Out Of Touch; Ignorant; Arrogant...Our Elites Have Been Channeling Pauline Kael For Two Generations

Whether she said exactly this is debatable, but the sentiment perfectly encapsulates the vast divide between America and those who would rule us.

I can’t believe Nixon won. I don't know anyone who voted for him.

They don't know America or Americans, they don't travel among us, they don't eat the same food, they don't wear the same clothes, and they certainly don't watch the same movies!

But they are confident that we are wrong! We have lowbrow taste in food and clothing and recreation and movies. How else would we and our children actually enjoy a movie without overt political, social, and cultural messages?

The idea that a movie's primary function is to entertain is lost on the critics and pundits on the left, who have bemoaned every successful pop-culture entry that doesn't shove transgenderism, homosexuality, climate change, racism, sexism, and a host of their other pet messages down our throats.

There are two simple reasons for this. The first is glaringly obvious...they don't have any idea what Americans enjoy. The second is also clear...these people are no fun. Everything in their world is seen through the prism of leftist politics and culture, and that is a miserable view.

Even when conservatives demonstrate, we have more humor and perspective than the left and its lunatic base that is increasingly dominant today. Just look at one of their protests...angry faces, screaming and yelling and often violent reactions to whatever imagined provocation precipitated the protest.

Now take a look at the other side of the coin. Hell...January 6th was not violent! And if you have seen a pro-life march or demonstration the odds are overwhelming that it is a bunch of people strolling along, some with their kids, and the thought of yelling and screaming and being angry never occurs to most of them.

The huge disparity between the opinions of the pinch-faced scolds in the media and the American audience of The Super Mario Brothers Movie is a perfect reflection of the larger schism in our society...the perpetually angry vs. the normies. They are, in the main, miserable people who worry so much about the image they project via their virtue-signalling nastiness that they forget to have a life with any pleasure.

Their talismans are their hair, their addresses, their snarky and shallow comments, their smug derision when referring to anyone not of their tribe. And the most pathetic part of their entire existence is their ignorance of great swathes of their world. They have almost literally no idea how it runs, how they are fed and clothed and cooled and warmed and moved about. But they are confident that their lives are of greater worth than the great unwashed in the flyover states who actually do all of the things that run modern society.

They are wrong. And if the predictions of some intelligent and perceptive people come true, they will be confronted by that stark reality across the barricades, or at the gates of a reeducation camp, or in a ditch somewhere.

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 Back on duty

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 12:01 PM (3Vkwq)

2 Disagree they are out of touch, it's a well layout plan what they are doing.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 12:02 PM (3Vkwq)

3 Nicely done CBD.

Since I read the content, and let someone else shout 'first', I'm gonna presume that same winner nooded down below.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 16, 2023 12:03 PM (3CCua)

4 They've amassed power...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2023 12:03 PM (Q4IgG)

5 They don't know America or Americans, they don't travel among us, they don't eat the same food, they don't wear the same clothes, and they certainly don't watch the same movies!

They live in places like Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and view anyone who doesn't live in a big blue city with complete contempt.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 16, 2023 12:04 PM (2tUFv)

6 Sitting at the theater with my boys waiting for D&D to start. I'll report later.

Posted by: fd at April 16, 2023 12:04 PM (OvMWn)

7 Everything has to have a 'message'....here's mine...kiss my ass.

Posted by: BignJames at April 16, 2023 12:04 PM (AwYPR)

8 Someone is being awfully judgmental today.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 16, 2023 12:05 PM (2YtOq)

9 Watching the Columbo where Jon Cash kills his bitch wife and unfortunately the cute girl.

Cash was an OIK guy ( I mean in real life ) and kinda in the Columbo LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2023 12:06 PM (Irn0L)

10 fd please do

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 12:06 PM (3Vkwq)

11 The American people will survive the destruction of the American society better than the elites cheering the destruction.

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:07 PM (Lzpvj)

12 Well, today is the first full day of a nuclear-free Germany, after they closed down their last three nuclear plants yesterday.

I'd have more sympathy for the German economy buckling under the weight of high energy prices, but this bit is entirely self-inflicted.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 16, 2023 12:08 PM (2tUFv)

13 12 Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 16, 2023 12:08 PM (2tUFv)

Decline is a choice, and unlike the MASH song suicide is not often painless.

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:08 PM (Lzpvj)

14 They might be wrong but all our base belong to them.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 16, 2023 12:09 PM (MBGMJ)

15 Like vegans, another leftist tell is that they insert their politics into every conversation no matter the subject.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 16, 2023 12:09 PM (xYWJz)

16 As the late president Reagan said, "It isn't that our liberal friends are ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 16, 2023 12:10 PM (2YtOq)

17 Our pastor in church today spoke on the fruit of the Spirit… the first two: Love and joy…

As Christians were supposed to be joyful. A distinct lack of joy and laughter on the left it seems (I’m guilty sometimes myself). They are scolds and killjoys. You think Blazing Saddles would be made today?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2023 12:10 PM (SRCl2)

18 I'd have more sympathy for the German economy buckling under the weight of high energy prices, but this bit is entirely self-inflicted.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 16, 2023 12:08 PM (2tUFv)
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Remember, German elites did it in spite of their citizens being against it.

Reminds me all too much of the people running this country.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 16, 2023 12:11 PM (2YtOq)

19 Party in Chicago!

Hundreds of teenagers flooded into Downtown Chicago on Saturday night, smashing car windows, trying to get into Millennium Park, and prompting a major police response. At least one person in a car was attacked.

Shots were fired near the corner of Madison and Michigan, and FOX 32 Chicago decided that it was unsafe to keep our news crew on the scene.

Two teens were wounded by gunfire in the crowds in the first block of East Washington Street. A 16 and 17-year-old boy were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in fair condition with gunshot wounds.

They also tried to break into the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Democratic convention in Chicago next year is going to be LIT!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 16, 2023 12:12 PM (2tUFv)

20 They've amassed power...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2023 12:03 PM (Q4IgG)

I've been thinking about this lately. In a society where laws are written in such a capricious manner, ignored by "the proper groups", and enforcement is based on politics and race, but not...you know...on the law, just what kind of power are we talking about?
I suspect the left isn't nearly as powerful as they think they are outside urban centers and campuses. And I suspect the right has far more power than they think they do, but are afraid to wield it.
I don't know. Could be way of base here. Gonna be interesting to see how it plays out.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2023 12:12 PM (anj39)

21 Kael was actually being somewhat self-aware, acknowledging what a bubble she lived in, and at the same time hinting at distaste for those outside it. The nearest verified quote I know of:

"I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them."

Posted by: JPS at April 16, 2023 12:12 PM (fX/AR)

22 18 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 16, 2023 12:11 PM (2YtOq)

Who are they supposed to listen to ther citizens or a Swedish fetal alcohol syndrome enduring high school dropout?

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:13 PM (Lzpvj)

23 I have to agree with Skip. Yes, they are arrogant, condescending dickholes who believe they were chosen to rule over us, ask John Kerry. But this is all part of a plan. A very stupid plan but a plan nonetheless.

Take illegal immigration. It's not just Biden being incompetent, it's part of the plan. Go on the WEF website and watch their videos. They aren't even hiding what they are doing.

>>They might be wrong but all our base belong to them.

Funny you should mention bases.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8e7dch

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2023 12:13 PM (ZLI7S)

24 My kid's class is going Tuesday to Super Mario. We'll find out what the spectrum kids think. And,
Rejoice for He is risen.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at April 16, 2023 12:13 PM (daUIH)

25 Remember, German elites did it in spite of their citizens being against it.

The German government also seems utterly incurious as to who blew up the Nordstream gas pipelines.

I wonder why that is.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 16, 2023 12:14 PM (2tUFv)

26 come on man, the super mario movie from 1993 was super duper cool, it even and Mojo Nixon!

Posted by: stephanA at April 16, 2023 12:14 PM (q6ZCK)

27 They are wrong. And if the predictions of some intelligent and perceptive people come true, they will be confronted by that stark reality across the barricades, or at the gates of a reeducation camp, or in a ditch somewhere.

Posted by CBD at 12:00 PM Comments

I hope they're wrong. And they are very manipulative. The use and renewal of Magnus Hirschfeld as a means of calling anti-trans "antisemitsm" is a very Obama move.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 12:15 PM (Zzbjj)

28 Party in Chicago!

It's still near-freezing in Chicago at night.

Just imagine what summer is going to be like.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 16, 2023 12:16 PM (2tUFv)

29 And the self elected elites will act surprised when things go full Ceaucescu on them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2023 12:16 PM (JSjQO)

30
Reminds me all too much of the people running this country.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 16, 2023 12:11 PM (2YtOq

Billionaires run the governments, as they buy pols who legalize their takeover.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 12:16 PM (Zzbjj)

31 Bootykick: vehicle accidents are racist, dontcha know!

https://tinyurl.com/5xv4hvu5

(Niitter)

I miss whitewalls!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 16, 2023 12:17 PM (MBGMJ)

32 I ran into a "jail Trump" leftist yesterday. We're deep in the heart of Trump country and he brought up the subject. The guy behind the table and I both said, "Let's jail every single politician," etc.

It was funny to see "jail Trump" guy go off about how it wouldn't change anything if we did that, blah blah blah. Anti-Trump guy just would not admit government is completely out of control.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 16, 2023 12:17 PM (2YtOq)

33 29 And the self elected elites will act surprised when things go full Ceaucescu on them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2023 12:16 PM (JSjQO)

I'm hoping for a broader outcome.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 12:17 PM (Zzbjj)

34 There are no “elites”. Just assholes who through living their life inside of politics, garner money, fame and allies and live to tell others how to live while doing whatever they want at our expense.

No talent, busy body, bitter ass clowns are all they really are.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 16, 2023 12:18 PM (R/m4+)

35 Harry Reed's comment about Walmart shoppers and visitors to Washington DC museums...
We were hobbits to McCain (piss be upon him). We are an impediment to the rest of them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 16, 2023 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

36 Bootykick: vehicle accidents are racist, dontcha know!

https://tinyurl.com/5xv4hvu5

(Niitter)

I miss whitewalls!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 16, 2023 12:17 PM (MBGMJ)
***

Snort!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2023 12:19 PM (anj39)

37 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 16, 2023 12:20 PM (T4tVD)

38 House of Cosda is awaiting a new grandson today. DIL was induced during the night and the.little guy is started on his way. He'll be a little premature yet so there is some concern.

Posted by: Cosda at April 16, 2023 12:20 PM (jmw2u)

39 Chuck Berry and his Hoochi Gucci Rock and Roll music is a gauche fad and makes my nose fill up with snot. Ugh, so not Malibu.

Posted by: Barbara Streisand at April 16, 2023 12:21 PM (rdanb)

40 Who are these tomatoes?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 16, 2023 12:21 PM (63Dwl)

41 Funny you should mention bases.
https://tinyurl.com/5n8e7dch
Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2023 12:13 PM (ZLI7S)
~~~~~

Globalist scum.

Michael Yon has been at the Darien Gap (between Colombia and Panama) for months. His reporting, and especially the pictures, are horrifying.

https://twitter.com/Michael_Yon

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2023 12:21 PM (3ImbR)

42 Prayers for a safe delivery, Cosda.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 16, 2023 12:21 PM (2YtOq)

43 38 House of Cosda is awaiting a new grandson today. DIL was induced during the night and the.little guy is started on his way. He'll be a little premature yet so there is some concern.

Posted by: Cosda at April 16, 2023 12:20 PM (jmw2u)

Congrats. Sure he'll be fine.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 16, 2023 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

44 Pauline Kael looks exactly like I imagined her.

Roger Ebert with a meatier vagina.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 16, 2023 12:22 PM (V4X9X)

45 House of Cosda is awaiting a new grandson today. DIL was induced during the night and the.little guy is started on his way. He'll be a little premature yet so there is some concern.
Posted by: Cosda

Prayers up !

Posted by: JT at April 16, 2023 12:22 PM (T4tVD)

46 "We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.”

Posted by: Leona Helmsley, Queen of Mean, Convicted Felon For Tax Evasion at April 16, 2023 12:22 PM (4I/2K)

47 Germany losing nuclear power might be good when they join the Caliphate

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 12:22 PM (3Vkwq)

48 Pants with sharp creases is the bomb.

Posted by: Roy at April 16, 2023 12:23 PM (rqgpJ)

49 Congrats on the new family member, they work hard to get here.

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:23 PM (Lzpvj)

50 Michael Yon has been at the Darien Gap (between Colombia and Panama) for months. His reporting, and especially the pictures, are horrifying.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2023 12:21 PM (3ImbR)

They're importing a foreign military into The US and Western Europe. That's been obvious for a while now.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 12:25 PM (Zzbjj)

51 The American people will survive the destruction of the American society better than the elites cheering the destruction.
Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:07 PM (Lzpvj)

Yes, a country boy will survive.

Posted by: Hank Williams, Jr. at April 16, 2023 12:25 PM (4I/2K)

52 "49 Congrats on the new family member, they work hard to get here.
Posted by: sven "
******
Yeah they do!
Thanks all.

Posted by: Cosda at April 16, 2023 12:25 PM (jmw2u)

53 50 Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 12:25 PM (Zzbjj)

Indeed, and Karen Wine Mom loves it.

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:25 PM (Lzpvj)

54 Indeed, and Karen Wine Mom loves it.
Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:25 PM (Lzpvj)'

She has no clue about what that will mean for her and her family. but Trump said "pussy".

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 12:26 PM (Zzbjj)

55 Everything has to have a 'message'....here's mine...kiss my ass.
Posted by: BignJames at April 16, 2023 12:04 PM (AwYPR)

+1

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 16, 2023 12:26 PM (4I/2K)

56 Hope mom, dad, and child do fine.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 16, 2023 12:27 PM (gqX4V)

57 I, for one, do not like Kael

I draw the line at Brussels sprouts

Posted by: REDACTED at April 16, 2023 12:27 PM (us2H3)

58 These clowns have been neurotic ever since they landed in Boston. English type Puritans are the worst. We are now living their legacy.

Posted by: Madame Defarge at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (U/P2Y)

59 “The worst rise to the top.” - F.A. Hayek

Unconstrained government always leads to an oligarchy of the incompetent - people whose only skill is snaking their way into power.

Posted by: Durak Kazyol at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (4zxRq)

60 I haven't seen these two movies:

"The Pope's Exorcist" and "Nefarious"

so I don't know if they're actually any good but the same divide between Critics and the Movie Going Public exists for them.

The reason boils down to the fact that both movies are centered around Christianity, and the critics can't stand that idea.

The movies may suck but the critics take themselves straight out of the game as honest brokers with their religious hatred and bigotry.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (RJQ8g)

61 Well said, CBD. The expression "they hate us cuz they ain't us" comes to mind. That works in multiple directions. Usually it's some smug winning team (sports, politics, etc) saying that in a condescending way about those on the non-winning side. But I think it genuinely applies in the thinking of the coastal elites and their leftist base towards middle America, normies, deplorables, etc.
I think Hillary's use of "deplorables" toward Trump supporters was the most genuinely honest thing she's ever said. She truly believes it. And she said without a single bit of trepidation.

Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (zddNi)

62 One of these days you're going to look back and wish you'd listened to me about climate change and went and saw all my movies twice especially the one with fir trees and a bear because by the time you wake up that's the only place you're ever going to find them.

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (rdanb)

63 gawd these trailers. get on with the damn movie.

Posted by: fd at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (OvMWn)

64 House of Cosda is awaiting a new grandson today. DIL was induced during the night and the.little guy is started on his way. He'll be a little premature yet so there is some concern.

Posted by: Cosda at April 16, 2023 12:20 PM (jmw2u)

Another little tax deduction! All the best on his safe arrival.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (4I/2K)

65
Party in Chicago!

Hundreds of teenagers flooded into Downtown Chicago on Saturday night

Footloose!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 16, 2023 12:29 PM (63Dwl)

66 I've been thinking about this lately. In a society where laws are written in such a capricious manner, ignored by "the proper groups", and enforcement is based on politics and race, but not...you know...on the law, just what kind of power are we talking about?
I suspect the left isn't nearly as powerful as they think they are outside urban centers and campuses. And I suspect the right has far more power than they think they do, but are afraid to wield it.
I don't know. Could be way of base here. Gonna be interesting to see how it plays out.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Nope, you aren't. The left is about 25 percent or so of the population and that has not changed much in decades. The right fluctuates between 35-40 percent. The remainder fluctuates but are not ideological in thinking left/right but more as to what opinions get me through the day at my job and society.

Even the left and right while somewhat ideological have softer majorities. You only get strict ideological thinking from about 10-15 percent of the population that have definite cause-effect relationships posited by the tenets of whatever theory they believe reflects reality.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2023 12:29 PM (EKz4W)

67 >>Globalist scum.

>>Michael Yon has been at the Darien Gap (between Colombia and Panama) for months. His reporting, and especially the pictures, are horrifying.

It has never made any sense that 5, 6 maybe 8 million people from all over the world would just decide on their own to uproot their lives and on their own make the long journey to the US. It is an organized invasion by the globalists and it's happening in western countries around the world.

That's a cornerstone of their plan.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2023 12:29 PM (ZLI7S)

68 62 Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (rdanb)

The best film you've made recently- admitting you helped launder money to Bronk T Ogabe's campaign.

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:29 PM (Lzpvj)

69 One of these days you're going to look back and wish you'd listened to me about climate change and went and saw all my movies twice especially the one with fir trees and a bear because by the time you wake up that's the only place you're ever going to find them.
Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (rdanb)

I see you are unfamiliar with my oeuvre.

Posted by: Bruce Dern at April 16, 2023 12:30 PM (4I/2K)

70 The American people will survive the destruction of the American society better than the elites cheering the destruction.
Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:07 PM (Lzpvj)
I wish it were true, but as stupid, weak and clueless as they are as individuals, as a group the elites still wield all the power in virtually all the institutions, and they have the power of the purse and can pay hard men to protect them---and hurt us.

So yeah, one on one any country boy worth his salt can take any pencil-necked elite--or three--but on the macro level, it's a different story

Posted by: JoeF. at April 16, 2023 12:31 PM (mR6Gs)

71 in '84, a photographer friend of my ex was so sure Mondale was gonna win, he bet me 20 bucks

I let him welch cuz I always feelz for the stoopid

Posted by: REDACTED at April 16, 2023 12:32 PM (us2H3)

72 70 Posted by: JoeF. at April 16, 2023 12:31 PM (mR6Gs)

Given the surveillance state that is budding I am not going to go back over the red case for FM3-24 here it is also Sunday and the weekend.

Smart country boys will not be facing three to seven of the mongol horde at a time.

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:34 PM (Lzpvj)

73 these elections are kinda dumb cuz the train done left the tracks

32 is gonna turn into 45 overnight

Posted by: REDACTED at April 16, 2023 12:35 PM (us2H3)

74 So hundreds of people riot in downtown Chicago and mayor Lightfoot says nothing, the new communist mayor elect says nothing, and of course the chief of police says nothing. You know why? Because they don't have to. The media is referring to it as a protest.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at April 16, 2023 12:35 PM (V77Xp)

75 Anger is one of the 7 deadly sins.

I have repented of it.

"If you want money for people with minds that hate, well brother your just gonna have to wait."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 16, 2023 12:35 PM (5u1+1)

76 Pauline Kael looks like a Pauline Kael would if she said what Pauline Kael is said to have said.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 16, 2023 12:36 PM (KAi1n)

77 I noticed the upcoming baby upthread is already known to be a boy.

I always enjoyed the surprise aspect, so never wanted to be informed of the sex ahead of birth. The lively and fertile Mrs naturalfake felt the same way.

How about the rest of you morons and ettes?

Surprise! or Pre-Birth Sex confirmation?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2023 12:37 PM (RJQ8g)

78 This is not a recent phenomenon. In the late '60s, I attended college in Nebraska and spent summers at home in New Jersey. The questions I was asked about Nebraska and central America in general by kids my age were incredibly stupid and ignorant.
Years later, I owned a bookstore in Nebraska. After a couple of years, I came to the conclusion that the publishing industry honestly believed there was no civilization west of the Hudson. Everything -- content, story ideas, even prices -- was geared to Manhattan. My biggest bitch was that publishers seemed to price books to the cost of lunch in Manhattan. I kept trying to explain that people in Omaha could buy a weeks worth of lunches for the price of a single lunch in Manhattan.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at April 16, 2023 12:37 PM (k5jR3)

79 No discussion of the current state of the entertainment industry is complete without an objective look at the phenomenon which is The Chosen: free to stream, crowd funded, outstanding product.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 16, 2023 12:38 PM (DhOHl)

80 77 Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2023 12:37 PM (RJQ8g)

We wanted to wait with the one that made it but they were afraid he had open neural tube disorder and Lad forgive me had nuts the size of his elbow it seemed.

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:39 PM (Lzpvj)

81 The trouble with America is it is full of short people, silly people - greedy, barbarous, and Chinaphobic. You're lucky I let you look at me.

Posted by: Lebron James at April 16, 2023 12:39 PM (rdanb)

82 Surprise! or Pre-Birth Sex confirmation?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 16, 2023 12:37 PM (RJQ8g)

All surprises.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 16, 2023 12:40 PM (4I/2K)

83 Just breakfasted on an omelet with aged Cheddar blend and Tabasco's habanero sauce, three strips of bacon and a glass of cold whole milk.

Now I'm complete.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 16, 2023 12:43 PM (2hlEI)

84 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at April 16, 2023 12:37 PM (k5jR3)

Being from Montana, I'm well aware of the uninformed Easterners. I could spin outlandish stories of life in Montana and they believed every word. My favorite was riding shotgun on the stage coach to school since there was a Cheyenne war party active in the area.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 16, 2023 12:43 PM (xYWJz)

85 >>> in '84, a photographer friend of my ex was so sure Mondale was gonna win, he bet me 20 bucks

I let him welch cuz I always feelz for the stoopid

Posted by: REDACTED

>Fritz was one of a kind. Reagan's archenemy and nemesis. Delusional, yet genuine. I retired his sock when he passed into the netherworld. RIP.

Respect, yo!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 16, 2023 12:45 PM (V4X9X)

86 House of Cosda is awaiting a new grandson today. DIL was induced during the night and the.little guy is started on his way. He'll be a little premature yet so there is some concern.

Posted by: Cosda at April 16, 2023 12:20 PM (jmw2u)

Another little tax deduction! All the best on his safe arrival.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (4I/2K)
-

The tax deduction is offset by the Cosda living increase.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 16, 2023 12:45 PM (MBGMJ)

87 https://youtu.be/rEGtUUT71Y8

The Swarm 1978 free w/ads

Good luck horde.

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:45 PM (Lzpvj)

88 82 Surprise! or Pre-Birth Sex confirmation?
**************
DIL is considered high risk so everything has been checked a couple of times.

Posted by: Cosda at April 16, 2023 12:45 PM (jmw2u)

89 Fritz was one of a kind. Reagan's archenemy and nemesis. Delusional, yet genuine. I retired his sock when he passed into the netherworld. RIP.
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More of a sitcom archenemy.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 16, 2023 12:46 PM (2hlEI)

90 >Fritz was one of a kind. Reagan's archenemy and nemesis. Delusional, yet genuine. I retired his sock when he passed into the netherworld. RIP.

Respect, yo!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 16, 2023 12:45 PM (V4X9X)

I'll take him over the dim crowd of today

Posted by: REDACTED at April 16, 2023 12:46 PM (us2H3)

91 After using Covid-19 voting rules, the authoritarian left took over all of the swing states. They then changed the voting rules so they can never lose.
In 2024, the tech oligarchs will spend more than $1 billion on registering the "right" people to vote, shipping out their ballots, harvesting their ballots, and correcting all the voting errors. The DNC is going to run Potato Joe because they know it doesn't matter, just like Fetterman in PA. It would take a voting miracle to overcome all of the ballot harvesting.

Posted by: Grim at April 16, 2023 12:47 PM (ObVZD)

92 89 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 16, 2023 12:46 PM (2hlEI)

America was a better country when the epitome of commie curious that was acceptable was MN nice retard whose biggest scalp was the Apollo program.

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:47 PM (Lzpvj)

93 I like to gamble but only on a sure thing

why I never had kids

Posted by: REDACTED at April 16, 2023 12:48 PM (us2H3)

94 I'll take him over the dim crowd of today
Posted by: REDACTED at April 16, 2023 12:46 PM (us2H3)
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I'd take Jefferson Davis over the dim crowd of today.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 16, 2023 12:48 PM (2hlEI)

95
Surprise! or Pre-Birth Sex confirmation?
Posted by: naturalfake

Surprise is better.
On the last of 4 we were admonished to have amniocentesis because reasons (you'll want to abort if not 100% right?).
We refused the tests every time and they never stopped bugging Mrs. AZ.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 16, 2023 12:48 PM (gqX4V)

96 They are scolds and killjoys. You think Blazing Saddles would be made today?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

The older I get and the more humorless the imbeciles get, the funnier Mel Brooks movies get.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2023 12:48 PM (Wy1BU)

97 Sanders is to blame for my loss, along with Obama and Biden. They never really supported me because I'm a woman. They're all deplorables, just like every registered Republican in America.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 16, 2023 12:49 PM (rdanb)

98 There are two simple reasons for this. The first is glaringly obvious...they don't have any idea what Americans enjoy. The second is also clear...these people are no fun. Everything in their world is seen through the prism of leftist politics and culture, and that is a miserable view.

There's a third, and most important, reason. Everything is an opportunity to normalize the society they want. Every piece of media is crammed full of wokeness showing how they want society, not reflecting reality, because they know it affects normies and culture over time by shifting the Overton window, little by little.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 16, 2023 12:49 PM (3udOG)

99 I'd take Jefferson Davis over the dim crowd of today.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 16, 2023 12:48 PM (2hlEI)

Davis was myles ahead that crowd

Posted by: REDACTED at April 16, 2023 12:49 PM (us2H3)

100 I'll take him over the dim crowd of today
Posted by: REDACTED at April 16, 2023 12:46 PM (us2H3)
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I'd take Jefferson Davis over the dim crowd of today.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 16, 2023 12:48 PM (2hlEI)

I'll take George--or Louise--Jefferson over the Dim crowd of today

Posted by: JoeF. at April 16, 2023 12:50 PM (mR6Gs)

101 The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 16, 2023 12:51 PM (rdanb)

102 They are scolds and killjoys. You think Blazing Saddles would be made today?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

The older I get and the more humorless the imbeciles get, the funnier Mel Brooks movies get.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2023 12:48 PM (Wy1BU)
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How about Wodehouse?

https://tinyurl.com/3pzee98t

(Twitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 16, 2023 12:51 PM (MBGMJ)

103 101 The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 16, 2023 12:51 PM (rdanb)

fat is not power

Posted by: Chris Christie at April 16, 2023 12:52 PM (us2H3)

104 ".... they will be confronted by that stark reality across the barricades, or at the gates of a reeducation camp, or in a ditch somewhere."

I don't think the left, as individuals, is ready to face the consequences of the barricades. The first time the person on their side has its head blown off, they'll run screaming hysterically.

Posted by: Ciampino --- We have kittens at April 16, 2023 12:52 PM (qfLjt)

105 MN nice retard whose biggest scalp was the Apollo program.
Posted by: sven

Not just MN. RC priest in Homily: look at NASA's budget! It should all be given to support the poor.
I really wanted to stand up and let him know of all the medical benefits that were directly related to the space programs. Alas and alack I did not.
We didn't go back to that church in Sacramento.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 16, 2023 12:52 PM (gqX4V)

106 So...
Riots and shootings in Chicago
Shooting in Alabama
Shooting (again) in Louisville
Another train derailment
Huge fights at ball games
Biden continues to lie
But...Christian college enrollments are up.
OK.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2023 12:53 PM (anj39)

107 They are scolds and killjoys. You think Blazing Saddles would be made today?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Do you think Airplane!, Animal House, the first Vacation, or even There's Something About Mary could be made today?

I'm surprised they allowed the DVDs to come out

Posted by: JoeF. at April 16, 2023 12:53 PM (mR6Gs)

108 I read an interview with a musician who grew up in the SF Bay area and then graduated from Berklee School of Music in Boston. Moved to Nashville to work and was shocked by road signs for gun stores and opposing abortion. She'd never been exposed to any opinions that were different from the prevailing wisdom of the leftist coastal enclaves.

Posted by: huerfano at April 16, 2023 12:54 PM (dTFZY)

109 I'm surprised they allowed the DVDs to come out
Posted by: JoeF. at April 16, 2023 12:53 PM (mR6Gs)
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There are numerous sitcoms to watch on Daily Motion (unlike YouTube).

But I keep noticing the "politically incorrect" episodes are missing. It's like censors cutting out columns and pics from your newspaper copy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 16, 2023 12:55 PM (MBGMJ)

110 Not just MN. RC priest in Homily: look at NASA's budget! It should all be given to support the poor.
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At the height of the Apollo program, NASA's budget didn't even equal the cost overruns of either DoD or HEW.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 16, 2023 12:55 PM (2hlEI)

111 I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

Posted by: Shelia Jackson Lee at April 16, 2023 12:55 PM (rdanb)

112 I hope someday to live long enough to see the end of the McCain funeral.

Posted by: Geezer One at April 16, 2023 12:56 PM (Nn3xT)

113 I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.
Posted by: Shelia Jackson Lee at April 16, 2023 12:55 PM (rdanb)
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You misspelled "queef".

You're welcome.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 16, 2023 12:57 PM (2hlEI)

114 But I keep noticing the "politically incorrect" episodes are missing. It's like censors cutting out columns and pics from your newspaper copy.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 16, 2023 12:55 PM (MBGMJ)

Yes, the unelected Soviet-styled cultural kommissars are busy little bees

Posted by: JoeF. at April 16, 2023 12:57 PM (mR6Gs)

115 111 I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.
Posted by: Shelia Jackson Lee at April 16, 2023 12:55 PM

Me too, sister! Preach!

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at April 16, 2023 12:57 PM (3udOG)

116 112 Posted by: Geezer One at April 16, 2023 12:56 PM (Nn3xT)

CURSE YOU, the friggin sun will experience heat death before America is done mourning mah daddeh!

//Moogan MOOCain

Posted by: sven at April 16, 2023 12:58 PM (Lzpvj)

117 I've been thinking about this lately. In a society where laws are written in such a capricious manner, ignored by "the proper groups", and enforcement is based on politics and race, but not...you know...on the law, just what kind of power are we talking about?
I suspect the left isn't nearly as powerful as they think they are outside urban centers and campuses. And I suspect the right has far more power than they think they do, but are afraid to wield it.
I don't know. Could be way of base here. Gonna be interesting to see how it plays out.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2023 12:12 PM (anj39)

I think you're pretty much right. The left controls things on paper, but thats it, and in the end none of it is of any value. They don't control the mechanicals. They can tell you what car to build, but they can't build a car. They can tell you what house to build, but they can't build a house. They are destroyers, not creators. Nothing of real value anyway. They can create movies, art, music, etc, but that isn't getting you to the moon. They have a house of cards, and it can be crushed very easy, because they didn't even make the frigging cards.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 16, 2023 12:59 PM (VwHCD)

118 "they will be confronted by that stark reality across the barricades, or at the gates of a reeducation camp, or in a ditch somewhere."

How will this work, exactly? Looks to me that the left has the only heavies that can command with guns. Yeah, there are plenty of guns in the hands of those on the right, but come on, who is going to use them?

Where is the spark? What is going to be the Fort Sumter event?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 16, 2023 12:59 PM (KiBMU)

119 Tarantino's last movie is rumored to be a Pauline Kael biopic.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 16, 2023 01:00 PM (e+csY)

120 111 I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.
Posted by: Shelia Jackson Lee at April 16, 2023 12:55 PM (rdanb)

be right widja !!

*sharpens axe*

Posted by: REDACTED at April 16, 2023 01:00 PM (us2H3)

121 Who is going to show up from our side to be on the other side of a barricade from leftists and for what? J6’ers? Trump? Pro-Life rally? Marches against groomer pedophiles and the shit they’re trying to teach our kids in school?

Posted by: JROD at April 16, 2023 01:00 PM (IiOJn)

122 "Anger is one of the 7 deadly sins. I have repented of it. -- "If you want money for people with minds that hate, well brother your just gonna have to wait." Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

I think there is a "righteous anger" against those that are doing evil. (not sure of the whole context in this verse, but it seems to be such a case)

"And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times."
Numbers 24:10

https://thekingsbible.com/Concordance/anger

Posted by: illiniwek at April 16, 2023 01:02 PM (Cus5s)

123 "I'm speaking."

Posted by: Kamala Harris at April 16, 2023 01:03 PM (rdanb)

124 Another good Substack from Postcards From Barsoom: Determined to Die

https://tinyurl.com/57uv25zv

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 16, 2023 01:03 PM (u7leW)

125 Say what you want about George Lucas, but naming the bad guy "Kael" in the movie "Willow" was epic.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 16, 2023 01:03 PM (PiwSw)

126 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 16, 2023 12:59 PM (VwHCD)

Beautifully said. Their only advantage is that they’re tightly organized while we are unorganized. Something calamitous like a currency collapse will be required to organize us.

Posted by: clutch at April 16, 2023 01:04 PM (0umhz)

127 The elites may be out of touch and their grip on power tenuous and fragile, but the public by and large seems very disinterested in what they have in store for the country.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2023 01:04 PM (Q4IgG)

128 The left controls things on paper, but thats it, and in the end none of it is of any value.

We have power. The federal bureaucracy, largest cities, mos wealthy states, education and legal systems, media, etc. Slowly, we'll corrupt each generation more and more, and imprison/persecute those that resist too vigorously.

Posted by: The Left at April 16, 2023 01:04 PM (3udOG)

129 103 101 The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 16, 2023 12:51 PM (rdanb)

fat is not power
Posted by: Chris Christie at April 16, 2023 12:52 PM (us2H3)

Say what?

Posted by: Stacey Abrams at April 16, 2023 01:05 PM (PiwSw)

130 Say what you want about George Lucas, but naming the bad guy "Kael" in the movie "Willow" was epic.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 16, 2023 01:03 PM (PiwSw)
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Sarris, the bad guy in "Galaxy Quest", was named for critic Andrew Sarris.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 16, 2023 01:05 PM (2hlEI)

131 The beauty of me is that I'm very rich.

Posted by: Donald J. Trump at April 16, 2023 01:06 PM (rdanb)

132
Today is my birthday, the 29th, of course, and I am treating our two grandkids to a showing of the Super Mario Brothers movie a couple of hours from now. Whether I'll like the movie is immaterial to me -- I want to experience them enjoying it.

Suck it, wokesters ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 16, 2023 01:09 PM (pNxlR)

133 >>>Who is going to show up from our side to be on the other side of a barricade from leftists and for what? J6’ers? Trump? Pro-Life rally? Marches against groomer pedophiles and the shit they’re trying to teach our kids in school?

>Nobody. Maybe a few. What is your side? Don't let these lowlifes draw in people you care about.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 16, 2023 01:10 PM (V4X9X)

134 Damn. CBD bringing the heat.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 16, 2023 01:11 PM (GDpYt)

135 "Who is going to show up from our side to be on the other side of a barricade from leftists and for what? J6’ers? Trump? Pro-Life rally?"

Giuliani the other day was talking about all the protests in NYC in older days, with few problems. He said they always kept the groups seperated. But a recent event they mixed the groups, clearly to create conflict and violence, which they got (a little).

Same thing is in the Charlottesville (planned PsyOp) where they marched the "Unite the Right" group right into the Antifa gang. Chaos and Color Revolutions seems to be the main job of the CIA (and their subversive criminal assets).

Posted by: illiniwek at April 16, 2023 01:11 PM (Cus5s)

136 131 The beauty of me is that I'm very rich.
Posted by: Donald J. Trump at April 16, 2023 01:06 PM (rdanb)

"when people see Trump, they say, That's how I would live if I was that rich"

actual Chris Matthews quote before he became dim enemy #1

Posted by: REDACTED at April 16, 2023 01:11 PM (us2H3)

137 but naming the bad guy "Kael" in the movie "Willow" was epic.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

There was a character in that movie named Aeric played by one of the two guys who played Chuck Cunningham on Happy Days.
Willow was directed by Ron Howard.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 16, 2023 01:12 PM (Wy1BU)

138 Where is the spark? What is going to be the Fort Sumter event?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 16, 2023 12:59 PM

Oh, we're trying to desperately avoid that. We work the long game, and try to incrementally oppress Americans and restrict their freedoms so you never reach the critical outrage mass to risk jobs and wealth to resist. That's why we had to quietly back down when dealing with those crazy cattle ranchers out West...they were willing to go guns blazing on us!

Posted by: The Left at April 16, 2023 01:12 PM (3udOG)

139 Today is my birthday, the 29th, of course, and I am treating our two grandkids to a showing of the Super Mario Brothers movie a couple of hours from now. Whether I'll like the movie is immaterial to me -- I want to experience them enjoying it.

Suck it, wokesters ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 16, 2023 01:09 PM (pNxlR)
***

Happy birthday and enjoy the day!
I've got a big roll-over number coming up in a week and sadly the grands are all over the country doing this thing called life. I miss 'em, but happily we can do the FaceTime thing.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2023 01:13 PM (anj39)

140 >>I suspect the left isn't nearly as powerful as they think they are outside urban centers and campuses. And I suspect the right has far more power than they think they do, but are afraid to wield it.

The lefts almost complete control of the media and their ability to control the narrative immensely powerful but also tissue thin. When Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers the media heralded him as a national hero because they hated the Vietnam War and Ellsberg shared much of their political philosophy.

Contrast that with the kid who just got arrested for releasing classified documents that show among other things that there were 3 more Chinese spy balloons that our government hid from us and they have been lying about the Ukraine war all along. The media barely mentions any of that and they want the kid crucified along with Assange who knows exactly who hacked the DNC.

They aren't that powerful, the are the Wizard of Oz with better PR.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2023 01:13 PM (ZLI7S)

141 During the Obama adminstration the laws against the Federal Government running Psyop against Americans domestically ended.

It's been non-stop agiprop ever since.

Thus the simplistic observation that that Trump was/in the way of getting to you.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 16, 2023 01:13 PM (+AmR1)

142 Super Mario Brothers is a meh, funny enough movie but not particularly brilliant or meaningful. Its just what people want from movies: fun and entertaining so you forget the awful stuff going on in the world. With no lecturing or attempts to change culture or reject the past.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:13 PM (0hOvj)

143 Joe, I am doctor so shut up. You're going run for president and win so I can I rub that I am first lady too in Michelle's sumg mug.

Posted by: Jill Biden at April 16, 2023 01:13 PM (rdanb)

144 Sort of had that discussion with my co-worker. He asked if I had a gun and knew how to shoot. Said it was good, in case a homeless person tried to break into my home here. I am sure there are homeless in KS and maybe even a tent city. But they don't live here. It doesn't have the things they need to live that way. I have to try and explain what a different feel there is to live out here.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 16, 2023 01:15 PM (u7leW)

145 Beautifully said. Their only advantage is that they’re tightly organized while we are unorganized. Something calamitous like a currency collapse will be required to organize us.
Posted by: clutch at April 16, 2023 01:04 PM (0umhz)

A movement can only achieve success when it has
a) a coherent vision
b) an widely understood plan of action
c) effective, unified leadership.

Currently our people have none of that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2023 01:16 PM (q3gwH)

146 Second largest public school system in the state admits that not one class tested at grade level. No one was fired. No one was demoted. Superintendent makes twice the governor's salary. Her solution: more teacher pay and more teacher time off.

Meanwhile, private school enrollment has never been higher.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at April 16, 2023 01:16 PM (9X60i)

147 Should have brought up on movie thread saw a picture of Jack Nickerson he is a recluse, weights 350 pounds.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 01:16 PM (3Vkwq)

148 And I suspect the right has far more power than they think they do, but are afraid to wield it

Well we have the numbers, but they control the centers of power, they are the establishment. So while we have enough to overturn the ideas through elections, for example, they control counting the votes and have no moral character or honor preventing them from cheating.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:17 PM (0hOvj)

149 It's-a me! Mario! And I say: fuck-a da critics! Vaffanculo!

Posted by: Mario at April 16, 2023 01:18 PM (V6LRK)

150 147 Should have brought up on movie thread saw a picture of Jack Nickerson he is a recluse, weights 350 pounds.
Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 01:16 PM (3Vkwq)

He took the line "Wait till they get a load of me" waaaay too seriously.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 16, 2023 01:19 PM (PiwSw)

151 A movement can only achieve success when it has
a) a coherent vision
b) an widely understood plan of action
c) effective, unified leadership.
Currently our people have none of that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2023 01:16 PM (q3gwH)

Concur. Initiative is key. Reacting to the left is reacting to their ambush.
Governor Meatball has shown the ability to set the initiative then press it as the left reacts to his ambushes.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 16, 2023 01:20 PM (R/m4+)

152 Meanwhile, private school enrollment has never been higher.

It literally skyrocketed during the lockdowns. Parents saw the "quality" and kind of education their kids were getting. Most parents figured school was just like when they went, and those craAAaazy right wingers going on about bad stuff and poor education were just radicals who hated books.

Now they know, and tens of millions have yanked their kids out of schools.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:21 PM (0hOvj)

153 The critics having terrible taste is nothing new. When I was wee lad my father would look at the newspaper and see what the critics hated and we would go to that movie. I loved those movies. Most had strong male leads (John Wayne) and didn't push any socialist agenda.

If I still went to movies, that would be how I chose which one to waste money on.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 16, 2023 01:21 PM (17s+e)

154 150 147 Should have brought up on movie thread saw a picture of Jack Nickerson he is a recluse, weights 350 pounds.
Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 01:16 PM (3Vkwq)

He took the line "Wait till they get a load of me" waaaay too seriously.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 16, 2023 01:19 PM

It's method acting!!! I was auditioning for The Whale!!!

Posted by: Jack Nicholson at April 16, 2023 01:21 PM (3udOG)

155 118 "they will be confronted by that stark reality across the barricades, or at the gates of a reeducation camp, or in a ditch somewhere."

How will this work, exactly? Looks to me that the left has the only heavies that can command with guns. Yeah, there are plenty of guns in the hands of those on the right, but come on, who is going to use them?

Where is the spark? What is going to be the Fort Sumter event?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 16, 2023 12:59 PM (KiBMU)

The one thing that hasn't been discussed in the post or the comments: The left's almost complete success of cowing the right. We're as much to blame as the other side because we've done nothing about it, to the point that it's now irreparable.

But vote harder. That's it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 16, 2023 01:22 PM (BdMk6)

156 "One thing I don’t have to do is sit here and open my kimono," during an interview about his outstanding business acumen.

Posted by: Jill Biden at April 16, 2023 01:22 PM (rdanb)

157 Should have brought up on movie thread saw a picture of Jack Nickerson he is a recluse, weights 350 pounds.
Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 01:16 PM (3Vkwq)

He has more than enough money to age gracefully. Sigh. What's up with these people

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2023 01:22 PM (Irn0L)

158 104
‘ he first time the person on their side has its head blown off, they'll run screaming hysterically’
Straight to a Soros DA to arrest the bad man who made their friends’ head go’SPLUT!’

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 16, 2023 01:22 PM (roH4R)

159 And ONT maybe someone posted link of Bridget Fonda, frightening.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 01:23 PM (3Vkwq)

160 It has never made any sense that 5, 6 maybe 8 million people from all over the world would just decide on their own to uproot their lives and on their own make the long journey to the US. It is an organized invasion by the globalists and it's happening in western countries around the world.

That's a cornerstone of their plan.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2023 12:29 PM (ZLI7S)

Happening in Europe too. With the blessings of the governments, who are in need of foreign soldiers

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:24 PM (Zzbjj)

161 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 16, 2023 01:24 PM (X+Ku8)

162 Jill, shut up and leave muh arrogance alone.Get you own you ignorant slut.

"One thing I don’t have to do is sit here and open my kimono," during an interview about his outstanding business acumen.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at April 16, 2023 01:24 PM (rdanb)

163 Most people can't eat without someone else gathering food for them.

When those days, the days of living free and easy and convenient, are gone, people will be forced to accurately reassess their skills and abilities.

If your primary job skill is designing advertisements or influencing people on social media or even programming algorithms, and you do not have survival skills, it will not serve you well in the burning times. Though my primary means of employment is largely worthless during such times, I do have knowledge of gardening, fishing, hunting and I have taken part in the taking apart of a pig on more than one occasion to fill the freezer.

A pretty face isn't worth much in a post-technological world. Child bearing hips along sewing, harvesting and cooking skills (and maybe being handy with a gun) will be the new sexy.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 16, 2023 01:24 PM (Gf3mx)

164 Mrs. O'Leary's cow is kicking over the lamp!

https://bit.ly/3KExgcp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 16, 2023 01:25 PM (FVME7)

165 @135 illiniwek-this is difficult part. The left does control things. They’ve accrued a lot of power they’re not so easily going to let go of. They have law enforcement and most important they have the streets and a well organized “army” that is protected. How far that protection extends outside their turf, that’ll remain to be seen. We’re seeing things start to creep up on us in red states like Tennessee and Texas. Their blue enclaves in these states are concerning and a cancer they’ll do their best to spread. The only way we could show up to any March or protest is in overwhelming numbers to the point that it would give the left pause in committing acts of violence on us and maybe force law enforcement to step so it doesn’t get out of hand.

Posted by: JROD at April 16, 2023 01:26 PM (IiOJn)

166 >>>"One thing I don’t have to do is sit here and open my kimono," during an interview about his outstanding business acumen.

Posted by: Jill Biden

>Somebody once mentioned Joe was sporting a large wee-wee, but there's no math there.

My skepticism is at peak levels. Hunter's wallet agrees.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 16, 2023 01:27 PM (V4X9X)

167 I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out!

The annual NYPD vs FDNY hockey game ended with a fistfight and a devastating KO

https://bit.ly/43zIRCi

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 16, 2023 01:28 PM (FVME7)

168 Posted by: JROD at April 16, 2023 01:26 PM (IiOJn)

Borrow a page from the French?

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:28 PM (Zzbjj)

169 Camp of the Saints had a good plot, just missed who the invaders were

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2023 01:29 PM (3Vkwq)

170
And the most pathetic part of their entire existence is their ignorance of great swathes of their world. They have almost literally no idea how it runs, how they are fed and clothed and cooled and warmed and moved about.

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This. None has a clue about how things are produced and how they get out to people. None has been in a plant or seen a production line. None has been to a farm, knows what it takes to grow crops or seen livestock bred.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2023 01:29 PM (MoZTd)

171 Kind of a low bar to have to celebrate that a kids video game movie is not a total wokefest intending for them to mutilate themselves and hate their parents.

But here we are. At least we have this low bar to celebrate.

We thought oh Top Gun had to have taught them a lesson. No apparently not. I used to think tapeworms even turn away from pain. They aren't even that smart.

Posted by: blaster at April 16, 2023 01:31 PM (pwExq)

172 This. None has a clue about how things are produced and how they get out to people. None has been in a plant or seen a production line. None has been to a farm, knows what it takes to grow crops or seen livestock bred.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2023 01:29 PM (MoZTd)

YOu just make a hole and drop in a seed. (Bloomberg)

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:32 PM (Zzbjj)

173 The second is also clear...these people are no fun. Everything in their world is seen through the prism of leftist politics and culture, and that is a miserable view.

While it is a miserable view and makes for a miserable life, it also is a good thing for them with regards to taking over the country's institutions, corporations and culture. Which they have.

The Marxist Left for the past few decades has focused every part of the lives on taking over every institution in the country and turning it into their utopian worldview through CRT, BLM, DIE, ESG, CEI, LGBT+ policies. And they have succeeded.

Meanwhile, the right has been trying to live their lives by working jobs, getting married and raising families, enjoying vacations and sports, etc. Politics does not rule the lives of the average person. Which is good for enjoying life, but bad for being able to defeat the Marxist Left.

With the Marxist Left taking control of everything in the country, the average person is now faced with having to do what the Left has done for decades... making politics and culture the focus of every part of their lives to return the country to sanity, if possible.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 16, 2023 01:32 PM (Do5/p)

174 " The media barely mentions any of that and they want the kid crucified along with Assange who knows exactly who hacked the DNC. They aren't that powerful, the are the Wizard of Oz with better PR." Posted by: JackStraw

That whole "Mass Formation" thang seems to be working, where the oligarch WEF types are brainwashing The West. The middle goes along and may be upset, but seem to have no will to really resist (as long as stocks and other things "hold together").

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Posted by: illiniwek at April 16, 2023 01:32 PM (Cus5s)

175 None has been to a farm, knows what it takes to grow crops or seen livestock bred.

The TV show Clarkson's Farm is doing great work educating people just what it takes to provide food, how little money it earns, and how hard farmers have it especially in England.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:33 PM (0hOvj)

176 > Meanwhile, private school enrollment has never been higher.

It literally skyrocketed during the lockdowns. Parents saw the "quality" and kind of education their kids were getting.
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Perhaps in part. But equally important in this decision was having the little fuckers underfoot 24X7 while "working from home."

Or so I've heard.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2023 01:34 PM (Q4IgG)

177 Meanwhile, private school enrollment has never been higher.

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I had breakfast with my liberal brother-in-law this morning. His grandkids are in Texas. He says his daughter is home schooling them so they can get a little progressive education even in the conservative wasteland.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 16, 2023 01:34 PM (FVME7)

178 The middle goes along and may be upset, but seem to have no will to really resist

Look, I get what you mean but consider the position of everyone. How do we resist? Take to the streets? That solves nothing. Sign a petition? Congress ignores it. Vote? The elections are rigged. Run for office? See above.

People aren't lacking will, except the will to erupt in violence and Tumbrels over what is going on because that's the only short-term solution and people do not desire to loot, burn, and kill over tranny bathrooms. The left is handling this just right: enough to go too far, but not too far enough to justify violent reaction.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:35 PM (0hOvj)

179 I had breakfast with my liberal brother-in-law this morning. His grandkids are in Texas. He says his daughter is home schooling them so they can get a little progressive education even in the conservative wasteland.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 16, 2023 01:34 PM (FVME7)

Maybe they should leave if it's so damn bad.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 16, 2023 01:36 PM (ZqJGw)

180 I think our biggest problem is that the WEF types have bought off both sides of the aisle. Lara Logan said the GOP are "scared", but I don't buy it. They're getting paid off personally, or through their spouses, kids or siblings. The fact that none of them tell the truth, when it would be to their political advantage (if they were honest) tells you they are liars.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:36 PM (Zzbjj)

181 Hey, it worked for CHAZ! they got magnificent crops!

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 16, 2023 01:37 PM (u7leW)

182 But equally important in this decision was having the little fuckers underfoot 24X7 while "working from home."

Nah. If it was just about getting kids out of the way, they'd just send them to government schools.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:37 PM (0hOvj)

183 The left is handling this just right: enough to go too far, but not too far enough to justify violent reaction.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:35 PM (0hOvj

It's no mystery that they organized the shock troops in the wake of the tranny killing.

They knew that had the potential of a spark point.

So they doubled down and attacked government houses.

Right now, every tranny enabler should be hanging from a lamp post.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 16, 2023 01:38 PM (Gf3mx)

184 They probably don't even put tobasco in their cup-o-soup!
Sub human trash.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at April 16, 2023 01:38 PM (buTO7)

185 The left is handling this just right: enough to go too far, but not too far enough to justify violent reaction.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:35 PM (0hOvj)

And they buried the tranny mass murderer's manifesto. They're going plenty far but tarting it up as something else entirely. Poor girl was bullied, so she just had to kill 9yo kids. No.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:39 PM (Zzbjj)

186 >>>With the Marxist Left taking control of everything in the country, the average person is now faced with having to do what the Left has done for decades... making politics and culture the focus of every part of their lives to return the country to sanity, if possible.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton

>Sometimes these things have a way of sorting themselves out. We're still two steps out of the bloodbath. Keep your eyes peeled.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 16, 2023 01:39 PM (V4X9X)

187 184 They probably don't even put tobasco in their cup-o-soup!
Sub human trash.
Posted by: Jimco Industries at April 16, 2023 01:38 PM (buTO7)

I have a small bottle of Tabasco right here in my purse!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 16, 2023 01:39 PM (PiwSw)

188 The beauty of me is that I'm very rich.
Posted by: Donald J. Trump

The appropriately named Assliken makes fun of Trump's oversized NRA jacket.

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 16, 2023 01:40 PM (FVME7)

189 I will exhort that all of us who were raised in accord with the values, ethics and mores now so roundly ridiculed by the progressive left stand by those values.

Push back hard against the left in every way you can.

You CAN make a difference at your local level and I'd argue this is most effective, since ANY change occurs here and all flows from that.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 16, 2023 01:40 PM (KATBx)

190 Right now, every tranny enabler should be hanging from a lamp post.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 16, 2023 01:38 PM (Gf3mx)

Around here anyway, they're trying to pretend that an honest and justified hatred of transing is antisemitism. A typical leftist bullshit trick.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:41 PM (Zzbjj)

191 They don't know me or my friends.

Posted by: Eromero at April 16, 2023 01:41 PM (MF3yS)

192 Leave Public Schools alone!

Posted by: Texas House Republicans at April 16, 2023 01:42 PM (0ED44)

193 @178 Christopher R Taylor-yes take to the streets because when people realize that voting isn’t working the only place you have is the streets. When I suggest going to the streets I always say in numbers that would possibly dissuade any violence from erupting. I’m not advocating violence I’m trying to think in a manner on how to avoid it but still be seen and heard. I’m not trying to dick swing and pimp for violent confrontation. I want enough on our side to show up and make the other side think twice. Yes the:street CRT because it’s quickly becoming the only place we might be able to affect anything. Other avenues are closing.

Posted by: JROD at April 16, 2023 01:43 PM (IiOJn)

194 192 Leave Public Schools alone!
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Posted by: Bill Gates and co at April 16, 2023 01:43 PM (Zzbjj)

195 The left is handling this just right: enough to go too far, but not too far enough to justify violent reaction.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:35 PM (0hOvj)

They're getting more adventurous and more arrogant, though. It's only a matter of time before they, in their ignorance of what makes people tick, fuck up badly enough.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at April 16, 2023 01:43 PM (MIb2C)

196 Remember the course of the French Revolution, a prior example of post-whateverist Rousseau thinking run amok. First it purged the inept aristocracy, then it purged a bunch of normies caught up in the mix, then it purged itself (along with a bunch more normies), then a military genius took advantage of the power vacuum for some personal rule, then the whole thing fell apart and the old ways came back.

Not counting the wars, most of the ultraviolence was contained to Paris, a couple of allied cities, and a couple of dissident regions whose local leaders misjudged the situation on the ground. IIRC one of the border territories was staunchly royalist the whole way through, and got away with it because it was rural and remote.

Posted by: CppThis at April 16, 2023 01:43 PM (PZvjL)

197 165 @135 illiniwek-this is difficult part. The left does control things. They’ve accrued a lot of power they’re not so easily going to let go of. They have law enforcement and most important they have the streets and a well organized “army” that is protected. How far that protection extends outside their turf, that’ll remain to be seen.
Posted by: JROD at April 16, 2023 01:26 PM (IiOJn)

Another tool of Our Betters at the Federal and Blue State/City levels is un-equal application of laws. Any non-leftist who vociferously peacefully protests is likely to be hammered, legally. Unlike Leftists protesting peacefully or by rioting. The IRS is always ready go after Enemies of the State. Not so for Clintons, Bidens, and all other members of the Dem Party and Deep State (BIRM).

This is something to think about before doing anything that seriously bothers Our Betters, especially if you have a family, small business, or are living paycheck to paycheck. Meanwhile, the Leftist protests armies are mostly single, young, maybe employed, and know the rules of the game - they will not be arrested, let alone prosecuted, for pretty much anything up to murder.

Posted by: Gref at April 16, 2023 01:44 PM (AMIL/)

198 Everything distills down to self-esteem, Hotter explained. There's a point when one's self hate of one's own inadequacies grows so much it boils over, and needs to be dispersed on to others. The impulse to control others is directly proportional to the inability to control one's self.
Politics is merely the nexus of culture, economics, and psychology. Even economics is mostly behavioral psychology mercantilized. Show me What your values are and I'll tell you what you vote for. And when you hate the results, they'll stew and throw a hiss fit about how they meant well and it's your fault and you just need to indulge their next demand they refuse to acknowledge they contradicted themselves against five minutes ago.
What we describe as leftist ideology is merely the socio-political manifestation of emotional immaturity-cum-instability. Not all borderlines are leftist, but it seems all leftists are borderline. And vice versa.
And they're never wrong because admitting so is suicide...

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Posted by: BuddyPC at April 16, 2023 01:44 PM (fnVX5)

199 There are no “elites”. Just assholes who through living their life inside of politics, garner money, fame and allies and live to tell others how to live while doing whatever they want at our expense.

No talent, busy body, bitter ass clowns are all they really are.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

THIS!!!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 16, 2023 01:44 PM (TZCPa)

200 They're getting more adventurous and more arrogant, though. It's only a matter of time before they, in their ignorance of what makes people tick, fuck up badly enough.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at April 16, 2023 01:43 PM (MIb2C)

It's why they hid the manifesto. It must have named politicians and public figures.

Posted by: Bill Gates and co at April 16, 2023 01:44 PM (Zzbjj)

201 Hoffer.

Posted by: BuddyPC at April 16, 2023 01:45 PM (fnVX5)

202 Again, there is no good short-term solution. It takes time, decades of hard work and raising kids. We could have a demographic tsumani in a few generations if we tried.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:45 PM (0hOvj)

203 Tarantino's last movie is rumored to be a Pauline Kael biopic.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Somebody has already made Dumb and Dumber.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 16, 2023 01:45 PM (FVME7)

204 Women having a vagina is so yesterday.

Posted by: Dylan Mulvany at April 16, 2023 01:46 PM (rdanb)

205 Around here anyway, they're trying to pretend that an honest and justified hatred of transing is antisemitism. A typical leftist bullshit trick.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:41 PM (Zzbjj)

Judeans need to regain control of the people that have the microphone to define what the religion stands for.

I don't believe for a second that Judaism truly supports transgenderism and abortion from my reading of the Old Testament, and yet too many in positions to speak on the topic make assertions that those issues are sacrosanct to the religion.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 16, 2023 01:46 PM (Gf3mx)

206 What happened with that Oklahoma guy with bombs in his car, then more bombs at home? He was (allegedly) a MAGA type ... the FBI got him before he did anything.

Maybe he was just being defensive ... or since he is not in the news, maybe it was just some pipes.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 16, 2023 01:46 PM (Cus5s)

207 They're getting more adventurous and more arrogant, though. It's only a matter of time before they, in their ignorance of what makes people tick, fuck up badly enough.

Sadly, I agree. They are going to push people to the point where the drawbacks of not taking action outweigh the drawbacks of doing so. If I have to be put into prison to protect children, then by God I will.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:46 PM (0hOvj)

208 >>What happened with that Oklahoma guy with bombs in his car, then more bombs at home? He was (allegedly) a MAGA type ... the FBI got him before he did anything.

>>Maybe he was just being defensive ... or since he is not in the news, maybe it was just some pipes.

Or maybe he really isn't a MAGA type.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2023 01:48 PM (ZLI7S)

209 Sitting at the theater with my boys waiting for D&D to start. I'll report later.

Posted by: fd at April 16, 2023 12:04 PM

The Critical Drinker: Dungeons & Dragons Subverted My Expectations

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"All that being said, I wasn't bored while watching it. And against my better judgement, I actually find myself pretty invested in it by the end. So if you're looking for a light-hearted, easy-going and surprisingly good-natured film that has a bit of fun with its fantasy setting without completely mocking it, and gives you a cast of likeable characters that you don't mind spending a couple of hours with, then damn, you could probably do a lot worse than Dungeons & Dragons."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 16, 2023 01:48 PM (Do5/p)

210 I don't believe for a second that Judaism truly supports transgenderism and abortion from my reading of the Old Testament, and yet too many in positions to speak on the topic make assertions that those issues are sacrosanct to the religion.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 16, 2023 01:46 PM (Gf3mx)

Of course it doesn't, and neither do the Christian groups who support this. But I know that lots of religious groups get public money to you know, help illegals, etc. Money speaks louder than morals.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:49 PM (Zzbjj)

211 There won't be mass insurrection by normies until things are functionally bad enough that the benefits outweigh the risks. I'm talking food shortages, people dying of cold in the winter, that sort of thing. It's just a matter of time though; nobody in power has any idea what they're doing anymore.

Posted by: CppThis at April 16, 2023 01:50 PM (PZvjL)

212 200. They're getting more adventurous and more arrogant, though. It's only a matter of time before they, in their ignorance of what makes people tick, fuck up badly enough.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at April 16, 2023 01:43 PM (MIb2C)

It's why they hid the manifesto. It must have named politicians and public figures.
Posted by: Bill Gates and co at April 16, 2023 01:44 PM (Zzbjj)

Because they're indulged, by the rent seekers.
And being indulged is narcotic, thus they always need to be indulged, greater and greater.
Why do you think so many are white affluent suburban trophies and single hot chicks, along with the usual bunch of broken home unstable single smothered types?

Posted by: BuddyPC at April 16, 2023 01:51 PM (fnVX5)

213 Everything distills down to self-esteem, Hotter explained. There's a point when one's self hate of one's own inadequacies grows so much it boils over, and needs to be dispersed on to others. The impulse to control others is directly proportional to the inability to control one's self.
(snip)

And they're never wrong because admitting so is suicide...

Posted by: BuddyPC at April 16, 2023 01:44 PM (fnVX5)

If they admit to being wrong about anything, the insecurity and self-hate return full force, and they collapse into a puddle of misery. Ignoring that reality is paramount to them, thus they must maintain the outward focus and try to fix your life whether it needs it or not, lest they remember that they cannot fix their own.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at April 16, 2023 01:51 PM (MIb2C)

214 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 16, 2023 01:46 PM (Gf3mx)

And it's not Jews using antisemitism as a slur for anti-mutilation. There may be some, but it's the alphabet crowd deciding that. They're also using the burning of Magnus' books as a reason to call people who don't want that shit in the schools "nazis", when they are not.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:51 PM (Zzbjj)

215 This madness of the 'elites' is going to continue until they start paying a price. A personal price.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 16, 2023 01:52 PM (afRfN)

216 One of the worst drawbacks of Judaism and Christianity is also their strength: the rigorous intellectual analysis and study of the faith. It can lead to all kinds of errors, stupidity, and justification of horrible and insane things. Yes, the technique is misused or abused, and yes, they are following false syllogisms and technique but you can see it all over the internet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:52 PM (0hOvj)

217 Anger is one of the 7 deadly sins.

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I've given up on anger but anger hasn't given up on me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 16, 2023 01:52 PM (FVME7)

218 >>>Women having a vagina is so yesterday.

Posted by: Dylan Mulvany

>I'm glad to see you pronounce this, because 'Me - Yo,' and my 25 favorite NBA ballers are going to take you to Basketball Camp!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 16, 2023 01:53 PM (V4X9X)

219 IIRC one of the border territories was staunchly royalist the whole way through, and got away with it because it was rural and remote.
Posted by: CppThis at April 16, 2023 01:43 PM (PZvjL)
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The Vendee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 16, 2023 01:53 PM (2hlEI)

220 What's sad about the Joo thing is that eventually it will blow back on honest Jews who had nothing to do with the dysfunction while the bad ones who did will just buy their way out. Like the Rothschild family did back in the day.

Posted by: CppThis at April 16, 2023 01:53 PM (PZvjL)

221 @197 Gref -yes they have us coming and going. The fact that you have to consider the things you just described really magnifies the state we’re in.

Posted by: JROD at April 16, 2023 01:54 PM (IiOJn)

222 CppThis
It’s why I mentioned a currency collapse above. A default would to all the things you mentioned. I read that the Stolin regime has created 80% of all dollars in existence. That will not end well.

Posted by: clutch at April 16, 2023 01:54 PM (XiTd3)

223 217 Anger is one of the 7 deadly sins.

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I've given up on anger but anger hasn't given up on me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 16, 2023 01:52 PM (FVME7)

Actually, the sin is indulging anger, not the anger itself. An emotion is not a sin. What you do with it might be.

And righteous anger that is channeled to righting the wrong that caused it is not a sin, any more than killing someone to protect innocent life is not a sin.

God gets it, not to worry.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 16, 2023 01:57 PM (LOVUx)

224 220 What's sad about the Joo thing is that eventually it will blow back on honest Jews who had nothing to do with the dysfunction while the bad ones who did will just buy their way out. Like the Rothschild family did back in the day.
Posted by: CppThis at April 16, 2023 01:53 PM (PZvjL)

Magnus Hirschfeld has been dead for 90 years, rejected Judaism in favor of his gay "transsexual" inclinations, and yet despising his philosophy is anti-Jewish. These days he's a useful tool for leftists.

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:57 PM (Zzbjj)

225 I can�t believe Nixon won. I don't know anyone who voted for him.

So that Pauline Kael knew no Republicans?

Posted by: Ciampino --- We have kittens at April 16, 2023 01:59 PM (qfLjt)

226 One of the worst drawbacks of Judaism and Christianity is also their strength: the rigorous intellectual analysis and study of the faith. It can lead to all kinds of errors, stupidity, and justification of horrible and insane things

It's most likely a product of my Protestantism, but I honestly feel like I can see the demonic influence in things.

It doesn't have to be me seeing something, wondering if it's good or not, running to Scripture to confirm it, seeking varying views of the Scriptural perspective, and then applying that.

Some things I know to be demonic intrinsically, because of the influence of the Holy Spirit.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 16, 2023 01:59 PM (Gf3mx)

227 "They have almost literally no idea how it runs, how they are fed and clothed and cooled and warmed and moved about. "

I remember a couple of weeks back seeing a headline where some brilliant young soul declared that we could reduce global warming by eliminating farming. Who needs farming, I guess, when grocery stores have all the food we'd ever need, huh?

Posted by: Simple Stevo at April 16, 2023 02:00 PM (R5JlW)

228 One of the worst drawbacks of Judaism and Christianity is also their strength: the rigorous intellectual analysis and study of the faith. It can lead to all kinds of errors, stupidity, and justification of horrible and insane things. Yes, the technique is misused or abused, and yes, they are following false syllogisms and technique but you can see it all over the internet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 16, 2023 01:52 PM (0hOvj)

God gave us reason with the intent that we make use of it. A mind open to reason might be lead astray, but sound reasoning can lead it back.

The ones you have to worry about are those who didn't reason themselves into their positions, and cannot be reasoned out of them.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at April 16, 2023 02:01 PM (MIb2C)

229 I remember a couple of weeks back seeing a headline where some brilliant young soul declared that we could reduce global warming by eliminating farming. Who needs farming, I guess, when grocery stores have all the food we'd ever need, huh?
Posted by: Simple Stevo at April 16, 2023 02:00 PM (R5JlW)

I suppose he can grow what he needs on his apartment balcony in Park Slope?

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 02:02 PM (Zzbjj)

230 222 It’s why I mentioned a currency collapse above. A default would to all the things you mentioned. I read that the Stolin regime has created 80% of all dollars in existence. That will not end well.
Posted by: clutch at April 16, 2023 01:54 PM (XiTd3)

That thread also raised another good point, the difference between on-paper control and in-the-streets control. Another salient case study is Afghanistan. We were large and in charge in Kabul and a few bases, or so we told ourselves. Not so much in the outlying areas it turns out, and it just took a little disruption for it all to turn in a matter of hours.

Posted by: CppThis at April 16, 2023 02:03 PM (PZvjL)

231 This will all happen in the blink of an eye - the collapse long in waiting, the shootout at the mall or some restaurant you happened into, the police just happening to bust down your door in the wrong. Or just Jesus coming. I wish we'd all been ready.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 16, 2023 02:03 PM (oWBc3)

232 The questions I was asked about Nebraska and central America in general by kids my age were incredibly stupid and ignorant.

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What do you call the residents of Nebraska? Children of the Corn.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 16, 2023 02:03 PM (FVME7)

233 It's most likely a product of my Protestantism, but I honestly feel like I can see the demonic influence in things.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 16, 2023 01:59 PM (Gf3mx)

I think the most damaging demonic influence has been the "prosperity gospel" that the televangelists spread far and wide. That probably did more damage to the faith - as people tried it, found it wanting, and blamed all of Christianity for its falsehood - than any number of atheists ever could.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at April 16, 2023 02:04 PM (MIb2C)

234 what JS said @140!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 16, 2023 02:04 PM (mIvbT)

235 1st world problems are nood

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 02:05 PM (Zzbjj)

236 NASCAR NOW RACES ON MOTHERS DAY AND EASTER

Posted by: yoeman at April 16, 2023 02:10 PM (BYNHj)

237 I remember a couple of weeks back seeing a headline where some brilliant young soul declared that we could reduce global warming by eliminating farming. Who needs farming, I guess, when grocery stores have all the food we'd ever need, huh?

Posted by: Simple Stevo at April 16, 2023 02:00 PM (R5JlW)

This is no different than people using Brawndo to irrigate their crops in the movie Idiocracy. I've been saying for years that that movie was not a satire but an actual documentary. Tell me I was wrong.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 16, 2023 02:12 PM (afRfN)

238 What do you call the residents of Nebraska? Children of the Corn.

Do you know what the N stands for on University of Nebraska football helmets?

Knowledge.

An oldie but a goodie. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 16, 2023 02:14 PM (afRfN)

239 Well, today is the first full day of a nuclear-free Germany, after they closed down their last three nuclear plants yesterday. I'd have more sympathy for the German economy buckling under the weight of high energy prices, but this bit is entirely self-inflicted.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 16, 2023 12:08 PM

Serious question... is it actually self-inflicted? Did the majority of German citizens actually vote for this? Or, like in Canada and the USA and Western nations all across the world, has the voting process been rigged and elections stolen so that tyrannical leaders can force these policies on the citizens?

The same goes for "blue" cities and states here in the USA. Are those cities' and states' electorates actually voting Democrat or are the elections rigged? 2016 showed that Michigan and Pennsylvania, without cheating, are toss-up states, not deep blue as once thought. In 2020, the results showed Michigan and Pennsylvania went easily to Biden and 2022 showed Whitmer easily won. But were those the actual results? Did Michiganders actually vote that way? Can we actually call all the damage Whitmer will now cause "self-inflicted" by Michiganders?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 16, 2023 02:16 PM (Do5/p)

240 It has never made any sense that 5, 6 maybe 8 million people from all over the world would just decide on their own to uproot their lives and on their own make the long journey to the US. It is an organized invasion by the globalists and it's happening in western countries around the world.

That's a cornerstone of their plan.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2023 12:29 PM (ZLI7S)

Happening in Europe too. With the blessings of the governments, who are in need of foreign soldiers

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 01:24 PM (Zzbjj)

Except in Hungary. They're standing firm. And the Left hates them for it.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 16, 2023 02:19 PM (afRfN)

241 How else would we and our children actually enjoy a movie without overt political, social, and cultural messages?

The key word there is "enjoy." Joy is anathema to the left. You are not allowed to watch movies that don't make some reference to The Struggle! (Whatever it may be at the time).

Wanting a movie, a TV show or a video game to have an entertaining story is too cisheteronormativepatriarchalcolonial. Enjoying something for its own sake is to be stomped out.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2023 02:30 PM (Z7Jj3)

242 This is no different than people using Brawndo to irrigate their crops in the movie Idiocracy. I've been saying for years that that movie was not a satire but an actual documentary. Tell me I was wrong.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 16, 2023 02:12 PM (afRfN)

It was a rational prediction of the future based on current trends.

I look at the Biden Admin's transgender military, and keep thinking back to that scene where the guy is giving the presentation to the generals. "A pimp's love is not like a square's love..."

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at April 16, 2023 02:34 PM (MIb2C)

243 33 29 And the self elected elites will act surprised when things go full Ceaucescu on them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 16, 2023 12:16 PM (JSjQO)

I'm hoping for a broader outcome.

Go full Pol Pot and heard them out in the country to work the fields?

Posted by: Stacy0311 at April 16, 2023 02:35 PM (ixC6O)

244 Except in Hungary. They're standing firm. And the Left hates them for it.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 16, 2023 02:19 PM (afRfN)

This is why CIA is working on a "color revolution".

Posted by: CN at April 16, 2023 03:34 PM (Zzbjj)

245 Trump's breath caused the riots in Chicago last night !!!!!!

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at April 16, 2023 03:44 PM (EnsGU)

246 The expression "they hate us cuz they ain't us" comes to mind. That works in multiple directions. Usually it's some smug winning team (sports, politics, etc) saying that in a condescending way about those on the non-winning side. But I think it genuinely applies in the thinking of the coastal elites and their leftist base towards middle America, normies, deplorables, etc.

Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2023 12:28 PM (zddNi)

I think this attitude applies to many Americans in general, especially when it comes to non-Americans criticizing the USA. The general attitude is "they just hate America, because we're better than them".

And it also applies to people of almost every background or race or ideology or religion when it comes to insignificant things like you mention... sports, politics, religion, what country/state/city in which one lives, favorite foods, favorite bands/music, favorite pizza, favorite movies, etc. Seems like so many people nowadays find any way possible to divide each another into 'us vs. them'.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 16, 2023 03:48 PM (Do5/p)

247 Even the left and right while somewhat ideological have softer majorities. You only get strict ideological thinking from about 10-15 percent of the population that have definite cause-effect relationships posited by the tenets of whatever theory they believe reflects reality.

Posted by: whig at April 16, 2023 12:29 PM

The problem is that the ideological makeup of the nation/electorate no longer matters when the ideological makeup of everyone in a position of power/influence in every institution in the nation is 99% Marxist Left.

Now that rigged and stolen elections are the norm, with zero consequences for them, those in power do not have to worry themselves of the ideological makeup of the electorate.

The same goes for institutions and corporations with regards to customers. Don't have to worry about appealing to the most customers for the most profit when the institution/corporation is propped up by ESG and CEI donations to push Marxist Left policies/narratives.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 16, 2023 03:54 PM (Do5/p)

248 Literally just got back from seeing Super Mario Bros. It wasn't what you would call "intellectual", but maybe that's why it was FUN. Most importantly, I didn't have any of the characters preaching at me about how I should "think". If there was any "message" to the movie at all, it was "keep persevering in the face of adversity", I think that's a message we could all live with.

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at April 16, 2023 04:13 PM (e/Osv)

249 Took my Five year old grandson to his first movie theater movie yesterday. He loved the Super Mario movie; he cheered, laughed, threw punches in the air…. And I enjoyed it as well. My first movie in a theater in 6 years.

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at April 16, 2023 04:19 PM (SRiFu)

250 I wish they were channeling Pauline Kael. Genuinely great film critic, in spite of her penchant for self-aggrandizing iconoclasm.

Posted by: Michael Mann Fan at April 16, 2023 04:45 PM (k1vAw)

251 The issue with critics isn't that they're too finicky. It's that they aren't finicky enough. Compare the Metascore for a masterpiece like Miami Vice to the Metascore for Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Most critics punish idiosyncrasy and reward conformity. More often than not, they'll praise "entertaining" movies and pan genuinely challenging ones.

Posted by: Michael Mann Fan at April 16, 2023 04:50 PM (k1vAw)

252 I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out! The annual NYPD vs FDNY hockey game ended with a fistfight and a devastating KO

https://bit.ly/43zIRCi

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 16, 2023 01:28 PM

Detective Colin Sullivan: Fuck you, fuckin' queers. Firemen gettin' pussy for the first time in the history of fire or pussy. Hey go save a kitten in a tree, you fucking homos.

https://bit.ly/41xeb2F

Posted by: The Departed at April 16, 2023 07:27 PM (Do5/p)

253 This. None has a clue about how things are produced and how they get out to people. None has been in a plant or seen a production line. None has been to a farm, knows what it takes to grow crops or seen livestock bred.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2023 01:29 PM

Mandatory viewing in schools should be the entire series of "Modern Marvels", especially the very early seasons from the 1990s. They go into great detail explaining how things are made that we all take for granted. From roads to bridges to tunnels to dams to skyscrapers to eggs to rice to oil to plastics to metals to vaccines, etc. Just an invaluable series. 20 seasons, 181 total episodes. There is even one about a topic that has been discussed here before, The Tennessee Valley Authority. S2Ep3.

In addition, the series "Impossible Engineering" goes into great detail explaining the engineering principles -- modern and older strategies from which the modern ones were based -- that went into designing and developing and building everything we take for granted today.

https://bit.ly/3L5s030

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 16, 2023 08:02 PM (Do5/p)

254 117 In a society where laws are...ignored by "the proper groups", and enforcement is based on politics and race [instead of] on the law, just what kind of power are we talking about?
I suspect the left isn't nearly as powerful as they think they are outside urban centers and campuses. And I suspect the right has far more power than they think they do, but are afraid to wield it.
--Diogenes at April 16, 2023 12:12 PM

Berserker replied: "I think you're pretty much right. The left controls things on paper, but thats it, and in the end none of [what they control] is of any value. They can tell you what car to build, but they can't build a car. They can tell you what house to build, but they can't build a house. They are destroyers, not creators..of real value anyway."

I get that, and it heartens our side, which is at least something. BUT you're overlooking that as long as the Democrats control the FBI, cops and the army, we don't have a chance. All we can do is vote--and in 2020 you saw how neatly the Dems defeated that.

Posted by: sf44 at April 16, 2023 08:04 PM (YC43X)

255 We thought oh Top Gun had to have taught them a lesson. No apparently not. I used to think tapeworms even turn away from pain. They aren't even that smart.

Posted by: blaster at April 16, 2023 01:31 PM

There are no lessons to be taught or learned for the Marxist Left pushing this stuff. They are not doing it to try to make money. They are doing it to force their agenda on the population. And they have the financial backing of major institutions which want this stuff pushed. Check into CEI, which is funded by George Soros. And ESG scores. All of this is pushed into every institution and every corporation in the Western world.

This is not going to stop based on the average person rejecting it. This is going to continue to be forced onto the masses. We're living in a worldwide reeducation camp. Governments, mass media, social media, schools, universities, Hollywood, music industry, sports leagues, everything.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 16, 2023 08:08 PM (Do5/p)

256 Using a movie to deliver entertainment would be like using a newspaper or newscast to deliver news.

Posted by: Tom C at April 16, 2023 08:11 PM (9g7G5)

257 "I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them."

Guilty as charged, but let's get the quote right.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at April 16, 2023 09:13 PM (WusEB)

258 "Even when conservatives demonstrate, we have more humor and perspective than the left and its lunatic base that is increasingly dominant today. Just look at one of their protests...angry faces, screaming and yelling and often violent reactions to whatever imagined provocation precipitated the protest.

Now take a look at the other side of the coin. Hell...January 6th was not violent! And if you have seen a pro-life march or demonstration the odds are overwhelming that it is a bunch of people strolling along, some with their kids, and the thought of yelling and screaming and being angry never occurs to most of them."

OK, but who's winning?

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