The Metalist School in Art
All art movements have a pioneer, either in the form of a single person or a group of people who band together out of a similar aesthetic. The pioneer of the Metalist School is clearly Mr. Patrick Tribett. This is easily his most famous piece.
Untitled, 2005. Gold spray paint on shaved skin, cotton t-shirt
Arrested by the police during an art installation at a Dollar General Store in Ohio, Tribett shot to fame. Aside from the disheveled hair, a nod to previous Dollar Store artists, Tribett’s vision was bold and unheralded. His jaw was canted against stale tradition. The use of a simple t-shirt merged the high art world to the crass commercialism of professional sports, but slyly matched the shade of his paint on the second iteration on his chest, Warriors degraded to Faded Warriors, with the hint below that they might be Warrior again someday. His dead eyes demanded that you take his art seriously… and the world did.
Tribett never regained the success of his first major work. While Tribett continued to sell new pieces as fast has he could produce them, he was savaged by critics who called him derivative and uninspired.
Untitled Triptych, date unknown, private sale
As Tribett faded into the background of the art world and rumors of drug use began to swirl, it fell to the heirs of Tribett’s artistic vision to carry on.
Such as this anonymous artist and his vital, even at times furious, attempts to recapture Tribett in 2008:
His first, almost tentative steps, into the Metalist School are still amazing for what is essentially a street artist.
Moving on to bolder strokes in only a few months…
And this, his most defiant work. He is an artist saying “I am here world! And I have paint on my face!”
Some attempted to injection even more defiance…
And some relied on childlike whimsy…
And the bravest used the medium to problematize gender…
“Even as a small MAAB, I always felt deep down that I was a robot hooker.”
But sadly, like many art movements, the Metalist School descended into facile parody.
Sometimes more isn’t better.
Does this buffoon understand metal paint? Or even where his mouth is?
Art is my Middle name, no really
Auric Goldfinger pioneered this 60 years ago.
So much talent, SF. If only you’d use your powers for good…
My family is quite prolific in the creation of modern art. In fact, every one of my children started creating modern art shortly after being born, and were extremely productive as babies, creating new art every few hours, all day long. The pace has slowed down as they have aged (as it has for all of us), but we all still create new modern art every single day. Except for Grandpa, his creative juices don’t flow quite the way they did when he was younger.
My mum and dad are both artists. Mum is more traditional. Dad is more impressionist staying into abstract. I’ve inherited the artistic, but my forte is logic. It makes me money, so I don’t much delve into art anymore. I would really like to if I had time.
A family that huffs together stays together. I am no Doctor, but I am not sure that is good for a baby though. Is Grandpa pictured above?
Muse, thy name is SugarFree.
My peeps!
The last one is obviously an albino Oompa Loompa. Stop othering him with your cis-metallum circumlinistiarchy normative ways.
THEY WILL RIDE ETERNAL, SHINY AND CHROME.
*starts witnessing*
Paint huffers are retarded, but not quite as retarded as the people who made this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffZdZUQAT1w
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Fairy Godmother’ Brings Migrants to Europe on a Flying Carpet in EU-Backed Cartoon
The fairy, wearing red-framed, hipster-style glasses and a white t-shirt with the EU flag branded across the chest, asks the migrants to follow her into a tent, where she asks a man of Arabic appearance to give them “passage to Europe” on a magic carpet.
Following a celestial compass in the night sky, the group first land in Eastern Europe – where they are greeted by a crowd of racist white men shouting that they do not want asylum seekers.
“But it’s their right!” the EU fairy retorts angrily, but to no avail.
The migrants are instead brought to an unnamed country in Western Europe, where they receive a warm welcome and express gratitude to their hosts.
“Welcome. We really need you,” a Western European man tells the migrant man.
“Thank you,” the migrant man replies. “Long live Europe.”
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Someone should make a sequel where Eurodame gets gang-raped and the courts let the accused off the hook.
ITS THEIR RIGHT?!
Nothing grinds my fucking gears more than people inventing some fucking bullshit ‘give me free stuff’ claim and then screeching MUH RIGHTS! whenever someone challenges it. The left have figured out if you brand something a ‘right’ then all of a sudden it is un-fucking-touchable and they are DESTROYING the concept of civil rights along with EVERY OTHER THING THEY FUCKING TOUCH!
OH MY GOD I NEED A DRINK!
There’s some serious Jew hating going on in the comments.
Never change Europe, never change.
It’s the standard alt-right logic as well: THA JOOS are trying to destroy the goyim with left-wing politics and multiculturalism while protecting their precious ethnostate of Israel. Which is why there is NEVER any suicidal left-wing Jews critical of Israel.
Morons
Someone should make another one where instead of a family, it’s a group of male ‘minors’ who then rape the fairy god mother after she sets them down in the host nation with the most generous welfare benefits.
exhibit 18X of why Trump won
‘Culturally Sensitive’ Yale Dean Caught Calling People ‘White Trash’ and ‘Barely Educated Morons’
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/culturally-sensitive-yale-dean-caught-calling-people-white-trash-and-barely-educated-morons/
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Pierson students became aware of Chu’s sordid Yelp past after she sent out a college-wide email bragging about becoming “Yelp Elite” from writing so many reviews. All that hard work was for nought, as she deleted the account as a result of the scandal.
On Saturday, Chu — whose dean job involves bureaucratic work for Pierson, which is a sort of glorified dorm — sent out an apology letter to its students.
“I have learned a lot this semester about the power of words and about the accountability that we owe one another,” Chu wrote. “My remarks were wrong. There are no two ways about it. Not only were they insensitive in matters related to class and race; they demean the values to which I hold myself and which I offer as a member of this community.”
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Well…. she’s at least partly right.
I’m more disturbed that someone would think it appropriate and worthwhile to send out a college wide email celebrating how many times they’ve bitched on Yelp.
The article’s conclusion is perfect.
People go into places trying to complain. They suck.
The South Park episode on Yelp was pretty good.
Also, the above article, too.
Let it flow like a mud-slide
When I get on, I like to ride and glide
I’ve got depth of perception in my text, y’all
I get props at my mention cause I vex, y’all
So what Chu, what Chu, what Chu want? (what Chu want?)
I get so funny with my money that you flaunt
I said, “Where’d you get your information from,” huh?
You think that you can front when revelation comes?
link
Yelp! I need somebody!
Yelp! Not just anybody!
Yelp! You know I need someone
Yelp!
Dean Chu forget about me
Dean Dean Dean Dean
Dean Chu forget about me
they demean the values to which I hold myself and which I offer as a member of this community
People need to hold her feet to the fire. She needs to be canned. Until the left is just as afraid of stepping afoul of the PC police as the right, this bullshit will continue unabated.
They will never do that. It is a weapon designed only to be used as a cudgel against their enemies, nothing more.
No kidding. Just look at how much worse Erika and Nicholas Christakis were treated, simply because she wrote an email that questioned the wisdom of Yale’s restriction of “offensive” Halloween costumes.
*raises hand* What is Mochi?
No prob professor. You can call me white trash because I kind of am, and I can call you an insufferable cunt because you definitely are. It’s all good.
A link to the site that shall not be named (which I’ve clicked on a few times today). The REINS Act has inched closer to the Senate floor. Bill would require Congressional approval for any regulation that would cost over $100 million (just 3% of all federal regulations passed each year hit this benchmark). Sponsored by Rand Paul.
Article ends on how unlikely it is to be voted on this year. Especially with Congressional Republicans delaying everything over Trump scandals. I personally don’t see the connection there. Like, Republicans are too busy fielding media questions that they can’t do their fucking jobs? This shit won’t ever get voted on. I doubt we’ll even get the watered down version making the rounds.
For all the bitching about taxes, I peg regulations as the larger economic drain. Taxes can be dodged, ducked, and evaded. But it’s far more difficult to escape the petty tyranny of the bureaucrat.
And Gilmore’d.
The R’s have no interest in getting stuff like this passed or repealing Obamacare or really any part of the state. The fake scandal is just a convenient excuse for them.
Mochi is the partitive/genitive of Mocha. 😉
*shrugs*
It’s only libel if it’s not true.
Imagine if you referred to certain black people as “ghetto trash” and “barely educated morons”.
You may say Ted’s a dreamer
But he’s not the only one.
And make it rhyme
Hello, come right in.
You watch some weird stuff. Made me laugh.
What happens when the editorial staff of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune refuse to share their crack and insist on smoking the whole stash in one sitting
“The process that could produce the much-needed termination of the Trump presidency is removal due to disability under the 25th Amendment….
“The key section of the 25th Amendment authorizes replacement of the president if the vice president and a majority of the heads of executive branch departments, not just Cabinet posts, furnish statements to Congress deeming the current White House occupant to be “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his [sic] office.” (The measure did not contemplate, my gosh, a woman president, when drafted five decades ago.)…
“This would unleash a frenzy. Congress has three weeks to decide who gets the keys to the White House. To keep the elected president locked out, two-thirds of the members of Congress must vote in favor of the vice president, although the amendment is ambiguous about whether two-thirds is required in each body separately, or among all members of Congress collectively. The amendment refers to a two-thirds vote in “both Houses,” which could be interpreted either way….
“Going this route would require some degree of backbone from Vice President Mike Pence, who would have to initiate the constitutionally endorsed coup. He also would need the backing of a cabal of Cabinet officials and other executive department chiefs. It wouldn’t hurt to have the backing of a sizable segment of Congress, especially the Republicans who control both houses. To pursue this path, it also would help to have substantial public support, maybe even from some segments of Trump’s ever-loyal but declining base.
“It’s difficult to imagine all of these threads being woven together. But if they don’t fall into place, the nation faces the prospect of descending into ever-spiraling crises caused by what many are now viewing as a maniacal occupant of the White House who is mentally unhinged and could, if he were a kindergartner — and he acts like one at times — use a timeout.”
Do these hacks really think the average American is in ‘crisis’ over Trump firing Comey? The entire story was a giant fucking yawn that most normal people ignored. They haven’t learned a single god damn thing. Washington gossiping like old hens isn’t a crisis.
No they don’t. The idiots calling for impeachment would send us straight into political violence. Even Pelosi has told them to calm down.
They live in a bubble. Like, they literally live in places where no one voted for Trump, or at least no one they know is willing to tell them that.
The danger of political polarization is that Team Red partisans have the constant drumbeat of Team Blue media offering them that viewpoint. Team Blue partisans living in the Blue Bubbles of the nation, consuming nothing but Blue media…..they literally don’t ever hear a POV that’s even mildly pro-Trump.
Like, these people think George Will or the writers at National Review are “right wing conservatives.” They cannot understand, not deep down in their hearts, that half the country voted for Trump and doesn’t think that “being anti-prog” is an impeachable offense.
This
Fuck… half of my Brooklyn neighborhood voted for Trump. There are neighborhoods adjacent to mine that went 75% for him. These blue bubbles are extremely concentrated.
Last month I moved to a nicer neighborhood in Greater Boston. The city where I used to live cast 14.2% votes for Trump. Now I live in the city where Trump got 10.5%.
Do these people want a civil war? This is how you get a civil war!
Actually it’s how you get a limited orbital bombardment
I’m reading a book where giant sentient lizards took over Earth via (among other things) orbital bombardment. Must be non-fiction.
To you it is a compelling novel of triumph and domination. To us it’s Tuesday.
Can you guys hurry up? I’d like to get on with the Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland phase and skip the Breakdown of Decadent Society phase, if possible.
How many divisions does the Star-Tribune have?
Oops, my mistake, it’s not the editorial staff, it’s “Marshall H. Tanick…a Twin Cities constitutional law attorney.”
Okay, how many divisions does Mr. Tanick have? Question is still relevant. If you want to talk seriously about a presidential coup you better have some barrels over your shoulders, cause that shit ain’t funny.
As I expected, he has a sideline teaching at law schools, meaning he gets to concoct bizarre hypotheticals and force students to discuss them.
Let’s see if he can force regular people to discuss his weird scenarios.
It’s like you were sitting in my property class with me.
“The Mishna states: If a fledgling bird is found within fity cubits of a dovecote, it belongs to the owner of the dovecote. If it is found outside the limit of fifty cubits, it belongs to the person who finds it. Rabbi Jeremiah asked: If one foot of the fledgling bird is within the limit of fifty cubits, and one foot is outside it, what is the law? It was for this question that Rabbi Jeremiah was thrown out of the House of Study.”
Is IP property? 😉
Whether it is or isn’t property is the wrong question. The right question is whether they’ll keep paying me to create it. ;p
I think the hospital gets to keep it.
I’m personally all-in on God-Emperor Trump.
“The amendment refers to a two-thirds vote in “both Houses,” which could be interpreted either way….”
Sure, if you’re unequivocally dishonest, then words can mean whatever the hell you want.
“a maniacal occupant of the White House who is mentally unhinged and could, if he were a kindergartner — and he acts like one at times — use a timeout.”
I thought Obama moved out of the White House?
It’s tougher than it should be to impeach Donald Trump
Trump isn’t the disease. He’s the symptom.
“[Trump is] unpopular, but he’s hardly hemorrhaging support.
“This persistent loyalty matters because it speaks to one of the fundamental flaws with the American system of government: It is virtually impossible to remove a president who enjoys the support of any meaningful political faction within the United States….
“As a result of this system, when an incompetent or even a dangerous president occupies the White House, the nation is nearly incapable of replacing that president before their term expires….
“The alternative to a presidentalism is a parliamentary democracy…
“…Great Britain is much safer from truly terrible leaders than the United States.”
Yes, much better, if you only count Churchill, Thatcher, and Disreali.
And if you don’t think too hard about how long Prime Minister Obama would have lasted before losing a vote of confidence.
LORD. PALMERSTON.
Mattingly! I said TRIM THOSE SIDEBURNS
Today Iearned that while it is useful to be able to outsmart people, sometimes it works better to outdumb them.
oopsy- Gilmore’d
Case in point.
… mostly the same people yelling about HOW DARE Theresa May call an election she’s almost certainly going to win!?!?! THis i Undemocratic!!
or at least the same flavors of people,
The same people who flip out about the electoral college dealing with Parliamentary systems that explicitly try to give rural communities a greater advantage with seat distribution? Sure.
These people have applauded the most dangerous things Trump has done while shitting down their own legs over the most mundane bullshit. That’s the one thing I’d like to point out.
They applauded anything Trump did?
(Oh, yeah, bombing Syria.)
It’s ok. It’s easy to forget. They were flabbergasted for a bit because it interrupted and contradicted their Trumputinocalypse storyline, but they quickly re-derped and got back on message.
Now it’s a shitload of disingenuous articles over how Trump is trying to stall an investigation that hasn’t produced a single shred of evidence that any collusion took place to begin with. On that note, I apparently am a crazy person because I think an investigation should need some basis to even get started to begin with. But somehow the FBI has carte blanche to drag its ass on an investigation into something that they have zero actual evidence to support.
To prattle on about the second point, the Obama DOJ refused to let the FBI investigate Clinton’s Foundation as they deemed there to be a lack of sufficient evidence to justify it.
It was started under the Obama administration so it will continue until the light bringer, or one of his choosing, is crowned again.
Look at the confirmations of Sessions vs. DeVos. One wants to lock up more non-violent frug offenders, the other wants to break up the school to prison pipeline system liberals like to occasionally complain about.
Guess which one sailed through, and which one had massive protests.
random thought
Last week here at DLI, we celebrated language day. There were songs, dances, exhibits, and food from the various cultures of the languages that are taught here.
Taking pride in songs, dances, poetry, history is nice.
Know what else is nice?
Reliable electricity. Literacy. Clean water. Vaccines. A stable currency. Peace.
I guess if you don’t have those things, you always have your culture to take pride in.
Well. I’ll have you know that MY culture is famous the world over for Man-skirts, haggis, sheep-fucking, bag-pipes and getting shat upon by the English until they need a few more hundred thousand as cannon-fodder. Fuck this cultural appropriation nonsense smack dab in its eat hole. Fucking dimwits and douchebags, the fucking lot of them!
Groundskeeper Willie: It won’t last. Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots! Or Welshmen and Scots! Or Japanese and Scots! Or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
Principal Skinner: You Scots sure are a contentious people.
Groundskeeper Willie: You just made an enemy for life!
I feel like Scottish stereotypes get the short end of the stick thanks to the low hanging fruit next door (the Irish).
The Scots wouldn’t be competitive at all in the stereotype games if it weren’t for sheep jokes.
The Scots are cheap that way, among other ways.
Welllll…..I know you’re a privileged linguist-type some of us all source folks can only look up to (lesson learned – don’t enlist the last month of the FY).
But why wouldn’t you celebrate something language-specific at the Defense Language Institute????
What I mean is, I think there are things more important/impressive than songs, dances, and cuisine, and that these things often get disproportionate attention.
What I mean is, I think there are things more important/impressive than songs, dances, and cuisine,
Like pick-up lines.
I don’t know. Even some really bad cultures can have some good eats.
Hm. Call me crazy, but I think the Palestinians might not be quite as keen for peace as the Israelis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBtEDMsl_SM
That girl has a point.
ALTERNATE JOKE: Lorena al-Bobbitt.
Hi everybody. Long time poster, first time reader:
You know who else used paint?
Charles Gaines?
George W. Bush?
Your mother?
Grandma Moses?
The guy who did the cover for Paul Mauriat’s Blooming Hits?
Whittaker Chambers’ father?
All the people who threw their paint covered socks in the gutters that I saw when we visited my Grandmother in Bakersfield?
Jennifer Haley?
(who is legit awesome at her job, that cover notwithstanding)
Greg Maddox?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/17/antique-gun-store-in-afghanistan-holds-valuable-historic-weapons.html
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Guns are a way of life for Afghans. Almost every night, gunshots ring out — celebratory or otherwise — and when people talk, the talk is almost of war and the weapons they once used or the ones they want or need.
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Attention progs: this is what happens when people stop trying to get along with people different from them.
Ooh, Gellman Amnesia strikes again:
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“Before this gun, Afghans had to fight by the sword,” he says, speaking Farsi, Afghanistan’s official language. “This was the first. This is what was used to push back the British Army.”
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Farsi is not an official language of Afghanistan, although the closely related language Dari is official, along with Pashto.
In conclusion, journalists are often lazy morons who get easily verified details wrong. But we should totally trust them.
I know antique weapons were a fun souvenir from the stan for some of the guys in my first unit in the early 00s. Much easier to get back into the country legally.
How do they afford the ammo?
Would you, could you, with a goat?
(May not qualify as SFW)
(all suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law)
“But you fuck ONE goat….”
Should have done it the Robert Redford way. I kid, I kid.
This was encouraging. It’d be nice to see these sentiments shared more generally/widely, but it’s a good start.
Quincy’s life hacks
A can of spray paint’s color is usually indicated by its cap, which you will lose or throw away after you use it once. After a while, you will have a shelf full of half-full but still useful spray cans with no clear indication of their color or gloss level. The labels all say Krylon or Rust-O-Leum, not Hot Pink Gloss or Hammered Iron Matte, except in tiny print on the bottom of the back of the can. This is a suboptimal organizational scheme.
I’m assuming if you use spray paint you have masking tape. Lay all your half used rolls of masking tape on your work table, put a half used spray can in the center of each roll. Spray each roll of masking tape with its respective can. Put can back into its masking tape roll. Wait until paint is dry. Apply painted masking tape to each can. Repeat until your shelf of spray cans is properly labelled.
If you do this in a small room with improper ventilation, you can get really high.
Wouldn’t it be quicker to write the name of the color on the masking tape?
Hey, you get high huffing Sharpies. Who am I to judge?
Wouldn’t it be quicker to just not throw away or lose the cap? I mean… that’s a thing?
Seriously?
Well, I don’t have a shelf full of cans of spray paint but… I don’t throw out or lose the cap for any other product that comes with one.
If you use the stuff by the case, you can lose track of stuff like caps— sniff, whoo, that’s some good propellant— anyways, what I wrote is still good inventory practice— hey, look squirrel!
random thought
Evil people exist and stupid people exist, but most of the trouble comes from people who become so obsessed with nice-sounding ideas that they end up doing horrible things.
+1 road to hell (and you know about libertarians and roads)
Reminds me of the CS Lewis quote:
Indeed, not many stupid people realize they’re being stupid. Otherwise they will not become obsessed with nice sounding but demonstrably stupid ideas.
Eric Hoffer said that the measure of an ideology is not how well-proved or coherent it is, but how good it is at attracting and retaining followers. Extreme and hard to prove ideas are better because those things attract and appeal to fanatics.
i aM A femiNist #14: Andrew, 24. Bronx, New YorkPart of a photojournalist’s series on male feminists.
“I think a gigantic struggle for women today is just leaving their house. What I mean to say is: existing outside, and being subject to the male gaze that’s heavily being perpetuated more and more every day. Not like there wasn’t already, but now that there’s this clear opposition to the idea of feminism, it’s caused a snowball effect where I feel like when I hear my women friends talk about their experiences in daily life – I’ve never once felt like I was in danger just for being out a little later than normal (unless the circumstances are being in the woods or something). But even in the woods, being scared is like being scared of a predator. And so, one and the same; I feel like men just cannot be trusted. The idea of men. Single men in single instances – I feel like anybody can deduce whether or not you can trust that person, but I feel like the overarching term, the overarching presence of men makes it hard for women to be comfortable outside. To the point where I have friends that will not do what they have to or want to do because they know that they’re going to be subject to actual danger because there are some really fucked up people in the world and most of those people are men and that is a constant looming danger.”
I feel like if some of these people simply carried a gun they would be able to function much better in society without this nebulous ‘fear’ of… something…. hanging over them.
He doesn’t have the mental maturity to handle his own penis, I don’t think him handling a firearm is going to fix that.
somebody needs therapy
“I think a gigantic struggle for women today is just leaving their house. […]”
I couldn’t stop laughing long enough to read further.
The feminist movement seems really inconsistent about whether women are A) steely-eyed hardasses who are just as tough as men if not tougher, or B) delicate little damsels who need to be coddled and protected by men at every second of their lives.
If women are so afraid to simply leave the house because there are men walking around outside, doesn’t that demolish this idea that women should have equal rights? If they are THIS skittish and weak, doesn’t it make sense to bar them from joining police or military forces? Of course, I don’t think that’s the case, but apparently, some “feminists” do.
I got reamed on Derpbook once for questioning the value of Violence Against Women Act. It was too much for some when I pointed out that:
1. violence against women is already illegal
2. making violence against women a worse crime undermines feminist arguments of desiring equality
I was watching Married… With Children this morning before work* and I was gobsmacked by how prophetic it was discussing issues like this. 1995’s satire is today’s reality.
*Because when NY1 News gets too woke I flip over to TBS.
The feminist movement seems really inconsistent about whether women are A) steely-eyed hardasses who are just as tough as men if not tougher, or B) delicate little damsels who need to be coddled and protected by men at every second of their lives.
Don’t you get it? Women are badasses, but they carry a burden that even the strongest man couldn’t possibly muster.
I just don’t get how people can believe that 50%+ of the world is so horribly oppressed that they can’t even walk outside without being ground into the dirt like a bug. What a horrible existence they must live to feel that way.
It’s the only thing that gives them purpose in their otherwise meaningless and useless lives. It’s the only thing I can think of.
Oh, Sariputra, Form does not differ from Emptiness,
And Emptiness does not differ from Form!
Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is Form.
___”The feminist movement seems really inconsistent about whether women are A) steely-eyed hardasses who are just as tough as men if not tougher, or B) delicate little damsels who need to be coddled and protected by men at every second of their lives.”___
They’re steely-eyed hardasses when it can be used to make Western culture look bad, and they’re delicate little damsels when it can be used…to make Western culture look bad.
Oh, crap–hide!
Because it’s not about logical consistency, it’s about creating an unassailable moral position. You don’t question your superiors.
The hysteria (SEXIST!!!) is overblown, but it is a fact that women live in a world where half the people they see on a daily basis are capable of physically overpowering them. The calculus is simply different. I am 6 foot plus male, I can hold my own in a fight, and I carry weapons. I’m not walking down dark alleys for the hell of it, but if I had to, I would not worry overly much about it. I certainly wouldn’t hesitate to be alone with anybody, outside of shouting distance. It doesn’t even cross my mind. It’s not that way for women.
All the more reason that women shouldn’t be allowed outside their homes, unless accompanied by a male relative.
Note – this is sarcasm. I think.
It’s like, totally, being like, perpetuated more and more…it’s just so inherently patriarchal.
She regularly actualizes the potentiality of her various competencies in the process of translating her vision for a diverse audience whose intersectional dynamics are a core concern. She also won awards for that. In various countries and multiple magazines.
I have not seen anything so incredibly Wokeish since Dancing Jewish Guy Does a Spoken-Word Poetry/Modern-Dance/Rap-Musical About How America Was Stolen From Indians And Shit
*dies a little inside*
So…the exhibit is a bunch of mugshots?
Nyaah, nyaah, nyaah, fascist fascist fascist
They keep using that word. I don’t think that word means what they think it means.
If I were any good at photoshop, I’d fix the infamous Time cover to say “We’re all Fascists Now.”
I’d leave the pic of Obama superimposed over FDR.
Historians of fascism, such as Timothy Snyder and Robert O. Paxton have argued that Trump is not Hitler but…
OK, he’s not literally that guy, but…
It’s weird that Bernie Sanders never got the “literally Hitler” treatment even though he shares many policy points in common with Hitler, namely a large welfare state and extensive regulation of the whole economy, especially the financial sector.
International Socialists=Good. National Socialists=Bad.
The tin man surely doesn’t have a heart. Blowing his load on the dude’s the face like that.
today in “everything is Trump’s fault”
Hours after meeting with Trump, Erdogan’s security forces brawled with protesters
https://thinkprogress.org/hours-after-meeting-with-trump-erdogans-security-forces-brawled-with-protesters-5eb0bf571ae2
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The melee broke out shortly after Erdogan met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, where he received a warm welcome.
“We’ve had a great relationship and we will make it even better,” Trump said. “We look forward to having very strong and solid discussions.”
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“As usual, the face of Emmanuel Trumpstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Trumpstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure”
Only difference is that Trump actually exists.
‘Does the Brotherhood exist?’
‘That, Winston, you will never know. If we choose to set you free when we
have finished with you, and if you live to be ninety years old, still you
will never learn whether the answer to that question is Yes or No. As long
as you live it will be an unsolved riddle in your mind.’
WSJ editorial on special prosecutor being appointed. I’m personally always more curious about the political calculus of a guy like Rosenstein. You already hitched your wagon to the Jeff Sessions DOJ – which will have no positive legacy – and Donald fucking Trump. You knew full well once Sessions recused himself you were going to be in for a bumpy ride, or at least should have. You didn’t even need to read the fucking tea leaves. I suspect this is a guy acting more out of fear that he’s going to be made the scapegoat, so he just wants to wash his hands. But who really knows? These assholes have an amazing ability to delude themselves into thinking they’re actually honorable public servants.
So some temporary furor over Comey that voters don’t care about makes him buckle. If Trump is learning anything right now, it’s that he should have taken his own advice and drained the fucking swamp. First getting fucked over by Sessions recusing himself for no actual reason just days after being approved, and now his lieutenant running away.
Last time we had a special prosecutor was, not coincidentally, under Bush. Say what you will about the Democrats – they’re very good at finding stooges who know what their role is.
Well no time like the present
It’s about incentives. Democrat stooges know the media won’t tear their lives apart looking for dirt. Republican stooges know they won’t get the same kid gloves treatment.
This is all well and true. But to continue my rant, I think Trump should have just said fuck all establishment political hacks and tried to get his own people – from outside DC – into place. I would have put Paul fucking Manafort in the DOJ before Sessions. Get all of your cronies from Jersey into positions to protect you from the onslaught. That’s what the Clintons did when they came up from Arkansas. Hillary may not know much about leadership and getting productive results, but as Trump is learning, loyalty matters a whole fucking lot.
You now have a 72 year old man who is long time friends with Comey building a task force of young DOJ lawyers (card carrying Democrats) to investigate you. Investigate what, exactly? Well, no one really fucking knows what crimes may have been committed.
And through all of this, no is asking why Weiner isn’t being prosecuted for sexting a 15 year old. That seems to be the only crime in this whole mess that clearly was committed.
Yeah, I agree that he got snookered into putting establishment cronies in critical positions. Sessions fell over himself in his rush to get away from the Russian investigation, and now his deputy has already appointed a special prosecutor in a fine demonstration of preemptive weaseling.
Everything known about this already shows that the hacks/leaks/email dumps weren’t designed to affect the election in favor of Trump so much as to simply make Hillary (the expected victor) look bad…. i’m not sure why this is cause for concern.
Connections between Trump + Russia is a completely separate issue, and what exists there is mostly just run of the mill bullshit that has zero connection to the ‘election hacking’ stuff… so its not clear to me that there will necessarily ever be any red-meat there for anyone.
Most of this stuff is widely confused/conflated by the media and the public, but the fact is that there are multiple, mostly-mutually exclusive issues. If Mueller’s mandate is to look at Russian attempts to influence the election, its likely that Flynn (for instance) wouldn’t ever come up as a subject. mainly since he wasn’t even associated with the campaign until after Trump won, AFAIK
I agree with the WSJ that these things tend to exceed their mandate and turn into open-ended witch hunts, but i suspect the likely outcome from this is that Mueller pokes around the evidence, determines what everyone with half-a-brain already has (e.g. “aint nothing there really”) and calls it good. Of course Dems will cry foul regardless.
Way more faith in reality winning out than I have. A special investigator doesn’t really answer to anyone. You can’t fire them or make them stay in their lane. ‘Lying’ to them itself becomes an offense no matter how trivial or inconsequential it may be to the initial investigation. There’s going to be immense media and political pressure to make something stick. And there’s little reason to think Republicans are going to rally around Trump with this going on.
Its less about ‘faith in reality’ than it is an awareness that the question of “Russian meddling in the election” has a limited range of exposure. I expect it will end up making some people who lobbied on behalf of Russia look bad. But it will also expose that people in the DNC had russia money and that the hacking was never really focused on helping trump anyway.
iow, i think the outcomes of it will be messy and not lend themselves to any particularly “Gotcha Trump!” moments.
I’m in agreement on your assessment here. What resolution is gained on the “Russian collusion” debacle will only be further muddied by the fact that the whole flap is more complex than the shrieking heads in the media made it out to be. Granted, this isn’t going to make said heads any more sane or any less shriek-y, but I think it will have the side effect of turning off even more of middle America to the bullshit they’re peddling. And I’m not against that.
I think that’s basically right. but who knows.
my spider sense suggests to me that the reason they were so quick to pick a special-prosecutor was because they believed that – the history of past SP’s aside – that if they pick one sooner rather than later, that they’ll be able to control/limit its scope. If congress forced one upon them, it would be messier.
It’s going to be finishing expedition. Which is why the previous special prosecutor regime was ended.
I’m reminded of the Drumhead episode of TNG. Jean Simmons plays an investigator brought on the Enterprise to investigate alleged espionage, and starts a witch-hunt.
If you’ve forgotten that this exists, now is a good time to remind you.
Sometimes the mask slips. Democratic Rep: ‘My First Amendment Right Is Different From Yours’.
Kudos to the guy who dug up that gem and threw it in her face. I spend most of my time on social media harassing athletes who lose me money. Perhaps I should direct some portion of my Twitter ire at the political class.
Story time:
Yesterday I drove to work, tried to turn into the shop driveway, and lo and behold, two county sheriff vehicles block it.
“What happened?”
“This is a crime scene, sir.”
“I work here, I have to get in the building.”
Pause. “An officer will escort you to the door.”
The officer’s job was to keep me from stepping into “evidence” clearly marked by yellow tent cards marked 1 and 2 (just like on TV’s CSI: Wherever!) I could have figured that out myself.
“Please stay indoors for the next half hour until the investigation is concluded.” Sure, it’s what I showed up to do, y’know, like, work, indoors-like.
At the door, I ask, “So, what happened?”
“I can’t tell you, sir, this is an ongoing investigation.”
We don’t actually work, we gawk at the fuzz and the plainclothes officer gawking intently at a pile of leaves in the parking lot, the one marked with the “Exhibit 2” tent card.
Meanwhile, the shop cat is howling to be let outside to have his morning shit.
“Don’t let him out,” somebody said, “he’ll interfere with the police doing their job.”
“Don’t let him out,” I replied, “they’ll shoot him!”
Libertarian moment.
We let the cat out.
Turn up the Benny Hill music and open the window.
Now you tell me.
You should’ve known. SMDH.
This is pretty cool.
It works.
Holy crap that is great. And appropriately accompanies hockey too.
I’m watching Fox and the bobble heads keep saying that the upside to having a special counsel is that the Dems will stop with the pantshitting for a while until the facts start coming in. You’ve got to be kidding me.
you get more of what you reward. hyperventilating about non-existent Russian theories has forced the DOJ to respond. They’ll just keep screeching louder about wilder and wilder claims. and the MSM will gleefully cover this in IMAX 3D, with 80% of editorials speculating about every irrelevant tidbit that comes out of it.
Exactly. It’s like strapping an oxygen mask on your kid just as he begins to tire from throwing an epic tantrum.
i like the analogy.
Sheesh, even my sober Democrat friends are shrieking “treason!”
Let’s see what happens after whatever the WaPo has cooked up for tomorrow morning is released.
I had a faint glimmer of hope that after the election, perhaps I would be able to watch the news for more than 5 minutes without hearing “Trump”.
This is one of the most irritating things about the Trump presidency, the fact that everytime I go to check my email, I’m bombarded with “TRUMP ADMIN DOES HORRIBLE MUNDANE EVIL THING!” 4 more years of that…..
I must be lucky – or old. I don’t get any of that crap in emails. It helps that I turned off Facederp notifications,
My main account is on Yahoo. So I have to navigate through their news bullshit, all of which comes from the MSM prog stuff. I’ve been meaning to switch to something else eventually, as soon as I get my lazy ass in gear.
Oh, I get it. I run my own mail server. I don’t navigate through anything to get my mail.
Just so long as your name isn’t Wayne Tillerson that’s cool. Or maybe you’re just Wayne Tillerson trying to avoid FOIA requests. According to recent history, that’s totally cool also.
You run it out of your bathroom, I assume.
If they keep this up 8.
oh, Canada…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im25MN5AwIc
I pretty much lost when the protester starting banging the drum.
from the manifesto of some dumb college kids
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uBiQmODzgYZ89ptJBj_fZHQjjm_z_AqxQAhWS7Sbzp8/edit
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UNH students are demanding that:
The UNH Administration make a public statement condemning the events on May 5th and call for the creation of a campus-wide committee to prevent similar offenses in future years.
The UNH administration and town elected officials call on local stores in Durham to stop carrying items like ponchos and sombreros for May 5th celebrations, and instead seek out alternatives sources of revenue.
Greek life and other party culture leaders encourage their communities to address the normalization of cultural appropriation and take action to condemn the behavior and find other ways to celebrate the end of the academic year.
Individuals hold their friends and communities accountable. Ignorance is not tolerable.
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“‘All Eyes On UNH’ are members of the UNH community
who hold the mirror up to those who act unjustly”
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Having no idea what this was going to be about, I literally burst out laughing when I got to the word “ponchos”.
I bought a bottle of vanilla in Puerto Vallarta. It had a miniature sombrero and serape on it. Which is why I bought it.
Meet the Editor of Everyday Feminism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8GmaqLBcNQ
She looks and sounds and exactly the way you’d expect.
All I know is I still think it’s a parody and this isn’t helping.
I was kind of expecting some purple hair, with a U-haul parked outside in the background.
Does it make me a prude if I had to extrapolate from the comments that these future Darwin Award-winners were huffing paint?
(Seriously…. I had no idea what was going on)
Me neither. And I remember the top photo and the ensuing ridicule!
Three important words tonight:
Fuck
The
Penguins
Let’s fuck the chickens, while we’re at it!
I’m down with that… although I went into this series just wanting Ottawa to lose. Honestly I don’t give a damn now that my team is out.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/17/amash-trump/101802902/
“Michigan GOP Rep. Justin Amash told reporters Wednesday that impeaching President Donald Trump would be merited if reports are true that Trump asked ousted FBI Director James Comey to end an investigation of a close political ally.
Amash was responding to a question from a reporter for The Hill newspaper as he as left a House Republican conference meeting.”
Ah, now I understand how Alex Jones has a career:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/12-million-americans-believe-lizard-people-run-our-country/316706/
highlights:
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For example, only three conspiracies were more commonly believed by Obama supporters: that Bush intentionally misled America about Iraq’s WMDs (a massive 69 percent of his supporters believe that one), that the CIA launched the crack epidemic, and that the moon landing was faked. There are two theories with equal support among Obama and Romney supporters: that aliens exist and the one about fluoridation. Everything else, from lizard people to vaccines and autism to global warming being a hoax? Believed by more Romney supporters.
No conspiracy was less commonly believed than one suggesting that the government is populated by lizard people. But that’s mostly because only 2 percent of Obama supporters believe the theory while 5 percent of Romney supporters do.
***
About 8 million more Americans believe in the lizard alien shadow govt than voted for the Libertarian Party.
So start a party where the idea is that free-markets kill lizard people.
Who wouldn’t, if asked by a complete stranger, answer that the moon landings are faked? Why would anyone think they’re owed an honest answer, especially to something facially farcical?
How can these fools call lizard people a ‘conspiracy’ as if they don’t exist? we have one right on our own board, here, WE KNOW THE TRUTH.
hopefully orbital bombardment is imminent
About 8 million more Americans believe in the lizard alien shadow govt than voted for the Libertarian Party.
well I tried to put this there.
Lizard people definitely run the country, especially in 2013.
Not literal lizard people, of course. Maybe it’s just a really elaborate metaphor.
I used to be into Alex Jones before it was cool. My roommates and I used to smoke a lot of weed and watch Alex Jones on public access. Watching him scream about lizard people and Bohemian grove was actually pretty funny. Better than that guy who wore a toilet seat on his head for some reason. (Not making things up, that used to be the lead in for Alex Jones.)
Hell, I even met Alex Jones back in the day. We were both stuck waiting for a table at Kerbey Lane. He was actually fairly sane, and was glad that people recognized him.