Not Quite Getting Over It
From time to time, I wonder whether I overuse the word psychodrama. And then, within days, I find another one of these:
Update, via the comments:
Apparently, Ms Cranz is “ignoring those fucks” – the boys who upset her at school, the boys who could “DEVASTATE” her by smirking or being confident, more confident than she was – and she’s ignoring them by referring to them, passionately, angrily, as if they were of crushing importance, and letting them shape her worldview as a supposedly grown woman. Such that she publicly airs her hang-ups about confident, smirking schoolboys, and construes those hang-ups as activism. Proof of woke righteousness. You see, she’s “dismantling their power structures” by letting them have power over her, in her mind, years later.
Regarding the “boy from Kentucky,” the one whose expression and skin colour so enrage Ms Cranz, see this, and this, and this.
Oh, and this too.
Via Ben Sixsmith.
Oh, and add the reason writer who defended Antifa going after people like Milo Yiannopoulos, and the one who doxxed a guy for making a “make me a sammich” joke.
Phillip’s actions were provocative and, given he is a mature man and a combat veteran…
So far all anything says, such as the reliably red fake news New York Times, is “He was a Native American veteran of the Vietnam War.”
Granted, if he was in the Army that gets him a Shoulder Sleeve Insignia – Former Wartime Service (SSI-FWTS) (AKA combat patch), but for all we know he might have been a personnel clerk in a III Corps HQ in Saigon the whole time who never even heard a shot in anger, which is a far cry from being an 11B in the 101st.
If this guy had been a Marine Scout Sniper, given the left’s penchant for getting hyperbolic over their “veterans” (war hero Navy guy Lyndon Johnson – Silver Star for one flight on an Army plane that turned back because of electrical problems), I’m reasonably sure the media would be waving that banner wide and high, so I am getting the impression that a Navajo Codetalker wouldn’t give him the time of day.
“He was a Native American veteran of the Vietnam War.”
I’ve seen more recently that he’s now being listed as a Vietnam era veteran which is an entirely different kettle of fish. Props for serving but he may have done his time in Germany or stateside. If he’d been in Vietnam the ‘era’ wouldn’t be necessary.
Naturally, our grin-detesting progressive has chosen to ignore the actual details of the story…
Speaking of which, here is another charmer.
Damnit, hit the wrong key.
Regardless, “I wept over my toxic masculinity as I punched the boy in the face”, just about sums up the left these days.
Damnit, hit the wrong key.
Fixed.
Shukran, sahib. At least it wasn’t italics, so I got that going for me.
When is my appointment for the correction booth ?
When is my appointment for the correction booth?
I’ve had to order a new one. Arrives on Wednesday. The old one was… terribly soiled.
I’ve learned the best recourse is to ignore those fucks, and keep dismantling their power structures.
She doesn’t seem to be doing a very good job of ignoring this particular 15 year old white boy does she?
As for ‘ dismantling their power structures’. I can only imagine she means that majority rule should be done away with, so that ethnic minorities like her can wield power over the white majority. Because reasons (revenge).
Oh, and tweeting her excitement about the latest episode of Supergirl.
That alone disqualifies her from being taken seriously on any topic.
you have to wonder exactly how much intersectional sanctimony is grounded in a lingering resentment at being insufficiently statusful, or confident, or attractive, at school.
Seems like a variant on Sailer’s Law.
Farnsworth,
(war hero Navy guy Lyndon Johnson – Silver Star for one flight on an Army plane that turned back because of electrical problems)
After initially backing up LBJ’s claims of “bravery under fire” (a lie that is still part of the official record), the surviving crewmen (and descendants thereof) of the B-26 in question admitted in an interview many years later that there was never any “electrical problem”; they turned back after 5 minutes of flight because they did not want to babysit a visiting VIP in the combat zone.
Seems like a variant on Sailer’s Law.
Not too long ago, the self-imagined cool kids would have raised an eyebrow at ostentatious displays of piety – routinely mocking evangelists, archbishops, etc. However, now that public displays of piety largely take the form of woke politics, the self-imagined cool kids seem, for the most part, remarkably credulous. As if other motives couldn’t possibly be in play.
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https://twitter.com/porter14159/status/1087376020200665090
NTSOG: “Phillip’s actions were provocative and, given he is a mature man and a combat veteran, he had a real power advantage over the lad[s]. I consider him a bully.”
I have not seen any evidence that he ever saw combat, only brief statements in the news and at Wikipedia that he was in Vietnam. He could well have never seen combat, since a large fraction of military personnel are in support positions.
*sounds of journalists’ tweets being deleted*
I have not seen any evidence that he ever saw combat, only brief statements in the news and at Wikipedia that he was in Vietnam.
Now it gets interesting…
Recon ranger [sic]. Right, no such animal champ, but I was a Green Beret SEAL Space Shuttle Doorgunner. Let me tell you about the time we were in low Earth orbit, scanning with our proton binoculars for Taliban when the flak was so thick we could have lowerer the landing gear and rolled home on it. Suddenly, there we were inverted, in a flat spin, Air Medals dangling in our faces, the two left engines on fire, and Chuck (that is what I called BG Yeager) was just freaking out. “Relax and go get some coffee in the sick bay”, I said to him, “I have the controls”.
*sounds of journalists’ tweets being deleted*
Not just tweets. That font of good old conservative reason and red-blooded right-wingery, National Review seems to have expunged this piece by one of their conserving conservative writers.
The same organ has a piece by another powerhouse of the conservative movement, Mona Charen, in which she explains how there is “much to like” about the recent Gillette ad.
My ‘little list’ is growing daily.
You know, I’m from Vietnam times. I’m what they call a recon ranger.
Ruh-roh … are now treading into Stolen Valor territory?
For those who missed it, the hat-wearing student’s account of events can be read here.
Ruh-roh … are now treading into Stolen Valor territory?
We’re going to find out, I think. TAH has a good track record of finding the phonies.
Can’t embed, but This is still the greatest takedown of so-called ‘Native American’ BS ever.
…Vietnam era veteran…
Many years ago I knew someone who insisted on using that term. He was not, shall we say, very well practiced at being honest with himself. It was a running spectacle.
Vietnam era veteran
The article then says he might have graduated high school in 72 or 73 …
All offensive action against N Vietnam ceased in January 73 and 95% of troops (American & allies) were gone from S Vietnam by August 73.
The timeline of that alone puts the “War Vet” claim in serious doubt.
(btw, he looks a LOT older than 64 so I didn’t question the ‘nam vet thing at the get-go)
Jessica “male tears” Valenti weighs in.
The Marine combat vets i knew of my parent’s generation never, and i mean never, talked about their combat experiences.
How they smuggled booze, sure, but combat? No.
I suppose I should say, not in front of me, or, afaict, other civilians.
The timeline of that alone puts the “War Vet” claim in serious doubt.
As he is claiming to be a jarhead, the last Marines, other than embassy guards, were out in June 1971, and no “recon ranger” worth his salt would deign be an embassy guard, so his claim is even shakier.
Btw. Smirk? That’s no smirk.
It’s a defensive smile/grimace.
It’s a kid thinking “What do I do?”
She refuses to read it.
“Senior staff reporter.” What she refuses to read.
She refuses to read it.
She’s a “journalist”, you know. Can’t disturb the narrative.
That font of good old conservative reason and red-blooded right-wingery, National Review seems to have expunged this piece by one of their conserving conservative writers.
The same organ has a piece by another powerhouse of the conservative movement, Mona Charen, in which she explains how there is “much to like” about the recent Gillette ad.
Ummm???
You do have two utterly different viewpoints lumped together there. Right wing does remain utterly distinct from actual conservative.
Wellll, no.
With that article’s headline of The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross , that’s utter and absolute pure faith, rather than observant reason . . . . a more accurate summation would be to note . . this piece by one of their emphatically right wing, right wing writers., even if a bit redundant. Particularly where the column is listed near the top of the page as “religion” . . . and where one also easily notes that the accurate reference for the article is faith, rather than actual personal practicing religion.
And something that also doesn’t help with the article is . . .
The video.
In that list of What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us, somehow moving pictures and other forms of telecommunications just don’t seem to be turning up, somehow. As A Guess, A Thought is that the writer of the article might have in mind the movie Jesus H. Christ By Mel Gibson . . . or mebbe something else, given that he doesn’t explain what he means by the video. But all of any instances of video are going to be 20th century, Common Era, or later, not earlier.
A definite show of his confusion is reinforced further down the article, with . . . more broadly, for one side in the great divide between Right and Left, or red and blue, . . . Yes indeed, quite the Oops, there. If he wants people to focus on metaphoric colors, either he remembers the absolute ocean of purple in that “great divide” between red and blue, or his entire audience will focus instead on what he’s leaving out . . . .
Quite by contrast, with the other article commenting on the Gillette ad, we do get statements such as . . .
I haven’t seen that video, but in that article, statements of what to do, rather than merely what to believe in, do indeed show the essence of conservative over mere right wing.
The right wing article certainly jumped the gun, and also jumped the shark, and that would be an easy reason it got pulled. At the same time, when one notes the overall and clear differences between actual conservative and mere right wing, and when looking at editorial focus in general, that clear difference would also be an excellent reason why the right wing article got pulled and the conservative article remains.
Smirk? That’s no smirk.
My twin grandsons are 16 … and they get that same rictus when stuck in a situation they have no clue on how to respond.
None of the boys responded to all this race-baiting and targeting by getting angry or violent. But awkward, defensive smiling is now beyond the pale of acceptable reactions to assault.
Smirk? That’s no smirk.
Clearly it’s an Assault Smirk and should be banned.
Also. “Recon ranger”?
Wtf is that?
Ranger is US Army.
Force Recon is US Marines.
Did this guy get his service history from the movie Trading Places?
She refuses to read it.
Replying in a huff to all the people slagging her in the comments for not reading “Reason” because “Reason”…
Not exactly covering herself with glory today.
Not exactly covering herself with glory today.
It’s a little bizarre. Ms Grant refuses to read an article that disproves her assumptions with extensive video evidence, and simultaneously claims that the article, which she pointedly hasn’t read, says things it doesn’t actually say. And when several readers point out that maybe this isn’t an ideal attitude for a professional journalist, she accuses them, wholesale, of being racists. Perhaps we can look forward to Ms Grant bemoaning how people aren’t taking her seriously as a journalist because she’s a woman.
I say it’s bizarre, which it is, but, as we’ve seen over the last 24 hours or so, it’s also not an outlier or some random aberration.
Perhaps we can look forward to Ms Grant bemoaning how people aren’t taking her seriously as a journalist because she’s a woman.
Well, regrettably I’ll cop to that. It’s reactions like Ms Grant’s that cause people like me to question if I should take women journalists seriously. Most of the hysteria (hysteria, heh) and overreacting on this and Kavanaugh and similar issues has come from women, journalists or not, and similar soyboy men. Hey, just trying to be unnecessarily honest.
Perhaps we can look forward to Ms Grant bemoaning how people aren’t taking her seriously as a journalist because she’s a woman.
She might think that, but as an
journalistopinion writer for rags like those, I would more seriously take young Bucky Trumble, 7th grade reporter for the East Overshoe Junior High “Fightin’ Galoshes Weekly Times” school paper.And when several readers point out that maybe this isn’t an ideal attitude for a professional journalist, she accuses them, wholesale, of being racists.
The more unstable the aircraft, the better suited it is to acrobatics.
This “national conversation” with death threats and doxxing is about some 14 YO boys smiling while grown men hurl insults at them. Nobody was hit, kicked, spat upon. No weapons were brandished. No pushing or shoving. No police were called. No one arrested. Media blow up aside, this event is nothing. That is how nuts the media have become. I blame Twitter.
I say it’s bizarre…
Well in a post modern world “truth” is relative and personal and when you really “know” the “truth” there is no need to test it further.
“I would more seriously take young Bucky Trumble, 7th grade reporter for the East Overshoe Junior High “Fightin’ Galoshes Weekly Times” school paper.”
HAVE YOU SEEN THE SMIRK ON THAT BUCKY OH WAIT TILL WE GET HIM INTO COLLEGE WE’LL FIX (snerk)HIM!/education harpies everywhere.
That is how nuts the media have become. I blame Twitter.
Seriously? I blame the media. And if anyone else, our clown colleges and entertainment industry. But mostly ourselves for not doing anything about this crap as it was marching up 5th Avenue. But blame is for the past. The future is what matters.
My twin grandsons are 16 … and they get that same rictus when stuck in a situation they have no clue on how to respond.
Correct. I see it all the time at school, when boys are being disciplined and are uncertain if they should fight back or take it.
I’ve also seen it on a boy at his father’s funeral. He wasn’t smiling, and he sure wasn’t “smirking”.
I blame Twitter.
and
Seriously? I blame the media.
It’s both: The left-dominated news media are intent on demonizing and eventually silencing all opposition. But Twitter does facilitate bad behavior by making it easier to comment without thinking and while emotion rules initial reactions.
But Twitter does facilitate bad behavior by making it easier to comment without thinking and while emotion rules initial reactions.
But that’s like blaming Jameson for my hangover. I can blame Twitter (TBC, not a fan) for selective censorship, etc. but not for its features.
But that’s like blaming Jameson for my hangover.
We really need a more precise word than “blame”: We all have free will and are responsible for our actions, but nonetheless Twitter does facilitate bad behavior. (And to generalize, note how the comment threads on so many blogs are cesspits of invective and ad hominems. Anonymity can tempt good people to be uncivil in ways they never would in face-to-face encounters, and it enables people who are actually malicious.)
Great. Now the leftists are dredging through all old news and anything they can find to try to keep the rayciss Catholic school kids narrative going.
The sign they are flashing is something the NBA players started after someone hit a 3 point shot, but as you can see in the comments, facts bounce off leftists like BBs off a tank.
“There’s a pattern”, yeah, just not the one you think it is.
Revise and extend, that sign is actually a referee sign – hold up hand one before the penalty shot attempt, two if successful.