- Sometimes a meme you found is the only thing that can express the rage in your heart:
- In the search for past literature to properly express their performative dismay at Trump, Los Angeles Review of Books lands on Jack Womack’s Random Acts of Senseless Violence. The Handmaid’s Tale just isn’t enough, dammit. (Shh… nobody tell them that Womack is white (gasp), male (gasp), straight (gasp), and originally from Kentucky (ew)
- Ten hours of Kellyanne Conway at CPAC
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… I don’t get it.
future Yeezy boost branded statuette line confirmed.
Yes, he is running in 2024. Slogan: Stronger harder faster.
Ten hours of Kellyanne Conway at CPAC
Have I died? AM I IN HELL?
No. You have the option to not follow the link.
Exercise free will.
Plain-spoken middle of the road advixe
More like hyperlink anarchy. As we all know too well, there is no such thing as “middle of the road” in Somalia.
Where we’re going, they don’t build roads…
You’re going to Somalia?
Would. But only if the Kayne statue is involved.
Speaking of episodes, Amazon Prime finally dropped the season of “Patriot”. I highly recommend. It’s kinda like a John le Carré book meets Fargo.
Amazon implemented DRM that wants to install a browser plugin.
I am morally opposed to DRM and plugins I don’t expressly seek out.
I watch it though an app on my Roku. I agree with you on the DRM and unwanted plugin stuff
My Sony TV came with it in the internet options. Haven’t watched anything on it except the Grand Tour.
I don’t have the bandwidth to do streaming video. 🙁
The Roku truly is a blessed piece of technology. I don’t even want to think about how much they’ve saved me in cable bills since I got one in 2010.
God damn it, Amazon!
And I was curious, Amazon Video finally became a thing in Canada 🙁
Does anyone else actually giggle out loud every time you hear someone on the TV say, “President Trump”? I do. Its an evil giggle. Like watching someone who got their dick caught in their zipper.
That would require watching TV.
And flavoured oatmeal
I don’t really “watch” it. I have one of those offices where there are TVs with CNBC/FOX Business/etc. on perpetually in the background
I knew it! You are a hair-stylist. *eyes pompadour with new respect*
Bacon-magic…you make me smile. Thanks.
Yes – I just imagine how much pain that causes so many people.
I enjoy watching the folks on MSNBC grind their teeth and take a little nausea induced breath every time they it, it’s hilarious.
FRANKS AND BEANS!
Wow, the comments over at that other site are kinda a ghost town.
To be fair, they’re often slow on a Friday.
There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of sour grapes though.
The other site, you’re nothing to me now. You’re not a brother. You’re not a friend. I don’t wanna know you or what you do. I don’t wanna see you at the hotels. I don’t want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won’t be there. You understand?
I will be teaching my kids to play with fire well before six.
Crazy Germans. Next thing you know, they’ll be teaching kids to drink safely.
A bunch of news organizations in the White House press corps were not invited to a briefing. As predicted, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth about the First Amendment.
I had someone flip out at work and claim this is proof Trump is trying to become a dictator.
I don’t recall any squawking from the left-wing press when Obama tossed Fox News out in the cold because he didn’t like how they reported on him.
There was. Actually it was a surprising reaction to me. Several outlets like CNN etc. stood by Fox. This seems different though, this isn’t trump kicking anyone out, he is just doing what all presidents do, picking which get deeper access.
I can’t find a good cite on this.. it seems that Treasury kicked Fox out, not The White House? Anyone have a good cite?
I will look, i remember the smug attitude Obama had and I remeber the whole press core saying they would not come back if he did it.
then again I drink a lot.
Perhaps. As I said, I don’t recall. I just remember it happening. Regardless, it’s not unprecedented, as many seem to claim.
When he starts wire tapping the AP and prosecuting one of them as a co-conspirator to espionage then they can say it’s ‘unprecedented’.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/phone-records-of-journalists-of-the-associated-press-seized-by-us.html
Oh wait, that’s already happened, too.
James Rosen, please pick up the wiretapped courtesy phone…
And that wasn’t a day-in, day-out, screaming-headlines scandal, because of who the President was.
Same. “He’s taking tips from PUTIN!”
The same people that applauded when Obama banned FOX?
Wait, it was a single briefing? Because I haven’t actually clicked on anything today, but the tone I’ve been seeing from prog friends is that he permanently kicked those outfis out of reporting from the White House.
The only thing I’ve seen so far suggests that it was a snub from a single briefing. Could be a warning to shape up and cut the mendacious shit.
Awwww, the poor poor press corpse.
The 1st amendment guarantees the corporate media access to everything, so when they are denied access it is an affront on free speech. Didn’t you know that?
Razorfist “On The Milo Thing”
basically, it was a premeditated and coordinated character assassination. And apparently someone announced it on 4chan a few days before it happened.
That does not surprise me one bit.
What is 4chan? And why is it so powerful? Is it like Journolist or the Bilderberg group?
Imagine a consortium of internet-savvy pimple-faced teenage boys and sexually frustrated basement dwellers and the havoc that they can wreak.
If Reddit=taliban, 4Chan= al qaeda?
not really. They do have some ANON stuff there, lots of doxxing and such.
4chan is the collective mother’s basement of the internet.
Think reddit but with the tone of glibertarians comments. Then, turn the political incorrectness up to 11 and put the trolls in control of the place. That’s a rough picture of 4chan.
yours was better.
And some scattered child porn. And lots of anime porn.
And in the case of /pol/ more people straddling the line between “I’m doing this for the lulz” and “actual nazis”
+1 pedo bear
Funny story about Pedobear…As a kid I had two wood carved bears hanging up in my room from the same artist. Not sure what happened to the other one, but I found one a few years back and hung it up in my room for the lulz. I look up at it one day after it’s been hanging there for a while and thing “oh FFS”
Let’s see if I can direct link to G Photos.
You may have a genuine artifact of pre-meme culture there…
I get a “do not enter” icon.
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Geniuses pretending to be idiots, idiots pretending to be geniuses. Zero sum sorta summed it up
This is the most accurate description here.
4chan is a notorious Russian hacker.
Imagine if you took several thousand autistics with no sense of decency and made them into a hive mind.
That’s 4chan. And it is glorious and terrible.
I’ve waded in there on vaping threads. It’s something, I don’t know what, but something. When a vaping thread devolves into talk about HItler you know something is wrong. Hey….wait a minute! Is this 4chan?
Nein.
Obviously. He starting to do some real damage to the progressives.
I’m a bit surprised Breitbart bailed that fast on him instead of just putting him on ice for a month or 2.
ya I’m wondering about that. I’m tempted to believe it was an actual resignation, and the reasons stated were the actual reasons. A rarity. But i might have a case of TDSDS. It’s hard to tell.
It was only a day, and I wonder if it’s real, or just a quick post-facto thing. But Razorfist’s summary was excellent.
Every parent has been there; that moment when you get fed up and tired of all the whining excuses and balking and you MAKE that child do what you wan’t him to do BY FORCE!!!!!
But MOOOOOOOM, I don’t WAAAAAANNNNA!
Its like THEY LIVE every day in my house, except with pants. “Put on the fucking pants or start eating trashcan” [10 minute “fight” scene where Brett tries harder and harder to get pants on a baby] Seriously, though, they have this trick where they kick the leg just as you switch to the other leg and they are pantsless again.
Gotta be fast man.
My rule is if you want to be pantsless in the house, fine. But you can’t go outside without them. I then open the backyard play area early in the day, they quickly run upstairs and put them on so they’re allowed outside and end up wearing them for the rest of the day.
Wait until they get old enough to have boyfriends. 😀
Wait a second. Did we just get a new favicon?
Oo, I like it. That tiny fuzzy gorilla or whatever it was had to go.
Don’t be such a prude, Banjos. If the outdoors are good enough for OMWC to go pantsless, it should be good enough for your daughters.
Chloroform them, and then put the pants on while they’re out.
(This is why I don’t have children.)
I would’ve expected an ether recommendation from you.
As long as it doesn’t involve an injection. It’s so hard to find a good vein on a baby.
Especially one jumpy about pants.
Just jumping in without reading anything:
Trump admin bars NYT, Washington Post, Politico, and CNN from news briefing. FOX, Breitbart, Washington Times, One America News Network allowed in.
http://deadline.com/2017/02/donald-trump-bans-cnn-nyt-lat-politco-from-white-house-press-briefing-1201971628/
“Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties,” NYT executive editor Dean Baquet said in a statement.”
This is not true. Obama barred FOX News from its briefings but ended up relenting after most other news organizations protested. I am torn. Those outfits have declared open war on the Trump admin, churning out rivers of outrageous mendacious bullshit. On the other hand, free speech is free speech. If it rises to the level of slander then sue the fuckers.
Maybe it is FOX’s turn to step up?
Yeah, much as I dislike the news media, he’s being a petulant turd. Let them in, and tell Spicer to mock them. Or ignore them.
Agreed. Let them in and mock and ignore them.
Technically I suppose he can bar them. The WH has to pick and choose who to let in and who not to. Cant let everyone in, but this looks bad.
I think the answer is to increase the Skype seats. That was one of the best things he’s done IMO. Where is it fucking written that the only papers that matter are the Post and the Times, and the DC desks of the 10 major dailies.
It’s not “We’re banning the NYT.” it’s “We’re allowing a diversity of voices from all around the country.”
…or perhaps have media credentials rotating between outlets, so one week, the NYT, CBS, and the Chicago Tribune gets in and the next week the Washington Post, CNN and the Dallas Morning News get in.
Oh, “Where is it fucking written that the only papers that matter are the Post and the Times, and the DC desks of the 10 major dailies.” That’s pretty obvious. It’s written in the Post and the Times, and the DC desks of the 10 major dailies.
In honor of HST “Women’s Wear Daily” at the front and center of the room.
Fuck them.
How about they calm the fuck down and report the news, then let them in. That’s fair.
After thinking more about it I think you are right. He scolded them about being mendacious and what do they do?
“Did he visit slavery? He talked about how we built this country, meaning white people not black people……no, no, no I heard him say that.”
Fuck them. There is no reason he should have to subject himself to that kind of horseshit.
I disagree Pan. He is giving the media what it wants: a war. Right now he’s winning. His base loves it and to be honest I think most everyone but the media loves it.
Is he winning? I’d like to believe it. Not because I think he’s not a turd, but because right now I think he’s going to lose, and that peaceful change of the system and transfer of power from existing elite to anyone else is impossible.
Oh he’s a turd, but he might have a few gold nuggets we’ll like. I think the whole power structure is trembling at the moment and it is close to a “moment”. I hope for all of us that the “moment” is not violent or takes away our liberties.
He should have an InfoWars only briefing next.
meeh. Why stop there? He should just make Alex Jones his press secretary.
Only if we can send Mr Lizard as our WH correspondent.
Ya please. FOX, stepup. We could have just Infowars, Sargon, PewDiePie, Seaman, Razorfist and Crowder cover everything.
I started this as sarcastic assholery. But now that I look at it, that would actually be an improvement. Fuck.
That sounds totally awesome! I’d trust the likes of Sargon and Crowder to do a significantly better job than the “mainstream” media.
SugarFree hates author bios
That’s understandable. They do tend to talk pretty bad about him.
Sounds like he can’t handle the truth.
Razorfist “On the PewDiePie Thing”
Less interesting, but still worth it for the pure entertainment value
I liked his summary, “either you’re for free speech, or you’re for the pay-as-you-go model”
I still have no idea how someone has become rich and famous by posting videos of himself playing video games and speaking in a goofy voice.
By finding fifty million people who were amused by it.
Well, yeah, that’s the part that baffles me.
Watching video-games can be pretty fun, depending on who is playing and how. Much as watching a traditional sporting event. What I personally can’t stand is the voice; guess there is no accounting for taste though.
I watch some “Let’s Play” videos for help through hard parts but not for entertainment. Never seen Mr Pie – he does a “voice”? Ugh.
He’s actually well known enough he had a part in a Southpark episode.
If you can’t get that, how about I blow your mind with a guy who full time plays games and doesn’t do voices or skits. Though he does share his spreadsheets with the community…
Though he does share his spreadsheets with the community…
He doesn’t just share his spreadsheets, he has FULL STREAMS OF JUST HIM MAKING SPREADSHEETS.
And he gets at least a thousand people watching it each time.
Sargon has a very detailed take on it that I’m working through. But I like how he’s using a rhetorical device of asking the same question.
“I want to know: Why is Pew Die Pie your enemy?“
I talked about Sargon’s thing the other day (in a very long-winded explanation of why i find him long-winded)
Here is the nut of his argument, and its pretty solid
He points out that the legacy media has been systematically trying to discredit Alt-Media money-earners for the last few years.
Its basically a message to all the corporate sponsors = “Don’t sponsor these other competing media, because we can destroy them, and with them, hurt your brand in the process. Keep your ad-dollars with us”
I do think there’s something hilarious about the fact that this conspiratorial “All the President’s Men” type shit is actually about some goofy swedish guy who plays video games while making jokes for 9yr olds.
I dunno, fucking over the largest YouTube channel is an impressive achievement. Not to mention, he makes a good target because he’s a goofy asshole to plays games for living. The immediate reaction is “damn, that’s all stupid, fuck them all” but every YouTube personality should understand that target is painted on them and they will be taken down.
It ain’t over.
Its only going to get worse. The gloves are off.
I mean, 90% of Youtube is “LOOK AT HOW CORRUPT AND SHITTY THE MSM IS” already.
And its *popular*. Sargon pointed out that he himself gets more daily views than does the entire Wall St Journal online-media-empire.
Of course those things aren’t apples-apples comparisons, but the point is clear ; the ‘neophyte’ DIY Youtubers are capturing huge chunks of an online audience that the legacy media is not
And the legacy media seems to think (especially after this election, where they discovered that their powers for swaying public-opinion aren’t what they used to be) that the play going forward is to basically “get google, Facebook, and a few others to agree to try and silence/lock out alt-media sources”.
From what i can tell, they’re really just testing out their methods on these ‘solo’ youtube stars. I think the next stage is when they try and take down entire ‘alternative media’ websites. They already tried with the whole, “PropOrNot.com” bullshit. But i think they realized that was too stupid.
tl;dr
From the wild lands of Canada, a Tale of Two Budgets
Alberta spends $2,700 more per person than B.C. yet collects $1,300 less tax
The reporter is trying the “Alberta takes in less” spin, but is honest enough to note that it’s the 25% higher spending that’s the problem. Of course, BC is run by local Liberals (not affiliated with the Party of Zoolander), while Alberta is run by the NDP (a.k.a. Actual Socialists of Bernie type).
Ironically, I have the Rebel Media on as background noise and they were talking about that same province destroying documents about their carbon tax debacle costing the government even more (and that they knew it would)
Ezra Levant to NDP is what Cato the Elder was to Carthage.
I never could figure out how Alberta ended up with the NDP in charge. Are they not generally the most conservative of provinces?
They are.
Part of it was that there are two conservative parties in Alberta. There’s Wildrose, who are hardcore cons whose leader went back to Conservatives about a year before the election. So clownshow there.
There are Conservatives, who have been ruling the province for decades. They went to the centre and imported a guy from Federal politics to lead them. He wasn’t really compelling and it almost felt like he wasn’t into the whole thing (he resigned his seat shortly after the election).
Conservative votes were split, and it was time for a change after, what, 40 years? of Conservative rule. So NDP squeeked in.
How much imapct the influx of people from rest of Canada over the past decade and a half or so had is left for the locals to estimate, I’m too far from there…
Alberta conservatives could learn a thing or two from New York Democrats on how to run a party machine.
Imma let you finish, but Lazarus had the best comeback album of all time, ALL TIME.
DeBlasio Meets With Federal Investigators
The name “preet” is not mentioned, but its basically the reason for all of this.
Can’t they all die in a woodchipper accident?
That was no accident!
I don’t understand why I’m paying to defend that crook.
“Kayne West as Jesus as gold statue”
I’m not saying anything to get you triggered
But Kanye West is a solid gold [bleep]
Person who annoys you?
But Kanye West is a solid gold [bleep]
dancer?
figure?
From ReasonTV: Celebrity awards!
Who?
*hangs head in shame*
So, your commanding officer used to be your father in law, and he blamed you for the fact that she caught malaria and died at your plantation…#awkward
Woolly Mammoth on the verge of ressurrection according to boffins at The Guardian.
I for one welcome a future where I can invade Italy riding something a bit more suited for the Alps.
Absolutely. We need to bring back as much megafauna as we can!
keep it on your land. if it comes on mine, I’m shootin it at eatin it, and i dont wanna hear about any endangered species crap.
To drive out the “Syrians” who’ve encamped there?
Hannibal? I didn’t know you were that old, sir.
Pleistocene rewilding, simultaneously the dumbest and best idea ever.
If I can’t roll out in a chariot pulled by smilodons, science has not gone far enough.
Seriously, forget Trump, we need a science march for that.
+1 smilodons
I’m not sure if we’re supposed to panic or be reassured.
Mysterious Gmail account lockouts prompt hack fears
Mine did it yesterday. phone, PC and my mac.
*shrug*
Mine did that through my phone yesterday. Have two-factor authentication, so not overly worried, but have been keeping an eye out.
I was much calmer about it having two-factor auth set than I would’ve been without.
What I found odd about it was that it didn’t show up as a security event when I dug into the dashboard. Glad it wasn’t just me.
It did seem off. my roommate was also asked to sign in again.
It did it to one of my 3 accounts yesterday on just my phone. When I finally got around to looking up the password and logging back in, I did get the security notifications at my primary.
Russian hacking. Gotta be.
Transgender boy wins in first round of girls tournament
If you’re confused if its a boy who is transitioning to a girl, or vice versa, don’t blame yourself = the media is fucking retarded.
but its a girl taking boy-hormones who suddenly finds
herTHEMself able to whip assIn normal circumstances, i think they call athletes who take testosterone “Cheaters”
Sloopy, can you go interview this uh, chick? S/he’s right around the corner from you.
Wait, do we employ actual reporters here?
Employ would imply we pay. So no.
Again, you lazy bastards (and bastardinas) whom i love dearly…Get up a donation link, a 501c3, and give me an edit button THEN you will get money from me to, maybe not pay, but at least reimburse folks for expenses and time and travel.
Since I do like to complain and not offer solutions, I am going to be opposite boy today:
1. I know a great biz law atty.
2. I have many technical resources at your disposal.
3. I know a decent merchant account if you want to go that route but don’t recommend it.
4. I have plenty of bare metal space (class 2ish) for whatever needs may arise.
I’d like to be able to upvote/downvote comments, you know like slashdot had as a feature in 1999.
I like Hacker News’ system. not sure how they implement it since the whole thing is written in a combination of Lisp and Punic Rune, but I am sure we could figure it out.
thankfully swiss has stated this will not happen
Correct. I will starting mass cat-butting if comment voting/uptwinkling starts to get any type of support.
We are working towards it. I won’t steal any thunder, but we are at the attorney reviewing our plans state. Not to worry, the cup will be rattled once everything is set up.
Will your books be open? What happens to any surplus beyond operational costs?
Hookers. Blow.
‘Nuff said?
C3s have very specific reporting requirements. Also, Articles will not be able to push for particular candidates. But overall, protection will be afforded and tax exempt donations can be accepted. I don’t care if they spend my money on booze and hookers as long as A. SF does not get to choose, and B. We get an article with pictures.
We’re still talking all this over. I think everyone will be okay with what comes out, but all of that sort of stuff will be covered in detail before we ask for money or sell you anything. I’m not trying to be mysterious, but if the lawyer says no to something, I don’t want anyone feeling misled.
If y’all are going to do 501c3 give me a ring. Been doing 501c3 applications about once a year for the past 15 years as part of pro bono projects. Be happy to help.
We have a lawyer (me)
We have a tech Goddess working this site (SP)
We are mulling over some of the other stuff you have mentioned
Patience, plz
Reasonable compromise: co-ed the wrestling altogether.
I bet the sport would get a huge boost.
That takes some balls… I think… maybe?
Here in MA, they don’t segregate girls and boys into different wrestling leagues. If you are a girl, you wrestle people in your weight class, male or female.
It’s pretty sad; I’ve never seen a girl beat a boy. Even in the cases where the girls had superior technique, they just get overpowered and lose anyway.
Shockingly, when two people weigh the same, the one with more muscle mass can overpower the one with more fat mass pretty reliably.
I had to wrestle a girl in high school. It was so unfair for her. There is a BIG difference between a 189 male and 189 female.
u grabbed boobies
So…did you marry her or was it a one night stand?
Jesse would do one and John the other?
Oh man, I pudding wrestled a woman who was slightly lighter than me after she challenged someone who was a 1/3 her size who looked absolutely terrified to get into the kiddie pool with her.
I went incredibly easy on her to keep it entertaining and the match was broken up middle wrassle by Kampus Kops. She took the whole thing as a win and kept bragging about how she’d trounced a bigger guy. She got a lot of funny looks from people for not realizing how it’d actually played out.
sooo…since it was you there was no enjoyment in grabbing boobies?
Bewbs are fun enough, just not sexually exciting.
I assume this is exactly how straight guys feel about the taught ass of diver Tom Daley
Meh. But I like the beefier lads.
What about occasionally scruffy Canadian, Alexandre Despatie?
I like my own taut buttocks…but this isnt about me.
boobies ARE fun, the science is settled.
I can do without the resting bitch face.
I didn’t even realize Tom Daley had a face, but now I can’t un-see it.
Why are you so implacable, Rhywun!?
Much more fetching. The first pic it looks like he’s watching Pelosi and Feinstein go at it or something.
There are a surprising lack of Tom Daley butt on the internet. I figured boybutt would be a better parallel for tatas than Daley’s swoon-worthy obliques.
go on..
Sorry, distracted by pics of Tom Daley in very little clothing.
I had a friend in high school who set a state record for fastest pin against a blind girl. He definitely didn’t like to talk about it.
That’s madness.
Wasn’t there a former guy fighting MMA as a chick? And literally smashing their faces in?
Why yes.
During Fox’s fight against Tamikka Brents, Brents suffered a concussion, an orbital bone fracture, and seven staples to the head in the 1st round. After her loss, Brents took to social media to convey her thoughts on the experience of fighting Fox: “I’ve fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night. I can’t answer whether it’s because she was born a man or not because I’m not a doctor. I can only say, I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right,” she stated. “Her grip was different, I could usually move around in the clinch against other females but couldn’t move at all in Fox’s clinch…”
Yeah, WTF? I guess we’ve found a loophole to turn that into “stunning and brave”.
Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesar’s pizza, has died – the tycoon provided Rosa Parks with a safe apartment after a robber broke into her Detroit house and attacked her
Anti-gun site hilariously uses Jerry Miculek video to argue that the AR-15 is a “weapon of war”. They probably never watched any of his revolver videos.
http://www.thetrace.org/2017/02/assault-rifles-ban-ar-15-weapon-of-war/
My father asked me (probably knowing what I’d say) what I thought about the 4th Circuit decision. After I gave him my answer, he said something about us not needing weapons of war. I asked him what a weapon of war was. He mentioned AR-15s. I told him that the military ain’t using the civilian version of the AR-15. He didn’t really give me a response to that.
Because there are so many people out there who can shoot anywhere near as fast as Jerry Miculek. Nothing whatsoever remarkable about that guy, right?
Every gun owner puts pictures of urban youths down range with their tactical Ruger 22s and fires as fast as possible at these targets.
I have burned up well over a million rounds of pistol ammo, maybe two, in practice. There is nothing special about me other than that. When I was in my top form I could easily throw 2×2 in. wood blocks 20 or 30 feet in the air, wait until they reached the top of their arc, draw my revolver and hit it before it fell 5 or 6 feet. If I hit it close enough to center to make it jump back up fairly straight I could hit it a second time. I dont mean I did this a time or two, I mean I could do it anytime I wanted and damn near never miss. I was no Jerry Miculek but nothing to sneeze at either. I could teach anyone here to do it with enough practice.
This weapon of war horseshit needs to come to an end, just like all the other gun-grabber lies. What the hell do they think the second amendment is for?
Well you see we need to eliminate that one because it was really meant for muskets and we don’t use those anymore.
Kayne West as Jesus as gold statue
I’m of course reminded of this statue in Malacca, Malaysia.
HE’S STILL GOT IT! Star Trek’s Sir Patrick Stewart confesses he wrongly believed he was circumcised until his wife told him otherwise
Following a disagreement with his missus, the X-Men actor visited a GP for a second opinion, and was surprised to learn he hadn’t been circumcised
So all of these years he’s been triggered when a director would yell “cut!” and didn’t have to be?
*narrows gaze*
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Dearborn Open Carry Incident
On Sunday, five people, four of them armed, walked down Schaefer Rd., in what police are now saying was a staged open carry protest.
Chief Ronald Haddad expressed concern over how it took place.
“I don’t think it’s a projection of Second Amendment rights, but rather it’s an intrusion on safety of good community,” he said.
Police say it was in clear response to an incident that took place earlier this month in which two gun advocates were arrested after barging into the Dearborn police lobby, heavily armed and wearing ski masks.
The chief is now reaching out to state legislators asking them to review the open carry law.
Isn’t there a common-law offense of going armed to the terror of the people? Does that apply here?
So if they are no actual threat their right is at the whim of the emotions of the undefined masses?
It may not be a *good* law…I’m wondering whether such a law exists.
Does anyone have a quick tutorial for this ignorant fool (i.e. me) on how to italicize text? HTML tags don’t seem to work. Also, how do you get those cool indented citations with the vertical bar? I apologize in advance if this has been covered elsewhere.
The citation is the blockquote tag.
To get italics, use the em tag (no, I have no idea why W3C thought [i] should be replaced with [em], and [b] with [strong])
Thank you, Pan!
This is something that has annoyed me for years. The old tags were quicker to type, shorter and required no thought. Why would you deliberately make something less efficient?
I’m curious about that, too, MLW. Maybe a WordPress thing?
Here’s the thing from W3C consortium going into it a bit.
Basically, originally their issue was that [i] is a font thing, and [em] a semantic thing, and thus should have priority (e.g. what does it mean for Kanji to be ‘italic’, whereas Kanji being ’emphasized’ is reasonable) – please note, this is my understanding, and I’m completely useless today.
But, looks like they have been un-deprecated in HTML5. Huzzah!
Presentation and semantics are different ideas.
Consider someone who is blind and can’t see italics. Telling the reader to emphasize something or present it strongly gives the sense of what you want to do with it.
Do we really need this?
Maybe, because fuck you, that’s why.
If you read those aloud, the way you say them is probably going to change. For emphasized speech, we’ll probably draw out the vowels. For strong speech, we may increase the volume slightly to make it have more impact on the listener.
Having separate tags, if both are used as intended, gives the client (the software responsible for presenting it, regardless of how it goes about it) the ability to discriminate between presentation methods for each.
If it seems shoehorned in, it’s because it is. Nobody considered alternative presentation methods when HTML was first devised. Hell, layout was barely considered. Depending on how long you’ve been using HTML, you may remember using tables to lay out entire web sites. That caused all kinds of problems for other clients, but also didn’t make sense for design purposes anyway as most browsers had quirks that made presentation difficult to achieve parity with.
There was a time when I was an expert at HTML layout with tables and the like. I do not remember those days fondly. The result you see may be irritating because HTML wasn’t really designed for all the purposes we put it to, but it is a lot better than it used to be.
All that said, there are undoubtedly plenty of free WordPress plugins that will supply better input capabilities.
And then there were the flash-only websites.
em in stead of i, strong instead of bold, blockquote for pull quote style
Thank you,Jesse
If SNL is to be believed Kellyanne Conway is a hapless victim forced by circumstance to put a man she loathes into office. An event that will forever torture her soul. If Glibertarians is to be believed she is Skeletor, ever cackling with glee in her victory as she and her minions run roughshod over us. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE?
Start here. https://www.amazon.com/Dianetics-Modern-Science-Mental-English/dp/140314446X
I’m Catholic, that doesn’t help at all.
You read that book I gave you? Dioretix, the Science of Matter over Mind? Well, you better read it quick. That book’ll change your life. Found it in a Maserati in Beverly Hills….know what I mean?
Sheep, and the Arabs Who Love Them
Probably would on 6, but only if the sheep watch.
That’s baaaaad.
Ewe.
/Teenage girl
Switzy is really dropping the ball.
Switzy is wool-gathering.
*narrows gaze at the lot of ye*
Razorfist to Sargon words per minute ratio? A lot
It would be funny if they did a video together.
I think they did = i think there was a livestream where Sargon invited RF on.
I saw it in my feed like a month or 2 ago, but didn’t have time. Maybe i’ll dig that up.
HERE
3 fucking hours. which is why i never listen to these things. i just want to hear the juicy bits. It would be helpful if (like those “Bloggingheads” things) they actually annotated the things with a “what they discuss at which time”
Oh and it was 2 years ago 🙂
well, now i just feel stupid.
Razorfist also threw some videos on Sargon’s channel awhile back when Sargon was busy/on vacation.
The Canucks have the mumps…
Drunken Yokel Shoots (Ghandi, Not Pocahontas) Indians In Bar
I think the detail i find strangest is that the perp decided to later turn himself in…..
….to a different bartender @ Applebees 70 miles away. I presume it was as soon as the “All You Can Drink Daiquiri-Hour” had ended, and his conscience had a moment of clarity.
Yokel Shoots Ghandi
I like that it can be edited down to a completely different but still true headline.
Dude was likely drunk and stupid enough to think “This guy’s cool. He’ll totally love that I shot those brown people.”
But the larger conflict — over whether a 17-year-old transgender boy should be wrestling girls — remained unsettled.
WHAT WOULD AVERY BRUNDAGE SAY?
Ten hours of Kellyanne Conway at CPAC
I watched the link for a few minutes and noticed there could be a resemblance. The jaw line maybe? Then I smashed my head into the wall.
The chief is now reaching out to state legislators asking them to review the open carry law.
Of course he is. As long as the police are also denied the right to flaunt their scary gunz, I say do away with open carry.
/de-lurk
Loooong time lurker at that other place. Just wanted to say thank you for this site. You guys have educated and entertained me for many years.
No get back to educating and entertaining me!
/re-lurk
This guy has a lurking device!
*unlicensed* lurking device.
IDK, I’m cool with that so long as it’s not a phasing-lurk.
He’s coming..right..for us? Is he?
Fucking Romulans and their tricks!
@WyoDave: I, too, was a long time lurker at somewhere else. I decided to come out of my shell here because it seems a lot less tense. You should try it. It’s exciting, in a first day of school sort of way.
I would like to echo WyoDave’s sentiments and thank you all for this site. You’ve done a great job and the glibertariat submissions have been A+ so far.
Thanks Flawgic. I’d like to participate more, but I usually read the threads as I can. My masters, both at work and home, have unreasonable expectations on my time.
Well, pop in when you can, it’s always nice to have another opinion.
welcome to the both of ya.
Thanks DOOMco. If I recall correctly, you’re just a few miles down 287 from me?
sounds about right.
Oh, you guys are talking about US Route 287, not I-287 in New Joisey, aren’t you?
dont stay lurked permanently. occasionally fling some poop or make a point. you’ll be happier.
1. Appear
2. Fling feces
3. Hoot
4. Disappear for a while
/Orangutan Field Manual
thats funny. I’d buy that manual. Unless of course thats the entirety of it. Then i already have the whole thing memorized.
No, I believe there are chapters on ass showing, furious masturbating in front of an audience and smelling horrid.
the DNC uses that manual
hmm … mastrubating in front of audience I’ve already got that down, at least well enough to get paid. But ass-showing … I think I’ve got the basics, however there are probably subtleties which aren’t apparent upon first glance.
You’ve got me. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
5. Profit
The editors of Georgetown’s student paper
(wait, come back, this isn’t about the Muslim guy, I promise!)
…have published an editorial about the campaign, started by the late Peter (“The Exorcist”) Blatty, to either make Georgetown Catholic again or to make them stop claiming to be Catholic.
It’s a Soavian editorial, making two basic points:
(a) The right-wing campaign goes too far in trying to squelch diversity (that is, not wanting pro-abortion people, etc., to teach and speak at Georgetown)
but
(b) Georgetown students *could* use a bit more Catholicism in their education.
Opposition to Immigration = Racist
*footnote = the oppression/demonization/abuse of ‘refugees’ in South Africa has been going on for… decades now. I think there have been different waves over the years; i recall that for a while it was Zimbabweans fleeing Mugabe’s shitshow that were the 4th-class citizens, then Somalis… maybe there’s a new wave now, or maybe its just the same people getting harassed, i don’t know.
Notable = many of the immigrant populations in South Africa are actually far better educated, speak more (and more useful) languages, and are consequently more-employable than poor natives, hence the resentment and violence. But i think its just an interesting and not-much-referenced dynamic when people talk about American nativism – that its not at all unique, and its not necessarily all about ‘race’, and that we’re probably far better than many other countries even tho we often deplore our status quo as being shameful and embarrassingly xenophobic. The fact is that we’re probably “better” than most countries around the world, regardless. (including places like the UK or Sweden)
ZImbabwe is the funniest country. I’ve never seen a country’s leader go ” OH FUCK! WHAT DID I DO?” as much as Mugabe has.
Sultan Knish explains why some immigrants enjoy car burning.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2017/02/savages-of-stockholm.html
Well burning cars so there’s less cars is good for climate change. These people are the true progressives.
Whatup my Glib Globs!
SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT!
BOOOOOOO. NOT COOL.
As there is no commenting in the logo post I’m going to leave this here. I sent in a logo a few days (maybe a week) ago, never heard from anyone. I don’t know if you (Glibs) got it or if my stated ‘do what you wanna do with this’ isn’t legal enough and I should resubmit now that you have posted a contest call.
Also, if anyone has a good logo idea but no artisticism/graphicabilty/gumptionation don’t despair. I like to noodle around with inkscape, send me your idea and I’ll try and knock out a presentable drawing (no promises (obviously if I get a bunch of suggestions I’m only going to do ones I dig (also I’ve already sent them their logo so it’s mostly an exercise in futility)))
Hey Hyperbole, we saw and discussed (positively). I thought someone fired off an email to let you know we considered it a submission retroactively. Also thanks for offering to help people with Inkscape I know a lot of people can sketch, but vector graphics are the way to go.
Thanks jesse. just got/saw the email.
We liked it, H.
Something with a monocle and a top hat. Give an accurate representation of this place.
An accurate representation would be Two Crossed Dicks Emblazond on a Mound of Dicks.
Stephen Fry looks so young!
+1 whip ’round (I had the men roundly whipped)
I don’t need to design it, it’s already been designed, and I’m sure the current users would be happy to share the rights once they learn of all the good work you’re doing.
Utter nonsense.
The correct heraldry is that of Republic of Amalfi, because it was a merchant republic that did not destroy and plunder Constantinople, and also used the Maltese Cross, which I will admit is a very, very pretty symbol, only with nice capitalist blue instead of commie red.
I don’t draw well so if someone can do this for me we’ll share the credit.
A Confederate cavalry man is stabbing an innocent black youth through the chest with a saber while at the same time doing the Nazi salute. The horse the soldier is riding is rearing up, it’s front hooves smashing signs that say “Freedom” and “Equality” and hanging off of the horse are saddle bags filled with gold. It’s rear hooves are standing on a parchment that says “Social Contract” and there are obvious horse-droppings on the parchment as well. In the background a public school burns.
Needs moar labelz!
But where are the 20% of the women being raped while this is going on?
Out of sight, as women should be.
Ooh – the horse could be raping them whilst rearing up!
I think we need to take away your HM and SF privileges for a while, Swiss.
Who? Me…?!?!?!
*runs away*
10/10
Shouldn’t it be the Somali flag?
Here we go with the “gaslighting” again.
P.S. This is not the same person I linked to the other day. It may seem that way because of the same inane ranting blog-post-length-twitter-rant with random gifs on every post, but that’s because these people are all incapable of individual thoughts.
I missed this until now.
Now I wish I hadn’t clicked. These people aren’t real, are they? They just go to some piece of shit site to get the gifs and dump them into stream of consciousness, then move happily along with their day, right? No one actually put effort to get these…results?
I missed this until now.
Nah, MLW’s post got inadvertently flagged as spam by the autofilter. Feel free to chase down one of our superlative internet docents if this happens to you. We only get notified if a post is awaiting moderation, not if it’s been autoflagged.
Oh, thank you for letting me know! I wondered why it just disappeared like that. This keeps happening to me and I’m not sure why? The site just really hates me posting author derp from Twitter, hahahaha
So basically, “you have no right to complain about me screaming at you for being a racist, you selfish racist!”
It’s had to translate into English.
I’m so sorry that these are your peers.
I would lose my sanity, no gaslighting necessary.
Today on Tim Egan watch:
Yes, and it’s all connected. What we saw over the last seven years — a drought that brought California to its knees, followed by what could be the wettest year on record — is in the climate forecast models of the future. California, and the rest of our poor, fragmented country, is a crippled tangle of old-century solutions to a turbulent new world.
Yesterday’s dams are trying to hold back tomorrow’s climate. And what are we doing about it? We’re building a wall along the Mexican border to fix a problem that’s already taken care of itself. A wall that could cost upward of $30 billion.
He’s all over the place, but the tl;dr version goes something like this: We’re doomed, and it’s all Trump’s fault.
Malthusians will never die that’s for sure.
Ehh. They’ll all die. Maybe we could convince them to reproduce at a lower rate than the non-Malthusians. That should actually be doable, right?
…a problem that’s already taken care of itself.
Citation required, Mr. Egan! Calexit can’t happen soon enough. Then we can charge them a hefty VAT for all of the water/towels they will need.
These people are as insane as the crazy people rambling on street corners. Or Alex Jones. Or David Icke. I try to treat their spiels with the same level of interest.
re: logo
Is the top-hatted dancing frog from the cartoon available? Get his agent on the horn.
Or the top-hatted dancing Alien from the end of Spaceballs?
Not the logo anyone wanted, but the logo we deserve.
Certainly a good contender for at least a piece of merchandise…
Unfortunately that frog’s name is Michigan and no one wants their site associated with the second shittiest sate in the union.
That’s not how you spell Ohio!
Good news, fellow orphan mine owners! Well, not for me, because I live in Zoolander’s Candada
Plutocrats with their crony capitalism are taking over again in the U.S.
And on and on and on.
To reiterate, Freeland is in charge of negotiating Canada’s trade deals.
“Unlimited Campaign Donations”
Ok, Hillary.
Remember when Freeland went on about how free trade deals are plans by the evil super-rich to screw everyone else? And now she’s the one pushing for them?
So there seems to be a bit of self-awareness that there’s lots of rich progs (“rich but selfless public servants”) like FDR, JFK, Soros, etc.
The way you can tell the good rich people from the bad ones is that the good ones want an arbitrary government which slaps regulations on businesses, which totally isn’t a backdoor way of suppressing small and middle-sized competitors of the rich progs.
I’d rather people get rich and retreat from society
My favorite meme is PM Zoolander actually being for women’s rights. It just goes to show how far virtue signaling can get you.
rich but selfless public servants
Haha, good one.
Again, I just want to thank everyone behind the scenes here.
^This.
I’ll drink to that.
I know I am.
This is nice.
I agree
Agreed!!
So I’m stuck at work uploading database tables. Since everyone’s gone, I’m going full 80’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd7pIZcwVU8
You can’t go full 80’s without some of this
Ultimate 80s
I know I am late for the party, but I refer this type of 80s stuff.
Elephant Talk
Easily the best version ever of KC.
OK, I just came across this description of life under socialism:
“From birth to death, in sickness and in health, [the worker] was guaranteed subsistence – including food, clothing, and shelter – medical attention, and the other necessities of life. He or she need not fear the loss of a job, the arrival of another child, or a bad crop. Whatever happened, the [worker] had a first lien, so to say, on the industry, indeed almost on the whole social system, of which he formed a part. It was of the very nature of that system that the profits of industry had to be such, and distributed in such a way, as to ensure security during life and at least a minimum of life’s needs to every laborer contributing to the total result.”
That quote is from…
,
,
,
,
,
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James Truslow Adams, “The Dilemma of Edmund Ruffin,” Virginia Quarterly Review (April 1934), pp. 312-26 – the author is of course describing slavery.
Whoa
Shit continues to go down in France.
France’s Le Pen refuses police interview over funding claims
And of course, Fillon has his own problems with expense shenanigans, with his wife collecting tens of thousands of euros of public money for…doing…work?
Now let’s get conspiratorial – the expenses scandals keep spreading!
European Parliament: Questions raised over Martin Schulz’s spending
For the record, Mr Schultz is the turd who can be seen arguing with Nigel Farage in his “Who the hell are you” and “Well, you’re not laughing now” videos. If Merkel is replaced, he’ll be the turd in charge.
From what I’ve read it seems that Fillon would be the most capable of defeating Le Pen head-to-head, as Macron has offered full-throated support of both the EU and mass migration while Fillon has been more the centrist on those issues. I know that issues of the economy and regulation will also play a role in the election, but if foreign policy questions dominate I’d think the French establishment would want to back someone who seems more reasonable, like Fillon. Macron is only a centrist because he is a soft-core socialist as opposed to the hard-core socialism of Hollande; he’s still an internationalist, which would be a bad fit if France is in a nationalist mood (which there are signs it may be).
Fillon is bad on things like gay marriage (not in favor) and, worse yet, Thacherism (somewhat in favor). As such, he’s less acceptable than Macron, and the assumption is that, if Le Pen gets into round 2, everyone will once again pile in against her.
And the whole point of establishment is that they don’t want to reform the EU, change the migration or economic policy, or in fact do anything that smacks of making any meaningful changes. Fucking around on the margins is OK, and Macron is eminently suitable for it.
It’s funny how as soon as I saw the BBC describe him as a “centrist” I knew he was a fucking lefty.
Just like when the the media here were pimping Garland hard last year “Garland is a centrist moderate who is centrist and moderate. The Republicans should confirm him because he is a centrist who is a centrist moderate who is moderately centrist and centristly moderate.
Meanwhile a pig of Moroccan origin providing security to Geert Wilders’ campaign was feeding information to Moroccan gangs.
How come in Swiss’s bio he doesn’t mention the three months he spent as a member of a Debarge tribute band.
What’s he hiding?
But which DeBarge? That’s the real question.
Time will reveal…
Who’s Swissy, she said, and smiled in her special way.
The one who died of AIDS.
Thanks for not going full Trump pants shitting insane. Its nice to see actual discussions instead of endless poo flinging
I guess we’re not trying hard enough.
So, I was listening to a local prog broadcast today on the commute home. The female host of the show was interviewing someone who supposedly worked in intelligence during some former administration. She started off in earnest, seemingly distraught and very anxious, about how long it will be before Trump is impeached. The guy goes rambling on for a while, but basically told her in so many words ‘it ain’t happening honey, as long as Republicans have control of both houses’. She seemed exasperated by this, in total disbelief. ‘But I mean, while we all hope he’ll be impeached now… how long could it be, surely you don’t think it could be a year!?’. The guy seems frustrated and tried again to tell her in different words, that unless something really crazy happens, it’s not happening with Republicans in complete control. She clearly did not comprehend this at all and went off about how Trump must be impeached now, right this minute!
And she never really explained WHY Trump must be impeached right now, but something vague about Russians.
“but something vague about Russians”
This seems to be the main hope of some progs. A lot of them decry his misogyny, etc. but realize that won’t get him impeached. But they have some vague sense that Trump conspired with the Russians to change the actual vote tallies. I haven’t been able to get the details from friends of mine who think this way (because, frankly, I’m not sure our friendship would survive my response to their thoughts) but that seems to be the broad idea.
What misogyny?
Disliking specific women implies hating all women regardless of their behavior. Oddly, that doesn’t work for misandry. I can name perhaps a hundred men I think are right cunts and never be accused of misandry.
Reminds me of a conversation I had with the wife last week while sitting in traffic on the beltway (yes, THAT beltway). Apparently some unhinged perpetually aggrieved snowflakes in her country, of course inspired by who else except American perpetually aggrieved snowflakes, decided that a popular old song about a mullata girl is racist. Basically because the song points out specific attributes of the mullata girl. So I just had a moment of clarity and pointed out that racism is basically hating or discriminating against a person solely based on their race, NOT making a point about the person’s anatomy. The song is actually in no way negative or racist in any way. It’s about as ridiculous as the cultural appropriation thing Murikan snowflakes have invented.
I do not understand the very concept of “cultural appropriation.”
First, we have to decide whether we accept the concept of superior culture or not. If we do, then cultural appropriation is not a problem because the best culture should win out. If we don’t, then what the hell is the issue? If all culture is exchangeable for all other culture, then nothing is lost in choosing to adhere to norms from any specific one.
I do believe in superior culture. I measure it by a culture’s ability to contribute to the body of scientific knowledge. I contend that humanity’s only leg up on all other life is that we can mold our environment to suit our needs at orders of magnitude to other species. Science is the rigorous, formal application of that idea. If your language or dialect is not represented in that knowledge, it will be lost. If your philosophy is not represented, it will be lost. If your art is not represented, it will be lost.
I don’t know what Greek music performed in an amphitheater sounds like. I only know of Greek art based on the practical, lasting things that art managed to find its way onto. Greek Philosophy is a bit better preserved, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find people who understand it well. But the Greek contributions to mathematics and science are alive and well today.
Most countries that I’ve been to seem to love when you ‘appropriate’ their culture. Which seems to be nothing more than getting immersed in and enjoying their culture. Only a fool can find a problem in this.
If someone knows a better way to do things, live life, be happier, etc., why wouldn’t they want to share it and enrich one another’s experience? Cultural appropriation as a concept is selfish.
Allow me to clarify: “a lot of them decry what they perceive to be misogyny.”
Yeah didn’t mean to accuse you of going full Soave.
That’s one of things that just makes it impossible to have an honest conversation with the TDS crowd. Making fat jokes about Rosie ODonell and engaging in crude locker room talk doesn’t mean you hate women, it means you make fat jokes about Rosie ODonell and engage in crude locker room talk.
The false rape accusations were the funniest thing IMO. Notice how every single one of the accusers has disappeared post election.
Well, it’s not hard for a sentient being to figure out. I have a daughter, 2 grand daughters, 2 daughter-in-laws, a mother, 2 sisters, a bunch of nieces, and a wife, and I love them all. But I certainly will engage with you in some good ol locker talk and Rosie O’Donnell bashing fun. These people are out of touch to say the least.
No offense taken.
Another factor here (and I realize as I write, I can be hoist on my own petard), is that most of the progs I know think of other people in non-differentiated groups: all Christians are anti-science morons, all states-rights people are racists etc.
The Russia thing has reeked of desperation from the very start. But I’ve always taken it as a very weak minded attempt at fighting fire with fire from the left. The right accused Hillary of setting up a private server at State to hide her activities from the public (a very believable thing, especially considering the person being accused), so they somehow came up with accusing Trump of conspiring with Putin to ‘hack our election’ (tinfoil hat shit for real tin foil hat bleevers). I mean, seriously, WTF?
The whole thing has reeked of desperation.
The campaign was one of the most vicious I’ve seen.
After the election there were the demanded recounts.
Then came the hope of faithless electors.
Then came the cries for assassination (which I don’t think were entirely in jest) prior to inauguration.
Then came [Autistic Screeching].
Then came obstruction by all possible means of the cabinet and unfilled SCOTUS seat.
Then came the post-election insanity of the media.
I’ve never seen anything comparable. What the hell are they so afraid of? Trump doing something unconstitutional that the SCOTUS will overturn? If they really don’t trust the checks and balances of the (purportedly) three branches of government, then it is an admission that people believe that the American experiment itself has failed. But I see no evidence for that. We’ll still be here after 4-8 years of President Trump.
If he’s clearly so crazy, then the legislative branch should be able to find a supermajority to strip him of any powers they see him as unfit to wield.
They’re angry because they thought Hillary would get to replace Scalia with a prog, replace Ginsburg with a prog, and replace Kennedy with a prog. They thought with a 6-3 majority, they would be able to complete the destruction of the Constitution’s restrictions, probably with some kind of “The President has the power of foreign policy, and this UN agreement is totally not a treaty, so it doesn’t need Senate confirmation, but it’s binding law because commerce clause.”
Call me a crazy conspiracy theorist, but that’s how I saw it playing out.
They went down the wrong road with the move left and the identity politics madness. And now they own it, the crazies have assumed control, there’s no way back. They had it all with their ‘free shit’ parade. And they blew it big time. They could have went another 20 years at least before economic collapse.
I swear it’s a new iteration of Slenderman — it’s a media-induced mass hallucination of an internet ‘monster’ that they all share and re-feed each other constantly, into hysteria. Except these are fucking adults acting like teenagers, writing and passing around scary panicked memes and imagining some kind of ridiculous boogeyman that doesn’t exist.
The younger ones, okay, they never had to deal with ‘losing’ an election before and they’re all stupid about politics and have no idea what’s possible and what’s not, but there are plenty of people acting this way who were born before Obama, who know perfectly well that the government exists and will continue to exist and really not all that much is going to change, and yet they still freak out. It irritates me so much, except when I’m concerned someone unhinged is going to take all of it seriously and do something stupid and harmful.
I had another mom (probably in her thirties – should be old enough to know better) on my twitter basically in vapors because she was tired of ‘resisting’ already and I desperately wanted to reply, that’s because you’re resisting NOTHING, you moron. You can’t press back against AIR forever, and that’s what you’re doing. If you want to resist something specific, fine, more power to you, but that’s not what these idiots are doing. They need to calm the fuck down, basically, and get a grip.
I think it is similar to those of various religious groups who get disappointed that the world isn’t ending. The apocalypse is important, and if they’re a part of it, and knew about it ahead of time, then somehow makes them important, instead of boring people living boring lives, just like the vast majority of mankind.
Same thing with opposing Trump. If he’s worse than Hitler, then opposing him makes opponents like Captain America x Superman x 1000. If he’s not worse than Hitler, then his opponents are just having policy disagreements while wearing vag caps.
So, anyone been following the Larry Ellison show? This guy is going to be the top Democrat soon. It’s going to be fucking epic.
Let me see…
If you mean *Keith* Ellison, Alan Dershowitz has an ultimatum:
“If he is elected, I will quit the party after 60 years of loyal association and voting. I will become an independent, continuing to vote for the best candidates, most of whom, I assume, will still be Democrats. But I will not contribute to the DNC or support it as an institution.”
His reason: Ellison has a history of anti-Semitic associations and his election would lead to “the Democratic Party [being] relegated to permanent minority status as a hard-left fringe.”
But just to be clear, Dershowitz expects most of the candidates he votes for to be Democrats, even if the Dems pick Ellison and go into the “hard -left fringe.”
LOL! Yeah, that guy! The Oracle told me to say that.
The Democratic party is going down the rabbit hole. I’ve been sort of expecting that for the last 6 years, it’s just that now, they’ve made it all too clear.
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