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Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix]

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Tolerance

When I was in grade school, my fellow students and I went through some classes on "tolerance" to teach us that we had to put up with people even if they're different from us. It made sense to me, but I got a different perspective on it when I went home. My dad asked me what I learned in school that day, and I told him. He told me something along the lines of, "be careful, boy. That's not what they mean." I objected to that and told him that tolerance - that, as long as they're not hurting me, I should put up with different kinds of people, even if they're not like me - sounded like a decent approach to things.

He agreed, but insisted that what they were preaching was not about tolerance - that is, putting up with people who aren't like you - but rather about forced compliance. The way he put it to me was, "today it is tolerance, but tomorrow it will be acceptance. Next week, it will be celebration. Next month, you'll go to jail if you disagree with the celebration." I didn't really get what he meant at the time - I was just a child - but he turned out to be correct.

A wonderful example of this comes from our neighbor to the north. Justin Trudeau - paragon of asinine, virtuleless leftism - was pretty clear about it. Trudeau recently made a visit to Canada's "Drag Race" spin-off. For those who are unfamiliar with it, "Drag Race" is a competition/beauty pageant show where drag queens compete to become the "next drag superstar." It isn't new, and the obsession with drag with is much more recent. In keeping with that obsession, Trudeau visited the show and said this:

Can we move beyond 'tolerate' and start embracing and loving and accepting and learning from and being challenged by. That's how you build a resilient society, that's what we're trying to do in Canada and we got a lot of work still to do.

It gave me flashbacks to grade school. This is precisely what my dad told me back then, just being said plainly and clearly and in public by the head of a major government. It isn't enough to merely tolerate different people, you have to "embrace and accept" them or you're a bigot. This isn't even couched in old-fashioned "diversity" language anymore. The pernicious pivot from "tolerance" to "inclusion" - championed and advanced by corporate HR departments and academia with their DIE obsession - is complete and we're on to the next chapter. Forget tolerance and forget inclusion - neither is sufficient. You must love it or you're a bigot.

Yet, oddly, if you're not down with the program, you don't have to be tolerated. You have to be destroyed. Tolerance - and inclusion, and "embracing and loving" - do not, of course, apply to you. After all, you're bad. If you will merely tolerate different kinds of people and get on with your life but not embrace, celebrate and love them, you're a monster.

It isn't just Trudeau, of course. This is the attitude of everyone in the Western elite. He just talks about it more.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 11:00 AM




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1 Morning

Posted by: Beartooth - DC delenda est at November 30, 2022 11:01 AM (kts79)

2 Ya-hey!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 30, 2022 11:01 AM (AuTCi)

3 Morning.

Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at November 30, 2022 11:01 AM (Js2O8)

4 th

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 30, 2022 11:02 AM (JMAcK)

5 Orwell saw it long ago ... forced to celebrate the lies.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 30, 2022 11:02 AM (Cus5s)

6 Present

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 30, 2022 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)

7 What a smart dad you have.

Posted by: LASue at November 30, 2022 11:03 AM (Ed8Zd)

8 My dad asked me what I learned in school that day, and I told him. He told me something along the lines of, "be careful, boy. That's not what they mean."

Smart guy, your dad

Posted by: kallisto at November 30, 2022 11:03 AM (dCxaZ)

9 Funny reply to funny animal tweet...

https://twitter.com/So_SauceyentII/status/
1597690272292679680

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at November 30, 2022 11:03 AM (Vwz3I)

10 "I tolerate everyone, and I tolerate no one!"

Posted by: kallisto, channeling Inspector Clouseau at November 30, 2022 11:03 AM (dCxaZ)

11 Good essay.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 30, 2022 11:04 AM (2f07m)

12 Trudeau is such a drag.

Posted by: 496 at November 30, 2022 11:04 AM (0Le4j)

13 The Death Camp of Tolerance.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 30, 2022 11:05 AM (AuTCi)

14 As much as you hate me, you always come back to me. I am inevitable.

Posted by: The Slippery Slope at November 30, 2022 11:05 AM (1sGER)

15 I am quite content in my misanthropy.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 30, 2022 11:06 AM (aKxz7)

16 I don't understand what Castreau means by embracing. It seems to me that anything short of becoming a drag queen is short of embracing.
Mind you he did participate in a drag show.

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at November 30, 2022 11:06 AM (eGTCV)

17 Actual Trudaeu quote from last week:

"Using protests to demand changes to public policy is something that I think is worrisome"

Let that sink in.

Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at November 30, 2022 11:06 AM (5p7BC)

18 Screening device for compliance. Few of the ultra elites actually believe this shit but it is useful to see who will kneel and I think they get a twisted unholy desire for making unwilling people comply.

A right to one's own personal conscience and convictions is key to Western civilization. What our elites are doing is a return to paganism where you must publicly worship whatever idols that the elites come up with or suffer the consequences.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:07 AM (bDjBG)

19 17 Actual Trudaeu quote from last week:

"Using protests to demand changes to public policy is something that I think is worrisome"

Let that sink in.
Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at November 30, 2022 11:06 AM (5p7BC)

=========

Wait until he hears about the BLM and antifa protests.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 11:07 AM (LvTSG)

20 When I reported it on the EMT. I didn't know he was this asshole...

· 2h
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin Who Ruled After Tiananmen Massacre Dies At 96

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at November 30, 2022 11:07 AM (Vwz3I)

21 Love is love.

Posted by: Zombie Jeff Dahmer at November 30, 2022 11:07 AM (APN13)

22 Actual Trudaeu quote from last week:

"Using protests to demand changes to public policy is something that I think is worrisome"

Let that sink in.
Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at November 30, 2022 11:06 AM (5p7BC)
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Yup. It's all about tolerance and the sweet embrace of brother-love unless you call out a brother-lover on his tyranny.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 11:07 AM (t0OGg)

23 There will be no celebrating, embracing or accepting in my heart and mind.

I guess they are just going to have to execute me.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at November 30, 2022 11:07 AM (sI15f)

24 Stack enough over-tolerance and the machine quits working. In actual drag races often explosively.

Posted by: DaveA at November 30, 2022 11:08 AM (FhXTo)

25 You see, though, TOLERANCE means we can't tolerate INTOLERANCE.

So you're free to do everything that I approve of. That's tolerance. But if you don't approve of what I approve of, that's intolerance and I won't tolerate it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 30, 2022 11:08 AM (JMAcK)

26 Joe Mannix Sr. was a smart man.

Posted by: Golfman at November 30, 2022 11:08 AM (QSzXB)

27 Looks like Balenciaga is taking action against the creative team who produced the ad with the child p3do documents, because it proved to be intolerable.

Here's the design team's response to the legal complaint:

“Everyone from Balenciaga was on the shoot and was present on every shot and worked on the edit of every image in post production,” Moussaieff said, adding that Des Jardins is “being used as a scapegoat” and is hiring a legal team.

Posted by: kallisto at November 30, 2022 11:08 AM (dCxaZ)

28 Good rant, Joe. Thanks.

I think Trudeau should give up his job at PM and become a competitive drag queen. He's used to dressing up in costumes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 30, 2022 11:08 AM (vH/6k)

29 Fidel's bastard loves to dress up. Maybe next it's queen Trudeau.

Posted by: Archer at November 30, 2022 11:08 AM (gmo/4)

30 Amen

Posted by: Scottst at November 30, 2022 11:09 AM (nEDaf)

31 > Trudeau recently made a visit to Canada's "Drag Race" spin-off. For those who are unfamiliar with it, "Drag Race" is a competition/beauty pageant show where drag queens compete to become the "next drag superstar."

Did Pierre Elliott Castro-Bieber compete?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 30, 2022 11:09 AM (bW8dp)

32 Your dad was a very smart man.

Posted by: Leber at November 30, 2022 11:09 AM (REL1l)

33 I know that you're only 29, but did you seriously get "tolerance" lessons in school all those years ago? I swear I barely heard the word until 10 years ago, other than being used in the context of tolerance for booze or something like that.

I do remember similar "lessons" to the effect that I should be nice to everyone and not react with hostility and anger even if I was wronged. My dad's reaction to that was simple: "Fuck that," he said. "If someone hits you, you hit back them harder. They won't hit you again."

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 30, 2022 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

34 The closest my school came to this tolerance thing was showing the old old Frank Sinatra short film about the topic. Of course that was a loooong time ago, and the film was old even then. It was from the period when Frankie was a big singing star and had just moved into movies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2022 11:10 AM (J2vNu)

35 here you must publicly worship whatever idols that the elites come up with or suffer the consequences.

Now do elections.

Posted by: DaveA at November 30, 2022 11:10 AM (FhXTo)

36 To paraphrase JJ from this morning on the Orwellian-named (aren't they all?) "Respect for Marriage Act" (RFMA):

Old and Busted – You will be made to bake the cake.
New Hotness – You will be made to bake the cake or else face fine, imprisonment, or both.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 30, 2022 11:10 AM (eJpJx)

37 Balenciaga needs to go out of business because enough customers are fed up (And no, I've never been a patron. I'm not that well off and have never been a fashion maven.)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 30, 2022 11:10 AM (vH/6k)

38 No, I do not have to. I choose not to be around any one of these people.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 30, 2022 11:10 AM (4EaVh)

39 Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the music!

Posted by: Justin nother Castreau at November 30, 2022 11:10 AM (cct0t)

40 The closest my school came to this tolerance thing was showing the old old Frank Sinatra short film about the topic. Of course that was a loooong time ago, and the film was old even then. It was from the period when Frankie was a big singing star and had just moved into movies.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2022


***
Had to look it up. "The House I Live In," 1945. It was anti-racism, but also anti-religious bigotry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2022 11:11 AM (J2vNu)

41 Castreau is a horrible little tyrant.

But everyone already knew that.

Posted by: XTC at November 30, 2022 11:11 AM (UnA8+)

42 “Everyone from Balenciaga was on the shoot and was present on every shot and worked on the edit of every image in post production,” Moussaieff said, adding that Des Jardins is “being used as a scapegoat” and is hiring a legal team.
Posted by: kallisto at November 30, 2022 11:08 AM (dCxaZ)
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It'll work, too. And he'll get a nice paycheck to go along with it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 11:11 AM (t0OGg)

43 Joe,
Had a similar conversation with my 'ol man. It started over a philosophy class and went from there. He explained hard truth vs feel good crap and he covered tolerance and compliance as well. It sank in years later.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 30, 2022 11:12 AM (anj39)

44 Gosh, the Slipoery Slope is real?

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 30, 2022 11:12 AM (Rbu5d)

45 I already have a reservation booked on the next train to the Tolerance Camp! I hear they have a swell sauna set up for us on arrival!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 30, 2022 11:12 AM (YIVH2)

46 Intolerance means not baking cakes on command.

That's what I've learned.

Posted by: Scottst at November 30, 2022 11:12 AM (nEDaf)

47 Former ChiCom strongman Jiang Zemin es muerte.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 30, 2022 11:12 AM (bW8dp)

48 I know that you're only 29, but did you seriously get "tolerance" lessons in school all those years ago? I swear I barely heard the word until 10 years ago, other than being used in the context of tolerance for booze or something like that. ...
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 30, 2022 11:09 AM (iFTx/)
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I did. It was the 90s and it was just beginning as far as I know.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 11:12 AM (t0OGg)

49 Actual Trudaeu quote from last week:

"Using protests to demand changes to public policy is something that I think is worrisome"


I know, right?

Posted by: Xi Jinping at November 30, 2022 11:13 AM (eOEVl)

50 Human beings are seemingly a bundle of contradictions. The promotion of "inclusivity" makes people more likely to exclude others. "Tolerance" causes people to be more intolerant. Etc etc.

It's like if you want to get the best out of people you need to leave open the possibility for the worst. Like...how am I trying to put it...people need to be free or some shit.

Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at November 30, 2022 11:13 AM (tf8gA)

51 Yes and the talented DIE proponents couch things cleverly. "Studies have shown that if your home life is not accepted at work you don't feel accepted" "Remember how badly you felt when the cliques in school rejected you"

Oh shut up. Reliving teen angst is no way to be a productive adult and I dislike excessive sharing of home life at work, period. I don't want to know that you had an argument with your spouse this morning. Save that for venting to your friends and NO, your coworkers do NOT need to be your friends. If some are, fine, vent to them on your breaks, but keep that shit out of work meetings.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at November 30, 2022 11:13 AM (3cGpq)

52 As much as you hate me, you always come back to me. I am inevitable.
Posted by: The Slippery Slope
==
Like gravity, or death. It is one of the underlying principles of reality as long as humans are a feature of that reality due to human nature being nearly immutable in the absence of a significant modifying force that is not just positive and negative behavioral reinforcement but also supernatural reinforcement through grace. What is grace, it is that which assists a naturally miserable human to transcend his/her "nature". You can make progress with self discipline, but most people can't get all the way there without grace. You have to not only dig a little deeper, you gotta ask for help. Cause you cain't fix all your shit on your own.

Posted by: I'm not an apostle but I'mma preach a bit at November 30, 2022 11:13 AM (8DY6V)

53 I remember being told way back that it was evil to be "prejudiced." I remember my dad saying that everyone is prejudiced, meaning "to prejudge" or you'd be incapable of making choices. That any preference was prejudice. You never hear thst word anymore because the Chinese Communists who are running our cultural elites are defined by prejudice.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:14 AM (HMTci)

54 I remember this very argument on lefty leaning university bulletin boards. This must have been 30 plus years ago.

They kept talking about "tolerance" but were confused, I pointed out the textbook definition from memory, it is something along the lines of "allowing others to hold differing beliefs, without accepting those beliefs".

Even then, they were demanding outright approval if not participation and calling it "tolerance". It's always been a scam, and never negotiated in good faith. Decent, peaceable people let their guard down, and are being hunted down for it, figuratively if not (yet) literally.

Oops

Posted by: Common Tater at November 30, 2022 11:14 AM (34mN2)

55 “Everyone from Balenciaga was on the shoot and was present on every shot and worked on the edit of every image in post production,” Moussaieff said, adding that Des Jardins is “being used as a scapegoat” and is hiring a legal team.
Posted by: kallisto at November 30, 2022 11:08 AM (dCxaZ)
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It'll work, too. And he'll get a nice paycheck to go along with it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 11:11 AM (t0OGg)


But maybe he deserves it. If he did exactly what they wanted him to do, and they knew about it every step of the way, he's not the bad guy here (He's a sick perv, but that's another story.). Let's punish Balenciaga for this atrocity, not some nameless contractor doing their bidding.

Posted by: Wally at November 30, 2022 11:14 AM (1sGER)

56 Now do elections.
Posted by: DaveA

---------------------
Unfortunately, far too many view elections, even on the right as something like rooting for a team.

I vote on candidates and parties based on similar criteria as picking my trash collection company. Arguably, as far as positive contributions to society, the trash pickup company is better than most politicians and more important than them.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:14 AM (bDjBG)

57 22 Actual Trudaeu quote from last week:

"Using protests to demand changes to public policy is something that I think is worrisome"

Let that sink in.
Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at November 30, 2022 11:06 AM (5p7BC)
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Yup. It's all about tolerance and the sweet embrace of brother-love unless you call out a brother-lover on his tyranny.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 11:07 AM (t0OGg)

#honkhonk

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 30, 2022 11:14 AM (Rbu5d)

58 50 Human beings are seemingly a bundle of contradictions. The promotion of "inclusivity" makes people more likely to exclude others. "Tolerance" causes people to be more intolerant. Etc etc.

It's like if you want to get the best out of people you need to leave open the possibility for the worst. Like...how am I trying to put it...people need to be free or some shit.
Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at November 30, 2022 11:13 AM (tf8gA)

The "F*** You, I'm going to do the opposite of what you tell me!" factor.

Posted by: XTC at November 30, 2022 11:14 AM (UnA8+)

59 I just watched the Power of Art episode on Rothko. These pretentious art reviewers ( no not you Kris) piss on you and try to tell you it's raining. And these celebrated artists like Rothko and Pollock try to put their mental illness and world view as reality and the Leftist art world loves it. I mention this because that's the Left's MO with all aspects of life.

Posted by: polynikes at November 30, 2022 11:15 AM (JZ+w7)

60 Guy at work had a little sign on his desk.
"I believe in toleration. Consider yourself tolerated."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 30, 2022 11:15 AM (jYCXf)

61 >>I know that you're only 29, but did you seriously get "tolerance" lessons in school all those years ago?

I went to middle school in NJ during the race riots. We had lots of lectures on tolerance and acceptance.

To make the point more clear, we had two principals, one for the white students and one for the black students. The lesson we learned is that the authorities tolerated and accepted bad behavior to a much greater degree depending on skin color. White kids had a lot of dues to pay for other people as it turned out.

This crap has been going on in schools for a very long time.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 30, 2022 11:15 AM (ZLI7S)

62 "It isn't enough to merely tolerate different people, you have to 'embrace and accept' them or you're a bigot."

JM, it's more than that. You must "embrace and accept" not only them as people or individuals, but you must "embrace" their CONDUCT as well. There's a difference. What they are really going for here is exactly what this blog has been warning about: they want you to engage in their deviant and homosexual conduct. You will suck that dick. Or else.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 30, 2022 11:15 AM (iFTx/)

63 "Tolerance" is just a skin-suit now.

Posted by: Toad-O at November 30, 2022 11:15 AM (cct0t)

64 Fidel's bastard loves to dress up. Maybe next it's queen Trudeau.

Posted by: Archer at November 30, 2022 11:08 AM (gmo/4)

--------

In blackface,dancing to:

"Caribbean Queen --
Now we're sharing the same dream ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 30, 2022 11:15 AM (eJpJx)

65 Damn smart man, your dad. God Bless.

Posted by: acethepug at November 30, 2022 11:16 AM (iPUDw)

66 Today is Winston Churchill's Birthday. Here's one for you, you old Bulldog.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 30, 2022 11:16 AM (ynpvh)

67 41 Castreau is a horrible little tyrant.

But everyone already knew that.
Posted by: XTC
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That sort of twink is likely to end up getting a Ceausescu Christmas if society goes upside down.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:16 AM (bDjBG)

68
Can we move beyond 'tolerate' and start embracing and loving and accepting and learning from and being challenged by.

https://youtu.be/o9amakfmTHs

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 30, 2022 11:16 AM (63Dwl)

69 I guess I will have to just be a bigot then.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 30, 2022 11:16 AM (T/s40)

70 "Studies have shown that if your home life is not accepted at work you don't feel accepted" "Remember how badly you felt when the cliques in school rejected you"

Oh shut up. Reliving teen angst is no way to be a productive adult and I dislike excessive sharing of home life at work, period. I don't want to know that you had an argument with your spouse this morning. Save that for venting to your friends and NO, your coworkers do NOT need to be your friends. If some are, fine, vent to them on your breaks, but keep that shit out of work meetings.
==
Feminization of society. Chicks and dudes are very different. I know the ladies i have know in the work world are all to often telling each other all kinds of things having to do with personal information. It fills some need I think, which most of the guys I work with don't have. If you ask them the will talk about some stuff, but the never bring it up in conversation. At most, maybe to brag about a kids sports team, or something like that.

Posted by: viv la difference at November 30, 2022 11:16 AM (5Bgyi)

71 She-del Castro

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 30, 2022 11:17 AM (6FeV1)

72 ...how am I trying to put it...people need to be free or some shit.

Word.

Posted by: Scottst at November 30, 2022 11:17 AM (nEDaf)

73 In blackface,dancing to:

"Caribbean Queen --
Now we're sharing the same dream ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 30, 2022 11:15 AM (eJpJx)
_________________

Great song! "She dashed by me in painted-on jeans . . . ."

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 30, 2022 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

74 I'll tell you why all this ghey LGBTQWERTY shit has gotten a foothold in society: because we didn't punch the right people in the face back when we had the chance.

Like Clemenza told Mike- we should have never let them get away with that shit in the first place.

imo ymmv

Posted by: DB at November 30, 2022 11:17 AM (geLO8)

75 In the future, everyone will be forced to suck tranny dick for 15 minutes.

Posted by: Equity Inclusion Diversity Compulsion at November 30, 2022 11:17 AM (yOepa)

76 Trudeau is neither well educated nor worldly, and thus gravitates to the leftist pseudo-intellectualism of his father, Fidel Castro. Canada is ill-served by this flyweight.

Of course even if he wasn't a bastard, his father would be Pierre Trudeau, so he would be just as much a lightweight.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at November 30, 2022 11:17 AM (hRbjX)

77 29 Fidel's bastard loves to dress up. Maybe next it's queen Trudeau.

Posted by: Archer at November 30, 2022 11:08 AM (gmo/4)
He really is Fidel's bastard son. People need to be aware of this.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 30, 2022 11:17 AM (QSjkU)

78 I went to school a long time ago. Never once was the word "tolerance" used as a core lesson objective. My parents, mother in particular used the term frequently when her kids were having issues with other kids or their parents. There were a lot of foreign nationals living in our neighborhood due to our proximity to the capitol city. Different customs, food, etc. thus "tolerance."

The definition today is something totally different.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 30, 2022 11:17 AM (Q4IgG)

79 66 Today is Winston Churchill's Birthday. Here's one for you, you old Bulldog.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

--------------------------
He would be horrified to see England today.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (bDjBG)

80 I would tolerate the criminal prosecution of Disney executives for the perversions they include in so called "children's entertainment".

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (3AD8C)

81 ||ADP private payrolls 127K, Exp. 200K, Last 239K

ADP Nov median change in annual pay:

job-stayers: 7.6%, vs 7.7% last
job-changers: 15.1%, vs 15.2% last

There it is: -100,000 manufacturing jobs

Professional/business services: -77K
Financial activities -34K
Information -25K

but fear not: +224,000 waiters and bartenders

ADP payroll change:
Small establishment: -51K
Large establishment: -68K

These are disastrous numbers||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (Vwz3I)

82 16
'I don't understand what Castreau means by embracing.'

He means you better always celebrate the current thing or his government will prosecute you.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (T/s40)

83 I tell my kids, "Stay away from mentally ill weirdos, they're mentally ill in MANY ways. It's not smart to get near them regardless of what you're told. Be polite and run away."

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (HMTci)

84 Festivus 2022 is gonna be lit this year.

Posted by: Beartooth - DC delenda est at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (kts79)

85 >Today is Winston Churchill's Birthday. Here's one for you, you old Bulldog.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Cheers to that magnificent bastard.

Posted by: DB at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (geLO8)

86 "Discrimination" is another perfectly good word. It is not a bad thing by itself. I choose not to step in dog shit, I am discriminating. "She has discriminating taste" is a compliment.

When the adjectives are applied, well that's different.

What's so bizarre is seeing supposedly educated or learned people approving racially segregated dorms, say.

I guess everyone owes Bull Connor a belated apology, or something. Jeeze Louise. They can dust off those "Colored Only" bathroom signage too.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 30, 2022 11:19 AM (34mN2)

87 Trudeau wants a drag race. There’s only one Queen of drag racing, boy. Don’t forget it!

Posted by: Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney at November 30, 2022 11:19 AM (UMF0j)

88 Tolerance" is just a skin-suit now
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This is why the have a spittle flecked nutty over "groomer". It gives the LIE to what they claim is tolerance. No one is going to tolerate pedophilia. (Yet - they are working on it). Groomer is the linguistic killshot to tolerance.

Posted by: this stuff matters more than you think at November 30, 2022 11:19 AM (sCKt1)

89 Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:14 AM (bDjBG)

Yes and I don't believe there is anything inherently wrong with rooting for one set of ideals over another , ideals being the team. Of course within that team you will always have a player who goes against those ideals. That when you kick them off the team. Unfortunately it's not known immediately and thus can't be instantly done.

Posted by: polynikes at November 30, 2022 11:19 AM (JZ+w7)

90 70 "Studies have shown that if your home life is not accepted at work you don't feel accepted" "Remember how badly you felt when the cliques in school rejected you"

Oh shut up. Reliving teen angst is no way to be a productive adult and I dislike excessive sharing of home life at work, period. I don't want to know that you had an argument with your spouse this morning. Save that for venting to your friends and NO, your coworkers do NOT need to be your friends. If some are, fine, vent to them on your breaks, but keep that shit out of work meetings.
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Feminization of society. Chicks and dudes are very different. I know the ladies i have know in the work world are all to often telling each other all kinds of things having to do with personal information. It fills some need I think, which most of the guys I work with don't have. If you ask them the will talk about some stuff, but the never bring it up in conversation. At most, maybe to brag about a kids sports team, or something like that.
Posted by: viv la difference
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Sharing is caring is what Barney the purple dinosaur says.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:19 AM (bDjBG)

91 Is the dad of Joe Mannix a cop?

Posted by: Heino Fan Club #52, Hamburg at November 30, 2022 11:20 AM (dXilO)

92 I did some drag races back in the day. They had a very different meaning back then, though.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 30, 2022 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

93 I share almost no personal info to my coworkers, very little time to spare for that. The thought just occurred to me though that I seem to have enough time to spare to visit here. I better get back to work.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 30, 2022 11:20 AM (fs1hN)

94 I'm suspicious of anyone who was big into Disney ever...even before they went full pervert. It's always been weird, sappy, and grifty.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:20 AM (HMTci)

95 81 These are disastrous numbers||
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (Vwz3I)

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The American voter in general is allowing this to happen by not cleaning up elections.

It is, effectively, what America wants since America will not do what is necessary to ensure that their government is run according to their will and consent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 11:20 AM (LvTSG)

96 I guess McDonalds jobs are OK now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 30, 2022 11:21 AM (vCY3B)

97 90 Sharing is caring is what Barney the purple dinosaur says.
Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:19 AM (bDjBG)

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"What's yours is yours, and no one else's. What you earned by the sweat of your own brow belongs to no one else, and you should be willing to use deadly force to preserve that right."
-Ayn Rand's aborted television show for children

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 11:21 AM (LvTSG)

98 Festivus 2022 is gonna be lit this year.
Posted by: Beartooth - DC delenda est at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (kts79)
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The "Sharing of Grievances" will last through New Year's...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 30, 2022 11:21 AM (YIVH2)

99 I tell my kids, "Stay away from mentally ill weirdos, they're mentally ill in MANY ways. It's not smart to get near them regardless of what you're told. Be polite and run away."
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (HMTci)
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My personal policy is, "Never irritate the crazy person".

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 30, 2022 11:21 AM (AuTCi)

100 94 I'm suspicious of anyone who was big into Disney ever...even before they went full pervert. It's always been weird, sappy, and grifty.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:20 AM (HMTci)

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But I was a child...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 11:22 AM (LvTSG)

101 Personally I think the Balenciaga thing is a way to gin up publicity. Never heard of them until now.

They say there's no such thing as bad publicity but I think crossing the line into kiddy diddling might be bad for business.

Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at November 30, 2022 11:22 AM (tf8gA)

102 Tolerance is a vice. Politeness is a virtue.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at November 30, 2022 11:22 AM (pyVNc)

103 viv la differeence. Funny thing is I am a chick. But also have an engineering degree and I guess it is known that we nerds are often on the asocial part of the bell curve.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at November 30, 2022 11:22 AM (3cGpq)

104 I don't mean to avoid the discussion, but these days any pronouncement that comes out of the mouth of a government agent is about obedience.

If I'm among friends and family, we can talk about tolerance. If I'm at church, fine. Or wherever I engage in efforts to arrive at truth and meaning.

Governments don't do that. Nor do propaganda a machines like media and corporate oligarchies.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 30, 2022 11:22 AM (YV6PJ)

105 Speaking of Disney - pretty much all the anime films and series blow away anything they've ever done in terms of writing, storytelling, and technical ability. Some of it may be weird shit but it's creative and original weird shit.

Posted by: No, not a weeb at November 30, 2022 11:22 AM (yOepa)

106 It isn't just Trudeau. It's the brain dead idiots in society and various churches who instead of condemning evil and those who live and practice their evil sodomite ways consent to it and celebrate it sideways.

Look at the Pope. When did he ever stand up and say "Listen Up! If your a fag, a sodomite or whatever freak ass life your living, please stop and repent your sins or get the hell outta here and don't come back until you do." Nope, just the old "hate the sin and love the sinner blah blah blah" crap. Always the wiggle room, always half assing it.



Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 30, 2022 11:22 AM (0ZEfs)

107 ... Professional/business services: -77K
Financial activities -34K
Information -25K
...
These are disastrous numbers||
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (Vwz3I)
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That is a nightmare, and the top and bottom of those three (professional services and information) are going to keep declining hard, probably accelerating after the first of the year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 11:22 AM (t0OGg)

108 My husband barely talks TO ME about his personal life. I doubt he'd share his sports team preference at work. Never miss an opportunity to shut up at work.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:23 AM (HMTci)

109 > He would be horrified to see England today.
Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (bDjBG)

He'd go full Oliver Muhfuggin' Cromwell on they asses.

Posted by: Jules Winnfield at November 30, 2022 11:23 AM (bW8dp)

110 These are disastrous numbers||
Posted by: andycanuck
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By next quarter you will be wishing for these numbers.

Posted by: And that might be optimistic on my part at November 30, 2022 11:23 AM (zFaQ4)

111 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 30, 2022 11:23 AM (T4tVD)

112 Letting the suicidal, mixed up gender freaks have a drag show in a seedy strip joint on the wrong side of the tracks is tolerance.
Letting them do it in the public schools is perversion and parental failure.

Posted by: Wally at November 30, 2022 11:23 AM (1sGER)

113 Today is Winston Churchill's Birthday. Here's one for you, you old Bulldog.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 30, 2022 11:16 AM (ynpvh)

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I will pour a strong one tonight in his honor.

To think that he saved Western Civilization ... for this? I can hear him from heaven quipping "You're not dead yet!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 30, 2022 11:23 AM (eJpJx)

114 Then: What does gay marriage have to do with you anyway h8ter?

Now: Bake that cake h8ter

Soon: This ladypenis isn't going to suck itself you know

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:24 AM (ESjRY)

115 Personally I think the Balenciaga thing is a way to gin up publicity. Never heard of them until now.

They say there's no such thing as bad publicity but I think crossing the line into kiddy diddling might be bad for business.
Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at November 30, 2022 11:22 AM (tf8gA)
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Maybe. But Balenciaga didn't really need to publicity. They've been the "it" brand for chicks who spend a lot on trendy stuff for a bit now. The "it" brand changes from time to time, but Balenciaga has been "it" for a bit now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 11:24 AM (t0OGg)

116 I'm suspicious of anyone who was big into Disney ever...even before they went full pervert. It's always been weird, sappy, and grifty.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:20 AM (HMTci)

I became aware when they took over the Family Channel years ago. It became anything but Family friendly. It turned into a woke propaganda channel.

Posted by: polynikes at November 30, 2022 11:24 AM (JZ+w7)

117 I just had to do my DIE training and it was full of "___ Study in 19__ showed ____"

Total bullshit.

Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at November 30, 2022 11:24 AM (5p7BC)

118 Please take this as a compliment- your dad sounds like a Moron's Moron. Smart man.

Posted by: bluebell at November 30, 2022 11:25 AM (pTb/Z)

119 But I was a child...


But Warner Bros was always better.
Who picks stupid Mickey Mouse over Bugs or Wiley Coyote? Who prefers goofy to Tom and Jerry?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:25 AM (HMTci)

120 Today is Winston Churchill's Birthday. Here's one for you, you old Bulldog.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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He would be horrified to see England today.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:18 AM (bDjBG)


That Whirling noise? That's Winston in his grave.




Posted by: Archer at November 30, 2022 11:25 AM (gmo/4)

121 Soon: This ladypenis isn't going to suck itself you know
Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:24 AM (ESjRY)

That's "biologically female ladypenis." Report immediately to your closest Compassion and Acceptance Center for education, reflection, and healing.

Posted by: Department of Mandatory Tolerance at November 30, 2022 11:26 AM (yOepa)

122 Yeah, it's easy to have a hate on for the Democrat-Left. But the GOPe hasn't done a damn thing to hold the line and take a stand. Quite the opposite. They only thing they've done is piss on our backs and tell us it's raining.

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Tin soldiers and Biden's coming
We're finally on our own

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 30, 2022 11:26 AM (FVME7)

123 Disney, as originally imagined, was for the celebration of innocense within the family. Disney didn't invent this he merely replicated what he saw in Europe and brought to America. Listening to Iger you immediately understand where Disney jumped the tracks. Iger is evil.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 30, 2022 11:26 AM (cgBkB)

124 viv la differeence. Funny thing is I am a chick. But also have an engineering degree and I guess it is known that we nerds are often on the asocial part of the bell curve.
Posted by: PaleRider
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Yeah. I'm in a language based profession. So there are a lot of talkers - but the degree to which the ladies seem to share their intimate family social travails boggles my mind. Obviously there is a bell curve and I would think you are not in the middle of it.

Posted by: viv la difference at November 30, 2022 11:26 AM (5Bgyi)

125 Also not we went from

Government out of my healthcare. MY BODY MY CHOICE

to

Of course the government can mandate you take this experimental gene therapy or be sent to a concentration camp

in about 15 seconds.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:26 AM (ESjRY)

126 Tolerate the tolerable.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 30, 2022 11:26 AM (yQpMk)

127 118 But Warner Bros was always better.
Who picks stupid Mickey Mouse over Bugs or Wiley Coyote? Who prefers goofy to Tom and Jerry?
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:25 AM (HMTci)

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To be fair, I've never really liked Disney. They always rubbed me the wrong way, especially as a child. It was the commercialism and how everything seemed to be about selling toys.

So, yeah, Bugs Bunny > Mickey Mouse.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 11:27 AM (LvTSG)

128 I went to Disneyland in the 8th grade. I didn't like it. Even then it gave me the creeps. It had a sort of gingerbread house vibe to it and I was glad to leave and never went back.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 30, 2022 11:28 AM (QSjkU)

129 But the GOPe hasn't done a damn thing to hold the line and take a stand. Quite the opposite. They only thing they've done is piss on our backs and tell us it's raining.

The last time the GOP fought on a domestic issue that wasn't tax cuts was in the mid 90s with welfare reform.

Note Denis Hastert was installed as majority leader in 99 and the GOPe hasn't put up a fight on ANYTHING since then.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:28 AM (ESjRY)

130 I have to admit that everyone at work knew I was a conservative because I didn't let Leftist crap go unanswered.

Posted by: polynikes at November 30, 2022 11:28 AM (JZ+w7)

131 You can always recognize an extroverted engineer. He looks at your shoes while talking to you.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 30, 2022 11:28 AM (yQpMk)

132 O'CrazyHo-Tittycaca's totally not gayer than Liberace during Pride Week "boyfriend" gives advice to white people on how not to be racist:

https://tinyurl.com/y2fdv9m3

Posted by: Jules Winnfield at November 30, 2022 11:28 AM (bW8dp)

133 I liked Donald Duck in, "Der Fuhrer's Face". Still do.

Posted by: Archer at November 30, 2022 11:28 AM (gmo/4)

134 So not only do I have to bake the cake. I have to decorate it, eat it and say it's the bestest cake ever!

No thank you is hate speech.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 30, 2022 11:28 AM (diVr5)

135 Trudeau supports the Chinese protests and believes the Chinese government should tolerate them. He cannot tolerate Canadian protest against him.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 30, 2022 11:28 AM (mP+mW)

136 So, yeah, Bugs Bunny > Mickey Mouse

Thank you.

I would have bullied anyone in mouse ears.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:28 AM (HMTci)

137 Yes and I don't believe there is anything inherently wrong with rooting for one set of ideals over another , ideals being the team. Of course within that team you will always have a player who goes against those ideals. That when you kick them off the team. Unfortunately it's not known immediately and thus can't be instantly done. Posted by: polynikes
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If you are looking for idealism in politicians, it is like looking for virtue in a whorehouse. I don't want idealism in politics but pragmatism. I have a religion to provide me my ideals, not politicians.

In most cases, the devil is in the details so when something like the Respect for Marriage bill comes out, politicians will preen claiming principles led them to pass it. In reality, donor and leadership pressure along with a fear of ostracism led them to vote for it. They figure it will never apply to them and theirs. Likewise Aid to Ukraine, etc. Aristotle mentions that most people respond to rhetoric (aka principles), few respond to dialectic. So all politicos are expert at rhetoric but absolutely awful in promoting what is good, just, beautiful, and true in society where people flourish.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:29 AM (bDjBG)

138 Of course I'm prejudiced, I hate everyone.

Posted by: Dad at November 30, 2022 11:29 AM (ZEa+g)

139 128 I went to Disneyland in the 8th grade. I didn't like it. Even then it gave me the creeps. It had a sort of gingerbread house vibe to it and I was glad to leave and never went back.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 30, 2022 11:28 AM (QSjkU)

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Because it's fake, it's obviously fake, and Disney puts up such an effort to make it "real". I really don't like the Disney parks.

Universal is more purely an amusement park with a greater emphasis on thrills. I much prefer Universal over Disney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

140 Bullwinkle > Bugs Bunny > Tom and Jerry > ..... An Animated Poop Smear > Disney

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 30, 2022 11:30 AM (bW8dp)

141 I have to admit that everyone at work knew I was a conservative because I didn't let Leftist crap go unanswered.

Presuming your lefty co-workers like you they will assume you are one of them if you just don't get into politics.

And oh the things they'll tell you. My favorite was when they got into a discussion on abortion and after a few catechisms of "of course choice is a fundamental right" they quickly digressed into "you know THOSE people are having too many kids we can't let these anti-choice people allow those kids to be born"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:30 AM (ESjRY)

142 Growing up we watched the Wonderful World of Disney every Sunday.

Posted by: polynikes at November 30, 2022 11:30 AM (JZ+w7)

143 "What's yours is yours, and no one else's. What you earned by the sweat of your own brow belongs to no one else, and you should be willing to use deadly force to preserve that right."
-Ayn Rand's aborted television show for children
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 11:21 AM (LvTSG)

This shit needs to be done. Like now.

"Todays lesson, kids. A is for A."

Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at November 30, 2022 11:31 AM (tf8gA)

144 O'CrazyHo-Tittycaca's totally not gayer than Liberace during Pride Week "boyfriend" gives advice to white people on how not to be racist:

That guy has cleared sipped more penises then Sandy...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:31 AM (ESjRY)

145 Don't know who first made the "I figured I better get out before they made it mandatory" joke, but I do know, at least as far as the topic of perversion goes- this exact same issue was the denouement of Road to Utopia- may have been played for laughs, but as Solomon noted, there's nothing new under the sun, and the usual devolvement to perversion will eventually result in the same old outcome of societal destruction. Not an aside- why would the presumably wealthy transwhatever weirdo steal bags, especially in his high profile position? Same as why the scorpion stung the frog, and why you don't put such people in such postions.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 30, 2022 11:31 AM (+e5q3)

146 My in-law family once bought tickets in NYC for us all to go to Disney on ice. Took me hours to convince them I'd rather have a root canal on a good tooth. They went without me. I still consider that a near miss and it was 25 years ago.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:31 AM (HMTci)

147 For the First Time in 1,400 Years, Christians Are a Minority in England and Wales, and the U.S. Is Not Far Behind

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There is no God, there is only Zuul.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 30, 2022 11:32 AM (FVME7)

148 Universal is more purely an amusement park with a greater emphasis on thrills. I much prefer Universal over Disney.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

The only thing I really liked at Disney was the Pirates of the Caribbean. Mainly because it was old school, mechanical tech and not stupid robots.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 30, 2022 11:32 AM (UuD2k)

149 Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it seeks to silence all dissent.

Said someone wise. …

Posted by: LASue at November 30, 2022 11:32 AM (Ed8Zd)

150 > That guy has cleared sipped more penises then Sandy...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:31 AM (ESjRY)

Absolutely.

Harvey Fierstein would tell him not to swish so much.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 30, 2022 11:32 AM (bW8dp)

151 I am quite content in my misanthropy.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 30, 2022 11:06 AM (aKxz7)


There's a guy who posts here on Saturday - Wednesday nights. You might get along with him

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2022 11:33 AM (ChAEn)

152 143 This shit needs to be done. Like now.

"Todays lesson, kids. A is for A."
Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at November 30, 2022 11:31 AM (tf8gA)

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4.5 hours later -

"That was the first episode of Ayn Rand's Children's Story Hour. I won't thank you because thanking you implies that an exchange has taken place, and I do not agree with that. Instead, I will only return next week to speak the truth to the world."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 11:33 AM (LvTSG)

153 Oh there's just one moon and one golden sun
And a smile means friendship to everyone

Posted by: spindrift at November 30, 2022 11:33 AM (h5TKJ)

154 > The only thing I really liked at Disney was the Pirates of the Caribbean.

That's been woked too, I hear. The pirates no longer grab the wenches and carry them off over their shoulders.

Because these are WOKE pirates, you see, who would never dream of violating a woman's body autonomy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 30, 2022 11:33 AM (bW8dp)

155 For the First Time in 1,400 Years, Christians Are a Minority in England and Wales, and the U.S. Is Not Far Behind

I suspect that means enormous growth in the two other main monotheistic religions in Britain...Islam and...that Stan guy.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:34 AM (ESjRY)

156 Last time I went to Disneyland, old Walt Disney was still alive and had his office over one of the shops on Main Street.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 30, 2022 11:34 AM (trdmm)

157 109

Oliver M. Cromwell. Now there's an interesting figure.

The king wants tyranny? Then I'll execute him and break his power.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 30, 2022 11:34 AM (T/s40)

158
Can we move beyond 'tolerate' and start embracing and loving and accepting and learning from and being challenged by. That's how you build a resilient society

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Yes... the Romanovs, the longest lived Dynasty in European history, were notable for all those qualities, IIRC. Especially the "being challenged by" part. Romanovs loved that. You could challenge them and they were totally cool with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 30, 2022 11:34 AM (oINRc)

159 OT-Does anyone have any idea what to put in a search engine to find out about the reaction of the Dutch farmers to the Dutch government's egregiously awful decision to buy out 3,000 farms because of carbon emission regulations by the EU? I thought "Rebel News" Canada might have something because they reported on the farmers strikes before, but nothing there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 30, 2022 11:35 AM (vH/6k)

160 141 Presuming your lefty co-workers like you they will assume you are one of them if you just don't get into politics.

And oh the things they'll tell you. My favorite was when they got into a discussion on abortion and after a few catechisms of "of course choice is a fundamental right" they quickly digressed into "you know THOSE people are having too many kids we can't let these anti-choice people allow those kids to be born"
Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:30 AM (ESjRY)

Everyone at my job figured me out when I didn't join in on their worship and celebration of Abortion.

Posted by: XTC at November 30, 2022 11:35 AM (UnA8+)

161 Note Denis Hastert was installed as majority leader in 99 and the GOPe hasn't put up a fight on ANYTHING since then.
Posted by: 18-1

Society has drifted leftwards and the GOP candidates followed society because that is where the dollars from donors were. I also suspect kompromat is involved as well as the intelligence community turned inward after the Cold War ended. That is how the spy business is done--get compromising information on someone to force them to do what you wish. Note that the Clinton WH early on pulled detailed security clearance files on all prominent GOP serving in prior administrations that has plenty of kompromat. Larry Flynt was also involved along with other shady PI's in gathering current dirt on Clinton opponents.

Notice that the GOP willingly put in a pedophile who was being blackmailed as Speaker in office. That tells you something.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:35 AM (bDjBG)

162 Don't know who first made the "I figured I better get out before they made it mandatory" joke, but I do know, at least as far as the topic of perversion goes- this exact same issue was the denouement of Road to Utopia
_______

That was me, but I didn't star in Road to Utopia that I recall, you should ask Bing about that.

Posted by: Zombie Bob Hope at November 30, 2022 11:35 AM (fs1hN)

163 Today is Winston Churchill's Birthday. Here's one for you, you old Bulldog.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


It is also Kyle acquittal day.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 30, 2022 11:35 AM (anj39)

164 I still think that tolerating people as long as they're not hurting you, live and let live, is a decent policy and way to be.

The rest is very true, though. Apparently tolerance wasn't the goal, celebration was. And then lack of celebration is rebranded as "intolerance" and "intolerance" is the only thing that no one has to tolerate. Indeed, it's a moral mandate to hate and destroy, to not *tolerate*, those who will not celebrate.

The true base and foundation of the problem, I truly believe, is collectivism. Pretty much forced compliance, yeah. Because we're not individuals each with the right to be as weird as makes us happy as long as we're not bothering someone else, we're part of a collective and everyone has to be in compliance. There's no room for the odd-ball or eccentric. So the only solution is to normalize the individual.

It explains, too, why the assumption is that any disagreement is a threat. Compliance and conformity is assumed, individualism is not allowed, so disagreement is a threat. The purpose of grouping everyone is to gain power, of course, so it's hard to fight against.

Posted by: Synova at November 30, 2022 11:35 AM (BD/yx)

165 Western Hemisphere is all commie now. Hope the Chinese invade Vancouver

Posted by: Jonah at November 30, 2022 11:35 AM (Cw0fX)

166 It didn't matter if I was writing code or proofreading at some crap law firm in the summer or flipping burgers at mcdonalds, the people in HR were horrifying creeps. Who would actually decide to do that job? I don't get it.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at November 30, 2022 11:35 AM (516e+)

167 My parents taught me sticks and stones may break my bones but words could never hurt me. Shorter version- stop whining and move on.

Posted by: LASue at November 30, 2022 11:35 AM (Ed8Zd)

168 59...I mention this because that's the Left's MO with all aspects of life.
Posted by: polynikes at November 30, 2022 11:15 AM (JZ+w7)

Exactly right.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 30, 2022 11:36 AM (Rbu5d)

169 Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:29 AM (bDjBG

We are different then. Pragmatism is just a variation of relativism. I live by a set of ideals / morals that don't waiver. In selecting my political leaders I choose the group that at least express those ideals / morals. I understand human nature and will always be disappointed but I choose based on the information I have and make adjustments to my choices as I go.

Posted by: polynikes at November 30, 2022 11:36 AM (JZ+w7)

170 Our Deep State would have arrested Churchill also

Posted by: Jonah at November 30, 2022 11:36 AM (Cw0fX)

171 147 For the First Time in 1,400 Years, Christians Are a Minority in England and Wales, and the U.S. Is Not Far Behind"

That's actually a good thing - state run Christianity is always a failure, always destroys itself. As the Church of England dies, hopefully some True Christianity will start to rise up in the unseen places.

I do not mourn the C of E, it went apostate a long time ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 30, 2022 11:36 AM (trdmm)

172 I got a complaint about "bias" a while ago at work because I requested -- politely, mind you! -- that we be sent a work crew, at least one of whom could speak English. The cowards didn't complain to me or to my boss, but to *his* superior. (My boss shrugged it off, but warned me to be careful dealing with those people in the future.)

Damn straight I'm biased. When I have to ask a crew whether they will be finished, or can take a break by a given hour, so that my boss can conduct a Zoom call without noise, I have every right to expect that they should speak English so that I can communicate with them. This is not Venezuela. (Yet.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 30, 2022 11:36 AM (J2vNu)

173 I heard a few people plaintively calling for tolerance back in the nineties. Every one of them was at least a semi-active democrat activist.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 30, 2022 11:37 AM (lTGtQ)

174 > Who would actually decide to do that job? I don't get it.

"I've never met one of you people who didn't suck." -- Steven P. Jobs, to a candidate for HR Director, when Apple first got large enough to need an HR department.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 30, 2022 11:37 AM (bW8dp)

175
Notice that the GOP willingly put in a pedophile who was being blackmailed as Speaker in office. That tells you something.


And remember the context of the time - the FNM had just sabotaged Newt and Bob Livingstone over affairs. Several FNM figures have come forward since then saying they knew Hastert was a pedo but decided not to talk about it for, uh, reasons.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:38 AM (ESjRY)

176 When I heard about this, I thought it meant Trudeau was a contestant and we'd have a meme bonanza. I'm a little disappointed that isn't true.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 11:38 AM (ZGrMX)

177 Drag queens at local libraries, are we are more appalled at creepy Fashion shoots.

Posted by: Jonah at November 30, 2022 11:38 AM (Cw0fX)

178 Bar Association Drops LSAT Requirement to Increase Diversity in Law School

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I rhought we already had enough retarded attorneys.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 30, 2022 11:38 AM (FVME7)

179 "There's no room for the odd-ball or eccentric. So the only solution is to normalize the individual."

I wrote that and it's unclear, I think. I meant that because the odd-ball can't be tolerated in a system that sees people only as members of groups, identities, or communities, that the only way to allow odd-balls at all, is to normalize whatever it is that makes them odd-balls.

Individual liberty just isn't anywhere in that mind-space.

Posted by: Synova at November 30, 2022 11:38 AM (BD/yx)

180 I do not mourn the C of E, it went apostate a long time ago.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 30, 2022 11:36 AM (trdmm)

Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at November 30, 2022 11:39 AM (MkuC5)

181 But Warner Bros was always better.
Who picks stupid Mickey Mouse over Bugs or Wiley Coyote? Who prefers goofy to Tom and Jerry?
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:25 AM (HMTci)

What kid would pick Donald Duck over Mighty Mouse?

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 30, 2022 11:39 AM (BdMk6)

182 Massive layoffs reportedly underway at CNN.

Learn to give blowjobs for nickels in bus station restrooms, commies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 30, 2022 11:39 AM (bW8dp)

183 He'd go full Oliver Muhfuggin' Cromwell on they asses.

Posted by: Jules Winnfield

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That is about the only thing that will preserve Western Civilization.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:39 AM (bDjBG)

184 The Wonderful World of Disney always depressed me because I knew it meant that I was going to school the next morning.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 30, 2022 11:39 AM (flINI)

185 Bar Association Drops LSAT Requirement to Increase Diversity in Law School

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I rhought we already had enough retarded attorneys.


FWIW, the Empress says the LSAT only measures your ability to take tests, there's nothing solidly tying it to how you actually do in law school or as a lawyer.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 11:40 AM (ZGrMX)

186 Today is Winston Churchill's Birthday. Here's one for you, you old Bulldog.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Also, William Broad is 67 today. You may know him better by his stage name -- Billy Idol.

This one goes out to Hunter and Sleepy Joe
https://youtu.be/NCZuYS-9qaw

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2022 11:40 AM (ChAEn)

187 Massive layoffs reportedly underway at CNN.

Learn to give blowjobs for nickels in bus station restrooms, commies.


Don Lemon's been waiting his whole life for this moment.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 11:40 AM (ZGrMX)

188 Wait until Labour wins in a massive landslide in two years, over the pathetic Tories. They will make Trotsky look like a Moderate

Posted by: Jonah at November 30, 2022 11:40 AM (Cw0fX)

189 179 "There's no room for the odd-ball or eccentric. So the only solution is to normalize the individual."

I wrote that and it's unclear, I think. I meant that because the odd-ball can't be tolerated in a system that sees people only as members of groups, identities, or communities, that the only way to allow odd-balls at all, is to normalize whatever it is that makes them odd-balls.

Individual liberty just isn't anywhere in that mind-space.
Posted by: Synova
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Wise thoughts.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:40 AM (bDjBG)

190 Road to Utopia -- not one of Hope and Crosby's better outings; still Dorothy Lamour. Mmm.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at November 30, 2022 11:41 AM (Vwz3I)

191 If AOC's boyfriend hasn't had a penis in his mouth, I'll eat my hat.

Posted by: ballistic at November 30, 2022 11:41 AM (oXNqT)

192 Yeah, it's easy to have a hate on for the Democrat-Left. But the GOPe hasn't done a damn thing to hold the line and take a stand. Quite the opposite. They only thing they've done is piss on our backs and tell us it's raining.

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Tin soldiers and Biden's coming
We're finally on our own
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 30, 2022 11:26 AM (FVME7)

What's the Buckley line, standing athwart history yelling stop?

Yeah, that worked out about as well as Kevin Bacon in Animal House. Buckley was as much a fraud grifter as the current Gope cabal.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 30, 2022 11:41 AM (YV6PJ)

193 They're gonna have to invent a new word for brazen. This whole shit with Biden trying to get 401k managers to only invest in their companies that are run by socialists is yet another jenga block in the Orwellian tower of destruction.

Why the White House has any business in deciding this sort of thing is beyond me. But just like most purviews, they've never met one they didn't want to take over.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 30, 2022 11:41 AM (I76dP)

194 Don Lemon will get his old job of Train Conductor again.

Posted by: Jonah at November 30, 2022 11:41 AM (Cw0fX)

195 One thing I pointed out to people during the Obamacare debate was that nationalizing health care means the government decides what health care you get...if any.

And the left denied, denied, denied.

But we see it in Europe. Why give fat people knee surgeries? I mean, they can't walk much anyway and we have only so much money to spend on healthcare anyway right?

It actually makes sense. But in a free system YOU get to decide whether you want the surgery or not. And yet it means you have to pay for it.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:42 AM (ESjRY)

196 Bob Hope was based.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 30, 2022 11:42 AM (AuTCi)

197 For the First Time in 1,400 Years, Christians Are a Minority in England and Wales, and the U.S. Is Not Far Behind

I suspect that means enormous growth in the two other main monotheistic religions in Britain...Islam and...that Stan guy.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:34 AM (ESjRY)
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Yes, and he's been going by Karl the past couple of years ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 30, 2022 11:42 AM (sFNa8)

198 188 Wait until Labour wins in a massive landslide in two years, over the pathetic Tories. They will make Trotsky look like a Moderate
Posted by: Jonah

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The Tories deserve it thoroughly. As do the Republican officeholders and party officials. In both cases, though, the voters that voted for these lesser of two evils parties don't.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:42 AM (bDjBG)

199 > What's the Buckley line, standing athwart history yelling stop?


Today's National Review crouches athwart history, begging history to please use some lube before sticking it in.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 30, 2022 11:42 AM (bW8dp)

200 I still think that tolerating people as long as they're not hurting you, live and let live, is a decent policy and way to be.

The rest is very true, though. Apparently tolerance wasn't the goal, celebration was. And then lack of celebration is rebranded as "intolerance" and "intolerance" is the only thing that no one has to tolerate. Indeed, it's a moral mandate to hate and destroy, to not *tolerate*, those who will not celebrate. ...
Posted by: Synova at November 30, 2022 11:35 AM (BD/yx)
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Yup. If you have a civil society with any diversity whatsoever - and you will, even in fairly closed-off places, because even your own kind will come up with different ideas every now an again - you have to put up with people being different from you. You have to tolerate it, but you don't have to accept it. "I think you're a weirdo and I may not like you but you're not hurting me, breaking any laws or trying to compel me to be like you, so it's none of my business" is, in my opinion, a good way to go about things. That's what the "tolerance" preaching was always framed as.

It isn't anymore. It probably wasn't then, either, at least in terms of what they actually meant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 11:42 AM (t0OGg)

201 I hated school right up to college. Then I met the girl I would marry. She was an honor student so when I went to visit her, I had little choice but to at least make a show of studying. Nobody was more surprised than me when she showed me the Dean's list at semesters end, and I was on it. Heh.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 30, 2022 11:43 AM (QSjkU)

202 *couple HUNDRED years

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 30, 2022 11:43 AM (sFNa8)

203 134
'No thank you is hate speech.'

In fairness, I really do hate them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 30, 2022 11:43 AM (T/s40)

204 What's the Buckley line, standing athwart history yelling stop?

Yeah, that worked out about as well as Kevin Bacon in Animal House. Buckley was as much a fraud grifter as the current Gope cabal.


In fairness to Buckley, nobody in the GOPe actually stopped jack shit. Things might be better if they had. And his blessing of Rush Limbaugh early on was part of why Rush became so big.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 11:43 AM (ZGrMX)

205 Bar Association Drops LSAT Requirement to Increase Diversity in Law School
I rhought we already had enough retarded attorneys.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 30, 2022 11:38 AM (FVME7)

Hear ye, hear ye
This court is now in session
His Honor, Judge Pigmeat Markham presidin
Hear ye, hear ye, the court of swing
It's just about ready to do that thing
I don't want no tears, I don't want no lies
Above all, I don't want no alibis
This Judge is hip, and that ain't all
He'll give you time if you're big or small
All in line for this court is neat
Peace brother, here comes the Judge
Here comes the Judge...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 30, 2022 11:43 AM (0ZEfs)

206 > I still think that tolerating people as long as they're not hurting you, live and let live, is a decent policy and way to be.
________________

This is sort of what we've been doing with regards to the left. We let them do their own thing. But, it's come back to bite us in the ass. Yet, they'll claim they're the ones being "hurt" by not letting them kill you for disagreeing with their lifestyle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 30, 2022 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

207 When I heard about this, I thought it meant Trudeau was a contestant and we'd have a meme bonanza. I'm a little disappointed that isn't true.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 11:38 AM (ZGrMX)
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I don't know that it would move the needle after all of his ethnic costume cosplay.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 11:43 AM (t0OGg)

208 The Wonderful World of Disney always depressed me because I knew it meant that I was going to school the next morning.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 30, 2022 11:39 AM (flINI)
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This, too, is the story of social media.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 11:44 AM (t0OGg)

209 FWIW, the Empress says the LSAT only measures your ability to take tests, there's nothing solidly tying it to how you actually do in law school or as a lawyer.
==
this is almost accurate. it you dial down on "nothing" and "solidly" you may get some arguments. In general people who do well on the LSAT also do well in Lawschool. And in general people who do well in lawschool get good jobs, and either because they get good support/training or ability or both they do well career wise. Not all, there is a bell curve. But there's no reproducible study that shows this, because almost none of the social science studies are reproducible in anything anyhow.

Posted by: yeah okay - qualifier at November 30, 2022 11:44 AM (fIkRz)

210 [gripe]

Get in to the shipper, get assigned a door.

Three hours pass with nothing happening.

"Uh, we need you to move to that other door."

Goddamn sonovabitch.

[/gripe]

Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at November 30, 2022 11:44 AM (tf8gA)

211 Bob Hope was the greatest actor of all time for his USO shows alone.


Fight me.

Posted by: Archer at November 30, 2022 11:45 AM (gmo/4)

212 What always causes me dread is knowing just how many tentacles the socialist machine has. They are attacking everything. There is no institution they haven't gone after and already succeeded in infiltrating.

Finance, healthcare, banking, manufacturing, media, the list goes on.

The cancer is everywhere.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 30, 2022 11:45 AM (I76dP)

213
What's the Buckley line, standing athwart history yelling stop?

Yeah, that worked out about as well as Kevin Bacon in Animal House. Buckley was as much a fraud grifter as the current Gope cabal.
Posted by: BurtTC

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From something his son wrote, Buckley was not a particularly pleasant person in private but rarely revealed that persona in public.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:45 AM (bDjBG)

214 But we see it in Europe. Why give fat people knee surgeries? I mean, they can't walk much anyway and we have only so much money to spend on healthcare anyway right?

It actually makes sense. But in a free system YOU get to decide whether you want the surgery or not. And yet it means you have to pay for it.


For those who haven't heard, Canada is going HARD on assisted suicide as a way to reduce healthcare costs. Even if you're just hard of hearing, killing you is cheaper than a hearing aid. It's kind of wild how dystopian it got.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 11:45 AM (ZGrMX)

215 FWIW, the Empress says the LSAT only measures your ability to take tests, there's nothing solidly tying it to how you actually do in law school or as a lawyer.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 11:40 AM

Which is a pretty good indicator for a large part of the law profession. Unless of course the attorneys make their law clerks do most of the school work.

Posted by: polynikes at November 30, 2022 11:45 AM (JZ+w7)

216 Bar Association Drops LSAT Requirement to Increase Diversity in Law School
I rhought we already had enough retarded attorneys.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 30, 2022 11:38 AM (FVME7)


I saw Retarded Attorneys open for The Spin Doctors at the Spectrum in 1994

Posted by: Doof at November 30, 2022 11:46 AM (ChAEn)

217 Posted by: dagny, first of her name at November 30, 2022 11:31 AM (HMTci)

Make up your mind. Do you like Disney or not?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 30, 2022 11:46 AM (T/s40)

218 Coexist!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 30, 2022 11:46 AM (atmen)

219 FWIW, the Empress says the LSAT only measures your ability to take tests, there's nothing solidly tying it to how you actually do in law school or as a lawyer.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 11:40 AM (ZGrMX)

I did well on it, and I mostly agree - it tests your ability to study and plan for a big task, but it has almost nothing to do with any actual law. Almost everyone who ends up in law school (except "diversity" candidates) is good at that kind of thing. I think they're dropping it because the results embarrass the "diversity" candidates, most of whom appear to dislike doing any actual work. (cough OBAMA cough)

What it has to do with doing well in law school is that it tests your ability to prepare for a challenging task.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 30, 2022 11:46 AM (trdmm)

220 I know that you're only 29, but did you seriously get "tolerance" lessons in school all those years ago? I swear I barely heard the word until 10 years ago, other than being used in the context of tolerance for booze or something like that.
I do remember similar "lessons" to the effect that I should be nice to everyone and not react with hostility and anger even if I was wronged. My dad's reaction to that was simple: "Fuck that," he said. "If someone hits you, you hit back them harder. They won't hit you again."
Posted by: Elric Blade

i got that BS force fed to me in the 60s. but it was couched as 'let the bully have some of what you have, you need to learn to share'. probably why i have a zero tolerance for bullies and their enablers. i will stomp the shit out of a bully and never look back because of that. some teachers also had knifed tires when they went home at night too.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 30, 2022 11:47 AM (3CCua)

221 175. Not only was Haesert blackmailed by his victims, but by the Deep state at the time. They knew he was pedo

Posted by: Jonah at November 30, 2022 11:47 AM (Cw0fX)

222 The "Sharing of Grievances" will last through New Year's...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 30, 2022 11:21 AM (YIVH2)

I'm bringing in a Festivus pole to work. The airing of grievances ought to be lit.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 30, 2022 11:47 AM (N39Ws)

223 I'm doing all my stupid computer HR compliance propaganda and wokeness tests today since they're due by year end. Every year they get worse with the tranny crap. In this year's test you're introduced to Sam who decides he's a woman and wants to go to the lady's restroom. Amy doesn't like that because Sam the guy that wants to go into the lady's restroom still dresses like a guy and likes to check out the ladies in there. What should Amy do?

A) Amy should talk with a survivor to stop Sam from going into her bathroom.

B) Amy should try to get reassigned to another department where she's not assigned.

C) Shut the f' up you B. Sam is living his best tranny life and you must celebrate it by submitting to his will in whatever way he wishes! On your knees now !

If you pick any answer but C) you can't proceed with the test and will not get a complete and will have your department heads hound you. Every year the questions get worse.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2022 11:47 AM (+3jTj)

224 The drag queen depravity I just don’t get. Parents bring their kids to these things? What is wrong with them???

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 30, 2022 11:47 AM (cXU5m)

225 For those who haven't heard, Canada is going HARD on assisted suicide as a way to reduce healthcare costs. Even if you're just hard of hearing, killing you is cheaper than a hearing aid. It's kind of wild how dystopian it got.

When Justin Castro introduces Carousel for the plebes it will come with an app that will perfectly record your last dance up to the disintegration beam...

And if you run with the hot girl in the green dress there will be nowhere to run to

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:47 AM (ESjRY)

226 Which is a pretty good indicator for a large part of the law profession. Unless of course the attorneys make their law clerks do most of the school work.
Posted by: polynikes at November 30, 2022 11:45 AM (JZ+w7)

I'm absolutely certain that Kamala Harris (and other well connected people like her) used paid stunt doubles (well her family hired them) to attend all of her courses and take all of the tests. Either that or they just bribed the administrators openly and avoided having to go through the motions.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 30, 2022 11:48 AM (trdmm)

227 Hope and Crosby broke the 4th wall so many times in Road to Utopia I had to pop a second batch of popcorn for them. It was one of their more phoned in performances for certain.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 30, 2022 11:48 AM (+e5q3)

228 Bob Hope was based.
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For a foreigner.

There's a funny letter in the Bob Hope archives from some lady who excoriates him for bowing to the queen of England she calls him obsequious and refers to his patrimony . . . I forget what all she was ticked off about. He kept it because he thought it was hilarious. I think he wrote her back but forget now what his reply was . . . I think it was polite.

Posted by: yeah okay - qualifier at November 30, 2022 11:48 AM (280q9)

229 I'm doing all my stupid computer HR compliance propaganda and wokeness tests today since they're due by year end.


I got out of all that at work on religious grounds.

Posted by: Archer at November 30, 2022 11:49 AM (gmo/4)

230 When Justin Castro introduces Carousel for the plebes it will come with an app that will perfectly record your last dance up to the disintegration beam...

And if you run with the hot girl in the green dress there will be nowhere to run to
Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:47 AM (ESjRY)
===

Jenny Agutter in Logan's Run NSFW

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

Posted by: Augustine at November 30, 2022 11:49 AM (BDZWU)

231 Quote Tweet Hua Chunying @SpokespersonCHN · Nov 29 China government official

The price of "freedom" in the US: 1 million Covid deaths + 40,000 gun deaths per year + 107,622 Fentanyl deaths in 2021 alone. The American people deserve something far better than that. What we want is to protect our people's lives and ensure them a better life.

The Columbia Bugle @ColumbiaBugle · 15h
Who makes the fentanyl?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at November 30, 2022 11:49 AM (Vwz3I)

232 The drag queen depravity I just don’t get. Parents bring their kids to these things? What is wrong with them???

I knew some lefty LIVs that went to these things. They were nominally straight but...not very committed to it.

They'll tell you it is "funny" not sexual but...it is. And they see it that way...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:49 AM (ESjRY)

233 If you pick any answer but C) you can't proceed with the test and will not get a complete and will have your department heads hound you. Every year the questions get worse.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2022 11:47 AM (+3jTj)

D) Screw you guys, I'm going home.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 30, 2022 11:49 AM (6FeV1)

234 I'm bringing in a Festivus pole to work. The airing of grievances ought to be lit.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 30, 2022 11:47 AM (N39Ws)
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So should the Feats of Strength.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 30, 2022 11:49 AM (AuTCi)

235 I'd like to think that somewhere, the great Oz of all this insanity is sitting behind a curtain, laughing to himself while he wonders just what will it take for society to stop them.

Hmmm...what if we make teachers trannies and show kids how to masterbate in 2nd grade?

No?? These people are spineless!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 30, 2022 11:50 AM (I76dP)

236 Saw Walt a few times as a young kid. He'd be sitting in his office on the 2nd floor of the firehouse at the start of Main Street, just inside the entrance, suit and tie, waving to kids down below. I remember the suit and tie part, and the curtains pulled aside so you could see him.

Fun fact: the tail codes on certain aircraft from El Toro Marine airbase (close to the future site of Disneyland) during WWII had "WD" in them, for "Walt Disney". A bit of thanks for the Disney artists and Disney company, who created or lent the images for many squadron logos (cartoon figures). At least that's what the curator of a local Marine air museum told me. Or I'm imagining it. Should call him to check.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 30, 2022 11:50 AM (OTzUX)

237 And if you run with the hot girl in the green dress there will be nowhere to run to
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Logun's Run reference. Man TV was different back then.

Posted by: yeah okay - qualifier at November 30, 2022 11:50 AM (Sdwlu)

238 Either that or they just bribed the administrators openly and avoided having to go through the motions.

Oh, come on, she was just a poor law student. How could she have bribed some....
Never mind.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 30, 2022 11:51 AM (eOEVl)

239 "To think that he saved Western Civilization ... for this?"

Yep.

Enter Barry Soetero, one of his first actions when installed into the White House was remove the bust of Churchill, a gift from England.

Maybe it went back by way of the "Intercontinental Railroad" by some "WeeWee-ed" "Corpsemen" who "Didn't Build That" and "If You Like Your Doctor You Can Keep Your Doctor" "Ones We've Been Waiting For" "Shovel Ready Wasn't Quite So Shovel Ready" out of work "Bitter Clingers."

Posted by: Ju at November 30, 2022 11:51 AM (aTmM/)

240 I had an argument about tolerance once with a typical colorado liberal, the ones that fucked that state up. She called me a bigot because I didn't embrace the muslims and what they were doing. It went something like this-

Me-Not really into the muslims and what they do, their religion teaches them to kill everything they don't agree with.
It-then you're a bigot.
Me-No, they're insane you don't act that way in the 21st century.
It- You're a bigot
Me- So if I become a warrior for god and eliminate them according to my religion as they are told to do by their religion I'm a bigot?
It- That makes you a bigot.

Sooo, when colander facemask world comes, No...fucking...quarter for people like that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2022 11:51 AM (VwHCD)

241 Jenny Agutter in Logan's Run NSFW

Posted by: Augustine

Two hubbas please!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2022 11:52 AM (qoGsy)

242 Reagan was , and is, my idol. He always said a moderate that votes with you 80% of the time, is vastly better than a liberal that votes against you 100% of the time. That always stayed with me.

Sadly, trash like McConnell and Murkowski have destroyed that thinking

Posted by: Jonah at November 30, 2022 11:52 AM (Cw0fX)

243 It isn't enough to agree
That 2 + 2 = 5
You have to believe
That 2 + 2 = 5
Or the rats will eat your face.

Posted by: CapnRusty at November 30, 2022 11:52 AM (r4Tdf)

244 Obama wasn't lying about the transforming part. He was just the foot in the door. No one got that.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 30, 2022 11:52 AM (I76dP)

245 224 The drag queen depravity I just don’t get. Parents bring their kids to these things? What is wrong with them???
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Same reason as in Carthage that parents would sacrifice their children to Moloch. It is simply what you did or risk your position in society. So, you end up justifying it. Same logic as prison guards in concentration camps.

The more cynical of Carthaginians took to adopting children just to sacrifice them.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:52 AM (bDjBG)

246 I'm doing all my stupid computer HR compliance propaganda and wokeness tests today since they're due by year end.

Thankfully my employer is a small company. HR is against all this woke b.s. Also believe the CEO is anti-woke as well. So I hope we won't be seeing any of that compliance propaganda coming my way.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 30, 2022 11:52 AM (N39Ws)

247 >>The Columbia Bugle @ColumbiaBugle · 15h
Who makes the fentanyl?

Who made Covid?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 30, 2022 11:52 AM (ZLI7S)

248 Oh, come on, she was just a poor law student. How could she have bribed some....
Never mind.


Kamala did flunk the bar exam the first time, as did Hillary, Michelle, and many other prominent people.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 30, 2022 11:53 AM (KCOCK)

249 I'm gonna start acting like the word "bigot" rhymes with "sipgot", and act like anyone who corrects me is insane.

"Don't be such a bicket."

"A what?"

"You know what you are."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 30, 2022 11:53 AM (6FeV1)

250 247 >>The Columbia Bugle @ColumbiaBugle · 15h
Who makes the fentanyl?

Who made Covid?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 30, 2022 11:52 AM (ZLI7S)

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Can we fudge our numbers the way China fudges their numbers on covid? I don't like our way of fudging those numbers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

251 Huawei phones in China are now automatically deleting pictures of protests in China.

I'm sure that the Deep State here is just salivating.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 30, 2022 11:54 AM (KCOCK)

252 sipgot? Spigot. Whatever. I'm not even on my phone I just suck at life.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 30, 2022 11:54 AM (6FeV1)

253 Black Wednesday.

Dylan Byers@DylanByers
Scoop @PuckNews: The long-anticipated CNN layoffs, expected to target hundreds of employees, are underway as of today…

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 30, 2022 11:55 AM (FVME7)

254
Reminds me of an old Bob Hope joke that I heard him make decades ago.
Bob, "Well, they just made homosexuality legal in California.
I'm moving out before they make it compulsory!"

Posted by: Speller at November 30, 2022 11:55 AM (pSotA)

255 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 30, 2022 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

256 The more cynical of Carthaginians took to adopting children just to sacrifice them.
==
this is what people do. They "compromise". Which is why it pays to be agressively pushing if you are a groomer. If grooming behavior didn't work, it wouldn't exist. They'd try something else, until the found something that worked.

Incrementalism has been the plan, since academia started programing everyone into thinking the slippery slope is a "fallacy". No, its not wrong. Its just not specific case. Its not a bullet, its the Neutron Bomb.

Posted by: yeah okay - qualifier at November 30, 2022 11:56 AM (gQfqc)

257 Per sidebar, Conservative Treehouse - once a great source of investigative reporting - has turned into a fevered brain of purity tests and conspiracies. It's the kind of place where only Donald Trump and Mike Lindell are afforded credibility. Everyone else is a deep state stooge. It's a shame. I used to like Sundance.

Posted by: SMFH at November 30, 2022 11:56 AM (TIAb4)

258 The more cynical of Carthaginians took to adopting children just to sacrifice them.
Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:52 AM (bDjBG)

"You mean those people *don't* sacrifice their children to their national patron deity? Holy crap.... that's so weird... how can you even live next to someone like that?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 30, 2022 11:56 AM (6FeV1)

259 Our fathers had a lot of wisdom to impart. Unfortunately a good portion was ignored until it was too late. I saw some as it was incontrovertible. Much of what my father told me was spot on but countered what I was taught in school. It wasn't until I was in my 30s that i saw the real world wisdom of my father.

I wish I had sen that earlier.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 30, 2022 11:56 AM (u4CEu)

260 The long-anticipated CNN layoffs, expected to target hundreds of employees, are underway as of today…

Should have waited until Christmas Eve.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 30, 2022 11:56 AM (KCOCK)

261 Twitter comment on AOC's "boyfriend":


bearsrfuxt @bearsrfuxt
Today hes talking about racism next thing you know hes having a hammer fight in his underwear with a Canadian shroom eating hippie

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (bW8dp)

262 Jenny Agutter in Logan's Run NSFW

For those at work, she gets fleetingly nekkid, but it's absolutely integral to the plot.
*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (eOEVl)

263 If I carried a sign that said "Sin is nothing to be proud of" sign to a Gay Pride parade, I don't very much that I would be tolerated.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (I9VC/)

264 The price of "freedom" in the US: 1 million Covid deaths + 40,000 gun deaths per year + 107,622 Fentanyl deaths in 2021 alone. The American people deserve something far better than that. What we want is to protect our people's lives and ensure them a better life.

The Columbia Bugle @ColumbiaBugle · 15h
Who makes the fentanyl?
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at November 30, 2022 11:49 AM (Vwz3I)

who made Covid? oh... wait... them and Fauci... so us.... shit...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (oHd/0)

265 Bob Hope was English by birth.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (MVYuJ)

266 Damn, I miss when politicians were just boring and corrupt and forgettable. Now they want to be celebrities, the MSM plays along and the lemmings swoon.

Posted by: Ripley at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (MxEKc)

267 >>Can we fudge our numbers the way China fudges their numbers on covid? I don't like our way of fudging those numbers.

Sickening how many lapdogs in our media and government pretend the BS stats that come out of China are real.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (ZLI7S)

268 Can we fudge our numbers the way China fudges their numbers on covid? I don't like our way of fudging those numbers.

China claims that only a few thousand people have died from COVID. The US claims that a million did.

If you believe those numbers you'd be pushing to ban the clot shot and buy/steal China's COVID vaccine, which is actually a real vaccine.

But Fauci and the FNM tell me the Chinese shot doesn't work.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (ESjRY)

269 I have never once been made to love, embrace, or celebrate anyone or anything in my entire life.

Release the pearls, Francis. You're chasing windmills.

I've been around for 43 years now, and I've been being told that we will be made to celebrate X sometime next month for my entire life, and it's literally never happened.

Posted by: Goober at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (Hgvgt)

270 Can we move beyond 'tolerate' and start embracing and loving and accepting and learning from and being challenged by. That's how you build a resilient society, that's what we're trying to do in Canada and we got a lot of work still to do.


Every movie or TV show you've ever seen where the hero of the story ventures into some demonic shithole full of filth and debauchery is the result of that mindset right there. Its the degradation of the civil society into a leftwing hellish cesspool of blasphemy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

271 I got two questions wrong despite having wokeness drilled into my drain for decades. I forgot one but another I remember was: do the trannies have to ever tell you they're a tranny before you're required to submit to their will in all ways and call them their fantasy made up bullshit pronouns. My poor engineer brain stumbled and thought, how would you know when you were committing a woke capital crime if you didn't know they were one of the psychos? So I put yes they'd need to tell people.

WRONG! YOU ARE IN ERROR! YOU MUST CORRECT BRAIN THOUGHT PATTERNS OR BE EXTERMINATED!

The handy woke test guide informs the test taker that it is up to the inferior sane employee population to predict what their ruling class insane counterparts are thinking before daring to speak in their royal presence.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (+3jTj)

272 Justin Castreau's voice makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I would say he talks like a fag but that doesn't quite describe it.

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at November 30, 2022 11:58 AM (eGTCV)

273 Kamala did flunk the bar exam the first time, as did Hillary, Michelle, and many other prominent people.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 30, 2022 11:53 AM (KCOCK)

That one Kennedy kid always was failing his bar exams before he corkscrewed his ass into the Deep Blue ocean.

Good Riddance.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 30, 2022 11:58 AM (0ZEfs)

274 The drag queen depravity I just don’t get. Parents bring their kids to these things? What is wrong with them???

Higher clout/social credit score. Irresistible to vagina-based life forms.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 11:58 AM (ZGrMX)

275 259 Our fathers had a lot of wisdom to impart. Unfortunately a good portion was ignored until it was too late. I saw some as it was incontrovertible. Much of what my father told me was spot on but countered what I was taught in school. It wasn't until I was in my 30s that i saw the real world wisdom of my father.

I wish I had sen that earlier.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 30, 2022 11:56 AM (u4CEu)

My Dad... 'common sense... isn't'.

If yer being passed on the Right, yer in the wrong lane...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 30, 2022 11:58 AM (oHd/0)

276 Jenny Agutter in Logan's Run NSFW

I finally watched An American Werewolf in London last month.

Did Jenny make a movie where she didn't get naked?

Not that I'm complaining ...

Posted by: spindrift at November 30, 2022 11:58 AM (h5TKJ)

277 Per sidebar, Conservative Treehouse - once a great source of investigative reporting - has turned into a fevered brain of purity tests and conspiracies. It's the kind of place where only Donald Trump and Mike Lindell are afforded credibility. Everyone else is a deep state stooge. It's a shame. I used to like Sundance.

I really don't know much about the people mentioned, nor CT, but I do know if the person you selected to be on the panel is the son of Haley Barbour, you're not serious about cleaning house.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 30, 2022 11:58 AM (eOEVl)

278 For those at work, she gets fleetingly nekkid, but it's absolutely integral to the plot.

Lucas apparently convinced Carrie Fisher that women in the future wouldn't wear bras.

The Logan's run guy convinced Agutter of the same AND got her to wear a see thru dress.

Of course Agutter was not particularly shy about such things...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:59 AM (ESjRY)

279 242 Reagan was , and is, my idol. He always said a moderate that votes with you 80% of the time, is vastly better than a liberal that votes against you 100% of the time. That always stayed with me.

Sadly, trash like McConnell and Murkowski have destroyed that thinking
Posted by: Jonah
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Reagan, like any politician, should not be your idol. He was an effective politician but he was quite capable of committing idiocies himself in office. Iran Contra was a mess he created. A lot of his appointments were dubious. Amnesty was another unforced error and his actions in Reykjavik were not wise. Similar to coddling Argentina which gave the junta leaders the belief that they could invade the Falklands. Reagan also left no political heirs which then allowed GOPe through GHWB to come back.

He was not perfect but far better than alternatives at the time because he believed that the Cold War could actually be won and that statism and stagnation in the domestic economy was not necessary.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 11:59 AM (bDjBG)

280 255 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 30, 2022 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

Better late than super late. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2022 11:59 AM (VwHCD)

281 The long-anticipated CNN layoffs, expected to target hundreds of employees, are underway as of today…

Should have waited until Christmas Eve.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 30, 2022 11:56 AM (KCOCK)

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AND DURING PRIDE MONTH?

REALLY?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 30, 2022 11:59 AM (c9B8g)

282 > Justin Castreau's voice makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I would say he talks like a fag but that doesn't quite describe it.

He talks like an untalented drama student trying to sound important.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 30, 2022 12:00 PM (eyxn4)

283 Justin Castreau's voice makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I would say he talks like a fag but that doesn't quite describe it.
Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at November 30, 2022 11:58 AM (eGTCV)



But his shit IS all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 30, 2022 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

284
Better late than super late. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2022 11:59 AM (VwHCD)



Ya dribble and ya shoot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 30, 2022 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

285 I went to college in Toronto in the early 1970s. The drag race was an annual event even back then (they don't call Toronto the "Queen City of the North" for nothing), but it was always held on Halloween, because that was the day the transvestites could parade their finery in public without being hassled by the cops. How times have changed.

Posted by: Nemo at November 30, 2022 12:00 PM (S6ArX)

286 I really don't know much about the people mentioned, nor CT, but I do know if the person you selected to be on the panel is the son of Haley Barbour, you're not serious about cleaning house.

Yeah. I don't think Harmeet is a secret liberal agent, but being associated with any Barbour is a bad idea.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 12:00 PM (ZGrMX)

287 He talks like an untalented drama student trying to sound important.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 30, 2022 12:00 PM (eyxn4)

He was too stupid for drama so he joined the debate club.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 30, 2022 12:00 PM (6FeV1)

288 "You mean those people *don't* sacrifice their children to their national patron deity? Holy crap.... that's so weird... how can you even live next to someone like that?" Posted by: Warai-otoko

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Heh. Got it in one with your satire.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 12:01 PM (bDjBG)

289 That one Kennedy kid always was failing his bar exams before he corkscrewed his ass into the Deep Blue ocean.

I am impressed that the state bar exams in recent decades still appear to be relatively incorruptible.

Politically prominent people, who you'd think would be able to buy anything, still flunk the exam.

Probably why the states are getting rid of them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 30, 2022 12:01 PM (KCOCK)

290
"If I carried a sign that said "Sin is nothing to be proud of" sign to a Gay Pride parade, I don't very much that I would be tolerated."

I'd carry a sign that asked, "What are you so proud of, your Quilting?"

Posted by: Speller at November 30, 2022 12:02 PM (pSotA)

291 "You must love it or you're a bigot."

Therein lies the rub.

I reject that premise, of course, but -- for sake of argument -- let's assume it's correct. Well, in the name of tolerance...who cares? Let the bigots be bigots. Tolerance reigns supreme, after all, right?

Except, as it turns out, we can't have that. Which means, someone's not being honest with their terms.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at November 30, 2022 12:02 PM (SOV+T)

292 Yeah. I don't think Harmeet is a secret liberal agent, but being associated with any Barbour is a bad idea.

I mean, was Trent Lott unavailable?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 30, 2022 12:02 PM (eOEVl)

293 My Dad... 'common sense... isn't'.

If yer being passed on the Right, yer in the wrong lane...
Posted by: Romeo13

When I drove the box truck with our last load of things to our new place, 400 miles away, I drove the speed limit and mostly kept to the rightmost lane. I routinely passed other vehicles on the right. That includes semis.

C'mon people - be better.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2022 12:02 PM (qoGsy)

294 Did Jenny make a movie where she didn't get naked?

Not that I'm complaining ...
Posted by: spindrift at November 30, 2022 11:58 AM (h5TKJ)

I mean, i haven't seen *every* episode of Call The Midwife, so I can't 100% say for sure....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 30, 2022 12:02 PM (6FeV1)

295
Dylan Byers@DylanByers
Scoop @PuckNews: The long-anticipated CNN layoffs, expected to target hundreds of employees, are underway as of today…
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 30, 2022 11:55 AM (FVME7)



*rubs knuckles together Nancy Pelosi style*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 30, 2022 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

296 He was not perfect but far better than alternatives at the time because he believed that the Cold War could actually be won and that statism and stagnation in the domestic economy was not necessary.
==
He was that close to screwing it up. He wrote about the Iceland conference and was told by his advisors to make a deal he was walking down the hall to do it and in those few seconds alone - based upon his experience negotiating as union rep and later a calif governor that the best idea was to say no. He left without a deal and they caved. The establishment wisdom, isn't. You can't change the paradigm from within.

Posted by: yeah okay - qualifier at November 30, 2022 12:03 PM (280q9)

297 270 Can we move beyond 'tolerate' and start embracing and loving and accepting and learning from and being challenged by. That's how you build a resilient society, that's what we're trying to do in Canada and we got a lot of work still to do.

Actually, what Canada should be trying to do is deporting Trudeau to his paternal homeland.

The answer to his question should be "no". As in "fuck no".

There is that progression - tolerance, acceptance, embrace, advocacy. I accept LGB. I tolerate T thus far, but they're pushing it.

But anything beyond that, no. As in...

Posted by: JEM at November 30, 2022 12:03 PM (8erNz)

298 Higher clout/social credit score. Irresistible to vagina-based life forms.

Not all vagina based lifeforms. Do you think any woman here takes their kids to drag shows? Also, there are quite a few penis based life form that embrace drag queen shows. Take Trudeau, for example.;

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 30, 2022 12:03 PM (vH/6k)

299 C'mon people - be better.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 30, 2022 12:02 PM (qoGsy)

There are entire states in this former country where "keep right except to pass" apparently is Not A Thing.

Looking at you, Florida.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 30, 2022 12:03 PM (6FeV1)

300 The United States is a socialist oligarchy. Tolerance no longer exists here. And likely never will again.


Things I hate: coffee, communists, the media, RINOs, virtue signaling, censorship, and the normalization of mental illness.

Posted by: E. A. Blair at November 30, 2022 12:03 PM (8o7em)

301 Lucas apparently convinced Carrie Fisher that women in the future wouldn't wear bras.


Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:59 AM (ESjRY)

Future? It was a long time ago in a galaxy far away.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 30, 2022 12:03 PM (VwHCD)

302 Scoop @PuckNews: The long-anticipated CNN layoffs, expected to target hundreds of employees, are underway as of today…
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 30, 2022 11:55 AM (FVME7)


Time for some Dorfman...

Posted by: JEM at November 30, 2022 12:03 PM (8erNz)

303 Quote Tweet Hua Chunying @SpokespersonCHN · Nov 29 China government official

The price of "freedom" in the US: 1 million Covid deaths + 40,000 gun deaths per year + 107,622 Fentanyl deaths in 2021 alone. The American people deserve something far better than that. What we want is to protect our people's lives and ensure them a better life. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at November 30, 2022 11:49 AM (Vwz3I)
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If your draconian "Zero COVID" response is so effective, why do you still have a COVID problem, why do you have major economic disruption and why do you have people taking to the streets to protest it?

Just curious.

And yeah, Fetanyl is illegal, yet tons of it gets manufactured in Red China or using precursors of Red Chinese manufacture that are pipelined directly to cartel operators in Latin America. It ain't the "price of 'freedom,'" toots, it's the wages of your country's war on mine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 12:03 PM (t0OGg)

304 282 > Justin Castreau's voice makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I would say he talks like a fag but that doesn't quite describe it.

He talks like an untalented drama student trying to sound important.
Posted by: bonhomme
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There was an amusing little scene of Trudeau being given the brushoff by Xi at a recent intl meeting complete with pix. Hilarious and good meme material.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 12:04 PM (bDjBG)

305 > Also, there are quite a few penis based life form that embrace drag queen shows. Take Trudeau, for example.

As a penis based life form, I move we expel Trudeau from our ranks.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 30, 2022 12:04 PM (eyxn4)

306 Lucas apparently convinced Carrie Fisher that women in the future wouldn't wear bras.


Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:59 AM (ESjRY)
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She used strategically applied duct tape.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 30, 2022 12:05 PM (AuTCi)

307 > *rubs knuckles together Nancy Pelosi style*

Pelosi forgot she wasn't in her cloven-hoof form.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 30, 2022 12:05 PM (eyxn4)

308 #251 Ways to fight back in this thread:
Paul Mozur 孟建國 @paulmozur
It’s day 3 and still videos of protests spread on Chinese social media. We see some familiar tricks, people use filters and take videos of videos to bypass AI models designed to identify sensitive videos. Still, the scale of sharing is likely overwhelming censorship manpower.

https://threadreaderapp.com/
thread/1597133156536451072.html

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at November 30, 2022 12:05 PM (Vwz3I)

309 301 Lucas apparently convinced Carrie Fisher that women in the future wouldn't wear bras.


Posted by: 18-1 at November 30, 2022 11:59 AM (ESjRY)

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It wasn't so much convince as offer up a shitty explanation for why the costume didn't include a bra. I don't think she bought it, but she was just an actor and he was the director. I have a feeling Gary Kurtz was probably on Lucas' side as well, so the producer wasn't going to demand a bra for her either.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at November 30, 2022 12:05 PM (LvTSG)

310 Try "Dutch farmers push back". Most of the stories are from July though.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 30, 2022 12:05 PM (uz3Px)

311 ---------------------
There was an amusing little scene of Trudeau being given the brushoff by Xi at a recent intl meeting complete with pix. Hilarious and good meme material.
Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 12:04 PM (bDjBG)



I saw where he was ripped by Xi for leaking the inside scoop from a private meeting between leaders. That was entertaining.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 30, 2022 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

312 Huawei phones in China are now automatically deleting pictures of protests in China.

I'm sure that the Deep State here is just salivating.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 30, 2022 11:54 AM (KCOCK)

Crowder was talking about this yesterday. Apparently Apple has given them access to their phones, so they can do so. Or something like that.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 30, 2022 12:06 PM (YV6PJ)

313 So why are these movies flopping?

Short version: They aren’t entertaining.

Hollywood has gone from “Let us entertain you” to “Sit down and eat your peas.”

And the peas are spoiled.

Posted by: SMOD at November 30, 2022 12:06 PM (RHGPo)

314 I had a similar experience.

You notice that nobody EVER talks about 'tolerance' anymore? All those 'tolerance' classes no longer exist.

Now you're just a full on hateful bigot if you don't openly embrace it.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at November 30, 2022 12:06 PM (setIA)

315 There are entire states in this former country where "keep right except to pass" apparently is Not A Thing.

Looking at you, Florida.


In California you've got all the pickups with the building contractors enroute to their job at 62mph in the left lane on two different phones at once.

Oh, and the damn white Google, Genentech, etc. buses.

Posted by: JEM at November 30, 2022 12:06 PM (8erNz)

316 Crowder was talking about this yesterday. Apparently Apple has given them access to their phones, so they can do so. Or something like that.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 30, 2022 12:06 PM (YV6PJ)
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I hadn't heard that, but I have heard that Apple pushed a software update to turn off the "Air Drop" feature on Apple devices. Air Drop is actually pretty cool. If you're in proximity to another device, it will establish an ad-hoc (that is, decentralized, direct point-to-point) network with it to transfer messages or files.

Air Drop is decentralized and was apparently being used by a lot of protesters to coordinate. Apple pushed a software update and poof - the feature is gone.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 12:07 PM (t0OGg)

317 nood

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 30, 2022 12:07 PM (AuTCi)

318 It's a disadvantage having given up on it all about 2 years back, but I doubt there are any data showing *any* significant difference in mortality, anywhere, that can be linked to "policies", related to C19. But there was no evidence of such until then, and a few independent observers had closely tracked this from the start.

Sweden, Florida, South Dakota, a handful of other places - radically different (i.e., who went by the book, the actual epidemiology book, as developed over the last century) had outcomes indistinguishable from the worst lock-down jurisdictions, when adjusted for actually relevant factors (age, health condition).

But in a world/society where an outlandish hypothesis with no empirical support (AGW) is being allowed to slowly impoverish and subjugate *all* of mankind, with little resistance, I guess the irrational and really ridiculous assertion about C19 "policies" is hardly a surprise.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 30, 2022 12:08 PM (OTzUX)

319 I have a feeling Gary Kurtz was probably on Lucas' side as well, so the producer wasn't going to demand a bra for her either.

It's not like she had the kind of body that would make you ignore everything else that was going on in the scene.

Posted by: JEM at November 30, 2022 12:08 PM (8erNz)

320 So why are these movies flopping?

Short version: They aren’t entertaining. ...
Posted by: SMOD at November 30, 2022 12:06 PM (RHGPo)
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And yet, they maintain the position that their low-quality, message-pushing crap is what's needed to connect with "modern audiences."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 12:08 PM (t0OGg)

321 Posted by: bonhomme at November 30, 2022 12:04 PM (eyxn4)

O.K. Good. i think they are silly expressions anyway-"penis based life form", "vagina based life form" All I can think of is not that a person is male or female with the usual sexual organs and chromosomes, but some protoplasm type of thing with a huge vagina or penis sticking out. Lifeform sounds creepy anyway-as if you're denying someone's humanity as created in the image of God.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 30, 2022 12:08 PM (vH/6k)

322 257 Per sidebar, Conservative Treehouse - once a great source of investigative reporting - has turned into a fevered brain of purity tests and conspiracies. It's the kind of place where only Donald Trump and Mike Lindell are afforded credibility. Everyone else is a deep state stooge. It's a shame. I used to like Sundance.
Posted by: SMFH at November 30, 2022 11:56 AM (TIAb4)

Sounds exactly like something a deep state stooge would say.

Posted by: XTC at November 30, 2022 12:08 PM (UnA8+)

323
A Nov. 9 software update included an additional AirDrop feature applying only to iPhones sold in mainland China.
AirDrop, which allows users to share content between Apple devices, has become an important tool in demonstrators' efforts to circumvent authoritarian censorship.
The feature relies on wireless connections between phones, rather than internet connectivity, placing it beyond the scope of internet content moderators.

Posted by: SMOD at November 30, 2022 12:09 PM (RHGPo)

324 Quote Tweet Hua Chunying @SpokespersonCHN · Nov 29 China government official

The price of "freedom" in the US: 1 million Covid deaths + 40,000 gun deaths per year + 107,622 Fentanyl deaths in 2021 alone. The American people deserve something far better than that. What we want is to protect our people's lives and ensure them a better life. ...
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This tweet is so lame, I actually read it as a disguised "Cry for Help" please help me escape to the west. . .

Posted by: yeah okay - qualifier at November 30, 2022 12:09 PM (Y9hTp)

325 I saw where he was ripped by Xi for leaking the inside scoop from a private meeting between leaders. That was entertaining.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

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That was it. Here is wannabe tyrant Justine trying so hard to be a leader by leaking shit and stuff to show he mattered and here was that mean old accomplished tyrant Xi telling Justine that he was lower than dogshit in public.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 12:11 PM (bDjBG)

326 There are entire states in this former country where "keep right except to pass" apparently is Not A Thing.
Looking at you, Florida.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 30, 2022 12:03 PM (6FeV1)

What? Huh?

Posted by: Old Fart Driving An RV In The left Lane With Blinker On at November 30, 2022 12:11 PM (0ZEfs)

327 It ain't the "price of 'freedom,'" toots, it's the wages of your country's war on mine.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 30, 2022 12:03 PM (t0OGg)

In a sense it is. It's the old Lenin line about selling the rope used to hang you.

In this sense "freedom" is from the Chinese perspective, a government and corporate oligarchy that allows China all the freedom it needs to destroy us.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 30, 2022 12:11 PM (YV6PJ)

328 Or the "I may hate what you have to say but will defend to the death your right to say it."

Back when Usenet was alive and the internet was new, liberals would have that quote as their "sig line". You saw it all over.

Right up until the end of the 1990s. It disappeared overnight. Probably at the same moment in time that we were all told to unpack our white privilege back pack.

Now, if someone hates what you have to say, it's probably hate-speech and you should shut up.

Posted by: Synova at November 30, 2022 12:11 PM (BD/yx)

329 267 >>Can we fudge our numbers the way China fudges their numbers on covid? I don't like our way of fudging those numbers.

Sickening how many lapdogs in our media and government pretend the BS stats that come out of China are real.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 30, 2022 11:57 AM (ZLI7S)

It's sickening how many people pretend that the BS stats from the US government are real.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 30, 2022 12:11 PM (BdMk6)

330 244
'No one got that.'

I got that. Everything Obola did screamed 'radical'. If you observed him and were halfway honest you understood it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 30, 2022 12:11 PM (T/s40)

331 Heh, four weeks till Christmas is great time to look for work. Almost as good as looking for work in January. Hope they know how to shovel snow.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 30, 2022 12:11 PM (6uV63)

332 Also, there are quite a few penis based life form that embrace drag queen shows. Take Trudeau, for example.

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OBJECTION! Assumes facts not in evidence

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 30, 2022 12:12 PM (flINI)

333 >I finally watched An American Werewolf in London last month.

Did Jenny make a movie where she didn't get naked?


Jenny as a sexy nurse checked a lot of boxes for me

Posted by: DB at November 30, 2022 12:12 PM (geLO8)

334 Per sidebar, Conservative Treehouse - once a great source of investigative reporting - has turned into a fevered brain of purity tests and conspiracies. It's the kind of place where only Donald Trump and Mike Lindell are afforded credibility. Everyone else is a deep state stooge. It's a shame. I used to like Sundance.
Posted by: SMFH at November 30, 2022 11:56 AM (TIAb4)

Sounds exactly like something a deep state stooge would say.
Posted by: XTC
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This comment and the response are very funny. Funny because they are both sort of true, in what they represent, but also not true because they are exaggerations, which is ultimately what passes for argument these days. Oh yeah? Nazi!

Posted by: yeah okay - qualifier at November 30, 2022 12:13 PM (Y9hTp)

335 Update your stylebooks!

ESPN Host Stephen A. Smith Apologizes for Using the Term “Homosexual” While Discussing Profanity-Laced Lamar Jackson Tweet

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I'm not sure what we're supposed to replace it with although I know several alternatives.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at November 30, 2022 12:16 PM (FVME7)

336 If yer being passed on the Right, yer in the wrong lane...

Or you're in Maryland, where passing on the right is so pervasive you'll get honked at if you stop behind someone and the right shoulder is available.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 30, 2022 12:16 PM (ZGrMX)

337 279
'he believed that the Cold War could actually be won and that statism and stagnation in the domestic economy was not necessary.'

If you remember that time, you will remember this was against ALL conventional wisdom at the time. That Reagan prevailed is fundamental to anything that is currently good for us.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 30, 2022 12:17 PM (T/s40)

338 272
'that doesn't quite describe it.'

He talks like a smug fag?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 30, 2022 12:18 PM (T/s40)

339 A "canyon-like" hole in the sun's atmosphere has opened up and may launch a high-speed stream of solar wind into Earth's magnetic field from Thursday (Dec. 1) to Friday (Dec. 2), and will possibly cause a minor geomagnetic storm

Posted by: SMOD at November 30, 2022 12:18 PM (RHGPo)

340 257 Per sidebar, Conservative Treehouse - once a great source of investigative reporting - has turned into a fevered brain of purity tests and conspiracies. It's the kind of place where only Donald Trump and Mike Lindell are afforded credibility. Everyone else is a deep state stooge. It's a shame. I used to like Sundance.
Posted by: SMFH
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Always best to go to the source first which was a twitter thread. I take Sundance just like I take other sources including Ace himself, as fallible human beings that can make mistakes or differ in interpreting the same body of facts.

Disagreement is helpful because it adds information to issues rather than Kumbaya and pretending differences in interpretation of facts are harmful. Heck, Newsweek dared to print that article by a journalist where Dems and Never Trumpers were bragging about stealing the 2020 election so never turn down a source of information, even from the left, if it helps deciding what is real and true in any given situation.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 12:18 PM (bDjBG)

341 Election Denier Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, was elected by his colleagues on Wednesday to serve as minority leader.

Posted by: SMOD at November 30, 2022 12:19 PM (RHGPo)

342 If you remember that time, you will remember this was against ALL conventional wisdom at the time. That Reagan prevailed is fundamental to anything that is currently good for us.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

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I was in DC for part of it and engaged in politics for the rest of the decade so yeah I remember it along with problems as well. Reagan got some big things right but also got some things wrong that also lead to where we are. Amnesty for one thing, picking GHWB as VP was another.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 12:20 PM (bDjBG)

343 Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is urging Congress to come together in a bipartisan fashion to pass legislation to prevent a looming rail strike that would cripple the American economy, calling it the "best way forward" amid stalled labor negotiations between the major freight railroads and four hold-out unions.

Apparently, part of the rejected deal proposal was to give a pay increase back-dated to 2020.

Posted by: SMOD at November 30, 2022 12:21 PM (RHGPo)

344 This comment and the response are very funny. Funny because they are both sort of true, in what they represent, but also not true because they are exaggerations, which is ultimately what passes for argument these days. Oh yeah? Nazi!
Posted by: yeah okay - qualifier

Hate to sound like a broken record but most people think and speak rhetoric on politics and did even thousands of years ago per Aristotle. Short form communication styles make it worse as it is difficult to get nuance required for a dialectical examination in very short posts.

Posted by: whig at November 30, 2022 12:22 PM (bDjBG)

345 Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) filed paperwork on Wednesday morning to run for Indiana governor, leaving his Senate seat open in 2024. A filing from Indiana’s Secretary of State office noted the paperwork was filed on Wednesday morning, putting to rest speculation over whether Braun would either choose to run for a second term in the Senate or to replace term-limited Gov. Eric Holcomb (R).

Posted by: SMOD at November 30, 2022 12:23 PM (RHGPo)

346 Tolerate? "Ok. But stay in your lane."

Embrace? Celebrate? "You first, MFers."

Posted by: JQ at November 30, 2022 12:24 PM (o0Fxd)

347 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE CHINA IS LECTURING US NOW ON FREEDOM WHEN THEY WERE BURNING BODIES ON PYRES DURING THE FIRST COVID OUTBREAK.

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Posted by: Tom at November 30, 2022 12:57 PM (wnVSB)

349 diversity through exclusion.

Posted by: cmeat at November 30, 2022 02:13 PM (cyZhK)

350 The transition is from "Begging/Praying for tolerance" tooooo "Demanding Endorsement" ...with the eventual mandatory Subsidy.

Posted by: birddog at November 30, 2022 02:18 PM (uAI4S)

351 "It isn't enough to merely tolerate different people, you have to "embrace and accept" them or you're a bigot."

Fine. I'm a bigot. Probably a racist, too.

What else you got? More name calling?
Go for it.

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