A South Dakota/Wyoming Travelogue & Review
Devil’s Tower
The route
In our last episode, you’ll recall my lament about crowds and yelling. So I decided to head to one of the most famous sites in the world – Devil’s Tower. Insert mashed potato jokes here. I chose Devil’s Tower over Rushmore for the same reason I choose non-fiction over fiction. I like real stuff. Nature can be just as much an artist as Gutzon Borglum.
I exited the interstate at WY Route 111 to Aladdin, then Route 24 through Hulett to Devil’s Tower. This is how it’s done. There was nobody on this road.
The line to enter the Monument was…daunting. But I only waited about 15 minutes to pass through and up to the (closed) visitors’ center (the crappers were open, though).
 ‘MERICA! |
 Moment of panic |
Being lazy AF, and with no backpack or other Sherpa mechanisms, I had no intention of walking the 1.3 mile loop around the mountain. I gulped down some water and headed for the trail. I walked the 1.3 miles. The trail keeps sucking you in, making you wonder what’s on the other side. Maybe a secret alien contact base? No, but it was even better. It was a breezy day, and the moments between large groups of loud talkers offered the meditative sound of wind in the Ponderosa pines. Instead of an alien mothership, I got to see climbers doing their best Spiderman impressions on the other side (no pics – they were tiny little dots among the magma columns).
This was far-and-away my favorite destination of the trip. I don’t have the words to describe the beauty of the surrounding Wyoming countryside. As far as the mountain, I could contemplate those columns all day. The informational signage around the trail was fascinating. I got a good dose of geology, biology, ecology, and meteorology (stop saying the N word, Hyperbole!). I would love to be here all alone, looking at rocks and listening to the wind for hours on end.
 The aliens must have been hiding |
 Better than Borglum |
 I bet the trout is delicious |
 Here there be rock climbers |
 Dizzy |
 Your cruise director in a Happy Place |
As I drove back to Rapid City, my AvGeekery kicked in as I contemplated the next day’s plan.
Damn it feels good to be a Firster
Damn it feels good to be a Firster
A real First-ass nigga plays his cards right
A real First-ass nigga never runs his fucking mouth
‘Cause real First-ass niggas don’t start fights
And niggas always gotta high cap
Showing all his boys how he shot ’em
But real First-ass niggas don’t flex nuts
‘Cause real First-ass niggas know they got ’em
And real FIrst-ass niggas don’t Zoom.
Congratulations. Your prize is a used laser printer that errors out in PC load letter constantly.
PC load letter…what the fuck is that?
Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.
+1 Back up in yo ass with the resurrection.
That “here there be rock climbers” photo has me stumped. It’s like playing Where’s Waldo?
Neat stuff. It means something. It’s important.
Your cruise director in a Happy Place
Captain Stubing’s bed?
Great photos!
I don’t ever expect to head that far west.
Why not?
*shrug*
No interest, and I refuse to fly commercially.
I don’t see RV life in my future either.
RV? Those are so passe; you need a Supervan.
I mean, maybe one of those super sexy boaterhomes…
Or maybe not.
Try RVing this Sean
https://www.deadclutch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/1-00D0D_lGe2Yvwxiz8_1200x900.jpg
Motherf&$#*@…Tht joke reminds me of a review of Damnation Alley I found online several years ago–that is now defunct.
(cached version)
The author, Richard Harland Smith, used “MOTORIN’!” as a joke for pictures of the
UAVSUVRV from Hell interspersed in the review. Until he got to a pic of it monstrosity in water, for which he used “FLOATERIN”!”, and, well, you get the joke-thing.Anyway, I can’t hear Sister Christian without throwing ?(yes, I do), and saying “FLOATERIN”!” at the appropriate moments.
It was funnier when you could read the article as posted.
You’ll just end up living in it, down by the super river.
That was strangely entertaining.
I imagine people living the van life in the 70’s were a swinging bunch.
Interesting, that is how I feel about the NE. Except I have actually had to go there for work type situations. Mostly flying and layovers. Also my short lived truck driving career. To each there own.
We did Acadia NP in July. Maine was fucking awesome!
Seconded! Honeymooned there. Went back when I lived in NH. Can’t wait to go again
You are right, Maine is on the list. Lobster!
$6.99/lb there, and our local friend said that was a bit high.
I probably won’t either but not for any particular reason other than I don’t live there and I’m not a huge fan of traveling any more. I’m happy to travel vicariously through y’all.
Alternate comment link; these were on very heavy rotation on SW Florida TV when I was a teen. https://youtu.be/65P01rgYCxQ
I drove through that territory and much farther afield in my subcompact. No need for an rv.
Our Forester got us from SW OH out to SW CO and NW NM and back. With no horror stories other than an occasional cut-out of the A/C late in a long stretch.
Very cool. I have never been to the Devils Tower, but I did stroll around the Devils Postpile in the ski bum days back in 1984. Mammoth has some awesome steeps.
You can get Covid from piles? *shifts nervously in seat*
It reminds me of the shape of my penis.
To be fair, though, there isn’t much that doesn’t remind me of my penis.
I bet you yell FIRST when you prematurely ejaculate too.
He’s the only one there, so yeah.
Only another Firster is worthy of my seed.
Absolutely obligatory.
First I look at the purse!
Short and stumpy?
No. Magnificent.
Magnificent enough for alien kids?
What??–I didn’t make the damn movie.
That looks great in picture form but must have been absolutely stunning in person. thank you for sharing this trip with us.
Very cool! Beautiful pictures!
Rushmore? Bah. Trump should have his head carved into Devil’sTower.
Just put a nice orange wig on top.
The perfect project for Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
Lou Reed can play the opening gala.
Eddie Van Halen can play the lead while muttering about Mark Anthony under his breath.
Michael, but yeah.
Close enough for rock and roll.
That’s a bit excessive. He should just have it painted gold and re-name it Trump Tower.
Trump’s Tower
NYC and environs already have like 4 or 5 Trump Tower’s.
WE NEED ONE MORE WITH ALIENS!1!!!1!!
A giant Trump bobble-head atop the Statue of Liberty. Bonus points if it launches off in a gale and careens like a wrecking ball through Liberty National Golf Course.
I never knew it was a tourist attraction. I just assumed it was out in the middle of nowhere.
You haven’t been to where we made first contact with the Korg and the Moog?
No, but I’ve own a Moog and several Korgs.
I thought it was a tourist attraction in the middle of nowhere, much like the Four Corners.
Everything is a tourist attraction.
Look at it. Of course that thing is a tourist attraction.
If there wasn’t a Food Truck in the parking lot specializing in mashed potatoes America has lost it’s way.
Now I am curious if there was such a truck
I choose to believe.
I believe DT is called a megalith – a volcanic infusion into surrounding rock and soil. Since it’s made up of harder rock than it’s surrounded by, it survives when the rest gets eroded.
Whatever the case, it looks cool.
I think megaliths are manmade, like Stonehenge.
*cue dwarfs being lowered onto stage*
Sorry – you’re right. It was a volcanic effusion.
Now I get a message saying “Please wait for the host to start this meeting”
So, dried earth spooge.
I had a volcanic effusion once. A round of antibiotics took care of it.
I thought they were speech impediments caused by bad hare lips.
Oh, wood eye! Wood eye!
Might it be columnar basalt? The Basaltic times I find more interesting than the baroque because then I had no money.
Alt-bass? Like when PR flacks rename the Patagonian toothfish?
You must be into the good stuff cuz I have no fucking idea what you are talking about.
(marketing people renamed the Patagonian toothfish to the Chilean Sea Bass)
#theshitIdontknow
Well, I am… huzzah for 3 consecutive days off (1st time this year). but I was riffing off of Basalt = alt-bass.
Dude. The rest of us can’t catch up to that.
It’s volcanic flow – slowly creeping up into Gaia’s yielding terra…
I took some interesting geology courses.
Goddam Basaltics – fucking neo-cons want to go to war with Russia over them.
Ya they Slobodonned all over that back in the day.
Instead of an alien mothership, I got to see climbers doing their best Spiderman impressions on the other side (no pics – they were tiny little dots among the magma columns).
I was at the Devil’s Tower when I was kid. I tried getting some pictures through the trees of people climbing the Tower. I failed. I got some pictures of the trees.
Nice set of pictures!
https://twitter.com/mariskreizman/status/1313230079296667649
I’m not a doctor, but based on the comments I think TDS is a real illness.
She has that crazy cat lady look to her but apparently she owns a dog. She’s probably one of those awful human beings who dresses it in clothes.
These are the people who would have their political enemies gassed and call it self-defense.
It’s hilarious watching them trying to outdo each other in their reimaginings of how upset they were. Good stuff…
I don’t think these are reimaginings. Do I need to break out the mash-ups of the media’s reactions to Trump’s win?
Watching Michael Malice watch this clownshow. “I’m shocked how good he is. Shocked.” He described Pence as alpha. Still not tuning in.
He just walked all over the moderator LOL
“I do what I want!”
/Cartman voice
One of her fans is even wearing a mask to fight the ‘TDS!
Out of boredom I clicked onto Crowder’s livestream of the Kamala/Harris debate that was supposed to start at 8:30. Crowder is late. He is not a Firster.
He also appear to be bringing Megyn Kelly on as a guest. Like, why would you think your audience gives a fuck what Kelly has to say about anything?
Isn’t he a Fox alum? They might be old pals.
“went into a gas station in rural Tennessee wearing my planned parenthood/roe v wade t shirt, a fringe mask and a camo trucker hat that says “I’m high on Weed, California” and you should have seen how freaked out these normies looked at the sight of me”
https://twitter.com/MissMargoPrice/status/1312934241320267776
so brave much stunning
Attention seeker seeks attention, news at 11.
Gentrification?
“this song began as a hymn to my family to hold each other through the chaos of gentrification, racism, gun violence, climate change, the lack of healthcare in a pandemic… it’s become a song of hope and a hymn for our broken country. I love you America https://youtu.be/bH_QTcWCwFo“
LOL – all these faggots and “artists” are ruining my hood!
And those fucking guns!! Walkin’ all over the place, shooting people, acting like they got free will….
Pic w/climbers.
Cool
I love rock climbing. Well, I haven’t done it since I was 16, but I still love it.
So much to see, so little time…Thanks, KK
Good photo. That route is the one put up in 1941, see below for the story.
AKA “crazy people”.
Those people are crazy
You rock, KK. I’ve enjoyed your posts. I hadn’t really thought about going to Devils Tower, but now it’s def on my list.
“Woman Accidentally Shot Dead While Filming A Fake Kidnapping TikTok”
https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/2943869/woman-accidentally-shot-dead-while-filming-a-fake-kidnapping-tiktok
Such stupid times
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Almost as good as those two who fell off the roof taking selfies
I wanna show my gf my new (to me) shotgun, but she doesn’t care about shotguns. First world conservative problems.
Did you get it for her? Take her skeet shooting? A nice O/U, maybe a 20 ga, Something with a 13 .5 pull so it will fit you in case she doesn’t like it.
What did you get? (for her)
The old one speaks wisdom.
Shoot him ‘fore he runs,
Dammit, runs, now!
Beautiful, KK!
I’m glad you did the hike. All the best stuff is away from the road!
Looking forward to tomorrow’s installment!
Awesome KK! Love it
“bruh the economy isn’t even real, we literally fucking made it up, just let people have food wtf”
https://twitter.com/t_sfea/status/1313148432891219970
That’s a tweet, with over 600K likes, from a communist, who has an etsy store.
Simps looking to get in her pants.
*looks around shiftily*
…Would…
Grinding poverty isn’t far away when that shit takes hold.
“Miss 3 meals and everyone is a revolutionary”
Except I believe they won’t go get their food..I believe they believe someone will still bring it to them.
Meh, seeing as “we” print millions of dollars every time we’re broke she’s not far wrong, not for the reasons she may believe but not completely batshit crazy either.
dollars =/= value. They’re a commodity, like any other.
Most raw materials can’t be created out of thin air simply by the stroke of a pen, I’m no economist but that seems to put dollars in a different category than pork bellies or orange futures.
She’s an idiot with a cute face and a big mouth. She’s going to do well for herself until she hits 35 or so.
“Cute”??? Umm….OK–whatever floats the ol’ boat, I guess.
“Passing time until the revolution” Yeah; and then, passing away,
(Shows she’s not actually going to do anything–that’s for other people to do)
Why did he use made-up written language and not something “real” to communicate this message?
“he”
That’s what I get for not actually clicking on it.
“bruh the economy isn’t even real, we literally fucking made it up, just let people have food wtf”
I think I just broke my brain on that. How does it remember to breathe? Maybe it’s brain uses so little oxygen that it can go for hours without breathing?
New link for a zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89715266097?pwd=d1dqTVZwd1o0WTNCYnllWjU1U0JzZz09
Mrs JI and I survived our New England folly for fall foliage (with a side of covered bridges). Met up with DEG in Manchester. Ate and drank too much.
Overall, an excellent vacation.
Dog Mountain in St. Johnsbury, VT is a worthy addition to any itinerary in the vicinity; unless I suppose if you don’t care for dogs, in which case you can just shuffle off to Venezeula for all I care.
Do pugs count as dogs?
You can like dogs in general while having reservations, or outright hatred, for some breeds.
It was good meeting you too. I’m glad you had a good time!
In 1893 two local ranchers first reached the summit buy banging wood into a crack and making a ladder up. The NPS prohibited climbing the DT, because FYTW until 1937 when they permitted some of the best climbers in the country to climb it. That route is still popular, and considered very committing (climberese for scary) for being the easiest route on the mountain. During the great depression in 1941 a stuntman parachuted onto the summit but his plan to lower himself failed. The NPS contacted some of the other top climbers to go climb the Tower and get the idiot down. After coming cross country they made it with a new route- right close to the other route. (Because if the USG is paying you to have fun you might as well do a first ascent.) That route is the second most popular, and second easiest route on the Tower. Five days after the stunt gone wrong everybody was back on flat land.
KK is correct about the trail around the Tower being a nice, scenic easy hike. Plus since very few people (except climbers) leave the roads and visitor center area you are almost garun-fucking-teed to have an uncrowded trail. With some luck you’ll even see a Mr No Shoulders sleeping alongside the trail.
You climbers are all nuts. Truth.
“Plus since very few people (except climbers) leave the roads and visitor center area..”
This is true at every national park – get 25 yds off the paved “interprative trail” and you might as well be in a wilderness area.
Pence and Harris will be 12 feet apart and have two plexiglass shields between them. Science.
Hopefully the enclosures are soundproof and they have to sign or pantomime their responses.
Right off the bat Harris dodges the question asked of her to spit out talking points.
Those glass walls look ridiculous.
And two of them. I am done with this corona theater.
The second one stops the particularly athletic particles.
Oh man… I’m going to need an icepick for this shit.
lol…greatest presidential failure ever! Good luck Rhywun
BTW, I’m glad I walked counter-clockwise around the tower. The uphill parts are steeper and early. Seemed like most of the trail in that direction was flat or downhill. Better for the lazier among us.
KK’s walk.
So, Pence doesn’t get to counter that canned statement from Kamala? Got it, we now know how this is going to be.
Pretty much. If the gf is any indicator, many people do not see that or the leading questions he has gotten so far.
After the bs spiel just given by Horizontal Harris, there is no way I’d keep my composure and avoid referring to her as the cunte she is. Props to Pence.
So about three minutes of time to talk and not once did she bother to say a single thing that a Biden administration would do differently. It’s almost as if they know that there isn’t much appetite for lockdowns in most of the country.
And no discussion of the proper role of the federal government in such a scenario. The Trump admin has stayed as far within those bounds that I can possibly expect of any modern president. That is to say the Trump admin didn’t tell people not to work or engage in commerce nor did it tell governors to put I’ll people in nursing homes while knowing that the elderly are the most susceptible demographic.
I went to start dinner and realized I had put it off too long make what I was planning. Nachos topped with smoked London Broil it is because it was easy and fast and totally not on my diet. Don’t care. Have a Great night all and thanks for the travel post KK.
Harris is a cunt and Pence is an empty suit. Debate over.
I see the Republican is going to be fighting both the Democrat and the moderator again.
If the Reps expected any degree of fairness here and didn’t prepare accordingly they’re dumber than I thought.
You did this lets analyze it Pence
What magical thing will you give us when you are
presidentvice president.“Will you promise not to kill another two hundred thousand Americans?”
I like your travel writing KK
I’ve never heard her speak before. I sure hope she never becomes president. That voice is so grating.
She is a black female and she couldn’t even win a delegate in the Democratic primaries. She may be more unlikable than Elizabeth Warren.
But her melanin count and XX genotype means she is the most qualified and likable candidate of all time!
It is fucking scary to think of how quickly she and her allies will drop the XXV Amendment bomb. I think for poetic reasons she should do it on the Ides of March 2021. (or if you prefer Year 1 in the reign of Biden.)
It’ll be right before the midterms so she can serve two elected terms plus two years.
*puts Shotgun of Doom in mouth*
lol.
Kamala Harris’s Ratings Plummet As People Realize They’d Have To Listen To Her Voice For Next 4 Years
“The campaign vowed to address this situation and has set up Harris for personal classes with famous likeability coach Hillary Clinton.”
Good to see the BB is still in fine form.
I got there at dawn the day I walked the loop and there were fewer than 10 other people there (it was already getting crowded when I left a couple hours later). I had a doe and her two fauns walk up within 10 feet of me on the back side of the tower. It was one of the most peaceful moments of my life. I’m not a natural morning person, but being in a really beautiful place when the sun comes up is worth the effort.
That was two years ago, not this trip.
A question about presidential disability. If only our constitution said something about that.
LOL
Pence totally ignored that question.
She deserves it. What a shit-show. Of a different sort from the last one, but still a shit-show.
Michael Malice: Harris is freaking out ‘cuz she knows when she’s losing the jury.
Okay, is it worth watching this shitshow?
Does that explain the uncomfortable smiling?
It’s not as terrible as the last debate. But neither is a stick in the eye.
Pence is soft speaking with some quiet jabs. Harris is sticking to talking points.
He needs to pick up the pace a little bit.
Definitely. Seems like he gets half the time.
“Senator Harris, what did Willie Brown’s penis taste like?”
“I have prepared this emotionally manipulative, platitude ridden speech and I am going to stick to it.” -Harris
Amazing treatment and optics on how the media has treated Kamala Harris v. Sarah Palin.
Last debate known for interrupting, this one known for ignoring time limits.
Just seeing Michale Malices reaction, It seems like Pence is destroying Kamala
People underestimate pence, and Kamala is so used to being surrounded by sycophants, i don’t think she’s ready for this.
Including the moderator of this debate.
LOL here comes the $750 lie. She is fucking shameless.
Pence has an opportunity to put that to bed..but probably wont. I think I am working on a delay here.
I missed a response – flipping back and forth to NYCFC at YANKEE STADIUM! – but I did see Pence get in a great line about Trump supposedly trusting Americans to help themselves.
Harris has no self-control and she doesn’t have the machismo of Trump to get away with it.
“Susan, thank you for that third leading question, you cunte” – Pence (if it were me)
Thank you for explaining what the word “debt” means.
Pence reminds me of my wing commander. Soft, quiet, and boring.
Harris seems to be sticking to “who you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?”
Just saw a Biden commercial for his “plan” – Hourly workers make $14K more, $7 for childcare, seniors $1400. Don’t worry – the “wealthy” pay more!
“I’m going to very respectfully stick this needle in your eye.” – Pence.
He is subtly doing that. Effectively to people paying attention, but won’t matter.
I wish someone would stick a needle in my eye.
Finally, a “hardest hit!”
What a waste of time. Give me the question, and I already know what both sides lies are going to be.
Biden is going to repeal the tax bill and the government will spend the money. She actually said that out loud.
Retroactive veto?
WHO ARE ALL THE RICH PEOPLE ACTUALLY DONATING TO, YOU CUNTE?
I always love it when they make it sound like we’re electing a monarch or dictator.
We’re not?
Well, no, but actually, yes
I didn’t realize a new president could just strike the dully passed legislation of a previous government.
Uh ya. And previous EOs from president’s we think are rightthinkers, are untouchable. Don’t you ever glib brah?
E.O.’s from prior admins are untouchable if the 9th circuit says so.
Pence has a great chance here to hammer away what the last 2-3 years were like before KungFlu came along.
Thanks again, KK.
I’ve seen most of these sights and now you’re maiking me want to go back. Rapid City is an easy day’s drive for me and I need some more road trips.
Pence getting feisty…oh black lady hand came out!
watching invasion of the body snatchers because at least the skinsuiting in this movie is fictional.
Apparently Vice President Joe Biden was in charge of more than we thought.
I love when Kamala mutters “that’s a lie” under her breath to things she actually said.
Well, I’m sure the fact checkers will be all over it.
How many false premises is this cunte going to lay out? I’d think a prosecutor would be better at debating. But she sucks*.
*That’s what Willie Brown said.
Prosecutors are used to having the deck stacked in their favor. They are an arrogant, self-important bunch of cunts. Like Harris.
Who had the “scientific consensus” bingo square?
Oh fuck… moderator playing the “scientific consensus” card. “Why do hate science, Vice President Pence?”
All scientists agree the forest fires are from climate change.
More importantly, when did he stop beating his wife?
And… Pence finally wanders into a good point just as the moderator shuts him off. Again.
“I directed all the hurricanes to Louisiana and everyone knows it. I’m the most stable and evil genius, maybe ever.” – Trump
Somebody stop the fight – he’s killing her.
He knows what she and Biden said better than she does.
LOL
Tomorrow, it’ll be How Kamala won by a wide margin. God, what a horrible woman. I hated her when I started and I hate her times 100 now.
Tomorrow? Immediately they all claimed she was the winner and Mike just mansplained everything towards her.
Joe’s seen a lot of things and talked to a lot of people… from his basement. Right before he put a lid on it.
The climate change questions already? And phrased almost exactly like Wallace’s. Shocker.
The early plagarism dig on Biden was awesome. Didn’t think Pence had it in him.
Oh the nation is mimicking CA 2035 date for ‘carbon neutral”?
“Existential threat? No. Next question. Why the fuck am I here?!”
I just can’t get over the blatent lies from Harris. Again, I’m sure the network fact checkers will call her out.
It’s breathtaking.
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@TheBParsons
Kamala Harris, but it’s all the people she sent to jail.
Somehow I’m able to watch this without a huge blood pressure spike. Must be Pence’s soothing tones.
It’s a calm and soothing beatdown.
He’s killing it as far as these things go.
He is handsome, and calm. Too bad is he’s a statist politician.
Pence is well informed..pretty impressive.
Has Harris answered a single question asked of her tonight?
Yes, but with lies
No that is why Pence is using his time to rebut previous questions.
Most of the moderator’s questions are so loaded he might as well do whatever the fuck he wants.
And she’s letting him LOL
The world is on fire…Pence, why did Trump allow this to happen?
If you lived in a world of unicorns Harris, would you like marshmallow or candy corn flavored tulips?
She’s pretending the latest question wasn’t asked.
She’s pretending the latest question wasn’t asked about China.
He’s doing pretty good thank Christ. Maybe he can train Trump for the next one.
He’s far more humble than Trump.
And she’s about as prideful of herself as Trump is. I doubt she did much prep.
I blame her campaign staff. Heh.
She is waiting for the homo questions…
Trump will slap him on that back with a big no-teeth smile and put him back inside the Oval Office closet.
Heh…the China CDC team…..
Harris: I OBJECT.
Judge: Grounds?
Harris: THIS IS DEVASTATING TO MY CASE.
Im kicking my own ass!
I’m starting to remember why she did so awful during her race for the top job.
Malice: Sarah Palin did better against Biden than Hamala against Pence.
Question is, how will this affect polls, if at all?
None..thats why we watch.
Pence has the command of facts and figures, and the demeanor that I would have, if I didn’t smoke pot and drink.
Harris is gonna bury herself here, I hope. Isolationism doesn’t mean we care….it means we aren’t gonna stick our dick in every country’s virgins.
Do you know how many people she convicted with this same bullshit? Staggering!
It must not be that hard to intimidate poor people into taking plea deals. The bitchiness probably translated well.
Harris is such a condescending cunt. She feels the need to tell people that she is citing a “reputable” source multiple times. Because the stupid rubes watching must never have heard of Moody’s or Pew.
She says reputable then cites one polling firm. She is a cunt that is lying or doesn’t understand the need for aggregates to attempt to control for polling bias.
Rebuttal to you Pence “15 seconds”
Rebuttal to you Harris “not a lot of time”
Got it.
Pence: “Cool beans. I’ll just reply during your next question about some other shit. What are you gonna do about it?”
Up, there’s two more lies
This is really great to a couple glasses of Rye. Pence would be a good stoner friend.
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McCain was an asshat, although I believe he acted with great honor as a POW.
“Total loser.” – Trump //jk
Yes it is possible to serve honorably as someone thrown into the meat grinder and then be a total cunte in public office.
The notion that we must hero whorship any any all POW and veterans needed to be called out and Trump was the perfect person to do so.
He was a reverse Ace and according to other prisoners acted with no honor. Either way, as a Senator he was an absolute piece of shit.
The “Donald disparaged the troops” thing? Really? That’s about as bad as the “very fine nazis” horseshit at this point.
Holy fucking shit… the ‘vid is a “preexisting condition” now??
“Let’s lower Medicaid eligibility to 60 years.”
Because we’re not running the printing presses fast enough.
I find it interesting that the Republican candidate is so adamant about protecting the ACA, when the last few elections that the Republicans won, for president, house, Senate, they were campaigning on repealing it.
Free shit is popular.
Or Medicare. Whatever.
Pence nailing it with the packing of the SC….he is like that dry witted guy in the bar that makes little jabs when no one is listening. Or…your church deacon.
I have that dry sense if humor, but I am not religious.
Oh great. Another leading question.
Kamala…we are were for police reform until the groups you didn’t want to denounce and the riots you ignored exploded and you’re leader of the Dem Party by his own admission, Biden, said it was just an “idea”. That would be my response.
“Vice President Pence, what is your opinion of this local matter that has no bearing your duties whatsoever? And how will Kamala totally outshine you here?”
“And how will Kamala totally outshine you here?”
I suspect she will try to manipulate people’s emotions with banal platitudes.
Her pre-planned talking points don’t even fit in. Good grief she’s terrible at this.
Pence finds a delicate and respectful means of bringing up courtpacking. Nice.
Harris: Nice lincoln story at a time when one party controlled, uncontested, the government of the united states. A government that did not even allow state delegations to sit upon being conquered and forced to remain in union. (The constitution has a provisions requiring the state delegations to be seated, so…)
Ih oh. She said “peaceful protest” he’s a out to RIP her bailing out crininals
She just said the magic marijuana word.
Didn’t she want to use those in jail/prison on such charges to provide free labor for CA?
Oh he went even better
Is that a fly on Mike Pence’s hair?
She tried to help bail them the fuck out, mention that!
Is it a fly on Pence’s hair?
Yes it was. Great restraint to not swat it.
What a lying cunte.
Kamala: TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP….TRUMP TRUMP….marijauana…TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
Up here the very fine people lie
Well that’s weird. I don’t think I typed that. Huh. Being stoned is fun.
Dude. You’re supposed to write that shit down in a notebook.
Breonna Taylos has jack all to do with the presidency.
Virtue must be signaled and in the “correct” way.
“very fine people”
Fuck off, you lying cunte.
Hitting Kamala record in Cali…..nice.
Come on Pence…here is your chance to really hammer her record as DA.
OFFS!
Oh fuck you Page…Trump refuses to leave office…Harris..what will you do?
She is so very, very bad at this. I get that Cali is a one party state but how the hell did she make it to the Senate? You cant tell me there weren’t much better intraparty choices.
She’s a master of intraparty knife fights. She’s 10 years too early. In 10 years, the Presidency will be Democrat property, and the most vicious intra party knife fighter will be the one who gets the brass ring.
But she got her shit pushed in during the Democratic primaries. I think she was just playing in a small pond and was of the right gender/race in California for *appointed* positions. On paper, she’s what the Democrats *want* their candidates to be, but in practice she sucks.
“but in practice she sucks.”
This is known.
Whooo yaaaa!
That was read in your avatar’s voice..in case you were wondering.
In ten years it may actually be intraparty knife fights.
She managed to get the backing of party elders and only had one election with a meaningful challenger.
Holy fuck. “What are you going to do when Trump refuses to admit his defeat?”
It would be unprecedented! And, by unprecedented, I mean it’s been going on for almost 4 years now.
Pence…quietly calling out how the Dems just cannot accept that Herself lost. Nice.
Yeah. Would have been nice to hear that earlier and more often.
Oh hell, he didn’t answer. He should have started with of course we’ll respect the results
What that question really means is “how much blatant cheating are you willing to accept”?
Pence promoting free and open debate. 45% of the country agrees.
Kamala promoting her campaign.
I thought Pence’s response to the question from the 8th grader was inspired and made you feel it’s kinda cool to be an American. Kamala’s response to the same question was “stammer, scowl, vote Joe!”
I agree, he stuck to “what America was about” and she just devolved into VOTE! One was a thoughtful answer and the other was a talking point.
So Harris gets both the first and last question?
No…Pence answered first and Kamala answered last if I remember right
Welp, I could totally punch that broad. Like without any guilt. The more I see her, the more I feel compelled to just punch her. Maybe I’m a bad person.
I feel the same way and I only heard about 10 minutes on the radio.
I have a baseball game on. Only because it’s in 4k. Looks better than HD. But it’s hard to care about anything else than video quality.
The dogma lives loudly in you.
It’s actually sad, I used to care about the Red Sox. Now I can barely distinguish strikes from balls. On the board.
I told my kid that she put a bunch of people in jail for trivial reasons, so now he calls her ” Mrs. McJail” of which I heartily approve, of course.
Nice
This is but one of many.
one of the weaknesses of the free market is that you can very easily end up funding your own destruction. Billions get slung around, and they end up finding their way into these socialist clearing houses, where the capitalist profits you pay to [insert company here] or the taxes you pay to uncle sugar end up being used to blow up the system.
Public Choice Theory 101. It isn’t of value to inform yourself of this stuff if you can’t do anything about it.
You can send some of your wages to organizations that exist to counter that threat. And your employer may not like that you can do that.
Seems like a good place to update progress re: my company’s matching program for woke nonsense:
Roughly 6 weeks after announcing a (rare) matching-donation program for a variety of woke causes:
Employees: 8,808
Donations: 102
Now, I’m not a mathematician, but I think that’s less than 50%. Maybe even lower.
This, from a company that’s filled with folks who embrace all sorts of things e.g., our internal contacts site now has a ‘pronouns’ field – oy.
There may be some revealed preferences here…
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/10/multnomah-county-da-declines-to-prosecute-70-of-portland-protest-cases.html
I’m shocked that they’re actually prosecuting 10% of cases.
There’s still time to cut deals for the equivalent of a parking ticket or dismiss before trial. Portland seems determined to destroy itself.
Let’s see how the debate went. *Checks our very first question from moderator*. Yeah, I’m not gonna watch that farce.
Man, reading around the various sites, CNN/MSNBC/FOX, etc. Its all one sided depending on what they think their viewership is. I know that isn’t anything new, but it is so pronounced. No countering what was said, just “HE LIED!” “SHE LIED!”.
Normally we used to say, it will be nice once Nov passes, now its…I wonder what is going to happen when Nov passes…
I’m afraid it’s going to be Katie-bar-the-doors crazy.
I saw a poll earlier that 50 some percent think that a civil war is imminent. Shits going bonkers…
Some would say we have been in a cold civil war since 2016/17. Which I would agree because revolutionaries such as BLM and antifa wouldn’t be possible in a country that was stable. We are not stable.
DOOM!
It is easy to get sucked into.
I lied. Watched a couple more clips of the debate. I think an actual white supremacist could’ve beaten Kamala tonight.
Nah MSNBC/CNN said she knocked it out the park and Pence just lied and covered for Trump. Fox actually went middle of the road and said it was a draw.
Sneering, wincing, shooting beams of hatred from your eyes for an hour and a half is winning?
Why not…https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/rioters-wisconsin-smashing-businesses-homes/
It has been a couple of days since we saw this.
I was just thinking that it had been a while since I last saw a riot in the news.
But Trump campaign had the best trolling of the night…leaving a ticket for Tupac for the debates.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-campaign-tupac-debate-kamala-harris-best-rapper-alive
Lol
As the Babylon Bee backs further into its small remaining corner of the internet where sarcasm is possible.
I think the first was a draw. Pence won this one by a wide margin.
which you are an independent thinker. The rest of the the US is not. They each got their red meat so to speak and like all other debates, their ‘man’ won.
So which is it…
mansplaining https://twitter.com/ThomasCatenacci/status/1314043716433252353
or because she is a woman https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1314034459000344576
Tale of two takes.
There’s no common ground left with these people.
I missed the debate. Were Pence’s attacks mostly racist sexism, or did he also engage in some sexist racism?
See my two tweets i posted above…yes is the answer
Well, I had a beer with lunch. If the bottles weren’t so small I wouldn’t have had to drink another.
Now I’m back to coffee (not sure how much whiskey to put in it…)
All of it. In doses. Wide awake drunk at 6 the next morning
In Sweden, we had a drink in which a Swedish coin is dropped in the bottom of a glass, then enough black coffee poured in to obscure the coin from view, then vodka added until the coin is visible again.
The Swedish girl I hung out with while I was in Denmark introduced me to that…Kaffegök. Not good but will wake you up!
Something something money well spent. ?
/I just had to
I WAS YOUNG AND I NEEDED THE MONEY!!!
I mean, uh….never mind.
Oh, my! ?
Or, maybe this: ?
BTW–concur on your description of the Adam Smith series. It was very easily digested, and still pretty comprehensive.
Bizarre. Chinese tourists are missing the ability to travel and go shopping in Japan so much that they built a knock-off Japanese shopping area in Foshan, Guangdong province. WTF?? Some of the signs are, while not exactly gibberish, definitely not something seen in Japan.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/china-is-opening-a-knockoff-japanese-shopping-street-and-locals-who-miss-travel-love-it/ar-BB19LBoO?ocid=msedgntp
https://simpleflying.com/flights-to-nowhere/
how dare you dot jpeg
What ever happened to that muppet?
I was assured she was the voice of the future.
How pissed off will Hildog be if Kanaka is the first female president?
Enough to put out a hit on Kamala or just enough to cause Hilary a massive brain bleed?
Is Kamala close enough to know the “secrets”?
Maybe we’ll know if/when Willie has an unfortunate swimming accident*.
*Oh, I went there, alright.
Barbarella’s a Bitch! https://www.theblaze.com/news/jane-fonda-says-covid-is-gods-gift-to-the-left-because-it-could-hurt-trumps-re-election-chances
HanoiHantavirus Jane? High-fever Fonda? Shit-heel?Hanoi Jane becomes Hubei Jane.
There ya go! Thanks.
Hunan would also work well.
Copying Chafed’s style?
/sign me up for this dude’s newsletter
Get off my lawn!
/puts on A-10 Warthog flight suit
This just in: College graduate too dumb to play professional sports
Ooops…
Uh ya..Art 133/134 for him unless the Army plays politics with it. Which they will.
::sigh::
Yeah. I figure they will, at least for the election season.
Given the extent of the media attention to it and his position though, it might make an example since they would have no problem throwing the book at at an E-5 and below for the same thing.
Ive decided that tonight I am going to delve into Nextdoor politics. My goodness. People equate federal funding being stopped as being a ban. The group that started out as a ‘non-partisan’ debate group is clearly all democrats/leftist and they are circle jerking onto a biscuit about Kamala.
My drink is half full so I will have to endure more.
Dude….it’s not like we don’t love you, or, anything. No need to hurt yourself!
BTW–it seems to me that a ‘debate group’ is going to be almost all partisans, of one stripe or another. I mean…are they debating how much more government to impose?
Yeah it starts out this way “Open debate – no name calling blah blah” about two days later, the creator of the group is name calling. What do I care, its just my real name out there. They can all suck it.
They are doing this to you? I was thinking you had simply witnessed them barking at each other.
Yeah, they suck a cancer dick if they wanna get nasty with a neighbor over debates.
Nah – I already said I was the weird naked libertarian guy that thinks you all can **** off. Keeps me entertained and the wife doesn’t have to hear me rant.
Do you interact with any of them in meatspace?
Probably, I don’t know, I don’t introduce myself. Its usually a “hey” and that’s all they get from me.
Good on ya.
Fuck your thieving, murderous, piece of shit kid. Oh, and, sorry for you loss.
That little bastard took a dozen shots? I guess that’s a ray of hope about survivability, if you ever get shot*.
*standard caveat about variables
Wow yeah…that….doesn’t help our cause to stop no-knock warrants.
That was a testament to the character and moral fiber of this scum that he used his own mother as a human shield to initiate his shooting of what he assumed to be a lone LEO. I’m glad the other officer was a good enough shot to put effective rounds on target from that distance.
Absolutely. I’m also wondering just what the dynamic in that family…was, considering he was a violent POS before this, lived with mom, and had that shotgun (I am going to presume mom knew about his personality).
Oh I am sure it was ‘my baby would never do no harm!’ thought process and she sheltered herself in that.
I’m thinking either that, or, he had her cowed. Something about that short snippet, along with the overall story, makes me think she just surrendered to him, and he ran roughshod over her.
But, I could easily be wrong.
You could be right.
https://youtu.be/jPj-8_wOZcA
We asked 10% more democrats who won the poll and it was Harris. This is CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/politics/mike-pence-kamala-harris-vice-presidential-debate-poll/index.html
That was a quick poll.
Moar people means moar accuracy!
I want/need more bourbon. Work from home enables me cause I don’t have to drive in the AM.
Talking to myself, but CBS fact checker is fun.
For instance:
Claim: Harris says that on the first day of Biden’s presidency, he will repeal the 2017 GOP tax cut.
Fact check: Misleading
Details: Biden cannot single-handedly repeal the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act.
No shit, the president cannot single-handedly repeal it. Nor do they single-handedly pass it; but its always Bush Tax Cuts, Obama Tax Cuts, Trump Tax Cuts….
Another:
Claim: Pence claims the U.S. has reduced CO2 emissions through innovation
Fact check: Misleading
Details: U.S. CO2 emissions decreased in 2017, the first year of the Trump administration, before spiking again in 2018. Emissions declined again in 2019, and are on track to decline in 2020.
So…how is that misleading?
Another:
Claim: Pence says that Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination event was outdoors.
Fact check: Partially true
Uh….
How much I hate this.
That all looks like the horseshit we’ve come to know and hate from our media betters.
Harris made up a fictional conversation about Lincoln and the Supreme Court to support their narrative of “the peoples’ choice”.
“But Honest Abe said, ‘It’s not the right thing to do. The American people deserve to make the decision about who will be the next president of the United States and then that person can select who will serve for a lifetime on the highest court of our land.’” – Harris
Gee, that wording sounds exactly like your line that you have been using:
“There is no doubt – let me be clear – that the voters should pick the president. The president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider…” – Biden
Problem is, I cannot find that quote or even anything near it by ol’ Honest Abe.
It must be from that secret Lincoln tome that he gave to the Democrat party, just before his death.
Is that the one that had the instructions on switching parties?
Ye-I, uhh, I dunno…
::looks around nervously::
‘Problem is, I cannot find that quote or even anything near it by ol’ Honest Abe.’ — Ownbestenemy
Does not matter. From 2012:
Six Reasons Why Politicians Believe They Can Lie
Do politicians really think they won’t be caught when they lie?
Posted Sep 24, 2012
Jim Taylor Ph.D., author, The Power of Prime
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/201209/six-reasons-why-politicians-believe-they-can-lie
Donation not taxation.
Sorry I dont have fun posts and internet things for you to venture on like CPRM does on these late night talks. Well, maybe one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8K08AcVru0
Those are fun to go through.
2:34 mark is…Glibertarian as fuck
Hahahahaha!
That’ll do,
pigOBE. That’ll do.The whole thing was glib before we were…it got me through many nights in the air force.
13 minute mark is about half of us here.
Clean comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLUFit8815c
Actually really like this channel.
I believe it (channel) has some popularity around here.
Well in that case….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKBY0RB7BHM
Techno-chocolate
Check your kidneys
CHARLIE!!
Me too. I’ve enjoyed it a lot.
This one is problem my favorite Cause they make fun of Jaws.
I heard this in the car and nearly had to pull over to regain composure. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3AK9IgTx8
Mornin Kids, whats happening?
Eh, F all, really. How’s the new job?
Nice people, very busy days, we make propane tanks, large tanks, 3 or 4 semis a day, Its pretty fun, TBH
Outstanding! Hope it stays that way.
Unless they do something awful, Ill stay for a while,
I picture you as a hybrid Hank Hill/Boomhauer migrated to more northern climes.
Dingdang ole Propane accesories
Mornin’, Yu – and Diggy, if you’re still around. It’s Swim-at-the-Y Day, so that’ll get me through.
Im reading the news, and its all about Pence winning, whats sickening though, is the media on the right is using the EXACT SAME talking points, almost coordinated, heh all media is the enemy
Well he did get extra points for technical performance which overshadowed her artistic merits.
They judge these things like figure skating or rhythmic gymnastics anyway. Too bad the East German judge is always the moderator. I thought Pence kicked her in the crotch.
I think a lot of it is lazy. They all use the same words that someone before them did.
It’s all so tiresome but with the advent of instant world-wide communication it has become akin to eating a nice steak dinner and nano seconds later having the steer show up in the toilet bowl.
At 11:45 last night I have no trouble connecting to work to check my calendar. Now I’m barred from connecting remotely.
So instead of checking my email, I’m waiting for the helpdesk to get in to work.
Good morning. When do the helpdesk critters usually show up?
7am. I already got one on the line, told them the issue and got put on hold a couple of time during torubleshooting.
Torubleshooting! We’ve found the Russian mole!
Two Roubles Hooting?
Haven’t seen him.
Well, Teir 1 couldn’t fix it. So now I have to wait until teir 2 gets in at 7:30.
Can’t even send an email because I can’t look up what our web portal is.
…
Scratch that, while looking for the web email portal, I managed to connect.
Back in the day I got hired on as tier 3 to a company where the last tier 3 guy quit 7 months before I started. There was quite the backlog because the company would keep putting tickets in the queue and not fix them.
I have an idea why the last guy quit.
That looks fantastic, KK. I’d very much like to visit these places one day. I’ve never made it to the end of Close Encounters… because it’s so damn long, and it used to be on TV a lot, so I’d end up tuning in by chance somewhere near the beginning, and not having planned to sit there for hours, wasn’t in the mood to just sit through a badly-paced movie that should be half as long as it actually is. Something something a grown man playing with his food something something aliens.
Morning all!
Afternoon, limey/JD.
I saw it first release in the theater. That was my first realization that I didn’t really like Spielburg movies.
He really hit his stride with Jurassic Park and that was peak Spielberg over and done with in one movie. Honorable mention goes to Schindler’s List, because despite some artistic license taken with some characters, who said what, etc, it’s a pretty epic tribute to Oskar Schindler and possibly one of the most important three+ hour nutpunches ever made. #Neveragain, but even that could have been an hour shorter and not diminished it’s impact.
He’s good at his craft but I hate being manipulated.
@fourscore
Nope. Yes, she has more fun at sporting clays though. She needs a soft shooting 20g semi.
If I had the time and money to put into it, I’d get into skeet. I took to it like a duck to orange sauce when I gave it a go. Very satisfying to be better than you expect at something right off the hop.
Phrasing?
(((Protests)))
They’re complaining about lockdown measures, the AP Style guide says this is a Riot.
It’s 2020. Hassidim are the true punk rockers. John Lydon better check his wallet for a missing card.
Stability is overrated. Try being a counter-revolutionary in North Korea, which has a really stable political climate – until it eventually collapses.