“Hello. My name is Joe Biden. I am standing here on land stolen from the Nacho Truck peoples.”
“Cut! Grandpa, it’s the Nacotchtank people.”
“Necco wafer?”
“Nacotchtank. Na-coat-shh-townk.”
“I am standing here on land stolen from the No-coat shit-town peoples.”
“Nacotchtank. Nacotchtank. Nacotchtank.”
“I would love a Sanka.”
“Some people call them the Anacostine.”
“Call who, sweetheart?”
“The Native people who were indigenous to the Washington D.C. area.”
“Are some of them here? Does my hair look OK?.”
“No, they are gone, Grandpa. We stole their land.”
“Who stole it? It wasn’t Hunter, right?”
“We stole it, White people.”
“Well, that’s just horrible. We should tell the Whites to give it back.”
“That’s what we are acknowledging!”
“Give Anacostia back to White People. Cut! That was a good take. I was really squinting my eyes to look serious.”
“You don’t say ‘cut,’ I say ‘cut.’”
“OK, OK.”
“I’m going to reset the shot.”
“Your grandmother had the best body.”
“I know, Grandpa. You’ve told me this before.”
“I should find those Polaroids and show you, sometime.”
“Ew. No. Stop.”
“She was a very sensuous lover.”
“Yes, you’ve said.”
“There’s nothing gross about the physical expression of love between two people who just happen to be your grandparents.”
“OK, Grandpa. I wrote you some new cue cards.”
“Excellent. I’m ready to go. Let’s go.”
“And… Action!”
“Hello. My name is Joe Biden. I am speaking to you from lands stolen from Native-Americans. I am tall and I have white hair. I am wearing… wait, why am I telling them what I am wearing? Why do they care what I’m wearing?”
“It’s for the visually-impaired.”
“Shouldn’t they just be listening on the radio?”
“No one listens to the radio any longer.”
“Well, maybe they should. I never cared what anyone was wearing on the radio. Wolfman Jack could have been buck naked for all I cared.”
“It’s just how things are done now. You state your name, you say who you stole the land from and you describe yourself and what you are wearing.”
“This is dumb. I’m in a studio and you are filming this on your GameBoy.”
“It’s an iPhone 14 Pro Max. Steven Soderburgh shot an entire terrible film on one of these.”
“I don’t know what any of that means.”
“Please just read the lines.”
“OK, fine.”
“And… Action!”
“Hello. My name is Joe Biden. I am speaking to you from lands stolen from Native-Americans. I am tall and I have white hair. I am wearing a blue suit jacket, a white shirt, a red tie, and no pants whatsoever.”
“Nacotchtank. Nacotchtank. Nacotchtank.”
Buffalo, buffalo, buffalo!
Do not say that into a mirror.
I’m kinda with Joe – I hate this modern world and what the damn kids are doing.
Sorry, can you describe what you are wearing?
A smile.
same same.
The merkin I got for Christmas.
How you doin’?
“Hello. My name is Joe Biden. I am standing here on land stolen from the Nacho Truck peoples.”
Perfection.
Opening the southern border so they can have it back?
Strong opening. Very strong.
So… it’s Nacho land?
I preferred No-Coat Shit-town people, but the first was quite good.
I am speaking to you from lands stolen from Native-Americans.
Is this the latest lefty virtue-signaling? Because if you go back far enough EVERYBODY is living on “stolen land”. So fucking what?
You don’t understand, if we never came to this land, they would have been the most advanced society ever. Just check out the indigenous people in the Amazon and Africa
Religion is bunk, unless of course it is Native great-spirit stories about how the gods raised the people in this land.
We usually start Native American events here with a traditional prayer.
My colleague who teaches medieval history with a focus on religion has mused to me that she should invite a Catholic priest to offer prayers at her next event.
I’d pay money to watch that at school of higher education!
Yeah point being the IFLS types would all point out how humanity didn’t come into being via the Genesis creation story, but they’ll fall all over themselves to ‘honor’ Native traditional beliefs (and therefore the claim to the land).
Sky Gods > Sky Daddy, this is known.
But Mudd God is best of all!
Nah, it’s turtles all the way down.
What do the turtles eat?
The poop from the turtle above them, kind of like a turtle centipede.
Definitely. I’d say I’m astonished by the cognitive dissonance but I’ve been in academia 25+ years now so my response is more of a tired resignation.
That said, I’m not going to disrespect anyone else’s beliefs, so I’m quietly respectful at such events.
We are supposed to believe that pre-columbian natives were totes peaceful and lived in harmony with nature, and each other. A veritable Garden of Eden as it were.
Pay no attention to all the torture, murder, and cannibalism. And the various North American fauna that were hunted to extinction.
Neil Young captures the perfection of it all…
“And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood
Straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on
Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones”
Ugh, what a douche.
It is a really good song, though.
even ultra-MAGA rockers fall for it.
“Well, it happened long time ago
In the new magic land
The Indian and the buffalo
They existed hand in hand
The Indian needed food
He needed skins for a roof
But he only took what they needed, baby
Millions of buffalo were the proof”
Ted only did one really good song.
Also a douche.
Meh, I think The Nuge has quite a few great songs. Other for the 16min instrumental snooze fest that is ‘Hibernation’ Double Live Gonzo would be the perfect 70’s arena rock album.
One of my favorites (re Ted)
I post lots of good songs, and I’m not a douche!
His other
I won’t lie: it is a great tune. And what a great cover! Downloaded.
I saw Grant Lee Phillips and some guests cover it as a jam, live here in Nashville. Amazing.
That whole album is really fun.
No one listened to this one back in the day? The only album version I could find on YT.
Song of Crazy Horse – JD Blackfoot
Sigh. You just had to go and remind me that Neil Young exists.
Sorry, bro, and I understand. That’s how I feel about the unavoidable Beatles.
My man.
Yup.
Thread winner.
Strange, I’ve managed to avoid them for the past few years. Helps that my wife thinks they’re mundane pop music at best.
I’ve heard bitching about the Noble Savage trope far more often then I ever heard about the Noble Savage trope.
Aw, you guys made Hyperbole cry.
That was one of the few examples I could think of, and the songs up above.
The trope itself appears to be a part of the background noise of a certain cohort, such as the academic/government/”knowledge worker” types I used to hang around with a lot before I retired.
It’s also a part of the landscape for artsy-fartsies; all of the concerts etc. I’ve been to locally over the past half-decade or so always started with some solemn intonation about the “unceded territory” we were on or somesuch.
You hang out in the wrong neighborhoods. It’s religious truth to folks who learned history from Howard Zinn and others like him.
Howard Spin, more like.
White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
Out on the plains, we gave him hell!
The Great White Father finally crushed them by handing out free stuff.
Meh, that’s the political side of it. Historians have been teaching the violence of Native Americans for a while. But, yes, politically it still seems to hold sway.
Almost all the events at my school start with an “acknowledgment” of the “traditional owners” of the land. I always wonder if the “traditional owners” acknowledge the previous owners at ceremonies.
If I was one of those “traditional owners” having to sit through said acknowledgement, I’d be muttering “When are you giving us our land back, whitey?” under my breath. And the deplorable inside me says “You can have your land back, but you gotta pay us for all the improvements.”
Apparently, I’m a horrible person.
Apparently you understand the actual intent of this whole movement perfectly.
We already knew you’re a horrible person. After all, you’re here with the rest of us Horribles.
All value eventually distills down to real property. This latest idiot-signalling is a pretty clever memetic attack on the concept of private property ownership.
There is some pushback, and boy do the progs get defensive. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/02/23/professors-land-acknowledgment-sparks-controversy
It is another sign of a country that has lost all confidence in itself.
I first heard this signalling at the beginning Australian footy matches 2 or 3 years ago.
It is another sign of a sick and dying culture. Western civilization seems Hell-bent on committing suicide.
Please tell me that describing your physical appearance for the visually impaired during any video or film shoot isn’t really A Thing. Much of it won’t mean anything to someone blind since birth, and I’d be willing to bet most of them don’t care.
It is a thing. Also, lol on the headline that goes with that.
https://news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris-describes-herself-aloud-063122435.html
“I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit,”
What is a woman?
It’s a thing.
Kamala did it awhile back at a meeting. I thought at first it was just the retardation, but no.
“Experts”
Near century of phone conversations and phone meetings notwithstanding.
The condescension is just non-stop. I wonder if anyone has ever asked an actual blind person (who was not in academia) what they think of this?
db gets it, and if I am every asked to do this, that will be my response. Kind of like how I responded to the one time I was asked to state my pronouns – “My pronouns are what you’d expect”.
Mine are Mi Lord and My liege.
I have. My father-in-law. He thinks it’s stupid.
My nephew went with “you can determine my pronouns by proper application of the English language.”
When that didn’t go over so well, he went with “banana, strawberry, potato”.
This was in an academic setting, so they were not amused.
I think I’m going to with “its”
“My Lord” and “His Lordship”
Imperial starcruiser
“I’m wearing a blue shirt.”
“I’ve been blind my whole life. Describe ‘blue’ in a way I can relate to or you’re an ableist bigot.”
“My name is Zwak, my pronouns are dick/balls, and I am wearing grey, tight fitting pants you you can see my religion.”
“Hello, I am db, and my appearance is immaterial to my message to you today.”
“But if you need to know, I’m wearing some really sexy underwear.”
Descriptive Video Service
I am wearing a blue suit jacket, a white shirt, a red tie, and no pants whatsoever.
No jockstrap? I assumed Hunter learned it from Joe.
I was thinking of a romantic evening with the wife but this whole bit about polaroids of Dr Mommy just killed the mood.
Was this about Dr. Mommy, or the original Mommy?
This is Neilia Hunter Biden, Beau and Hunter’s mother who died in a car wreck in 1972. (He really did say she had a great body, showed a bikini pic, and referred to her as his “sensuous lover” in a 1974 interview.)
https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/
Fun Fact: Jill was their babysitter.
Ah..well still stands that family is fucking gross.
Who may or may not have been married when she started her relationship with Brandon.
Fucking the babysitter is just so on-brand for Joe.
Well with Hunter the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
What, did he send her a tax bill for “services rendered?”
Wow, Biden has always been an asshole. How did anyone vote for this idiot?
They didn’t. They voted against the other guy.
The funny(?) Thing is the article linked accruals talks about Biden doing that himself re: Nixon v McGovern
Crazy how so much and so little had changed.
We are supposed to believe that pre-columbian natives were totes peaceful and lived in harmony with nature, and each other. A veritable Garden of Eden as it were.
They did not have cash money, so they peacefully shared and traded everything.
Why are you mocking out the peaceful Indians? AIM activist Russell Means told me the same things over drinks back in, what was it, 1984 ?, when he was seeking the Libertarian party nomination.
Buy Me Drinks At Wounded Knee?
Not the Bee.
oh no. heaven’s sakes.
we are just so used to this, uhm, situation that none of this surprises anymore.
Obligatory.
Very cool – I just paid $1.49 for something that regularly sold for $1.06 last week. Let’s go, Brandon.
Yes, but without this bill it would have been $1.69.
This is from the North Korean playbook.
“Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms by making mushroom cultivation scientific, intensive and industrialized!”
“Let the strong wind of fish farming blow across the country!”
How did Nancy get that whole line out, with her tongue stuck in Uncle Joe’s splenic flexure?
That is an innovative use of puppeteering I would say
It takes a strong and flexible tongue, but it’s more comfortable than the…traditional method of puppetering.
You have to admire the brazen shamelessness.
Anacostia, land of the free peoples….
Only place I’ve ever been where a cop pulled me over and told me which way to leave.
Ive stumbled onto Apache land….do not ever miss signs in New Mexico that delineate their lands. Scarier than driving through the intersections of Florance and Normandie to get to the LA Forum back in the 90s
Speaking of prices- I bought a container of cream cheese (chive and onion flavor) the other day. It was Tilamook, not cheapo store brand, but still… a huge jump over the last time I bought any.
I propose that we create a Native American Land Trust. Any organization that states it has land stolen from the Indians will be required to transfer fee title to the Land Trust, without compensation (it was stolen, wasn’t it?) and pay rent, full boat, to the Land Trust.
The Single Native Land Tax?
Perfect.
What about ownership by right of conquest? That doesn’t count as stolen land, correct?
That’s the stolenest of all stolen land! RAYYYCIST!!!
Yeah, I didn’t have time to start my screed, but this. One doesn’t have to like it, but it’s the story of all of human history.
All this “stolen land” BS is one more example of erasing EVERYTHING.
And the same folks blah-blah-ing about “stolen” land are perfectly fine with open borders, not that intellectual consistency is really their thing.
And “steal” presupposes personal property, which it weren’t.
Etc., etc.
I think a lot of the open borders people believe the borders should be open as a penance. So in their minds they are being consistent. I’m not sure how letting people whose ancestors were Aztec or Mayan or Incan settle on land of people whose ancestors were Navajo or Chumash or whatever makes sense, but to some people it does.
Apparently this has already been proposed, and is, at least for now,being done voluntarily.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, don’t go crazy. I don’t want to have to actually pay anything. I just want my virtue on the cheap.
Ahhh… so you only want the indulgences for one of the venial sins, not the mortal ones. We can negotiate on that…
This sounds like a tax shelter, how can I benefit?
Speaking of crazies.
A package that an employee said exploded at Northeastern University didn’t contain explosives, source says
Was it simply pressurized with a gas? For instance, a box or case could be lined with a heavy balloon, which could then be pressurized to many times its normal bursting pressure. Then when the case is opened, a loud bang and rush of air ensues, frightening the opener.
What it sounds like…pressurized a Pelican case so when starting to open it will startle and scare.
He preserved his Ted Kaczynski like missive with nitrogen to preserve it…
I think it’s more likely that the package contained nothing but a bunch of ramblecrazy, and it was received and opened by a little bitch who needed some attention.
Alternate explanation might be techno-pedantry on the part of the cops and FBI techs. As in “We didn’t find any explosives (using our specific definition of “explosive”). All that happened was ABC event (that over-excited normies would sure enough think was explode-ey) blah blah blah”.
Give Anacostia back to White People
This and:
I am wearing a blue suit jacket, a white shirt, a red tie, and no pants whatsoever.
Are tied for my favorite.
The republicans are moving quickly to ban abortion everywhere they can.
Seems to be politically stupid when they could wait until after the 2022 elections and still do it wherever they want.
But after 50 years of promising to do it, they are actually doing it. One of the clear differences between them and the Dems that continue to fuck over their constituencies even when they control things.
So stupid.
Inflation going nuts, their base getting pummeled from every direction and this is their push.
Fuckers deserve to lose.
The Dems tell the world they are going to make the 2022 election about abortion.
The smarmy fuck from South Carolina comes out and promises to vote on a national abortion ban when they take the House and Senate.
They have to be trying to lose on purpose.
Graham?
If it’s him, he’s definitely trying to throw the game. That fucker is up to his eyeballs in Ukraine.
I thought he was proposing a ban after 15 weeks, which isn’t exactly a ban. That said, if the power belongs to the states, then it belongs to the states, not the feds.
And what can TEAM RED do about inflation – with Congress and the WH in TEAM BLUE hands?
Shout about it from the rooftops and not create a distraction for the other team?
THIS!!!
Who the fuck cares if they can “do anything”?
You look like fucking lunatics to the people you are trying to persuade. Who will then just say fuck it and stay home.
I think the powers want the MAGA candidates to lose.
I think the powers want the MAGA candidates to lose.
They absolutely do. The controlled opposition leadership is working overtime right now to keep the party tame and heeled.
Yes.
“Do not interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of making a mistake.”
Or something like that.
Not vote for corporate welfare like the CHIPS Act?
My recollection is that required Team Red approval in the Senate.
TEAM RED in favor of corporate welfare!?!?!?
I. AM. SHOCKED!!!
MY GOD man, you can’t expect them to propose cutting spending!
Well they cut off their noses with the whole Obamacare and we promise to get rid of it…so they put themselves into this position.
Ignoring the fact that a federal law that prohibits abortion is just as unconstitutional as one that permits it.
That was my first thought. The Stupid Party™ indeed.
“Mr. President, thank you for unifying and inspiring a vision of a stronger, fairer, safer future for all,” [Pelosi] added. “Your extraordinary leadership has made this glorious day possible.”
That’s too eye-scorching to be old fashioned gas light.
Corporate fuckos no likey the new Dilbert.
Wow, that’s crazy. Apparently he’s flying right over the target. Well done, Mr. Adams.
Top three strips are the offending material. He has a couple more for the rest of the week on deck.
https://dilbert.com/
That 2nd one is wonderful
Your core business involves giving digital lobotomies to other people’s children…
Perfect – no wonder they want it censored.
Hilarious and pathetic. They’re afraid of a fucking comic strip.
More hilarious, Adams says he will publish the offending strips on social media!
LOL…. Let’s see how tight the leash is.
🍿
As indicated it is already on his syndication site.. He might have a contract that they have zero editorial control. Publish or pay the contract penalty.
Twitter’s handling of it (after just approving Musk’s acquisition) will be interesting.
Pretty damn tight. He’ll only be able to get them out on his own website or a social media underdog.
I’ll be interested to see how Big Social justifies banning them. They aren’t picking on minorities or disabled people at all, but on presumably privileged white people and big business.
Have no fear. Reconciling cognitive dissonance for the Big Social is core competency.
By labeling it as mis/disinformation. Easy!
If they can fact check a parody site, they can fact check a comic strip.
If we give them DC back, do they inherit all the debt?
‘this one weird trick eliminates ALL your debts…’
“The emperor has no clothes.”
“OFF WITH HIS HEAD!”
My name is Old Man With Candy, I am standing on the floor of a building so I’m not touching land, and I’m wearing a skinsuit made from some overly-trusting children. It’s very smooth.
Obviously you were strict about the lotion. Good man.
He invested heavily in baskets and rope.
I’ll take things that actually happened for $1000, Mayim.
Makes him look like Dirty Harry, so somebody tough and not senile.
Also helps to hide the dilated pupils caused by whatever drug-cocktail keeps him going.
Afternoon, Glibs.
I made it to Iowa, but sadly, I had to refill my tank in Illinois. Had I managed to make it a little further, right across the border, gas was $0.60/gal cheaper 🙁
Welcome to Paradise.
Looks kinda flat and empty. I’d have expected a few more mountains for paradise.
Oh, are you familiar enough with the Cedar Rapids area to recommend someplace for dinner? I have no idea which corner of the state you call home, but I figured I’d ask.
If you’re in cedar rapids, you might actually have a few hills around. It’s the rest of the state that is flat.
Nothing around here qualifies as a hill insofar as I can see.
Taste of India
1060 Old Marion Rd, Unit F
Cedar Rapids, IOWA 52402
https://www.toicr.com/
Hospoda
Craft Pizza and Beer in the Heart of Czech Village
62 16th Ave SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52404
https://www.hospodacr.com/
Kingstons Steakhouse
New Place. Haven’t been there, but the prior steakhouse that was at that location was excellent. Bearded Hobbit and I dined there one time.
568 BOYSON RD NE #100, CEDAR RAPIDS, IA
https://kingstonssteakhouseia.com/menu/
I take it you have been to the other two places then?
I am in this area. You can connect with me through the forum if you would like to meet.
Yes. I like both of those places.
Was there a particular type of restaurant you were interested in?
I haven’t given it much thought, but I just was at a steakhouse last night so probably something different. I’ll log in to the forum and reach out.
Something changed in the forums, and I’m having difficulty locating the direct message feature.
I don’t know if I’m just overlooking the obvious or what.
I can’t find a direct message option either. I started a topic in Meet Ups
Never been to Cedar Rapids, but saw a place called the Irish Democrat and sell such authentic foods as “Macho Nachos”, “Cheese Wontons” and “Fajita Salad”
I can do an internet search, I was kinda looking for recommendations by people who’ve eaten at the establishment.
🤢
The girlfriend loves a local bar’s short rib and mac and cheese egg rolls.
Magnum P.I. and Higgins:
Macho Taco and Bordeaux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hrviJhRQg
When I’m in Cedar Rapids, I’m usually eating at the ballpark, so I can’t help you.
I’m looking for the traditional Czech restaurant in Czech Village, but it must have closed, I can’t find it. I do see a place called Little Bohemia that apparently serves pork roast, dumplings and sauerkraut. What more can you ask?
A website, since they don’t appear to have one…