Barbie, the Politician

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Barbie and the South China Sea

J.J. Sefton has picked up a lot of interesting content about the Barbie movie in his Morning Reports this month. Bet a lot of people in the USA missed this: Barbie movie banned in Vietnam over dispute with film's depiction of China's maritime boundary:

The new Barbie movie featuring actress Margo Robbie has been banned in Vietnam over scenes that feature a map showing China's nine-dash line.
The nine-dash line is a maritime boundary in the South China Sea drawn up by China, which claims to own the territory inside the line. The boundary is controversial to the surrounding countries that also claim part of the waterway, which includes Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, and the Philippines

Tien Phong, a Vietnamese state media outlet, reported that the nine-dash line is featured in multiple scenes throughout the movie.

When Republicans asked Warner Bros. about this, Politico reported: GOP declares war on . . . Barbie

The headline seldom matches the reporting at Politico:

In a Barbie world, who controls the South China Sea?
That's the question a handful of Republican lawmakers -- not to mention much of Southeast Asia -- is asking thanks to a background detail in the upcoming "Barbie" movie due out later this month.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who leads a select House panel aimed at countering the influence of China, said the map "illustrates the pressure that Hollywood is under to please CCP censors."
"While it may just be a Barbie map in a Barbie world, the fact that a cartoonish, crayon-scribbled map seems to go out of its way to depict the PRC's unlawful territorial claims illustrates the pressure that Hollywood is under to please CCP censors," Gallagher said in a statement to POLITICO. "I hope Warner Brothers clarifies that the map was not intended to endorse any territorial claims and was in fact, the work of a formerly plastic anthropomorphic doll."

Warner Bros., in its own statement to POLITICO, said there were no geopolitics intended in "Barbie."
"The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing," a spokesperson for the Warner Bros. Film Group said. "The doodles depict Barbie's make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the 'real world.' It was not intended to make any type of statement."
The line, nine-dash or not, has made waves far beyond U.S. political circles. . .

A few days earlier, CNN had reported that:

"Barbie" is the latest movie to be banned in Vietnam for depicting China's controversial nine-dash line, which was repudiated in an international arbitration ruling by a court in The Hague in 2016. China refuses to recognize the ruling.
In 2019, the Vietnamese government pulled DreamWorks' animated film "Abominable," and last year it banned Sony's action movie "Unchartered" for the same reason. Netflix also removed an Australian spy drama, "Pine Gap," in 2021.
"Barbie," starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, was originally slated to open in Vietnam on July 21, the same date as in the United States, according to state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper."

OHHHHH . . . So there's a pattern to China pressuring movie studios to include the nine dash line in movies?????

Ted Cruz said that Barbie was likely to be a big movie, particularly with young girls. Then he talked about the nine-dash line and Chinese censors. From this, Vanity Fair concluded that Cruz was going to war against Barbie:

Cruz, for one, is siding with the Vietnamese government, which has banned the release of Barbie thanks to the map, shown briefly in the film, that they say depicts a disputed dash-line used by China to claim the South China Sea. Vietnam's state-run newspaper called it an "offending image"; Cruz calls it "Chinese communist propaganda," which he seems gravely concerned will brainwash the young girls who go see Barbie this weekend.

Of course, he said nothing about brainwashing young American girls with Chinese propaganda. But this theme took hold, with social media and Substack sites even reporting that the GOP had called for a "Barbie Boycott", which was totally unsuccessful, of course. HAHAHA.

Mainly because it never existed.

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A movie that begs for sequels

One thing I have concluded from reading and seeing reviews of this movie is that it is disjointed enough to keep people arguing about what it means. There are several set-ups for sequels, I think.

Some reviewers on the right contend that the movie is accidentally based. There are spoilers in these reviews if you intend to go to the movie as a movie, but if you intent to watch it just as social commentary, the spoilers don't matter anyway.

REVIEW OF BARBIE

I think this movie can be understood as feminism throwing in the towel. It's going through the motions, but it's an ideology that has accomplished all that it could and has now run into the brick wall of reality. There's no grand vision, no hope of anywhere else to go. All it wants to do is keep making the same arguments again and again as a kind of permanent therapy session.
The message ends up being subversive despite itself. The feminist complaining in the film lacks any direction or even solid program. In what's supposed to be the crescendo, Gloria (America Ferrera) gives a speech about how women are expected to be perfect moms, smile, be sexy but not sluts, not be selfish, blah, blah, blah. There's very little politics in the sense of political demands. Rather, it's completely about norms, expectations, and how hard it is to be a woman because of how people see and judge you. It's almost as if women's problem is their baseline higher levels of anxiety and difficulty adjusting to what is ultimately a more individualistic society than conditions we evolved under.

We see this when Barbie and Ken go out into the real world. Barbie notices men hitting on her, with "undercurrents of violence." Someone asks Ken what time it is, so he feels respected and like he's on top of the world. He decides to take this idea of "patriarchy" and bring it back the Barbieland. When he gets there, he's able to rule with his friends. They institute a constitutional reform movement, and even develop warfare. So when the Barbies were in charge everything was stagnant, but men actually introduce innovation and change.
There is no sense in the movie that women ever can actually be happy. The idea of making Barbie into a doctor or lawyer or whatever is now generations old. The movie beats us over the head with the idea that this did not solve all the problems of patriarchy. So what will? Like Barbieland, feminist ideology is stagnant. . .

There's more, with a wry note on why feminism is now turning to transgenderism as its only new idea.

The Lotus Eaters recommend keeping this movie away from children, but enjoyed watching it themselves, as accidentally based. They recommend waiting until it goes to streaming, then watching it for unintentional hilarity.

Save the video and start at 14:45 if you're short on time.

Maybe you caught Ed Driscoll's link to Peachy Keenan.

Enter the Barbie Longhouse.
Spoiler alert: Lots of spoilers abound in this review. Beware!
I walked out of the Barbie movie stunned and in disbelief. Hollywood darling Greta Gerwig, the scowling girlboss writer-director of this guaranteed smash-hit, has somehow made the first movie explicitly set inside the Longhouse.
And she did it totally by accident.
What a time to be alive!

Plot is then summarized in the Substack.

The last scene is the newly human Barbie, in Santa Monica, wearing Birkenstocks instead of high heels, arriving at a doctor's office. The receptionist asks her who she's there to see. Barbie, now calling herself Barbara Handler, says with a gleeful smile, "My gynecologist!"
Cut, roll credits.
Gynocracy, take a bow!
In another accidentally based twist, what makes Barbie a woman is having a vagina - - paging Matt Walsh!

There's more.

Still don't understand the Longhouse after meeting Fascist Barbie and noticing that the Venice Beach in the movie is not the Venice Beach of today?

What is the longhouse?

The historical longhouse was a large communal hall, serving as the social focal point for many cultures and peoples throughout the world that were typically more sedentary and agrarian. In online discourse, this historical function gets generalized to contemporary patterns of social organization, in particular the exchange of privacy -- and its attendant autonomy -- for the modest comforts and security of collective living.
The most important feature of the Longhouse, and why it makes such a resonant (and controversial) symbol of our current circumstances, is the ubiquitous rule of the Den Mother. More than anything, the Longhouse refers to the remarkable overcorrection of the last two generations toward social norms centering feminine needs and feminine methods for controlling, directing, and modeling behavior. Many from left, right, and center have made note of this shift. In 2010, Hanna Rosin announced "The End of Men." Hillary Clinton made it a slogan of her 2016 campaign: "The future is female." She was correct.

Movie Barbie would have a hard time walking on the real Venice Beach today. Thanks for ending men, Hanna!

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What's the deal with Ken and horses?

When Ken came back to Barbieland and easily established The Patriarchy, videos of horses running could be viewed in dreamhouses all the time.

WHY?

A question for the next sequel? Didn't I say something about this movie being sort of disjointed? Was this on purpose?

I�m not certain the writers of Barbie intended this, but they most certainly replicated the Indo-European invasion of Europe with Ken�s ascension to power, allow me to explain. pic.twitter.com/OdIZCpOfYu
— Tocharus (@Tocharus) July 28, 2023

Cowboy Ken, or something like this for the next sequel?

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Music

Patriarchy, h/t David Foster

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, July 22, Queering the Trans Movement

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:18 AM

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1 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2023 11:20 AM (xhxe8)

2 Darn it....stopped to read the content.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 29, 2023 11:23 AM (ncXxy)

3 Morning, crew! Welcome to the Longhouse!

Posted by: KT at July 29, 2023 11:24 AM (rrtZS)

4 Hiya KT !

Posted by: JT at July 29, 2023 11:24 AM (T4tVD)

5 Just when you thought it was safe to turn the TV back on . . .

Is ‘Depp v. Heard’ the Next ‘Tiger King?’
Netflix docuseries captures the mega trial of 2022 and its social media impact

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One thing for sure; it'll be shitty.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 29, 2023 11:24 AM (FVME7)

6
The time is ripe for Hollywood to bite the bullet and pour all their time, talent and treasure into "Fuck China: The Movie".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 29, 2023 11:27 AM (xG4kz)

7 Sounds like it would be best to rot and die a failure

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2023 11:27 AM (xhxe8)

8 Just when you thought it was safe to turn the TV back on . . .

Is ‘Depp v. Heard’ the Next ‘Tiger King?’
Netflix docuseries captures the mega trial of 2022 and its social media impact

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One thing for sure; it'll be shitty.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Does it come with a free roll of TP ?

Posted by: JT at July 29, 2023 11:28 AM (T4tVD)

9 Came home, settled in and turned on the TV. It goes to Fox news (gotta fix that someday). Didn't change the channel and they had that Congresswoman, a Uke immigrant, giving Mayorkas hell. She would have been handy during the rendition days, interrogating scum at black sites.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2023 11:29 AM (0EOe9)

10 Culture was is like a football game. We went 60 yards and scored a TD with Bud Light. They got the kickoff and ran back a Barbie TD.

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 11:29 AM (6tveo)

11 Director Oliver Stone said he regrets voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, warning that the president is dragging the country into a potential World War III with Russia.

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Well, I guess you could see WWIII as detrimental.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 29, 2023 11:29 AM (FVME7)

12 Ww3 could have some good movie making opportunities though.

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 11:30 AM (6tveo)

13 Politico/Politburo.....same/same

Posted by: BignJames at July 29, 2023 11:30 AM (AwYPR)

14 Culture War that is, not culture was

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 11:31 AM (6tveo)

15 Until I read this post I had no idea that the proto-Indo-European societies of the Pontic-Caspian steppes figured so prominently in a movie about Barbie.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 11:32 AM (s12c9)

16 Remember the old days when the South China Sea was controlled by a couple carrier battle groups and the USS New Jersey?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2023 11:32 AM (0EOe9)

17 Polling Shows Massive Shift in People Saying Trans Movement Has Gone Too Far

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What kind of right wing crazies are they?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 29, 2023 11:32 AM (FVME7)

18
Ww3 could have some good movie making opportunities though.
Posted by: Montec

Filmed tales of the exploits of the suicidal kamikaze brigades of tranny warriors would be to die for.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 29, 2023 11:33 AM (xG4kz)

19 There's a whole lot of pretentiousness going on in all those deep analysis' of Barbie.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2023 11:33 AM (Q4IgG)

20 Half of Millennials and Gen Zers Want to “Focus on Themselves” Instead of Having Kids

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I always say, millennials and gen Zs are not narcissistic enough.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 29, 2023 11:35 AM (FVME7)

21 17 Who would have seen that coming? A tiny percentage of the population dictating they can make a gelding out of your son, and you won't even know about it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2023 11:36 AM (0EOe9)

22 Ww3 could have some good movie making opportunities though.

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 11:30 AM

That would sure beat the nearly complete lack of any photos or even a grainy video or two of the fighting in Ukraine. It's a complete news blackout for some reason.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 29, 2023 11:36 AM (ncXxy)

23
There's a whole lot of pretentiousness going on in all those deep analysis' of Barbie.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

The hiring of the first Professor of Barbie Studies is merely weeks away now!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 29, 2023 11:36 AM (xG4kz)

24 I have zero interest in any of this Barbie stuff but thanks for the thread just the same, K.T.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 29, 2023 11:37 AM (Xrfse)

25 Unfortunately, women aren't happy because they aren't moms. Hard for me to say even now but it's true.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 29, 2023 11:38 AM (ouTlx)

26 My wife saw Barbie with my daughter. They both loved it. So I said yeah but wasn’t it so over the top grrrrrl power to ruin it? And they were like eh, it was fun and nobody should take it too seriously. Plus the message at the end was good, ie men and women are both equally needed, and have to work together to make Barbieland a better place.

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 11:38 AM (6tveo)

27 6 The time is ripe for Hollywood to bite the bullet and pour all their time, talent and treasure into "Fuck China: The Movie".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 29, 2023 11:27 AM (xG4k

Team America movie?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 11:41 AM (0xoMQ)

28 Until I read this post I had no idea that the proto-Indo-European societies of the Pontic-Caspian steppes figured so prominently in a movie about Barbie.

Really? I was like, duh!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

29 GenZ is like 14-25 year olds. Uhm Yeah they should focus on themselves instead of having kids. I’m not seeing the problem here.

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 11:41 AM (6tveo)

30 Speaking of film, Disney's $150 million dollar-budgeted The Haunted Mansion is scheduled to die an ignominious death at the box office this weekend.

More, please.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 11:42 AM (s12c9)

31 It's remarkable that all of the depictions of the Chinese border, (that totes don't mean anything, duh), are in favor of the Chinese land grab. The only time someone seems to have stood up to them was Tom Cruise's leather jacket with a Taiwanese patch.

I'm starting to suspect that the denizens of Hollywood aren't the moral, ethical paragons they claim to be when they're lecturing everyone else.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 11:44 AM (eOEVl)

32 All I know is, looking back on the past 60 or so years, Vietnam is not the bad guy. It never was.

If there's something they're objecting to, they're probably right.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 11:44 AM (Vksce)

33 The New York Times, explaining why homeless drug abusing trannies move to Portland:

Kaetly and Irida Wren were unemployed and sleeping in their car in Memphis in the spring of 2021. Shunned by certain family members, the transgender couple saw few options in the South.“Let’s go to Portland,” Kaetly remembers saying.

Kaetly, 21, was inspired by the city’s protests. An opioid user, she also heard that heroin was plentiful in Portland. Irida, 26, was told the city offered generous homeless services.

“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 29, 2023 11:46 AM (2tUFv)

34 Plus the message at the end was good, ie men and women are both equally needed, and have to work together to make Barbieland a better place.

It seems that they and Critical Drinker saw different movies.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 11:46 AM (eOEVl)

35 Read a book years ago on language evolution around the world. From linguistics ,for instance, indications of at least 3 waves of immigration from Asia thousands of years ago

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 11:46 AM (0xoMQ)

36 Did I hear this right? JoeCo. has accumulated an estimated $50mil in offshore accounts?

Posted by: BignJames at July 29, 2023 11:46 AM (AwYPR)

37 Is there a dash gap?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 11:46 AM (zZu0s)

38 Speaking of film, Disney's $150 million dollar-budgeted The Haunted Mansion is scheduled to die an ignominious death at the box office this weekend.

More, please.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 11:42 AM (s12c9)

Where did they ever get that clever idea from. I tell you these writers are the bomb.

Posted by: Reforger at July 29, 2023 11:46 AM (B705c)

39 Republicans pounce!

USA TODAY
@USATODAY
Hunter Biden's foibles provide ammunition for Republicans who want to inflict harm on Joe Biden ahead of 2024 presidential campaign.

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Ted Bundy had some pretty good foibles, too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 29, 2023 11:46 AM (FVME7)

40 31 It's remarkable that all of the depictions of the Chinese border, (that totes don't mean anything, duh), are in favor of the Chinese land grab. The only time someone seems to have stood up to them was Tom Cruise's leather jacket with a Taiwanese patch.

I'm starting to suspect that the denizens of Hollywood aren't the moral, ethical paragons they claim to be when they're lecturing everyone else.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 11:44 AM (eOEVl)

They sell out cheaper n a $20 whore

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 11:47 AM (0xoMQ)

41 Kaetly and Irida Wren were unemployed and sleeping in their car in Memphis in the spring of 2021. Shunned by certain family members, the transgender couple saw few options in the South.“Let’s go to Portland,” Kaetly remembers saying.

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Hmm. They sound like an ambitious young couple who will find all kinds of success,

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 11:47 AM (s12c9)

42 Speaking of film, Disney's $150 million dollar-budgeted The Haunted Mansion is scheduled to die an ignominious death at the box office this weekend.

More, please.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 11:42 AM (s12c9)

Where did they ever get that clever idea from. I tell you these writers are the bomb.

Wait til you see their newest work, "The 3-Hour Line at Disney".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 11:48 AM (eOEVl)

43 *looks up Haunted Mansion*

Huh. Looks like a movie TJM would love.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 11:48 AM (zZu0s)

44 Changed channels, couldn't take anymore Cavuto and Hutchinson. Just clicked on Motor Trend, and All Girls Garage is on and the entire cast has been to All Girls Tattoos. They just don't get how things are gonna look at the retirement home.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2023 11:49 AM (0EOe9)

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46 [Culture was is like a football game. We went 60 yards and scored a TD with Bud Light. They got the kickoff and ran back a Barbie TD.

Then there are the rest of us who aren't investing much emotional energy into something as pathetic as secular/political cultural wars and who is outscoring who.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2023 11:49 AM (p8A+W)

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34 Plus the message at the end was good, ie men and women are both equally needed, and have to work together to make Barbieland a better place.

It seems that they and Critical Drinker saw different movies.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 11:46 AM (eOEVl)

I’m just reporting what I was told. If you go into it looking for shit to be angry about you’ll find it. If you go into it to just be entertained for 2 hours you’ll probably find less to be angry about.

My daughter is generally anti-woke and has her head in straight. And she enjoyed herself and said all the teeth gnashing about how anti-man it is, etc is way over the top. Again, this is just what I was told.

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 11:49 AM (6tveo)

48 Going to watch Barbie status:

[ ] Yes
[ ] Maybe
[X] When Hell freezes over

Posted by: Diogenes at July 29, 2023 11:50 AM (e4fEA)

49 Isn't the Barbie movie just a reboot of Legally Blonde?

Fish out of water, thrust into the "serious" world who learns how to be taken seriously while maintaining her blonde air-headedness?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2023 11:50 AM (zLLgI)

50 36 Did I hear this right? JoeCo. has accumulated an estimated $50mil in offshore accounts?
Posted by: BignJames at July 29, 2023 11:46 AM (AwYPR)

I'm almost to the point where I'm more offended by the price than the corruption. Somebody tell those a holes to let us bid, maybe we can work something out.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 29, 2023 11:50 AM (z+89e)

51 43 *looks up Haunted Mansion*

Huh. Looks like a movie TJM would love.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 11:48 AM (zZu0s)

:::considers movie title "Prometheus: Haunted Mansion". Things better not to:::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 11:50 AM (0xoMQ)

52 Did I hear this right? JoeCo. has accumulated an estimated $50mil in offshore accounts?
Posted by: BignJames at July 29, 2023 11:46 AM (AwYPR)

Remember Obozo saying “Joe you don’t have to do this”. He had stolen so much, why not just go away? How this relates to. Barbie, I don’t know. Maybe she’s a foreign agent too.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 11:51 AM (HcwhT)

53 Townhall.com
@townhallcom
Biden: Republicans might impeach me for lowering inflation

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I didn't even know that was a high crime or misdemeanor.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 29, 2023 11:51 AM (FVME7)

54 What's next, Resusci Annie movies?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at July 29, 2023 11:51 AM (lsjrd)

55 If I want "fun" in a movie, I'll go watch "SpongeBob" on DVD or "The Trouble With Angels" or any number of much better movies. Supercharged pink is an absolute turn off-Ken in pink stripes-Bleech- even if I didn't know about the rancid messages.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 11:52 AM (Keyt1)

56 As for the Barbie, a lot of people I watch online have been talking about how over the top the whole thing is, with its feminist message. I'm not going to see it, because why would I. But I did think maybe it was another Freddie Got Fingered, based on what these people have all been saying.

For those who don't know FGF is considered one of the worst movies ever made, and that's because Tom Green pulled a fast one over everybody. He set out to make the worst movie he could, and to do it on the studio's dime. In many way, he succeeded massively. If you haven't seen the movie, it is horrible, and while sometimes bad movies are fun to watch, this one will offend everyone, somewhere along the way.

What if Barbie was intentional? What if they set out to make the most outrageously faminazi movie, not to advance the feminazi movement, but to poke fun at it, right to its face? That's all I'm asking. I'll never see it, but I'm not sure who to trust at this point to have it figured out. Not yet.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 11:52 AM (4ce6M)

57 Isn't the Barbie movie just a reboot of Legally Blonde?

Sunds like it, but I also think it was a better movie.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 11:53 AM (Keyt1)

58 53 Townhall.com
@townhallcom
Biden: Republicans might impeach me for lowering inflation

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I didn't even know that was a high crime or misdemeanor.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 29, 2023 11:51 AM (FVME7)

Trump was impeached 2x for stuff he didn't do, so makes sense.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 11:53 AM (0xoMQ)

59 They should o a mash-up of Snow White and Barbie. The seven dwarves orgy scene would be epic.

Working title?

Throw Another Shrimp on the Barbie

(sorry Grandma!)

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2023 11:53 AM (zLLgI)

60 She cleans up well.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 29, 2023 11:54 AM (glGDV)

61 My daughter is generally anti-woke and has her head in straight. And she enjoyed herself and said all the teeth gnashing about how anti-man it is, etc is way over the top. Again, this is just what I was told.
Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 11:49 AM (6tveo)

This is similar to my own opinion on products and reviews. If I am looking forward and want to buy a game or see a movie, I try not to be spoiled at all and do not read a review until AFTER I have played or watched it. Two things in recent years have sustained the soundness of this practice: Cyberpunk 2077 and Top Gun: Maverick.

With Cyberpunk, I stayed completely unspoiled. Locked down with the game from all news on it until I finished it. Loved it. Thought it was good. Some issues, sure both in execution and plot. Then I started looking at reviews to see what other people thought and saw that it was the worst game since Daikatana. Huh. Strange.

Top Gun was the flip side. I liked it, but also... it was ok. Not horrible, but also not even as good as say Edge of Tomorrow. It was just ok, but somehow it is the greatest movie of the past 20 years (a low bar, to be sure.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 11:55 AM (zZu0s)

62 59 They should o a mash-up of Snow White and Barbie. The seven dwarves orgy scene would be epic.

Working title?

Throw Another Shrimp on the Barbie

(sorry Grandma!)

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2023 11:53 AM (zLLgI)

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 11:55 AM (0xoMQ)

63 Daniel Goldman
@danielsgoldman
“Biden did not get a sweetheart deal. In fact, not only would you not be going to prison if you did what Hunter Biden did, you likely wouldn’t even be charged.”

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He was just exercising his right to pursue happiness.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 29, 2023 11:55 AM (FVME7)

64 Where did they ever get that clever idea from. I tell you these writers are the bomb.

Wait til you see their newest work, "The 3-Hour Line at Disney".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 11:48 AM (eOEVl)

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A trilogy based on the horse-drawn carriage ride on Main Street?

An IMAX presentation plotted around the men's restroom experience in Fantasyland?

You just have to open your eyes and you will find inspiration.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 11:55 AM (s12c9)

65 I like that really stupid comedy movie "Rat Race". A couple are driving through the AZ desert, and the little girl sees a sign, Barbie Museum. She starts whining, loves her Barbie, and please, please can we stop. Buncha skin heads with a museum dedicated to Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief and the Butcher of Lyon. And an accomplished ballroom dancer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2023 11:56 AM (0EOe9)

66 But I do think people are probably are probably going because it was packaged as fun/light movie-in a stressful time period (It's an escape) an also reminds some women of playing with Barbie dolls as kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 11:56 AM (Keyt1)

67 Hmm. They sound like an ambitious young couple who will find all kinds of success,

They're planning on leaving Portland.

Turns out that living in a "community" of fentanyl addicts has certain downsides, surprisingly.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 29, 2023 11:56 AM (2tUFv)

68 48 Going to watch Barbie status:

[ ] Yes
[ ] Maybe
[X] When Hell freezes over
Posted by: Diogenes at July 29, 2023 11:50 AM (e4fEA)

Not Gay Status of Diogenes:
[x] Confirmed
[ ] Not Confirmed

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 11:57 AM (zZu0s)

69 But I do think people are probably are probably going because it was packaged as fun/light movie-in a stressful time period (It's an escape) an also reminds some women of playing with Barbie dolls as kids.

Men do much the same thing when watching The Dirty Dozen.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 11:57 AM (eOEVl)

70 65 I like that really stupid comedy movie "Rat Race". A couple are driving through the AZ desert, and the little girl sees a sign, Barbie Museum. She starts whining, loves her Barbie, and please, please can we stop. Buncha skin heads with a museum dedicated to Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief and the Butcher of Lyon. And an accomplished ballroom dancer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2023 11:56 AM (0EOe9)

LOL, I guess I'll have to watch it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 11:58 AM (0xoMQ)

71 Isn't the Barbie movie just a reboot of Legally Blonde?

Fish out of water, thrust into the "serious" world who learns how to be taken seriously while maintaining her blonde air-headedness?
Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2023 11:50 AM (zLLgI)

If you listen to people who have seen it, and are critical of it, they say it's not. That it COULD have been that movie, but it just comes off as bitter and trite, whereas the Legally Blonde thing was subtle enough to not have all the men in it trying to grab Reece Witherspoon's bum.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 11:58 AM (69ZND)

72 Men do much the same thing when watching The Dirty Dozen.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 11:57 AM (eOEVl)

Or John Wick.

Or Rio Bravo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 11:58 AM (zZu0s)

73 66 But I do think people are probably are probably going because it was packaged as fun/light movie-in a stressful time period (It's an escape) an also reminds some women of playing with Barbie dolls as kids.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 11:56 AM (Keyt1)

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Yes. It was marketed to middle-aged (or older) Karens.

Or maybe Jens.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 11:58 AM (s12c9)

74 Mmmmm mid-2000s Reese Witherspoon…

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 11:59 AM (6tveo)

75 Morning, crew! Welcome to the Longhouse!
Posted by: KT

I hadn't heard of the 'Longhouse'... interesting observation.
The 'Den Mother' attitudes of the Karens (all of them!) lend themselves to the Longhouse theory too.
Who is the current head 'Den Mother'?

I think 'Safetyism' describes the Karen's behavior and attitudes as well. Covid broke them and they don't want to recover from it and now "the climate!".

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 11:59 AM (KuT0X)

76 No deep analysis here, but I think Barbie movie was made because hollyweird is all out of original ideas.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2023 11:59 AM (Q4IgG)

77 Biden: Republicans might impeach me for lowering inflation

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I didn't even know that was a high crime or misdemeanor.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 29, 2023 11:51 AM (FVME7)

It's the Biden equivalent of Sandy Cortez saying all the Republican men who criticize her do so because they want to date her.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:00 PM (69ZND)

78 74 Mmmmm mid-2000s Reese Witherspoon…

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 11:59 AM (6tveo)

Reese Witherspoon or Reeses Pieces...?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 12:00 PM (0xoMQ)

79 Yes. It was marketed to middle-aged (or older) Karens.

Or maybe Jens.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 11:58 AM (s12c9)

I first read that as 'Jews.' (I need to go to the optometrist.)

Then I thought: what WOULD a Barbie movie marketed towards Jewish people look like?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 12:01 PM (zZu0s)

80 Short bus to the Long House...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 12:01 PM (0xoMQ)

81 "if there’s one thing you need to know about our Senate race, it’s that MAGA Republicans see no greater threat to their power than yours truly."
-- Adam "Hogg-arm Neck" Schiff

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 29, 2023 12:02 PM (a3Q+t)

82 The Outhouse > The Longhouse

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 29, 2023 12:02 PM (R/m4+)

83 Hollywood will, in our lifetime, attempt a very, very woke Gone With the Wind. The possibilities are endless.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2023 12:02 PM (0EOe9)

84 I was prepared to really work hard to force myself not to care about Barbie but am finding it surprisingly easy.

Have fun parsing the deeper hidden meanings of the cartoon, kids. Endeavour to persevere.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2023 12:02 PM (zLLgI)

85 She starts whining, loves her Barbie, and please, please can we stop. Buncha skin heads with a museum dedicated to Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief and the Butcher of Lyon. And an accomplished ballroom dancer.

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Now THAT'S original.

Hollywood, take note!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 12:02 PM (s12c9)

86 Yes. It was marketed to middle-aged (or older) Karens.

Or maybe Jens.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 11:58 AM (s12c9)

Marketed to them, and if it DOES go flying over their heads, that it's a weaponized feminist propaganda piece, it might be due to the fact they're already infected, and don't know they're being preached to, because they're already sick with "the message."

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:02 PM (69ZND)

87 I find it fascinating that the Chinese Communist Party is obviously demanding that the "nine-dash line" be placed into Western movies.

On occasion, I like to play an enormously complicated computer game called "Europa Universalis", which covers world history from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic Era.

China bans the game, because the game fails to show Tibet and Taiwan as being part of China since time immemorial.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 29, 2023 12:02 PM (2tUFv)

88 Lowering inflation- speak a lie often enough everyone will believe it

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2023 12:03 PM (xhxe8)

89 83 Hollywood will, in our lifetime, attempt a very, very woke Gone With the Wind. The possibilities are endless.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2023 12:02 PM (0EOe9)

I'd like to see it with all-minority cast.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 12:04 PM (0xoMQ)

90 Townhall.com
@townhallcom
Biden: Republicans might impeach me for lowering inflation

Yeah, have your defense team work on that countering that charge and forget all of the rumors of treason, bribery, racketeering, child sex trafficking, drug smuggling...

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2023 12:04 PM (p8A+W)

91 Lowering the inflation that he caused. It’s like honoring a fire fighter who put out a fire he set.

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 12:04 PM (6tveo)

92 "if there’s one thing you need to know about our Senate race, it’s that MAGA Republicans see no greater threat to their power than yours truly."
-- Adam "Hogg-arm Neck" Schiff
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 29, 2023 12:02 PM (a3Q+t)

What do you expect him to say. He's not going to say "I'm bought and paid for by the Californica gay mafia, and I like hiring young black men prostitutes, and occasionally killing them."

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:05 PM (69ZND)

93 87 I find it fascinating that the Chinese Communist Party is obviously demanding that the "nine-dash line" be placed into Western movies.

On occasion, I like to play an enormously complicated computer game called "Europa Universalis", which covers world history from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic Era.

China bans the game, because the game fails to show Tibet and Taiwan as being part of China since time immemorial.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 29, 2023 12:02 PM (2tUFv)

EU4 is one I managed to waste an inordinate amount of time in.

Or, what I did once:
-start a game in Crusader Kings II as Byzantium
-reestablish the Roman Empire by conquering the traditional lands of the Empire.
-Transfer the game to EU4.
-laugh at everyone with their puny countries and conquer the new world.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 12:05 PM (zZu0s)

94 Gas is all but $4 here in se Pa

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2023 12:05 PM (xhxe8)

95 85 If you get to watch that funny hot mess, Whoopie Goldberg gets in a car wreck courtesy of a squirrel lady. Kinda hard to 'splain.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2023 12:05 PM (0EOe9)

96 Barbie will never give birth to a baby. It's obvious.

Posted by: Eromero at July 29, 2023 12:06 PM (z3WCn)

97 From AI mapping of language, PIE may well have started out with 7 inter-related languages which moved out of the Caucuses in various directions.

Posted by: Kindltot - click to request information on the PNW MOMEE Saturnday August 19 2023 IN OREGON at July 29, 2023 12:06 PM (xhaym)

98 China bans the game, because the game fails to show Tibet and Taiwan as being part of China since time immemorial.

I find that it's always a good policy to flip China off, just on general principles.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 12:06 PM (eOEVl)

99 I'd like to see it with all-minority cast.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 12:04 PM (0xoMQ)

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They made Anne Boleyn black. From there it's an easy jump to a black Scarlett O'Hara.

And Prissy could be a transgendered lesbian from Paraguay.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 12:06 PM (s12c9)

100 "if there’s one thing you need to know about our Senate race, it’s that MAGA Republicans see no greater threat to their power than yours truly."
-- Adam "Hogg-arm Neck" Schiff

And how would Adam Schitt characterize a demonstration of that MAGA "power"?

Because if curling up in a fetal position and letting the Democrats kick the shit out of them is "power", I think the Democrats should drop what they are doing and see if they can manage to get themselves in that same position.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2023 12:07 PM (p8A+W)

101 Barbie will never give birth to a baby. It's obvious.

Who would be the father? Ken seems unlikely, given his anatomical....deficiencies.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 12:07 PM (eOEVl)

102 Biggest positive steps in our Culture War has been recent. Yesterday Candace Owens dropped her Andrew Tate interview. If the holier than thou TradCon community can actually live up to their christian ideals and show even a modicum of grace, as Candace did, we might get somewhere in defeating the left.
The other positive step is Tucker Carlson being shitcanned from Fox. Russell Brand's interview of Tucker Carlson is what is sorely needed, people on opposing sides coming together on things they agree with.
The Andrew Tate interview by Candace was excellent. Besides Trump, on our side, Andrew Tate is the biggest name on the planet in popular culture that stands in direct opposition to shit like this Barbie movie and everything it, feminism and the left represent. If we can keep the TradCon idiots from shooting valuable culture warriors like Tate in the back we just might make some headway.

Posted by: JROD at July 29, 2023 12:07 PM (IlL6s)

103 99 I'd like to see it with all-minority cast.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 12:04 PM (0xoMQ)

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They made Anne Boleyn black. From there it's an easy jump to a black Scarlett O'Hara.

And Prissy could be a transgendered lesbian from Paraguay.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 12:06 PM (s12c9)

And the slave owners?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 12:07 PM (0xoMQ)

104 Throw Another Shrimp on the Barbie

(sorry Grandma!)

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2023 11:53 AM (zLLgI)
***

Dang!
Now I got coffee coming out my nose!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 29, 2023 12:08 PM (e4fEA)

105 101 Barbie will never give birth to a baby. It's obvious.

Who would be the father? Ken seems unlikely, given his anatomical....deficiencies.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 12:07 PM (eOEVl)

Duh. She cums with GI Joe...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 12:08 PM (0xoMQ)

106 Someone was saying on a radio program I listen to that the Barbie director didn't have final-cut privilege and some more overtly silly scenes like a "fart opera" got cut against her wishes. So at least some of what's going on may be a case of studio meddling combined with some Ryan Reynolds-esque "vaguely woke but taking a poke at everyone for the lulz" approach.

But I really don't understand why maps of southeast Asia would be showing up so frequently in movies that don't have anything to do with southeast Asia.

Posted by: CppThis at July 29, 2023 12:09 PM (PZvjL)

107 And the slave owners?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 12:07 PM (0xoMQ)

They would never want to humanize them that way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 12:09 PM (zZu0s)

108
What's next, Resusci Annie movies?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff

Vince and Larry the crash test dummies movie.
You could learn a lot from a dummy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 29, 2023 12:10 PM (63Dwl)

109 But I really don't understand why maps of southeast Asia would be showing up so frequently in movies that don't have anything to do with southeast Asia.

Because their Chicom masters wish it to be so.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 29, 2023 12:10 PM (eOEVl)

110 108
What's next, Resusci Annie movies?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff

Vince and Larry the crash test dummies movie.
You could learn a lot from a dummy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 29, 2023 12:10 PM (63Dwl)

Sure they vote Dem

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 12:11 PM (0xoMQ)

111 Lowering inflation- speak a lie often enough everyone will believe it
Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2023 12:03 PM (xhxe

I started listening to Russell Brand recently, and I like the way he puts it (not that it's an original idea, see Orwell, George). He says they will say something outrageous, and it's not just that it's a lie, it's that you know it's a lie. And it's not just that you know it's a lie, it's that they know you know it's a lie, and they say it anyway.

We're programmed to hear the lie, have everyone know what it is, and nobody calls them out for being the f**king liars they are.

All of them. He does manage to distinguish Trump from the rest of them though, in saying he thinks Trump means what he says, and in many ways, that's true.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:11 PM (YWW73)

112 *in a low gruff voice*

"I don' know nothin' about birthin' no babies."

It could work.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 29, 2023 12:11 PM (s12c9)

113 63 Daniel Goldman
@danielsgoldman
“Biden did not get a sweetheart deal. In fact, not only would you not be going to prison if you did what Hunter Biden did, you likely wouldn’t even be charged.”
_______

On this, I happen to agree with Goldman : funneling illegally acquired funds to a Dem politician likely won't be charged.

Posted by: Merrick Garland at July 29, 2023 12:11 PM (LHdiy)

114 In the woke GWTW, Ashley will ride side saddle because he is trying to identify with his true feelings and Ashley is kinda a fag name.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2023 12:11 PM (0EOe9)

115 No deep analysis here, but I think Barbie movie was made because hollyweird is all out of original ideas.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2023 11:59 AM (Q4IgG)

They’ve been out of ideas for a long time. It’s a writer/creator issue. They’re too scared to do anything outside the envelope of woke.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 12:12 PM (Lixbt)

116 102 Russell Brand's interview of Tucker Carlson is what is sorely needed, people on opposing sides coming together on things they agree with.
Posted by: JROD at July 29, 2023 12:07 PM (IlL6s)

Yup--a coalition of the normies is the only thing that will put a stop to the crazy. Well, that or a total collapse of the Western economic system. Unfortunately there's not a lot of leadership to go around these days, so the latter seems more likely than the former.

Posted by: CppThis at July 29, 2023 12:14 PM (PZvjL)

117 If we can keep the TradCon idiots from shooting valuable culture warriors like Tate in the back we just might make some headway.
Posted by: JROD at July 29, 2023 12:07 PM (IlL6s)

Now do RFK Jr.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:14 PM (YWW73)

118 Fox news bounces back? I guess some people just cannot break the habit. Link goes to American Thinker. Number one again in cable news. (not saying much)

https://tinyurl.com/yc7fm27k

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 29, 2023 12:15 PM (Zvtjl)

119 In the original musical "Six", three of Henry the Eights wives are portrayed by Black women, one is Asian and from the pictures one looks like a man doing drag. I didn't see it (That in itself would have turned me off) but to make it into some feminist thing would have turned me off further. I can't stand it when historical figures who are obviously white Europeans are playing by actors who are not. I don't care about it in fantasies or science fiction.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 12:15 PM (Keyt1)

120 118 Fox news bounces back? I guess some people just cannot break the habit. Link goes to American Thinker. Number one again in cable news. (not saying much)

https://tinyurl.com/yc7fm27k

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 29, 2023 12:15 PM (Zvtjl)

Or the alternatives are just that bad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 12:16 PM (zZu0s)

121 I'm sure a Chinese maritime map promoting their hostile hegemon policies was accidentally inserted into a BARBIE movie.

Posted by: SamIam at July 29, 2023 12:16 PM (oasF3)

122 96 Barbie will never give birth to a baby. It's obvious.

Posted by: Eromero at July 29, 2023 12:06 PM (z3WCn)

Thems sure ain't Birthen Hips.

Posted by: Reforger at July 29, 2023 12:17 PM (B705c)

123
Klaus Barbieland, The Movie

Now, THAT would transgress a few boundaries ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 29, 2023 12:18 PM (xG4kz)

124 We're programmed to hear the lie, have everyone know what it is, and nobody calls them out for being the f**king liars they are.

All of them. He does manage to distinguish Trump from the rest of them though, in saying he thinks Trump means what he says, and in many ways, that's true.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:11 PM (YWW73)

Systemic problem with how they programmed us as kids. You go to school, and you HAVE to parrot what the teacher says, even when they are wrong. If not, you are punished, even to the point where they could destroy your future life by giving you bad grades. Thus, we are indoctrinated to bow to authority, even when that authority is often not very smart (there are teachers who teach because they like it, but often they take that major in college because they are not smart enough for STEM fields).

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:18 PM (oHd/0)

125 Thems sure ain't Birthen Hips.
Posted by: Reforger at July 29, 2023 12:17 PM

Call me.

Posted by: Bertha, one of the Butt Sisters at July 29, 2023 12:19 PM (a3Q+t)

126
Barbie will never give birth to a baby. It's obvious.

Posted by: Eromero

That goes a long way toward explaining what trannies admire about her.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 29, 2023 12:19 PM (xG4kz)

127 Fox news bounces back? I guess some people just cannot break the habit. Link goes to American Thinker. Number one again in cable news. (not saying much)

https://tinyurl.com/yc7fm27k

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 29, 2023 12:15 PM (Zvtjl)

Like people going back to Target, and buying Butt Lite.

Big corps, whether they're selling gay Woke, or Murdoch propaganda, they know who buys them, and they know they'll come back, always.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:20 PM (YWW73)

128

Got the long house analogy wrong.

It's actually the menstruation sequestration house.

A policy we would be wise to return to.

*ducks, runs serpentine*

Posted by: Fly Guy at July 29, 2023 12:21 PM (IKEEA)

129 It's actually the menstruation sequestration house.

A policy we would be wise to return to.

*ducks, runs serpentine*
Posted by: Fly Guy at July 29, 2023 12:21 PM

You'll only die tired.

Posted by: Woman, about to launch The Look at July 29, 2023 12:23 PM (a3Q+t)

130 Systemic problem with how they programmed us as kids. You go to school, and you HAVE to parrot what the teacher says, even when they are wrong. If not, you are punished, even to the point where they could destroy your future life by giving you bad grades. Thus, we are indoctrinated to bow to authority, even when that authority is often not very smart (there are teachers who teach because they like it, but often they take that major in college because they are not smart enough for STEM fields).
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:18 PM (oHd/0)

True story: When I first went to kindergarten, the teacher spelled my first name wrong (it shouldn't be that hard, but she insisted she was right and I was wrong). I went home and told my parents. The next day my dad marched in there before class and corrected her.

First day. I learned the most important lesson I would ever learn in school.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:23 PM (YWW73)

131 If not, you are punished, even to the point where they could destroy your future life by giving you bad grades.
Posted by: Romeo13

Agreed.
Only non-A that my youngest got in college was from a French Socialist who he disagreed with in class.
He only had 'firefighter' on his goal list so it didn't affect him (he's now a Captain at 30yrs old).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 12:23 PM (KuT0X)

132 "What if Barbie was intentional? What if they set out to make the most outrageously faminazi movie, not to advance the feminazi movement, but to poke fun at it, right to its face?" Posted by: BurtTC

Someone said ... about propaganda, the ultimate is to force people to accept the most absurdly false ideas, not just to subtly misdirect our thoughts (though there is that as well)

So men can have babies is a classic 2+2=5, and this movie is maybe another one, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2023 12:23 PM (Cus5s)

133 I can't imagine paying to see this crap.

Posted by: Old grunt at July 29, 2023 12:24 PM (7VKZ4)

134 The title of every sequel, prequel, and spin off is "The Search for More Money."

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 29, 2023 12:24 PM (K58O6)

135 Barbie will never give birth to a baby. It's obvious.

Posted by: Eromero at July 29, 2023 12:06 PM (z3WCn)

Thems sure ain't Birthen Hips.
Posted by: Reforger at July 29, 2023 12:17 PM (B705c)

Eh, I think the point is, Barbie won't give birth, not that she can't get pregnant.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:25 PM (YWW73)

136 The risk that Americans are just too busy to notice our dying liberties. I have found this to be so very true in talking with other conservatives and friends. We, here, spend many hours reading and researching, thanks to JJ and others. Unfortunately, we are in the minority. When I tell people how much time I spend here and on a few other sites, their immediate question is, "who has THAT kind of time?!?" So, yeah, many people have no idea of what's occurring outside their little bubble. BUT, they CAN tell you who's on Dancing With The Stars, or other shows. **sigh**
Link goes to American Thinker.
https://tinyurl.com/ympu2azx

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 29, 2023 12:25 PM (Zvtjl)

137 Daniel Goldman
@danielsgoldman
“Biden did not get a sweetheart deal. In fact, not only would you not be going to prison if you did what Hunter Biden did, you likely wouldn’t even be charged.”

-
He was just exercising his right to pursue happiness.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 29, 2023 11:55 AM

Really? I happen to know that lying on an ATF form 4473 by a self admitted crack head to buy a gun is a felony and there are bunches of people in prison for committing that crime.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 29, 2023 12:25 PM (ncXxy)

138 Anthony Blinken lays down the law:

Blinken: Bringing back the ousted president of Niger, further US aid depends on it

Only coups that have been approved by the United States are acceptable.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 29, 2023 12:27 PM (2tUFv)

139 If memory serves, the Barbie toys have always had a tinge of grrl-power feminazi to them so if that's in the movie, and they're doing it for the lulz, it really may not be that much of a woke-cult corruption. Not my kind of movie either way so I won't be able to confirm or deny anything.

Posted by: CppThis at July 29, 2023 12:27 PM (PZvjL)

140 Someone said ... about propaganda, the ultimate is to force people to accept the most absurdly false ideas, not just to subtly misdirect our thoughts (though there is that as well)

So men can have babies is a classic 2+2=5, and this movie is maybe another one, idk.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2023 12:23 PM (Cus5s)

One thing we must consider, not that these people have intentions, but that they are smart. They may know damn well, their message is going to cause controversy, and while everyone is arguing over "the big picture," the little ones seep through.

Like this China thing. Maybe that was the whole point of the movie.

Or they could just be idiots. That's possible too.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:27 PM (YWW73)

141 Hollywood has been seduced by the same China that pro-basketball bowed to... over a billion people.
Hollywood didn't understand (and still doesn't) that China will suck your the IP out of your business and then shunt you into the bit bucket.
Hence the 9line BS.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 12:28 PM (KuT0X)

142 Well, at least Margot Robbie's career is now saved. I have never seen her in anything. I might have gone to see her as Elizabeth 1st, but that had some lesbian subtext to it as well, I understand.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 12:29 PM (Keyt1)

143 The hiring of the first Professor of Barbie Studies is merely weeks away now!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 29, 2023 11:36 AM (xG4kz

To 'balance' the Robert E. Howard Chair in Cimmerian Studies

Posted by: Woodrow Wilson Smith at July 29, 2023 12:30 PM (xnpli)

144 What Littlest Kidlet (19) got from the movie was that real life was messy, and often emotionally painful, but still good because living your life is its own adventure. Hopefully she's not the only one to have that take. It would be great if the movie completely backfired on its creators.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 29, 2023 12:31 PM (nC+QA)

145 If memory serves, the Barbie toys have always had a tinge of grrl-power feminazi to them so if that's in the movie, and they're doing it for the lulz, it really may not be that much of a woke-cult corruption. Not my kind of movie either way so I won't be able to confirm or deny anything.
Posted by: CppThis at July 29, 2023 12:27 PM (PZvjL)

The movie apparently sometimes implies what happens to the dolls in the real world will affect the Barbie World character that is related to the the owner.

But it doesn't do it consistently. So you don't have Barbies in Barbie World being blown up by cherry bombs, you don't have girls inserting the dolls (or boys doing so), you don't have forced sex between Barbie and Ken (or GI Joe).

They apparently used the trope when it was convenient, then left it when it wasn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:31 PM (YWW73)

146 Systemic problem with how they programmed us as kids. You go to school, and you HAVE to parrot what the teacher says, even when they are wrong. If not, you are punished, even to the point where they could destroy your future life by giving you bad grades. Thus, we are indoctrinated to bow to authority, even when that authority is often not very smart (there are teachers who teach because they like it, but often they take that major in college because they are not smart enough for STEM fields).
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:18 PM (oHd/0)

In many cases it starts at home, then school, and so on. From the time we barely understand language the message is OBEY OBEY OBEY. Placate and make obeisance before authority or face violent wrath.

Posted by: It's nothing short of a miracle that anybody can think for themselves. at July 29, 2023 12:31 PM (e8n94)

147 143 The hiring of the first Professor of Barbie Studies is merely weeks away now!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 29, 2023 11:36 AM (xG4kz

To 'balance' the Robert E. Howard Chair in Cimmerian Studies
Posted by: Woodrow Wilson Smith at July 29, 2023 12:30 PM (xnpli)

They are having problems finding someone to fill that position.... the people interviewing for the position have a lack of Thews...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:32 PM (oHd/0)

148 And Prissy could be a transgendered lesbian from Paraguay.
Posted by: Cicero
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Way back, I was listening to NPR while driving. Terry Gross was interviewing a ghey Filipino banjo player. I checked to see if it was April 1st. It wasn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 29, 2023 12:33 PM (eZV9h)

149 Hollywood has been seduced by the same China that pro-basketball bowed to... over a billion people.
Hollywood didn't understand (and still doesn't) that China will suck your the IP out of your business and then shunt you into the bit bucket.
Hence the 9line BS.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 12:28 PM (KuT0X)

I don't understand pro basketball. It's run by a guy who looks like Nosferatu. But apparently isn't as nice as Nosferatu.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:34 PM (YWW73)

150 I have never lived in a place where the weather forecasters were so frequently wrong. The forecast for today was partly cloudy with a 5% chance of rain. Currently under a severe thunderstorm warning.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 29, 2023 12:35 PM (u73oe)

151 Blinken: Bringing back the ousted president of Niger, further US aid depends on it

Only coups that have been approved by the United States are acceptable.
____

I'm rooting for Niger. It's strange to be on the foreigners' side on this and so many issues. But, this current government is so far away from representing what I think is in the US's best interests, it's rather easy to root against Blinken and the Biden regime.

Posted by: Merrick Garland at July 29, 2023 12:35 PM (LHdiy)

152 If memory serves Robbie played Jane in a Tarzan movie. I watched part of that.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 29, 2023 12:35 PM (aCNZ6)

153 Off, sock of injustice

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 29, 2023 12:36 PM (LHdiy)

154 >>In what's supposed to be the crescendo, Gloria (America Ferrera) gives a speech about how women are expected to be perfect moms, smile, be sexy but not sluts, not be selfish, blah, blah, blah. . . .and how hard it is to be a woman because of how people see and judge you.

Ah, I had seen some comments online about how awesome that speech is. Ugh.

As a woman, my reaction is: so what? I mean, yeah, if you look at fashion/entertainment visuals and messaging, she's right. Most of us have noticed that, shrugged, and moved on with our lives -- no one is holding a gun to your head to make you buy into all that.

And really, it's always so funny when Hollywood -- the place that PUSHES this constantly by matching older actors with much younger, gorgeous actresses that can be discarded like the latest Leo DiCaprio model nearing age 30 -- then lectures *us* on unrealistic beauty/gender norms. Remind me again why they replaced homely, pudgy Amy Schumer with younger, thinner, prettier Margot Robie?!

Grow up, Greta Gurwig.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2023 12:36 PM (avru5)

155 Now that Barbie is a mega hit I think it confirms my self belief that American women in general are the worst compared to other female populations. Followed closely by Britain. Sadly our Ettes are a very small minority in the States. The main reason I never got married. Admittedly I regret that. Maybe I would have gotten lucky and found that imperfect gem that gelled with my imperfections.

Of course this is stated as opinion not fact. (always feel I have to write that disclaimer at aos or someone will get overly upset)

Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2023 12:36 PM (MNhXM)

156 If memory serves Robbie played Jane in a Tarzan movie. I watched part of that.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 29, 2023 12:35 PM (aCNZ6)

She was Sharon Tate in Tarantino's rewriting of the Manson murders.

She's very lovely, but she also has dirty feet.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:38 PM (YWW73)

157 I don't understand the appeal of Barbie atoll. Even if it wasn't super woke I would be supernaturally disinterested, misinterested and uninterested.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 29, 2023 12:39 PM (aCNZ6)

158 If memory serves Robbie played Jane in a Tarzan movie. I watched part of that.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 29, 2023 12:35 PM (aCNZ6

Terrible . Mainly for one reason, Snakes on the Plane Jackson.

Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2023 12:39 PM (MNhXM)

159 I don't understand pro basketball. It's run by a guy who looks like Nosferatu. But apparently isn't as nice as Nosferatu.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:34 PM (YWW73

I laughed when I read that. How true, that is one weird looking person??? He’s got a career in congress as a dem if he decides to move on.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 12:40 PM (Lixbt)

160 Culture War that is, not culture was
Posted by: Montec

I don’t know, I think we’re pretty much to the point where you have to refer to culture in the past tense.

Posted by: db at July 29, 2023 12:40 PM (wu87C)

161 A scripted speech by America Ferrara who probably has more money than I'll ever have, about the oppression of American mothers, just tugs at my heartstrings. It really does. I must now go see the Barbie movie/sarc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 12:41 PM (Keyt1)

162 When will we have a Tarzan movie with Tarzan played by a tranny $

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 29, 2023 12:41 PM (aCNZ6)

163 I will give you any amount of money to stop blogging about this movie.

Posted by: DB - weekend edition at July 29, 2023 12:41 PM (geLO8)

164 >>The hiring of the first Professor of Barbie Studies is merely weeks away now!

I'm so old I remember reading a Don Delilo novel where the joke was the main character being a professor of Elvis studies.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2023 12:41 PM (avru5)

165 I need to make at least $90 an hour working from home. Anyone have any ideas?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 29, 2023 12:42 PM (u73oe)

166 Not $ but?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 29, 2023 12:42 PM (aCNZ6)

167 As a woman, my reaction is: so what? ....

Grow up, Greta Gurwig.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2023 12:36 PM (avru5)

This is why some are saying the movie might be intentionally subversive, in taking that tired old trope, and showing with the most silly of feminist icons, a Barbie doll, that "the message" of feminism is hollow and false.

In Barbie land, you're a doll. In the real world, you're a bitter, ugly middle aged woman. You could change some of that (but not all), and if you don't, it's on you. Not the patriarchy.

Or so some are saying.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:42 PM (YWW73)

168 NBA guy looks like Nosferatu?

Does Henry 'Phantom of the Opera' Waxman know this?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2023 12:42 PM (esyfO)

169 Never mind, I just got an email from the ousted president of Niger. I’m gonna be rich!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 29, 2023 12:43 PM (u73oe)

170 Grow up, Greta Gurwig.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2023 12:36 PM (avru5)

And now lets talk about the unrealistic expectations of MEN that Hollywood has created. Women on dating sites all want a Man who makes over 100K, is tall, in shape, and an alpha who will not only be Manly, but Kowtow to his Female partner.

THEY EVEN SAY IT. And then Women wonder why they end up alone. Yeah... Men going their own Way (MGTOW) is a real thing...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:43 PM (oHd/0)

171 165 I need to make at least $90 an hour working from home. Anyone have any ideas?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 29, 2023 12:42 PM (u73oe)

OnlyFans

Posted by: Just spitballing here at July 29, 2023 12:43 PM (lR7Oz)

172 >>I don't understand the appeal of Barbie atoll. Even if it wasn't super woke I would be supernaturally disinterested, misinterested and uninterested.

OK, but would you be malinterested?

Yeah, the only reason I might watch it when it gets onto cabletv is to see Ken, who apparently steals the show.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2023 12:43 PM (avru5)

173 I'm rooting for Niger.

Nominally French-speaking Africa is moving away from France, and the French are très upset.

Meanwhile, Putin had a meeting with African leaders in St. Petersburg, and is offering them loan forgiveness and a bunch of other things.

This meeting was either: an outrageous success, since all but four African counties attended; or a complete failure, since fewer than half of those countries sent their head of state.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 29, 2023 12:44 PM (2tUFv)

174 So the Barbie movie is nothing but a rom/com fantasy about the search for the speculum talisman?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 29, 2023 12:44 PM (BdMk6)

175 Blinken: Bringing back the ousted president of Niger, further US aid depends on it

Only coups that have been approved by the United States are acceptable.

If that crap weasel is against it, I’m for it.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 12:44 PM (Lixbt)

176 Let's raise another generation of shitty girls who achieve high body counts, kill their babies and resent men for it, eventually choke to death alone in their apartment while eating a frozen meal for one and have their corpse consumed by their cats.

Posted by: Regular joe at July 29, 2023 12:45 PM (nnp+f)

177 Perhaps I'm a bit late to ask, but where are some screenshots of this offending Barbie map? Pix or it didn't happen.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 29, 2023 12:45 PM (NBVIP)

178 I need to make at least $90 an hour working from home. Anyone have any ideas?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 29, 2023 12:42 PM (u73oe)

OnlyFans.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:45 PM (YWW73)

179 I would just have written an adventure movie , basically expanding on what Toy Story 4 did.

Crack jokes about air head Ken. Make her the heroine. Rehabilitate Ken so he’s not a total loser and let them live together happily as equal partners. That should have satisfied the most of both sides of the audience.

Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (MNhXM)

180 I need to make at least $90 an hour working from home. Anyone have any ideas?
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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Whatever became of Sarah?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (rxUKk)

181 >>And now lets talk about the unrealistic expectations of MEN that Hollywood has created. Women on dating sites all want a Man who makes over 100K, is tall, in shape, and an alpha who will not only be Manly, but Kowtow to his Female partner.

So true -- but also, don't be *too* interested in having a healthy body, they've recently pounced (heh) on the bodybuilding/healthy eating/BAP reading trend as TOXIC!!! You're an "incel" if you lift, eat meat and embrace traditional masculinity, prefer women who embrace traditional femineity.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (avru5)

182 Morning, crew! Welcome to the Longhouse!
Posted by: KT at July 29, 2023 11:24 AM (rrtZS)

we've got fun and games..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (aD39U)

183 "Director Oliver Stone said he regrets voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 election,"

I hope Oliver doesn't feel too bad because just like the Trump voters, the votes didn't matter, the voters didn't matter. It's not your fault Oliver. You just need to understand that no one has a choice anymore.

Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (wsHtO)

184 Yeah... and Viet Nam is now the GOOD GUY?

WHAT THE FUCK... guess I'm old.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (oHd/0)

185 *pauses*

Let's rename North Sentinel Island Barbie Island.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2023 12:48 PM (esyfO)

186 I am glad I dated when people met people they eventually married at work-and it was o.k. and I had to have nothing to do with dating sites, because I imagine some men have as many unrealistic expectations of woman as some women do of men..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 12:48 PM (Keyt1)

187 99.99% of Barbie viewers have no clue what the map means. I’d have no clue what it means if I saw it. Some of this stuff done by China is on the retarded end of the spectrum. It’s a power move I guess but functionally speaking it does nothing.

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 12:49 PM (6tveo)

188 Watch Bill Burr’s bit on a Mother being the hardest job in the world. Cruel but hilarious.

Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2023 12:49 PM (MNhXM)

189 I don't understand the appeal of Barbie atoll.

It's an island unto itself.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 29, 2023 12:49 PM (aD39U)

190 179 I would just have written an adventure movie , basically expanding on what Toy Story 4 did.

Crack jokes about air head Ken. Make her the heroine. Rehabilitate Ken so he’s not a total loser and let them live together happily as equal partners. That should have satisfied the most of both sides of the audience.
Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (MNhXM)

I would have had Barbieworld invaded by the Bad Guys from the 80's GI Joe crap... COBRA! then have GI Joe come save the day...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:49 PM (oHd/0)

191 60 She cleans up well.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 29, 2023 11:54 AM (glGDV

That's what F'lar thought of Lessa when he got her back to Benden Weyr. And we know what that lead to.

Posted by: Woodrow Wilson Smith at July 29, 2023 12:50 PM (xnpli)

192 I need to make at least $90 an hour working from home. Anyone have any ideas?
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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Whatever became of Sarah?
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I'm betting that someone 'forgot' to untie her.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 29, 2023 12:50 PM (L9/32)

193 Society: oooooh look how hot that guy is with the 6-pack and

Also society : working out is white supremacy

Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 12:50 PM (6tveo)

194 Yeah... and Viet Nam is now the GOOD GUY?

WHAT THE FUCK... guess I'm old.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (oHd/0)

No, they’re just the less bad guy.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 12:50 PM (Lixbt)

195 Barbie Atoll?

Nuke from orbit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2023 12:50 PM (esyfO)

196 "Lessa woke cold."

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2023 12:51 PM (esyfO)

197 Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2023 12:50 PM (esyfO)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 12:52 PM (Keyt1)

198 because I imagine some men have as many unrealistic expectations of woman as some women do of men..

Wildly different. Men "swipe right" (show interest in) a majority of the women they are presented with on Tinder, and women "swipe right" on fewer than 10% of the men they are presented with on Tinder.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 29, 2023 12:52 PM (2tUFv)

199 195 Barbie Atoll?

Nuke from orbit.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2023 12:50 PM (esyfO)

/nods

Only way to be sure...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:52 PM (oHd/0)

200 Yeah... and Viet Nam is now the GOOD GUY?

WHAT THE FUCK... guess I'm old.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (oHd/0)

No, they’re just the less bad guy.
Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 12:50 PM (Lixbt

They’ve been having border wars with China since before our Vietnam War.

Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2023 12:52 PM (MNhXM)

201 And the slave owners?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

https://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm

Posted by: db at July 29, 2023 12:52 PM (wu87C)

202 NBA guy looks like Nosferatu?

Does Henry 'Phantom of the Opera' Waxman know this?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 29, 2023 12:42 PM (esyfO)

Adam Silver v. Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu. You be da judge:

https://tinyurl.com/mt5z25cy

https://tinyurl.com/4xpe3p2f

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:52 PM (+fLTy)

203 Yeah... and Viet Nam is now the GOOD GUY?

WHAT THE FUCK... guess I'm old.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (oHd/0)

No, they’re just the less bad guy.
Posted by: Rufus
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Yeah, I have no problem with that. If they are throwing rocks at each other, fine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 29, 2023 12:52 PM (XsjQp)

204 178 I need to make at least $90 an hour working from home. Anyone have any ideas?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 29, 2023 12:42 PM (u73oe)

OnlyFans.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:45 PM (YWW73)

We might be able to take a collection so Duke DOESN"T do that...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 12:53 PM (zZu0s)

205 I got the Sentinel Islands ref.

Go be woke there, guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 12:54 PM (zZu0s)

206 "Working" from home.

Posted by: Only Fans Marketing Dept at July 29, 2023 12:55 PM (NBVIP)

207 >>Crack jokes about air head Ken. Make her the heroine. Rehabilitate Ken so he’s not a total loser and let them live together happily as equal partners. That should have satisfied the most of both sides of the audience.

That's what they did in "Enchanted" and it was sweet.
The cartoon princess decided to stay in the real world to settle down with the widowed lawyer dude and his daughter, while the real-world woman he had been dating was charmed by the cartoon prince and followed him back to make believe land. Win-win.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2023 12:55 PM (avru5)

208 99.99% of Barbie viewers have no clue what the map means. I’d have no clue what it means if I saw it. Some of this stuff done by China is on the retarded end of the spectrum. It’s a power move I guess but functionally speaking it does nothing.
Posted by: Montec at July 29, 2023 12:49 PM (6tveo)

It's like showing CA as being Mexico's northern territory.

Oh, wait......

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 29, 2023 12:55 PM (BdMk6)

209 We might be able to take a collection so Duke DOESN"T do that...
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 12:53 PM (zZu0s)

—————

That’s a really good idea. Hey, wait a minute!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 29, 2023 12:55 PM (u73oe)

210 Yeah... and Viet Nam is now the GOOD GUY?

WHAT THE FUCK... guess I'm old.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:47 PM (oHd/0)

No, they’re just the less bad guy.
Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 12:50 PM (Lixbt)

This is a hard one for some to accept. I understand that. Less bad is probably more accurate.

We were the worst though. We just were. Sorry, it's hard to swallow sometimes, but it's impossible for me at this point to look at my nation's history the same anymore.

Looking at everything through a clearer lens means we SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THERE. At all. The hippies were right.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:56 PM (+fLTy)

211 I don't even remember thinking about how much FenSpouse made when we were dating. Maybe that's because we were really friends before we started dated romantically as it were. I did know he put himself through college and grad school by himself and was working while in school, so I did know he wasn't a lazy layabout but I would have thought it was really rather odd and presumptuous to say, "So, like, how much do you bring home a week anyway?"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 12:56 PM (Keyt1)

212 Team America movie?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2023 11:41 AM (0xoMQ)

Wasn't that more tye NORKs?

Posted by: Woodrow Wilson Smith at July 29, 2023 12:56 PM (xnpli)

213 "The forecast for today was partly cloudy with a 5% chance of rain. Currently under a severe thunderstorm warning."
Posted by: Duke Lowel

yeah, my forecast had small chance or a trace of rain today, now it says 1.4" between 5-7pm. Same thing last night, forecast model said over an inch for a few hours, then nothing.

I think it is trying to forecast the pop up showers that can happen with high heat. Hard to forecast where they will pop up, so the models just guess.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 29, 2023 12:57 PM (Cus5s)

214 https://tinyurl.com/mt5z25cy

That is an unfortunate set of ears.

Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2023 12:57 PM (MNhXM)

215 The hippies were right.
Posted by: BurtTC

Yes, but for all the wrong reasons.

Posted by: db at July 29, 2023 12:58 PM (wu87C)

216 If Joe had any brains he'd say that the Republicans want to impeach him because that is what Trump is telling them to do.

Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2023 12:58 PM (wsHtO)

217 Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:56 PM (+fLTy)

Of course you do.

Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2023 12:59 PM (MNhXM)

218 Rude things for women to say on dates:

So, you're making $40,000 a year. In order for us to date do you think you can like bump it up to $60,000?

You seem a little short to me. Are there any exercises you can do to get your 5'9 frame up to 6 feet.?

Could you please join a gym. Your abs need more defintion.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 01:00 PM (Keyt1)

219 Hollyweirds recipe for success is to crap in a bag, name the bag “Barbie” and promote it all across the globe to stupid people who will rush to see it for fear of being left out.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 29, 2023 01:00 PM (R/m4+)

220 If Joe had any brains he'd say that the Republicans want to impeach him

Hey! I've finally acknowledged my illegitimate granddaughter after only four years!

What more do you want me to do?

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden! at July 29, 2023 01:00 PM (2tUFv)

221 I would have had Barbieworld invaded by the Bad Guys from the 80's GI Joe crap... COBRA! then have GI Joe come save the day...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 12:49 PM (oHd/0)

We done that one already:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0122718/

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:01 PM (WJ9zD)

222 Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:56 PM (+fLTy)

Of course you do.
Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2023 12:59 PM (MNhXM)

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:03 PM (WJ9zD)

223 The hippies were right.
Posted by: BurtTC

Yes, but for all the wrong reasons.
Posted by: db at July 29, 2023 12:58 PM (wu87C)

Not ALL the wrong reasons. The draft was pure evil.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:04 PM (WJ9zD)

224 They’ve been having border wars with China since before our Vietnam War.
Posted by: polynikes

France's war that they used the US so they could slide out stage-left.
US was stupid to send *anyone* there.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 01:04 PM (KuT0X)

225 Yeah, I have no problem with that. If they are throwing rocks at each other, fine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 29, 2023 12:52 PM (XsjQp)

I’m an old somebody and remember J F Dulles warning about monolithic communism. Part of that was true, they all hated us. The other part is that they harbor centuries old hatred toward each other. Old hatred’s don’t just go away.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 01:04 PM (HcwhT)

226 180 I need to make at least $90 an hour working from home. Anyone have any ideas?
Posted by: Duke Lowell
------

By the time you figure in benefits and office space, about right for an imputed $45 dollar an hour wage. .

Posted by: Woodrow Wilson Smith at July 29, 2023 01:05 PM (xnpli)

227 Not ALL the wrong reasons. The draft was pure evil.
Posted by: BurtTC

The draft itself wasn’t evil, but it was certainly administered by evil people.

Posted by: db at July 29, 2023 01:06 PM (wu87C)

228 I first read that as South Carolina Sea boundary. Just want to make it clear that South Carolina owns the Atlantic all the way to Portugal and down to Keyy West, and north to Iceland.

Posted by: Eromero at July 29, 2023 01:06 PM (z3WCn)

229 I first read that as South Carolina Sea boundary.
Posted by: Eromero

SCSB, yeah, that'll work for them...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 01:09 PM (KuT0X)

230 Looking at everything through a clearer lens means we SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THERE. At all. The hippies were right.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:56 PM (+fLTy)

So here we are mucking around in Ukraine. What is old is once again new.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 01:10 PM (HcwhT)

231 Not ALL the wrong reasons. The draft was pure evil.
Posted by: BurtTC

The draft itself wasn’t evil, but it was certainly administered by evil people.
Posted by: db at July 29, 2023 01:06 PM (wu87C)

I'm at the hard red line on drafting people into the military. It's slavery. A free nation does not draft its citizens to go kill overseas.

A free nation would not NEED to draft its citizens to defend its borders.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:10 PM (WJ9zD)

232 I will give you any amount of money to stop blogging about this movie.

lol

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 29, 2023 01:11 PM (Xrfse)

233 Looking at everything through a clearer lens means we SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THERE. At all. The hippies were right.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:56 PM (+fLTy)

So here we are mucking around in Ukraine. What is old is once again new.
Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 01:10 PM (HcwhT)

Yup. And in a TOTALLY unrelated matter, the Biden admin refuses to provide SS protection to a Kennedy who is running for President.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:11 PM (WJ9zD)

234 I'm at the hard red line on drafting people into the military. It's slavery. A free nation does not draft its citizens to go kill overseas.
Posted by: BurtTC

The evil part was deferments, everyone of them was BS.
If you're going to draft *everyone* that hits 18 has the same chance of getting called.
Or every 'adult' serves 2 years mandatory.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 01:12 PM (KuT0X)

235 $45/hr ~ 94k perp annum. Need to get up to $47 ad change to break '$100k'.

Posted by: Woodrow Wilson Smith at July 29, 2023 01:12 PM (xnpli)

236 When the Barbie movie comes out for free, I can't wait to not see then too.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 29, 2023 01:12 PM (17s+e)

237 Not ALL the wrong reasons. The draft was pure evil.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:04 PM (WJ9zD)

No. It wasn't. I would support bringing back the draft. I've always known that the "all volunteer" concept would eventually cease functioning.

We won two major wars using the selective service as a means to defend this country. My dad was drafted and he always claimed it was one of the best things that happened to building character.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 29, 2023 01:13 PM (BdMk6)

238 In the pic up top, which one's Barbie ?

Posted by: JT at July 29, 2023 01:14 PM (T4tVD)

239 I've always suspected that the draft in the 60's was done by those who came of age in WW2 and wanted to keep the old mojo going. Combined with a bunch of socialist fucks who realized how useful it was .

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2023 01:14 PM (iiOTB)

240 But if we let Vietnam go red, all of Asia will be lost!
-Dulles, Kennan, Kissinger, and all the other foreign policy geniuses who brought us wars without victories.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2023 01:14 PM (JvZF+)

241 In the pic up top, which one's Barbie ?
Posted by: JT

The one looking for GI Joe.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 01:15 PM (KuT0X)

242 My son was asking me yesterday if he'll be drafted to go to Ukraine. If he's asking this question other young men are too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 01:15 PM (Keyt1)

243 My kids are seeing it this afternoon. I was going to but decided I didn't want to waste my time. Why couldn't it just have been a fun, cute movie?

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at July 29, 2023 01:16 PM (5iFFd)

244 Test

Posted by: Redenzo at July 29, 2023 01:16 PM (ebE3V)

245 230 Looking at everything through a clearer lens means we SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THERE. At all. The hippies were right.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 12:56 PM (+fLTy)

So here we are mucking around in Ukraine. What is old is once again new.
Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 01:10 PM (HcwhT)

Yeah, I don't think we have had a Moral War since Korea... I know all the time I was in the Navy, it was all about economic power, not actually defending the US.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 01:16 PM (oHd/0)

246 Test
Posted by: Redenzo

C minus, not enough snark.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 01:16 PM (KuT0X)

247 Posted by: JT at July 29, 2023 01:14 PM (T4tVD)

My question is this-because I don't think I've seen him in a movie either. Is Ryan Gosling better looking when he doesn't have bright blonde hair and is not wearing pink stripes?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 01:17 PM (Keyt1)

248 This is a great thread. Thanks KT.

The long Barbie analyses are interesting.

I like watching people obsess.

Posted by: Scottst at July 29, 2023 01:17 PM (sTCJf)

249 Everything out of Groomywood is shit. Also everything out of Groomywood is written and produced by women.

I'll let the reader connect the dots.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 29, 2023 01:17 PM (17s+e)

250 There's a funny scene in PCU where there's a character who's trying to find a unifying theory about Gilligan's Island (or some other tv show) for his phd thesis.

Posted by: InZona at July 29, 2023 01:18 PM (bfyic)

251 There is a very useful purpose in acculturation and assimilation that was achieved by having most young men of the nation go through a period of communal service. Ref: Heinlein.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2023 01:18 PM (JvZF+)

252 We won two major wars using the selective service as a means to defend this country. My dad was drafted and he always claimed it was one of the best things that happened to building character.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 29, 2023 01:13 PM (BdMk6)

Three... they had a draft in the not so Civil War. Even had huge draft riots in New York that they had to use Federal Troops to put down.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 01:18 PM (oHd/0)

253 But if we let Vietnam go red, all of Asia will be lost!
-Dulles, Kennan, Kissinger, and all the other foreign policy geniuses who brought us wars without victories.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2023 01:14 PM (JvZF+)

Apparently the rest of southeast Asia very much believes that (or at least did two decades ago). They consider the US to have won the war because we weakened the communists enough to prevent them taking over the region.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 29, 2023 01:18 PM (nC+QA)

254 But if we let Vietnam go red, all of Asia will be lost!
-Dulles, Kennan, Kissinger, and all the other foreign policy geniuses who brought us wars without victories.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2023 01:14 PM (JvZF+)

If we let Vietnam go red, China will take over the world!

Oops...

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:19 PM (WJ9zD)

255 I liked the part after the end of, "Barbie," where little girls just old enough to be tiring of Barbie dolls are riding home from the movie and ask, "Mommy, what's a gynecologist?"

Posted by: Marooned at July 29, 2023 01:19 PM (kt8QE)

256 Rude remarks and questions to ask women on dates.

My last girlfriend was a blonde bombshell. Your body's o.k. but do you think you can dye your hair blonde?

So what size are your breasts anyway?

Shall we skip dinner and just go screw instead?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 01:20 PM (Keyt1)

257 165 I need to make at least $90 an hour working from home.

Anyone have any ideas?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 29, 2023 12:42 PM (u73oe)

- - - - -

A $90 bill and a copier.

Posted by: Marooned at July 29, 2023 01:21 PM (kt8QE)

258 I need to make at least $90 an hour working from home.

Anyone have any ideas?

Posted by: Duke Lowell

How good are you at following recipes?
~Breaking Bad

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 01:22 PM (KuT0X)

259 Yeah, I don't think we have had a Moral War since Korea... I know all the time I was in the Navy, it was all about economic power, not actually defending the US.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 29, 2023 01:16 PM (oHd/0)

So, Eisenhower was on it, early in the game. I never served so imma going to shut my pie hole.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 29, 2023 01:23 PM (HcwhT)

260 But if we let Vietnam go red, all of Asia will be lost!
-Dulles, Kennan, Kissinger, and all the other foreign policy geniuses who brought us wars without victories.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2023 01:14 PM (JvZF+)

All military victories (for every country except communist ones) stopped when this nation let itself be controlled by the UN.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 29, 2023 01:23 PM (BdMk6)

261 My son was asking me yesterday if he'll be drafted to go to Ukraine. If he's asking this question other young men are too.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 01:15 PM (Keyt1)

In 2023, 18 year old males must still register for the draft.

I'm sorely looking forward to the trannie exception argument being debated in this country.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:23 PM (WJ9zD)

262 Apparently the rest of southeast Asia very much believes that (or at least did two decades ago). They consider the US to have won the war because we weakened the communists enough to prevent them taking over the region.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 29, 2023 01:18 PM (nC+QA)

Hey, could we have gotten some of that Evil US Interventionalism?

Posted by: 9 Million Dead Cambodians at July 29, 2023 01:24 PM (zZu0s)

263 >>> 261 My son was asking me yesterday if he'll be drafted to go to Ukraine. If he's asking this question other young men are too.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 01:15 PM (Keyt1)

In 2023, 18 year old males must still register for the draft.

I'm sorely looking forward to the trannie exception argument being debated in this country.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:23 PM (WJ9zD)

Don't worry, there's no tranny exemption for the draft!

They only get an exemption when they decide to transition before being deployed.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 29, 2023 01:25 PM (llON8)

264
Deputy US Secretary of State Wendy Sherman officially retired and stepped down from her post on Friday.

“Today marks Wendy Sherman’s final day here at the State Department. Wendy has been a remarkable diplomat, counselor, and friend for over 30 years. Thank you for your service and achievements on behalf of our nation. I wish you the best in your next chapter,” tweeted Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
===
Buh bye now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2023 01:27 PM (JvZF+)

265 Hey, could we have gotten some of that Evil US Interventionalism?
Posted by: 9 Million Dead Cambodians at July 29, 2023 01:24 PM (zZu0s)

I can just picture Pol Pot in hell, arguing with the others about how he doesn't get enough credit for being the most evil man of the 20th century.

"Sure Mao, you sneeze and 30 million Chinese die. It took a lot of hard work and dedication for me to keep the killing fields alive with the corpses of people who wore glasses."

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:28 PM (WJ9zD)

266 Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:23 PM (WJ9zD)

Don't worry, there's no tranny exemption for the draft!

They only get an exemption when they decide to transition before being deployed.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 29, 2023 01:25 PM (llON

I think we haven't yet begun to fight this fight.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 29, 2023 01:29 PM (WJ9zD)

267 people who wore glasses.
Posted by: BurtTC

Do you think part of his plan was to lower the cost of healthcare by altering the gene pool?
(Covid *vaccine* comes to mind)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 01:30 PM (KuT0X)

268 They only get an exemption when they decide to transition before being deployed.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

And they still have to deploy after their “transition”

Posted by: db at July 29, 2023 01:31 PM (wu87C)

269 Nood Gardening!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 29, 2023 01:31 PM (KuT0X)

270 If there are females lugging 155 mm rounds, trannies can as well.

Posted by: Fox2! at July 29, 2023 01:32 PM (xnpli)

271 Poor Wendy. She needs to talk to Barbie.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 29, 2023 01:33 PM (Xrfse)

272 Hey, could we have gotten some of that Evil US Interventionalism?
Posted by: 9 Million Dead Cambodians at July 29, 2023 01:24 PM (zZu0s)

You can blame the democrats again for that one. The killing fields came after our COMPLETE military pullout from that region which left a deep power void.

But...but....we weren't in Cambodia, you say.

I laugh.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 29, 2023 01:35 PM (BdMk6)

273 Okay, I think I finally understand the Longhouse thing. I must be pretty impervious to it because (despite the nic) I've been a female for many decades but could never get into the female "group" thing. Maybe it's because I'm an introvert or maybe it's because I've always liked men. My husband would say it's because I'm too smart and logical--but he's biased.

Other Longhouse-oriented women seem to sense it in me because I always got a lot of hostility out of left field when I was working. (No, I'm not a hottie or a flirt. It wasn't that.)

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 29, 2023 01:37 PM (fTtFy)

274 If a tranny soldier dies in battle it won't be possible to lower the flag far enough.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 29, 2023 01:38 PM (VdGjU)

275 >>Deputy US Secretary of State Wendy Sherman officially retired and stepped down from her post on Friday.

Right up there with Nuland as one of the worst of the worst.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2023 01:39 PM (ZLI7S)

276 If a tranny soldier dies in battle it won't be possible to lower the flag far enough.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 29, 2023 01:38 PM (VdGjU)

For every tranny soldier killed there should be an official letter of thanks to the soldier(s) that offed him.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 29, 2023 01:45 PM (BdMk6)

277 And "Ken" in pink stripes is bad enough, but in some fur vest he's even worse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2023 01:47 PM (Keyt1)

278 Deputy US Secretary of State Wendy Sherman officially retired and stepped down from her post on Friday.

Right up there with Nuland as one of the worst of the worst.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2023 01:39 PM (ZLI7S)
===
Funny, I learned that reviewing foreign language news, haven't heard it announced in the U.S.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2023 01:50 PM (JvZF+)

279 >>Funny, I learned that reviewing foreign language news, haven't heard it announced in the U.S.

Seems to be a lot of that going on lately. Rob Malley, who was Biden's Iran envoy, was suspended from his job a few months ago for what appears to be giving Iran classified documents. Something like treason. The media barely mentions it.

Sherman screwed up every gig she had in government so naturally she kept getting promoted. We'll probably find out down the road that she did something corrupt as well.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2023 01:57 PM (ZLI7S)

280 Clown world.

Also, Israel FM trip to Bahrain canceled. Bahrainis: "something suddenly came up!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2023 01:58 PM (JvZF+)

281 My apologies. I thought 9 million was high considering Cambodia's population at the time as soon as I hit enter.

These things are always hard to research online because of the widely different numbers you get and various sides 'massaging' the stats. It looks like between 1-2 Million people were killed by the Khymer Rouge.

Out of a population of 7.3 Million in 1971.

Dear Lord.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 02:02 PM (zZu0s)

282 Population in 1981?

6.7 Million.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 02:03 PM (zZu0s)

283 Huh. I did not know Art was a gal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 02:10 PM (zZu0s)

284 There is a third snake in the grass bitch besides Nuland and Sherman. Michele Flournoy. She was 3rd in DoD and took over the reins of Center for New American Stratagies when Nuland went back to State. Sherman was a fuck up but Nuland and Flournoy are villains.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2023 02:18 PM (+rpDz)

285 I do believe Sherman had relations!!!

Posted by: Mama Klump at July 29, 2023 02:26 PM (Xrfse)

286 Oh. Flournoy. That name's familiar. She's a war pig that has been advocating escalating US involvement in emerging shooting wars at the behest of the death merchants.

DC is full of scum.

Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2023 02:26 PM (wsHtO)

287 Jake Sullivan has also been chummy with that crew I think they were all at NSC together

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2023 02:29 PM (JvZF+)

288

Margot needs to quit smoking, the Botox isn't keeping up with the crowsfeet...

Posted by: Fat Screeching Black Chunt at July 29, 2023 02:30 PM (YdEcD)

289

Oops, off nasty sock...

Posted by: Uvula Grande at July 29, 2023 02:31 PM (YdEcD)

290 You don't see many Italian fagott bands:
youtube.com/watch?v=eg2nUq4FmGA

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at July 29, 2023 02:34 PM (MvF+J)

291 It looks like between 1-2 Million people were killed by the Khymer Rouge.
Out of a population of 7.3 Million in 1971.
Dear Lord.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I think of the Judas Priest song "Genocide" when I hear "Khmer Rouge". "Save me, my people have died. Total genocide!"

Posted by: SFGoth at July 29, 2023 02:46 PM (KAi1n)

292 Eh other threads are up but I still wanted to commend the first reviewer cited for this gem:

"No wonder trans is the only innovation of feminism in two generations! You needed men in skirts to inject anything new into this ideology."

Posted by: parsimony at July 29, 2023 02:58 PM (q1I67)

293 More other 'thread' until the Pet Thread goes up.

We are not complete recidivists. I just try not to clutter the gardening thread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

294 Note to never-TRUMPERS,
he will be live in Erie at 6:00 PM, ET this afternoon.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2023 03:05 PM (lCWOD)

295 I once had a jap beetle problem, especially on my roses.
When I broke out my aerosol Rose Pride, the sound of then falling off was like rain. Good luck finding it today.

Posted by: teh Wind at July 29, 2023 03:12 PM (l+V04)

296 I had chance to visit Cambodia in the early 2000's - like Indo China frozen in time from the 60's. There really were no old people so quite strange. Didn't go to Vietnam because I didn't want to - too many stories of loss from the old man. This post may be a non sequiter, sorry.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 29, 2023 03:35 PM (oWBc3)

297 296 I had chance to visit Cambodia in the early 2000's - like Indo China frozen in time from the 60's. There really were no old people so quite strange. Didn't go to Vietnam because I didn't want to - too many stories of loss from the old man. This post may be a non sequiter, sorry.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 29, 2023 03:35 PM (oWBc3)

Not really. It all fits together.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 03:37 PM (zZu0s)

298 And it's important to remember- especially the stuff we have seen with our own eyes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 03:37 PM (zZu0s)

299 Pet thread is over nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 29, 2023 03:39 PM (zZu0s)

300 As for the Barbie kerfuffle, you can't win all the fights but the easiest is when you don't get in the ring. When a caricature of the feminine, previously derided by feminists, becomes a new cultural hero to the same group - which side do you root for? As my wife opines, when Auburn plays Georgia, root for the meteor strike.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 29, 2023 03:40 PM (oWBc3)

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