This Halloween, instead of gathering up adult diapers from the dumpster outside a nursing home to lob at your MAGA flag neighbors with an enormous slingshot, celebrate the return of the dead walking the earth in STYLE….or don’t. Its really up to you. There’s no judgement here.
This is my review of Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin Ale
Through a, lets just call it brief, discussion with other Glibertariati, here is this year’s top suggestions:
#7: The Plague/Corona/Commie/CCP/China Virus, the virus that came from Chy-na:
I know what you’re thinking, this is too obvious? I want to show off my mail order bride?
Not a problem, #7a is for you. Slutty Plague/Corona/Commie/CCP/China Virus, the virus that came from Chy-na:
#6 John MacAfee:
Bonus points if you are shirtless, wearing dual pistols in shoulder holsters and high on cocaine.
#5 Mostly peaceful protestor:
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#4 The AT&T Girl.
#4a Indignant AT&T Girl:
Dress like this, then complain people on Twitter want to talk about your “milkies.”
#3 Uncle Joe victim
#2 ZOOM Teacher
Especially useful if you are a K-6 teacher with an OnlyFans.
Finally #1……
Dissent: Nothing in the Constitution forbids a judge from prolonging a lifetime appointment with the use of implantable medical technology…
…which is fine, because it means we can keep Gorsuch—FOREVER.
Shipyard makes a pretty decent pumpkin ale. Its a bit heavy on the cinnamon and nutmeg, low on vanilla but was in the 6-7% abv range if I recall. I like it anyways. Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin Ale: 3.8/5
I wouldn’t drink that beer of Zoomie puppet girl offered it to me.
Even if she got down on her knees and begged?
Look who is already drunk.
I just finished some boozy coffee, but I’m not drunk.
Not drunk, just drinking?
https://youtu.be/qPR3JKu1PEc
-if-
The AT&T girl has a great rack.
Sipping some Sam Adams Octoberfest because that’s the only fall beer I could get my hands on. I wanted to try the Blue Moon one since I have been all about Blue Moon lately but the local stores are always out. I suppose that means it is good. Oh, well. Cheers!
Everybody loves the AT&T girl. She is on my extremely short (and extremely hypothetical) list of woulds of the fairer sex.
She’s showing a little of her Uzbekistani exotic features in that pic. And the rack is nice. Shame that the background is a white wall so it doesn’t offer good contrast with the outline of her bodice.
Go on…
With a name like Vayntrub (Weintrub) I think she’s more Jewish than Uzbek.
Yes, she is. But like many East Russians, she’s got a touch of the almond eyes, dark lashes, with pale skin.
Now describe her nipples… real slowly.
Crenelated?
Bifurcated.
Motor boat worthy for sure.
Today’s pick at the market is Blue Point “Shore Thing” lager. Might crack one open for lunch and then go do some work.
IIRC the AT&T girl has been tapped to play Marvel’s “Squirrel Girl” but I haven’t heard anything about that for quite a while, I don’t know if anything is moving on the project. She’s actually much too pretty to play Squirrel Girl. For those of you unfamiliar with the character, she’s a dumpy plain Jane who has the power to command squirrels; despite this seemingly minor ability for a superhero, she’s defeated some of the most powerful characters in the Marvel’s universe. Mostly by getting a pack of squirrels to climb all over her opponent, scratching and biting them.
‘Dumpy Plain Jane’ says the shitlord.
Is that a fan drawing? The original Squirrel Girl, here on Issue #1, is clearly a dumpy plain jane:
https://images.app.goo.gl/w99dxBRTUhWxbd166
The one I linked might be fan art, but this one is from…some issue.
Huh, according to WIKI she was one of the last creations of Steve Ditko, so rightly she should be a Randian wantin to get raped by a righteous man type woman.
If you like that sort of fare, I can’t say enough nice things about Sarah Dyer’s Action Girl.
+1 Bruce Davison
Tits are too big.
Yes, I said it!
Personally, I like a good proportion of T to A but prefer A to T given the choice. I think she is proportional. But it is right on the verge.
More than a mouthful is a complete waste (and, for me, a detractor). And wait till she’s 50.
I’m an ass man. Everyone tells me so.
Sad.
I’m gonna agree with Fd’A on this one. She’s 32 right now. When she’s 50 those things are going to be banging off her knees. B cups rule!
The harassment article lacks any of those so called milkies photos from her college pool party so that the audience can make their own conclusions.
Journalists are lazy.
Speaking of Lily, there was a David Horsey cartoon from the late 80’s that offered what Fawn Hall would have been treated like if she was not quite so pretty.
Wow.
Why would anyone be upset over that photo?
The glasses are stupid?
Seen on my walk today –
On the front door of a building – “This building has been deemed unsafe for human occupation, violators will be prosecuted”
Also on the same building – “For Rent”
It’s not safe to walk around in West Baltimore. I should have told you that.
Sipping a Smirnoff, Emergen-C, and raspberry kombucha.
Gonna re-string the 00 and play guitar aaaalllll afternoon.
Fawn Hall. I remember her. I said, at the time, “That’s why you want a secretary who looks like Aunt Bea from the Andy Griffith show.”
She’s showing a little of her Uzbekistani exotic features in that pic.
Looking at that pic, I’d say whoever is doing her makeup for the commercials is worth every penny s/he gets.
I suspect her makeup there is for something other than the glare of spotlights. She rocks that girl next door vibe. Cute as can be.
Not a problem, #7a is for you. Slutty Plague/Corona/Commie/CCP/China Virus, the virus that came from Chy-na:
Take those damn masks off.
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It’s different when the government isn’t on your side.
#4 The AT&T Girl.
#4a Indignant AT&T Girl:
Milana Vayntrub. She’s hot.
Shipyard makes a pretty decent pumpkin ale. Its a bit heavy on the cinnamon and nutmeg, low on vanilla but was in the 6-7% abv range if I recall. I like it anyways. Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin Ale: 3.8/5
I’ve stayed away from Shipyard’s flavored beers. When I first started trying them, they all had an off flavor. For pumpkin beers, my go-to is Pumking from Southern Tier. I haven’t seen it in these parts yet. In fact, the only pumpkin beer I’ve noticed in these parts is the Pumpkin Weizen at one of the local brewpubs.
Pumking is most excellent. Maybe thats on my Saturday to do list.
Maybe.
Its a bit heavy on the cinnamon and nutmeg
What the actual fuck are those doing in a beer?
Reminding us all that we hate hipsters and this is why.
Spices in beer aren’t necessarily a bad thing.
Belgians still use them for some beers.
Maybe the beer is in a bowl with flour and apples waiting for the oil to heat because someone is making apple fritters? That would be a perfectly reasonable use of those ingredients.
^This man gets it. Apple Beer Fritters need to be made and I think I am the idiot who should do it.
Inorite?? Those belong in chili!
::runs::
“What the actual fuck are those doing in a beer?”
To hide the awful hipster juice taste?
Can’t be any worse than “normal” beer.
Cinnamon and nutmeg do feature in some of my favorite Indian entrees. Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it: nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, cardamom, fenugreek, coriander etc.
Yum.
No shit. May as well be Starbucks “beer.”
On this day in history: London Beer Flood.
A Glib review
I missed this earlier today:
Rebel Scum
Rebel Scum on October 17, 2020 at 9:27 am
Workers Who Were Laid Off Say They’re Being Passed Over—For Their Own Jobs
Having been to a couple of them, I don’t think that is the point of the Seder.
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l0b0t
l0b0t on October 17, 2020 at 9:34 am
Elijah snuck in and took my job when I was stuffing my face with kugel.
Well done boys. Well done.
So the push for early voting is because Dems knew about the laptop, yes? And probably other bad stuff to come…
FBI has had the hard drive since Dec 2019. I don’t think the FBI knew there was a copy though. So the Dems knew about it but probably thought it was a non-issue. That and I think that the Dems knew they were screwed until the Rona presented itself so no-one cared.
Debating whether to take the growler to the local brewpub for one of their excellent house beers, or pay significantly more at the beer and pizza joint with 30+ on tap.
First world problems are the best problems.
Also, decided to be irresponsible with some cash falling out of our refi (old escrow account being refunded) and just bought this (with the ottoman):
https://www.stickley.com/furniture/living-room-furniture/chairs/leopolds-chair/
I tried their floor sample. It’s as comfortable as it looks.
That looks nice.
I’m making a concerted effort to focus on positives. I’m getting ground down watching the slow mo collapse of civil society and the budding one party totalitarian state. I can’t do shit about that, so what can I do?
Make my home exactly what I want, is one thing. Ponder resilience and how to make my situation more so, in light of the coming erosion/ shocks. Oddly, I’m getting a little more short term focused. The long term is increasingly unstable/ unpredictable, so I’m trying to worry about it less. More fatalistic? Maybe. But I’ve been grinding my teeth so hard at night I broke one. Something’s gotta change, and I can only change what is in my span.
So I have a comfy chair to watch the world burn. I count that as progress.
Broke a tooth? Ouch. Sorry.
I think concentrating on the positives is a good thing. I’ve been neck deep in work stuff so I haven’t been doing much beyond getting to the gym and heading to one of the local brewpubs on Fridays.
Though I did refinance my mortgage. Closed earlier this week. The easiest refinance I went through. Lower monthly expenses is a good thing.
We’re closing next week. The furniture sale ends Monday, so I jumped the gun on the chair. Part of my new wild and crazy thing.
Nice.
Lovely. Which pet is going to take it over?
/side eyes cat sitting in my wingback leather armchair.
We have a strict no pets on any furniture policy. No exceptions. No tolerance. No mercy.
No way in hell could i have leather furniture with the way my cats behave. The suede is hanging in there* but the leather would be destroyed in a week.
*I have a few scratch pads around the house but the still attack the sofa. Luckily they mostly stick to the back side of it.
You could try that Feliway spray – maybe it will work with your cats. Mine ignored it.
With young kids and ornery cats, I’m a big fan of the (regional?) chain Bob’s Discount Furniture. They have a great extended warranty wherein they will replace for any reason within five years of purchase. One then purchases the extended warranty on the replacement piece and the cycle starts over. We’re on our third leather sofa and second leather recliner. I would love to have nice furniture someday but, right now, we are too hard on things.
Yeah, when I see something on TV or wherever that I want, I check to see if they have a version of it. I haven’t bought any furniture in… I dunno, 15? years but I need a few things now and that is where I will look first.
Cory Booker Needs an Answer
“Do you think it is wrong to separate parents and children to deter immigrants from coming to the US”
I thought the purpose was to create more orphans for the salt mines.
That is not the stated reason they do it, Spartacus. Nor when Obama did it, either.
Well, at least some of those children are not coming across the border with their parents. They’re coming across with coyotes paid to smuggle them across.
Or they are coming across with people who “acquired” them as cover to take advantage of our release of people with kids into the wild if they pinky promise to show up for their hearing.
Spoiler: they mostly don’t.
The parents always have the option of going back if they don’t want to be separated.
They’ll risk anything to get here because this country is so hopelessly racist and just overall terrible. Makes sense.
“thought the purpose was to create more orphans for the salt mines.”
Until I get my quota of orphans from the feds, I will not support these policies.
Vastly different from crying and slamming the supreme court doors… ///ImWithHer
That Barret woman (not a real woman) is going to put her sisters back in chains for the patriarchy. Don’t you know that the only right a woman cares about is to get an abortion paid for by the tax payers?
That appears to be the fundamental human right, without which any others are meaningless.
The right to choose! You don’t have to ask choose what, because apparently there is only one thing that we should get to choose.
Hey, I want to choose to do a bunch of cocaine right now! It’s my body, my choice! No, I’m going to jail for choosing? Well that sucks.
As I was leaving my little brother’s house after a nice afternoon I mentioned ‘the site’ to my brother, which he understands, though I don’t think he’s he ever been here. Anywho, after I explain it his wife asks me what kind of views are represented here. I made the mistake of saying “…and pro-abortion and anti-abortion…” Then had to wait through a whole diatribe about ‘It’s pro-choice!’, she didn’t even seem to notice I didn’t use the right’s preferred term of ‘pro-life’…
She’s clearly a victim of the patriarchy and has had a false consciousness implanted in her that makes her think she is a happily married Catholic when really she is a slave.
Did one of the Proglodytes I used to know when I was Swing dancing a lot hack your account?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073747/mediaviewer/rm589838336
She’s about to get an appointment to the Supreme Court of the USA, a cushy privileged lifetime job that pays a great wage and more benefits than most of us can imagine. IOW, she’s got it made. You’d think, according to feminists, that she would be chained barefoot and pregnant to a hot stove 14 hours a day.
It’s hard to tell what is reality today listening to the lefty media, but my experience tells me that reality is something vastly different that what they are selling.
Well, seeing as how Supreme Court Judges only take cases like 6 months a year, if’s she’ diligent about putting left-overs in Tupper-Ware, she can bake her cake and her husband can eat it too.
#4 The AT&T Girl. – wow mobile phone is expensive in the US
Totally depends on the plan. I had Sprint prepaid for $35 a month, (times two for my spouse). No contract, unlimited text and voice, etc. Trakfon is the absolute cheapest phone, like a burner phone.
But I moved to an area of low mountains and can’t get anything but Verizon so now I’m back on an expensive family plan that included two new iPhones etc. $125 for 2.
How many American voters were really undecided about their presidential choice back in January? Maybe 20%?
And by the end of the Summer of One Party Media Dominance, what are we at, 5% or less?
I mean, whose mind is anyone trying to change anymore?
It’s down to vote turn out and ballot harvesting now.
Probably the same program I have but I use 1 phone as a tether to my computer, my son has the other. I have an AT @ T flip phone @ a dime a minute. No one ever calls anyway.
I get 5 lines, ultra unlimited for 180/ month
I have one line unlimited talk/text in Romania and 250 international minutes and 8G internet for about 15US
there are much cheaper plans but not as reliable/… this works all over the country
Yes, yes they are. Canada is worse. Mexico’s giant sombrero has the worst mobile plans on the planet. It is known to everyone who has traveled even a little bit and bought a phone and a sim card outside of the sombrero.
Racism will not be tolerated in the ACC, guys. Whew!
Well it’s about time they make sure that 70% of the players are white, just like the US population.
Bold stance. Go ACC!
I get so much junk mail, my official CA ballot doesn’t look that special. I bet thousands of them headed out with this week’s trash and recycle bins.
Where will they end up?
Glad I opted out of getting a post office ballot.
Pissed I had to opt out, though.
Thinking about dying my thumb blue with fountain pen ink after I vote. A secret ballot, in person, like Allah intended.
I suspect most people never quite realize post office ballots aren’t secret ballots. Even though you have to sign the damn things.
The non-secret thing bothers me too. Especially because we have to register by party in CA (for primaries). I voted in the GOP primary so if anyone is tracking that, they’d guess a high likelihood of my voting non-leftie.
In the distant past, I wouldn’t have worried about it. But after Lois Lerner and the politicization of every agency, I’m not so sure.
In MA “no party” registered voters can vote in any party’s primary. I wonder if the info on which party primary they voted is public.
In NH, the state tracks which party undeclared people voted as in the primary. They have to because in order for an undeclared person to vote in the primary, the person has to re-register at the poll as a member of the party.
I think political parties can get access to the information, and if the parties can, the general public can.
Huh, in Wisconsin you don’t have to declare party at any point, you can vote straight party or different in each race (except primaries, there you can only vote for one party)
When I worked for the Republican Party of Florida as a telemarketing fundraiser back in the mid-’90s, our software displayed not just the information on the registered Republicans we were calling, but also party affiliation and last election participated in by every voter registered at that address. We did not have access to any of the choices anyone made, just the name and date of the election in which they last cast a vote.
Florida has closed primaries with a pre-primary deadline to change registration. Wisconsin has open primaries. From what I can find on Wisconsin primary law, you don’t have re-register to part in primaries.
NH is sort-of closed. You must be registered as a member of the party in order to vote in that party’s primary. NH doesn’t allow registered party members to change registration at the polls. There is a pre-primary deadline for changing registration. The dead line is the beginning of the candidate’s filing period. Unregistered voters can register at the poll as any party taking part in the primary. People registered as undeclared who want to vote in a primary can re-register at the polls. That re-registration is what the state tracks and political parties can get a hold of. Undeclared people that re-register can immediately switch back to undeclared after voting.
In CA it’s up to the party whether they want to allow ‘no party’ voters to vote in their primaries. IIRC the Republicans won’t allow it but all the other parties do. (I got a D ballot last time so I vote for Tulsi as a “fuck you” to the D establishment).
Once non-secret ballots are normalized, they will certainly provide input to your social credit score.
Comrade.
Glad I opted out of getting a post office ballot.
I vote in person and I still get that shit.
Opt out or your ballot goes into the provisional (uncounted) pile.
Does it? I have a voter ID they verify off a list at the polling location.
Pretty sure your in person vote is provisional if you also received a post office ballot. To make sure you didn’t vote twice.
Given some of the accusations of corruption in the Maricopa County recorders office, I check on that anyways.
Speaking of race-
For those who might care, Petit le Mans, at Road Atlanta, is on.
Had to work an extra half-shift today, so still not asleep. Would the AT&T girl, and the Biden victim reminds me of Neph’s
bettermore entertaining half.I’m getting ground down watching the slow mo collapse of civil society and the budding one party totalitarian state. I can’t do shit about that, so what can I do?
#METOO
Current circumstances are not conducive to allowing me to focus on changing/improving my personal situation. Family shit, man.
Adherents to the Religion of Peace in France Engage in Dialog with Teacher Who Showed Charlie Hebdo Prophet cartoons.
And by “engaged in dialog” I mean “beheaded in cold blood” at school.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8850463/Paris-attack-Islamist-terrorist-asked-pupils-point-teacher-beheading-him.html
Corona Virus knows no bounds! Another Covid-related death!
The virus of peace stikes again.
And again 28 Days Later.
Don’t be ridiculous, this is obviously the work of a Trump-inspired white supremacist.
Beheadings, something the French and the islamofascists have in common
Witnesses said they heard Chechen-born attacker Anzorov shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ – Arabic for God is the Greatest – before he was shot dead by police about 600 yards from the killing.
Yeah, granting refugee status to a Chechen is playing with fire. I know that’s painting with a broad brush, but a lot of terrorism seems to come out of that area, so it behooves the authorities to be cautious. At least he got some swift justice.
Joe Biden was asked about Hunter’s emails. You’ll never guess what happened.
Believe or not he called a smear campaign, then insults the reporter for asking.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1317275294194085888
Wait is he saying…FAKE NEWZ!?!?!
Look, you lying dog faced pony soldier, if you ain’t voting for Biden, then you ain’t black!
C’mon, man! I can identify as black whenever I want. And I lie about voting for Biden whenever someone I don’t know is stupid enough to ask.
Holy fuck, the number of replies crying “mUh RUssIa”. Everyone has ideological blind spots, but this is just pathetic.
To whoever linked to Tom Woods Misus talk the other day, (yesterday?) thanks. I bookmarked it and finally got around to listening. Good stuff! It is also noon thirty and a beautiful day and I am cooking sausages on the grill while drinking a beer with no pumpkin.
So the press says that Biden is running away with the election. And Biden says it’s neck-and-neck.
The messaging is a bit muddled.
The press wants Trump supporters to get discouraged that there’s no chance and so decide not to bother voting.
They want nobody to be surprised when trailers full of Biden mail-in-votes are discovered.
In, oddly enough, just the districts where he needs a couple thousand trunk ballots to tip it in his favor.
Ding ding. This is battlespace prep. To delegitimize a Trump wan, justify extended recounts if Trump wins, resist recounts of Biden wins, etc.
I think we are right back to where we were in 2016. They haven’t learned a thing. They want to start another RUSSIA bullshit campaign when Trump wins and ‘but Biden was way ahead in the polls!’ is there lame excuse, again.
But that also runs the risk of discouraging Biden supporters from turning out. Why bother if your guy is going to win? Considering the rule of thumb has been lower turnout = greater chance of R victory while higher turnout = greater chance of D victory, it would seem a poor choice to try to depress turnout if you were rooting for the D.
Bella in her den,
Oops, stupid drunk Yusef,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/q2SsrjuanfiC6FfL7
Awww
My thoughts, still a Devil dog though, so strong willed, a good Dog
Bella dresses better than I do.
Once a Marine always a Marine.
So since we’ve finished The Boys, Mr. Mojeaux and I are starting in on Utopia.
Recommend?
Dunno yet. I’ll report after the first episode is over.
So far so good. Took some turns I didn’t expect, so I’m in.
3 episodes in, yes. It’s weird, but I like weird.
4 episodes in, I’m bored.
My mention of a cherry chocolate ganache torte the other day got my sugar-deprived taste buds all het up. So I settled for a cherry chocolate dump cake. One bite and I am miserable. When will I learn?!
Chocolate and Cherries? I say yum
It’s scrumptious. And rich as hell. I am blurgh.
Sounds like it was worth it.
Maybe. Gotta get down off my sugar gross-out first.
Are you as allergic to fruit as you are veggies? You can get your sugar fix from real fresh fruit, it’s just that you’re not mainlining the sugar so that you crash afterwards.
These mini apples from New Zealand we just bought are wonderful. I’m not a big apple eater, these are just the right size and the taste and crispyness is great. My wife also keeps fresh fruit all of the time in bowls on the dining room table and daily she’ll cut up a bowl full for each of us an put it in the fridge. Today is clementines, orange, and mango. Banana, blueberries and strawberry in the oatmeal this morning.
Eat your fruits, Moj, before you get the scurvy, lol.
I drink lemonade (Splenda) like water, so I don’t need P!nk in my living room singing “We’ve got Scurvy”, but your concern is sweet.
I’m always sweet, the most sweet, bigly.
I’m not certain I’d want to ear a landfill cake.
Or eat it. Sucks being on a tablet.
Well, I like poke cakes too, so…
Phew. The blood letting of Georgia Tech at the hands of the Clemson Tigers, 70 something to seven, has finally come to an end.
Harsh.
That was kind of comical.
Snowmad,
Abv,infinity,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qu7g6XDYHLY2Ansc7
So, who are you voting for in 2020?
Thanks to me convincing everyone here to vote Trump. Now I can go back to my campaign site and find another bunch of hapless victims to turn into Trumpets.
He’s back! iowahawkblog is back!
https://twitter.com/karmasjanitor/status/1317543375919149058
Good to see things back to normal.
YAY!!!
The wife took me to our old favorite watering hole. It’s the first time we’ve sat at a bar since Feb. My favorite girl bartender made me two Whistle Pig Manhattans. I felt good enough to let my wife drag me through the local antique store. Nothing was purchased. Yay!
On the drive home, we passed this place.
It was packed. No masks, no distancing. I expect a massive outbreak by mid-week.
Should I watch Zardoz, or is it better to experience just the fringes as depicted on Glibertarians?
Do the viewers need to be high?
You should, but don’t start out stoned.
Hi helps, suspension of disbelief helps
I watched it with my normal evening BAC. It’s not so bad it’s good. It just seemed like a science fiction B-movie. It has some weird shit, but it’s not emotionally engaging.
It is not so bad that is funny. It is so bad it is boring
ZARDOZ will have you shot… in the penis.
That’s Robocop. Which is a way better movie.
Not a problem, #7a is for you. Slutty Plague/Corona/Commie/CCP/China Virus, the virus that came from Chy-na:
While the aesthetic is nice, I wouldn’t trust what look like masks in lieu of bikinis to hold for an entire costume party. Those things are flimsy. I had one break just by accidentally putting it on backwards. Quite a dangerous ensemble, indeed.
#5 Mostly peaceful protestor:
Damn, that’s dark. I like it.
#3 Uncle Joe victim
And there’s a good likelihood you can reuse this costume next year, too. Although it probably won’t be topical much longer after that.
#2 ZOOM Teacher
What are they teaching the kids these days?
Player! Cal Cunningham has a second side-piece.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/second-mistress-allegation-rocks-cal-cunningham-campaign
Can’t wait to hear how this gets excused.
I photocopied my ballot for draft voting.
Looked up the state propositions; voting No on all but one. Have just a couple of “non partisan” offices to look up and I’ll be ready for the real thing.
Hoses question: how can any school district of any size ask for more money now with a straight face when most of them aren’t even holding classes?
I’m thinking teacher worship might be worse than cop worship.
They are the new clergy.
Vagina>Guns
I hope your yes is on the Uber proposition.
It is.
I read that as Uber prostitution.
I vote yes.
Just remember, the Uber driver/whore gets to rate the customer too.
Pricing adjusted accordingly. ?
Hoses question: how can any school district of any size ask for more money now with a straight face when most of them aren’t even holding classes?
It’s for the children.
“It’s for the children” = “‘Shut up’, explained the Dem operative.”
Yes.
Also: teachers act like toddlers throwing temper tantrums when the teachers go on strike for more money.
Who influences whom? The student’s behaviors rub off on the teachers.
The Bee had that one blocked from Facebook. Unbelievable.
https://babylonbee.com/news/senator-hirono-demands-acb-be-weighed-against-a-duck-to-see-if-she-is-a-witch?fbclid=IwAR3sW_Yd16OmnBj1mm8Lspcnb3d-vvP0Cz6eMpRYG8L0lbkhhmZo_k49S_k
“Oh, she’s a witch alright, just look at her!” said Senator Hirono. “Just look at the way she’s dressed and how she’s so much prettier and smarter than us! She’s in league with Beelzebub himself, I just know it! We must burn her!”
No wonder derpbook blocked it, it’s way too close to the way the likes of Hirono probably thinks. If you can call that thinking.
Apropos of nothing, here’s a great little number from (of all places) Turkey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eWvfGNI5g4
The refrain “Şıkır Şıkır” apparently means “stylish stylish” or somesuch.
Oh, I forgot to add: it’s got nice eye candy for both sexes (and an unknown number of genders).
Since ballot questions were brought up, what do the Glibs think of ranked-choice voting?
It’s on the Mass ballot this year:
https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_2,_Ranked-Choice_Voting_Initiative_(2020)
It’s what Australia has and what I grew up with. In theory, it should allow more room for third (& fourth, etc.) parties. Basically, it eliminates the “don’t throw your vote away” argument. Also, if there are chances the third and fourth choices come in to play, then it means the big parties have to bend a little on their policies to get the smaller party preferences.
I’m not sure how much difference it would make at the federal level in the US to begin with, but I think state and local it might work quickly.
Shorter Raven: I’d support it.
Danke.
The groups and candidates pushing it make me suspicious of it.
That gives me pause as well.
The Libertarian Party of Massachusetts?
Seriously, yeah that is an interesting list. I don’t know anything much about MA politics so I can’t really comment on that side of it.
Including Bill “Big L” Weld.
From my quick search, it appears that there was a position that had seven candidates and the winner only had 22% of the vote. It is supposedly wrong for someone to be elected without a majority of the votes. It looks like the real reason is to reduce the influence of minority parties.
Trump just said “this is the behavior of fascists” in regard to cancel-culture. 1) correct use of the term 2) interesting troll.
Country style pork ribs have been in the oven slow roasting for a few hours. It’s about time to uncover them, drain the pan and add sauce to set*.
*I’d do it on the grill but I don’t have a charcoal grill/smoker.
All of their behavior could be described that way. There is a reason we see the exact same behavior from the National Socialists and the International socialists: It is a proven tactic for grabbing unlimited power. In other words it is completely antithetical to the principles this country was founded on.
We are in a very dangerous place right now.
Distracted….Mrs. is talking to me
My point which I forgot to. include is that all of the labels are meaningless. Despite what they call themselves all of the totalitarians behave the same.
Hoses question, what’s the difference between “Cancel Culture” and society saying “don’t be an asshole and if you are an asshole we will shun you”? Is it that scope of what is considered “being an asshole”? or does it depend on who’s deciding what makes someone an asshole?
With shunning, there are several implications:
1) You did something heinous and deserving of punishment,
2) It’s a small group of people who are ostracizing you, which means
3a) an implication that you can go somewhere else and start over and/or
3b) that you have hope of redemption if you tow the lion.
With cancel culture, you don’t actually have to do much to be considered heinous and sometimes if you don’t do anything at all, that is itself the heinous act.
There is nowhere for you to go where you can start over without your “reputation” following you.
No matter how you tow the lion, you can never be redeemed.
You must have fuck-you money to weather that.
(Adjacent: My bestie’s having to scrub her social media because she can’t get a job.)
It is the scope of what is considered “being an asshole”, and the severity of the punishment.
You know dammed well what cancel culture is and why it is bad and how it is different from the “lets not associate with that person” sentiment. You are a pedantic asshole that associates with assholes of all stripes, including the ones here, myself included.
I’m surrounded by assholes
Technically speaking, if you are in a room full of people, you are indeed surrounded by by assholes…
I just wanted to use “Hoses question” because I saw Hayek’s typo above and thought it worthy of becoming a thing.
Also you over-estimate what I damned well know, I really don’t get it, I’m kinda slow.
All of the above. First and foremost, getting a random stranger fired from their job because of some internet post is for me the very definition of “asshole behavior.” It also falls under the same rubric as “cops don’t get DUIs”: the canceling tends to get extremely unevenly applied depending on the identity of the potential cancelee.
The commies (progressives) have been like this for at least a century. Everything is about the ideology, nothing is not about the ideology. It’s a religion and they’re all zealots, the enemies must convert or be eliminated. Friendship, family, all of that is secondary to the cause.
In a society that respects freedom of speech assholes are ignored. In ‘cancel culture’, if that is what you want to call it your ability to speak is restricted and possibly your ability to make a living, rent a living space, etc. – i.e. punishing people from having the wrong opinion.
Cancel culture is the first step towards the gulags. Make no mistake, that is where that road goes.
I would say it is the elevation of increasingly trivial political differences to the level of heresy requiring shunning. Tolerance is a fairly important value in any diverse society. Shunning is not merely deciding not to engage with someone, it is trying to exclude the person from the society. It is effectively the equivalent of exiling or outlawing someone.
If society wants to drive someone out society needs to pass a law against the behavior, hold a trial, convict the person, and sentence them. Allowing twitter mobs the power to do this is evil.
Can you with a straight face say that a society where publicly supporting the sitting president’s reelection can get you fired from a job unrelated to politics, or merely donating money to a political cause that easily 40% of the public supported at the time, and 80% had supported a decade earlier, is one you find desirable?
First off, this begs the question of who “society” is and what constitutes “being an asshole”.
With that in mind, I would say that “Cancel Culture” primarily involves pressuring otherwise uninterested third parties into shunning someone.
That’s a good point.
This is similar to what Mark Steyn was talking about recently. The fact that the 1st amendment only protects against government interfering with free speech isn’t the point. If the broader culture is able to ruin you by doxxing you, getting you fired, hurting your credit score, etc, then you don’t truly have free speech protection.
We have passively allowed Facebook, Twitter, etc to rise unopposed by an alternative.
Hate speech will be redefined as necessary until the kulaks and wreckers are tamped down.
I’m guessing this is the regeneron fell out of his ass, but still funny if you haven’t seen it:
“Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Spread Of Negative Biden News https://babylonbee.com/news/twitter-shuts-down-entire-network-to-slow-spread-of-negative-biden-news via @TheBabylonBee
Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his really bad interview last night. Why is Twitter doing this. Bringing more attention to Sleepy Joe & Big T”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1317044556328730625
I just feel like reposting this:
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1316491969787424768
I hate the internet.
I just watched a brief vid about her at TOS: https://reason.com/video/bridget-phetasy-is-politically-homeless-you-probably-are-too/
The Jacket also did an interview with her: https://reason.com/podcast/bridget-phetasy-what-american-politics-can-learn-from-alcoholics-anonymous/
“Democracy doesn’t die in the darkness,” writes Bridget Phetasy, “it dies when politics become team sports, in full view of a bloodthirsty, cheering electorate.”
Why would Nick be worried about anyone telling him who to vote for? He knows where the cocktail party invites come from. All of y’all over there at TOS, stop pretending to be libertarians, you shameless hacks.
It aint just them. Very few who self-identify as Libertarian are.
Good stuff.
““Most Armed Man in America” has over 4,000 weapons, including flamethrowers and bazookas, and they are all legal.”
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/928709231641014274
https://abcnews.go.com/US/armed-man-america-mass-shootings/story?id=50704521
He’ll be getting a visit from Beta.
Cue the small penis comments
I wonder what are they trying to compensate for ?
I live in the most heavily armed jurisdiction in the country. Average of 48 guns per person. I thought I had the best collection ever until I started to get to know some of the locals….Mine is just average.
Holy crap; he’ll need an LST to carry all those to the inevitable “boating mishap.”