Mumford & Sons’ Banjoist “Taking Time Away From the Band” After Andy Ngo Praise Controversy
Winston Marshall, the banjo player and lead guitarist of Mumford & Sons, is “taking time away” from the Grammy-winning British band after he endured a social media backlash for praising a book by right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo.
In a tweet posted to his account Tuesday night, Marshall said, “Over the past few days I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed. I have offended not only a lot of people I don’t know, but also those closest to me, including my bandmates and for that I am truly sorry.”
He added: “As a result of my actions I am taking time away from the band to examine my blindspots. For now, please know that I realize how my endorsements have the potential to be viewed as approvals of hateful, divisive behavior. I apologize, as this was not at all my intention.”
The controversy started when Marshall, in a now-deleted tweet, congratulated Ngo on the publication of his book Unmasked, which promises to take the reader “inside ANTIFA’s radical plan to destroy democracy.”
“Finally had the time to read your important book. You’re a brave man,” Marshall tweeted, before deleting the message following a backlash and intense mockery of the band.
I enjoy how this headline would be complete gibberish as little as 10 years ago. And I am against band names that sound like an old-timey hardware store.
Also #stopasianhate
Woo! #based #maskpilled
Oh, wait… You only to apply this to abortion? OK.
Take a few minutes out of the day and travel with the staff of Slate on a magical journey up their own asses…
What We Wish We Knew at the Beginning of This Mess
“Don’t buy that used microwave.” I got COVID just under the one-year anniversary mark, and instead of blaming myself, I had to direct my frustration toward someone else—in this case, the kid I found on Facebook Marketplace who sold me his crappy microwave for $25. He was the only person I don’t personally know that I came into prolonged contact with before I tested positive … so he must be the culprit. Also, that microwave sucks. So: Treat yourself to a new microwave instead, Past Allegra. —Allegra Frank, senior editor
“Your kids can go to the playground.” It would have released a lot of the tension on both them and their parents! —Ben Mathis-Lilley, senior writer
“Trump loses.” There are aspects of the pandemic I wish I’d prepared for better, but it would all have been easier without also having to reckon with the possibility that the country might slide irretrievably into the abyss. —Sam Adams, senior editor
It wouldn’t be a Slate article without a little retro-hysteria.
Glenn gonna get himself Epstein-ed.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/criticizing-public-figures-including
He’s only stating the obvious that the Dems, well mostly the Dems, use race and gender as shields to protect them from criticism while forcing horrible policies down our throats. I’ll go cancel myself now.
He’s also exposing the hypocrisy of people amongst the most powerful people in the world cry victim of social media abuse, particularly that cunte from the Times who’s made it her journalistic mission to chase down social media leads for wrongthink and destroy people’s lives.
“The South Carolina law, like those of other states that are currently being challenged, is “blatantly unconstitutional,” said Jenny Black, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.”
LOL
Like you would care.
“The suit says a high rate of women, especially African Americans, die during or immediately after childbirth in South Carolina. The abortion ban would fall hardest on low-income women, who wouldn’t be able to travel to a nearby state where abortion is still permitted, the suit says. ”
OFFS!!
Now the irredeemable sins against Social Justice include…
(shuffles cards)
… reading wrongthink.
*high pitched voice*
NOOOOOBODY EXPECTS THE SOCIAL JUSTICE INQUISITION!
Nobody except everyone?
Also, all I’ve seen from Andy Ngo was that he was willing to do in-depth reporting on Antifa and took a lot of personal risk to do so.
I never saw him do anything that could be considered Ann Coulter-like, how does just writing exposes on Antifa make one a ‘right-wing provocateur’?
So apparently now, even the truth can be dismissed as just someone being provocative?
I had to direct my frustration toward someone else—in this case, the kid I found on Facebook Marketplace who sold me his crappy microwave for $25.
You sound like a major cunte.
Why would you expect to buy a NOT crappy microwave for $25, unless you are indeed, a cunte?
I have a spare microwave from the 80’s that works fine.
I bought my first one in the 80s, and I know for sure I paid at least $150 for it.
It may still work, I don’t know, gave it away.
I think I have it. Did it weigh about 90 lbs, have a heavy grey power cord? It still works great
Amana, right?
“Did it weigh about 90 lbs”
Yeah, that’s the one.
Why should I take medical advice from a politician?
Why should you take any advice from someone for whom EVERYTHING is an agenda?
OK, now do, like, all of 2020.
The only blind spot you have is thinking that “taking time away to examine [your] blindspots” is going to accomplish anything.
It’s already too late. You’re done.
Stick a fork in him.
Anyone want to bet that he will issue a statement that he’s “done the work” and is ready to join the band? The bet is only about the use of the phrase, not the timing.
In a tweet posted to his account Tuesday night, Marshall said, “Over the past few days I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed. I have offended not only a lot of people I don’t know, but also those closest to me, including my bandmates and for that I am truly sorry.”
I’m sorry you’re such a bunch of thin skinned bitches.
Fuck them…
Fuck your bandmates too.
Wokeford & Sons
*snort
I have offended not only a lot of people I don’t know, but also those closest to me
Offense is taken, not given. And you are a cuck. ///NeverApologize*
*Especially for something so innocuous.
This blows my mind.
So many people around that guy’s age are just… broken. I don’t know any other way to describe it. How does he even tie his shoes?
Never apologize. What a dummy. Just tell them to blow it out of their ass and go play guitar.
Seriously, he might lose a handful of fans, but he’d gain some too.
And in the end, that few inches of elevation that the stage gives the band (or comedian, or politician) above the audience gives them a special magic that makes chics want them.
They should use that to their advantage by showing how little they care about whining cunte fans, which will make them all the more desirable. If they want that kind of crazy around, that is.
My understanding is that Mumford & Sons is very political and anti-Trump. The band would probably lose all their fans if the banjo player didn’t grovel or was kicked from the band. The band will be cancelled otherwise.
It’s the age, really. 33’s ostensibly “adult,” but for many folks, they still don’t know who they are or what hills they’re willing to die on.
“You wanna run with the big dogs you gotta learn to piss in the tall weeds”
“right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo”
Provocative, is it? Sharing street goons writings and filming them doing stupid stuff. MUST. BE. STOPPED!
Them is protected citizens (AKA, democrat voters).
He’s a nahtzee!!! – prog
OMG THEYIR DISTRIBUTING PLAGE MICROWAVES!
Nobody forced you to buy it, dipshit.
Was she not wearing a mask? Masks save lives.
He was the only person I don’t personally know that I came into prolonged contact with before I tested positive
How long does it take to take a microwave and pay for it? Did she fuck him, too?
Well she only gave him $25 for the microwave and then tried to shame him on the internet, so she definitely tried to fuck him.
Spurned lover syndrome. She wasn’t any good, so he refused a 2nd encounter, despite her offer to buy his used sofa.
Used her like a rug?
** howls **
** gasps for breath **
stop it boys you’re killing me
Marcy Playground is an actual place in Minneapolis.
Not sure if it’s burned down yet.
Thanks for the lynx, SF!
If it’s not, just give it a little while now…
mmmmm hmmmmmmm
Nevada Democratic party staff resigns en masse after party takeover by
commiesdemocratic socialists.That sounds like it will be effective.
I mean how dumb are they? Do they need to be beaten over the head with a hammer to realize that the dems went full on commie years ago?
“See, guys, what you need to understand is, *you’re* the guts we scrape out when we make the skin suit.”
But I was told I could do anything I put my mind to!
I am supposed to be part of the elite, not the governed!!
No, they need to be beaten over the head with both a hammer AND a sickle.
Fitting, for sure.
Disenfranchised!
In central Illinois farmer-european-thrice-removed patois, a “Beckerman” is someone who unashamedly farts in public.
Fact Check: False. I have never been a farmer or been called a Beckerman.
adam nagourney
@adamnagourney
It’s hard to parody Biden. He’s not polarizing and people tend to find him likable. His ticks aren’t that interesting.
Word. There is literally nothing funny about doddering/sleepy/creepy/lying/corrupt/etc. Joe.
Tics, genius, unless you are claiming he actually has parasites.
Is a parasite. Not has.
Maybe Biden is a closet Britisher? Everyone knows Lyme-eys have ticks.
All of his voters are parasites, so there’s that.
He’s extremely polarizing and a senile clown who has no business playing president. It’s just that he doesn’t send mean tweets. All of his tweets are written by spam bots and sound exactly the same, some version of ‘We have to come together to save democracy!’. *barf*
Free free to Tweet him a link.
Hey, fat, he may not be as easy to parody as Trump, but c’mon, man! You say his [sic] ticks aren’t interesting but, you know, the thing!
Honestly, the thing about Biden is, its too easy to make fun of him. Unlike, say, Trump.
“He was the only person I don’t personally know that I came into prolonged contact with before I tested positive ”
“prolonged contact”
What’s the over/under he blew a college kid for a used microwave?
$25. Same as for the microwave.
the implication is he paid for both!
I’m thinking she’s probably a chick.
Probably.
Gendering shitlord^^
I think you are right.
So she blew a college kid for a used microwave?
“That’s a vacuum cleaner, ma’am.”
That mouth looks like a frightening place to put one’s penis.
“You offer to buy microwaves with that mouth?”
AIER, at the top of the stairs, with a priceless Ming vase
“Government knows best” is the subtext for arbitrary decrees issued around the world. An Associated Press article in January explained why Californians were denied access to the information that determined the fate of their freedom: “State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public.” But many data-driven dictatorial policies relied on data that was either fraudulent, politically contrived, or laughably inaccurate. On the day that Joe Biden was inaugurated as president, the World Health Organization changed the test standard for defining Covid cases, guaranteeing that far fewer “cases” would be reported and thereby making a mockery of the previous 10 months data.
“Laughably inaccurate” is a pretty goddam charitable characterization, I’d say.
Holy crap, that illustration, though! I guess maybe Ben Garrison wasn’t available?
“While the number of fatalities attributed to Covid-19 is carefully tracked by governments”
It isn’t.
That was a terrible line with which to start off an article.
“Every death with covid will be treated like a death ofcovid.” – Some Dishonest Bureaucrat Doctor Cunte
That is a lot of words to say ‘They hid the truth and lied their asses off.’
Tarragon and malt vinegar pair extremely well.
They also make an excellent dressing for French-style potato salad. Boil whole new potatoes, cut into bite-sized pieces, dress with tarragon, vinegar, salt, and pepper while still hot, serve at room temperature.
Also, macerating tarragon at the end of the season in vinegar also works well.
^^THIS.
Potato salad without mayonnaise? Impossible.
PUS.
There’s a german place in town that does something pretty close to that, but they serve it hot.
Good.
I like to put Bearnaise on potatoes. But then, I like to put Bearnaise on just about anything.
Tarragon and malt vinegar pair extremely well.
That combination is known as “Tarragon of Virtue”.
That’s such a dad joke, it got your wife pregnant.
*narrows gaze*
Mumford & Sons’ Banjoist “Taking Time Away From the Band” After Andy Ngo Praise Controversy
I guess I’m the only one who quickly glanced and became confused why they’re coming after Sandford & Son now.
You big dummie.
#MeTooed
“He wanted me to handle his junk.”
We can be sure that Elizabeth never read Andy Ngo’s book.
USA TODAY
@USATODAY
Reporter: “We were promised a White House cat, what happened to that?”
Psaki: “Where is the cat? Today is a good day for the cat. I don’t have any update on the cat. We know the cat will break the internet.”
Serious news for serious people. That said, I maintain that Trump should have gotten a Russian Blue.
And then sit in his Dr. Evil chair while stroking that pussy.
And named it Putey. LOL, the pants shitting heard round the world!
“Putey’s my bitch”.
That looks like Q’s pussy.
This is what I’d expect.
It is safe for work.
He should have gotten Kayleigh a Russian Blue. Then at a presser, while she was seated with the fur ball in her lap, he could have walked over and scooped it from between her legs. “I love a foreign pussy… cat, don’t you?
I had a Russian blue. They love to play fetch. That cat drove me nuts for 20 years bringing me rubber bands, small wads of paper, etc. for me to throw so he could fetch it.
“Trump loses.” There are aspects of the pandemic I wish I’d prepared for better, but it would all have been easier without also having to reckon with the possibility that the country might slide irretrievably into the abyss. —Sam Adams, senior editor
Bless your heart.
instead of blaming myself, I had to direct my frustration toward someone else
How about not blaming anyone? Remember when one caught a cold before 2020? Nobody attempted to do contact tracing.
Gosh your hopeless, You’ll never make it in the new victim culture.
Tics, genius, unless you are claiming he actually has parasites.
He’s a clockwork wind-up toy.
I’ve always suspected one of Futurama’s Brain Slugs. To be fair, I’ve had the same suspicion about The Hair That Walks Like A Man™, too.
Oh, Tulsi.
“And the issue with this, there’s a few issues with it, the main issue with this is when you look at our rights and freedoms, and our ability to debate them, and respectfully come out the other end agreeing or disagreeing, as you and I have over the years, it’s based on the fact that we are all children of God. And recognizing that, we then treat each other with respect and respect this freedom that we have,” she continued. “So, let’s look down the path and say, ‘Okay, well, where does this cancel culture lead us?’ You see the final expression of cancel culture in Islamist terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda who basically go and behead those who … they deem to be infidels or heretics in order to silence them in order to protect others from being misled by those heretical ideas and in the eyes of an ISIS or Al Qaeda.”
“And so when we look at cancel culture here at home, we see those efforts to cancel or silence those that … they don’t want the people to hear from, those who may offer a different idea than the one that those in power want people to see or to hear, or to be exposed to,” she concluded. “And so this is, when we look at the foundations of our democracy, this is the danger of where this path leads us. Unless we as individuals stand up against it.”
She’s right.
You know. Am I the only one tiring of her whining about how bad her party sucks at that freedom stuff, and yet she’s still one of them?
Your whining ain’t going to change them, sugar tits, either leave or fer Christ sake, shut up already.
This. She’s right and wrong at the same time.
Her confusion is that she belies she’s getting back the 1960s liberals, antiwar and all that.
That ain’t happening, so she just needs to get over it, and realize there’s no major party for her. She can join we Glibs, but only is she shows us the tits.
“What my client meant to say is that your client is the tits.”
No, I meant show us the tits. Tulsi tits, umm, titties, let’s see em.
Certainly the Libertarians would be happy to have her as a2024 candidate. Maybe an Amash-Gabbard ticket: two failed major party politicians.
The 2024 LP! A lil’ freedom, a lil’ commie, all fuzzy inside.
I agree.
But she’s in Hawaii, and if she’s anything other than blue there she has absolutely no chance at anything.
No wonder she doesn’t fit in the modern day Democrat party. She is pro-free speech.
Satanists Down Under…
“I met a Satanist from Wollongong…
“He once ‘threw a curse’ on a neighbour, because that particular neighbour was making loud noises at night, while David swas studying at university.
“A month later, he committed suicide.
“David didn’t feel guilty. Most people would think, what a horrible person!
“But did David do anything wrong?…
“I was so worried about my Grandma though, as I was yelling “HAIL SATAN” during the ritual.”
https://7news.com.au/entertainment/satanists-next-door-from-rituals-to-religion-with-the-controversial-group-c-2244402
There once was a Satanist from Wollongong
who claimed to have a penis 3 feet long…
On doors he would knock
With his prodigious cock
But the sound the doors made was just “ding-dong”
or,
But the sound they made, oddly, was “ding-dong”
I don’t think you have to believe his actions actually did anything to still think that they aren’t nice.
Yup. If I shoot at my neighbor because they are making too much noise and miss, I’ve still done a bad thing.
Yeah, cause you missed.
Things I like should not be subject to rules and traditions that I don’t like.
Clyburn said, “It’s not just HR1 that I’m concerned about. Remember, it has a lot to do with redistricting with financing campaigns. That’s got nothing to do with voting rights and civil rights. HR4 that we have renamed the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act is coming forward. We hope it would be ready by the fourth, the sixth of August, the anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act so that we can get that out. I don’t think these things should be subjective to the filibuster. I think it is very clear, if we can make an exception to the filibuster rules for budgets, we ought to be able to make it for any other civil or voting right that exists. Protected classes are treated specially, is that ought to not, the filibuster ought not to apply to benefits and other issues surrounding protective classes. So that’s what I think we should do. I’m not saying get rid of the filibuster. If the president wants to keep the filibuster, fine. Let do it for civil rights and voting rights.”
John Lewis? The guy who said the Tea Party shouted racial slurs at him? Slurs that no one was able to come up with a video of despite Breitbart offering $100K for proof?
Seems right to name a bill that will enshrine voter fraud after him.
Fuck you, you sniveling, cowardly cunte. Fuck you, your parents, your grandparents, any brothers and/or sisters, your first and maybe even your second cousins.
And the horse you rode in on.
NEVER APOLOGIZE TO THOSE TWITS. After you do, abandon all hope, dummies.
He read a book, found it interesting, and said so. And then a bunch of pre-programmed, whiny bitches, including his “friends,” piled on him for it, to the extent that it made international news. And he took his beating like an abused dog.
It’s time for a whole lot of people to move on from the fifth grade.
Anyone who shuns you for your politics is toxic. If your friends and your family feel it’s more important to tell you what to think than be your companions then they’re not good people and will only tear you down.
Has Ngo issued any comment on this?
“Ngo comment.”
The role of the straight man was played by db, understudy for Mr. Milo Yiannopoulos.
That is a really Hanoi-ing pun. Swill will call you out for it.
*slow clap*
*strongly narrows gaze*
Serious news for serious people
12 jurors must set aside what they saw in the George Floyd video. How will lawyers find an impartial jury?
Nice journalism-ing. I wonder if criminal justice is this writer’s regular beat.
Well, no doubt, they should set aside everything they saw, will see, heard, or have heard, and all the testimony and just let the media decide the case. After all, the media are comprised os talentless losers who couldn’t make it in any honest job. JUSTICE!
Or they could just look at the coroner’s report….the one that says Floyd overdosed on fentanyl and was a dead man walking before the cops even showed up.
Still, the cop should have called a “bus” long before nine minutes were up.
I thought they were waiting on the ambulance. Not sure how long it took to call for it.
They didnt know the guy was overdosed. They arrested him, got him in the cruiser and then he started complaining that he could not breath. By the time they got him out of the car he was panicking and they weren’t really sure how to deal with him so they restrained him.
Something to keep in mind…if you score over 110 or 120, I dont remember the exact number, on an IQ test no police department will hire you. The number might be substantially lower.
I was reading that pretty much the exact same scenario played out with Floyd about a year before – he swallowed a bunch of fentanyl while being arrested to keep from getting tagged with a drug charge. The only real difference was, they got him to the hospital in time.
The judge wouldn’t allow it to be introduced by Chauvin’s defense lawyer.
Too smart to be a policeman
“A gay, polyamorous California throuple made history in 2017 when they became the first family in the state to list three dads on a birth certificate.
“Their reproductive journey and legal battle to become fathers to Piper, now 3, is detailed in “Three Dads and a Baby” (out March 9, Cleis Press), written by one of her dads, Dr. Ian Jenkins….
““We had to have contracts between each man and each woman. Then, when another cycle got planned, we realized the contracts had to be redone. Of course, redoing them means $500 an hour in fees,” Jenkins writes of the ordeal. “And the requirement is to pay four lawyers [one to represent each father, plus one for the surrogate] to craft a parenting agreement, which no straight couple has probably ever been asked to sign.””
https://nypost.com/2021/03/01/poly-throuple-makes-history-3-dads-on-a-birth-certificate/
Something something, the last days of the Roman Empire, yeah, we got it.
More like Weimar Germany.
Its truly an injustice.
James Holden is real?????
Other than, you know, anyone who’s ever adopted a kid from live parents ever.
I wonder how many divorce lawyers they’re going to burn through.
“Why should I take medical advice from a politician?”
I don’t know, I’m not the one who took sign printing advice from his HVAC contractor.
“Terrorism and extremism expert Colin Clarke told the Independent how white right-wing Christian evangelicals are being radicalized by the QAnon conspiracy theory into committing acts of terrorism…
“”In an effort to understand how white Christian evangelicals are being radicalized into terrorism and other forms of extremism, I recently spoke with Robert Jones, CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). Jones is also a leading scholar on religion, politics and culture. His essays and other commentaries have been featured by the Atlantic, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the New York Times.
“Jones is also the author of “White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity” and “The End of White Christian America.”
“In this conversation, Jones explains how Trump’s insurrection and the Capitol attack should also be understood as expressions of white supremacy and Christian nationalist violence. He also details how white evangelicals actually believe that they are being oppressed and have become victims in America — false beliefs which make them very susceptible to conspiracy theories such as QAnon, political extremism and, in the worst-case scenario terrorism and political violence such as we witnessed on Jan. 6. Jones also explores why white evangelicals are so loyal to Donald Trump and his political cult and what that reveals about American politics and society.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-capitol-attack-white-supremacist-terrorism-meets-evangelical-christianity/ar-BB1erwN0
I read this, and immediatly i don’t think the person talking is going to be sympathetic to these people at all:
Oh look i guess i’m right, so maybe this is all just propoganda.
I’ll agree that playing the victim does tend to make people plyable to conspiracy theories… Like how Minorites are systematically oppressed in America, or Russia is hacking our election…
I’m sure he furnished some examples.
Is there anyone on the left who isn’t a craven liar?
Sure, there are plenty of bold liars too.
There are a few.
Greenwald.
Tulsi.
Uh…
“Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos declares himself an ‘ex-gay’ who is ‘sodomy free’ and wants to un-cancel ‘conversion therapy’ – but what does his HUSBAND think?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9346869/Milo-Yiannopoulos-declares-ex-gay-says-wants-rehabilitate-conversion-therapy.html
worth reposting
“Ex-Gay” Conversion Therapy Boogaloo, A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
Sometime in the not-too-distant future, our protagonist will be caught:
A. Cruising late at night in a city park
B. With a rent boy in a skeezy motel
C. Playing footsie under the airport bathroom stall
D. In a meth-fueled trailer park orgy
E: Having done all of the above in a single night.
IOW, living his best life.
Somebody puts all his stat points in stamina.
Eh, trailer park seems a little declassee for Milo.
You’d think so, but then Hugh Grant was caught with Divine Brown in his car.
That may have been one of the most baffling episodes of a celebrity’s bad judgment I’ve encountered in my lifetime.” You cheated on Elizabeth freakin’ Hurley with a twenty-dollar roundheel from the ‘hood? WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?”
I remember originally yelling at the TV all those years ago, and the Spousal Unit simply said “Some guys are dumber than shit, BEAM.”
Yeah.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9348113/Elizabeth-Hurley-55-puts-busty-display-racy-cut-swimsuit.html
Spousal Unit was correct.
I remember when that happened. I was surprised he was caught with a female.
Should have waited a couple of years. SODOMY FREE SINCE 2023!
I don’t know if he’s still gay or not. Of course, he seems to get off on publicity, but then, so do lots of more boring, more pretentious people.
There are people more boring and more pretentious than Milo?
I need to get out less.
“I need to get out less”
That, my friend, is some sound advice. When the lockdown orders came out my response was “Oh my God, whatever you do dont throw me in the briar patch!”
As the saying goes, “last year I joined a support group for antisocial people. We haven’t met yet.”
The thing I hate about the lockdowns is not the not going anywhere, it’s the being told I can’t go anywhere.
In this conversation, Jones explains how Trump’s insurrection and the Capitol attack should also be understood as expressions of white supremacy and Christian nationalist violence.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Why is everyone so upset about that banjo player? Did you expect him to stand tall?
Everyone knows that a banjo is on his knees…
Well, with his wimpy behavior he can forget about Dinah letting him back in the kitchen.
Oh Swiss Man-a, now don’t you gaze at me
*narrows gaze*
* That the governmental overreaction to it would result in the wholesale destruction of large portions of our economy
* That the governmental overreaction to it would result in the loss, possibly permanently, of large portions of liberty that were once considered guaranteed?
* That the governmental overreaction to it would result in the expenditure of vast sums of money and the accumulation of oppressive mountains of debt to pay for it?
* That the governmental overreaction to it would result in conditions that would allow a senile, incompetent, and largely disrespected old politician to win the Presidency, and for his handlers to take the reins of government?
That dystopian novel you’re working on sounds scary…wait a minute…
He was the only person I don’t personally know that I came into prolonged contact with before I tested positive
Slate writers don’t disappoint.
Uffda. What FDR can teach Joe Biden. And no it isn’t “how to hang onto power until you literally die”.
FDR invented Social Security! Minimum Wage! Everyone loves that shit. Everyone will love all this free money and no one will ever have to pay it back.
So what they’re saying is that voters can be bought. My, that’s a stunning revelation.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/congress-oks-1-9t-virus-relief-bill-in-win-for-biden-dems/article_3ed35003-d59e-547e-826a-e55f4715dc95.html
Honk honk.
Nice musical choice for today.
I have seen Marcy Playground a few times. The concert 4 or so years ago was really great. They can put on quite a show.
For those who are interested. Their catalog is much deeper than the Sex and Candy hit.
Here is one of my favorites.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JOYddNO-C0U
https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianEntin/status/1369456310073298944
More autonomous zones. Burn it down. Fuck em.
I would at least turn the water and electricity off
Napalm dropped via low-speed flyover from an A-10 Warthog with wing pods.
I know, I know. I’m a bad person.
Too much chance of collateral damage.
Use the nose cannon. I was talking to a Warthog pilot who said he had the ground crew “de-tune” his nose cannon in the Mid-East because he wanted more dispersal on target, since he wasn’t shooting at tanks.
On the Vulcan ADA gun, we had a round muzzle clamp for ground targets and an oval muzzle clamp for aerial targets.
The home of the A-10 used to be England Air Force Base. My grandfather designed their firing range. He had to find a place 6 miles by 12 miles to put it. When he complained about their need for so much room for error…in his words…”They put me in one of those things and yanked my ass up in the air. When they set that thing off it really rattles. your teeth and ricochets and strays go all over the place for at least a mile.”
In those days it was common to hear the thunder of those guns for miles around.
I went out to shoot my pistols once near that range. While I was there some A-10’s showed up and started shooting. I could feel the vibration in the ground both from the cannon blast and from the bullets hitting the ground. One of the pilots saw me, circled me close enough for me to see his face. You think Swiss has a narrowed gaze? I could feel that guy’s glare. I packed up my shit and got the hell out of there.
His many types of deodorant did they find to be optimal?
I know Bernie says 23 types is too many. I’m curious what the right number is.
23 and me™!
Wait, that’s not what that refers to?
22. Missed it by *that* much.
Get in the zone; Auto(nomous)Zone.
And as usual, I’m guessing it has nothing to do with George Floyd and everything to do with Marxist LARPing at “revolution” again. Assholes.
Incompetently plant some vegetables and accept a rapper/part-time entrepreneur/warlord as your de facto leader. Maybe OD on some spiked home-brew “kombucha” in your filthy, disheveled tent. Smash all the windows and defecate in the streets. Hold business owners and legal residents prisoner. Be savagely ironic to a degree that would make even the most cynical, misanthropic hipster wince by screaming “someone call the cops” in response to one of your comrades being shot by gang bangers in the midst of your lawless utopia.
Yep. Fuck ’em. If the locals won’t go in with rifles and clean that shit up then they deserve what they get.
Totally not an insurrection.
came here to say this
What the hell are the residents doing?
What a shitshow.
https://twitter.com/NYTimesPR/status/1369747504565256193
Paper of broken record
Awwwww…. poor babies
George Floyd killed by police; women and children hardest hit.
Below that…
LOLOL his insipidly woke tweets are focus-grouped into the next galaxy
Hmmm…I wonder what those scamps in the California educational establishment have been up to lately? Awww, this looks cute…
“…The curriculum recommends that teachers lead their students in a series of indigenous songs, chants, and affirmations, including the “In Lak Ech Affirmation,” which appeals directly to the Aztec gods. Students first clap and chant to the god Tezkatlipoka—whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism—asking him for the power to be “warriors” for “social justice.” Next, the students chant to the gods Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totek, seeking “healing epistemologies” and “a revolutionary spirit.” Huitzilopochtli, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war and inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule. Finally, the chant comes to a climax with a request for “liberation, transformation, [and] decolonization,” after which students shout “Panche beh! Panche beh!” in pursuit of ultimate “critical consciousness.”…
“The state board of education will vote on this curriculum next week.”
https://www.city-journal.org/calif-ethnic-studies-curriculum-accuses-christianity-of-theocide
(Talk about bleeding-heart liberalism)
Boo.
(The Aztec gods don’t care what reporters write about them so long as they spell their names properly)
But a Shakespeare is right out.
https://i0.wp.com/ipfactly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Kodeks_tudela_human_sacrifice_aztecs.jpg?resize=640%2C686
Florida could employ this (but probably won’t): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rAV3bOJaQuY
Cortez reported that they had to approach the Aztec capital with the wind at their backs because the stench of rotting cannibalized corpses was unbearable. After they realized what they were dealing with they slaughtered as many Aztecs as they could, in my opinion, rightfully so. The Spanish were bad but a lot better than what they found here in the Americas. When Spanish Conquistadors are an improvement….that is really saying a lot.
? https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-diego-news/san-diego-unified-approves-serra-high-name-mascot-change
And the Spanish had the enthusiastic help of the many peoples the Aztecs had victimized for centuries. They’re the last culture that should be emulated, their gods most of all. Baal worshippers would be put off by what they did.
The left is a death cult, Pt. CXXVIII
Good grief. Where do these people come from and how did they get into such positions?
Frankfurt School. They and their ideology are pure poison.
Soooo, starting to work through the Collected Chesterton vol 4 and reading “What’s Wrong With the World” for the first time. Obviously a source of a lot of his popular quotes, etc, but some great pieces in here even if it is early GKC. (whole thing is up on https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1717/1717-h/1717-h.htm#link2H_4_0005)
Taken from the “chapter” “The Enemies of Property”
This is pretty awesome:
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1369660060293505032
Holy crap.
So, I’m having a glass of rye (as one does) and was feeling a little peckish (as one does) so I’m cooking some bacon (as one does).
That package says “Product of USA and Canada.” Does that mean they’ve got smokehouses on both sides of the border, or they buy pork bellies from flappy-headed farmers or what?
This is really good bacon
What I really like about Oscar’s is their cured meats taste like meat. Some bacon (or ham, etc) tastes like moistened smoked salt. This might actually be a little too mild, I saw they had something labelled “double smoked” that I’ll have to try next.
On the flip side, these guys’ products are like eating a campfire… but sometimes I’m in the mood for that.
You eat Campfire Girls?
They’re a rare delicacy. Brownies are much more common.
I’d wager they buy canadian pork bellies.
He’s in upstate NY? It could be the other way round.
Does it say if it’s imported?
Yup. I live far enough north of Albany that I never have any reason to go there, but not far enough north to get into the really gorgeous areas of the Adirondacks.
I don’t know what (if anything) it means, but that “product of USA and Canada” is not on the main label, it’s on the printed out label with the weight and final price.
Can I ask just one question.
If the vid vaccine is so safe, why do you have to sign so many form absolving them of any responsibility if it kills you deader than fuck?
I’ve never seen anything like this before. I’ve never seen anyone have to sign shit before taking a flu vaccine.
I just was signing my wife up for the vid vaccine and she is now balking after signing the 4th form letting them totally off the hook if it kills her or otherwise render her a vegetable or whatever.
Totally safe, my fucking ass.
Where I live, any vaccine you take comes with a little form requiring you to absolve the vaccine-maker of all responsibility should something ‘orrible ‘appen to you.
Plus, new protocols:
If you had your shots more 14 or more days ago, you don’t need to quarantine if you come into contact with a Rona Zombie.
BUT! After 90 days… you do!
That’s one shitty useless vaccine right there.
SUCK.MY.DICK.
All vaccines have side effects. The likelihood of dying might be very small, but when given to millions of people, someone is going to die. That’s why I dislike the kneejerk reaction of saying vaccines good. Maybe this specific one is good as many others are, but it needs to be balanced against the risk associated with catching the disease, the treatments available for the disease, and the risks associated with the side effects of the vaccine. Unfortunately that gets lost in the panic, and nobody wants to be a “denier”. The kneejerk “vaccine good” is a triumph of marketing by the pharmaceutical companies.
This.
Our reactions to medicines are as specific as our genetic makeups. The medical industry treats us all as herd cattle.
It wasn’t marketing by the pharmaceutical companies it was most likely lobbying and the over reaction by government and a full deep throated willingness of “the government” to pay for research and a guaranteed purchase of squillions of vaccines that got them to do this. We don’t vaccinate people for the risk levels of the likes of this disease otherwise we would have a cold vaccine and a real flu vaccine instead of guesses. The fear mongering and guarantee of a pay off worked this one into everyones arms.
Just a little somethin’-somethin’ for all the XYs here:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/60A8958.jpg
An up-and-coming actress in the Vancouver, Canada market.
He’s cute.
Trust me, that’s a she. Also featured as my avatar for the moment.
I like the avatar picture much better. The linked pic looks too filtered to me.
Closest I can say to knowing an actress: The goth looking daughter
https://youtu.be/E7MzqnpUxt4
She used to work at a coffee shop I went to several years ago. Tall, pretty, nice young lady and entirely too young for me. I think she was in a Ross retail commercial recently too. I wish her well.
Let me put my response through the Appropriateness Filter and hope my remarks aren’t screened out:
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Well, that’s enlightening.
I meant of course that she looks very nice.
Ozzy Man is doing the Oprah Marlke interview, top shelf!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PShVQpBM5Zk
LOLOLOL
Forwarded to some friends, that is hilarious.
Cuck: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-9342409/Stacey-Dash-apologizes-offensive-comments-turns-Donald-Trump-quits-politics.html
Oh, and she was a mom when she made Clueless? Wow.
If anyone is around and wants to Zoom, I’ll start a session at the bottom of the hour.
Glib Humpday Zoominess
Please note, if I am the only actual talker like the other night, it won’t last long! 😉
Would love to, but that’s about the time the Spousal Unit expects me to be gettin’ some dinner goin’.
Must not disappoint the Spousal Unit. Must not!
Oh, so you’d rather disappoint the woman who holds the keys to your Glib happiness?
I don’t blame you….
I’ll join for a little bit. I have some housework to wrap up before I go to bed, but it would be good to chat with some folks who are not coworkers.
It is getting to be bedtime for me. I said I would post one every day and here is today’s
https://postimg.cc/fVyCKg5V
Great great great grandfather and mother.
I love these old photos, Suthen.
Seconded. I don’t think I have any pics older than my great grandparents.
We was poor!
I have one of my 3rd great grandfather, taken about 1870 when he was in his 50s. He was a Swiss immigrant to the Pittsburgh area in the early 1850s.
It’s funny, really.
My great grandparents emigrated from Italy, poor as hell. Then they kicked ass. Everyone here would recognize the name, but IDGAF.
I’d like to know more about the before time.
Gotti?
LOL!
No. Not crime related at all.
The only stories I know about them: They were trying to migrate to Texas but when they got to the Sabine it was flooded so they camped. After three weeks with the water not going down the women staged a revolt so they packed up everything and went back east and settled in Catahoula Parish. Later he was in the militia that put down the Colfax riots, the town near where I live now. I happen to be acquainted with the man that owns the canon that was used in that kerfuffle. Apparently it is quite rare. Those 4″ cannons were commissioned by the US govt and given out to civil govt’s around the country and very few of them are left. I keep thinking about catching the guy when he is drunk and making him an offer.
Props for the song. Great tune, Sugarfree!
I’ve always preferred their tune St. Joe on the School Bus.
Here is another of my favorites by them.
https://www.last.fm/music/Marcy+Playground/_/Wave+Motion+Gun
“Sex and Candy” is a wonderful example of miniature songwriting.
Why would I take medical advice from a politician?……………Don’t.
Do take advice from anyone offering sex and candy. Devious stares don’t hurt. It was probably a dream though. But at least I can still smell so I don’t have Covid.