ZARDOZ SUNDAY EVENING LINKS

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ GOING TO HEAD OVER TO JOHN DEERE DEALERSHIP – BRUTALS AT GRAIN ELEVATOR SAY ZARDOZ SHOULD LOOK AT SOME UPGRADES TO GRAIN HAULING CAPABILITIES. ZARDOZ BELIEVES KJJY 92.5 FM WILL BE THERE, AND MAYBE ZARDOZ CAN SCORE A PRIZE (ZARDOZ HOPES FOR BASS BOAT). BEFORE ZARDOZ HEADS OVER, HE GIVES YOU LINKS.

  • ZARDOZ IS SURE THIS WILL END WELL. RELATIONS BETWEEN RIVAL BRUTAL STATES IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD ARE PRETTY AMICABLE AFTER ALL.
  • ZARDOZ CAN ONLY IMAGINE IF HE APPEARED OFF THIS ISLAND, IF A SMALL SHARK CAN CAUSE SUCH PANIC AMONGST BRUTALS.
  • WILL THE LAST BRUTAL OUT OF ILLINOIS TURN OFF THE LIGHTS?
  • ZARDOZ THINKS HE COULD DO THIS JOB, INSTEAD OF AN AIRPLANE… AND COST A LOT LESS THAN WHAT EUROPEAN BRUTALS WILL END UP PAYING.

ZARDOZ BIDS HIS CHOSEN ONES A GOOD EVENING, Y’ALL.

Comments

306 responses to “ZARDOZ SUNDAY EVENING LINKS”

    1. Only if I can establish the “Fund”

      1. But you’re in Switzerland, where would you put the money?

    2. AlmightyJB

      No baseball references

  1. Juvenile Bluster

    In STEVE SMITH’S morning links, there was a story about the Chicago Dyke March people throwing out some other people who were marching with a rainbow flag with a star of david on it (which, for the record, is Jewish Pride, not Israeli, but whatever).

    They doubled down on stupid in their response. https://twitter.com/DykeMarchChi/status/879074515648733184

    Also, apparently they tried to shut down the Pride march in Chicago today, because it wasn’t intersectional enough. The left continues to eat itself.

    1. “Sorry, you are not authorized to see this status.”

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        They protected their twitter account after half the internet called them out on their bullshit.

        http://chicagoist.com/2017/06/25/photos_dyke_march_draws_over_a_thou.php#photo-1

        1. Supporting groups that call for genocide is “inclusive”.

        2. leonadasiv

          “Yesterday during the rally we saw three individuals carrying Israeli flags super imposed on rainbow flags. Some folks say they are Jewish Pride flags. But as a Collective we are very much pro-Palestine, and when we see these flags we know a lot of folks who are under attack by Israel

          I’m sure that Palestinian flag at the front of their march doesn’t cause anyone to feel unsafe. I guess being under attack doesn’t matter when Palestinians do it.

          1. Juvenile Bluster

            I know it’s cliche and easy and all, but I challenge those people to live, as themselves, for one week in Tel Aviv and one week in Gaza. It’d never happen (partially because I’d doubt they’d survive 2 days in Gaza before being murdered)

          2. leonadasiv

            What?!? You mean you think she wouldn’t be accepted by the most accepting of all cultures?

          3. Juvenile Bluster

            …saying she’d survive two days might’ve been a bit optimistic.

          4. Rhywun

            I… uh… OMG.

          5. commodious spittoon

            The struggle to hold down my lunch is real.

          6. Did you have to post more Trigglypuff pics?

          7. Holger-da-Dane

            Oh yeah, THICC baby!

          8. John Titor

            Hey, she might not be able to survive in Palestine for long but at least she can last a week of starvation.

          9. IntraveneousWoodChipper

            That thing is oddly reminiscent of Hodor…

          10. Rhywun

            As a Collective, it’s pretty obvious at this point that they’re just a bunch of Marxists – some of whom happen to be lesbians. One wonders why they aren’t a little more honest about that. Maybe because lesbians are trendy?

          11. leonadasiv

            I think that’s it. It’s sad because the whole Pride movement along with other social movements have been Hijacked or have submitted to Marxist infiltrators. There is nothing inherently Marxist about being a homosexual, but being gay is not enough (hell it’s not even necessary) to be part of the Pride movement anymore. The way these movements get taken over by Marxists should be analyzed so that we can see it coming (not that nobody did see this coming, but you get my drift)

          12. Holger-da-Dane

            There was discussion about the “Red Pill” documentary in the early links. There is a mention in it about how “capitalism” preceded “the patriarchy” as enemy no. 1 in modern feminism.

            My cynical side says these groups were progressive/marxist from the start, and just learned to hide it for a while.

          13. Rufus the Monocled

            I agree with Holger.

            Sure coopting happens but that’s because there was an opening to begin with. They were likely already predisposed to Marxist sympathies.

    2. John Titor

      Remember, the Jews are behind social justice, despite the fact that (((they))) seem to be the first minority group thrown under the bus every single time.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        The far right and far left may not agree on much, but they’re absolutely united in their hatred of the Jews.

        1. The Zenome Project

          That’s if you want to call the alt-right a right wing movement at all (at least the Spencer/Stormfront wing). Me and others highly debate that.

          1. John Titor

            Meh. Americans project their idea of ‘the right’ and ‘conservatism’ onto global politics in general. And that’s not really accurate in comparison to other cultural groups (monarchists, for example, are obviously not a part of the American equation). Horseshoe theory is a fair assessment, if we must abstract politics into some slider based on where people sat next to the French king.

          2. thrakkorzog

            Calling someone like Le Pen far-right is a bit silly outside of France. With the exception of her immigration policies, she’s to the left of Bernie Sanders.

          3. John Titor

            Yes but it’s equally ridiculous not to call, say, the Junkers or Carlists ‘the right’ despite their failure to conform to the American concepts of it.

          4. Holger-da-Dane

            Most Eurotrash anti-immigration parties are basically nazis. As in “national socialist”. The left just don’t understand that immigration policy is the only thing separating them from nazis. It’s really a feat that they managed to get people to believe nazis are rightwingers.

          5. LT_Fish

            Like constantly calling Wilders far right. We’ve talked about it before, but it’s just ridiculous when you read his other stances.

          6. The Zenome Project

            See, in my eyes, the European Left and the European “Right” is all leftist garbage (exception: Thatcher). Different flavors of authoritarianism: do you want nationalist, closed-borders leftism (like Le Pen or Orban), or internationalist, open-borders leftism (like Corbyn or Hollande).

          7. John Titor

            Thatcher, defender of the National Health Service, is the sole exception? Like I said, it’s a fairly arbitrary line. Americans view ‘conservatism/the right’ through a glorified traditionalist view of their past which Europe and the rest of the world fundamentally lacks. The only countries with even close to the historical background are settler colonialist states like Canada and Australia. Everyone else’s ‘right’ tends to be defined by historical aristocracy, state religions, etc.

          8. Holger-da-Dane

            You’ve got that absolutely right. Even the neo liberals essentially have socialist platforms.

          9. IntraveneousWoodChipper

            I will always forgive the Iron lady for leaning a bit to the left because she made the actual European Left and its chattering class’ collective heads explode for a decade.

            Pathetic leftist fucks were so triggered by her that they protested (both in the UK and abroad) and celebrated at her goddamn funeral. And these were the same people that went all limp-dick about some in the US being happy that Arch Duke of evil terrorist fuckery BIN-friggin-Laden caught a bullet.

            That, my friends, is evidence of A1 Prog trolling, right there. They hated her more than Bin Laden, for Chrissakes!!!

    3. BigT

      Wife and I stumbled into the local Pride celebration yesterday since we chose a restaurant adjacent to the festivities. It was very colorful and some of the most interesting people watching ever. My fav item was a woman in a rainbow tutu carrying a purple on pink “Pussy Power” flag. Lots of tattoos all around, but generally pleasant atmosphere.

      1. R C Dean

        That’s been my experience.

      2. Rick C-137

        It’s very libertine and altogether pleased, most people at my city’s just want to enjoy themselves and feel a certain freedom in doing so, mind there are assholes mixed in but they are a minority, thus far

        1. Rick C-137

          *pleasant

  2. Sean

    Here’s a bit o trivia for all you Dark Matter fans…the hot android is also a hot lesbian.

    http://liverampup.com/news/lesbian-zoie-palmer-thankful-partner-tv-producer-girlfriend-son.html

      1. Left Hand of Radar

        Wrong link: Anyway it’s that Ruby Rose chick from John Wick 2

      2. Sean

        Also, Jodelle Ferland looks great in a dress…

        http://celebmafia.com/jodelle-ferland/

    1. Rhywun

      I liked season 1 well enough but stopped watching. Is it worth it?

      1. Sean

        I thought season 2 really worked well and season 3 is off to a good start. The whole series is well above my expectations.

      2. mr simple

        I almost stopped at the end of season 1 because I felt like it was going nowhere, but I think the second half of season 2 and season 3 seem top be going well.

        1. Rhywun

          I really liked the “cliffhanger” style at the end of every episode. I liked the aura of “who are these people and what is this ship” that lasted throughout the 1st season. I got kind of lost after they seemed to ditch the ship in the first few eps of season 2 that I watched.

    2. Hyperion

      Only aspiring politicians can save us from this sexbot menace. I can’t wait. Luddites and morons are running the world.

    3. mr simple

      I hated her in Lost Girl. She just had no personality. Surprisingly, she does well as an android.

  3. The Late P Brooks

    Why you so racist, Mistah Racist?

    And in exonerating the police officer and America of racism, people end up exonerating themselves. Americans who deeply fear black bodies, who think their fears are sensible, can empathize when cops like Officer Yanez testify that they feared for their lives.

    To diagnose police officers’ lethal fears as racist, juries and prosecutors would also have to diagnose their own fears of black bodies as racist. That is a tall task. It may even be easier to get a racist cop convicted of murdering a black person than it is to get a racist American to acknowledge his or her own racism. Racist Americans keep justice as far away from black death as possible to keep the racist label as far away from themselves as possible.

    But this can change. Killing the post-racial myth and confessing racism is the first step toward antiracism. Police officers can recognize that label as the start of their better selves instead of the end of their careers. Americans can recognize that label as an opening to a just future.

    Black people and the post-racial myth cannot both live in the United States of America.

    What are the odds I’ll live to see a post-gibberish America?

    1. You got oh…50-60 years left?

    2. “Black bodies” is far more racist than anything the writer accused other people of doing.

      1. Holger-da-Dane

        To the left everyone is a body .. to be bulldozed into yet another mass grave.

      2. thrakkorzog

        “Black bodies” is a phrase nobody should use unironically outside of a physics discussion.

      1. Schnirt Gurgleburger

        That pictures makes me smile.

        1. AlmightyJB

          Utopia?

          1. Schnirt Gurgleburger

            I would give it the title,”The Tenth Amendment, Reaffirmed”.

    3. Juvenile Bluster

      Kelly Thomas’ white privilege clearly helped when his murderers were convicted.

      Oh wait.

    4. Rhywun

      At least they’re admitting now that they’re racists. That’s the way I read this.

    5. Akira

      confessing racism is the first step toward antiracism.

      For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of Progressivism! Repent! Repent!

  4. leonadasiv

    ZARDOZ BELIEVES KJJY 92.5 FM WILL BE THERE,

    Zardoz is floating around Des MoIns, Iowa? I guess that’s the place to be if you are collecting grain…

    1. I didn’t know Swiss was so close to Des Moines.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Americans who deeply fear black bodies, who think their fears are sensible, can empathize when cops like Officer Yanez testify that they feared for their lives.

    Hint- an actual human (not a police officer) who, however justifiable his claim of fear may be, shoots and kills a black person is extremely unlikely to escape the consequences as easily as a cop. The problem is not *white* cops shooting black people, it’s COPS’ IMMUNITY FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS.

    Direct your energies toward police unions and the politicians who sign their contracts. But that would require some sort of analytical subtlety, wouldn’t it?

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      It would also require examining one’s belief concerning the legitimacy of the state.

      1. They would rather be the appointed zampolit.

    2. leonadasiv

      Analytical subtlety is a Sexist Concept, contrived by the patriarchy to instigate their motives on oppressed people and people of color, and women.

  6. The Zenome Project

    Prime candidate for the woodchipper right here

    A Texas mother whose two children died of heat exposure after she left them in a car was arrested Friday, local authorities said.
    The Parker County Sheriff’s Office arrested Cynthia Marie Randolph, 24, for the deaths last month of her 2-year-old daughter and 16-month-old son after she left them in the car to teach her daughter a lesson, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
    “Throughout multiple interviews, Randolph created several variations of the events which led to the death of her children,” the release said.

    But the investigation, which also involved the Texas Rangers, revealed a different story.
    On May 26, the news release said, Randolph found the children playing in the car around 12:15 p.m. When she told her daughter to get out of the car, she refused, and Randolph closed the car door “to teach her daughter a ‘lesson,’ thinking ‘she could get herself and her brother out of car when ready,’” the release said.
    Randolph then went inside and smoked marijuana before falling asleep for two or three hours. She also told authorities that she broke the car window to make the deaths look like an accident, the release said.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      I await Lenore Skenazy’s apologia.

      1. leonadasiv

        I think there are some situations where people are jerks about kids being left in the car for 2 min while parents put a shopping cart away or grab another kid, but this is not that case. This woman deserves to rot in hell. I mean the fact that she tried to make it look like an accident just shows that she never stopped thinking about herself. There is no way I would think that my 2 year old could get herself out of a car let alone her get her sister out.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      Rope

  7. The Late P Brooks

    You got oh…50-60 years left?

    Gadfrey! I hope not.

    You must have mistaken me for Ron Bailey.

    1. But Enough About Me

      Don’t you mean “500-600 years left”?

    1. Raven Nation

      Because you have too much talent to waste it on mere links?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        That may be true.

        But who’s the most racist Muppet? Sam the Eagle? Rowlf the Dog?

    2. Sam the American Eagle is clearly the most racist.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Consensus!

      2. But Enough About Me

        I love that guy.

    3. John Titor

      I assumed that any links done by you would just be language nerd stuff, rapidly aging memes and a lot of butts.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Have I been typecast so easily?

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          Self Type Cast

    4. Gilmore

      who is the most racist Muppet?

      mh. Swedish Chef. And Statler.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Waldorf will have some words with you.

    5. Rufus the Monocled

      I always assumed it was Oscar.

    6. It’s fucking Kermit, always bitching abut being green, all the asshole sees is color, he’s the Muppet Al Sharpton, and that’s one racist micky fickey right there.

    7. Scruffy Nerfherder

      All I know is that the libertarian Muppets are the old guys in the box seats.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Statler and Waldorf.

        THEY HAVE NAMES.

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          Rufus obviously misses his Muppet dolls.

          1. Schnirt Gurgleburger

            I could never relate to those guys when the show was in production. Now…I am those guys. *Sigh*

  8. Rhywun

    “If there is any state that desparately needs term limits it is this one [Illinois].”

    Yeah, I used to think that way. Problem is… with term limits you’re just cycling in a new batch of even crazier Democrats every few years. It won’t solve anything.

    1. Grumbletarian

      Newbie politicians with veteran lobbyists “showing them the ropes.”

  9. Rhywun

    Re: the “Eurofighter” – it wears a neckerchief and wants to talk you to death.

    1. Agent Cooper

      It smokes you to death.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    D’oh!

    Seven-time major champion John McEnroe, when asked, can confidently say Serena Williams has earned the designation as the greatest woman to play tennis.

    However, in an interview Sunday as part of the book tour promoting his new memoir “But Seriously,” McEnroe qualified her greatness by telling NPR that if Serena played on the men’s circuit she’d be “like No. 700 in the world.”

    “That doesn’t mean I don’t think Serena is an incredible player. I do, but the reality of what would happen on a given day is Serena could beat some players, I believe, because she is so incredibly strong mentally,” McEnroe said.

    “But if she had to just play the circuit — the men’s circuit — that would be an entirely different story.”

    McEnroe went on to say that maybe at some point a women’s tennis player can be better than anybody.

    “I just haven’t seen it in any other sport, and I haven’t seen it in tennis. I suppose anything’s possible at some stage.”

    Sports Justice Warriors aghast.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      Serena’s a singular talent. And I don’t doubt she’d be able to win a match or two on the mens’ circuit. But anyone who thinks she’d be any better than about 500th in the world is kidding themselves.

      Golf is a sport where a woman hypothetically would be able to compete against men (though less so nowadays when it’s about distance instead of shot making). But every time a woman’s been in a men’s event… it hasn’t exactly gone well for her.

      1. Old Man With Candy

        I wonder why chess has separate men’s and women’s divisions.

        1. The Zenome Project

          That’s actually a good question: isn’t the Spelling Bee another place where girls and boys compete in the same competition and both sexes have won titles.

          1. Old Man With Candy

            That’s actually a good question

            Don’t act so surprised!

          2. Lackadaisical

            Aren’t the kids who participate in the spelling bee per-pubescent. Or early pubescent?

            I have a feeling that makes a difference.

        2. ruodberht

          Because women are vastly, vastly worse at chess than men.

        3. F. Stupidity Jr.

          I wonder why chess has separate men’s and women’s divisions.

          With very, very few exceptions (Vera Menchik, Maya Chiburdanidze, Judit Polgar, Hou Yifan) women don’t perform as well as men in chess. Polgar was the only one to make the FIDE top ten list, reaching #5 at one point.

          Though your statement reads more as a rhetorical device, so you may have already known that.

          1. Old Man With Candy

            Oh, I’m well aware. My son is an enthusiast, and I play as well (though poorly). We’ve been to the St. Louis chess club, and he has gotten instruction from a women’s champion.

          2. F. Stupidity Jr.

            For those who don’t know, Judit Polgar was one of the true phenoms in the history of chess. Bobby Fischer earned his grandmaster title in 1958, at the age of 15. He was the youngest in history, and that remained the case until 1991, when Judit earned the title.

            For heterosexual male chess players, Judit Polgar was the dream woman: super-strong player, with an exciting style of play, nice as can be, and pretty darned easy on the eyes.

          3. Rhywun

            I don’t know much about chess but the kids that creamed me in JHS were never the ones you would expect. E.g. terrible students the lot of them.

          4. mr simple

            Hey, if that’s what you’re into, then you be you, friend.

          5. F. Stupidity Jr.
          6. Old Man With Candy

            This was my son’s instructor.

    2. westernsloper

      “I just haven’t seen it in any other sport, and I haven’t seen it in tennis. I suppose anything’s possible at some stage.”

      Yep, when that stage is the chic used to be a dude.

    3. Somebody needs to talk to Karsten Braasch.

    4. Rhywun

      It helps if she’s 26 years younger than you.

      1. Viking1865

        Rumor has it that was rigged anyway.

        1. BigT

          Paging Swiss!

        2. *narrows gaze*

    5. Rufus the Monocled

      He’s right.

      And he’d better not apologize when and if the perpetually outraged pounced.

  11. Viking1865

    Steam Sale!

    Just bought Portal 2, the three Brothers in Arms games, Dishonored, and Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor for 20 bucks.

    1. Hyperion

      Meh. I can’t find anything to buy, for sure. Have about 5-6 games in my cart. Not sure about any of them.

    2. leonadasiv

      Dishonored is amazing, Up there in one of my favorite franchises. I bought Medieval 2 Total War, cause it’s been on my list for a while and it was $5.

      1. Hyperion

        I bought Medieval 2 Total War, cause it’s been on my list for a while and it was $5

        Thanks for that tip. I see they have a demo, downloading now.

      2. John Titor

        Stainless Steel and Beginning of the End Times (Warhammer) are both really mods.

      3. thrakkorzog

        If you like Dishonored and are willing to put up with some really dated graphics, youu should check out the first two Thief games, since Dishonored is pretty much a spiritual successor. And you can pick them both up for less than $3.

        1. leonadasiv

          I’ll check them out. Thanks for the tip.

    3. The Elite Elite

      I’ll throw out a recommendation for everyone. If you like RTSs and you don’t already own it, I couldn’t recommend Age of Empires 2 HD Edition highly enough. One of the best games ever made, updated for modern PCs.

    1. leonadasiv

      Learn How to do a math equation correctly, so you don’t go multiplying any babies

      That gave me a smile.

    2. What the fuck is this a reference to?

    3. John Titor

      “Do your homework, go to school, get educated, learn how to do a math equation correctly…”

      Man, the Asian thug life is weird.

    4. The Elite Elite

      It’s a little strange to be hearing an Asian talking in that manner.

      1. Gilmore

        Asian rednecks take the cake.

        i used to have this vietnamese client from Louisiana. she was some exec VP at Sonic (the fast food chain). her accent was some nightmarish combination of Baton Rouge and Hanoi

        1. thrakkorzog

          If close your eyes this guy would fit right in with the Blue Collar comedy crowd.

      2. Mythical Libertarian Woman

        Visit Stockton, California.

  12. DEG

    MAYBE ZARDOZ CAN SCORE A PRIZE (ZARDOZ HOPES FOR BASS BOAT)

    No guns?

    1. I think Zardoz has plenty of those.

      1. DEG

        You can’t have too many guns.

      2. Holger-da-Dane

        Not if he keeps giving them away like that.

  13. Gilmore

    The Realness of the Struggle Is Not Diminished

    I confess i cringed very hard when the two of them began discussing what was “in the constitution”. neither came particularly close. courts are what have determined the executive’s scope of authority re: immigration. what’s actually in the doc is pretty ‘meh’.

    i think the masked woman was Yvette Felarca. she’s a riot. (rim shot)

    I have no idea why these californians have suddenly decided that Chechnya is a hot topic now. Up until 10 years ago it was a war ravaged shithole where rape/murder/terror was a daily thing. Since 2009 its basically been “better’, albeit run by a crazy homophobic dictator who plays with tigers and likes to do MMA.

    1. Way to question Jesse’s constitutional knowledge.

    2. Gilmore

      e.g. Ramzan Kadyrov: the man who makes Call of Duty Bad Guys look understated and timid by comparison

      1. John Titor

        He’s like a dudebro with an AK-47.

        1. Gilmore

          <a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/03/13/2E10DB9400000578-3301852-image-a-43_1446556686039.jpg"Uberdudebro who goes jogging with an RPK and a fleet of camouflaged SUV's to play "eye of the tiger"

          1. Gilmore

            i think if i fucked up 3 links in a single thread it might be a new record.
            here’s an MMA fighter playing with a gold machine gun in his bathtub

          2. leonadasiv

            Photo of a golden shower eh?

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Racists in my closet. Racists under my bed. Racists in my sculpture garden

    “I’m really sick of alt-right groups appropriating classical antiquities for nefarious reasons,” she told The Chronicle on Friday. “And I was like, OK, it’s time to just take it back and say classical antiquities belong to everybody, not just Western civilization.”

    So she wrote an essay entitled “Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color” on Hyperallergic, an online forum focused on the arts. Many statues used to be painted in full color, Ms. Bond wrote.

    It wasn’t until much later, she wrote, that white marble became the norm.

    “Where this standard came from and how it continues to influence white-supremacist ideas today are often ignored,” she wrote.

    “Internet stoning” ensues.

    That poor misunderstood woman. Tisk, tisk.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      She’s not wrong though. As I have noted before, the most ardent self-appointed “defenders” of Western civilization tend to know fuck-all about it.

      1. John Titor

        That’s because, as I was assured by John, university history courses are crypto-Marxist brainwashing that demonize white men constantly.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          I see. If only there were a way to find knowledge on one’s own! Like a giant catalog of information, digitized and available to be accessed through some sort of world-spanning network of interconnected computers.

          Who am I fooling? That’s utopian crazy-talk!

          1. John Titor

            To be fair, they are getting their information from said mythical device. They’re just getting it from Richard Spencer’s reading lists, Cliffnotes on Nietzsche and sites that use the word ‘cuck’ unironically.

          2. straffinrun

            Like we wouldn’t be staring at asses all day if we had that.

          3. But Enough About Me

            Bewbs, d00d. BEWBS.

          4. straffinrun

            Trying to be inclusive. Think of Jesse and Rhywun.

          5. Rhywun

            Nothing wrong with a nice pair of man-boobs.

          6. MikeS

            Or young starlets nipples

          7. JD

            If it existed, it would be mostly cat pictures.

      2. ruodberht

        She’s not wrong? About anything?

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          Yes. She is omniscient and omnipotent.

          All hail Ms. Bond, the one true god!

          1. ruodberht

            OK, but she seems to equate white statues with white supremacy. Seems pretty wrong. The only thing she seems to be right about is trivial, so I’m wondering what the point of your comment was.

            But ok man. Tilt at those windmills.

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            My apologies, I thought you were making a joke and I was rolling with it.

            That having been said, if you RTFA, then you’ll learn that, no, she doesn’t equate white statues with white supremacy. What she actually did was make the same observation that anyone who has ever visited the front page of Metapedia would agree with, that certain elements of the alt-right/White nationalist/Anime Nazi pedophile collective seem to have this fetish for Greco-Roman cultural artifacts that is based on a quite shallow, half-remembered from high school, Cliff’s Notes version of history. Adding to the irony is the fact that many of the people frothing at the mouth over Ms. Bond’s pointing out their ignorance of actual Classical aesthetic views hail from cultures (Nordic, Germanic, etc.) that the Greeks and Romans would have viewed as irredeemably savage, especially compared to the more civilized, in their estimation, cultures of North Africa and the Levant.

          3. John Titor

            More civilized, but also more decadent. The Greeks and Romans always found a way to complain about weirdo foreigners.

          4. Heroic Mulatto

            That’s true. To be fair, Ptolemaic-era Egypt was pretty fucking decadent, what with all the sister-fucking and all.

          5. thrakkorzog

            Pretty sure the Egyptians were into banging their sisters long before the Ptolemy era pharaohs.

          6. Heroic Mulatto

            Yes, but back then, they were in love!

          7. thrakkorzog

            Both the left and right are pretty bad about trying to impose modern views on race on ancient times. A Nubian from Egypt that spoke Greek and Latin would be considered pretty civilized by Romans. But a blonde-haired blue eyed Saxon would wave been considered a barbarian, fit for little more than slavery.

      3. Rick C-137

        I would actually like to see the old statues dolled up as they used to be. Could be entertaining

          1. Rick C-137

            Thanks HM

        1. BigT

          Yeah, “impromptu hootenanny” today.

    2. leonadasiv

      Internet Stonings are the worst! And do you know who said he had sole right to start them? Jesus. Or at least that’s what I think he meant. Anyway, Stoning is just bad. Almost as bad as blanket banning immigration from Muslim countries.

    3. straffinrun

      “I am not saying all white statues are bad. I just think they’re getting manipulated for bad reasons, and I wanted to point that out,”

      She talking about Gore or Kerry?

    4. leonadasiv

      On a serious note, when will progs realize that attacking White Supremacists just emboldens them. It’s not like there was a huge influx of them over the year. It’s just now that the DNC has made it a part of the talking points that they have come to common discussions. Obviously, someone reading DNC talking points isn’t in a good position to be thinking independently, but you would think some of the more intelligent ones would realize that something that hasn’t been a big issue for 40 years probably isn’t going to resurge in 12 months.

      1. The Zenome Project

        If the progs’ goal really was to weaken the racists, simply leaving them alone to Seig Heil each other on Stormfront would be the tact that they would choose. Of course, progressivism thirsts for racial and ethnic conflict as a ways to piece together a coalition, so they actively search them out instead.

        1. Q Continuum

          Correct. Progs thrive on racial, ethnic and class divisions. There’s a reason that after 8 years of The First Black President (TM) race relations are worse in the country than they have been in 50 years. With harmonious relations among people, the progs have no leverage to scare people into voting for them.

          1. leonadasiv

            All that makes sense with reference to the DNC leadership and Hardcore Progs, But i’m talking about the Camp Followers. The people who lean left, and so they see all the crap pushed out by the left on facebook by their friends. You would think some of the smarter ones would question how White Supremacists made such a quick resurgence in America.

          2. Q Continuum

            It’s a religion man. They’re not using evidence or logic, it’s all faith.

          3. John Titor

            The smart ones are. It’s why you’re seeing ‘somewhat left’ people trying to distance themselves from the radical left. After the election I started seeing people on left-wing sites call the social justice crowd ‘the alt-left’ but I don’t think that’s going to stick. If you look at the most popular youtube commentators who are ‘somewhat left’ it’s dominated by people critical of the left in general. Sargon, Dave Rubin, members of the ‘skeptics’ community who were unpersoned for wrongthink, etc.

          4. John Titor

            Oh, and of course, Gamergate and ‘gamers in general were rife with left-leaning people who flat out rejected social justice idiocy.

          5. The Zenome Project

            The “somewhat left” crowd (or at least the non-apathetic ones) are a tiny, nearly insignificant minority in the anti-SJW coalition. I think that most of the folks opposing the social justice disease are folks that were either leaning right to begin with or were apathetic about politics. The apathetic ones were, until recently, nodding their heads to leftist drivel because that’s where the winds were blowing at the time.

          6. LT_Fish

            Well, I think Sargon is actually pretty representative of the Euro side of things that side of the pond – socially left compared to the US (social safety net, etc), but very pro-free speech – in contrast to the general political stance over there.

      2. Akira

        Exactly.

        If they had not hyped up Richard Spencer so much, he’d probably still be a small-time blogger. Now he’s a household name thanks to their fearmongering.

      1. Rhywun

        we can still do this with deference to the culture it came from.

        I don’t know what this gibberish is supposed to mean.

        1. Pan Zagloba

          I read it “acknowledge that you are borrowing and changing piece of someone else’s culture” which is fine an attitude to take, especially given human propensity to deny that Those Other Guys every came up with anything worthwhile

          Just like saying “classical antiquity belongs to the everyone” is fine attitude to take, in that you can say that origin of a thing is irrelevant, only what we as human beings get out of it.

          Saying both things at the same time lets alt-idiots go “See? She says every culture is worth except Muh Western (White) Culture!”

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            I read it “acknowledge that you are borrowing and changing piece of someone else’s culture” which is fine an attitude to take, especially given human propensity to deny that Those Other Guys every came up with anything worthwhile

            Saying both things at the same time lets alt-idiots go “See? She says every culture is worth except Muh Western (White) Culture!”

            I disagree. The Olive Garden is fucking bullshit, too.

          2. Rhywun

            human propensity to deny that Those Other Guys every came up with anything worthwhile

            Except nobody does that any more.

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            Gavin McInnes doesn’t like being called a nobody.

        2. Heroic Mulatto

          It means stop adding peanuts to shit and calling it “Thai”.

          1. Pan Zagloba

            *bows to sensei’s wisdom*

          2. Gustave Lytton

            *dumps peanuts on HM*

            Anyone want some Mad Thai?

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            You want to see a mad Thai? Suggest to my wife that I might not have been faithful.

            These were her wedding vows to me.

  15. John Titor

    Repost from last night, but seriously: which one of you was a writer on Gravity Falls?

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      Out of all the shows I’ve watched with the kid, Gravity Falls is my favorite.

    2. Did you have to post such an oversized photo?

      1. John Titor

        It’s either that or this video filmed on a potato.

  16. KibbledKristen

    I’ve had an exciting afternoon. Launch, stage 1 landing, and the Iridium SNOC is receiving telemetry from all 10 satellites!

    1. Old Man With Candy

      I’ve also had an exciting afternoon. SugarFree took a dump in my shower, JW groped my daughter, and Swiss Servator planted ordnance in my back yard (“It will be a fun surprise when you find it.”).

      1. Hyperion

        Well, WTF did you expect inviting members of this site into your home?

        1. Old Man With Candy

          We seriously put away an impressive amount of alcohol this weekend. SP is rescuing bottles and cans for the recycle to photograph and post. At dinner last night, we had a “civilian” at the table who was just astounded by the, um, interesting conversation.

          Upside: we came up with some GREAT ideas for Glib merch. Well, they seemed great at the time, anyway.

          1. Rick C-137

            Did you write them down, or were they just good ideas that live in the ether of booze and libermania?

          2. Old Man With Candy

            They have been memorialized, though “write” is a bit of a misnomer for “bent metal to form words, heated to redness, then seared into the buttock skin of waling orphans.”

          3. Rick C-137

            Fair point, as long as we get custom glib themed weapons and drug paraphernalia.

          4. Q Continuum

            I just want an AR lower with the Glib logo. Is that too much to ask?

          5. Hyperion

            I’m actually jealous that I missed it, as I would be more than happy and am totally capable of consuming copious amounts of alcohol with ya’ll.

        2. Heroic Mulatto

          Wait until I visit in March!

          1. Old Man With Candy

            We’ll get Ed Wuncler in as well so that we have at least 1.5 Negroes.

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            I believe the SI unit is a “snipes”, as Wesley Snipes is the fundamental unit of blackness.

          3. I thought it was Seal.

          4. Q Continuum

            Not Idris Elba?

          5. Heroic Mulatto

            As far as I know, both Seal and Idris have paid their taxes.

          6. I will see if I can scrounge up some more Bouncing Betty mi…. er, party favors.

      2. Rick C-137

        I imagine glib meetings are just like this…

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkhT3zVBxKo

      3. The Elite Elite

        JW groped my daughter

        Pics?

        1. Old Man With Candy

          See her avatar (webdominatrix).

      4. John Titor

        This is why you need to make Swiss Servator sign the Ottawa Treaty before you invite him to your property.

        1. HAHAHAHA! Too late!

          Care for a length of det cord?

          1. Gustave Lytton

            *goes and sniffs old claymore bag for that sweet sweet C4 smell*

    2. KibbledKristen

      Also, I can’t seem to wind down. One last Fat Tire in the fridge….

      1. Hyperion

        Rum is the answer. I have a bottle staring at me right now. Almost out of beer, but that Rum, it’s calling my name.

        1. Hyperion

          Sort of like this

          Gator Country

      2. Holger-da-Dane

        You’re just on a roll with these euphemisms.

    3. Rick C-137

      Nice, I got to watch the launch, it’s pretty cool watching a rocket launch, and even cooler, in a sense, that it is so commonplace as to barely register on the news, at least not like it would have a few years agon

  17. Will Cortez Cortez show up tonight?

    1. *shakes Magic 8 Ball*

      …Seems Doubtful.

      1. leonadasiv

        So… You’re telling me there’s a chance?

  18. The Late P Brooks

    the most ardent self-appointed “defenders” of Western civilization tend to know fuck-all about it.

    I don’t see what a bunch of weatherbeaten statues have to do with “white supremacy”. There isn’t even anything in there about the Elgin Marbles.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      With reference to the Elgin Marbles, it’s worth noting that the myths originating from Victorian-era pseudo-history has a lot to do with it.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    SugarFree took a dump in my shower

    At least he made it past the kitchen.

  20. DenverJ

    I’m house/dog sitting for my mom and her husband. They’ve been gone since Friday, and the dog won’t eat.
    It will gobble up treats, just won’t eat her food. It’s some weird mental hang up. She’s trying to bury it under her blanket. I brought the bag of food inside so that she can see she doesn’t have to save it, but no go.
    Any advice?

    1. John Titor

      Put a treat at the bottom of the bowl.

      1. straffinrun

        That’s how my wife gets me to …

        1. DenverJ

          Clean the toilet?

          1. straffinrun

            Goooooal. Nice.

          2. straffinrun

            Speaking of the wife. She goes in to get the test results for a small mass they found in a breast exam. 95% sure she’s fine, but still going to be hard to concentrate at work today. Scary shit.

          3. DenverJ

            That’s some very scary shit. I hope it’s nothing.

          4. Q Continuum

            Good luck to her and you.

          5. Best wishes for good news on that front.

          6. straffinrun

            Thanks, guys.

          7. DEG

            I hope it goes well.

          8. But Enough About Me

            Same issue with my spousal unit a couple of months ago. Approximately 94% of “positives” during mammograms (ferinstance) are false positives. Turns out she’s fine, and the odds say your wife will be good. And when she turns out fine, pop a bottle of prosecco and give ‘er a kiss from my wife. Godspeed and good stats, mang.

          9. Heroic Mulatto

            give ‘er a kiss from my wife

            Hot.

            Lesbian by proxy is my new fetish.

          10. Q Continuum

            Pics or it didn’t happen.

          11. Old Man With Candy

            Please tell us when you get the results.

          12. Number.6

            Good luck guys. Mrs #6 went thru this 10 years ago.

            Scary times, but *EVEN IF* the news is bad, you’re in the best place in the world to deal with the crisis.

            Stay strong. We’re all with you on this.

          13. Gustave Lytton

            Pulling for you and missus, straff.

          14. The Elite Elite

            Sorry to hear that. Hope it all turns out to be nothing.

          15. Scruffy Nerfherder

            Good luck.

          16. Gilmore

            your wife’s breasts will be in my thoughts and prayers.

            no seriously, good luck with that.

          17. mr simple

            Good luck. I can’t imagine you’ll get a lot done, but it sure as hell beats waiting around.

        2. Q Continuum

          Go downtown, ifyaknowwhadImean?

    2. Number.6

      If it’s dry food, I’d go out get a quart of low salt chicken stock and add a cup of that to the food.

      1. DenverJ

        That’s not bad, but i think still missing the point. I think she’s really afraid that there won’t be any more food if she eats it.
        Maybe I’ll run to the store and buy some soft food, and put it in a different dish.
        Thanks

        1. Number.6

          Just put the food (tarted up with broth, or not) in another dish in another place. Put the original formulation of the food in the ‘normal’ place a bit later.

          If the dog is smart, it has about the same level of analytical sophistication as a 3 year old.

        2. Holger-da-Dane

          Just get her some canned food, or a high quality dry food like blue buffalo.

    3. Rufus the Monocled

      Quietly lock the door and go home.

      You clearly failed.

    4. Juvenile Bluster

      When I first got my (late) beagle, he wouldn’t eat at all … if I was in the room. If I put the food down and left the room, he’d eat.

      1. Chafed

        My dig won’t eat unless I sit next to him. Go figure. My advice is time will cure this. The dog will get hungry and eat, eventually. Then you refill the bowl. Problem solved.

    5. DenverJ

      Canned food in a different dish in a different place did the trick

  21. The Late P Brooks

    I would actually like to see the old statues dolled up as they used to be. Could be entertaining

    I remember going to Los Angeles in the late ’70s when “Iranians” (generic term for not-Jewish middle easterners, I suspect) were buying/renting old L A mansions and painting the statuary. Much huffing and puffing was to be heard.

    1. Rhywun

      Was it these guys?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Was it these guys?

    Their parents, probably.

  23. Q Continuum

    Money quote: “Make something illegal or too expensive, and you’ll make a crook rich.”

    http://nypost.com/2017/06/25/what-to-know-about-the-golden-age-of-buttlegging/

    1. Q Continuum

      PS: Now patiently waiting for HM to find a youtube video appropriate for “buttlegging”.

      PPS: Who goes to the trouble of uploading the PG-13 parts of porn vids to youtube and why would you do such a thing?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        I was distracted in my search and stopped here.

        1. Q Continuum

          That seems like a pretty good stopping place.

        2. Rhywun

          Surprised you didn’t already have something relevant on tap.

        3. DEG

          I say that is not proper depth.

        4. Holger-da-Dane

          *Sobs quietly into pillow*

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        PPS: Who goes to the trouble of uploading the PG-13 parts of porn vids to youtube and why would you do such a thing?

        Because this.

        1. Q Continuum

          True thespians.

    2. Rhywun

      Fuck that guy. He’s only concerned about the lost taxes.

      1. Q Continuum

        Government is just a word for the things we do together amirite?

  24. Derpetologist

    I got some news from my brother, who is deployed in Afghanistan. He got injured during a rocket attack yesterday. The attack started suddenly and when he dived into a bunker, he scraped his leg badly. For some reason, they are not allowed to shoot back at the Taliban up in the hills by the base, so the Taliban just keeps shooting at them.

    The last time he was in Afghanistan, he was at a base that would get hit with mortars all the time. Sometimes he would be far away from a bunker, so he had to choose staying put in a fragile building or running for a bunker and risk getting hit while out in the open.

    There’s an anti mortar/rocket gatling gun called a C-RAM, but I think only the bigger bases have them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4PXou0aGiE

    He likes flying helicopters, but I think he’s getting tired of the army. He was thinking about flying to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, but thinks oil companies are the devil. I asked him once where he thinks aviation fuel comes from.

    Well, this isn’t his first rodeo, so I think he’s holding up OK. I should probably try to contact him soon.

    1. AlmightyJB

      I hope your brother is ok. Are they doing any better at getting those guys armor? Personal as well as armor plating for transport? I know that used to be an issue.

      1. Derpetologist

        He never complained about the armor. He showed it to me a few years ago. Pilots a special quick release version so they can drop the plates if they crash in water.

        He did complain about the electronic countermeasures being outdated. The standard thing now is called Disco Ball because of what it looks like.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/ALQ-144

        The Israelis have something better, but for some reason, we’re not buying it from them.

        Fortunately, the Taliban are not very good at shooting down helicopters. The vast majority of the losses are from accidents. Wiki sez 107 choppers lost, with 27 due to hostile fire.

        1. AlmightyJB

          That’s good about the armor. I know early on the Humvees were severly lacking adequate armor plating which I thought to be unacceptable. Wow that crash rate is crazy. Sounds like the training needs modified.

          1. Viking1865

            The Humvee was not designed to be IED or mine resistant. It’s a light transport vehicle. It does exactly what it was designed to do.

          2. Gustave Lytton

            Not originally, but the uparmored humvee is/was to some degree. I remember ads running in the back of Army about one of the then newer uparmored humvees running over a mine in the Balkans and the crew surviving.

          3. Gustave Lytton

            *back of Army in the late 90’s

          4. AlmightyJB

            They should have had that armor from the beginning.

          5. Viking1865

            They should have had that armor from the beginning.

            Again, the Humvee was not designed to be a fighting vehicle in a mine and IED dense environment. It was the replacement for the Jeep, a light utility transport. The Humvee functions just as fine when used for its designed purpose.

          6. LT_Fish

            New JLTV is the new HMMVW/Jeep replacement designed from the ground up for greater mobility and armor. Lessons learned, but it looks like it should be good as an all-around vehicle – urban or off-road.

      2. John Titor

        I used to work for an MRC subsidiary in university that produced the Textron APC and I can assure you, the armor on those is high quality. The plates we built were worth tens of thousands of dollars and had plenty of DU in ’em.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Sorry to hear that. Hope he he gets out OK

    3. Gilmore

      best wishes to your bro

      they are not allowed to shoot back at the Taliban

      (facepalm) 16 fucking years. at least in iraq you can pretend things have *changed* at least.

    4. LT_Fish

      C-RAM is a variation of CIWS on ships (that’s why they – originally – had to send Navy sailors as techs….I think it’s actually an Army MOS now). Self-contained radar and gun mount all together. A small FB generally won’t have them, but most FOBs and larger have/had them….not sure about the current status, but I’m guessing with the ramp-up there’ll be a few more installed.

  25. AlmightyJB

    Welcome to the dark side Deion. Order your monogrammed orphans here.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2017/06/25/koch-brothers-working-deion-sanders-fight-poverty/

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      Deion does totally seem the type that would rock a top hat and monocle.

  26. Scruffy Nerfherder

    A reminder that the banking system still has one foot in the grave and another on a Banana peel.

    http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/25/italy-making-5-point-8-billion-in-resources-available-to-keep-two-banks-open.html

    1. AlmightyJB

      How does a business granted the power to create money have money problems?

  27. Rhywun

    An aside… I don’t watch a lot of ESPN but when I do, is it just me or do they use cheap-ass cameras that aren’t suited for HD? Any event I watch on ESPN looks like shit compared to the same sport on every other channel.

  28. Rhywun

    I like how my cats pick Sunday night to throw up all over their furniture, so it will have time to dry and therefore be eaiser to clean by the time I get around to it, oh, maybe tomorrow.

    1. John Titor

      Rhywun confirmed for the gay equivalent of crazy cat lady.

      1. Rhywun

        Have you tried to clean wet cat puke out of carpet?

        1. John Titor

          I’m from the ruralest of rural Ontario backgrounds, cats don’t end up inside the house, they live in the barn and are happy to feed off table scraps.

          1. Rhywun

            I live in a 7th floor apartment. The outside cats in my neighborhood are all feral and injured.

          2. John Titor

            In general I’m not a cat person at all. Dogs are a respectable, loyal species but I have nothing but disdain for the very idea of indoor cats. It’s not in their nature. I’ve had a dog save my life, and I can’t say the same of a cat in any circumstance.

        2. LT_Fish

          Lots of resolve spray.

        1. John Titor

          God, I volunteered at a ‘catcon’ when I was in high school for the community service credits, that shit was goddamn weird.

        2. Rhywun

          I have friends that just keep replacing their cats with new cats. Me, I think I’m done after these two.

  29. straffinrun

    For meeee, it’s just how I feeel. It seeeems.

    1. straffinrun
      1. thrakkorzog

        Are there really that many women out there that can’t figure out why a guy only texts after midnight?