IFLA: The “Don’t Blame Me I Voted For” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of November 10

by | Nov 10, 2024 | IFLA | 85 comments

Ahem.

Allow me to quote from last week’s horoscope: 

Mars = Orange planet = Orange Man in Leo = King of Beasts = Orange Man King. I might also go with Leo = Lion’s Mane = Trump Hair + Mars = Trump commander in Chief. 

Anyway, enough gloating. Let’s see what’s in store this week.

Not a lot actually. Midweek is good for love if you’re a Sagittarius.


Scorpio: King of Wands – Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. The card always signifies honesty.

Sagittarius: The Emperor -Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction, authority and will. 

Capricorn: 4 of Swords reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.

Aquarius: 3 of Cups – The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing.

Pisces: Strength – Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity, complete success and honors.

Aries: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality.

Taurus: 4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations, ennui, boredom.

Gemini: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment. 

Cancer: 5 of Wands –  Imitation, competition, struggle, gold, gain, opulence.

Leo: Death reversed – Not dead dead, just really bored. Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism.

Virgo: Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord.

Libra: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination, project.

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85 Comments

  1. Gender Traitor

    Full context from last Sunday:

    What about on election day? Well, that day sees a conjunction of the Moon (female) and Venus (female) in Sagittarius (power). Goddammit. Also this week we have Mars entering Leo, which is a counterbalancing masculine sign, but that’s on Sunday. I guess if I were being paid to cast a horoscope for a Trump supporter, I could say Mars = Orange planet = Orange Man in Leo = King of Beasts = Orange Man King. I might also go with Leo = Lion’s Mane = Trump Hair + Mars = Trump commander in Chief. But they’d need to be a pretty motivated client to accept that reading. How about another video of Lily frolicking?

    Signs suggest someone was hedging their bets.

  2. Ted S.

    Nice dog-butt in the second video.

  3. Tundra

    Down, boy.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    Not a lot actually. Midweek is good for love if you’re a Sagittarius.

    *pats down cowlick*

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Sagittarius: The Emperor -Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction, authority and will.

    Aw, shucks.

  6. The Gunslinger

    For TOG from the dead thread.

    – “But what are the five toppings? Onion, mushroom, peppers, pepperoni, and sausage?”

    I always order everything but anchovies. I think it’s pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, green pepper, anchovies.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I follow a food site that evidently mostly leans left, and whose members seem to alternate between anorexia and scarfing themselves silly.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (er, in the last few days)

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of “Where did we go wrong?” pieces…

    I won’t bother to quote or link, but I was just reading a CNBC thing about how the labor market will be upended by Trump’s mass deportations. It reads to me as a massive indictment of the education system from top to bottom, but of course the real problem is Trump. Why would we feel the need to provide useful education or training (or encouragement) to our domestic work force? Everybody should have a highly paid no-show job like the moms and dads on the teevee.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      One thing that occurred to me about DEI; it works as a cover up for every failed social policy regarding African-Americans. Bad schools, DEI will fix it. Affirmative Action hires suck? DEI will cover it. And so on.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Not just educational system, but the labor markets, primarily the regulatory ossification on every facet.

    • SDF-7

      On a related note — I’ve been biting my tongue over the last few working days as they bewail the impending tariffs and that “all the technology products from China will become so expensive!”

      If you really are comfortable with using slave labor so your goods are cheaper just admit it, folks.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        But how will all the illegal immigrants afford to buy shit if you don’t get it as cheaply as possible via slave labor?

  8. Sean

    “Cancer: 5 of Wands – Imitation, competition, struggle, gold, gain, opulence.”

    Sounds hot. I can’t wait.

  9. UnCivilServant

    Mars = Orange planet

    Zzzzt.

    It’s brown.

    • Grummun

      At school one of my buddies worked in the planetarium. They had a presentation on Mars narrated by Patrick Stewart. The opening line was a very dramatic “Mars… Red Planet…”

      which we always followed with “well, not really red… sort of pinkish…” in the same voice.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Guardian headline: “No Man Will Touch Me Until I Have My Rights Back”

    It’s a deal.

    • Mojeaux

      I wish these people knew their history and geocivics.

      1. Nobody took away any of your rights.

      2. Other women in other countries have it way worse than you; either you don’t know or don’t care.

      3. Not having sex out of wedlock has been the cultural and societal expectation for most of mankind for millennia until 1965. You aren’t depriving anyone of anything, even if you are hot.

      4. If your single-digit and teenage daughters are scared their “right” to abortion is being taken away, YOU did that, instilling fear and paranoia into your children.

      5. NO state has banned normal childbearing care.

      6. By being pissed off about your “inability” to have an abortion, you’re admitting you’re using it for birth control.

      7. Nobody wants to fuck you anyway.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’m having a thought, or something….

        I do think that kicking abortion back to states was absolutely the right move, and the constitutional one. It removes a massive issue from the national political battlefield.

        Except it hasn’t. It’s only emboldened the death cult to ramp up brainwashing. “Donald Trump’s” abortion ban. Forced birthing camps. We no longer have women who want abortion, but an army of fully brainwashed zombies.

      • rhywun

        The left hates federalism, so we will never hear the end of it until they get it legalized nationally.

      • Mojeaux

        “Donald Trump’s abortion ban.”

        These people are utterly ignorant. The Marxist march through the institutions has been thoroughly successful.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        @Mo

        Yep. Their entire political worldview can be summed up by “It is known.”

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I get a kick out of those saying they’ll leave the country over the abortion issue, because they obviously haven’t looked into abortion laws in other countries.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yeah. Something tells me they won’t start calling France a Handmaidens Tale with their 14 week restriction. Or Italy with their 90 day limit (unless mother’s health is threatened). Or Spain with their 14 week restriction. Even if we move to their “socialist” paradise countries, Norway is 12 weeks, Sweden is 18 weeks, and Denmark is 12 weeks, and requires parental consent.

        According to the worldview of the death cult, all of these countries are anti-woman.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Evidently.

        I lived for a few months in a country where it was then illegal.

      • Gender Traitor

        They’re free in Canada, but you have to wait nine months?

      • Raven Nation

        @GT standing ovation

      • DEG

        @GT standing ovation

        Seconded.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        @TOG

        I have a suspicion that they’re under government order to expedite abortions rather than have them go through their standard medical clusterfuck.

      • SDF-7

        @GT standing ovationSo say we all. Good one.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        @MW, it’s legal now in said Catholic country.

  11. Gustave Lytton

    LED light bulbs are the plant based meat substitutes of the lighting world.

    • slumbrew

      Eh, my LED flashlights are superior to the incandescents. And replacing the halogens in my stove’s exhaust fan was a big improvement (the halogens would roast the top of your head)

      • Mojeaux

        Had a halogen bulb in my reading light over my recliner. I was reading to single-digit XX, who was in my lap, and she pointed to the area by my ear and said, “Mama, chair on fire.” Fuuuuuuuuuck. Halogen bulb was searing a hole in my chair.

      • Sean

        Today’s Led flashlights are just short of magic.

        And my white laser flashlight is magic based.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    LED light bulbs are the plant based meat substitutes of the lighting world.

    Agreed. 5,000 rpm bulbs are slightly less annoying to me, but the light is still unnatural, and I feel like I can’t see as well.

    • SDF-7

      I will take my very thin, very light looks-like-a-skylight 4 foot by 4 foot kitchen light over florescent or incandescent any day. But then LED temperatures never seem to have bugged me. Beats the hell out of CFLs and worrying about mercury, though.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I prefer softer light, but LEDs really suck donkey balls at it.

  13. The Hyperbole

    Re: The car crash video in the dead thread and the people bitching about Dashcam guy moving into the left hand lane. That appears to be a surface street not a highway, do you people hold to the left lane for passing only even on surface streets? I have to admit that while in town I use whatever lane has less traffic, and I’ll often shift to the lane I’m going to be turning from many intersections before my turn.

    • Mojeaux

      do you people hold to the left lane for passing only even on surface streets?

      Yes.

    • Raven Nation

      I do what TH does…as does pretty much everyone else in this town.

    • kinnath

      No. The left lane is for through traffic. If you are going to be on the street for some time, stay in the left.

      The right lane is for people making turns. Leaving the street or turning onto the street.

      Left lane for passing is for the fucking highways.

      YMMV 😉

      • Gender Traitor

        This is largely my practice, with one regular exception: on my way to work each morning, I tend to get in the right lane until I pass the McDonald’s on the left, which invariably has at least one person waiting to turn in. Other than that, I stay in the left lane until I get to the interstate because my route to the entrance ramp is on a bus line and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let myself get stuck waiting for folks to get on or off at every single stop.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Eh, I drive by doing what is best for me. If I am going faster than the left lane, I pass on the right. If I feel the speed I am going is fast enough for the left, I stay in the left. If you are tailgating me, I slow down.

      I am a libertarian, don’t tell me what to do.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      On non-highway 4 lane roads I will use whichever lane is moving best or whichever lane I need to turn. I go about 4 miles to the grocery store and I just stick to the left lane because I need to turn left to get into the store.

    • DrOtto

      On surface streets I frequently drive in the left lane to leave the right open for cars that need to turn right on red.

  14. DEG

    Nice dog videos.

    Not dead dead, just really bored. Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism.

    Huh. I have been kinda sleepy lately. But, still not sufficiently shitty.

  15. Mojeaux

    Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

  16. juris imprudent

    Stand back – a Guardian writer that is pretty close to getting it.

    From Trump’s victory, a simple, inescapable message: many people despise the left

    Of course we’re all wrong, mostly, because they’re all well intentioned and better educated, but they’ve been sorta stupid about a few things and it is easy for people to fall into retrogressive behaviors. They can add that to the list of things about us that needs fixing.

    • kinnath

      You are correct. We despise the left

      The fact that you got all the reasons we despise the left wrong is one of the biggest reasons why we despise the left.

      • SDF-7

        more than 75 million voters just rejected the supposedly progressive option, and chose a convicted criminal and unabashed insurrectionist to oversee their lives.

        That you don’t realize that those voters see the “conviction” as an illegitimate kangaroo court lawfare operation and that there was no “insurrection” and that y’all spew out this talking point every. single. fucking. time might have something to do with folks thinking your a bunch of annoying assholes too….

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        This very nearly sums it up.

        Yes, we hate you. But it isn’t because we’re racist/misogynist bumpkins.

      • juris imprudent

        “But we’ah smahtah than all of you”

        Yeah, that’s another thing you’re wrong about.

    • rhywun

      many people despise the left

      But only because they’re brainwashed. 🙄

      lol so close

      • R C Dean

        Many people despise the left because they’re brainwashed is absolutely right. If “they’ refers to leftists.

    • Suthenboy

      It doesnt matter. They are completely amoral. Debating with them is a waste of time. There is nothing they wont say, nothing they wont do, nothing beyond the pale, no premise or argument they wont twist or change on the spot. No matter what comes before the only acceptable end for them is they win, you lose. They have power, you bend the knee.

      Look at their utterly absurd, over the top transparent lies they have used to smear their opponents. The sexual slanders against…take your pick.
      They are just as believable as the McMartin Pre-school accusations yet they ended up in courtrooms, confirmation hearings and congressional investigations.

      When they start talking, no matter what they are saying…if their mouth is moving in any way just turn it off in your head rather than waste brain cells.

    • Gender Traitor

      many people despise the left

      Don’t tell me – we’re just mad we can’t date them, right?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Well-remembered!

        The nation cries into her tear troughs.

  17. juris imprudent

    How did we get here? At the end of Barack Obama’s second term, gay marriage was extended to all 50 states, an achievement for which LGBTQ groups had spent decades campaigning. In 2020, the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County found that, in the words of conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, “an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.” Those advances meant that activist organizations, with large staffs and existing donor networks, had to go looking for the next big progressive cause.

    Of course the author does not excoriate these organizations and the profession of agitation, nope, it just sorta happened and well, wouldn’t you know.

    • rhywun

      The Democrats Need an Honest Conversation on Gender Identity

      They’re not gonna get it until they kick out the radicals. I won’t hold my breath.

      • Mojeaux

        The Democrats Need an Honest Conversation on Gender Identity

        Let’s start by acknowledging simple biology.

        After that, we can break down the subsets of mental illnesses and environmental factors contributing to this.

        Lastly, let’s prosecute Munchausen by proxy syndrome before all these people go all Gypsy Rose Blanchard on their mothers.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        There is the chance they do.

        Democrats, above all, want power. They will do anything in order to get it. And when they see a dead end, they’ll drop it quick. The most radical gender bullshit is a non-winner. They drop it like they have everything else they hold as “sacred” this week. They only pay lip service to their supposed constituency.

        But having seen the results of the latest battle of the culture wars, I’m greatly saddened. Some people are physiologically broken. Brainwashed beyond hope. Their ability to think has been compromised. They’re like attack dogs who only stop being beaten by their owners when they’re attacking, and so they always attack. These are the useful idiots. The eggs for an omelette that isn’t to be.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Where’s the omelette?”

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        And by “kick out”, I really mean that they’ll just tell the real radicals to go back to faculty lounges and cook some other batshit crazy theories that magically, like every other thing they make up as a “problem”, can be fixed only if we would just do socialism.

        Give them a few years. They need to means test their bullshit on the student body first to see what makes them most rabid.

      • rhywun

        Democrats, above all, want power.

        Yeah but the inmates are running the asylum. The party leaders are terrified of them.

      • Suthenboy

        “let’s prosecute Munchausen by proxy ”

        I assume y ou mean all parents, teachers, councillors, lawyers, physicians, psychologists and psychiatrist involved in this? I hope so.
        Given the gravity of their crimes, that they have destroyed and taken so many lives in ways that can never be repaired, given the suicides that have resulted from this I am a bit at a loss for what kind of punishment would be appropriate. Well, I do have some ideas but they might not fit everyone else’s ideas.

      • Mojeaux

        Anybody teaching anybody anything can be prosecuted by that measure, but I really do mean the clinical definition of Munchausen by proxy.

        Parents (largely, mothers) for encouraging, supporting, FORCING their minor children to take puberty blockers and have genital mutilation. (See Jazz Jennings) “If you’re 18 and think you’re the opposite sex, you have a mental illness. If you’re 8, your mother does.”

        But yes also therapists for pushing it, physicians for performing it.

        You don’t tell an 80-pound anorexic she’s fat just because she believes herself to be so. You get her into counseling and start a PEG tube.

    • Grumbletarian

      Gilberto Hinojosa, the chair of the Texas Democrats, faced a similar backlash. He initially told reporters, “There’s certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support,” but he quickly walked back the comments. “I extend my sincerest apologies to those I hurt with my comments today,” Hinojosa said. “In frustration over the GOP’s lies to incite hate for trans communities, I failed to communicate my thoughts with care and clarity.” (On Friday, he resigned, citing the party’s “devastating” election results in the state.)

      “Perhaps the Democrat Party has gone too far on certain issues and that’s why we lost.”

      a day later…

      “I deeply apologize for my comments. What I meant to say is that the Democrat Party hasn’t gone too far enough.”

  18. Mojeaux

    I do not need to see my cardiologist this year. I just passed my stress test. Thanks, Special Teams.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    activist organizations, with large staffs and existing donor networks, had to go looking for the next big progressive cause.

    Doin’ right ain’t got no end.

  20. The Hyperbole

    Just noticed the main page thumbnail photo, SBBC thanks you for your support NA.

  21. Beau Knott

    This is interesting. The top Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a fatwa against the 10/7/23 attack. One wonders what the reaction will be.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    From Trump’s victory, a simple, inescapable message: many people despise the left

    Why? That’s the mystery.

  23. Mojeaux

    Expected this.

    • Mojeaux

      Fuck. Brooks’d it.