BlueAnon is comprised of soy bands and Boomerwaffens. Joe Rogan likes meat, hunting, and fighting - caveman no like fake astroturf. Thank you egm and Gen x for saving the day.
Well at least you acknowledged that something incredible had happened in America last Tuesday night, Yuri.
From so many other Substack authors who claimed to be non-leftwing, there was silence. As if nothing unusual at all had just happened, When actually, it was as if an asteroid had hit. And taken out the evil reptiles.
For one, waiting for the other shoe to drop. In 2020 Trump won that election also. I can't prove it aside from suspicious videos including those in this land of the walking dead known as Georgia, but he did win. It's my suspicion that this time around there were people that were in every precinct and area making sure there was no more shenanigans (but I can't prove this either.)
Two. Trump was far from perfect himself. He brought on the experimental injection, he succumbed to the narrative and instituted lockdowns, he never outrightly confronted Fauci. As much as this is thumbing our nose at the MSM, government, educational system, entertainment industry, public health collective, we still have a system that is either government™ or government lite™. It remains to be seen how lite lite government can be. And instead of merely limiting the expansion of government, can they reverse and remove the parts that need removing?
The question I have is...how long will it take dismantle the unelected aspects of our government that need dismantling? And does Trump have the ability, ingenuity to do what needs to be done?
Very, very hard work. Senate Republicans are already aligning against him. People are doing strange things, and a likely explanation is that they are being blackmailed. By whom and by what?
I’m feeling a cautious optimism. I agree that Trump made serious mistakes in his first term, but what differentiates this time is that he has gathered a team of people around him now who have the potential to make the right decisions.
For me, the problem is how to counter the coming organized “resistance“ that will almost certainly include lawfare, constant constitutional challenges to every executive order/legislation, and of course, massive ear-splitting SCREAMING from the entire Democrat media complex (which will continue to drive public opinion for at least half the population). If Trump and his team can tune out and rise above that stuff, they can truly make progress towards their American dream.
They had boots on the ground this time keeping an eye on everything and still do in areas where they STILL haven't finished counting. Pretty sure this will be the new norm. What happened in Georgia was a disgrace.
If I'm not mistaken about the definition of "wedgie" (my last experience being in the mid-sixties) haven't they convinced women to wear them for the last twenty years or so?
Or are they referring to the funny shoes from the 70's?
Beautifully written. Praying for our President-elect and those who are trying to do good. Praying AGAINST those who are lying, stealing, child-abusing POS’s. Praying for our country, this is a spiritual battle. First they erase God, then history, then truth, then freedom, then YOU. If in your heart you really don’t believe in God, they have already largely succeeded. Your brain wants to avoid and skirt around God being real, for your own soul’s sake - make it think. Try disproving the Bible! Over the centuries a lot of intelligent men have become believers that way.
Sure hope so. And I read that there were lawyers at the ready in all of the swing states if they needed to jump into the fray. And some had to do just that.
Likely a difference between those who announce to the world that "I AM GOING TO LEAVE IF..." and those who stay quiet and know that if the election had turned-out differently, they might just have to leave. Now the libs are worried.
There has never been an election where nearly 95% of registered voters cast a ballot. They used the pandemic to force mail in ballots in more states and then used the very legal process to ballot harvest and voila …15 million votes…most votes ever for a candidate. You know vain old Joe was proud of that fact, especially since it was so much more than St Obama…
Yes, you’re correct that there were people out there at certain polling places making sure there were not the same shenanigans. Lara Trump talked about it on the PBD podcast.
This. How could trump not have seen this China virus during trade talks with China and really, what did he accomplish last time? I did not vote for trump. Who cares if he stole the election, the result is…. Conflict. He lead his followers to Jan 6 and then told them to go home. I am sure he is just a way to divide and conquer. And I am sure he will be among those buying up US commodities on the cheap during conflict. It is painful to watch people believe in these clowns.
I am not sure anyone was around to stop shenanigans either. Trump won the same number of votes he did last time. That means 10 million democrats did not show up?
I have been asking that of many people for awhile but I was an English major and bad-enough that people cannot handwrite or print their own names clearly but EVERYONE seems to end sentences with the word "before" and they use I instead of me and visa-versa. In this case though, we're just chatting to each-other and chilling so I only get frustrated when supposedly educated people cannot speak properly to the public.
How’d you know?! Lol My BF was able to take the day off. Me, not so much, and man, only thing I did after that was go to bed. I finally had the Wed reaction on Thursday.
Impatient as I was to see the whole gang begin to hit my inbox, I understood exactly the cause of the delay. Of course the open threads beginning Election evening were a camaraderial joyfest and the afterglow kept me warm and cozy until the posts started trickling in.
If I had more than four hours' sleep it would've been a wonder. I keep saying--think of Lloyd Bridges in "Airplane" for a good representation of how I looked.
I was a little overglazed with finishing off that Blondie Vesuvius but as a non-drinking woman that was as smashed as I got.
Because I have been typing out real English words for years, on many platforms, warning about what was actually going on.....and telling people the antidote to this.
Few listened. Therefore, I did expect some real English words of this nature to have been typed out by November 6. By the folks who operate the popular non-leftwing Substacks. I was disappointed.
I may have to set-up my own Substack. No more freebie posts to other authors who cannot seem to grasp this material.
The collective reaction among the pacifier-sucking BlueAnon twits inspires a kind of clinical fascination among those of us capable of understanding that no, America's fundamental goodness is not in fact contingent on electoral outcomes.
Oh, the plexiglass!!! My absolutely FAVORITE anti-science way of crushing us under the boot of TheScience™️. If you didn’t figure out the level of bullshit they were shoveling at that point…🤦♂️
I was at a clinic in 2021 standing at the plexi rampart. I moved my purse over and gently pushed the whole thing off the desk onto the ground. It made a hell of a racket. A most satisfying racket. I broke it as well.
A number of students at my son's high school here in Middle Tennessee staged a caravan of trucks and cars with Trump flags on Election Day. That's all I needed to see as it brought tears to my eyes.
The "soyboys" that gato describes are a thing but I predict they too will fall prey to social Darwinism as the insanity of the last four years is relegated to the ash heap. It will start with subtle social cues through advertising as brands recognize that it simply isn't profitable to push young men to be Tim Walz. Give it time.
Feasting, fighting, fucking and guzzling. "Crom, what is good in life? To crush your enemies, to drive them before you, to hear the lamentation of their women...."
Looking back, it's almost insane how good we had it. All they had to do was leave us alone, but they just couldn't stop pushing more and more ridiculous stuff on us. In Oregon, a boy can compete with girls by saying he's a girl. By every objective, that person is still a boy. But the Democrats will spend hours and hours telling us that's a ridiculously transphobic position.
At the risk of spoiling an upcoming article, check out what Lacrosse coach Kim Russell had to go through for saying the girl who finished 2nd to Lia Thomas was the "real" winner of a race -- https://www.iwf.org/female-athlete-stories/kim-russell/
People are DONE with being told what they can and can't say -- especially when the "experts" are so obviously wrong AND sanctimonious about it. "Oh silly peasant, I could be doing great things but I am here on TV telling you all the reasons you're wrong instead. We OBVIOUSLY have to mask toddlers!"
The best thing about the elections is that we told all those people to fuck all the way off.
Oregon is getting worse by the day. Mail-in ballots, woke media and academia are causing what seems like a permanent shift in our political landscape. It's horrible. We're full of mentally sick people who have been told they have the right to impose their views on the 99% of normal society. Just today at lunch a freaky looking man (Adam's apple, strong jawline, beard and mustache) with boobs, walked right into the women's bathroom like he owned the place. I'm tired of this shit.
I am married to a retired anglican priest and we attend different churches since he retired. Saying that because "church ladies" are indeed labeled. I am funny and cheerful and just happen to be married to a teacher, which is *his* job!
The answer is to double and triple down just like the Left does. Problem is when they come for us we shut our mouths instead of telling them they're freaks and they should F off. Stop backing down people and stick up for yourselves.....always. They use "racist, mysogynist, fascist", etc., against their enemies and it has worked. It only works because we don't laugh uproariously at them.
HUGE weight. I have known about Donald since long-before he ran because (I will respect privacy) but when people insult this man I feel it because I know his character. Tic toc people need to do more research.
Since the onset of the covid "reset" I have sent out alternative news highlights to my contacts - associates i worked with organizing pollinator events and environmental things. So they were mainly Dems. All of them except a very few were silent. Recently, I had some discussions with them on chat. The best description i have seen thus far is: (they) "live in their own non-reality-based belief system." And recently several of them have requested to be off my news list. First they were described as brainwashed and now after more have weighed in it seems to be arrogance and delusion.
The morning after the first Trump win in 2016, I was driving to work when the thought crossed my mind that Hillary Clinton would not be appointing any supreme count justices. For one of the few times in my life, a shout of joy spontaneously leaped from my breast before I even realized it.
I have been getting bits of that here and there over the last week too.
They'll conclude they should've yelled HITLER louder and picked a dude for VP that could load his gun better with his ball sack.
In all seriousness, The Left is and has always been about IDEOLOGY. The Revolution is always first and therefore the logic of their politics can ONLY move toward more radicalization. They cannot course correct, because there's no internal philosophical mechanism for it. They passed critical mass during Obamas reign...and there's no way they can tact to the middle now.
Positive masculinity to them meant if you didn't vote for Kamala you were an insecure bigot.
Non-beta males and non-AWFLS rejected this because they know that a real MAN is obligated by nature to both protect and support females in all facets of their REAL lives...not the fictitional narcissistic issues of The Left.
People on the left who try to convince me to go liberal... lost me when they all say "It is really about feelings." This is one subject that RFJ Jr. and Cheryl his wife disagree upon. She says that it is all about feelings and he says otherwise.
Completely true! Didn’t they have a clue when Maverick came out? I left thinking how much I missed real men! Meritocracy. Mediocrity and androgyny is creepy. (And I’m a biology major!)
I knew where to look for the gene splicing, the fake “spread”, and how immunity works. Not to mention the two genders. When people were fainting at “more virulent”, I told them the virus was weakening. Not believed. Add to that the psychological drip that made people compliant. 🤷🏼♀️ Then, of course came the concern of the virus police going door to door - now they knew who was non-compliant. Add it together and it was both a blessing and a curse. Perhaps people didn’t pay attention in class. Or the fear porn won? SMH. Knowledge over naïveté. Once again, we agree!
We, Mr. "the Knife" and I, grew up in the 80s, when men "getting in touch with their feminine side" was all the rage. Mr. "the Knife" has said, since we were in high school, that his masculine side has another masculine side! For which I am extremely grateful!
In rare moments of exasperation when I will say to him, "You are SUCH a guy!" he will reply, "You're welcome!" 😂🤣
"So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27 NIV
Yep we the Xers had had enough. The FAFO Generation. I always liked those “reluctant hero” movies where the bad guy does a thing and you just know that’s it. That’s the push of the domino. That action that turns the guy who just wanted to do his life into the worst nightmare. Well, we have a whole generation - small, maybe, but awake and alert now. FAFO indeed.
We have an entire MEDIA SYSTEM of those people now. And they aren't shy about telling the truth as they see it. We might be wrong, but we're honest about how we got there.
Harris blowing through $1 billion on her campaign and now being $20 million in the hole is insane. She ran her campaign exactly how her regime spent our tax dollars. On bullshit. The grift is real. These politicians and media propagandists have their dirty fingers in many pies.
"the dems have become the party of the faculty lounge, sneering, elitist, and condescending. they have no levity, no joy, and no tolerance for anything that is not exactly like them."
I hadn't really thought about this before. We have touched on it previously regarding their inability to produce memes or take a jab. But never so simply stated. The only emotions they have left are anger, jealousy, and irritation. So sad, so worthless
The funny thing is Rogan IS A LEFTY. Or he was until the left went stark raving mad. I've always said that the "legit left" and the "real right" are not the problem. It's all those grifters in the middle which is 66-75% of both. When I think of "legit left" I think of people like RFK Jr & Dennis Kucinich and on the "real right" people like Ron Paul, and Massie. I don't agree with everything either side says for but at least they stand for something.
This time it appears that the LL & RR got together and pulled in a bunch of other people by simply talking to them instead of shaming, insulting and berating them.
I was looking for a comment from someone else who knows this.
But not only is he a lefty, he is also curious, and genuine, and will have a conversation with just about anyone. Do you remember when Joe Rogan talked with Matt Walsh? They have very different opinions, but Joe still had an interesting chat with him.
What the Democrats seem to be missing is that Joe Rogan doesn't conduct interviews on a left/right paradigm. He just asks simple questions and lets his guests talk. What freaks them out is that he manages to draw honest answers, such as when he got that CNN mouthpiece Sanjay Gupta to admit that the network lied out its ass about ivermectin. No shot they could risk that with Harris or any of her surrogates.
It's telling that the two most impactful media appearances of the campaign were Trump's open ended 3 hour gabfest with Rogan, and Kamala's doctored 60 Minutes hit with Bill Whitaker. A rambling, all topics/no holds-barred conversation versus a narrowly scripted and heavily edited attempt at a traditional interview. The contrast in the two was as stark as the contrast between the two candidates.
You know how I feel about Trump (for whom I have now, finally, whored out my integrity etc. etc.). And when I saw him tell the garbage truck story at one of the final rallies before the election, I sat there laughing and I said, in Notes, that he was just so endearing. You find someone who thought I'd ever use a word like that about him, you must have the holy grail in your basement bar.
And the floor-stamping articles I saw insisting that it was Just Not Funny! and He Humiliated Himself! etc. etc. etc.--I didn't want to jinx anything by allowing myself to think in those moments that he was going to win, the best I could do was vote in the name of justice, but the voices from the bushes were roaring. Gleefully.
The beauty of what Joe Rogen does is he just lets them talk. He’ll ask questions then let them talk. Eventually they will reveal their true feelings and beliefs. No liberal can stop talking and lecturing long enough for the person being interviewed to express anything.
What happened last Tuesday, November 5, in America was that Pathocracy/totalitarianism was turned into a puddle of melting wax, like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz,
America under Trump deflected the ruling Psychopaths. Do you know how incredibly astonishing that is?
I have expertise in totalitarianism. I can tell you what kind of phantasmagorical miracle this kind of turn-around is.
Took ya long enough but better late than never. I was so hoping that half of Americans would say "F'off" to the vax but only 1/3rd did. Still tied for best in the world with Switzerland but I was sure you'd hit 50%.
PS. I'm one of the 10% hold outs up in Soviet Canuckistan so ya beat us. Keep at it!!!!
Many, many, many of us were voting purely for vengeance. You know how it is. A woman of great moral strength will nevertheless prostitute herself to feed her children if there is no other option.
Me--after whoring out my own integrity for the sake of my country, I feel so clean and shiny right now. But, see--I waited for the necessary moment. I didn't just rip my panties off for no good reason.
….just FYI, a lot more held out than people realize or
Think or know about, even down to fighting back by just saying sure I was vaccinated, etc. who actually are NOT, and just lied about it, faked it or saline only faked it to help others or save their jobs, homes,
And/or incomes to be able
To eat. The majority of Americans had to have everything and their families threatened, including being able to eat, and losing their home, and were PISSED this was illegally and immorally used against them and done to them and want Payback for this, and this election was the beginning of that. Lots of good people here in the states did NOT take it, and WAY more
Than people
Realized then or now. Majority that took/were coerced into taking the first, did NOT take the 2nd, and definitely no boosters. They also used caring for our fellow citizens against a mostly well meaning and caring citizenry here on purpose, and it still didn’t work on the vast majority of us and they therefore HAD to threaten all of us. Very few in my very college educated family of hundreds of people, cousins, etc. took it, like, maybe 5? ..and those that got one were heavily coerced/threatened and sought counsel, etc. and one was held hostage on a Navy ship on deployment after holding out for so long under unbelievable conditions, and was only 24 with a pregnant wife at home and didn’t see a choice, it was so
bad.
Thankfully he is still alive and kicking. My husband and I fought a massive University who employs us who was also threatened at the last hour to force mandates or lose all government contracts which was a massive deal and jobs in the billions along with ALL research contracts and grants! We won, but they also honored exemptions and our state fought back for us, and I basically set up resistance with legal friends and helped write exemptions for people all over the country, including those in government, other universities, etc. None of what transpired was okay, and we are not forgetting and are just bracing for what’s coming for all the people coerced, the no informed
Consent given, who were threatened and lied to, and the health nightmare happening currently to so many good people as a result of the poison coerced into the majority of them.
We weren't given any good options, those of us who don't think warp speed pharmaceutical rollouts are great ideas and who prefer not to vote for flagrant toddlerism.
But my friend died in January. The CDC has the vax on the routine schedule for everyone six months' of age and older. Blue localities are trying to bring back masking.
And they really did try to assassinate the guy and then the MSM said it was so distasteful how he was exploiting that for votes.
If he had ripped off the orange makeup to reveal a nasty little mustache underneath I would have heard the blood of my ancestors calling out from the ground in Uman saying "Go for it, ketzeleh. We don't mind."
Except 1972, my entire adult life I would hold my nose and vote for the Democrat. Actions speak louder than words, and since 2020 the Democrats have been on a path of absurd cartoonish anti-democratic and anti-everything-else-I-treasure pretense of governance.
Covid's silver lining was making the scales fall from my eyes, as well as innumerable others. With this new clarity of vision, I could see back to the constant betrayals of the Obama years, and the self-serving opportunism of the Clintons.
Now forever leery of cults of personality, I can only hope that at least a few good things will get done. I still don't like Trump but at least there appear to be some better people around him this time.
Covid for me too. It was very shocking to see the truth so baldly in my face I actually had trouble sleeping for some time because so much of my life’s beliefs crumbled into dust at one time.
I haven't voted all that much over the course of my lifetime, not thinking much of any of 'em.
And these days in the cosmic metaphysical realm of things I try only to hope/ask/pray for that which is not presumptuous of being only a mere little mote of mineral agglomeration. I asked only for justice as I walked to the polls and I felt ever so much lighter as I walked home. I did my part, best as I could, and however the world goes now is out of my hands.
I was thoroughly conditioned that it was my civic duty to vote. I don't think I've ever missed at least a presidential election, and almost none of the midterms.
Almost every vote was an Against vote. I still like my idea for election reform of allowing everybody their vote, but they can choose whether it's positive or negative. At least we'd feel a little less frustrated that way.
Is it astonishing? He won the election in 2020 as well. What was really astonishing was that some dude who didn't campaign at all in 2020 was elected as President. But it isn't astonishing that people cheat. It isn't astonishing either that they would rationalize it because they believed the propaganda of "orange man fascist."
You say you are an expert in totalitarianism, I'll take your word for it. My supposition is that if that expertise comes from fleeing from a totalitarian system, then it should not be as astonishing to learn that maybe, just maybe, there were principled people still in these institutionshere that regard the Constitution and its principles more than just words on paper. And that is astonishing, but the system was set up around those principles and words.
THIS….this is exactly why we had to elect Donald J Trump. I for one am not banking on a whole lot from him. That was NEVER the point! Our ticket was almost punched in 2020. Censorship Inc had us in our death throes by 2022. Normal Americas days were done. After the election rig in 2020 it really was a terrifying thought.
In the last several months top deep state leftists telegraphed what the priority was after the pesky election was out of the way. They were going to get Censorship Inc firing on all cylinders again. People like Musk, Rogan, and the platforms associated with them would have been toast. This time they would have not let up and we would have been straight up fucked.
This is why I am elated and so relieved over what just happened El Gato.
Apt reference to Sylvia Plath, as The Bell Jar was a tedious, monotonous, joyless and pedantic vomit of woe-is-me narcissism; it was essentially a hysterical TikTok crying video in paper form. I can't understand why she's revered as much as she is aside from being wan, pretty and married to an asshole.
I'll take a bit of pushback on Morrissey as A) am a huge Smiths fan and I do think most of their music has held up, and B) he has actually come around to some based positions, especially regarding large-scale Muslim immigration to Britain.
"Party of the faculty lounge" is correct: Canada actually has *two* of them, and the inability of a country of 40+ million to produce a Rogan is fucking depressing.
Agree about Sylvia Plath. And when she ended her sad life by putting her head in an oven, she nearly gassed to death two guys living in the apartment below her.
That's what makes me nervous about lefties, that they'll take good people out with them when they finally implode.
I came here just to say Morrissey is one tough bastard for the same reasons you mentioned. They won't even release his latest album, Bonfire of Teenagers, because it references the 2017 Manchester bombing.
I appreciate the defense of Morrissey here. He is a talented, funny artist, with a good balance of earnestness and tongue-in-cheek. And he has been willing to speak his mind in recent years, even while coming under a ton of pressure.
She was a pretty fine poet, sort of Dylan Thomas-ish, and brilliant though he was, he was a raving alcoholic and died drinking something like 38 Black Russians on his 38th birthday. His wife Caitlin wrote a vitriolic memoir about him. What is interesting, though, is that back then there were a group of poets called "confessional poets," who wrote mainly about themselves, a harbinger of the totally epidemic confessionalism of today, but Anne Sexton, also a suicide, had as her shrink, a notorious MKUltra shrink, Dr. Martin Orne.
Everyone blamed Ted Hughes for Sylvia's death, as another wife suicided also, but with what we know about decades of "mental health treatment," who knows if SSRIs were involved or earlier versions of horrible drugs.
My favorite mad poet was Ted Roethke, who was manic-depressive, and when going manic, would run into the classroom, jump on the lectern, and pretend machine gun the students with rata tat tat. Yet, with what is around us, all the madness seems a lot less romantic.
BlueAnon is comprised of soy bands and Boomerwaffens. Joe Rogan likes meat, hunting, and fighting - caveman no like fake astroturf. Thank you egm and Gen x for saving the day.
Well at least you acknowledged that something incredible had happened in America last Tuesday night, Yuri.
From so many other Substack authors who claimed to be non-leftwing, there was silence. As if nothing unusual at all had just happened, When actually, it was as if an asteroid had hit. And taken out the evil reptiles.
There are a couple reasons for a non response.
For one, waiting for the other shoe to drop. In 2020 Trump won that election also. I can't prove it aside from suspicious videos including those in this land of the walking dead known as Georgia, but he did win. It's my suspicion that this time around there were people that were in every precinct and area making sure there was no more shenanigans (but I can't prove this either.)
Two. Trump was far from perfect himself. He brought on the experimental injection, he succumbed to the narrative and instituted lockdowns, he never outrightly confronted Fauci. As much as this is thumbing our nose at the MSM, government, educational system, entertainment industry, public health collective, we still have a system that is either government™ or government lite™. It remains to be seen how lite lite government can be. And instead of merely limiting the expansion of government, can they reverse and remove the parts that need removing?
The question I have is...how long will it take dismantle the unelected aspects of our government that need dismantling? And does Trump have the ability, ingenuity to do what needs to be done?
yes, the hard work begins now
Very, very hard work. Senate Republicans are already aligning against him. People are doing strange things, and a likely explanation is that they are being blackmailed. By whom and by what?
There's a lot of Round Up in your food, too. Enjoy!
I’m feeling a cautious optimism. I agree that Trump made serious mistakes in his first term, but what differentiates this time is that he has gathered a team of people around him now who have the potential to make the right decisions.
For me, the problem is how to counter the coming organized “resistance“ that will almost certainly include lawfare, constant constitutional challenges to every executive order/legislation, and of course, massive ear-splitting SCREAMING from the entire Democrat media complex (which will continue to drive public opinion for at least half the population). If Trump and his team can tune out and rise above that stuff, they can truly make progress towards their American dream.
Possibly Mr. Trump's associates have also smoked out enough RINO's to make some progress.
I have a good feeling about that, especially.
Trump just announced that Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo would not be in his cabinet. This is no longer Mitch McConnell’s GOP.
they have all been molested by the same people.
We await the Epstein guest list.
Agreed. They are not going to "take this lyin'-down."
Well said! May I do a cut and paste Mr rabbit?
Sure, but don’t be all “Claudine Gay” or “Kamala Harris” about it. The left are hypocritical enough for BOTH sides!
Nope, I give credit where credit is due. I read, a lot, but can’t write for shit so…
They had boots on the ground this time keeping an eye on everything and still do in areas where they STILL haven't finished counting. Pretty sure this will be the new norm. What happened in Georgia was a disgrace.
I was a poll watcher! Body cam and all…..
Thank you for your service! As we all know, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Agreed. Kari Lake still does not know.
There were still shenanigans! Lots of cheating in my current home PA, obviously AZ and who knows where else!
Did you just call those in state of corruption, otherwise known as Georgia, walking dead?
Dayummit man... this GenX gal would revive wedgies for that offense...
I hope that they do! It is about time. I am a Boomer and fiercely proud of it. A Conservative Boomer who is anti-war.
Who also favors the return of wedgies.
https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-mr-burns-evil-laugh-evil-laugh-gif-4076853
Bwaaaahahaha
You're not alone, girlfriend!
Yay!!! I feel like it, but folks here help me stay quasi sane 😁
Who is in favor of doling out wedgies.
https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-mr-burns-evil-laugh-evil-laugh-gif-4076853
If I'm not mistaken about the definition of "wedgie" (my last experience being in the mid-sixties) haven't they convinced women to wear them for the last twenty years or so?
Or are they referring to the funny shoes from the 70's?
😂🤣
Beautifully written. Praying for our President-elect and those who are trying to do good. Praying AGAINST those who are lying, stealing, child-abusing POS’s. Praying for our country, this is a spiritual battle. First they erase God, then history, then truth, then freedom, then YOU. If in your heart you really don’t believe in God, they have already largely succeeded. Your brain wants to avoid and skirt around God being real, for your own soul’s sake - make it think. Try disproving the Bible! Over the centuries a lot of intelligent men have become believers that way.
Sure hope so. And I read that there were lawyers at the ready in all of the swing states if they needed to jump into the fray. And some had to do just that.
Likely a difference between those who announce to the world that "I AM GOING TO LEAVE IF..." and those who stay quiet and know that if the election had turned-out differently, they might just have to leave. Now the libs are worried.
We tax payers and serfs really need to step up and assist in the dismantling of the bloated bureaucracy that is bring us into socialist poverty
"Two."
Well, shoot. *takes a gulp of bourbon on rocks*
pass the bottle! I'll purchase the next one.
*clinks glass*
There has never been an election where nearly 95% of registered voters cast a ballot. They used the pandemic to force mail in ballots in more states and then used the very legal process to ballot harvest and voila …15 million votes…most votes ever for a candidate. You know vain old Joe was proud of that fact, especially since it was so much more than St Obama…
In 2020, Biden “won” by 20 million more votes that Clinton, bho1, bho2 and now Trump. Where did those 20 million voters go???
Yes, you’re correct that there were people out there at certain polling places making sure there were not the same shenanigans. Lara Trump talked about it on the PBD podcast.
This. How could trump not have seen this China virus during trade talks with China and really, what did he accomplish last time? I did not vote for trump. Who cares if he stole the election, the result is…. Conflict. He lead his followers to Jan 6 and then told them to go home. I am sure he is just a way to divide and conquer. And I am sure he will be among those buying up US commodities on the cheap during conflict. It is painful to watch people believe in these clowns.
I am not sure anyone was around to stop shenanigans either. Trump won the same number of votes he did last time. That means 10 million democrats did not show up?
Let us hope that this is the asteroid that finally obliterates the dinosaur media and finally puts it out of our misery.
If only that asteroid landed on 14th St NW , 20004
I have read several, who I regularly read that have been elated.
It takes time to get over a hangover sufficiently to be able to type real English words. How come you didn't know that?
This was a serious consideration on Wednesday -- along with the lack of sleep.
This is why I commend Blondie Vesuviae as the intoxicant of choice when yer friends are gonna be waiting to hear from ya.
I have been asking that of many people for awhile but I was an English major and bad-enough that people cannot handwrite or print their own names clearly but EVERYONE seems to end sentences with the word "before" and they use I instead of me and visa-versa. In this case though, we're just chatting to each-other and chilling so I only get frustrated when supposedly educated people cannot speak properly to the public.
"before"
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"You should never end a sentence with a preposition."
"What are you talking about?!"
Love Pi Guy. Great response. I wait to hear what you are going to say in here.
☺️
About what are you speaking? 🤨
“Being accused of using poor grammar is one complaint up with which I will not put!’ - Winston Churchill
Everyone should read Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules for Writers and then get confident enough to break them as necessary.
How’d you know?! Lol My BF was able to take the day off. Me, not so much, and man, only thing I did after that was go to bed. I finally had the Wed reaction on Thursday.
Impatient as I was to see the whole gang begin to hit my inbox, I understood exactly the cause of the delay. Of course the open threads beginning Election evening were a camaraderial joyfest and the afterglow kept me warm and cozy until the posts started trickling in.
If I had more than four hours' sleep it would've been a wonder. I keep saying--think of Lloyd Bridges in "Airplane" for a good representation of how I looked.
I was a little overglazed with finishing off that Blondie Vesuvius but as a non-drinking woman that was as smashed as I got.
😂😂
Because I have been typing out real English words for years, on many platforms, warning about what was actually going on.....and telling people the antidote to this.
Few listened. Therefore, I did expect some real English words of this nature to have been typed out by November 6. By the folks who operate the popular non-leftwing Substacks. I was disappointed.
I may have to set-up my own Substack. No more freebie posts to other authors who cannot seem to grasp this material.
Imagine. Few listened.
Also...I dont drink, dangit! 😂
That's why I bake.
I will read it.
Tucker calls them the lizard overlords.
Well I, for one, welcome them.
The collective reaction among the pacifier-sucking BlueAnon twits inspires a kind of clinical fascination among those of us capable of understanding that no, America's fundamental goodness is not in fact contingent on electoral outcomes.
https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/the-best-worst-election-takes
I'm having so much fun with the sport of this that if i keep it up too long I may need a "clinic" myself.
Sorta like with how fucking stupid the masks, plexiglass, one way arrows, etc. were.
Nah...it'll never get old!
But I carry around a plexiglass barrier with me wherever I go and I haven't got sick since 2020. Just like this guy...
https://x.com/JimGleeson/status/1855331189306925131
"Lisa - I want to buy your rock."
https://youtu.be/g3U6IUMTDHY?si=GBPAKFqSrHy4wmdM
I missed that one! haha
Oh, the plexiglass!!! My absolutely FAVORITE anti-science way of crushing us under the boot of TheScience™️. If you didn’t figure out the level of bullshit they were shoveling at that point…🤦♂️
I was at a clinic in 2021 standing at the plexi rampart. I moved my purse over and gently pushed the whole thing off the desk onto the ground. It made a hell of a racket. A most satisfying racket. I broke it as well.
Congrats, Janet!!! 🤗🤗🤗
A number of students at my son's high school here in Middle Tennessee staged a caravan of trucks and cars with Trump flags on Election Day. That's all I needed to see as it brought tears to my eyes.
The "soyboys" that gato describes are a thing but I predict they too will fall prey to social Darwinism as the insanity of the last four years is relegated to the ash heap. It will start with subtle social cues through advertising as brands recognize that it simply isn't profitable to push young men to be Tim Walz. Give it time.
Agree and that must feel great.
Yeah it's pretty hard to pass on genes as a TRANSlucent cellar gimp with a testosterone level of zero.
Nobody cares that they finally synced their ovulation. Maybe they'll find comfort sniffing each other's queermones while they all MENstruate?
Fine by me, but the days of them getting to push people around without any push-back are over.
And we get to kick back and bingewatch a brand new Season of "Baffled".
I think it just inspires joy.
It's true I feel two decades younger since Election Night. But at least have the courtesy to thank all voting ages, my boy.
Boomerwaffens!! Haha,yes!
Agreed👍💯 Now can genX' s spread this to other countries, quickly?!📣📣
This is NOT just an American politics thing. This is every freaking westernized, developed and developing country in the world.
I'd hazard that where ever politics are lurking, you have the same BS happening.😉
Different named "teams" but same damn playbook.😐🤬
Anyone heard from Ted Nugent?
It’s hunting season.
Of course!
No and I am surprised.
No Uncle Ted? Is he OK?
Yes... :-)
Feasting, fighting, fucking and guzzling. "Crom, what is good in life? To crush your enemies, to drive them before you, to hear the lamentation of their women...."
Looking back, it's almost insane how good we had it. All they had to do was leave us alone, but they just couldn't stop pushing more and more ridiculous stuff on us. In Oregon, a boy can compete with girls by saying he's a girl. By every objective, that person is still a boy. But the Democrats will spend hours and hours telling us that's a ridiculously transphobic position.
At the risk of spoiling an upcoming article, check out what Lacrosse coach Kim Russell had to go through for saying the girl who finished 2nd to Lia Thomas was the "real" winner of a race -- https://www.iwf.org/female-athlete-stories/kim-russell/
People are DONE with being told what they can and can't say -- especially when the "experts" are so obviously wrong AND sanctimonious about it. "Oh silly peasant, I could be doing great things but I am here on TV telling you all the reasons you're wrong instead. We OBVIOUSLY have to mask toddlers!"
The best thing about the elections is that we told all those people to fuck all the way off.
Yes! ALL the way off!!!
Oregon is getting worse by the day. Mail-in ballots, woke media and academia are causing what seems like a permanent shift in our political landscape. It's horrible. We're full of mentally sick people who have been told they have the right to impose their views on the 99% of normal society. Just today at lunch a freaky looking man (Adam's apple, strong jawline, beard and mustache) with boobs, walked right into the women's bathroom like he owned the place. I'm tired of this shit.
Turns out a lot of people don't want to live in a land ruled by unfunny, scolding Church Ladies.
"people don't want to live in a land ruled by unfunny, scolding Church Ladies"
But, but, but ... Who, (or what?), ELSE could possibly keep us on the straight and narrow?
How, without those sanctimonious tarts, would I know what to think?
It's weird because we loved them SO MUCH back in the 80s and 90s.......
Pronoun clarification request… Them who?
The unfunny church scolds putting warning labels on our music and games.
And on every consumer product sold!
Ah! Sarcasm! Thx
Just one more free service I offer! 😉
Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar... not me, yes you, if not you then who? (Well we were young and "who" rhymes with "you" so I give a pass!
Only on Saturday Night Live. The ones IRL still pissed me off.
I am married to a retired anglican priest and we attend different churches since he retired. Saying that because "church ladies" are indeed labeled. I am funny and cheerful and just happen to be married to a teacher, which is *his* job!
I associate it with Dana Carvey's SNL character ;)
The answer is to double and triple down just like the Left does. Problem is when they come for us we shut our mouths instead of telling them they're freaks and they should F off. Stop backing down people and stick up for yourselves.....always. They use "racist, mysogynist, fascist", etc., against their enemies and it has worked. It only works because we don't laugh uproariously at them.
I’ve had to restrain myself from yelling “F*ck yeah!” at least once every 10 minutes since Tuesday night. I think I’m saying it in my sleep, though.
It definitely feels like a weight has been lifted.
HUGE weight. I have known about Donald since long-before he ran because (I will respect privacy) but when people insult this man I feel it because I know his character. Tic toc people need to do more research.
It really does! 😊
Omg I love this. F*ck Yeah backatcha Cee! 🤣❤️
YAAAAAAAASSSS
I have been doing the same.
Me too. I say it just by smiling... some of my neighbors are not speaking to me. Alas.
Since the onset of the covid "reset" I have sent out alternative news highlights to my contacts - associates i worked with organizing pollinator events and environmental things. So they were mainly Dems. All of them except a very few were silent. Recently, I had some discussions with them on chat. The best description i have seen thus far is: (they) "live in their own non-reality-based belief system." And recently several of them have requested to be off my news list. First they were described as brainwashed and now after more have weighed in it seems to be arrogance and delusion.
The morning after the first Trump win in 2016, I was driving to work when the thought crossed my mind that Hillary Clinton would not be appointing any supreme count justices. For one of the few times in my life, a shout of joy spontaneously leaped from my breast before I even realized it.
I have been getting bits of that here and there over the last week too.
They'll conclude they should've yelled HITLER louder and picked a dude for VP that could load his gun better with his ball sack.
In all seriousness, The Left is and has always been about IDEOLOGY. The Revolution is always first and therefore the logic of their politics can ONLY move toward more radicalization. They cannot course correct, because there's no internal philosophical mechanism for it. They passed critical mass during Obamas reign...and there's no way they can tact to the middle now.
Positive masculinity to them meant if you didn't vote for Kamala you were an insecure bigot.
Non-beta males and non-AWFLS rejected this because they know that a real MAN is obligated by nature to both protect and support females in all facets of their REAL lives...not the fictitional narcissistic issues of The Left.
Outstanding comment, Ryan!
agree, truly
*stands, applauds*
You never disappoint Ryan! 😹
People on the left who try to convince me to go liberal... lost me when they all say "It is really about feelings." This is one subject that RFJ Jr. and Cheryl his wife disagree upon. She says that it is all about feelings and he says otherwise.
Completely true! Didn’t they have a clue when Maverick came out? I left thinking how much I missed real men! Meritocracy. Mediocrity and androgyny is creepy. (And I’m a biology major!)
Hey I have a biology degree as well.
That was part of my frustration with the scamdemic. It's like the expertocrats all forgot biology 101.
I knew where to look for the gene splicing, the fake “spread”, and how immunity works. Not to mention the two genders. When people were fainting at “more virulent”, I told them the virus was weakening. Not believed. Add to that the psychological drip that made people compliant. 🤷🏼♀️ Then, of course came the concern of the virus police going door to door - now they knew who was non-compliant. Add it together and it was both a blessing and a curse. Perhaps people didn’t pay attention in class. Or the fear porn won? SMH. Knowledge over naïveté. Once again, we agree!
Exactly.
We, Mr. "the Knife" and I, grew up in the 80s, when men "getting in touch with their feminine side" was all the rage. Mr. "the Knife" has said, since we were in high school, that his masculine side has another masculine side! For which I am extremely grateful!
In rare moments of exasperation when I will say to him, "You are SUCH a guy!" he will reply, "You're welcome!" 😂🤣
"So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27 NIV
Mrs. "the Knife"
Amen!
Yep we the Xers had had enough. The FAFO Generation. I always liked those “reluctant hero” movies where the bad guy does a thing and you just know that’s it. That’s the push of the domino. That action that turns the guy who just wanted to do his life into the worst nightmare. Well, we have a whole generation - small, maybe, but awake and alert now. FAFO indeed.
Gen X! Gen X! Gen X!
We have an entire MEDIA SYSTEM of those people now. And they aren't shy about telling the truth as they see it. We might be wrong, but we're honest about how we got there.
GenX FTW.
Since Tuesday, for me, it's been 1998, driving 80MPH down the highway listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNail6JjEiE as loud as the speakers can play.
This is not a Fugazi Tshirt
Thanks! My kids are Xers and I am a proud Boomer, especially today. Proud of you.
Harris blowing through $1 billion on her campaign and now being $20 million in the hole is insane. She ran her campaign exactly how her regime spent our tax dollars. On bullshit. The grift is real. These politicians and media propagandists have their dirty fingers in many pies.
Imagine if she had a whole year to spend money. $3-4Billion?
"the dems have become the party of the faculty lounge, sneering, elitist, and condescending. they have no levity, no joy, and no tolerance for anything that is not exactly like them."
I hadn't really thought about this before. We have touched on it previously regarding their inability to produce memes or take a jab. But never so simply stated. The only emotions they have left are anger, jealousy, and irritation. So sad, so worthless
I have never met a group of people so disgustingly angry at nothing except what they invent as truth.
The funny thing is Rogan IS A LEFTY. Or he was until the left went stark raving mad. I've always said that the "legit left" and the "real right" are not the problem. It's all those grifters in the middle which is 66-75% of both. When I think of "legit left" I think of people like RFK Jr & Dennis Kucinich and on the "real right" people like Ron Paul, and Massie. I don't agree with everything either side says for but at least they stand for something.
This time it appears that the LL & RR got together and pulled in a bunch of other people by simply talking to them instead of shaming, insulting and berating them.
I was looking for a comment from someone else who knows this.
But not only is he a lefty, he is also curious, and genuine, and will have a conversation with just about anyone. Do you remember when Joe Rogan talked with Matt Walsh? They have very different opinions, but Joe still had an interesting chat with him.
What the Democrats seem to be missing is that Joe Rogan doesn't conduct interviews on a left/right paradigm. He just asks simple questions and lets his guests talk. What freaks them out is that he manages to draw honest answers, such as when he got that CNN mouthpiece Sanjay Gupta to admit that the network lied out its ass about ivermectin. No shot they could risk that with Harris or any of her surrogates.
It's telling that the two most impactful media appearances of the campaign were Trump's open ended 3 hour gabfest with Rogan, and Kamala's doctored 60 Minutes hit with Bill Whitaker. A rambling, all topics/no holds-barred conversation versus a narrowly scripted and heavily edited attempt at a traditional interview. The contrast in the two was as stark as the contrast between the two candidates.
YES! He asks questions, and questions that he is actually interested in, and then listens.
You know how I feel about Trump (for whom I have now, finally, whored out my integrity etc. etc.). And when I saw him tell the garbage truck story at one of the final rallies before the election, I sat there laughing and I said, in Notes, that he was just so endearing. You find someone who thought I'd ever use a word like that about him, you must have the holy grail in your basement bar.
And the floor-stamping articles I saw insisting that it was Just Not Funny! and He Humiliated Himself! etc. etc. etc.--I didn't want to jinx anything by allowing myself to think in those moments that he was going to win, the best I could do was vote in the name of justice, but the voices from the bushes were roaring. Gleefully.
The beauty of what Joe Rogen does is he just lets them talk. He’ll ask questions then let them talk. Eventually they will reveal their true feelings and beliefs. No liberal can stop talking and lecturing long enough for the person being interviewed to express anything.
Precisely.
What happened last Tuesday, November 5, in America was that Pathocracy/totalitarianism was turned into a puddle of melting wax, like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz,
America under Trump deflected the ruling Psychopaths. Do you know how incredibly astonishing that is?
I have expertise in totalitarianism. I can tell you what kind of phantasmagorical miracle this kind of turn-around is.
Kid, this is America. Sooner or later we get around to saying "fuck this shit."
Amen. Fuck around and find out.
Took ya long enough but better late than never. I was so hoping that half of Americans would say "F'off" to the vax but only 1/3rd did. Still tied for best in the world with Switzerland but I was sure you'd hit 50%.
PS. I'm one of the 10% hold outs up in Soviet Canuckistan so ya beat us. Keep at it!!!!
Many, many, many of us were voting purely for vengeance. You know how it is. A woman of great moral strength will nevertheless prostitute herself to feed her children if there is no other option.
Me--after whoring out my own integrity for the sake of my country, I feel so clean and shiny right now. But, see--I waited for the necessary moment. I didn't just rip my panties off for no good reason.
I found this disturbing and, yet, I could not look away.
Oh now. I wasn't flashing it for you, of course. Where has chivalry gone?
Mrs. Pi often drives because she has a nice Infinity and I drive a beat-up truck. I don't hold the door for her.
*shrug*
….just FYI, a lot more held out than people realize or
Think or know about, even down to fighting back by just saying sure I was vaccinated, etc. who actually are NOT, and just lied about it, faked it or saline only faked it to help others or save their jobs, homes,
And/or incomes to be able
To eat. The majority of Americans had to have everything and their families threatened, including being able to eat, and losing their home, and were PISSED this was illegally and immorally used against them and done to them and want Payback for this, and this election was the beginning of that. Lots of good people here in the states did NOT take it, and WAY more
Than people
Realized then or now. Majority that took/were coerced into taking the first, did NOT take the 2nd, and definitely no boosters. They also used caring for our fellow citizens against a mostly well meaning and caring citizenry here on purpose, and it still didn’t work on the vast majority of us and they therefore HAD to threaten all of us. Very few in my very college educated family of hundreds of people, cousins, etc. took it, like, maybe 5? ..and those that got one were heavily coerced/threatened and sought counsel, etc. and one was held hostage on a Navy ship on deployment after holding out for so long under unbelievable conditions, and was only 24 with a pregnant wife at home and didn’t see a choice, it was so
bad.
Thankfully he is still alive and kicking. My husband and I fought a massive University who employs us who was also threatened at the last hour to force mandates or lose all government contracts which was a massive deal and jobs in the billions along with ALL research contracts and grants! We won, but they also honored exemptions and our state fought back for us, and I basically set up resistance with legal friends and helped write exemptions for people all over the country, including those in government, other universities, etc. None of what transpired was okay, and we are not forgetting and are just bracing for what’s coming for all the people coerced, the no informed
Consent given, who were threatened and lied to, and the health nightmare happening currently to so many good people as a result of the poison coerced into the majority of them.
Apparently I just started early.
We weren't given any good options, those of us who don't think warp speed pharmaceutical rollouts are great ideas and who prefer not to vote for flagrant toddlerism.
But my friend died in January. The CDC has the vax on the routine schedule for everyone six months' of age and older. Blue localities are trying to bring back masking.
And they really did try to assassinate the guy and then the MSM said it was so distasteful how he was exploiting that for votes.
If he had ripped off the orange makeup to reveal a nasty little mustache underneath I would have heard the blood of my ancestors calling out from the ground in Uman saying "Go for it, ketzeleh. We don't mind."
Except 1972, my entire adult life I would hold my nose and vote for the Democrat. Actions speak louder than words, and since 2020 the Democrats have been on a path of absurd cartoonish anti-democratic and anti-everything-else-I-treasure pretense of governance.
Covid's silver lining was making the scales fall from my eyes, as well as innumerable others. With this new clarity of vision, I could see back to the constant betrayals of the Obama years, and the self-serving opportunism of the Clintons.
Now forever leery of cults of personality, I can only hope that at least a few good things will get done. I still don't like Trump but at least there appear to be some better people around him this time.
Covid for me too. It was very shocking to see the truth so baldly in my face I actually had trouble sleeping for some time because so much of my life’s beliefs crumbled into dust at one time.
Likewise
I haven't voted all that much over the course of my lifetime, not thinking much of any of 'em.
And these days in the cosmic metaphysical realm of things I try only to hope/ask/pray for that which is not presumptuous of being only a mere little mote of mineral agglomeration. I asked only for justice as I walked to the polls and I felt ever so much lighter as I walked home. I did my part, best as I could, and however the world goes now is out of my hands.
I was thoroughly conditioned that it was my civic duty to vote. I don't think I've ever missed at least a presidential election, and almost none of the midterms.
Almost every vote was an Against vote. I still like my idea for election reform of allowing everybody their vote, but they can choose whether it's positive or negative. At least we'd feel a little less frustrated that way.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
We shall see.
Is it astonishing? He won the election in 2020 as well. What was really astonishing was that some dude who didn't campaign at all in 2020 was elected as President. But it isn't astonishing that people cheat. It isn't astonishing either that they would rationalize it because they believed the propaganda of "orange man fascist."
You say you are an expert in totalitarianism, I'll take your word for it. My supposition is that if that expertise comes from fleeing from a totalitarian system, then it should not be as astonishing to learn that maybe, just maybe, there were principled people still in these institutionshere that regard the Constitution and its principles more than just words on paper. And that is astonishing, but the system was set up around those principles and words.
You should dial down on your optimism... 16-20 doesn't warrant it.
THIS….this is exactly why we had to elect Donald J Trump. I for one am not banking on a whole lot from him. That was NEVER the point! Our ticket was almost punched in 2020. Censorship Inc had us in our death throes by 2022. Normal Americas days were done. After the election rig in 2020 it really was a terrifying thought.
In the last several months top deep state leftists telegraphed what the priority was after the pesky election was out of the way. They were going to get Censorship Inc firing on all cylinders again. People like Musk, Rogan, and the platforms associated with them would have been toast. This time they would have not let up and we would have been straight up fucked.
This is why I am elated and so relieved over what just happened El Gato.
Ditto
10 years ago Joe Rogan was a Democrat. The Left has driven away all the men.
and some women
Nome Chomsky “Republicans are the party of business, Democrats the party of big business.” Allegedly.
Gnome Chomsky.
I wish it wasn't too late to drag him around some more.
Exactly
Strong, straight white ones, especially!
"They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing."
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Apt reference to Sylvia Plath, as The Bell Jar was a tedious, monotonous, joyless and pedantic vomit of woe-is-me narcissism; it was essentially a hysterical TikTok crying video in paper form. I can't understand why she's revered as much as she is aside from being wan, pretty and married to an asshole.
I'll take a bit of pushback on Morrissey as A) am a huge Smiths fan and I do think most of their music has held up, and B) he has actually come around to some based positions, especially regarding large-scale Muslim immigration to Britain.
"Party of the faculty lounge" is correct: Canada actually has *two* of them, and the inability of a country of 40+ million to produce a Rogan is fucking depressing.
Agree about Sylvia Plath. And when she ended her sad life by putting her head in an oven, she nearly gassed to death two guys living in the apartment below her.
That's what makes me nervous about lefties, that they'll take good people out with them when they finally implode.
Exactly! AND they won't feel the least little bit bad about it either.
Like nuking their house and therefore taking out the state.
I came here just to say Morrissey is one tough bastard for the same reasons you mentioned. They won't even release his latest album, Bonfire of Teenagers, because it references the 2017 Manchester bombing.
Morrisey has also called it Con-vid and been very anti lockdown and I believe against the Vx
IIRC, Morrissey also came out against the covid regime.
Not a Smiths fan, but he's real I'll give him that.
I appreciate the defense of Morrissey here. He is a talented, funny artist, with a good balance of earnestness and tongue-in-cheek. And he has been willing to speak his mind in recent years, even while coming under a ton of pressure.
Y’all need to bring back Red Green.
I remember seeing some of the dreary girls with "Ariel" tucked under their arms when I was in HS.
The sad thing is that "The Bell Jar" was a very funny book. The finger bowl vignette was something I could so identify with.
FYI her son committed suicide a few years ago. That's the legacy people of decency ought to remember.
She was a pretty fine poet, sort of Dylan Thomas-ish, and brilliant though he was, he was a raving alcoholic and died drinking something like 38 Black Russians on his 38th birthday. His wife Caitlin wrote a vitriolic memoir about him. What is interesting, though, is that back then there were a group of poets called "confessional poets," who wrote mainly about themselves, a harbinger of the totally epidemic confessionalism of today, but Anne Sexton, also a suicide, had as her shrink, a notorious MKUltra shrink, Dr. Martin Orne.
Everyone blamed Ted Hughes for Sylvia's death, as another wife suicided also, but with what we know about decades of "mental health treatment," who knows if SSRIs were involved or earlier versions of horrible drugs.
My favorite mad poet was Ted Roethke, who was manic-depressive, and when going manic, would run into the classroom, jump on the lectern, and pretend machine gun the students with rata tat tat. Yet, with what is around us, all the madness seems a lot less romantic.
I thought she was a self-obsessed moron.
Roethke's Elegy for Jane captures the love of teacher for student: neither father nor lover. Fantastic poem.
Because you guys are just tooo nice, maybe?