I woke up this morning, feeling for some reason like I’d lost an hour of sleep somewhere, realizing I hadn’t finished the thought about all those dank memes.
My husband, who is an electrical genius, suffers from RA and his wrists aren't up to it anymore. He should find a young person to share his knowledge with.
Sorry to hear that about your husband. Yes, he should definitely share his knowledge and expertise. There's a young man or woman out there somewhere who would appreciate it.
Damn, ours was over $250 last month. It was a cold January. And my sweet MiL is tearing through the propane fireplace like crazy. Bless her heart, I'd let her have it on 24/7 if I could afford it. She's almost 95.
here in SW Fla January usually has a half dozen cool nights in the low 50s. This year the months of Jan-early March have seen a dozen each month. Usually we're in the 80s with high humidity. In Nov I had a $150 electric bill. Jan was $78, Feb at @ $110. Almost no use of AC the last 70 days.
Funniest joke I have ever heard: A state policeman pulled over a speeding pick up truck and told the guy, “It’s 10 minutes until my shift is over so if you can tell me a reason why you were speeding that I’ve never heard before, I’ll let you go.
The guy responded, “My wife ran away with a state cop last year and I thought you were bringing her back.”
Last week, a media release came to the newsroom where I work from an auspicious group called “The Wool Council.” It was a reaction to the new tariffs. Shortly after our assignment editor arrived and sat down at his desk, I walked up to him and said, “Say, have you heard what The Wool Council says about tariffs? Apparently they’re ba—aa—aa—aad.” He laughed. And I’m not ashamed to admit I did too.
Ronald Reagan's cheerful nature, inclusive style and fondness of a good joke earned him the title "the happy warrior", an apropos moniker borrowed from a Wordsworth poem. I can't think of a single leader from the left since before Reagan whom that phrase would describe. When the internet came up with the saying "the left can't meme", it was one of those facts that just rang so true that it became an instant maxim. It's not healthy to be so humorless, but I guess when your whole raison d'être revolves around guaranteeing: women's right to abort their unborn children, men's right to beat up women in amateur sports, and the state's right to help your children select a gender absent any input from you, you're bound to be a pretty dour group of ghouls.
I guess that's what passes for a sense of humor on the left these days. Since she brought it to my attention, I've noticed more and more liberal pundits who weirdly laugh really randomly, or worse, completely inappropriately.
Chris, it pleases me so much that you, and others, are homing in on the problem: Cluster B personalities and behaviors. I've been riding this hobby horse for years on my show and in my writing. There was a time I didn't think anyone else would see it, and that they wouldn't believe me when I pointed to it. Happily, that's not the case.
Cluster B are a feature of emergent totalitarianism. Academia, lawyers/judiciary and media key vectors as well. And now we have ESL emotional social learning in instantiating, these traits of mental illness, preschool through grade 12 where many graduate, illiterate and innumerate. So, Maoist cultural revolution 2.0. And universities become “adult “daycares.
This is an induced or conspiratorial aspect to totalitarianism.
I started to read this comment, and was about to respond "you should read Josh Slocum!", then I looked and saw that the comment was by the man, himself.
Yes, I appreciate his show and have spread the word. Happy the two of you are acquainted! For the record I’ll add this stuff is pumped out by the United Nations and “our” intelligence agencies as a means of ongoing, color revolutions .. receipts for funding for this and that trans ideology shipped all over the world from USAID have become available now that doge has gone to work. Similar game with DEI new Jim Crow & useful idiot religion of peace, extremists
You see this political domination by dour women, single and/or childless, often hiding behind face masks (still! in some cases), all over the West Coast. Kamala embodied it.
I was grateful for zoom this past Friday. I had a department meeting and GI issues at the same time, allowing me to claim "2 of the 5 things I did this week" at the same time. The joyless souls of academic made my IBS the most enjoyable part of the meeting. I've never seen so many unhappy people. But, I make the best of it, and poke fun at myself as we all should. The most productive part of the meeting was my sitting on porcelain with the mute button on! How fun it would be to unmute when they began discussing the " dear colleague" letter from DOE. 😆
Not that you need more examples to make your point, but check out the WSJ article written by Joanne Lipman on Feb 28 but published in the March 1, 2025 issue.
Titled: “Can White Men Finally Stop…” She compares Musk, Rogan and Zuckerberg (!) to Archie Bunker from “All in the Family”. Where do you think the author went to school to get educated enough to come up with this idea? And, are scared anxiety ridden Ivy League women really aliens from Venus?
One of the interesting parts of the article is that it’s published in a long form legitimate article of national importance in the WALL STREET JOURNAL. A serious paper once run by a brilliant self made man, Robert Murdoch. Lachlan, his Princeton educated super rich son, who never worked a full day in his life, must be running it now…
In this past weekend's edition, the WSJ published an article, "Trump Is Overturning the World Order That America Built." The unbiased author was Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian-born Italian who is the journal's chief foreign-affairs correspondent. WSJ has been going to hell ever since Murdoch bought it in 2007.
One of my favourite episodes from All in the Family is when Edith blows up and finally lets Mike have it, and tells him that Archie is a good man, he provides for his family, couldn't get an education because he had to work during the Depression and then fought in World War Two, and that maybe it wouldn't hurt to remember that and understand where Archie comes from.
Lear was shrewd enough to show that Archie had many good qualities, and that The Meathead was more often than not an ungrateful, sanctimonious, ignorant and lazy jackass.
62 yo business owner, 30 employees, most blue collar.
- Some of the very creative guys started sharing memes they made of ME by text among each other. Funniest shit I’ve ever seen.
- My 30 yo daughter is always amazed when she gets together with her childhood guy friends. “Dad, they don’t really speak in words. It’s all just noises and weird grunts. And they always end up cracking up laughing. It’s like they’re still 12 years old.”
I make a point to curate and tell only the worst and corniest dad jokes around my teenagers. This inevitably produces a contemptuous response, whereupon I inform the young bucks that they need to lighten up and roll with it. They can groan. They can say “OK dad” and roll their eyes, but getting serious and dissecting the joke is dumb, which I tell them. People used to know how to have fun in America. We need to get back to that. If we can’t laugh in America, the best place on earth, where can we laugh? America was founded so we had the liberty to live our best lives. Surely fart jokes factor in here.I mean, c’mon people throw me a bone.
Got my water and power bills today. Opened them at the same time and was shocked.
"Your crown, sir."
I tried to save some money by doing needed electrical work myself. You may be shocked to learn I wasn't that good at it.
My husband, who is an electrical genius, suffers from RA and his wrists aren't up to it anymore. He should find a young person to share his knowledge with.
Sorry to hear that about your husband. Yes, he should definitely share his knowledge and expertise. There's a young man or woman out there somewhere who would appreciate it.
I had to read that twice...blame my cobwebs on lack of sleep.
Sounds like a Steven Wright joke.
bsn
Hahahahaaaaaa!
Damn, ours was over $250 last month. It was a cold January. And my sweet MiL is tearing through the propane fireplace like crazy. Bless her heart, I'd let her have it on 24/7 if I could afford it. She's almost 95.
here in SW Fla January usually has a half dozen cool nights in the low 50s. This year the months of Jan-early March have seen a dozen each month. Usually we're in the 80s with high humidity. In Nov I had a $150 electric bill. Jan was $78, Feb at @ $110. Almost no use of AC the last 70 days.
Funniest joke I have ever heard: A state policeman pulled over a speeding pick up truck and told the guy, “It’s 10 minutes until my shift is over so if you can tell me a reason why you were speeding that I’ve never heard before, I’ll let you go.
The guy responded, “My wife ran away with a state cop last year and I thought you were bringing her back.”
A state policeman told me this joke.
😁
That's hilarious!
took me a sec but that's a good one lol
Hilarious!
Last week, a media release came to the newsroom where I work from an auspicious group called “The Wool Council.” It was a reaction to the new tariffs. Shortly after our assignment editor arrived and sat down at his desk, I walked up to him and said, “Say, have you heard what The Wool Council says about tariffs? Apparently they’re ba—aa—aa—aad.” He laughed. And I’m not ashamed to admit I did too.
Correct
Considering the left’s idea of a joke is Stephen Colbert calling Trump “Putin’s c*ck holster,” I can see why they might be confused.
Happy people make jokes.
Ronald Reagan's cheerful nature, inclusive style and fondness of a good joke earned him the title "the happy warrior", an apropos moniker borrowed from a Wordsworth poem. I can't think of a single leader from the left since before Reagan whom that phrase would describe. When the internet came up with the saying "the left can't meme", it was one of those facts that just rang so true that it became an instant maxim. It's not healthy to be so humorless, but I guess when your whole raison d'être revolves around guaranteeing: women's right to abort their unborn children, men's right to beat up women in amateur sports, and the state's right to help your children select a gender absent any input from you, you're bound to be a pretty dour group of ghouls.
Or you can cackle like Kamala over nothing at all.
That's just the box wine talking.
😂😂
I guess that's what passes for a sense of humor on the left these days. Since she brought it to my attention, I've noticed more and more liberal pundits who weirdly laugh really randomly, or worse, completely inappropriately.
Of course no one remembers the lively witticisms that flowed from Puritan writers. And Kara wouldn't recognize the sarcasm in that, not one bit.
Chris, it pleases me so much that you, and others, are homing in on the problem: Cluster B personalities and behaviors. I've been riding this hobby horse for years on my show and in my writing. There was a time I didn't think anyone else would see it, and that they wouldn't believe me when I pointed to it. Happily, that's not the case.
Thank you. I really enjoy reading your takes.
Cluster B are a feature of emergent totalitarianism. Academia, lawyers/judiciary and media key vectors as well. And now we have ESL emotional social learning in instantiating, these traits of mental illness, preschool through grade 12 where many graduate, illiterate and innumerate. So, Maoist cultural revolution 2.0. And universities become “adult “daycares.
This is an induced or conspiratorial aspect to totalitarianism.
Btw, they don’t quite predominate but do well populate women lawyers and judges. Definitely less than 50% of the men of that trade.
I may quote this……
I started to read this comment, and was about to respond "you should read Josh Slocum!", then I looked and saw that the comment was by the man, himself.
Yes, I appreciate his show and have spread the word. Happy the two of you are acquainted! For the record I’ll add this stuff is pumped out by the United Nations and “our” intelligence agencies as a means of ongoing, color revolutions .. receipts for funding for this and that trans ideology shipped all over the world from USAID have become available now that doge has gone to work. Similar game with DEI new Jim Crow & useful idiot religion of peace, extremists
You see this political domination by dour women, single and/or childless, often hiding behind face masks (still! in some cases), all over the West Coast. Kamala embodied it.
I was grateful for zoom this past Friday. I had a department meeting and GI issues at the same time, allowing me to claim "2 of the 5 things I did this week" at the same time. The joyless souls of academic made my IBS the most enjoyable part of the meeting. I've never seen so many unhappy people. But, I make the best of it, and poke fun at myself as we all should. The most productive part of the meeting was my sitting on porcelain with the mute button on! How fun it would be to unmute when they began discussing the " dear colleague" letter from DOE. 😆
Attending a meeting while taking a BM? Who says technologies like Zoom haven't enabled us to advance societally?
Lol...maybe more advanced but technology definitely hasn't made us more classy!
For most of the online meetings I have to attend, doing them perched on the throne is just my way of multi-tasking.
Let it rip
…and flush
Not that you need more examples to make your point, but check out the WSJ article written by Joanne Lipman on Feb 28 but published in the March 1, 2025 issue.
Titled: “Can White Men Finally Stop…” She compares Musk, Rogan and Zuckerberg (!) to Archie Bunker from “All in the Family”. Where do you think the author went to school to get educated enough to come up with this idea? And, are scared anxiety ridden Ivy League women really aliens from Venus?
Missed that one. A classic of the form.
Scared anxiety ridden Ivy League (or pretenders) women are feeling the floor drop from under them. And they have no hand holds.
pretenders. Truly ancien women know it's a cyclical thing
One of the interesting parts of the article is that it’s published in a long form legitimate article of national importance in the WALL STREET JOURNAL. A serious paper once run by a brilliant self made man, Robert Murdoch. Lachlan, his Princeton educated super rich son, who never worked a full day in his life, must be running it now…
In this past weekend's edition, the WSJ published an article, "Trump Is Overturning the World Order That America Built." The unbiased author was Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian-born Italian who is the journal's chief foreign-affairs correspondent. WSJ has been going to hell ever since Murdoch bought it in 2007.
I think it reached Hell last year, when I finally cancelled my subscription.
One of my favourite episodes from All in the Family is when Edith blows up and finally lets Mike have it, and tells him that Archie is a good man, he provides for his family, couldn't get an education because he had to work during the Depression and then fought in World War Two, and that maybe it wouldn't hurt to remember that and understand where Archie comes from.
Lear was shrewd enough to show that Archie had many good qualities, and that The Meathead was more often than not an ungrateful, sanctimonious, ignorant and lazy jackass.
I've always understood that while they claim Venusian pedigree, they are more akin to the demons of Uranus.
62 yo business owner, 30 employees, most blue collar.
- Some of the very creative guys started sharing memes they made of ME by text among each other. Funniest shit I’ve ever seen.
- My 30 yo daughter is always amazed when she gets together with her childhood guy friends. “Dad, they don’t really speak in words. It’s all just noises and weird grunts. And they always end up cracking up laughing. It’s like they’re still 12 years old.”
The writer, Z Man, explored this general phenomenon a couple years back in Taki Magazine. The title of the piece? "Gynofascism."
Gynofascism! Perfect word! I’m going to be working this into as many conversations as possible! Thanks NC!
Well, as noted, I can't claim credit for coining the term. Have fun in your conversations. Should garner some attention, welcome and otherwise.
Humor is violence. So is silence. Violence isn't though.
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Brilliant observations in here Chris! Really smart and concise...as always !
I make a point to curate and tell only the worst and corniest dad jokes around my teenagers. This inevitably produces a contemptuous response, whereupon I inform the young bucks that they need to lighten up and roll with it. They can groan. They can say “OK dad” and roll their eyes, but getting serious and dissecting the joke is dumb, which I tell them. People used to know how to have fun in America. We need to get back to that. If we can’t laugh in America, the best place on earth, where can we laugh? America was founded so we had the liberty to live our best lives. Surely fart jokes factor in here.I mean, c’mon people throw me a bone.
Watch what you say around the egg whites. They can't take a yolk.