Over this long weekend I decided to try watching Wanda Vision. This is a show I got into about the 10 minute mark and realize they are either trying to cop I Love Lucy or insult anybody who even watched a single episode. I fall into the latter camp. Ricky Ricardo, even if he was a fictional character portrayed by the delightfully alcoholic womanizer, Desi Arnaz, is something of a role model for me.
In short, this show sucks.
Here’s a few links:
Seesaws on Trump’s wall? Please. Interactions between residents on both sides of the wall to poke fun at the wall’s expense have been done. Here’s Carl’s Jr. making fun if it.
Since our government turned into a joke, let’s not be too surprised when others treat it like one.
People of little importance say Bolsonaro sabotaged COVID-19 relief efforts. Which to be fair, made an embarrassing turn this week.
If made mandatory, the punishment for not getting the vaccine in Chile is what, exactly?
The Guatemalan Army formed a human wall to keep migrants out of the US. Here’s a video.
I’m beginning to think there’s going to be a version of this in every country to freak out about.
Here’s some tunes. Have a good one.
Firstin’ aint easy
This is probably a link to Goatse.
Not gonna click.
Rick Astley showing you his bunghole?
I saw Ginger Bunghole open for the Cocaine Hippos.
Trigger Hippie was also married to their bass player. Oh, it was the same chick? Whoa, man.
related
Huh, what’s this Goatse thing?
Dear god, noooooo!!
+1 Lemon Party
+1 Tub girl
“If made mandatory, the punishment for not getting the vaccine in Chile is what, exactly?”
Free helicopter rides for everyone!
ATC: “Vax-O-Tours 1, say souls on board.”
VOT1: “Center, six souls, VOT1”
VOT1: “Correction, five souls”
VOT1: “Correction, four souls”
“Covid-19: Brazil virus already in UK ‘not variant of concern’, scientist says”
There is already a Nigerian variant that spread via email.
The only real difference with the Brazilian version is less hair.
*Dumps hand sanitizer on keyboard.*
I was wondering if this was a marketing gimic, or actually how the show plays out.
Mrs. TOK and I didn’t really know what to think about it, but she read a thing where the writers admitted the first episodes were slow but there will be a big payoff.
Watched the first two episodes with the girlfriend. It looks like they’re setting up some deep comic references that will be lost on those only tangentially aware of them due to the MCU. First episode was referencing Dick Van Dyke, second episode referenced Bewitched, and there’s some Pleasantville style weirdness going on as well.
I don’t know what you’re taking about but nothing could be weirder than Doom Patrol.
The girlfriend and I are a couple episodes into Doom Patrol, and enjoying it so far. I was not expecting it to be as comedic as it is, especially after the first two seasons of Titans.
You have only scratched the surface of the show’s weirdness.
I figure.
And I was referencing WandaVision from Mexican’s post above, and leon and TOK’s comments on it.
Loved Doom Patrol, apparently Covid ended the 2nd season earlier than planned.
My take is that Wandavision is gonna be an MCU take on The House of M.
Which, spoiler-
means that Wanda is having a psychotic break and has warped reality.
Don’t have D+, so won’t be watching for a while.
The thing I remember most about Pleasantville is Dr. Laura (yes, it was that long ago) going off on how it glorified adultery and sex out of wedlock.
So, of course I watched it because I wanted to see for myself, and what *I* saw was that as options became available, the black and white turned to color. It was black and white when the characters were in their predetermined roles and doing their predetermined stereotypical things.
Most poignant was the “bad girl” choosing not to have sex anymore and seeming to be happy about her decision.
It was supposed to be [family friendly certified] Van [family friendly certified]?
Maybe I’ll give them another chance.
Yep, just with phasing through an ottoman instead of tripping over it. The Bewitched reference is even more blatant, with an animated intro sequence.
I read it as a bit of a mash up of shows like ‘Ozzy and Harriet’, ‘Donna Reed’, ‘Dick Van Dyke’ and ‘I Love Lucy’, the scene with where she was making dinner in a rush was very ‘I Love Lucy’ and ‘Dick Van Dyke’ to me.
Youngest daughter loves the MCU and has watched the show. If I understand it correctly, it is set post-Endgame. If that is right then I would think this is Wanda mentally cracking from Vision’s death and that’s why there are idyllic scenes from the 50s and 60s.
I only like shows where witty liberals make fun of ignorant rubes who voted for Trump.
I guess you’re in luck, then, because that appears to be the only thing on.
I know right?
I wonder if it will be a tie-in with Legion (reality-bending “is this real or make-believe” type of show)
I hated Legion because of that.
I demand a greater variety of pictures of hot Mexican babes.
You are welcome to an image search if Mexican soccer fans at any time.
What am I paying you for then?
wait a second.
What sad days are these when shitlords are forced to enact their own labor because mexicans can’t be bothered.
Jesus wept.
Juan and Antonio too.
It’s a good ad if you like that sort of thing.
Which I do.
NSFW, where ‘W’ is ‘work’ or ‘wife’, depending.
Seconded.
I was rooting for Mexico. And by rooting I mean….
That kind of tomfoolery has come to an end for Carl’s JR however.
https://youtu.be/YrsJFDaAaLU
Thanks for the heads-up on Wanda Vision. I was intrigued.
“MyPillow is facing further pressure from retailers after CEO Mike Lindell’s continued support of conspiracy theories regarding election fraud — but some store chains are claiming it’s due to lagging demand.
On Tuesday, the Macy’s website listed MyPillow products as ‘currently unavailable’, one day after Lindell said he’d been dropped by Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s and Wayfair.
The CEO first revealed Monday that Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s and Wayfair have all stopped selling his products, announcing the developments during an interview with conservative commentator Brian Glenn.
Lindell said that Bed Bath & Beyond and Kohl’s were good companies but were scared by the social media demands to boycott his products.
‘Just got off the phone with Bed Bath & Beyond. They’re dropping My Pillow. Just got off the phone not five minutes ago. Kohl’s, all these different places,’ Lindell said during the interview.
‘These [companies], they’re scared, like a Bed Bath & Beyond, they’re scared. They were good partners. In fact, I told them, ‘You guys come back anytime you want.”
Lindell later told Fox 9 Wayfair has also joined the MyPillow boycott amid public pressure he claims is being perpetrated by ‘leftist groups’.
Further compounding the CEO’s woes, earlier on Monday Dominion Voting Systems sent Lindell a cease and desist letter, threatening ‘imminently’ sue him for defamation over his repeated baseless claims that their machines were ‘rigged’ to favor Biden over Trump in the 2020 election. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9164785/MyPillow-unavailable-Macys-site-retailers-sever-ties.html
I want one person to follow thru on Dominion lawsuit and demand access to the code.
Or, you know, even better, states just get their act together and demand all voting code be open source.
Hell yes.
There is no excuse otherwise.
Communists! Have you no faith in free market capitalism???
The hack point might be the code. Or it might be an unencrypted configuration file, on the order of multiple lines of {MARK_LOCATION,CANDIDATE}. Because either they pay Dominion to customize the scanners for each fricking precinct, or there is a non-code level of control implemented by local election officials. But the tabulation files are probably also flat text files, so again easily manipulated.
You would think so. There has been a running battle between DUI lawyers and breath testing companies over their source code. You would think in a criminal trial the defendant would have the right to examine/cross-examine all evidence against him/her/xer. Yet, this continues to be a fight to this day.
This… Discovery could be bad.
Especially if HAL is in charge.
Though I doubt the voting machines are changing votes, I find it unbelievable that the code is not available for audit by the states. It’s the sort of thing that leaves a little doubt in the corner of my mind.
public pressure he claims is being perpetrated by ‘leftist groups’.
To be clear, this is their MO, and they have thousands of non-profits spun up for this exact purpose.
I saw a video yesterday where a leftist group was trying to get gun manufacturers to stop supporting some of the bigger gun channels on YouTube through intimidation.
Free minds and free markets, right?
“BREAKING NEWS: Mitch McConnell says Donald Trump ‘PROVOKED’ the MAGA riot and the ‘mob was fed lies’ in dramatic denunciation of president on the floor of the Senate”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9163987/Republican-senator-Roy-Blunt-calls-MAGA-riot-one-great-stains-history-country.html
“Bill Barr says Trump’s election fraud claims ‘precipitated’ Capitol riot in his first TV interview since resigning as Attorney General”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9162845/Bill-Barr-says-Trumps-election-fraud-claims-precipitated-Capitol-riot.html
Stunning and brave.
Maybe they get to keep their book deals?
So if you say something that’s not true and people later riot over it you are responsible?
interesting.
btw, there is no evidence whatsoever that the police are particularly violent towards blacks as opposed to other races.
+1 “Fine people”
btw, there is no evidence whatsoever that the police are particularly violent towards blacks as opposed to other races.
The devil is in the details. Blacks are more likely to be arrested, more likely to be dealt with aggressively, more likely to be shot, and more likely to end up incarcerated than whites or Asians. However, they are also more likely to commit crimes, and to be the victims of crimes. As a raw share of the population, blacks are disproportionately “targeted” by cops. As a share of the criminals, however, the situation is much more proportionate.
However, the same could be said of males, and to an even greater degree, as they make up over 90% of the people in all the above categories*. If we looked at raw statistics with no context, one could easily argue males are more oppressed by police than blacks. Of course, when adjusted for criminality, again the response seems much more proportionate**.
* = Except victims of crimes; certain crimes tend to target females more (petty theft, I think, as well as sex crimes involving adults).
** = It is arguable that men are facing their proportionate share of targeting for sex crimes; there’s an unspoken tolerance of “nonviolent” female sex offenders in our society
Tell me Mitch, how does it feel to put a stake in the heart of the GOP?
Yeah if they go through with this… I don’t see the GOP recovering to be a national party of any control… For a very long time.
I’m sure Mitch is crushed by your disapproval – btw, particularly given how much money you’ve donated in the past.
He should be. He vexes me.
I’m terribly vexed.
He’s ancient and rich – what the hell does he care? He’ll retire after this term and go count his millions.
Everyone should remember, he’s a lot like Pelosi when it comes to shrewdness and command of his caucus.
McConnell is a goddamn corrupt old fool that’s selling the whole country down the river. Do the Republicans suck? Hell yes but holy shit, how in the fuck does an admonition to go to the capital and peacefully protest, specifically peaceful, equate to encitement?
And we fight. We fight like Hell and if you don’t fight like Hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.
You should know hyperbole when you see it and I’m pretty sure you do.
I thought we were cherry picking one line out of an hour plus long speech to determine the intent of the orator.
As you well know fight is an euphamism for struggling against something and is used regularly in similar context while an admonition to be peaceful is simply an admonition to be peaceful. I find it hard to believe you’re buying what you’re acting like you’re selling.
He never admonished the crowd to be peaceful.
I am always ok with the counterpoints you make Hype and you have actually brought me around on a few occasions, but I am pretty sure he said, “fight like hell” in almost every speech he ever gave. If he is responsible for the proportionally small number of peoples actions that day then a whole bunch of people are responsible for last summers riots including almost all federally elected democrats and most of the media. If we go down that road I am cool with it, but we know that road is one way and they are driving the wrong way on it so fuck them.
And: He never admonished the crowd to be peaceful.
They never would have heard it if he did because the people trying to get into the capitol were not at the speech. The idiocy started before he finished.
“Trump’s COVID legacy: America’s death toll passes 400,000 on President’s final day of office – and almost one year to the day since first case was detected in Seattle”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9164969/America-passes-400K-COVID-deaths-Trumps-final-day-office.html
No idea how it’s his fault, but people keep blaming him.
Still no word on which world leaders did things “the right way”. All this criticism is based on magical thinking. If only he “listened to the experts”, then things would be different – which of course conveniently can’t be proven.
Also, it’s not like covid only happened in the U.S.
The special special morons on the Internet think New Zealand doing well is proof of the power of leftist woman being PM. 1,200 miles of open ocean seperating it from the nearest landmass has nothing to do with it, in their eyes.
New Zealand! Because A)a small island nation with no actual borders is a good comp for a 330million pop nation with thousands of miles of borders B)who needs civil liberties anyway?
Or Taiwan. It’s fun to bring that one up because normies have no problem calling Taiwan a country but the actual health authorities get tied up in knots.
Same basic boat as NZ though, minus some of the civil liberties restrictions.
South Korea is basically an island too given that it’s only border is sealed tighter than a nun’s ass.
Agreed, but SK and Japan (2 and 5 average new cases per 100k per day, respectively) are not in the same league as NZ or Taiwan (0.2 and 0.02 average new cases per 100k per day, respectively).
if only he copied the UK’s methods and got even worse results.
Well, he could blame Boris then.
So the “people Biden murdered with COVID” tabulation begins tomorrow just as soon as Biden takes his hand off the Bible, right?
Those people died because the Senate Republicans didn’t impeach OMB fast enough.
it’s gonna be less though. 1 in 5 americans will be mostly immune by march. good timing to look good.
Some material percentage of Americans have been functionally immune via cross-immunity from day one.
A material percentage has also become immune because they have had COVID and recovered.
We’re probably already at or beyond 20% immunity now. Nobody knows, of course, because there’s no good way to test for cross-immunity.
You guys talk about the 400k people Trump killed. I like to talk about the 1.8M people he saved.
I agree this is the standard that should be used. It’s the one that was used by governors and public health “experts” to destroy the economy. Why should that not be the standard?
“Will ANYONE go to Trump’s send off? Mike Pence is latest to snub farewell ceremony after GOP leaders say they’d rather be with Biden and aides are reducing to begging president’s enemies to come”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9163509/Leaders-Congress-attend-Mass-Joe-Biden-bipartisan-unity.html
Sad.
Will there be guys in Buffalo hats allowed into the capitol? If so I’m in.
There’s a small part of me that is like…he should go but then I remember also that these same people on the stage were the ones who tried to sabotage his Presidency before he got sworn in and went after every one he ever associated with via the bullshit Russiagate investigation.
More infectious. Less damaging.
Oh, HORROR.
I am overwhelmed by shame and remorse. Got busted by grocery store mask Nazi.
So did you mask up, or let that minimum wage employee know who is boss?
Cuntes.
In a 37-1 vote on Tuesday, Chase being the only “nay” vote, the chamber decided to take the last committee appointment from Chase. Sen. Joe Morrissey was the only senator who did not vote.
“I have not left the Republican party. I am still a Republican, they are not,” Chase said in an interview about GOP senators who voted to boot her from the committee.
This comes after several Democratic lawmakers moved towards a potential censure of Chase, claiming in a resolution that she instigated “insurrection against the United States.” In a party-line vote Tuesday, the Senate Privileges and Election committee advanced the resolution to the Senate floor.
May you rot in hell.
Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe (D) wants the General Assembly to pass legislation this session that bans the sale of assault weapons in the state, a priority for Gov. Ralph Northam that failed last year after four Democratic senators joined Republicans to reject the proposal. …
As he seeks another term as governor, McAuliffe says he will push for the ban and the creation of an agency to combat gun violence in Virginia as part of his gun control platform.
“Virginia is sadly all too familiar with the threat of gun violence. While we have made great strides to protect lives in recent years, now is the time to boldly confront and end this epidemic once and for all. That starts by banning the sale of assault weapons in the Commonwealth,” McAuliffe said in a statement. “I have never been afraid to stand up to the NRA, and that won’t change now.” …
“As governor, I will work tirelessly to eliminate these weapons of war from our streets, keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, and keep our communities safe,” McAuliffe continued. “I am ready to work with our Democratic majorities to get this done and protect Virginians across the Commonwealth.”
The VA GOP is irredeemably cucked, yes.
They are complete and total scum. This state is fucked for good.
Was Joe Morrissey in jail? It wouldn’t be the first time he served time while serving the people.
Imagine that, she bailed on them in 2019 and then expects them to stand up for her now.
Goddammit
The GOP did that explicitly to prevent her from being in the running for governor. That was pure political calculation on their part with no consideration for the voters.
How does losing a committee assignment prevent her from running?
Just to north to NY for evidence that strict gun laws do… something.
But López Obrador said the language used and the spelling mistakes committed by the person identified by U.S. prosecutors as Cienfuegos would not be possible from a mid-level officer, much less a high-ranking one.
That sounds like a bit of weak tea to me.
The president’s office did not immediately reply to a request for comment. Bolsonaro has argued that lockdowns damage Brazil’s economy and leave many out of work.
When I read what Bolsonaro did with regard to Lil Rona, I think he wasn’t all that bad.
Experts say that the relatively low cases of coronavirus in Venezuela by comparison to Brazil and other neighboring nations is due to its isolation after years of political, economic and social crisis.
Seems legit.
An IPSOS survey in early December found that seven out of 10 Chileans said they would be willing to get vaccinated.
If it really is that popular, there is no need for the government to mandate the vaccine.
White House Lil Rona Task Force thinks PA should shut down indoor dining again
The White House COVID-19 Task Force is recommending that Pennsylvania ban indoor dining for the fourth time.
In a report issued last week, there is a list of recommended additional mitigation measures for Pennsylvania to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
That included extending the indoor dining ban until at least Jan. 25.
lol so dumb
Fuck that. I have been talking to waitstaff and management at a few restaurants that we have been going to as much as possible. They are hurting so bad. I feel so bad for them and they feel completely powerless.
They are.
We all are, really.
Never mind that the 7-day average for cases peaked A FUCKING MONTH AGO.
“.@RashidaTlaib suggests that if President Trump wasn’t white, he would be convicted by the Senate.
“If it was somebody that looked like me, if it was President Barack Obama, there would be no question that he would be held accountable, he would be convicted…””
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1351567552736972800
I’m pretty sure Barack Obama looked like Barack Obama.
I am pretty sure there are too many woke and woke-adjacent senators for that.
See, I took “looked like me” to mean “looked like a bitter, hateful, fugly woman”.
Then why isn’t Hillary in prison?
I’d impeach her just for being a cunte.
Racist gonna racist.
God she is awful.
The White House COVID-19 Task Force is recommending that Pennsylvania ban indoor dining for the fourth time.
Maybe they should try wearing masks, and see if that has any effect.
That’s some way to thank them for cheating for him.
Greenwald is so close to the Dark Side.
In an article about the new War on Domestic Terror™️:
broken arrow
GODDAMMIT!
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-is/
It is fitting that you cuntes lionize Dishonest Abe.
“The winners write history, and they’re the losers. And they’re the architects of sedition and insurrection, violence and death; 137 members of Congress, all Republicans, all white, rose to throw out millions of black votes,” Schmidt stated. “How many companies in this country have signed pledges in favor of racial justice, supporting Black Lives Matter? I don’t see how they can ever make a donation, again, that goes to any of those members who sought to reimpose Jim Crow on this country. They have incited violence. They have participated in the big lie. They have poisoned democracy. The shame of the people around Trump who have participated in the shaping of the great American catastrophe over the last four years will be held to account.”
Bet he has nothing to say about John Weaver
He seems nice.
https://www.rareseeds.com/
So it’s not only ammo that’s sold out. I remember hearing during the 2004 tsunami that hit Indonesia, there were reports of dogs, cats, and other animals running alongside each other as fast they could away from the ocean right before the wave hit. Conversely, people ran out onto the beach to check out the the receding ocean water.
Seeing the non-stop ammo shortages now being extended to seeds makes me think of the dogs and cats hauling ass.
I guess I could have included the message:
Jim Carrey
@JimCarrey
Today I’m giving a shout out to born leader and political superstar Stacey Abrams who rescued Georgia from the Red Hats. Their resistance makes all loving hearts stronger and more resolved. Thank you Stacey “for the content of your character.” Dr. King would be so proud of you.
*vomits*
Can’t we ship his ass back to fucking Canada?
Not fair! We were so sure that we’d gotten rid of him for good.
JFC, what’s up with the love for her? She’s a woman of no accomplishments.
A woman of no accomplishments who is only famous for refusing to accept the results of an election she lost, which is sedition and treason when Republicans do it.
Shit-lord – do you not understand that victim means more than any “accomplishment”?
*gales of laughter*
He must be getting a lot of strange in return for being such leftist moron.
I would’ve said a lot of silly stuff to bang Holly Hunter back in the day.
“Biden needs to reinvigorate the FCC to slow the lies and sedition from Fox and other right-wing broadcasters.
Or else the terrorism we saw on Jan. 6 may be only the beginning, rather than the end, of the plot against America.”
https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1351263729904738306
CWAA
Since he’s dumb as a fucking rock (and looks really fucking stupid with that lameass fedora), Max doesn’t know that the FCC has absolutely no say over what goes on cable TV.
the FCC has absolutely no say over what goes on cable TV
For now
Yep. All it takes is one bill, one administrative ruling, or one favorable court case.
See also: net neutrality, the stalking horse for government-mandated Internet censorship.
You expect Max to actually understand anything about our govt? In his world the govt is only there to smite his enemies!
Realistically though… is he wrong? Its us who are living in a fantasy land where the government _isn’t_ a tool to squash political enemies, foreign and domestic.
Well it is good for me, and everyone else, that I’m not anyone’s political enemy.
But to Our Masters, you are with them, or you are against them.
If you aren’t in full-throated agreement with them, you are against them. Just ask them. They will tell you.
Now, between you and me, I don’t think they’ve really thought that through.
Keep telling yourself that. If you’re an obstacle in any way to their enacting what they want, you’re their political enemy whether you wish to be or not.
I’ve reached a point in my life where it would be exceedingly stupid for someone to make me into an enemy. I just don’t fucking care – and that is far more dangerous than they can possibly imagine.
Max Boot wants max boot on our necks.
Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
This is the most offensive thing I’ve ever heard.
No one should ever question the loyalty or professionalism of the Texas National Guard.
@TexasGuard I authorized more than 1,000 to go to DC.
I’ll never do it again if they are disrespected like this.
What’s the weather like in north Texas?
It’s currently overcast and 55 degrees.
A bit cloudy and 55 right now. We could use some good people to balance out all the Californians.
Its a cycle.
Warm. Windy, ICE STORM. Warm. WINDY. Ice storm.
Then spring its sideways rain.
I never thought of it this way, but it’s another good example of projection. Biden thinks everyone else puts party before country, and ignores their oath to defend the constitution just like he does.
I hope everyone is stocked up for the coming Dempression.
Yellen also told senators during her confirmation hearing that now is not the time to fret over the nation’s soaring debt.
“Neither the president-elect, nor I, propose this relief package without an appreciation for the country’s debt burden. But right now, with interest rates at historic lows, the smartest thing we can do is act big,” said Yellen. “I believe the benefits will far outweigh the costs, especially if we care about helping people who have been struggling for a very long time.”
“Economists don’t always agree, but I think there is a consensus now: Without further action, we risk a longer, more painful recession now — and long-term scarring of the economy later,” Yellen said.
Krugman in drag strikes again!
Thing is… The US debt is pretty much an ARM. So yeah, buying the big house now because rates are low and you can afford it is enticing. What happens when the rates shift? some estimates have us at 3 years away from spending over 75% of tax revenues on Medicare, Social Security and Interest Payments. And that was back in 2019 when the economy was ‘hot’ and we didn’t spend 8 Trillion dollars in one year.
US debt is an interest only ARM.
Kinda gives them a hell of an incentive to keep rates down.
What happens when the rates shift? some estimates have us at 3 years away from spending over 75% of tax revenues on Medicare, Social Security and Interest Payments.
Invest in Soylent Green?
But right now, with interest rates at historic lows, the smartest thing we can do is act big
Dumping low-interest bonds into portfolios worldwide can’t possibly have a long-term downside when interest rates go up and the value of those bonds craters. Remember, those bonds form the base of pensions and, as or more important, the capital base of banks from which their solvency and ultimately the money supply is generated. When they crater, the impact will be leveraged across broken pensions, a contracting money supply, and a death spiral of increasing interest rates, devaluation of bonds, etc.
we risk a longer, more painful recession now
I remember when a generational boom was started by more or less intentionally inflicting a recession by raising interest rates to break the stagflationary cycle. And the central banker who did it was lauded as genuinely brave and brilliant.
Yes, but without doing any research I am certain he was a white male.
The 17-year-old is starving. Vet told me not to feed him a full meal until tonight. I don’t know who is going to go nuts first – him or me.
Cab you give him a few treats? How is he doing otherwise?
Because of his pancreatitis a few weeks ago, he can’t have treats. Nice Catch-22! HAHA!
He’s doing great otherwise and will start another round of arthritis meds, so he should be spry & happy in short order.
That’s great news!
Good to hear!
Good!
Poor little guy, but glad to hear he is on the mend!
https://preview.redd.it/cionm7kzibc61.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c1fb058a88e553e09fb0706fcc1dc1b065219aa3
137 members of Congress, all Republicans, all white, rose to throw out millions of black votes,” Schmidt stated.
How do you know they were “black votes”?
Because we must incite hatred and make sure everyone hates eachother and wants to go to war over stupid shit with each other. And Racisim is a great ploy because it 1) clearly defines us and them, and 2) everyone knows how awful racists are that it helps dehumanize the other.
How do these people rationalize away the fact that Trump got more minority votes in 2020 than any GOP candidate in a long time (if not forever)?
If the MSM hadn’t spent so much time demonizing Trump as some frothing racist, who knows how many minorities would have voted for him?
All those “black votes” might not have been there because too many Uncle Toms might have voted for Trump.
Easy: Multiracial Whitness
Multiracial whiteness.
Jinx!
By calling them Oreos, only using academic jargon via the “multiracial whiteness” bullshit.
It’s racist as fuck.
I can hardly wait until they burn a big letter “T” in Kanye’s front yard one night as a warning to any other uppity blacks who might be thinking of voting for Trump in 2024.
The problem is that you are using the word rational. There is nothing rational about it, just the need to demonize your political opponent.
Because Biden’s margin of victory basically boils down to the votes from metro Philly, Detroit, Atlanta, and Milwaukee. That’s where the steal happened. OK, OK, to be fair it could have been legit ballot harvesting and GOTV using the ease of mail in voting.
They didn’t get the supposed swing of the white working class back to Biden, they didn’t get the supposed giant mob of Biden Republicans despite the propaganda campaign. So they paused the counting and went back to the old reliable of juicing up the numbers in the big blue cities they control.
Go here https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2020/11/10/election-maps-2020-america-county-results-more-voters/6226197002/
Look at the big cities, and contrast them between states. Especially look down there at Miami. Look how in a state with clean election rolls and clean election laws, Trump gains support in his reelection, and the state is called before midnight. Then you go to a state where Team Blue controls the whole government, and now it takes three or four days to get a final count and finally Joe pulls it off by getting more votes than Obama.
I don’t see that pattern as starkly as you see it (it’s there, but not uniformly so and not just in those 4 states). I see a big cultural shift, though. Whole states went way more blue (Colorado, Maryland, most of New England) though of course they were already blue to begin with. Texas and Kentucky look like unholy unions.
I think you are conflating “Democratic controlled cities” with “cities full of Democrats” as though the control by the local Dem Party is more potent than urban voters just swinging harder left.
Indeed, to my larger point, talking about urban areas and cities is not quite right. I don’t think all of northern Georgia is urban, and I can say for a fact that Maryland is not (yet) one big conurbation. The cities are getting bluer, but they’re not the only places.
God I love the smell of hard hitting progressive journalism in the morning.
Local prog site runs an entire article insinuating that workers on the new oil pipeline in northern Minnesoda are spreading the Rona to everyone (and especially the Indians). Unfortunately there is zero evidence showing that those oil workers spread more than their fair share of the Rona.
in fact:
Looks like fossil fuels prevent Covid deaths! 0% of the oil workers died.
Have they given up on the “human trafficking” surge that the pipeline workers will bring? I seem to have heard something about that last week.
They are throwing anything and everything at the wall now in a last ditch attempt to derail the pipeline.
What makes me giggle is that the original route specifically avoided tribal lands in an attempt to prevent these silly protests. Then a judge in one of the lawsuits by the protesters basically said “you are right, the new route has too many unknowns, so just build it along the old route because the impact of that is known”. The old route running across a couple reservations.
So they managed to sue their way into having a pipeline go across the lands they swear they are trying to protect. I bet an enterprising journalo could get an interesting story if they wandered up north to a reservation and talked to regular Indians. Asked them what their thoughts are about the white progressives who got the pipeline build across their lands.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsGbpAjXMAAIOiv?format=jpg&name=900×900
I doubt it will be a long wait.
Today I’m giving a shout out to born leader and political superstar Stacey Abrams who rescued Georgia from the Red Hats. Their resistance makes all loving hearts stronger and more resolved. Thank you Stacey “for the content of your character.” Dr. King would be so proud of you.
I’ll trade you 10,000 Stacey Abrams for one Malcolm X.
Jim Carey wouldn’t have liked Malcolm X.
I’d like to hear what Malcolm X would have to say about Jim Carrey.
Fuck yes.
It’s too bad that this can’t be a joke because it’s so damn sad.
Here’s another dem superstar.
WTF is that?
Putin and Xi are probably having cocktails right now and laughing their fucking assess off.
But Malcolm X scared right-thinking white people by talking about separatism and independence while Abrams makes them feel warm and fuzzy by telling them comforting lies. And, after all, what’s more important than that?
“Since our government turned into a joke, let’s not be too surprised when others treat it like one.”
C’mon man, all your tomato pickers is belong to us!
It’s really bad when it’s already a joke before day one and you know it’s going to bet worse by the day.
“Chilean lawmakers propose making coronavirus vaccine mandatory”
The punishment is that they’re being told they will be sent to Biden’s America. 100% compliance guaranteed.
Welp, scratch Chile off the list.
I’m looking into buying a smallish farm. I was on a site last night and laughing at the number of people saying stuff like ‘hipsters, do not come here!’, lol. It’s not funny I know.
They’ll finally have no place left to run for when they ruin the last state left to ruin. Problem is, then we’re all just as fucked as they are.
When I shop for the next place, 15 acres is the minimum.
I’m thinking the same. I told my wife that I think 15 is the minimum. I’ve found a couple with 20, but the house needs too much work. I found another last night with 42, but the house needs too much work and it’s pricey. I don’t think less than 10 acres is good for any homesteading.
I’m just going to come park my 5th wheel on your properties when it hits the fan
Bring lots of ammo and get ready to work.
Apparently Mr. Mika was screaming for them to “Shut Down Facebook” this morning because conservatives use that platform too.
No one needs Guns.
No one needs 3 kinds of Social Media platforms
No one needs to go to the church they like
No one needs to raise their own children
No one needs you.
I wonder if anybody has a line on shutting down grocery stores for conservatives.
I’m thinking power will be next.
Companies shutting off the power to servers who refuse to take down wrongthink.
They can build their own power distribution system then.
“A life-sized cardboard cutout of Ana de Armas from inside Ben Affleck’s residence was seen being thrown out into a trash can. (January 18, 2021)
Image”
https://twitter.com/ArmasUpdates/status/1351350565704519685
That’s a 2D replicant.
Dude the correct term is “DP” not “2D”
Arthur Koestler was a prophet — he foretold tomorrow’s inauguration with his book Darkness at Noon.
Purging the impure of heart
Two National Guard soldiers assigned to Washington, D.C., ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration have been removed over “inappropriate” posts or texts about the event, officials said Tuesday. Ten additional National Guard members have also been pulled from the Capitol security detail, though for reasons unrelated to the Jan. 6 insurrection. The Associated Press reported that all 12 troops had expressed extremist views online or else been tied to far-right militias, though the story did not identify which state the Guard members were from, nor what militia groups they were allegedly involved with.
At least one of the 12 individuals removed from the assignment was flagged by way of a tip line, Pentagon officials said at a Tuesday briefing.
On Monday, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said there was “no intelligence indicating an insider threat” to Wednesday’s inauguration ceremony, but added that law enforcement would be vetting National Guard personnel. A senior National Guard official suggested the vetting process amounted to the FBI canvassing social-media posts.
Unity and healing. Loyalty and respect.
Remember when the DC Mayor worked to get Utah Guardsmen kicked out of hotels in DC. Maybe that’s why all of them are sleeping on the ground.
Look last time those dummies from the Utah Natl Guard spent all their time drinking diet sodas, eating fruit and singing at the top of their voices.
Now no one wants to rent a room to the Moron Tab and Apple Choir.
Booooooooo!
Mojeaux will laugh. GAY-RON-TEED!
Metoo but had to read it twice. Thanks Nick, had to go back to see what your complaint was.
I LOLd.
19 year-old Pope Jimbo would have been signing up for as many extremist groups as he could find if it meant he wouldn’t have to pull any stupid extra duty.
“You guys have fun standing around on some random street corner with an unloaded rifle. I’ll be here in the barracks sleeping well. And I’ll be eating at the chow hall and grabbing a beer at the E-club while you’re eating MRE’s”
At some point, intelligent people will stop using social media – and let it become a festering hole of progressive putrescence. Turn Twitter into a leper colony; FB into a TB ward.
I started seven years ago; what is everyone else waiting for?
Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid, daß ich dem Präsident des Amerikanische Reiches und Volkes Joe Biden, dem Oberbefehlshaber der Streitkräfte der Vereinigten Staaten,
unbedingten Gehorsam leisten und als tapferer Soldat bereit sein will, jederzeit für diesen Eid mein Leben einzusetzen
“Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘vagina’ candle reportedly explodes in UK woman’s home ”
https://nypost.com/2021/01/18/gwyneth-paltrows-vagina-candle-ignites-in-uk-home-report/
I saw Exploding Vagina Candle (feat. Gwyneth Paltrow) at Coachella a few years ago.
Not Lilith Fair?
“Can’t be said enough: we toppled a dictator.”
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1351537451584647168
Because if you repeat a lie often enough?
If you can vote him out, even in a dubious election…..yeah, he’s nothing like a dictator. Idiot bitch.
A dictator would never allow an election to be rigged against him. It would be the opposite. Kind of basic shit here.
Yeah, if Trump was what they made him out to be, a whole bunch of swamp critters would be hanging on the National Mall right now and there would be tanks rolling down Pennsylvania avenue with a picture of Trump on a flag.
If they were smart, they’d shut up before they get their wish. They’re not smart.
Trump was the most wishy washy president since Jimmy Carter. His bark was much, much larger than his bite.
Not for a lack of trying though. He sent his minions out but found they were merely larping, had they managed to hang a few congress critters Trump would never had backed down.
The only minion Trump sent out was Giuliani, and while he did his tour of the statehouses, I don’t think there was ever a risk he was going to hang anyone.
Oh, jesus. Yeah, that’s a great take, Hype. Truly. Another stunning post of genius.
Glad you enjoyed it.
These people lead such sheltered lives. If this is what they think a dictator looks like, they’re not a tenth as worldy as they claim.
Unfortunately, the perturbation of these sheltered lives could very well lead us straight to Robespierre’s Committee of Public Safety.
To me, a dictator is someone who says “I have a phone and a pen” ?
And to celebrate, the new president will issue several dozen unilateral orders on his inauguration day.
The dude “lost” an election ffs.
*sigh*
Don’t read the replies…
And I am pretty sure *President Biden’s pen and phone are about to get a lot more use than even Barry’s did.
Party of Symbolism
Nearly 200,000 flags have been placed on the National Mall ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, signifying the tens of thousands of people who won’t be able to attend this year’s ceremony.
The Presidential Inaugural Committee first announced plans to install the public art display, which has flags representing all the U.S. states and territories, on Jan. 11.
The display was lit up Sunday evening.
“This inauguration marks a new chapter for the American people — one of healing, of unifying, of coming together, of an America united,” said Tony Allen, CEO of the Presidential Inaugural Committee. “It is time to turn the page on this era of division. The inaugural activities will reflect our shared values and serve as a reminder that we are stronger together than we are apart, just as our motto ‘e pluribus unum’ reminds us — out of many, one.”
The E Pluribus Unum administration.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
We’re going to achieve unity by doing absolutely nothing that shows the slightest interest for the concerns of anyone not already in agreement with us.
We will force you to kiss the ring! THE COCK RING!!!!!
Kiss the Balldo!
Uffda. I’m not going to sugar coat it, but I think those guys really missed the boat by not having that ready in time to ship for 2020 Christmas presents.
25,000 national guardsmen repel onslaught of 200,000 tiny American flags.
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
signifying the tens of thousands of people who won’t be
ableallowed to attend this year’s ceremonyIt is time to turn the page on this era of division.
Well, you have to admit, once the wrongthinkers are driven from society, there won’t be any division any more.
Everything for the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.
Shouldn’t they be using Chinese flags?
one of healing, of unifying, of coming together, of an America united
Except for all those deplorable Trump voters. You guys get to go to camp!
The inaugural activities will reflect our shared values
I do not share values with leftists as mine are in line with individual freedom / constitutionally limited government and theirs are exactly opposite.
The E Pluribus Unum administration.
The founders were totally talking about one, centralized authority that dominates the people’s daily lives.
I see the inauguration bs has started. News was just showing the royal couples looking at the Washington monument. I amused myself by imaging how old George would have reacted to any of them.
He may have been upset, but would he really have been teeth-gnashing upset?
I don’t think he wood have.
It’s something to chew on.
I cannot tell a lie, those quips suck.
That’s just the cherry on top right there.
I think a man who could’ve been king but chose not to would not hold a pair of power hungry buffoons in high regard.
The committee is planning a largely virtual inauguration this year due to ongoing public health concerns relating to the coronavirus pandemic and what law enforcement officials have said is an increased risk of political violence ahead of the event. There is a heightened security presence across the city following the deadly riot at the Capitol earlier this month.
We’re so Hell bent on unifying the nation we’re putting troops on the street to enforce our preferred flavor of unity.
“Heightened security presence”, 25,000 soliders…..potato, potahto
I saw a clip of some general saying 65,000 troops. I don’t know if he misspoke or what but that’s nuts.
25K is about two light infantry divisions worth of troops, 1+ for a heavy division. It is absurd.
Is he going to get 3rd Infantry to come be his mandatory cheering section? Who needs to have them guarding that silly tomb, they should be compelled to cheer for Good ol’ Joe from Scranton.
It is nice to know that the vaunted Minnesoda state IT dept hasn’t let the Rona affect its effectiveness. The same group that royally fucked up the health care rollout, spent hundreds of millions trying to develop a car licensing system that never worked has now a web site where people can schedule the Rona vaccinations!
And just like we all expected, it crashed and burned immediately.
Nice to see that they were able to include phones in their fuckup. Usually they forget to close that loophole.
*Nelson laugh*
Oh, FFS. We set up a system to register people for the vaccine for all of Pima County, and take the associated medical charting, in about a week.
Lol, not only was NYS’s rollout a disaster, but someone leaked the “correct” link to get signed up and so because that wasn’t faaaaair, they decided to just cancel 20,000 appointments and make everyone start over again.
Well, I’ll be danged. Pandora just served up Suthen’s band, the Dead South, for me.
I found them through Pandora too. I made them the seed for a new channel and I ended up finding a ton of awesome grunge-grass, for lack of a better term. Poor Man’s Poison, Tyler Childress etc.
grunge-grass, for lack of a better term.
Hmmph. Not my regular cuppa, but might not be bad now and then.
This is amusing, and possibly something to lift the spirits of my American Glibbie sisters and brothers:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/426927/
I don’t know about the Republican Party being “on a better footing”. I think that party is dead as the Whigs.
Good riddance, they’re almost all controlled opposition grifters. It’ll be rough for a while but fuck them.
There was a poll posted on Instapundit earlier today. Gave Trump voters 3 options for 2024.
A) Trump. This was 26%.
B)Trumpist policies on immigration and trade with an articulate, dignified, Presidential guy who would still push back against wokeness. 55%
C) A return to the old Republican policies with a dignified articulate candidate. 18%.
The issue is that the Rump of Cucks controls the media access, and they are spiteful bitter pieces of shit who do not hold the bargain in coalition voting. For cycle after cycle their chosen candidate has won, and the base has dutifully pulled the lever for Bush, for McCain, for Mittens. Then the one fucking time the base gets to pick the candidate, they sabotage his reelection campaign.
The Dems have a well functioning party. They have knock down primaries where the base gets to be loud and make their voices heard. When their choice wins out, as it did in 2008, the Party hacks get behind and push. They ride the energy of the base to victory.
They have knock down primaries where the base gets to be loud and make their voices heard. When their choice wins out, as it did in 2008, the Party hacks get behind and push. They ride the energy of the base to victory.
Do you come from an alternate universe where Mike Gravel won the Democratic primary and then became President in 2008?
I think your point is that Obama beat Clinton despite the latter being the establishment’s favorite, but ca. 2008 I don’t think Clinton had the hold on the DNC that she would have by 2016. Barack Obama had been clearly groomed by the Dem establishment, starting with his keynote address in 2004. I don’t think Obama is a base candidate, certainly not the way Trump was. The media had to carry a whole fuckton of water for him, which doesn’t say base appeal to me. He is absolutely beloved by progressives nowadays, but again you can’t project that backwards.
I first saw Barack Obama in 2006, stumping for Jim Webb. It was like being at a rock concert except the opening act was the real star. No one cared about Jim Webb, Obama gave his speech and introduced Webb and everyone just tuned out from there.
Clinton was the Party hacks choice in 2008, Obama was the preferred candidate of the base, especially the black voters who make up a huge chunk of Dem primary voters. Maybe Mike Gravel was the favorite of hardcore white socialist types, but the actual Dem primary base always loved Obama.
I’ll let your first-person anecdote trump my secondhand half-forgotten recollections, but I feel like Obama the empty vessel was just the younger portion of the establishment flexing its growing muscle over the old school cigar smokers that preferred Clinton.
They very obviously rigged the primaries for Biden last year. Only a carefully sequenced order of drop outs prevented Bernie from winning.
I somehow got shadow-banned at Instapundit, I’m kinda cheesed because I thought better of that place. If I’m banned, tell me I’m banned and tell me why, but don’t let me post comments and then quietly delete my comments like some kind of sneak.
And just like we all expected, it crashed and burned immediately.
[insert expostulation of shock and disbelief]
“We have to separate the insurgents from the population.”
David French, referring to Trump voters. What follows the separation you fat sack of shit? Do we go to camps? Fun camps where we learn new things?
FEEL THE UNITY AND HEALING
Thems gonna be some big-ass camps. Even if the “insurgents” only have a brief stay.
Oh, and some big-ass incinerators.
These people in the media pushing this I honestly can’t tell if
A. This is all just a grift, they’re one-upping each other thinking this rhetoric won’t lead anywhere bad.
B. They think that they, as Regime Mouthpieces, will get their very own protective detail.
C. They honestly think the deplorables can be quietly liquidated, that it will just be nothing but perfect volleyball serves with no volleys coming back.
“B. They think that they, as Regime Mouthpieces, will get their very own protective detail.”
They always think that right before they are lined up against a wall with an astonished look on their faces, just like all the rest of the useful idiots throughout history.
Mmm, ass-camps.
Somehow, I don’t see HM being in charge, so, no thanks.
David French is an enormous cocksocker. i pledge $1000 to the National Review if they get rid of that asshole.
NR’s politics are definitely for sale but I don’t think $1000 is a drop in the bucket to them.
Gretchen Does Michigan
The Business Accelerator and Resiliency Initiative is designed to provide grants to high-tech startups that can help the community thrive.
“Small businesses are critical to the recovery of our communities,” said Brian Calley, president of the Small Business Association of Michigan. “As we approach upcoming re-openings, the Main Street Initiative will target much-needed support for some of the hardest-hit local businesses.”
“This plan addresses some of the major issues that must be overcome to win Michigan’s COVID-19 recovery: mitigating learning loss, rebuilding small businesses, attracting new jobs and up-skilling our workforce,” said Jeff Donofrio, president and CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan. “We’re encouraged by the proposed one-time investments for each of these priorities and look forward to working with the governor and our state’s leaders to recover and get back on the path to becoming a top 10 state.”
What a giant steaming heap of vacuous platitudes. We’ll trade the old family milk cow for these here magic beans, and by golly, ten million flowers will bloom come springtime.
The democrats are completely hostile to small business and will see the rest of them eliminated. You’re choice in shopping from now on will be Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Don’t forget to download the app, comrades.
And don’t say bad things or they won’t sell you stuff.
Big businesses are, like governments, easier to capture than smaller ones. The level of reward from success scales faster than the level of effort involved the larger an organization gets.
It’s unclear to me at this point who is capturing who. In terms of personnel, there’s a bunch of people at this point who belong to both; they seamlessly float back and forth between government/campaign positions and positions on various boards for these companies.
The Cathedral, which has its origins in the universities, and spread beyond there first by taking over nearly every press outlet, is capturing both big business and government.
I think the biggest mistake both I and many other libertarians more generally made 5-10 years ago was thinking that the government or business are the prime movers. Breitbart was absolutely right when he said “politics is downstream of culture” and I’d add that politics is not just a government affair.
Which stinks. I would love to see some state government to have a system like Hong Kong where you only need a one page form to start of business. It would help to rebuild the small business base of this country.
Yes, I know it will never happen, just let me have my reverie.
Don’t forget eBay! The only way I could get a Brymen 869s multimeter in North America (Welectron in Germany sells ’em on eBay to international customers).
Wait, I lie. Greenlee rebadges Brymen DMMs for their own sales. At twice the cost. Bastards.
In too local news, the Detroit Lions are apparently going to hire Dan Campbell as their next head coach. So of course an intrepid young reporter from the Freep dug up some “anti-gay” comments from when Campbell was in college. Predictably, someone dug through the reporter’s old tweets and found “anti-gay” tweets. Nice work Marlowe Alter.
Here’s Marlowe’s piece. Of course they have comments disabled.
Dan Campbell is the favorite to be named the next Detroit Lions head coach, but caused a controversy at Texas A&M while in college https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2021/01/15/dan-campbell-detroit-lions-head-coach/4182680001/
That shit is fucking absurd. I am about to be 32. I have never in my life actually hated gay people at all. But I said “gay” as a pejorative all the time in middle school and some in high school. That’s just how you talked in the early 00s when you were a shithead 12-16 year old. Everyone did it, literally everyone. The most leftwing people said it. Hell, my best friend who literally had two moms said “That shit is so gay” all the fucking time.
The up and coming one is “retard”. By 2031 they’ll be canceling people because they said “shit’s retarded” in 2017. Unless they were talking about Trump, and then they’ll get a pass from the right sort of people.
Yeah, that was standard language back then. Hell, all one has to do is pull up some old South Park episodes to verify that was the case but the truth doesn’t matter anymore.
In 2010 the TV show Community had a character yell “Haha Gayyy” and it was played for laughs. We can find lots and lots of examples of blue checks on Twitter making Trump+Putin homoerotic jokes just from the last four years.
It’s yet another example of how the supposed Rules of Tolerant Civility are always and everywhere a double standard. Lefties can make “Trump sucks Putin’s cock” jokes and thats not homophobic.
The notion of intent in crime has been completely debased in the overculture’s discourse (to be fair, the courts did a fine job of debasing it first).
Intent is not a question of whether you are a “bad person” or a “good person” but a question of whether you intended to do the thing which is wrong. Saying “that’s gay” without any intent to harm any actual gay people is categorically difference from calling someone you know to be gay a faggot and intending to demean them. But the latter can be excused and the former castigated if the perpetrators can be interrogated not for their relevant intent but for their general goodthinkfulness. Hence Mitt Romney gets to play the moderate Republican on TV despite firing a staffer for being gay, while Brendan Eich is still a persona non grata because he gave some money to anti-gay-marriage initiative. One would think the former offense is more severe than the latter, but again intent is not a measure of desire to harm at the monent of occurrence, it is a measure of the person after the fact.
I need to proofread more…
I’ll stop saying “that’s retarded” when people stop being so retarded.
There was an nhl player that got suspended for the “homophobic slur” of calling another player a “cocksucker”, an insult I’ve used many times, and the funny thing is at no point did I ever connect it to insulting someone for being gay. Its just an insult. It’s not about tolerance, its about getting off by wielding power over others.
Was his name Swedgin by chance?
Weird. I just called David French a cocksucker up above.
I want to clarify that when I say David French is a massive cocksucker, I’m not really employing a homophobic slur.
You see in my particular dialect growing up in Mainstream America in the 80’s and 90’s “cocksucker” means “fascist asshole”. Which he is.
Also, I don’t think that David French sucks massive cocks. I mean that he is massive *and* also sucks cocks.
David French is the kind of massive cocksucker who can’t keep his teeth off your dick and gags every two seconds…
Hawt
“That shit is so gay”
Which is also said by gay people, but like nigger, is only acceptable coming out of certain mouths.
Well, some mouths need to be punched.
Let’s get it started in here.
Is he trying to play the victim like that scumbag from Iowa?
I have not seen any comments from young Marlowe.
Just finished reading Ozy’s piece.
Very interesting. Good job.
I’ll take that! Thanks.
Party of Symbolism, pt 2
Sarah Fuller is no stranger to making history. The Vanderbilt University senior shattered glass ceilings this winter as the first woman to play and score in a Power Five college football game. And she’s now slated to take part in Wednesday’s inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
“It’s an honor to be invited to participate in one of America’s greatest traditions,” Fuller tweeted on Sunday. “This historic inauguration is especially meaningful for American women and girls. The glass ceilings are breaking and it is the time to#LeadLikeAWoman.”
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Fuller is listed as one of the “everyday Americans who have stepped up in their communities.” In addition to her historic role on the Vanderbilt football team, she is credited with helping lead its women’s soccer team to an SEC championship — its first since 1994.
The soccer goalie was tapped for the men’s football team after several coronavirus-related quarantines left it without a kicker.
She carefully plotted out the path of her success, and went for it with singleminded drive.
At least she didn’t fuck her way onto the football team. So far as we know.
The morning news was full of “Joe Biden appointed the first (fill in the blank) to his cabinet today”. Whoop dee fucking do.
Well, as with socialism, she might have to fuck her way off.
Or just fuck up. Either works.
By the by, I’ve been in organizations with women leaders. Some were fine. Others were such nightmares that most of the women downstream from the boss had the worst things to say about working for a woman. They’re just humans, and they have feet of clay just like the men.
My son (13) wondered the same thing. Why is it such a big deal when she was literally taken because there was no one else to take? She was a warm body, and that’s all that was required.
shattered glass ceilings
Not the way she kicked. I’d be surprised if she could shatter a glass on the floor.
Zwak – I saw your late post on my article so I replied there. Cheers.
OK, I read your reply and this is what stands out to me: “I think people trying to see themselves or loved ones as locked into a particular quadrant isn’t a healthy or helpful way of looking at it” which is essentially where I was pushing back. The issue, in my eyes at least, is that people immediately jump to archetypes: Hall-monitors, scientists, and so on. And as far as I am concerned being able to look at things from alternate angles is always good, but we jump too quickly into our own confirmations if we are not careful, hence my pushback.
The idea of a continuum is, again in my eyes, not quite right. I think all four quadrants are present in each and every person, and simply that different conditions can bring them out.* But, if it works for you then by all means use it. It does give me an idea of what a person might be capable of at any given time, and in that it is more than useful. And, as I never said at first, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Much appreciated.
*This is what makes good fiction, and not melodrama.
Have we seen the gushing profiles/photo shoots on the glamorous and exciting Jill Biden yet? Excuse me, I mean *DOCTOR* Jill Biden, of course. Maybe she can give us the inside skinny on how much she adores her husband for how smart and funny and honest and amazingly wonderful he is.
And how he manages to limit himself to two or three puddin’ cups a day, ’cause they’re so bad for his waistline.
The hero we need.
And half a bag of Werther’s.
I heard he hits the Peloton every morning.
And then he bench presses 1,000 pounds.
I think that was RBG’s workout.
*those bony old legs just pedalin away full blast*
Don Winslow Films: #TrumpsNewArmy ///Unity.Healing.etc.
Actually I am not sure if this is parody or not.
I don’t think it’s parody. I hope I’m wrong. Otherwise, you folks are truly gonna have camps.
Not parody, just paranoid delusion wrapped up in a nice 2:20 vid.
Ricky Ricardo, even if he was a fictional character portrayed by the delightfully alcoholic womanizer, Desi Arnaz, is something of a role model for me.
Legit LOL. One could have worse role models.
Bob aloo!
President Puddin’ Cup takes over tomorrow.
“Lucy, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!”
“WAAAAAAHHH”
So…this is a thing…
The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) is hosting a memorial to remember and honor the lives lost to COVID-19. On January 19 at 5:30pm (local time), we invite Americans across the country to come together for a national moment of unity and remembrance.
*eye twitches*
I actually, seriously, in no way ironically can’t even with this.
If the establishment weren’t such transparent scumbags their occasional attempts at being something resembling decent people might be tolerable. But they generally don’t give a fuck about anyone outside their bubble, so it just comes off as worse than doing nothing at all.
My husband and son are bonding over a dishwasher. #taketheW
FYI: Great Courses has ancient civilizations of North America free on Prime until 1/31.
Awesome! Thank you T!