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I forgot. When Bush was elected, there was ALSO the BS of “safe houses” and “Underground railroads” blah, and I’m pretty sure Reagan also wanted to kill them all but just didn’t get around to it.
It’s like the SJWs live in an entirely different world from the sane people.
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“Isn’t John Lewis now being castigated for cruelly destroying that myth with their current Christmas advert?”
Which advert is that again?
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.
When Bush was elected, there was ALSO the BS of “safe houses” and “Underground railroads” blah, and I’m pretty sure Reagan also wanted to kill them all but just didn’t get around to it.
I think this is the first time that Americans have taken to the streets en masse to protest an election on the day AFTER it took place.
It’s about as unseemly as it gets, and it speaks volumes about the harm Obama’s SJW boosterism has done.
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?
theyre now saying this diaper pin thing started in the UK after Brexit. Don’t recall that. Seems it would have popped up here?
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.
Personally I think Yoko does a poor re-enactment of When Harry Met Sally.
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.
That x10.
Well, it seems to me that in broad terms there’s an asymmetry of psychology. It’s one of things I hope this blog has illustrated over the years. And which may help explain why the election of the Labour Party over here, resulting in years of rapacious, unsustainable socialism, didn’t result in mobs of non-leftists smashing cars, setting fire to occupied buildings and rioting for three days solid.
And yet on the left, the threshold for thuggery, rioting and collective delinquency – and mental contortion to excuse it – seems to get lower every time.
@ 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.
I believe I will start wearing a diaper pin
The following paragraph from the Vox article you linked to jumped out at me:
The “safety pin” symbol was inspired by the 2014 #illridewithyou movement in Sydney, Australia. where people offered to sit next to Muslims who felt threatened on their commutes — at the time, 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).
It jumped out at me mainly because it reminded me of this sequel to the #illridewithyou story, related by Rachael Jacobs herself, the woman who began the hashtag (my italics):
I saw a woman on the train start to fiddle with her headscarf.
Confession time. In my Facebook status, I editorialised. She wasn’t sitting next to me. She was a bit away, towards the other end of the carriage. Like most people she had been looking at her phone, then slowly started to unpin her scarf …
I wanted to talk to her, but had no idea what to say. Anything that came to mind seemed tokenistic and patronising. She might not even be Muslim or she could have just been warm! …
Rather than quiz her about her choice of clothing, I thought if I simply offered to walk her to her destination, it might help.
I wanted to tell her I was sorry for so many things – for overstepping the mark, for making assumptions about a complete stranger and for belonging to a culture where racism was part of her everyday experience.
But none of those words came out, and our near silent encounter was over in a moment.
My second status was written as a heartbreaking postscript to my first. While the woman appeared to appreciate my gesture, we had both left defeated and deflated. What good is one small action against an avalanche of ignorance?
Yes, what good indeed!
Rachael Jacobs lectures in Creative Arts Education (Dance, Drama and Music) at the Australian Catholic University […] She has completed several arts education research projects addressing social justice issues as they intersect with artistic engagement.
This, via Ace, seems oddly symbolic.
I wonder if the horse understands just how much she hates him.
This, via Ace, seems oddly symbolic.
In a battle of wits my money’s on the horse.
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.
Cops love The Donald!
… 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.
Sorry, I seem to have a bee in my bonnet today … but talking about the bias in the media:
Laurie Penny‘s blog, Penny Red began in 2007 and already by 2010 had been nominated for the Orwell Prize. I don’t have details for how many subscribers she has – or had – but if her Twitter account is anything to go by, let’s be generous and say it’s 150,000.
Those 150,000 subscribers and her blog managed to propel the privately educated Oxford graduate into the mainstream media with columns in The Guardian, The New Statesman and slots on TV news, mainly the BBC and Channel 4.
Kate Smurthwaite, yet another privately educated Oxford graduate has a Youtube channel followed by just 1,500 people and yet – as a ‘feminist comedian’ – she regularly appears on Sky, the BBC, Channel 4 news and elsewhere.
Contrast this with Carl Benjamin better known as Sargon of Akkad.
If I remember rightly, he was raised on an air force base as his father served in the RAF Regiment and is university educated, but not an Oxbridge graduate and in 2014 he was an unemployed would-be game designer.
In just two years, he has racked up a following of over 450,000 subscribers on his main Youtube channel – that is three times as many as Laurie Penny has on Twitter – and yet where is his column in the mainstream media? Where is his invite onto the BBC or onto Channel 4 News? As far as I know, a single clip of less than 20 seconds was once used in an edition of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and he has never been heard from again through those kind of channels.
I’m not making an argument about the quality of his content, but what possible justification can the BBC, Channel 4 News etc. have for continually calling on the likes of Penny and Smurthwaite while completely sidelining someone who is likely three times more popular than Penny and nearly three thousand times more popular than Smurthwaite?
Is it any wonder no one in the mainstream media can understand why Trump’s election came as a total surprise to them?
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.
Is it any wonder no one in the mainstream media can understand why Trump’s election came as a total surprise to them?
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?
It’s weaponized (by manipulators) emotional and mental fragility.
On a lighter note.
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/
On a lighter note.
Could you describe your assailants sir?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGXK9xOF3jI
Speaking of Orwell.
And in peace and love news…
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.
And in peace and love news…
That is unpossible, Nostradamus has spoken.
No doubt all those protesters are actually right-wingers pretending to be Progressives in order to make the political left look bad.
What?
Who?
Enormous talent? Are you sure you have the right Yoko Ono?
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.
She didn’t know them, but she could feel them.
Spooky.
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/
Oh dear, I notice PiperPaul already posted that. Not sure how I missed it.
Credit where it is due.
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.
I wonder if the horse understands just how much she hates him.
It seems unlikely.
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?
Again, what kind of parent drags a small child to a protest that is very likely to devolve into scuffles, violence and arrests, as indeed was the case?
She’s unfit to have a kid, and you can see the Cop thinking exactly the same thing.
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
She’s unfit to have a kid,
It reminded me of this and this from the Agonies of the Left series. The words “human shield” and “parental neglect” came to mind. Also, “colossal self-indulgence.”
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/
On a lighter note.
Funny that the account is called “Words on a Screen”, but the tweet is a video that doesn’t play in my browser.
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.
Jonathan, that kid in the photo, holding his mom (?) back and obviously terrified–poor little guy, sacrificed for an adult’s need for drama.
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?
Considering when Caitlyn Jenner asked Trump which bathroom she should use, he replied, “Whichever you want.”
“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.