THE MORNING RANT: Media Smear Merchants, Jason Aldean, and Racism By Historic Association (“Show Me the Man or Video, and I’ll Find You the Racism”<img src="http://smilies.mee.nu/light/15_orange/icon

THE MORNING RANT: Media Smear Merchants, Jason Aldean, and Racism By Historic Association (“Show Me the Man or Video, and I’ll Find You the Racism”

The smear campaign by the regime media against Jason Aldean for his song and video “Try That in a Small Town” is beyond despicable. Just look at this headline from NBC News. The left-wing ruling class and its media adjuncts now hurl the most unconscionable insults at people for speaking up for the values of half the country. They first used the slander “racist,” which then morphed into “white supremacist,” and now they are escalating to “pro-lynching.”

Jason Aldean’s Video Accused of Pro-Lynching Stance Sparks Call for CMT Boycott [NBC News – 7/21/2023]

In Aldean's video, the country singer and his band perform in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, the same site where 18-year-old Henry Choate was lynched in 1927 after he was accused of assaulting a white 16-year-old girl.

The header picture is the Maury County courthouse. It’s a beautiful old building close to Nashville, which is why it’s been the setting for many film shoots, including a Lifetime Original movie (“Steppin’ into the Holiday” with Mario Lopez and Jana Kramer, “A Nashville Country Christmas” with Tanya Tucker, and the Hannah Montana movie, among others. Are Mario Lopez and Miley Cyrus also “pro-lynching?” Where was the outrage for their use of this courthouse? There was none, of course, because there is nothing inappropriate about using this old building in a film shoot.

Also please note that the American flag draped on the courthouse is not the flag that was being waved by Democrat nightriders a century ago.

In case anyone who supports Aldean also thinks it’s regrettable that he chose this courthouse, thus providing ammunition to the cancel culture warriors in the media, it would make no difference. They determined that Aldean needed to be canceled, and then they went searching for a reason to call him racist. His opposition to urban riots alone was enough for them to call him racist.

A similar example of something from long ago being dredged up for a current smear is how the “The Eyes of Texas,” the University of Texas’ alma mater, was suddenly deemed racist in the tumultuous summer of 2020. Although the song doesn’t have a racist word or concept in it, the media achieved full cancellation frenzy in short time when it was revealed that the song had been performed at a minstrel show more than 115 years earlier. (“Texas to Keep School Song with Roots in Blackface Minstrel Shows” Washington Post – 7/14/2020))

Or how about Trump speeches? Do you remember how often the media called Trump rallies racist and problematic simply because he dared to speak in a particular city. Here is just one headline from 2020: In Tulsa, Fears that Trump Rally May Worsen Racial Unrest, Spread of Coronavirus [Reuters – 6/17/2020]

Why on earth would the President of the United States speaking to a crowd of supporters in Oklahoma’s second largest city during a presidential campaign be racially problematic? Well according to the media, Trump had no business speaking in a city that had a race riot 99 years prior, especially since Trump’s speech was just a month after the George Floyd riots.

Essentially, the media wanted to keep Trump from campaigning in the Covid election of 2020, and if he did campaign they would call him racist. It didn’t matter if it was Tulsa or Trenton, he was going to be called racist if he dared to hit the campaign trail.

Jason Aldean could have done the live performance for his “Try That in a Small Town” video in his own front yard, and the media would still have called that imagery racist, if for no other reason than that his property is located in a state/city/county/etc where something bad happened at some time in the past.

Let me give you an example of the how the media’s “find the racism” game works, and how it is not possible for their target to produce a product that can’t be labeled racist. As a random subject, I decided to use another video that was recently filmed in Tennessee. This one is a commercial created for Ford Motor Company and Bang & Olufsen which was filmed in and around Chattanooga. It generated much civic pride for how it showcased Chattanooga’s striking downtown, with its magnificent bridges crossing the Tennessee River. The rugged country outside of town was also featured.

Here is the commercial. Below it I will play “find the racism.”

Let me stress, there is nothing racist about this advertisement, either intentionally or inadvertently. Neither Ford nor B&O had any racist intent, nor did they produce a racist commercial. The point I am trying to make is that the race warriors going after Aldean could find “shocking” racism anywhere they wanted, and I am using this commercial as an example.

Let me now write as a race-baiting journalist reviewing this video and seeking out racism where there is none. I will use “AutoCo” in lieu of any actual company name.

Let’s look at some of the imagery in the video. Here we see an AutoCo vehicle parked beside a human-made lake, which dams up the Tennessee River. Beneath the surface of this lake are lands where Cherokee once hunted, fished, and lived. In fact, the former Cherokee capital of Tanasi, for which the state and river were named, lies submerged beneath an East Tennessee lake not far from where this picture was taken. AutoCo may find this submerged Cherokee landscape idyllic, but it is an obvious insult to those whose ancestors once made a life on this land…land which has been forever drowned.

We also see the vehicle being taken off-road through the woods and mountains outside of Chattanooga, the same woods and mountains through which the natives of this land were cruelly expelled. What animus and bigotry caused AutoCo to mock the Trail of Tears by showing its vehicle driving over the same rugged paths that a proud people once trod on their cruel relocation from this area?

And then we see…wait…you have got to be kidding…we see a black man running with the Walnut Street Bridge as a backdrop. THE Walnut Street Bridge! The bridge on which a heinous lynching of a black man was perpetrated in 1906.

Oh my, it gets even worse. The narrator and the script now read “blood pumping in my ears” as the black man runs in front of the notorious bridge.

”Blood pumping in my ears?!!” Are they trying to describe the physical reaction when a body is hanged?! The pro-lynching sentiment of this commercial isn’t even subtle, is it?
AutoCo has created what is clearly an intentional dog whistle that lends support to both the cruelty of the Trail of Tears and the ghastly practice of lynching.

Again, my criticism is a parody. There is nothing racist, or insensitive, or inappropriate about this ad. It was widely praised and well received. No one ever thought to find racist imagery in it, because there is none.

But the vicious racism I pretended to document in this commercial is exactly what the media has done to Jason Aldean, and to Donald Trump, and to anyone else the left-wing establishment seeks to harm by slandering them as racist-by-association with long ago events.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 In time?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2023 11:01 AM (M/k+8)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Reminder:

The media IS the enemy of the people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

4 In Aldean's video, the country singer and his band perform in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, the same site where 18-year-old Henry Choate was lynched in 1927 after he was accused of assaulting a white 16-year-old girl.

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Some of my extended family lives in Columbia.

Really nice place. My uncle owns a house on the golf course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:02 AM (LvTSG)

5 Remind me, who is putting up a statue of Emmitt Till?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:02 AM (ppL7t)

6 Good morning Hordlings.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2023 11:02 AM (tQvWB)

7 And so soon after pride month!!

Posted by: keena at July 28, 2023 11:02 AM (RiTnx)

8 "Everything is Racist!"

(Sung to the lego movie song)

It's a joke. My children all say "that's racist" for any stupid thing.

The left is a joke, a dangerous one, because they have power, but the should be mocked, incessantly.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 28, 2023 11:03 AM (M/k+8)

9 Blood libel and Race-Baiting… some plays never change… just the cast of players..

Posted by: tubal at July 28, 2023 11:04 AM (PCK5/)

10 We say the left doesn't know how to meme. They really don't know how to boycott. (They know how to threaten. That's it)

Left boycotts Jason Aldean. Song shoots to number two.

Right boycotts Bud Light. Costs them $30 billion and 13 ranking spots.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2023 11:04 AM (uiWTm)

11 Hey Buck, CNN, MSLSD would snatch you up in a heartbeat....you could be Joy Reid's lead writer!

Posted by: BignJames at July 28, 2023 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

12 Urban people have a Constitutional right to rob and loot, I guess.

That smalltown stuff of intervening is what's wrong!

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:04 AM (krQz2)

13 In Aldean's video, the country singer and his band perform in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, the same site where 18-year-old Henry Choate was lynched in 1927 after he was accused of assaulting a white 16-year-old girl.

"Democrats, pissed off that Aldean pulled the curtain back on Democrat historical racism...."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

14 If you are offended by Jason Aldean, let me introduce you to David Allen Coe.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2023 11:04 AM (uiWTm)

15 I hope Aldean stands tall but he's under a lot of pressure to kneel.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 28, 2023 11:04 AM (xcxpd)

16 Plus, Maury County is named after a Confederate.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 28, 2023 11:05 AM (xTRSc)

17 I'd say sue NBC for Slander and Libel, but do it from a venue with a judge that is not Deep-State friendly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:05 AM (ynpvh)

18 One would be hard pressed to find a single place on the planet where some evil event hasn't happened at one time or other.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 28, 2023 11:05 AM (MeG8a)

19 To those people that said, "It's only a beer can",

IT'S ONLY A SONG.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2023 11:05 AM (uiWTm)

20
Try that in a small town
We'll lynch your ass

Posted by: Lyrics Not in That Song at July 28, 2023 11:06 AM (krQz2)

21 16 Plus, Maury County is named after a Confederate.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 28, 2023 11:05 AM (xTRSc)

That'll change to Lizzo County. Flutes up!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:06 AM (ynpvh)

22 It can't be racist because the guy in the ad is black.

Posted by: DJ at July 28, 2023 11:06 AM (uosPt)

23 "Everything is Racist!"

This morning I watched Tucker's interview with Ice Cube. Very, very interesting and I don't give two shits about Rappers generally.

Give it a view. Ice has an interesting view on those that will not speak to him or have him on their shows.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2023 11:06 AM (tQvWB)

24 22 It can't be racist because the guy in the ad is black.

Posted by: DJ at July 28, 2023 11:06 AM (uosPt)

Unless he didn't vote for me.

Posted by: Joey Biden at July 28, 2023 11:07 AM (ynpvh)

25 Most lynchings were actually of white men, by the way. Something schools left out and I had to discover on my own reading the biographies and autobiographies of lawmen from the turn of the century and the early 20th century.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 28, 2023 11:07 AM (xcxpd)

26 Remind me, who is putting up a statue of Emmitt Till?

I guess "believe all women!" no longer applies...

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 28, 2023 11:07 AM (2tUFv)

27 Try That In A Small Town.

I'm so old, I remember when they tried that in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (uiWTm)

28 I keep going back to one simple concept... and one observation.

If you WANT to be offended, you will be.

and...

I don't see a RIGHT not to be offended anywhere in the Constitution.... suck it up, Buttercup.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (oHd/0)

29 As soon as I saw the lyrics of the song contained the phrase "good ol' boys" I *knew* this song would be attacked as racist.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (YIVH2)

30 Does a rat hear the intentional dog whistle?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (63Dwl)

31 Headline:

Those who find racism everywhere have found racism

Tale as old as time.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (KbCG3)

32 When I think of music, I don't think of auto-tuned horseshit that makes my ears bleed......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

33 ⏳Towhee 🌏☮️ @amborin
Six U.S. banks allege that Hunter Biden is involved in human trafficking, money laundering, tax fraud:

@jpmorgan Chase filed this report on Hunter Biden's suspicious activity, not ruling out his potential involvement in "human trafficking."

According to congressional investigators, six banks, including Bank of America, US Bank and Wells Fargo, have submitted more than 170 suspicious activity reports against the Biden family to the Treasury Department, alleging that they are involved in money laundering, human trafficking and tax fraud.

#HumanTrafficking
https://tinyurl.com/wxtujn6p

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (krqg6)

34 Headline:

Those who find racism everywhere have found racism

Tale as old as time.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (KbCG3)

Those who find racism everywhere live in their own racist bubble.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

35 "Democrats, pissed off that Aldean pulled the curtain back on Democrat historical racism...."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)
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The Democrat party is the historical symbol of I'd gather all lynchings. Far from eschewing all things historically associated with racism, the anti-racists vote for the Historical Party of Racism and Wilful Actions.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (krQz2)

36 So when I wake up and I'm too lazy to make breakfast is it reasonable to eat yesterday's lasagna?

I have a dog who is quite clearly debating whether to abandon his hide chew and go chase something in the backyard thereby leaving his chew potentially to be poached by one of the other three. At this point it looks like he's staying with his chew.

Posted by: JEM at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (8erNz)

37 25 Most lynchings were actually of white men, by the way. Something schools left out and I had to discover on my own reading the biographies and autobiographies of lawmen from the turn of the century and the early 20th century.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 28, 2023 11:07 AM (xcxpd)

I know Wiki can't be trusted. It says that "Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968."

Doesn't say what the statistics were before 1882, however.

Posted by: Joey Biden at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (ynpvh)

38 Six U.S. banks allege that Hunter Biden is involved in human trafficking, money laundering, tax fraud:

According to congressional investigators, six banks, including Bank of America, US Bank and Wells Fargo, have submitted more than 170 suspicious activity reports against the Biden family to the Treasury Department, alleging that they are involved in money laundering, human trafficking and tax fraud.
Posted by: andycanuck

I have to admit, I did not have that on my bingo card this week.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (tQvWB)

39 32 When I think of music, I don't think of auto-tuned horseshit that makes my ears bleed......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

What if you think about Katy Perry?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (xcxpd)

40 Left boycotts Jason Aldean. Song shoots to number two.

Right boycotts Bud Light. Costs them $30 billion and 13 ranking spots.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2023 11:04 AM (uiWTm)
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The Left also tried to boycott the Hogwart's Legacy video game (or whatever it's called.). It made over a billion dollars, I think...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (YIVH2)

41 In a world of good versus evil, there may be a lot of hidden "dog whistles" from the great deceiver Satan.

But from the "they always accuse others of the evil They are actually doing" Department ... these people (and their evil spirits) accuse good people of the very bad they are doing. The Devil constantly accused Jesus.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (Cus5s)

42 Lynching?

That practice by which Democrat governors and mayors once said "screw the law, we know what's Right and Good"?

That lynching?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (9UlRk)

43 20
Try that in a small town
We'll lynch your ass
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The only American College to lynch someone on campus was Harvard. It was not the students but the professors doing the lynching. They lynched a female Quaker street preacher for blasphemy. Given how the pacifist Quakers created the most deadly war in America's history the Harvard Round Heads might have been right to lynch the bitch.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (ppL7t)

44 A choice will likely have to be made; do we deal with the media/propaganda or the politicians first? They're joined at the hip, but one will not survive without the other.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2023 11:10 AM (Q4IgG)

45 A similar example of something from long ago being dredged up for a current smear is how the “The Eyes of Texas,” the University of Texas’ alma mater, was suddenly deemed racist in the tumultuous summer of 2020.

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Have they cancelled "The Yellow Rose of Texas" yet?

/Wasn't that a xenophobic misogynistic put-down of Tokyo Rose?

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:10 AM (L57Qg)

46 29 As soon as I saw the lyrics of the song contained the phrase "good ol' boys" I *knew* this song would be attacked as racist.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (YIVH2)

https://youtu.be/67gig0f4HLo

Posted by: Joey Biden at July 28, 2023 11:11 AM (ynpvh)

47 the former Cherokee capital of Tanasi, for which the state and river were named

I did not know that. The things you learn around here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2023 11:11 AM (Wnv9h)

48 I wonder if that courthouse is used for anything else? Like, maybe, court cases? Or legal proceedings? Or is it just a monument -- a temple, really -- for white-nationalists to use as a prop and dog-whistle to stir up hatred in craven small town Americans?

Chilling!

Posted by: red speck at July 28, 2023 11:11 AM (0Id0S)

49 The only American College to lynch someone on campus was Harvard. It was not the students but the professors doing the lynching. They lynched a female Quaker street preacher for blasphemy. Given how the pacifist Quakers created the most deadly war in America's history the Harvard Round Heads might have been right to lynch the bitch.

yeah but we SANG about a lynching that should count!

"hang Jeff Davis from the sour apple tree.."

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 28, 2023 11:11 AM (AcWfM)

50 As soon as I saw the lyrics of the song contained the phrase "good ol' boys" I *knew* this song would be attacked as racist.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2023 11:08 AM (YIVH2)

"Good ol' boys" v. "Keepin' it reelz"

GO!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

51 The media have “cried wolf” on non-racism so many times they have, unfortunately, made the word racist meaningless. If everything is racist, then nothing is….. the 1984-type tearing down of language continues…. If anything racist actually happened I doubt anyone would notice since we’ve always been at war with EastAsia….

I take that back… the knockout game in urban centers seems to have a racial element (targeting Asians mainly) but FNM will never point that out…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2023 11:12 AM (EtPNQ)

52 A choice will likely have to be made; do we deal with the media/propaganda or the politicians first? They're joined at the hip, but one will not survive without the other.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I personally think our media is the bigger of the two evils.

Posted by: Biergood at July 28, 2023 11:12 AM (FQWHA)

53 You are Free to be Racist.

You are Free to Express your Racisms.

You are Free to suffer the Consequences of your Racisms.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:12 AM (aoF75)

54 36 So when I wake up and I'm too lazy to make breakfast is it reasonable to eat yesterday's lasagna?

I have a dog who is quite clearly debating whether to abandon his hide chew and go chase something in the backyard thereby leaving his chew potentially to be poached by one of the other three. At this point it looks like he's staying with his chew.

Posted by: JEM at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (8erNz)

Breakfast is what you eat in the morning, not the type of food you eat.

Posted by: Joey Biden at July 28, 2023 11:12 AM (ynpvh)

55
What if you think about Katy Perry?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (xcxpd)

Boobs and ball gags.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

56 I wonder if that courthouse is used for anything else? Like, maybe, court cases? Or legal proceedings? Or is it just a monument -- a temple, really -- for white-nationalists to use as a prop and dog-whistle to stir up hatred in craven small town Americans?

Chilling!

One would think that with all the global warming, a little chilling would be a good thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2023 11:13 AM (eOEVl)

57 AutoCo has created what is clearly an intentional dog whistle that lends support to both the cruelty of the Trail of Tears and the ghastly practice of lynching.
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Clearly so.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:13 AM (krQz2)

58 45 A similar example of something from long ago being dredged up for a current smear is how the “The Eyes of Texas,” the University of Texas’ alma mater, was suddenly deemed racist in the tumultuous summer of 2020.

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Have they cancelled "The Yellow Rose of Texas" yet?

/Wasn't that a xenophobic misogynistic put-down of Tokyo Rose?

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:10 AM (L57Qg)

She was from Kalifornia.

Posted by: Joey Biden at July 28, 2023 11:13 AM (ynpvh)

59 I'm going to go out on a limb and say that every one of perpetrators of that lynching were Democrats, as were all the members of the KKK in that town.

Stop supporting the most historically racist institution still in existence. Until then, all the victimhood is unconvincing.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (z+89e)

60 Or how about Trump speeches? Do you remember how often the media called Trump rallies racist and problematic simply because he dared to speak in a particular city.

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I'm old enough to remember the "White Supremacist!" headlines after his first speech abroad in its defense of that evil & horrifying concept of "American Exceptionalism."

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (L57Qg)

61 These people are perpetually miserable, most are mentally ill and because of the partnering of psychiatry and left wing government,are not treated but encouraged to let that misery loose on the rest of us as it’s useful to the Marxists. It’s where the basis for cancel culture comes from. Robert ELee s church pew, Ethel Mermen s statue,the removal of monuments, renaming of mountains and forts. Erasing history under the guise of empathy for those wrongs or hurtful actions 100-200 years ago is much more acceptable than the Talibans methods.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (Kc3XX)

62 the former Cherokee capital of Tanasi, for which the state and river were named

I did not know that. The things you learn around here.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I must say I have wondered that about Lake Tansi. We looked at a couple of places there.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (tQvWB)

63 >>the former Cherokee capital of Tanasi

Capital?

Natives did not have a Capital. They didn't have cities either.

That's straight up nonsense.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (aoF75)

64 yeah but we SANG about a lynching that should count!

"hang Jeff Davis from the sour apple tree.."
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Round Heads are some serious homicidal freaks.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (ppL7t)

65 So did they ever establish if Choate was guilty?

If he was, good on em. Spared him a very unpleasant stay in prison.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (P5tzn)

66 A choice will likely have to be made; do we deal with the media/propaganda or the politicians first? They're joined at the hip, but one will not survive without the other.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

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I think both things need to be taken out together.
I dunno how you get better politicians with the media interference we currently have.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (RLLZj)

67 53 You are Free to be Racist.

You are Free to Express your Racisms.

You are Free to suffer the Consequences of your Racisms.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:12 AM (aoF75)

I drove one of those little cars around a racetrack; I was being racist.

Posted by: Joey Biden at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (ynpvh)

68 I can just see some lefty Nashville songwriters getting together to brainstorm counter narrative song lyrics such as:

Try that in a Starbucks
(the scorn you deserve for ordering a "large" instead of a "venti")

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (0VH88)

69 BZ, Buck. Very well done.

Posted by: MCPR at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (G0uHX)

70 I read that an edited version of the Aldean music video came out, with six 'racist' seconds removed. Does anybody know if Aldean approved that? If he did, I am very disappointed.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (MvF+J)

71 We say the left doesn't know how to meme. They really don't know how to boycott. (They know how to threaten. That's it)

Left boycotts Jason Aldean. Song shoots to number two.

Right boycotts Bud Light. Costs them $30 billion and 13 ranking spots.
Posted by: rickb223

It could also be a function of: there's way more of us than there are of them. 81 gorillion votes notwithstanding.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (kjOVp)

72 I take that back… the knockout game in urban centers seems to have a racial element (targeting Asians mainly) but FNM will never point that out…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 28, 2023 11:12 AM (EtPNQ)

"Polar bear hunting".....ya think?

Posted by: BignJames at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (AwYPR)

73 , but it is an obvious insult to those whose ancestors once made a life on this land…land which has been forever drowned.

Now do Hetch Hetchy valley dam which supplies San Francisco.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (X66Zg)

74 the former Cherokee capital of Tanasi

Capital?

Natives did not have a Capital. They didn't have cities either.

That's straight up nonsense.
Posted by: garrett

They must have garrett! Where else would they have filed their property deeds?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2023 11:16 AM (tQvWB)

75 68 I can just see some lefty Nashville songwriters getting together to brainstorm counter narrative song lyrics such as:

Try that in a Starbucks
(the scorn you deserve for ordering a "large" instead of a "venti")

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (0VH8

I once ordered a large in a place. Turned out I needed to order the Very Large.

Posted by: Joey Biden at July 28, 2023 11:16 AM (ynpvh)

76 A choice will likely have to be made; do we deal with the media/propaganda or the politicians first? They're joined at the hip, but one will not survive without the other.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Embrace the power of "and".

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2023 11:16 AM (uiWTm)

77 19 To those people that said, "It's only a beer can",

IT'S ONLY A SONG.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2023 11:05 AM (uiWTm)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This. So much this. Thanks rickb223

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 28, 2023 11:16 AM (N39Ws)

78 " the knockout game in urban centers seems to have a racial element (targeting Asians mainly) "

The latest example I've seen:
https://tinyurl.com/ycwnzbcp

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:17 AM (MvF+J)

79 I drove one of those little cars around a racetrack; I was being racist.
Posted by: Joey Biden at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (ynpvh)

Holy shit! I saw a guy at Hallet Race track... he was driving a WHITE CAR!!!

Yup... White Racist!

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 28, 2023 11:17 AM (oHd/0)

80
land which has been forever drowned

*thousands of cities, towns and villages flooded by the Three Gorges Dam have entered the chat*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2023 11:17 AM (n+4am)

81 73 , but it is an obvious insult to those whose ancestors once made a life on this land…land which has been forever drowned.

Now do Hetch Hetchy valley dam which supplies San Francisco.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (X66Zg)

:::Fistbump:::
I've made this point before. The enviros shut down dams, but they'd be damned if the shut down that damn dam that supplies their haven with water.

Posted by: Joey Biden at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (ynpvh)

82 I read that an edited version of the Aldean music video came out, with six 'racist' seconds removed. Does anybody know if Aldean approved that? If he did, I am very disappointed.
Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (MvF+J)
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Maybe he just wants to sing and sell a song. Maybe he doesn't want to stand up for a courthouse which might have some bad connotations. ¯\_(ツ

_/¯

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (krQz2)

83 >I read that an edited version of the Aldean music video came out, with six 'racist' seconds removed. Does anybody know if Aldean approved that? If he did, I am very disappointed.

the local news station which originally recorded those six seconds of video claimed copyright violation

Posted by: DB - the first name in tubas at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (geLO8)

84 And then we see…wait…you have got to be kidding ... we see a black man running with the Walnut Street Bridge as a backdrop. THE Walnut Street Bridge! The bridge on which a heinous lynching of a black man was perpetrated in 1906.

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During DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH?

REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (L57Qg)

85 I read that an edited version of the Aldean music video came out, with six 'racist' seconds removed. Does anybody know if Aldean approved that? If he did, I am very disappointed.
Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (MvF+J)

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Apparently, those were six seconds of FOX coverage that either never received the proper permission to be used or had the permission pulled after the fact.

So it was either remove it or go to court.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (RLLZj)

86 What is interesting is watching the country music artists respond when asked about Jason Aldean's song. Always thought the musicians in this genre were devoutly right leaning. Apparently some are pretty weak kneed.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (N39Ws)

87 ¯\_(ツ_/¯

The man with two heads!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

88 The same people that see the TN courthouse as a clear signal about lynching had ZERO problems with the blood-red, flag-draped, armed-guard-flanked backdrop of Biden's atrociously divisive speech a little while back. Ideological blindness is one thing. Democrats are entering cult territory.

Posted by: red speck at July 28, 2023 11:19 AM (0Id0S)

89 So now the Quakers started the Civil War, um, excuse me, the War of Southern Pigheadedness?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 28, 2023 11:19 AM (xTRSc)

90
You could play the same game with the name of this blog. I remember in my youth that the word 'spade' was used to refer derisively toward African-Americans. An 'ace' is someone proficient at some task. Together you have a slave-master.

Call the SPLC.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 28, 2023 11:19 AM (enJYY)

91 Update on the music video:
Jason Aldean's record label says copyright issues led to removal of BLM protest imagery in 'Try That in a Small Town' video.

https://tinyurl.com/26hbvv9y

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 28, 2023 11:19 AM (YwyqV)

92 Chilling!

One would think that with all the global warming, a little chilling would be a good thing.
Posted by: Archimedes

Do we have any ac repairmen on staff here at the HQ?

Could you check on the main unit? I think outside is low on freon.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2023 11:19 AM (uiWTm)

93 There were a number of unprovoked racial incidents subsequent to the Civil war but The Tulsa Race riot is not one of them. Just like the Matthew Shepard case, no one wants to know the details. The history has been written and that’s that.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:20 AM (MNhXM)

94 In case anyone who supports Aldean also thinks it’s regrettable that he chose this courthouse, thus providing ammunition to the cancel culture warriors in the media, it would make no difference. They determined that Aldean needed to be canceled, and then they went searching for a reason to call him racist. His opposition to urban riots alone was enough for them to call him racist.

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But the optics! Why won't anyone think of the optics?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:20 AM (LvTSG)

95 Tanasi, via Wiki:

"It was abandoned by the Cherokee in the 19th century for a rising town whose chief was more powerful."

Oh. OH.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:20 AM (kjOVp)

96 This isn’t any different than when they used Trumps hand gestures to imply he mocked the disabled reporter, Serge Kovaleski. Find the enemy, make up the crime.

Posted by: Rex B at July 28, 2023 11:20 AM (NPkX1)

97 I think we lost the war when we capitulated to the general concept that racism is so intolerable it's the Mark of Satan and must be stamped out everywhere without remorse. Racism is just another negative human emotion, like many other negative human emotions. I'm not condoning or endorsing it. I don't like it. I'm just saying that racism exists, it will always exist, and it exists in every race, culture, and ethnicity. It's far from the most destructive human emotion. But somehow, it's been made to be the Mark of Satan deserving of immediate expulsion. Well, at least when certain people do it. For others, it's no biggie.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 28, 2023 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

98 So now the Quakers started the Civil War, um, excuse me, the War of Southern Pigheadedness?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

War of Yankee Aggression.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2023 11:20 AM (uiWTm)

99 land which has been forever drowned
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*thousands of cities, towns and villages flooded by the Three Gorges Dam have entered the chat*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2023 11:17 AM (n+4am)
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That's okay, it would be racist to accuse the Chinese government of making a bad decision.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:20 AM (krQz2)

100 In Aldean's video, the country singer and his band perform in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, the same site where 18-year-old Henry Choate was lynched in 1927 after he was accused of assaulting a white 16-year-old girl.
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Talk about a stretch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:20 AM (t0OGg)

101 You could play the same game with the name of this blog. I remember in my youth that the word 'spade' was used to refer derisively toward African-Americans. An 'ace' is someone proficient at some task. Together you have a slave-master.

Call the SPLC.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 28, 2023 11:19 AM (enJYY)

I have an old Mad Magazine from the 70's. There's a spoof in it, and I don't remember the movie it was spoofing, but there's the most racist stuff ever put in print.

"Say spade. I haven't seen you in a coon's age. How's my little black-eyed pea?"

I can't believe my house hasn't spontaneously combusted from it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

102 More racism in Oregon - André Lightsey-Walker, a black guy who has bounced between Left-wing organizations and local governments in employment, denounced the governor-appointed Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee because he is the only minority person on the eight-person committee.

Oregon is more than three-quarters non-Hispanic white, and less than 2% black. Judging from the various state commissions and other boards appointed by the governor that I've seen, I'd estimate that black people are overrepresented on these boards by a least a factor of ten.

For example, the governor-appointed board to run the Portland metro transit system has two white people, one Hispanic, two Asians, and two black people.

No matter - racism is everywhere!

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (2tUFv)

103 >>Or how about Trump speeches? Do you remember how often the media called Trump rallies racist and problematic simply because he dared to speak in a particular city.

When Biden declared for the presidency he claimed the reason he was getting into the race was because of Trump's comments about "good people" at the Charlottesville riot.

Never mind it was a complete and easily debunked lie, he knew the media would never call him on it and they didn't. The premise of his entire campaign was that Trump and all of us by extension are racists.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (ZLI7S)

104 89 So now the Quakers started the Civil War, um, excuse me, the War of Southern Pigheadedness?
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Crazy Quakers developed the Struggle Session. They are the one's that asked What Would Jesus Do? As a result, they became monsters. Pretty sure Mao studied them. All they had to do was read the fucking Bible to know what to do. But, nooooo..

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (ppL7t)

105 85,91 Thanks for the info! I'm still disappointed.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (MvF+J)

106 Again, my criticism is a parody. There is nothing racist, or insensitive, or inappropriate about this ad.

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You could have also gone with "and everybody knows that black people don't hike or camp -- it's social construct tool of the white cisheteropatrarchical oppressor -- REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (L57Qg)

107 85 I read that an edited version of the Aldean music video came out, with six 'racist' seconds removed. Does anybody know if Aldean approved that? If he did, I am very disappointed.
Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (MvF+J)

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Apparently, those were six seconds of FOX coverage that either never received the proper permission to be used or had the permission pulled after the fact.

So it was either remove it or go to court.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (RLLZj)

Twas a parody, your honor; FOX says they're fair and balanced was just showing they're not.

Posted by: Joey Biden at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (ynpvh)

108 but it is an obvious insult to those whose ancestors once made a life on this land…land which has been forever drowned.

That's a long time.

Posted by: BignJames at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (AwYPR)

109 Always thought the musicians in this genre were devoutly right leaning. Apparently some are pretty weak kneed.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (N39Ws)

Bullcrap. They're a pile of American Bandstand leftovers and soy sipping poseurs. Any dickweed can put on a stupid hat, wrap themselves in a flag, and say "y'all" a lot. They're entertainers. Actors. Frivolous people cashing in on other frivolous people's awful taste in music.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (9UlRk)

110 Also please note that the American flag draped on the courthouse is not the flag that was being waved by Democrat nightriders a century ago.
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Uh-h, Buck. You should never - EVER - bring up the fact that the Klan were a bunch of murderous Democrat Party enforcers that obscured their identities and engaged in street warfare on behalf of - and with the open support of - the Democrat Party.

Just like Antifa, come to think of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)

111 we make da rules !!

Posted by: Black folks at July 28, 2023 11:22 AM (us2H3)

112
What if you think about Katy Perry?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (xcxpd)

Boobs and ball gags.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

Great boobs.

Defiled by Russell Brand.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2023 11:22 AM (n+4am)

113 92 Chilling!

One would think that with all the global warming, a little chilling would be a good thing.
Posted by: Archimedes

Do we have any ac repairmen on staff here at the HQ?

Could you check on the main unit? I think outside is low on freon.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2023 11:19 AM (uiWTm)

Sorry, they don't use that anymore...you have to use this ozone friendly stuff (which isn't 100% ozone friendly) that does a shit job instead.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

114 Why on earth would the President of the United States speaking to a crowd of supporters in Oklahoma’s second largest city during a presidential campaign be racially problematic? Well according to the media, Trump had no business speaking in a city that had a race riot 99 years prior, especially since Trump’s speech was just a month after the George Floyd riots.
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And who said the Left isn't down with history or thinks we're eternally in Year Zero? They use history all the time!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)

115 103 >>Or how about Trump speeches? Do you remember how often the media called Trump rallies racist and problematic simply because he dared to speak in a particular city.

When Biden declared for the presidency he claimed the reason he was getting into the race was because of Trump's comments about "good people" at the Charlottesville riot.

Never mind it was a complete and easily debunked lie, he knew the media would never call him on it and they didn't. The premise of his entire campaign was that Trump and all of us by extension are racists.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (ZLI7S)

Trump missed a huge opportunity in the debates. When called a racist, all he had to do was remind Joe that out of the two of them, only Joe has eulogized a Klan member.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2023 11:22 AM (KbCG3)

116 “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”

EMBRACE THE HORROR !!!

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (RHGPo)

117
Great boobs.

Defiled by Russell Brand.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2023 11:22 AM (n+4am)

But, he's more sane now than he's ever been.......a rip in the space/time continuum?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

118 "Always thought the musicians in this genre were devoutly right leaning."

It's branding, and it's about money.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (MvF+J)

119 The core argument the FNM is making is the black people are inherently all criminals.

So calling for simple laws against theft and violence to be enforced you are "racist". And THIS is the most racist thing I could imagine someone claiming to be true.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (lc5cP)

120 83.The video is a montage of numerous media video recordings of the riots , including some in Canada that were broadcast. One station did not get their nickel apparently from Aldeams production company.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (Kc3XX)

121 I have an old Mad Magazine from the 70's. There's a spoof in it, and I don't remember the movie it was spoofing, but there's the most racist stuff ever put in print.

"Say spade. I haven't seen you in a coon's age. How's my little black-eyed pea?"

I can't believe my house hasn't spontaneously combusted from it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)
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Ah, the good ol' days (is that racist?)! When satire and parody were allowed to be funny! Mad Magazine had a lot of blatantly racist content, but it was all tongue-in-cheek and not meant to be taken seriously. They could never get away with it nowadays...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (YIVH2)

122 110 Uh-h, Buck. You should never - EVER - bring up the fact that the Klan were a bunch of murderous Democrat Party enforcers that obscured their identities and engaged in street warfare on behalf of - and with the open support of - the Democrat Party.

Just like Antifa, come to think of it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)

=========

That was before the parties switched, which is why modern day conservative Republicans love FDR and modern day progressive Democrats love Coolidge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (LvTSG)

123 Again, my criticism is a parody.
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But it's spot-on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (t0OGg)

124 What is interesting is watching the country music artists respond when asked about Jason Aldean's song. Always thought the musicians in this genre were devoutly right leaning. Apparently some are pretty weak kneed.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (N39Ws)

Country music is filled with lefties.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (e4fEA)

125 Sorry, they don't use that anymore...you have to use this ozone friendly stuff (which isn't 100% ozone friendly) that does a shit job instead.
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True, but this profits Delaware, home of the most popularly elected Precedent of all time. So its a good thing.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (ppL7t)

126 Not a criticism of Aldean specifically but I finally listened to the song expecting some kind of fight anthem and honestly the song itself is weakass pussy shit. How far we've fallen.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (3j4i9)

127 Oregon is more than three-quarters non-Hispanic white, and less than 2% black. Judging from the various state commissions and other boards appointed by the governor that I've seen, I'd estimate that black people are overrepresented on these boards by a least a factor of ten.

For example, the governor-appointed board to run the Portland metro transit system has two white people, one Hispanic, two Asians, and two black people.

Pffffft.

Posted by: Madison Avenue at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (eOEVl)

128 Ah, the good ol' days (is that racist?)! When satire and parody were allowed to be funny! Mad Magazine had a lot of blatantly racist content, but it was all tongue-in-cheek and not meant to be taken seriously. They could never get away with it nowadays...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (YIVH2)

See also, Blazing Saddles

"The Sherriff is a.."

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (YwyqV)

129 That was before the parties switched, which is why modern day conservative Republicans love FDR and modern day progressive Democrats love Coolidge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (LvTSG)
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Well, you're right about the first part of that. Modern-day Republicans love all those precious norms Roosevelt put into place...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (t0OGg)

130 There are hundreds of rap songs that have lyrics that are unambiguous in regard to being racist, violent and misogynistic.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (MNhXM)

131 118 "Always thought the musicians in this genre were devoutly right leaning."

It's branding, and it's about money.
Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (MvF+J)

Check out Bo Burnham's song "Pandering."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (KbCG3)

132 I was reading an article on "wasteful things people still insist on buying at the grocery store" on some FNM site.

#1? Cheese.

That's right in the Bideneconomy cheese is an extravagance.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (lc5cP)

133 The sheriff is N..ear

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (RHGPo)

134 116 “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”

EMBRACE THE HORROR !!!
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (RHGPo)

=========

I haven't given this change in messaging much thought, but I really think it's going to backfire.

Not in any sort of spectacular sort of way, but in a more mundane, "This guy is full of shit," sort of way. The world is boiling but...people aren't dying from weather? WTF, dude.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:25 AM (LvTSG)

135 ---
Ah, the good ol' days (is that racist?)! When satire and parody were allowed to be funny! Mad Magazine had a lot of blatantly racist content, but it was all tongue-in-cheek and not meant to be taken seriously. They could never get away with it nowadays...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (YIVH2)

Ah yes.....progressive. Dragging us kicking and screaming back to the stone age.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

136 Country music is filled with lefties.
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Country music died somewhere in the 1980s.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:25 AM (ppL7t)

137 Always thought the musicians in this genre were devoutly right leaning. Apparently some are pretty weak kneed.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Country Music is as well-represented in the one-eye club as any other genre. Sad, but true. Heck, even the top Contemporary Christian music artists are ticket-taking club members.

That's the only way to the top, you know.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:25 AM (kjOVp)

138
But the optics! Why won't anyone think of the optics?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Doctor my eyes

Posted by: Brown Jackson at July 28, 2023 11:25 AM (63Dwl)

139 July 18, 2023 was National Caviar Day

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:25 AM (RHGPo)

140 >>“the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”

Show us where your Temperature Stations are located in Phoenix, Today.

...compared with the ones that were not there 100 years ago.

Oh. There were none 100 years ago? And Today's is surrounded by Blacktop?

Gotcha.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (aoF75)

141 Dolly Parton's boobs > Katy Perry's boobs.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (0VH88)

142 129 Well, you're right about the first part of that. Modern-day Republicans love all those precious norms Roosevelt put into place...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (t0OGg)

=========

I'd rip up all of the New Deal with my bare hands, if I could.

Lionel Barrymore was right!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (LvTSG)

143
Be better, Leftards.

Posted by: mrp at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (rj6Yv)

144 Aldean’s dream town sounds like nothing but a town full of serial domestic violence perpetrators and rapists. Men like the ones that killed Till and lynched others. He is a cheerleader of white male incel small dick energy violent attitudes.

It is an artifact of the Nashville “Music industry,” a purely calculated commercial product designed to sell racist xenophobia the way pop culture used to just sell commodified pseudo-sexuality. Aldean was happy to make himself the public face of that.

Enough to put it at #1 on the country chart, displacing the first #1 country song solo written by a black woman. I’m kind of surprised the bigots aren’t playing that part up, about how this song beat the “woke” (aka black) song.

All are welcome in small town America (except members of the trans communities), as long as they know and adhere to the hierarchy, which puts white males first, in charge of, and on top of, everyone else. Living in small town America presumes that everyone knows their place, and stays in it. If you’re gay, that’s fine, too, as long as no one knows, and you stay in the closet.

Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (JCZqz)

145 It could also be a function of: there's way more of us than there are of them. 81 gorillion votes notwithstanding.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:15 AM (kjOVp)

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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us that we're in the minority -- when in fact we're in the vast majority.

"81 million votes, my ass ..."

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (L57Qg)

146 So succeed in the music industry you have to have connections and s*ck d*ck.

Expecting these people to generally stand on principles is...well...its not a good bet.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (lc5cP)

147 >Country music is filled with lefties.

Posted by: Diogenes

Tim McGraw is all in on gun control, for instance

Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (geLO8)

148 137 Always thought the musicians in this genre were devoutly right leaning. Apparently some are pretty weak kneed.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Country Music is as well-represented in the one-eye club as any other genre. Sad, but true. Heck, even the top Contemporary Christian music artists are ticket-taking club members.

That's the only way to the top, you know.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:25 AM (kjOVp)
________________

" . . . and it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll . . . ."

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

149 > Country music is filled with lefties.
_____________

Nashville resembles San Francisco without as much shit on the sidewalks and fewer syringes. But the mindset is the same.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (Q4IgG)

150 84 And then we see…wait…you have got to be kidding ... we see a black man running with the Walnut Street Bridge as a backdrop. THE Walnut Street Bridge! The bridge on which a heinous lynching of a black man was perpetrated in 1906.

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During DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH?

REALLY???
Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:18 AM (L57Qg)

AND SHARK WEEK?

Posted by: Bruce, Big Hollywood Movie Star at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (z+89e)

151 That's right in the Bideneconomy cheese is an extravagance.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (lc5cP)

Unless it's Government Brand Cheese.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (9UlRk)

152 Today is World Hepatitis Day

go out an get some

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (RHGPo)

153

Tim McGraw is all in on gun control, for instance
Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (geLO8

He and his wife are actors now. They're trying to be hollywood elite. It's a requirement.

Dolly Parton is all in on the LGBTQ++ bandwagon now too.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

154 Not a criticism of Aldean specifically but I finally listened to the song expecting some kind of fight anthem and honestly the song itself is weakass pussy shit. How far we've fallen.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (3j4i9)

He never meant it to be a fight song. It’s just another country song that had been out and played on the radio months before this fake controversy. How is the song an example of how far we’ve fallen?

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (MNhXM)

155 >> >Country music is filled with lefties.

We would also have accepted 'Fags'.

Posted by: Judges at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (aoF75)

156 All are welcome in small town America (except members of the trans communities), as long as they know and adhere to the hierarchy, which puts white males first, in charge of, and on top of, everyone else. Living in small town America presumes that everyone knows their place, and stays in it. If you’re gay, that’s fine, too, as long as no one knows, and you stay in the closet.
Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (JCZqz)
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Finally! Someone who understands Small Town, U.S.A! /sarc

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (YIVH2)

157 Is Hep the one you get from eating infected food or by playing hide the salami?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (lc5cP)

158 Vince Coglianese @VinceCoglianese 20h
Here's a wild detail from the Hunter Biden court transcript:

The infamous "paragraph 15" -- which contained a stunning non-prosecution agreement for Hunter -- wasn't provided to the judge until just before the hearing.

JUDGE: "I didn't get a copy of paragraph 15"

https://tinyurl.com/2sdnvk26
[IMAGES]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (krqg6)

159 141 Dolly Parton's boobs > Katy Perry's boobs.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (0VH8

Maybe at their peak. Would you choose Dolly Parton's over Katy Perry's today?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

160
The world is boiling but...people aren't dying from weather? WTF, dude.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No, but they are dying from CLIMATE!

Posted by: U.N. Doofus at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (63Dwl)

161 They need to tear that bridge down that was used for the lynching.

Someone get Mayor Pete off his vacation and on the project.

Posted by: torabora at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (OUiUM)

162 Enough to put it at #1 on the country chart, displacing the first #1 country song solo written by a black woman. I’m kind of surprised the bigots aren’t playing that part up, about how this song beat the “woke” (aka black) song.

So you're admitting that this pack of vile racists made a black woman's song #1? Interesting strategy.

Not smart, but interesting.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (eOEVl)

163 Leftists always put their views on opponents, I read the lyrics and nothing is on it racism, see the video and nothing there either

Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (cTNA/)

164 Dolly Parton is all in on the LGBTQ++ bandwagon now too.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

She's just trying to love people where they are. Why do you have to be so mean?!

/sarc

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (YwyqV)

165 Country music is filled with lefties.
****

Maren Morris is a good example, but there are many.

Posted by: Biergood at July 28, 2023 11:29 AM (FQWHA)

166 I think we lost the war when we capitulated to the general concept that racism is so intolerable it's the Mark of Satan and must be stamped out everywhere without remorse.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 28, 2023 11:20 AM (iFTx/)
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From my current conception, racism is a particular mark of Satan: he is the first racist. He hates the human race.

The problem is that even if racists are tares, a Christian tradition would tell us that God doesn't rip out the tares because it would uproot the wheat. So, guided by that, we would be a little more circumspect about what kind of damage can be done with ruthless rooting out, and how much good we can do going against His wisdom.

On the other side, no one can say that advocacy for one's genetic strain isn't a pro-survival attribute.

That's the deep intellectual problem with today's "thinkers" they forget whether or not they are evolved animals, who simply want to survive.

Why hasn't racism died out? Maybe, because it is not at least a negative to survival.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:29 AM (krQz2)

167 142 129 Well, you're right about the first part of that. Modern-day Republicans love all those precious norms Roosevelt put into place...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:24 AM (t0OGg)

=========

I'd rip up all of the New Deal with my bare hands, if I could.

Lionel Barrymore was right!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (LvTSG)

Lots of terrible precedents during that period. Wickard v. Filmore, for instance. Sorry, you CAN'T grow more than a certain amount of grain on YOUR LAND, even if it's for YOUR OWN USE, because if affects the price of grain by you not buying it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:29 AM (ynpvh)

168 “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”

EMBRACE THE HORROR !!!

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (RHGPo)

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They already had me at "climate apocalypse."

/

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:29 AM (L57Qg)

169 Tim McGraw is all in on gun control, for instance
Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (geLO8

He and his wife are actors now. They're trying to be hollywood elite. It's a requirement.

Dolly Parton is all in on the LGBTQ++ bandwagon now too.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Tim McGraw is a created country singer. He was a Frat boy who decided he wanted to be a country singer and he got help from his estranged Dad , Tug.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:29 AM (MNhXM)

170 If I were Tim McGraw I'd be happy enough just staying home and doing stuff with Faith Hill all day

Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:29 AM (geLO8)

171
So you're admitting that this pack of vile racists made a black woman's song #1? Interesting strategy.

See also

America is an irredeemably racist country that will never give black people a chance AND Barack Obama was elected in a free and fair election...twice

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2023 11:29 AM (lc5cP)

172 Pffffft.

A few years ago, the Oregon public radio system denounced the fact that only 2% of the school principals in Oregon were black, which was clearly shocking and obviously racist.

Again, Oregon is 2% black.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 28, 2023 11:30 AM (2tUFv)

173 >>Dolly Parton is all in on the LGBTQ++ bandwagon now too.

Dolly is a Lesbian Icon.

No idea how it happened...
but you should have seen the Carpet Munchers that came here to look at the Dolly Parton Pinball Machine I sold last year. So many dykes.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:30 AM (aoF75)

174 I saw an interview with Loretta Lynn in which she was talking about how when she wrote her song The Pill, her record company did not want to put it out and stations boycotted it after the Baptists complained. This was in the 60s. She would be the first one to tell Aldean to ignore the yapping and write another song that tells it like it is.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 28, 2023 11:30 AM (Kc3XX)

175 National Refreshment Day

go out and get some

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:30 AM (RHGPo)

176 The United States is the least racist country in the World.

Fight me!

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:30 AM (MNhXM)

177
But, he's more sane now than he's ever been.......a rip in the space/time continuum?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

I've enjoyed his political shift over the last couple of years.

But he's still an unwashed human petri dish.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2023 11:30 AM (n+4am)

178 So you're admitting that this pack of vile racists made a black woman's song #1? Interesting strategy.

Not smart, but interesting.
Posted by: Archimedes

Great point.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:30 AM (kjOVp)

179 Re - Dolly v. Katy Boobs:
"Maybe at their peak. Would you choose Dolly Parton's over Katy Perry's today?"

Why yes, yes I would. As long as she keeps the wig on.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at July 28, 2023 11:31 AM (0VH88)

180
THE Walnut Street Bridge!

Feeling groovy

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2023 11:31 AM (63Dwl)

181
'Sexual lobotomy' - just heard someone describe the so-called 'gender affirming' surgery as that equivalent.

That's a keeper.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 28, 2023 11:31 AM (enJYY)

182 164

'Why do you have to be so mean?!'

I'm not mean enough frankly.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:31 AM (yvHe0)

183 Bullcrap. They're a pile of American Bandstand leftovers and soy sipping poseurs. Any dickweed can put on a stupid hat, wrap themselves in a flag, and say "y'all" a lot. They're entertainers. Actors. Frivolous people cashing in on other frivolous people's awful taste in music.

*golf clap*

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 28, 2023 11:31 AM (Xrfse)

184 The world is boiling but...people aren't dying from weather? WTF, dude.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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But-but all that myocarditis!!! Unprecedented weather is causing that!

Posted by: Spinners at July 28, 2023 11:31 AM (krQz2)

185 Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (YwyqV)

side to side...top to bottom?

Posted by: BignJames at July 28, 2023 11:31 AM (AwYPR)

186 159 141 Dolly Parton's boobs > Katy Perry's boobs.

Posted by: CoolHandLuke at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (0VH8

Maybe at their peak. Would you choose Dolly Parton's over Katy Perry's today?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM

Where do Kate Upton and Ellie Idol rank?

Posted by: Perv Moron at July 28, 2023 11:31 AM (JCZqz)

187 170 If I were Tim McGraw I'd be happy enough just staying home and doing stuff with Faith Hill all day
Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:29 AM (geLO

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Apparently, what they most like to do together is make money.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 28, 2023 11:32 AM (RLLZj)

188 163 Leftists always put their views on opponents, I read the lyrics and nothing is on it racism, see the video and nothing there either
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (cTNA/)

It's against looting and general sociopathy. Looting and general sociopathy are defining features of Authentic Blackness In America. Therefore it's anti-Black. What's hard to get about that?

(And these assmonkeys have the nerve to call anyone else racist)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2023 11:32 AM (9UlRk)

189 Never had a Dolly Parton thing. Butterface with a bad wig. Can’t stand her voice, either.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 28, 2023 11:32 AM (xTRSc)

190 Whatever happened with the "Rock-a-bye" guy?

--and Billy Ocean's "Get out of My dreams and into my car" is a pretty catchy rapey song.

Posted by: logprof listening to music whilst eating at July 28, 2023 11:32 AM (BwBUI)

191 Again, my criticism is a parody.

*******

Yeah, and we "get" it, Buck. But all the grievance mongers will hear is "Blah, blah, blah!" The actual meaning of plain English words and sentences no longer matters much.

I noted after reading JJ's Morning thread that the violent trans activists who were threatening the lives of school board members in Chino Valley, CA were angry that (in their interpretation) the board was planning to 'out' gay and trans individuals by broadcasting to all parents in the school district, when in fact the new rule required the parents of the individual student be notified of gender identity issues of their child. The facts did not matter, they were primed and ready to be outraged no matter what, just as the racial grievance crowd is. Parody, no matter how well crafted, is outside their realm of comprehension. And as you point out, doesn't need a basis for their outrage, just a target.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2023 11:32 AM (zLLgI)

192 No idea how it happened...
but you should have seen the Carpet Munchers that came here to look at the Dolly Parton Pinball Machine I sold last year. So many dykes.
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Dykes are envious of big steel balls that bounce rigorously.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:32 AM (ppL7t)

193 I like Baroque music. Do you know how many black Baroque composers there were? Zero! Zero. Point. Zero.

How do I live with myself?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2023 11:33 AM (eOEVl)

194 Tim McGraw is a created country singer. He was a Frat boy who decided he wanted to be a country singer and he got help from his estranged Dad , Tug.
Posted by: polynikes

Alan Jackson had a hit song back in the 90s that made fun of the fake country artists like McGraw called Gone Country.

Posted by: Biergood at July 28, 2023 11:33 AM (FQWHA)

195 Let me stress, there is nothing racist about this advertisement, either intentionally or inadvertently. Neither Ford nor B&O had any racist intent, nor did they produce a racist commercial. The point I am trying to make is that the race warriors going after Aldean could find “shocking” racism anywhere they wanted, and I am using this commercial as an example.

-

I disagree.

There is tons of racism in those commercials, and they know it. In the exact same way all Trump supporters are white supremacists. Do white supremacists exist?
Yes. Do blacks and Asians kayak, skateboard, hike, etc.? Yes. But it's absurd to market vehicles based on it, and the only reason it's done is to pretend that it's some common thing, the same way that mixed couples on TV are in every advertisement, or that the white guy is the stupidest person in the room everywhere he goes.

It's absolutely built on bigotry and discrimination. I'd wager most of the people creating the commercials don't know, work, or live by blacks or black culture, and it's all pretend and based entirely on what they believe "black culture" is or what they want it to be.

Vs what it really is:

https://youtu.be/nAoJObIqYX4

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 28, 2023 11:33 AM (SpC+Q)

196 Dolly is a Lesbian Icon.

No idea how it happened...
but you should have seen the Carpet Munchers that came here to look at the Dolly Parton Pinball Machine I sold last year. So many dykes.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:30 AM (aoF75)

Here I thought lesbians didn't like to play with balls. Wrong on country music being devoutly right leaning, wrong on lesbians and balls. Guess I better quit while I'm ahead.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 28, 2023 11:33 AM (N39Ws)

197 >>Ellie Idol

heh...that chick was smokin'.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:33 AM (aoF75)

198 Blue State wannabe country singers flock to Nashville.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:33 AM (MNhXM)

199 189 Never had a Dolly Parton thing. Butterface with a bad wig. Can’t stand her voice, either.
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You should have seen her in the sixties. Wasp waist with oodles of boobs. Porter Wagner was pounding that thing.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:34 AM (ppL7t)

200 Vs what it really is:

https://youtu.be/nAoJObIqYX4

--

That's Arthur Ashe Charter School btw.

Which is simultaneously hilarious and sad.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 28, 2023 11:34 AM (SpC+Q)

201 188
'these assmonkeys have the nerve to call anyone else racist'

They have the nerve because they're not in pain. Only by suffering will they re-acquire humility and sanity.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:34 AM (yvHe0)

202 169 Tim McGraw is all in on gun control, for instance
Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (geLO8

He and his wife are actors now. They're trying to be hollywood elite. It's a requirement.

Dolly Parton is all in on the LGBTQ++ bandwagon now too.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Tim McGraw is a created country singer. He was a Frat boy who decided he wanted to be a country singer and he got help from his estranged Dad , Tug.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:29 AM (MNhXM)
__________

They are ALL "created" country singers now. It's like a line of robots out of Central Casting. They men all look and sound exactly alike. Ditto the ladies. The only variable is that the younger singers tend to drift a bit toward the biker aesthetic with their heavy tattoos. But even that it programmed in the Lab. When I hear a new country song, I can tell you exactly what the signer looks like before I even google him/her.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 28, 2023 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

203 I saw Dolly at Radio City Music hall back in 88 or so...

the Band she was traveling with was pretty much an All-Star Ensemble. Incredible musicians on that stage.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (aoF75)

204 The United States is the least racist country in the World.

Fight me!
Posted by: polynikes

I dunno. Norway, Sweden, the U.K., and several E.U. nations are pretty suicidal as well. I mean not racist.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (kjOVp)

205 The United States is the least racist country in the World.

Fight me!

What about India? /s

Just don't be an untouchable trying to get a job at any Silicon Valley firm run by Brahmins.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (2tUFv)

206
When it affects the Left, history began yesterday.

When it affects the rest of us, history is there to haunt you no matter how far back it has to go.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (MoZTd)

207 >>> Enough to put it at #1 on the country chart, displacing the first #1 country song solo written by a black woman. I’m kind of surprised the bigots aren’t playing that part up, about how this song beat the “woke” (aka black) song.

This is hilarious because just a few days ago they were shrieking that the black woman (Tracy Chapman) wasn't getting enough credit for the song now sung by a white guy.

Posted by: DJ at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (uosPt)

208 Leftists always put their views on opponents, I read the lyrics and nothing is on it racism, see the video and nothing there either
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2023 11:28 AM (cTNA/)

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They haven't changed the way their mind works, they've just translated their pattern of bigotry to another vector.

People who don't have my skin color are inferior became people who don't have my politics are inferior. It self-justifies the willful acts that they inflict on other people.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (krQz2)

209 I've been trying to think about a member of the media with a redeeming quality
I've been unsuccessful thus far.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (HfNu5)

210 "Maury County courthouse."

If that's not 'racist' enough for you, note that the entire video was shot and produced on stolen land, by the people who stole it. The lefties always have that fallback position. Disregard their horseshit.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (MvF+J)

211 You know, Buck, you could get that essay about AutoCo published in just about any academic journal!

Posted by: PJ at July 28, 2023 11:36 AM (G1dq6)

212 193 Me too, but I didn't break it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:36 AM (MvF+J)

213 209 I've been trying to think about a member of the media with a redeeming quality
I've been unsuccessful thus far.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (HfNu5)

Some don't reproduce.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:36 AM (ynpvh)

214 I've lived in Texas for over twenty years now, but I must admit, country music is not my music. No hatred, just not my taste.

It's only been two days since I heard of Morgan Wallen for the first time ever. Country fans, is he any good?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (b8LUX)

215
Just don't be an untouchable trying to get a job at any Silicon Valley firm run by Brahmins.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (2tUFv)

___________

Dot Indians are either the nicest people in the world or insufferable assholes. I suspect Brahmins make up most of the latter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (MoZTd)

216 Whoops.

The Arthur Ashe Charter School was supposed to start at 4:31

Correct link to the specific time here. Pay attention to the adults cheering and going crazy:

https://youtu.be/nAoJObIqYX4?t=271

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (SpC+Q)

217 I think a lot of the so-called 'famous people' (performers, politicians, etc.) get briefed on what is and isn't acceptable to their perceived supporters from people with an agenda that sometimes has nothing in common with said 'famous people.'

Yet these individuals are unable to think for themselves. They get surprised, go into denial when there's backlash.

They are unserious and profoundly stupid people.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (Q4IgG)

218 Bullcrap. They're a pile of American Bandstand leftovers and soy sipping poseurs. Any dickweed can put on a stupid hat, wrap themselves in a flag, and say "y'all" a lot. They're entertainers. Actors. Frivolous people cashing in on other frivolous people's awful taste in music.

*golf clap*
Posted by: Notorious BFD

This deserves more of a standing ovation, honestly.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (kjOVp)

219 Buck is a pretty racist name, steeped in a kind of simultaneous lust for and othering of black men's bodies.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (KFhLj)

220 Yet another summer COVID wave may have started in the U.S., according to the CDC

.. I've seen this movie before

If Joe Biden wants another dozen boosters, I'm all for it

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (RHGPo)

221 In Aldean's video, the country singer and his band perform in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, the same site where 18-year-old Henry Choate was lynched in 1927 after he was accused of assaulting a white 16-year-old girl.
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I always knew there was something I didn't like about Maury Povich!

Now I know he's a racist.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (krQz2)

222 >They are ALL "created" country singers now. It's like a line of robots out of Central Casting.

One thing for sure: you have to wear The Hat
the hat means you're authentic

Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (geLO8)

223
Ah, the good ol' days (is that racist?)! When satire and parody were allowed to be funny! Mad Magazine had a lot of blatantly racist content, but it was all tongue-in-cheek and not meant to be taken seriously. They could never get away with it nowadays...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2023 11:23 AM (YIVH2)

Uncle Kunta in National Lampoon...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (n+4am)

224 FWP, I keep being suggested insane MSDNC clips on my Roku/YT. I have googled repeatedly for some way to stop them from taking up serious suggestion space but to no avail.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (aD39U)

225 Jason Aldean is the Lee Greenwood of Buck Owenses.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (zLLgI)

226 193 I suggested to my public library that they play classical music at the entrance, to repel all the bums that hang out there. They laffed on me.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (MvF+J)

227 225 Jason Aldean is the Lee Greenwood of Buck Owenses.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (zLLgI)

Sorry, I don't speak Country.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

228 Dolly is a Lesbian Icon.

No idea how it happened...
but you should have seen the Carpet Munchers that came here to look at the Dolly Parton Pinball Machine I sold last year. So many dykes.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:30 AM (aoF75)

Big tits are universal?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)

229
It's only been two days since I heard of Morgan Wallen for the first time ever. Country fans, is he any good?
Posted by: Pete in Texas

Of the newer artists, I like him. He writes good drinking songs.

Posted by: Biergood at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (FQWHA)

230 The United States is the least racist country in the World.

Fight me!
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:30 AM (MNhXM)
***

This.
I have travelled, worked in, and lived in a number of foreign countries and the US is absolutely the least racist country I have ever experienced. I had a black sergeant who married a German girl. Lovely woman. I asked him how it was going for him. He said, "Sir, these Germans are assholes! I'm taking Hilda back to the States."

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (e4fEA)

231 ... Enough to put it at #1 on the country chart, displacing the first #1 country song solo written by a black woman. I’m kind of surprised the bigots aren’t playing that part up, about how this song beat the “woke” (aka black) song. ...
Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 28, 2023 11:26 AM (JCZqz)
++++
LOL. Do they *really* think that wokeness is black (or female) and that wokeness (or femaleness) is wokeness?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

232 Sorry, I don't speak Country.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

But do you speak jive?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (YwyqV)

233 My local rag pulled a brilliant one this am (online). As I posted in the morning report there was a shooting about 1 1/2 miles from my house and the guy was left dead in the street. The first name was Dominique. Despite the fact that the police post said a 28 year old man had been killed , the paper reported in the headline that it was a woman. It was corrected but the stupid had already occurred

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 28, 2023 11:39 AM (S75Fo)

234 He and his wife are actors now. They're trying to be hollywood elite. It's a requirement.

--

And that's one of the reasons I don't get the fascination with actors.

If you can easily move from your previous unrelated job and straight into acting, and more than half of the people doing it can do it decently, then acting isn't something special.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 28, 2023 11:39 AM (SpC+Q)

235
They are ALL "created" country singers now. It's like a line of robots out of Central Casting.

_________

I would like half a dozen Terri Clarks, please.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2023 11:39 AM (MoZTd)

236 What ever happened to Western music ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:39 AM (RHGPo)

237 The key to writing good country music is to ALWAYS choose the first word listed in the rhyming dictionary.

Car -> bar

Don't get all intellectual and use guitar or sitar.

Just use the first word in the rhyming dictionary and you will do great.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:39 AM (aoF75)

238 but you should have seen the Carpet Munchers that came here to look at the Dolly Parton Pinball Machine I sold last year.
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What shape are the flippers? [Flappers??]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 28, 2023 11:39 AM (krqg6)

239 207 >>> Enough to put it at #1 on the country chart, displacing the first #1 country song solo written by a black woman. I’m kind of surprised the bigots aren’t playing that part up, about how this song beat the “woke” (aka black) song.

This is hilarious because just a few days ago they were shrieking that the black woman (Tracy Chapman) wasn't getting enough credit for the song now sung by a white guy.
Posted by: DJ at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (uosPt)

----

Comrade, I see you have not updated your Racist Entities Spreadsheet.

Your Social Credit Score will be adjusted accordingly.

Your bank will be contacting you shortly regarding your new account balance.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 28, 2023 11:39 AM (RLLZj)

240 OT: Am I missing something, or is there actually no comment section on the GWP website today?

Not exactly a great loss, but I'm sure the feds and trolls are upset.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (ssESX)

241 Since I have never, ever, clicked on a MSNBC suggestion, you would think that the algo would quit proffering them. Instead they are becoming more frequent, almost making up the entirety of the News Suggestions.

Be better Google, be better.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (aD39U)

242 the same site where 18-year-old Henry Choate was lynched in 1927 after he was accused of assaulting a white 16-year-old girl.

Out: Believe all women!

In: Believe some women! We will tell you which!

Posted by: The FNM at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (lc5cP)

243 Enough to put it at #1 on the country chart, displacing the first #1 country song solo written by a black woman. I’m kind of surprised the bigots aren’t playing that part up, about how this song beat the “woke” (aka black) song.

Also, why isn't this black woman guilty of cultural appropriation?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (eOEVl)

244 232 Sorry, I don't speak Country.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

But do you speak jive?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (YwyqV)

I speak some Spanglish. Does that count?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

245 This bikini brunette on the beach wonders what *isn't* racist:
https://is.gd/mlmiPf

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (t0OGg)

246 I dunno. Norway, Sweden, the U.K., and several E.U. nations are pretty suicidal as well. I mean not racist.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:35 AM (kjOVp)

When they have a black prime minister and a higher percentage of minorities on their highest court then we can talk.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (MNhXM)

247 I suggested to my public library that they play classical music at the entrance, to repel all the bums that hang out there.

A number of store in Portland use that strategy - they are denounced by the Left since they are harassing "people experiencing homelessness", of course.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (2tUFv)

248 What ever happened to Western music ?

--

Western civilization was quietly overthrown.

Turns out they were related.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (SpC+Q)

249 Dwight Yoakum is probably the last great male country western singer. I haven't heard anyone match him.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (ppL7t)

250 209
' member of the media with a redeeming quality'

You aren't trying hard enough. Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, John Chancellor all have a redeeming quality.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (yvHe0)

251 Elwood Blues: What kind of music do you usually have here?
Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)

252 Dot Indians are either the nicest people in the world or insufferable assholes. I suspect Brahmins make up most of the latter.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (MoZTd)

There really aren't a lot of Brahmins in the US. Most Indians here, even the wealthy successful ones, are either American born so their "caste" is irrelevant, or they're merchant caste. Brahmins have no reason to leave the subcontinent, and Dalits can't afford to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2023 11:41 AM (9UlRk)

253 Dolly is a better writer than singer

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2023 11:41 AM (us2H3)

254 Men like the ones that killed Till and lynched others.

--

(checks voting affiliation)

Huh. Well would you look at that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 28, 2023 11:41 AM (SpC+Q)

255 245 This bikini brunette on the beach wonders what *isn't* racist:
https://is.gd/mlmiPf

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (t0OGg)

She's deprived some parts of her skin the healing touch of the sun...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

256
Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, John Chancellor all have a redeeming quality.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (yvHe0)

________

Yes, they're dead.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2023 11:42 AM (MoZTd)

257 Sikhs are pretty nice, for the most part.

And, for some reason, they seem to run a lot of liquor stores.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 28, 2023 11:42 AM (xTRSc)

258 245 This bikini brunette on the beach wonders what *isn't* racist:
https://is.gd/mlmiPf
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (t0OGg)

=======

Dumb look on her face.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)

259 member of the media with a redeeming quality'

You aren't trying hard enough. Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, John Chancellor all have a redeeming quality.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM

Well they do share one trait, they are all lying liars from Liarsburg.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 28, 2023 11:42 AM (ncXxy)

260 I had some business at the Stonestown Galleria yesterday. I hadn't been there since swarms of "youths" were running amok, terrorizing, stealing, attacking asians, looting, etc.

Anyway, I counted 5 private security guys in full SWAT type battle rattle, each carrying an array of weaponry, plus dozens of (seemingly) unarmed security people wearing vests with "loss prevention" or similar.

I guess they've had enough of this crap.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 28, 2023 11:43 AM (MeG8a)

261 Parody and reality have merged such that they are indistinguishable from each other.

Posted by: Hence the Bee becoming the Paper of Record at July 28, 2023 11:43 AM (e8n94)

262 What ever happened to Western music ?[/]

"We've got both kinds, country and western!"

Posted by: BignJames at July 28, 2023 11:43 AM (AwYPR)

263 258 245 This bikini brunette on the beach wonders what *isn't* racist:
https://is.gd/mlmiPf
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (t0OGg)

=======

Dumb look on her face.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)

Wow, not a 2/10?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:43 AM (ynpvh)

264 The only acceptable responses to leftist guilt trip mind games and gaslighting are “Fuck You” or “Eat a Bag of Dicks”, etc.

Don’t apologize for shit you ain’t guilty of.

“Republicans” have never learned this, for some strange reason. And they lose with such dignity!

Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2023 11:43 AM (ejFjg)

265 This bikini brunette on the beach wonders what *isn't* racist:
https://is.gd/mlmiPf
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (t0OGg)

=======

Dumb look on her face.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:42 AM

Mis-matched bikini, would not hit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 28, 2023 11:43 AM (ncXxy)

266 256
Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, John Chancellor all have a redeeming quality.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (yvHe0)
_______
Yes, they're dead.
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Snort.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:43 AM (ppL7t)

267 25 Most lynchings were actually of white men, by the way. Something schools left out and I had to discover on my own reading the biographies and autobiographies of lawmen from the turn of the century and the early 20th century.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 28, 2023 11:07 AM (xcxpd)

Any titles you can recommend?

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 28, 2023 11:43 AM (Rbu5d)

268
Shit Southern Women Say
https://youtu.be/hUFL2GT1-2g

Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:43 AM (geLO8)

269 oops

Posted by: BignJames at July 28, 2023 11:43 AM (AwYPR)

270 This bikini brunette on the beach wonders what *isn't* racist:

Them's some serious eyebrows.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2023 11:44 AM (eOEVl)

271 Sikhs are pretty nice, for the most part.

And, for some reason, they seem to run a lot of liquor stores.

Many Hindus I've known have an aversion to alcohol. Not sure if it really religious or just cultural.

Perhaps Sikhs don't and therefore are more likely to get into the business in India?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2023 11:44 AM (lc5cP)

272 Greg Price @greg_price11 19h
Things that have happened this week:

81-year-old Senate GOP leader freezes mid sentence.

90-year-old Democrat Senator is told to “just vote yay”

80-year-old President claims that he cured cancer.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 28, 2023 11:45 AM (krqg6)

273 This bikini brunette on the beach wonders what *isn't* racist:
https://is.gd/mlmiPf
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (t0OGg)

=======

Dumb look on her face.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)
***

I thought sure he'd find fault in the two belly studs.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2023 11:45 AM (e4fEA)

274 > This bikini brunette on the beach wonders ...

great eyebrows

Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:45 AM (geLO8)

275 The left hates small towns on principle. They want everyone imprisoned in megalopolii.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 28, 2023 11:45 AM (HfNu5)

276 Dwight Yoakum is probably the last great male country western singer. I haven't heard anyone match him.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (ppL7t)

Agree 100% but have to say Toby Kieth is the last genuine country dude. He grew up singing at honky tonks.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:45 AM (MNhXM)

277 Brahmins have no reason to leave the subcontinent, and Dalits can't afford to.

Actually, Brahmins and other upper castes are most of the Indians in Silicon Valley - there is more money there than in Bangalore, and they do discriminate against lower-caste Indians trying to get jobs in Silicon Valley.

It's always fun to see an upper-caste Indian denouncing "racism" in America.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 28, 2023 11:45 AM (2tUFv)

278
You aren't trying hard enough. Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, John Chancellor all have a redeeming quality.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:40 AM (yvHe0)

I'm assuming that you're referring to the fact that they're all dead...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2023 11:45 AM (n+4am)

279 The Bronco commercial is racist. You know damn well when it was pitched, they explicitly did not want a white hetero male for the part.

Posted by: Kitchner Lesley at July 28, 2023 11:46 AM (CgQvH)

280 /sock

All this, and now cocaine sharks?

Posted by: logprof at July 28, 2023 11:46 AM (e3uRK)

281 As reported by the New York Post, the files released by the House Judiciary Committee show that Andy Slavitt, a senior adviser to Joe Biden, sent an email in April of 2021 to Facebook’s president for global affairs Nick Clegg. Clegg then sent an email to colleagues saying that Slavitt “was outraged — not too strong a word to describe his reaction — that [Facebook] did not remove this post.”

The post in question featured a popular meme template using a freeze-frame of Leonardo DiCaprio in the film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” where he is sitting in his chair with a beer and cigarette in hand and pointing at his TV. The caption for the meme read: “10 years from now you will be watching TV and hear…. ‘Did you or a loved one take the covid vaccine? You may be entitled…’”

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:47 AM (RHGPo)

282 256

'Yes, they're dead.'

Right on the nose.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:47 AM (yvHe0)

283
All this, and now cocaine sharks?
Posted by: logprof at July 28, 2023 11:46 AM (e3uRK)

I read this as "cocaine sharts."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

284 Enough to put it at #1 on the country chart, displacing the first #1 country song solo written by a black woman.

---------

Tracy Chapman finally wrote and was credited with making a popular hit song?

/

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:47 AM (L57Qg)

285 All this, and now cocaine sharks?

Posted by: logprof at July 28, 2023 11:46 AM (e3uRK)

Hammered Heads?

Posted by: BignJames at July 28, 2023 11:47 AM (AwYPR)

286 For some really funny Southern humor, check out Henry Cho.
Hilarious.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2023 11:47 AM (e4fEA)

287 271 Sikhs are pretty nice, for the most part.

And, for some reason, they seem to run a lot of liquor stores.

Many Hindus I've known have an aversion to alcohol. Not sure if it really religious or just cultural.

Perhaps Sikhs don't and therefore are more likely to get into the business in India?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2023 11:44 AM (lc5cP)
__________

It's Big Sikh. Much like Big Hindu before it, once a few Sikhs got into the liquor business, they brought more over. The community helps each other with financing, partnerships, etc. That's how Hindus got so heavily into the 7-11 and gas station businesses.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 28, 2023 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

288 At least the black dude running in the bronco commercial didn't have a pair of bloody gloves on....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2023 11:48 AM (9UlRk)

289 36 So when I wake up and I'm too lazy to make breakfast is it reasonable to eat yesterday's lasagna?
...
Posted by: JEM at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (8erNz)

It is anti-American to do otherwise.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 28, 2023 11:48 AM (Rbu5d)

290 >Dwight Yoakum is probably the last great male country western singer. I haven't heard anyone match him.

Posted by: Puddinhead

I like Dwight. He's kind of a punk Buck Owens. I haven't listened to country music in years but I imagine Dwight has fallen out of favor.

Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:48 AM (geLO8)

291 OT: Am I missing something, or is there actually no comment section on the GWP website today?

Not exactly a great loss, but I'm sure the feds and trolls are upset.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

No problem. I never read the comments there anyway. It's hard enough getting through the typos, whole clause omissions, and terrible grammar and punctuation in the articles.

I still read TGP every day but I can't for the life of me imagine how either Hoft made it out of sixth grade.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:48 AM (kjOVp)

292 >>Enough to put it at #1 on the country chart, displacing the first #1 country song solo written by a black woman.

Darius Rucker?

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:48 AM (aoF75)

293 Yet another summer COVID wave may have started in the U.S., according to the CDC

I see that my local MFM is gleefully propagandizing this.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 28, 2023 11:48 AM (Xrfse)

294 I didn't buy the message of Aldean's song anyway. Small-towners fighting back against crime? Ask Travis James McMichael, Gregory Johns McMichael, and William Roderick Bryan, Jr how that worked out for them.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:48 AM (MvF+J)

295 Tracy Chapman finally wrote and was credited with making a popular hit song?
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Her career lasted almost one full year. There were other acts like that.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:49 AM (ppL7t)

296 Quote Tweet: James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki 17h
"The Bidens" did not do anything - Hunter Biden, who was an adult, saw a chance to make money and took it, almost certainly over his father's objections. Hunter shouldn't have done it. But it had no impact on US policy, and it's on him, not his dad.

Brick Suit @Brick_Suit 31m
James, how could Hunter proceed in foreign business deals "over his father's objections" if Joe Biden never discussed Hunter's overseas business deals with him?

Is "Joe knew but objected" the new narrative?

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 28, 2023 11:49 AM (krqg6)

297 Perhaps Sikhs don't and therefore are more likely to get into the business in India?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2023 11:44 AM (lc5cP)

Similar to how in Iraq during Saddam's reign, the Chaldean Catholics were the liquor purveyors due to the muslim proscription on that substance.

Posted by: kallisto at July 28, 2023 11:49 AM (dCxaZ)

298 It's always fun to see an upper-caste Indian denouncing "racism" in America.

What's even better is to see them omitted from staffing numbers to justify diversity hiring practices. 80% of the IT staff is Indian? Need more brown people.

Posted by: Kitchner Lesley at July 28, 2023 11:49 AM (CgQvH)

299 Tracy Chapman‘s I Got a Fast Car is such a depressing song but I kinda like it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:49 AM (MNhXM)

300 293 Yet another summer COVID wave may have started in the U.S., according to the CDC

I see that my local MFM is gleefully propagandizing this.
-----------------
So COVID with a Monkeypoxed ass?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (ppL7t)

301 No respect for Aldean. He benefitted from the controversy, then bent the knee by removing the violent BLM imagery and backing down.

Posted by: NJRob at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (MRs0y)

302 I have to give Chancellor and Brinkley a bit of credit for this:
starts at about 0:45.

https://tinyurl.com/49as3psc

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (eOEVl)

303 > Enough to put it at #1 on the country chart, displacing the first #1 country song solo written by a black woman.
______________

Nobody talks about the royalties she made off this #1 'country song' either.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (Q4IgG)

304 What ever happened to Western music ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:39 AM (RHGPo)
---
It went South.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (krQz2)

305 The Bronco commercial is racist. You know damn well when it was pitched, they explicitly did not want a white hetero male for the part.

Posted by: Kitchner Lesley at July 28, 2023 11:46 AM (CgQvH)

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Absolutely. When all video is finally produced by AI, it'll be as if the white race never existed.

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (L57Qg)

306 A high sandbar shark is a literal littoral cocaine shark

Posted by: logprof at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (e3uRK)

307 Dwight Yoakum is probably the last great male country western singer. I haven't heard anyone match him.
Posted by: Puddinhead
I heard on the radio he's on tour and coming to a place near me I'm seriously thinking about going, but it would be the first concert I've been to in probably 10 years and I can't really stand big crowds anymore. Just might go, though.

Posted by: Biergood at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (FQWHA)

308 296 Quote Tweet: James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki 17h
"The Bidens" did not do anything - Hunter Biden, who was an adult, saw a chance to make money and took it, almost certainly over his father's objections. Hunter shouldn't have done it. But it had no impact on US policy, and it's on him, not his dad.

Brick Suit @Brick_Suit 31m
James, how could Hunter proceed in foreign business deals "over his father's objections" if Joe Biden never discussed Hunter's overseas business deals with him?

Is "Joe knew but objected" the new narrative?
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 28, 2023 11:49 AM (krqg6)

=========

And why is it "almost certainly"? What evidence is there to suggest that Joe actively dissuaded Hunter from doing any of this stuff?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (LvTSG)

309
Sikhs are pretty nice, for the most part.

And, for some reason, they seem to run a lot of liquor stores.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 28, 2023 11:42 AM (xTRSc)

Yeah, we have a pretty big Sikh population here in Central CA. Awesome turbans and beards.

Plus I love the fact that the Sikhs are a warrior culture with honor, who were formed largely to protect the innocent from being slaughtered by mohammedan savages.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (n+4am)

310 >>Quote Tweet: James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki 17h
"The Bidens" did not do anything - Hunter Biden, who was an adult, saw a chance to make money and took it, almost certainly over his father's objections. Hunter shouldn't have done it. But it had no impact on US policy, and it's on him, not his dad.

You are a Low Functioning Retard Mr. Surowiecki.

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (aoF75)

311 No respect for Aldean. He benefitted from the controversy, then bent the knee by removing the violent BLM imagery and backing down.
Posted by: NJRob at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (MRs0y)

Wasn't that a takedown demand from FNC?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (aD39U)

312 278

'I'm assuming that you're referring to the fact that they're all dead...'

It's the only thing that redeems them for me.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (yvHe0)

313
Yet another summer COVID wave may have started in the U.S., according to the CDC

I see that my local MFM is gleefully propagandizing this.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 28, 2023 11:48 AM

100% of the movie audience in my town who attended 'Barbie' have the Covid and are now dropping like flies in the streets!

Posted by: Just Making Shit Up at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (enJYY)

314
It's always fun to see an upper-caste Indian denouncing "racism" in America.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts!

===========

I'd love to get Sundar Pichai on the stand and ask him how many lower-caste Indians work at Google as opposed to upper-caste ones. I hate that mincing, anti-American bastard who comes to this country to make his millions and then proceeds to hate and undermine it.

Good morning, all!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (lCaJd)

315 Is "Joe knew but objected" the new narrative?

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 28, 2023 11:49 AM (krqg6)

They'll try anything...at least once...usually more.

Posted by: BignJames at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (AwYPR)

316 That's how Hindus got so heavily into the 7-11 and gas station businesses.

Cheap motels on the West Coast.

The Patel family from Red Bluff, California.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (2tUFv)

317 You are a Low Functioning Retard Mr. Surowiecki.

Ask me how I know.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (aoF75)

To be fair, you don't *know* that.

You're just making a charitable assumption.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (9UlRk)

318 299 Tracy Chapman‘s I Got a Fast Car is such a depressing song but I kinda like it.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:49 AM (MNhXM)
___________________

It's ok, the chorus is good. Makes no sense for a man to sing it, though. Ok well maybe a soyboy like David French. He might be in his girlfriend's fast car with her arm wrapped around his shoulder.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

319 "Wasn't that a takedown demand from FNC?"

That is the excuse that was offered, yes.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (MvF+J)

320 313 100% of the movie audience in my town who attended 'Barbie' have the Covid and are now dropping like flies in the streets!
Posted by: Just Making Shit Up at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (enJYY)

========

I really don't know who the audience is for covid news anymore beyond the dead enders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (LvTSG)

321 One thing I like about Yoakam is he writes great songs but he also really likes doing covers of great songs.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (MNhXM)

322 What ever happened to Western music ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 11:39 AM (RHGPo)
---
It went South.
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (krQz2)

-------

Should’ve Taken That Left Turn At Albuquerque!

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (L57Qg)

323 275

'They want everyone imprisoned'

They want a lot of things. Wanting and having are 2 very different things.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (yvHe0)

324 >>No respect for Aldean. He benefitted from the controversy, then bent the knee by removing the violent BLM imagery and backing down.

Posted by: NJRob

the TV station that recorded the video he borrowed went to court
blame the judge

Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (geLO8)

325 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (cTNA/)

326 That is the excuse that was offered, yes.
Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:52 AM (MvF+J)

You seem disbelieving. Any particular reason why?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 28, 2023 11:53 AM (aD39U)

327 >>The Bidens" did not do anything - Hunter Biden, who was an adult, saw a chance to make money and took it, almost certainly over his father's objections. Hunter shouldn't have done it. But it had no impact on US policy, and it's on him, not his dad.

Hunter had one product to sell through his international business, Joe.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2023 11:53 AM (ZLI7S)

328 Tracy Chapman‘s I Got a Fast Car is such a depressing song but I kinda like it.

Then I highly recommend the instrumental version by Brooklyn Duo (really only Marnie Laird in this one).

https://tinyurl.com/4j2455z3

Posted by: Archimedes at July 28, 2023 11:53 AM (eOEVl)

329 55
What if you think about Katy Perry?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 28, 2023 11:09 AM (xcxpd)

Boobs and ball gags.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

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A well-placed boob makes for a pretty good ball gag.

Posted by: Ciampino on quotas and such at July 28, 2023 11:53 AM (qfLjt)

330 Is "Joe knew but objected" the new narrative?
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 28, 2023 11:49 AM (krqg6)
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And they're going to tell you "Never talked to Hunter" means only "Not more than disapproving".

It is funny to hear them say Hunter is a full-grown man. (LOL)

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:53 AM (krQz2)

331 "Gimme one Reason" was her other hit.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:53 AM (kjOVp)

332 No respect for Aldean. He benefitted from the controversy, then bent the knee by removing the violent BLM imagery and backing down.
Posted by: NJRob at July 28, 2023 11:50 AM (MRs0y)

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He didn't "back down". FOX pulled the permission to use the clip.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 28, 2023 11:53 AM (RLLZj)

333 327 Hunter had one product to sell through his international business, Joe.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2023 11:53 AM (ZLI7S)

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"nods sagaciously*

Widgets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at July 28, 2023 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

334 I always knew there was something I didn't like about Maury Povich!

Now I know he's a racist.
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:37 AM (krQz2)

We have the test results, and you are NOT the racist.

Posted by: Roy at July 28, 2023 11:54 AM (rqgpJ)

335 326 I'm a skeptic.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:54 AM (MvF+J)

336 I'd love to get Sundar Pichai on the stand and ask him how many lower-caste Indians work at Google as opposed to upper-caste ones. I hate that mincing, anti-American bastard who comes to this country to make his millions and then proceeds to hate and undermine it.

Plenty of white people you could ask that same question.

Posted by: Kitchner Lesley at July 28, 2023 11:55 AM (CgQvH)

337 Easy on Tracy. I learnt to drive when Fast Car was on the air.

Living Colour covered Talkin Bout a Revolution a year after it came out. Pretty good version.

She came back in '95 with Gimme One Reason.

Not a one hit wonder.

Posted by: logprof at July 28, 2023 11:55 AM (e3uRK)

338 Dolly Parton's boobs > Katy Perry's boobs.

Don't care. I don't get to fondle either pair.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 28, 2023 11:55 AM (jgJfd)

339
Plus I love the fact that the Sikhs are a warrior culture with honor, who were formed largely to protect the innocent from being slaughtered by mohammedan savages.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM

When my daughter lived in 'Jersey we'd fill up our gas tank on the way back to PA. Admiral Wilson Blvd outside Camden. 10 pumps easy. One attendant, a Sikh. Holding easily a grand or two on his person. Bravest guy I ever met. Five minutes away by foot a contender for Murder Capital, USA.

Posted by: Just Making Shit Up at July 28, 2023 11:55 AM (enJYY)

340 100% of the movie audience in my town who attended 'Barbie' have the Covid and are now dropping like flies in the streets!

Posted by: Just Making Shit Up at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (enJYY)

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Just like 2020 when the bodies were stacking up like cord wood in the streets.

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:55 AM (L57Qg)

341 63 >>the former Cherokee capital of Tanasi
Capital?
Natives did not have a Capital. They didn't have cities either.
That's straight up nonsense.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:14 AM (aoF75)

After a 30 second online search:
"The Cherokee lower towns on George Hunter's 1730 map"

https://tinyurl.com/4yux4wky

OK, "towns."

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 28, 2023 11:55 AM (Rbu5d)

342 "The left-wing ruling class and its media adjuncts now hurl the most unconscionable insults at people for speaking up for the values of half the country. "

It is getting worse than insults. It is close to illegal to defend Trump from the many BS charge he faces or you are an accomplice in the insurrection and guilty of hurting the feelings of dedicated public servants.

Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2023 11:55 AM (KrJTL)

343 >One thing I like about Yoakam is he writes great songs but he also really likes doing covers of great songs.

Posted by: polynikes

Dwight Yoakam - I Want You To Want Me
https://youtu.be/D_lSJfUHu8A

Posted by: DB - the first name in floor waxes at July 28, 2023 11:56 AM (geLO8)

344 Good grief. I commented yesterday that the case against the Biden is having that 98-99 Clinton Impeachment feel to it pointing at Lindsey Graham. Next day it's Rand Paul of all people saying we shouldn't impeach!
Either the Dems are wanting Biden impeached or not. I guess we'll find out soon enough if they're going to trade Bidens scalp for Trump(allowing Repubs to do their dirty work) to maintain the illusion of a functioning republic or its just going to be a one way deal.
We'll see soon enough what the "mafia" running this show (country) has in store for us. Who is going to stay, who is going to go(?)

Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2023 11:56 AM (IlL6s)

345 He didn't "back down". FOX pulled the permission to use the clip.
Posted by: Just Lily

Seems pretty simple to just replace it with any of Andy Ngo's footage.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 28, 2023 11:56 AM (kjOVp)

346 Step 1: 27-year-old media imbecile picks a hate target.
Step 2: Said imbecile searches for some group that has manufactured some outrage over the hate target and then said imbecile obtains a quote or two from some lefty with way too much time on his hands who is associated with the outrage group.
Step 3: Said imbecile now has a "news" story.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at July 28, 2023 11:56 AM (gf7Ez)

347 302
Why were they laughing? Because they thought the story was trivial bullshit?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 11:56 AM (yvHe0)

348 337 Easy on Tracy. I learnt to drive when Fast Car was on the air.

Living Colour covered Talkin Bout a Revolution a year after it came out. Pretty good version.

She came back in '95 with Gimme One Reason.

Not a one hit wonder.
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Yeah, but she was obviously a rear guard action. More of a throw back to better times. I liked her stuff but it lacked the full meal effect.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2023 11:57 AM (ppL7t)

349 "Seems pretty simple to just replace it with any of Andy Ngo's footage."

Yes! Or simply to pay Fox for the use of the copyrighted material.

Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:57 AM (MvF+J)

350 15 I hope Aldean stands tall but he's under a lot of pressure to kneel.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 28, 2023 11:04 AM (xcxpd)

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Jordan Peterson says -- and he would know -- stay strong for two weeks and it will blow over

Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in IllinoisI at July 28, 2023 11:58 AM (UBdBC)

351 So the Justice department wants Trump in jail for hundreds of years. I guess they want him to die in Jail and to continue to jail his corpse.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 28, 2023 11:58 AM (pVWRI)

352 It can be lunch time
Posted by: Skip

Beware folks from the FAT Festival !

Posted by: JT at July 28, 2023 11:58 AM (T4tVD)

353 >>Living Colour covered Talkin Bout a Revolution a year after it came out. Pretty good version.

I am a huge fan of those guys. Their covers of Papa was a Rolling Stone were awesome.

Also, they did a few Talking Heads Covers that straight up kill.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2023 11:58 AM (aoF75)

354 340 100% of the movie audience in my town who attended 'Barbie' have the Covid and are now dropping like flies in the streets!

Posted by: Just Making Shit Up at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (enJYY)

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Just like 2020 when the bodies were stacking up like cord wood in the streets.
Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 11:55 AM (L57Qg)
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Refrigerator trucks stacked with female COVID victims cosplaying as Barbie!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 28, 2023 11:59 AM (ssESX)

355 I like the part where we're supposed to pretend that a man singing from the female perspective isn't significant in 2023.

In a country song, especially.

That ratchet keeps clicking.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at July 28, 2023 11:59 AM (9Wrck)

356 Aldean is just a dude in a costume doing an act for his employers. I highly doubt he has any involvement in anything that happens after he's done shooting footage for the video.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2023 11:59 AM (9UlRk)

357 You guys will turn on anybody at the drop of a hat.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:59 AM (MNhXM)

358 341 OK, “towns.”

Cahokia has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 28, 2023 12:00 PM (xTRSc)

359 226 193 I suggested to my public library that they play classical music at the entrance, to repel all the bums that hang out there. They laffed on me.
Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:38 AM (MvF+J)

Worked for Dallas, back in the day. Mr S worked in the downtown branch. Always worried some homeless guy might attack him when he threw them off the internet for watching porn.
That was over a decade ago. No idea what it's like there now.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at July 28, 2023 12:00 PM (hAfUZ)

360 Yes! Or simply to pay Fox for the use of the copyrighted material.
Posted by: Peel gp A Jackfruit at July 28, 2023 11:57 AM

And if Fox says "No, we are not licensing this footage to you"?

Posted by: Chuck C at July 28, 2023 12:00 PM (xttsV)

361 I heard they caught the Gilgo Beach killer, and looked it up. The guy was an architect.

The top story on this Google returned was about how thie Trump org once contracted this dude on some project many years ago.

They can't help themselves.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2023 12:01 PM (ohoLN)

362
damn

Posted by: Chuck C at July 28, 2023 12:01 PM (xttsV)

363 The conservatives in Congress have to do something to threaten biden with prosecution

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 28, 2023 12:01 PM (pVWRI)

364 It is funny to hear them say Hunter is a full-grown man. (LOL)

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2023 11:53 AM (krQz2)

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"He's a PRIVATE CITIZEN, H8RS!

Now, those Bush daughters and Trump spawn -- especially that little creep Barron -- on the other hand ..."

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 12:01 PM (L57Qg)

365 Heh.
You can bet other CW musicians are trying to figure out how to get CMT to ban one of their songs. I wonder how long before the next one comes out?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2023 12:01 PM (e4fEA)

366 You guys will turn on anybody at the drop of a hat.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2023 11:59 AM (MNhXM)

You'll make assumptions about who people support or don't based on clothing at the drop of a hat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2023 12:01 PM (9UlRk)

367 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 28, 2023 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

368 357
'You guys will turn on anybody at the drop of a hat.'

Ye have just earned an enemy for life!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 28, 2023 12:01 PM (yvHe0)

369 nood PDT new charges

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 28, 2023 12:02 PM (krqg6)

370 Regarding people promoting STI/STDs as a lifestyle on TikTok... as Chinese communist officials laugh...

"CLAP LIFE"?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 28, 2023 12:03 PM (ssESX)

371 Roll out the barrel.

(How much do I pay for the license?)

Posted by: Chuck C at July 28, 2023 12:03 PM (xttsV)

372 @342 Ripley-You face personal destruction through lawfare if you worked in the Trump administration. You face personal destruction through lawfare taking the case or accepting anything to do with the 2020 election steal You face personal destruction through lawfare trying to legally defend Trump against the governments charges. You'll face personal destruction through lawfare should the 24' election actually be legit for being in the Trump administration.

Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2023 12:03 PM (IlL6s)

373 361 I heard they caught the Gilgo Beach killer, and looked it up. The guy was an architect.

The top story on this Google returned was about how thie Trump org once contracted this dude on some project many years ago.

They can't help themselves.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2023 12:01 PM (ohoLN)
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Gilgo Beach is a huge story in NYC, obviously. I have to say, I'm still waiting to hear what "powerful evidence" they have on the guy. Why hide it? It seems all they have is the guy is a weirdo, he had some connection to one of the dead girls, and the usual dog's breakfast of "witnesses" claiming that decades ago they had a weird interaction with him. Usually by now they'd at least release a smoking gun to show that, yes, they have the right guy.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 28, 2023 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

374 369 nood PDT new charges
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My error -- it's actually a "Trump is mean to DeSantis" thread.

I recommend skipping it.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 28, 2023 12:05 PM (krqg6)

375 Opting for olive oil could boost brain health, new study suggests (1/2+ tablespoon/day associated with 28% less dementia)

BLACK oLIVES MATTER

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2023 12:06 PM (RHGPo)

376
Plus I love the fact that the Sikhs are a warrior culture with honor, who were formed largely to protect the innocent from being slaughtered by mohammedan savages.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2023 11:51 AM (n+4am)

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Do they have a special privilege to carry the kirpan, the curved knife?

Posted by: JM in Florida -- now in IllinoisI at July 28, 2023 12:06 PM (/WVM8)

377 Everyone should copyright their image and allow no one to use their image ever.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 28, 2023 12:07 PM (QMAdC)

378 Lots of terrible precedents during that period. Wickard v. Filmore, for instance. Sorry, you CAN'T grow more than a certain amount of grain on YOUR LAND, even if it's for YOUR OWN USE, because if affects the price of grain by you not buying it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2023 11:29 AM (ynpvh)

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I recall there were a set of laws (was it back in one or more of the old European countries) called the "Something Acts" that limited what the commoners could produce and/or own.

I also remember Yudhishthira's Dice mentioned it here once awhile ago. It was something new to me -- had never learned about it in any history class or reading. [Tried searching the interwebz but no joy.]

Anyway, if anyone can remind me what those were called, would greatly appreciate it. TIA!

Posted by: ShainS at July 28, 2023 12:12 PM (L57Qg)

379 The word “racist” has about as much meaning as a playground insult, like let’s say “poopy pants,” except with the power to destroy careers and lives.

If someone calls you a poopy pants on the playground, there are several ways to respond, such as punching the accuser on the face, hurling an equally meaningless insult back in their direction, or maybe even ignoring it. The one thing you would certainly NOT do is attempt to engage in a thoughtful dialogue, and convince the other person or any witnesses that you are actually not a poopy pants. This is the mistake too many people on the right make with the racism charge. The only correct response is something to the effect of go f*** yourself. While Jason Aldean’s response to this controversy has been better than most, he still fell into this trap, which is why he’s still dealing with it. Denying that you are a racist means accepting the premise, which means the left wins no matter what.

Posted by: Johnny Anditmightbeasin at July 28, 2023 12:16 PM (kB4cQ)

380 I'm trying my best to be kind, even tolerant of the GOPe squawkboxes at RedState.com and have tried not to mention them at all this week. And yet writers like Joe Cunningham keep dragging me back into the fray.

Cunningham posted an article chastising the Republican candidates for their primary squabbles, trying to give advice to those he considers contenders. But he couldn't help himself! He had to take a dig at President Trump for getting more indictments, without acknowledging the utter bullshit nature of Jack Smith's indictments.

Suck it, RedState.com!

Posted by: Tracy at July 28, 2023 12:39 PM (Ve8zQ)

381 If a background picture where an ancient crime occurred links you to said crime, I guess this https://tinyurl.com/Markneedsanic links all NYC residents to lynching.

Posted by: Mark probably needs a nickname at July 28, 2023 12:39 PM (hB2+p)

382 I'm entirely with Miranda Lambert on this.

"Time to Get a Gun"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN56BFDsPK0

Posted by: Pouncer at July 28, 2023 02:49 PM (ejfFE)

383 I approve of what the U,S. media and their Leftist Allie’s are doing.

But remember, it is on a blank page that the most beautiful poetry is written.

Posted by: Mao at July 28, 2023 05:59 PM (f0XAF)

384 More commie dog whistles. One tires of their constant racism.

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