Every day I work from my office I am forced to commute on the Barack Obama Freeway. Just makes Shitcago traffic that much more fucking frustrating. Totalitarianism is rising and that POS kickstarted it.
I'd say "supercharged". He certainly wasn't the first, and there fore couldn't have kickstarted it. Added nitrous? I'm not sure. But he wasn't even *original*, he just followed in other's shoes in the line of totalitarianism.
So, unpopular opinion, I know, I know, but to be completely honest, I actually really *like* it. I would live in a building that looked like that. Yes, I also fully acknowledge that I am an *incredibly* strange individual. Me saying that I like it... probably isn't much of a compliment, honestly.
It’s actually freeing when you cut the cord; tv, news, radio, movies, music….
It’s all meant to get you angry and divide the masses. I have more time now to garden, cook, travel, exercise, watch old movies that make me laugh with NO political agenda (Carol Burnett, Dick VanDyke, Mary Tyler Moore, etc etc) etc. Yeah I see what’s going on, I’m on substack, I see the rainbow flags flying in my state parks etc but I’m less reactive and combative now. C-19 was a wake up call (so was 2008), and I spent years fighting back and trying to educate people, but most simply don’t care really. They’re happy with their booze and Netflix and social media and the MSM and busy with their families. So I know who I can and cannot talk to and who is and isn’t brainwashed now. It’s obvious.
Ditto - threw out my tv 26 years ago. Catch up here and on Jeff Childers' substack Coffee and Covid. Don't need any more. Bless you gato! On point as always.
I have no actual inclination towards education on X. My presence there is merely to provide disagreement. Any "ask" for more information is just going to end with them stating whatever source I have is not reliable, because any source that does not support the narrative is not reliable.
OMG Hysterical! All those skits were the bomb! Loved Rosanna Danna, Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat and Mr Rogers, the Belushi Bros, Chevy, Dan Akroyd (?), the great musical guest and more 😂
Boyfriend and I had been eagerly awaiting the release of Supergirl because, you know ... Lobo. This morning, his favorite YouTube streamer (no, I would not have known what a YouTube streamer is were I not in a relationship with a Zoomer) did a segment on how the movie is absolutely tanking, having pandered to the "woke mafia" of Hollywood. Evidently, everyone who has bothered to see it --which is a pathetically few people, from the studio's perspective -- has universally agreed that the only redeeming scenes are the ones with Jason Mamoa.
I view things through a slightly more occult lens than El Gato Malo, and what struck me about this particular bit of Hollywood "news" is that it indicates, to me, that the evil forces behind the "woke push" are now STRONGER than the pull of the almighty dollar. These people *know* that the tide has turned. They *know* that the people don't want this woke insipid crap. They have chosen to honor the contracts nevertheless, sinking millions into performance pieces that they know won't influence anyone.
I in no way pity the Hollywoodians. Nevertheless, I find the phenomenon fascinating. It's "Dance, monkey, dance!" without even hope of a monetary reward. Makes you wonder what it is that the demons *DO* hold over these people.
I’ve been waiting for a big-screen Lobo for more time-units than I care to admit, and his big debut is alongside some woke superhero that nobody cares about.
Then, I just noticed that Supergirl is rated PG-13. You cannot do a Lobo movie rated PG-13. Not gonna work. r4eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
OH MY GOD I left my keyboard open and one of the cats jumped up and added her commentary and it is PERFECT so I’m leaving it here XD
Maybe, but I would think that, were that the case, they’d pivot on the editing floor to try and make it more palatable to a wider audience rather than wasting millions on marketing an obvious flop.
I maintain that “they” are beholden to some force or mission other than the pursuit of profit, nor even the attempt to sculpt the narrative, because they know that they’ve lost it.
Seems like a big humiliation ritual being played out on the big screen.
This gives me an opportunity to bring up my absolute favorite conspiracy fact nobody would believe if there weren't receipts: the Soviet Union, starting in the 1920s and all the way until the USSR collapsed, sent tens of millions of dollars to the West to promote ugly unaesthetic art. In order to demoralize everyone. And this started at what was arguably the peak of optimistic, can-do Western art and design, the Art Deco era. It sounds like a plot where there'd be mustache twirling and great sadness about being stopped by moose and squirrel, but it's all true.
The thing is, you can affirm that something is unattractive is attractive all day long, but people are not going to buy it. While others might be living a body positive truth, no one is joining them in their self-deception.
So the USSR was like that cohort of people who wanted to "game" American Idol in the early 2000's by supporting the worst singers in the competition on purpose.
I work (temporarily) in an upper management level position in the Wokest city on earth. If there is a Woke talking point, these folks have a citizens’ committee for that with a highly paid midwit in charge. I won’t work there permanently because I can’t hold my tongue that long. I took the interim job to finance an expensive stem cell procedure.
I am fairly severely disabled. I say fairly only because if I am very careful, I can pass as normal. But it’s exhausting. A lot of my tribe can’t enjoy that luxury. I won’t be able to much longer.
Yesterday we had a management team meeting where I was sandwiched between the Equity Manager and the Climate Sustainability Manager.
Hiding the ADHD is actually harder than hiding the other neurological symptoms and the structural pain. They don’t make a brace you can hide under your clothes that will hold your tongue.
The Equity Manager gave her weekly report. She mentioned the racial equity and slavery reparations committee efforts (in WA state) and discussed how fantastic the city’s pride month celebrations had been. Then she turned dark and suggested citizens’ comments were “appalling” and offered to counsel any of us grown adult, highly educated professionals who might have been “triggered” in the “safe space” of her office. After a beat of “we”re ashamed of ourselves on behalf of others’ offensive use of the first amendment” silence, she mentioned July is Disability Pride Month.
Then it was my turn to speak.
I nearly swallowed my tongue but I managed not to ask if I only needed to be disabled or did I also need to be transgender to celebrate.
Well, actually it’s a significant transcription error on chromosome 6 with global implications for my neurology, and my cardiovascular, reproductive, metabolic and musculoskeletal systems. Speaking the truth is an unfortunate side effect.
Having a very intelligent mind operated by crackhead weasels is not one of the more popular disabilities to have because it’s annoying and hard to follow me in a conversation. The fact that from my perspective normal people are stultifying in their linearity, predictable and painfully slow thinking isn’t really a safe opinion for sharing and won’t play well in the special Olympics of intersectionality. I actually have a note to self on my meeting notepad that says “don’t be adhd”. Works about as well as ‘regrow your uterus’ but I try.
Sorry to hear that. Are you in a lot of pain? That is the main thing I am concerned with. The good news concerning your neurological effects, is that you are aware of them.
As you actually have a physical source to whatever is ailing you, I can see it as a disease. Most people who claim to be ADHD, simply have not learned the coping skills to deal with boredom, although I have heard other rationalizations why, for instance, people can play video games all day long and not lose attention.
Being ADHD was actually useful in that situation. I recycled a quip rattling around in my distract-able brain from earlier in the meeting. Earlier the finance director had praised another department for getting their budget done early by saying they were star students. I mentioned if those guys were the budget nerds, my department are the kids smoking at the bus stop. It was irreverent but didn’t reveal my politics or grasp of the obvious.
Scott Adams, whatever one thinks about him, had an intersting part in his "The Religion War" book towards the end. I won't recreate this perfectly but it was a part where all humans were able to speak to one another without censorship. Actually, here is a LLM summary:
***************
In the book's sci-fi future, traditional media and standard internet communications are tightly controlled, censored, and heavily weaponized by the warring governments—especially by General Cruz’s Western alliance—to feed propaganda and fuel religious hatred.
To bypass this, the Avatar utilizes a subterranean, un-censorable form of communication. It has two main layers:
The Peer-to-Peer "Sub-Net": The Avatar communicates globally through a decentralized, encrypted network of ordinary people who pass information directly to one another. Because it doesn't rely on centralized government-controlled servers or major corporate telecom pipelines, the authorities can't monitor, filter, or censor it.
The Global Override: At the climax, when the Avatar needs to get the "Prime Influencer's" uncensored phrase out to humanity to break their ideological conditioning, he deploys an unstoppable, self-replicating computer worm. This worm hijacks every screen, speaker, and communication device on Earth simultaneously. It bypasses all military and state firewalls, allowing a completely unfiltered message to reach everyone alive at the exact same moment.
Ultimately, Adams uses this plot point to argue that true, uncensored, peer-to-peer communication is the only thing powerful enough to dismantle top-down state propaganda and mass delusion.
It sounds a lot like what Gato has written about for a while now. Peer to peer, outside the gatekeepers control, to allow free unfettered communications. I can't remember when he last wrote about it, but it definitely came up a few times during the height of the last administration.
I haven’t read any of Scott Adams books, other than best of Dilbert stuff, but you’ve got me interested. It sounds like it contains a bit of the essence of HG Well’s War of the Worlds, where the most basic of Earth’s elements (in Adam’s case, communication) bring down the technical superiority of another race, worldly or otherwise. 👍
So would the residents who were displaced from their neighborhoods to make room for this monstrosity.
Come to think of it, displacing the disadvantaged poor is no different than when Obama evicted the tenets of one of Valerie Jarrett’s tenements years ago.
The media conveniently covered this one up, but it’s mentioned in his book
Well, before Mao the Chinese always said the Emperor had the mandate of Heaven to shut everyone up, didn't they?
Yet again, the unique moment of the Western Enlightenment that put a stake through the heart of the concept of heresy. But everyone keeps trying to reanimate the stinking corpse.
The particulars always vary but the principle is the same.
And--do the publicists secretly hate that girl? Making her look like an adenoidal moron can't have been accidental. Well, with the skill sets of the kids these days, who knows?
As I've been saying about actors for at least the last decade and a half: I don't care about their positions on anything. Their entire job is to literally stand where they are told, move how they are told, and say things that other people wrote.
Love the video at the end. It took the bad taste out of my mouth from the story about obummer and the sourpuss "elites" (or as I call them --- de-letes ---)
The last movies I enjoyed were LOTR and Pirates of the Caribbean 1. I stopped watching TV and movies sometime around 2011. Recently deleted YouTube because it's garbage now, too. I'm starting to understand why my Dad has watched the same MASH re-runs every night for 20 years...
Yup. Thats sorta the whole point of totalitarianism; whatever we end up building, builds us.
What these fun haters want to build is dark permanence. Just look at the Jawa sandcrawler....er...Obamas library.
But you do have to give the The Face Eating Leopard Party credit:
They always keep their promises
the obama presidential library is actually a fine architectural example of the latter parts of the harkonnen brutalist period.
No, it has to be early Nazgul modernism.
It actually looks like it was designed by a Soviet architect
Sadly, it wasn’t designed. I can’t think of the right verb. But it is missing truth, good and beauty, so basically, is nothing.
I think some enterprising company should make actual trash cans that copy the design of the Obama Lie-Bury.
Cultural gulag.
Excreted?
It’s utterly forgettable. Real art, whether you like it or not, is memorable.
My wife has a masters in art history, and she opened my eyes with this, “Art is not to be liked or disliked, it is only to be considered.”
I cannot consider the Obama library.
Genuine lmao! That made my day.
My dog creates more artistic expression in the back yard than Obama’s south side Chicago excrement. Chunks of poo layered over chunks of poo.
I honestly consider his monstrosity a middle finger to the South side supporters/suckers who helped get him where he is.
🙌
Barad-dur in summer...
in the spring, the nazgul would make meat helmets
I think it resembles an outhouse from the set of Beetlejuice.
IMO, it looks like an above ground dungeon. It's torturous.
No, it looks like a refrigerator dropped from the Death Star.
:-)
Doofenscmirtz Evil Incorporated
I shall not breathe freely until the last Harkonnen breathes Arakeen air ~ Paul Atriedes
Thank you, I can now smile every time I see a photo of the Obama library, I will see a Jawa sand crawler instead of just an ugly building.
lol 😆
Every day I work from my office I am forced to commute on the Barack Obama Freeway. Just makes Shitcago traffic that much more fucking frustrating. Totalitarianism is rising and that POS kickstarted it.
I'd say "supercharged". He certainly wasn't the first, and there fore couldn't have kickstarted it. Added nitrous? I'm not sure. But he wasn't even *original*, he just followed in other's shoes in the line of totalitarianism.
The saddest part is it’s one of the most prominent landmarks for commuters entering Chicago from I-80.
So, unpopular opinion, I know, I know, but to be completely honest, I actually really *like* it. I would live in a building that looked like that. Yes, I also fully acknowledge that I am an *incredibly* strange individual. Me saying that I like it... probably isn't much of a compliment, honestly.
The really great thing about them keeping their promises is that one can always tell where they're going.
Until the useful idiots ask why am I marching naked to a trench full of corpses?
Well, if they hadn't figured it out before hand, they deserve what awaits them... sometimes reality sucks!
*Really* kinky party?
So dead on with the Jawa sandcrawler best description yet
Digging that deli.... 'Merica! Fk yeah, w a chicken and eggplant parm to go. Nowhere better.
It’s actually freeing when you cut the cord; tv, news, radio, movies, music….
It’s all meant to get you angry and divide the masses. I have more time now to garden, cook, travel, exercise, watch old movies that make me laugh with NO political agenda (Carol Burnett, Dick VanDyke, Mary Tyler Moore, etc etc) etc. Yeah I see what’s going on, I’m on substack, I see the rainbow flags flying in my state parks etc but I’m less reactive and combative now. C-19 was a wake up call (so was 2008), and I spent years fighting back and trying to educate people, but most simply don’t care really. They’re happy with their booze and Netflix and social media and the MSM and busy with their families. So I know who I can and cannot talk to and who is and isn’t brainwashed now. It’s obvious.
Ditto - threw out my tv 26 years ago. Catch up here and on Jeff Childers' substack Coffee and Covid. Don't need any more. Bless you gato! On point as always.
Love Jeff Childers, he was a Godsend during convid!
My same reaction many comments below. Can’t just enjoy simple humor. Politics is injected into everything on TV these days
All media and very subtly too.
Exactly…
I have no actual inclination towards education on X. My presence there is merely to provide disagreement. Any "ask" for more information is just going to end with them stating whatever source I have is not reliable, because any source that does not support the narrative is not reliable.
MSM indoctrination
Carson still does it for me.
Yep, all the old timers are the best ;).
Maybe it's cause I just turned 70 last weekend. :-)
Well I’m 10 years younger than you and I luv the old stuff, so darn funny 😄 Remember when SNL used to be funny???
One of my favorite SNL sketches was Chevy Chase as a waiter offering pre-chewed steak. It was hysterical.
OMG Hysterical! All those skits were the bomb! Loved Rosanna Danna, Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat and Mr Rogers, the Belushi Bros, Chevy, Dan Akroyd (?), the great musical guest and more 😂
HBD 🥳
Boyfriend and I had been eagerly awaiting the release of Supergirl because, you know ... Lobo. This morning, his favorite YouTube streamer (no, I would not have known what a YouTube streamer is were I not in a relationship with a Zoomer) did a segment on how the movie is absolutely tanking, having pandered to the "woke mafia" of Hollywood. Evidently, everyone who has bothered to see it --which is a pathetically few people, from the studio's perspective -- has universally agreed that the only redeeming scenes are the ones with Jason Mamoa.
I view things through a slightly more occult lens than El Gato Malo, and what struck me about this particular bit of Hollywood "news" is that it indicates, to me, that the evil forces behind the "woke push" are now STRONGER than the pull of the almighty dollar. These people *know* that the tide has turned. They *know* that the people don't want this woke insipid crap. They have chosen to honor the contracts nevertheless, sinking millions into performance pieces that they know won't influence anyone.
I in no way pity the Hollywoodians. Nevertheless, I find the phenomenon fascinating. It's "Dance, monkey, dance!" without even hope of a monetary reward. Makes you wonder what it is that the demons *DO* hold over these people.
You are correct I believe; same thing with the legacy broadcast and print media. They do not care how many are reading or watching.
*LOBO* is in it?! And they fucked it up?!
OK, now *that* is intolerable!
I KNOW.
I’ve been waiting for a big-screen Lobo for more time-units than I care to admit, and his big debut is alongside some woke superhero that nobody cares about.
Then, I just noticed that Supergirl is rated PG-13. You cannot do a Lobo movie rated PG-13. Not gonna work. r4eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
OH MY GOD I left my keyboard open and one of the cats jumped up and added her commentary and it is PERFECT so I’m leaving it here XD
The cat knew. ;)
But yeah, Lobo is like... you'd be lucky to get a *real* "Lobo" movie *down* to an "R" rating...
Not stronger....more desperate.
Yup.
How long was StupidGirl in the pipeline? They may have already done the shoots and were editing when the woke tide went out.
Maybe, but I would think that, were that the case, they’d pivot on the editing floor to try and make it more palatable to a wider audience rather than wasting millions on marketing an obvious flop.
I maintain that “they” are beholden to some force or mission other than the pursuit of profit, nor even the attempt to sculpt the narrative, because they know that they’ve lost it.
Seems like a big humiliation ritual being played out on the big screen.
Perhaps they're being paid through channels other than customer tickets. Think USAID or something.
The last Superman movie was also painful.
This gives me an opportunity to bring up my absolute favorite conspiracy fact nobody would believe if there weren't receipts: the Soviet Union, starting in the 1920s and all the way until the USSR collapsed, sent tens of millions of dollars to the West to promote ugly unaesthetic art. In order to demoralize everyone. And this started at what was arguably the peak of optimistic, can-do Western art and design, the Art Deco era. It sounds like a plot where there'd be mustache twirling and great sadness about being stopped by moose and squirrel, but it's all true.
Then the USSR must have designed the Obama library.
The thing is, you can affirm that something is unattractive is attractive all day long, but people are not going to buy it. While others might be living a body positive truth, no one is joining them in their self-deception.
So the USSR was like that cohort of people who wanted to "game" American Idol in the early 2000's by supporting the worst singers in the competition on purpose.
I work (temporarily) in an upper management level position in the Wokest city on earth. If there is a Woke talking point, these folks have a citizens’ committee for that with a highly paid midwit in charge. I won’t work there permanently because I can’t hold my tongue that long. I took the interim job to finance an expensive stem cell procedure.
I am fairly severely disabled. I say fairly only because if I am very careful, I can pass as normal. But it’s exhausting. A lot of my tribe can’t enjoy that luxury. I won’t be able to much longer.
Yesterday we had a management team meeting where I was sandwiched between the Equity Manager and the Climate Sustainability Manager.
Hiding the ADHD is actually harder than hiding the other neurological symptoms and the structural pain. They don’t make a brace you can hide under your clothes that will hold your tongue.
The Equity Manager gave her weekly report. She mentioned the racial equity and slavery reparations committee efforts (in WA state) and discussed how fantastic the city’s pride month celebrations had been. Then she turned dark and suggested citizens’ comments were “appalling” and offered to counsel any of us grown adult, highly educated professionals who might have been “triggered” in the “safe space” of her office. After a beat of “we”re ashamed of ourselves on behalf of others’ offensive use of the first amendment” silence, she mentioned July is Disability Pride Month.
Then it was my turn to speak.
I nearly swallowed my tongue but I managed not to ask if I only needed to be disabled or did I also need to be transgender to celebrate.
Your disability is speaking the truth in a world where people are "living their truth?"
Well, actually it’s a significant transcription error on chromosome 6 with global implications for my neurology, and my cardiovascular, reproductive, metabolic and musculoskeletal systems. Speaking the truth is an unfortunate side effect.
Having a very intelligent mind operated by crackhead weasels is not one of the more popular disabilities to have because it’s annoying and hard to follow me in a conversation. The fact that from my perspective normal people are stultifying in their linearity, predictable and painfully slow thinking isn’t really a safe opinion for sharing and won’t play well in the special Olympics of intersectionality. I actually have a note to self on my meeting notepad that says “don’t be adhd”. Works about as well as ‘regrow your uterus’ but I try.
Sorry to hear that. Are you in a lot of pain? That is the main thing I am concerned with. The good news concerning your neurological effects, is that you are aware of them.
As you actually have a physical source to whatever is ailing you, I can see it as a disease. Most people who claim to be ADHD, simply have not learned the coping skills to deal with boredom, although I have heard other rationalizations why, for instance, people can play video games all day long and not lose attention.
I still don't buy the rationalizations though.
I expect that there would be at least a few beats before whatever the answer was came out... lol
Being ADHD was actually useful in that situation. I recycled a quip rattling around in my distract-able brain from earlier in the meeting. Earlier the finance director had praised another department for getting their budget done early by saying they were star students. I mentioned if those guys were the budget nerds, my department are the kids smoking at the bus stop. It was irreverent but didn’t reveal my politics or grasp of the obvious.
You are correct el gato that art is the barometer of culture.At the end of the day the core issue is the destruction of freedom.
When The Cross of Jesus’s Crucifixion submerged in urine is considered art, as a society, we’re fucked!
Once the school got my kids to make an x on a paper and glue seeds of different colours into each section. This they call art.
The uglier, the more tax funding they seem to get.
Scott Adams, whatever one thinks about him, had an intersting part in his "The Religion War" book towards the end. I won't recreate this perfectly but it was a part where all humans were able to speak to one another without censorship. Actually, here is a LLM summary:
***************
In the book's sci-fi future, traditional media and standard internet communications are tightly controlled, censored, and heavily weaponized by the warring governments—especially by General Cruz’s Western alliance—to feed propaganda and fuel religious hatred.
To bypass this, the Avatar utilizes a subterranean, un-censorable form of communication. It has two main layers:
The Peer-to-Peer "Sub-Net": The Avatar communicates globally through a decentralized, encrypted network of ordinary people who pass information directly to one another. Because it doesn't rely on centralized government-controlled servers or major corporate telecom pipelines, the authorities can't monitor, filter, or censor it.
The Global Override: At the climax, when the Avatar needs to get the "Prime Influencer's" uncensored phrase out to humanity to break their ideological conditioning, he deploys an unstoppable, self-replicating computer worm. This worm hijacks every screen, speaker, and communication device on Earth simultaneously. It bypasses all military and state firewalls, allowing a completely unfiltered message to reach everyone alive at the exact same moment.
Ultimately, Adams uses this plot point to argue that true, uncensored, peer-to-peer communication is the only thing powerful enough to dismantle top-down state propaganda and mass delusion.
**************
Seems a lot more on point than not.
It sounds a lot like what Gato has written about for a while now. Peer to peer, outside the gatekeepers control, to allow free unfettered communications. I can't remember when he last wrote about it, but it definitely came up a few times during the height of the last administration.
I haven’t read any of Scott Adams books, other than best of Dilbert stuff, but you’ve got me interested. It sounds like it contains a bit of the essence of HG Well’s War of the Worlds, where the most basic of Earth’s elements (in Adam’s case, communication) bring down the technical superiority of another race, worldly or otherwise. 👍
Include me in the bunch looking at the Obama library and scratching where it itches. I would truly rather live by a rusting, abandoned factory.
So would the residents who were displaced from their neighborhoods to make room for this monstrosity.
Come to think of it, displacing the disadvantaged poor is no different than when Obama evicted the tenets of one of Valerie Jarrett’s tenements years ago.
The media conveniently covered this one up, but it’s mentioned in his book
Well, before Mao the Chinese always said the Emperor had the mandate of Heaven to shut everyone up, didn't they?
Yet again, the unique moment of the Western Enlightenment that put a stake through the heart of the concept of heresy. But everyone keeps trying to reanimate the stinking corpse.
The particulars always vary but the principle is the same.
And--do the publicists secretly hate that girl? Making her look like an adenoidal moron can't have been accidental. Well, with the skill sets of the kids these days, who knows?
As I've been saying about actors for at least the last decade and a half: I don't care about their positions on anything. Their entire job is to literally stand where they are told, move how they are told, and say things that other people wrote.
Do people actually still go to the movies regularly? They've been mostly bland or terrible for a good quarter century now.
Thank the Covid plandemic for killing the movie industry.
Brilliant! Simply Brilliant!
Love the video at the end. It took the bad taste out of my mouth from the story about obummer and the sourpuss "elites" (or as I call them --- de-letes ---)
I say 'elitists'; they are not elite, simply pretending to be.
"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." - Abraham Lincoln
The last movies I enjoyed were LOTR and Pirates of the Caribbean 1. I stopped watching TV and movies sometime around 2011. Recently deleted YouTube because it's garbage now, too. I'm starting to understand why my Dad has watched the same MASH re-runs every night for 20 years...
Bravo Deli Guy video! Tanks mate…