We were pushed to the brink for sure. It got Trump elected, which 3 years ago I wouldn’t have imagined. It’s not fun but after the last 4 years (seems longer) it’s clear what & who they are and that we cannot allow what they want to be.
Amen, Brother! Weak people can’t control themselves, so they get their power from controlling others. They can’t help it, and they lack access to true wisdom.
"Maybe we can have a MORE lethal armed forces with a smaller budget? "
We did that. Years ago. More than once. 1945 of course was a peak in the region of 12,000,000. It was down to 1.4 million by 1950 (surprise!) and up to 3 million by 1970.
In 1945 there were 8 million in the army. When Desert Storm kicked off there were 700,000 and just under 2 million total. When the second war kicked off it was about 500,000 / 1.5 million. That was supposed to have been the most lethal force ever... 1/16 th the size of WWII.
They have about the same personnel counts today. It is no longer a serious force. This isn't Star Wars. The chicoms will eat us, which means we fall back on nukes. We might not be able to beat Iran without nukes. The days of desert storm / enduring freedom are gone. And those victories are exaggerated. Iraq was tiny, and most of the opposition in gulf war II put down their waepons and hid. Later when we screwed them over they fucked us up bad.
MacGregor has written extensively about shrinking the military by half or more, being more lethal, and effective. I was hoping he'd get the SED job because he's not only a combat veteran, but like Clausewitz, an intellectual.
They know she’s not smart enough. Remember when they tried the to run with “you are hiring a team not a president” b.s.? This is exactly what they meant. The P and VP are just figure heads for them.
It might be a good time to check in on the AWFLs in your life and see how they're doing. They are really not taking the election results well (massive understatement).
I know an AWFL who said Trump winning was more painful for her than the death of her own father!
The other AWFLs I know are: calling their shrinks daily and upping their antidepressants and sedatives; checking their passports and trying to see what other countries they can move to; furiously cutting off friends and relatives; rushing to quickly get gay-married before Trump bans it; and generally denouncing everyone who didn't vote for Kamala as some combo of Nazi and Klansman—they are overcome with rage and hatred and have become America's crazy ex-girlfriend (or Glenn Close in a Fatal Attraction with Trump).
America in the last decade seems to have accidentally stumbled upon a very strange and possibly historically unprecedented social experiment: What happens if you take the highest sliver of your society (mostly the most well-off well-educated women) and afflict them with the Cluster B category of personality disorders—black-and-white thinking, hair-trigger responses, explosive rage, inability to accept ownership and blame for misconduct, inability to modulate emotions, and a massive sense of entitlement.
Since the Orange Man came down his golden escalator almost a decade ago, we've been living through a single, continuous social nervous breakdown. There is no hope for these people, they are irreparably broken.
The last decade has made me think that (possibly, probably) this thing they call The (big bad) Patriarchy benefited women as much as it did men. Security, stability, safety, order, norms etc are deep needs for everyone, but for women it seems that without them the hysteria gets real hysterical.
James, I will agree to an extent, although truly some women would be terrible mothers. On the other hand, think about the behavior of a mare or female cat in heat. They will drive you crazy with their behavior to mate.
Men make up 99.4% of water and sewer workers, most of the linemen, electricity, architects, police, firefighters, house builders, gas workers.
Men keep us alive every day.
We have a strong home, lighted with electricity, heated with gas, and water to drink and get our waste out.
Over 90% of people forget about this. The key to being happy is being grateful and when they tell women to hate the patriarchy, they are making it bad for everyone.
It's worth considering the root word of patriarchy--patria, is Latin meaning homeland, native land. It has been extended to fatherland, but it still reflects the underlying values as you've noted above, rather than the current and narrow interpretation of men rule.
I honestly hate to say this about myself and other perimenopausal and menopausal women, but a lot of us are kind of crazy from one day to the next. Personally I don’t think I would want to be in a position of too much power because I’m sure bad things would happen. 😂
I went crabbing recently, got a ton fresh crab, which is easier than giving away free beer at a frat party..
I contact some AWFL ex classmates I keep in touch with... no answers... They are not in the mood to talk.
It is dangerous to do so, politics will come up (now that everything is politicized, how can it not?) and you will ruin a friendship over it.
I have a distant appointment only a few blocks away from a liberal friend of mine, (I was Best man at his wedding). I am not going to call him, I value the friendship more than "winning: the fight. He will want to talk on his own time, it likely won't be until 2025..
yeah, same here, my wife and i have been fielding constant demented texts/calls from our AWFL friends—and they are so desperate for a fight, it's almost impossible to say a word. Anything but shared rage fills them w even more rage.
We have been tempted to send back some Trump memes (the one where he's waving goodbye from the McD's drive-thru window seems perfectly designed to send AWFLs over the edge), but it's best to treat this like some kind of drug addiction or mental illness. Just try to be quietly helpful, keep a safe distance, and see if they ever regain some measure of sanity.
Except they haven't, not in the many years you've known them. The relationship described here is, bluntly, an abusive one.
Chris likely has a point. This behavior only ends when it comes with real costs, in this case social costs. Or when you go no contact, and make it stick. Ask others who have dealt with narcissists and BPDs.
The frustrating things is that I feel I could explain this better than anyone, but not in .5 words or less.
And no one in the History of AWFLs has asked (actually that is not true a couple weeks before he election my wife and one of her AWFL friends asked me for why to vote for trump. (What they wanted was some feel good reason for abandoning the DNC and THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT, and instead I gave a calm rational comparison which got into the second sentence and they quickly cut me off. (No anus tingle here!)
But It was like watching someone with agoraphobia actually open the front door and make it halfway to the mailbox... which is progress, in its own pathetic way,,,
(to be fair I think I started to go down the, how is this even a debate route. I went to graduate school with these women. Cum Laude. I know how smart they are. WTF?
I feel that way about the run-of-the-mill gender studies major...
No in this case they were quite smart.
I think they dodo'd : got caught up in the smugness of mental sloth of Wokeness, where all answers are given to you, and essentially became the mental equivalent of couch potatoes...
I know several men who have gone down the same path.
The horror of reality helps keep them in their bubble...
What we think of as "intelligence" is simply another tool, like a knife or fork or gun.
It has to be wielded properly and responsibly and if the wielder is undergoing an attack of fear and anger (all fomented and reinforced by intense social pressure, which women are more sensitive to), they will not be able to properly wield whatever intelligence they may have.
Or, in the famous words of David Hume:
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
All you say is true, but what you miss is that we are much better off letting the AWFLs self destruct. For once they may actually leave us alone. I wear my MAGA hat as a symbol to them that approaching me may infect them with an incurable disease.
I'm now convinced the mRNA shots do nothing for Covid, but do infect those that had taken the jab(s) have infected themselves with TDS.
If untreated, it will progress to complete insanity on J20!
If the shots did anything to prevent covid, you wouldn't have to get one every three months. (No, other viruses mutate too.)
In reference to the JAMA study linked up top about declining life expectancy in the the US, Bat-Signal to RFK: call JAMA paper's lead author Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has some great ideas for you. PhRMA won't like them, but we will.
Yes, the Charlie Brown thing. In retrospect whomever decided to do that for the "adults" in the cartoon - probably Schultz himself - was in retrospect absolutely prophetic. Someone needs to make memes/.gifs/videos of that for cable news talking heads.
It’s one of the side effects when we take God out of the equation - these individuals are left empty and don’t know why and are very susceptible to worshiping an ideology. Unfortunately, it’s a hollow endeavor and it leaves them irrational and angry.
I was once sent to the movies (I'm old enough that I walked as a 10 year old with no repercussions) with $2 for popcorn. But I had squirreled enough spare and "found" change to buy three, THREE!, large boxes of Good n' Plenties and I consumed every one of them during the 90 minute movie. Fifty years later, that licorice adjacent flavor still makes me nauseous.
I think the problem is precisely that dumbfucks like David Brooks and ben-Ghiat never have to face this derision. At most, they just have to shriek 'fascist' and flee to Bluesky, and everything is wonderful again.
I mean, I would love to tell Maddow that she's a vile propagandist, but what's my venue to do that? What keeps her, or any of these people, from saying "The poors are getting lippy again," and cracking open a $3000 bottle of scotch?
Yup. The more I hear the midwit pundits, the more I think that the Babylon Bee mockery approach is called for. Self-important “experts” loathe being laughed at.
Those who are part of the societal and/or political elites are all-in invested in their elite status – financially, professionally, politically, even in terms of reputation and their own self-esteem. They have built their ENTIRE lives around being perceived as the elite.
But this perceived value depends upon US continually needing … and therefore deferring to … them and their “enlightened” (godly) guidance. Hence the motivation to encourage its imposition as The One True Way in every area, through both social pressure and in some cases the coercive force of law.
Our refusal to extend that deference erodes the perceived value of elite status in this society. Which is why the elites were/are motivated to the point of trampling upon our life and liberty, to coerce that deference.
Donald Trump, in word and in policy, dissented from that paradigm. His policies instead expanded respect for and protection of individual liberty – including the liberty to depart from that One True Way when it doesn’t work for us as individuals.
That also erodes the perceived value of elite status in this society. Which is why the elites were/are motivated to the point of collusion, to tear him down.
Excuse the profanity, but the quote fits American (and EU-ropean) regime journalism to a Tee:
"It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to fuck a doorknob!", Patches O'Houlihan, Dodgeball.
In 2017 if I don't recall wrongly, Trump signed a deal with Saudi Arabia to the tune of them buying, over a ten-year period, military equipment for a grand total of $ 350 000 000 000. Seeing as Saudi has a standing military of close to 150 000 on active service, a further 250 000 they can call up and an additional mobilisation potential of at least 600 000 more. . .
They could end the Houthis inside a month, if they wanted to. And they are next door to the problem.
Any takers as to why the "democracies" and sundry down there never ever do any of the job themselves?
The Saudi Royalty can't trust their own military with live ammunition. The rank and file are as likely to join the Houthis as anything else. The Saudi armed forces are for display only.
Well, there is something they do well, it’s steal. Just ask ‘where did the money go?’ From the following:
California High Speed Rail
The DoD - failed, failed, failed four more times failed their financial audit
The democrats 1.5 billion war chest for the presidential election
Ukraine war funding when maybe 30% reached the killing fields
And the list drains on and on….
We are in the most corrupt of times and all leadership cares about is graft, not us, not our country and certainly they’ve not given any thought to the future, other than the indenture of the masses.
Hiding in plain sight. Why does anyone think getting homeless people housing first is the best help? Cani’t support themselves, a lot of them are addicts, severe mental disorders or both…
This may be one of the most darkly hilarious lines I've ever read: "Bill Press has crawled so far up his own ass that he’s making circles up there, passing himself on his fifth lap around the duodenum." Bravo.
It’s a big country. The garbage scow of state turns slowly. But it is turning. We are winning. Lash yourselves to the mast. Plug your ears with beeswax. Do not let the siren song(😂) of Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Joy Reed and the harpies of the View scuttle us in the sulfurous mud of the Swamp on our way back to our shining Ithaca.
I’m kind of serious. These people are useless and losing influence. Ignore them and lean on your Republican representatives to do the same.
Totally agree. Starve the beast. And hope Trump/RFK make the right move—ban Pharma and processed food commercials, as both are as addictive and deadly as tobacco. Intended consequence—starves cable/broadcast news of their revenue.
October 7th shocked the Israelis, not because they didn't know the murderous, beastial character of their enemy, but because Hamas completely overwhelmed the Israeli defense perimeter with drones.
When Hamas and Houthi's are deploying the cutting military technology of the age, you know we are in for a rough and tumble future. ANYBODY can wage sophisticated attacks against the defenseless (and not so defenseless). No nation-state required. Drone swarms of thousands of unthinking, automated killing machines destroying all living in their sights. The fruiting body of the fungal organism called the network. It's a brave new world.
Derision cannot affect these people in their bubbles. What is required is removing the financial and legal supports that make those bubbles possible. Wrap their NGOs up in lawfare. Remove funding from their universities. Tax their foundations and endowments. Treat them like drug cartels. RICO their immigration scams.
I agree. They only take notice when they lose (e.g. the meltdown over Trump). Wherever they are still in charge, like where I live, they continue to mock us and laugh in our faces.
i read that too, and was immediately sorry I wasted three minutes. I guess I was hoping someone to come to their senses and say "just say thank you, and go sit down." Sexual appetite indeed. There are some lonely women out there.
Life was so much simpler when there were only three Stooges.
They had it so easy. All they had to do was leave us the fuck alone!
But...no....
So sad, isn’t it?
Very
Absolutely! I just wanted to be a mother. But under the cabal, it’s the only thing a woman can’t be.
No.
I actually agree, it's a good thing because it FINALLY forced us to push back.
It sucks being stuck between a "live and let live" and a "leave me the eff alone" mentality.
But the fact is, is if the later is not the case then it makes the former worse.
We were pushed to the brink for sure. It got Trump elected, which 3 years ago I wouldn’t have imagined. It’s not fun but after the last 4 years (seems longer) it’s clear what & who they are and that we cannot allow what they want to be.
Yes. And we'll never be able to "unsee" it
Amen, Brother! Weak people can’t control themselves, so they get their power from controlling others. They can’t help it, and they lack access to true wisdom.
I’ve come to believe it is the duty of every citizen to make the lives of government employees as miserable as possible to avoid the reverse.
SOOO totally agree. Just leave us TF alone.
Say about your gas range...
😂
Yes! “Calling Doctor Howard, Doctor Howard, Doctor Howard!”
There was four. It did cause some grief.
There were six.
🏆
So true and too funny! Made my morning, thanks
Maybe we can have a MORE lethal armed forces with a smaller budget?
Why hasn't a single journalists asked that question?...rhetorical....
As far as the Cadever-in-Chief, I think Biden is just rewarding his deep state backers for covering up his family criminal enterprise.
The craziest part is The Left is more concerned with allowing men to shit in women's restrooms than global nuclear war!
Maybe this is why the elite are building their own survival bunkers?!
It’s gonna be funny when the mercenaries hired by the rich to protect them decide their employers don’t need to take up space any more.
Even before that stage: whatever the rich pay their bodyguards, an enemy can offer more. True of the Secret Service too, obviously.
"Maybe we can have a MORE lethal armed forces with a smaller budget? "
We did that. Years ago. More than once. 1945 of course was a peak in the region of 12,000,000. It was down to 1.4 million by 1950 (surprise!) and up to 3 million by 1970.
In 1945 there were 8 million in the army. When Desert Storm kicked off there were 700,000 and just under 2 million total. When the second war kicked off it was about 500,000 / 1.5 million. That was supposed to have been the most lethal force ever... 1/16 th the size of WWII.
They have about the same personnel counts today. It is no longer a serious force. This isn't Star Wars. The chicoms will eat us, which means we fall back on nukes. We might not be able to beat Iran without nukes. The days of desert storm / enduring freedom are gone. And those victories are exaggerated. Iraq was tiny, and most of the opposition in gulf war II put down their waepons and hid. Later when we screwed them over they fucked us up bad.
Bingo. You made my point very well.
We need fresh eyes.
MacGregor has written extensively about shrinking the military by half or more, being more lethal, and effective. I was hoping he'd get the SED job because he's not only a combat veteran, but like Clausewitz, an intellectual.
Danny Huckabee
Im going to have to read up on him. I like the way he thinks.
https://ourcountryourchoice.com
They know she’s not smart enough. Remember when they tried the to run with “you are hiring a team not a president” b.s.? This is exactly what they meant. The P and VP are just figure heads for them.
I don’t think Biden is even cognizant of what is happening. Which in my mind is scarier as the cabal running the show is worse than him.
Exactly. They might try to stick Harris in their as the ultimate troll so that Trump has to change all that merch from 47' to 48'...
Nah...she's too lazy.
You are assuming a more lethal force is what those in charge of it want. IMO they have been actively undermining that proposition since the 1970s.
It might be a good time to check in on the AWFLs in your life and see how they're doing. They are really not taking the election results well (massive understatement).
I know an AWFL who said Trump winning was more painful for her than the death of her own father!
The other AWFLs I know are: calling their shrinks daily and upping their antidepressants and sedatives; checking their passports and trying to see what other countries they can move to; furiously cutting off friends and relatives; rushing to quickly get gay-married before Trump bans it; and generally denouncing everyone who didn't vote for Kamala as some combo of Nazi and Klansman—they are overcome with rage and hatred and have become America's crazy ex-girlfriend (or Glenn Close in a Fatal Attraction with Trump).
America in the last decade seems to have accidentally stumbled upon a very strange and possibly historically unprecedented social experiment: What happens if you take the highest sliver of your society (mostly the most well-off well-educated women) and afflict them with the Cluster B category of personality disorders—black-and-white thinking, hair-trigger responses, explosive rage, inability to accept ownership and blame for misconduct, inability to modulate emotions, and a massive sense of entitlement.
Since the Orange Man came down his golden escalator almost a decade ago, we've been living through a single, continuous social nervous breakdown. There is no hope for these people, they are irreparably broken.
There used to be a time when these women were prescribed padded cells and/or vibrators. Make mental asylums great again!
The last decade has made me think that (possibly, probably) this thing they call The (big bad) Patriarchy benefited women as much as it did men. Security, stability, safety, order, norms etc are deep needs for everyone, but for women it seems that without them the hysteria gets real hysterical.
That is exactly correct. Women have to be able to satisfy the breeding instinct or they go batshit crazy. Thus feminism is poison.
And that is where the Karens come from. They don't have enough kids to instruct... So they instruct you. And they can't stop. They are cattle.
James, I will agree to an extent, although truly some women would be terrible mothers. On the other hand, think about the behavior of a mare or female cat in heat. They will drive you crazy with their behavior to mate.
Men make up 99.4% of water and sewer workers, most of the linemen, electricity, architects, police, firefighters, house builders, gas workers.
Men keep us alive every day.
We have a strong home, lighted with electricity, heated with gas, and water to drink and get our waste out.
Over 90% of people forget about this. The key to being happy is being grateful and when they tell women to hate the patriarchy, they are making it bad for everyone.
Sharon, 💯
It's worth considering the root word of patriarchy--patria, is Latin meaning homeland, native land. It has been extended to fatherland, but it still reflects the underlying values as you've noted above, rather than the current and narrow interpretation of men rule.
In Russia it is the motherland.
even better...thanks!
I honestly hate to say this about myself and other perimenopausal and menopausal women, but a lot of us are kind of crazy from one day to the next. Personally I don’t think I would want to be in a position of too much power because I’m sure bad things would happen. 😂
They have a need to be seen as victims. And they’re narcissistic as well, quite the combination.
In the 1940's doctors performed frontal lobotomies on hysterical women. Make mental asylums and lobotomies GREAT again!!!
this but unironically
Ummm….no. What is wrong with you?
Minimally the 19th amendment has to be repealed. We need sensible people voting.
Hell no, what is wrong with you?
There is actually nothing wrong with him.
Or put in attics.
I went crabbing recently, got a ton fresh crab, which is easier than giving away free beer at a frat party..
I contact some AWFL ex classmates I keep in touch with... no answers... They are not in the mood to talk.
It is dangerous to do so, politics will come up (now that everything is politicized, how can it not?) and you will ruin a friendship over it.
I have a distant appointment only a few blocks away from a liberal friend of mine, (I was Best man at his wedding). I am not going to call him, I value the friendship more than "winning: the fight. He will want to talk on his own time, it likely won't be until 2025..
yeah, same here, my wife and i have been fielding constant demented texts/calls from our AWFL friends—and they are so desperate for a fight, it's almost impossible to say a word. Anything but shared rage fills them w even more rage.
We have been tempted to send back some Trump memes (the one where he's waving goodbye from the McD's drive-thru window seems perfectly designed to send AWFLs over the edge), but it's best to treat this like some kind of drug addiction or mental illness. Just try to be quietly helpful, keep a safe distance, and see if they ever regain some measure of sanity.
Except they haven't, not in the many years you've known them. The relationship described here is, bluntly, an abusive one.
Chris likely has a point. This behavior only ends when it comes with real costs, in this case social costs. Or when you go no contact, and make it stick. Ask others who have dealt with narcissists and BPDs.
Probably not a good idea to indulge or enable their crazy, immature behavior.
The frustrating things is that I feel I could explain this better than anyone, but not in .5 words or less.
And no one in the History of AWFLs has asked (actually that is not true a couple weeks before he election my wife and one of her AWFL friends asked me for why to vote for trump. (What they wanted was some feel good reason for abandoning the DNC and THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT, and instead I gave a calm rational comparison which got into the second sentence and they quickly cut me off. (No anus tingle here!)
But It was like watching someone with agoraphobia actually open the front door and make it halfway to the mailbox... which is progress, in its own pathetic way,,,
(to be fair I think I started to go down the, how is this even a debate route. I went to graduate school with these women. Cum Laude. I know how smart they are. WTF?
They are not smart. Or if they are it is in a completely absurd way. This kind of "intelligence" is useless.
Have any of them ever created a new thing with their own hands and minds?
I feel that way about the run-of-the-mill gender studies major...
No in this case they were quite smart.
I think they dodo'd : got caught up in the smugness of mental sloth of Wokeness, where all answers are given to you, and essentially became the mental equivalent of couch potatoes...
I know several men who have gone down the same path.
The horror of reality helps keep them in their bubble...
Have you ever known anyone who was both intelligent and psychotic? Sadly, it's entirely possible.
The fact that it's an induced psychosis is (a) sad, and (b) a flashing pointer to the spiritual nature of this thing we're facing.
That doesn't sound very smart, though..
What we think of as "intelligence" is simply another tool, like a knife or fork or gun.
It has to be wielded properly and responsibly and if the wielder is undergoing an attack of fear and anger (all fomented and reinforced by intense social pressure, which women are more sensitive to), they will not be able to properly wield whatever intelligence they may have.
Or, in the famous words of David Hume:
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
Even D&D knew intelligence and wisdom are two very different things. In 1974.
It IS a mental illness!
That is the perfect meme. Push 'em right over the edge.
Same here...sadly, I don't expect a call from him until 2028...if then.
I wish I lived close. I would eat your seafood and not complain about your politics. 😋
What friendship?
All you say is true, but what you miss is that we are much better off letting the AWFLs self destruct. For once they may actually leave us alone. I wear my MAGA hat as a symbol to them that approaching me may infect them with an incurable disease.
I'm now convinced the mRNA shots do nothing for Covid, but do infect those that had taken the jab(s) have infected themselves with TDS.
If untreated, it will progress to complete insanity on J20!
I'm actively encouraging all the AWFLs I know to enlist in the 4B movement...the gene pool could use a little cleansing.
YES!!! Tell them to just sew it shut...
From your lips to God’s ear.
If the shots did anything to prevent covid, you wouldn't have to get one every three months. (No, other viruses mutate too.)
In reference to the JAMA study linked up top about declining life expectancy in the the US, Bat-Signal to RFK: call JAMA paper's lead author Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has some great ideas for you. PhRMA won't like them, but we will.
Strangest vaccine I ever heard of. I don't have to get vaccinated against smallpox 4 times a year.
That's me! Proudly shoving it in their faces. I want them to destruct.
LOLOLOL. You've out done yourself!
LOL thanks!
We should just break out the trombones they used for adult voices in Charlie Brown cartoons.
And maybe the world's smallest violin...with a galactic eye roll.
Yes, the Charlie Brown thing. In retrospect whomever decided to do that for the "adults" in the cartoon - probably Schultz himself - was in retrospect absolutely prophetic. Someone needs to make memes/.gifs/videos of that for cable news talking heads.
"they are irreparably broken"...Then put them out of our misery...
🙌
Perhaps they could use some literature by Buddhist monks on the advantages of self-immolation…
No, they are irreparably stupid. The brokenness is only one of the many side effects of that.
Yeah, they're all moving here! Apparently you can't move in the bloody Cotswolds for Hollywood has beens 🤣
It’s one of the side effects when we take God out of the equation - these individuals are left empty and don’t know why and are very susceptible to worshiping an ideology. Unfortunately, it’s a hollow endeavor and it leaves them irrational and angry.
I was once sent to the movies (I'm old enough that I walked as a 10 year old with no repercussions) with $2 for popcorn. But I had squirreled enough spare and "found" change to buy three, THREE!, large boxes of Good n' Plenties and I consumed every one of them during the 90 minute movie. Fifty years later, that licorice adjacent flavor still makes me nauseous.
David French is the same.
Well I had a similar experience however it has left me with a craving for GnP and all I have to do is walk to the local Walgreens to partake!
I WANT to like them like I did back then. but I can't. It was a long, unhappy night.
LOLOL. Did a similar thing with a bag of those orange marshmallow peanuts. French will have a new smell after reading this today.
My story involves Southern Comfort. Oof, it was a rough day after; even my ears were drooping. I should da stuck with candy.
I, too, have never recovered from the orange marshmallow peanuts.
It’s nice not to feel alone even there….
I think the problem is precisely that dumbfucks like David Brooks and ben-Ghiat never have to face this derision. At most, they just have to shriek 'fascist' and flee to Bluesky, and everything is wonderful again.
I mean, I would love to tell Maddow that she's a vile propagandist, but what's my venue to do that? What keeps her, or any of these people, from saying "The poors are getting lippy again," and cracking open a $3000 bottle of scotch?
Yup. The more I hear the midwit pundits, the more I think that the Babylon Bee mockery approach is called for. Self-important “experts” loathe being laughed at.
Those who are part of the societal and/or political elites are all-in invested in their elite status – financially, professionally, politically, even in terms of reputation and their own self-esteem. They have built their ENTIRE lives around being perceived as the elite.
But this perceived value depends upon US continually needing … and therefore deferring to … them and their “enlightened” (godly) guidance. Hence the motivation to encourage its imposition as The One True Way in every area, through both social pressure and in some cases the coercive force of law.
Our refusal to extend that deference erodes the perceived value of elite status in this society. Which is why the elites were/are motivated to the point of trampling upon our life and liberty, to coerce that deference.
Donald Trump, in word and in policy, dissented from that paradigm. His policies instead expanded respect for and protection of individual liberty – including the liberty to depart from that One True Way when it doesn’t work for us as individuals.
That also erodes the perceived value of elite status in this society. Which is why the elites were/are motivated to the point of collusion, to tear him down.
Excuse the profanity, but the quote fits American (and EU-ropean) regime journalism to a Tee:
"It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to fuck a doorknob!", Patches O'Houlihan, Dodgeball.
In 2017 if I don't recall wrongly, Trump signed a deal with Saudi Arabia to the tune of them buying, over a ten-year period, military equipment for a grand total of $ 350 000 000 000. Seeing as Saudi has a standing military of close to 150 000 on active service, a further 250 000 they can call up and an additional mobilisation potential of at least 600 000 more. . .
They could end the Houthis inside a month, if they wanted to. And they are next door to the problem.
Any takers as to why the "democracies" and sundry down there never ever do any of the job themselves?
i'm antiwar to the core, but this reminds me of adm. thomas moorer, who told lbj "gimme a couple of carriers and a weekend and i'll give you hanoi"
The Saudi Royalty can't trust their own military with live ammunition. The rank and file are as likely to join the Houthis as anything else. The Saudi armed forces are for display only.
Living in the longest B movie, ever! Many are possessed by something.
If their heads only blew up simultaneously, Scanners-style.
Omg. Lolol. Exactly!
You mean I'm not the only person who believes we're living in a movie? Gasp.
Strangest life I've ever lived...
What were all the other ones like Ryan? 😉😊😋
Like!
Well, there is something they do well, it’s steal. Just ask ‘where did the money go?’ From the following:
California High Speed Rail
The DoD - failed, failed, failed four more times failed their financial audit
The democrats 1.5 billion war chest for the presidential election
Ukraine war funding when maybe 30% reached the killing fields
And the list drains on and on….
We are in the most corrupt of times and all leadership cares about is graft, not us, not our country and certainly they’ve not given any thought to the future, other than the indenture of the masses.
https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/newsom-promised-1-200-tiny-homes-for-unhoused-californians
100%
Hiding in plain sight. Why does anyone think getting homeless people housing first is the best help? Cani’t support themselves, a lot of them are addicts, severe mental disorders or both…
Not one solar panel.
California High Speed Fail.
arguments definitely don't work. but lately i have a different strategy: walk away
you really want to piss off an irate four-year-old?
ignore them
"MOMMMYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Basic rule of behavior modification: Ignore bad behavior. It will then escalate before it lessens.
break out the earplugs
Walk away laughing. Lets them know how seriously you view their argument.
This may be one of the most darkly hilarious lines I've ever read: "Bill Press has crawled so far up his own ass that he’s making circles up there, passing himself on his fifth lap around the duodenum." Bravo.
Get behind me, sir.
I don't need to be the grand marshal, I just need to be in the parade
Let’s fucking gooooooooooo
No they had no intention of acting any other way. They have lived in their bubbles for 9 years so why quit now? They have NFC.
NPCs so rarely do.
It’s a big country. The garbage scow of state turns slowly. But it is turning. We are winning. Lash yourselves to the mast. Plug your ears with beeswax. Do not let the siren song(😂) of Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Joy Reed and the harpies of the View scuttle us in the sulfurous mud of the Swamp on our way back to our shining Ithaca.
I’m kind of serious. These people are useless and losing influence. Ignore them and lean on your Republican representatives to do the same.
MAGA.
Sadly, my representative is Judy Chu.
You have a geographic disadvantage. You are off the hook.
Tanto - thank you for the good reminder that ignoring is a powerful and effective thing.
Totally agree. Starve the beast. And hope Trump/RFK make the right move—ban Pharma and processed food commercials, as both are as addictive and deadly as tobacco. Intended consequence—starves cable/broadcast news of their revenue.
October 7th shocked the Israelis, not because they didn't know the murderous, beastial character of their enemy, but because Hamas completely overwhelmed the Israeli defense perimeter with drones.
When Hamas and Houthi's are deploying the cutting military technology of the age, you know we are in for a rough and tumble future. ANYBODY can wage sophisticated attacks against the defenseless (and not so defenseless). No nation-state required. Drone swarms of thousands of unthinking, automated killing machines destroying all living in their sights. The fruiting body of the fungal organism called the network. It's a brave new world.
For example:
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1860077584580772180
Derision cannot affect these people in their bubbles. What is required is removing the financial and legal supports that make those bubbles possible. Wrap their NGOs up in lawfare. Remove funding from their universities. Tax their foundations and endowments. Treat them like drug cartels. RICO their immigration scams.
Derision is piercing their bubbles, currently, but I'll gladly take the rest of the list.
I agree. They only take notice when they lose (e.g. the meltdown over Trump). Wherever they are still in charge, like where I live, they continue to mock us and laugh in our faces.
Let's not overlook this burning question from The Ethicist: "Was I Right to Chide the Man Who Complimented My Daughter-in-Law?"
i read that too, and was immediately sorry I wasted three minutes. I guess I was hoping someone to come to their senses and say "just say thank you, and go sit down." Sexual appetite indeed. There are some lonely women out there.