are going to believe, or pretend to believe,
That, as they say.
a different james
June 24, 2020 9:00 am
And what pointy heads at NASCAR are going to believe, or pretend to believe, that a professional driver had never seen an overhand loop or bowline dangling from a bay door before?
Humiliation is not about forcing you to do something you don’t want to do. It’s about making you pretend to want to do it. Making you pretend that you believe something which you know to be a lie.
Everyone will now act as if Bubba is the victim.
Tom
June 24, 2020 9:29 am
It’s strange to watch what appears to be a widespread, seemingly contagious unhinging; some kind of collective fever dream.
From reading lots of history I thought that having your civilisation collapse around you would be horrifying, but I never expected so much stupidity. And what pointy heads at NASCAR are going to believe, or pretend to believe, that a professional driver had never seen an overhand loop or bowline dangling from a bay door before?
Everyone on that row knew exactly what that was but were most likely scared to death to say anything. No one wants to be the first to stop clapping when Comrade Stalin is finished.
Karl
June 24, 2020 10:31 am
Imagine an afternoon with Bubba: [hysterical screaming, hyperventilating] “AAAAH IT’S A SCAFFOLD THEY’RE TRYING TO KILL ME!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just a bandstand. Only a bandstand. [hysterical screaming, blubbering] “AAAAH IT’S A NOOSE THEY’RE TRYING TO KILL ME!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just a venetian blind. See it goes up, it comes down.
Strangely I can find no photo of this terrifying noose piece of string.
Anyone?
terrifying piece of string.
I’m waiting for someone to say band name.
Jonathan
June 24, 2020 11:35 am
So, no police action against the BurnleyFlyer…
Lol. I noticed how media outrage over this in the UK pushed the murder of three white men by an African at the weekend well down the news bulletins…. FBI agents worked tirelessly to identify a pullrope from a garage door.
I find it hard to believe that an area filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of kit wouldn’t be covered by CCTV, but here we are.
Dr Evil
June 24, 2020 11:57 am
Those idiots are wearing masks OUTSIDE. They truly are imbeciles. Love the tweet saying how about countries next?
MC
June 24, 2020 11:58 am
It’s annoying how many of the Brits I meet here in America seem to have foolish opinions of what Americans are like.
You have grown men who are both neo-Nazis and My Little Pony obsessives. Britain has all sorts, but we’re a long way behind when it comes to crazy.
terrifying piece of string.
I’m waiting for someone to say band name.
I think that’s more of an album name.
Karl
June 24, 2020 12:59 pm
4 Photos on James Beatty’s Twitter feed
[ Squints. Cleans glasses. Gets out magnifying glass. Puts away magnifying glass. Gets out microscope… ]
Er, OK I’m convinced? [hysterical screaming, whimpering] “AAAAH IT’S A STICK OF DYNAMITE THEY’RE TRYING TO KILL ME!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just a hot dog. See, tasty hot dog, yum yum.
Squires
June 24, 2020 1:56 pm
It’s about making you pretend to want to do it. Making you pretend that you believe something which you know to be a lie.
War against the unbelievers until they submit in willing humiliation.
John
June 24, 2020 3:05 pm
NASCAR. Bubba is a p1ss poor driver, just 6 top 10 finishes in 90 races. Ended 2019 ranked 28th out of 40 drivers.
Suddenly his future career is assured. Funny old world.
I’d love to see the racing teams suggest that maybe the horribly fraught world of NASCAR isn’t a good fit for a sensitive driver like Bubba, and suggest he find a line of work in a less stressful environment.
“We’re just trying to do you a favor, Bubba. No hard feelings!”
Strangely I can find no photo of this terrifying noose piece of string. This article has some stills taken from video shot in 2017. It seems all the doors in all the stalls have this rope pull. As can see you’d have to be on some massive hallucinagenics to see these things and think that they are nooses unless you suffer fever dreams of hanging small mammals.
Steve E
June 24, 2020 4:06 pm
Oh and it’s highly unlikely those “nooses” are even slip knots otherwise the point of tying a hand loop for easy use would be lost.
fever dreams of hanging small mammals
Band Name!!
No, but seriously, that is some exhaustive analysis right there, thanks. [hysterical screaming, choking] “AAAAH IT’S A LYNCHING – I CAN’T BREATHE!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just your necktie. Let me loosen it a little for you. [hysterical screaming, flailing] “AAAAH SNAKES – THEY’RE EATING ME ALIVE!”
– Easy there Bubba, they’re just your pants legs. Look, they’re made of cloth, see?
fnord
June 24, 2020 5:01 pm
And remember, these are people who’ve been educated, possibly at great expense.
I take issue with your choice of verb. At best they have been schooled. In the same sense as horse jumping or dressage.
In this case, however, they are only half of the horse.
Steve E
June 24, 2020 5:06 pm
[hysterical screaming, choking] “AAAAH IT’S A LYNCHING – I CAN’T BREATHE!”
Before these days of race baiting that kind of satire would have been all over the late night shows after an event like this. We are indeed being cowed into pretending to believe. This particular incident never would have gotten this far. The minute Bubba tried to pull that sh!t he would have been ridiculed. Instead, he was symbolically pushed to the poll position and made the centre of attention over every other driver.
Squires
June 24, 2020 5:16 pm
“I’ve been racing all of my life,” Wallace told CNN’s Don Lemon. “We’ve raced out of hundreds of garages that never had garage pulls like that. So people that want to call it a garage pull and put out all the videos and photos of knots being as their evidence, go ahead, but from the evidence that we have – and I have – it’s a straight-up noose.”
I’ve worked in a service garage, in the outside broadcasting industry, in the tobacco industry, and as an equipment operator, over the course of twenty-plus years. In every case most bay doors had a loop at the end of their cord. Those that did not have a loop at least had a stop knot instead.
Wallace is engaging in classic toxic relationship behavior: having been caught in a deception he is placing a demand on his listener to pretend that they are mentally retarded.
GregMan
June 24, 2020 5:21 pm
[hysterical screaming, choking] “AAAAH IT’S PINCHING MY GENITALS – THEY’RE LOSING BLOOD FLOW!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just your underwear. Just adjust them a little.
Steve E
June 24, 2020 5:26 pm
having been caught in a deception he is placing a demand on his listener to pretend that they are mentally retarded.
But has he really been caught? Lemon doesn’t at all challenge or ridicule an obviously ridiculous statement and no one else in the main stream media is doing it either. In fact, all media are still calling the door pull a noose. They may put it in quotation marks in the headline, but in the body copy it’s a straight-up noose, not even an alleged noose.
I’m triggered by Wallace appropriating a full-on White Cracker name like Bubba.
Karl
June 24, 2020 5:45 pm
[hysterical screaming, pantomime running] “AAAAH I’M BEING STALKED – A BLACK MAN IS TRYING TO KILL ME!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just your shadow. Look, I’ll pull the curtains closed.
WTP
June 24, 2020 5:56 pm
Bubba is a beautiful race-agnostic southern name. See Bubba Smith, Bubba Morton, others. But not Bubba The Love Sponge. That’s different.
’At least she’s honest.’
She’s now whining that the people who ‘call out snowflakes and hate cancel culture’ are emailing her university, and she just got a call from a manager.
Well, honey, those are the rules you wanted to play by. Did you think the other team wouldn’t get a look at the playbook?
*washes down popcorn with a large gin*
The weird detail in exempting black people from the face mask requirement-which-is-really-a-recommendation is that it is done out of “concern” for profiling of black people. But if black people are the ones NOT wearing masks, won’t that make it easier to “profile” them?: “Hey you without the mask! Papers please!”
To make matters worse, black people may wear masks, and non-black people may not wear them. This certainly makes profiling a hassle. What’s a racist cop (but I repeat myself) to do?
Adam
June 24, 2020 6:34 pm
I think the issue with the nooses is to claim that NASCAR is so reflexively (systemically) racist that they didn’t even notice the nooses until Bubba reported them. NASCAR knew Bubba was black but they were totally insensitive to his perceptions as a black man in AmeriKKKa in which even a casually tied noose is treated as ‘business as usual’ despite the horrific history of lynchings. To paraphrase Bubba: The fact that the nooses were ‘actually’ door pulls does not change the fact that they are nooses.
Daniel Ream
June 24, 2020 7:06 pm
It’s strange to watch what appears to be a widespread, seemingly contagious unhinging; some kind of collective fever dream.
The depressing thing about being a student of history is knowing that this bollocks happens all the time, and we’re no more immune for being modern. It’s about making you pretend to want to do it. Making you pretend that you believe something which you know to be a lie.
Evergreen:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple
in which even a casually tied noose is treated as ‘business as usual’ despite the horrific history of lynchings.
Newspaper of record.
Steve E
June 24, 2020 8:01 pm
To paraphrase Bubba: The fact that the nooses were ‘actually’ door pulls does not change the fact that they are nooses.
To paraphrase Freud: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Karl
June 24, 2020 8:51 pm
Here in the Upside Down one reads the Babylon Bee to keep abreast of current events, and the Mainstream Media for sardonic amusement.
pst314
June 24, 2020 10:13 pm
So I guess Bubba is a has-been who is desperate to revive his racing career.
bgates
June 25, 2020 1:56 am
PINCHING MY GENITALS
band name
fnord
June 25, 2020 2:07 am
So I guess Bubba is a has-been who is desperate to revive his racing career.
He’s a never-was-much.
Peachy
June 25, 2020 3:16 am
It’s really quite shocking how horrible hate crimes never happen to superstars at the peak of their careers, huh?
Are lefty women always total b*tches or just nearly always?
As the various threads featuring Dr Gopal illustrate, she’s a deeply obnoxious woman, irretrievably so. She’s a churlish, dishonest, and ungrateful creature, who indulges in habitual projection, non-reciprocal standards, and grotesquely inapt pretensions of victimhood. And she chooses to excuse being an insufferable cow by tarting up her behaviour as political radicalism. It’s a self-flattering rationalisation and therefore quite common, at least among the type.
And she very much is of a type.
Horace Dunn
June 25, 2020 9:15 am
She’s a churlish, dishonest, and ungrateful creature
There are, of course, ghastly people who characterise themselves as right wing. Think of Katie Hopkins for example. But most right-of-centre peple reject their ideas as trivial-minded, questionable, obnoxious etc.
The left seems to cherish its monsters such as Dr Gopal.
The question is, are leftists too stupid to see through Dr Gopal, or are her odious attitudes and posturing genuinely representative of leftist philosophy and aims?
Squires
June 25, 2020 9:52 am
…are leftists too stupid to see through Dr Gopal, or are her odious attitudes and posturing genuinely representative of leftist philosophy and aims?
Yes.
Karl
June 25, 2020 9:56 am
She’s a churlish, dishonest, and ungrateful creature
Quite the Lord-of-the-Rings goblin-looking motherfucker too. Most people choose their most flattering portrait for their online identity ;} Think of Katie Hopkins for example.
Think what of her? Whatever Twatter tells you to?
I’ve never quite understood the attitude of many otherwise red-pilled commentators who have realised we don’t actually live in a cis-hetero-mysogo-patriarcho-tyranny, but still believe everything the Grauniad tells them about Katie Hopkins and Donald Trump.
Have you tried listening to the things she actually says?
svh
June 25, 2020 10:10 am
Lord-of-the-Rings goblin-looking motherfucker
LOL
Horace Dunn
June 25, 2020 10:26 am
I’ve never quite understood the attitude of many otherwise red-pilled commentators who have realised we don’t actually live in a cis-hetero-mysogo-patriarcho-tyranny, but still believe everything the Grauniad tells them about Katie Hopkins and Donald Trump.
Oooh. You’ve found me out for the credulous fool I am. How perceptive of you. How wise and high minded.
I bet you’re a real hit with the ladies.
are going to believe, or pretend to believe,
That, as they say.
And what pointy heads at NASCAR are going to believe, or pretend to believe, that a professional driver had never seen an overhand loop or bowline dangling from a bay door before?
Humiliation is not about forcing you to do something you don’t want to do. It’s about making you pretend to want to do it. Making you pretend that you believe something which you know to be a lie.
Everyone will now act as if Bubba is the victim.
It’s strange to watch what appears to be a widespread, seemingly contagious unhinging; some kind of collective fever dream.
From reading lots of history I thought that having your civilisation collapse around you would be horrifying, but I never expected so much stupidity.
And what pointy heads at NASCAR are going to believe, or pretend to believe, that a professional driver had never seen an overhand loop or bowline dangling from a bay door before?
Everyone on that row knew exactly what that was but were most likely scared to death to say anything. No one wants to be the first to stop clapping when Comrade Stalin is finished.
Imagine an afternoon with Bubba:
[hysterical screaming, hyperventilating] “AAAAH IT’S A SCAFFOLD THEY’RE TRYING TO KILL ME!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just a bandstand. Only a bandstand.
[hysterical screaming, blubbering] “AAAAH IT’S A NOOSE THEY’RE TRYING TO KILL ME!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just a venetian blind. See it goes up, it comes down.
Strangely I can find no photo of this terrifying
noosepiece of string.Anyone?
terrifying piece of string.
I’m waiting for someone to say band name.
So, no police action against the BurnleyFlyer…
Lol. I noticed how media outrage over this in the UK pushed the murder of three white men by an African at the weekend well down the news bulletins….
FBI agents worked tirelessly to identify a pullrope from a garage door.
I find it hard to believe that an area filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of kit wouldn’t be covered by CCTV, but here we are.
Those idiots are wearing masks OUTSIDE. They truly are imbeciles. Love the tweet saying how about countries next?
It’s annoying how many of the Brits I meet here in America seem to have foolish opinions of what Americans are like.
You have grown men who are both neo-Nazis and My Little Pony obsessives. Britain has all sorts, but we’re a long way behind when it comes to crazy.
Strangely I can find no photo of this terrifying
noosepiece of string.Anyone?
4 Photos on James Beatty’s Twitter feed
Here’s a tweet with before/after etc. pics of the NooseCAR atrocity. Note the tweet response from someone named James Dottly. He’s supposed to be someone. He gots a blue checkmark so..?
https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesEBeatty/status/1275389111759667201
Britain has all sorts, but we’re a long way behind when it comes to crazy
Oh, really?
Britain has all sorts, but we’re a long way behind when it comes to crazy
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
terrifying piece of string.
I’m waiting for someone to say band name.
I think that’s more of an album name.
4 Photos on James Beatty’s Twitter feed
[ Squints. Cleans glasses. Gets out magnifying glass. Puts away magnifying glass. Gets out microscope… ]
Er, OK I’m convinced?
[hysterical screaming, whimpering] “AAAAH IT’S A STICK OF DYNAMITE THEY’RE TRYING TO KILL ME!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just a hot dog. See, tasty hot dog, yum yum.
It’s about making you pretend to want to do it. Making you pretend that you believe something which you know to be a lie.
War against the unbelievers until they submit in willing humiliation.
NASCAR. Bubba is a p1ss poor driver, just 6 top 10 finishes in 90 races. Ended 2019 ranked 28th out of 40 drivers.
Suddenly his future career is assured. Funny old world.
Yup. Expect to see a lot of “Bubba Kaepernick” references coming soon.
I’d love to see the racing teams suggest that maybe the horribly fraught world of NASCAR isn’t a good fit for a sensitive driver like Bubba, and suggest he find a line of work in a less stressful environment.
“We’re just trying to do you a favor, Bubba. No hard feelings!”
Deviation from narrative detected.
Strangely I can find no photo of this terrifying noose piece of string.
This article has some stills taken from video shot in 2017. It seems all the doors in all the stalls have this rope pull. As can see you’d have to be on some massive hallucinagenics to see these things and think that they are nooses unless you suffer fever dreams of hanging small mammals.
Oh and it’s highly unlikely those “nooses” are even slip knots otherwise the point of tying a hand loop for easy use would be lost.
Attention-seeking fantasist proven wrong, doubles down.
fever dreams of hanging small mammals
Band Name!!
No, but seriously, that is some exhaustive analysis right there, thanks.
[hysterical screaming, choking] “AAAAH IT’S A LYNCHING – I CAN’T BREATHE!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just your necktie. Let me loosen it a little for you.
[hysterical screaming, flailing] “AAAAH SNAKES – THEY’RE EATING ME ALIVE!”
– Easy there Bubba, they’re just your pants legs. Look, they’re made of cloth, see?
And remember, these are people who’ve been educated, possibly at great expense.
I take issue with your choice of verb. At best they have been schooled. In the same sense as horse jumping or dressage.
In this case, however, they are only half of the horse.
[hysterical screaming, choking] “AAAAH IT’S A LYNCHING – I CAN’T BREATHE!”
Before these days of race baiting that kind of satire would have been all over the late night shows after an event like this. We are indeed being cowed into pretending to believe. This particular incident never would have gotten this far. The minute Bubba tried to pull that sh!t he would have been ridiculed. Instead, he was symbolically pushed to the poll position and made the centre of attention over every other driver.
“I’ve been racing all of my life,” Wallace told CNN’s Don Lemon. “We’ve raced out of hundreds of garages that never had garage pulls like that. So people that want to call it a garage pull and put out all the videos and photos of knots being as their evidence, go ahead, but from the evidence that we have – and I have – it’s a straight-up noose.”
I’ve worked in a service garage, in the outside broadcasting industry, in the tobacco industry, and as an equipment operator, over the course of twenty-plus years. In every case most bay doors had a loop at the end of their cord. Those that did not have a loop at least had a stop knot instead.
Wallace is engaging in classic toxic relationship behavior: having been caught in a deception he is placing a demand on his listener to pretend that they are mentally retarded.
[hysterical screaming, choking] “AAAAH IT’S PINCHING MY GENITALS – THEY’RE LOSING BLOOD FLOW!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just your underwear. Just adjust them a little.
having been caught in a deception he is placing a demand on his listener to pretend that they are mentally retarded.
But has he really been caught? Lemon doesn’t at all challenge or ridicule an obviously ridiculous statement and no one else in the main stream media is doing it either. In fact, all media are still calling the door pull a noose. They may put it in quotation marks in the headline, but in the body copy it’s a straight-up noose, not even an alleged noose.
I’m triggered by Wallace appropriating a full-on White Cracker name like Bubba.
[hysterical screaming, pantomime running] “AAAAH I’M BEING STALKED – A BLACK MAN IS TRYING TO KILL ME!”
– Easy there Bubba, it’s just your shadow. Look, I’ll pull the curtains closed.
Bubba is a beautiful race-agnostic southern name. See Bubba Smith, Bubba Morton, others. But not Bubba The Love Sponge. That’s different.
’At least she’s honest.’
She’s now whining that the people who ‘call out snowflakes and hate cancel culture’ are emailing her university, and she just got a call from a manager.
Well, honey, those are the rules you wanted to play by. Did you think the other team wouldn’t get a look at the playbook?
*washes down popcorn with a large gin*
In the interests of racial equality, white people will be required to wear face masks.
The weird detail in exempting black people from the face mask requirement-which-is-really-a-recommendation is that it is done out of “concern” for profiling of black people. But if black people are the ones NOT wearing masks, won’t that make it easier to “profile” them?: “Hey you without the mask! Papers please!”
To make matters worse, black people may wear masks, and non-black people may not wear them. This certainly makes profiling a hassle. What’s a racist cop (but I repeat myself) to do?
I think the issue with the nooses is to claim that NASCAR is so reflexively (systemically) racist that they didn’t even notice the nooses until Bubba reported them. NASCAR knew Bubba was black but they were totally insensitive to his perceptions as a black man in AmeriKKKa in which even a casually tied noose is treated as ‘business as usual’ despite the horrific history of lynchings. To paraphrase Bubba: The fact that the nooses were ‘actually’ door pulls does not change the fact that they are nooses.
It’s strange to watch what appears to be a widespread, seemingly contagious unhinging; some kind of collective fever dream.
The depressing thing about being a student of history is knowing that this bollocks happens all the time, and we’re no more immune for being modern.
It’s about making you pretend to want to do it. Making you pretend that you believe something which you know to be a lie.
Evergreen:
in which even a casually tied noose is treated as ‘business as usual’ despite the horrific history of lynchings.
Newspaper of record.
To paraphrase Bubba: The fact that the nooses were ‘actually’ door pulls does not change the fact that they are nooses.
To paraphrase Freud: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Here in the Upside Down one reads the Babylon Bee to keep abreast of current events, and the Mainstream Media for sardonic amusement.
So I guess Bubba is a has-been who is desperate to revive his racing career.
PINCHING MY GENITALS
band name
So I guess Bubba is a has-been who is desperate to revive his racing career.
He’s a never-was-much.
It’s really quite shocking how horrible hate crimes never happen to superstars at the peak of their careers, huh?
Heh.
Context here, and worth a squint.
Also heh.
Context here, and worth a squint.
Are lefty women always total b*tches or just nearly always?
Are lefty women always total b*tches or just nearly always?
As the various threads featuring Dr Gopal illustrate, she’s a deeply obnoxious woman, irretrievably so. She’s a churlish, dishonest, and ungrateful creature, who indulges in habitual projection, non-reciprocal standards, and grotesquely inapt pretensions of victimhood. And she chooses to excuse being an insufferable cow by tarting up her behaviour as political radicalism. It’s a self-flattering rationalisation and therefore quite common, at least among the type.
And she very much is of a type.
She’s a churlish, dishonest, and ungrateful creature
There are, of course, ghastly people who characterise themselves as right wing. Think of Katie Hopkins for example. But most right-of-centre peple reject their ideas as trivial-minded, questionable, obnoxious etc.
The left seems to cherish its monsters such as Dr Gopal.
The question is, are leftists too stupid to see through Dr Gopal, or are her odious attitudes and posturing genuinely representative of leftist philosophy and aims?
…are leftists too stupid to see through Dr Gopal, or are her odious attitudes and posturing genuinely representative of leftist philosophy and aims?
Yes.
She’s a churlish, dishonest, and ungrateful creature
Quite the Lord-of-the-Rings goblin-looking motherfucker too. Most people choose their most flattering portrait for their online identity ;}
Think of Katie Hopkins for example.
Think what of her? Whatever Twatter tells you to?
I’ve never quite understood the attitude of many otherwise red-pilled commentators who have realised we don’t actually live in a cis-hetero-mysogo-patriarcho-tyranny, but still believe everything the Grauniad tells them about Katie Hopkins and Donald Trump.
Have you tried listening to the things she actually says?
Lord-of-the-Rings goblin-looking motherfucker
LOL
I’ve never quite understood the attitude of many otherwise red-pilled commentators who have realised we don’t actually live in a cis-hetero-mysogo-patriarcho-tyranny, but still believe everything the Grauniad tells them about Katie Hopkins and Donald Trump.
Oooh. You’ve found me out for the credulous fool I am. How perceptive of you. How wise and high minded.
I bet you’re a real hit with the ladies.