Costumes and Symbols of "The Baddies"

One of my lefty social media friends posted one of those stupid 20-second "stories" that last for 24 hours on the theme of a lefty discussion group centering on the "monsters" of the world wearing well-tailored suits.

No, make that "exquisitely" tailored suits.

This reminded me of a frequent misquote of C.S. Lewis along these lines (once apparently by Ronald Reagan):

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

The actual quote of C.S. Lewis is much more nuanced and detailed:

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
From the second preface to The Screwtape Letters

When we think of "The Baddies" of a police state, how often do we think of the costumes of the bureaucracy of that police state? White collars and suits rather than skulls?

Do the women of the bureaucracy of a police state have costumes? What about the women of the bureaucracy of a "thoroughly nasty business concern"?

I ask partly because the lefty friend who posted the "story" about men in exquisitely tailored suits is a young woman.

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Feminization of Industries and Culture

This week, Maetenloch suggested Helen Andrews' piece on feminization of culture and many industries in the West as an important topic of discussion at AoSHQ. But J.J. Sefton had already picked up an analysis from The Federalist in the Tuesday Oct 21 Morning Report, suggesting that wokism was not the only area of concern from Andrews' piece:

Helen Andrews argues woke culture is the inevitable result of women taking over pivotal industries such as law, media, and medicine.
Western Culture Isn’t Feminized, It’s Transgender

Then yesterday, Ace did a deeper dive into Helen Andrews' piece: The Feminization of Society: Threat or Menace?

Helen Andrews looks at what feminism has wrought.
Mostly dysfunction, decline, and dissension.
This might be a tough read for some women. I don't think this is about women per se, however: It's about women with a specific mindset, the mindset of woke feminism and Girlpower Marxism. The kind of woman being pushed to the fore and put in charge of corporations and academic departments is usually a highly-political feminist who puts feminism and feminist activism far, far above the needs of the corporation or institution she is supposedly serving.
Feminism was, is, and will always be predicated on the idea that Men Were, Are, and Always Will Be Wrong, and therefore any institution previously dominated by men is tainted and must be completely razed and rebuilt according to feminist Marxist principles.
It's like young blacks rejecting studying and reading as "Acting White." When you reject, wholesale, practices that have a proven track record of success, you're committing yourself to unsuccessful practices.
And so too with feminists, who see things like objectivity, professionalism, dispassion, and actual equality and most of all, capitalism itself, as antiquated notions of a diseased Patriarchy which must be rejected entirely.
They don't want to be seen as Acting Male.
And so they keep taking functioning institutions and changing them. And when you change every foundational aspect of a functioning institution, what you wind up with, most of the time, is a non-functioning institution.
And they keep calling this "victory."

Don't comment on old threads, but you might want to read the whole thing again, or even read Helen Andrews' piece, perhaps thinking about the craftiness of the demons described in The Screwtape Letters. They may change their tactics over time.

Or, here's a link to an hour-long podcast about the essay (with a description near the beginning).

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Feminism in Russia

You will be relieved to know that NPR has not collapsed since it lost the 11% of its funding it said came from the federal government. I heard most of an interview of the author of a book on feminism in Russia yesterday:

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

I couldn't find a link to the archive of the interview last night, so don't hold me to the details, but the author seemed to rather like Marxism and to wish that it had been run by women.

In the West, women wanted to "have it all". In Russia, the rulers expected women to DO it all - the traditional womens' roles PLUS advanced technology, medicine, management, etc. without much support in the way of labor-saving household devices and so forth. Women WERE supported in sexual liberation (WAY ahead of the West) and abortion rights. A point made with pride in the interview.

Meanwhile, the men were all sent to war and few came back. The ones who DID come back were largely useless from PTSD and alcoholism. Then the men in power decided they wanted more babies, and the burden fell mostly to women, often single, or with a baby-like husband as an additional burden. When Putin came back, showing off his bare chest, astride a horse, women went wild for him.

This altered feminism in Russia.

Careful what you wish for, feminists!

From Reuters:

Julia Ioffe on unearthing Russia's forgotten feminist legacy

The National Book Award finalist discusses her new book "Motherland," the fragility of progress and what she sees in Russia's future.

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Weekend

The Week In Pictures: Demolition Edition

Thankfully, it wasn’t a heavy news week. So the week’s memes are dominated by soft news stories. like the No Kings protest–which, despite being over for nearly a week, continues to inspire memes–the ongoing government shutdown, the robbery of priceless jewels from the Louvre, and my personal favorite, President Trump’s demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

The East Wing connects to the presidential residence via a walkway, and houses the First Lady’s office. The First Lady’s staff, like the social secretary, is housed there, too. Also the Graphics and Calligraphy Office. These offices are being temporarily relocated while the new construction is in progress. Despite what would seem to be a modest historical footprint, Trump’s demolition of the East Wing has brought howls of outrage from the Democrats. Gavin Newsom went so far as to label it “unconstitutional.”

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Music

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, October 18, They don't want kings. What DO they want?

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

Posted by: K.T. at 11:21 AM

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1 Why don't the fascist Karens ever look like Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 25, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

2 Female bureaucracies will end up being the strongest argument against democracy.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 25, 2025 11:26 AM (fd80v)

3 I feel as though K.T. Has well served our mid-day open thread needs.

Posted by: Weasel at October 25, 2025 11:27 AM (pQ7Rb)

4 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 11:28 AM (+qU29)

5 Julia Ioffe stayed semi-sane for enough time to squeeze out a book? Color me amazed.

Not a surprise that whatever her screed says, it was a finalist for the national book award. Only one other entry, no doubt.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2025 11:29 AM (mcGJ2)

6 The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

Soviet joke:

There's a military parade in Red Square, and rows of tanks drive by, rows of artillery drive by, rows of armored personnel carriers drive by, and then rows of trucks drive by with men in suits holding briefcases standing in the trucks.

An observer: "Who are the men in the trucks?"

Another observer: "Those are our economists. You have no idea how much damage they can do."

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 25, 2025 11:32 AM (xTIDn)

7 Well doggies.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 25, 2025 11:32 AM (u9uFU)

8 But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

As much as I don't like Chesterton - and I couldn't like him less - I do enjoy some C.S. Lewis.

Because C.S. got it - every fence ever made was done by Man. And Man is the apex predator. Not because he's got big fangs or is necessarily all that smart. But Man has this thing. He's cunning.

If Man makes a fence ? Pro Tip - he's generally not doing it for the benefit of his fellow man. He made it for himself. His own benefit. And Man doesn't mind climbing to the top on the backs of his fellow Man.

Elephants show more honor - more reason to be trusted - than Man.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 11:32 AM (r9oLJ)

9 Man doesn't mind climbing to the top on the backs of his fellow Man.

So ghey then.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 25, 2025 11:34 AM (u9uFU)

10 You can't tell a Karen by looks, they're stealthy. You gotta here the voice, and a few opinions, then it becomes obvious.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 11:34 AM (uWKK8)

11 Thanks KT… the reference to CS Lewis and exquisitely tailored suits reminds me of his book That Hideous Strength… in that book the evil doers were part of the ultimate bureaucracy N.I.C.E. which is populated with polite nicely tailored bureaucrats… but demons are behind the whole enterprise

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 25, 2025 11:36 AM (xT8gx)

12 So ghey then.

Funny - but no. Man is a Social Cannibal. Man generally plays a Zero Sum Game.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 11:36 AM (r9oLJ)

13 Isn't there one of those "laws" that say the cooler the army's uniform, the harder they'll lose the war?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 25, 2025 11:37 AM (PCJTc)

14 Make that a Metal tee and a bottle of whiskey and she'd be prime Horde catnip.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 25, 2025 11:37 AM (kpS4V)

15 In other news of feminism based empowerment- Abortion centers are opening up in Colorado and New Jersey that will do the procedure at 34 weeks. My middle daughter was born at almost 30 weeks.

Posted by: Piper at October 25, 2025 11:37 AM (p4NUW)

16 The Bureaucracy has goons to protect their place in society, they don't do it themselves

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 11:39 AM (+qU29)

17 Karen as a Halloween costume.... get's a rock.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2025 11:41 AM (Q4IgG)

18 Abortion centers are opening up in Colorado and New Jersey that will do the procedure at 34 weeks. My middle daughter was born at almost 30 weeks.

I have a very, very vivid memory of high school. An argument - with a Power Christian. Not a bad chic - but naive. And also very liberal. The type that walked around sure that everyone simply tries to do the right thing.

She laughed derisively in my face - when I told her that Third Trimester Abortion exists. Extremely haughty about it - as if she'd just told me some immutable fact.

Back in '89.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 11:41 AM (r9oLJ)

19 The Bureaucracy has goons to protect their place in society, they don't do it themselves.

Yep. We call them Cops.

Back the Blue.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 11:44 AM (r9oLJ)

20 great news, no one said: from the bbc via yahoo nooz:

Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has told the BBC she may run again for the White House.

In her first UK interview, Harris said she would "possibly" be president one day and was confident there will be a woman in the White House in future.

Making her strongest suggestion to date that she will make another presidential bid in 2028 after losing to Donald Trump last year, Harris dismissed polls that put her as an outsider to become the Democrats' pick for the next election.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 25, 2025 11:44 AM (CWTWj)

21 Sarah Sanders will be the first female President.

You heard it here first, unless it doesn't happen.

Posted by: toby928 at October 25, 2025 11:47 AM (jc0TO)

22 And so they keep taking functioning institutions and changing them. And when you change every foundational aspect of a functioning institution, what you wind up with, most of the time, is a non-functioning institution.

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Hidden under this analysis is a darker problem. The ladies coming into leadership positions often do not truly understand what their organization does or how it does it. They do not know what they do not know. As a result of this, mixed with ego, they do not attempt to understand why anything works the way it does. If anyone tries to explain, they are labeled insubordinate and a problem, and removed. Meanwhile, they make the organization change to what THEY think it does or how THEY think it should run. The problem is, when this occurs, the organization has effectively changed it's functionality. We have witnessed this everywhere, from the military to Public Health Departments to college campuses to the C Suites in corporations.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at October 25, 2025 11:47 AM (m0WlR)

23 I think I would like to see Sarah Sanders as President some day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2025 11:50 AM (ZeH0U)

24 Harris is dumb.

She obviously has no shame.

Let her run. It's entertaining.

Let her piss away the money of her supporters.

Posted by: pawn at October 25, 2025 11:50 AM (tqkKb)

25 The ubama care act that turbocharged murdercare was saturated with girlboss secretions.

Posted by: Eromero at October 25, 2025 11:53 AM (LHPAg)

26 Hidden under this analysis is a darker problem. The ladies coming into leadership positions often do not truly understand what their organization does or how it does it.

Take logic and accountability away from a man and you have a woman.

Now that's a stereotype - and like all of them - generally true. How do you make it even more true ? Trying to dispel it by taking certain groups and sending them straight to the top.

Now lets talk about business degrees. The modern Military officer corps. The idea that we can just "crock pot" a group of leaders.

Not how leadership works at all. Sure - how authoritarianism works. But not leaders any Free Man would follow.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 11:54 AM (r9oLJ)

27 "But THEY didn't get to design our uniforms!"

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 11:56 AM (RuTUS)

28 24 Harris is dumb.

She obviously has no shame.

Let her run. It's entertaining.

Let her piss away the money of her supporters.
Posted by: pawn at October 25, 2025 11:50 AM (tqkKb)

There was a recent attempted fundraiser in California where her former financial supporters balked at giving her another dime, not after she threw $1.5 Billion of their money into a dumpster and set it on fire. Pretty amusing that the DNC is still on the hook for millions of her debts, which is why they are almost completely broke, as opposed to the Republicans whose fundraising is surging. Who wants to give money to the party when it's all going to go to pay Kamala's old debts?

(I'm pretty sure the original plan was to have USAID pay this all off)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 12:00 PM (uWKK8)

29 Now lets talk about business degrees. The modern Military officer corps. The idea that we can just "crock pot" a group of leaders.

Not how leadership works at all. Sure - how authoritarianism works. But not leaders any Free Man would follow.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 11:54 AM (r9oLJ)

I think that really got started with Robert McNamara, the "brilliant" architect of the Vietnam War.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 12:02 PM (uWKK8)

30 The Biblical penalty for causing an abortion is 2 shekels. Let's bring that back!!
The judeo Christian teachings say that the fetus is not a human with a soul until it takes its first breath, the quickening"
Abortion is legal and usually state paid for in Israel
3rd trimester abortions are extremely rare about 1,% of the total. Usually done to save the life of the mother.
Trump used to support abortions and personally paid for them

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 25, 2025 12:04 PM (2/XoG)

31 Oh, look! It's one of those "Karen" people. Let's walk the other way.

Posted by: Case at October 25, 2025 12:05 PM (9HFDU)

32 Shut up, dunce.

Posted by: toby928 at October 25, 2025 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

33 Trump used to support abortions and personally paid for them
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 25, 2025 12:04 PM (2/XoG)

Did he pay for yours?

Get out of here, troll. Abortion I'd not the topic of this thread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2025 12:05 PM (looXz)

34 Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could've out-fought Santino. But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along.

Posted by: Commissioner of the NBA at October 25, 2025 12:06 PM (njGzd)

35 "is not " not "I'd not"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2025 12:06 PM (looXz)

36 I am not the slightest worried Harris is going anywhere near a national political race. Maybe California but doubt governor

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 12:07 PM (+qU29)

37 The Karen Uniform progresses as the Karen ages. The young Karen has long hair and eschews the make up and will have a rainbow armband or tatt or some such Party identifier. The middle aged Karen will try to dress sophisticated but will fly a freak flag Party feminist symbol somewhere on their body or clothing. The oldster Karen will drop all the pretenses and crop the hair and color it green and pink to go with her bitter face while wearing a pro-abortion tshirt and telling everyone she is a bishop in some weird ass wiccan church.

Posted by: Know Thy Enemy at October 25, 2025 12:07 PM (R/m4+)

38 Uniform of Women of the state bureaucracy in Sacramento:
Dyed blond hair bouffant style
Long fingernails well manicured
Clunky necklace
Smokes
20 lbs overweight
Generally surly

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2025 12:09 PM (m6HS6)

39 I like the Rapunzel cartoon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2025 12:09 PM (looXz)

40 I hereby refuse to use the term "transgender" -- there is no such thing. The closest they can get is simply "transvestite." It will always be just a man dressing like a woman, or a woman dressing like a man.

Posted by: Half Dozen at October 25, 2025 12:11 PM (EYvpB)

41 A polyglot friend from Hungary told me years ago that Russian men had a reputation in Hungary for being totally useless, except for maybe playing computer games.

I think there were a few plant breeders who stood up to Lysenko and paid with their lives, but that may have been before my friend's time.

Posted by: KT at October 25, 2025 12:13 PM (7vIsy)

42 I think that really got started with Robert McNamara, the "brilliant" architect of the Vietnam War.

I think you are generally right - but it got started much earlier than that.

The roots of it - I am sure - extend at least as far back as Leslie McNair. The Army ... the greatest bureaucracy of them all ... loved them some Leslie McNair. Even before the Five Sided Nuthouse was occupied.

McNair's greatest contribution to WW II ? Insisting that we build light armor tanks with big guns. Instead of building heavy armored tanks. Reading the history of McNair defending his idea is like watching a Star Wars movie with the Jedi swinging two light-sabres against all comers.

How right was he ? Because somebody here will rush to any defense of any general. He was so right that we had about 60 Separate Armored Battalions in the European Theatre at the end. Almost a one-to-one ration to Infantry Divisions. The Battalions got handed around like the Homecoming Queen on Prom Night - depending on which division needed to attack.

But at least two generations bought into the idea of "the expert". Also known as Credentialism.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 12:13 PM (r9oLJ)

43 "I like the Rapunzel cartoon.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke "

Didn't Don Martin do the same thing in Mad except it was underarm hair?

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2025 12:14 PM (vFG9F)

44 29 McNamara served under Curtis Lemay during the firebombing of Japan as some sort of bean counter. He was the guy keeping track of inflicted casualties and damage. A problem with him being SecDef during Vietnam was probably a lot of fretting on his part in WW2 and the resulting micromanagement trying to run "civilized war".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2025 12:14 PM (gm9Sb)

45 Transgender if they actually go through a medical change operation. That still isn't making them the opposite sex just a poor imitation.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 12:14 PM (+qU29)

46 n.b. The Nazis also had a women's social policy reflecting their ideology that the husband was fuhrer of the family and her primary role was bearing sons and raising them to be good soldiers. They discharged women from civil employment. Provided tax incentives for child bearing. Banned abortion. Etc.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2025 12:15 PM (m6HS6)

47 Chuck Norris once visited a liberal feminist march and left with a clean pressed shirt and a sandwich.

Posted by: Baddie at October 25, 2025 12:15 PM (njGzd)

48 Ya gotta love the media grift.

This has to be like the fifteenth mention of this article I've seen in the last couple days.

Comedians, podcasters, right wing intellectuals, psychiatrists, , health advocates, men's rights activists, university admissions administrators, hiring managers, MGTOW weirdos, manosphere charlatans like Andrew Tate, lesbos and old line feminists like Camille Paglia - an entire cross section of society from the dregs to the elites - have been raising the alarm about the feminization of the West for *30 freaking years.*

But it's not real or noteworthy until some scribbler from some trashy bien pensant political rag like the Federalist cribs their homework. Then it's suddenly Very Important News Everyone Else Noticed Decades Ago.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2025 12:16 PM (BI5O2)

49 Rosie the riveter evolved into Karen the complainer.

Posted by: Archer at October 25, 2025 12:16 PM (YGRGv)

50 Artist: Helen Reddy
Album: I Am Woman
Released: 1972

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:17 PM (RuTUS)

51 Found it. Don Martin Rapunzel:

tinyurl.com/3f7etssa

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2025 12:17 PM (vFG9F)

52 Turning people against their own nature is a specialty of modernity.

This is especially evident in what has happened to the concept of genders/sex.

Just as one example; most women were happy with their lives in the home, raising kids, taking care of their husbands and enjoying a social life with all the other housewives around them.

Somewhere along the way the small minority of spinsters who dedicated their lives to their careers because they had no children were turned into a role model for all women everywhere.

Now women are a real majority in universities (something like a 60%/40% split), and men are more and more going into service jobs over white-collar office work.

I think the ripple effects of this momentous change in families and gender roles are profound and have inundated Western civilization with dysfunction, decadence, and decline.

And I don't see a way to reverse this any time soon.

BTW, I adore women & nothing against those who were built to work, but I do believe that every person starts with Mom, and Mom's are stressed out so often and absent from their children's lives for most of the day which causes a chain reaction of problems throughout society.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 25, 2025 12:18 PM (6ydKt)

53 Chuck Norris once visited a liberal feminist march and left with a clean pressed shirt and a sandwich.

Posted by: Baddie at October 25, 2025 12:15 PM (njGzd)

If Chuck jumps into a lake, he don't get wet. The water gets "Norrised".

Chuck don't hunt. That implies a possibility of failure. Chuck goes killing.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 12:19 PM (r9oLJ)

54 36 I am not the slightest worried Harris is going anywhere near a national political race. Maybe California but doubt governor
Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 12:07 PM (+qU29)

But wouldn't it be entertaining to see Harris and AOC competing in a presidential primary?

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:20 PM (RuTUS)

55
Now lets talk about business degrees. The modern Military officer corps. The idea that we can just "crock pot" a group of leaders.

Gotta sous vide them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 25, 2025 12:20 PM (pkeXY)

56 Why does AoSHQ attract only the stupidest trolls?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 25, 2025 12:20 PM (SXxzC)

57 >>>The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

It is a clever summary.

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:21 PM (RuTUS)

58 I’ve always thought the White House is way over top in scope. I mean UK’s PM lives in a townhome at 10 Downing. Somehow they manage.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:22 PM (PGEno)

59 Why does AoSHQ attract only the stupidest trolls?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 25, 2025 12:20 PM (SXxzC)

I think Breitbart tops the list on that one. But, of course, they wind up with over 3000 comments on most threads, so the odds of trolls increases.

Posted by: thatcraxyjerseyguy at October 25, 2025 12:22 PM (5xuJ/)

60 Transgender if they actually go through a medical change operation.

That still isn't making them the opposite sex just a poor imitation.
Posted by: Skip

Transgender woman = Temu Woman

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 25, 2025 12:22 PM (UjDHi)

61 How come so many women have to have a pink license plate holder on the back of their car? Why are they so proud to be a woman.
I don't think I've ever seen a guy put a blue plate holder on his car to let everyone know he's a man.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 25, 2025 12:23 PM (XALsX)

62 Rosie the riveter evolved into Karen the complainer.

Another bullshit myth I like to kick in the teeth.

Rosie didn't build everything. Most men DID NOT serve in WW II.

And no women did anything industrially dangerous. Yes - they were used to do the easier jobs. The jobs were "culled" for them.

Women made up a small percentage of the industrial workforce. Not 0 - what they were before - but small.

Frankly - the WAVES and WACS contributed much, much more. As well as the nurses. Rosie is a bullshit contrivance.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 12:23 PM (r9oLJ)

63 Hello Fellow Kids is a real thing in the world.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2025 12:24 PM (rbvCR)

64 61 How come so many women have to have a pink license plate holder on the back of their car? Why are they so proud to be a woman.
I don't think I've ever seen a guy put a blue plate holder on his car to let everyone know he's a man.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 25, 2025 12:23 PM (XALsX)

A funny vanity license plate I saw on a shiny new Porsche driven by a woman said:

EXDRMAT

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:25 PM (RuTUS)

65 62 Howzabout the midgets that worked at Lockheed and Boeing? They gave up wrestling careers at Eagle Lodges across the country.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2025 12:25 PM (gm9Sb)

66 Something I have noticed in classrooms. And it’s been going on as long as I have been alive.

Women are constantly remaking education. We know some things work (ironically these things were created when men did much of the teaching). So phonics, debate, logic - all these things had to be excluded. And now we have close to the most uneducated public the republic has ever seen.

Posted by: The MewTwix at October 25, 2025 12:25 PM (SAMCf)

67 Excellent post, K.T., thanks.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2025 12:25 PM (XeU6L)

68 The UK's PM doesn't do State entertaining at 10 Downing St. They have Buckingham Palace for that.

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 25, 2025 12:26 PM (ky7/T)

69 Ex Doctor mat?
I don’t get the MAT.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:26 PM (PGEno)

70 Why do any entertaining for that matter? $40T debt. Maybe tamp down the $1M parties for foreigners? Crazy talk I know.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:27 PM (PGEno)

71 Women are constantly remaking education. We know some things work (ironically these things were created when men did much of the teaching).

Short Answer - old school Men are OK with letting their children fail. We'll turn our backs on them - disown them - when shit gets too far out of line.

Women can't do that. So standards must be lowered.

Never let a Stereotypical Woman in charge of Society. End of Short Answer.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 12:28 PM (r9oLJ)

72 69 Ex Doctor mat?
I don’t get the MAT.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:26 PM (PGEno)

ex-doormat

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:28 PM (RuTUS)

73 KT does excellence every week!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2025 12:28 PM (uklvW)

74 But it's not real or noteworthy until some scribbler from some trashy bien pensant political rag like the Federalist cribs their homework. Then it's suddenly Very Important News Everyone Else Noticed Decades Ago.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2025 12:16 PM (BI5O2)

It doesn't hurt to keep pounding the idea home over and over again, though.

That's how propaganda works, and the left has had a monopoly there for a very long time.

If we're going to turn the tide, we've got to get ideas out there that stick, like the left is so good at.

It's probably a good thing that all of these Critical Progressive-Socialist Theory ideas are getting more airplay.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 25, 2025 12:28 PM (6ydKt)

75 EXDRMAT
Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:25 PM (RuTUS)

Disbarred dermatologist?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2025 12:29 PM (rbvCR)

76 Oh I was thinking ex doctor as in my ex is a doctor and the divorce bought me this car

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:29 PM (PGEno)

77 Who thought it was a great idea to put women in charge of police departments?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 25, 2025 12:29 PM (YpMnq)

78 My wife's front license plate has a sign about how blessed she is to be a mom. I don't think we have many feminist hags in my town, but I'm sure they look at that and think "traitoress!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2025 12:30 PM (BI5O2)

79

Not how leadership works at all. Sure - how authoritarianism works. But not leaders any Free Man would follow.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel
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I think that really got started with Robert McNamara, the "brilliant" architect of the Vietnam War.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Speaking only from my own experienced early Army enlisted time, i had a lot of e7 platoon sergeants, drill sergeants, and other NCOs that came out of McNamara's shake n bake e5 NCO program from the Vietnam draft era. Most of the remaining NCOs in the late 70s from that program were rock solid leaders i would follow anywhere, anytime. I was very fortunate to be mentored by them, and supported by them as my platoon sergeants after I made warrant officer.

RIP SFC Thorne. I still miss his sarcastic way of teaching from the little mistakes i would make.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 25, 2025 12:30 PM (QVmho)

80 61 How come so many women have to have a pink license plate holder on the back of their car? Why are they so proud to be a woman.
I don't think I've ever seen a guy put a blue plate holder on his car to let everyone know he's a man.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 25, 2025 12:23 PM (XALsX)

Women like 'cute'.

A pink license plate holder is all about cuteness.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 25, 2025 12:30 PM (6ydKt)

81 And I don't see a way to reverse this any time soon.

BTW, I adore women & nothing against those who were built to work, but I do believe that every person starts with Mom, and Mom's are stressed out so often and absent from their children's lives for most of the day which causes a chain reaction of problems throughout society.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 25, 2025 12:18 PM (6ydKt)

What will reverse things, although at great cost, is that this model is failing everywhere, especially in the lives of the women who've followed it. For example, I have a niece who was always extremely beautiful, attractive, smart - she went this way and would have limited success, but had a series of relationships with men that were non-committed and in which (she should have always seen these things coming but never did) the rich playboys she dallied with would always dump her when a newer, younger model came along.
And she'd jump from job to job, always looking for something to "fulfill" her but never settling down.
Now she's over 50, and telling her relatives who care for her that she has a hard time fighting off thoughts of suicide because she has nothing left to hold onto in her life.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 12:31 PM (uWKK8)

82 And men's diseases are not worthy of magnetic ribbons.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 25, 2025 12:31 PM (YpMnq)

83 78 My wife's front license plate has a sign about how blessed she is to be a mom. I don't think we have many feminist hags in my town, but I'm sure they look at that and think "traitoress!"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2025 12:30 PM (BI5O2)

Eh I put those in the cringe category. Along with “my kid is an honor student” stickers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:31 PM (PGEno)

84 Karen really doesn't have much to say when my boner is tickling her tonsils.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 25, 2025 12:32 PM (Om+DK)

85 Who thought it was a great idea to put women in charge of police departments?

1920s men. I've often wondered about this. Why does anyone care about Carrie Nation ?

Why didn't some man kick her ass in the teeth the first time she wanted to chop up the keg ?

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 12:32 PM (r9oLJ)

86 I do wonder how we have kept KT under our headings with this excellent articles every week

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 12:33 PM (+qU29)

87 Having dealt with numerous bureaucracies over my lifetime, city, state, Fed, and corporate, the most obvious observation is that as they grow, they become less efficient (internally) and less effective. Like all organsims, as they evolve they also develop self-protective measures.

My experiences here, post-Helene, have been almost beyond rational perception.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2025 12:33 PM (XeU6L)

88 I like the mocking license plate holders or stickers. Like my kid can beat up your honor student kid or my dog made the honor list. Things like that.

Best one I’ve ever seen said No Baby On Board. I only do anal.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:34 PM (PGEno)

89 If we're going to turn the tide, we've got to get ideas out there that stick, like the left is so good at.

------

Oh, definitely. I'm just griping because the media cartel circle jerkers are always taking credit for real people's work, well after the facts are established.

It's like a reporter in the 40s getting signal-boosted and building a reputation based on an article about how those newfangled motorcars might just be the next big thing, as the first jets are flying over Europe.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2025 12:34 PM (BI5O2)

90 77 Who thought it was a great idea to put women in charge of police departments?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 25, 2025 12:29 PM (YpMnq)

PBS: With the show Police Woman, Dickinson paved the way for female-lead crime dramas, including Charlie's Angels, The Bionic Woman and Cagney and Lacey.

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:35 PM (RuTUS)

91 Yet some of the worse women politicians are those who don't have children.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 12:35 PM (+qU29)

92 Geezer on board. Deal with it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 25, 2025 12:35 PM (YpMnq)

93 The development of the birth control pill is the root of the sexual aspects of societal change we are experiencing now.

The development of the PC has changed the economics of labor.

The atomic bomb rewrote the international political situation.

Technology is pacing human development.

If you eliminated those three elements, society would be sitting in the Fifties.

Posted by: pawn at October 25, 2025 12:36 PM (tqkKb)

94 91 Yet some of the worse women politicians are those who don't have children.
Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 12:35 PM (+qU29)

Ya.
- Angela Merkel

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:37 PM (PGEno)

95 Coffee's hot and in the cup. Good morning all.
K.T. it's so good to see you here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 12:37 PM (j04bB)

96 Eh I put those in the cringe category. Along with “my kid is an honor student” stickers.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:31 PM (PGEno)

Yeah, it's not my cup of tea. But it's better than being hitched to a wine soaked harridan with a scarred over womb and having my line die with me while she gets plowed by the gardener, so I can live with it

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2025 12:37 PM (BI5O2)

97 Speaking only from my own experienced early Army enlisted time, i had a lot of e7 platoon sergeants, drill sergeants, and other NCOs that came out of McNamara's shake n bake e5 NCO program from the Vietnam draft era. Most of the remaining NCOs in the late 70s from that program were rock solid leaders i would follow anywhere, anytime. I was very fortunate to be mentored by them, and supported by them as my platoon sergeants after I made warrant officer.

RIP SFC Thorne. I still miss his sarcastic way of teaching from the little mistakes i would make.
Posted by: BifBewalski
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I had NO career NCO's or officers that were not good men.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2025 12:37 PM (XeU6L)

98 Yet some of the worse women politicians are those who don't have children.

Nope. Some of the most tyrannical women have children. The entirety of society must change because Biff is "autistic". Or Buffy wishes she had a dick.

Most men - the men I know - have red lines.

Unconditional Love is a woman thing. Can't build any society on that.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 12:37 PM (r9oLJ)

99 Rosie the riveter evolved into Karen the complainer.

Another bullshit myth I like to kick in the teeth.

Rosie didn't build everything. Most men DID NOT serve in WW II.

And no women did anything industrially dangerous. Yes - they were used to do the easier jobs. The jobs were "culled" for them.

Women made up a small percentage of the industrial workforce. Not 0 - what they were before - but small.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but when you go on a rant like this, it would be more credible if you provided links to prove you know what you're talking about.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 25, 2025 12:38 PM (244Jt)

100 100

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:38 PM (RuTUS)

101 And men's diseases are not worthy of magnetic ribbons.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Blue ribbon = Blue Balls

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 25, 2025 12:38 PM (UjDHi)

102 Now she's over 50, and telling her relatives who care for her that she has a hard time fighting off thoughts of suicide because she has nothing left to hold onto in her life.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 12:31 PM (uWKK

Yeah, that's tough.
She'll have to find comfort with hobbies, work, friendships, etc.
Maybe find the right guy one day.
Hold on to some hope when you're depressed and hopeless.

It does explain the abundance of cat ladies, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 25, 2025 12:39 PM (6ydKt)

103 93 And yet Colonel Colt's invention of making all men equal holds true.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2025 12:39 PM (gm9Sb)

104 100 100
Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:38 PM (RuTUS)

Nice. But your nick should be C.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 12:39 PM (uWKK8)

105 Two biggest "administrative" blunders:
-- destroying the border
-- debasing the currency

A curse on the entire Biden administration

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 25, 2025 12:39 PM (g2cDL)

106 I like the mocking license plate holders or stickers. Like my kid can beat up your honor student kid or my dog made the honor list. Things like that.

Best one I’ve ever seen said No Baby On Board. I only do anal.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Seen on rusted out Toyota in Atlanta traffic, 'My Other Car Is A Piece Of Shit Too'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2025 12:40 PM (XeU6L)

107 I hereby refuse to use the term "transgender" -- there is no such thing. The closest they can get is simply "transvestite." It will always be just a man dressing like a woman, or a woman dressing like a man.

Posted by: Half Dozen at October 25, 2025 12:11 PM

Speaking of butchering the language and common sense...

I looked up the meaning of "vestite" and Google AI explained:

"Vestite" can refer to the Italian word for "dressed" or "clothes," an electronic/pop musical artist, or the archaic English word for someone who wears clothes. The specific meaning depends on the context, but common uses include the Italian verb, the musical project, or the older, less-common term for a person who wears clothes.

But then it adds:

The word is also related to the term "transvestite" (coined in 1910), which historically referred to cross-dressers and is an older term for the practice of wearing clothes not typically associated with one's assigned sex.

Sex is not assigned. Unless one is referring to sex being "assigned" by one's genes/biology. But usually when this phrase is used, they mean it as sex "assigned" at birth by a doctor. Which is nonsense.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 12:40 PM (P5BPp)

108 Biden has a lot of blame to go around. But debasing the currency is nothing new. Everyone’s pissed on the dollar for the past 100 years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:40 PM (PGEno)

109 Angela Merkel has stepchildren, so she really does kind of have it all.

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:42 PM (RuTUS)

110
Oh, definitely. I'm just griping because the media cartel circle jerkers are always taking credit for real people's work, well after the facts are established.

It's like a reporter in the 40s getting signal-boosted and building a reputation based on an article about how those newfangled motorcars might just be the next big thing, as the first jets are flying over Europe.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2025 12:34 PM (BI5O2)

I agree there.
A lot of media these days is simply recycling one story through social media, blogs, and cable.

At least back in the old days they actually had a lot more investigative reporters who asked questions and weren't stenographers for the Dems.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 25, 2025 12:42 PM (6ydKt)

111 Best one I’ve ever seen said No Baby On Board. I only do anal.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Seen on rusted out Toyota in Atlanta traffic, 'My Other Car Is A Piece Of Shit Too'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2025 12:40 PM (XeU6L)

I saw one that said "Baby All Up in this Bitch"

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 25, 2025 12:43 PM (0aYVJ)

112 THE LEARNING CURVE IS STEEP, AND IT’S NOT CLEAR THE U.S. ARMY IS ON IT:

Videos like this demonstrate the complete obsolescence of US ground forces doctrine, tactics, training and procedures in dealing with the FPV drone threat.

There is no such thing as either cover or concealment from FPV drones.

https://is.gd/gt3U6Y

Posted by: Archimedes at October 25, 2025 12:43 PM (244Jt)

113 25 The ubama care act that turbocharged murdercare was saturated with girlboss secretions.
Posted by: Eromero
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The sexual revolution was originated and pushed forward and continues to be supported by sexually dysfunctional people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 12:43 PM (j04bB)

114 I saw a Gallup poll recently that showed 39% of Americans have a positive view of socialism. For democrats it was 66%.

This wasn’t just NYC or just GenZ. This was everyone.

We might be in bigger trouble than we think.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:43 PM (PGEno)

115 106 I like the mocking license plate holders or stickers. Like my kid can beat up your honor student kid or my dog made the honor list. Things like that.

Best one I’ve ever seen said No Baby On Board. I only do anal.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Best I ever saw (and I can only hope it was a joke): "My kid won Most Improved at the Tarrant County Juvenile Detention Center!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 12:44 PM (uWKK8)

116 49 Rosie the riveter evolved into Karen the complainer.
Posted by: Archer

I disagree wholeheartedly and take some offense to that comment.

Read up on “Rosie.” Do your homework.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2025 12:44 PM (R9s9v)

117 Transgender if they actually go through a medical change operation. That still isn't making them the opposite sex just a poor imitation.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 12:14 PM

Not to mention that "gender" refers to language and words, not people. Sex refers to people. There are two sexes for people and two corresponding genders for language.

So what these literal mental defectives should be using is the term transsexuals, since they (incorrectly) state that one can change their sex.

But that probably did not poll well, so they went with "transgender" and then proceeded to make up an infinite number of "genders"/sexes that do not exist.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 12:45 PM (P5BPp)

118 Seen 2 versions of I H8 Elon on Tesla vehicles, their social status needed a declaimer

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 12:45 PM (+qU29)

119 I saw a Gallup poll recently that showed 39% of Americans have a positive view of socialism. For democrats it was 66%.

This wasn’t just NYC or just GenZ. This was everyone.

We might be in bigger trouble than we think.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Buy more ammo.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 25, 2025 12:45 PM (UjDHi)

120 114 I saw a Gallup poll recently that showed 39% of Americans have a positive view of socialism. For democrats it was 66%.

This wasn’t just NYC or just GenZ. This was everyone.

We might be in bigger trouble than we think.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:43 PM (PGEno)

Maybe Obamacare was the camel putting his nose under the tent.

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:45 PM (RuTUS)

121 The h8 Elon thing is ancient history. Tesla stock is up 100% since March/April.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:46 PM (PGEno)

122 It dawns on me belatedly that the photo up top is of a Halloween costume.

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:47 PM (RuTUS)

123 121 The h8 Elon thing is ancient history. Tesla stock is up 100% since March/April.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:46 PM (PGEno)

He's going to be the last EV company standing. All the others are either retrenching or going bankrupt. And I think EV's were always a good niche market; it's the attempt to make them mainstream which was absolute folly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 12:48 PM (uWKK8)

124 I'm having too much fun watching "The Attorney
Andrew Branca" Youtube channel as delights in describing each of Trump's victories in the Courts.

D. John Sauer is an outstanding Solicitor General, piling up wins at SCOTUS.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 25, 2025 12:49 PM (FgR3M)

125 108 Biden has a lot of blame to go around. But debasing the currency is nothing new. Everyone’s pissed on the dollar for the past 100 years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:40 PM (PGEno)

Truth.

A dollar in 1925 is worth approximately $18.51 today, representing a cumulative price increase of 1,751.29% over the 100-year period
-Brave AI Search

It's just takes so long, you hardly notice.
Until the 1970s and then under Biden.
Then it became obvious.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 25, 2025 12:49 PM (6ydKt)

126 Biden has a lot of blame to go around. But debasing the currency is nothing new. Everyone’s pissed on the dollar for the past 100 years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:40 PM

Debasing the currency is apparently Stage 2 of the fall of global superpowers.

The 7-Stage Collapse Pattern: Spain, Britain, USSR... USA is at Stage 5

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4o8Dhkl

Stage 1 - Military Overextension
Stage 2 - Currency Debasement
Stage 3 - Debt Spiral
Stage 4 - Loss of Productive Capacity
Stage 5 - Social Decay
Stage 6 - Loss of Reserve Currency Status
Stage 7 - Collapse

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 12:49 PM (P5BPp)

127 Years ago I read something interesting. It was on the internet, so it must be true

There was a Time/Life book series on the history of civilization. One of the volumes featured the role of women in civilization, and said that throughout history downfalls of civilizations were always accompanied by there being women in positions of power.

That book is now nowhere to be found by collectors.

Posted by: davidt at October 25, 2025 12:49 PM (i0F8b)

128 114 I saw a Gallup poll recently that showed 39% of Americans have a positive view of socialism. For democrats it was 66%.

This wasn’t just NYC or just GenZ. This was everyone.

We might be in bigger trouble than we think.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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No surprise, 33% of any population will be on the eclipse of the norm; America, Russia, the military, in any homogeneous group 33% will be out of the loop.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 12:50 PM (j04bB)

129 The simplicity of this illustration is delightful:

Etymology
The root phrase is usually claimed to be a saying of Arabs or Middle Eastern cultures, roughly as follows:

Do not allow a camel to put his nose under the edge of your tent, for soon you will have a camel in your tent.

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:50 PM (RuTUS)

130 See also

- foot in the door
- give them an inch and they'll take a mile
- slippery slope
- thin edge of the wedge

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:52 PM (RuTUS)

131 Walking my dog past a construction site. An F-250 had a bumper sticker that said "Male Whore" .
The guy told me he finished last in his fantasy football league and had to have the bumper sticker on for a year.

Posted by: Baddie at October 25, 2025 12:52 PM (njGzd)

132 My hope with socialism being popular is that people don’t really know what it means. A lot of people think public schools and government built highways is socialism. So they’re fine with it.

If asked do you want the government owning everything I think (and hope) those numbers would be much lower.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:53 PM (PGEno)

133 It's just takes so long, you hardly notice.
Until the 1970s and then under Biden.
Then it became obvious.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
---------------------------------

About 1974 the well tailored suits blew it up and pulled the rug out from the middle class just as the Biden Suite did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 12:53 PM (j04bB)

134 Oh KT, the internalized misogyny is showing. Your betrayal of the Solipsistic Sisterhood has been noted on your permanent record.

Posted by: Feminine good, masculine bad! at October 25, 2025 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

135 1 Why don't the fascist Karens ever look like Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS?
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 25, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)
_______
Because their ideal is Olga, she-bear of the NKVD.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 25, 2025 12:53 PM (s0JqF)

136 No surprise to the intellectually honest person that men and women are different.

And further not a surprise is conservative men and conservative women are also different.

On a side note I saw the insurance claims world go from 90% men to 90% women. The reason imo is because the job went from being all encompassing hands on to being an office administration job broken down into different parts of the job.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 12:54 PM (EYmYM)

137 But it's not real or noteworthy until some scribbler from some trashy bien pensant political rag like the Federalist cribs their homework. Then it's suddenly Very Important News Everyone Else Noticed Decades Ago.

It's the oldest story in American culture: the formerly fringe/scary idea given legitimacy by coming from someone relatively safe at a time when people were ready to hear it, like Elvis did for the blues and European DJs did for Detroit techno. I heard Rush Limbaugh talking about "the chickification of America" in the late 90s, but it was hard to take it seriously as a big menace then. Now it's an easier sell but not if it's coming from MGTOWs (or MGTOW-adjacent women).

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2025 12:54 PM (QZThv)

138 The 7-Stage Collapse Pattern: Spain, Britain, USSR... USA is at Stage 5

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4o8Dhkl

Stage 1 - Military Overextension
Stage 2 - Currency Debasement
Stage 3 - Debt Spiral
Stage 4 - Loss of Productive Capacity
Stage 5 - Social Decay
Stage 6 - Loss of Reserve Currency Status
Stage 7 - Collapse
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 12:49 PM (P5BPp)

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I saw that. Depressing. The BRICS countries are getting ready to pull the trigger on stage six.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 25, 2025 12:54 PM (FgR3M)

139 I feel so bad for women named Karen who are decent people. That shit must really suck.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:54 PM (PGEno)

140 132 My hope with socialism being popular is that people don’t really know what it means. A lot of people think public schools and government built highways is socialism. So they’re fine with it.

If asked do you want the government owning everything I think (and hope) those numbers would be much lower.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:53 PM (PGEno)

specifically:

seize the means of production

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:54 PM (RuTUS)

141 "Collaboration" seems to be a big thing lately where we all come to a 'concensus' and agree that this shall be the way ...

This is a new spin on old socialist shit and I have gotten some serious passive-aggressive side eye from the bosses by openly saying I disagree with this decision but will comply.

My job is giving professional recommendations, options, pros, cons, etc. and sometimes peers and superiors got their own better ideas they pull from their asses and expect me to endorse, embrace, take ownership, even though I just explained why it won't work.
Yeah. They want to blame me for coming up with their bad ideas when they fail.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 25, 2025 12:55 PM (/lPRQ)

142 134 Oh KT, the internalized misogyny is showing. Your betrayal of the Solipsistic Sisterhood has been noted on your permanent record.
Posted by: Feminine good, masculine bad! at October 25, 2025 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

a woman is not a defective man

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:55 PM (RuTUS)

143 I'm not saying you're wrong, but when you go on a rant like this, it would be more credible if you provided links to prove you know what you're talking about.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 25, 2025 12:38 PM (244Jt)

So I have to prove it to you ? That's pretty typical. Well - here we go. I'll give you the links to search yourself - since I won't pay for Bitly.

Here's one - about Women IN the military ... History at a Glance:Women in WW II, from the National WWII museum. At their peak ? 350K women were in uniform. 11 Million swinging dicks were in uniform in 1945. So lets put that myth paid.

In the workforce ? So here's a little thing from a site called History Link - I'm sure its fake, if it says something other than Women welding and running the forges and such.

4% of the workforce. By all estimates - and their estimates always sucked and always will - there were 19 million of them in '45. There were 13 million of them before Pearl Harbor.

Rosie didn't build the Arsenal of Democracy. But we sure got an entire indoctrination telling us we did, now didn't we.

Now go look at the population of the United States in 1945. Yes, women worked a little more.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 12:56 PM (r9oLJ)

144 EXDRMAT

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:25 PM

Ex Doctor mat?
I don’t get the MAT.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:26 PM

Disbarred dermatologist?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2025 12:29 PM

RDWRER

Frasier: "Erd... Whirr-Er"?
Daphne: "Rid-Worr-Yer"?
Frasier: "Red Wearer"!
Martin: Oh, for God's sake! "Road Warrior"!
Daphne: Of course! For a retired man with a cane and a Winnebago, I don't know why my mind didn't go straight to it!

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 12:57 PM (P5BPp)

145 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:54 PM (PGEno)

I know two women with that name. Very wonderful , capable women. Both have children. One is a grandmother I think they must ignore the Karen stuff.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2025 12:58 PM (rZCVI)

146 5% of the world are wolves , 5% are sheep dogs and the remaining 90% are sheep.

Unfortunately a high percentage of the sheep can't tell the difference between the wolf and the sheepdog.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 12:59 PM (EYmYM)

147 144 RDWRER

Frasier: "Erd... Whirr-Er"?
Daphne: "Rid-Worr-Yer"?
Frasier: "Red Wearer"!
Martin: Oh, for God's sake! "Road Warrior"!
Daphne: Of course! For a retired man with a cane and a Winnebago, I don't know why my mind didn't go straight to it!
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 12:57 PM (P5BPp)

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 12:59 PM (RuTUS)

148 My hope with socialism being popular is that people don’t really know what it means.

Do you work with anyone young ? I do.

They sound EXACTLY like my older - yes, Boomers, your generation as well as the silents - family saying the same shit.

The exact same FDR era shit. Exactly the same.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:00 PM (r9oLJ)

149 My job is giving professional recommendations, options, pros, cons, etc. and sometimes peers and superiors got their own better ideas they pull from their asses and expect me to endorse, embrace, take ownership, even though I just explained why it won't work.
Yeah. They want to blame me for coming up with their bad ideas when they fail.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 25, 2025 12:55 PM (/lPRQ)

This has been my life over the past year.z im leading a project to build out a bunch of processes for my company’s we have meetings all the time with different “stakeholders” (I loathe that term). Every meeting someone comes up with a retarded suggestion. I used to politely say yeah this may not work because these reason. I’ve slowly over time moved to “no we can’t do that” and just move on. Because I’m tired of dealing with these people who have no clue about anything pretending they do.

Yeah fine I’m the asshole. Fire me I don't give a fuck, lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:00 PM (PGEno)

150 A pink license plate holder is all about cuteness.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 25, 2025 12:30 PM

I had assumed that it was part of "Breast Cancer Awareness" or whatever the ribbon thing is called.

Posted by: toby928 at October 25, 2025 01:01 PM (jc0TO)

151 They stretched the women built the arsenal of democracy quite a bit.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 01:03 PM (+qU29)

152 The h8 Elon thing is ancient history. Tesla stock is up 100% since March/April.

A record quarter for deliveries too. It's kind of crazy the extent to which the EV market is just Tesla and everything else approaches a rounding error.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2025 01:03 PM (QZThv)

153 Here we go with the Boomer stuff again!
Oh, jolly.

Anyway, I happily have a service to do at the assisted living. Byeeeeeeh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2025 01:03 PM (rZCVI)

154 Depressing. The BRICS countries are getting ready to pull the trigger on stage six.

Brazil, only making it by the bounty of the land
Russia, living on tenterhooks and Putin's whit
India, saved by America, again
China, imploding
South Africa, murdering all the productive people that haven't escaped to America.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:03 PM (j04bB)

155 If I can’t figure out your vanity plate in 3 seconds it doesnt work.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:03 PM (PGEno)

156 "Collaboration" seems to be a big thing lately where we all come to a 'concensus' and agree that this shall be the way ...

The hated buzzword I hear most about that is "alignment".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2025 01:04 PM (QZThv)

157 Do the women of the bureaucracy of a police state have costumes?
________________________

The POWER GLASSES!!!! Take a look around. Someone thought it was a power move to make oversized welding glasses, sell them to women, and convince them that they now HAVE THE POWER. They are even marketed as such.

Keyword: "Over sized women's power glasses"

Check out all the results: https://tinyurl.com/3s7uvcta

Posted by: Orson at October 25, 2025 01:04 PM (dIske)

158 The exact same FDR era shit. Exactly the same.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:00 PM (r9oLJ)

to be fair to the younger generation, our education system is a complete disaster and they've been spoonfed these ideas all the way from kindergarten to the day they leave college. It's our fault for having not paid attention to what was going on until it was too late.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 01:04 PM (uWKK8)

159 And men's diseases are not worthy of magnetic ribbons.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 25, 2025 12:31 PM

I tell ya, there's some people, they just wear a ribbon and they think they're doin' something? Not me. I talk the talk, and I walk the walk.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4qqWJtZ

Posted by: Cosmo Kramer at October 25, 2025 01:05 PM (P5BPp)

160 Unfortunately a high percentage of the sheep can't tell the difference between the wolf and the sheepdog.

I don't mind the sheepdog. And I'm cool with just being a wolf left alone.

Those who insist I also go along with the sheep ? Fuck that. Let 'em die.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:05 PM (r9oLJ)

161 The record quarter was to sell as much as possible before the tax credit went away 9/30. GM had a very good quarter too with EVs.

The real test is what happens this quarter and going forward without the credit.

Ram announced the end of the eV truck and GM is scaling way back as well. Tesla will just keep humming along because for most people Tesla is like Kleenex. The brand name is the product itself.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:06 PM (PGEno)

162 155 If I can’t figure out your vanity plate in 3 seconds it doesnt work.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:03 PM (PGEno)

I used to think 6UL-DV8 was funny but not so much anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2025 01:06 PM (uWKK8)

163 to be fair to the younger generation, our education system is a complete disaster and they've been spoonfed these ideas all the way from kindergarten to the day they leave college.

We've known for 40+ years that the stupidest college graduates are provably education majors. I have no idea how society lept from there to "let's put them in charge of our kids".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2025 01:06 PM (QZThv)

164 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:03 PM (j04bB

They have always been third world countries with a bit of first world mixed in at the top except maybe Brazil who never reached the same level of first worldness.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 01:08 PM (EYmYM)

165 that Helen Reddy thumbnail is triggering to me.

I have met so many women in their 70s and 80s who are still fighting the equality battles of the 1950s and 1960s.

stuck in a time warp

Posted by: kallisto at October 25, 2025 01:09 PM (dCxaZ)

166 to be fair to the younger generation, our education system is a complete disaster and they've been spoonfed these ideas all the way from kindergarten to the day they leave college. It's our fault for having not paid attention to what was going on until it was too late.

Fair has nothing to do with it. Look - I did the Army at the end of the Cold War. Then I learned - Russians aren't the big well of Evil for the rest of the world.

The kids got indoctrinated. My parents lived indoctrinated. I lived through being indoctrinated.

Either you wake up one day, realize you're just banging your own head against a wall ? Or you don't.

You think our parents were not spoon-fed ? Give me a break. Every damn thing I hear them say is spoon-fed. Indoctrination.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:09 PM (r9oLJ)

167 156 "Collaboration" seems to be a big thing lately where we all come to a 'concensus' and agree that this shall be the way ...

The hated buzzword I hear most about that is "alignment".
Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2025 01:04 PM (QZThv)

"Buy-in." Nobody's buying anything. They aren't putting up anything of value, and they're only agreeing with you to either a) get you to shut the fuck up already or b) save their jobs because they know what happens to people who don't suck up to the boss no matter how stupid the idea.

Posted by: Heavy lift of what exactly? at October 25, 2025 01:09 PM (TbWk/)

168 It's only those couple Tesla cars with the signal
I bought this before we knew Elon was nuts

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 01:09 PM (+qU29)

169 First batch of dogfood in te oven.

Posted by: Piper at October 25, 2025 01:10 PM (p4NUW)

170 150 A pink license plate holder is all about cuteness.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 25, 2025 12:30 PM

I had assumed that it was part of "Breast Cancer Awareness" or whatever the ribbon thing is called.
Posted by: toby928 at October 25, 2025 01:01 PM (jc0TO)

Sweet Sixteen, car for her birthday?

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 01:10 PM (RuTUS)

171 I do t want a vanity plate because if I piss someone off on the road I want to be forgettable. I live in a small enough city that I could easily be parked next to them a month later. I don’t want him going oh this asshole!!! And then scratch my car or whatever.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:10 PM (PGEno)

172 The exact same FDR era shit. Exactly the same.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:00 PM (r9oLJ)

They were the first victims of the left wing, commie dominated media. Depressions had come and gone before but OMG! The "Great" depression, something must be done! FDR do something!

Well, he did.

Know I know what FDR's ass tastes like.

Posted by: Old Fart Who Knows The Mystery at October 25, 2025 01:11 PM (R/m4+)

173 vanity plate

Saw one right after that program began. In the rear window of a pickup truck (to prevent theft?):

CUNTRY

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 25, 2025 01:12 PM (AuD1E)

174 If one works and lives in the city, is in the class of people that spends $50K on the second car, Tesla is a reasonable consideration.

And Tesla is a lot more than a car.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:12 PM (j04bB)

175 "Collaboration" seems to be a big thing lately where we all come to a 'concensus' and agree that this shall be the way ...

Back in Calculus I - I doubt the prof would have agreed that we all "collaborated" and decided that the method of discs and shells could be simplified as rectangles and cubes.

I doubt that quite a bit.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:12 PM (r9oLJ)

176 One of my kids hates Trump. Why? Doesn’t know just does. Because of social media of course.

Ask same kid do you want a border where we control who comes into our country Yeah I guess so. Do you think the government should run trillions in deficits? Probably not. And so on. But Trump sucks bro!!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:12 PM (PGEno)

177 I want a license plate flipper like a secret agent.

Posted by: toby928 at October 25, 2025 01:12 PM (jc0TO)

178 China, imploding
South Africa, murdering all the productive people that haven't escaped to America.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:03 PM (j04bB)

--'

I certainly hope you're right. But national debt
($37 trillion) is now 124% of GDP and is climbing at an unsustainable rate. What's the outlook for ten years?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 25, 2025 01:12 PM (YSPrN)

179 People don’t buy $20k Rolex watches to tell time. Same way they don’t buy $100k Teslas to get from point A to B.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:13 PM (PGEno)

180 And yet, Chicago is a shit hole.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “We don’t have illegal aliens. I don’t know if that’s from some sort of Sci-Fi message…”

“That’s the legal term.”

“We’ll listen, the legal term for my people were slaves. Do you want me to use that term too?”

-
Updated shit hole map.

https://is.gd/TOyWzF

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 25, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)

181 First batch of dogfood in te oven.

Obama coming over?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 25, 2025 01:14 PM (AuD1E)

182 The hated buzzword I hear most about that is "alignment".
Posted by: Ian S.

I will take "chaotic neutral". Thank you.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 25, 2025 01:14 PM (/lPRQ)

183 I do t want a vanity plate because if I piss someone off on the road I want to be forgettable. I live in a small enough city that I could easily be parked next to them a month later. I don’t want him going oh this asshole!!! And then scratch my car or whatever.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:10 PM (PGEno)

See also: the Gadsden flag plates I see now and then. I am a big proponent of "No Step On Snek," but I do not want to invite trouble when all I want to do is live my life as best I can.

Aside from one Army Veteran sticker on my bumper, I remain in the shadows.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 25, 2025 01:14 PM (0aYVJ)

184 >>>You think our parents were not spoon-fed ? Give me a break. Every damn thing I hear them say is spoon-fed. Indoctrination.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel
------------------------------------

You sound...upset.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:14 PM (j04bB)

185 "A record quarter for deliveries too. It's kind of crazy the extent to which the EV market is just Tesla and everything else approaches a rounding error."

Pretty much the same in the space launch market. How could there be related???

Posted by: pawn at October 25, 2025 01:14 PM (tqkKb)

186 168 It's only those couple Tesla cars with the signal
I bought this before we knew Elon was nuts
Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 01:09 PM (+qU29)

Elon is nuts?

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 01:15 PM (RuTUS)

187 that Helen Reddy thumbnail is triggering to me.

I have met so many women in their 70s and 80s who are still fighting the equality battles of the 1950s and 1960s.

stuck in a time warp
Posted by: kallisto at October 25, 2025 01:09 PM (dCxaZ)

Weird how some people get frozen in time and refuse to acknowledge the world has moved on. Same thing with Boomers - yes I said it because it's mostly that demo - who think cultural, social, and sexual dynamics are the same as they were in the last over-idealized glory days of the late 50s/early 60s where you could pay for your own place, car, food, clothes, gas, and college tuition while working part time at the soda fountain, which job you got by walking in and giving the owner a firm handshake and solid eye contact, meanwhile saving for that ring you're going to give your virginal high school sweetheart.

Posted by: Change happens whether you like it or not at October 25, 2025 01:16 PM (TbWk/)

188 One of my kids hates Trump. Why? Doesn’t know just does. Because of social media of course.

And my dad ? 71. Hates Putin. Why ?

He'll tell you because "he was in the National Guard". Did it to dodge 'Nam. Now - I don't blame him. I would help my boy dodge the next 'Nam as well.

But that Pavlovian Response ? Pure Boomer. Of course, lets hear the Boomers talk about the Millennials. Assuming Joe Namath doesn't come on and tell them about their benefits.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:16 PM (r9oLJ)

189 Women wear whatever the hell they want to work. Most of them look awful. It's amusing really.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at October 25, 2025 01:16 PM (AkkXw)

190 You gotta admire Elon for equally pissing off both sides. He does his thing. Torpedoes be damned.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:16 PM (PGEno)

191 Piper - your 'dog food' comment was first I read coming back from reading a account of a Polish soldier telling of the retreat from Russia in 1812 telling of catching a cat and eating it.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 01:17 PM (+qU29)

192 Elon is nuts?
Posted by: m

Non luts is L.

Posted by: Your Friendly Neighborhood AI at October 25, 2025 01:17 PM (mlg/3)

193 You sound...upset.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:14 PM (j04bB)

And you sound like one who's hair will never be on fire. What do you do ? You know, when its time to set your hair on fire ?

You sound like this "hey bro' - you mad" bunch.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:18 PM (r9oLJ)

194 177 I want a license plate flipper like a secret agent.
Posted by: toby928 at October 25, 2025 01:12 PM (jc0TO)

ha ha!

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 01:20 PM (RuTUS)

195 165 I have met so many women in their 70s and 80s who are still fighting the equality battles of the 1950s and 1960s.

~~stuck in a~~ let's do the time warp again

fixr

Posted by: anachronda86 at October 25, 2025 01:20 PM (B5Ewy)

196 Will regulate for food.

Wow. Thousands of furloughed federal workers lined up in Maryland today to get food. Remember the last time we saw something like this? Yeah, Trump was president then, too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 25, 2025 01:20 PM (L/fGl)

197 So basically government workers have no savings whatsoever? Yeah cry more.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:21 PM (PGEno)

198 I really don't have much sympathy for government employees layed off. Been laid off a few times and didn't starve to death on way less than what most government employees make.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 01:22 PM (+qU29)

199 "Wow. Thousands of furloughed federal workers lined up in Maryland today to get food. Remember the last time we saw something like this? Yeah, Trump was president then, too."

This is ridiculous.

Posted by: pawn at October 25, 2025 01:22 PM (tqkKb)

200 200

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 01:23 PM (RuTUS)

201 Wow. Thousands of furloughed federal workers lined up in Maryland today to get food. Remember the last time we saw something like this? Yeah, Trump was president then, too.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 25, 2025 01:20 PM (L/fGl)

Hey! Mooching and Looting, it's what Maryland does! If it's phree, it's for me!

Posted by: Fat Ass Federal Moocher at October 25, 2025 01:23 PM (R/m4+)

202 179 People don’t buy $20k Rolex watches to tell time. Same way they don’t buy $100k Teslas to get from point A to B.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Jealous?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:24 PM (j04bB)

203 I really don't have much sympathy for government employees layed off.

Get this - if you work a trade ? Every construction job you work on ends. You literally work yourself out of a job. No stream of income is guaranteed.

Oh, you got laid off. Another day that ends in Y for a carpenter, fitter, welder, iron-worker ... on and on.

Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:24 PM (r9oLJ)

204 202 179 People don’t buy $20k Rolex watches to tell time. Same way they don’t buy $100k Teslas to get from point A to B.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
------------

Jealous?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:24 PM (j04bB)

How did you interpret jealousy from that?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:25 PM (PGEno)

205 Ya done good, K.T.!

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 01:26 PM (RuTUS)

206 #2 Indiana is up 28-0 over UCLA and threatening, with over 6 minutes left in the first half

Posted by: toby928(c) discreetly mentions sportsball at October 25, 2025 01:26 PM (jc0TO)

207 Millions of people get laid off from the private sector every year. And those are real lay offs not govt lay offs where you get back pay a few weeks later.

But I’m supposed to freak out that Shaniqua is going to get paid a month late? Fuck off.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:27 PM (PGEno)

208 Someone please remind me what AWFL stands for? Affluent White??

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 25, 2025 01:28 PM (SXxzC)

209 Jealous?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:24 PM (j04bB)

You really are a cat that just expects to be of a higher class. I've watched you for a while - I'm not surprised. Others might.

Your pot you piss in is just a little better, ain't it. Everyone just needs to calm down so your good times can still roll.

You remind me of another "B". Bandersnatch.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:28 PM (r9oLJ)

210 AWFL affluent white female liberal/leftist

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 01:29 PM (RuTUS)

211 Furloughed workers in bread lines? Is this information coming from Greta Thunberg?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 01:29 PM (EYmYM)

212 185 "A record quarter for deliveries too. It's kind of crazy the extent to which the EV market is just Tesla and everything else approaches a rounding error."

Pretty much the same in the space launch market. How could there be related???
Posted by: pawn
---------------------

Yup.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:29 PM (j04bB)

213 Best one I’ve ever seen said No Baby On Board. I only do anal.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Seen on rusted out Toyota in Atlanta traffic, 'My Other Car Is A Piece Of Shit Too'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2025 12:40 PM

I saw one that said "Baby All Up in this Bitch"

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 25, 2025 12:43 PM

Saw one in work parking lot yesterday "IWHBYD". Had no idea what it meant. Looked it up when I got home...

"I Would Have Been Your Daddy"

"I would have been your daddy, but a dog beat me over the fence!"
— Sergeant Johnson, 'Halo: Combat Evolved'

The IWHBYD (I Would Have Been Your Daddy) Skull is a skull found in Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians. It is a silver skull and thus possesses no actual gameplay effects, but unlocks extra dialogue for humorous purposes.

https://bit.ly/4hsRMg3

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 01:30 PM (P5BPp)

214 192 Elon is nuts?
Posted by: m

Non luts is L.
Posted by: Your Friendly Neighborhood AI at October 25, 2025 01:17 PM (mlg/3)

halp

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 01:30 PM (RuTUS)

215 You remind me of another "B". Bandersnatch.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel
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You remind me of Scogg.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:30 PM (j04bB)

216
Looks like she was weaned on dick.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 25, 2025 01:31 PM (PYJZZ)

217 It's all show, look we aren't being paid and starving, won't you please give every Illegal Healthcare so we can eat again?

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 01:31 PM (+qU29)

218 How did you interpret jealousy from that?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:25 PM (PGEno)

I didn't get jealous but I also didn't get your point.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 25, 2025 01:31 PM (EYmYM)

219
The bureaucracy needs to expand to meet the expanding needs of the bureaucracy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2025 01:31 PM (tgvbd)

220 Here a local article about this abominate charity. Read closely. The entire situation is BS.

https://tinyurl.com/yt5sjayy

Money quote: “And they’re talking about cutting food stamps, and a lot of government workers do have food stamps, so they need it,” she added.

Posted by: pawn at October 25, 2025 01:31 PM (tqkKb)

221 noodgardening

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 01:33 PM (RuTUS)

222 Money quote: “And they’re talking about cutting food stamps, and a lot of government workers do have food stamps, so they need it,” she added.
Posted by: pawn at October 25, 2025 01:31 PM (tqkKb)

If Gov .workers have food stamps they are cheating the system

Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2025 01:33 PM (VE6XX)

223 197 So basically government workers have no savings whatsoever? Yeah cry more.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:21 PM (PGEno)

Those custom green-engineered LEED-certified homes and matching his-and-hers Teslas don't come cheap you know.

Posted by: Virtue signaling isn't cheap at October 25, 2025 01:34 PM (TbWk/)

224 You remind me of Scogg.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:30 PM (j04bB)

Flattery will get you nowhere. Now, flattery from Alex the Chick would have got her my credit card - if she played it long enough.

But you ? Nothing. Just another cat insisting everybody march in line to the camps. The same as the "Dad" insisting we all stand in a good looking line.

To Hell with that guy.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:34 PM (r9oLJ)

225 So I have to prove it to you ? That's pretty typical. Well - here we go. I'll give you the links to search yourself - since I won't pay for Bitly.

Yeah, I figured I'd get the old "I'm not here to do your research" non-answer. No surprise there.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 25, 2025 01:34 PM (244Jt)

226 But I’m supposed to freak out that Shaniqua is going to get paid a month late? Fuck off.

How is I gonna get my hair done and my nails did befores I get my cruise on with Carnival?

Oh noes he dinint! Lawd, someone get me a newport.

Posted by: Shaniqua at October 25, 2025 01:35 PM (R/m4+)

227 218 How did you interpret jealousy from that?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
----------------

After posting thought it may have been misinterpreted.
In the interim more coffee is consumed, will assume cogency soon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:35 PM (j04bB)

228 Yeah, I figured I'd get the old "I'm not here to do your research" non-answer. No surprise there.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 25, 2025 01:34 PM (244Jt)

I typed out two ways to Google it yourself. You can literally go back - read my post - and copy and paste to see the shit yourself.

You don't want to see it. Very typical in the modern era. Next - you'll say "its fake".

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:37 PM (r9oLJ)

229 222 Money quote: “And they’re talking about cutting food stamps, and a lot of government workers do have food stamps, so they need it,” she added.
Posted by: pawn at October 25, 2025 01:31 PM (tqkKb)

If Gov .workers have food stamps they are cheating the system
Posted by: It's me donna

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:37 PM (j04bB)

230 221 noodgardening
Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 01:33 PM (RuTUS)

Posted by: m at October 25, 2025 01:38 PM (RuTUS)

231 My hope with socialism being popular is that people don’t really know what it means.

Do you work with anyone young ? I do.

They sound EXACTLY like my older - yes, Boomers, your generation as well as the silents - family saying the same shit.

The exact same FDR era shit. Exactly the same.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:00 PM (r9oLJ)

I guess this boomer, born two years after WW2 knew exactly what socialism was. We learned as early as 5th grade what it was. By teachers who my mom had in the late 1920's. Also, my mom and dad, both born in 1918, hated FDR. They were both first generation Americans of Hungarian and Slovak ancestry, respectively. In 1956, our Hungarian church, and other Hungarian churches, sponsored many families who escaped from behind the Iron Curtain, so we kids got a good education, first hand, of the evils of socialism and communism. Mom spoke fluent Hungarian, so she was able to translate those stories for me. So, no, not ALL boomers subscribed to the FDR shit.

Posted by: thatcraxyjerseyguy at October 25, 2025 01:40 PM (5xuJ/)

232 220 Here a local article about this abominate charity. Read closely. The entire situation is BS.

https://tinyurl.com/yt5sjayy

Money quote: “And they’re talking about cutting food stamps, and a lot of government workers do have food stamps, so they need it,” she added.
Posted by: pawn at October 25, 2025 01:31 PM (tqkKb)

People have been rolling up to food banks in their Escalades and just gotten their nails did and taking food away from actual poor people who need it. I suspect there's no shortage of those people showing up at this charity.

Posted by: Disgusting all the way around at October 25, 2025 01:41 PM (TbWk/)

233 Ole Miss 22-10 over Oklahoma at the turn.

Posted by: toby928(c) discreetly mentions sportsball at October 25, 2025 01:41 PM (jc0TO)

234 >>> ...Mom spoke fluent Hungarian, so she was able to translate those stories for me. So, no, not ALL boomers subscribed to the FDR shit.
Posted by: thatcraxyjerseyguy
-------------------------------------

Exactly.

What'sHisName? is only here to stir up things and see how offensive he can be without being banned.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 01:43 PM (j04bB)

235 Also, my mom and dad, both born in 1918, hated FDR. They were both first generation Americans of Hungarian and Slovak ancestry, respectively.

Exceptions exist. This gets old. But lets do it again.

Stereotypes exist for a reason. Because Groups exhibit collective behavior. And people notice.

Yet you can have the Thomas Sole Black and the Eric Clapton White.

Our modern existence - and this is a statement I copied from someone here - is the entire mental backbend of insisting that groups do not behave as groups.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:44 PM (r9oLJ)

236 It makes as much sense as pretending that ... after seeing three spades on the flop - that a heart, diamond, or club is equally probably on the turn.

Because to say any different is unfair to hearts, diamonds, and clubs.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:46 PM (r9oLJ)

237 The record quarter was to sell as much as possible before the tax credit went away 9/30. GM had a very good quarter too with EVs.

The real test is what happens this quarter and going forward without the credit.

Ram announced the end of the eV truck and GM is scaling way back as well. Tesla will just keep humming along because for most people Tesla is like Kleenex. The brand name is the product itself.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 01:06 PM

Steve Eisman (real life Big Short person played by Steve Carrell in "The Big Short") has stated that most of Tesla's good stock price is based not on the future of the vehicles, but speculation about the potential future of the robot and the robo-taxis.

And he mentioned what you have here, that most of the EV purchases recently were only due to people buying them before the federal tax credit ended on 09/30/25.

The K-Shaped Reality: AI Booms While Housing & Tesla Struggle | The Weekly Wrap

YouTube: https://bit.ly/47k0adi

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 01:47 PM (P5BPp)

238 10-10 at the half between Virginia and NC in an ACC fight.

Posted by: toby928(c) discreetly mentions sportsball at October 25, 2025 01:48 PM (jc0TO)

239 The K-Shaped Reality: AI Booms While Housing & Tesla Struggle | The Weekly Wrap

AI ... anyone think I've been on a rant thus far ?

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:49 PM (r9oLJ)

240 to be fair to the younger generation, our education system is a complete disaster and they've been spoonfed these ideas all the way from kindergarten to the day they leave college.

We've known for 40+ years that the stupidest college graduates are provably education majors. I have no idea how society lept from there to "let's put them in charge of our kids".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2025 01:06 PM

Those who can't do, teach.
Those who can't teach, teach gym.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3LaCIaU

Posted by: Dewey Finn at October 25, 2025 01:50 PM (P5BPp)

241 70 Why do any entertaining for that matter? $40T debt. Maybe tamp down the $1M parties for foreigners? Crazy talk I know.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 25, 2025 12:27 PM (PGEno)

The idea that we engage in diplomacy is deeply upsetting to you apparently.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 01:51 PM (vwL3N)

242 FDR came around in that early 1900s Socialism craze

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 01:52 PM (+qU29)

243 The idea that we engage in diplomacy is deeply upsetting to you apparently.

Hey Bro ? You mad ?

This gets real old. About as old as certain chics from Jersey scolding. Constantly.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:52 PM (r9oLJ)

244 Who really cares that gje old East Wing was leveled?

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 01:58 PM (+qU29)

245 Hey! Mooching and Looting, it's what Maryland does! If it's phree, it's for me!

Posted by: Fat Ass Federal Moocher at October 25, 2025 01:23 PM

Crab cakes and football! That's what Maryland DOES!

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4ngrQ8J

Posted by: Wedding Crashers at October 25, 2025 01:59 PM (P5BPp)

246 There's a Turkish guy in the pub who insisted he likee alla. That was his way of pronouncing ale.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at October 25, 2025 02:01 PM (SXxzC)

247 243 The idea that we engage in diplomacy is deeply upsetting to you apparently.

Hey Bro ? You mad ?

This gets real old. About as old as certain chics from Jersey scolding. Constantly.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:52 PM (r9oLJ)

I’m not your bro, and I have ZERO problem with federal government money being spent on proper federal government functions, like diplomacy. Maybe you are one of the AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers?

If it gets real old for you, you are cordially invited to not read my posts or responses. The reality is that the Outside World must be engaged/dealt with. Preferably peacefully. If that upsets you as much as your friend…well, I can’t help you. At all.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 02:02 PM (vwL3N)

248 Maybe you are one of the AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers?

So hey bro ? You mad ?

Still all you've said.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 02:06 PM (r9oLJ)

249 It's all show, look we aren't being paid and starving, won't you please give every Illegal Healthcare so we can eat again?

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 01:31 PM

Yep, that was my first thought as well. This isn't real. It's a planned protest to make a news story of exactly what you said. "OMG, look at the thousands of furloughed federal workers who now have to stand in line for food!"

It's a deliberate move by leftist federal workers to make a news story. Nothing different than the "No Kings" nonsense.

Even if granting that it is true, then that's an even worse story for them, showing how completely irresponsible they are with money that one missed paycheck and they can't afford food. And that's not the kind of person any of us should want being paid with our tax dollars.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 02:07 PM (P5BPp)

250 Aside from one Army Veteran sticker on my bumper, I remain in the shadows.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 25, 2025 01:14 PM (0aYVJ)

My “retired USAF” tags have been helpful. It also tells whatever cop who decides to shake me down for money that he’s not stopping some gangbanger or ex-con with a mile long rap sheet.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 02:08 PM (vwL3N)

251 I don't remember much about Helen Reddy except that when I saw her in "Pete's Dragon," she seemed nice. Very nice. Wholesome even.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 25, 2025 02:09 PM (W7XSX)

252 So hey bro ? You mad ?

Still all you've said.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 02:06 PM (r9oLJ)

This coming from a guy who can only say “hey bro? You mad?”

I should ask the same of you.

Instead of saying “hey bro? You mad?” 500 more times to me because you cannot come up with a counter-argument, go read some history. Or the Constitution. You’ll learn something.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 02:11 PM (vwL3N)

253 I don't remember much about Helen Reddy except that when I saw her in "Pete's Dragon," she seemed nice. Very nice. Wholesome even.

Hence the thing about women.

"Be Nice" is fine. Great. Until "Be Nice" means you take money out of your own pocket ... which means out of your own household. Women struggle with that.

I know. I married one. If any of you dudes married one that views their kids in a higher light than the rest ?

You married a unicorn.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 02:11 PM (r9oLJ)

254 And also "hey, you mad" ? That doesn't go very far.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 02:13 PM (r9oLJ)

255 I typed out two ways to Google it yourself. You can literally go back - read my post - and copy and paste to see the shit yourself.

You don't want to see it. Very typical in the modern era. Next - you'll say "its fake".

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 01:37 PM

I assume everyone posting here is full of shit. Or at the very least hyperbolic with what they are saying.

So whenever I see a comment I find interesting but am not sure of the validity of the content, I do exactly as you have suggested. I simply copy-paste the comment into Google or Grok and do the research myself.

I don't trust anyone. Including any of the bloggers. And especially not "influencers", whether left or conservative. My rule is never trust anyone not putting their name behind the words and never trust anyone getting paid to write or YouTube or TikTok "influence".

I use what I read or watch anywhere as a jumping off point to research things myself.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 02:14 PM (P5BPp)

256 254 And also "hey, you mad" ? That doesn't go very far.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 02:13 PM (r9oLJ)

I agree, which is why you should stop saying it constantly. Try something like a counter-argument to defend your friend.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 02:15 PM (vwL3N)

257 The idea that we engage in diplomacy is deeply upsetting to you apparently.

You are absolutely a moron. Not in the good way.

Hey Bro - you mad ? You don't see how its all the same, do you ?

Idiot.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 02:17 PM (r9oLJ)

258 Aside from one Army Veteran sticker on my bumper, I remain in the shadows.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at October 25, 2025 01:14 PM

My “retired USAF” tags have been helpful. It also tells whatever cop who decides to shake me down for money that he’s not stopping some gangbanger or ex-con with a mile long rap sheet.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 02:08 PM

When I had my old 2011 Jeep Patriot with sheet metal liftgate, I had American Flag and Blue Line Flag magnets on back of my liftgate. I believe in both, so it was not just for show, but I also hoped there would be an added benefit of being given the benefit of the doubt if a police officer saw the Blue Line Flag.

Unfortunately, after upgrading to a 2023 Jeep Cherokee, I had to ditch the magnets, because the liftgates are plastic. "Cost-saving" measures by Jeep, of course.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 02:24 PM (P5BPp)

259 Spray glue

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2025 02:27 PM (+qU29)

260 I assume everyone posting here is full of shit. Or at the very least hyperbolic with what they are saying.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 02:14 PM

I should clarify that I think this of comments I read anywhere online, whether blogs or YouTube or whatever. I'm not just skeptical specifically of anyone here.

Just skeptical in general. Trust, but verify.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 25, 2025 02:27 PM (P5BPp)

261 Lewis helped me remake myself. My fav is The Inner Ring:

"Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things."

I'm expect most of you, being so Good and Wise

have read it. Like Chesterton's Fence, it's a must read. But it was so influential in making me a better person that I feel obligated to link to it, just in case someone missed it.

https://tinyurl.com/msj6ydjz

Posted by: Fen at October 25, 2025 03:03 PM (NHf9S)

262 "Or at the very least hyperbolic with what they are saying"

How dare you!

Posted by: Fen at October 25, 2025 03:06 PM (NHf9S)

263 How dare YOU!

Posted by: Greta on a Shelf at October 25, 2025 03:06 PM (jc0TO)

264
You are absolutely a moron. Not in the good way.

Hey Bro - you mad ? You don't see how its all the same, do you ?

Idiot.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 02:17 PM (r9oLJ)

You STILL have zero counter-argument.

Saying “Hey Bro - you mad?” is a fail, but you still say it, but now you think name-calling makes it work.

You are intellectually bankrupt, and the more you post, the more you show me you are intellectually bankrupt.

Don’t post again until you have grown up and have a REAL counter-argument.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 03:09 PM (vwL3N)

265 You STILL have zero counter-argument.

Why counter ... "hey bro - you mad" ?

That's the same as "send me a link". The burden of proof isn't on me.

You mad, bro ?

Pro Tip - nobody cares.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 03:17 PM (r9oLJ)

266 "Don’t post again until you have grown up and have a REAL counter-argument."

Good grief.

Watching two idiots blasting away at each other.

Keep going guys, it's seriously entertaining. Like a food fight.

Posted by: pawn at October 25, 2025 03:18 PM (tqkKb)

267 Keep going guys, it's seriously entertaining. Like a food fight.

Hence the point. When its a gutter fight ? Get into the gutter or lose by default.

Win ugly. Nobody loses pretty.

Bro.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 03:20 PM (r9oLJ)

268 "It's all show, look we aren't being paid and starving, won't you please give every Illegal Healthcare so we can eat again?"

My understanding is that most of these people took the buyout offer back in February, which was mostly "we'll allow you to work from home and get paid until your end date" which hit in October. So they've had 6+ months to adapt.

OTOH, even if I'm wrong, the Left has exaggerated every slight to such "unbearable oppression" that no one really cares anymore. They should have listened to Nigel and saved something that goes to 11

Posted by: Fen at October 25, 2025 03:22 PM (NHf9S)

269

Interesting. This morning I just began my 2nd read of "The Screwtape Letters". The 1st read was many years ago. Before this, I just finished "That Hideous Strength" also from C. S. Lewis.

He really gets it, surprising for any campus types today.

Posted by: Sapwolf at October 25, 2025 03:25 PM (5pS45)

270 Or we can do it this way ...

"you don't like it when we engage in diplomacy" ?

Yeah - when you use a euphemism - "diplomacy" - when its surrendering National Sovereignty ?

Oh - but Hey Bro - does it make you mad ?

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 03:28 PM (r9oLJ)

271 He really gets it, surprising for any campus types today.
Posted by: Sapwolf at October 25, 2025 03:25 PM

He was wounded on the Somme.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 25, 2025 03:31 PM (jc0TO)

272 Yeah - when you use a euphemism - "diplomacy" - when its surrendering National Sovereignty ?

Hmmmm...state dinners (which is what was being referenced) surrenders National Sovereignty? Diplomacy surrenders National Sovereignty?

Really?

Last I checked, diplomacy is an ASSERTION of national sovereignty. ESPECIALLY if you are using it the way Trump will - as a sign of telling people how it's gonna be.

Dealing with the Outside World is not a surrender of national sovereignty. Sorry. There IS an Outside World, and it must be dealt with. Preferably not by force. This isn't a hard concept.

THAT makes YOU mad. It doesn't me, because I understand how the world works. I want to take advantage of the Outside World - not hide from it.

Oh, BRAAAAWWWWWWWWWKKKK!!!! Do you wanna cracker? Parrot?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 03:36 PM (vwL3N)

273
Yea, Alabama! Drown 'em Tide!
Every 'Bama man's behind you,
Hit your stride.
Go teach the Bulldogs to behave,
Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave.
And if a man starts to weaken,
That's a shame!
For Bama's pluck and grit have
Writ her name in Crimson flame.

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at October 25, 2025 03:41 PM (jc0TO)

274
Fight on, fight on, fight on men!
Remember the Rose Bowl, we'll win then.
Go, roll to victory,
Hit your stride,
You're Dixie's football pride,
Crimson Tide, Roll Tide, Roll Tide!!

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at October 25, 2025 03:41 PM (jc0TO)

275 Listened to Trump's onboard presser. Twenty-five percent of the press corps is going to like him before his term is over.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 03:50 PM (j04bB)

276 Yep. We call them Cops.

Back the Blue.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 11:44 AM (r9oLJ)

Balls and strikes.

If you “back the blue” no matter what, you’re an idiot. If you disagree, be prepared to answer this question: “Why do we have juries?”

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 03:56 PM (vwL3N)

277 ...the US said it held “very constructive” discussions with China...

... 5.5-hour-long meeting at Merdeka 118, the world’s second-tallest building. Vice Premier He Lifeng led the Chinese side and was joined by Trade Representative Li Chenggang and Vice Finance Minister Liao Min.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent headed the US team.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 03:57 PM (j04bB)

278 @JDVance . 6h

According to Zohran the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 04:08 PM (j04bB)

279 ...The replacement fleet of next-generation warships, referred to internally as the "Golden Fleet" by senior White House and Navy officials, is intended to secure the Western Hemisphere as the world moves toward a bipolar state in the 2030s, repel Chinese influence in the Americas, and maintain a naval edge in the Pacific theater, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.

At the center of the Golden Fleet are plans for a 15,000 to 20,000-ton "future battleship" equipped with long-range, hypersonic missiles, described as the modern equivalent of the World War II battleship. Instead of cannons, these next-gen warships will be optimized for missile warfare.

Senior Navy officials see alignment between their own goals and the president's interests
_+/-WSJ

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 04:23 PM (j04bB)

280 USS New Jersey with gold pinstripe, bristling rockets and lasers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 04:25 PM (j04bB)

281 At the center of the Golden Fleet are plans for a 15,000 to 20,000-ton "future battleship" equipped with long-range, hypersonic missiles, described as the modern equivalent of the World War II battleship. Instead of cannons, these next-gen warships will be optimized for missile warfare.

Senior Navy officials see alignment between their own goals and the president's interests
_+/-WSJ

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 04:23 PM (j04bB)

Good idea but man, I want 16 inch cannons on them.

Power projection.
Deterrence.
Peace through strength.
Allies respect us, the bad guys (the PRC, et al) FEAR us.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 04:27 PM (vwL3N)

282 280 USS New Jersey with gold pinstripe, bristling rockets and lasers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 04:25 PM (j04bB)

Nuclear powered.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 04:27 PM (vwL3N)

283 Balls and strikes.

If you “back the blue” no matter what, you’re an idiot. If you disagree, be prepared to answer this question: “Why do we have juries?”

An excellent question. Without an answer.

A "jury" convicted Trump. A "jury" also convicted Adidas reps of - get this - paying college kids to play college ball.

Why do we have juries ? I reckon because they beat the idea of lynch mobs. Unless you get lynched by a jury. Then the entire idea sucks.

Bro.

Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 04:36 PM (r9oLJ)

284 U.S. "enhances force presence" in SOUTHCOM and redirects the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group - the "most capable, adaptable, and lethal naval mission package in the world" - from Europe to the U.S. Southern Command AOR.

Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 7

, escorted by DESRON 2, with Carrier Air Wing 8 embarked, deployed 4 months ago with ~4,500 Sailors, and will support the mission to "counter narco-terrorism in defense of the homeland" and "enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle TCOs."

x'ers - https://tinyurl.com/y6umcpv7
non-x'ers - https://tinyurl.com/mrxd4mkf

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 04:41 PM (j04bB)

285 A "jury" convicted Trump. A "jury" also convicted Adidas reps of - get this - paying college kids to play college ball.

Why do we have juries ? I reckon because they beat the idea of lynch mobs. Unless you get lynched by a jury. Then the entire idea sucks.

Bro.
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at October 25, 2025 04:36 PM (r9oLJ)

So…because people aren’t perfect, you wish to end the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and the only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen?

Bro.

Kyle Rittenhouse ring a bell?

Perhaps you acquiesce in the destruction of your liberty, and are unfit to be free, and are incapable of self-government? (H/t, TX Declaration of Independence, 1836)

Checks and balances. Because blind reliance on the cops is fucking stupid. Or judges. Or DAs. Or lawyers in general.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 04:56 PM (vwL3N)

286 A "jury" also convicted Adidas reps of - get this - paying college kids to play college ball.

Paying college kids to play college ball is fucking stupid. Especially when we have these things called “scholarships”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 04:57 PM (vwL3N)

287 I read things like this (sidebar) and songs come into my head:

Link to Ed Driscoll's post here
Black Conservative Perspective says there's a "Woke Civil War" going on in the left over this Nazi, with Race Marxists -- mostly black -- absolutely determined to cancel him, while the straight-up Communists -- mostly white rich-bitch nepo babies -- are fighting like hell for him. As many have noted: Communists are always willing to make a tactical alliance with Nazis. (And, of course, Communists are just totalitarian socialists with an internationalist foreign policy, while Nazis are totalitarian socialists with a nationalist foreign policy. They're two anti-human peas in a pod.)
The white communists are fighting hard for this guy because he is an open, avowed communist, and they think his completely-fake "normal blue-collar guy" persona can be used to do what they cannot do, sell communism to the working class.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=au5BWBvkK2M

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 05:08 PM (j04bB)

288 As many have noted: Communists are always willing to make a tactical alliance with Nazis. (And, of course, Communists are just totalitarian socialists with an internationalist foreign policy, while Nazis are totalitarian socialists with a nationalist foreign policy. They're two anti-human peas in a pod.)

And history is against the many. To believe that, you have to disregard the street brawls between the KPD and NSDAP. You also have to disregard the backing of the NSDAP by industrialists, who knew they would be good with private property. The KPD would not, and would kill the industrialists and much else besides.

The KPD and SPD were running for their lives when Germany was under the NSDAP. If they were so aligned as I am constantly assured, then they could have formed a coalition government. They didn’t. For a reason.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 25, 2025 05:20 PM (vwL3N)

289 Alabama is choking this game away. Must.Drink.More.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 25, 2025 06:42 PM (jc0TO)

290 22-22

*opens another bottle*

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 25, 2025 06:55 PM (jc0TO)

291 2 minutes to go. need a stop

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 25, 2025 06:59 PM (jc0TO)

292 Well, that was an unnecessarily exciting ending.

29-22 Alabama over SC.

I can't even muster up a Rammer Jammer.. We were so lucky to pull that out.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 25, 2025 07:29 PM (jc0TO)

293 Glad you made it to the win.
Roll Tide.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 25, 2025 07:58 PM (j04bB)

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