriate as I watch boat building videos all the time, and am willing to shoot a couple of bucks their way via Patreon. And that is the future, personalized TV.
I’m still waiting for 5g home internet.
*stares silently out the window*
Yeah, they just announced that *finally* all 5 seasons of the Muppet Show will be on Disney Plus next month. (remastered?). No word about DVD releases of S4 and S5 – even though you’d assume that if they arranged the music rights for streaming it’d be the same for discs…
Either way though – I still can’t see a lot of financial gain in not releasing stuff like that or the Mandalorian on disc for a one-time chunk of $30+ – is it that much more profitable to only have streaming? Seems like doing both – esp for key items would double the profit.
May have to sub later this year when I have time.
I would prefer much of that stuff being on physical media because it’s of a much higher quality than streaming. Not all 1080p or 4K is the same, nor is the audio.
For the stuff I really enjoy, I’d love to have max quality video and lossless audio instead of the bullshit we are streamed.
The FireTV doesn’t stream at as high a quality as amazon video will stream via web browser on PC.
My 4k version of Blade Runner 2035 is gorgeous.
Shame it’s not a better movie.
Other than Jared Leto, I found it a worthy sequel. The glacial pace and limited plot was very much in the style of the original. Both movies were about atmospherics and “what does it mean to be human?”
I didn’t get into the first one either. Cool concept. Didn’t do it for me.
I’m a believer in physical media.
I still buy CDs.
We cut off our DirecTV subscription last summer and haven’t missed it. The GF streams everything she watches (sports, mostly), and I buy physical media if I want to watch anything. I haven’t watched TV regularly for more than 15 years, and even before then, it was only one or two shows that I cared to see. I have a business class internet connection at home, but it doesn’t cost too much comparatively, and even though it is a relatively slow speed, it’s still more than adequate for our needs.
I used to really enjoy watching movies and at one point thought I would put together a serious home video system (this was back in the late 90s) but honestly I’ve lost all desire to watch TV and movies other than as background noise. I understand that people like the stories and, probably nearly as much, the connection they get discussing them with other people, but I don’t really understand anymore why people dedicate so many precious hours of their lives watching this stuff. I have to admit I spend more time than I would like reading things on the internet, but I think I still get more done–certainly more than when I used to spend evenings in front of the TV.
People watch movies for all kinds of reasons.
They are art, just like any other form of art.
We cut the cable a decade ago and never looked back. The bill was cut by at least half, but I’d gladly pay more than cable just to not have to watch commercials. Time is a huge premium to me and I’ll never go back to a commercial-driven service. I can’t even watch cable when staying in hotels… I bring a roku express with me to plug into the tv and watch my own stuff.
Me too. I’ve stopped even turning on the tv for background noise in the hotels. I did like some that had streaming apps built in but those are a pain in the ass to login into. How about a short code or QR for your phone to Uthorize it? Now i just still to laptop or other small device.
Back when DSL was first getting rolled out, we couldn’t get it in our neighborhood (like 3 blocks of houses).
I ran into a technician one day doing some repair work and was giving him a hard time about how we couldn’t get DSL, but just a block away people could. He told me that the reason was they had installed so many filters because of customer complaints about sound quality that it was impossible to squeeze the bandwidth for DSL out of the local office. He wouldn’t tell me who it was that had done all the complaining though.
I only found out that it was our Karen neighbor when we were finally able to get broadband via the cable company. She volunteered that she wasn’t surprised it was the cable company and not the phone company because she had complained and complained and her phone quality still wasn’t very good.
Neighbors!
One filter didn’t work, add another. Here’s an idea, maybe if there’s absolutely NO signal reaching her phone?! Just cut the cord, that’ll do the trick!
Do they even give Techs a manual to ignore before they practice their voodoo?
Bullshit. That’s not how that works.
Not you, but the line the tech was feeding you. Which is common to make people go away.
Step 1: Find an outdoor hobby you love.
Step 2: Find some video games you enjoy for when it is bucketing outside.
You will then not only never miss not having TV feed, you’ll find yourself wondering why you’re paying for streaming servies.
Though admittedly, a month of Netflix + Amazon Prime is less expensive than one day at the range these days.
My biggest issue is not having a good place nearby (that I’m aware of) that I can shoot. Esp since I’d like to bust out the shotgun and do some skeet.
Maybe when it gets warmer, I’ll try some of the places in NoVA that I’ve seen online, but it’d be nice not to have to drive far.
One more *good* reason to get a chunk of land in the middle of BFN.
One of my clubs has an electric thrower that you can use on your own. Before I got into that club, I bought a spring-loaded foot-stomp one that the other club had no problem with me using on the trap field.
Next Saturday I’m finally going to show up for five stand and give it a whirl.
Few more weeks and I’ll be able to shoot off my deck. Have to go to the club down in Chugiak for trap and sporting clays, though.
I’ve got a state-run outdoor range down the road. $7 per lane for 3 hours. It’s old school though: wood frame targets you set yourself and operated Marine Corps style. It’s very safe, and you’ve got a pistol range and 2 rifle ranges you can move between freely. Open Friday – Sunday.
What state? I saw a nice public outdoor range just over the WV border but it would have been a bit of a drive even when I lived in cville.
That reminds me though that I do need to check and see if Quantico’s outdoor range is still open to folks on the weekends. I remember seeing some stuff there when i was a reservist in ’08 and we’d go there to qualify, but haven’t checked recently. I guess there are exceptions to bringing guns on base for some functions/locations but I keep forgetting to check.
Tennessee.
https://www.mapquest.com/us/tennessee/stones-river-hunter-education-center-346399829
I can’t keep track of the rainbow of pill colors used to describe which pigeonhole a person should be archived in.
That’s by design… If you come to understand the rules you might realize this is all bullshit…
I’m burnt sienna.
I’m flesh.
Racist!
May I offer you the pill of many colors of enlightenment?
“you will receive total consciousness”
So you have THAT going for you. Which is nice.
You can pigeonhole me as someone who looks for hope even in dire situations. Once you do that, you may find that it wasn’t as dire as you thought.
It’s easy to have a positive mental attitude when you speak Japanese well enough to be accepted into the soaplands.
Didn’t just end up here randomly. I chose it. Spent time in Europe and elsewhere in Asia and so I had some baseline to chose from. Gotta say that I’m sick of the “Game Over, Man!” stuff. There’s a choice, leave (I did. No shame in that) or don’t and fight. What other options do you have?
At least 2020 didn’t get Bill Paxton.
RIP
I’m sticking to my Irish Democracy platform.
Well, there are a lot of us who can’t simply leave–and I don’t mean because of jobs or language barriers or finances. There are many who still care about the things that we’re still “allowed” to do in the US that are impossible or extremely expensive and/or bureaucratized everywhere else in the world.
If you don’t care about the freedom to bear arms, by all means move to Japan or Mexico. If you don’t care about the freedom to speak about politics without fear of direct government action, by all means move to China, if you like the rest of it. If you don’t care about the freedom to fly your own airplane without excessively stifling regulations and significant costs, go ahead and move to Europe or Asia or even Australia.
The fact remains that the US offers some liberties that many other countries in the world do not, and those of us who care to exercise them are losing what to us is home. This is not a function of Biden’s election or any other politician in particular. It’s the general trajectory of the society, especially if we continue to imagine that it is a viable thing to accept that a monolithic regulatory state can rule over a population so diverse as ours.
If you don’t care about the freedom to fly your own airplane without excessively stifling regulations and significant costs, go ahead and move to … Australia.
can’t fly on the flattest content. Stay Claussy.
Well, you can, it’s just considerably more heavily regulated and expensive than here in the US. I didn’t mean to imply it’s impossible there.
*Continent
This typo was brought to you, manually, by a real keyboard on a real computer.
I didn’t mean to imply it’s impossible there.
YES YOU DID. OWN UP TO YOUR IMPLICATION!!!11
It’s just stupid. What happened to places capitalizing on their strengths? Australia should be ultralights and rocketpowered dragstrips as far as the eye can see.
Instead, spiders and dropbears.
The funny thing is… Aussies fly whenever they travel long distance.
You do you and I’m fine with whatever choice you make. “It’s the general trajectory of the society,…” . Yep. Which is why changing minds is going to be essential. You’re gonna need some kind of numbers to take on the tyrant. I left a looong time ago and the main reason was the rot I saw. Broken families everywhere I looked. Didn’t like it then and it seems there’s a price to pay decades later.
See, I was just going with a “I’m jealous becasue I’ve never received a rim job from a professional” joke, and you had to go and make it a serious philosophical position.
Let’s see, that’s the half-pink, half-neon blue pill. GK14. Here you go!
Guide to pill colors
Warty Twilight Zone-esque sad-making.
Dang, that was a good read! Thanks for sharing the link.
Whatever you do, DO NOT TAKE THE BROWN PILL.
Science Denier!
Or eat yellow snow.
The red and blue come from The Matrix except that instead of acknowledging or denying the existence of the movie’s namesake Matrix, they’re about acknowledging or denying the Cathedral (which Banjos defines above). Take the red pill, you admit the Cathedral exists; take the blue pill (or be unaware entirely) and you reject the existence of the Cathedral, continue living your ordinary life, and believe everything that gets said on your screen (TV, computer, smartphone, etc.) by “official” sources.
Among the red-pilled, then you have white and black pills. These are not taken from The Matrix and are really just stand-ins for optimism and pessimism. Take the white pill and you believe that, as more and more people get red-pilled, the Cathedral will lose its power and we’ll all be more free. Take the black pill and you believe that the Cathedral’s victory is inevitable and we’ll all be ground to dust under its boot.
silly Kbolino.
The matrix was about transgenderism. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53692435
Yeah, I heard that. While it is certainly plausible that the Wachowskis’ nascent gender dysphoric identity was an influence on the work, there’s too much that doesn’t comport with that explanation for “Matrix = transgender” to make sense. Plus, the second and third films are just cash grabs, and I’m not sure anyone really wants to associate transgenderism with seeking attention and money quite like that.
It is funny (ironic?) though that, as far as I can tell, culturally the people who created the work inspiring the metaphor chose the blue pill.
The complete capture of the C-suite class (or at least, that’s how I see the bowing and scraping over the past year, the institution of “justice” policies with the overt statements that you *must* be an agent of *their* change, etc.) is what makes me think that the Cathedral is not losing and not lashing out in fear. It simply believes that the deed is done, and it is time for the boots on the neck. The purging of the media follows suit — they can do it now, because they don’t believe there’s anyone who can stop them. They control the colleges and have sufficiently programmed the jurists, the corporate class and the bureaucrats. They control a good chunk of the now emasculated and woke churches and they know there’s little power left in those they don’t.
When they can cut infrastructure to their competition, cancel your employment and cut financial services (so no support) at will — they believe they have the tools to win.
And we’ll see if they’re right, I suppose.. I’m not optimistic — but then again, while I’ve never been a tattletale, I don’t think I’m a “Dreamer” either.
I’d agree with this. They’re not behaving like cornered animals. They’re behaving like Bond villains who’ve decided to lecture you before dropping you into the tank of sharks.
“…I’m not optimistic…”
My pessimism has never failed me, but I’m sure someday it will.
I have doubts in my pessimism’s ability to fail me.
Banjos, mind if I link to, excerpt and comment on this over on Animal Magnetism in tomorrow’s post?
Go for it.
Danke schoen, mein schatzie!
Just in time for Beijing Biden to reverse said declaration.
With just one day left in President Trump’s term, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has officially determined that China’s campaign of mass internment, forced labor and forced sterilization of over 1 million Muslim minorities in Xinjiang constitutes “genocide” and “crimes against humanity.”
Incoming sec state says he concurs with this….but that doesn’t mean a whole lot a day before turnover.
…and nothing else happens…
The NBA might play a game or two in Xinjiang.
My standing offer is open if Dilraba Dilmurat needs a place to stay. I’m sure I can find her a bunk.
I got my gf to join my boycott of Kohls.
Carrying BLM merch wasn’t enough for her, but banning the my pillow guy? Yeah, she’s on board now.
I hope he has an online operation.
I saw the pillow commercials all the time – they started out selling by phone/online. Everyone has an online set up…for now.
The nice thing about Kohls is you can return your Amazon items there…
This finding alternatives thing isn’t easy.
That’s about the only thing I have used Kohls for ever. My ex used to spend a lot of money there (that was more than a decade ago however), and I always felt that place sucked ballz. Can’t say I miss only rarely going there to return Amazon shit either.
Returning Amazon stuff at Kohls was a nightmare for me. I go to the UPS store.
Since when did lumpy pillows become a good thing? I don’t get it.
I’ve also never seen the infomercials, so I have no idea what’s suppsoed to be special about them.
They are lumpy. But you can shape them up, and they do provide a decent rest. Also his pillows can be washed easily, which is great. Most pillows die a horrible death in the washing machine.
Or the white pill is a hopeful fever dream. What motivates their actions? Maybe it’s confidence and they feel emboldened and frankly they should. They’re consolidating political power because know they can and no one can stop them. It’s the Virginia Model applied to the fedgov.
Have hope and prepare for the worst. Nothing fever dream about that.
^^This^^
Oh good. Duke Cunningham got his clemency along with a couple of other political scum.
See my comment in the last thread about the contemptible POS Kwame Kilpatrick getting his sentence commuted ?
Yep. Just read through the whole list.
Good Lord, Banjos! That is some heavy going. I’d stand up and salute but I might fall backwards into the tub again!
Tubs are cheap- try to miss the TV. Trust me on this.
My bum bruise rivals yours, Friend.
I blame the pounds of aspirin I take daily, coupled with gallons of crappy 4.2% ABV beer. Heparin aint got shit on my blood-thinners!
That’s just it. Where the fuck did that come from? Remembers foggy ‘membries. Oh yeah, that hurt. A lot.
That is exactly what a racist, nazi, white-supremacist xenophobe would do.
Just hours before leaving office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order preventing the deportation of Venezuelan nationals for 18 months. The president cited the violence in Venezuela under dictator Nicolas Maduro.
“The autocratic government of Nicolas Maduro has consistently violated the sovereign freedoms possessed by the Venezuelan people. Through force and fraud, the Maduro regime is responsible for the worst humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere in recent memory,” the memo to the secretary of state and secretary of homeland security stated. “A catastrophic economic crisis and shortages of basic goods and medicine have forced about five million Venezuelans to flee the country, often under dangerous conditions.”
“The deteriorative condition within Venezuela, which presents an ongoing national security threat to the safety and well-being of the American people, warrants the deferral of the removal of Venezuelan nationals who are present in the United States,” the executive order stated.
“Trump hates brown people, and refuses to let them go home.”
A ‘deteriorative’ condition within Venezuela would be, like, people’s faces melting off, right?
Don’t look at the Ark!
Good job. EN ESPANOLE next time, maybe?
Somebody linked an overwrought video at the end of PM lynx yesterday, about Trump’s army of mindless Nazi domestic terrorists who will lynch all the black folk and burn Washington if they are not stopped. I would like to think it was just imbecilic nonsense. But…
The chilling/depressing/frightening part wasn’t so much the divisive slander and bile, it was the call to “the good guys” to combat Trump’s evil zombie army by forming a Citizen Stasi to root out and expose the radical domestic terrorists in our midst. What we need is a nation of snooping neighbor ladies, to rat out the wrongthinkers, no matter who or where they are: your father, your brother, your husband, your sons and daughters. Expose them for the monsters they are.
SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING
Unity and healing. Or else.
Unity and healing means “join us or bear the consequences.”
STOP RESISTING!
I probably put myself on another list but I did report that to You Tube as hate speech for all the good it will do. Yes I snitched but sometimes it needs to be done.
Substitute the yellow star of David for a MAGA hat.
Turn it around on them. Ostracize the busybodies.
:）
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We have to exert cultural pressure. We’ve enabled the twats by tolerating or even bowing to them.
but… but… the we’d be hypocrites that are no better than they are!!!!11
If you don’t resist them, you get more of them. Who wants to live around and be subject to these people’s notions of propriety? No one likes people like this, so why do we allow them to tell us how to live?
Judging by the masks I see everywhere I go, I’d say the Cathedral has whipped us good.
“mmmphre mmmght”
I wear mine in businesses that ask me to do so – I’m not whipped by anyone.
This.
Especially knowing that businesses are asking me to do so mostly because government is forcing them to do so.
About 99% of the mask signs on businesses around me basically blame the government.
They’re not asking around here. They can either force me to wear a mask if I’m in their business, or get shut down by the state health department.
Here in Ohio, the local news keeps publishing lists of bars/restaurants that were caught by the OIU (Ohio Investigative Unit) and includes their “infractions”. On the other hand, they’re slow walking the hearings (where the punishment is determined). As an example, the December 1st-4th hearings (latest ones, were hearing cases from all the way back in February.
It’s clear that the media has never heard of Barbara Streisand.
These lists are used every bit as much by people who shun establishments that are owned by covid nazis every bit as much (if not more) than those who might seek to avoid those establishments.
Good sheep.
My Hijab keeps me SAFE
I get it. Y’all are on high anxiety because this is the day numbnutz takes over. Hope you read what Banjos posted with an open mind, though. That was fucking great.
High Anxiety ?
I am just going to ignore the *presidential proceedings as much as possible. But then again I am a political junkie and morbidly curious.
I wouldn’t be too shocked if the headlines tomorrow are “inauguration telecast most watched TV event in US history” just to keep the hype going
I have it on just to see the spectacle of nothing but security being in attendance. I don’t expect to ever see that again.
Hey, remember when Trump wanted to host himself a military parade like some third-world dictator?
I’ve trolled my proggie friends on FB with that already.
I’m not anxious. It’s not like anything big will happen. It’ll just be a slight steepening of the slippery slope. Some will reach for handholds and catch them.
I am curious, however, about the perspective of expats who have already moved to areas where some of the liberties we cherish in the US are already heavily curtailed.
Apart from guns (A big one, I concede) and the right to vote (meaningless), I’ve found my liberties to be quite well protected relatively.
Yeah…Aus, NZ and Singapore are all high on my list of future places (that I’ve already visited) – with the gun exception of course.
At least nice to visit every now and then.
Might want to scratch NZ off the list…
Still worth a visit. When I was there in ’08 I didn’t make it down to the South Island. N Island was nice enough in Jan (after S. Korea) – esp staying with a buddy from high school for a week and not paying for a hotel.
But yeah…we’ll see if things change, but with the socialists in power and apparently popular, who knows.
You can’t blame them. Hobbits have not developed resistance to The Diseases of Man.
We have an office in Singapore. After hearing what it costs to get a car there, no thanks. I realize there’s probably not much call for automobiles in a place as small an concentrated as Singapore (unless you want to drive around Malaysia), but for a person like me, there’s not much to recommend Singapore as other than a nice place to visit. There are people who love living in highly dense population centers, and there are others, like me, who recoil at the notion.
Which is what I am struggling with–why in the world does the US need to have completely a monolithic regulatory and bureaucratic system that attempts to force everyone in the country to live the same way, and especially when there are so many options overseas for people to “escape” to their oppression of choice? Can we have one place in the world that is based on liberty–all liberty, not just some?
Utopians, that’s why.
They’re assholes and useful idiots.
I’ll concur with some of that. I’ve enjoyed all my visits there – for history/culture stuff – as well as great food/drink – in an English-friendly environment with tons of great movie theaters too. (Being able to watch HK and anime flicks as well as subtitled Bollywood flicks and indie stuff from NZ/Europe, etc any day of the week is a big thumbs up from me). (very religion-friendly too).
That said…yeah, if I could get a basic GS position there with housing included (applied for one a few years ago) – that’d be perfect, but I’m not planning to move someplace like that without a lot of other incentives.
From the local news-
Two Ohio National Guard soldiers flagged by FBI, removed from the inauguration support
Shame it doesn’t address WHY
Saw 12 total sent home – including the previous reported ones from MI. No details of course.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/01/19/two-army-national-guard-members-are-being-removed-from-security-mission-to-secure-biden-inauguration/
“FBI removed the soldiers from the inaugural support mission.”
LoL!!
I know everyone has “orders”, but which agency trumps (drink!) whom? DoJ vs. DoD.
If it was just being removed from that assignment, NBD.
But it’s not going to stop there.
While it’s obvious Swiss and Derpy are going to have their benefits and pensions cancelled, what are the odds they’ll be kept on the readt reserve?
I’m still in the Retired Reserve.
Purging the military of members suspected of loyalty to the pervious regime is an important part of the peaceful transfer of power in Our Democracy.
I wonder how many of them posted “Trump wuz ROBBED! MAGA!” on their social media to get out of Inauguration duty…
Republic of the United States of America: September 17, 1787 – January 20, 2021, RIP
It wasn’t perfect but it was better than anything else before or since. I’ll miss ya.
Nice, Banjos. The long view is a bit more optimistic than the short view, in this case. The now overt combo of money and power, with the Tech Lords and the Dem Party overtly colluding, is concerning.
Yes.
The unholy marriage of BigTech and the Democrat party is the biggest obstacle we currently face. It’s a massive Kraken that must be defeated, or at least mitigated.
What we need is massive investment in to servers that won’t kowtow to the cathedral.
Baseball birthdays: Brian Giles and Camilo Pascual (ask an elder Minny glib about him) lead the way, then a big dropoff to Joe Dobson, David Eckstein, and Ozzie Guillen.
Okayish list, better than a number recently but no wow factor at all.
David Eckstein, he of the grittiness so beloved of elderly sportswriters.
Also beloved by coaches like Ozzie Guillen.
Grittiness is wholly a white man attribute.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, to see that Governor Useless (D) has vetoed 3 bills that would limit his pandemic powers.
https://www.whas11.com/mobile/article/news/politics/beshear-veto-covid-bills-executive-orders/417-a910931a-0c2a-48ae-834b-e3dc07609bd3
Fortunately it’s a veto-proof majority in both houses of the legislature, if it has the balls to follow through when they return to session early next month.
They didn’t have the testicular/ovarian fortitude to override the vetoes here in Ohio, even with veto-proof majorities.
I really hope that slimeball is gone soon. To further rub salt in the wound, whenever Im @ Kroger, I hear the store soundtrack and its his cunte wife pushing her “books for poor kids” pet project.
“Hi, Im Fran DeWine, 1st lady of Ohio….”
He’s up for election in 2022. 23 months is a long time in politics, here’s hoping enough of the deplorables remember this year and vote him out. Local news has been breathlessly reporting that DeWine may be at risk in a primary challenge from one of those Trump-like Republicans. Of course, the local news tilts hard to the progressive left.
Nobody is going to forget the last few years, on either side.
The political landscape has been permanently altered.
The trouble is, between the coming amnesty, the coming “election reforms”, and the fact that the GOP is trying really really hard to cling to the corpse of Bushism as their philosophy, I don’t see how the Dems lose power any time soon. They’re also about to really open up the floodgates to put their supporters on the payroll.
It’s going to be way worse than Obama and way worse than Clinton in terms of the finances. You’re about to see the entire US federal government discretionary spending turned into a Democrat vote buying fund.
You’re optimistic.
Sununu (NH), Scott (VT, who didn’t even campaign), and Cooper (NC) were all re-elected.
Welcome… to the FUTURE!
https://www.axios.com/biden-race-equity-justice-orders-09d5167b-336e-4549-b232-9816d9f9b838.html?utm_source=verizon
https://youtu.be/EV0ozgSrFM0
He is going to end affirmative action? //jk
equity
n. The state or quality of being just and fair.
n. Something that is just and fair.
Define “just” and “fair”.
Fair is punishing wypipo to to partially offset in some miniscule amount the cosmic agony that they have inflicted on PoC for 400 years.
I get mine?
A not so sure it is a problem/issue, massively exaggerated in scope & impact by a plethora of grifters, which can only be solved by more tyrannical arbitrary government. What could go wrong?
So, 40 acres and a mule?
The recent assault by Big Tech should ultimately not be seen as a Black Pill, it should be viewed as a White Pill. The grasp that the Cathedral holds on the public is tenuous at best. They are dying and desperate.
I think you’re right about them dying and being desperate. I don’t know this is cause for celebration though. There’s nothing as vicious as a cornered animal, especially rabid humans. The death throes could cause destruction and misery unparalleled in this country’s history.
I’m not saying that’s bad either, compared to the alternative of living under Marxist rule.
I sadly see their influence growing in corners of our society that you would’ve thought immune to such. I’m looking at you, sports.
You are right. I need to stop being so fucking complacent.
I probably put myself on another list but I did report that to You Tube as hate speech for all the good it will do. Yes I snitched but sometimes it needs to be done.
Well done. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
NBC News
@NBCNews
WATCH: Sen. McConnell on US Capitol insurrection:
“The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like.”
Whatever, Mitch McCuntell.
And if I see the word “insurrection” misused one more time . . . I am going to impotently complain about it on the internet.
“Siege” is my favorite.
Honestly, I don’t know what to think right now.
Half the country is most assuredly not on board with the direction the loons want to take. Whether that’s for the right reasons or not is up for discussion.
I’m adjusting my habits to reflect my opinions. I see others doing the same. Try as they might, they don’t have the wherewithal to control that many people, yet.
At the same time, I see a significant percentage of people who would happily turn in their neighbor for thirty pieces of silver. It goes against everything that I hold dear and is the root of my fear for the future. So many people see their obligation to the collective as being more important than their obligation to each other, To me, that is the real danger.
Dems made themselves the mascots of Lockdown Forever, and they don’t have the economic wisdom to see us out of the mess they readily take credit for making. They and Biden get to own the coming turmoil in a way even Obama wasn’t tarred with after 2008, as much as he deserved it. I don’t think the Trump hangover will last nearly as long as they hope.
No pardons for Snowden or Assange. Nothing for Kyle Rittenhouse or any of the people being wildly overcharged for the Capital building tour.
But Shalom Weiss, Eliyahu Weinstein, and Salomon Melgen are all off the hook. Chosen people indeed.
TAKE THAT STUFF TO ZERO HEDGE.
*Sigh*
What are you doing?
What it looks like.
Literally Hitler.
And no election fraud special counsel, no Biden family bribery special counsel.
Courtesy amongst grifters.
Rittenhouse isn’t being charged federally so nothing to do there, and could well fuck him given the new interpretation of pardon acceptance.
He also didn’t pardon Martha Stewart, another Comey victim.
Cry more, pussy.
HM! Haven’t seen you much. How are you lately?
Busy with work – but the good, money-making type.
You’ll see more of me in the Spring.
Does that mean you’ll be posting dick pics?
This site is already a sausage fest, we need nice ass pics (Q already covers the other parts)…
So many people see their obligation to the collective as being more important than their obligation to each other, To me, that is the real danger.
Something something needs of the Many outweigh the rights of the One.
I’m going to keep working and drop dead at 78 just like the old man did.
2078 is a long way off. Better pace yourself.
Biden’s still alive though.
No, he’s saying his dad died in the future. dies in the future.
Ok, I’m lost.
+1 willen/wogen
see how far you can get before losing your shit:
https://buildbackbetter.gov/press-releases/fact-sheet-president-elect-bidens-day-one-executive-actions-deliver-relief-for-families-across-america-amid-converging-crises/
“Roll Back President Trump’s Environmental Actions in Order to Protect Public Health and the Environment and Restore Science ”
RESTORE SCIENCE!!!!! BOW BEFORE YOUR LORDS AND MASTERS OF SCIENCE! SACRAFICE THAT GOAT OR ECONOMY FOR SCIENCE!
and Restore Science
*eye twitches*
*anus puckers*
I read it all.
President-elect Biden will sign an Executive Order to restore and maintain public trust in government, and ensure that we are a government for the people. The president-elect is ordering every appointee in the executive branch to sign an ethics pledge. The ethics pledge and related ethics rules in the Executive Order are designed to ensure that executive branch employees act in the interest of the American people and not for personal gain. And, the pledge commits federal employees to uphold the independence of the Department of Justice.
Hehehe
revoke President Trump’s damaging executive order which limited critical diversity and inclusion training in the workplace.
Damaging my ass. That EO was a good thing.
“FBI removed the soldiers from the inaugural support mission.”
“Initiate Operation Ticking Time Bomb!”
I find it odd that DOD allows DOJ to dictate which military personnel can do what.
Y’all gotta get good with Moses.
I always did like Dudley Moore.
Jesus saves! But Moses invests.
I desire… macaroni pictures.
Ohio takes part in VoTeR SuPPReSSioN.
“Critics say Ohio’s method of purging voters disproportionately affects those who move frequently and may not get elections mail, like STUDENTS and low-income people, particularly minorities.”
Gee, when I was a student at any of our 3 local colleges/universities, my address was fixed. Oh, prolly cause I was married, working full-time, and trying to hold-down a household, not to mention servicing ex Mrs. Tres Cool.
Damn kids these days….
I bet it also disproportionately affects those who don’t vote or are ineligible to vote, as well.
I just got a reminder from my county that I am ineligible to vote in the off-year primary coming up because I haven’t registered with one of the approved parties.
Eligible to vote in the general. I might even vote for a primate this time. I try to keep an open mind.
Ook.
I mean it would have to be a really special primate to compete with a canid. One that wouldn’t sht on my carpet at the very least.
ALWAYS VOTE CRYPTID.
Have we learned nothing here?
Go ursine or go home.
Minnesoda recently went from primaries where you simply asked for a primary ballot for whichever party you wanted to vote for (and no one made any notes on what party you picked) to a new system where you had to declare for a party and a list was made.
The lists were only made available to the DFL and the GOP. When other parties demanded to also get access to those lists, the shit hit the fan. The one unifying issue for the two major parties was a desire to make sure other parties were strangled in the crib.
Makes it easier to know who needs to be punished and deprogrammed for making the wrong choices, yo…
Surprisingly primary votes were way down this year.
NH has been similar since before I moved here.
If you are registered undeclared, you can re-register at the polls for either the presidential or state primary as part of a party taking part in the primary. You can re-register back to undeclared as you leave the polls. The state keeps track of these re-registrations and makes them available to the Republicans and Democrats.
If you are registered as part of a party, you can’t re-register at the polls for the state primary. I don’t know about the presidential primary. The deadline for re-registering for the state primary if you are registered as part of a party is the opening of the candidate filing period.
The Commonwealth suppresses my [primary] vote because I refuse to join a political crime syndicate.
I feel bad for my grandkid. He’s going to be so confused in American History class when he has to write an essay about the terrible things Trump did as president, but to his confusion, he can’t figure out why his teacher gets her panties in a bunch about the man. No wars. Great economy. Didn’t use the feds to go after political opinions. Only thing he can find is that the man was mean to people on Twitter. It’ll be a head scratcher.
Assuming, of course, they bother having American History classes. Those might conflict with the daily struggle sessions, or get in the way of his essay on the ten thousand gender pronouns he missed.
There are already American history classes being based on fictional crap like the 1619 Project.
I was a History major – history is written by the winners. Digging through that bias is hard and sometimes impossible.
history is written by the winners
Sentiment recently expressed by the Lincoln project (with too much irony there to unpack).
Usually, but the “Lost Cause” Confederates managed a pretty good run at re-writing the causes of the Civil War.
That had yankee abolitionists like Spooner helping them out.
Did not know that. Spooner died 1887; he had written a book – noted in several Supreme Court cases – advocating armed resistance to slavery. He got somewhat kooky late in life, with some anti-capitalist yadayada, but didn’t know he promoted Lost Cause views (which, as I recall, didn’t become historically popular until after 1900.)
Not so much lost cause views, but he thought secession was constitutional, and the war to maintain the union wasn’t just.
“but he thought secession was constitutional, and the war to maintain the union wasn’t just.”
Which is, of course, 100% correct.
The best case scenario for the pro war side is “Lincoln broke his oath and violated the rights of millions of Americans, but it was justified because slavery was just that evil.” Which is a perfectly defensible viewpoint.
But the idea that the Founders who had literally raised armies to secede from the mother country wanted to establish an indivisible union is pretty damn sillly IMO.
The question of treason is distinct from that of slavery; and is the same that it would have been, if free States, instead of slave States, had seceded. On the part of the North, the war was carried on, not to liberate the slaves, but by a government that had always perverted and violated the Constitution, to keep the slaves in bondage; and was still willing to do so, if the slaveholders could thereby [be] induced to stay in the Union. The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals. — Lysander Spooner, “No Treason”
Duh, its right there in the pledge of alligence that we are indivisible.
I believe that’s just the pledge of allegiance, which is relatively recent.
Thanks to Schoolhouse Rock for indelibly etching the Preamble on my gray matter.
I may be wrong. The extent of my research was singing the song.
I’ve heard some history classes have been using Zinn’s books as textbooks for a while.
When I took AP US History eleven years ago, it was a secondary, supplemental textbook. When my youngest sisters took it two years ago it was the primary textbook.
The problem will be that all the primary sources for the Trump era will have entries like “On Jan. 6th Trump exhorted his followers into rebellion, telling them to storm the capitol and murder Pelosi and Pence”. All the actual videos of Trump actually calling for them to peaceably protest will be purged so your kid will just accept the “History”.
Just like the Charlottesville Lie. The one that Biden repeated every time he came out of his bunker and that the MSM never once fact checked or called him out for lying.
But all those (unspecified) crimes!
There is no reason for him to be there…particularly after the treatment he has received and the fact that the person assuming the office premised his campaign on an abject falsehood regarding Trump.
Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
WH has released excerpts of Pres Trump’s farewell speech. He will say, “Now, as I prepare to hand power over to a new administration at Noon on Wednesday, I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.”
Note: He is skipping handing power at inauguration.
This ticks me off. They were demanding that he not show up, then when he doesn’t show they stamp their feet and cry SORE LOSER.
Whatever. They just want another opportunity to kick him around and livetweet his reaction. They spent 4+ years trying to get him to go away and now they tell him he can’t leave just yet? They are so sad, they cannot quit the high they get from him.
How the Biden inauguration was supposed to go before Trump decided to skip it
Many media scum are probably despondent that Trump wasn’t dragged, kicking and screaming, from the White House this morning by the 82nd Airborne.
So America’s long nightmare is over, to be replaced by a new nightmare beginning at Noon. The 44th occupant of the White House is gone and a new guy gets to see how many unconstitutional actions he can take between today and when President Harris ascends.
I’m drunk again so it’s all copacetic. All Hail Emperor Butt-Plug and his loyal minions!
Not sure if you’re being facetious, but I was stoned before 9am this morning.
Such are the days. I’ve been smoking pot for almost 30 years, but I only rarely ever did the day smoking thing before Covid.
Many media scum understand that fluffing Biden is not going to pull the same ratings by a long shot that vilifying Trump did.
In fact, I’d bet ratings drop YUUUUGE once the daily 24 hour hate is done.
There’s a decent chance that they’ve hastened their own demise in the larger picture.
Goldsteining Trump might be a profit center for awhile.
Found a flyer opposing PCR tests in a little free library; it links to mamm.org .
Work with me, WP!
Millions Against Medical Mandates, here: https://mamm.org/
I prefer No Ma’am.
Daily Caller
@DailyCaller
CNN’s David Chalian says that the side lights on the National Mall’s reflecting pool are like “extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.”
*vomits*
I guess he has many more girl’s hair to sniff.
What does that make the Washington Monument?
You really have to be a broken person to buy into that shit. The worship angle has always been repulsive, no matter the object of such.
I have notice they are doing the halo thing in pics with him just like with Barry.
Mmmm mmmm mmmm. Joe Whateverhismiddlenameis Biden.
You want real sedition talk from a politician? Read this DFL legislator from Minnesoda in a story about the Minnesoda GOP trying to pass laws that would curtail King Walz’s emergency powers.
I wish someone with an old Civics textbook would contact Hortman and explain to her that she should be worried about the power of the House more than the power of her Party.
King Walz also displays a astonishing amount of indifference to the idea of the way we are supposed to operate.
So much for deriving the moral legitimacy for government based on “consent of the governed”. Even at the national level, it seems that everyone has sight of that concept. How many kids have even heard that phrase?
When half the country clearly is not fully on board with consent, it seems that the Swamp should ease off.
This year has shown me just how useless the Republicans are. Every state Republican legislator should have been yelling for months now
“We have Zoom. We have large venues where we can social distance. The pandemic has been on for months, which means for months now we could have been passing bills that actually tell the governors what they can and can’t do. They should not be exercising “temporary emergency authority” 11 months into it.
Of course, the school system and the media have beaten it into Americans heads that executives are basically elected kings. “A Republic, if you can keep it” might be the most germane quote from a Founder.
The “how is it still an emergency 11 months later?” tack is the one I take when arguing with people around here.
Emergency powers are supposed to only be used when there is no time to debate policy. I’m not even sure the whole “2 weeks to flatten the curve” emergency rose to the level of an actual emergency. But it sure as shit isn’t an emergency now.
I have brought it up before about Nevada. The republicans threw their hands up and said “we are powerless” so enjoy your one-man rule.
All the Times Joe Biden’s Love for Ice Cream Melted Our Hearts
For President-Elect Joe Biden, a day without ice cream is practically un-cone-stitutional.
The future leader of the free world is a huge fan of the sweet treat, and he never lets anyone forget it! In his own words, spoken at the headquarters of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream in May 2016, “My name is Joe Biden, and I love ice cream.”
“You all think I’m kidding—I’m not,” the then-VP added. “I eat more ice cream than three other people you’d like to be with, all at once.”
Jeni’s happens to be one of Biden’s favorite ice cream suppliers, and the love seems to be mutual as the brand is releasing a brand new flavor in his honor: White House Chocolate Chip, which mimics the President-elect’s go-to order of a chocolate chip double scoop on a waffle cone.
This is hilarious in light of the Two Scoops Scandal.
Yeah, but Donny Two Scoops’ addiction wasn’t endorsed by a DOCTOR wife.
I hate to say it, but DOCTOR wife sounds even creepier than a sister wife.
him and Pelosi with this ‘let ’em eat cake’ shit
buy into rope stocks
Surprised they didn’t talk about Pelosi’s ice cream obsession
CNN’s David Chalian says that the side lights on the National Mall’s reflecting pool are like “extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.”
So many irreparably damaged people in this country.
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
So far, Biden has refused to halt a divisive impeachment, questioned the loyalty of the troops, sparked an immigration crisis, and surrender to China via energy policy. He hasn’t even started yet.
IOW it is and will be a total disaster.
yep. that’s the whole point
Yep. And it will be glorious.
NM bill would punish firearm instructors if their students later commit violence
I want to see police academy and Army instructors charged.
Amazing that they think gun control is a winning issue.
Noticed that it wasn’t even mentioned during the campaign. Not a single question about guns in the Dem hosted debates.
The real estate market in Albuquerque is tight tight tight at a time when we have a lockdownista mayor and governor making life as miserable as it’s currently within their power to do so, for a state that rates high in crime and low in public school quality and basically any measure of prosperity… with small businesses shuttering… and people are still moving here, which I assume means they’re coming from even worse-off metro areas in even bluer states.
So there’s probably a great deal of appetite for gun control here, at least in the metros.
I could maybe see some liability if the student missed their target and hit an innocent bystander. Obviously that instructor failed to provide adequate training in marksmanship.
Do people injured in car accidents sue the Driver’s Ed teachers?
They’ll sue petroleum companies.
Of course!
https://landline.media/werner-40-million-judgment-centers-on-entry-level-driver-training/
Why do you hate Steve Gutenberg and Bobcat Goldthwait?
Well, that voice for the second guy. And I’ll shoot Steven Gutenberg just on principle for some reason to be concocted later.
And it’s a republican who is sponsoring this bill. There’s your GOP for you.
The Useless Party.
They were demanding that he not show up, then when he doesn’t show they stamp their feet and cry SORE LOSER.
A couple of days ago, I saw one about how Trump, THE MAN THEY HAVE BEEN DESPERATELY TRYING TO THWART AND DISLODGE FROM OFFICE FOR YEARS, wasn’t properly attending to his duties anymore.
I never understood the complaints by the opposition that the President golfs too much. Such small portions!
I think that was what was missing from The West Wing. Was their a single episode with him on the golf course? Totally unrealistic.
The long national nightmare is over. Finally the usurper in chief has been ousted from office and replaced by our true righteous leader can be installed.
I, for one, welcome and praise our new geriatric overlord.
President Puddin’ Cup!
h/t BEAM
It’d be hilarious if people from all around our great nation sent him cases of Ensure in tribute.
Metamucil.
The man loves ice cream. Just sit it out on the counter for a few minutes first.
Any of you folks lawyers? Can you please explain “standing?” The local court just threw out a petition from 100 parents of students in the school district that would have ordered the schools to be open for in-person learning five days each week. The parents alleged certain percentages of minorities, special needs kids, etc. were now flunking or getting poorer grades due to virtual learning problems. The court ruled they didn’t have “standing” because they didn’t present specific enough claims. Isn’t that what “discovery” is for? How many other so-called “fishing expeditions” do courts allow when they certify class actions and the like?
Short, non-lawyer answer:
You have to show that you are ‘a victim’ of gov policy to challenge it.
Parents of kids forced into off site learning are clearly not victims of a gov policy.
The rules are made up and your grievances don’t matter.
Pretty much this. Standing is a shorter form of FYTW.
Figured as much. If “standing” had an actual definition, then ethical lawyers would tell you “you don’t have standing” before taking your retainer and filing the case.
Honestly and I am no lawyer, but it just seems like courts in general are looking to not address issues as much as they can right now in relation to governors’ various actions in relation to COVID. Plus, they would have to stand up to the Teachers Unions.
The court ruled they didn’t have “standing” because they didn’t present specific enough claims.
The Anglo-American legal system requires an actual injury (i.e. tort) exist for a court to even consider taking an action.
And wouldn’t a year’s worth of noticeably bad grades from students that normally would not have bad grades, connection issues, etc be considered injury?
You have to distinguish between when a bad grade is just, and when it is injury, as I’m sure a little reflection would make obvious. I’m not defending the stupidity of the school district, but you asked about standing.
Noticed that it wasn’t even mentioned during the campaign. Not a single question about guns in the Dem hosted debates.
They didn’t want to spoil the “surprise”.
That would be like the groom at the wedding screaming into the microphone – “Oh yeah! We’re gonna screw tonight!!”
Edward Snowden
@Snowden
I would rather be without a state than without a voice.
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1351891255438028805
Twitter ban in 3… 2…
The purge begins.
During his opening remarks, Lloyd Austin stated:
We also owe our people a working environment free of discrimination, hate and harassment. If confirmed, I will fight hard to stamp out sexual assault, to rid our ranks of racists and extremists, and to create a climate where everyone fit and willing has the opportunity to serve this country with dignity. The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we can’t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.
Once you clear out the conservatives because they are “racist/extremist” you won’t have anyone left. Well, I suppose you will have a lot of ‘left’, but there won’t be many people remaining.
Everyone over the rank of colonel is a damned politician and will work hard to continue their grift.
That guy is literally on the Board of Directors of Raytheon.
The magnitude of the conflict of interest is staggering.
Don’t worry, he promises he will recuse himself.
https://www.defenseone.com/business/2021/01/austin-pledges-recuse-himself-military-decisions-involving-raytheon/171496/
A lot of the foreign policy stuff, as with all of Trump, was a lot more bullshit, bark, and bluster than actual policy, but he at least injected it back into the national political sphere that Forever War is not a good thing, that wars are to be won not extended for decades.
Presumably he won’t be doing any performance reviews for any of his staff either?
Remember when Ibama buzz-sawed through the military officers he didn’t care for?
It felt ominous at the time, but I couldn’t figure out his angle,,other than basic dislike of the military.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/197-military-officers-purged-by-obama/
This guy might be our very own Idi Amin some day. He looks the part and already has the costume.
Needz moar epaulets.
Personally, I think they should purge the military. Everyone who’s not a hard line leftist should be discharged immediately. Inevitably, they will have to close 1 or 2 (or a few hundred) overseas bases.
But we can’t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.
Paranoia runs strong with these fucks.
The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we can’t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.
NEXT!
BreadAmmo lines.People started lining up in front of the door at Academy Sports + Outdoors in Lake Mary as early as 2 a.m. on Monday waiting for the doors to open at 9 a.m.
When FOX 35 News asked several of those in line what they were waiting for, they all answered “ammo.” Many voiced that they are afraid of what new gun laws could come under a new administration.
“I think we all believe Biden is going to take it away from us too,” David Godkin said.
It’s difficult to find ammunition, especially 9mm. Stores across the country are sold out. Some gun enthusiasts looking for it know when and where they have the best chances of finding it.
“I just come here on Monday. Tuesday, I go to Buena Vista. Wednesday, I go to East Colonial. Thursday, Buena Vista. Friday, East Colonial. Sunday, I go to Millenia,” Godkin said.
2am.
JFC.
.80/rd for 5.56 isn’t looking too bad now. It’s already jumped to $1 or more.
Yowza.
How can tens of thousands of armed insurrectionists be marching on the Inauguration today if they are waiting in line to buy their ammo?
Morning, Banjos. I really needed to see this today. I’ve been thinking about some of these things lately, but as usual with my fellow Glibs, you have articulated this way better than I could. While I enjoy all the stories and recipes and fun stuff here, it’s this type of thing that makes the biggest impact. Thank you for your writing.
I love you guys, but I’ve got to get to work.
Money makes most things possible. Lack of money makes most things impossible.
Clarity in Trump’s Wake – From Ruling Class to Oligarchy
That’s what they really mean whenever they speak of “science”.
Trump’s superpower was getting the deep state to reveal itself. This should have been his last statement.
That really is an excellent piece of writing, and I think it captures the last four years very well indeed.
Need you to explain why #28 shouldn’t draw the banhammer.
1. Ban me if you want
2. I literally couldn’t make up more Jewish sounding names if I tried – It was a joke
3. Obviously Trump did what he did for 4 years – listened to terrible advice. He pardoned a bunch of well-connected con men, grifters, and drug dealers which doesn’t offend me.
4. But he wouldn’t have been President without Julian Assange
5. And he left his supporters getting destroyed by the FBI he failed to reform swinging in the wind
But he wouldn’t have been President without Julian Assange
JFC, I thought only Hillary clung, bitterly, to that delusion.
Yeah. Good “joke”.
Just can’t help yourself, eh?
Maybe you should just not do stupid things like that on this site. Or, think to yourself “Gosh, why would that be construed as bigotry or a blood libel?”
The term is ‘Schrodinger’s Asshole’.
Ah, the old (((joke))) defense. Just classin’ the joint up, eh?
“Two Jews walk into a bank to apply for a loan. One looks at the other and laughs, ‘Wait, we own this place! Just ask for a bag.'”
Scene.
Why would they forget they own a bank? And if they owned a bank, and needed a loan, then necessarily that meant that their bank didn’t have the assets required, so they’d have to take a loan from a different bank.
Or was the joke supposed to be about how they got lost and walked into the wrong bank by mistake?
THAT’S THE JOKE. Also, they forgot the combination to their gold orphan teeth vault.
@Your Holiness: “Moron Tab and Apple Choir” did make me LOL.
Thanks. That is the punchline to a long joke I learned as a kid, but I always loved the pun.
A much shorter version of that joke
Boss on the phone with someone who just said: “Before crazy Joe kills the economy…”
Heh.
They all know it, but since they are more concerned about their investments, and the stock market doesn’t care how fucking anemic our economy gets, many of them are just shrugging and going along pretending things will be fine.
I live in blue pilled northern va and there is not a single business contact I know that thinks joe biden isn’t going to completely strangle the economy or actually won the election legitimately.
Now that’s saying something.
And gives me some slight hope.
I work construction and deal with commercial realestate people and contractors mostly , which is like an island of rationality as they all directly deal with the retarded largess of the regulatory state and unimpressive drones on the daily.
I would think that the commercial real estate people would be trying their best to sell all the vacant downtown office space to Joe as FEMA camps in the sky.
Do they really think that work from home isn’t going to be a permanent thing?
Biggest debate right now from one of my bigger customers is how many of their office building they should tear down and build apartments and whether it even matters as people are able to work remote anywhere and theres not really any clear benefit to living in a urban sprawl at the moment as covid has killed all the amenities that made that ideal for most people. They have empty offices in Arlington which is one of the more expensive zip codes in the country. They’ve decoupled regulations requiring contractors from needing physical business locations to bid on contracts for now and many are never going back.
We’re saved
President-elect Joe Biden moves into the White House in the coming week with the biggest stock market tailwind since a presidential Election Day going back to at least 1952.
According to CFRA data that begins that year, the near 13% gain since Nov. 3 would be the biggest increase in the S&P 500 between the election and inauguration if the gains hold. President John F. Kennedy’s 8.8% gain had been the best, followed by President Dwight Eisenhower, with 6.3%, and President Donald Trump, with 6.2%.
Biden’s promise of the $1.9 trillion relief package he announced Thursday is one of the reasons for the stock market’s surge, and it will be a big focus of markets in the week ahead as investors handicap its chances of winning congressional approval.
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Stovall said that if history is a guide, the stock market should do well with Biden. The average gain of the S&P 500 in the first 100 days for Democratic presidents is 3.5%, going back to 1952. For Republicans in the same period, it’s been an average 0.5%.
The S&P 500 has also gained an average 11.3% in the first year of a Democratic president, but just 5.7% for Republicans, going back to World War II.
Biden should just declare victory and take the next four years off.
That would be a crazy effective way to actually govern.
Maybe we’ve stumbled onto something here? Maybe we should always be electing mentally incapacitated Presidents who are married to power mad harpies?
The problem is going to be that instead of just hiding, Biden will be trotted out to put his signature on whatever the Swamp wants and he’ll go along. So will DOCTOR Jill because otherwise they’ll toss her out and put in Kamala.
It’s going to crash.
In a totally unrelated topic, Mrs. TOK noted this morning that gas prices have crept up .30-.40 in the last few weeks after being steady for a very long time.
Yep. Don’t drive much these days so I can go 3-4 weeks without buying gas, which means I don’t notice price changes right away. Was very unhappy to see that they have quickly bumped up to $2.40.
When I first started driving gas was 4 bucks a gallon.
2008, huh? Yeah, I remember that bullshit.
Yep that was when all the Very Smart People swore that there was no way vastly increasing domestic oil and natural gas production would drop gas prices, because it was a hick who went to a state school and governed a small red state that was claiming it.
Yep, I noticed too. The lockdown has been good for our pocketbook, if only for lack of need of gasoline.
I would still rather pay for gas twice a week than have the economy shut down.
Correlation something something causation.
Given that the market is forward looking, it’s possible that the gains from the incoming Republican president are already priced in by inauguration day.
Don’t think she’s playing the entire time (could be wrong but hard to see), but it’s still an impressive performance.
Nothing shows strength, power and unity for a new administration than having to circle the capital in barbed wire and national guard troops.
For a side that’s supposedly all about narrative, that’s a pretty bad look.
Especially troops that had to be vetted to make sure they were loyal…
One must ensure the Military’s political reliability and loyalty to the Dear Leader. As I said earlier, the military already has the infrastructure, in the form of Equal Opportunity Programs aka political commissars. They also have the precedent, they have been liberally applying Article 134 of the UCMJ (the FYTW portion of the UCMJ) to punish troops that engage in wrong-think on social media. It is not at all a stretch to see this mechanism used to politically purge the armed forces.
One wonders how long all that will remain standing. Once barriers like that are up, they tend to stay up.
+1 ‘New Normal’
Amazing how much faster they were able to build a fence around DC than they on the border with Mexico.
Protecting what’s ‘important’…
Nothing shows strength, power and unity for a new administration than having to circle the capital in barbed wire and national guard troops.
The Army of
OccupationUnification and Healing.Coordinated by the Ministry of Peace
Ironically, a year in which it was tremendously difficult and expensive to maintain a shooting habit, there were some some really great guns released
Nothing transformative mind you, but solid upgrades and improvements.
I like that he included guns that were $5000 on the same list.
For $5,000 you can get an SOT license which gives you the ability to legally make full-auto firearms.
Just sayin’…
I looked into it about 15 years ago and again recently. It has gotten even more complicated. You have to get the type 7 FFL (manufacturer) first. To do that, you must register with the Department of State as a manufacturer and exporter of Defense Articles under ITAR rules, even if you do not intend to export them. Then get and maintain the appropriate business licenses for wherever you plan to do the business. Then file the SOT 2 (manufacturer) paperwork and pay $500 a year if your annual gross receipts are less than $500,000, ($1,000/year if more). And then do enough business that the ATF doesn’t revoke your license. And that still doesn’t let you buy FA items from other dealers unless you can show a legitimate request from a LE agency for a demonstration/intent to purchase.
But yeah, it’s do-able.
less than $300 and greater than $5000. Apparently I made wordpress think I ws trying some wacky HTML.
Speaking of which….I *really* need to get into 3d printing soon (if I could make space for it in my garage or something….(need another outlet or 3).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDhCCUGX-CY (you can listen to this one on itunes if it’s too long – just a podcast).
With friends like this…
https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1351801624906252299
It’s a conundrum
If you haven’t heard, Joe Biden would like to unite America.
It was a focus of the Democrat’s campaign. It’s even the theme of Biden’s inauguration — “America United.”
The inaugural committee says the slogan “reflects the beginning of a new national journey that restores the soul of America, brings the country together, and creates a path to a brighter future.”
If only it were that easy.
“America United” in subservience to the Democratic Party and the Green New Deal?
Gosh, I don’t understand. Team Biden and the media have, for years, been telling half the country they are explicitly evil. Racists, sexists, profiteers, thieves, authoritarians, and generally all around rotten no good deplorable bastards. Why would that make it difficult to “unify” the country?
I have no interest in unity with these tyrants.
Their concept of “unity” sounds like being assimilated by the Borg.
There is a total lack of leadership on Biden’s part. Our country is sharply divided, and tensions are very high, but he’s not even attempting to cool things off. A worthy leader would acknowledge that some people didn’t vote for him for reasons other than racism, and say “I hear you, I understand your frustrations, and I will do my best to address those issues even though you didn’t vote for me.”
Buchann… I mean, Biden is at least as much of an empty suit as Chocolate Jesus was an is.
They won they don’t give a fuck.
lol
Difficult?
The real question is why people with such pure hearts would ever want to unite with so many racists, sexists, profiteers, thieves, authoritarians and Nazis? C’mon man!
You know who else was unified behind their leader?
I did it si~~~~~~~~de ways.
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1351900210474086400
I would like to see him have Air Force One do doughnuts on the taxiway on the way out.
He basically did.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/2173120/trump-sparks-nuclear-football-fiasco-flying-codes-florida/
He’s president until noon. I don’t understand what is controversial.
Milking one last clickbait out of him.
The misinformation consumed by many on the right has been fed for decades through prime-time cable dressed up as straight news. Facebook memes and outfits even further on the fringe than Fox News are growing in popularity. Conspiracies are being mainstreamed.
There is no good answer for unraveling that. So the country will remain sharply divided.
Cling to the narrative, NPR.
It’s a shame we can’t put Rupert Murdoch in front of a firing squad.
Yet.
That’s rich coming from the kings of lies of omission.
Especially since they are bought and paid for by the government. If anyone needs to be scrutinized for bias, it would be NPR.
Conspiracies are being mainstreamed.
But enough about CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/etc.
WHY DO YOU UNWASHED DEPLORABLES REFUSE TO JUST ACCEPT WHATEVER WE TELL YOU YOU SHOULD BELIEVE, REGARLESS OF HOW STUPID AND EASY TO SEE THROUGH IT IT IS, HUH???
Piss Hookers anyone?
Great article. I like the graphics – are they your work, Banjos?
Their concept of “unity” sounds like being assimilated by the Borg.
Subjugation by conquest is a form of unity.
Yay Michigan!
The campaign seems to be as much about garnering free advertising as it is promoting the COVID-19 vaccine. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/01/19/covid-19-vaccine-free-marijuana-greenhouse-ubaked/4216802001/
Banjos, I hope you are right, but by hook or by crook this country just letter president deep state. The cathedral is alive and well, and though more and more people are aware of it, we a lot way from having the critical mass of people needed to over come it.
Elected, not letter. Fucking phone is part of the cathedral trying to sabotage me.
Your new Secretary of State is a “Muh Power Vacuum” guy. Welcome to some new wars in the name of democracy.
https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1331067861519970305
Fine. One more thing that could happen.
https://twitter.com/TocRadio/status/1351913367200522243
I’ve never seen anything like the optics of this inauguration on the mall. It’s like something out of a dystopian novel or a third world country. It’s one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in dc in my entire life and reminiscent of 9-11. I can’t understand how they aren’t even going to have a crowd of like 100,000 socially distant people on the mall that’s nothing it’s leading me to believe they can’t even get close to that number to show up which is strange seeing how Biden just received the most popular support of anyone in the history of the country by large margins.
Yes. The concerning part being how far they are willing to go in order to create artificial support.
They’re scared and that makes them exceedingly dangerous.
The fact they can’t even drum up the artificial support is what should be scaring people.
or can’t be bothered to.
Yep. They could if they wanted to. Fraud or not, there’s lots of people who voted for Biden. Of course, most of them are sheltered in place and only able to communicate by postal mail, apparently. Nevertheless, the optics are terrible by choice, which is an interesting place for them to be in.
I just want to be left alone ?
Don’t we all.
And a Pepsi, I want a Pepsi.
This is self-evident
Pepsi? Bleah.
Pepsi is GROSS.
It’s genetic. All my Ma wanted during & after labor with me was a gigantic Pepsi filled to overflowing with ice. Now I drink Pepsi. Go figure.
The song literally changed the direction of my life. Not entirely sure for the better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ
Hah, knew it!
I went to YOUR schools, I went to YOUR churches, I went to YOUR institutional learning facilities, so how can you say I’m crazy?
When I saw them live two years ago, someone went through the trouble of smuggling a Pepsi through security and got up on stage with it to hand it to him after that line.
Coca Cola made according to Waffle House specs or GTFO.
I just want to be able to rip cigs on an airplane.
Or bring my own bottle of Jameson on the flight. I remember the Before Times.
You can take through the mini-bottles. Up to whatever the TSA permits for total fluid amounts. However, it’s against the rules to serve yourself, so you would have to be discreet about doctoring your drinks.
Go in pairs and serve the person next to you?
I only got flack from one stew on a SouthWest flight when she noticed I had poured myself a Jamo from one of my “TSA Approved” 3 oz travel bottles. And she just mostly rolled her eyes and said don’t pour another one.
All I know is our enemies must be super dumb if they are unable to pour all their dangerous bomb stuff into multiple 3 oz bottles instead of the original packaging.
On long flights, I have had up to 8 3 oz travel bottles in my carryon. With Pre-Check I don’t even have to put them in a plastic bag.
I have never put my liquid toiletries in plastic bags and I have never been stopped going through security.
I must be very non-terroristic looking.
They give famous FBI agents professional courtesy.
A leftie friend is shocked (!) that a stop-sign near him has been vandalized with “China Joe CCP.”
why? Did the vandals put the words in the wrong spot so that the message got mangled? “China STOP Joe CCP”?
Gah, I made the mistake of engaging. He thinks there was legitimate smoke from Russia, but Biden is just doing routine business in China.
Sure, China just gives anyone billions, no strings attached.
The same people that spend years telling everyone Trump was an ex-KGB, and likely new FSB agent, only to find out they had been punked, continue to make excuses for their stupidity or support for a despicable hoax intended to do a real coup (unlike like the tragic but stupid shit that happened at the capitol they desperately want to label as a coup), but have no problem giving creepy Joe a pass on a real collusion and sell out. Why do you think these people want deprograming camps and to punish their opponents? It’s isn’t because they have real facts or logic on their side, I tell ya. It’s because they desperately need those that refuse to just go along with whatever they are told from polluting the stupid pool they manipulate to their advantage with facts and/or logic.
The recent assault by Big Tech should ultimately not be seen as a Black Pill, it should be viewed as a White Pill. The grasp that the Cathedral holds on the public is tenuous at best. They are dying and desperate. Instead of yelling at the sky, ask yourself how can you quicken their demise?
I think you’re being optimistic.
Perfect timing, Banjos.
The hysteria does not feel like consolidating power.
Excellent article. I’ve popped a white pill, but I’m gonna prepare for some bad near-term shit.
Thanks for this.
That’s why I love ya, man. *Leans in for manly, back-slappin’ hug*
If you haven’t read Kevin D. Willamson’s masterful essay on the 12th, it offers an alternative view. (i.e., the ‘Cathedral’ is the only thing keeping you morons from ending up on the end of MAGA Tatanka’s spear.)
The last 4 years in conjuction with Covid have been the most useful tool imaginable figuring out who is actually trustworthy or an honest broker for liberty and who is dependent on the infrastructure of the status quo. There aren’t actually really too many of the former.
What really disgusts me are the maggots crawling currently crawling over themselves with ever-more bombastic demagoguery (e.g., Cruz, Pompeo, etc.) in an effort to be seen as the ‘heir’ to Trump.
I mean I don’t view them as anything but opportunistic worms who aren’t a threat to actually holding real power. If you think the biggest concern going forward is a spineless eel of a man like Ted Cruz lets just say I disagree. He is the establishment, his wife is a Goldman executive. I guess the concern would be he could seize the levers of power I don’t see either gaining political power over the next 4 years. But who knows.
It’s not my ‘biggest concern’ – just an observation of disgust. However, it’s not a zero-sum game either.
fair.
Destruction of the GOP is fine by me. They don’t deserve a vote. As for “The Establishment is our final hope”… Honestly i think KDW is stealing a base here. The option wasn’t “Establishment” or “Crazy Mob Rabble”. But the longer the establishment seeks to enforce its dominion over everyone, the more likely it is going to be barbarians that bring them down. This is beating and abusing the populace and then pointing out the one time it fights back as a reason for why the beatings need to continue.
I remember when viewing the world that was conservatism, which I believe KDW is trying to say.
I think that’s my point… I’m not conflating the “establishment” with “ordered society”
The option was between ordered society and chaos. As long as the establishment continues to insist that it is the _only_ option for an ordered society and expand its unjust dominion of a broad society, the more and more likely it becomes that the only result will be chaos. Joining along with the establishment doesn’t prevent the chaos, it only makes it inevitable.
I read it as co-opting the establishment, not passive acceptance. I don’t know why people think only the Left can play the skin-suit game.
Because the left zealously enforces ideological conformity in a way the right never really has. Look at how many journalists who start out at ostensibly rightish outlets – National Review, Fox News, Washington Examiner, even Reason – who eventually jump ship to the likes of WaPo and NYT and CNN and become indistinguishable from everyone else at those outlets. Why? Because they will be purged if they don’t conform.
Can you think of a single example of someone at a major news outlet, either print or broadcast, who evolves away from leftism? I can’t. Why do you suppose that is?
Fair enough, (see below: per your explanation, i can get on board with working within the system is going to be better than trying to get change through upheaval). However i still see a large problem with our current system being the total desire for domination. This isn’t exclusive to the left. Everyone wants to enforce their view of ordered society on disparate communities.
Which is the internationalism of the Neo-Cons. They have infected everything.
If anything has infected everything, it is Marxism. Populism is inherently Marxist as it unquestioningly accepts that hierarchies of power structures are the defining element of societal organization. It is odd that post-2016 ‘conservatism’ hopped full aboard this train while nominally claiming to hate everything Marxism stands for.
Whats Neo-Conservatism but washed up trotskyism? It’s Marxism all the way down 😉
Agreed! That’s the real ‘red pill’!
Becasue “seizing the reins of power and leaving everyone alone” is not somethign that actually happens? When has a state actually devolved power from the inside?
To be fair, KDW isn’t making a libertarian argument, but a conservative one.
That having been said, the other way isn’t working. So why double down?
What do you mean “it’s not working?” A single “fuck you” candidate wasn’t able to reverse the omnistate that’s been building since 1933? And that means we should go back to the one-way ratchet, maybe if we’re good we can convince them to crank it a little slower?
Where are we now? The Democrats are basically a single-party state. The 2nd A is in its greatest danger that it has ever been in. Every single one of Biden’s Day 1 EOs have been specifically designed to “own the Trumpkins”, and the list goes on and on. I mean, do you think the Right is in a position of strength currently?
Hand to God, I honestly don’t even know what “the Right” means.
On 2A, I don’t see how it’s arguable that Trump made things more precarious. Everytown predates him, and would have had just a willing mouthpiece in any D prexy, even Herself back in the before-times. The only thing that is going to save the 2A is getting enough Ds bounced over infringing it.
Well, for the sake of this discussion, let’s define it as not-Left. Anyone and anything that opposes the Democratic coalition of center-leftists to social democrats.
He made it more precarious by deciding the path to reelection was to act like a complete and utter cunt during the month of September. We wouldn’t be in this position only he decided to show some even faux-sympathy for the suffering that we all have endured during the pandemic at the hands of the medicocrats, instead of thinking Jane Housewife was going to be motivated to run to the polls over Trump’s incessant whining and need to ‘own’ his political enemies.
Sorry, ‘cunte’.
Either way, he went out like a bitch. Sad!
What happened during the month of September?
???
I have no love for Trump. He was the flaming bag of dogshit on DC’s front porch, a 90’s Democrat with a foul mouth and few principles.
But Williamson seems to be proposing that we go along to get along because why? Precedent? Peaceful cooperation as they grind the country further into the dirt?
Trust me, I have no false conceptions of what happens if there is a true reactionary wave in this country. However, in order to prevent such a thing from happening the government needs to stop fleecing the people, lying to them, abusing them, calling them racists, calling them white supremacists, continually raising the verbal and economic stakes.
I get the impression Williamson is angry that Trump stole the spotlight from someone more suitable to his tastes. I get it, me too. But when the Left conducts itself in the manner it has, a Trump becomes inevitable as the people say “Fuck you.” And what comes next will most assuredly be even less pleasant from a libertarian perspective if the trend continues.
And as far as rabble goes, we saw them this past summer.
I think many people are focusing too narrowly on his argument. He is saying you can’t fight evil with kookery. He is also arguing that you can’t ride the dragon of populist demagoguery and not get bit. That is what happened to the GOP and that is what will happen to Biden when the progressive wing doesn’t get all the ponies they want.
I don’t disagree that no matter how long you ride the populism, you will get bucked. Populism is the Strawberry Roan. In that sense if he means that we need to work gradually, rather than through populist upheaval, then i’m not totally in disagreement. However just because you don’t ride the pony doesn’t mean you can just ignore the sentiments. The problem is that the the establishment and current government seem much more intent on making the Roan more excitable and upset than calming it.
I agree.
I opposed Trump (and Clinton) in 2016 as matter of principle.
I voted for him in 2020 as a matter of pragmatism simply because the Left went totally haywire and freely allowed their populists to run amok.
We are stuck between two growing populist wings, but one is wholly antithetical to a free society, the other isn’t sure what it is yet, and those in charge in the “middle” are aging, decrepit grifters desperate to hang on to power at any cost.
Actually, we’re not even between the wings, but getting trampled by them.
I think you’re being slightly more charitable to adrenochrome populism than it deserves, but yes, I agree wholeheartedly with this observation.
I had to look adrenochrome up.
Your point is taken, however let me know when they start teaching QAnon theories in public school and enforcing conformity to it in colleges the way they do with DiAngelo and Kendi’s “How To Be a Good Cultist” manuals.
Eh, we agree more than we do not. Yet we argue.
Such is the libertarian way. We don’t make for good members of the mob.
That’s not going to happen because QAnon is inherently antiestablishment. The quickest way to make someone not interested in something is to teach it in school. If QAnon became ‘The Man’, it would lose all of its power. The attraction of QAnon is that it offers forbidden knowledge. You ‘do your own research’, you ‘follow the white rabbit’ to truths the ‘Elites’ don’t want you to know – and you feel clever, rebellious, one of the elect who know how things really are. It’s a heady brew that would be diluted through mainstream acceptance.
I fully understand your trepidation at the anti-intellectual and conspiracy-minded streaks among the MAGA types.
At the same time, the faux-intellectual streak on the Left, all gussied up in postmodernism and critical race theory, scares the hell out of me.
I opposed Trump (and Clinton) in 2016 as matter of principle.
I voted for him in 2020 as a matter of pragmatism simply because the Left went totally haywire and freely allowed their populists to run amok.
#metoo
I stopped paying attention to the 2016 election between when Rand Paul dropped out and Trump winning. I didn’t vote in the primaries or in the general. I thought Clinton would win.
My 2020 presidential vote was strictly pragmatic.
I disagree completely.
Some people respond to righteous sanctimony, others to rare Pepes.
I think he’s making it pretty clear that he doesn’t find the establishment to be evil, just mildly distasteful.
I get the impression Williamson is angry that Trump stole the spotlight from someone more suitable to his tastes.
I get the same impression.
You and I appear to be the only fans of Williamson around here. As abrasive as he is, he isn’t suitably impressed with Trump and/or populism.
Cling to the good will of the DC establishment?
“The IRS, FBI and DoJ are on line one”
Being a skeptic of populism doesn’t mean you have to jump whole heatedly onto the Establishment elite either, which is what KDW is doing here.
Yep.
Even after they ran him out of his brief gig at the Atlantic, Kev just can’t quit his leftist buddies.
My sarc meter is going haywire.
I’m not a fan of Williamson but he does occasionally write interesting stuff. My big issue with him and most of the NR crowd is I believe they cynically views Trumpism, but really the counterreaction to trumpism from the left, as a threat to there livelyhoods and rice bowls more than they actually thinks maga chugs are going to destroy the country.
He’s a talented writer, but he is very much a creature of his environment.
Safety in numbers isn’t an unreasonable attitude. I’ve said this before, but I’m gonna say it again:
They strapped a mask to my face (potentially permanently), closed down my gym, bankrupted my favorite watering hole, canceled all concerts, prevented people from going to sporting events and has tried desperately to convince everyone that all other humans are little more than potential disease vectors.
Donald Trump is a pluperfect asshole, but best as I could tell he was one of the few people anywhere near power who seemed to be against all this shit. That he was a coward and too fond of being President to push back against strong ebough against it (EG, Fauci needed his walking papers by mid-June at the latest) really sucks. But the people who pushed all of this upon us are the same ones who truly love to use the word “populist” while dripping with bile.
So if that makes me a populist, so be it. Given what’s gone on, mark me down as a proud one. The potential dangers of populism are real, but the current level of unrestrained oligarchy is no fun at all.
What to do with the uniparty?
Juris linked that one a few days ago. I found it less than persuasive, mainly because Williamson is pretending that today’s DC establishment is in any way analogous to the establishment of the 1950s.
The MAGA types are largely stupid and ineffectual, and I don’t perceive them as much of a danger to me at all. The DC uniparty, on the other hand, is pure evil and absolutely is a danger to me.
It looks just like old wine in a new bottle to me. A ponderous managerial state.
But if I’m forced to choose between the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the reign of the Yongle Emperor, I will choose the latter every time.
Isn’t that bad for the wine?
Making me look stuff up? You bastard!
The current ponderous managerial state spent the year encouraging riots, wants to teach my children to despise themselves because of their skin color, silences anyone who doesn’t march in lockstep with their absurd gender delusions, will strip me of any ability to protect myself from their mobs, etc.
“the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the reign of the Yongle Emperor, I will choose the latter every time.”
The courtier makes his choice, the peasant makes his.
I’ve never pretended to be anything other than a courtier.
Well, that’s quite an endorsement of the establishment of the 50s. What provokes that particular nostalgia?
Nostalgia? Don’t think that’s the right word. It’s an acknowledgment that, while I wouldn’t have been a fan of the politicians of the 1950s, they weren’t nearly the destructive force that the Democrats (and their GOP establishment lackeys) of 2020 are. They weren’t trying to shunt their social inferiors to the stone age via execrable green policies, trying to force people to agree that people with penises are women if they simply declare themselves to be so, trying to stamp out the freedom of speech with bullshit about “hate speech isn’t free speech”, or allowing (if not outright encouraging) rioting.
That oughta convince a bunch of Trump supporters.
MAGA Tatanka walked into the Congress, and posed for photographs dressed in a goofy outfit. He, as far as I can tell, as never harmed a single human being at any time in his life. He’s a jackass criminal because he walks into the legislature that he fucking pays for.
The Establishment starts wars, continues wars, funnels billions to their cronies, imprisons thousands for nonviolent crimes, bankrupts millions, and whips up propaganda campaigns of hate and fear. But they’re not criminals. Because when treason prospers, none dare call it treason.
“A dog in this condition would be put to sleep. It would be a piece of mercy.”
Ah yes, there it is. The deplorables must be silenced. All these fat sacks of shit are the same once you let them yammer on for a few paragraphs. It always comes down to “They must feel the hard hand of their betters.
Molon Labe motherfucker. Come and get some.
Triggered
KDW, and the rest of the Anti Trump “Right” have the same old note, over and over and over and over and over again:
The theoretical, hypothetical danger of the MAGA Mob unleashed is held up as justifying every single attempt both moral and immoral, both legal and illegal to silence and suppress their speech and their political movement, but the very real death, destruction, poverty, and violations of liberty perpetuated by The Establishment is praised simply as Our Glorious Democracy In Action.
As long as it is the Right Sort of People running the Drug War, the Forever War on the Noun, the Bailouts and the Sweetheart Deals, then everything is fine. But if the Wrong Sort do the same thing, then its Democracy in Crisis.
1. Blah blah blah.
2. Cry moar crocodile tears repubfag.
3. The odds of tatankaMAGA threatening me with ANY kind of weapon is vastly lower than KDW cheering on the people who kick in my fron door and shoot my dog.
Yeah. Random idiot is not a thief or mass murderer. The DC establishment is.
Hey we still have 40 minutes for the MAGA Hatted hordes to start murdering people Rwanda style. I’ve been assured by the Smart People it would happen for about five years now. Still time!!!!!
I’m pretty sure a cop was beaten to death with a flagpole at some point in Rwanda’s history.
I think it’s more than a little disingenuous of you to move the goalposts like that. It’s been five fucking years of people like KDW and others in his general cultural/social/political niche warning that Donald Trump’s rabid redneck fanbase was going to be empowered to run death squads, morality police, or whatever other formulation of non-State but State sanctioned violent mobs. It’s good to be worried about that, we should always be worried about that. But it didn’t happen. Donald Trump did not use Twitter to urge his supporters to assault or kill his opponents. That’s just a fact. He didn’t do it when Congress, the Court, or the bureaucracy blocked him. He just bitched and moaned.
Obama wasn’t responsible for the Dallas police murderer, and Trump is not responsible for that dead cop.
If you want to be really argumentative, you could say that no one was beaten with a fire extinguisher. Some asshole tossed one into a crowd and it hit the cop on the head.
With the exception of Cruz and Pompeo, I don’t think I’ve mentioned the T-word once in this conversation. Trump has nothing to do with what happened, and it is clear that his statements would not meet the standard of incitement in any criminal court.
No, what the rioters did is on themselves. What I think a lot of people are having a hard time accepting is that American exceptionalism was always a myth. That under the right circumstances Joe and Jane RealTree, your neighbors, would happily hack people to death with farming implements for the crime of wearing glasses, just like the Khmer Rouge or any other 3rd World peasant mob. Sure Antifa is just as capable, but Antifa is not America. They are explicitly anti-American. On the other hand, the Capitol mob claimed to be and was bog-standard “real” America For the first time in our modern history the world has seen that America, blond-haired, blue eyed, Carhartt wearing, Olive Garden dining America, is capable of Somalis dragging Blackhawk pilots through the streets level shithole savagery.
And I’m all for the death of American exceptionalism in that no one will listen to us when we attempt to use force as the ‘guardian of democratic norms’ in the world. The Leader of the Free World has been shown to be the bully she has always been. Silver lining.
“capable of Somalis dragging Blackhawk pilots through the streets level shithole savagery.”
I missed that in the news coverage. As far as I know, one cop took a blow or blows to the head from assailants unkown and died the day after, one unarmed woman was shot by police when she tried to enter her legislature without permission, and three people had medical emergencies.
Facts matter.
capable of Somalis dragging Blackhawk pilots through the streets level shithole savagery
Bit of a hyperbolic stretch, no?
You guys didn’t watch the videos of the cop being beaten unconscious, dragged from the doorway out onto the front stairs and then was beaten some more with a flagpole?
It’s only hyperbolic in that he was dragged a few yards instead of many.
The exceptionalism of America is in the idea, not the inhabitants. The original idea, I guess.
You’re going to be in for a hell of a rude awakening.
So you think that Buffalo Hat Guy and his ilk is going to start leading death squads? Because I’m really trying to understand why I should be more afraid of him and some nebulous, as-yet imaginary militia than the 100% legal security apparatus that the establishment wields, and which they are now pushing to be used much more vigorously against their political opponents.
Is going to or is capable of in the right context? Again, one can prepare for threats established and nascent. Preparing for one doesn’t precluding preparing for the other. The enemy of your enemy isn’t necessarily your friend.
The enemy of your enemy isn’t necessarily your friend.
That’s absolutely true, and it is a trap to be avoided. However, I still think MAGA Militia is a fairly remote threat. Maybe I give them too much credit, but I do think the vast majority of them are agitated to be left alone moreso than trying to impose on others.
The theoretical future evil of MAGA Mobs justifies the real and current evil of the Establishment. It’s a neat trick.
Possibly but doubtful.
Populist rage, like a lynch mob can be incredibly destructive but it’s short ranged and burns itself out quickly.
To engage in industrial-scale horror, you need people to believe in something greater than themselves, like a religion, or a state, or a philosophy. Incohate kookiness might inspire a lone wacko do do something inappropriately wacky, but as long as he’s not my neighbor I’m not at risk. You can only do Great Evil if you’re doing it for the Greater Good.
The problem is that The Establishment started the war. As a categorical rule, anyone who forces me to make a choice should lose. I don’t want “populism” whether it is pink like Huey Long or green like Ocasio-Cortez or gold-plated like Trump. But I don’t want to be ruled by an increasingly petty, increasing vindictive, and increasingly loathsome self-selected elite who hate my guts and who want me dead but will settle for my submission. Why would I submit to such people? The National Reviewites are playing the game that they’ll get the axe last but we know this is bullshit. Kevin D. Williamson knows firsthand that this is bullshit. “Remember when I said I’d kill you last? I lied.” If they can stop hating me, then I will stop hating them, but there’s too much on the line for them. You know the academy is rotten to its core, even when it has good people in it like you. I watched firsthand as a slow purge rolled out at my college when I was still a student, and that was 10+ years ago.
We are well down the road to serfdom. The structures of the feudal order are plainly visible all around us. But the bargain on offer for my serfdom comes at too high of a price. Maybe I’m spoiled by the vision of liberty that every child of the 1980s and 1990s saw when the Iron Curtain fell. Maybe I’m too hopeful for an unrealistic outcome. Maybe the mob will be more vicious than the iron fist in a velvet glove of the Cathedral.
But I do not want to submit.
I won’t try to speak for KDW anymore, but I’m not asking anyone to submit. Rather, I’m asking everyone to fight smart. A kamikaze mission of baying majoritarian rage may get you a short-term victory, but it’s a Pyrrhic one.
HEY PICK A SIDE, EASTERN OR WESTERN ALLUSIONS!
a Japanese at Guadalcanal one?
Pretty sure the first kamikaze attack was long after Guadalcanal.
If we’re going to geek out on WW2….if we use kamikaze specifically in its original Japanese sense, then yes. If we use it in the more modern sense of any suicide mission, then the RoC were employing their ‘Dare to Die Corps’ in the 2nd Sino-Japanese War as early as 1937ish, I believe.
Which is true. Kamikaze wasn’t a tactic until late 1944, when the Japanese had lost so many pilots that they figured it was more effective to use lightly trained pilots as flying bombs than to fully train replacement pilots, many of whom would themselves be shot down and thus all those training hours would be in vain.
Banzai charges were the terrestrial version of the kamikaze though, wouldn’t you say? Guadalcanal had a bunch of them.
And, around the same time as Guadalcanal, the Red Army was already parking machine gun crews behind their lines to ensure that their soldiers didn’t try to retreat from suicidal frontal attacks.
That’s fair. Consider my elaboration of my feelings below a personal anecdote and not any kind of extended attack on you or your argument.
The biggest thing that the KDWs have to contend with, if I assume they are at least somewhat sincere, is that the Cathedral exists whether they want it to or not. The populist mob may be the wrong tool to bring it down, but if they don’t recognize they’re at war they’re not going to win. The universities, the press, the government, and big business are all just weapons in the cultural war that the Cathedral is waging. But they have succeeded so far in wielding those weapons. Fights over gay marriage, transgenderism, abortion, etc. are all going to be moot if the opposition doesn’t wise up to what’s going on.
Maybe KDW can make the argument that salvation comes by reforming the Establishment, but he’s got a long way to go to laying out the plan for how to make that happen.
I’m not a MAGA stereotype. I enjoyed school, I liked my teachers, I wanted to go to college, I got a degree, I work a well paying white-collar job, I live a comfortable upper-middle-class existence. My parents and grandparents were well educated and well off, they sneered at rednecks and white trash, they valued high-status markers like proper speech and good manners and healthy eating and yadda yadda. By pedigree, I have more in common with my blue-state teacher, office worker, and government functionary neighbors than the farmers, mechanics, and trailer park boys.
But too many of these people who would otherwise be my cultural colleagues are not interested in the pretense of civility anymore, and it didn’t happen yesterday. I might take a bargain that the average Trump voter wouldn’t, and I’ve got no interest in hiding that fact. But the fact that I feel more comfortable telling a redneck that I’m a faggot than I feel comfortable telling my own boss that I find his politics disgusting shapes my cultural place more than anything else.
And note that I like my boss. I tell him the straight truth as often as I can, when it comes to work. And I don’t even think he’d mind some political ribbing. Ultimately, it’s got nothing to do with him. He’s just a stand-in for a cultural faction that, if I had to guess, he doesn’t even align as fully as he claims with, but he blends in with just fine. Sure, he can fire me, but I don’t care about that. If he wanted to fire me, he could at any time, for any reason. That’s his prerogative. When I say I fear telling what I really think, what I mean is not that he can fire me (any boss can), I mean that I may never find work (of my chosen vocation) again, and not by his direct actions either.
I was raised that religion and politics were like the stuff you do in your bedroom, not topics for polite public conversation. I don’t know exactly when we moved away from that, but we certainly have – to such ill effects.
All part of the left’s push over the last couple of decades to make every aspect of life political, “the politicization of everything” as they used to talk about at TOS.
Heh. The surest sign that I’m about to feel the urge to roll my eyes is him saying “this isn’t even political” which is inevitably followed by something blatantly political.
But actually I don’t know that that is necessarily the problem. Like I said, I could probably jest back with him. He is at least somewhat aware that I disagree with him as I’m not really a chameleon and don’t play along.
Though obviously their lives haven’t ended, what I fear is getting Brendan Eiched or James Damored. And I recognize that fear, I know it’s at least somewhat irrational, and I am working to insulate myself against the consequences and reducing that fear. But the fact that I have to do all of that doesn’t engender respect for the sort of people who want to keep me afraid.
Our CEO flat out told us that would have happened if they found any of us at the Capitol protest.
My opinion is that as the governmental realm acquired more and more power over things that used to be considered individual prerogatives, people who were sensitive about the subject found a need to defend against it. But because the government depends on politics, those people had to pay more attention to it. Then…feedback loop.
That is the insidious nature of identity politics. When the government starts handing out bennies based on various constructed identities, people are naturally going to align themselves into those groups to fight over who gets to suckle at the open teats.
Same. Grew up in a comfortable middle class suburban home, went to a hoity-toity private high school and a very preppy (at the time) “Public Ivy”, played golf on the weekends with Dad at his country club, have spent most of my life as a midlevel office drone. Hell, I AM a government worker *hangs head in shame* and I love my immediate co-workers. The major reason I’m still working at a place I have distate for is that I’m very comfortable there, with a great boss and co-workers whose company I enjoy. However…..I never, ever join in at all when they talk politics. Not even mildly.
it’s leading me to believe they can’t even get close to that number to show up which is strange seeing how Biden just received the most popular support of anyone in the history of the country by large margins.
They should have used the moon landing studio, and green-screened a million sobbing, cheering grateful Americans throwing their panties at the stage and offering their very lives in tribute to their Lord and Savior, Ballgag Joe. And his faithful Indian companion, K’mon-ah-wanna-maulya.
It’s just fucking creepy. Even kim jong un has the decency to have people in the crowd at his public addresses for optic reasons.
I would pay Anal Sex with Dora the Explorer money to see someone throw used panties on the dais during Joe’s inauguration speech. The video of the Secret Service trying to pry those panties away from Joe’s sniffer would be priceless.
The went with 200K tiny flags planted in the ground instead.
Aborted babies flags? Or held-hostage-by-Iran flags?
Even after last year proved you cuntes completely wrong.
Democratic officials at the state and local level implemented strict security measures in the leadup to the caravan event. The statehouse was locked down and boarded up. Streets were closed. All permits for events during the day were canceled.
“We have been planning for weeks about [VCDL] Lobby Day,” Richmond mayor Levar Stoney (D.) told Virginia Business before the event. “The violence and the insurrectionist activities we saw at the nation’s Capitol will not be tolerated in Virginia’s Capitol.”
The country’s leading gun-control organizations also called on Virginia’s Democratic-controlled legislature to ban all forms of open carry throughout the state, citing the riot at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., along with last year’s peaceful VCDL Lobby Day.
“We’ve seen armed intimidation at the Capitol for years,” Lori Haas, Virginia director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, told the Washington Post on Friday. “After the violent insurrection that happened last week—which would have been more deadly without D.C.’s strong gun laws, including a ban on open carry—it’s time that Virginia … ban open carry in public.”
Haven’t we already had the legal discussion regarding the absolute constitutionality of open-carry?
which would have been more deadly without D.C.’s strong gun laws
Ima have to slap a bitch.
You haven’t read the A of C then have you? Because that is exactly what they did, and it wasn’t until the bloodless coup of 1787 when the “perpetual union” was reformed – without the requirement of unanimous consent.
That state a goal, not a power of the government.
I’m reading The New Right right now and Malice makes this point. The Constitution was an illegal insurrection against the Articles of Confederation. I’d say not including any passage in the Constitution making the union either explicitly indivisible or explicitly separable was intentional. Judging by their actions, and the words of men like Jefferson, no union can be truly perpetual: over time, old people die, new people are born, and the same people change their minds.
We can quibble over the omission, but to assert that the Founders would not do exactly what they did is not an argument based on fact. It is instead another form of narrative – which should be something we are damn careful about falling victim to.
Well, as often is the case, the Founders were hypocrites. They seceded from a perpetual union twice: the first time it was from the (United) Kingdom of Great Britain, the second time it was from the United States (as organized by the AoC).
And I think they intended to do lots of things that weren’t workable. They also intended for this union to contain both slaveholders and people who found slavery repugnant in peaceful harmony, a proposition that proved utterly untenable–and not just because of what happened in 1860, as the conflict turned bloody well before then.
This was a fantastic article, well done! I’m tempted to share with facebook normies, but I don’t particularly want to direct the normies to glibs dot com and they’d just handwave it off anyway and refuse to read anything that doesn’t come from the Official Cathedral sources.
Maybe I should convert it to a modern day pamphlet format (image) that is the best suited format for facebook and such.
Gab – Their religious bent and anti-porn attitudes makes me hesitant to jump onboard, I fear they’ll ban speech they dislike, but so far they’ve held the line. Kudos to them.
Bitchute / Rumble – Also, Odysee is another alternative, built on the LBRY platform (?) I don’t really know the technical details, but the interface is very nice and a couple channels I like, EEVblog & Rossman have made been uploading there, so I watch any channels I can over there.
Brave – I NOTICED GLIBS IS STILL NOT A VERIFIED PUBLISHER…. *AHEM* Trying to tip y’all 🙂
Here’s two vlogs, one from EEVBlog and the other from Rossman. Both are kinda on topic, but nothing spectacular. If you’re a fan of either channel, might be worth listening to:
EEVBlog: eevBLAB #84 – 2021 is the Year of Alternatives
https://odysee.com/@eevblog:7/eevblab-84-2021-is-the-year-of:3
Louis Rossman: Trump’s ban will be GOOD for social media platforms in the long run.
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/trump-s-ban-will-be-good-for-social:9
The Humble Marksman is on Odysee too.
I ask your indulgence.
My paternal grandfather turns 99 today. He was born during the Harding administration and lived while Silent Cal was president. His father, born in 1885, was a lumberjack in northern Minnesota, then a blacksmith in western Wisconsin and later ran a hotel with his wife, my great grandmother.
My grandpa was drafted into the Army as part of a tank destroyer company (?) that was constantly in training and could never get combat qualified. A big newspaper man in St. Louis was the father of the Executive Officer and rumor was he made sure it never happened. I’m convinced his lack of combat led to him staying as a career man in the Army. He did go to Korea but again never saw combat.
Grandpa took me fishing and taught me how to use a fly rod to catch spawning sunfish on poppers. I’m sure 8 year old me could outcast 48 year old me.
He lost his love and companion in 2007 after 60+ years of marriage. They slept in separate bedrooms (grandma snored! Lol) and kissed each other good night every night.
He loved golfing and bowling, doing both well into his 90s. He says he misses golf … a lot. He’s still active and independent, including driving. I thought we might lose him when covid came along and shut everything down. Since he’s a social type, he missed going to the casino and to his physical therapy workouts. He was pretty down, wondering out loud why he’s still around. He does his regular workouts in the morning using small weights, which gives him muscles that amaze my kids.
My wife and I enjoy talking to him and hearing his stories. He lives 4 hours away so we visit regularly to maximize visits before the inevitable, though he’s like the damn energizer bunny, just keeps going.
Thanks for putting up with the wall of text.
Happy birthday to him!
Great story! Happy birthday to grampa!
Happy birthday Gramps!
Thanks for sharing his story with us, brother!
Happy Birthday to the man!
+1
Happy birthday to your gramps!
Happy Birthday to him!
And if this country has any future, it is with the Establishment. The People are insane.
Aaaaand fuck off.
*Williamson, not you, HM
Again- this time with tags-
And if this country has any future, it is with the Establishment. The People are insane.
Aaaaand fuck off.
*Williamson, not you, HM
I appreciate the clarification!
It’s shameful, the way those crazy MAGAnites attacked the sacred temple of democracy, just because they have correctly identified it as the hideout of their true enemies. They should have gone downtown and looted a bunch of private businesses and set some cars on fire to prove how smart and empathetic they are.
I’ve ruffled some feathers in my everyday life by immediately jumping on anyone who uses “sacred” or “hallowed” to describe the Capitol buildings.
They are surprised that there are people who don’t think that the DC buildings are any more important than the local DMV. I make sure to say that I think that it is a far greater tragedy when a seedy pawn shop is burned/looted than any damage done to the Capitol building.
The DC Capitol building is far less important to me than the bar/restaurant down the street that I was a regular at for the last eight years, which was recently bankrupted by our “leaders.” Have them set up a table from goodwill in a storage unit for all I care.
I think the Capitol should probably be stormed on an annual basis.
I don’t dislike the fact that the Capitol was stormed. I do dislike the fact that it was for such a bullshit reason that will provide the casus belli for an expansion of the security state that will make us pine for the PATRIOT Act circa 9/12/01 days.
So what you’re saying is that we’re not going to be allowed to wear shoes anywhere now?
*I know, I know, Richard Reid was a year later
“that will provide the casus belli ”
Yep, if we had just put his dinner on the table and kept the kids quiet, we wouldn’t have gotten a black eye.
They will always have an excuse for what they do. Always.
They had the Patriot Act all warmed up and ready to go. Same with this latest domestic terror bill.
Sick fucks.
No state, por favor. I’m a full-fledged collapsetarian now.
I think you’re both right.
The Capitol storming was an escalation, though I think a minor one compared with say the rioting across the country for months, but the response is just using it as an excuse. They want to crack down, and a few hundred chuckleheads making the elite feel uncomfortable is just a crisitunity for them. The deaths that happened are fungible, and I don’t meant to say people’s lives are unimportant: the media will decide whether to count the deaths in column A or column B not based on why they happened but based on whether they’re useful to the message. Lots of people died over the summer, but that’s not BLM/Antifa’s fault for the same reason the FBI couldn’t be bothered to investigate very deeply: the narrative says BLM/Antifa are good but MAGA/alt-right are bad.
This is the mystifying part of populsim. It wasn’t the Patriot Act or congress constantly reauthorizing it and the NSA spying that led to this. It was some looser who couldn’t even do some of the key things he promised (Remember “End the Wars”?).
An interesting video contrasting King Walz’s reactions to Floyd riots vs DC Riots. It is longer, but it is useful to pointing out what a shyster Walz is.
Straight up saying “The United States capitol was stormed by people who were intent on killing the vice president, the speaker of the house and other legislative leaders at the urging of Trump” (very end of the video).
Extra quotable because he was earlier ranting about how can we unify with people whose leaders keep repeating falsehoods.
And so it ends for the Grand Old Party: From abolition to anarchy, from republicans to rabble, a bloody-minded, homicidal gang in thrall to the very democracy John Adams warned us about. A dog in this condition would be put to sleep. It would be a piece of mercy.
Get over it, Williamson. Doktor Jill’s not gonna fuck you.
So Biden says he will govern with “The Science” and with empathy. Doesn’t that seem a little contradictory?
Well this is interesting. Prosecutors say the 4 cops in the George Floyd trial should be tried together because…….. COVID!
The Rona might be the greatest gift The Man has ever received. The things he has gotten away with since it first appeared is astonishing.
It is also good to see that Calamity Mike finally has his chance to strut on the national stage. After decades wandering in the Minnesoda wilderness preaching about the next big pandemic he finally is going to be taken seriously.
It must have been killing him for the last year that a “pandemic” finally hit and it was during a Republican administration so he had to watch Fauci from the sidelines.
Hey are you a good prosecutor if you don’t try everything you can to screw over the defendant? And if you are hired to be a good prosecutor, doesn’t that make you a bad person if you don’t do the job you were hired to do to the best?
Best part of WFH is I get to cook all day long. Got some stock going now that will be used for some won ton soup later. Gonna have the teens make the filling. One pork and the other chicken.
Got a recipe to share? That sounds really good.
Ill see if I can put it up on the boards later.
Unity/healing.
Michael Moore
@MMFlint
He has just left the White House for good. We the people have evicted him. I will go ahead & cancel the U-Haul. He now flies over the wreckage he has created, knowing we are not done with him. Trial. Conviction. Imprisonment. He must pay for his actions – a first-ever for him.
So Biden says he will govern with “The Science” and with empathy. Doesn’t that seem a little contradictory?
Not that icky austere heartless science, that requires a single (near-as-possible) correct answer based on measurement of the world as it is, and objective reality.
The other kind. The SCIENCE of feelgood consensus derived by a democratic process and listening to the underserved.
Science = knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method
Science™ = Obeying the government
Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank’s arguments were backed up by an affidavit from Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota and member of President-elect Joe Biden’s 16-member coronavirus advisory board.
I just want to know when that lying sack of shit Osterholm goes on trial.
Great article and nice to hear from a fellow whitepiller.
For those who haven’t checked out Gab, its founder Andrew Torba is looking like the man of the hour all of a sudden. He has ambitions to create a complete alternative, unconsorable, free speech internet. He has the ambition and know-how to do it and be its CEO. I hope he succeeds and puts Musk and Bezos in the shade. He is also amusingly wacky and zealous, which gives me confidence he will stay the course.
Thanks, Mrs. Torba.
Clarke wrote that melanin “endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.”
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This is our brilliant, sober, refined, intelligent Establishment. This is a tenured professor and soon to be chief enforcer of our nation’s civil rights laws. This is a lawyer who went to Harvard.
But yeah, populism is the real threat.
This is gonna be quite the interesting few years.
That is how you science the shit out of something.
something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards
Not a believer in the RAL colour standard?
*opens hands*
What if I told you that the agenda of the national populists of today has more in common with the original Progressive agenda of the late 19th century than Progressives today? Now, what if I told you that this Progressivism was a revolt of the upper middle class, like the professoriate, against a perceived ‘cosmopolitanism’ of the ‘Robber Baron’ moneyed-elite who advocated for increased immigration from both Europe and Asia which they viewed as depressing wages as well as a eugenic ‘threat’? Finally, what if I told you that America’s fatal flaw has always been the conflation of ‘wealth’ with ‘class’?
Given the choice, I think I would rather be “represented” by goofball MAGA Tatanka than that odious oozing blob of protoplasm Liz Cheney.
I’m late to the party with a busy morning but just wanted to say thanks Banjos for a good article. I know a lot of people depressed about the current direction of our country (yes, even here in SF!). They will be getting this sent as a little pick me up today.