Friday Morning Fun Times Links

by | Nov 8, 2024 | Daily Links | 346 comments

Fun times on campus this week. There’s an overlay of depression in our Grievance Studies departments, but the events of the week don’t seem to have fazed my students a bit. I’m delighted by these kids.

Birthdays can also be delightful, like that of a guy who should have died at the age of 76; a guy who truly was Chairman of the Board; Pie’s true creator; a guy I would have loved to do some lines with; a blotchier version of Brad Pitt; someone who became famous as Florida Woman; a white guy who did more for integration than anyone else; a guy who could just scream; a woman who shattered glass better than a Jewish groom; a Second Amendment grifter; a musician who put on the single worst live show I’ve ever attended; the most calm and relaxed guy you’ll ever encounter in a professional kitchen; and a woman whose acting work keeps her a busy bee.

Aaaaaand… Links.

“Kamala needed to blow harder.”

Misogynist. Fun trivia: she’s Pat Summerall’s daughter.

Good luck with THAT project, Joey.

Not sure I buy this (my own analysis a few years ago was a better explanation, I think), but at least it’s plausible.

My obligatory geek post.

City of peace and tolerance. And it may be even worse (48 hour rule in effect).

You go, boy!

I dearly hope so.

And in honor of our missing Banjos, a geologic song by one of my favorite local clawhammer banjo players.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

346 Comments

  1. Not Adahn

    Way to not take sides on the Newton-Leibnitz debate, wussie!

    Will the write-up on the election watching party be tomorrow?

    • Old Man With Candy

      I ended up spending the evening with my kids instead; made dinner for them and watched the debacle in friendly environs. I may go to the Grievance Studies post-mortem today…

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh? They’re going to autopsy the greivence studies department and see what toxic comorbidities there were?

      • juris imprudent

        They already have their answer – the powers of oppression were stronger than they realized and they must re-double their efforts against the cis-white-male-supremacy!

      • AlexinCT

        I have been laughing real hard at the drama, the hand wringing, the woe me posts, and all the bullshit from the usual suspect membership of the party of hate. Love them lib tears. But then I started realizing that these people will never actually ask themselves where they are wrong, and will as they always do when the social justice bullshit turns into piles of bodies and suffering, double down on their lunacy and stupidity. That is going to be real bad for the country in the long run. To keep the remade team red, now with their country club compassionate conservatism globalist membership being terminated, viable and actually serving the people, team blue can’t be the shitshow it is today. They need to have more than just DEI shit to peddle.

        Am I dumb to be worried, and should I just hope for them to be crushed, driven before us, and smile when I hear the lamentation of their women?

    • SDF-7

      Ugh… that reminded me of one of the worst piles of crap I ever tried to read. I don’t remember how many are in that series — I swear I tried to struggle through and by book 2 or 3 just couldn’t take it anymore.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Was expecting Terry Goodkind.

  2. R C Dean

    “Back in July, Charli xcx posted a three-word tweet that some commentators thought might help swing the US election. Arriving the day after Kamala Harris announced her bid for the presidency, Charli’s tweet said simply: “Kamala IS Brat.”

    Some morons actually thought that would affect the election? By Allah, our chattering class is stupid.

    • UnCivilServant

      Who?

      So, someone I’ve never heard of posted something that makes no sense, and I’m expected to believe this youth shibboleth would make them swarm the polling stations like zombies pulling the lever for the cackling hollowness?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The Democrats should consult you next time on how to reach the kids.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They truly thought it’d be a Tik-Tok election and that young adults aged 18-30 would have no care about their pocket books and how their future really was going in the real world.

      • UnCivilServant

        Usually people with reach at least have their name leak out to other circles.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I don’t really know who she is either, and apparently she’s not even American but British? Still, while it hilariously failed I don’t think the Democrats are wrong to chase these celebrity endorsements, even if us old white guys don’t know who they are.

      • rhywun

        The funniest part is that OMB improved his performance among that age from last time.

        I think the answer is that celeb endorsements do not matter and never did. But the left can’t help themselves because those are their people.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah, that whole thing was the wurst.

      • ron73440

        I never sausage a banger of a pun.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Wienert worthy.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        She’s part Indian, so she’s curry wurst.

    • Suthenboy

      JI summed it up well recently: Our pol class looks a lot like late stage French aristocracy. Wildly out of touch, not very bright and in a bit of a panic.

  3. Shpip

    It wasn’t perhaps the most obvious comparison to make with the then 59-year-old US vice-president, but the overall meaning was clear: Kamala was the presidential candidate with the most energy and authenticity – and had the approval of the pop star of the moment.

    The Harris campaign leaned into the endorsement, changing the backdrop of its official X page to the same garish green colour used on the record’s sleeve.

    It couldn’t have hurt among Kamala’s core constituency (basic college girls), but it didn’t move the needle for anyone else. Maybe it told a few adults that the campaign wasn’t serious, but I doubt it.

    On the other hand, we’ll soon have another Taylor Swift single about how she picked the wrong person yet again.

    • juris imprudent

      the pop star of the moment

      WHO???

      Has the Warholian horizon dropped from 15 minutes to 15 seconds in our 24×7 media-blitz world?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Pop star of the moment that people left after said actual pop star was done with their song speech?

    • R C Dean

      “Kamala was the presidential candidate with the most energy and authenticity”

      While energy is arguable, in no universe is Kams authentic.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I just about spit coffee on my screen.

    • Suthenboy

      “Kamala was the presidential candidate with the most energy and authenticity…”
      *facepalm* Holy shit, and we think we are fucked?

  4. Certified Public Asshat

    Fun trivia: she’s Pat Summerall’s daughter.

    Huh. He was the last great smoker voice.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Shohreh Aghdashloo is still alive and I believe has the greatest smokers voice

      • rhywun

        Heh and I was just watching some of The Expanse last night. That voice is something else.

  5. UnCivilServant

    There’s an overlay of depression in our Grievance Studies departments,

    Tell me it’s because the grievence studies are all being shut down and the faculty for them are going to be turned out on the street.

    …no?

    It’s just because Trump won?

    Darn.

    • SDF-7

      Heh… that made my strange little brain jump to “DeSantis for Secretary of Education” (no way he’d take that as a step down), just to do nationally what they’ve done in Florida (as I recall based on headlines over the last couple of years).

      Can you just imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth?

      • juris imprudent

        I’d pop if Trump said no nominee for Sec of Education – it’s done, it will be defunded entirely.

      • AlexinCT

        rom your lips to his ears, JI.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Chris Rufo would be a good compromise to shut the joint down.

  6. Ted S.

    a guy who should have died at the age of 76

    Happy birthday Archibald Willard!

      • Fourscore

        I get Monday off! Only have to convince Mrs F now.

      • Swiss Servator

        Fourscore – I already got Mrs. Swiss to agree!

    • Evan from Evansville

      Yes! Got this weekend off (alternates weekends) and cuz the enter is *always* closed on Monday, I get a free 3-day weekend.

      I strongly approve.

  7. SDF-7

    Dangnabbit… you knew we’d think The Chairman first, didn’t you?

    Pretty sneaky sis, Old Man….

  8. Ted S.

    guy who did more for integration than anyone else

    Happy birthday Gottfried Leibniz!

    • Spartacus

      Happy birthday Emile Borel!

      • Spartacus

        So I guess saying Happy Birthday Johann Radon and Otto Nikodym would be too much?

  9. Ted S.

    a Second Amendment grifter

    Happy birthday Tim Walz!

    • UnCivilServant

      She’s not a member of the union. They won’t just lie down and let her take the job.

    • SDF-7

      So… MSNBC host, you’re saying?

    • Spartacus

      When I was interim dean I had one of those in my office. I passed it on to our director of advising–she needs it way more than anyone else.

    • AlexinCT

      Think about this though. The people that put that clown in charge of the WH press and basically acted like American voters are just dumb as hell fucks that would fall for any sort of gaslighting, as they wrecked everything and anything around them, believed they could fortify the election and still walk away with it.

      Then all the propaganda gaslighting and the cheating doesn’t kick in with enough weight, in the scariest and most important election to save democracy and stop orange Hitler and his horde of Nazi zombies (where are those 13 million donkey voters from 2020?), because they were being watched and their trump card – illegals voting – was found up their sleeves and taken away, and they don’t get enough votes to keep it close. There goes all the plans and war gaming of how to lawyer up and steal a close election as Trump ends up crushing the electoral vote. And to make life even more horrible for these deep staters, the orange Hitler runs away with the damned popular vote, which kills all the shenanigans they had planned for an electoral college win, but a loss in the popular vote, as well. I wonder BTW if all those blue states that signed that compact where they would give their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote, regardless of what their voters said, will now give that to Trump. SHYA!

      Anyway, then, after 24 hours of them looking for a path to come back and still contest the election (for democracy!!!), they realize that now that the evil orange guy will have the ability to actually get the American people the information about their criminal activity and gaslighting efforts if they fail, and the odds of failure are YUGE, what little credibility they would have left after that shitshow fails, to contest those revelations, would go up in smoke if they chose to resist the results to steal it.

      So they send the Whore on a Smore out to give a consensus speech so they can claim they peacefully transferred power while saying they intend to fight this new American citizen mandate all the way. How long will it be before the riots start up?

      • Nephilium

        There were attempts to organize in the old CHAZ in Seattle that were stomped down, and there was a protest here in CLE the other night that attracted dozens of people walking in the street.

      • AlexinCT

        So even the efforts to show the normies they will get no peace for denying the lunatics the keys to the asylum are suffering from the mediocrity of DEI?

  10. Shpip

    “Susie Wiles ran Trump’s best campaign of the three, and it wasn’t particularly close,” Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk wrote on X. “She’s disciplined, she’s smart, and she doesn’t seek the limelight. She would make an incredible Chief of Staff. The president, and America, would be well served with Susie in that key role.”

    Admittedly, most pols don’t get three shots at the top job. Even so, it’s telling that the Trump campaign learned from past mistakes, and mostly stayed on message (this is The Donald that we’re talking about, so we’re grading on a curve) this go-round.

    • Ownbestenemy

      While JD Vance was initially a wild card, guy knew how to talk and present that message.

    • juris imprudent

      On message – that is pretty funny given the messages of the two campaigns, or lack thereof.

      • SDF-7

        I thought they did have pretty clear messages:

        Harris: We’re not going back!

        Trump: Hell yeah, we’re going back!

        The key is in the voter’s impression of what “back” is and how they value it, of course.

      • juris imprudent

        You know, that’s a funny thing about MAGA. First it says America isn’t great now and then it says it was at one time, but without specifying when, why or how it was lost. You just imagine whatever you want, roar like Howard Dean, and off you go.

      • SDF-7

        Didn’t someone here (or maybe it was an article over on Townhall, I forget) point out that first and foremost — Trump is a marketing guy?

        A feel-good slogan that people can read into however they wish fits that 1000 percent. And a politician could almost never run on “Everything is great! Elect me so it stays that way!” after all, I expect. Be nice if we could ever try that experiment…. (maybe GHWB was close in some ways for the first term?)

      • juris imprudent

        Yep, and Vance won’t be able to use it in ’28. MAGA dies with the end of this admin.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ji – that has been my argument on why the Dems shouldn’t have tried here. Okay, try a bit but give it to Trump, it ties all policy decision to Vance in 4-years and regroup and rethink how to win in ’28. Nope, they went and overspent 1bn dollars on J Lo, influencers and Beyonce giving a 4 minute speech.

      • rhywun

        MAGA dies with the end of this admin

        Nah. The Dems have long since redefined the term to mean something akin to their understanding of “fascist” or “nazi”.

        They will continue to call their opponents “maga” for the next several elections at least.

      • juris imprudent

        rhywun – no doubt, it will be mostly useless to them and entirely useless to the right.

      • The Last American Hero

        Hope and Change waves hello.

    • Drake

      Trump and his campaign did some great judo moves – the McDonalds and garbage truck stunts were hilarious.

      • juris imprudent

        That was really showing his non-political instincts – it was almost Mike Rowe like. That’s maybe the most interesting thing, considering the political species Trump has squared off with each election, and it makes sense why he couldn’t leverage incumbency as you would normally expect. He just plays the outsider too well.

    • Fatty Bolger

      They managed a great balance between letting him do his thing, and still keeping it mostly under control. That cannot have been easy.

  11. SDF-7

    Good luck with THAT project, Joey.

    Well given there’s precedent now that he can’t be prosecuted due to senility/dementia he could always go full carpet bombing… not like he’d be prosecuted for war crimes or anything.

    • R C Dean

      That’s more of an 1870s ‘stache than a 1970s ‘stache.

    • ron73440

      I had never heard of the French Embassy attack before.

      Definitely a pair of men there.

      I liked Bom finally accepting to be knighted by saying:

      “There are many soldiers who did more and who have never been recognized. I accept on behalf of all the boys, all my mates who served in the Māori Battalion.”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Me too, and I liked that he accepted it too in that way, rather than turning it down again.

  12. SDF-7

    And Jewish voters simply did not buy the Republican message that Harris posed a greater danger to democracy than Trump. They were not willing to risk the status quo on someone like Trump, who holds so little regard for the institutions and traditions that have long kept their community safe. That’s the very definition of being conservative.

    I…. just don’t get this. Besides Kamala expressly calling for “disinformation” censorship, the Biden/Harris administration actually colluding with media/social media to censor political opponents/narratives, her terrible record on the 2nd Amendment (“We’ll come into your homes to check how you’re storing them!”), her freaking support of the Hamas rioters from her own party, etc…. compared with — the Abraham Accords? That he actually wasn’t a threat to democracy in the 4 years he was already President?

    :shrug: I accept that that’s what the surveys/data might say… I just can’t follow the logic. Whatevs…. not my brain, not my problem I suppose.

    • WTF

      Never mind the idiocy of thinking that democracy protects the rights of a small minority.

      • Drake

        In it’s pure form, it does the exact opposite in dramatic fashion.

    • cyto

      This election confirmed that most people are NPC. They move with the herd. They believe whatever the herd believes. They think whatever the herd thinks.

      We know this because we watched it in real time.

      Harris was at 23% approval. Her own party was openly considering replacing her on the ticket.

      Then, Biden failed. The lie bubble popped. And after a short behind-the-scenes struggle, the powers that be decided Kamala was the candidate.

      And they all fell in line.

      Suddenly Kamala was Joy! Kamala was the protecter of the little guy. Kamala had spent her entire career fighting for the woring man!

      They all believes it, with passion. Instantly.

      They were not convinced by a strong argument delivered over a period of time. Not by her working the talk show circuit and selling herself.

      Nope.

      It was announced. And they loved her.

      Instantly.

      They are herd animals.

      Most humans are NPC.

      A few of us are divergent.

      We really *are* weird. We don’t understand those social signals. We don’t hear them the same way normal humas do. Our minds do not mold to the concensus.

      We do not see 5 lights. We do not believe we have always been at war with Eurasia.

      We do not love Big Brother.

      We are dangerous.

      • Nephilium

        These are the same people who call their opponents Nazis and fascists while advocating for fascist policies. I understand and see their social signaling, I treat it as valuable information that they are not a critical thinker.

      • juris imprudent

        Neph, not just critical thinkers, they aren’t thinkers at all. They are feelers, and feeling safe in conformity is not unusual to the human condition.

      • cyto

        Normies don’t process social signals like you do.

        NPC brains rewire to believe what the group tells them to believe. Their mind is malleable.

        I always thought it was cynical when people believed whatever the party believes. So the “Bushitler” anti-war crowd instantly became neocons when Obama and crew continued or accelerated Bush wars.

        Back then I remarked at how quickly they ignored their core issues.

        But I didn’t get it completely.

        They didn’t cynically ignore it. They completely rewired. Attacking Libya isn’t bad… it is *good*!

        Four legs good. Two legs *better*.

        I read those books. But I thought they were hyperbolic.

        They were not.

        They accurately describe the human condition.

        Those folks see the group move, and they move.

        Not only do they not ask why, the immediately begin rationalizing a why that explains their actions.

    • R C Dean

      There were Jewish voters who thought Kams, who played footsie with Hamas supporters the whole campaign, was going to keep their community safe?

      Is it too soon to starting praying to SMOD again?

      • Drake

        I can see Israel first voters wanting Kamala. She’s such a puppet that AIPAC would get whatever they want for Israel. For American domestic policy, it makes no sense. And if they want to see real antisemitism, keep the borders open to Middle East ‘refugees’.

      • dbleagle

        RC, Amsterdam would like to say “Shalom y’all” to those Jewish voters.

    • rhywun

      The Hasidim went Trump by something like 60 points last time, and I have no doubt this time too.

      The quoted bit is nonsense. Most people vote on inertia and culture.

      • cyto

        The fact that Kamala pulled nearly the same numbers as every other democrat candidate proves this.

        Nobody would seriously vote for her specifically. They were voting for the democrat.

        It is wild, but it sure seems that over 90% of the vote is “locked in” and unchangeable. Given the personalities at the top of the ticket, there should have been wild swings in vote totals over the last few elections.

        One way or the other, Biden Trump should have been 70/30. Same goes for this election.

  13. SDF-7

    You go, boy!

    Obligatory. As I believe someone here said yesterday — a little curious where they think they’re going to go, but if it makes them happy, it can’t be that bad I suppose.

    • SDF-7

      I was seriously expecting something like this.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Dude, I am not the cheesy type.

  14. SDF-7

    I dearly hope so.

    Whaaat! Are you saying that people might be trying to think through things and not depend on people paid to play pretend and speak other people’s words!

    Gasp! Sob!

  15. Pope Jimbo

    I swear it would have been worse (while twinkling jazz hands

    “The question is, ‘Would the (hemorrhaging of male voters) have been worse without him?’” he asked. “The assumption that he didn’t do much with men doesn’t take into account that he could have staunched a greater loss.”

    * Literally the last paragrah
    ** U of Morris? Holy Shi-ite! I went there for 2/3 of a year

    ** Sorry for breaking the 30 minute rule.

    • Shpip

      Analysts say there are several reasons Harris fell short. One is that her very late entrance into the presidential contests after Biden decided in July not to seek reelection did not give her enough time — just about 100 days — to introduce herself to the nation.

      “I don’t think she had enough opportunity for people to know her,” said Ross Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University. “There wasn’t enough time for her to connect with people.”

      Or… people saw her in the limited roles that the administration gave her, and were thoroughly unimpressed. Ditto when she tried to talk without a TelePrompTer.

      Emhoff’s weird pantomime of American malehood was par for the course to anyone who lives in a big city, but Walz prancing around on stage like he was Dylan Mulvaney at the Tony Awards was genuinely off-putting to anyone with a normal testosterone level.

      • Ownbestenemy

        did not give her enough time — just about 100 days — to introduce herself to the nation.

        In which she used up nearly 70 of those days avoiding the media at all costs.

      • R C Dean

        “One is that her very late entrance into the presidential contests after Biden decided in July not to seek reelection did not give her enough time — just about 100 days — to introduce herself to the nation.”

        Most people aren’t paying attention before the conventions anyway. And she was VP for four years and very consciously the heir apparent to Biden (the “Biden-Harris Administration” and all that), and she needed to be introduced to the nation?

      • Sean

        She didn’t have enough funds for a longer campaign.

      • The Last American Hero

        There is so much I don’t understand about this campaign, but one is how nobody sat down Mr. Flouncy after the first appearance, showed him the tape, and then began to coach him on body language. Same for that scold of a wife of his that talks to grown adults like they are 5 year olds.

        They pay people millions of dollars to do this shit and they failed – utterly.

    • AlexinCT

      So how are Minnesodans taking the fact Tampon Tim crashed and burned, your holiness? Or are you still overseas? If so, can one of our Minnesoda contingent opine?

  16. Shpip

    White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday argued Vice President Harris’s election defeat was partly the result of “global headwinds” that have hampered incumbent leaders around the world.

    Funny, that. When elected leaders in the developed world all respond the same way (draconian Covid lockdowns, inflating the currency, inviting and subsidizing hostile third-world peasants to move in), those pesky voters tend to get a mite annoyed.

    And it didn’t help that their candidate made Dan Quayle look like Cicero in comparison.

    • Ownbestenemy

      She was questioned on how Nov 4th the WH was screaming that Americans will die if Trump is elected and then suddenly it was “People have spoken, its okay”

      • The Last American Hero

        Kayfabe.

    • Fourscore

      Dusty here. Good that St Jude’s can make some positive results

      • Pope Jimbo

        I didn’t realize how awesome St. Jude’s Hospital was until I lived in Memphis was.

        They are a legit charity and we give them money every year and give thanks that we never had to use them.

  17. rhywun

    From the (((link))):

    Trump’s reelection is a disaster. But it could also save the Middle East

    lol Do they even listen to themselves?

    • SarumanTheGreat

      Yeah, the party that aids and abets virulent anti-semitism including violent attacks on Jews is a safer bet than the party that opposes said anti-semitism. Makes perfect sense. Love the friend of the enemy who wants to kill you, hate your friend who was to save you from that enemy.

      Cyto has it right; a good many people are NPC. But apparently secular Jews are the epitome of that.

  18. R C Dean

    “Fun trivia: she’s Pat Summerall’s daughter”

    She looks like the kind of woman we used to refer to as a “battle axe”.

    • Fourscore

      She reminds me of my 1st grade teacher that forced me to learn to read.

      Miss Brown, I’ll never forget you. Nor forgive you for keeping me at recess time while my peers were outside having fun.

      • Drake

        Now she’ll be handling Cabinet Secretaries the same way.

  19. cyto

    Also… this is super-incompetent.

    It is Friday, and we still don’t have results in elections.

    How is that possible?

    The democrat push to make elections untraceable and unauditable has resulted in a ludicrous scenario.

    Florida was done in hours.

    Leftist left coast states aren’t done in days.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nevada can still receive and count ballots until tomorrow I believe. Its insane.

    • juris imprudent

      No one ever mentions that mail-in ballots all have to be handled by the USPS – that bastion of efficiency!

    • SDF-7

      I can only assume for California (where I think the cutoff might be today… might be tomorrow — it is some similar craziness with “late” ballots and fairly mandatory vote-by-mail now) if you already know how 90+% of the races are going to turn out… what’s the rush, man?

    • R C Dean

      AZ is still counting, too. Apparently the holdup is the farcical signature verification of junk mail ballots. I think they’re over 2/3 done now!

  20. SarumanTheGreat

    “Should have died at 76”

    Sam Clemens says hi.

    “Chairman of the Board”

    Interesting. I always had assumed that Milton and Bradley were two separate individuals.

    “Obligatory geek post”

    The posture of the fossil (forming a ‘C’ shape) to me indicates death by desiccation; as the body dries out the tendons shrink, pulling the head back and tail up. I’ve seen this pasture in photos of livestock that had suffered that fate during droughts. With nothing alive to eat it, as long as the drought continue the corpse could remain intact, often for years.

  21. Pope Jimbo

    It is late here and I’m half in the bag. Don’t blame Walz!!!!

    Lindberg is not so sure Walz failed at the job of selling the Democratic ticket to men.
    &nbsp?
    “The question is, ‘Would the (hemorrhaging of male voters) have been worse without him?’” he asked. “The assumption that he didn’t do much with men doesn’t take into account that he could have staunched a greater loss.”

    Without Walz’s jazz hands and kicks, it could have been way worse!

    • Fourscore

      I blame the voters for sending Walz back to Minnesoda.

      • SDF-7

        It is tough to be super manly in that gimp suit.

      • AlexinCT

        Like I told several female coworkers. My problem with Harris was not that she was a woman. My problem was that she was a dumbass lying DEI hire, fronting for a party of insanity, and I am someone that is not that impressed by those who sleep their way to the top. There are plenty of women I would have no problem voting for, but that cabal considers all those successful and strong women to be traitors to the mental disorder suffering women.

      • UnCivilServant

        Faaake.

        No way they’d let you finish a statement that long.

      • AlexinCT

        It is a company policy that you will get in serious trouble if you prevent people from speaking and cut them off, because all opinions are valuable. No matter how fucking idiotic and a waste of time. I use that stupid policy to my advantage all the time. Someday people like me will make them admit that their policy is stupid and then, yes, I will have to adjust. Just like I did when I told them my pronouns were Battleship/Battlestar, when forced to add tat shit to my profile. And when the HR lady told me I was mocking company policy I told her, with fervor and anger, that she was othering me, and I was getting a lawyer. You should have seen the look on that face…. In the end she compromised and told me I could skip the pronouns even though it was mandatory.

  22. Certified Public Asshat

    During this year’s cycle, endorsements were often countered online by Trump supporters arguing that the celebrity in question would have been present at parties hosted by Diddy, the rapper and record executive who is now in jail charged with sex trafficking and racketeering.

    By linking the two, and implying that liberal celebrities were in some way at least conscious of Diddy’s alleged crimes, they serve to undermine the whole power of celebrity itself, rebranding it from something glitzy and desirable to the face of evil. But then conspiracy theories during elections are nothing new. “There will always be a segment of voters who mistrust celebrity and Hollywood and lean into conspiracy theories,” says Abramovitch.

    TBF, they made it a little too easy by rolling out Jennifer Lopez.

    • Ownbestenemy

      J Lo coming out and imploring voters to trust her judgement was absolutely hilarious.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Also, J Lo Might be NSFW, its South Park after all.

    • trshmnstr

      they serve to undermine the whole power of celebrity itself, rebranding it from something glitzy and desirable to the face of evil

      Ugh, I can’t put to words how much I hate this sentence.

  23. AlexinCT

    Sorry fellow Glibronis! Work got me away and I am late to the party! Happy Friday and what have I missed?

      • AlexinCT

        Et tu, JI?

      • Pope Jimbo

        He’s been interviewing for the position of assistant to the under secretary of the Department of Agriculture Grains Division

      • AlexinCT

        What’s the payola on that job your holiness?

      • Aloysious

        I want Alex in charge of the Department of Education.

        Think of the possibilities. He might burn it to the ground, salt the earth, and fire everyone in the Teachers Union.

        I… feel giddy.

      • AlexinCT

        Think of the possibilities. He might burn it to the ground, salt the earth, and fire everyone in the Teachers Union.

        I might need to nuke it from orbit first, just to be sure…

    • SDF-7

      I really wish this was an in-person forum now so we could do the:

      “…. and that’s the most important thing you’ll ever learn for your career!” gag as you walk in the room.

      • UnCivilServant

        We always go “…and all the work is assigned to [latecomer]”

      • AlexinCT

        Someone please frown at UCS for me!

      • UnCivilServant

        Someone please frown at UCS for me!

        That wouldn’t be any different from any other day.

    • Shpip

      what have I missed?

      Well, the insane leftist cabal of hereditary “elitists” who are really mediocrities got thumped at the polls, but are still in charge of the media, entertainment, academia, and the HR departments of every Fortune 2000 company.

      Other than that, not much.

      Oh, and Karine Jean-Piere, Tim Walz, and Mazie Hirono are going to compete on Celebrity Jeopardy next February.

      • AlexinCT

        Oh, and Karine Jean-Piere, Tim Walz, and Mazie Hirono are going to compete on Celebrity Jeopardy next February.

        Are they trying to make sure I will never care to watch a show I have never watched?

      • Sean

        The highlights on X might be fun.

  24. Ownbestenemy

    So some anecdotal insight. Niece, my favorite niece mind you, about a month ago was breaking down mentally about Trump and how her grandparents were voting for him. Her words “Don’t they know all their grandchildren are progressive as fuck?”

    So this is what I believe the campaign of Tik-Tok Harris was thinking was blanketing the nation. That the 18-30 crowd was going to sway their parents and grandparents with “Do it for me!!!!!!”

    • cyto

      I was surprisingly reassured by the teens.

      They have rejected the woke.

      Because they have been handed the r-word and the n-word as sacrosanct taboos, they drop them constantly with ironic intent. A lot.

      They make fun of trans ideology. (“You could go play for the girls’ team”)

      They didn’t attach to Kamala to any great extent. Some were Trump fans, probably parroting dad, but mostly they were open to the idea of Trump as not-the-devil and pretty aloof to Harris, who wasn’t a real person.

      I heard a lot of questioning of what the adults are doing.

      I hear that it is way different once they get to college… but the videos from this week say that may be changing as well.

      • EvilSheldon

        This. The heavy woke/DEI generation is in their late 20’s/early 30’s now.

    • Drake

      My son and nephews are all hardcore conservatives. The left is losing a lot of the young men.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Couldn’t tell you what my sons voted for. We established years ago it is our own and they also adhere to that.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        My college girlfriends father was a 7DA pastor, and he had a policy of never, ever telling anyone his politics, mostly because he knew that was a good way to fuck up a parish. Melissa still, last time I talked to her, had no idea which way he voted.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Altar Boy #2 and I were chatting. He said his potential in-laws were absolutely in tears over the results.

      Their main gripe was that Trump said he’d abolish the 2 term limit and rule forever. I laughed a lot at that and told him to go ask them if they understood what a constitutional amendment was. He sheepishly admitted that he thought it was silly too.

      How many youngsters are being swayed by access to regular sex?

    • AlexinCT

      The Biden’s must hate Kamala with a passion.

      Actually, this was far more than Dunking on Harris. This was joy and petty vengeance on the Obama-Clinton-Schumer-Pelosi crime syndicate bosses for the scheme that forced him to bow out. That cabal was going to use the DNC convention to install someone else, but Biden fucked them over by endorsing Harris. And he then went out of his way to stick his finger in their eye at every opportunity. Of course he feels vindicated by them now getting what he feels they deserve for fucking him over.

  25. SDF-7

    Townhall really teasing us this morning… In any sane universe, this would of course happen — the IC declared war on him before his first term even began and now he knows it… but we don’t apparently live in a sane universe, so I’m not holding my breath. (The GOP as part of Congress did just give the FBI a bigger-than-the-Pentagon new HQ after all…)

    • SDF-7

      Hmmm… maybe though that’s still more than a little vague. I still expect Congress and the courts to fight him tooth and nail on this.

      • juris imprudent

        Courts would be less of a problem if Congress delivers the changes in LAW that will be REQUIRED. Otherwise this is nothing but Chavezista diktats.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Was there ever a time that the FBI wasn’t a hack agency that was dedicated to the FedGov?

      • UnCivilServant

        When it was a hack agency dedicated to the aggrandizement of J Edgar Hoover.

      • The Last American Hero

        The FBI is fine when it acts as a police force with nationwide jurisdiction. There are a lot of crimes that are beyond the resources of local police departments and criminals don’t really care about boundaries.

        The FBI is a shit show when it acts as an intelligence agency. Get focused on the mission and things get a lot better.

    • rhywun

      give the FBI a bigger-than-the-Pentagon new HQ

      I don’t think they’ve even started construction on it yet. Hopefully that shit can be stopped.

      • Drake

        House Republicans would need to develop a some fortitude.

    • AlexinCT

      Live by the executive pen, die by the executive pen…

    • Suthenboy

      Love the look on Zelensky’s face. Live it up dude. You are probably about to be fitted for a coffin.

    • ron73440

      Only time I ever found her funny was when she was on Seinfeld.

      It worked for her because she didn’t have to act, she just had to be really annoying and stupid.

    • rhywun

      I’m already tiring of the ridiculous and mentally-ill hot takes.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Unfortunately after having watched a couple of meltdown videos, my entire feed has turned to them.

        All is does is make me sad at how ruined these people are. An entire generation+ of women and soy boys are mentally unstable, and I’m not sure there is a way out for most of them. They’re destined to live miserable lives and are victims of political grapeshot. They’re fully propagandized zombies who have no hope for a better life.

  26. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    By the way, if you people haven’t finished drinking the salty ham tears, but are afraid you might run out, here is a fresh supply:

    The Best Worst Election Takes
    Someone do a wellness check on Jen Rubin.

    https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/the-best-worst-election-takes?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=323684&post_id=151276762&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2n06q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

    • Ownbestenemy

      Were not lying saying we might see the largest mental health crisis ever…I’d say its normal venting but we know its going to continue apace for 4-12 years depending.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I know there are a few of us here with liberal spouses, but so far mine has just sort of shrugged it off and moved on. I would be curious to hear from any others in that boat what they are seeing.

        Then again, my wife and I lived in CA during her reign as Attorney General, and we both know how shitty that was. So that might be the proximate cause of the indifference.

      • juris imprudent

        My son was on the verge of having a total TDS breakdown some months back so I guess he got it out of his system. He was reasonably philosophical about it when we talked on Weds.

      • The Last American Hero

        Same for Mrs. Hero. I would point out that we are in Deep Blue Greater Seattle, so she basically got 98% of her ballot choices as usual. That helps.

      • EvilSheldon

        And that’s worrying. This is a large cohort of supposed adults who are not capable of dealing with adversity, beyond throwing giant public attention-seeking tantrums (yes, cutting off friends and relatives and becoming ‘celibate’, absolutely count as tantrums.)

        This is a destructive cult mentality, and it’s going to have really negative consequences on the rest of society.

      • Mojeaux

        I half suspect that the tantrum-throwing adult toddlers won’t survive something like an apocalypse or civil war or any real adversity. When I say “won’t survive,” I mean, they’ll die for real. Starvation, exposure, suicide, homelessness, wandering into the shady parts of town …

    • ron73440

      Holy shit, there are some good ones in there.

      My favorite:

      Brandy Jensen
      @BrandyLJensen

      JD Vance being so insanely repulsive that I can’t even hope Trump dies…. god what a nightmare situation
      9:16 AM · Nov 6, 2024 3.9M Views

      • AlexinCT

        Buy stock in companies selling mental disorder medication and suicide kits?

      • Nephilium

        Just wait a couple of years for Vance to become literally Hitler.

      • AlexinCT

        Didn’t he already get labeled that?

      • Suthenboy

        I thought he was labelled Rush Limbaugh who was literally Hitler. Maybe it’s just Hitlers all the way down. I get confused sometimes.

  27. db

    but the events of the week don’t seem to have fazed my students a bit. I’m delighted by these kids.

    This is heartening news.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday argued Vice President Harris’s election defeat was partly the result of “global headwinds” that have hampered incumbent leaders around the world.

    That’s kind of a roundabout way of saying people are sick of your idiotic progressive shit.

  29. UnCivilServant

    Yesterday I reread “Beyond the Edge of the Map” and the portion of “On Unknown Shores” that I’ve written so far.

    “I’m particularly fond of my lungs” – Karl Olander

    I don’t know what it is about the week around veterans day that gets my mind moving on these books. (That was when I wrote the first one and when a lot of what I have of the second was added).

    I hope I get something on the page, though I do have regular work since I burned so much of my leave time to reach the left coast this year.

  30. Sean

    And I’m just loving the Dems lashing out at George Clooney.

    LOVING IT.

    • AlexinCT

      There will be lots of wild and stupid lashing out by these people, but zero reflecting about why they are losing.

    • The Last American Hero

      I love the “if we had just left Joe in, he would have won.”

      Joe had to leave because even the machine couldn’t cover up his senility and how weak and feeble he looked on stage next to Trump. They’re the same age and one looks like death warmed over.

      Can you imagine a second and third debate like that? A Joe Rogan interview of Biden? A Fox News interview with Biden?

      Dems have warm memories of Joe because they’ve forgotten that he’s been sleeping on a beach since July.

    • cyto

      I am seeing a lot of this.

      Not just demands for regulations on social media, or retribution on musk…

      But loads of people saying that the democrats need some way to get there message out in a sea of republican propaganda.

      They need a podcast ecosphere. They need a leftist Joe Rogan.

      Which is hilarious if you know who Joe Rogan is.

      In fact, a ton of Trump’s support comes from former far left people who have been chased away. Like Elon Musk. Tulsi. Rogan. The list is long

      • Ownbestenemy

        Notice it isn’t ‘produce better speech’ its squash who we don’t like and produce better propaganda.

      • AlexinCT

        They need a leftist Joe Rogan.

        Hehe, that is funny as you point out yourself, but I am wondering if they mean they need to make one of the many left leaning lunatic shows as big as Rogan, or they think none of the existing excrement riddled lefty nutbags with podcasts can do this and they need to come up with a new face of the propaganda?

      • Nephilium

        They tried the same thing with talk radio, remember Air America that was going to topple the EIB network?

      • The Last American Hero

        They have NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, Hollywood, Google, Facebook, Youtube, all the Late Night Shows, and a slew of podcasts.

        The right has Fox News, the freedom to speak on X, and some AM radio channels (half of which are now owned by Soros).

        They don’t need to create shit. They are just so bad that if the right has even one space where they can provide an alternate viewpoint, it’s a problem.

    • Suthenboy

      I must be short on patience this morning.
      Their position is : Our argument is shit. We cant sell shit unless we shut up the guys who aren’t selling shit.

  31. Q Continuum

    “American Jews are [not] stuck in a leftie fantasyland — in which our presidential candidates are still all Franklin Delano Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy”

    Empirical data seems to suggest otherwise.

    “It’s not that Jews are blind to the excesses of the Democratic Party or the American left.”

    Again, empirical data seems to suggest otherwise.

    If you can believe exit polls, Hasidic and Modern Orthos (read: people who still actually study Torah and practice the religion) went for Trump by something like 60 points. Reforms, which make up the largest demographic in the US, are not really Jewish. They love to throw Yiddish into casual conversation now and again, put up a mezuzah as an affectation and make lousy matzo ball soup once a year during Pesach.

    However, they are idol worshippers; the absolute worst possible sin in the Torah. Their golden calf is a bastardized concept of Tikkun Olam which got further twisted into a representation of Progressive politics. Which is why Dennis Prager is right in the article when he says:

    “There is almost nothing Democrats can do to damage America, or Israel, that would change most American Jews’ political leanings”

    because fealty to the donks *is* their religion. They can’t be separated.

    • Sensei

      Also all truly religious Jews I know are the first to wish me Merry Christmas. The secular ones are the first to bitch about a Christmas tree in any public spot in my town.

      (NB – my town is probably 40% Jewish)

    • Suthenboy

      “Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.”

      *not pointing to any one argument, just all of them in general.

      Let me take a stab at it: These people are your enemy. They hate you and want you dead. Stop voting for them.
      Does that about sum it up?

  32. The Late P Brooks

    <a href="https://apnews.com/article/text-messages-slavery-racism-black-americans-fbi-708973521d2974bec7514b8622877290&#039;. It begins

    Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting inquiries by the FBI and other agencies.

    The messages, sent anonymously, were reported in several states, including New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. They generally used a similar tone but varied in wording.

    ——-

    It wasn’t yet clear who was behind the messages and there was no comprehensive list of where they were sent, but high school and college students were among the recipients.

    The FBI said it was in touch with the Justice Department on the messages, and the Federal Communications Commission said it was investigating the texts “alongside federal and state law enforcement.” The Ohio Attorney General’s office also said it was looking into the matter.

    Tasha Dunham of Lodi, California, said her 16-year-old daughter showed her one of the messages Wednesday evening before her basketball practice.

    Trump is rounding up the blacks and putting them back in chains.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Given the posts in Zwak’s link above…they might want to look in the house.

      • Suthenboy

        “It wasn’t yet clear who was behind the messages” <—- Horseshit

        yes, I was thinking a ' the call is coming from inside the house ' joke writes itself, doesnt it?

    • rhywun

      I wonder if AP will update the story when the hoax is revealed.

  33. ron73440

    Talked to my wife last night, she is in Okinawa visiting her family.

    It sounds like she took a time machine back to march of 2020.

    90% of the people are wearing masks, including children.

    Her mom agrees with my wife that masks don’t work, but she doesn’t want to look different so she wears one.

    my wife has her Unmask that she wears just to accompany her mother to the Dr.

    She is getting enraged at all the masked kids and said she is glad I’m not there to cause problems.

    • PieInTheSky

      Can you tell her to tell the locals that Pie says the whole Blue Zone stuff is nonsense?

      • ron73440

        Listen, just because vampires live longer than Okinawans doesn’t change the fact the Okinawans live longer than the average human.

        My wife’s grandmother died when she was 89 and she looked and acted like she was 60.

      • PieInTheSky

        Okinawans live longer than the average human. – I am really not convinced. It seems the blue zones were mostly bad birth certificates.

        Also my maternal grandma lived to 92. My paternal grandpa lived to91 – and he was the stereotypical drank and smoked all life. Don’t mean shit.

      • PutridMeat

        stereotypical drank and smoked all life. Don’t mean shit.

        Hard to tell sometimes with you when your serious or providing a foil. But, I’ll take the bait (I really, really, am trying to avoid some writing I really, really need to do at work….).

        It’s statistical at the population level and a gross selection bias. Thought experiment – 99/100 people who smoke and drink heavily will die at 50 yo. But you’ll still have the 1/100 that will live to 100 yo. Pointing to that guy/gal says nothing about whether smoking and/or drinking is bad for you. Classic selection bias.

        IOW, your lifestyle (including – a much larger factor than generally credited and, IMO, in the opposite direction of usually implied) is a huge factor in not only lifespan but healthspan as well. Genetics plays a role (outside of very real genetic anomalies and defects), I think, only in what you can and cannot get away with.

      • PieInTheSky

        I am aware that people who smoke and drink and live long are an outlier. This is why i mentioned it. I was sort of responding to the anectode with one of my own. I used the word stereotypically precisly because some people use the annecdote of a smoker living long to mean smoking aint bad, which is nonsense.

    • Sensei

      出る釘は打たれる deru kugi wa utareru

      Tell her she’s truly become American! I wore an Umask for several months on the train to NYC to work during the end of days.

      Of my Japanese friends 2 of the 3 are maskers the third hates the medical industry in Japan. She especially hates the mandatory annual physicals that are part of most employment there.

      • ron73440

        Tell her she’s truly become American!

        She said she feels like a tourist.

        Our daughter lives there and has no patience for the COVID hysteria.

      • ron73440

        Hey now – on the bright side she can speak the utterly incomprehensible Okinawa dialect!

        That would be Hogen and it is a dying language.

        My wife’s grand parents could speak it fluently, her dad can kind of speak it, but all my wife knows is a few words.

      • ron73440

        I read your link and I guess you’re talking about the fact Okinawan Japanese is different than mainland Japanese.

        I will admit I felt proud when I was in Tokyo talking to some Japanese people and one of them told me I sound like I come from Okinawa.

      • Sensei

        That would be Hogen and it is a dying language.

        My wife’s grand parents could speak it fluently, her dad can kind of speak it, but all my wife knows is a few words.

        Really? That’s a bit sad, but I’ve heard the same with some of the other northern dialects that are also quite different from Standard Japanese.

        Do you mean 方言 (ほうげん – hougen) dialect, provincialism? Normally you just add ” -ben” to the dialect in Japanese to refer to a region or specific dialect – Kansai-ben, Okinawa-ben, Kanto-ben, etc.

        If you want to say dialect in a general sense you’d use “hougen”. Watashi no hougen wa Okinawa-ben desu. 私の方言は沖縄弁です。 My dialect is Okinawa dialect.

      • ron73440

        Do you mean 方言 (ほうげん – hougen) dialect, provincialism? Normally you just add ” -ben” to the dialect in Japanese to refer to a region or specific dialect – Kansai-ben, Okinawa-ben, Kanto-ben, etc.

        I don’t know, my wife always called it hogen.

        Not sure on the spelling or actual language.

      • Sensei

        I don’t know, my wife always called it hogen.

        That makes sense if you think of it from the perspective of a native speaker.

        “Ah, the old people in the corner are speaking (in) dialect”. That would be “hogen” here.

        No need to specify Okinawa as you are in Okinawa when it’s happening. However, in Tokyo you’d more likely say:

        “Ah the country bumpkins in the corner are speaking in Okinawa-ben (Okinawa-dialect).” That would be “-ben” here.

        It may be regional as well. Because there are multiple Kanasai dialects, my friend from the region always uses the city when referring to dialect. Kyoto-ben, Osaka-ben, Kobe-ben, etc.

    • PieInTheSky

      women should withhold tits until trump is no longer president.

      • AlexinCT

        Aren’t a whole bunch of women saying they will not have sex until Trump is out of office because he took away their right to abortions?

        I mean, talk about actually not understanding that by not having unprotected sex when you are not ready to be a parent, immediately guarantees you won’t be needing any abortions.

      • PieInTheSky

        Call me old fashioned but someone should tell these ladies blow jobs and anal dont get them pregnant. It will be tough to renounce vaginal sex, but the men would adapt to the other two.

      • AlexinCT

        Sharing a joke I was told by a 13 year old kid when I was coaching baseball in town when my kid was really into it…

        What’s the difference between a microwave and anal sex?

        The microwave doesn’t brown your meat.

      • The Last American Hero

        Oral sex isn’t sex.*

        *Democrats 1996-2000.

  34. Suthenboy

    Kamala lost because reasonable people’s patience ran out. The lunacy was hitting too close to home for people who normally dont pay much attention due to more pressing concerns. The lunacy became a pressing concern.

    And when Trump (very likely) shuts down the barbarism and evil in the ME, what then? He will just be taking credit for Obama and Biden’s efforts?
    Go ahead Joe, give the enemy a reprieve and chance to re-group. It wont make any difference now.
    *Was asked about this. My reply: Things are almost always just what they look like. The left’s love for evil regimes is simple. They want to subjugate America. To do so they have to weaken us, so they strengthen our enemies. Carter, over and over, did things to weaken America. I was young and thought ‘No, that cant be true, he is just mistaken. There are all kinds of subtleties here I dont quite understand.’
    Then along came Obama. Then Biden. Everything they did was done deliberately to weaken this country. Biden keeps demanding that Israel stop shooting at their sworn enemies. They gave shit-tons of money to Iran. They let Iran sell their oil. Iran used the money to buy guns and pay proxies to go to Israel and machine-gun children at a music concert, rape and murder women and babies. There is nothing nuanced about it. There are no subtleties we need to take into account. It just is exactly what it looks like. Most people cant accept that. It’s just too awful to face for weak minded people.

    The American Jew. I really dont understand them. Also I dont think that explanation is all that plausible…part of the reason I dont understand them. All of their arguments sound like smart people outsmarting themselves.
    *Do I understand correctly? By plausible you are referring to the article you linked to and not your own explanation?

    I am a bit annoyed by the injection of drama and sexiness into the sciences. Always with the ‘cataclysm’ business. Always with the extrapolating dramatic narratives from scant evidence. It leads us astray a bit. Cut that shit out guys. I am not as smart as they are but…
    Them – “A giant cataclysmic asteroid killed the dinosaurs!”
    Me – “Oh? When did they die?”
    Them – “They disappeared from 65-75 millions years ago! They were wiped out!”
    Me – “Uh….that is a ten million year stretch. That doesnt seem so sudden to me. Also, they didnt really die out. I am looking at one right now. Is it possible that the evolution of mammals came along and rats started eating their eggs or something like that….much slower and less dramatic than a giant explosion, riots and a sex scandal in the royal family?”
    Them – “Shut up, I am trying to make a sale here!”

    I think I heard something about the Jews taunting Muslims or the Spanish or some such. That they provoked the attack. Given history I am disinclined to believe that. Also, what the fuck were they doing there? I was advised at a young age to avoid volatile situations like protests, riots or any gatherings where people’s passions are likely to flare.
    Me – “But why cant I go? I dont cause any trouble!”
    Grandfather – “You dont have to cause trouble. You just have to be there.”
    Older me – “Now I see what he meant. Smart guy that grandfather of mine.”

    He will change his mind like all the other posers. When asked why they are still here it will be the same as always. “Now I have to stay and resist!”
    Yeah, whatever.

    Kammy getting the retard endorsement certainly helped Trump. Getting Joe’s endorsement helped a lot too.

    • cyto

      It is wild how “The Adults Back In Charge” managed to make all manner of conspiracy theories not just plausible, but the most reasonable explanation.

    • Suthenboy

      Perfect. They should all be taken that seriously.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Missouri NAACP President Nimrod Chapel said Black students who are members of the organization’s Missouri State University chapter received texts citing Trump’s win and calling them out by name as being “selected to pick cotton” next Tuesday. Chapel said police in the southeastern Missouri city of Springfield, home of the university, have been notified.

    “It points to a well-organized and resourced group that has decided to target Americans on our home soil based on the color of our skin,” Chapel said in a statement.

    Rooshunz!

    Who did it? Who the fuck knows? Why? Who the fuck knows? How? Because some people have their entire lives out there, attached to their phone, making them easy to find and target.

    • cyto

      It was clearly the same MAGA terrorists who targeted Jussie Smolette

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I’m guessing it’s some asshole teenager, false flag, or Russia!

    • PieInTheSky

      I thought in the US you are shunned if you do not get an iPhone. At least the cool people are. NOT COOL CONFIRMED.

      • Not Adahn

        When I was in college, I had an IBM, an Apple, and a NExt salesguy on my floor. I forget why exactly, but a fightwith the Apple guy made me swear off Apple products forever, and I hold my grudges.

    • R.J.

      That’s pretty cool. My first thought is would an alternate operating system support that cool back screen?

      • Not Adahn

        I’m looking for rugged and cheap, with memory third. The Tank and Titan models are too big to carry though.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    “It’ll never be over.”

    Unfortunately, That’s probably true.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Brody said a number of civil rights laws can be applied to hate-related incidents. The leaders of several other civil rights organizations condemned the messages, including Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who said, “Hate speech has no place in the South or our nation.”

    “The threat — and the mention of slavery in 2024 — is not only deeply disturbing, but perpetuates a legacy of evil that dates back to before the Jim Crow era, and now seeks to prevent Black Americans from enjoying the same freedom to pursue life, liberty, and happiness,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson. “These actions are not normal. And we refuse to let them be normalized.”

    These people fetishize words and names, and think they can somehow “free” themselves by erasing history. Hate and stupidity have existed since men stood upright. It’s not going away.

  38. PieInTheSky

    Birthdays are for the weekend links not the weekday links.

  39. PieInTheSky

    Kamala and her entire team never used pronouns, she never mentioned her race or gender, never engaged in cancel culture, she highlighted freedom & patriotism, would deflect when asked about race or gender and say “I’m gonna represent all Americans”. Stop watching these idiotic cable news hosts, they’re part of the problem. Their only answer for decades of failure is to move further right.

    https://x.com/KyleKulinski/status/1854533290641748100

    ah yes the decades of failure of the American left… Also do these numbnuts do not get that just because Kami herself maybe did not mention these things many associated with her party did?

    • R.J.

      “…she highlighted freedom & patriotism…”
      Gonna stop right there. Several have already mentioned she wanted to:
      1. Pack the Supreme Court to get her way
      2. Go into a house anytime she wanted to see if you have legal guns stored correctly
      3. Put the disinformation police into high gear and try to put X out of business
      4. She previously locked up so many brothers for drug use that she became universally unpopular with black men, so fuck that talk of legalizing pot
      5. She is completely in the pocket of globalists, as was Biden, and would continue to push for global taxes on US citizens, and global law to supersede American law

      • PieInTheSky

        . Go into a house anytime she wanted to see if you have legal guns stored correctly – a Patriot has nothing to hide. Privacy is old fashioned anyways

  40. PieInTheSky

    Those who were infected by C0VlD had a
    * 72% ⬆️ risk of heart failure
    * 63% ⬆️ risk of heart attack
    * 52% ⬆️ risk of stroke compared with controls.
    😵 This was regardless of age.

    But we’re all just letting it infect us repeatedly

    https://x.com/Derek_a_Franks/status/1854576557244739692

    I doubt these numbers but even if true… relative risks so your 0.1% becomes 0.15% … What are you going to do not live life? Spend your years in a bubble? Hell every time you get in a car you might die in an accident. Life is not and cannot be 100% safe. Hell my whisky consumption is certainly not totally safe. Very strange how we got to this point. To be so safety obsessed. Unless they discover immortality in the next 50 years, we will eventually kick the bucket, join the choir invisible, be no more.

    • R.J.

      Post lockdowns, I’d rather be dead than bend the knee. Someday I will just cease to post here, and you’ll know I snuffed it. I will die free of their B.S.

      • The Last American Hero

        Oh, we’ll know before that. They will probably have us on grave digging detail at the camp before your corpse is pulled out of solitary.

      • Mojeaux

        Somebody on Twitter asked about people who had never taken the jab and why/how they avoided it (subtext being you’re a strong, courageous holdout—the word “pureblood” was used).

        I only could avoid it because I’m self-employed. But I can only be self-employed because my husband has a regular job that supplies most of the household’s money and all its healthcare. HE took the jab for me and my children because he had to to keep us afloat. He didn’t want to, but he sacrificed for us.

        I don’t think he’d do it again. I don’t think they’re going to try that again—at least for a long time, and they’re not going to like what happens when they do.

    • Grummun

      But we’re all just letting it infect us repeatedly

      Right? I mean, the “vaccines” are turning our cells into COVID factories to infect us from the inside.

      Oh wait that’s not what he meant

    • Suthenboy

      I think those numbers are for the people who took the jab.

    • PieInTheSky

      But is it performative?

  41. PieInTheSky

    Why Democrats won’t build their own Joe Rogan
    “This is not a cultural war that you can win just by doing fucking podcasts” + Meat Loaf’s wikipedia drama, eating disorder Twitter turns on Trump, DDG on Kai Cenat
    Taylor Lorenz

    https://www.usermag.co/p/why-democrats-wont-build-their-own

    “This imbalance when it comes to online influence is no accident. It is the result of massive structural disadvantages in funding, promotion, and institutional support. And understanding why Democrats can’t (or really won’t) cultivate an equivalent independent media ecosystem that rivals what the right has built is crucial for anyone who hopes to ever see the Democrats back into power.

    The conservative media landscape in the United States is exceptionally well-funded, meticulously constructed, and highly coordinated. Wealthy donors, PACs, and corporations with a vested interest in preserving or expanding conservative policies strategically invest in right-wing media channels and up and coming content creators.

    This creates a well oiled pipeline for conservative influencers: young TikTokers, YouTubers, livestreamers, or podcasters are discovered, developed, and pushed to larger platforms, often with the financial backing of conservative billionaires or organizations on the right who have long recognized the content creator industry a valuable means of shaping public opinion and policy.

    Organizations like Turning Point USA, PragerU, and The Daily Wire and others receive millions from backers who view them as advertising for a broader conservative agenda. ”

    Think of the poor unfudned leftist media. It’s not like there are multiple billionaires funding losing media outlets. There are not pro democrat billionaires. The whole left wing ecosystem has less funding than PragerU alone. The Daily Wire has 20 billion a year in outside funding.

    • Drake

      Democrats had their own Joe Rogan – his name was Joe Rogan. They also had Jimmy Dore.

      • AlexinCT

        Ouch…

      • R.J.

        And Alan Dershowitz. The psychos ran them all off.

    • Not Adahn

      I thought billionaires were dumping money into lefty message spreading orgs lite the WaPo? Or is she claiming it’s not relevant?

      • PieInTheSky

        Taylor Lorenz is the definitive source on what is and is not relevant.

      • Nephilium

        WaPo and CNN are now right wing organizations in their minds.

    • R.J.

      The intimation that podcasts are getting millions in “donations” instead of producing value worth millions is what kills me. This is rich:

      “And X, under Musk, has paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to right wing influencer accounts.”

      Yes, you can monetize there, and make a living. That is what is happening. After YouTube and other channels shat all over many thinkers on the right, the right did exactly what the left wanted and built their own platform.

      • The Last American Hero

        It’s not even their own platform.

        Anyone can post on X, anyone can host a podcast, anyone can build an online presence with no interference. You can also curate X to diminish voices you don’t want to hear and elevate those you do.

      • R.J.

        Yes! Just so happens nobody wants to hear the crazy leftist shit. How long will it take for democrats to realize they became the party of left-behind psychos? Mentally, this is the same type of person that pushed Prohibition.
        Look at this. We are revisiting history with the crazy cat ladies of the left:

        https://ghostsofdc.org/2012/02/24/lips-that-touch-liquor-shall-not-touch-ours/

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Does Twitter only pay out to right wing accounts, or can anyone get a payout?

    • Ted S.

      They didn’t need to build a Joe Rogan. The Right did because the Left had a stranglehold on traditional media and cast out anyone they considered a heretic.

    • Spartacus

      Does anybody still remember Pacifica Radio?
      Sooner or later, lefties will have to recognize that there isn’t a market for what they have to offer, and even billionaires (usually) get tired of pouring their money down a rathole, especially one dedicated to excoriating billionaires.

      • UnCivilServant

        “What happened?”
        “We ran out of other people’s money.”

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Let the soul searching commence

    In other words, Trump won the working and middle class, while Democrats won over college-educated people who are financially better-off.

    That’s a shift in American politics, and unless the Democratic Party can figure out how to win those voters again and not continue to get blown out in rural areas, they are in danger of becoming a party that is strictly for the elites. And there are not enough of those voters for Democrats to win.

    The Democrat Party has not turned itself into the “party of elites”, it has become the party of the lunatic fringe. Egghead philosophizing about things tiny slices of the population are obsessed with is not the road to broad support. Conjuring up “rights” which require the general population to cater and kowtow to the mentally ill won’t broaden your base. Empty nonsensical promises which can be seen right through don’t sway people who just want to live their lives and be left the fuck alone.

    • AlexinCT

      Democrats won over college-educated people who are financially better-off.

      The people that think because of their credentialing that nobody can bamboozle them and always seem to fall for idiot shit?

    • rhywun

      The Democrat Party has not turned itself into the “party of elites”, it has become the party of the lunatic fringe.

      Is there a difference?

      • The Last American Hero

        There is. But to quote (Hoppe? maybe some other Libertarian thinker) , these are unimpressive elites.

    • creech

      “Democrats won over college-educated people ”
      To some extent this is due to the abortion issue and the belief that “Trump is undignified and coarse.” I know any number of college educated professionals who understand the economics of deficit spending being terrible for the country but can’t get over their perception of Trump as a unfunny clown. Several of them were Reaganite Republicans back in the day too.

  43. rhywun

    Disappointed that “tuah” is not accepted in today’s Squaredle.

    • PieInTheSky

      Disappointed that Squaredle is still a thing.

      • rhywun

        Who pissed in your corn flakes?

      • PieInTheSky

        no one I am as cheerful as ever.

  44. PieInTheSky

    I often think about this: younger people in the US and other wealthy nations are far more likely to have a zero-sum mindset—the idea that someone’s gain means a loss for others—compared to older generations. From our paper on zero-sum thinking

    https://x.com/S_Stantcheva/status/1854607832835920364

    • rhywun

      Does it mention the decades of propaganda telling young people exactly that?

  45. PieInTheSky

    I am still slightly surprised it takes so long to count the votes for congress.

    • UnCivilServant

      It takes a while for the polling place to fill out the few million more needed to change the results.

    • Drake

      Misspelled “rig”.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    I often think about this: younger people in the US and other wealthy nations are far more likely to have a zero-sum mindset—the idea that someone’s gain means a loss for others—compared to older generations.

    Thank a teechur!

  47. PieInTheSky

    In the 2024 election, there was a remarkable correlation between a state’s fertility rate and the share voting for Trump!

    The partisan gap around families continues to intensify. This also helps explain why Trump nearly won New Jersey!

    https://x.com/MoreBirths/status/1854286213680955758

    • R.J.

      Not at all surprising. Party of family vs. party of abortion. This was going to correct sooner or later.

  48. PieInTheSky

    The age of the Zoomerwaffen Congressman has begun.

    He’s 19 years old and unseated an incumbent RINO in a very red district (mine.)

    https://x.com/DissidentSoaps/status/1854617427046195232

    I think congress should be 30 year old or older. Senate 35 like president. a 19 year old has no business being a legislator,

    • R.J.

      All the old people were killed by COVID. We must rebuild now,.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      25 is the minimum age for Congress. I think this guy was elected to the state government. But even then 19 is too young.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am not sure too young, but as Mojeaux put it, its a big middle finger and if the young adult can sway and sell the message, good for them. Its not their problem, its the community that voted him in if he ends up shit.

    • Mojeaux

      A 19yo running is a big middle finger to the oldsters in a community. It means you’re sick of their shit.

      Electing a 19yo means everybody’s sick of their shit.

      They do not care what the 19yo does in office because it can’t be worse than whoever was there before.

      • Ownbestenemy

        This was my SIL take on Milei winning in Argentina. She is hyper progressive but her homeland was in utter ruins so what is the worst this guy can do?

      • Mojeaux

        How can she hold hyperprogressive ideas and still acknowledge that Argentina was in shambles? Is she not connecting the dots?

      • UnCivilServant

        Kulaks, Wreckers, and Capitalists ruined it!

      • Suthenboy

        She’s not connecting the dots.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Will rationality and pragmatism prevail?

    Black business leaders are trying to figure out why Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential race, and how to approach the coming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.

    “It certainly means change. That’s what the voters wanted, and that’s what they thought President Trump represents,” said Charles Phillips, co-chair of the Black Economic Alliance and co-founder of Recognize.

    “What contributed to Trump’s win is people are tired of the cultural battles … people are more interested in kitchen table and economic issues,” he told CNBC in an interview.

    According to NBC News, Trump’s economic policies were a key reason he gained support from Black voters in battleground states such as North Carolina and Wisconsin.

    But Ryan Wilson, co-founder and CEO of the Gathering Spot, believes Harris’ race and gender were the primary reasons for her loss.

    “I don’t know another way to have the discussion but to point to America’s old enemies, racism and sexism. We have to continue to fight that,” Wilson said to CNBC.

    Vive la resistance!

    • rhywun

      “I don’t know another way to have the discussion but to point to America’s old enemies, racism and sexism.”

      Then you’re a fucking idiot.

  50. Mojeaux

    The reason Rush was successful and Air America was not was because Rush was funny. He was the first to tell you he was an entertainer.

    Babylon Bee got banned from Twitter because they were funny.

    All the marginally leftist comedians like Dave Chappell do well because they’re funny.

    Funny means goring lots of oxen and sometimes even your own. Funny means telling the truth even though it hurts. Funny can persuade. Funny can convince. Funny deconstructs lots of cultural baggage and exposes its weaknesses.

    But sometimes funny is unintentional. “If I can’t have an abortion, I’m just not going to have sex.” Um … we’ve been telling you that since 1970. This has been the cultural norm for most societies for millennia, and you’re tripping over this like you just had an original idea?

    Funny means being self-aware.

    • PieInTheSky

      There is an actualy probably true alt right comic on the twits called stonetoss which is very infuriating to the left cause he is on occasion actually funny

      • Mojeaux

        That’s what I’m saying. “The left can’t meme” encapsulates the left’s inability to laugh because nothing they do is funny or even marginally happy.

        But libertarians can’t soundbite and persuade is also a thing.

        The left is all about what they lack that someone won’t give them. Envy and entitlement are not fertile ground for funny.

      • trshmnstr

        Envy and entitlement are not funny.

        At least not in the “laugh with” way. They make really good targets to laugh at when they get their comeuppance.

    • Suthenboy

      Funny also means not taking oneself too seriously. Self-absorbtion is a mark of low intelligence, emotional imbalance and results in a lack of sense of humor. It is sad really.

    • EvilSheldon

      Humor is hurtful. This has been known for a while now. (I guess that the so-called counterculture never actually read Stranger in a Strange Land.)

      Humor is hurtful, and it’s a good thing that it is, because being hurt a little bit helps you learn how to deal, rationally and productively, with being hurt a lot.

      I’d bet that the vast majority of the repulsively fulminating Kammy voters infesting social media right now, have spent most of their young lives desperately avoiding pain and discomfort in all forms. I’ll go double-or-quits that most of them also don’t have a detectable sense of humor.

      • Mojeaux

        My home life growing up was woefully inadequate for socializing me.

        It took some really hurtful shit to get me to be socially acceptable. I don’t LIKE it, but I wasn’t getting the training at home.

        I don’t know if that’s unique to me.

      • Mojeaux

        Also, according to birth-order theory, I was essentially an only child, so that probably had something to do with it.

      • Mojeaux

        So since I’m on this topic, I think about half the autists in the world just need proper bullying to whip them into shape.

      • EvilSheldon

        A dangerous or difficult hobby wouldn’t hurt either.

      • Mojeaux

        I think those parkour guys are just phenomenal.

        I generally never thought video games are harmful, but what they do do is supply endless dopamine that people used to get with real danger and/or accomplishment, and it took a sustained effort to get those things done. They’re hooked on dopamine and can’t function without it.

  51. Suthenboy

    As mentioned above the rantings of the mentally ill get tiresome after a while but I cant help but notice…..

    “We are fighting for the survival of our democracy against literally Hitler!”

    *Trump gets elected overwhelmingly

    “This democracy business is bullshit! Democracy has to go!”

    • trshmnstr

      It’s almost like they have no principles and operate on whatever cliche and rhetoric is calculated to give them the most power.

    • PieInTheSky

      Look by definition democracy is when the right people get power. When the wtong people do it is no longer democracy.

    • Drake

      They are now all calling for recounts and investigations into the elections.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    But Black business leaders are not monolithic, and there are some who see Trump’s second term as an opportunity.

    The National Alliance for Black Businesses issued a statement on Thursday saying it has mobilized 100 Black organizations to support the president-elect’s economic agenda.

    “Based on previous experience, [Trump] has a successful track record working with and supporting Black business owners,” said Dr. Kenneth Harris, CEO of National Business League, a member of NABB. Harris says the NABB is nonpartisan, but cited “momentum” under the first Trump administration.

    “We had tremendous success in terms of federal contracting opportunities … we were able to work very closely with the United States Small Business Administration and the Executive Office of the White House to support Black businesses.”

    That’s crazy. I have it on good authority Trump hates black people.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Here is the stark difference in my view of Trump V. Harris.

      I do not see signs that Trump would not want me to succeed. I do not see signs he wouldn’t want newly legally immigrated persons to succeed.

      I do see signs that Harris does not want me to succeed and I do see signs she wants only certain types of immigrants to succeed.

      Maybe I am wrong or looking through some rose-colored glasses, but until I see signs otherwise, its how I view it.

    • PieInTheSky

      I think in America there are black people and there are Black People

  53. The Late P Brooks

    I, for one, welcome the return of the “Question Authority” Democrats.

  54. Mojeaux

    A thought I want to post to Facebook, but won’t:

    “If you think the election of Trump is anything but a big fuck-you to people who make us miserable, you need to reexamine your premises. We didn’t vote for Trump. We voted against YOU.”

    • PieInTheSky

      Againsy ME? I did not know i was such an influence

      • Mojeaux

        Given my FB feed is about 75% leftist because I’m a creative and there are precious few libertarian/conservative creatives. And also, my only two siblings. One has a FTM trans kid and he and his wife are all on board with that. The other is a gay man who hates the trans movement. But both are wallowing in their leftist sty.

  55. Sensei

    Nice snark!

    News of Donald Trump’s victory sent the rial, Iran’s currency, to an all-time low this week. The party may be over for the Iranian regime, which took in more than $40 billion in extra oil revenue during the Biden years owing to nonenforcement of U.S. sanctions. The rolling bribe bought America nothing and gave China cheap oil.

    Trump’s Win Means It Isn’t Iran’s Middle East Anymore

  56. The Late P Brooks

    That’s what I’m saying. “The left can’t meme” encapsulates the left’s inability to laugh because nothing they do is funny or even marginally happy.

    Which is what made Kamala’s “Ode to Joy” platform so plainly risible. That dour domineering scold is going to bring joy into the world? Sure she is.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    “If you think the election of Trump is anything but a big fuck-you to people who make us miserable, you need to reexamine your premises. We didn’t vote for Trump. We voted against YOU.”

    As I have said all along, Trump is the giant flaming bag of dog shit America has dropped on the Mandarinate’s front porch.

  58. Sensei

    Interesting house and holy shit the price:

    So after paying that architect, they started over with the Clavel firm. Then, when the plans were done, they hired a contractor who turned out not to have the skills needed to build the curvy house. So after paying him for his work, they started over with a new contractor. Even with those setbacks, the house cost just under $1 million, a fraction of what it would have cost to build in the U.S. Manuel lists several reasons construction is less expensive in Spain than in America; one of them is low insurance rates due to the rarity of litigation.

    Shaped Like a Boomerang, Their House Is Anything but the Usual

    • Tundra

      Ewwww.

      But yeah, that’s $5M easy out here.

      • Mojeaux

        What I love to look at and what I’d live in are two different things.

    • Mojeaux

      That is a GORGEOUS house.

      There’s another one in Spain I also love that is the complete opposite. I can’t find it now, but “concrete square houses in spain” returns a good number that look like Farnsworth House, which is not what I’m thinking of, but I love Farnsworth House, too, so …

    • Drake

      Cheap because it was built by Latinos.

      • Sensei

        Nice…

        At least in the area they do great masonry work as well. The crew the worked for the Irish (from Ireland) contractor that did my back deck all were Latino.

  59. The Late P Brooks

    That is a bitchin’ house.

  60. Suthenboy

    Sensei: My take is that the globalists want Iranian hegemony in the ME and for Iran to be a puppet state. Trump is about to upend that plan. I can only imagine the panic and fear in Tehran, Brussels and Beijing.
    I am guessing Zelensky is chomping at the bit to get the last billions from DC so he can crate it up and disappear with it before that party is over.

    • Sensei

      Zelensky is going to have to settle now. It also gives Russia some cover.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        NOES!!! MUH UKRAINIAN DEMOCRACY!!!111!!!

  61. Fatty Bolger

    So it turns out, almost all of those bellwether counties from 2020 that went for the loser (Trump), went for the winner again this year. How odd. 🤔

    • UnCivilServant

      The circumstantial evidence and data patterns are so overwhelming that no one can tell me that 2020 wasn’t rotten as all hell.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Correct. Part of me thinks this is why they were so hellbent on him not getting elected (or even to election day) again. Now the shenanigans can be exposed.

  62. cyto

    Who knew, Justine Bateman is one of us.

    https://x.com/JustineBateman/status/1854911656289071200?s=19

    Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.
    I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period in that any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of “permitted positions” in order to assess acceptability.
    I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period in that any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of “permitted positions” in order to assess acceptability.

    ….was demonized. Only “permitted position” behavior and speech was “allowed.” Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one’s professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others.Their destruction

    She goes on. Talks about racist and exist labels….

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