Come, my friends, and descend into Hell with me…
‘Back That Azz Up,’ Comrade (at Least 6 Feet) Partying with Lux magazine’s socialist feminists.
On December 15, just as Omicron preoccupied the city, I went to a party at the Dumbo loft owned by Verso Books, “the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.” The high-ceilinged, book-lined space with a great view of the Manhattan Bridge has long been a gathering place for city socialists, some of whom, I discovered, use the word “comrade” unironically. The event itself was hosted by Lux, a new-ish socialist feminist magazine named after the Marxist thinker and martyr Rosa Luxemburg. Its editor and publisher, Sarah Leonard, described Lux to me as “a cross between Cosmo and Marxism” — a slightly sexier, farther to the left descendent of magazines like Ms. and Bitch. “I think it’s been a bit of a relief for people who are like, yeah I’m a socialist but I’m not a bro who loves to yell at people,” Leonard says. “I’m queer and female and an abolitionist and I want that to be the starting point.” The tagline is “We Want It All.” Or, as another editor put it later, “We’re not here saying don’t drink wine! We’re just saying drink union wine!”
Read on… if you dare!
[Vincent Price laugh]
[disappears in a puff of smoke]
[in reality, just hitting a vape pen to blow them phat clouds]
Look! Up in the sky! With his hands over his ears! Stimming! It’s CAPTAIN AUTISM!
Defense: There’s no way ‘Captain Autism’ masterminded Whitmer kidnap plot
He was referred to as “Captain Autism,” the accused ringleader in the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
But with a nickname like that, the defense argues, it’s clear the man’s codefendants didn’t take him seriously, or believe that he could commit a crime — like hatch a plan to snatch and kill the governor.
That was entirely the FBI’s doing, the defense maintains, not Adam Fox’s.
“No one would have conspired with Adam Fox because no one believed he had any ability to form, much less carry out, a plan,” the defense argues in a new court filing that outlines how it plans to fight the government in the upcoming trial that highlights the growth of extremism in America.
There’s Even More to the Saga of Straight Men Refusing to Wipe Their Butts
Every super-duper “totes masc” macho man knows that putting anything between your butt cheeks makes you instantly gay, especially if that thing is a sparkly g-string, a finger or another man. But apparently some ultra-masculine men are so unwaveringly heterosexual that they aren’t wiping butts, even their own! And they won’t put toilet paper or even soap between their butt cheeks. No sir!
David Futrell — the writer behind We Hunted the Mammoth, a website that skewers contemporary misogyny — pointed out this gross phenomenon by sharing a tweet in which a woman’s boyfriend explains (quite angrily) that he doesn’t wipe after using the bathroom because “a real man doesn’t go in between his cheeks or spread them open for anything.”
To my misfortune, I actually know one of these people. His ex told us all about, going on a solid 30-minute rant, a detailed rant, a too detailed rant.
It wasn’t a full refusal to wipe or wash, but it was not done properly and his excuse was that cleaning his ass thoroughly was just too gay for him to want to do it. It was the Intimate Cleansing That Dare Not Speak Its Name.
They dated for years.
Tomorrow is the perfect day for a Twitter contest!
Tweet Categories:
Most Hysterical (wondering womb, not funny hysterical)
Most Fake (actual fake not fake fake)
Most Fake Fake
Yeah, it’s early, but my current leader for Fake Fake:
My dad died yesterday. He cried the day Nazi’s marched on Charlottesville, warning me of the peril we faced at the hands of a madman & his followers. He was admitted to a psych ward on 1/7-the events of 1/6 sent him to a place he never recovered from. He’s free & I won’t forget. pic.twitter.com/QDS8BKo0Fm
— Katrina Hagen (@KatrinaHagen2) January 3, 2022
Seriously, 1/6 put your Father in a mental institution and you want to flex on Twitter with that? Fake Fake or Psychotic?
“won’t put toilet paper or even soap between their butt cheeks. No sir!”
now that’s just gross,
The rationale doesn’t matter. Poor hygiene is poor hygiene.
The pack of scent hounds trailing him is perfectly fine, however.
Will no one speak for the hairy assed?
It is easy for the smooth assed to harp on and on about having a spic-n-span asshole. Some guys, though, have an almost impossible task because of their super manly ass hair. Getting 100% clean when caught in a public toilet with John Wayne toilet paper (rough, tough and don’t take shit off no one) is a fool’s errand.
To paraphrase Adam Carolla: “It is like getting gum out of carpet”.
There is this thing called ‘shaving’. Or even, hear me out now, ‘waxing’.
Maybe a little more fiber in the diet, while you’re at it?
I didn’t say I was talking about myself! I was just sticking up for the powerless and oppressed.
Besides, shaving or waxing your ass crack is really, really gay.
More gay then having a man climax inside of you, even. But less gay than wearing a sparkly silver g-string in public.
Croc wearing gay.
*Again to quote Carolla: “Wearing crocs is like letting a guy suck your dick. It feels great, but then you look down and realize you are gay”
*quietly slides Crocs under kitchen cart*
I know a guy who competes in crocs. He’s surprisingly good in spite of that. His game plans always minimize his amount of movement.
90% clean is good enough unless you have some actual gay activities planned later in the day. Can always take it up to 100% in the shower later on.
This does a great job of getting the end clean and it heated too!
https://www.cleanbutt.com/product/bb-1000-supreme
Was perfect when there was a run on TP not long ago.
Toto washlets or GTFO
My butthole *sparkles*
– Some Canadian guy
When did it become normal for people to air other people’s (or worse, their own) 1-in-a-million peccadillos and pretend that they are something that needs a National Discussion?
Reddit.
Not you, Suge. That’s what we’re here for.
I meant the linked article.
No prob, I understood.
But this:
When did it become normal for people to air other people’s (or worse, their own) 1-in-a-million peccadillos and pretend that they are something that needs a National Discussion?
…is the very essence of Social Media journalisming.
…is the very essence of
Social Mediajournalisming.These are the same picture.
If your job is to spend the entire day posting things on social media, I’d imagine you’d run out of topics pretty quickly and you’d soon have to invent them.
Or blow your brains out, personally speaking.
??️?
Whatever.
🙄
We are going to get multiple variations of this for the next two days aren’t we.
How January 6 changed what it means to be a Republican in one Pennsylvania county
It’s got to be 1500 words. Regardless, it’s on my short list of places in PA I’m looking to move to.
I’m still shilling for the area I’m in. 🙂
I’m trying to remember where you are. It’s not Bucks if I remember correctly.
Upper left hand corner area.
?
I’m currently elbows deep in my mission to infiltrate my local government.
CNN must have a army of stringers on this beat.
That is a lot of words to say “Some RINO’s followed their true calling.”
The TLDR version is that centrist (never-Trump and Biden-voting) Republicans were appalled at Jan 6, but the other Republicans either don’t care or are enthusiastic, and it is these latter ones who are winning.
I trust CNN to have its finger on the pulse of rural PA. Who knows the Amish better than CNN?
There are no more Amish. They all died because they refused to get vaccinated.
Oddly, there isn’t a bunch of cheap land suddenly available.
Heh.
When I first moved to NH, some folks, when they found out I was from PA and don’t own a TV, asked me if I was Amish.
Those people know more about the Amish than CNN.
They have as much Amish viewership as any other demographic post Trump, right?
It’s true!
Moist towelettes turned me gay!
Get a bidet.
Squirt liquid at your butt? Totally gay dude.
But yes, a great investment.
From when of my favorite car review channels
The End of Toilet Paper | Toto Washlet Technology
That is DR Bidet, shitlord!
“We Want It All.”
And as Mencken said, you deserve to get it – good and hard.
I don’t want the world, I just want your half.
And it sticks like a broken record.
I encourage them to continue gathering in one place with excellent viewing characteristics.
I have no idea why, but people appear to be shooting at each other in Kazakhstan. Russia is going to show up to protect their interests and throw out the Euros.
Thinking about it this morning watching some vids on twitter – maybe a CIA color revolution to distract Russia from Ukraine? Some guys were mentioning that Russia might have to intervene if they lose access to Baikonur.
Also radar pics of private jets leaving Almaty, etc. That’s one of those places where like Africa, it’s been the same strongman since the 90s.
He retired a few years back, but got the capital city named after him.
Someone was saying that he’s still pulling the strings for his son – but yeah…that does ring a few bells now.
His monument was taken down by protestors in Taldykorgan, a city near Almaty. His name is Nursultan Nazarbayev. Until today he was still heading the security council of the country, whatever that is, and the ruling party despite his leaving the presidential office in 2019.
Ok, Gov’t resigned.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1478760239226925056
That is how you do a 1/6 insurrection!
I was wondering if that’s where Almaty is. I remember reading something about that dystopia. Like, it’s rivaling NK for awfulness.
I think the real Central Asian dystopia is Turkmenistan. The dictator renamed himself Turkmenbashi, and promulgated some pretty wacky laws.
I’m willing to entertain the idea that both countries are shitholes.
Plus, I can’t tell most of them apart in that area, anyway.
I’ve been to both. Turkmenistan is the one that’s NK-level totalitarian. Kazakhstan is just normal-for-the-region authoritarian.
I think that’s the one with a ton of white stone (and dust). My Aunt and Uncle were missionaries in Afghanistan for a few years in the 00s – got a lot of pictures visiting the neighboring countries as well.
“After having to quit smoking in 1997 due to his resultant heart surgery, he banned smoking in all public places and ordered all government employees to follow suit.[45] Chewing tobacco on Turkmen soil was later banned as well.[46]”
that’s some world-class dictator stuff.
“If I can’t smoke, nobody can”
I remember that tune.
I had the CD, lots of great tunes, all cartoon covers
There were 6 men in the graphic, who’s the lucky lone defendant?
Ah, should’ve waited to read further. I suppose he got the lightest sentence on offer. The funny part will be if he is the only one convicted.
Fake fake.
Plus the real question should be “Was he vaccinated?”
Obviously he was, otherwise she would have reported his last words.
Be sure to take your
Ovaltineboosters?I read her feed. Fake fake…. Real crazy.
She makes the socks over at TOS sound rational
Where were you, on
9/111/6?I actually don’t remember if I was at work or working from home. One of the two, not sure.
I was sitting right here in this spot, working. I seem to recall it happened right about this time. I remember thinking it was kind of weird. I haven’t had any of the nightmares or flashbacks I’m supposed to have.
Yeah, I assume I was sitting here working just like I will be tomorrow.
Will there be a Moment of Silence?
I was sitting exactly where I am right now.
We had a staff meeting at the end of the day. My much-younger boss felt the need to whine about the capital brawl. I told him he wasn’t old enough to know the 60s and that it could get a lot worse. He continued to whine. And then the young lady who grew up in Ruwanda says “Oh yeah, it can get a lot worse.” Silenced him.
She holds a special place in my heart for that one.
“And then the young lady who grew up in Ruwanda says “Oh yeah, it can get a lot worse.” Silenced him”
Like a Boss.
I spent some time in Northern Ireland in the late ’80s. It can get a lot fucking worse.
It was a protest and entering a public building. Literally the Capitol is called the People’s House.
A few people committed vandalism and a few people entered restricted congressional offices.
It wasnt an insurrection. They will see what an insurrection is if Democrats dont surrender during Civil War 2.0
Actually, protecting America and its constitution against Democrat tyranny is not insurrection anyway.
Democrats just need to surrender and move to Cuba, Russia, china, Venezuela.
I’m not telling.
INSURREKKSHONIST!!!
I went skiing with my Dad at my local hill in Pennsylvania. We had fun. I listened to live coverage on the ride home grinning from ear to ear. 1/6 was awesome and I won’t be told otherwise.
I was home, working, just like usual.
Hah, j/k, I was wasting time on here (just like usual).
I don’t remember where I was.
I remember that a day or two afterwards, I was working with my trainer at the gym. He asked my opinions on the Jan. 6th festivities.
I said something along the lines of, “After watching cities burn over the summer, businesses smashed, people’s lives ruined, then seeing the media describing it as ‘mostly peaceful protests’ and saying ‘all those businesses have insurance’, I think the Capitol festivities can be describes as a ‘mostly peaceful protest’. I’m certain the Federal government has insurance.”
He said, “I knew you would say that.”
It’s funny because the fed’s insurance is your wallet.
I was (sorta) working. I did get a text from my mom asking me if I had gone.
largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world
Does that mean 5 permanent employees? Counting the janitor?
I went to a party at the Dumbo loft owned by Verso Books, “the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.”
Just for reference, the price for a loft in Dumbo ranges around $3.1 million. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you want to see the true face of socialism, it’s an entitled hipster partying at a $30k per head gala sporting a dress worth more than most people’s monthly take-home pay emblazoned with “Tax The Rich” across it, while the actual people working at the gala have to cover their faces in enforced anonymity.
Because when the government controls the means of production, it’s the people in the government who control the means of production. And, when you look, you quickly enough figure out that you’re one of those means of production.
It isn’t just trendy NYC socialists. This has always been socialists, when they’re given the chance. You want to know who the richest woman in Venezuela is? Look up the name Chavez. Look up the net worth of the Castro brothers. Or Kim Jong-Un.
Nice rant, and spot-on.
+1
Yup!
And it makes me wonder, what do you suppose all of crazy 1/6 put my dad in a mental institution ladies friends think about this rant?
Because to me it is perfectly sane and there isn’t the slightest hint of controversy in it. But somehow I suspect this rant sounds to them exactly like her rant sounds to me.
But somehow I suspect this rant sounds to them exactly like her rant sounds to me.
You’re probably right. Which is why I’m growing increasingly skeptical that we can have one single country, anymore. We don’t have common cultural reference points with one another. What either of us would have to say to the other sounds like insane gibberish to the other. How can you form a common polity when there’s not really even a basis for discussion with one another?
Ayup.
The commies in america choose to not have the same cultural traditions Americans have. I have the constitution and right on my side. The commies are free to try to amend the constitution. They cant because they know there is not popular support for that.
Democrats declared war on America once before and we gave them a second chance. I dont think they are getting a third chance.
Reminds me of Office Space and “I have people skills”, these morons really think “they know best”.
Idiot Republicans will use 1/6 as an opportunity to show their supporters how much they hate them. The really stupid party.
JFC. What an asshole.
^ this, he can fuck right off
GAH! Trigger (Warning), please!
Shorter Cruz: I said the right thing, does this mean you won’t try to ban me from holding office?
Narrator: It will not keep them from attempting to ban him from holding office.
It’s an MP4 file. I’d rather read what they have to say.
Violent terrorist attack?
I thought he was smarter than this.
Why should he be?
Yeah, he’s alienating his hardcore base but come election time what are the vast, vast majority of Republican voters going to do, vote Democrat in protest? Not happening. He’s trying to gather Independent voters who despise Trump to support his reelection. Sure, he’ll take heat now but all will be forgotten and forgiven when the his boogyman (D) opponent rears his or her ugly head.
Cruz is a pragmatic, cynical, power hungry cunte first and foremost. Never forget that.
I have been saying that for years. I dont trust Cruz.
Furthermore, he was born in Canada and I still say he is not considered a Natural Born Citizen under the constitution. He didnt renounce his Canadian citizenship until right before some presidential primary.
If I learned one thing, socialists can’t dance. Photo: Sarah Leonard
I remember a socialist or two in the Boston Swing dance scene that could dance.
Time to dive into the article…
By now, nearly half the people around the room seem to have moved their masks down to their chins or around their wrists to better drink and chat. Some people’s are nowhere to be seen.
So, they got smarter as the night went on? Interesting.
(“I’ve made a lot of bad decisions here”).
And elsewhere.
This might be a feminist socialist party, but there are a fair amount of men here tonight, so I decide it’s time to seek out the male perspective.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Well, maybe one feminist who is into being dominated convinced her Dom to come to the party.
“That is a communist. She’s not having a good fucking time. You know why? Because she’s a communist,”
OK, I chuckled at this.
When it finally comes on, a graduate student who’s been talking to me about his aspirations to become “a Marxist intellectual” rushes back to the floor. “I want to back my ass up to this song,” he calls behind him. Mesmerized, the cool girls watch the couple of dozen people left contort their bodies in ways that defy their age. “If I get COVID from a mid-grade party I will die,” the artist jokes. “I’m not getting COVID from this party. I want to get BEAUTIFUL COVID.”
Well… that was special.
On to the next article.
David Futrell — the writer behind We Hunted the Mammoth, a website that skewers contemporary misogyny — pointed out this gross phenomenon by sharing a tweet in which a woman’s boyfriend explains (quite angrily) that he doesn’t wipe after using the bathroom because “a real man doesn’t go in between his cheeks or spread them open for anything.”
Why do I smell bullshit?
Why do I smell bullshit?
You failed to wipe properly?
I walked into that.
And speaking of stupid…
Yeah, the people at the paying end, praying that Putin doesn’t shut the fucker off, they have the leverage. How stupid do you have to be to be a Democratic Secty of State? Hillary may be an evil old hag and just as charming, but she was not THAT stupid.
Considering Germany just shut down their last 2 nuke plants, Europe is basically up shit creek for energy outside of France and Norway.
But solar! But wind!
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-energy-crisis-goes-global-shortages-natural-gas-wind-solar-coal-russia-china-germany-11641335775?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" title="Europe Energy Crisis Goes Global” target=”_blank”>Europe Energy Crisis Goes Global
TW – Old School Country Club Republican – Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. That said he is usually informed and makes an actual argument. In this case he is spot on.
Germany is already back to digging up coal. And they can probably attract enough Turks to ramp up the Ruhr Valley back to its glory days again.
I’m not sure how hard I’d laugh if they brought back coal gasification.
https://www.netl.doe.gov/research/coal/energy-systems/gasification/gasifipedia/ftsynthesis
These are the same people who think we should fix the supply chain crisis by making companies supply more of things.
Or install “price controls”.
Its projection – they assume that Putin’s people are as easy to bribe as Biden’s.
You’ll never stop me Captain Autism. Ngyahahahaha!
*twirls mustache*
*disappears in smoke cloud*
Man… no one respects copyright any more.
Probably an old joke.
https://twitter.com/jokesdepartment/status/1478802416120352772
“Going to the Women’s shelter and picking one out to adopt”
Follow-up one hour later ;p
“If your upset I don’t understand I’m autistic and foreign is a women’s shelter not what I think it is?”
Awesome follow-up thread reply – read it all.
https://twitter.com/NSFoperative/status/1478808548888956931
Holy shit, that one got my eyes watering.
“‘She was NOT vaccinated. That’s the problem’: Husband of California Deputy DA and rising GOP star who was vocal vaccine mandate opponent before she died from COVID aged 46, reveals she hadn’t had her shot”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10371785/Husband-anti-vax-mandate-California-Deputy-DA-46-died-COVID-says-wasnt-vaccinated.html
Still not buying that she “suddenly” died from covid.
Or that she didn’t have a mess of co-morbidities.
Alternately… sometimes shit just happens, and doesn’t signify anything in the grand scheme of things no matter how much propaganda you belch out otherwise.
I feel like something of the Glibertariat, if not the world’s, leading expert on what is not gay. Being the least gay individual alive (though, as recently explained, as The First Of All Firsters I transcend the binary gender system and classifications of sexual identity), I feel like I have to issue a ruling here. Cleaning your ass is not gay, for those who were feeling a bit conflicted.
And you will not be welcome in my company if you do not.
First? look again, 20th boi,
Toodles!
It’s only gay if you enjoy it.
How could a restaurant fail to properly sort through all the regulatory guidance provided by NYC and NY as well as beloved by you and your fellow employees at MSNBC and not allow you and your child to eat?
It’s just not possible!
MSNBC anchor says his family was denied entry into NYC restaurant because 4-year-old daughter was unvaccinated
Finally, the feel-good story of the day.
⬆ ?
Wait… who cares what the CDC guidelines say. What do the NYC/NY
rulesedicts say?Don’t get me wrong, restaurants have the right to apply their own health standards but at least ground them in public health policies and science.
You know, like the science of letting in vaccinated infected people but not unvaccinated healthy people.
Yeah, not sure why a 4 year old can’t spread the vid. Maybe that’s true, but…
“Bu-bu-bu-but I’m one of the good guys! You’re supposed to make an exception for me!!!”
What a cunt.
Speaking of fake stuff….
I hate it when hipsters write articles and pretend that “everyone” knows about certain stuff. Stuff that in real life you are like “Huh? What are they talking about?”
This list of things to do in the winter is a great example:
1) Loppet. I had to look it up and I guess it is a Scandinavian term for a big group of cross country skiers. I grew up among the Scandinavians and the Finns and everyone cross country skied, but I had never heard that term before reading that article.
2) Ice Shanties. I’ve ranted about this before. Only artsy-fartsy people from New York City use that term. Locals all call them fish houses or shacks. I’ve never heard anyone use “shanty” until these hipster art fucks started doing their performance out on the ice. I’m tempted to show up and just start catching fish in the middle of their colony and then throwing them on the ice for everyone to acknowledge.
3) Poking a beer?. I’ve never heard of this. The bock beer legend around here is about when Leinenkugels was still independent and would have a batch of bock beer that came out only in spring for a couple weeks (in returnable bottles only). Curious if Neph or the other beer snobs have ever tried poking a beer.
I hate the stupid fucking Art Shanty Project even more after reading this gushing story about it.
“Bde Unma” for fuck’s sake. I have no idea who Harriet was or why she is being erased for a made up Dakota name.
The picture of a hipster wearing snowshoes in 2″ deep snow makes me want to trip her so badly.
I’m annoyed by modern snow shoe-ers in general. Snow shoes are supposed to be made from wood and rawhide lacings. These new REI metal tubing and cloth snow shoes seem silly. (to be fair, they probably work better than the old stuff)
In general snow shoes are a necessary evil. Not something you want to do.
Last winter there were a lot of snow shoe clubs in the metro area that you would see tromping around parks/lakes. I get that you need something to do in the winter, but they were pretty silly.
The best example of them being silly was early last winter. The lakes had frozen, but there was barely any snow which made ice fishing tough. You had to put on your cleats to get enough grip to pull your sled on the ice. So one day, I was over shooting the shit with a couple old Asian fishermen on a small secluded lake and along came a column of snow shoeing women. I bet there were 10 of them at least and they were struggling on the ice too.
The old coots looked at me like I could explain the madness of those white eyes. I just shrugged and we all laughed.
I assume they then replied with “Bitches be crazy, yo”.
We just rolled our eyes and got back to bitching about how many other fishermen were on “our” lake.
There is a small lake near my house and for years and years there were only a few of us who ever fished it. It was tucked way back in a park with very limited access. The two old Asians and I had gotten to know each other over the years. They had their spot, I had mine.
Then the stupid city built a new walking path that connected some other trails and all of a sudden people realized that there was a small lake there. Then the other people started showing up on “our” lake. Worse, they started fishing in “our” spots!
With Covid, things got way worse. Lots and lots of people started ice fishing just for something to do. I had one guy who would set up about 5 feet from where ever I decided to fish. Had whiny kids and an ugly wife. The kicker is that a buddy and I went out one day and we used my buddy’s portable house, and the stalker dude showed up and bitched loudly to his wife about how people were moving into “his” spot. FUCK THAT ASSHOLE!
You need to start slashing tires and delivering beat-downs, like California surfers.
“Locals only, brah!”
Or whatever the Minnesota-nice version of that would be.
It is penance for my misdeeds as a youth.
My father was the best fisherman I ever knew. He’d put his house out at some spot and dozens of other houses would surround him. His only mistake was making me help him move his house.
Why was that a mistake?
There was a roadhouse just outside of town and the guy loved fishing. I could buy there underage, but just before he’d sell to me they dude would ask where my dad had his fish house located at. I’d rat the Old Guy out in a second.
The hardest part was not smirking when the Old Guy would go on a rant about all the people crowding him.
I confessed when I was in my 40’s and he only partially forgave me. So I’m still working off that bad karma.
Beer geek, not snob.
But no. I’m not going to scorch a properly made beer. The idea of putting a hot poker into a drink comes from the early days of cocktail, as a way to provide a warm drink in the winter.
Toe-may-toe, tah-mah-toe
Anyone who denies the perfection of the High Life is a snob.
High Life….ah. The first beer I liked. ALways has a place with me!
We poke Krombacher Dark at my local – a couple of irons in the fire pit, and give a half liter pour a couple of good seconds….caramelizes the malt and is darn tasty.
Now I want to try Ye Olde Colonial drink – flip.
In leiney country I think you get a beer and a bump on the way home from super one.
And the original leinenkugel’s creamy dark was delicious, as was the Bock.
We layed waste to a fresh keg of the Bock in a middle of nowhere bar out somewhere near Brule. It was a revelation after a long day on the river…. But I have never had a batch as good since, and I have fond memories.
“The avowed socialist who shut down Chicago schools today over COVID: Teachers union boss Jesse Sharkey, 52, has long flirted with anti-capitalist causes but ‘lives like the 1%’ and married daughter of millionaire Royal Caribbean Cruises CEO”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10372205/Jesse-Sharkey-Union-boss-center-Chicago-school-shutdown.html
“Furious parents slam ‘hysterical’ socialist Chicago teachers’ union chief who defends closing schools because ‘going in puts students at risk’ when just 400 of 350,000 have tested positive and bizarrely claims he would shut bars if he could”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10371493/Chicago-teachers-cause-chaos-350-000-children-switching-remote-learning-TODAY.html
Today’s theme: There are no working-class socialists.
If there is one thing socialists don’t understand, it’s the value of work.
It stands to reason they are all lazy slobs, and the ones you’ve heard of are the ones who fell into money.
Wasn’t Bernie Sanders so lazy he got kicked out of a hippy commune?
All talk, no work. Even hippies couldn’t put up with that shit.
There are no working-class socialists.
That was the entire logic behind the Frankfurt School. They realized quickly enough that the working class, for the most part, wanted to join the bourgeoisie and was happy to adopt bourgeois values and outlooks. If you look at the traditional image of The American Working Man, he’s mostly bourgeois in his lifestyle and attitudes. That’s why you almost never hear reference to a haute proletariat to describe the successful working classes and always see them lumped in with the petit bourgeoisie. And it’s always why you hear leftist intellectuals so readily voice their contempt for the lower middle class.
Where are we on 1/6 being an FBI setup?
Because I am dead certain that believing 1/6 was an FBI operation is prima facie evidence that you are batshit insane.
And still….. The feds just about have me convinced that 1/6 was a setup.
I was convinced that the Whitmer plot was nutty, but the FBI plot conspiracy theory was nuttier. Then I started hearing details. Ooof. Definitely hatched by the FBI and a setup.
Now we have started to see details of 1/6….. And dang if it isn’t pretty convincing that there is something really fishy going on here
InfoWars is more reliable than CCN, if that helps.
I wouldn’t say I’m “dead certain” but I will say it would not surprise me in the least.
Meet Ray Epps
https://www.revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol/
Yeah, either that is straight up faked, or they set it up.
And the fact that they won’t release the video footage is pretty damning
“Venmo, PayPal and Cash App will now have to report transactions totaling more than $600 to the IRS as Biden plans to ramp up financial enforcement”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10372327/Venmo-PayPal-Cash-App-report-transactions-totaling-600-IRS.html
CWAA
Individual transactions or when you do a deposit. Ill need to tell my wife to adjust her Venmo deposit downward.
You’re going to get your wife arrested for structuring.
Like that wasn’t OBE’s intention.
The best laws are the ones that are so stupid that people break them without even realizing that they are now at the mercy of any prosecutor with an axe to grind.
I think she has historically deposited anywhere between $400-600. Not that the Feds would care if she makes it more $400-550
And then you get arrested for structuring.
Damn your nimble fingers, Teds’!
But the Dems swore to us that the reporting requirements for transactions over $600 were really about taxing the wealthy!
Good ol’ workin’ class Joe from Scranton, stickin’ it to the super rich!
IKR?
That will affect me on a personal level, yikes!
I’m totally old school for banking. My company doesn’t offer direct deposit. I get a paper check that I bring to the credit union to deposit. I have a PayPal because I used to sell some crap on eBay, but never used Venmo or Cash-app.
I’d assume that since you get a W-2 for your income, the paychecks aren’t subject to these reporting requirements.
That is, the paychecks are already being reported.
Correct
Why the hell are Medicare commercials back?
I need to cut the fucking cord so bad.
You have the JJ Walker one? Joe Namath or George Foreman?
JJ on the two channels I’m flipping between, again.
(at the same time, gah)
JJ Walker once claimed to be a libertarian back in his dynomite days. Wonder how he presents now?
The Violent Femmes are the second best thing to come out of Wisconsin.
Help me add it up. What’s the first?
Milwaukee’s Beast?
New England, man – Tuesday’s forecast is a high of 26, low of 2. That’s quite the daily range.
Doesn’t seem that bad.
Tomorrow is supposed to be -1/-21 here in Sunny Minnesoda. Saturday has a forecast of 32/-1.
My wife still complains about the day to day volatility in temps here. One day it will be 80 and the next day in the 40’s.
I’ll take my 24-degree swing over your 20-degree swing. F-that noise.
Kind of like that here, which some may find surprising. Next week our daytime highs will be 20s and low 30s.
Tomorrow’s high here is estimated to be -9, overnight low -26. That’s good ‘Murican F degrees, not sissy Euroweenie C degrees.
Fuck that’s cold. What do you burn for heat?
The hopes and dreams of all who have opposed me.
Where are we on 1/6 being an FBI setup?
I’m not (yet) prepared to believe it was a setup, but the feds claim they were “blindsided” by the “insurrection” is completely preposterous. They don’t have plants in the Proud Boys, and the rest of those groups? Bullshit.
“Setup” seems over-broad but it was most assuredly lousy with federal agents and informants.
I’d sure like to hear from Ray Epps.
Something about Nancy denying requests for more cops, too.
Something’s fishy, for sure.
because nothing was actually planned by any of these groups. duh
Y’all are following Right Said Fred (they of the “I’m Too Sexy” fame), I hope?
https://twitter.com/TheFreds
Huh. Can’t say I expected that from them.
They were on Tom Woods a while ago. Seemed like good guys.
One quote I remember when they were talking about how they had no real expectation of being famous, but the I’m Too Sexy song “took off like a crazed dog without a leash”.
One evening shortly after the Great Revolt, somebody was huffing and puffing about what an atrocity it was, and how horrific it all was, and whatnot. Blah blah blah sacred temple of DEMOCRACY!. Before i could stop myself, I said, “Yeah, get back to me when there are Congressmen hanging from lampposts on Pennsylvania Avenue.”
That’s still my position. You want to charge some people with trespassing, or vandalism, or assault? Okay. Just don’t try to pretend it was the storming of the Bastille, or the Terror.
The funniest part is that it could have been. If the mob had been so inclined, there would have been actual no shit dead Democrats before anything would have been accomplished.
That’s if it were, you know, an actual insurrection.
This is an insurrection.
OMG MINOTAUR IS ON BATTLEBOTS! They’ll be fighting Sawblaze on the first episode tomorrow.
That’s awesome, I missed not having Minotaur last year.
Sawblaze should be a good match up.
Novak Djokovic Is Refused Entry Into Australia Over Vaccine Exemption
The No. 1 men’s tennis player was told to leave the country following a 12-hour standoff with government officials at a Melbourne airport, ending his chance to defend his Australian Open title.
Rhywun must be having an orgasm right now.
Nah, just a smattering of amusement at the whole clusterfuck.
I’m seriously considering not giving that shithole country the satisfaction of my attention now.
Holy shit, that’s epic.
I’d like to hear what Djokovic will tell about this refusal of entry.
Now do treatment of the boat refugees and how all the bien-pensants want them let in to Australia.
is this some kind of sick Djokovic?
Boooo!
This material is all gold, people
Ovaltine?
Why boo?
He saw a shot and he took it, unlike Djokovic.
No vac, no tennis.
I’m going on vacation tomorrow. I was laughing and telling my boss and coworkers that I’m changing my Out of Office notifications to state that I will be heading to DC to commemorate the sacrifice of the true patriots.
Lots of laughter. Boss’s laughter was a bit nervous since he will be the one getting the first call from HR.
⬅
Dooo it! Dooo it! Dooo it!
Fuck.
I just got back. Ready to turn right back again.
Where are you going?
A little geopolitical avgeekery:
1) Flights to and from Almaty have pretty much all been canceled
2) Flights to and from Astana are still showing as “scheduled”, but there is no air traffic live on the map for Astana
3) The most tracked flights in the world on FlightRadar24 are ones over Kazakhstan
Is this in relation to that little vid someone posted this morning about people stopping a militarty truck?
Their entire government collapsed in the last day or so. Reports were Almaty airport was in the hands of protestors.
Guess I missed that one.
Khazakhstan seems a nice place. Maybe they’ll be sane.
Wait, their entire government collapsed? I guess they should have banned bison headgear.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1478585058554376193
Maybe they’ll Caucescu their asses.
Wuhan was the second lab leak. That’s what no one wants to talk about with omicron.
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1478525794972545026
Maybe third.
Yes. That’s a good point. The Taiwan leak was, however, promptly reported.
From the tweet.
https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20
What I want to know is the validity and construction of this chart.
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F375f9b27-0a49-4af0-a42b-2de4225bcfe1_1923x1285.jpeg
I lack the background to analyze it.
Fixed first link
https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20
If you read far enough into the bprice article, he explains what’s apparently going on there…lots of mutations from the original known strain, and a suspicious ratio of “functional” to “silent” mutations. The claim is that the ratio is outside of what could be expected for a naturally evolved strain.
That’s the argument. I don’t have enough knowledge of this field to determine whether it’s a good one. He quotes some professionals in the field discussing this ratio as indicative of possible engineering rather than natural mutations.
I kicked that over to my son, who has a PhD in bio-chem and is deep into bio-informatics. I’m waiting for his take on TES.
I’m a bit skeptical that omicron was a lab leak prior to alpha (which I do believe was a lab leak). The odds of two viruses both escaping, and both being so similar to be variants of each other seems astronomical.
Have we discussed that Sars-COVID19 might be a purposeful Chinese biological weapon used to cripple the us economy, get rid of Trump, and allow commies around the World to institute tyrannical “safety” protocols?
Or it was an accidental release of chinese biological weapon.
Or it was completely natural event.
Those are the only options.
Sorry. Could be purposeful biological weapon released by another nation to frame China. This seems very unlikely but is the 4th possibility, so I decided to include.
Evening, Glibs.
In thinking about what I’m not managing to do right, I’m coming to the conclusion that I’m not applying enough force with the hammer.
The problem is, after about seven hours of hammer work, the arm gets a bit leaden.
Yeah, I’m impressed you can do that much in a single day. That’s a lifetime training thing historically – even if you lift a lot – not many exercises use those same repetitive motions – certainly not for that amount of time. You’ve got a ton of discipline.
The reheating times give a bit of a reprieve. There are breaks when the instructor demos the next stage of the project, and lunch is an hour. I have the most trouble just before lunch and just before the end of the day, and it makes me really cranky, because I’m the only one I see slowing down.
Don’t worry about what the others do, swinging a hammer like that takes some getting used to.
If you push too hard trying to keep up with your perception of them, that’s an easy way to injure yourself.
I tell myself that, but when have a lump of steel that simply refuses to move and they’re coming up with onrate almost foil thin leaves, I get frustrated. I accidentally made a spoon from one trying to get a leaf to form.
People who are generally successful and talented often have the worst time learning new things, because they’re used to being successful and talented. “Why can’t I get this right, I must be some kind of idiot…” Don’t do this to yourself. This kind of self-cruelty only leads to despair and abandonment. To learn new things, you need to be gentle with yourself, and you need to leave some gas in the tank.
I am pretty sure I narrowed the problem down to “I am out of shape and not hitting with sufficient force after hours of hammering.”
“If you are not failing, you are not trying.”
That was a poster on the wall back in the old days when engineers were actually supposed to be involved in solving problems instead of keeping accounting records.
Or doing Powerpoint.
As a frame of reference, at the height of my carpentry days I could drive a nail into wood with 1 hit.
It takes practice otherwise they wouldnt have people called master armorers or journeyman steelworkers.
I had multiple family members that crafted wrought iron fences. They had forearms like bears.
Welcome to the wonderful world of bursitis.
https://spinalflowyoga.com/shooters-elbow/
Follow through, make that anvil ring!
If the anvil’s ringing, you missed the work piece, or it’s gone cold.
Okay, you can get some ring from a good hit.
I’m sorry, I’m still recovering from a bout of crankiness.
I’ll be back at the anvil tommorow, still failing to make a leaf.
I appreciate the cheerful encouragement. I’m just not sure I’m showing it correctly.
Follow through requires pace my man, pace yourself,
Cheers!
Round them up
A White House reporter asked press secretary Jen Psaki Wednesday why President Biden hasn’t focused more on “scolding” unvaccinated Americans.
Citing the approach of French President Emmanuel Macron, who raised eyebrows this week when he said he intended to “piss off” unvaccinated people in his country, Politico’s Daniel Lippman wondered if Biden would employ a sharper approach to those who remain unvaccinated.
“Since there are millions of Americans who have not been persuaded by the various government campaigns to get vaccinated, why hasn’t the president focused more on scolding the unvaccinated to try to tell them, hey, this is not working for society, we keep getting these shutdowns,” he said.
Sure, why not?
Because there’s nothing adults love more than being scolded?
I’m beginning to think some of these people really were hatched from an egg, because they have no idea about humans at all.
It’s almost as if they’re trying to provoke an incident…
Blow it out your ass, Politico. The existing attempts at “scolding” us are blatantly illegal and even Biden knows it.
I’m coming to the conclusion that I’m not applying enough force with the hammer.
Not trying to be a dick, but aren’t you supposed to let the hammer do the work?
No. These are manual hammers, not power hammers.
If you just let it fall, it won’t hit with enough force to do anything.
Try to grab the handle as far down as you can without losing your grip.
It’s almost as if they’re trying to provoke an incident…
This.
KK: don’t know if you saw this last night:
KK: Rainbow Canyon was hot again recently…but not with military aircraft…
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43746/a-falcon-7x-business-jet-just-flew-through-star-wars-canyon-like-a-fighter
https://www.facebook.com/1841546488/videos/pcb.10216911963951639/2974639116119836
This would be kind of like turning in a 7:59 lap on the Nürburging Nordschleife in a souped-up Escalade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX5Y1jcoUXE
The DHL truck was awesome.
It kept getting better and better – OMG, that motorcoach, OMG, that Suburban, OMG, that VW minibus, OMG, that camper, OMG, that go-cart.
This particular video didn’t even feature the A-Team Off-Brand Van
Wow! That must have been the chance of a lifetime for the pilot!
I have a friend who works for a company that has a Falcon as their corporate jet. She got to fly on it and chose the jump seat. The pics she sent from the cockpit are amazing. It’s a beauty of systems and user interface design.
Cockpit video of a C-17 flying the canyon https://youtu.be/T_nPUnFGRoI
“sink rate”
“sink rate”
“terrain, terrain”
“sink rate”
“sink rate”
“terrain, terrain”
“terrain, terrain”
I ended up on that video yesterday, after the Falcon video. Fantastic.
awesome fun!
Didn’t people here say they have or had a Honda Pilot and like it?
We are looking at a 2007 Pilot with 213K miles. Want to know if this vehicle has plenty of life left in it.
Any comments will be much appreciated.
I have a 2011 Honda Pilot with 125k miles. It’s a great vehicle that’s never had any repair issues. We plan on keeping until the wheels falls off.
We have a steep hill that an F350 couldn’t quite get enough traction on while towing a trailer with ~6 tons of hay up to the barn. I was able to chain my 4wd Pilot to the truck and help it over the tough spots.
thanks
It’s Wednesday, zoom at 8pm Eastern. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81891984758?pwd=Z3lqZE96eElxeVBxZ2lXNjNPY24wZz09
The most expensive Duesenberg ever made.
I fucking despise Jay Leno.
He knows why.
I’m sad I missed the Disney discussion yesterday (or Monday?). If y’all are not familiar with this DerpTube channel, you might like it – https://www.youtube.com/c/Defunctland
Timcast trying to get cancelled with MTG on tonight.
Magic: The Gathering is still a thing?
If you use toilet paper and you are a male then your ass is not clean. Dingleberry city. Using that ultra soft 2 ply is even worse, your ass is not dingleberry metropolis. You can wipe with tp till your bunghole is red and the roll is gone, it simply will not get totally clean. If you think it is use a wet wipe after the tp and see what you left on there. Unless you are using a bidet (or one of those fancy washlet things) or wipes it ain’t clean. It’s better than not using tp, but it ain’t clean.
Can we ever say an asshole is truly clean?
Paging HM, HM to the
whitebrown courtesy phone.This Rekieta Law stream follows the opening arguments in a trial against a Wisconsin man who murdered and dismembered his parents. This prosecutor is telling an amazing story. It’s such a complete mess of a tragedy.