Better Out Than In, I Suppose

I see you have an ear for these things.

I don’t think she understands how symbolic it is.
I suspect that would require a level of self-awareness that’s unavailable to her.

I always think of how badly she treated poor Julian.

Imagine if Yoko never hooked up with John Lennon. It’s easy if you try.

You deserve no less.

Oh, that sounds like a nasty case of constipation.
More like a kidney stone, and Yoko is living proof that P.T. Barnum was right.

oh geez, when will the accusations and whining stop?

We have proof, in exit polls, that white women will pawn their humanity for the safety of white supremacy. We have abortion pills to stockpile and neighbors to protect and children to teach. We have the right woman to find. We have local elections in a year.

…when will the accusations and whining stop?
Lindy West – histrionic well known to those who frequent Dave’s Place – never, in her case.

We have the right woman to find. We have local elections in a year.

Part the first, a BFO, seeing as how “we” (meaning they, of course) failed rather miserably at that. Part the second, she might want to take note that “we” (meaning they, of course) were beaten like a Chinese gong in local elections.
When you surround yourself with clowns, don’t be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Did the rest of you see this b^tch?
Leftist parent of the year.

Is she expecting applause?
Again, there are levels of self-awareness that are cruelly / hilariously unavailable to some people.

How nice to hear from some one who married a rich, famous person.

Is she expecting applause?
Won’t this ultimately backfire? One can only lie to kids for so long before they realize that Santa doesn’t exist. The difference is, most of us don’t begrudge our parents fibbing to bring happiness to our lives. Turning a childhood into a fabricated nightmare is a different matter entirely.

Turning a childhood into a fabricated nightmare is a different matter entirely.
Presuming the kids actually grow up. No guarantee these days.
Somewhere, in a campus safe space in America, a future president is coloring in a coloring book.

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Presuming the kids actually grow up. No guarantee these days.
Speaking of which…

They scrubbed it from their site: http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29922/
Don’t know if they canceled it, tho. Insty:

Just an observation: When schools treat an election as a traumatic event — often via their programs on “diversity and inclusion” — they are in fact telling students who voted for the “traumatic” candidate that they aren’t welcome as members of the community. Saying that there’s only one acceptable outcome for an election doesn’t promote diversity, and it makes students who supported the other candidate feel excluded.

One can only lie to kids for so long before they realize that Santa doesn’t exist.
Isn’t John Lewis now being castigated for cruelly destroying that myth with their current Christmas advert?

Here, let me make up for the repetition by providing Steyn, on 11/11:

This is probably not the occasion to compare the vast conscript armies who slogged it out on the Western Front a century ago with their solipsistic progeny, the ululating ninnies of Generation Snowflake. This week American universities, now among the most expensive yet worthless institutions on the planet, have held mass “cry-ins” to protest Tuesday’s election. At the University of Michigan, sufferers from PTSD (Post-Trumptastic Stress Disorder) were consoled with Play-Doh and coloring books. Can you imagine any of the teenagers who stormed the beaches of Normandy–boys who were men, and often five, six, seven years younger than today’s elderly “students”–agreeing to participate in anything so ostentatiously self-indulgent as a “cry-in” followed by free Play-Doh?
What comes after the cry-ins? Monisha Rajesh, a journalist with The Guardian and my old newspaper The Sunday Telegraph, is hot for a “presidential assassination”. In 2008, the left were luridly fantasizing about what I called Obama assassination porn–how the bigoted right would surely not wait long to kill the first black president. Eight years later, the same people actively urge the assassination of his successor. They are what they imagine their opponents to be.

Emphasis mine.
As has been frequently observed here, the Left collectively functions as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (and Borderline for the feminists). One of the “tells” of NPD is that whatever they accuse you of, that’s what they’re up to, and the hell of it is that you can never, EVER get them to see that.
They’re like trees growing in the mouth of a canyon: when young they were pliable, but they’ve grown into a bent position and you can’t straighten them up without breaking them.
I understand how people are delighted in watching left-wing angst, but I find it disturbing more than anything. It reinforces that we’re dealing with some genuinely dangerous people who may affect snowflake delicacy but who will also Go Nazi as Dorothy Parker predicted.
If and when a hot civil war breaks out the remains of the Republic, I know who will throw the first punch and also who will play dirtier.
And the side that plays dirtiest is usually the side to win. The Kulaks, alas, are unavailable for comment.

Let’s revisit this
Why the sudden burst of sadism, David?
BTW, I may be mistaken, but I believe Yoko links are an AoSHQ version of a “rickroll”.

One last thing: Good news this time.
We had an all-hands meeting on Wednesday for our company, the largest IT security company in the world, headquartered in Silicone Valley. (San Fransisco Bay Area.)
(I was originally hired by a scrappy little start-up [ <100 employees], which was acquired by a medium-sized company [~1500 employees], and recently acquired by the struggling behemoth [~11,000 employees]. Lucky for the behemoth, the CEO of the middle-sized company is now the CEO of the big one and he's installed his people in the top positions. It will struggle no more.)
During the Q&A, someone asked him what the implications of the U.S. elections were for the company. He recognized what he was really being asked and very wisely said, “IT security is a bipartisan issue. Full stop.”
Didn’t say anything to indicate which side he favored, didn’t make any stray comments or take any gratuitous digs, which might mean he’s not left-wing at all. The man is Australian (love the accent) and so is statistically likely to be a garden-variety Ozzie liberal, but maybe he’s just smart. (Started out as a software developer, but turns out he’s really good at running companies. That combination of skills is as rare as conservatives in academia.)
Some years ago, right after his medium company acquired my start-up, he stated that as a company we would not fulfill requests by national governments to spy on their citizens. We have the technology to do what Snowden revealed that the NSA was doing; however, the product line of the medium company cannot be purchased off the shelf and installed by customers: professionals from our company have to survey the existing network, determine the requirements, and do the installation.
So we can decide what gets sold to whom.
(That said, we sell our wares to ministries of defense and other gubmint agencies world-wide, but they’re deployed to protect the gubmint networks against hacking, not to see what’s happening outside their .gov or .mil domains.)
Anyway, it is good to see someone in a position of power and influence turn down the opportunity to be a total ass, as Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art (described in the Steyn link in a previous post of mine).
Given the length and number of my recent comments I can see that the ADDerall has kicked in and it’s time to do the dishes.

Oh, and BTW, I agree with your sentiments regarding the so-called “Alt-Right.” I think there’s a good likelihood that many, if not most, are agents provocateur.

Di,
Speaking of Steyn,
This week, almost two decades after the Starr Report, the Clintons finally reached what Ken called “completion”. To coincide with the new bargain rates for Chelsea’s speeches on diarrhea in Africa, SteynOnline is also holding an everything-must-go sale as we frantically unload roomfuls of Clinton columns we are never going to need again.
Oh please let that be so!

I believe I will start wearing a diaper pin as a signal that the buttercups should grow up.

Silicone Valley? I thought that was in L.A. Or the Vegas Strip
Foiled by spellcheck.
Silicon
But then, I’m in software, not hardware.

Oh, and AGAIN there’s this bullshit about “safe houses” and “underground railroads” for LGBTQ etc. people and women seeking abortions, as certainly Trump HATES the GAYS and TEH Wimmen seeking abortions, and they’ll have to hide in the shadows and dart around at night and the SAFETY PINS!!!

It’s like the SJWs live in an entirely different world from the sane people.
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From the May, 1970 National Lampoon:
Horrorscope (phrenology)
June 15, 1970 (social mobility). Beatle John Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, draws 5,000 people to London’s Albert Hall for a “Beatle” performance. Beatles perform for 15 minutes, then leave stage. Yoko shaves legs, inspects nostrils and shrieks into microphone for one and a half hours. Audience finally gets fed up and beats the crap out of her.

I’m pretty sure Reagan also wanted to kill them all but just didn’t get around to it.
The leftist hysteria this week is strikingly similar, yes.
What I find most amusing is that they’re yelling about Mrs Clinton “winning the popular vote” (by 400,000 I believe – a mere 0.3%) and the Electoral College system is “undemocratic” and must be abolished. Yet, in 2004, George W Bush “won the popular vote” by more than 3 million, but they were banging on about a “stolen election!” because of the close vote in Ohio that put Bush over the top.
Screaming garbage babies, as Iowahawk calls them.
Darleen,
Isn’t the diaper pin so they can pin their mittens to their jackets year-round?

David, I don’t know why it is, but when I found my Zen had got completely fucked up today, I instantly thought of you…
No refunds, credit note only.

I think it probably helps if you don’t conceive of your political preferences as a substitute religion. That way, you’re less likely to use your own children as props in some ongoing psychodrama, or to mistreat them as in the video above, or to drag them into heated scuffles and use them to block fire escapes, as happened during several Occupy protests, or to put four-year-olds on train tracks to show how radical you are.
That x10.

@ Dicentra
I hope I don’t have to emphasize here that the ethos of Western Civ is individualism,
Outside of parts of Northwest Europe and the Anglosphere, it really isn’t. You’ll find that Southern Europe – Southern Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Southern France – are very different. We are the exception, not the rule.

This, via Ace, seems oddly symbolic.

I wonder if the horse understands just how much she hates him.

From Vox

… there was fear of an Islamophobic backlash after a terrorist attack in Sydney left two hostages and the gunman dead (one of the hostages was killed by a bullet ricochet).

As I was focussed on other things, I only just now noticed the parenthetical “one of the hostages was killed by a bullet ricochet”.
Can activist journalism – a journalism obsessed with ‘discourses’ – sink any lower than that? I mean, how else are we intended to read that other than in the sense that the armed hostage taker was only really responsible for one of the two fatalities?
If anything is broken, it’s not democracy but the press.
I’m starting to come round to the idea that the impact of GamerGate might actually have been far more significant than I first realised.
While on the face of it, it seems to have been fairly trivial and only of importance to people who like gaming, I also think it was probably the first time when large numbers of mainly apolitical people suddenly came face to face with the brazen hypocrisy, lies and cronyism; the absolutely egregious absence of fact-checking or even a pretence at impartiality; the dishonesty and moral posturing of large swathes of the mainstream media.
And it was also the first time that large parts of that mainstream media thought nothing of promoting and backing the most awful people in the name of a bankrupt ideological cause.

… there was fear of an Islamophobic backlash after a terrorist attack in Sydney left two hostages and the gunman dead (one of the hostages was killed by a bullet ricochet).
They’re always afraid of an ‘islamophobic’ backlash that never happens, but not of actual muslim violence. Scum.
I think the US election has opened a lot of peoples eyes to the bias of the media.

Laurie Penny’s blog, Penny Red began in 2007 and already by 2010 had been nominated for the Orwell Prize.
We live in an age of routine and largely unregistered irony.

It’s weaponized (by manipulators) emotional and mental fragility.

Pauline Kael famously commented, after the 1972 Presidential election, ‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.’”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/culture-civilization/the-actual-pauline-kael-quote%E2%80%94not-as-bad-and-worse/

Speaking of Orwell.

Remember kids, the best way to set up a clandestine network of safe houses to hide “victims” of the new brown-shirted regime is to advertise same on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

No doubt all those protesters are actually right-wingers pretending to be Progressives in order to make the political left look bad.

Who?

Jonathan,
Who was the US journalist who said, upon Nixon’s election, that she couldn’t understand how he’d won because she didn’t know anyone who’d voted for him?
Pauline Kael. Her actual quote is somewhat more verbose:
“I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.”
She didn’t know them, but she could feel them.

In 2008 Adam Carolla picked Donald Trump to be president in 2016. Missed on the First Lady, however…
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/politics/adam-carolla-predicted-donald-trump/

Posted by: dicentra | November 12, 2016 at 22:35
Brilliant! And by that I mean my thoughts exactly.
What the left is hysterically accusing us of tells us what fantasies are getting “soak time” in their collective hive mind.

A woman argues with NYPD officers as she takes part in a protest against president-elect Donald Trump
I can’t help noticing the small boy trying to hold his mother back while she screams at random police officers. Again, what kind of parent drags a small child to a protest that is very likely to devolve into scuffles, violence and arrests, as previous protests had, and as indeed was the case?

I’ve never heard of this guy, but he rips Hillary apart in a surprisingly civilised way in this compilation vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnw8JRpXdAc

Got charged with slapping a police horse. Well done.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/video-trump-protester-charged-with-slapping-police-horse-at-kc-protest-is-communist-agitator/

I’ve never heard of this guy, but he rips Hillary apart in a surprisingly civilised way in this compilation vid:
Can these people actually write? I find it much quicker to read an article than to sit through a Youtube video. Less taxing on bandwidth for those of us who don’t have unlimited bandwidth, too.

Oh, and AGAIN there’s this bullshit about “safe houses” and “underground railroads” for LGBTQ etc. people and women seeking abortions, as certainly Trump HATES the GAYS and TEH Wimmen seeking abortions, and they’ll have to hide in the shadows and dart around at night and the SAFETY PINS!!!
I’ve talked to several people since the election who are convinced that Trump is going to round up gay people, send them to concentration camps and torture them into become straight… I mean FFS, how do you even begin when confronted with such paranoia?

“I can’t help noticing the small boy trying to hold his mother back”
It’s come full circle. SJWs acting like five year-olds, and now five year-olds being the sensible, rational actors. Like I said earlier – Trump should provide free psychiatric care and pot to our psychodramatic friends as part one of his health reforms.
No problem Spiny, I’ve been thinking about that quote a lot lately for some reason.