Friday Ephemera (742)
Because you chose the Hades Funeral Service. || All-terrain bed. || Hey, it’s a job. || Somewhat bigger than expected. || Slimline solution. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || Down on the farm. (h/t, Mark) || Minimal effort detected. || Close enough. || Ladies, look away now. || Ladies, look away now 2. || Answers on a postcard, please. || The unspanked pass the time. || The progressive retail experience, parts 589 and 590. (h/t, Julia) || The progressive dining experience, part 38. || But his “intention has always been to promote understanding,” obviously. || The path to manhood. || Scrambled maps. || Gameplay. || “What’s wrong with it?” || The thrill of women’s basketball. || Rufus and Harriet. || An excess of flexibility. || She found where he was storing his trauma. || And finally, first-timers find out.
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Most of them weren’t debating because they know they would lose. It was more like trolling mixed with a struggle session.
But the Democrat Party finds them very useful.
Well, I found myself wondering whether some of the participants would have behaved differently if, say, they’d known that their parents were watching them. There seemed to be a shortage of conscientiousness.
The preferred tactic – or the impulse – seemed to be to behave badly, rudely – sometimes immediately, as a default – and to create a situation in which someone who would rather address specifics, actual arguments – and not just be rude or dismissive in return – has to sit there and take it. At no point during Pseudo-Bro’s filibuster, for instance, was there any expectation of a reply. None was permitted.
So far as I can see, the objective was merely to bully. To express hostility.
I don’t speak Spanish, so without dubbed imports all that will remain outside my experience.
Which is one of the reasons I favor treating such people with maximum intolerance.
Hey, be thankful you didn’t find out by way of George sitting on you.
How about collars of obedience?
Mob action which humiliates and silences opponents is winning.
Which is why these leftists must be treated with extreme intolerance.
Is she one of those feminists who claims to feel safer around bears than men?
I hope these are felony charges.
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
–George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Halloween for the HOA.
It’s not a toomah! Or maybe it is…in addition to the one inside his skull.
There’s always something funny here. But sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between satire and reality.
Casus Belli.
Casus Belli
“Help us, Zombie Churchill. You’re our only hope!”
Shapiro: this style of “debate” has taken over college debate, where POC are allowed to bully, not address the debate topic, shout, etc. Because, you see, POC are not capable of anything but being “their true selves”. These wokies are just following the trend.
What should everyone else think POC really are, if that’s what POC offer as intellectual activity?
That would be the trend illustrated here:
Yes, it may sound like cartoonish jabbering, a racial caricature, but apparently they’re “hacking traditional college debate’s white privilege problem.”
The lies in current political ads are stunning. A local Dem is supporting expanding Medicare–what she means is including illegal aliens under medicare.
Lots of ads tout “supporting women’s right to choose” but not mentioning that they mean abortion up to time of birth.
Harris claims it is the Repub fault about immigration because they didn’t pass the bill last year–a bill that would have granted citizenship to all illegals.
Dems claim crime has fallen (2022 to 2023) but ignore that it is still way above 2019.
And so on.
More obvious at least.
Again, actors and actresses, especially many of the greater ones that we all know and love through the roles they played in movies, are pretty much empty shells of human beings. It’s why they can become someone else so convincingly. They are severely lacking in authentic thoughts or ideas. There’s no there there. They become someone else ether to escape some trauma or to try to please others.
… uh, the, inside the trauma of representation that turns into the black child devouring and identifying with the stories …
From Trollope’s Barchester Towers, replace “preaching clergyman” by, well, you know…
An interesting thesis…
And they had the FBI’s backing by putting out false stats they quietly walked back later.
@pst314, who posted thusly:
That whole situation is a perfect metaphor for what the left has been doing since the end of WWII… Just substitute “jump in with polar bears for a swim” with “Release the mental patients”, “Don’t prosecute or imprison criminals”, “Open the borders”, “Turn society over to the mentally ill and sexually deranged”…
And, I will insist on pointing out, it’s working out about as well.
At some point, we absolutely need to stop listening to these idiots and put them back where they belong, in freshly-established mental institutions or being “sent to Coventry” by giving them their own area to run… Maybe a nice, isolated island somewhere. Baffin Island, maybe…?
Literally crying laughing at the skidmark that broke his own leg in prog retail experience 590.
Much as every economic report gets quietly revised later with numbers showing things are worse than claimed.
No Zombie Churchill at Stoaty Weasel, oddly enough.
It’s amazing to me that he was still willing to set foot in the UK after the persecution he has suffered at their hands. Everyone in the UK government should be ashamed.
He’s the hero of the show, right?
Has it been mentioned yet that Post Vaginoplasty Dilation Process is a pretty good name for a prog band?
“It’s quite a strenuous thing to put your body through three times a day.”
Porn stars everywhere yawn. “Hold my lube.”
Too many syllables. What would it eventually get shortened to? Vaginoplasty? Dilation Process?
Too many syllables. What would it eventually get shortened to? Vaginoplasty? Dilation Process?
“PVDP,” Greg Lake, of ELP explained. Toad the Wet Sprocket somehow copes with their long name. I think people just say “Toad.” So, maybe “Post.” When they’re analyzing the songs they can talk about the “Post Process.”
Heh. That’s just me at work. Sometimes amongst my “conservative” co-workers. Granted, never quite that extreme but ooooh, watching that I could almost feel his pain.
I worked with a guy with a similar problem. I used to say even his belly had a belly. Similar mindset but not quite that extreme.
@WTP,
And, they say that social contagion isn’t real. Not that long ago, people would have never had the balls to do something like that in broad daylight in Seattle.
Now? LOL…
The social commons includes the Overton window for what’s acceptable in terms of public behavior, and that’s shifted way, way over to the left.
What we ain’t seeing, yet, is the shift the other way, when someone decides that the answer to “fat man with stick beating on police car” is “shooting fat man with stick dead”.
Which is merely the obverse side of the coin.
Welcome signs for David.
This seems accurate.
I think that was about a famous portrait of Winston Churchill, stolen in Dec 2021/Jan 2022 and recovered earlier this year.
Oct 26: Chicago mayor says Durk is on “a journey toward transformation.”
Words fail.
The shopping cart as a litmus test of character:
If they don’t include ‘compost’ they certainly do.
It’s a symbiote trying to escape its idiot Trill host.
It’s not a toomah!
The biggest damn ventral hernia I have ever seen,
I think that was about a famous portrait of Winston Churchill, stolen in Dec 2021/Jan 2022 and recovered earlier this year.
Well, yes. The Fairmont Chateau Laurier is in Ottawa, Canada. Given how we’ve been treating Sir John A. I suspect Zombie Churchill would be given the Cpl. Cirillo treatment in short order.
Maybe screaming at random toddlers would help.
“When It Comes to Children, I Think You’re All Wrong”
Well, yes. Blather about “critical thinking” is likely to be useless and misleading, even perverse, if there’s not much knowledge to work with. The design-a-new-car analogy is, I think, apt.
I’ve certainly had conversations with young adults who very much regarded themselves as critical thinkers, or something along those lines, but who simply didn’t know any number of very basic and pertinent things. Consequently, their political attitudes – and their departures from reality – were pretty much what you’d imagine.