Someone -- I wish I could remember and give him credit -- pointed out that periodically leftists will figure out something that they think is a huge insightful discovery, when it's just common knowledge for normal people.
Don't tell "Great Wyrm". His mind can only take so much. This might tip him or her over the edge, especially when the next set of elections happens like clockwork, contrary to his apocalyptic predictions.
As an aside, this post was so over the top in its distorted views of conservatism, that I'm tempted to think it's an attempt at parody. Alas, the "progressive" flag on his profile likely belies that.
I shudder to think about what these people are going to put themselves through for the next four years. This guy is 'settled' now, but what happens the first time Donald Trump gets quoted out of context on MSNBC? My hunch is "meltdown."
Free will is magic. Them guys can eat their kishkes if they want to. Everyone else gonna discover the joys of a good book and feet up on the sofa and "I think I'm gonna learn to bake," or "how hard can it be to build a cabinet from scratch?"
It's a little bit hilarious how closely his "plan" mirrors our own plan from a few years ago, right? Get your little circle of people right, and then look to expand that circle.
Ditto what you both said. From Blazing Saddles: "They wouldn't let us in their circle, so we made a circle of our own." Though we may be separated by Many miles, state or continents, I think we are in the same circle.
They could do a full-on redux of "The Resistance", complete with Pussy Marches (and hats!), and continue to whine and complain, while completely ignoring any accomplishments Trump and MAGA may achieve which improve even their own miserable lives. Such as significant drops in energy and food costs.
Or, as the legacy MSM continues to turn to dust and their sacred echo chambers of agitprop fade ever faster and deeper into obscurity, they might slowly begin to at least consider peeking outside the bubble and seeing what all the actual "Joy" is all about. When gas and food are all of a sudden 25 - 30% less than they were under Biden and we aren't funneling billions into a corrupt Franken-nation which most cannot even find on a map -- and trying desperately to start a nuclear war -- it becomes more and more difficult to stay mad.
Success for all of America (and eventually perhaps a restoration of the entire West) is the best enticement. Make it so Great that they cannot deny it.
They will go for the protests - It's their natural state. Leftists are far better and more comfotable at criticizing the establishment than running it.
Agreed. Look for him on tic tok and let us know. I will not go near there. He sounds as if his mood is his main subject for all time and that around him, one walks on egg shells.
He doesn’t seem to realize that people are conservatives because we want to be left alone to live our lives with our family and friends, free from people with other ideas trying to influence us or change our ways. Maybe the difference is that we want that freedom for other people too, including people in other countries. Democrats seem to have a busybody mentality.
mr. wyrm will learn nothing. to be a progressive is one and the same as trying to solve problems with the same rationale used to create the problem.
like dogs to puke, they'll try again to build a bridge on half-played jenga pylons to some distant utopia in a marsh on a faultline....and wonder why it collapsed. you sorta have to admire the flawlesslness of their reality inversion.
alas it is the way of the progressive; they can't change because their ideology has no internal mechanism to challenge their belief that its necessary to be illiberal in their demands for liberality; in their demand for inclusion via exclusion; in their demands for heterogeneity through homogeny; in their demands for diversity by ideological uniformity.
If you haven't seen that interview with the Kamala staffers, you should make some time for it. It's a wonderful glimpse into the mind of the Harris campaign. (Take a week off to prep for the debate, then complain about not having enough time to do events.)
I now see why Kamala lost. These people cannot speak without using their heads and hands to “talk”. The woman in this video ended up putting me to sleep. I get it now. Everything you want in a leader was missing….dynamic, positive messaging, joy, intelligence. Instead, Kamala set the tone for her team by being a whinger, a moaner, a depressive.
And some truths are real. Not just charity begins at home. If you're too busy saving the world to love and nurture your family, you missed the target by about a gazillion trillion billion lightyears.
Happy Thanksgiving! Gey gezint kim gezint! Eat well, come back replete with the only things that matter.
Charles Dickens, in Bleak House, creates just such a character--a female (forgotten her name, but a great book. I was disappointed when it came to an end).
I've always hated Dickens. Then one day when I was bored out of my mind and didn't want to reread any of the other books on my shelves I picked up "A Child's History of England" and fell in love. [I had it because one of my mother's neighbors was giving away her set of those collections of classics that were on everyone's shelves in the '40s and I took the lot.]
I read Bleak House because I was home-schooling 8th grade daughter, and wanted to ensure—while I was in charge—that she had exposure to Dickens. I hadn’t read any of his since jr. high (A Tale of Two Cities, of my own volition). Reading his work as an adult, I had much more patience (and understanding) with his literary habits. A Child’s History of England—I read that, my father’s childhood (b. 1915) copy, when I was little. And fondly have remembered it. Thank you for mentioning it.
My exposure in HS to many of the classics of English literature made me hate them for decades. Took me a long time to begin to appreciate Shakespeare. Fortunately a friend's mother, who was a librarian and who I loved and admired got me reading the Brontes.
But even with authors I love, I don't love all of their stuff. To me Jane Austen only wrote a couple of deathless books and the rest were variations on the theme, done lesserly.
I'm a "say it in the fewest words necessary" sort of gal so Dickens with his paid-by-the-word style annoys the hell out of me.
When people finally break free of the “constant psycho-drama, always raging drumbeat that is everything Democrat”, their first realization is that the world didn’t come to a crashing end, and then, this new and unfamiliar sense of calm and serenity, saying to themselves, “What the hell was I always so worked up about anyway?!”
That new place they now find themselves is called: Sanity.
"I know what I have to do: Look after my family, and build personal connections with like-minded people and underground groups." (read: I'm going to enforce conformity in my domain by the exclusion of all viewpoints not bellybutton-to-asshole in lockstep with my liberal Democratic PC fantasies, and I will accomplish this by stepping into a self fabricated echo chamber, then closing and bolting the door thereby ensuring the security of my psychosis).
Also perhaps a Christian nationalist or national Christofascist or whatever they are calling everyday nonatheists these days. After all, CS Lewis wrote long ago: "The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden—that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time." -- Mere Christianity (Book 3, chapter 9)
But you don’t think on internal polling she couldn’t tell she was going to get smoked? If not they were lying to her. Internal polling likely always showed this.
GreatWyrm writes that, "autocrats are conservatives." Huh, that would come as big news to Xi Jinping, Maduro of Venezuela, the Sandinistas, and the Castro regime.
And let's not forget which party in the USA instituted the longest and most extensive autocratic regimes during Covid. Hint: it wasn't conservative governors like Ron de Santis or Brian Kemp.
Yeah, that dude (Reddit man) accidentally might end up on the right track. I see potential there. There are people like Cenk who seem to be taking small doses of red pill.
From what I understand once you start down that road you keep going. It’s not likely you will ever revert back either. From what I have seen it’s pretty damn rare a person of conservative mindset switches and becomes hard left. It is certainly not out of the question for vice versa to happen.
I will be keeping an eye on Ol Cenk. I am absolutely fascinated by the process. Watching people break through mental barriers is exciting. I have broken thru some of my own to be sure. But the ramifications for Cenk’s success are limitless. And they might just save this fucking place. 👍
Yep. The snowball only rolls in one direction. Nobody in the history of Team Reality has woke up and said, "I think I'll trust the mainstream media again."
“looking after your family and building personal connections with like minded people and getting away from and out from under government” ...
... is almost definitionally conservatism.
Someone -- I wish I could remember and give him credit -- pointed out that periodically leftists will figure out something that they think is a huge insightful discovery, when it's just common knowledge for normal people.
😂
For certain!
🎵Oooh do a little dance
Make a little love
Get down tonight
get down tonight🎶
Dude, I'm sorry. I just dig your handle.
*sigh*
I'm from The '70s. A thousand pardons...
https://youtu.be/LHEsE9yN2CY?si=v8G61wthUNB04bZo
Don't tell "Great Wyrm". His mind can only take so much. This might tip him or her over the edge, especially when the next set of elections happens like clockwork, contrary to his apocalyptic predictions.
As an aside, this post was so over the top in its distorted views of conservatism, that I'm tempted to think it's an attempt at parody. Alas, the "progressive" flag on his profile likely belies that.
"... is _almost_ definitionally conservatism." [emp Pi's]
¿almost? That there's Two Ringers on the Conservative Stake.
I shudder to think about what these people are going to put themselves through for the next four years. This guy is 'settled' now, but what happens the first time Donald Trump gets quoted out of context on MSNBC? My hunch is "meltdown."
Free will is magic. Them guys can eat their kishkes if they want to. Everyone else gonna discover the joys of a good book and feet up on the sofa and "I think I'm gonna learn to bake," or "how hard can it be to build a cabinet from scratch?"
It's a little bit hilarious how closely his "plan" mirrors our own plan from a few years ago, right? Get your little circle of people right, and then look to expand that circle.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill-part-2
You just about nailed everything, my boy.
Ditto what you both said. From Blazing Saddles: "They wouldn't let us in their circle, so we made a circle of our own." Though we may be separated by Many miles, state or continents, I think we are in the same circle.
It's a big circle, mind you. Lots of room in it for people to spread out and find their own little circles too.
We will need Pi Guy to work out the radius and circumference of the circles
Something something American Dream
It could go one of two ways.
They could do a full-on redux of "The Resistance", complete with Pussy Marches (and hats!), and continue to whine and complain, while completely ignoring any accomplishments Trump and MAGA may achieve which improve even their own miserable lives. Such as significant drops in energy and food costs.
Or, as the legacy MSM continues to turn to dust and their sacred echo chambers of agitprop fade ever faster and deeper into obscurity, they might slowly begin to at least consider peeking outside the bubble and seeing what all the actual "Joy" is all about. When gas and food are all of a sudden 25 - 30% less than they were under Biden and we aren't funneling billions into a corrupt Franken-nation which most cannot even find on a map -- and trying desperately to start a nuclear war -- it becomes more and more difficult to stay mad.
Success for all of America (and eventually perhaps a restoration of the entire West) is the best enticement. Make it so Great that they cannot deny it.
Gas and food cheaper, and no more income taxes. They might even learn to like it...
They will go for the protests - It's their natural state. Leftists are far better and more comfotable at criticizing the establishment than running it.
But Elon will own it, so....
If Infowars airs on MSNBC, will the left suddenly flip to the right?
I think he really means it when he says he intends to foster free speech.
Agreed. Look for him on tic tok and let us know. I will not go near there. He sounds as if his mood is his main subject for all time and that around him, one walks on egg shells.
Hopefully Elon will
purchase MSNBC soon and we won’t have to find out. Our fingertips to God’s ears…
He doesn’t seem to realize that people are conservatives because we want to be left alone to live our lives with our family and friends, free from people with other ideas trying to influence us or change our ways. Maybe the difference is that we want that freedom for other people too, including people in other countries. Democrats seem to have a busybody mentality.
It's because they think they're smarter than everyone else, thus entitled to run things.
From Rush Limbaugh back in '21:
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2021/03/26/rush-wasnt-kidding-democrats-want-to-eliminate-elections/
RINOs would likely do it too, if they had the chance. Uniparty all.
Oooh. From the vault. Nice one.
TY Ryan, glad you liked it.
Nailed it
mr. wyrm will learn nothing. to be a progressive is one and the same as trying to solve problems with the same rationale used to create the problem.
like dogs to puke, they'll try again to build a bridge on half-played jenga pylons to some distant utopia in a marsh on a faultline....and wonder why it collapsed. you sorta have to admire the flawlesslness of their reality inversion.
alas it is the way of the progressive; they can't change because their ideology has no internal mechanism to challenge their belief that its necessary to be illiberal in their demands for liberality; in their demand for inclusion via exclusion; in their demands for heterogeneity through homogeny; in their demands for diversity by ideological uniformity.
If you haven't seen that interview with the Kamala staffers, you should make some time for it. It's a wonderful glimpse into the mind of the Harris campaign. (Take a week off to prep for the debate, then complain about not having enough time to do events.)
Edit - found the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOpWp02WVs
Omg. They're proving my point. It really is remarkable how utterly perfect tgheir inversion of reality is...lmao
Yes, exactly. The People failed the Glorious Leaders yet again.
I now see why Kamala lost. These people cannot speak without using their heads and hands to “talk”. The woman in this video ended up putting me to sleep. I get it now. Everything you want in a leader was missing….dynamic, positive messaging, joy, intelligence. Instead, Kamala set the tone for her team by being a whinger, a moaner, a depressive.
Wait, she had staffers??! AND billions?
What is it they say about a fool and his / her money?
Listening now.
Obtuse…this word needs to come back to describe these people. Maybe then they’ll see the light…but probably not.
Ha yes. Hysteria is bad for people.
And some truths are real. Not just charity begins at home. If you're too busy saving the world to love and nurture your family, you missed the target by about a gazillion trillion billion lightyears.
Happy Thanksgiving! Gey gezint kim gezint! Eat well, come back replete with the only things that matter.
Charles Dickens, in Bleak House, creates just such a character--a female (forgotten her name, but a great book. I was disappointed when it came to an end).
I've always hated Dickens. Then one day when I was bored out of my mind and didn't want to reread any of the other books on my shelves I picked up "A Child's History of England" and fell in love. [I had it because one of my mother's neighbors was giving away her set of those collections of classics that were on everyone's shelves in the '40s and I took the lot.]
I read Bleak House because I was home-schooling 8th grade daughter, and wanted to ensure—while I was in charge—that she had exposure to Dickens. I hadn’t read any of his since jr. high (A Tale of Two Cities, of my own volition). Reading his work as an adult, I had much more patience (and understanding) with his literary habits. A Child’s History of England—I read that, my father’s childhood (b. 1915) copy, when I was little. And fondly have remembered it. Thank you for mentioning it.
My exposure in HS to many of the classics of English literature made me hate them for decades. Took me a long time to begin to appreciate Shakespeare. Fortunately a friend's mother, who was a librarian and who I loved and admired got me reading the Brontes.
But even with authors I love, I don't love all of their stuff. To me Jane Austen only wrote a couple of deathless books and the rest were variations on the theme, done lesserly.
I'm a "say it in the fewest words necessary" sort of gal so Dickens with his paid-by-the-word style annoys the hell out of me.
And it is a wonderful book.
Mrs. Jellyby.
When people finally break free of the “constant psycho-drama, always raging drumbeat that is everything Democrat”, their first realization is that the world didn’t come to a crashing end, and then, this new and unfamiliar sense of calm and serenity, saying to themselves, “What the hell was I always so worked up about anyway?!”
That new place they now find themselves is called: Sanity.
God, they are so fucking insane!
Freedom is slavery!
My wanting to live my own life my own way is torture to them.
The cockles of my cold black heart were warmed by this, what a great way to enjoy my first cup of coffee this fine morning!
"I know what I have to do: Look after my family, and build personal connections with like-minded people and underground groups." (read: I'm going to enforce conformity in my domain by the exclusion of all viewpoints not bellybutton-to-asshole in lockstep with my liberal Democratic PC fantasies, and I will accomplish this by stepping into a self fabricated echo chamber, then closing and bolting the door thereby ensuring the security of my psychosis).
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am happy to see that Mr. Worm is adjusting to the reality of having ended up in some fisherman's bait-box.
And to think, all this time he was misspelling his name.
LOLOLOL
Also perhaps a Christian nationalist or national Christofascist or whatever they are calling everyday nonatheists these days. After all, CS Lewis wrote long ago: "The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden—that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time." -- Mere Christianity (Book 3, chapter 9)
Today I learned on Reddit's R/AskALiberal that
1. Kamala was never leading in the polls
2. Cutting out family members who have different political beliefs from onefelf is righteous
3. Nothing is wrong in the way the Dems are governing America
4. Now, after this election, the government is going to control the media narrative, a narrative that is currently pure
Those people on r/AskALiberal are insane
But you don’t think on internal polling she couldn’t tell she was going to get smoked? If not they were lying to her. Internal polling likely always showed this.
I doubt they told her anything, she's so stoooopid, she'd blurt it out.
To be more
politically correct, we don’t say she is stooooopid. We
say she is unburdened by useful brain cells, introspection, thoughtful recourse, and intellectual curiosity. 😜
You could use a few more o’s in stupid.
GreatWyrm writes that, "autocrats are conservatives." Huh, that would come as big news to Xi Jinping, Maduro of Venezuela, the Sandinistas, and the Castro regime.
And let's not forget which party in the USA instituted the longest and most extensive autocratic regimes during Covid. Hint: it wasn't conservative governors like Ron de Santis or Brian Kemp.
Yeah, that dude (Reddit man) accidentally might end up on the right track. I see potential there. There are people like Cenk who seem to be taking small doses of red pill.
From what I understand once you start down that road you keep going. It’s not likely you will ever revert back either. From what I have seen it’s pretty damn rare a person of conservative mindset switches and becomes hard left. It is certainly not out of the question for vice versa to happen.
I will be keeping an eye on Ol Cenk. I am absolutely fascinated by the process. Watching people break through mental barriers is exciting. I have broken thru some of my own to be sure. But the ramifications for Cenk’s success are limitless. And they might just save this fucking place. 👍
Yep. The snowball only rolls in one direction. Nobody in the history of Team Reality has woke up and said, "I think I'll trust the mainstream media again."
Spending all one's time obsessing over politics and being outraged is not healthy for anyone, regardless of the side.