Am I to understand that the Harris campaign is threatening (with vulgarities) elder abuse perpetrated by grandchildren upon their grandparents for failing to do what the campaign wants you to do, all narcissistically framed with the logical fallacy of a false binary between "losing democracy" and...
I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought. What's the alternative that Harris is offering?
"shrill scolding as governance" gained ascendency during the Great Covid Dumpster Fire, if not before. 'Karen' was a shrill scolder, although not in a legitimate position of power. One thing politicians have mastered is using previously-successful, if crappy, strategies moving forward.
"Great Covid dumpster fire" - love it. So perfect. First toss everything we thought we knew about liberty into the dumpster (check - 46 state governors or as I like to say overlords did that). Then set fire to the contents. Then watch as the conquered thank you for the marshmallows you gave them to toast on the embers.
Over the past 3-4 years she’s alienated 90+% of her staff who bailed out, which would belie the joyful candidate. Problem is, if she “wins” we can’t just quit. We will be captive to shrill scolding for 4 f’ing years
I hope those guys were properly insulted. They certainly didn't look all that happy, and a couple looked like they were hiding anger. He was basically ordering them to vote for Harris and the Democrat party, and saying they weren't smart enough to evaluate the party positions and make their own informed decision. The Democrats rely on keeping the black community dependent and uninformed.
I don't think she's psycho. I think she was just at the nexus of Famous and Sorta Powerful right when being a Not White Vaginal American was getting cooler and cooler. Throw in a few BJs and she ended up punching way [edit: frickin 'weigh?' *smdh* I'm bad with homophones] above her weight class.
She's a Lightweight, and suddenly when they have to be faithful to the mantra, they 'select' Kami. Because it's her turn.
Well, that and the fact that she's the only one who could still use all the cash they'd raised for the Biden-Harris Campaign.
After the still-pretty-softball Fox News interview with BB, I think they could've gotten the same ROI just burning that whole war chest's worth in cash in the parking spaces in front of the DNC HQ.
I can’t believe Trump didn’t call that out during the debate. He got all worked up about his rallies when all he had to say was - speaking of attendance, why has 90% of your staff walked out on you???
Every POTUS from Slick Willie on has been under legal obligation to move the embassy since the law was passed in 1995 by 1999. It seems kinda funny that Trump complying with US law enacted last century and obligating the country to act before the end of last century is somehow interpreted by you pejoratively as being a Jew tool; I would think it would make him a tool of the law of the US of A. But as likely an anti semite and certainly a TDS sufferer, I am not surprised.
This goes WAY beyond scolding. It's bald-faced threats and incitement to violence. The puppeteers are clearly A) Not very bright to begin with, and B) In a mode of panicked escalation. These creatures are truly scary and appear to be quite capable of getting even worse.
Ah yes, the effort to cover children's faces, thus inhibiting development, all on the threat that the teachers would bring covid back to their elderly parents and KILL THEM.
Psychological damage? What psychological damage? Nahhhh
Yeah, when your ad threatens voters with violence, even in jest for not just not voting, but voting "wrong" when you do,you have lost the sane and the thinking...
I too am struggling to believe this satire came from the Harris campaign. It looks more like someone got hold of some video of the pre-recorded speech and did some clever things with it to turn it into satire because, well, even if you just listen to the part that seems legit, it's pretty satirical unintentionally. Really don't know and haven't searched to see what the "experts" are calling it, but I suspect the tip off is as you say, profanity. But as satire it does capture accurately the core message of the campaign ;-)
I thought Harris' little video was beyond cringe. I suppose most of the people in the room were familiar with Molly Shannon and her Mary Katherine character from SNL, which was from about 1995. Anyone under about 30 or 35 would not likely know abut it. I never did like those skits, and in this Catholic dinner concept, it was in extremely bad taste, borderline insulting to Catholics. Typical Harris cluelessness if it wasn't deliberate.
It might be that anyone over 40 doesn't know it either ;-). I found SNL was best in the 70s, and stopped being funny in the mid 1980s....Dana Carvey and Billy Crystal were pretty good but after them I missed most of it. Still the style made me think of SNL skit, which is what I was really thinking that must have been (parody). If this really was created by the Harris campaign, then what does it tell that they are the parody of themselves? Maybe that's forward thinking??? ;-).
I'm sure and it is meant to offend Catholics. The Catholics I know have a high tolerance for being parodied, which I think is an essential survival trait. Not that I'd know, as a Jew I've never been parodied, oppressed or persecuted (yes the sarcasm is strong with me - another essential survival skill).
I'm sure it isn't Harris who makes campaign decisions. I'm sure The Party won't allow that. They keep telling the faithful that this election is too important to leave it to chance or the uncertainty of unpredictable voters, right? Win whatever it takes - the end justifies the means because evil orange man is bad and we're The Party and you can trust us.
It's also amusing that her biggest constituency doesn't want children. So how is saying that the children and grandchildren they won't have will be mad at them going to be persuasive?
If it's like the Aussie camps, you won't see them. It's like solitary confinement. ESPECIALLY if it's for a "virus". We don't know what the impetus will be to lock us up. We just know it's coming.
Matt Yglesias embodies entitled guilt and white dudes for Harris. Here’s his viral tweet: “Young men should know that if you vote for Trump you’re basically never going to get laid.”
Why does anyone take people like him seriously? He has a purple check mark along with Heather Cox Richardson and Dan Rather.
I must live in a different world - Every woman I have talked to is pro-Trump. I honestly don't know who the pollsters are talking to, because if anecdotal evidence is any indication Trump is going to make the Reagan landslide look paltry.
I wish that, but I am not sure.... I would say that there are even more kamala ads than Trump ones in my neighborhood... and I live in Florida. I truly cannot understand how anybody could vote for her but people will certainly do. Blame the education, blame the press, blame the lack of critical thinking but it's clear they have tons of followers which are happy with these policies breaking the country, the freedoms and the middle class. Plus add the massive cheating they will do.... I hope for the best but I am getting prepared for the worse.
Never underestimate the ability of people to "drink the coolaide". People voting against their own best interests, not taking their own side in a fight. No matter how bad their lives get somehow still believing the / "their" government will be there to save them. Never mind the $35+ trillion debt. the forever wars, the economic downturns because the person who is part of the administration for almost 4 years says this time it will be different while at the same time telling us she wouldn't change a thing. To paraphrase the Hillary campaign song and my front door mat: Don't Stop, Be Leaving!
It actually makes the irony deeper that the beverage served in Guyana was Flav-R-Ade (a cheap knock off of Kool-Aid). Not only are they drinking what will kill them, but it is cheap sauce besides. Sums up Kamala's campaign completely.
I just spent 4 days with family that are deep blue. They've swallowed it all, and it's "women have lost all their rights", and "Trump says he won't allow more elections", and every other non thing that MSM feeds them. Kamala is fabulous for them, "She's terrific!". If you watch the news with them, it isn't hard to see why - there's only the filtered, pro left pitch 24/7. They can quote you every flaw for Trump, but cannot see any for Harris.
Must have been hard! I guess you either need a vacation from the visit or you are ready to write a dissertation on the lack of critical thinking after long exposure to media 🤣. My family is from Spain but I have the same types as you. So glad that I can vent with my parents, my husband and in substack about the rest of the family. At least we are not alone 😂.
I am a woman and I believe you are correct. I know of No female Kamala Voters- here in South Carolina and my lady friends back in Oregon. But We are All Moms, no Cat Ladies.
It was a shock to find out one of my neighbors here in N GA is voting for Harris( and her husband is not ). It is not a surprise that my son and DiL are. Uuugh.
I'm not sure anyone cares about not getting laid by slobby looking people with danger hair and so many facial piercings they can't go through metal detectors without setting them off.
Oh yeah, biiig time. Such events are one of the few environments where mandatory masking would make sense. A tiny droplet of someone else's saliva getting in into the layer between the skin and the muscles? Hello any number of nasty stuff.
My friend is a consummate professional, and charge correspondingly and vets his customers. Some are not and do not. I've heard and seen some horror-examples that'd fit right in, in a Luigi Fulci or Dario Argento-flick.
I've got an old copy of Modern Primitives somewhere. It was standard punk library material in '86. All I can say is 'Ouch'. Just looking at that made me never want anything like that in my life.
Depends on how hard they hit the scene, and for how long, I'd say. Stay in it too long and there's no way back to normality, and the it's the "Live hard, die young, leave a beautiful corpse"-boogaloo.
Except you're not young, you can't handle hard, and your corpse will look like crap.
I well remember the crusty old hippies that seemed to have stepped right out of '68, trying to "hang out" with the kids in the late 1970s and 1980s. Eugh. Creepy, crusty, and desperate to still matter to anyone - all their original friends either dead, locked up, or doing the Normal Norman and Plain Jane-routine.
Bodymodders are already having a rude awakening anytime they need an MRI, as they quickly learn that physics, chemistry and such care not one jot for "their identity".
Oh gods, now I have a bizzare visual of someone's oversized septum ring tangled with a Prince Albert or something. How awkward it must be (and I bet it happens too, LOL).
It does, yes. Sometimes when the parties are going at it full thrust. 220lbs male with a metal ring through his glans getting said ring hooked on a rod through the clitoral hood of a 220lbs woman counter-thrusting.
Something's gonna give, and it ain't gonna be pretty.
The wonders of having shared a lunch-table with ambulance drivers, I have a special compartment in my brain for such stuff, and the ER at the hospital mom used to work at had a board (hidden from patients!) with "trophies":
Objects removed from patients. Zippers were on prominent display, men being in too much of a hurry to notice John Thomas was hanging out. As was a plethora of objects removed from inside cavities from men and women: "I just tripped and landed on my rump, and that He-Man toy must have gotten lodged up there somehow".
Yep, I've got a morbid fascination for the sordid.
My wife does to. I call it the "how to kill your husband" channel. Every time I walk in and she's watching it I ask if she's figured out how she's going to do it. And it's probably only half joking since when we got married I told her I meant it when I said "'til death do us part." She has two ways out.
I haven't checked with any of my liberal college buddies, but I'm willing to bet good money they disagree that her message is backfiring. (Hell, I bet my wife would disagree, TBH.) American Politics is a sewer with infinite clumps of corn-laced feces floating all about. Some of them are red and some of them are blue. No one really knows how many of each there are. Spoiler Alert: Kamala Harris, a horribly unqualified candidate, can win. If she loses, it will be close. Deny that at your peril.
American politics is a sewer ONLY because the Fourth Estate is the de facto propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. If the alphabet legacy corporate media lied about Mary Poppins like they've been lying about Trump for NINE YEARS, millions of Americans would have MPDS.
The MEDIA are the cancer among us. The Democrat Party would be at most a fringe player in national politics if the media just reported news honestly and fairly. The MEDIA are why we are so divided - division based on lies, lies, and more lies.
The MEDIA need to be destroyed if America is to have any chance to survive.
Public education seems to be a huge problem too and one that has been preparing the grounds for this for a long time. Students are punished for critical thinking and just taught to follow orders and trust leaders. Sooner or later this takes a toll.
Indeed. I assert that one of the central tenets of public education, as developed by its architects, is the development of "good citizens" or, as I like to call them, happy bumper installers. No need to think critically. And here we are....
If Harris wins by a "close" margin, the Vote Counterz will have provided that margin. Might take a few days (throw in a couple injunctions and a court fight - two weeks, max) and a half-doz recounts in various key areas, but yeah...no sweat, it's always worked in the past. Ask Dino Rossi...
Yep. Highest gas prices in the nation, and now we are being asked to raise our sales taxes (in this county) to the highest rate in the country. Yeah, let's vote for that! WTF??
Yeah but washington is going to lead the way in defeating & saving the entire planet from "climate change" Jay Inslee said so & he is the smartest most best govenor ever! Hes majic making all that money raised in the carbon exchange auctions disappear into.the "general fund"
Sadly this is his last term.
Lucky for the state his sucessor will be Ferguson. The most bestest AG ever. Even more smarter than Jay himself.
what about these gems - "save the world" "save democracy" "being on the right side of history" . The Dems love to replace real thought with these sophistries
"I did my part": the song&dance-routine of a group assignment, where the students in question hasn't done what they should, and are blaming each other.
Which is why I rarely allowed group assignments, and if so, did it with a stern "All of you will be graded on the group's performance, so all of you must know all of the subject handed to you - no 'That's Martin's bit, and he's called in sick today' crapola!" Including finger-wagging and slamming my palm on the desk.
Completely unrelated, the teacher's desk is called "kateder" in Swedish (from Greek kathédra; "bishop's pulpit/chair"). The number of times automated spell-checking has changed it to "kateter" (catheter) instead, causing much confusion and hilarity, are plenty.
The expectation that everyone would do their part led directly to the failure of Mao's Cultural Revolution, where everyone was assigned to a commune and a five-year plan with an unrealistic production goal.
Over here, agriculture was a semi-collective thing until industrial agriculture took off in the 19th century. Everyone in the countryside owned their own land of course, but since everyone also depended on everyone else to survive Winter, people spontaneously and autonomously organised stuff for the greater good of the local community.
If you grew mainly peas one season, I'd grow turnips and Pi Guy'd grew rye and barley, and then we'd swap back and forth so no-one was left without, using meat, butter, cream et cetera to make up the margins.
(I'm super-simplifying 1 500 years of history here by the way, so take with requisite salt.)
Edit: What caused the Soviet and Maoist agricultural reforms to fail was that they were top-down, centrally planned by people without any knowledge of growing crops, nor with any humility before their own ignorance. And murdering millions of farmers who did know, of course.
Shit..I heard this the other day. “I use my washer in the morning, saves energy, doing my part.” … part of a list of “just doing my part,” “took the shot,” “bought cheesecakes from the Ukrainian bakery,” “use paper straws,” all under the pressure of the greater good.
Who lets their kids take part as actors in something that has them pretending to kick and stomp on old people? No amount of money. No cause is worth that.
I listened to Gaffigan ONLY because you said to, but he's dead to me now.
I used to LOVE his humor (and I probably still would, IF I'd listen to him), but he shit bigly on those of us who chose NOT to get jabbed into us an untested, experimental, dangerous gene therapy, and from that moment on he's been persona non grata to me.
Seriously, though, that's the best thing I've seen come out of the Demorat camp this campaign. I thought they had no sense of humour but that was actually a very funny parody of themselves!
All just for show! As 2020 proved, when all is said and done it is as Uncle Joe said: It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
Tragically I awoke today to proof that KH’s video for the Al Smith dinner succeeded in hitting one target…highly educated, suburban white women. My old Catholic high school lunch table crowd was frighteningly singing its praises via text (Awesome! Superstar! Fabulous! She nailed it!). One common denominator among them (but not me) is multiple degrees. Beyond that, it mystifies me that we actually sprouted from the same place but have ended up so far apart. I just don’t get it.
Yes, for sure I’ve long since found alternates. These were just the holdovers from my teenage years barely maintaining some sort of connection via a single thread known as a text group. I’ve since snipped that remaining thread. If they’re all that far gone, I can’t see any point to it.
you make me brave enough to unfriend all my sailing team punk rock buddies who keep popping onto my timeline to disagree about random shit and then won't even engage in further conversation. nobody needs that type of phoniness and negativity. all these years I held out hope....
I get the holding out hope. When you’ve know people for decades, enough time has elapsed for opportunities to arise for them to show their good sides. We all have one and it gives you hope that they’d eventually wake up. The problem is not that I believe my old friends incapable of being kind, but incapable of realizing how much they’re participating in their own deception or delusion and prolonging the mayhem for the rest of us. They’ve proven to be unable to remove the glasses that obscure their ability to see the reality of what’s happening in our world that I removed 4 years ago. As long as that’s the case, any conversation we have today cannot go past a surface level, so what’s the point.
Exactly! What is the point?? Just what I was asking myself. These people do not add to my life in any way whatsoever. Not even a “like” on an innocuous post (I do that sometimes ; ) just dropping bombs and then ghosting again. Does it make them feel good? Do they ever think about me afterwards? Like when I ask them to clarify? Apparently not. So yeah, what’s the point? It’s bittersweet to have evolved so much that literally nothing is left from my old life but ashes.
Good lord. For the first time maybe ever (except for Bitcoin but that doesn't count) I wonder if we were in alternative universes. Not about that Children of the Corn video--those were some ferally festering grandkids--but Trump at the Al Smith Dinner. I thought he had only one good line--and it was good--but for the rest he showed what I have always felt was his absence of a true sense of humor.
And I sure wish Kamala is truly toast but I ain't so optimistic as you are.
This whole election makes me suspect I've fallen through the proverbial wormhole into some kind of "alternate universe".
One of the candidates for the most powerful leader of the free world has somehow become one of two choices with out ever having receiving a vote, without enunciating a platform, without addressing ANY of the crisis level problems facing the nation.
And there is a chance that this totally unqualified, completely inexperienced bimbo could get enough votes to get within "the margin of cheating".
There will be plenty of voters like myself who are going to the polls in an act of negation rather than affirmation, and there are plenty of Republicans who want things to go back to the bad old uniparty way with no upstarts ruining military contracts keeping the heartland warm, etc.
And there's no shortage of people who don't care what kind of moron is in the Oval Office so long as the bureaucracy grinds on in its relentless way. They recognize perfectly well that Kamala herself is unimportant to the larger goal.
They are the beneficiaries of your endless supply of tax dollars which fund their direct or contractor federal “jobs”. Of course they won’t vote against their economic interests. The counties around D.C. have some of the highest median household incomes in the nation. And nothing would be more satisfying than having Elon being in charge of Team Afuera!
Harris’ public persona including this ridiculous chronic waving is so rehearsed…. She’s running for President not Miss America!! It’s nauseating!! And I’m guessing her private persona is a dizzying 180 from this award winning charade….
Bit of devil's advocate here. It ain't easy being a woman in that world, so these multiple personas are survival strategies, to be sure. Giggles, waves, Miss America, but here's the thing: THOSE strategies stopped working for me when I became an adult....
(Many people still hold on to their childhood strategies.)
Am I to understand that the Harris campaign is threatening (with vulgarities) elder abuse perpetrated by grandchildren upon their grandparents for failing to do what the campaign wants you to do, all narcissistically framed with the logical fallacy of a false binary between "losing democracy" and...
I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought. What's the alternative that Harris is offering?
i fear this is the alternative.
shrill scolding as governance.
"shrill scolding as governance" gained ascendency during the Great Covid Dumpster Fire, if not before. 'Karen' was a shrill scolder, although not in a legitimate position of power. One thing politicians have mastered is using previously-successful, if crappy, strategies moving forward.
Yeah, but it relies on decency. Start being an asshole and the problem magically goes away, I have discovered.
Best advice ever! Being an asshole is an under appreciated skill.
🤔
"Great Covid dumpster fire" - love it. So perfect. First toss everything we thought we knew about liberty into the dumpster (check - 46 state governors or as I like to say overlords did that). Then set fire to the contents. Then watch as the conquered thank you for the marshmallows you gave them to toast on the embers.
'Karen'
Nature has a way of warning us to stay away. Take for example this plumage:
https://tinyurl.com/2aumkk76
I believe it's the haircut. 🤔
Over the past 3-4 years she’s alienated 90+% of her staff who bailed out, which would belie the joyful candidate. Problem is, if she “wins” we can’t just quit. We will be captive to shrill scolding for 4 f’ing years
Did not see any Kamala joy a the Fox interview, but did see something else, and it was sort of scary. Kamala is the DNC personified.
Agreed G+F!
Obama's "lecture" like a professor talking to bad boys among the Black Matters Mens group was cringeworthy. Talk about not reading the room!
I hope those guys were properly insulted. They certainly didn't look all that happy, and a couple looked like they were hiding anger. He was basically ordering them to vote for Harris and the Democrat party, and saying they weren't smart enough to evaluate the party positions and make their own informed decision. The Democrats rely on keeping the black community dependent and uninformed.
THOSE black men weren't like the one he's most used-to, right?
I don't think she's psycho. I think she was just at the nexus of Famous and Sorta Powerful right when being a Not White Vaginal American was getting cooler and cooler. Throw in a few BJs and she ended up punching way [edit: frickin 'weigh?' *smdh* I'm bad with homophones] above her weight class.
She's a Lightweight, and suddenly when they have to be faithful to the mantra, they 'select' Kami. Because it's her turn.
Well, that and the fact that she's the only one who could still use all the cash they'd raised for the Biden-Harris Campaign.
After the still-pretty-softball Fox News interview with BB, I think they could've gotten the same ROI just burning that whole war chest's worth in cash in the parking spaces in front of the DNC HQ.
I remember when she made her first appearance in one of Herb Caen's columns, featured as Willie Brown's latest bit of arm candy.
I can’t believe Trump didn’t call that out during the debate. He got all worked up about his rallies when all he had to say was - speaking of attendance, why has 90% of your staff walked out on you???
She could have easily responded about the revolving door of his administration, so he was wise to not bring that up.
Another way in which she would not be any different from Joe. That miserable old fuck has been scolding for his entire term.
And WW 3
That’s either of them though, if anything Trump is an even bigger Jew tool than Kamal Toe.
Um you must have been unaware during his first term
He literally moved the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and has taken a 100 million dollars from Miriam Adleson.
Every POTUS from Slick Willie on has been under legal obligation to move the embassy since the law was passed in 1995 by 1999. It seems kinda funny that Trump complying with US law enacted last century and obligating the country to act before the end of last century is somehow interpreted by you pejoratively as being a Jew tool; I would think it would make him a tool of the law of the US of A. But as likely an anti semite and certainly a TDS sufferer, I am not surprised.
This goes WAY beyond scolding. It's bald-faced threats and incitement to violence. The puppeteers are clearly A) Not very bright to begin with, and B) In a mode of panicked escalation. These creatures are truly scary and appear to be quite capable of getting even worse.
Isn’t that what the Covid response was about?
Ah yes, the effort to cover children's faces, thus inhibiting development, all on the threat that the teachers would bring covid back to their elderly parents and KILL THEM.
Psychological damage? What psychological damage? Nahhhh
Those poor kids of hard-core maskers are serial killers in training.
I'm thinking we might have a resurgence of them like in the 70's serial killer heydays.
But seriously it was FUCKING disgusting what was done to children .
It will forever give me the heaviest of hearts when I think about it.
EVIL.
I'll just say this from a clinical perspective and what I've seen in schools and in the office: it's not good.
Yeah...like this?
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2403200121?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Can't be good. All of it so obvious.
EASIEST CALL ALL TIME.
Ah, so that's why it was the granddaughter kicking grandpa, and not the son.
Wow. Bookmarking for future. Thanks for that pull.
I think the message is that sitting around smoking dope may be a factor in causing psychopathic grandchildren.
😂
That was a really sick ad. I mean...it was like Summer of 2020 all over again. The rioting, looting and nursing homes.
Nick Offerman doesn't even have children, so he doesn't have to worry about what his grandchildren think of him.
I liked him much better as Ron Swanson than as himself.
one of my favorite characters of all time...Ron Swanson is now dead to me. I wish I could unsee that!
yes, this is why Hollywood is really Satanwood.
Absolutely….and the demons actually think people care what they say!
I do believe that is 'inciting violence to elders' 🤨
"Paging Merrick Garland, Mr. Garland"
That’s Mrs Garland.
Grandma Garland
Explains the Biden presidency rather well, doesn't it?
Yeah, when your ad threatens voters with violence, even in jest for not just not voting, but voting "wrong" when you do,you have lost the sane and the thinking...
I think they're threatening another Cultural Revolution.
I too am struggling to believe this satire came from the Harris campaign. It looks more like someone got hold of some video of the pre-recorded speech and did some clever things with it to turn it into satire because, well, even if you just listen to the part that seems legit, it's pretty satirical unintentionally. Really don't know and haven't searched to see what the "experts" are calling it, but I suspect the tip off is as you say, profanity. But as satire it does capture accurately the core message of the campaign ;-)
I thought Harris' little video was beyond cringe. I suppose most of the people in the room were familiar with Molly Shannon and her Mary Katherine character from SNL, which was from about 1995. Anyone under about 30 or 35 would not likely know abut it. I never did like those skits, and in this Catholic dinner concept, it was in extremely bad taste, borderline insulting to Catholics. Typical Harris cluelessness if it wasn't deliberate.
It might be that anyone over 40 doesn't know it either ;-). I found SNL was best in the 70s, and stopped being funny in the mid 1980s....Dana Carvey and Billy Crystal were pretty good but after them I missed most of it. Still the style made me think of SNL skit, which is what I was really thinking that must have been (parody). If this really was created by the Harris campaign, then what does it tell that they are the parody of themselves? Maybe that's forward thinking??? ;-).
I'm sure and it is meant to offend Catholics. The Catholics I know have a high tolerance for being parodied, which I think is an essential survival trait. Not that I'd know, as a Jew I've never been parodied, oppressed or persecuted (yes the sarcasm is strong with me - another essential survival skill).
I'm sure it isn't Harris who makes campaign decisions. I'm sure The Party won't allow that. They keep telling the faithful that this election is too important to leave it to chance or the uncertainty of unpredictable voters, right? Win whatever it takes - the end justifies the means because evil orange man is bad and we're The Party and you can trust us.
(more sarcasm as a coping mechanism)
There is no train of thought with cockholster Harris.
It's also amusing that her biggest constituency doesn't want children. So how is saying that the children and grandchildren they won't have will be mad at them going to be persuasive?
You're such a guy, applying logic and all that. It's not fair! Stop it!
LOL. It's one of my biggest faults. It will no doubt get me sent to the camps some day.
You will be surrounded by like-minded people.
Those camps will be lit AF!
If it's like the Aussie camps, you won't see them. It's like solitary confinement. ESPECIALLY if it's for a "virus". We don't know what the impetus will be to lock us up. We just know it's coming.
Why do you think the guards will be like-minded? I think dislike-minded.
I didn't mean the guards.
Sorry, that was a joke.
*leans in, lifts lapel in Pirrongerly direction*
I'm sorry - could you repeat that thing about Logic and The Camps again?
vote for Kamala and it will be someday soon!
That was my very first thought: Ohthe irony of an ad talking about your grandchildren... presumably the ones that actually didn't get aborted?
I couldn't watch the entire ad, it is just so awfully bad, everything about it. I felt like I needed the precious seconds of my life it would waste.
Those abortions will be furious
Matt Yglesias embodies entitled guilt and white dudes for Harris. Here’s his viral tweet: “Young men should know that if you vote for Trump you’re basically never going to get laid.”
Why does anyone take people like him seriously? He has a purple check mark along with Heather Cox Richardson and Dan Rather.
Just because Matt and all the soy boys voting for Kamala have finally synced their ovulation doesn't mean male MAGA voters want to get laid by them.
One can only speculate on which is the menstrual alpha...
Lmao! I'm adding that to my repertoire
Something something Sympathetic Resonance.
Hilarious!!!
Heh. I called Matty Ig a SoiBoi just a minute before reading your comment.
I must live in a different world - Every woman I have talked to is pro-Trump. I honestly don't know who the pollsters are talking to, because if anecdotal evidence is any indication Trump is going to make the Reagan landslide look paltry.
I wish that, but I am not sure.... I would say that there are even more kamala ads than Trump ones in my neighborhood... and I live in Florida. I truly cannot understand how anybody could vote for her but people will certainly do. Blame the education, blame the press, blame the lack of critical thinking but it's clear they have tons of followers which are happy with these policies breaking the country, the freedoms and the middle class. Plus add the massive cheating they will do.... I hope for the best but I am getting prepared for the worse.
Never underestimate the ability of people to "drink the coolaide". People voting against their own best interests, not taking their own side in a fight. No matter how bad their lives get somehow still believing the / "their" government will be there to save them. Never mind the $35+ trillion debt. the forever wars, the economic downturns because the person who is part of the administration for almost 4 years says this time it will be different while at the same time telling us she wouldn't change a thing. To paraphrase the Hillary campaign song and my front door mat: Don't Stop, Be Leaving!
It actually makes the irony deeper that the beverage served in Guyana was Flav-R-Ade (a cheap knock off of Kool-Aid). Not only are they drinking what will kill them, but it is cheap sauce besides. Sums up Kamala's campaign completely.
I just spent 4 days with family that are deep blue. They've swallowed it all, and it's "women have lost all their rights", and "Trump says he won't allow more elections", and every other non thing that MSM feeds them. Kamala is fabulous for them, "She's terrific!". If you watch the news with them, it isn't hard to see why - there's only the filtered, pro left pitch 24/7. They can quote you every flaw for Trump, but cannot see any for Harris.
Must have been hard! I guess you either need a vacation from the visit or you are ready to write a dissertation on the lack of critical thinking after long exposure to media 🤣. My family is from Spain but I have the same types as you. So glad that I can vent with my parents, my husband and in substack about the rest of the family. At least we are not alone 😂.
A lot of college-educated people are voting for Trump, too. The gaslighting is really wearing thin.
I am a woman and I believe you are correct. I know of No female Kamala Voters- here in South Carolina and my lady friends back in Oregon. But We are All Moms, no Cat Ladies.
It was a shock to find out one of my neighbors here in N GA is voting for Harris( and her husband is not ). It is not a surprise that my son and DiL are. Uuugh.
I know lots of moms who are voting for Harris. It must be a matter of where you live!
Granted, I'm in a foreign country, but I still talk to US Citizens.
I'm hearing a lot of Kamala Cackle out here.
I'm not sure anyone cares about not getting laid by slobby looking people with danger hair and so many facial piercings they can't go through metal detectors without setting them off.
The piercings give new meaning to the phrase "hook up"...
Imagine finding someone's fly collection seductive.
Don't look if you're squeamish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_(body_modification)
I know a professional piercer/tattoo-artist, and he had a full rig in his studio, for suspending clients from the roof.
Also, some people attach weights from various points on the body (yes, there too). I wonder how they'll feel about it when they're 75 or so.
"A number of health concerns might be associated with the practice, such as excessive bleeding, fainting, fall injuries, and infections."
"Concerns"...
Oh yeah, biiig time. Such events are one of the few environments where mandatory masking would make sense. A tiny droplet of someone else's saliva getting in into the layer between the skin and the muscles? Hello any number of nasty stuff.
My friend is a consummate professional, and charge correspondingly and vets his customers. Some are not and do not. I've heard and seen some horror-examples that'd fit right in, in a Luigi Fulci or Dario Argento-flick.
Perhaps a new category of the Darwin Awards is in order.
https://darwinawards.com/
I've got an old copy of Modern Primitives somewhere. It was standard punk library material in '86. All I can say is 'Ouch'. Just looking at that made me never want anything like that in my life.
I wonder how many will make it to 75.
I guess we will find out some day.
Honestly, they might find themselves so horrifying and unhappy they will rush to Canada for the big sleep injection
Depends on how hard they hit the scene, and for how long, I'd say. Stay in it too long and there's no way back to normality, and the it's the "Live hard, die young, leave a beautiful corpse"-boogaloo.
Except you're not young, you can't handle hard, and your corpse will look like crap.
I well remember the crusty old hippies that seemed to have stepped right out of '68, trying to "hang out" with the kids in the late 1970s and 1980s. Eugh. Creepy, crusty, and desperate to still matter to anyone - all their original friends either dead, locked up, or doing the Normal Norman and Plain Jane-routine.
Bodymodders are already having a rude awakening anytime they need an MRI, as they quickly learn that physics, chemistry and such care not one jot for "their identity".
Oh gods, now I have a bizzare visual of someone's oversized septum ring tangled with a Prince Albert or something. How awkward it must be (and I bet it happens too, LOL).
It does, yes. Sometimes when the parties are going at it full thrust. 220lbs male with a metal ring through his glans getting said ring hooked on a rod through the clitoral hood of a 220lbs woman counter-thrusting.
Something's gonna give, and it ain't gonna be pretty.
The wonders of having shared a lunch-table with ambulance drivers, I have a special compartment in my brain for such stuff, and the ER at the hospital mom used to work at had a board (hidden from patients!) with "trophies":
Objects removed from patients. Zippers were on prominent display, men being in too much of a hurry to notice John Thomas was hanging out. As was a plethora of objects removed from inside cavities from men and women: "I just tripped and landed on my rump, and that He-Man toy must have gotten lodged up there somehow".
Yep, I've got a morbid fascination for the sordid.
been there, seen that. Glad to be out of the ED!!
The visual of that made me cringe ... I need to leave now.
I'm always anxious walking behind someone fishing, but imagine sleeping with one of these people.
Not really the "catch" I'm interested in.
There has to be great meme in here somewhere...
"Any fish will bite if you've got good bait!"
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/414049759462451019/
Definitely a catch and release scenario.
So clever! One of the best.
"danger hair"
Mrs. Pi loves watching ID (if she kills me, it's going to be epic) and there's a whole lot of Danger Hair going on up in there.
It's so funny. In my lifetime Manic Panic has gone from esoteric to boring.
My wife does to. I call it the "how to kill your husband" channel. Every time I walk in and she's watching it I ask if she's figured out how she's going to do it. And it's probably only half joking since when we got married I told her I meant it when I said "'til death do us part." She has two ways out.
Maybe he was not talking about relations with women?
Tons of gays are voting for Trump so they can get laid and have enough money for the dinner before.
Whaaaat?......you don't think Matt's "queermones" would smell appealing?!
"NOT that there's anything wrong with that."
- Jerry Seinfeld
He's just never heard the wisdom: "Don't stick your dick in cray-cray".
“Young men should know that if you vote for Trump you’re basically never going to get laid.”
SoiBoi Incel says What?
Yes, cos if 🐫ah gets in, we’re all getting fcuked…just without lube.
We are living in very bizarre times, my friend.
Never get laid by a “karen” ? Doesn’t seem too bad?
Getting awfully close to coyote sex, where you chew your arm off to avoid waking her up.
...get laid...by guys like me."
Not sure that juice is worth the squeeze.
Oooooh, but that's an effective one. Seen the demographics on Kamala voters?
(but who wants to have sex with Karen?)
I haven't checked with any of my liberal college buddies, but I'm willing to bet good money they disagree that her message is backfiring. (Hell, I bet my wife would disagree, TBH.) American Politics is a sewer with infinite clumps of corn-laced feces floating all about. Some of them are red and some of them are blue. No one really knows how many of each there are. Spoiler Alert: Kamala Harris, a horribly unqualified candidate, can win. If she loses, it will be close. Deny that at your peril.
American politics is a sewer ONLY because the Fourth Estate is the de facto propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. If the alphabet legacy corporate media lied about Mary Poppins like they've been lying about Trump for NINE YEARS, millions of Americans would have MPDS.
The MEDIA are the cancer among us. The Democrat Party would be at most a fringe player in national politics if the media just reported news honestly and fairly. The MEDIA are why we are so divided - division based on lies, lies, and more lies.
The MEDIA need to be destroyed if America is to have any chance to survive.
Public education seems to be a huge problem too and one that has been preparing the grounds for this for a long time. Students are punished for critical thinking and just taught to follow orders and trust leaders. Sooner or later this takes a toll.
Indeed. I assert that one of the central tenets of public education, as developed by its architects, is the development of "good citizens" or, as I like to call them, happy bumper installers. No need to think critically. And here we are....
The public schools are the source of the malignancy, it metastasised to the media.
The Transnational captured MSM is the main problem.
They want the perfect sock puppet to be elected and will do ANYTHING for that to happen. Anything.....
frighteningly true.
If Harris wins by a "close" margin, the Vote Counterz will have provided that margin. Might take a few days (throw in a couple injunctions and a court fight - two weeks, max) and a half-doz recounts in various key areas, but yeah...no sweat, it's always worked in the past. Ask Dino Rossi...
Dino Rossi , I take it you are in the vote fraud experimentation state? Otherwise known a Wa.
Yep. Highest gas prices in the nation, and now we are being asked to raise our sales taxes (in this county) to the highest rate in the country. Yeah, let's vote for that! WTF??
Yeah but washington is going to lead the way in defeating & saving the entire planet from "climate change" Jay Inslee said so & he is the smartest most best govenor ever! Hes majic making all that money raised in the carbon exchange auctions disappear into.the "general fund"
Sadly this is his last term.
Lucky for the state his sucessor will be Ferguson. The most bestest AG ever. Even more smarter than Jay himself.
Yea !
That's what I'm finding! But those lefties seem to be really fierce & potentially violent.
"I did my part."
I find "Just doing my part!" to be one of the most evil and/or stupid things a person can say.
Right there beside. "I was just following orders".
Yup
what about these gems - "save the world" "save democracy" "being on the right side of history" . The Dems love to replace real thought with these sophistries
All worthy of note.
Honorable Mention: "Giving back to the Community!"
"I did my part": the song&dance-routine of a group assignment, where the students in question hasn't done what they should, and are blaming each other.
Which is why I rarely allowed group assignments, and if so, did it with a stern "All of you will be graded on the group's performance, so all of you must know all of the subject handed to you - no 'That's Martin's bit, and he's called in sick today' crapola!" Including finger-wagging and slamming my palm on the desk.
Completely unrelated, the teacher's desk is called "kateder" in Swedish (from Greek kathédra; "bishop's pulpit/chair"). The number of times automated spell-checking has changed it to "kateter" (catheter) instead, causing much confusion and hilarity, are plenty.
The expectation that everyone would do their part led directly to the failure of Mao's Cultural Revolution, where everyone was assigned to a commune and a five-year plan with an unrealistic production goal.
It also led to death and famine at the original Plymouth Plantation.
At first they tried divided the labor. And half the people died.
Then they divided the land amongst the pilgrims. And there was much rejoicing.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/thanksgiving-lessons-about-the-failures-of-socialism-and-the-success-of-private-property-and-capitalism/
omg we have new reading material for the holidays! I can't wait to read this to my kids. thank you.
Want to hear something funny?
Over here, agriculture was a semi-collective thing until industrial agriculture took off in the 19th century. Everyone in the countryside owned their own land of course, but since everyone also depended on everyone else to survive Winter, people spontaneously and autonomously organised stuff for the greater good of the local community.
If you grew mainly peas one season, I'd grow turnips and Pi Guy'd grew rye and barley, and then we'd swap back and forth so no-one was left without, using meat, butter, cream et cetera to make up the margins.
(I'm super-simplifying 1 500 years of history here by the way, so take with requisite salt.)
Edit: What caused the Soviet and Maoist agricultural reforms to fail was that they were top-down, centrally planned by people without any knowledge of growing crops, nor with any humility before their own ignorance. And murdering millions of farmers who did know, of course.
Shit..I heard this the other day. “I use my washer in the morning, saves energy, doing my part.” … part of a list of “just doing my part,” “took the shot,” “bought cheesecakes from the Ukrainian bakery,” “use paper straws,” all under the pressure of the greater good.
I just realized that could be a good put down: "I'll bet you use paper straws, don't you?"
🤯 *scribblescribble*
Who lets their kids take part as actors in something that has them pretending to kick and stomp on old people? No amount of money. No cause is worth that.
Little doubt the same sort that take their children to drag-queen story hour with a wad of ones to stuff in the g-string.
Generational insanity.
Ooops
*ponders, realizes that Greta Thunberg has entered the chat*
True believers. The end justifies the means.
I listened to Gaffigan ONLY because you said to, but he's dead to me now.
I used to LOVE his humor (and I probably still would, IF I'd listen to him), but he shit bigly on those of us who chose NOT to get jabbed into us an untested, experimental, dangerous gene therapy, and from that moment on he's been persona non grata to me.
I didn't realize that ~ disappointing to say the least.
he was mandated, as a performer, so drank the juice. Brain damaged now, eh?
Seriously, though, that's the best thing I've seen come out of the Demorat camp this campaign. I thought they had no sense of humour but that was actually a very funny parody of themselves!
unwitting self parody can be more revelatory than any candid self-disclosure
Self parody plays as virtue for the brain washed ...
All just for show! As 2020 proved, when all is said and done it is as Uncle Joe said: It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
Joseph Stalin
Oh yeah...
Tragically I awoke today to proof that KH’s video for the Al Smith dinner succeeded in hitting one target…highly educated, suburban white women. My old Catholic high school lunch table crowd was frighteningly singing its praises via text (Awesome! Superstar! Fabulous! She nailed it!). One common denominator among them (but not me) is multiple degrees. Beyond that, it mystifies me that we actually sprouted from the same place but have ended up so far apart. I just don’t get it.
Time for you to consider either having lunch by yourself or coming up with a few critical-thinking lunch companions.
Yes, for sure I’ve long since found alternates. These were just the holdovers from my teenage years barely maintaining some sort of connection via a single thread known as a text group. I’ve since snipped that remaining thread. If they’re all that far gone, I can’t see any point to it.
you make me brave enough to unfriend all my sailing team punk rock buddies who keep popping onto my timeline to disagree about random shit and then won't even engage in further conversation. nobody needs that type of phoniness and negativity. all these years I held out hope....
I get the holding out hope. When you’ve know people for decades, enough time has elapsed for opportunities to arise for them to show their good sides. We all have one and it gives you hope that they’d eventually wake up. The problem is not that I believe my old friends incapable of being kind, but incapable of realizing how much they’re participating in their own deception or delusion and prolonging the mayhem for the rest of us. They’ve proven to be unable to remove the glasses that obscure their ability to see the reality of what’s happening in our world that I removed 4 years ago. As long as that’s the case, any conversation we have today cannot go past a surface level, so what’s the point.
Exactly! What is the point?? Just what I was asking myself. These people do not add to my life in any way whatsoever. Not even a “like” on an innocuous post (I do that sometimes ; ) just dropping bombs and then ghosting again. Does it make them feel good? Do they ever think about me afterwards? Like when I ask them to clarify? Apparently not. So yeah, what’s the point? It’s bittersweet to have evolved so much that literally nothing is left from my old life but ashes.
Elder abuse is so funny, right Democrats?
Ask Andrew Cuomo.
I am now oscillating between a desperate "God let it end" and a maniacal fascination with "how cringe can it get?".
Exactly how i felt until I realized it wouldn't be so fascinating to be ruled by ¡Que Mala! The Scold.
At this point i just want the Bluebonic Plague to end.
"Bluebonic Plague"
I love you man.
Hell, I almost wish the real Bubonic Plague would stand up! At least then people would have something real to worry about...
Both spread by rats. Previously by the oriental variety Rattus rattus, but now by a new sub-species, the occidental Rattus demorat*.
Given its aversion to breeding, there is hope that extinction is in the near future.
* H/T Joel Smalley, above.
B. Pestis 🤣
Looks like it's time to go long on Big Redenbacher.
Good lord. For the first time maybe ever (except for Bitcoin but that doesn't count) I wonder if we were in alternative universes. Not about that Children of the Corn video--those were some ferally festering grandkids--but Trump at the Al Smith Dinner. I thought he had only one good line--and it was good--but for the rest he showed what I have always felt was his absence of a true sense of humor.
And I sure wish Kamala is truly toast but I ain't so optimistic as you are.
This whole election makes me suspect I've fallen through the proverbial wormhole into some kind of "alternate universe".
One of the candidates for the most powerful leader of the free world has somehow become one of two choices with out ever having receiving a vote, without enunciating a platform, without addressing ANY of the crisis level problems facing the nation.
And there is a chance that this totally unqualified, completely inexperienced bimbo could get enough votes to get within "the margin of cheating".
IN WHAT SANE UNIVERSE COULD THIS OCCUR?
Welcome to Clownworld.
*reaches out and honks Kertch's red nose, shoots him with water from his Daisy Boutonniere*
The Transnationals will do anything to get Kammy elected. ANYTHING.. !
Unfortunately, true.
There will be plenty of voters like myself who are going to the polls in an act of negation rather than affirmation, and there are plenty of Republicans who want things to go back to the bad old uniparty way with no upstarts ruining military contracts keeping the heartland warm, etc.
And there's no shortage of people who don't care what kind of moron is in the Oval Office so long as the bureaucracy grinds on in its relentless way. They recognize perfectly well that Kamala herself is unimportant to the larger goal.
I still can not believe Virginia is Blue. .... Thanks Fairfax, Arlington and now, Loudoun County. It is just really just shitty
They are the beneficiaries of your endless supply of tax dollars which fund their direct or contractor federal “jobs”. Of course they won’t vote against their economic interests. The counties around D.C. have some of the highest median household incomes in the nation. And nothing would be more satisfying than having Elon being in charge of Team Afuera!
Harris’ public persona including this ridiculous chronic waving is so rehearsed…. She’s running for President not Miss America!! It’s nauseating!! And I’m guessing her private persona is a dizzying 180 from this award winning charade….
Bit of devil's advocate here. It ain't easy being a woman in that world, so these multiple personas are survival strategies, to be sure. Giggles, waves, Miss America, but here's the thing: THOSE strategies stopped working for me when I became an adult....
(Many people still hold on to their childhood strategies.)
Aren’t the Dems familiar with elder abuse? I mean, look at Joe. Creating a video of kids kicking and abusing an old man in diapers sounds about right.