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A Peek at the NY Times Elite Writers: David Brooks Keeps Beclowning Himself; Jim Lakely Fisks Paul Krugman on “Climate is a Culture War Issue”
Any attention I pay to the New York Times is usually because of either:
1) My disgust at its false-flag “conservative” opinion writers who advance the left-wing agenda by relentlessly criticizing the right, while dishonestly pretending to be one of us. 2) The religious zeal for the climate hoax that permeates the entire paper. David Brooks has made it hard for us to mock him recently, because it would be hard to improve on his own self-mockery. For instance, there was his recent column where he tried to challenge his fellow liberal snobs to consider if they might possibly be the bad guys in any of the culture wars.
Like all elites, we use language and mores as tools to recognize one another and exclude others. Using words like “problematic,” “cisgender,” “Latinx” and “intersectional” is a sure sign that you’ve got cultural capital coming out of your ears. Meanwhile, members of the less-educated classes have to walk on eggshells because they never know when we’ve changed the usage rules so that something that was sayable five years ago now gets you fired.But despite his best efforts, Brooks just couldn’t help himself, and he wound up determining that deplorables are in fact wrong, and that their beloved MAGA leader should go to jail for being an icky person that offends people like, well, David Brooks.
Are Trump supporters right that the indictments are just a political witch hunt? Of course not. As a card-carrying member of my class, I still basically trust the legal system and the neutral arbiters of justice. Trump is a monster in the way we’ve all been saying for years and deserves to go to prison.Because David Brooks is so well-educated (as he likes to frequently remind us) he was able to explain to PBS viewers the true motivation of we conservatives who support oil drilling. According to Brooks, we support oil drilling because it’s a way to offend The Elites, you know, people such as PBS viewers.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is an idiot when it comes to economics, his supposed area of expertise. Who can forget these doozies: the stock market will “never recover” from Trump’s election (2016); the internet will have “no greater impact than the fax machine” (199Thank you, Jim. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]; we need “a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble” (2002). But Krugman is an even bigger dolt when the subject he tries to cover is climate. Krugman’s August 7 column titled “Climate Is Now a Culture War Issue” contains glaring errors in virtually every paragraph. Again, this is not surprising, coming from Krugman. But here’s a proper fact check that his editors (does he even have any?) at The New York Times let slip through, or maybe they kept in because it serves their leftist climate agenda. Paragraph 1:
Understanding climate denial used to seem easy: It was all about greed. Delve into the background of a researcher challenging the scientific consensus, a think tank trying to block climate action or a politician pronouncing climate change a hoax and you would almost always find major financial backing from the fossil fuel industry. False. The Heartland Institute has featured hundreds of climate scientists and policy experts at our 15 International Conferences on Climate Change. The strongest and most-esteemed scientists who have lectured at them – people like Richard Lindzen, William Gray, Robert Carter, Sebastian Lüning, Patrick Michaels, Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, Ian Plimer, and I could go on and on – have no “major backing from the fossil fuel industry.” But, even if they did, an intellectually honest person would relish debating and disputing their research and opinions on the merits. Many climate alarmists and their outfits get funding from green energy sources, or government agencies with a vested interest in pushing panic and “green energy.” But that is apparently not a problem. How about we declare it not a problem on both sides and hash out the science and policy? (I make that offer knowing the other side would never accept it, but I make it with all sincerity.) Paragraph 3:
True, greed is still a major factor in anti-environmentalism. But climate denial has also become a front in the culture wars, with right-wingers rejecting the science in part because they dislike science in general and opposing action against emissions out of visceral opposition to anything liberals support. False. Greed is also a factor in what passes for environmentalism these days. American “green energy” oligarchs have their paws all over the “Inflation Reduction Act” for the hundreds of millions in handouts to see who can be the next Solyndra – cash in and cash out while producing nothing of value. “Right wingers” don’t “dislike science in general.” They oppose junk science as well as the economy- and freedom-killing “climate remedies” liberals support such as banning gas stoves, outlawing the internal combustion engine, and mandating expensive electric cars. Liberals insist we must electrify everything while at the same time shutting down reliable and affordable coal and natural gas plants and not replacing them with sufficient baseload energy. Wind and solar cannot ever produce enough reliable energy to sustain our economy and quality of life. Paragraph 4:
And this cultural dimension of climate arguments has emerged at the worst possible moment — a moment when both the extreme danger from unchecked emissions and the path toward slashing those emissions are clearer than ever.
False. There is no “extreme danger from unchecked emissions,” though the path he advocates is clear: expensive “green energy” that doesn’t work, is exponentially more expensive, and will destroy the U.S. economy. Paragraph 5:
Some background: Scientists who began warning decades ago that the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere would have dangerous effects on the climate have been overwhelmingly vindicated.
False. No, they haven’t. To cite just a few prominent examples, the snows of Kilimanjaro are still there, the West Side Highway in New York City is not underwater, and the world is not 3 degrees Celsius warmer in 2020 than it was in 1987.
For a regular examination of failed climate predictions, browse ClimateRealism.com and JunkScience.com Paragraph 6:
Worldwide, July was the hottest month on record, with devastating heat waves in many parts of the globe. Extreme weather events are proliferating. Florida is essentially sitting in a hot bath, with ocean temperatures off some of its coast higher than body temperature. False. July was not “the hottest month on record.” Extreme weather events are not proliferating, they are declining – whether you’re talking about heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, or even wildfires. And Florida is not “sitting in a hot bath.” Paragraph 7:
At the same time, technological progress in renewable energy has made it possible to envisage major reductions in emissions at little or no cost in terms of economic growth and living standards. False. The proposed methods to achieve “major reductions in emissions” would come at enormous cost to economic growth and living standards. Paragraph 8:
Back in 2009, when Democrats tried but failed to take significant climate action, their policy proposals consisted mainly of sticks — limits on emissions in the form of permits that businesses could buy and sell. In 2022, when the Biden administration finally succeeded in passing a major climate bill, it consisted almost entirely of carrots — tax credits and subsidies for green energy. Yet thanks to the revolution in renewable technology, energy experts believe that this all-gain-no-pain approach will have major effects in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. False. The “Inflation Reduction Act” was not only a lie in its title and a Trojan horse for the Green New Deal, it is laughable to call it “all gain, no pain.” And this sacrifice by America – while we have for years been reducing our carbon dioxide emissions more than any large economy on earth – will not reduce global greenhouse gas emissions because China and India, to name just two countries, are dramatically growing their emissions. China’s emissions alone now surpass that of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and all of the European Union combined. Paragraph 10:
What’s behind this destructive effort? Well, Project 2025 appears to have been largely devised by the usual suspects — fossil-fueled think tanks like the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute that have been crusading against climate science and climate action for many years. False. The Heartland Institute is not a “fossil-fueled” think tank. Our annual budget is around $4 million a year – which is the amount Big Green nonprofits lose in their couch cushions – and only one percent of our 2022 funding came from any corporations at all. None of those were fossil fuel companies. The New York Times needs to retract that lie, which is designed to signal to their ignorant readers that any information from the likes of us that counters their preferred climate alarmist narrative is to be discounted. Whew! Debunking this Krugman piece is more exhausting than usual. As I take this breather, let me point out that out of the first 10 paragraphs of Krugman’s garbage column, fully eight of them have blatant lies, mistakes, or smears. I believe that’s called “misinformation” in the corporate media parlance. Maybe Facebook should ban it and Google should stop it from showing up on searches. Literally, the only paragraphs Krugman has written at this point so far in his fantastical narrative that are not soaking with blatant misinformation are the second one in which he pines for the “simpler, more innocent times” when “climate denial” was simply “all about greed,” and his description of “Project 2025” in the ninth paragraph – an effort led by Heartland’s friends at The Heritage Foundation to have a ready-made agenda for a new Republican president.
Krugman has a good streak going in paragraphs 11 and 12 describing how climate science has “become a front in the culture war” and how conservatives’ trust in science has plunged. Those two phenomena are related to the politicization of science by the leftists who run our institutions. Climate scientists, almost all funded by government, have made predictions for decades that have not come true. But right-leaning people were not reluctant to get their COVID-19 shots because it was “something ‘experts’ and liberal elites wanted you to do,” as Krugman writes. It’s obviously more complicated than that, and Americans in a free society should be allowed to have their reasons to be “vaccine hesitant” and not have to explain why. Some of the most pressing reasons were the fact that the vaccine was rushed, the messaging from bureaucrats was confusing and contradictory, and President Biden immediately imposed an unconstitutional mandate. Let’s not also discount the disgraceful behavior by the lefties who control our institutions and culture who bullied and “otherized” anyone who had legitimate questions and doubts about the vaccine – questions and doubts that have been largely vindicated. Alas, Krugman’s “no lies” streak lasted all of two paragraphs. He goes on to characterize broad skepticism of climate alarmism among Republicans as just a way to “offend the elites.” Paragraph 14:
Look at the hysterical reaction to potential regulations on gas stoves, and while it’s clear that special interests were, um, fueling the fire, there was also a strong culture-war element: The elites want you to get an induction cooktop, but real men cook with gas. Well, yes. The blowback to the news that elites in our federal bureaucracy have set their disapproving gaze at the humble gas stove was strong. But it’s not hysteria. Not when instead of backing off, the Biden administration doubles down with talk of regulating out of existence even more appliances while communities in Krugman’s preferred liberal areas like New York and California ban gas appliances in all new construction and renovations. Krugman writes in Paragraph 15, with some relief: “The fact that the climate war is now part of the culture war worries me, a lot.” But Krugman is confident that “special interests” can be “bought off or counterbalanced with other special interests” as we continue “the green transition.” Well, Heartland is not bought off, and neither are our allies in the think tank world. Krugman finally finishes with Paragraph 16:
But such rational if self-interested considerations won’t do much to persuade people who believe that green energy is a conspiracy against the American way of life. So the culture war has become a major problem for climate action — a problem we really, really don’t need right now. Green energy might not be a “conspiracy” against the American way of life, but it will destroy it. The push for “green energy” will, for starters: make energy unreliable and prohibitively more expensive; make personal transportation increasingly a luxury of the wealthy; take away the freedom of consumer choice in even the appliances one wants in their home; and more. If we need to loop climate realism into the “culture war” to push back at that on all fronts, so be it. That’s what you get when you smugly think the majority of Americans are living their lives wrong, incorrectly think they are destroying the planet, and arrogantly think you can force the desires of an incompetent elite on the whole of society.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:31 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 15, 2023 02:31 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2023 02:31 PM (MOY79)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 02:32 PM (B1FKF)
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What a tool.
On the plus side, he's given me a new synonym:
Old a busted: Bullshit
New hotness: "Cultural Capital"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:32 PM (WkNQM)
Yes, they are destroying the country.
No, they will never WILLINGLY stop.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 15, 2023 02:32 PM (zjgNU)
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Being able to keep warm in winter is more like a third level effect.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:32 PM (LvTSG)
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If you say things like "card-carrying member of my class," you're not an American.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:32 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2023 02:33 PM (MOY79)
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 02:33 PM (4eKPg)
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So he says we want more oil and gas production because we're ... real-life shitposting?
That's a take. It's a stupid take, but it's a take.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:33 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 15, 2023 02:33 PM (IjPMX)
Smells the same too.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 15, 2023 02:33 PM (hqgX1)
1) War on climate change
2) War on China
3) War on Russia
3) War on Trump.
The oligarchs have not merely lost their minds, but the final stands in their urban shitholes might come sooner than anyone expected.
Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2023 02:33 PM (+Wz5+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2023 02:34 PM (N7OAi)
Posted by: Your Average Environmentalist Activist at August 15, 2023 02:34 PM (xxG/v)
That's a take. It's a stupid take, but it's a take.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:33 PM (WkNQM)
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It's almost like he's intellectually lazy, a narcissist, and probably a solipsist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:34 PM (LvTSG)
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Hey, Paul?
I know you need to do this to stay safe with the ruling elite that protects you, but none of this will make anyone forget that you definitely weren't hacked.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:34 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 02:35 PM (B1FKF)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:35 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2023 02:35 PM (N7OAi)
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Solipsist is Greek for a messy fag, rite?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 02:35 PM (4eKPg)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 15, 2023 02:36 PM (KbCG3)
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Solipsist is Greek for a messy fag, rite?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 02:35 PM (4eKPg)
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It's Greek for, "I invented kids in my head space to get all close and personal."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:36 PM (LvTSG)
Krugman is an idiotic throne-sniffing lickspittle without a scintilla of integrity and who has never had even passing contact with a good idea.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (2HWEq)
There goes any credibility, right there. AG Garland is a paragon of virtue, right?
Trump is a monster in the way we’ve all been saying for years and deserves to go to prison.
They have yet to identify any "crimes" that rises to the level of "monster", but the "educated" amongst us, who has a child-like faith in the system just feels deep in his heart that Trump needs to go in prison. He just doesn't know why, but he feels that Trump must be put away.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (p8A+W)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (r9a0/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (LvTSG)
don't tell me... he was caught with p3do stuff
Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2023 02:38 PM (TVqen)
He has a BA in history from U. Chicago. Big whoop.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2023 02:38 PM (eOEVl)
That's a take. It's a stupid take, but it's a take.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:33 PM (WkNQM)
Well sure, because we all know that electricity really comes from a wall socket and gasoline straight from the spigot at the local gas station. All of that icky "resource extraction" is just a way to make the "card-carrying member
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 15, 2023 02:38 PM (2L+PC)
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 02:38 PM (4eKPg)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (r9a0/)
Complete garbage humans.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2023 02:38 PM (BIG3/)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 02:39 PM (B1FKF)
His problem is that since Mark Shields died, he doesn't know who to fellate.
(I have no idea if Mark Shields is dead or alive, but happy thoughts keep us young.)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 15, 2023 02:39 PM (RhJxm)
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 02:39 PM (UnA8+)
1) War on climate change
2) War on China
3) War on Russia
3) War on Trump.
The oligarchs have not merely lost their minds, but the final stands in their urban shitholes might come sooner than anyone expected.
Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2023 02:33 PM (+Wz5+)
you said tres twice...
Posted by: SturmToddler at August 15, 2023 02:39 PM (nXhwP)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (2HWEq)
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Kasich! He delivers!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (LvTSG)
Actually, his dad was the postman. John Kasich doesn't deliver anything.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 15, 2023 02:39 PM (/iWhV)
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at August 15, 2023 02:40 PM (5hfjS)
David Brooks can fvck off, in the direction of over there. I've earned my master's degree, and use it daily to pay my mortgage. My turds are more well read than that progtarded shitbird.
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2023 02:40 PM (3CCua)
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2014 NYT Headline: "The End of Snow?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 15, 2023 02:40 PM (/WWq9)
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at August 15, 2023 02:41 PM (xTRSc)
No no. It is.
That's why the global elite has championed it. The serfs have it too good and need to be ground into the dust, where they belong.
This isn't a misguided attempt to SAVE THE PLANET. It is a fully understood grasp at total power. Rich men north of Richmond gets it right.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 15, 2023 02:41 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Inogame at August 15, 2023 02:41 PM (53oGX)
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He has a hawt wife. I've seen her. She's hawt.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 02:38 PM (4eKPg)
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He was the one Republican primary candidate in 2016 I couldn't be bothered to see in person. I took a week off of work to hit as many campaign stops as I could. I saw Paul, Cruz (twice), Rubio, Trump, and Bush (twice, the second time W was there, which is why I decided to go again).
I remember the campaign stop was at a coffee shop, not too far from where I lived, and I just couldn't be bothered.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:41 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 15, 2023 02:40 PM (3CCua)
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David Brooks is the worst kind of self-impressed elitist asshole.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:41 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 02:41 PM (B1FKF)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2023 02:42 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 02:41 PM (B1FKF)
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It would be awful to say that Pol Pot had the right idea about the intellectual class.
So, I won't say it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:42 PM (LvTSG)
Kasich! He delivers!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (LvTSG)
That's his bag.
Posted by: Braenyard at August 15, 2023 02:42 PM (AbYHm)
Posted by: PaleRider at August 15, 2023 02:42 PM (3cGpq)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (r9a0/)
Complete garbage humans.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2023 02:38 PM (BIG3/)
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Nothing they produce is of any benefit to society rather redounds to much harm.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 15, 2023 02:42 PM (2HWEq)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 02:41 PM (B1FKF)
Private Jets, and Private Islands where they can f*** child sex slaves.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 02:42 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 02:37 PM (p8A+W)
The behavior of the Krugmans, Reiners, Frums and Goldbergs would normally be bewildering for the sheer insanity of the fanaticism against a fairly standard- tolerant, really- flavor of nationalism.
It makes a lot more sense if you realize that all sorts of Epsteinites could swing under a second Trump term (extended indefinitely), and all their tuchus lechers would follow them to the lamp posts.
Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2023 02:42 PM (+Wz5+)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2023 02:43 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 02:43 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 02:43 PM (B1FKF)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 15, 2023 02:43 PM (IjPMX)
Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2023 02:43 PM (+Wz5+)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby
Tis a small price to pay for the greater good, commrade.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 15, 2023 02:44 PM (CIS44)
I believe so. I'm sure he got close enough to Barry's pants to get a good look at them.
IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2023 02:44 PM (eOEVl)
There goes any credibility, right there. AG Garland is a paragon of virtue, right?
Trump is a monster in the way we’ve all been saying for years and deserves to go to prison.
They have yet to identify any "crimes" that rises to the level of "monster", but the "educated" amongst us, who has a child-like faith in the system just feels deep in his heart that Trump needs to go in prison. He just doesn't know why, but he feels that Trump must be put away.
Posted by: Reuben Hick
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Buckley's National Review and his post cold war deplatforming of his allies left the magazine in the hands of the likes of Brooks and Rich Lowry. These people turned left as did the oligarchs that waved funds in front of them did and cheerleaded destructive wars abroad that spilled precious blood and treasure of Americans for absolutely no improvement in US security subsequently.
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2023 02:44 PM (6BfIu)
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 15, 2023 02:44 PM (P0plo)
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Just shut down EBIT cards for a few days and see how much fuel these enviros buy to escape paradise.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 02:44 PM (DmtxH)
||I was not going to write about Oliver Anthony’s brilliant song, Rich Men North of Richmond, because I have nothing worthy to add. The video puts all other commentary to shame. North of Richmond refers to the federal government, which is too large, too powerful and too uncaring.
But Mark Antonio Wright, executive editor of the Never Trump National Review, butted in with a Learn-to-Code column attacking Anthony for daring to complain about DC’s treatment of the working class. It lectured Anthony to be more like Woody Guthrie, the Nazi apologist and communist.
Anthony’s song says:
I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away
Wright responded, “My brother in Christ, you live in the United States of America in 2023 — if you’re a fit, able-bodied man, and you’re working ‘overtime hours for bullshit pay,’ you need to find a new job.”
Get a job?|| hat tip SDA Small Deas Animals
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 15, 2023 02:45 PM (krqg6)
Maybe the whole Kracken thing wasn't entirely nonsense.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2023 02:45 PM (eL0G3)
Posted by: Emmie at August 15, 2023 02:45 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 15, 2023 02:45 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Well, he could see them well enough when he was on his knees to service Obammay.
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2023 02:45 PM (6BfIu)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 15, 2023 02:45 PM (zbP2D)
I have engineering degrees from a couple of the best schools in the country (no, not Ivies. I said best schools.)
But I am not effete enough for David Brooks, I guess.
Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2023 02:45 PM (Jk9SN)
Fossil fuels were allowed to "develop". These "children" need to be taken into the back country, given crude tools and a bag of seed corn and told to enjoy life without fossil fuels.
One of the plaintiffs was 17 when the suit was filed. Now 20, she works as a ski instructor. How does this idiot think the ski industry will exist without fossil fuels?? The stupid, it burns.
Posted by: George V at August 15, 2023 02:46 PM (ugbqN)
Report: Engineers Discover Nationwide Cellular Network Connects Election Equipment and Gives Federal Government Access to Election Systems at Precinct Level
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 15, 2023 02:46 PM (eL0G3)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 15, 2023 02:46 PM (/iWhV)
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2023 02:46 PM (MOY79)
(ripping off Insty)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 15, 2023 02:47 PM (sAmhv)
This is why they invented dungeons
Posted by: Braenyard at August 15, 2023 02:47 PM (AbYHm)
they are a parasites upon society and feed upon their host until they kill it
this has been going on for thousands of years
Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2023 02:47 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: George V at August 15, 2023 02:46 PM (ugbqN)
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Magic and pixie dust, of course.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:47 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 15, 2023 02:48 PM (krqg6)
this has been going on for thousands of years
Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2023 02:47 PM (us2H3)
Add Los Angeles.
Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2023 02:48 PM (+Wz5+)
Posted by: runner at August 15, 2023 02:48 PM (+T4jH)
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Yes.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 15, 2023 02:48 PM (krqg6)
Hey! I was here first!!
Posted by: Christopher Buckley at August 15, 2023 02:48 PM (/iWhV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2023 02:48 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: runner at August 15, 2023 02:48 PM (+T4jH)
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He gets his education from agreeing with people in his social circle. His education doesn't need degrees.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:49 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2023 02:49 PM (pohLc)
And as they've gotten more power they've gotten richer which is entirely to be expected.
In the "bad old" days of the 80s when the government was "so weak" you'll notice that getting into politics didn't make you wealthy and being a government worker wasn't an automatic ticket to jump into the upper middle class.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2023 02:49 PM (lc5cP)
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Isn't that how its done? Only Macron would go the other way.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 02:49 PM (J7wri)
they are a parasites upon society and feed upon their host until they kill it."
Well, there wasn't actually a DC or a NYC thousands of years ago.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2023 02:49 PM (Keyt1)
Posted by: runner at August 15, 2023 02:49 PM (+T4jH)
Posted by: SturmToddler at August 15, 2023 02:39 PM (nXhwP)
I like tres.
Posted by: trev006 at August 15, 2023 02:43 PM (+Wz5+)
*****
I like tres leches.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2023 02:49 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2023 02:49 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 15, 2023 02:49 PM (IjPMX)
No Dave.
Using pretend words like those is a sign that you're a posturing exhibitionist cool kid wannabe who grabs onto every passing social fads in his "set" no matter how badly they expose you out as a social-climbing fool to the people around you who are more grounded and secure in their identity than you will ever be.
You'd better hope that nobody ever asks you or your jargon-spewing peers to change a tire or fix a faucet, because then your uselessness would be impossible to hide.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 15, 2023 02:50 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Don't forget the unicorn farts for maximum efficiency.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 15, 2023 02:50 PM (FYQ6b)
This is the David Brooks who left his wife to shtupp his research assistant? That David Brooks?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Yes, nothing says elite in political circles more than schtupping the help and blowing up your marriage.
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2023 02:50 PM (6BfIu)
If you say things like "card-carrying member of my class," you're not an American.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Your papers, please!
Posted by: Roadblock Red Guard at August 15, 2023 02:51 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: George V
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I often ask 'greenies' to point to some object, any object around them, that did not rely on fossil fuels for existence. This is met with confusion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2023 02:51 PM (N7OAi)
Brooks is obviously not smart enough to draw the proper conclusions.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 15, 2023 02:51 PM (2YtOq)
A most cromulent and yet jejune comment.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2023 02:51 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: 18-1
Why would you want to?
Posted by: David Brooks probably at August 15, 2023 02:51 PM (FYQ6b)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2023 02:51 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 15, 2023 02:50 PM (guGkK)
++++
Cruel. Excellent.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:52 PM (WkNQM)
Brooks is obviously not smart enough to draw the proper conclusions.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 15, 2023 02:51 PM (2YtOq)
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His education of the French Revolution ends with the introduction of the ten-hour clock.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:52 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: gnats local 678
Obviously Krugman was correct... he just skipped acknowledging that it would be because the Dems stole an election and are throwing money around to their friends and satellite countries (Iran, Ukraine).
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 15, 2023 02:52 PM (zbP2D)
Posted by: Bert G at August 15, 2023 02:52 PM (VARTN)
I don't need your dirty fossil fuels - my electricity comes right out of wall socket!
Posted by: Some lefty at August 15, 2023 02:52 PM (lc5cP)
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History used to be a great major for those planning to go to Law School. My BA is History and Economics. I picked up Econ once I realized History Majors end up as teachers. Thucydides was all about following the money.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 02:52 PM (J7wri)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2023 02:51 PM (pohLc)
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They are adjacent to power centers, and you are not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:52 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2023 02:51 PM (pohLc)
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The circles in which they move.
They're in power positions and are published in the premiere propaganda outlets in the world.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 02:53 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 15, 2023 02:53 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2023 02:51 PM (pohLc)
The same thing that turns men into women.
PURE IMAGINATION.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 15, 2023 02:53 PM (P0plo)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 15, 2023 02:53 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: SturmToddler at August 15, 2023 02:39 PM (nXhwP)
I like tres.
Posted by: trev006
*scribbles furiously
Posted by: Dyslexic Joyce Kilmer at August 15, 2023 02:53 PM (w9Wax)
leftists believe using history as a guide to predict the outcome of action is racist, sexist, and homophobic.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2023 02:53 PM (lc5cP)
I think this is a practical matter, in response to dealing with the fallout of easily predicted failed policies.
There is only so much natgas that can be pushed through a pipe. NY and CA refuse to allow for any greater capacity in delivering natgas. By adding additional demands on an already overburdened infrastructure, the threat of dropping natgas pipe pressures will mount causing all kinds of very dangerous conditions to current downstream customers.
Fortunately, both NY and CA are seeing reduced pressure on their compromised and failing infrastructure as more and more responsible people flee those states before the total collapse.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 02:53 PM (p8A+W)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2023 02:54 PM (us2H3)
They're in power positions and are published in the premiere propaganda outlets in the world.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Let me show you a Venn diagram of it. I love these things.
Posted by: Kumala at August 15, 2023 02:54 PM (FYQ6b)
So, I won't say it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:42 PM (LvTSG)
I think the dead kennedy's covered this pretty well...
Posted by: SturmToddler at August 15, 2023 02:54 PM (nXhwP)
Posted by: David Brooks at August 15, 2023 02:54 PM (aD39U)
yeah
Posted by: John Fetterman at August 15, 2023 02:54 PM (5hfjS)
Or was that Goldberg??
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 15, 2023 02:53 PM (krqg6)
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I'd say the term encompasses many a beltway bandit.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 15, 2023 02:55 PM (2YtOq)
Remember though, the elites will still get them.
A story came by recently where some big named chef in San Fran ran into one of these laws and...they let him put gas stoves in with his renovation
Posted by: 18-1 at August 15, 2023 02:55 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 15, 2023 02:55 PM (Xrfse)
We have temporarily replaced history with computer models until the space aliens or the underworld spirits return to guide us.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 02:55 PM (p8A+W)
See, he and all the elites want a "democracy" that enacts their policy preferences.
And if not, a supra-democracy that overrides the people-democracy.
So he and his fellow elites always get their policies.
And maybe you're one of the stupids and are trying to over-clock your little brain and start to think, "hey, that doesn't sound like a democracy at all!"
Shut up, you're not as smart as Bill.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 15, 2023 02:55 PM (wbBkh)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 15, 2023 02:56 PM (xPJvm)
I was doing a Peloton class, and it was being run by one of the NY residents. Raised by a single mom, he finally got his first dishwasher within the past couple of months. This guy has been on the platform for a few years, probably makes six figures pretty easily, and just got his first dishwasher.
I was raised by a single mom (who taught religion at the local Catholic high school), and I don't have any memory of a house we lived in without a dishwasher.
It's not a moral judgement, but it just frames perceptions of wealth in American in interesting ways.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:56 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2023 02:56 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 15, 2023 02:56 PM (IjPMX)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 02:56 PM (B1FKF)
I will put my unfinished engineering education up against these preening idiots' vaunted "degrees" any day of the week and twice on Sundays, and I guarantee that I will come out looking smarter than they do.
I can't stand virtue-signalling prats like these assholes....useless wastes of space 😠😠😠
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at August 15, 2023 02:56 PM (SRRAx)
No Dave.
Using pretend words like those is a sign that you're a posturing exhibitionist cool kid wannabe who grabs onto every passing social fads in his "set" no matter how badly they expose you out as a social-climbing fool to the people around you who are more grounded and secure in their identity than you will ever be.
You'd better hope that nobody ever asks you or your jargon-spewing peers to change a tire or fix a faucet, because then your uselessness would be impossible to hide.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 15, 2023 02:50 PM (guGkK)
This makes me think that I would like to see Paisley Nehru Jackets come back in style, so-
the lame-ass elite wannabes could be easily identified by their uniform.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2023 02:56 PM (QzZeQ)
Maybe these aspirants to join the elite should spend a year in construction or working on a farm to teach them perspective.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2023 02:57 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 15, 2023 02:57 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 15, 2023 02:57 PM (aCNZ6)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 15, 2023 02:57 PM (aD39U)
I believe it was Brooks who thought his purchase of cotechino was a peak cultural experience.
Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2023 02:57 PM (TVqen)
This is why they invented dungeons
Posted by: Braenyard at August 15, 2023 02:47 PM (AbYHm)
we can haz dragons too?
Posted by: SturmToddler at August 15, 2023 02:58 PM (nXhwP)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2023 02:57 PM (MoZTd)
Dignity Canal.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2023 02:58 PM (BIG3/)
Maybe these aspirants to join the elite should spend a year in construction or working on a farm to teach them perspective.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2023 02:57 PM (MoZTd)
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"Physical labor can't teach me anything about the real world that I can't read in a book."
"Okay. So, what book have you read to teach you about physical labor?"
"Walden."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:58 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 15, 2023 02:58 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 15, 2023 02:59 PM (aCNZ6)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2023 02:58 PM (BIG3/)
Where the living will envy the dead, and eat them.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 15, 2023 02:59 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 15, 2023 02:45 PM (krqg6)
Just when you think these chucklefucks couldn't be more out of touch Boomer neo-libs, they go and out-do themselves.
"Hurr durr, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps"
Gee thanks, Great Value Kevin Williamson.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 15, 2023 02:59 PM (sOnjK)
I can't help but read with pleasure Correlli Barnett's trilogy of post-war Great Britain, where all those Oxbridge double-firsts ran the country right into the ground.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2023 02:59 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2023 02:57 PM (MoZTd)
Also have to participate in at least 10 fistfights against someone they have no chance of ever defeating.
Learn what it's like to get their face pounded in.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 02:59 PM (UnA8+)
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Good. My memory isn't playing me false then.
For a change.
Now I can have my afternoon nap in peace.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 15, 2023 03:00 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2023 03:01 PM (pohLc)
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explains eating "magic mushrooms" in China:
"I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties"
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Purple Haze all in her brain!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:01 PM (FVME7)
Brooks can be seen Friday nights on PBS instructing a couple of gay black gentlemen on what happened during the week and why.
But he wrote a couple of pieces for the National Review in the day so he's a intellectual and you're an ignorant Bubba.
There is no bottom to the contempt I harbor for this fraud.
Posted by: Auspex at August 15, 2023 03:01 PM (j4U/Z)
What those people say about rednecks is projection.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 15, 2023 03:01 PM (2YtOq)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:02 PM (xTRSc)
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A most cromulent and yet jejune comment.
The difference is, you used actual words with known and accepted definitions. The examples of "elite" vocabulary consists of non-words with transient if not absent any definition or meaning.
"cisgender" is a non-word. It exists only so that "transgender" can exist. There is no such thing as a transgender unless they can unlock the mechanism that can transform an XX into XY chromosomes or vice versa.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 03:02 PM (p8A+W)
A panhandler stabbed a 76-year-old stranger who declined to give him money outside Manhattan’s Herald Square subway station, leaving the victim seriously wounded, police said Monday.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 03:02 PM (B1FKF)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 15, 2023 03:02 PM (krqg6)
Learn what it's like to get their face pounded in.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 02:59 PM (UnA8+)
________
And Booya! Brooks goes down like a punctured souflee!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2023 03:02 PM (MoZTd)
It's not a moral judgement, but it just frames perceptions of wealth in American in interesting ways.
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As a wise moron stated, dishwashers make great dish cabinets.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:02 PM (J7wri)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 15, 2023 03:02 PM (Xrfse)
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Did JJ make it home?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:03 PM (J7wri)
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explains eating "magic mushrooms" in China:
"I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties"
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Purple Haze all in her brain!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:01 PM (FVME7)
What explains things better is that micro-dosing LSD is still popular among Our Betters.
I mean it could be Just Plain Stupid or Just Plain Evil, but my money's on long term effects of micro-dosing LSD.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2023 03:03 PM (QzZeQ)
brooks is desperate to show that he is an intellectual. He isn't. He is a midwit suckup who knew how to work the system for good grades (I assume; I do not know him but I have known hundreds like him.)
His talk of being "elite" is really just a pathetic plea to the world to consider him "smaaart."
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 15, 2023 03:04 PM (RhJxm)
That is a very large community.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 03:04 PM (p8A+W)
@RNCResearch
Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explains eating "magic mushrooms" in China:
"I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties"
-
Purple Haze all in her brain!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:01 PM (FVME7)
This woman is going to be our next president because she is smarter and competent than VP Harris. Just saying.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2023 03:04 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 02:56 PM (LvTSG)
I was sad because I had no Peleton, until I met a man who had no dishwasher, until just recently.
Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2023 03:04 PM (Jk9SN)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2023 03:05 PM (pohLc)
All you need to do is have the resolve to stare reality in the face and say, "Nah."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 15, 2023 03:05 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: DanMan at August 15, 2023 03:05 PM (DB6tu)
I mean it could be Just Plain Stupid or Just Plain Evil, but my money's on long term effects of micro-dosing LSD.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2023 03:03 PM (QzZeQ)
For most people "micro-dosing" on shrooms is going to turn out like "micro-dosing" on cocaine. Ain't gonna happen
Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2023 03:05 PM (xhaym)
Wait wait wait. Declined to give him money?
Why does this make it sound like its his fault he got stabbed?
Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (Jk9SN)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: Gref at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (JvZF+)
Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explains eating "magic mushrooms" in China:
"I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:01 PM (FVME7)
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Sure, Jan.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (WkNQM)
Why does this make it sound like its his fault he got stabbed?
Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (Jk9SN)
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Because that's how they wrote it to sound.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2023 03:04 PM (Jk9SN)
If he had a son, he had a dishwasher.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (UnA8+)
History majors? Heh.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (QlFnJ)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (aCNZ6)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (YPj9L)
https://tinyurl.com/2p9fucuz
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How did Biden overlook this guy for Secretary of Defense?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (xTRSc)
Like sex education classes. How the hell did we reproduce without them???
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (pohLc)
A true case of Kruger Dunning effect. I think that he feels more comfortable self-identifying as an educated elite because even this midwit seems smart when compared to the fools he wants to emulate.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (p8A+W)
John Dean, who served as White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, on Monday summed up the latest indictment of former President Donald Trump by saying: "It's much bigger than Watergate."
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (B1FKF)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (xhaym)
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If Jehovah's Witnesses would embrace the Ouija Board their predictions would improve.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (J7wri)
Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explains eating "magic mushrooms" in China:
"I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:01 PM (FVME7)
++++
anything to make the people take their eyes off the ball
Posted by: REDACTED at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (us2H3)
Asked and answered.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (eOEVl)
https://is.gd/yejXjG
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (WkNQM)
Why does this make it sound like its his fault he got stabbed?
Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (Jk9SN)
I believe that's what progressives call "stabbing up".
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: That Northernlurker w
dont threaten him with a good time.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (CIS44)
John Dean, who served as White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, on Monday summed up the latest indictment of former President Donald Trump by saying: "It's much bigger than Watergate."
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (B1FKF)
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Admission that Watergate was actually a nothingburger that the media and elites pumped up to get rid of an unwanted president?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (LvTSG)
All you need to do is have the resolve to stare reality in the face and say, "Nah."
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 15, 2023 03:05 PM (KbCG3)
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"Evasion is the root of all evil."
-- Ayn Rand
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (6/hMO)
It seems that there is a correlation behind increased sex education to decreased population growth.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (p8A+W)
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Well, yeah. Colluding with China to shut down the entire world in order to steal an election is way bigger than Watergate. Fucking Clown.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:09 PM (J7wri)
I hope he wasn't a prince. I'm still waiting for that $1M he promised to send me.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 15, 2023 03:09 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2023 03:09 PM (MOY79)
https://is.gd/yejXjG
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (WkNQM)
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Highly impractical workout gear.
2/10
Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:09 PM (LvTSG)
Why does this make it sound like its his fault he got stabbed?
Posted by: blaster at August 15, 2023 03:06 PM (Jk9SN)
I believe that's what progressives call "stabbing up".
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (UnA8+)
Nice!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2023 03:10 PM (QzZeQ)
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The most popularly elected President in US history was unwanted. WTF?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:10 PM (J7wri)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (LvTSG)
That Dean was affiliated with the CIA and still remembers who his friends are?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (B1FKF)
He's not wrong.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (aD39U)
Brooks is the NYT's pet conservative. Like one of those official dissidents in the Soviet Union.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (MoZTd)
"I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties"
She is disappointed that no one wanted to slip her some roofies. Even with a huge disparity in the male:female ratio in China, no one is that desperate.
OTOH, nothing like having your diplomatic foe high AF when hammering out agreements.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (p8A+W)
Posted by: wth at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (v0R5T)
John Dean, who served as White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, on Monday summed up the latest indictment of former President Donald Trump by saying: "It's much bigger than Watergate."
Posted by: gnats local 678
THIS IS WORST THAT WATERGATE!!!!
GET OFF MY TURF, DEAN OR I'LL GUT YOU LIKE A FISH!!!
Posted by: Carl everything is worse than Watergate Bernstein at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (sAmhv)
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The most popularly elected President in US history was unwanted. WTF?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:10 PM (J7wri)
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Obviously, I was saying that the elite and media didn't want him. If the people didn't want him, they could have just waited for the next election to sweep in a new Democrat to undo all of Nixon's work he'd be term limited out of doing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Puddinhead
By the IC and TBTB? yes.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 15, 2023 03:12 PM (IjPMX)
https://is.gd/yejXjG
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (WkNQM)
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Highly impractical workout gear.
2/10
Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:09 PM (LvTSG)
A camel is sticking its foot right in your face and you're worried about the practicality of workout gear?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 15, 2023 03:12 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: wth at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (v0R5T)
++++
Don't bet on it
Posted by: The Arab World at August 15, 2023 03:12 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Marion, KS cops at August 15, 2023 03:12 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 15, 2023 03:12 PM (KbCG3)
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Don't hate me because I have actual standards.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:13 PM (LvTSG)
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The most popularly elected President in US history was unwanted. WTF?
Posted by: Puddinhead
But the wrong people wanted him. You know, Americans.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 15, 2023 03:13 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (LvTSG)
I wish someone would undo the EPA.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 03:13 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: wth at August 15, 2023 03:11 PM (v0R5T)
Aint it wonderful
Posted by: Lizzo at August 15, 2023 03:13 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:13 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 03:13 PM (UnA8+)
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Yeah, I'm not a big Nixon fan either.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:13 PM (LvTSG)
Obviously, I was saying that the elite and media didn't want him. If the people didn't want him, they could have just waited for the next election to sweep in a new Democrat to undo all of Nixon's work he'd be term limited out of doing.
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Understood. I just want the record clear. If JFK getting pasted wasn't a clue the take down of Nixon pretty much sealed the fate of the US.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:14 PM (J7wri)
https://is.gd/yejXjG
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (WkNQM)
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Highly impractical workout gear.
2/10
Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir
.........
camel toe
2/10
would bang
Posted by: wth - not that picky at August 15, 2023 03:14 PM (v0R5T)
The main narrator is apparently Richard Nixon, who became a NY lawyer after losing his bid for the California Governor's race
Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2023 03:14 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir
I don't get it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:14 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 15, 2023 03:14 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:13 PM (xTRSc)
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Fucking insane and broken and would probably gut me in my sleep.
3/10
Would not have threesome.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:14 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 15, 2023 03:12 PM (IjPMX)
MDMA?
It'll make them want to roll around naked on shag carpeting and smoke menthols.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 03:14 PM (UnA8+)
i think a lot of people who paid for the on line classes lost interest after a while, and the company spawned a bunch of competitors making something similar for a lot less. that having been said, i know someone who bought one a while ago and she said it was 'amazing'
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 03:15 PM (B1FKF)
2/10
would bang
Posted by: wth - not that picky at August 15, 2023 03:14 PM (v0R5T)
See me at 212. This guy gets it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 15, 2023 03:15 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 03:15 PM (B1FKF)
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Dolley bought her bike about 3 years ago and still uses it. I don't use it anymore (I did for about 6 months). Instead, I use their strength training classes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:15 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 15, 2023 03:15 PM (ouTlx)
https://is.gd/yejXjG
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 03:08 PM (WkNQM)
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She doesn't skip leg day.
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 15, 2023 03:17 PM (6/hMO)
Posted by: InZona at August 15, 2023 03:17 PM (x2H6o)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 15, 2023 03:15 PM (ouTlx)
Would be amazing if the government of Costa Rica told them all to get fvcked.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 03:17 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:15 PM (LvTSG)
The longer I go without a bath the stronger I get. Been 2 weeks, ripe is the descriptive word, and I can't actually reach the crack of my ass to wipe.
Posted by: Lizzo at August 15, 2023 03:17 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 15, 2023 03:17 PM (WJN9p)
https://tinyurl.com/2vxys23f
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 15, 2023 03:18 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 15, 2023 03:18 PM (JTwsP)
Wasn't it George Will who dumped the Mrs. for a research assistant?
Or is this a common thing like the university professors used to do all the time?
Posted by: Auspex at August 15, 2023 03:18 PM (j4U/Z)
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So they will be wearing Army uniforms?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:19 PM (J7wri)
Posted by: Ben Had
Had to give it up when he couldn't get a woman to make him one.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 15, 2023 03:20 PM (FYQ6b)
Here's Oliver Anthony talking about his breakout song before it went viral:
https://tinyurl.com/2s3dnezu
Posted by: kallisto at August 15, 2023 03:20 PM (TVqen)
Wasn't it George Will who dumped the Mrs. for a research assistant?
Or is this a common thing like the university professors used to do all the time?
Posted by: Auspex
TRUMP SAID PUSSY!!!
Posted by: Look! Squirrel! at August 15, 2023 03:20 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 03:07 PM (B1FKF)
Lotta stuff recently is much bigger than Watergate, including the way Trump is being treated. IYKWIM
Posted by: Emmie at August 15, 2023 03:21 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 15, 2023 03:21 PM (44ww/)
Wasn't it George Will who dumped the Mrs. for a research assistant?
Or is this a common thing like the university professors used to do all the time?
Posted by: Auspex
TRUMP SAID PUSSY!!!
Posted by: Look! Squirrel! at August 15, 2023 03:20 PM (sAmhv)
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Bush Sr. was banging his secretary through his presidency, but it was an open secret that didn't get reported to the people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:21 PM (LvTSG)
Its of the genre of Gamercize. When people have no running buddies who have the time and commitment to schedule regular exercise with each other, too cheap to get a coach, have erratic schedules, are anti-social, or too far from a group hangout to do group rides, the only alternative is a robot.
I have this massive Nexersys commercial machine in my shop that allows me to do punches, digs, kicks, sweeps, knees, elbows in MMA style. The "head" is a very large tablet that has guided courses, sparring, coaching, etc. The pads have accelerometers in them so that technique, speed and power can be measured.
Twelve three-minute rounds just fly by without being bored and always being pushed. It is a great alternative to just heavy and double-ended bag workouts (which service different purposes yet are boring)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 03:21 PM (p8A+W)
Yeah, but his dishwasher is a young illegal boy in short pants named Juan.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 15, 2023 03:21 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:22 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 15, 2023 03:15 PM (B1FKF)
The Grand COVID Locking Down of Society was a magical times for certain things and the value of those things.
Once the Lockdown was over, so were the Magical Times.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2023 03:22 PM (QzZeQ)
Liz in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in that nightie.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 15, 2023 03:23 PM (ufFY8)
Here's Oliver Anthony talking about his breakout song before it went viral:
https://tinyurl.com/2s3dnezu
Posted by: kallisto
https://tinyurl.com/5n826nxr
America's Paper of Record and Prophecy!
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 15, 2023 03:23 PM (sAmhv)
It was a kindler, gentler banging.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 15, 2023 03:23 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 15, 2023 03:23 PM (sAmhv)
Liz in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in that nightie.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 15, 2023 03:23 PM (ufFY
Too late for Liz, however Lizzo is here to please!
Posted by: Lizzo at August 15, 2023 03:24 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:24 PM (xTRSc)
https://tinyurl.com/2s3dnezu
I saw a comment somewhere saying he should sing about the good things in America, not the things going wrong. Good grief.
The clip of him reading Psalm 37 at his recent show gave me chills.
Posted by: InZona at August 15, 2023 03:24 PM (x2H6o)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:25 PM (FVME7)
It was a kindler, gentler banging.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 15, 2023 03:23 PM (Xrfse)
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If you are of the party, the media will cover for you. If you not of the party, the media will invent whatever the fuck it wants about you and make it true.
I don't want to say that the worm turned with W., but it really feels like the trumping up of FEMA's failures during Katrina, followed by the successful narrative building around Obama, told the media that they could do whatever they wanted to Republicans now, and Republicans in good standing have just accepted it as "how things are done". It's cost of doing business now, and they cannot fathom why the people object.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:26 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2023 03:26 PM (MOY79)
Bush Sr. was banging his secretary through his presidency, but it was an open secret that didn't get reported to the people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:21 PM (LvTSG)
Did not know this, at all.
Sort of twists the intern humidor deal into a knot... doesn't it?
Posted by: Inogame at August 15, 2023 03:26 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: tsj017 at August 15, 2023 03:27 PM (nO4H1)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 15, 2023 03:27 PM (aCNZ6)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:25 PM (FVME7)
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Everything is a sandwich. Nothing is a sandwich. Sandwiches are the embodiment of quintessence.
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at August 15, 2023 03:27 PM (WkNQM)
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There was an observation by some guy at some point in the last few years that women will often let men in positions of power do pretty much whatever they wanted to them if the woman was actively engaged in the back-and-forth and trying to quickly and easily advance her station in life.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 15, 2023 03:27 PM (oZ23Y)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2023 03:27 PM (0EOe9)
Sort of twists the intern humidor deal into a knot... doesn't it?
Posted by: Inogame at August 15, 2023 03:26 PM (53oGX)
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It only came out in the last few years, right after his death.
Because he was a moral Republican who never did anything that the Democrats could ever take advantage of.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:27 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 15, 2023 03:28 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 15, 2023 03:28 PM (IjPMX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I
Did a woman make it and give it to a man?
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 15, 2023 03:28 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 15, 2023 03:27 PM (oZ23Y)
Even touch their pussy?
Posted by: Lizzo at August 15, 2023 03:28 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:13 PM (LvTSG)
Gave us the EPA, took us off the gold standard, and normalized relations with China. What's not to love?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 15, 2023 03:28 PM (2L+PC)
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So they will be wearing Army uniforms?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:19 PM (J7wri)
Ha! The Army Air Forces insignia is very cool, in my opinion.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 15, 2023 03:28 PM (/iWhV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:13 PM (LvTSG)
Gave us the EPA, took us off the gold standard, and normalized relations with China. What's not to love?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 15, 2023 03:28 PM (2L+PC)
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"He passed me over for a promotion."
-Mark Felt
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:29 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:29 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 15, 2023 03:29 PM (ufFY8)
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Paul Newman didn't want to bang her. He preferred the affections of men.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:29 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 15, 2023 03:27 PM (oZ23Y)
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Throughout history. If you're married to the king, your station, lifestyle, wealth and - of course - the survivability of your children and *their* station and wealth will never be higher. If the kings dips his wick in the maids, then so be it (so long as any resulting bastards don't get any notions about legitimacy).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 03:29 PM (WkNQM)
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Paul Newman didn't want to bang her. He preferred the affections of men.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:29 PM (FVME7)
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He was just doing what Tennessee Williams told him to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:30 PM (LvTSG)
nice.
Posted by: Inogame at August 15, 2023 03:30 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2023 03:30 PM (0EOe9)
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2023 03:26 PM (MOY79)
Yea. But the next question is "why?".
I think it was because he had formed an unbeatable voter coalition. And wanted to actually govern the country.
The EPA under Nixon types would have been a good thing.
I'm frustrated by "conservatives" who oppose things because our government sucks.
Like trains and EVs and government support of infrastructure.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (P0plo)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 15, 2023 03:29 PM (WkNQ
*John Snow kicks rocks, heads back towards wall*
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:29 PM (FVME7)
Yeah, what an idiot.
But Tennessee Williams, flaming fag, so....
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (ufFY8)
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Luvs me some big fat gubmint
and the price of bread
gonna buy me an EV truck
and a case of Bud Light
Posted by: wth - not that picky at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (xTRSc)
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There's a video clip of Shrub getting a note from a Secret Service or other similar government agent at daddy's funeral and passing it over so Jeb can read it. IIRC Shrub's wife did, too. Everyone's face is full of terror after they glance at it. Jeb's face is the best.
And not too long after that Obama and Shrub were best NeverTrump friends.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (oZ23Y)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (XMwZJ)
One thing I've long wondered, and Brooks's column reminded me of, is just what this "education" the "meritocracy" is taught. Note, the answer cannot be wokeism, as the whole phenomenon goes further back than that. It was well under way back in the 60s.
We know what the Seven Liberal Arts were, in the West. Scholars of China know what their classics were. And I do know that in both cases you had to actually master a subject, and not just express your wonderfulness.
But that is clearly the only consistent thing in our modern miseducation system. You don't really have to be good at anything to be part of the "educated" class. Anything, that is, other than getting teacher to give you good grades.
Which is also one reason I entirely disbelieve in "meritocracy." Whenever anyone uses that term, you might as well hear - at best - "people I like and admire". At worst, and all too often, it means "people like me."
Posted by: Eeyore at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (brAQZ)
Bidenomics and the EPA have America on a path of inflationary and environmental madness that’s all pain and no gain.
Posted by: SMOD at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Xipe Toted at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 15, 2023 03:32 PM (ufFY8)
https://youtu.be/hkHH8iBiERs
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 15, 2023 03:33 PM (oZ23Y)
Posted by: Xipe Toted
Def one of my favorite things when I learned about them as a kid.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 15, 2023 03:33 PM (CIS44)
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It is. It has a propeller on it.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:33 PM (J7wri)
Like trains and EVs and government support of infrastructure.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (P0plo)
I oppose EVs because EVs suck.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 15, 2023 03:33 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (xTRSc)
Fawn Hall?
Colonel whathisname's assistant.
I get those two confused.
Fawn Hall.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 15, 2023 03:33 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:34 PM (xTRSc)
Liddy's book on John Dean was pretty explicit about how Dean dumped his first wife Karla to take up with Maureen who was banging her way around capitol hill for pay.
Does anyone see a pattern here?
Posted by: Auspex at August 15, 2023 03:34 PM (j4U/Z)
Krugman is, well, if I didn't know he really exists, I'd think him something one of our less subtle people made up.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 15, 2023 03:34 PM (brAQZ)
I saw "Just Cause" last night with Sean Connery on Max. It was a movie made last century.
There was a little girl in the 10-11 year range playing SC's daughter and when they did a close-up on her, I thought "Wow. This kid really looks like Scarlet Johansson."
So, I checked on the credits and it was the Larval Scar-jo.
That chick has been around Hollywood for a long time.
She didn't, as it often seems, suddenly pop into stardom from outer space.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 15, 2023 03:35 PM (QzZeQ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Yep, even at the late months of the 92 election season. Barbra Bush in her book talked about contemplating suicide over the humiliation.
Posted by: whig at August 15, 2023 03:35 PM (6BfIu)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2023 03:35 PM (0EOe9)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 15, 2023 03:36 PM (IjPMX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:36 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Braenyard at August 15, 2023 03:36 PM (AbYHm)
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Bi. He worked (hung out) at a gas station in Hollywood where the big Stars/Producers could score some teenage ass.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:36 PM (J7wri)
And not too long after that Obama and Shrub were best NeverTrump friends.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (oZ23Y)
I've seen that vid. It's legit blackmail stuff, I'm gonna guess photos of GHWB in some kind of compromising position, because they gave Hillory a copy of it too, and she just had a very satisfied look on her face. I think Bill got it was well, or maybe she showed it to him, and I don't recall if there was disgust or something else on his face.
It was ugly, whatever it was.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2023 03:37 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 15, 2023 03:33 PM (GD2xa)
I have an attached garage with a bedroom above... and I'm allergic to lithium fires.
Posted by: Inogame at August 15, 2023 03:37 PM (53oGX)
It was ugly, whatever it was.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2023 03:37 PM (dGCAG)
It was Bill's HIV results
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 15, 2023 03:37 PM (CIS44)
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So a capitalist?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 15, 2023 03:38 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:29 PM (xTRSc)
In the acting world you begin with the proposition that all males are gay, until proven otherwise. In high school which males devoted themselves to the Drama Dept.?
The gay ones.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 15, 2023 03:38 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 15, 2023 03:38 PM (ouTlx)
It was ugly, whatever it was.
Posted by: BurtTC
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According to the comments every president and/or wife in attendance got a similar note except Trump and Carter (both Clintons might've gotten one).
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 15, 2023 03:38 PM (oZ23Y)
Posted by: Xipe Toted at August 15, 2023 03:38 PM (pohLc)
Jeb, you and the midget are next.
Posted by: wth at August 15, 2023 03:39 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 15, 2023 03:21 PM (LvTSG)
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Remember when he was aged, in a wheelchair, and grabbed the ass of some actress?
Good times, good times ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 15, 2023 03:39 PM (gdCjN)
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I don't know why I posted that since you'd already made that comment. I'm not even drunk.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 15, 2023 03:39 PM (oZ23Y)
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After weeks of constant Kennedy assassination TV reports the first commercial program was 'The Purple Heart.' I remember it cuz at 8 I was ready for something else. I don't recall liking it and there was some hambone pretending to be Japanese, but I did watch it.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:40 PM (J7wri)
So, not gay. Just a Thespian trapped in a man’s body.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:40 PM (xTRSc)
She was explaining the concept of a UPC reader to Poppy Bush while handling the fabled Bush salami like a pro.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 15, 2023 03:41 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2023 03:41 PM (0EOe9)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 15, 2023 03:36 PM (IjPMX)
.......
They have been assigned to arrest Trump if he flees earth.
Posted by: wth at August 15, 2023 03:42 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:36 PM (J7wri)
Most men who claim to be bi are just gay men who will bang women if they don't have a "better" place to put it.
Or they're just not being honest with themselves.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2023 03:42 PM (dGCAG)
Not in my high school they didn't. I didn't ask everybody's sexual orientation, but there were quite a few that were obviously straight men. It is simply a fiction that every man who does theatre or movies is gay.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2023 03:42 PM (Keyt1)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 15, 2023 03:42 PM (zbP2D)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2023 03:42 PM (Keyt1)
Yeah? Well this is my truth.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 15, 2023 03:43 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Xipe Toted at August 15, 2023 03:38 PM (pohLc)
Quite clear. I just think you are being silly. It's a niche but cool product. The engine is a beautiful machine and the performance is fantastic.
I don't have one and it wouldn't work for me. But it is cool.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 15, 2023 03:44 PM (P0plo)
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:36 PM (J7wri)
Most men who claim to be bi are just gay men who will bang women if they don't have a "better" place to put it.
Or they're just not being honest with themselves.
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I agree with this statement.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:44 PM (J7wri)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 15, 2023 03:44 PM (Xa1Vr)
Posted by: Braenyard at August 15, 2023 03:44 PM (AbYHm)
Posted by: Inogame at August 15, 2023 03:37 PM (53oGX)
Say more about that. Does the attached garage with the bedroom above relate to the lithium fires? Or some other EV failure?
Always love me some reasons to hate EVs.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 15, 2023 03:44 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2023 03:45 PM (0EOe9)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 15, 2023 03:45 PM (rBcAx)
Like trains and EVs and government support of infrastructure.
EVs are a No-Go for most people because they can't fill the use-cases most people have for surface transportation'. That can't be fixed.
Trains had their time when there wasn't large cargo aircraft, containerized sea ports and interstate freeways. All three of those things played against railroads.
Also, industrialization is what pays for railroads. As the FUSA deindustrializes, the manifest profiles of railroad freight changes. Now its mostly bulk: rocks/coal/grains, chemicals, and containers shipped between intermodal facilities.
Fast turn-around also killed railways since they can't do it. JIT inventories can't have fickle timelines as railroad deliveries vary by days.
Infrastructure - its own topic. Mostly because the time infrastructure needs to be replaced things have changed. Example: Sewer systems designed for five gallon flush back up when solids are denser in 1.5 gallon flush systems.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 03:45 PM (p8A+W)
I don't have one and it wouldn't work for me. But it is cool.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 15, 2023 03:44 PM (P0plo)
Obviously, you DONT GET IT.
Posted by: Xipe Toted at August 15, 2023 03:45 PM (pohLc)
Which is also one reason I entirely disbelieve in "meritocracy." Whenever anyone uses that term, you might as well hear - at best - "people I like and admire". At worst, and all too often, it means "people like me."
Posted by: Eeyore at August 15, 2023 03:31 PM (brAQZ)
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Agree. The system is rigged and is more rigged the higher you go.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 15, 2023 03:45 PM (2HWEq)
Well, 99.854%.
Okay 95%.
NOT ALL ACTORS ARE GAY BIGOT.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 15, 2023 03:45 PM (P0plo)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 15, 2023 03:45 PM (e0dkU)
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 15, 2023 03:46 PM (jW/QK)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
I think there's a cream for that.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 15, 2023 03:46 PM (FYQ6b)
I don't have one and it wouldn't work for me. But it is cool.
Posted by: Thesokorus
As long as you're okay with slave labor for the battery I guess you do you (as the commercial for the Indian Casinos here say).
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 15, 2023 03:46 PM (zbP2D)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2023 03:45 PM (0EOe9)
To be fair, those trees can sneak up on a guy.
Posted by: Zombie Sonny Bono at August 15, 2023 03:46 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: Funsize at August 15, 2023 03:46 PM (97pPn)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 15, 2023 03:46 PM (zjgNU)
lse ac uk/graham institute, Press release 12/9/19: More than 170 countries have national policies on adaptation to manage the risks of climate change impacts. (In tiny part) "91 countries have at least one law (passed by a legislative branch, e.g. parliament) that addresses climate change adaptation. Adaptation is now addressed in the executive policies of at least 170 countries. More than 120 countries have at least one framework document that addresses climate change adaptation (laws or policies that lay down the overarching and cross-sectoria obligations & principles, but often have more detailed subsidiary laws or policies that set out how these goals are achieved."
Not one says those people will plant willow trees to suck up water, remove non-native plants, provide fire barriers and adequate maintenance for same. They point, direct & often measure inaccurately, making happy work for they/theirs & doing insider trading.
And they've been caught.
Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 15, 2023 03:47 PM (GshMh)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2023 03:47 PM (0EOe9)
Posted by: Your burning garage at August 15, 2023 03:47 PM (Xrfse)
Would’ve spared the world his daughter as well.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 15, 2023 03:47 PM (xTRSc)
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On rear engine pusher cars never accelerate into a curve. Porch, Corvare, Renault, Bug...
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 15, 2023 03:48 PM (J7wri)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2023 03:42 PM (Keyt1)
Yeah? Well this is my truth.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 15, 2023 03:43 PM (guGkK)
I have said around these parts, I just assume an actor is gay unless he proves otherwise.
Now... how does one prove one doesn't sip peener? I guess we have to wait until they die to know for sure.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2023 03:48 PM (dGCAG)
I think they're impractical and retarded. Nobody should be forced to buy one.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2023 03:49 PM (BIG3/)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 15, 2023 03:49 PM (0EOe9)
That statement is a slur. The hatred is directed at the mandates and the "nudging" towards a technology that is wholly impractical for the vast majority.
EVs have their place, no one really knows what that place is, but surely it exists or EV purchases would have to be subsidized for anyone to buy them. </sarc>
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 15, 2023 03:49 PM (p8A+W)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 15, 2023 03:50 PM (e0dkU)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 15, 2023 03:50 PM (2HWEq)
I think they're impractical and retarded. Nobody should be forced to buy one.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 15, 2023 03:49 PM (BIG3/)
Or forced to help subsidize someone else's shits and grins.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 15, 2023 03:50 PM (GD2xa)
Given the accelerating rate of academics declaring dead people gay, even then you can't know for sure.
At this point I think all of the Founding Fathers are trans or something.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2023 03:50 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 15, 2023 03:48 PM (dGCAG)
They beat the shit out of everyone who accuses them.
Posted by: XTC at August 15, 2023 03:51 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
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They're 'smart', and 'sophisticated'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 15, 2023 03:51 PM (N7OAi)
Posted by: Xipe Toted at August 15, 2023 03:45 PM (pohLc)
NOT ALL ACTORS ARE GAY BIGOT
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Posted by: Thesokorus at August 15, 2023 03:45 PM (P0plo)
YOU TWO GUYS ARE OKAY IN MY BOOK!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 15, 2023 03:51 PM (QzZeQ)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
They went to the right schools and met the right people.
Posted by: JEM at August 15, 2023 03:53 PM (8erNz)
I saw Bowie open for the Fabled Bush Salami in the alley behind The Hollywood Bowl in '93.
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at August 15, 2023 03:54 PM (Vu7A1)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2023 03:50 PM (2ocoG)
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The Constitutional Convention was a big gay orgy. They barely had much time to write the Constitution between all the dick sucking and squeak hole pounding.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 15, 2023 03:55 PM (2HWEq)
If you have off-grid electricity generation and storage (solar or small-scale hydro or whatever plus some LiFePO batteries) and a non-extreme commute your operating costs are pretty near zero aside from tires and other wear items. And you can go 0-60 in 3 seconds any time you feel the need, which is always entertaining.
The problem is the people most likely to have the generation and storage are least likely to have a short commute and vice-versa.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 15, 2023 03:55 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Peaches at August 15, 2023 04:00 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at August 15, 2023 03:54 PM (Vu7A1)
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Heh, I almost went that way with it ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 15, 2023 04:01 PM (jW/QK)
Posted by: Peaches at August 15, 2023 04:03 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Reuben Hick
Their place? The good ones (if it's a 3/Y look for the red brake calipers and the little stripe under 'dual motor' on the back) are incredibly, effortlessly fast. And for road trips Tesla has troweled chargers all over the place. They are the only charge network that matters. Ford and GM now adopting their charging plug.
Ours was $56k and Tesla had burned up almost all their subsidy so I think we got a $2500 credit. At a bit over 50k miles now and it's been great.
Posted by: JEM at August 15, 2023 04:04 PM (8erNz)
2) sound theory does not require marketing
3) sound theory does not require threatening and bullying people who might disagree for perfectly sound reasons
4) if we were serious about climate warming or global change or whatever it will be called in the name of marketing tomorrow, we would be using off the shelf technology from December 1942 in droves. But we do not, and any suggestion that we try it is met with shrieking terror.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 15, 2023 04:06 PM (e0dkU)
Posted by: t-bird at August 15, 2023 04:07 PM (ptElO)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 15, 2023 04:08 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 15, 2023 04:11 PM (e0dkU)
Did not like dog hair.
Did not do a good job of finding the edge of our steps.
Maybe they're better now.
Posted by: JEM at August 15, 2023 04:15 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: timactual at August 15, 2023 04:18 PM (Cmxuw)
Posted by: JEM at August 15, 2023 04:20 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: JEM at August 15, 2023 04:21 PM (8erNz)
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