Colom: "When I thought President Trump might come, I told my team, 'Listen, I'm going to work the Trump line. I'm going to listen.' And as I expected, there was a lot of things they were saying that I've been hearing in bluest areas of the state: gas, groceries, concerned about the war in Iran ... "
Figure out what the person in your way really wants and let them have it if its not expensive without it preventing you from getting what you want. I have used this technique to manipulate people in my career.
“They’ve been a very cheap date, and he’s taken advantage.”
A brutal assessment of Trump’s relationship with evangelicals. He gets their loyalty, they get their religious agenda, and neither seems bothered by the hypocrisy.
"Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins passed the threshold to avoid a ranked-choice voting runoff with the latest ballot count, pulling ahead of three Republicans with 50.2 percent of the total vote.
With 88 percent of votes counted as of Friday early morning, Bernadette M. Wilson, a television and radio host, trailed the former state representative with 28.7 percent of the vote, followed by Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor with 13.8 percent and 7.3 percent."
Exciting Huang's Wang update: Now Scottie Bessent is going after Howie Nutlick for not doing his commerce job and letting the Chinese spy lady get all the chips, and it seems Nutlick will be the fall guy for this latest failure of government. Stay tuned.
Very much like this piece. Going all the way back to political correctness, it originally was coined by a Berkeley professor wanting to say that a female professor was given tenure for being a woman, not because of her publishing history, but not saying it because it would not be “politically correct” to say that, because he would be branded a sexist chauvinist pig. (Which, in fact, he was.) Somehow, through adoption of this euphemism by AM rightwing talk show commentators, it came to mean that one couldn’t say “the truth” because it would “hurt someone’s feelings.” (I knew our RC Bishop in Lafayette Indiana was right wing when he talked in 1990 about “political correctness” being a danger to the country.). My response was always, “Since when is being polite and not hurting people’s feelings not part of good manners?” Of course, National Review had already published “The Campus Guide to Meaningful Dialogue”, which satirized euphemisms that were part of civil discourse, and “shock jocks” were garnering high ratings for mainstreaming Andrew Dice Clay and the locker room talk of 12 year old boys. (Then came Laura Ingraham and Anne Coulter, and we learned about the locker room talk of 12 yesr old girls.).
Eventually, “political correctness” lost its sting as an ad hominem locution, and the neologism “woke” was discovered. Woke originally meant “awake”, and what is wrong with being awake? Rod Dreher, of all people, claimed that Black people used it to describe white people who had become aware of white racial privilege. (As a white guy who hangs with Black people, let me assure you that Rod was wrong. “He knows what time it is” was popular in the 1980s, but by the time Black Lives Matter was happening in the wake of Ferguson MO and Travyon Martin in FL, either you stood up against racism, or you defended it as freedom of speech. A lot of white racists defended freedom of speech.) “Woke” became a handy way to denounce white people who were not racists, who defended gay marriage, and supported medical science that is behind transexuality, without admitting that the insulter was racist, homophobic, and in favor of ignorance. Then came RFK Jr and COVID 19 and defending scientific ignorance became a badge of one’s politics. (And Galileo wept.) Like Jordan Klepper, asking people to define what they mean when they call someone “woke” is akin to asking what they mean when they call someone a “retard”. It is just a general ad hominem figure of speech. Charles Kirk was not even a precocious high schooler, and was not as entertaining or skilled at debate as William F Buckley Jr, who was also just defending the right to call people “n*****—loving Commie qu****” when his Yale veneer was stripped away. Vide Irving Kristol, Martin Peretz, Norman Podhoretz, et al. Charlie Kirk was a 12 year old who wasn’t especially bright or good-looking who was enamored of his enfant terrible status to epater le bourgeois, and Mr Kirk would not have been able to translate nor spell those idioms, much less explain them, and hence “proving him wrong” was as impossible as explaining Lobachevskian geometry to someone who barely understood Euclidean geometry. Charles Kirk believed false syllogisms, didn’t understand Boolean approaches to logic, and was as maddening to listen to as Immanuel Velikovsky. “Mr Kirk, I don’t have the time to prove you wrong, because it would take eight years of sociology and public policy and economic theory education for you to understand why you are facile and jejune in your arguments.” Mr Kirk was not an idiot savant, he was just an idiot, and not in the way of Prince Myshkin, but in the way of Gerald LK Smith or Bob Jones or George Lincoln Rockwell. Or Donald J Trump. Another one of HL Mencken’s booboisie. Saintly in his simplicity? Not hardly. Just ignorant, and proud of his ignorance.
OT: I’m home today on a sorely needed mental health day, but right now sig othr is driving me crazy by watching Twilight Zone episodes and trying to find some deep meaning in them. I’m taking a nap. Later taters.
After the election a man posted, "The Cities hate rural MN."
To which I replied, "People in the Cities don't hate rural MN. This is something you made up and now you are mad at us, but nobody talks smack about the rural areas."
On the rest of the everything app, people kept reminding the rural posters that we are actually giving out huge amounts of aid to keep their communities viable. If we hated them, we would be calling to cut that aid.
Colom: "When I thought President Trump might come, I told my team, 'Listen, I'm going to work the Trump line. I'm going to listen.' And as I expected, there was a lot of things they were saying that I've been hearing in bluest areas of the state: gas, groceries, concerned about the war in Iran ... "
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3n277eqhauk2r
There's a thru-line from George Floyd's murder making killing black people unfun to the Right trying to get trans children to kill themselves.
There has to be some sort of abhorrent entertainment somewhere . . .
Figure out what the person in your way really wants and let them have it if its not expensive without it preventing you from getting what you want. I have used this technique to manipulate people in my career.
I've joined team Abdul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIEGCT21xvU
I can't imagine why everyone is so thoughtless and cruel when his widow is out there deeply grieving.
Low ticket sales can be depressing . . .
Dibs on ‘Grievous Fireworks’.
(Thinking probably album name.)
JUST NOW —
@vanhollen.senate.gov
“We should not decide what we do based on what Trump might do.”
The candidate for @SenateDems leader says @TheDemocrats must deliver what the people want not what special interests want.
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3n27jxzhmls2e
That guy shreds.
I'm starting to like this guy.
That helps.
I can't believe this thing is still around. The Charlie Kirk face slider.
Warning: contains Charlie Kirk's face
https://blovish.github.io/kirkslider/
“They’ve been a very cheap date, and he’s taken advantage.”
A brutal assessment of Trump’s relationship with evangelicals. He gets their loyalty, they get their religious agenda, and neither seems bothered by the hypocrisy.
https://bsky.app/profile/ffrf.org/post/3n27e2355ks2j
And nobody except Nutlick kisses Trump's ass more than right wing Pulpit Pimps!
OT for Alaska Guv:
"Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins passed the threshold to avoid a ranked-choice voting runoff with the latest ballot count, pulling ahead of three Republicans with 50.2 percent of the total vote.
With 88 percent of votes counted as of Friday early morning, Bernadette M. Wilson, a television and radio host, trailed the former state representative with 28.7 percent of the vote, followed by Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor with 13.8 percent and 7.3 percent."
Exciting Huang's Wang update: Now Scottie Bessent is going after Howie Nutlick for not doing his commerce job and letting the Chinese spy lady get all the chips, and it seems Nutlick will be the fall guy for this latest failure of government. Stay tuned.
I look at Kirk's shooting as being similar to the assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, only mourned by Nazis.
Another guy almost everyone under 60 has never heard of.
56 here. I have no fucking clue who that is.
Very much like this piece. Going all the way back to political correctness, it originally was coined by a Berkeley professor wanting to say that a female professor was given tenure for being a woman, not because of her publishing history, but not saying it because it would not be “politically correct” to say that, because he would be branded a sexist chauvinist pig. (Which, in fact, he was.) Somehow, through adoption of this euphemism by AM rightwing talk show commentators, it came to mean that one couldn’t say “the truth” because it would “hurt someone’s feelings.” (I knew our RC Bishop in Lafayette Indiana was right wing when he talked in 1990 about “political correctness” being a danger to the country.). My response was always, “Since when is being polite and not hurting people’s feelings not part of good manners?” Of course, National Review had already published “The Campus Guide to Meaningful Dialogue”, which satirized euphemisms that were part of civil discourse, and “shock jocks” were garnering high ratings for mainstreaming Andrew Dice Clay and the locker room talk of 12 year old boys. (Then came Laura Ingraham and Anne Coulter, and we learned about the locker room talk of 12 yesr old girls.).
Eventually, “political correctness” lost its sting as an ad hominem locution, and the neologism “woke” was discovered. Woke originally meant “awake”, and what is wrong with being awake? Rod Dreher, of all people, claimed that Black people used it to describe white people who had become aware of white racial privilege. (As a white guy who hangs with Black people, let me assure you that Rod was wrong. “He knows what time it is” was popular in the 1980s, but by the time Black Lives Matter was happening in the wake of Ferguson MO and Travyon Martin in FL, either you stood up against racism, or you defended it as freedom of speech. A lot of white racists defended freedom of speech.) “Woke” became a handy way to denounce white people who were not racists, who defended gay marriage, and supported medical science that is behind transexuality, without admitting that the insulter was racist, homophobic, and in favor of ignorance. Then came RFK Jr and COVID 19 and defending scientific ignorance became a badge of one’s politics. (And Galileo wept.) Like Jordan Klepper, asking people to define what they mean when they call someone “woke” is akin to asking what they mean when they call someone a “retard”. It is just a general ad hominem figure of speech. Charles Kirk was not even a precocious high schooler, and was not as entertaining or skilled at debate as William F Buckley Jr, who was also just defending the right to call people “n*****—loving Commie qu****” when his Yale veneer was stripped away. Vide Irving Kristol, Martin Peretz, Norman Podhoretz, et al. Charlie Kirk was a 12 year old who wasn’t especially bright or good-looking who was enamored of his enfant terrible status to epater le bourgeois, and Mr Kirk would not have been able to translate nor spell those idioms, much less explain them, and hence “proving him wrong” was as impossible as explaining Lobachevskian geometry to someone who barely understood Euclidean geometry. Charles Kirk believed false syllogisms, didn’t understand Boolean approaches to logic, and was as maddening to listen to as Immanuel Velikovsky. “Mr Kirk, I don’t have the time to prove you wrong, because it would take eight years of sociology and public policy and economic theory education for you to understand why you are facile and jejune in your arguments.” Mr Kirk was not an idiot savant, he was just an idiot, and not in the way of Prince Myshkin, but in the way of Gerald LK Smith or Bob Jones or George Lincoln Rockwell. Or Donald J Trump. Another one of HL Mencken’s booboisie. Saintly in his simplicity? Not hardly. Just ignorant, and proud of his ignorance.
So...if Kirk is their MLK Jr., does that mean that on every Charlie Kirk day, we get to pretend he was really a Black liberal?
OT: I’m home today on a sorely needed mental health day, but right now sig othr is driving me crazy by watching Twilight Zone episodes and trying to find some deep meaning in them. I’m taking a nap. Later taters.
After the election a man posted, "The Cities hate rural MN."
To which I replied, "People in the Cities don't hate rural MN. This is something you made up and now you are mad at us, but nobody talks smack about the rural areas."
On the rest of the everything app, people kept reminding the rural posters that we are actually giving out huge amounts of aid to keep their communities viable. If we hated them, we would be calling to cut that aid.
My point: this stuff is all in their heads.
We hate your hatred of people not like you.
Here's the joke that scares them the most:
Who's Charlie Kirk?
"Is that the new Star Trek?"
Finland shuts down Russia's NATO exit fantasy
'No way,' says Finland over 'absolutely outrageous' Russian demands
https://www.rapporteur.com/news/finland-shuts-down-russias-nato-exit-fantasy/
I have a counterproposal, Вла̀димӣр…
Kill yourself.
However you do it, probably gonna be nicer than how it ends otherwise.
Vlad, You're losing. Cut your losses and GTFO of Ukraine.
"I don't remember asking you a goddamned thing!"
--Finland