This is also just another take on the age old Republican belief that unless the poor and marginalized are living under a box propped up by a stick they are neither poor, nor marginalized and are just greedy takers who deserve no succor. “Poor?! Look at them using electricity! And and uh, a fridge! Not so bad is it?!” Not that they have ever cared about the poor and marginalized regardless.
Yes. Right-wingers are desperate to ignore Thoreau's astute observation that most people live "lives of quiet desperation." Even if they generally have cellphones and refrigerators, what very poor people don't have -- which modern life ought to afford them -- is any measure of peace and security. They live on the edge, and frankly, many of us Americans who breezily label ourselves "middle class" aren't doing all that much better. If the economy went very far south and we lost our jobs, we would quickly realize that we are working-class: people who don't have a lot of capital and who must therefore regularly expend their labor-power to live.
Exactly right. They are so far removed from the reality of every day life that they literally cannot conceive of the fact that so many of us live so close to the edge. They have no concept of what poor even looks like. Their perception is a cartoon version, when the truth is it’s really a lack of a safety net. And we all know how they feel about safety nets.
I call shenanigans unless the whales, big tough whales, killer whales, came up to him with tears in their eyes, and their blowholes, and said, “sir, the windmills are killing us,” in whale song.
I would absolutely love it if big tough whales, killer whales, came up to him with tears of hunger in their eyes and used their massive fangs to ... no, that's probably against commenting rules.
But Manic Pixel Dream Girl is a very cool online name.
I'm a veteran--and old one at that--and not only do I have a mobile phone, I can explain how they work; the radio side, the TCP/IP side, and the switching/routing/server system that enables near-instant global communications on the cheap.
Idiot Small Fingers there has no freaking idea what the heck he's talking about when it comes to tech. Remember the invisible stealth aircraft? Dude should just do what other people do when they run into technology they don't understand: shut up about it. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and leave no doubt.
Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea / Swim so wild and swim so free / Turbines above and the cell phones at the border / It's enough to give a whale bipolar disorder
His windmill obsession and hatred goes way back to when he fought (and lost) his battle with Scotland to prevent them from installing offshore wind turbines within view of his shitty golf course. It's really that shallow, though if it helps GOP climate deniers, then that's just gravy.
Speaking of cell phones, mine has joined the campaign to promote voice-activated controls. This morning, a pop-up reading "Want directions to the nearest Walmart?" (a laughable question to start, I do not now nor ever have patronized Mallwart) so, irked by this interruption, I replied (out loud) "Why don't you go fuck yourself?". Quick as a flash, it replied "I'm sorry, I didn't understand your request".
This shit has been going on with my Fire TV, too, it keeps suggesting stupid and creepy shit like "Say Alexa, What should I do (watch, whatever) next?" or "Alexa, turn on Sports", and I wonder just WHO in this benighted land needs Jeff Bezos' AI to tell them what to do? Why would anyone WANT that, as if its not bad enough that your every click is recorded somewhere, the better to keep track of you. The nutbar talk about 5G chips in vaccines I pass off as too stupid to bother with, but the ever-spreading ubiquity of "smart speakers" does alarm me, it is just one short step from buying surveillance cameras so someone, somewhere can watch you 24/7. Granted, it is just for marketing purposes, and maybe it wouldn't be so bad to be presented with fewer time-wasting ads for stuff I have no interest in at all, but still cooperating with such a gross invasion of privacy is unattractive to me, to say the least. And we all know how fiercely the mega-corporations protect our personal information from government snoopers, not to mention hackers and thieves.
My phone keeps trying to tell me what route to take to get home, and how long it will take. And it's pissing me off, because I wasn't even planning on going home, I was going to go have a beer.
he just can't tell the difference between whales and manatees, is all. Both are big and live in the water, so how is he supposed to know the difference? Does he LOOK like a marine biologist to you? And neither whales nor manatees were on that "very hard" dementia test they gave him, you know, the one that looks like a kids menu/placemat at a "family" restaurant. He didn't know there were going to be pop quizzes.
WTF is even the theory of how windmills kill whales? Does he think the blades cut through the water? Does he think they are like his stealth planes and the whales can't see them so they run into them? I mean I get the bird thing and it is real, though hugely exaggerated by people like Trump. But, whales?!?
Maybe they surface and view the land and get hypnotized by the round and round and round like the drinking birds and just HAVE to beach themselves to get a better look? Or it is just that the "Stable Genius" doesn't know how windmills work so they scare him. L'il Donnie is easily scared, you know.
Something, I think, about the sonar used to find bedrock to anchor the windmills in, or something equally stupid. It has nothing to do with actual, in-place, turbines. Also, floating turbines are the future, just like oil rigs.
We all know that he is a horrible grotesque, but he has a certain charisma that appeals to morons. Reading that verbatim, though, how in the blue absolute fuck can anyone say Yeah that's my guy!
Ta, Evan. Lock. Him. Up. For. His. Own. Protection. And. Ours.
This is also just another take on the age old Republican belief that unless the poor and marginalized are living under a box propped up by a stick they are neither poor, nor marginalized and are just greedy takers who deserve no succor. “Poor?! Look at them using electricity! And and uh, a fridge! Not so bad is it?!” Not that they have ever cared about the poor and marginalized regardless.
Yes. Right-wingers are desperate to ignore Thoreau's astute observation that most people live "lives of quiet desperation." Even if they generally have cellphones and refrigerators, what very poor people don't have -- which modern life ought to afford them -- is any measure of peace and security. They live on the edge, and frankly, many of us Americans who breezily label ourselves "middle class" aren't doing all that much better. If the economy went very far south and we lost our jobs, we would quickly realize that we are working-class: people who don't have a lot of capital and who must therefore regularly expend their labor-power to live.
Exactly right. They are so far removed from the reality of every day life that they literally cannot conceive of the fact that so many of us live so close to the edge. They have no concept of what poor even looks like. Their perception is a cartoon version, when the truth is it’s really a lack of a safety net. And we all know how they feel about safety nets.
"And we all know how they feel about safety nets."
They're Haly's Circus.
I call shenanigans unless the whales, big tough whales, killer whales, came up to him with tears in their eyes, and their blowholes, and said, “sir, the windmills are killing us,” in whale song.
I would absolutely love it if big tough whales, killer whales, came up to him with tears of hunger in their eyes and used their massive fangs to ... no, that's probably against commenting rules.
But Manic Pixel Dream Girl is a very cool online name.
Thank you kindly. ☺️
...and only you can fix it
Trump has windmills where his brain should be.
That's a whale of a story there, bub.
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I'm a veteran--and old one at that--and not only do I have a mobile phone, I can explain how they work; the radio side, the TCP/IP side, and the switching/routing/server system that enables near-instant global communications on the cheap.
Idiot Small Fingers there has no freaking idea what the heck he's talking about when it comes to tech. Remember the invisible stealth aircraft? Dude should just do what other people do when they run into technology they don't understand: shut up about it. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and leave no doubt.
Windmills?
Don Quixote Trump?
PAB is tilting. Hard.
Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea / Swim so wild and swim so free / Turbines above and the cell phones at the border / It's enough to give a whale bipolar disorder
His windmill obsession and hatred goes way back to when he fought (and lost) his battle with Scotland to prevent them from installing offshore wind turbines within view of his shitty golf course. It's really that shallow, though if it helps GOP climate deniers, then that's just gravy.
More info: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/trump-scotland-wind-farm-fight-payout-golf-course-a9201096.html
tfg has made me crazy, and to the best of my knowledge I am not whale.
Speaking of cell phones, mine has joined the campaign to promote voice-activated controls. This morning, a pop-up reading "Want directions to the nearest Walmart?" (a laughable question to start, I do not now nor ever have patronized Mallwart) so, irked by this interruption, I replied (out loud) "Why don't you go fuck yourself?". Quick as a flash, it replied "I'm sorry, I didn't understand your request".
This shit has been going on with my Fire TV, too, it keeps suggesting stupid and creepy shit like "Say Alexa, What should I do (watch, whatever) next?" or "Alexa, turn on Sports", and I wonder just WHO in this benighted land needs Jeff Bezos' AI to tell them what to do? Why would anyone WANT that, as if its not bad enough that your every click is recorded somewhere, the better to keep track of you. The nutbar talk about 5G chips in vaccines I pass off as too stupid to bother with, but the ever-spreading ubiquity of "smart speakers" does alarm me, it is just one short step from buying surveillance cameras so someone, somewhere can watch you 24/7. Granted, it is just for marketing purposes, and maybe it wouldn't be so bad to be presented with fewer time-wasting ads for stuff I have no interest in at all, but still cooperating with such a gross invasion of privacy is unattractive to me, to say the least. And we all know how fiercely the mega-corporations protect our personal information from government snoopers, not to mention hackers and thieves.
My phone keeps trying to tell me what route to take to get home, and how long it will take. And it's pissing me off, because I wasn't even planning on going home, I was going to go have a beer.
Click here!
https://www.clickclickclick.click/
Google gave me a big scary warning when I clicked on that
Google is just no fun anymore!
But yeah, I got the warning too.
It's a site that tracks all your strokes (but doesn't do evil with the data, it's just a demonstration).
that bit where they do the passive-aggressive "Are you sure about this? I'm warning you. Click through at your own peril" usually stops me cold
Boats don't hit whales? Maybe, but whales hit boats.. just ask Moby Dick.
The whales (orcas in particular) have notably been fighting back against boats as of late too.
Whales hit boats and boats hit boats
Any little lands are isle-ies
A squid'll hit isle-ies too, wooden yew?
he just can't tell the difference between whales and manatees, is all. Both are big and live in the water, so how is he supposed to know the difference? Does he LOOK like a marine biologist to you? And neither whales nor manatees were on that "very hard" dementia test they gave him, you know, the one that looks like a kids menu/placemat at a "family" restaurant. He didn't know there were going to be pop quizzes.
He looks less like a marine biologist and more like a manatee.
oh, the huge manatee!
Oh, so a whale is a huge manatee?
Evan, dog-brained, really? . . . *Lula gives side-eye*
WTF is even the theory of how windmills kill whales? Does he think the blades cut through the water? Does he think they are like his stealth planes and the whales can't see them so they run into them? I mean I get the bird thing and it is real, though hugely exaggerated by people like Trump. But, whales?!?
It's a misunderstanding of the Incidental Take permits that offshore wind developers have been issued by USFWS.
Wind turbines don't kill whales or other marine mammals, and there isn't any offshore wind south of New England anyway.
It all comes back to his shitty golf course in Scotland. The government there wanted to install offshore wind turbines within the view of said shitty golf course and Trump tried to fight it for years. He eventually lost. He not only lost, he had to pay the Scots 225,000 British pounds too: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/trump-scotland-wind-farm-fight-payout-golf-course-a9201096.html
No idea why the dementia squirrels in his brain decided to latch onto them killing whales though.
Flying whales, duh.
https://i.etsystatic.com/17341799/r/il/4d4691/3390619249/il_fullxfull.3390619249_dgtf.jpg
Maybe they surface and view the land and get hypnotized by the round and round and round like the drinking birds and just HAVE to beach themselves to get a better look? Or it is just that the "Stable Genius" doesn't know how windmills work so they scare him. L'il Donnie is easily scared, you know.
He is just a caveman. Our modern world frightens and confuses him.
Of course TFG is scared of windmills. They cause cancer! I read it on the internet so it must be true, right?
I think he’s just worried about his hair.
Well I would be too if my hair looked like that.
and I read on the internet that he is lower than a shit-eating dog, so THAT must be true, too.
Something, I think, about the sonar used to find bedrock to anchor the windmills in, or something equally stupid. It has nothing to do with actual, in-place, turbines. Also, floating turbines are the future, just like oil rigs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_wind_turbine
The sonar used is outside the range of hearing for whales.
I know, because seafloor mapping is my job.
So you're saying it's all bullshit? I am shocked!
We all know that he is a horrible grotesque, but he has a certain charisma that appeals to morons. Reading that verbatim, though, how in the blue absolute fuck can anyone say Yeah that's my guy!
They think it's code. So it doesn't have to make sense because they perform gematria on it, and learn where the next secret meeting will be.
Veteran here (as you all know). Haz cell phone.
Same here, but we don't count. We're evil leftist-communist-socialist-fascists. We're barely even valid veterans, since we don't vote R.
makes you feel all warm and fuzzy and appreciated when Cadet Bone Spurs calls you a loser, doesn't it?
Mike Luckovich:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F69-y3BXwAAvrUj?format=jpg&name=small