Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots.
He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion.
Oh, where has Brett gone?
He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft.
Brett is becoming legend.
Brett can never die. Brett can never die.
Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.
Being First is the most non-gay thing a man can do. It’s even less gay than having sex with a woman. You are all more gay than me.
I have a feelz that if I announced I were gay, that wouldn’t really be a problem for you filthy preverts.
Prevert… is that like some messed up person that always insists on being fir —– ohhhhhhhhh….
Lesbians are eeew.
More of a fan of Crete or Rhodes then?
I’ll take any other Greeks.
GAY!
It took a while, but you knew it was going to happen eventually
Whoops, this was supposed to be at the bottom, not threaded.
Lewandowski is a lesbian?
Your obsession with gaydom and being firsted tells us you’re just longing to come out of the closet.
Eeew! Oh, never mind.
So many contribute to this wonderful site, and yet here you are, full of firstness and fury, signifying nothing.
Gay, as in happy, yes.
Link #1 – punchable face
(and punchable hair)
Trump can’t color inside the lines. Time for the 25th Amendment!
“This is absolute projection.”
It is well known that politicians lie, but lately the lying from the left seems worse. It’s not just fudging the truth, or shades of the truth, it’s a complete 180 from reality. And there are still so many people who swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
People believe what they want to believe.
But they don’t ha-ave to live like a refugee.
Scott Adams on that.
“This is CNN.” has forty years of cachet behind it.
“A longtime Republican and political appointee at DHS from 2017 to 2019, Taylor endorsed the former vice president in a video produced by the group Republican Voters Against Trump in which he also made several allegations about Trump’s conduct.”
That guy is “Republican” like Brochetard is heterosexual.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/08/miles-taylor/
Mic drop
Why do you want to put Rhywun and Tonio and the other gayglibs in that company?
There are people serving very close to the President that have told me verbatim
Pass. (never mind every action he’s taken suggest other than your hysterical premise.)
Which means it’s hearsay.
“I think that tells you a lot about the President’s character,” Taylor said. “And that’s why I think this is a character election.”
Taylor also claimed that the White House is working to “dig up dirt” on him because of his rebuke of Trump.
He should be proud of his identity as a transgender woman.
“House Democrats passed the HEROES Act in May, which would extend the CARES Act’s student loan payment and interest suspension for an additional 12 months. The HEROES Act would also expand the CARES Act’s protections to include commercially-issued FFEL-program federal student loans, as well as federal Perkins loans. The bill would also provide $10,000 in federal and private student loan forgiveness to borrowers experiencing economic distress. The HEROES Act would also continue enhanced unemployment benefits of $600 per week, and would provide additional relief to states, cities, and hospitals. House Democrats recently passed a separate bill that would also suspend private student loan payments for 12 months.
Republicans have so far rejected those proposals. House Democrats agreed to compromise on a new stimulus bill earlier in August, reducing the price tag of the HEROES Act from over $3 trillion to approximately $2 trillion, hoping Republicans could meet them halfway (Republicans had previously offered a new stimulus package costing around $1 trillion). But lawmakers could not reach an agreement.”
so fiscal much responsibility
I’m trying that next time I try to sell something.
“You’re asking $20k for this 2002 Ford Ranger, but it’s only worth $2k.”
“I’ll tell you what, let’s meet half-way at $10k”
And despite all the Dems’ padding due to the pandemic, they have the nerve to point to the increased federal debt as all Trump’s fault.
As outrageous as Cuomo saying his state’s response to the virus was “beautiful” during his DNC speech Monday night.
That was more than outrageous.
Elephant money printer go brrr. Donkey printer go brrrrrrrrr.
Mystic Marianne / Temptress Tulsi 2020?
Marianne Williamson — author, self-help guru, and former Democrat presidential candidate who rose to national attention for her quirky style — will speak at the upcoming “People’s Convention,” where attendees will discuss the possibility of forming a third party.
The People’s Convention, geared toward progressives who feel ignored by the Democrat establishment, is slated for August 30 and will feature speakers including Williamson, former Sanders campaign national co-chair Nina Turner, former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-AK), Amped Up host Ryan Knight, comedian and The Jimmy Dore Show host Jimmy Dore, and Dr. Cornel West.
Organizers say participants will broach forming a “major new political party in America” — an idea that would seemingly resonate with Williamson, who has voiced her frustrations with the Democrat Party, blasting them for taking money from corporate donors while simultaneously vowing to “take them on.”
I’m skeptical of things prefaced by “A/The People’s”.
Could they even get on the ballot in time?
Probably not on all 50 states.
Possibly on key states and possibly fucking over Biden.
Go Team!
Wouldn’t it be something to have both Kanye and Marianne siphon votes from Ol’ Poopy Pants?
Can their party also run some congrescritters, plsthxbai.
I can’t imagine why
I’m less skeptical and more “fearful”
Jesus, Mike Gravel is still alive? What is he, 100?
Gravel is older than dirt.
THAT IS NOT HOW EROSION WORKS
/MORBO
You should be. It means “commie”.
As in: a Bern! flack and fucking Cornel West. Geezus.
I’ll admit I find the name choice for the People’s Party of Canada really unfortunate and quite confusing.
And I’m probably not the only one.
Organizers say participants will broach forming a “major new political party in America” — an idea that would seemingly resonate with Williamson, who has voiced her frustrations with the Democrat Party, blasting them for taking money from corporate donors while simultaneously vowing to “take them on.”
When the Democrats aren’t crazy enough for you…
I’d like to see 4 parties. The commie party, the union democrats, the neocons, and the libertarians. But something tells me this new party will leave us with Republicans, batshit crazies, and batshit craziers.
Silly Party and Very Silly Party?
“‘That nosy b*****d. Don’t say too much to him’: What Lori Loughlin and Mossimo told daughter Olivia Jade when ‘weasel’ high school counselor questioned her phony USC application that claimed she was a champion coxswain”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8643597/Lori-Loughlin-husband-told-daughter-not-talk-nosey-b-d-high-school-counselor.html
Why is her face blurred out?
I mean… He kinda sounds like a douche.
So yeah a regular High School Counselor
Is bastard a bad word?
Perhaps they mistook it for bass turd.
*bitchtard
You know who else claimed to be a champion coxswain?
Cardi B?
Yeah, but it has a different meaning in UK “English”.
Oh not that boat thing again.
Lori Laughlin is a would. Her prison video is a double wood.
KK, carrying on some more FS:
If you ever come to ATL, we could ask if we can see if we can recreate the COPA accident here. Because there is no voice recorder, I’m still betting the Captain refused to take input from his junior. I’ve had a commercial pilot say this to me. The Captain is king, do as you’re told.
Flight simulator instructor: “Your ADIs are now both inop. Good luck.” ?????????
So CRM is not a “thing” to this person? I’d probably not want to fly with them…
Heh, first thing I thought of too. That attitude is EXACTLY what CRM is supposed to prevent.
That was along time ago, career wise. Training is a bit more cohesive these days, I’ll bet. Communication is a factor in a crisis, no?
No doubt. I don’t know how many episodes of Air Disasters have pilot communication as a primary factor.
Cut off….didn’t get to add “but it’s a lot of them”.
I’m no pilot anyway, so I only know what I read about. Was 10 years old when Top Gun and Iron Eagle came out so I spent my youth dying to be a fighter pilot. When I found out in high school that would never happen because of my nearsightness, I lost interest in aviation for a long time, but in my advancing years I’ve found myself fascinated by it again.
Including or excluding Korean airlines?
Is Asiana a Korean Airline?
Yes. Korean.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/malcolm-gladwells-cockpit-culture-theory-everywhere-after-asiana-crash/313442/
Maybe it’s my white male privilege showing, but whenever I had to mail something important I’d drive to the post office.
Not necessarily the postoffice proper, but the nearest bigbluebox. It was over a decade ago I got tired of mailmen that couldn’t be bothered to pickup my outgoing mail if I didn’t have any junkmail to drop-off that day, or the next. Amazing how I’d seem to get a dryspell of junkmail whenever I’d have some paperwork to mail.
I’d take stuff to the mailbox on my way to work. But I guess having a job is white male privilege.
I love my 4:30 AM privilege. I’m just so happy it’s not the pre-Rona 3:30 AM privilege I used to have.
You only have that job due to being punctual, so, yeah. Honkey.
You just slapped me in the face. I realized something. I have not seen anything but wypipo in my work area since I went back to work. Of course I don’t wander about much due to mask hysteria, but still.
For the record, I was aiming for your ass.
#SLAPASS!
Yoots be crazy
Several UConn students were looking for new digs Wednesday after the dangers of reopening universities during a pandemic were laid bare in a video which showed undergrads living it up at a packed dorm room party where almost nobody was wearing a mask and there was zero social distancing.
While the worst offenders were slapped with eviction notices, University of Connecticut officials gave no sign that they intend to follow the lead of other universities like Notre Dame and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill that canceled in-class instruction and sent students home for the semester after coronavirus outbreaks on their campuses.
“These actions do not represent or speak for the 5,000 residents currently composing our residential community,” UConn Dean of Students Eleanor Daugherty and Residential Life Director Pamela Schipani said of the video in a letter to students late Tuesday. “The vast majority of our students are doing the right thing.”
But so far five students who live on campus have tested positive and were placed in UConn’s isolation space and 25 others who came in contact with them were in quarantine, the university said. Two other students who live off-campus had also tested positive.
“There will undoubtedly be more positive cases as more test results are returning in the coming days, and we will address each the same way as we work to protect the health of individual students and our community,” Daugherty said in a statement.
Public health experts like Dr. Howard Koh, a Harvard professor who served as Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President Barack Obama, said it shouldn’t surprise anyone that America’s universities are struggling right now.
“At every step of the pandemic, society has underestimated the tenacity of the virus and overestimated our ability to contain it,” Koh said in an email to NBC News. “The college outbreaks represent yet another example of this theme.”
You can fuck right off with that “society” claptrap.
Get it over with and move on.
Just a reminder that UConn paid Robin DiAngelo $70K for her bullshit white self-loathing seminar.
Send everyone home, close your doors, and return all the tax dollars to the people.
My brother is a professor at a small private college. They get a lot of income from the dorms so they can’t really shut them down. They’ve adjusted the schedule for the fall semester so that they will finish by Thanksgiving so students aren’t travelling back and forth. The professors have a pool to see how long they stick to the plan.
They’re not SHUT DOWN, they’re “butt buudies”. It’s all how you say it.
But so far five students who live on campus have tested positive and were placed in UConn’s isolation space and 25 others who came in contact with them were in quarantine, the university said. Two other students who live off-campus had also tested positive.
…but did they DIE?
Seriously, you know what else you can get in college? Meningitis. Try surviving that.
Don’t forget Mono
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8644105/Halle-Berry-perches-bicycle-ultra-short-mini-dress-second-day-Variety-shoot-LA.html
That’s some 54.
Let’s see if that lights the Tundra signal.
Lucky bike.
Except for those platforms, OUCH MA PEDDLES!
Looks like Germany wants to effectively outlaw dog ownership.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/19/germans-must-walk-their-dogs-twice-a-day-new-law-will-say
You’ll have to carry the day’s poop bags with you at all times in the event the Gestapo want to verify compliance.
“Poopier Bitten!”
LOL
*applause*
My inner authoritarian wants to come out when I am reminded of dog owners who don’t pick up their dog’s shit.
I knew this would turn into Scheiße jokes.
in Xmen Last Stand there’s a line, paraphrasing, “Mystique broke into, OF ALL PLACES, the FDA…”, the FDA, ya know, just the only govt agency developing an anti-mutant vaccine. OF ALL PLACES. ya know, the number one place she might want to break into. OF ALL PLACES.
You linked something about walking dogs. OF ALL TOPICS, who would’ve expected dog shit. OF ALL THINGS.
*Gestapoo
ScheißeStaffel
these are all too accurate a description of the historic orgs. disqualified.
a)There is absolutely no way to actually enforce that, short of a totalitarian surveillance apparatus that would make East Germany look lax
b)There are plenty of dogs who are lazy as hell and have no interest in hour long walks. I have a 13 year old dachshund with arthritis. Her legs are about six inches long. She looks forward to her walks, but generally she goes to the corner, takes a couple of shits, and then turns around on her own to head home. That’s as much exercise as she’ll do.
Wissenschaft!
That’s gonna be easy to enforce. And there will definitively be no abuse of those laws.
Next step : humans.
Fortunately, this is not a law, but a proposal. And she’s being ridiculed for it. File under the “news” genre of “look over there!”
Still, the fact that an official proposed it sounds a bit scary to me. Heck if someone proposed us to wear mask outside a year ago we would have all laugh at that person.
They’re not actually getting rid of the police, they just said they want to, JEEZ YOU GUYS.
There will also never be anyone shot for refusing to BWAHAHAHAHA I couldn’t finish.
PieInTheSky on August 19, 2020 at 8:51 am
Any American should need to travel to Washington DC to vote. To see who is really dedicated about it.
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WTF on August 19, 2020 at 9:09 am
More evidence Europeans don’t understand how big the US is.
Pie would tell Americans to eat cake, then bitch about all the sugar we eat.
Implied death wishes because Rush quoted someone? You’re a swell guy.
Joe Lockhart
@joelockhart
several months ago I tweeted well wishes to Rush Limbaugh on his health fight. I’m rethinking that tweet this morning.
“I wish I’d wished he’d get cancer before he got cancer.”
I am surprised. Iowa State actually told the “I will kick you out of class if you’re pro-life” professor she was wrong:
https://www.yaf.org/news/iowa-state-professor-threatens-to-dismiss-pro-life-anti-blm-students-from-her-class/
Reform the Big 8 Conference!
Dead thread now, but I’ll answer anyway. I teach at Iowa State and we recently got a notice from the prez on First Amendment rights in the classroom, which said that unless a student was being disruptive in class, or saying something that was not relevant to the curriculum, they should be allowed to speak. Future lawsuits avoided.
“White House claims Trump ‘hasn’t done a deep dive’ on Laura Loomer after congratulating her for Republican primary win despite critics branding her a Sandy Hook and Parkland hoaxer
Loomer will face Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel in the fall. The four-time congresswoman is expected to win easily in the deep blue district. She ran unopposed in 2018 and beat her Republican rival in 2016 by 27.6 points.
McEnany said Trump’s support for Loomer was standard protocol.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8644339/White-House-claims-Donald-Trump-deep-dive-Republican-primary-winner-Laura-Loomer.html
So she is going to fall flat after making inflated claims.
I would think we’d need Q back to know if her claims are inflated or falling flat. And Melania would probably have a problem with Trump making a deep dive on Loomer….
Where’s Q been, anyway?
Sabbatical. Trying to stay away from the news and the like, per a post he made in the past week or so.
He said something about taking a break for a while. I don’t remember the reason, though I do remember he said his wife is pregnant.
Taking a sabbatical. Claims we didn’t drive him away, but that he needed a break from politics/the world, iirc. Understandable.
Understandable? Hell, commendable! I follow the news to keep my job from driving me nuts. Now you know why I’m so looking forward to retirement – I can get away from two horrid things.
“The controversial conspiracy theorist has been accused of hate speech on more than one occasion. In November 2018 she was accused of hate speech when she called Representative Ilhan Omar (left) ‘anti-Jewish’. She slammed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (right) for suspending her account over the incident”
That’s like getting banned for saying David Duke isn’t particularly fond of black people.
‘It’s obvious these kids are reading a screen or notes someone else wrote for them. Notice how media is only talking to the same group of students. They aren’t talking to the pro gun ROTC students who actually saved lives, unlike these students,’ she tweeted.
I need a little more than that and her talking with Alex Jones to think she’s a Sandy Hook Hoaxer.
In the Alex Jones interview with Joe Rogan, Jones said he was wrong about Sandy Hook and it being a hoax.
I didn’t know that.
In such districts the GOP can nominate a garbage truck for all it matters. And usually it doesn’t make international news.
I would totally vote for a garbage truck if it were on the ballot. Seeing it at its desk at the SOTU would be epic.
In the real deep blue districts the GOP doesn’t nominate anyone.
VA 8th, where I live. Moran, and now Beyer, often run unopposed.
KK for Kongress!
KKK 2020!
errr, wait…
FUCK, I SIGNED OFF ON THE PROOFS ALREADY
So… there’s a campground chain called KOA. They rebrand lots of C’s into K’s. I was at one once, where they had a sign up directing you to the cabins. The sign said this way to the:
KOA
Kamping
Cabins
You could almost see the person carving the sign into the wood (or programming the machine to do it), looking at it, and then flagging the boss down.
The Philippines would like a word
“I tried to put it into the CNC and it says error 88…”
At Iowa State University, where 175 students are starting off the semester in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19, school officials warned that if undergrads continue flouting the school’s rules by partying they could wind up going home.
“Disregarding these health and safety policies jeopardizes the university’s ability to provide in-person experiences and increases the chance that all classes will move online,” Toyia Younger, senior vice president for student affairs, and Sharron Evans, dean of students, said in a statement. “If students want to complete the fall semester on campus, this disregard must stop.”
We teach OBEDIENCE.
The spirit of Dean Wormer lives on.
I’m not sure colleges really want to pursue the strategy of de-emphasizing partying while in college. They have to know this is a massive amount of the appeal of college. Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
I had to go over to our student housing for a while yesterday. We currently have a policy of “must wear masks while on campus” which is going to be pretty tough for those who live on campus. Anyway, everyone I saw indoors was wearing a mask, and almost everyone just walking around outside. Students who were (a) at the rec fields playing softball, or (b) by the pool, were not wearing masks, which to me is understandable.
I think we all know that students are going to party. Our public messaging has tried to emphasize personal responsibility, and reminding students that they are the ones who will ultimately determine whether they get to stay on campus or not. The negative punitive attitude is not going to be helpful.
COVID killed the golden goose, not politicians or administrators.
A former senior Trump administration official who is endorsing Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said Tuesday that if President Donald Trump wins a second term he will “align with dictators around the world.”
I’m curious, what dictators? Why do I get the feeling this is all FUD?
The draft proposal includes reduced unemployment benefits of $300 per week (a reduction from the $600 per week in the CARES Act), and no direct stimulus payments to Americans. The proposal also includes no student loan relief.
Just cut the FedBux off.
Hmmm. Would it be worth compromising my principles to support Trump using the Defense Production act to ramp up ammunition production?
trshmnstr – not sure if you read the PM links, but I wanted to say your personal finance series has been great, and I appreciate how open you’ve been with the specifics you and your family went through. I am somewhat fortunate in that for some reason or another, I had a pretty strict anti-debt mindset coming right out of college, such that (a) I paid off my student loan in about 18 months when the loan-term was something like 10 or 15 years, and (b) I don’t think I’ve actually paid any credit card interest. I am also going through some of the things you seem to have encountered — being the main breadwinner, trying to balance HSA/401k contributions, figuring out when to switch from renting to home ownership and everything that goes along with it (how much can we afford, 15- or 30-year mortage, etc), and even just the conversations about spending and financial goals I have and still need to have with my girlfriend/hopefully-future-wife.
I’ll also say that I can completely sympathize with your comments from the am links as far as doing a job with no personal meaning attached to it. At the same time, even though a lot of the accounting work I do is dull, I try to keep in mind Jordan Peterson’s comments that doing even a dull/boring job damn well absolutely has meaning, both in terms of providing for your own family and in making your co-workers’ lives easier.
It’s tough, I work in corporate tax. It’s hard to feel good about securing some state credits for my company when on the other hand, I don’t think the state should be offering credits in the first place. Even then, those moments are few and far between the routine bullshit of compliance.
uch appreciated! I thought twice about my level of transparency in this series, because anybody who knows me personally would be well able to identify me based on some of the info, and it really does throw open some tumultuous times in our marriage. On the other hand, transparency is compelling, especially on a personal level like this. The hard part going forward is going to be finding a narrative thread to use to drive the story, because it gets quite boring from here on. The marriage heals, we don’t do anything fun, and we pay down the debt.
Regarding job meaning, I’ve come to terms with it on some levels, but I genuinely see my wife’s direct day to day work as more impactful on our life priorities. I don’t think this is a bad thing, but (getting back to the discussion this morning) I have to force myself to recognize the tradeoff. I’ve traded meaning and impact (and, frankly, enjoyment) for money. I’d be more willing to take risks on a “better” job if my 2 (soon 3) girls weren’t depending on me to earn a steady income. Framed that way, I can live with myself, even when I can feel the stress taking hold, even when I have a hard time forcing myself out of bed in the morning. It’s just a matter of tweaking life around the edges, not the poisonous sentiment of “having to get out of this damn job before it eats my soul” that has visited me in the past.
we don’t do anything fun
I’m sorry it’s been so long since you’ve had sex.
do you know how unsanitary it is to do that in a trash can??!?
Perhaps some advice from Sleepy Joe’s favorite slag, Cardi B. is in order.
“people are gathering at Epstein’s island in Microsoft Flight Simulator and solving this case ourselves”
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1295873830049767424
KK on the case.
HAHAHA!
Slewing all over the place, aren’t you?
* chef’s kiss *
https://ibb.co/yVBrj3m
I get nothing when I follow that link.
So my state hospital’s public health department just put out a model of the predicted rise in Covid cases through October, depending on whether schools are virtual only, mix of virtual and in-person, and in-person only. The results are predictably dire, with much sharing on Facebook. My favorite part of this model: the line for online only, the best case scenario, somehow manages to stop it’s weeklong downward trend and completely flatten all the way to end of the graph.
“If we do nothing, we predict the downward trend will stop. Lockdown harder!”
I want the virus to win.
We’ll find out on November 3.
I pretty sure it already has. I mean, if we’re using the old “if we do x, the terrorists win” metric, these little Covid-19 shits have kicked our asses harder than a thousand Al-Qeadas ever could.
If schools open .00001% of the kids will die from Coronavirus!
And .000002% will get an actual education.
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1295778746566184960
LOL
Brochettaward now has a new “most non-gay thing a man can do”…
IT’S A TRAP!
That is a HELL of a tuck job.
Are you kidding me? That has to be ‘shopped. He still has his junk, right?
Pretty sure she had surgery.
She’s had plenty of surgery, but not that one, because I’m sure she would have announced it.
Umm, the hands? Look.at.the.hands.
It’s the hairy palms, right?
So it’s Paris vs Munich in the Champions League Final. This clip perfectly sums up my hopes for the game.
https://youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM
I don’t want Ted to be happy, but I also don’t want to see PSG win (or Neymar).
I’m no Neymar fan but I do like Mbappe and I think it’s cool in this era for one of the big stars of a team to be a hometown boy.
But more to the point, my wife is half German and I love to smack talk about all things German in front of her. It’s my way of living on the edge.
Hateful.
Well, since you give Sloopy a hard time with Liverpool, I’ll take Bayern (but also because PSG is more loathsome).
This is no-brainer for me. München all the way.
You know who else thought München over Paris was a no-brainer?
Black September Organization?
Milli Vanilli?
Verdammt! That’s some good scheisse. ?
My relatives actually are from Bavaria, and I’ve rooted for BM for 30 years now.
They were surprised when they came over for my sister’s wedding back in 1988 and I knew who Franz Beckenbauer was.
I lived in Würzburg for a year. I claim Bayern privilege even though real Bayer scoff at the idea because Würzburg has only been part of Bavaria for a couple centuries.
Ted, he cares about how you feel.
CNN POUNCES
President Donald Trump is calling on his followers to not buy Goodyear tires, despite previously railing against “cancel culture,” after an employee posted a viral photo of a company policy banning “Make America Great Again” and other political attire in the workplace.
“Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES – They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!),” he tweeted Wednesday morning.
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Trump, who railed against political correctness during his 2016 campaign, is campaigning this year as a warrior against what he says is a left-wing “cancel culture” that seeks to get people punished or banished for supposedly objectionable words or acts.
“One of their political weapons is ‘cancel culture’ — driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and our values, and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America,” Trump said in a July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore.
Trump’s Goodyear tweet is far from the first time he’s called for boycotts, cancellations and firings of people and a wide variety of products and entities.
Get back to me when President Cartoon Villain sics the IRS and SEC on them.
????
This is why I have mixed feelings on cancel-culture. People should be held accountable for their speech. Discretion is not a bad thing, both in our own speech and in selecting those we choose to associate with (whether as friends or employers/employees).
This can sway too far where people are fired over ridiculously trivial things. This can also swing back to an equally absurd extreme that free speech means no one should ever face any consequences for their speech.
It looks like Goodyear tried to cancel-culture their employees who are conservative. Is it cancel-culture to then boycott Goodyear in response? I won’t give Dick’s a dime ever again for their anti-firearm agenda. Would it be unreasonable for Dick’s to only want employees who support their anti-freedom mission? Seems a little hypocritical for the first to be morally clear but the second not.
No. Boycotts have existed since that guy named Boycott. This is CNN being disingenuous again.
Boycotts are not cancel culture. A boycott means you refuse to do business with somebody. Cancel culture is a demand that *nobody* be allowed to do business with somebody.
Boycotting a company for an official company policy is not cancel culture. A policy is not a person.
Cancel culture would be going to Goodyear, having a bad experience with the guy at the counter, and then digging through the employees 8 year old tweets till you found that he retweeted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crw9OuoDMnY and then go on social media and whip up a mob to spam the complaint box on goodyear.com until they fire Joe in Peoria for HOMOPHOBIC HATE SPEECH.
Cancel culture is whipping up the social media mob against powerless individuals.
I’m a cancel culture slacktivist. There’s stuff that will make me marginally less likely to buy from a company, but not much that will make me boycott. I watch less basketball these days, partially out of distaste, partially because the Warriors sucked this year. I’m not going to boycott it, and I’m not going to demand the TNT stop showing the games.
Trump’s Goodyear tweet is far from the first time he’s called for boycotts, cancellations and firings of people and a wide variety of products and entities.
IT’S WRONG WHEN THEY DO IT, NOT US!
“We have to come together and do whatever Democrats want. That’s what democracy means.” – Nazi Pelosi
Anchor Nicolle Wallace, said, “It’s interesting you mentioned John Kasich. He’s generated some debate. It was my sense he’s there to represent the broad coalition that Joe Biden has and plans to build on ahead of November. Some people didn’t like seeing him there, but you think it was a good idea to showcase those four Republicans?”
Pelosi said, “Oh, yes, yes, I do. By the way, I say to my Republican friends, and I do have some, Nicolle, you know that.”
Wallace said, “I know that.”
Pelosi continued, “I say to them, take back your party. This isn’t who you are. You’re the Grand Old Party. You’ve done so much for our country. You’ve been hijacked by a cult-like group of people and others who are afraid of defying the cult leader. This isn’t what the Republican Party has been about in our country. Let’s go back to our normal debate of the role of government in the lives of the American people as our founders intended in a way that respects disagreement as we find our common ground but understand that we must come together.”
Some mighty fine progjection, there.
We should follow the lead of the Democrats, who of course are all about respecting disagreement and finding common ground, you deplorable white supremacist Nazi.
So Madame Speaker, how is you good friend the reverend Jim Jones doing these days anyway?
Well, I’d love to tell my Democrat friends to take back their party from racists and commies, but…
What a hard hitting question. What a fine example of a journalist.
And the puppets dance
“This was brought up a week ago, and I was so surprised that it was never done before,” he mused, announcing he would take the step later in the day. “What took so long?”
The answer, it turns out, is that Anthony may not have wanted presidential clemency in the first place — even though historians say it was likely available to her during her own lifetime — both because it would have admitted guilt and because she wore her conviction with pride.
“She absolutely would not have wanted the pardon,” said Deborah Hughes, the president and CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, New York, where on Tuesday the news of Trump’s pardon was met with surprise.
“Absolutely not,” said Ann Gordon, a former Rutgers University professor who edited an extensive collection, “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.” “When you’re asking for a pardon, you’re saying, I did something wrong.”
Issued on the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, Trump’s pardon appeared designed to commemorate an American icon whose work helped transform American society. He first teased the pardon to reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday, saying it would be directed at someone “very, very important.” In a morning event marking the 19th Amendment anniversary, Trump revealed the pick and noted Anthony’s history.
“She was guilty for voting,” he said. “And we are going to be signing a full and complete pardon.”
Play a tune on the dog whistle, and see who heads for the dance floor.
How dare he?
He should EO putting Harriet Tubman on the $20
Only with her rifle in hand.
No, the rifle features on the other side.
If you really want their heads to explode do Booker T.
Maybe we could talk about how disgusted she would be to see what became of the neighborhood around her house.
Isn’t it just as likely that a pardon means “the person convicted did nothing wrong?”
Can anyone explain to me why an org needs both the president and CEO roles when they’re filled by the same person?
Then do why the SBAMH needs all that executivity.
It’s a non-profit, you have to maximize your salary because there is no profit sharing.
In other words, it’s a racket.
“Compensation Scheme”, SUSPICION CONFIRMED.
JFTDC.
The morning event, which like most of Trump’s official events took on a highly political tone, appeared designed to appeal to female voters. In the same speech, Trump repeated false claims about mail-in voting and criticized former first lady Michelle Obama for her convention speech the evening before.
The horror.
The HORROR.
She’s not THAT wookie.
You’re all gonna die!
A person who visited a bar during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally has tested positive for the coronavirus, health officials in South Dakota said.
The person visited One-Eyed Jack’s Saloon in Sturgis between noon and 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11 “while able to transmit the virus to others,” according to a news release by the state’s Department of Health.
“Due to the risk of exposure, individuals that visited the business during the specified dates and times should monitor for symptoms for 14 days after they visited,” the health department said.
The health department said the person who tested positive is a resident of South Dakota but did not give any other details.
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Rallygoers were encouraged, but not required, to wear masks. The governor of South Dakota never issued a stay-at-home order or mask mandate for the state. Many of those who traveled to the rally didn’t appear to take significant precautions against the virus.
Some people were seen wearing masks and said they were going to avoid large crowds, but others packed close together in bars and at concerts.
Just click your heels together and say “Black lives matter” three times, and you’ll be rendered immune.
Wait for it. The piles of dead bodies will come next week given the incubation period.
Well the pirate rodeo that went on in northern Minnesota led to two new cases of Rona, so I’m sure there will be so many dead bodies along I-90 that you won’t even be able to see the Wall Drug billboards.
I should note, that I don’t know where he found out about the second case. I couldn’t find it in any searches when I looked a few days ago. Every story I saw only included a lot of heavy breathing about the single confirmed case that was found from the 3 day rodeo.
Seeing all these GOP never Trumpers get speaking slots at the Dem Convention makes me think Trump should do something similar, but have slot after slot with gays, women, blacks and other minorities all talking about how they are going to vote for Trump.
The ad with Grenell would be a template. Talk about how Trump was pro-gay marriage long before Clinton or Obama and that there ain’t no shame in voting for Trump.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1295805917326266368
CWAA
“Now do Planned Parenthood”
lol
I seem to recall reading something in the last year – not sure if it was on this site or a link from here (don’t recall the writer though) – saying that “empathy” was a fake/made-up emotion or concept (strictly post-modern 20th century stuff). I remember reading about “The Empath” ep from the original Star Trek series, but it was more in reference to the recent resurgence of the term popping up across social media, etc.
Anyone know what I’m talking about?
Kevin Williamson has written an article or two at National Review mentioning that very thing.
That’s probably where I read it (I’ll look again).
Think it was this one…
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/undiagnosed-sociopath-comment-thomas-friendman-sterile-language-psychiatry/
I remember it being raised some years back. Basically the argument was that it merely rebranded ‘sympathy’. I have yet to hear a compelling distinction between the two.
OTOH, it’s not like English doesn’t have lots of synonyms.
Empathy is understanding what another person is feeling. Sympathy is concern about what another person is feeling. Empathy is an ability; sympathy is an emotion. Empathy does not imply sympathy, nor does sympathy imply empathy. I know a number of people who are very ‘caring’ and sympathetic, but who are also clueless about the actual emotions of those they bother with their ‘caring.’ Likewise an effective sadist or negotiator/manipulator/salesman depends on empathy to inflict his pain, or get his way, but may well not give a damn about the other person.
“Emotional Intelligence” is big in the business self help section these days.
It’s basically “How not to be a dick.” Which matters in times of over employment, but not so much in times of under employment.
Well that’s one good thing about this mess. No one cares that my EI score is 60.
Not sure if anyone has linked to this Trump ad yet, but it is brutal. It really does force you to see how much Joe has slid in the last 4 years.
The commies know this. They don’t freakin’ care. Civil war odds are better than 50-50.
Bullshit.
I made three comments. Which? One, two, three, or all?
Ugh. That has “backfire” written all over it. Then again, what do I know.
Doc Gupta keeps wincing, wishing he wasn’t there. I felt sorry for Gupta, he is seeing Joe’s decline first hand.
OTOH, I may still have a chance to run for Prez.
You meet the minimum qualifications, but remember, the office ages you.
Slogan: Fourscore, better than FDR and Reagan combined.
VP Sven Yhearsago
So from the Too Local news department, it turns out that the BLM protest in front of Bob Kroll’s house was even worse than initially reported. Pics have surfaced of the protesters destroying pinata/effigies of Kroll and his wife (a local reporter)
Normally the press would get the vapors if any deplorable spoke badly about a reporter and would tell anyone who listened about how dangerous it is to be a journalo in these dark times. But BLM yahoos smash an effigy of a female reporter and it is cricket time.
And to make me actually feel sort of bad for Bob Kroll, the slimiest police union spokesman in the nation, is really something.
The mob incitement tactic really gets under my skin. I think I have more sympathy for a professional hitman than someone who riles up the mob to foment violence.
In my less cynical moments, I really do suspect that the Dems’ support of this shit is going to backfire big time.
If you think their behavior is bad now, wait until they lose in November. Then they’re really going to start winning hearts and minds. The only thing standing in their way is that half the country doesn’t agree with them and they’re making that worse.
Does anyone even believe this out of nowhere ”we’re moderates!’ bullshit? I know they have some dumb voters, but those on the fence have to be more than a little nervous about these crazies.
Listening to Jordan Peterson with Ben Shapiro. Shapiro says, “It’s easier to destroy than to create.” I say that all the time.
You know what? It’s fucking hard to create.
Damn right
So fucking sick and tired of people blindly destroying shit.
It’s not as if I think all of them are destroying things because it’s easy. No, for many of them, it’s almost as if it doesn’t OCCUR to them that they have the power to build something instead of tearing it down.
“So fucking sick and tired of people blindly destroying shit.”
Envy. It’s always been with us, it’s just that it’s state supported now.
I envy people too but I don’t want to destroy what they have. I just want to figure out how to get my own.
I always found creation aspirational. The raging envy is a mystery to me.
Good gawd, what has gotten into you? Peterson and Shapiro are white supremacists whose only goal in life is to further oppress the BIPOC.
Internalized misogyny, entrenched patriarchy, and white guilt.
Otherwise, Peterson reminds me that it’s good to know I have a dark side and what it is, so I can control it. Also, I can listen to him for hours.
Yes.
https://twitter.com/Dimitri_CumDump/status/1296153524766638080
Looks like OMWC is at Netflix.
With all the shit on Disney, Nickelodeon, Twitter, etc. Pizza Gate doesn’t seem so crazy.
Well that’s fucking creepy.
When they’re way too young for Epstein, Netflix has got you.
#netflixdidntkillthemselves
Coming soon, Lena Dunham does Bukkake. Episode One: Bring the Drugs. There was a brief production delay. The fluffers demanded more money.
I think I found the world’s most punchable face:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfqKycoWkAInkKG.jpg
*Adds to list*
Howmanyisthatnow?
I lost count after Patrick Kennedy and that dough face at CNN.
I think that is parody itself. How meta.
Must be. Nobody reads The Onion any more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOCOMYGIfUQ
??
I didn’t know punch-name was a thing.
It’s ok because it lead to this
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1295842944231133184
“LA considering cutting off utilities to several homes for violating coronavirus-related restrictions on social gatherings”
https://abc7.com/society/several-la-homes-face-utility-shutoffs-after-party-violations/6378097/
OFFS!
I’ve seen a story about the “TikTok star”. This is “I hate everyone” territory.
This?
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1296198021168762881
Something on Page Six.
Yeah. But it’s not really hard for me to sort between “random douchebag” and “petty tyrant” on the “who do I hate more?” scale.
Oh, absolutely.
Really? As annoying as a social media personality can be, they got nothing on someone with even a little real power.
Agreed, I figured I was implying that.
That’s old news, but it seems illegal to me. If it’s not, it should be as long as the people are paying the bill. Is it a public utility or not? That shit is Orwellian if anything is. What’s next, we’ll replace money with a chip implant and turn your’s off if you don’t do what we say? Where do these people get these ideas from?
I agree that has to be illegal. This isn’t fucking New Zealand after all.
Actually it’s not old news. The threat was old news. Today is the first time he actually did it.
This was a couple weeks ago, now its “rolling blackouts“.
Coincidence?
the utility has no obligation to enforce any restrictions or respond to police direction even if they are a publicly sanctioned monopoly
https://twitter.com/WashedMel/status/1295549096263131142
Classy.
She doesn’t seemed too enthused about it, either.
Because she’s dead inside?
The 100,000th word of “Prince of the North Tower” has been written.
It is “steps”.
I’ll bet your fan is excited.
If I get “Prince of the North Tower” completed, I’ll get motivated to work on “On Unknown Shores”, and a lot of people have been asking for that one. Passing 100K words means I’m in the home stretch for one of my books.
Meow.
I am still selling books, so someone must be reading them. I’m not bothered by random ribbing.
I was ribbing Mad Scientist. 🙂
Congrats! That’s a great milestone. Looking forward to reading (more of) it.
Also, fourth part of “Prince Errant” due up at noon EDT tomorrow?
“Prince Errant Chapter 4, Rite of Manhood Part 1” is slated for the lunch slot tomorrow, yes.
I’m trying to avoid the trap of getting sick of the part of the story I’m working on now, as that would make either for a rushed resolution, or wandering off to a different story.
I’m almost done (with this section), then there’s a change of scenery in-universe. Just two more major sequences, then I’ve got it.
Yeah, the game still wont let me proceed. What now?
Did you buy the “Get to finish” DLC?
the joke I was making predates DLC. by a few decades.
In that case…
I don’t get it.
old school copy protection where it’d interrupt the game and demand “word 3 on line 4 paragraph 2 page 14” or the game would quit etc.
*from the manual or accompanying lore book whatever
I never got interrupted, it only asked for the word at the start.
The characters are crawling along a dwarven aqueduct, and This song came up. 😛
Stupid Link
Excellent
Everyone wants to live in one big happy ghetto
This is definitely the dumbest thing I’m going to read … this week?
Didn’t get past the byline.
It’s stupid on steroids. I can sum it up.
‘Get out of here tax payers and job creators, Give us that bailout money, so that we can have utopia!’.
That dude is smoking the bad crack.
The “I miss the seventies” crowd must be on cloud nine.
I miss the 70s, but I didn’t live in NYC.
I missed the 70s
/born after the decade.
And here I thought it was zoning laws and open space laws and myriad building codes and crooked building inspectors and crookeder city council members artificially restricting the housing supply that made the costs go up. Silly me. It was just rich people all along.
To be fair, it’s often those rich people who are the biggest proponents of those zoning laws, open space laws and all that other stuff.
CWAM
Dude, didn’t your name used to be Lemon Pie, or something like that? I don’t even know who anyone is anymore around here.
And then ‘Cold War Air Museum’? WUT? You Canadians…
Since Mojeaux was talking about catching the next Bill and Ted in theaters….frankly after 6 months of this BS…I’ll go watch almost anything in the theater.
And this one looks like a good start. (Who knows when Tenet or WW84 are coming out).
I posted that the other day and hat tipped you!
I don’t think very many of these assholes actually watched the video, though, because they all went off about the trailer.
may not have shown up in my feed….I saw it via @sonnybunch I think…..weird stuff.
I posted it here (and retweetered it)
I even transcribed it for Mojeaux
I tend to get on these threads pretty late most of the time 🙁
(I’ve watched it about 5000 times)
The theaters here in CLE that are re-opening are playing vintage movies at reduced prices. Such as $5 tickets for Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, Ghostbusters, etc. Just to try to get people back into the theaters.
I own a TV, subwoofer, and all of those movies.
Why would I put on a mask and haul my ass down there to be bothered by other masked assholes … no, i’m not even, fuck it. BIG SCREEN HURRRRR
WE’RE STRUGGLING FOR BUSINESS BUT WE’LL MAKE IT UP IN VOLUME WITH DISCOUNTS
#hasntbeentoatheaterthiscentury
That’s not vintage.
Try William Powell day tomorrow on TCM. Have six martinis with Myrna Loy.
not a Myrntini?
-5pts for uffort.
You must not have watched the clip.
The next morning, Nora wakes up with the mother of all hangovers, asking Nick, “What hit me?”
To which Nick responds, “The sixth martini.”
*confused*
*watches clip*
*even more confused*
They did have Jaws as one of the options.
One of them was pricing the movies at the price they were when they were first released, and had some 15 cent movies.
Would that even cover the cost of running the projector (with or without the projectionist’s pay)
I know, I know, a theater’s profit center is concessions.
More heavy Charlie Cooke-ery in the last couple Editors podcasts. Definitely more libertarian (if not quite KDW) than some of the other folks.
They were borderline pro-Trump (meaning about twelve miles behind enemy lines rather than forty) in their most recent MD&E.
So… who wants to buy a $100 raffle ticket (to support Ronald McDonald House) for a chance to get five expressions of Pappy Van Winkle? There’s only 1,500 tickets being sold, so the odds aren’t terrible.
-insert – Stone Cold Steve Austin “OH Hell Yeah!” gif here –
expressions? like, jizz? wtf.
Different blends of whiskeys:
/waits for the Glib
riotspeaceful protests at Ronald McDonald House nowAccording to therarewhiskeyshop.com that’s about $11,000 worth of whiskey.
I never knew you had to squeeze the liquor out of a still, learn something new every day.
(Y’all take your alcohol too serious for me. Also, I just assumed Pappy Van Winkle was, you know, like, a real, currently living person, for some reason.)
Set blamethrower to full power!
As University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill students scrambled on Tuesday to move out of their dorm rooms, make decisions about their academic futures and demand tuition refunds, they had one message for administrators.
We told you so.
“Everybody told the university not to reopen, and it was only a matter of time,” said Nikhil Rao, a student government senior adviser who has participated in online meetings with provost Bob Blouin every month since April along with other student leaders. “I would be shocked if I didn’t know this was going to happen.”
The university, which disregarded concerns from faculty members, staff workers, Black student leaders, student campus leaders and local county health officials to become one of the largest campuses in the country to reopen for students amid the coronavirus pandemic, announced Monday that it was shifting to fully remote learning after reporting 135 new COVID-19 cases and four clusters.
All of this after one week of classes.
Now faced with both a literal and figurative “clusterf—” — which is how the college newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, described the situation in an editorial headline — many students told NBC News that the university’s attempt to scramble together an “off-ramp” plan have left them feeling outraged and disrespected.
“Why did we wait until everybody’s lives were in jeopardy?” Rao said. “They put us all in danger.”
OMG lives in jeopardy!
Take your meds, drama queen.
Dude, raging all around us, were you not paying attention to all this raging? They told you it’s going to start killing healthy 20 year olds… well, not exactly killing, just… well I mean they might almost feel like they have a cold, and that’s scary shit, and you wouldn’t listen!
The 20 year olds will get permanent organ damage from the COVID though!
Good. Then they can’t reproduce. Humanity survives.
From walking around a few campuses over the past decade, I have to say that the guy’s testosterone levels are already too low to reproduce, not that such androgynous critters would ever get the chance anyway. But throw in some testicular damage for the win.
They already got permanent organ damage from the schoolz. The brain is still considered an organ, isn’t it?
What self respecting university isn’t also going to do some liver damage?
The fun days are over, that’s why no one wants to go back to school.
You knew the Uni was gonna fuck you, and you bent over anyway and handed them your money, anus akimbo.
Here I was thinking these kids would never receive any sort of education. It didn’t work.
MA to mandate flu vaccine for all students
All students in Massachusetts will be required to get the flu vaccine before the end of the year. State public health officials made the announcement Wednesday, citing the importance of reducing flu-related illnesses amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“Influenza immunization will be required for all children 6 months of age or older who are attending Massachusetts child care, pre-school, kindergarten, K-12, and colleges and universities,” the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said in a statement.
All students in Massachusetts will be required to get circumcisions before the end of the year. State public health officials made the announcement Wednesday, citing the importance of reducing pedophilia-related illnesses amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Why do the parents need day care? They’re at home. The kids aren’t in school, they’re all shut down. Public education is destroying itself right before our very eyes. The greatest pro-liberty event in the history of the republic, since the beginning. *pops another beer*
My Body! My Choice!
Isn’t that how it works?
Someone didn’t get the memo.
And so it starts. ?
The lawsuits will be epic.
The “I miss the seventies” crowd must be on cloud nine.
Where have you gone,
Joe DimaggioDavid Dinkins?Dinkins was late 80s.
Well the guy in between Lindsay and Koch was pretty forgettable.
I can’t name that person but mister, we could use a man like Ed Koch again.
Dinkins was late 80s.
I thought Dinkins was late ’70s. Oh. well.
Zuckerberg confirmed Trumptard, enemy of the people, in unprecedented bias and censorship