One of these days you’re gonna have to come through the first week in August and see my race.
You would totally dig it.
And the venue is one of those rare places on earth where the natural world or God’s beauty sits in perfect juxtaposition with what man can do at his very best.
The beauty of Stadium high school overlooking the sound leaves one Awestruck.
Similar to Neuschwanstein in Germany or the Golden Gate in San Francisco or the Hoover Dam… It’s just amazing.
I came to Fort Lewis in March 1989, fell in love with the place the very first morning here. 14 of us arrived late Friday night. We were all '2 years + 16 weeks' (OSUT--both basic and AIT combined--all combat arms training is like this) enlistees. It was cold, dark, and wet when we arrived.
Next morning, my first morning outside of training, which we called 'permanent party', was possibly the most beautiful morning I have ever witnessed. 6-8 inches of snow fell over the night, and when I was up getting outside around 0730--there wasn't a cloud in the sky, the world was silenced with a white blanket. I walked right next to the main parade field and Mt Rainier was sitting there as majestic a horizon as I had ever seen. I was stopped in my tracks, awestruck. I said to myself, "This is the most beautiful place I have ever seen in my life, I am going to spend the rest of my life here."
Born west of Seattle in ‘64. Was working downtown Seattle early nineties. Got priced out super early on in the late nineties and left the state for many years in early ‘00’s when it couldn’t be sustained anymore. Just moved back this month but in the east side, next to Idaho. The beauty and what little friends/family I have left here cannot sustain the madness for me enough at this point. That, and it’s taken a couple of decades plus to miss the rain at all. It’s so much like California, that way. Beautiful, but crazy.
I love the east side of the state as well. We are pretty tied to this side, truthfully we live charmed lives. I am nearly 45 days into a mostly ‘water only fast’ of media. SubStack is almost the only place I go, and it has lowered my temperature about current events two or three standard deviations…cool as the other side of the pillow as Stuart Scott used to say.
On the other hand there is the wise old observation that my (West Point schooled, US Army captain, marine engineer/superintendent) grandfather often said:
"We see the world as we are. Not as it is."
Our job as godly people is to transform ugliness, not to revel in it to aggrandize ourselves. You are a carpetbagger, holding yourself over others (most of them admittedly also carpetbaggers). Perhaps you could instead share what you are doing to unpack and heal the ugliness.
Or do you think it doesn't matter that within 15 years in Seattle, an incursion of jewish liberals from California, Chicago, and NYC led to them outnumbering Seattle's Norwegian population (and that was as of 2015--a full decade ago).
Concentrated in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, btw--ground zero of "CHAZ/CHOP" as well as this month's anti-Trump riots.
Hey, Becca Balint has called herself a scrappy little dyke and she is also concerned that we won't have enough illegals to do the necessary ass wiping. I didn't make any of that up.
So is UVM. I’d like to say I was shocked by her crudeness and bigotry, but unfortunately she “said the quiet part out loud”, unlike her cohorts with the same views but more tact.
There are lots of non-woke Vermonters, a whole bunch in our tiny village of not-quite-500 people, but you'd need to make some effort to find good people to support during your visit.
If it helps at all, the Northeast Kingdom is the most conservative part of the state, probably lots of good places to stay and visit. It's really beautiful there, too.
Being a guy that lives a hundred yards away from the river in New Hampshire, I can attest to this. Totally unserious people over there.
What’s REALLY funny is listening to them WHINE about the fact that they are losing federal funds, due to their position on so-called “gender affirming care” and they can’t afford all of their cradle to grave bullshit programs.
The Farm Wife is right. The folks in the Northeast Kingdom are the only ones with any common sense left.
Hello neighbor! We go to NH quite frequently, over the bridge from Springfield to Charlestown.
Vermont's reputation as a wacky blue state is well earned, but it surprises outsiders how very many conservatives live here. Not enough to sway most elections (2024 being a huge exception, we dumped a whole slate of woke legislators), but plenty enough to have a wonderful social life and dependable, friendly neighbors. The husband and I actually know more conservatives here than we ever did in two decades living in northeast Pennsylvania.
I lived in Vermont for over 30 years. Incredibly beautiful state. Visited a week ago. The drive up I89 takes your breath away, it’s so gorgeous. But Burlington broke my heart. Graffiti, homeless, open drug use, crime, closed stores and restaurants. Of course a protest march on Church St…those waving Pride flags walking alongside the ones with Palestinian flags-talk about cognitive dissonance. It’s really a shame what has happened to my once-beloved home.
Maybe then the idiots in Montpelier would have to stop giving free, very expensive, percs to BIPOCs, even those who have just arrived in the state from somewhere else, and then cry about how racist all Vermonters are because we're White.
I live south in Pierce County almost abutting Fort Lewis or now JBLM. I haven't been in 'the 206' since COVID. In-laws live in Bellevue, we venture there a few times a year. Even Tacoma is trying its very best to turn beauty to shit. Leftism is a disease.
In my mind, leftism is synonymous with progressivism. Liberal is what I would have used to describe Taibbi—and I agree, love his work. Liberty is the root word, and I’m more liberal/libertarian minded than I have ever been ‘hard core conservative’. I’m a disrupter, I often hold the status quo with disdain and contempt…which is likely why I retired as a Major…
But maybe you’re more accurate and I will use progressivism more often. Goes all the way back to Wilson et al.
Sounds like a good idea except the asshat low IQ trog will get angry and hungry and foaming with envy. It never ends well. I think of red maoists, bolsheviks, khmer rouge and antifaists. Wanting your stuff. Feeling all commie moral. Better be strapped.
I moved to Wenatchee in '06. As someone who lives to ski, mountain bike and hike alpine lakes, I absolutely love Washington...in spite of the buffoons who run this state. The over regulation, taxes and ever-rising cost of living is making it hard to stay though.
I was shellshocked by the price of the home my buddy just bought. Zero difference between Wenatchee and Tacoma-Lacey…all over priced. I’m pretty sure a reckoning is coming. Read somewhere that property values are 70-80% over inflated. Sadly I agree.
You're writing as though the policymakers in WA are making the policy.
And not, say the PRC--WA's biggest trading partner--or the logistics and service companies that manage and profit from that bidness.
Hurting rank and file Washingtonians is more of a telling fantasy about you, than it is a phalanx turned on the real cause of the problems. The tech broligarchs, the companies that turn our state into a resource extraction colony for Asia, the lawyers that back this all up, the massive companies that profit from Permawar, etc.
You're focusing on the symptom. Not the disease itself.
I didn't mean to say that it was a generational thing... my apologies for my lack of clarity... I meant to say that the trend has been apparent to me for the last 20-25 years... And I agree! It appears that a significant number of our generation (Boomers... I'm 71) are apparently part of the asshat spectrum... WTH is up with that?
"Dollar store Obama" made me guffaw! There's an entire cohort of 'em and, for my money, Governor Shapiro has the best impression of that annoying cadence. Hat tip your way, Richard.
As a disillusioned Blue Dog Democrat, I look to Josh Shapiro and Wes Moore, both competent Governors, IMHO, to save my Party from the Crazy Woke/"Progressive" Voices of the Party ...
Started then but the vitriol has really increased this term. The DOGE pushed them over the edge. I cannot fathom why people would be enraged when you try and cut waste and abuse.
The anti war hippies did to Nixon what they are also doing to Trump. They succeeded again Nixon. Trump has been able to fend off the attacks, mostly. If Nixon had been successful with the Vietnam War, the rest of the world would have feared us like they do now. Oil prices would not have sky rocketed. Pol Pot would not have been able to murder half a million people. Not as many of our troops would have died. We had it won by 1970. The democrats are truly the worst.
What’s really sad, if you follow history, is that the NV Army was pretty much spent after the Tet offensive. Our liberal media kept up the drumbeat that we needed to get out which led to decisions made. What is so different today is the alternative sources of information available to us.
But it's true on the state and local level, as well. Bias and agenda as far as you can see. Plus, their pay is miserable so I don't know why they do it.
So true. I live near Seattle where Christopher Rufo was run out of town and the only other non ultra progressive news personality, Brandi Kruse also went independent.
I am with you, but I have to ask, what small shreds of evidence do you see that prevents you from being 100% positive that 100% of msm is 100% engineered propaganda?
I’ll watch for that!! I miss Dori Monson btw. Born at Tacoma General and lived next 70 years in Gig Harbor. We threw in the towel in 2022 sold everything and moved to SW Missouri. It’s been pretty much socialist-free. I will trade Inslee/Ferguson for the tornado risk any time!
Ha! Born in ‘64 in Bremerton but finally was able to leave in the ‘00’s. Lots of time in Ohio and most recently Illinois. The last time we had ‘severe thunderstorm’ risk out there in my old single wide; that turned into a 40 minute tornado siren scream I said, ‘that’s it, I’m done and going back’ lol. But Idaho is less than 15 minutes so it almost feels normal, lol. My mother’s side of the family was originally from Missouri but got tired of the storms and moved up to greater Seattle area in the late 1800’s, lol. Still, after I take care of some family obligations, I’ll likely be looking for a less blue area. Illinois is even worse, in some ways, for sure.
Another local media figure around here who was de-platformed is Cliff Mass, the UW climatologist. His weather blog is really great, especially if you appreciate even handed, fact based debunking of the climate change hysteria pushed by the Seattle Times and other MSM. He has also done a great deal of work documenting the actual effects and climate change on the PNW and what they are likely to be moving forward.
Both my daughters were born at Harrison. It’s rumored that I retired from PSNS but I don’t want to publicly admit it, that I was on the government dole. Sunless Bremerton, 325 days of overcast.
Agreed! Maybe because they are owned by globalists like Bloomberg. It's mind poi-zen. Have you seen Merritt TV, Dr. Phils' new network? It's the closest to reality that we've come across in years. Not perfect but at least you don't come away feeling like you're going nuts anymore after watching their News production and perspectives. OAN & NEWSMAX can be a bit overwhelming sometimes.
See Chris, you must read the graph more carefully. The oil prices going down actually mean they are going up, which will occur at some future date as a boomerang effect instigated by Orange Man's diabolical plans for world dictatorship. It's very clear, I'm certain, to your many followers like it is to me.
Seems to me that virtually EVERY "expert" prognostication, for the last 60 years, has been wrong. Usually utterly, completely, absolutely f%$#*g wrong.
Then again, Alex Jones did kind of nail 9/11. Just saying.
What's funny is Tucker's (commendable) apology for supporting the Iraq war based on rumors of yellowcake. But after the pendulum swung, his confidence is just as high the other way. This time, he seems sure that it's a bad idea to take out Iran's incontrovertible nuclear weapons program from the air.
If it turns out to take a few more bombing runs, so be it. But it appears that there's no dispute that Iran has 60% enriched uranium, and there's **no other reason to have it.**
I don't understand people whose argument starts with:
1. They don't have a bomb (yet).
Before that point, I think you have to start with whether it's acceptable for the current Mullahs to have nuclear weapons, or not.
If someone thinks that's ok, and they're not saying that because Death to America!, then there's no point in discussing the other points, because that perspective changes everything. If no really means no.
No one says, well, sure, if you assume they can't have nukes, then we should [whatever it is]. But they skip that and quibble about how close the rest of the world should let them get to ACTUALLY HAVING THEM. When the answer should be "not very close at all."
If you're obviously taking steps to get nuclear weapons — and you're a key instigator of terrorism everywhere — no. Just no. It's not about the bomb. It's about your well-known program to get one.
Assuming it's not ok for them to have nukes, and assuming that "they have the bomb" is too late (Kim Jong-il), I really don't understand the argument that we need to let them get even closer before doing anything about it. That is, stopping it. How much closer in this all-in game of chicken should we get? Why??
The second argument I can't understand is:
2. Something bad might happen if we do anything about it.
Some of these are the people, for example, who thought the JCPOA was a good idea. "They're not that bad, and it'll be ok if we keep an eye on them." We did, and it wasn't.
I think the more rational perspective is that if you find yourself not doing what needs to be done because of fear of terrorists, you're doing it wrong. Meaning, it's naive and stupid. (Both of which, for example, explain 20 years of rape gangs (also not ok, period) and cover-ups in an otherwise good country.)
And it's why you shouldn't generally negotiate with terrorists. It's about the next time. We can't make decisions based on what random cells of terrorists might do. (And we shouldn't be so reticent to take out their backers when they do it.)
That said, I'll wait to see if this worked. And what positives and negatives might result.
But what do you think will happen to the price of oil when the current regime gets 10 nukes and gives one or two of them to different groups of like-minded believers?
Whatever they do in response, the answer is to see question #1: Can. They. Have. Nukes?
And as we were recently reminded, see Hangover Part 2, again:
Just heard one of my neighbors say she'd trust 50 drag queens with her 3 and 5 y.o. before she'd let 1 Trump supporter near them. Hmmmmm...bet she's hoping for WWIII right now...just to make him look bad. People are weird....
Yep. I actually feel sorry for her. To have her emotions so ruled by politics. I mean, it's western Wisconsin. Where does she think she live? All us awful MAGAs .....blahhhhh.....so sad.
Considering what she said, I'm sure her little monsters are....little monsters. So, I'm very positive that any 1 single Trump supporter is breathing a huge sigh of relief that they won't be subjected to those things.
All she has to do is walk through the San Francisco airport, and the confluence of concourses B and C to see a live drag show. I'm sure the "persons" would have gladly taught her tots. I was grateful I was not traveling with my kids. Imagine, just for giggles, a stage set up at the same place, with nuns and brothers playing sacred music on violin, piano and flute to passing travelers in honor of, oh I don't know, Corpus Christi?
A mutual friend told me that if they cant agree each election season on who to vote for, she doesnt "allow" her or husband to vote. She must keep his balls in a cup over the mantle. Sheesh! I would never dominate anyone whom a care about like that. So ugly!
Oh, im sorry to hear that. Differing on politics should be like differing on retirement investment choices or how to discipline the kids. You're not going to see eye to eye on everything, but as long as you share the same value structure you can make it work. Politics has gotten too important in people's lives. Maybe we should take that as a sign that our gov't has overstepped it's role? A recent example - i shouldn't have to attend school board meetings to remind geown adults, "No, it's not okay for my 13 y.o. daughter to shower with boys." I lay a lot of marital discord at the foot of government overreach.
Lol...idk. good luck finding that many to babysit at one time. It's funny too-one of my kids got a perfect psat AND a perfect act score. Whatever. Im not saying it to brag. Tests aren't everything. But it highlights what a dreadful parent I am! Uugh! She's having trouble squaring that circle for sure.🤣
Lol...no Kaplan class, but like I said, it's not everything. Took him 3 attempts to figure out how to gas up the car. All kinds of smart out there, and he doesnt have a monopoly on common sense!😉
Ceasefire,oil dropped 3$ more! Wow the world is gonna 'splode', hahaha The slimey chittering horde of wokerturds all are convinced that all is lost,i say suffer bitchs!
My favorite take is from the people saying Iran wasn't trying to develop nuclear weapons and that they moved the enriched Uranium before the bombing so they can restart the operation. 😄
A Boomer lib relative told me a month ago that I needed to stockpile diapers and toilet paper because trade with China had stopped and there would be a run on everything. I nodded and smiled and ordered my usual amount of those things. And what do you know - consumer goods seem to be just as available now as before. Did this spark any kind of introspection about whether Democratic Underground is a reliable source of information? Absolutely not.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
They’re so disappointed. In my 72 years I’ve never seen people wish bad things on their own country just to get back at a President.
Steve,
Sadly, I’m in a position where I somewhat resemble your remark.
I live in the state of Washington. We are led by godless ass hats, two digit IQ representation in our legislature and senate,
Sanctuary cities, sanctuary state, Trump arrangement syndrome is the SOP for our government.
I am wishing and hoping and praying that every federal dollar to our state gets turned off.
Sadly, my neighbors and I will have to suffer. If we’re ever gonna wake up from this leftist quagmire we’ve allowed to take over.
The proverbial cutting off your nose, to spite your face…
bsn
So beautiful. Such a pleasure to be there. And so dumb. I love it, and I can't stand it.
One of these days you’re gonna have to come through the first week in August and see my race.
You would totally dig it.
And the venue is one of those rare places on earth where the natural world or God’s beauty sits in perfect juxtaposition with what man can do at his very best.
The beauty of Stadium high school overlooking the sound leaves one Awestruck.
Similar to Neuschwanstein in Germany or the Golden Gate in San Francisco or the Hoover Dam… It’s just amazing.
bsn
Tacoma
I came to Fort Lewis in March 1989, fell in love with the place the very first morning here. 14 of us arrived late Friday night. We were all '2 years + 16 weeks' (OSUT--both basic and AIT combined--all combat arms training is like this) enlistees. It was cold, dark, and wet when we arrived.
Next morning, my first morning outside of training, which we called 'permanent party', was possibly the most beautiful morning I have ever witnessed. 6-8 inches of snow fell over the night, and when I was up getting outside around 0730--there wasn't a cloud in the sky, the world was silenced with a white blanket. I walked right next to the main parade field and Mt Rainier was sitting there as majestic a horizon as I had ever seen. I was stopped in my tracks, awestruck. I said to myself, "This is the most beautiful place I have ever seen in my life, I am going to spend the rest of my life here."
So far, it is working out like that.
bsn
It IS beautiful. Would rather die than live there.
It is so damn sad to read comments like this--but I totally get it. The place is beautiful, but filled with ugly people. Ugly from the inside out.
bsn
Born west of Seattle in ‘64. Was working downtown Seattle early nineties. Got priced out super early on in the late nineties and left the state for many years in early ‘00’s when it couldn’t be sustained anymore. Just moved back this month but in the east side, next to Idaho. The beauty and what little friends/family I have left here cannot sustain the madness for me enough at this point. That, and it’s taken a couple of decades plus to miss the rain at all. It’s so much like California, that way. Beautiful, but crazy.
I love the east side of the state as well. We are pretty tied to this side, truthfully we live charmed lives. I am nearly 45 days into a mostly ‘water only fast’ of media. SubStack is almost the only place I go, and it has lowered my temperature about current events two or three standard deviations…cool as the other side of the pillow as Stuart Scott used to say.
bsn
Yep. Had cousins from Tacoma. Hateful and stuck-up, better than everyone else. Haven't heard from them or seen them since the 90s. Don't miss them.
Hateful and stuck up...my oh my if they have been from Seattle!!
bsn
On the other hand there is the wise old observation that my (West Point schooled, US Army captain, marine engineer/superintendent) grandfather often said:
"We see the world as we are. Not as it is."
Our job as godly people is to transform ugliness, not to revel in it to aggrandize ourselves. You are a carpetbagger, holding yourself over others (most of them admittedly also carpetbaggers). Perhaps you could instead share what you are doing to unpack and heal the ugliness.
Or do you think it doesn't matter that within 15 years in Seattle, an incursion of jewish liberals from California, Chicago, and NYC led to them outnumbering Seattle's Norwegian population (and that was as of 2015--a full decade ago).
Concentrated in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, btw--ground zero of "CHAZ/CHOP" as well as this month's anti-Trump riots.
https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2015/02/soaring-jewish-population-has-nucleus-in-seattles-new-inner-city/
I see your godless ass hats and raise you one scrappy little dyke who's worried about who will wipe her a*s. ;)
I'd like to see the Trump administration withdraw all federal funding for Vermont universities, starting with that nest of vipers, Middlebury College.
‘…scrappy little dyke … nest of vipers!’
Chris has attracted a lot of people who write really well!
I was cracking up!
bsn
Hey, Becca Balint has called herself a scrappy little dyke and she is also concerned that we won't have enough illegals to do the necessary ass wiping. I didn't make any of that up.
And yes, Middlebury is a nest of DEI woke vipers.
So is UVM. I’d like to say I was shocked by her crudeness and bigotry, but unfortunately she “said the quiet part out loud”, unlike her cohorts with the same views but more tact.
Still good writing!
bsn
Thanks!
And thanks Dad, for insisting I read extensively and write clearly. I miss you.
I think she may have confused "scrappy" with "supercilious" in her self-description.
I would love to see Vermont too but will not spend money where people like us are hated.
There are lots of non-woke Vermonters, a whole bunch in our tiny village of not-quite-500 people, but you'd need to make some effort to find good people to support during your visit.
If it helps at all, the Northeast Kingdom is the most conservative part of the state, probably lots of good places to stay and visit. It's really beautiful there, too.
👍😀
Being a guy that lives a hundred yards away from the river in New Hampshire, I can attest to this. Totally unserious people over there.
What’s REALLY funny is listening to them WHINE about the fact that they are losing federal funds, due to their position on so-called “gender affirming care” and they can’t afford all of their cradle to grave bullshit programs.
The Farm Wife is right. The folks in the Northeast Kingdom are the only ones with any common sense left.
Hello neighbor! We go to NH quite frequently, over the bridge from Springfield to Charlestown.
Vermont's reputation as a wacky blue state is well earned, but it surprises outsiders how very many conservatives live here. Not enough to sway most elections (2024 being a huge exception, we dumped a whole slate of woke legislators), but plenty enough to have a wonderful social life and dependable, friendly neighbors. The husband and I actually know more conservatives here than we ever did in two decades living in northeast Pennsylvania.
I lived in Vermont for over 30 years. Incredibly beautiful state. Visited a week ago. The drive up I89 takes your breath away, it’s so gorgeous. But Burlington broke my heart. Graffiti, homeless, open drug use, crime, closed stores and restaurants. Of course a protest march on Church St…those waving Pride flags walking alongside the ones with Palestinian flags-talk about cognitive dissonance. It’s really a shame what has happened to my once-beloved home.
A couple of decades of left-wing mayors have transformed Burlington from a jewel to a cesspit.
Nothing against you, but I'm hoping all the federal dollars get turned off to ALL the "blue states."
Maybe then the idiots in Montpelier would have to stop giving free, very expensive, percs to BIPOCs, even those who have just arrived in the state from somewhere else, and then cry about how racist all Vermonters are because we're White.
Every year for decades I drive down to Spokane for a technical conference. Always liked that.
One year I returned to calgary by driving west to the coast then up to Seattle.
One time, never again would I go near Seattle.
If I want to see that level of asshatness and decay I can just visit vancouver.
What is it with the west coast, just one continuous streak of pelican shit as the aussies would say.
It is such a waste! I agree with you.
I live south in Pierce County almost abutting Fort Lewis or now JBLM. I haven't been in 'the 206' since COVID. In-laws live in Bellevue, we venture there a few times a year. Even Tacoma is trying its very best to turn beauty to shit. Leftism is a disease.
bsn
Progressivism is the disease
There are many sensible people of the old left like Matt Taibbi.
The things progressives will fight in favor of are hard to fathom.
Mental illness.
In my mind, leftism is synonymous with progressivism. Liberal is what I would have used to describe Taibbi—and I agree, love his work. Liberty is the root word, and I’m more liberal/libertarian minded than I have ever been ‘hard core conservative’. I’m a disrupter, I often hold the status quo with disdain and contempt…which is likely why I retired as a Major…
But maybe you’re more accurate and I will use progressivism more often. Goes all the way back to Wilson et al.
bsn
“one continuous streak of pelican shit”
I have already nominated another post as post of the day but this gets honorable mention.
:-)
Damn. I feel for you guys. Always wanted to visit the great northwest but refuse to spend any money there.
Don’t blame you. Pain is likely the only pathway remaining to wake up the kooks, loons, and self-loathing leftists.
bsn
Sounds like a good idea except the asshat low IQ trog will get angry and hungry and foaming with envy. It never ends well. I think of red maoists, bolsheviks, khmer rouge and antifaists. Wanting your stuff. Feeling all commie moral. Better be strapped.
Such a sad problem. I have a couple friends that were born and raised there and its driven them to retire and move to acreage in western Montana.
I moved to Wenatchee in '06. As someone who lives to ski, mountain bike and hike alpine lakes, I absolutely love Washington...in spite of the buffoons who run this state. The over regulation, taxes and ever-rising cost of living is making it hard to stay though.
I was shellshocked by the price of the home my buddy just bought. Zero difference between Wenatchee and Tacoma-Lacey…all over priced. I’m pretty sure a reckoning is coming. Read somewhere that property values are 70-80% over inflated. Sadly I agree.
bsn
You're writing as though the policymakers in WA are making the policy.
And not, say the PRC--WA's biggest trading partner--or the logistics and service companies that manage and profit from that bidness.
Hurting rank and file Washingtonians is more of a telling fantasy about you, than it is a phalanx turned on the real cause of the problems. The tech broligarchs, the companies that turn our state into a resource extraction colony for Asia, the lawyers that back this all up, the massive companies that profit from Permawar, etc.
You're focusing on the symptom. Not the disease itself.
As it all has been engineered for you to do.
I know!... It's been an increasing trend in our society for an entire generation of Americans.
I don’t think it’s generational. Too many gray haired idiots marching with the purple hairs for my liking.
I didn't mean to say that it was a generational thing... my apologies for my lack of clarity... I meant to say that the trend has been apparent to me for the last 20-25 years... And I agree! It appears that a significant number of our generation (Boomers... I'm 71) are apparently part of the asshat spectrum... WTH is up with that?
Constant consumption of lame stream media has dulled their minds.
One of the youngest boomers at 60 and agree completely.
Kool-Aid.
IQ in families is not an additive factor.
Watch..
The Squad, Dollar Store Obama, and Charlene will find fault with Peace in the Middle East. 🤷🤦
"Dollar store Obama" made me guffaw! There's an entire cohort of 'em and, for my money, Governor Shapiro has the best impression of that annoying cadence. Hat tip your way, Richard.
Thanks Ben...
As a disillusioned Blue Dog Democrat, I look to Josh Shapiro and Wes Moore, both competent Governors, IMHO, to save my Party from the Crazy Woke/"Progressive" Voices of the Party ...
Jazzy and AOC.
Don't you think it happened in 2020?
Started then but the vitriol has really increased this term. The DOGE pushed them over the edge. I cannot fathom why people would be enraged when you try and cut waste and abuse.
Free stuff. People live free stuff.
But as you know, there is no “free” stuff.
The anti war hippies did to Nixon what they are also doing to Trump. They succeeded again Nixon. Trump has been able to fend off the attacks, mostly. If Nixon had been successful with the Vietnam War, the rest of the world would have feared us like they do now. Oil prices would not have sky rocketed. Pol Pot would not have been able to murder half a million people. Not as many of our troops would have died. We had it won by 1970. The democrats are truly the worst.
What’s really sad, if you follow history, is that the NV Army was pretty much spent after the Tet offensive. Our liberal media kept up the drumbeat that we needed to get out which led to decisions made. What is so different today is the alternative sources of information available to us.
Richard Nixon would disagree, if he were still alive.
Not close IMO. Nixon took lots of heat but the attacks on Trump are relentless. Nixon was never compared to a Nazi.
I'm almost convinced that literally all American mainstream news is propaganda.
But it's true on the state and local level, as well. Bias and agenda as far as you can see. Plus, their pay is miserable so I don't know why they do it.
So true. I live near Seattle where Christopher Rufo was run out of town and the only other non ultra progressive news personality, Brandi Kruse also went independent.
> Christopher Rufo was run out of town
Last I heard he's still "in town."
You're conflating MSM/propaganda stories with truth.
He no longer lives in Seattle. I wouldn't call Gig Harbor being "in town". Are you from around here?
Shoo, pest.
I am with you, but I have to ask, what small shreds of evidence do you see that prevents you from being 100% positive that 100% of msm is 100% engineered propaganda?
Sometimes they accidentally report actual true things. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I’ll watch for that!! I miss Dori Monson btw. Born at Tacoma General and lived next 70 years in Gig Harbor. We threw in the towel in 2022 sold everything and moved to SW Missouri. It’s been pretty much socialist-free. I will trade Inslee/Ferguson for the tornado risk any time!
Ha! Born in ‘64 in Bremerton but finally was able to leave in the ‘00’s. Lots of time in Ohio and most recently Illinois. The last time we had ‘severe thunderstorm’ risk out there in my old single wide; that turned into a 40 minute tornado siren scream I said, ‘that’s it, I’m done and going back’ lol. But Idaho is less than 15 minutes so it almost feels normal, lol. My mother’s side of the family was originally from Missouri but got tired of the storms and moved up to greater Seattle area in the late 1800’s, lol. Still, after I take care of some family obligations, I’ll likely be looking for a less blue area. Illinois is even worse, in some ways, for sure.
I've thought about moving to Idaho or Montana but can't think of a way to get all my kids and grandkids to move too so I guess I'm stuck here.
Another local media figure around here who was de-platformed is Cliff Mass, the UW climatologist. His weather blog is really great, especially if you appreciate even handed, fact based debunking of the climate change hysteria pushed by the Seattle Times and other MSM. He has also done a great deal of work documenting the actual effects and climate change on the PNW and what they are likely to be moving forward.
Both my daughters were born at Harrison. It’s rumored that I retired from PSNS but I don’t want to publicly admit it, that I was on the government dole. Sunless Bremerton, 325 days of overcast.
Wow my daughter's best friend works there. Small world.
Correct. ✅
Almost?
Absofreakinglutely.
Agreed! Maybe because they are owned by globalists like Bloomberg. It's mind poi-zen. Have you seen Merritt TV, Dr. Phils' new network? It's the closest to reality that we've come across in years. Not perfect but at least you don't come away feeling like you're going nuts anymore after watching their News production and perspectives. OAN & NEWSMAX can be a bit overwhelming sometimes.
*Not a paid advertisement, LoL.
I’m waiting for WW3 …. And gas prices ….and Godot
Especially Godot...well said.
Hahahahah!! Great comment
See Chris, you must read the graph more carefully. The oil prices going down actually mean they are going up, which will occur at some future date as a boomerang effect instigated by Orange Man's diabolical plans for world dictatorship. It's very clear, I'm certain, to your many followers like it is to me.
Danny Huckabee
The delusion runs strong in this one!
LOLOLOL
😂🤣😂🤣
It's actually secretly coded! You're supposed to rotate it 90 degrees counterclockwise.
LOOK AT 'ER SKYROCKET!
ORANGE MAN BADDDDDD!
Seems to me that virtually EVERY "expert" prognostication, for the last 60 years, has been wrong. Usually utterly, completely, absolutely f%$#*g wrong.
I'll wait.
Then again, Alex Jones did kind of nail 9/11. Just saying.
What's funny is Tucker's (commendable) apology for supporting the Iraq war based on rumors of yellowcake. But after the pendulum swung, his confidence is just as high the other way. This time, he seems sure that it's a bad idea to take out Iran's incontrovertible nuclear weapons program from the air.
If it turns out to take a few more bombing runs, so be it. But it appears that there's no dispute that Iran has 60% enriched uranium, and there's **no other reason to have it.**
I don't understand people whose argument starts with:
1. They don't have a bomb (yet).
Before that point, I think you have to start with whether it's acceptable for the current Mullahs to have nuclear weapons, or not.
If someone thinks that's ok, and they're not saying that because Death to America!, then there's no point in discussing the other points, because that perspective changes everything. If no really means no.
No one says, well, sure, if you assume they can't have nukes, then we should [whatever it is]. But they skip that and quibble about how close the rest of the world should let them get to ACTUALLY HAVING THEM. When the answer should be "not very close at all."
If you're obviously taking steps to get nuclear weapons — and you're a key instigator of terrorism everywhere — no. Just no. It's not about the bomb. It's about your well-known program to get one.
Assuming it's not ok for them to have nukes, and assuming that "they have the bomb" is too late (Kim Jong-il), I really don't understand the argument that we need to let them get even closer before doing anything about it. That is, stopping it. How much closer in this all-in game of chicken should we get? Why??
The second argument I can't understand is:
2. Something bad might happen if we do anything about it.
Some of these are the people, for example, who thought the JCPOA was a good idea. "They're not that bad, and it'll be ok if we keep an eye on them." We did, and it wasn't.
I think the more rational perspective is that if you find yourself not doing what needs to be done because of fear of terrorists, you're doing it wrong. Meaning, it's naive and stupid. (Both of which, for example, explain 20 years of rape gangs (also not ok, period) and cover-ups in an otherwise good country.)
And it's why you shouldn't generally negotiate with terrorists. It's about the next time. We can't make decisions based on what random cells of terrorists might do. (And we shouldn't be so reticent to take out their backers when they do it.)
That said, I'll wait to see if this worked. And what positives and negatives might result.
But what do you think will happen to the price of oil when the current regime gets 10 nukes and gives one or two of them to different groups of like-minded believers?
Whatever they do in response, the answer is to see question #1: Can. They. Have. Nukes?
And as we were recently reminded, see Hangover Part 2, again:
https://www.tiktok.com/@studiodefilm/video/7224911774372351258?lang=en
(There appears to be no dispute that they have that they have
Now that’s funny. As Iran folds and oil prices drop
Still waiting, though more optimistically than yesterday.
I just saw an announcement on Fox News that Israel and Iran have declared a ceasefire…much more optimistic, but waiting…
I've seen "sources say X", but nobody important actually saying X. (On both sides, Iran and Israel)
time out to reload? https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/trump-in-dramatic-announcement-israel
Agree completely with Randy, I had you pegged as a wacko, until I waited a minute.
Just heard one of my neighbors say she'd trust 50 drag queens with her 3 and 5 y.o. before she'd let 1 Trump supporter near them. Hmmmmm...bet she's hoping for WWIII right now...just to make him look bad. People are weird....
Not just weird, but deranged - that’s truly deranged.
Yep. I actually feel sorry for her. To have her emotions so ruled by politics. I mean, it's western Wisconsin. Where does she think she live? All us awful MAGAs .....blahhhhh.....so sad.
Considering what she said, I'm sure her little monsters are....little monsters. So, I'm very positive that any 1 single Trump supporter is breathing a huge sigh of relief that they won't be subjected to those things.
Yeah, I can tell you they haven't heard the word "no" enough. Perfect angels though!
All she has to do is walk through the San Francisco airport, and the confluence of concourses B and C to see a live drag show. I'm sure the "persons" would have gladly taught her tots. I was grateful I was not traveling with my kids. Imagine, just for giggles, a stage set up at the same place, with nuns and brothers playing sacred music on violin, piano and flute to passing travelers in honor of, oh I don't know, Corpus Christi?
A mutual friend told me that if they cant agree each election season on who to vote for, she doesnt "allow" her or husband to vote. She must keep his balls in a cup over the mantle. Sheesh! I would never dominate anyone whom a care about like that. So ugly!
My wife is "on strike". Our marriage has become a sham. I bet that I am not the only one.
And I am not a vocal person. I read alot and make comments on-line, but I don't bring politics into the home.
Oh, im sorry to hear that. Differing on politics should be like differing on retirement investment choices or how to discipline the kids. You're not going to see eye to eye on everything, but as long as you share the same value structure you can make it work. Politics has gotten too important in people's lives. Maybe we should take that as a sign that our gov't has overstepped it's role? A recent example - i shouldn't have to attend school board meetings to remind geown adults, "No, it's not okay for my 13 y.o. daughter to shower with boys." I lay a lot of marital discord at the foot of government overreach.
are there 50 drag queens?
Lol...idk. good luck finding that many to babysit at one time. It's funny too-one of my kids got a perfect psat AND a perfect act score. Whatever. Im not saying it to brag. Tests aren't everything. But it highlights what a dreadful parent I am! Uugh! She's having trouble squaring that circle for sure.🤣
Check out any public library on Read Aloud Day. You'll find more than you wanted to know exist.
Lol...no Kaplan class, but like I said, it's not everything. Took him 3 attempts to figure out how to gas up the car. All kinds of smart out there, and he doesnt have a monopoly on common sense!😉
ok go ahead and brag BUT did she do it without a kaplan class ;)
Please see POTUS' Truth Social post as of 17:02 today... https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114734934153569653?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
And this is why we wait!
Ceasefire,oil dropped 3$ more! Wow the world is gonna 'splode', hahaha The slimey chittering horde of wokerturds all are convinced that all is lost,i say suffer bitchs!
My favorite take is from the people saying Iran wasn't trying to develop nuclear weapons and that they moved the enriched Uranium before the bombing so they can restart the operation. 😄
A variation on the Law of Merited Impossibility
Start chiseling Trump on Mt Rushmore now. Just do it.
Damn straight, sir.
A Boomer lib relative told me a month ago that I needed to stockpile diapers and toilet paper because trade with China had stopped and there would be a run on everything. I nodded and smiled and ordered my usual amount of those things. And what do you know - consumer goods seem to be just as available now as before. Did this spark any kind of introspection about whether Democratic Underground is a reliable source of information? Absolutely not.
kek
I was banned from there so many times in the '00s. It was fun.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
Ah, don't worry. Chris, Newsom will have the Air Board jack our gas prices another $1/gallon to make Trump suffer for oil prices going down.