Spent Saturday at a Bellator Fight. I have only gone to UFC previously, and the crowd is more or less the same but ever so slightly different. Like short shorts and tube tops different.
Yes, they was plenty of love for Brandon.
Now for some links!
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants team Brandon to ask Trump to negotiate with Mexico on their behalf. Good luck, I guess.
Confession: In my earlier years, one reason I wasn’t immediately for marijuana legalization was the cartels would simply find something new to sell, illegally. Seriously, they’re selling bootleg wood, which might be an album title. I report, you decide.
I visited Nogales recently and they’re anticipating more traffic, so this is no surprise to me. Between releasing COVID restrictions, and this being legal border crossings might mean this actually could be a good thing for both sides. Then again…
I’m telling ya, helicopters.
I don’t understand…If you were entertaining using volcanoes as a way to mine Bitcoin, and controlled all of it throughout the country, wouldn’t you call yourself, “Emperor of El Salvador”?
Have a tune, and a great afternoon!
In announcing the changes Friday, Mexico City’s Digital Government Director Eduardo Clark said, “Fortunately, the city continues in the right direction due to the good behavior of the people.”
Or… y’know, virus gonna virus, and there’s not a goddamn thing you can do about it.
That’s why they’re trying to choke off the fuell supply!
Seriously, they’re selling bootleg wood, which might be an album title.
It’s good to see the cartels branch out into other industries.
Black market Viagra?
Wouldn’t want to compete with the mini-lop rabbit that already set up that ring in Tijuana.
Bun-bun?
Hah! Didn’t even look at the link.
Bootleg wood
Now there’s a way to liven up a dull marriage!
Well at this point you aren’t going to root them out of Mexican society.
*narrows gaze*
I’m going out on a limb here, but I’d bet that getting a gaze from you instead of having you leaf it alone is a crowning achievement for RS….
Dude, it’s a little early in the thread to go that far out on a limb with the puns. We’ve barely started the hors d’oeuvres. Here, have a canopy.
Don’t worry, many here will branch out with their puns.
Don’t be knotty! It takes a lot of bark to twist Swissy’s twig and berries like this.
Are you trying to trim his bush with that comment?
Yeah, sometimes you just have to go against the grain or cut the Gordian Knot.
I think it can spruce up the place — but then, some days I can be a real son of a beech….
Don’t needle me, man, I’ll be pining for some relief or knot.
I think I’d better disembark from this thread, it’s really getting sappy.
Where is the leaderboard of gazes?
They threw in in the boats.
It would be Treeson not to,
I am irretrievably in love with Brandon
Let’s go Brandon has legs. I am pleased at this glorious restart to meme wars.
I am tempted to update my email signature to ScoobaSteve (Let’s Go/Brandon).
He is running for a lot of offices and appears to play for a lot of teams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bif2q_Zo3-4
Someone earlier today (KSuellington, maybe?) suggested a billboard “Let’s Go, Brandon” campaign. I’d throw some fiat at that.
There are a bunch of billboards for rent in Pahrump.
Tempting, but that seems like it’d be too much preaching to the choir. I’m thinking it would be best in a “swing” area.
On topic…
https://rumble.com/vnyeup-october-19-2021.html
short shorts and tube tops
You make interesting sartorial choices. Good for you, keeping it fresh at your age.
I needed a good laugh!
Polarized Chile marks anniversary of 2019 protests as election nears
Hopefully cooler heads prevail.
I expect some heated debates.
For some reason I got a shiver down my spine.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
Texas has an 80s soul singer and a sports commentator as their executives?
No, they have a respectable Indy Car career but an atrociously bad NASCAR one as Lt. Gov…
What’s that? Oh…. *Dan* Patrick……
Yowsa: Salma Hayek Stuns In Black Gown With Plunging Neckline On Red Carpet
Wow.
55 years old.
Wow.
You nip and tuck the neckline..but those knees screen 55. Not that anyone is looking at her knees.
The hands, too.
I’ll drink beer off any part of her body she allows.
Particularly vivid in my memory is a movie scene where she sticks her big toe in a bar patrons mouth and pours tequila down her leg and into his mouth.
She later ripped his throat out with her teeth.
What is the name of the movie? I can’t find the scene.
From Dusk Til Dawn?
I would assume From Dusk Till Dawn. Been a while since I watched that…
Love this tune.
From Dusk Till Dawn.
It was Tarantino himself indulging in his somewhat well-known foot fetish
For “science”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqpLEufGnA
Far too long since I’ve seen that.
YT comments occasionally amuse:
Well, that was some terrible tag work…
Although I’m going to go with her work in “Dogma” if we’re talking about Salma dancing.
Although I’m going to go with her work in “Dogma” if we’re talking about Salma dancing.
Proof your not gay?
Decisions decisions. I’ll take my chances.
Rowr.
Would X 1,000,000
I liked her better as a muse.
Oh, to be the plaster cast in Frida!
You haven’t discovered her Instagram? Its basically her hanging out by her pool.
If I were her that is all I would do too. Horny retards get off on this and I make money? Score!
Why is it the media pushes the vaccines so hard?
https://twitter.com/ke11ybender/status/1450519193216970756
Wow…
Hard-hitting journalism is expensive, I for one am glad someone is funding it. Otherwise fake news would be the order of the day.
Nice
How are they making money on “free” vaccines?
The same way politicians make money as public servants?
It’s almost like someone is printing money and giving it to them. That’s just strange.
From a classmate and patriarch of the Iditarod Seavey Racing Team
“Thanks for the memories. I am most happy to hear that you are on the repair. Keep it up.
I had hopes of running the 50th Iditarod but one cannot enter unless vaccinated for the China Plague -which I will not.
So, I most likely will not get to meet your kin in Galena this Winter.”
Dan ran the Iditarod with his son and grandson a few years ago. He completed it but not in winning time. He’s the same age as I am.
Can’t run the Iditarod without being vaccinated.
A race across the desolation of the Arctic Circle. About as “socially distanced” and as far from civilization as you can get.
FFS
Sorry, it’s south of the Arctic Circle. but still!
To be fair, they often wear masks and maintain distance, even before COVID.
Apologies if I missed a sarcasm tag here. 😉
a) I thought they were “free” because the Government is paying for them. Hence, kickbacks.
b) Like all good dope pushers — the first hit is free. Locking the population into perpetual mandatory boosters seems like a good profit model.
Health As A Service, after all…
The government is only paying if there’s not a private insurance plan to bill.
Free is no money at point of sale, no copays.
heh
In TMITE, example infinity news, our POS governor said, how dare those vaccine wrongthinkers climb on Colin Powell’s body to point out he had a breakthrough infection?
She then climbed on the body herself to assert without evidence that Powell was infected by someone unvaccinated.
And the media response was basically to ask how they can fellate the governor better.
Helicopters + Volcanoes = db-istan justice.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants team Brandon to ask Trump to negotiate with Mexico on their behalf
Ask STEVE SMITH to negotiate. He is quite persuasive.
He definitely drives a hard bargain.
STEVE SMITH OFFER SERVICES. HIM PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER!
Titty Tuesday will sell your bootleg wood.
http://web.archive.org/web/20211019201635/https://www.barnorama.com/36-sexy-and-busty-girls/
So Q was evidently barn raising today….
I always thought his specialty was poppin’ tents?
Bootleg wood could land a nice little niche on OnlyFans.
Rene Gómez, a veteran lumberjack in Chiapas, told El Universal that illegal logging creates “unfair competition” because cutting down trees illicitly is 60% cheaper than doing it legally.
Rene Gómez understands incentives — and he’s okay!
In a sane world the response might be “So what in the regulations is adding so much to the cost?”
In the US, I’d be assuming various permits / inspections / whatnot. In Mexico, I would expect they call their bribes out more honestly….
My father was friends with a guy who harvested exotic wood from around the globe.
He had operations in Asia, South America, Africa, etc…, but he said the absolute worst and most dangerous place to do that work was Chiapas.
It was constant payoffs to everybody; tribes, police, judges, politicians, cartels, etc… and still wondering if somebody would come in and execute all your labor just because….
Coming out here to the sticks has showed me how urban living has scarred my brain. I am trying to wrap my head around these things:
1. I can do a dance party and blast my music and galumph around without worrying about a downstairs neighbor
2. I don’t have to worry about the smoke from the grill drifting into neighbors’ windows
3. I can walk out the door & shoot my pistol – no driving 45 minutes to the range
I suppose it would take me longer than a week to shift my mindset, but I’m definitely making progress.
Is this temporary or have you moved?
Just a week
Yeah..we are counting down the years for that…maybe sooner. Luckily I have good neighbors that say “no, the smoke from your grilling doesn’t bother us except you never invite us over!”
I think someone in my neighborhood complaining about grilling smoke (or fire pit smoke) would be told to STFU by the rest of the neighborhood.
“I do believe you’d get your ass kicked for that, man.”
We had a condo-wide cookout at the pool one year, and someone complained that it was too smoky for them to swim their laps. Keep in mind, the pool is part of the condo – we didn’t rent out someone else’s pool.
We haven’t had a community cookout since.
It’s excellent.
3. I can walk out the door & shoot my pistol – no driving 45 minutes to the range
Check out Ms. Hunter S. Thompson over there.
So. They do that in Chicago and many other cities.
Now I’m thinking about renting this place for the week before Nats.
If it’s during hunting season, you may be SOL, judging by the volume of mounted deer heads.
The homeowner apparently doesn’t believe in cleaning his grill grates, though
Just get the fire hot before you start to cook.
(I know someone else who doesn’t clean his grates)
Just get the fire hot before you start to cook.
I like a classy euphemism. Well done.
I know someone else who doesn’t clean his grates
Hygiene is important.
That’s why we chose the woods. And no masks or neighbors (unless they bring their own ammo)
I hope to get to HH next year. I may be close enough to drive!
Last KF&G shoot of the season is Halloween.
Also the last of the stages designed by my favorite designer, since he’s retired to Florida.
Im pretty sure that “Bootleg Wood” was the sequel to Log Jammers.
Im off to bed, having just returned from shipping Jugsy back to the embracing arms of Queens, NYC.
Israeli diver discovers a 900 year-old Christian Crusader sword
after 900 years, it must be quite a dull find,
Oh, quit being so crusty.
Look at this guy with the rapier wit.
Diver now wants to be King of England, citing precedent about removing swords from bodies of water….
Was it handed to him by a watery tart?
At this point I’d rather have a watery tart determine who is in charge than what we got.
Beat me to it.
It’s not my department, but you’re welcome to some light spanking and oral sex.
Nifty.
Also, as per usual, don’t read the comments.
He has a keen eye.
Nah, he had to use barnacle-ars to see it.
That pun was clammy
I have a reflexive annoyance at the term “Crusader Sword”. In this case, it’s likely literally a sword dropped by a crusader, so I’m forcing myself to give it a pass.
TPTB: Whoever saw my article and got it scheduled within 2 hours of my submitting, thank you!
You are welcome. I am catching up with the pending, after a slow week on my part.
The date and time were perfect too.
Well it’s official – the wife and I are both on double-secret work-from-home probation for being unvaxxed. Operation Escape from NJ has commenced. Signing papers with real estate agent tomorrow, looking at rentals in SC next weekend.
Indiana, the home of firearms, fireworks, and low vaccination rates, would welcome you.
Good deal, run while you are able,
Godspeed, Drakes!!
Does NJ have a Reichsfluchtsteuer?
Only if you own multiple properties. I’ll own no real estate when we leave.
Your boyfriend is a soi boi.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16421950/cant-orgasm-with-my-new-partner/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513811000250
Seems like a candidate for the next Ask Animal column.
Submitted without comment.
Torn between STEVE SMITH or ZARDOZ having the best response.
The real answer (not the non-answer provided by “Deirdre”) is they’re putting too much pressure on themselves to get her to orgasm. They just need to enjoy the moment, for fuck’s sake. Literally, for fuck’s sake.
Doesn’t seem like a great situation: Great White Sharks Swim Near Surfers
Oh my, that swimmer!
Those are babies, head up to Monterey for the big ones, Del Mar is too warm for the adults,
Why is it the more I have to do, the less I actually get done?
I’m determined to finish grilling before dark. Another thing I’m not used to is all the little rustlings & shufflings outside in the night
https://pasteboard.co/2gQEsfMSK7pg.jpg
I kept hearing crazy-ass noises after dark when we were in Maine.
Took me a couple days to figure out I was hearing the seals out on a rock in the bay.
Well, there is a thin line between love and crime in the night….
STEVE SMITH’S RUSTLE NOT SO LITTLE
Heh, looks like my Weber
Is that what we’re calling it these days?
From the target temperature, chicken?
Yessir
Someone please tell me this is really a simulation and there is some chance of reaching the plug?
What the fuck is that thing?
More importantly, what the fuck is this thing?
Yet another agency I’ve never heard of.
One of the uniformed services, which includes the military and armed services. The leader is the Surgeon General.
I had no idea the Surgeon General had an actual army.
Navy. If I recall the lineage, they use Navy ranks because they original went to foreign ports to deal with what sailors were bringing back from shore leave.
“Mom, this is Wendy. Wendy, Mom.”
. . . awkward silence ensues . . .
“This is what you brought back from shore leave? Your father and I are gonna have to call the Surgeon-General.”
The Surgeon General has determined that sticking it in crazy is bad for your health.
They’re like the Merchant Marine, mostly useless given we have a Navy but since they built the academy anyways…
They are supposed to handle issues like disease control for deployed armed services. They are uniformed so they get the same protections as armed services when in combat zones. There is no reason for the assistant to the secretary of health to be a member. Directly commissioning as an admiral is a mockery.
Thank you.
I still want it dissolved and the workers to lose all pay and benefits.
Directly commissioning as an admiral is a mockery.
Which makes it perfectly appropriate in this case.
They also provide health care to sailors in the Merchant Marine and do the health inspections for food and beverage providers working in the National Park System.
I mean, what I’m saying is that thing is child abuse.
I’ll explain. When I was a kid, I still remember the times that my parents let my uncle and his friend baby sit me. What the fuck were they thinking? Their favorite thing of course was to scare the fucking shit out of me for fun.
I remember one time, that movie, The Blob as on TV. So they casually explained to me how the Blob was real. And then one of them leaves the room, comes back in and says ‘It’s out there in the front yard, The Blob!’. And then the other would say ‘OK, there’s only one thing we can do, Blobs love little kids, so we have to give this kid to The Blob to eat’. Then they’d grab me and start dragging me towards the front door, me terrified and screaming my lungs out and them laughing their asses off.
The point is, at least it was only a Blob. Imagine if it would have been that horror I just posted about? I would have never recovered, probably been committed to a mental institution before I was 5.
*makes popcorn for when Scruffy discovers that NOAA is another one of the uniformed services and has a commissioned officer corps*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvvf_6Yg6fQ
Does NOAA have a transgender Admiral?
That’s been done. It is time to check a different box.
My water in basement problem *may* be fixed. My realtor neighbor was insisting that it had to be coming from neighbor’s yard (the point where our houses meet is the low point of her yard). And we dug down and found a hole which is now patched, plus water barrier etc. Now I need a hard rain to see if it worked. Certainly less expensive than other options and worth a try.
Realtor neighbor knows neighborhood, said he’s seen this kind of thing lots of times.
And when I say ‘we’ dug down, I mean guys I hired.
Fingers crossed!
Cool, I hope it works!
Now knowing where you suspect the water source to be, next time it rains heavily, have a look at that area and see if there’s pooling. If so, you might be able to dig a sloped trench and line it with gravel to get the water to drain away from the pooling area. You can direct the water away to a deeper hole filled with gravel and sand to act as a sump to collect water during a rain, and then to disperse it into the deeper ground away from the house after the rain is done.
It’s in neighbor’s yard, so..
They still might let you do it out of goodwill if you pay for it and return their lawn to original condition.
I have water issues in my rental house, which of course we didn’t find as we bought it in the summer. I had a french drain with dry-well put in as I didn’t want the city involved at all, and it all stays within the property lines.
You moved to a house without a basement?
This is good news! May your basement stay dry.
What.even.in.the.fuck
This appears to be an argument for the draft and a land war in Asia.
Greenwald from the top of the ropes at the end of the article.
That guy is a treasure.
If you can afford $80,000 for school, you can afford the extra cost to hire a non-threatening contractor. Similarly, when you call 911, be sure to tell them you will wait for the next available 2SLGBTQIA+ to respond.
I think I am going to start using LGB only.
Lets Go Brandon!
https://thanosshirt.com/product/mens-lets-go-brandon-team-lgbt-conservative-funny-t-shirt/
I have some questions as well. For starters, why does this person’s family and friends allow them to behave this way?
IDK, I would call not wanting cis gender men in your room bigotry.
I mean, after all, what would they say to a white female who didn’t want a black male doing the fix.
Someone who has seen the documentary films they show on pronhub and didn’t want to wind up in a sticky situation?
They called that a “male” I LOLed
If anyone wants to see a real male , check out Hyperion’s link above.
Oh whooops, it was a woman. Well flush that joke, would you?
His parents did him a tremendous disservice during childhood. How will he managed not to have a total meltdown when he has to wait on a cable install? An unexpected plumbing issue, a painter in your home while you’re at work, a random cell toss?
Poor Millennials
Good, millennials don’t need a house. What they need is a safe space. And they need to GET IN IT AND NEVER COME BACK OUT AGAIN!
Of course they cannot grok that it’s Fed policy and regulatory restrictions on home building that are the actual sources of their problems.
Seriously, I have thought for a very long time that Boomers are the worst generation to ever live. But Millennials have convinced me otherwise.
New construction is going up really quickly now. The problem is, no one wants them. They are all tiny and overpriced. No wonder when the current price of materials are astronomical in the new Bidenflation. Did I say ‘Go Brandon’?
So, my plan for the great escape is coming along. I will be doing legal stuff shortly after the new year (trust, advance medical directive, etc). More work on house in spring, and then just saving more and looking for the right option out.
Do you have a destination picked out?
Yes, western shore of Lake Michigan – Sheboygan, Manitowoc area.
I’ll be able to see Tulip from my Front yard!
Wonderful! I’ll look forward to sharing your adventure vicariously!
You can always “Mention my name in Sheboygan” for all the good it will do you
Finally decided to watch Nobody.
A very entertaining, tightly scripted little action flick. It’s worth the time.
And Bob Odenkirk was pitch perfect in his role.
where did you see it? streaming?
Streaming rental
Thanks, I have been waiting for that one to start streaming.
Late as usual. But, thanks for the autism/vaccine article. Also, thanks to all who responded and I send good thoughts out to those who are dealing with this issue.
I, too, never paid much attention to the childhood vaccines, and even though I am naturally cynical, just went along with “modern medicine”. Luckily for me neither of my kids had adverse reactions and I am thankful for that.
As others said, after this bull shit China Flu fiasco, I have no trust in the medical profession and I’m only going to dr’s for emergencies; I will look after my own health! (Like I ever went to doctors for annual check ups or anything other than an emergency anyway)
Uhh, checkups? What’re they? 😉
$
20150, same as downtown.Yeah, but you get a finger up your ass for that $150.
^ this,
What’s the negotiation exactly? Isn’t it a more a “get your shit together” to Mexico?
While the housing market has since begun to cool and contractors have begun to build more homes, these homes are in the higher end of the market
Builders always build on high end of market. Then the old high end becomes the middle and the old middle becomes the starter homes.
Houses depreciate. Land increases in value, but without pumping a ton of money into maintenance, a house drops in value.
The new homes are practically tiny homes. Look at the cost of materials. Thanks Go Brandon.
Seriously, these new units are so fucking tiny on average, they are no good for anyone outside of single persons or new couples who have accumulated practically no possessions at all.
And I mean new couples with no children. I mean where would you put them? In the oven?
I mean where would you put them? In the oven?
Why not? It worked for Hansel and Gretel.
Huh? Where, exactly, is this happening?
Everything back home and around here is huge.
Yeah, same here. Lots may be small, but houses are big.
Where people actually want to live. I mean outside of Cali and Blue shithole cities.
It’s almost like Jane Jacobs wrote a famous book about exactly this sixty years ago, and every urban politician and planner spent the last sixty years simultaneously praising it and completely ignoring its contents.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nytimes/status/1450230244514881539
This was supposed to stop with the Confederate Battle Flag. It’s not like I myself haven’t been saying this for years…
After today’s mid-day vaccine article, wife and I took a look at the remaining vax schedule for the kiddos.
We eliminated everything between 12 months and adulthood besides DTaP/Tdap and the final polio shot.
Between abortion tainted vaccines (HepA, Chickenpox, MMR), boosters beyond what other countries do (Hib #4) , vaccines with limited, short-term effectiveness (Meningitis), and vaccines for preventable or not particularlu dangerous diseases (HPV, Flu), there was nothing else left on the list.
Obviously, we’ll discuss with the pediatrician before setting any of this in stone, but it was shocking how many of these vaccines fell off the list when we started using even basic criteria to filter.
Good work. As I mentioned, I wish I had my current level of disdain for the medical profession back then. Luckily, my kids seem to be fine, but who the hell knows what the future holds.
Seconded, my kids are mostly fine as well. One was diagnosed with Aspergers at 3 yrs old and still has some issues with social situations; probably not vaccine related but still would have had a different approach had I known then what I know now.
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-close-is-total-social-and-economic-collapse/
If everything can fall about so quickly then maybe there was something flawed about the status quo?
About one more term of democrats with any degree of control at all.
Need I remind you that permanent one-party Republican rule is, while it may be preferable to Democrats, far from optimal?
The mission of the Republican Party is to prevent / undermine any real opposition to the Democrats.
We need some actual people who support freedom in a very real concrete way rather just hoping that some TOP MAN in either party will swoop in and save us…
Sure. That was the original idea of the Tea Party – which got highjacked by Republicans.
It’s all deliberate and it isn’t going to stop.
And now for something completely different, Henri Herbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6GEcdh5whk
Great stuff. Lots of smiling faces at that mall!
Something else completely different, Yulia Zagoruychenko, aka The Best Legs In Ballroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuHG1C0l0SM
Also Yulia
You’re welcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ioywuo1aKI
I’ll be in my bunk.
Couple of thoughts:
Turns out that the lust to dominate of a few seems to outweigh the desire to be left alone.
Our totalitarians elites have very active imaginations and constantly thinking up new arguments for why freedom is bad. Advocates of freedom are ironically quite outdated in their thinking as they are still fighting the old battles. Seriously libertarians seem to still think that the enemy is still the landowning aristocrats and socon yokels and they ignore the very urban globalist plutocratic nontraditionalist enemies of freedom because the urban merchants were liberals in the past.
Also our totalitarians are masters of using our own arguments against us. Don’t like racism, dirty air and like mental and physical wellbeing? Well our totalitarians are going to use that against us?
“Seriously libertarians seem to still think that the enemy is still the landowning aristocrats and socon yokels and they ignore the very urban globalist plutocratic nontraditionalist enemies of freedom because the urban merchants were liberals in the past.”
I’m glad I’m a Glib, those Libertarians sound yucky, and you’re full of shit.
Winston: Slayer of Strawmen with the Flame of the Repetitive.
The problem is he’s not entirely full of shit. Now is a time when libertarians should be screaming from the ramparts. But, the official libertarians mostly seem entirely fine with the way things are going. Is Winston right in ascribing that to all libertarians? Hell no! But, if libertarianism has gotten itself a leadership that is on board with the developments we’re seeing, something went terribly, terribly wrong.
Is it cowardice from the big L Libertarians or agreement with the prog-fascists? I honestly can’t tell.
Yes, there are cucked libertarians in the world. So what?
I want some white pills
Listen to Tom Woods, Dave Smith or Scott Horton then.
I never give white pills to “Game Over!” man. It’s a waste of pills.
Actually, listen, or watch rather, Dave Chappelle. Put eyeballs on the shows that are fighting this shit. This, more than anything, tells the powers that be what is important.
Yeah, but the cucked libertarians seem to be the ones who, at least for the last few years, seem to be in the forefront of the movement. And, yeah, that probably does mean something.
No one uses our argument against us. The vast majority of people love liberty when it is convenient, it is really the convenience they love. Make something else sound more convenient – you’re golden with them. Promise them shit that other people will pay for, and you my friend will command a majority of that electorate (hint: this is why Republicans lose, they don’t lie as well as Democrats). Periodically, people might note that they in fact are paying and suffering INconvenience and then, temporarily, there is hell to pay (on those unlucky enough to be in charge at the moment of realization). This is society. The only way you ever get a libertarian majority is going Galt’s gulch – and even then people will revert.
Mmm… Some of the “Libertarians”, namely the cosmotarians. Others, the Glibertarians like us, not so much. You do paint with a broad brush Winston, but to a certain degree, you are right, as the ‘official” Libertarians have been hit with the same sack of BS that has hit the establishment right, and all of the Dems. Namely the disease of communalism. Also, it has a lot to do with the fact that there are two main sets of morals in this country, and they center around the individual on the one hand and the group on the other.
I think the reason (drink) you get such vituperative pushback is that broad brush. Right now you are in the home of people who are strongly libertarian and who vehemently disagree with the current paradigm. And, as we have seen from various Libertarian groups such as New Hampshire, there is real pushback to these things that are upsetting you. Which in my eyes is a good start, but there is much work to be done. But, let us never lose sight of the fact that libertarianism is a vector, as a friend of mine would say. We are not legion, and we will not, ever, win elections greater than a chance seat in the house. But, we can influence people. And that is our way forward. Not to lead but to steer.
Did you ever hear normies talk about actual succession in your lifetime like we are hearing now? Cops flying the Gadsen, media trust at all time low etc. There are white pills out there, but some people can’t see it.
IMO, that’s akin to pointing at tank man in Tienamen Square and saying that 1990s Communist China may have a bright future ahead of it.
Who would you rather be, tank man or the CCP? Life sucks and isn’t fair.
As much as I consider myself a libertarian, the Biden era has revealed that libertarianism, at least as a political movement is a pathetic joke. You have people being held as political prisoners with no bail in solitary confinement, parents petitioning school boards for redress of grievances being labeled “domestic terrorists”, people’s livelihoods being made dependent on involuntary medical treatments, and a government mulling a multi-trillion-dollar givaway and the best movement libertarianism can come up with is studied indifference. Because, to raise passionate objections would be unfashionable. And might get you confused with the bumpkins who supported BadOrangeMan.
The libertarian movement had its opportunity. And they squandered it. I guess a couple of people got a column or two in the Daily Beast or guest spots on MSNBC out of it. But, that’s about it. Maybe the Mises Caucus can salvage something out of the wreckage. Maybe they can rebuild a libertarianism that actually means anything. But, at least right now, the movement offers little.
The current situation didn’t prove libertarian is a joke as much as it proved that the current democratic system is one.
You’re right. But, the libertarian movement’s reaction to the current situation kind of proves that the movement is a joke.
I’ve seen quite a few good reactions by “libertarians” over the past year. Problem is that we are currently in a downward political trend in terms of liberty and so it’s disheartening. I get that, but there are many people in the past who gave up more than what we may have to give up in order to gain more liberty. Every great advancement in freedom was first advocated by an asshole. Embrace the asshole not Niskanen.
Too local news, NJ division.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/westwood-hillsdale/s/hvfbn/protesters-gather-outside-rep-josh-gottheimers-wyckoff-home?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert
Seems my (D) representative is not sufficiently woke for these local protesters.
Now that is what I call local. Who knew these locations were in my district? These people are trying to make me believe there is some kind of national movement going on here. A national, socialist movement.
Chicken on the smoker with apple/cherry mix. Making the neighbor’s contractors jealous. They are repainting and wind is wisping the flavorful smoke their direction.
Wind picked up in wrong direction and gave me bad smoke….grrrr
https://pasteboard.co/5IRldlQtGaPx.jpg
YUM!!!
My chicken turned out pretty good. But it was boobies, and I prefer grilled thighs.
So says we all
Dark meat is in all ways superior.
99% true. Shredded breast serves its purposes though.
People who say such misguided things simply don’t know how to treat the breasts properly.
/blows on fingernails, polishes ’em on shirt
It’s what I had on hand in my freezer. Should have gotten some thighs, but grilled meat is grilled meat.
Hear hear
The bird…some smoke….some good eating later
https://pasteboard.co/IIJrrlpZQcBk.jpg
Ewww…can see some areas I missed on my last cleaning.
Almost time for fire in the fireplace & a little devil’s lettuce
Wife ‘you know…if you are fired you get to enjoy this weed I have ‘
It’s a love/hate relationship
I’m jelly.
Although we’re taking my wife out tonight for her birthday. I love going out on weeknights.
“we’re taking my wife out”
Beginning of a Ask Winston’s Mom article?
Lol. Me and the kids.
Well it will be a happy birthday either way!
Congrats to the missus, enjoy the celebration. Who is this “we”?
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/577383-surgeon-general-offers-advice-on-dating-during-the-covid-19?amp&__twitter_impression=true
Thank goodness the state is out of the bedroom…
Proper response is just ignore it and be like your mom.
White pill music
https://youtu.be/3E8jqTVLK4Y
I prefer this
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/ideas/2021/09/27/seeking-the-public-good-will-lead-only-to-more-division/
First of all isn’t this consensus talk rather collectivist? And who, what, where and why will consensus be made? And how will it be preserved? Aren’t you going to need to make sure all immigrants and minority groups support this consensus? Because if you have significant dissent then there is no consensus?
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2021/10/04/independents-get-the-job-done/
But doesn’t he want a stable consensus and relative social peace that will not change?
Seriously I have never gotten a good answer as to how society should evolve and change but our civil liberties and laissez-faire economics should never be challenged despite them being an old social value. And this is nothing new: John Lilburne, Thomas Paine and Lysander Spooner for example all saw how the radical change they advocated turned out to have some pretty serious flaws…
I have never gotten a good answer as to how society should evolve
Good, if a libertarian tells you he knows how society should evolve he probably isn’t a libertarian and most likely is full of shit.
Pretty sure that is a clear sign you’ve got a liberaltarian on your hands.
My answer to “What’s your Utopia look like?” is: Probably some form of minarchism. If that society is richer, poorer, more advanced or regressed, safer or more dangerous, is beside the point.
Maine Hospital Fired So Many Unvaxed Employees They Had to Close the ICU
A medical crisis so dire they don’t need an ICU.
https://flagandcross.com/maine-hospital-fired-so-many-unvaxed-employees-they-had-to-close-the-icu/
That’ll show everyone!
Better people die than potentially get COVID.
I really need to stop watching the Boomer tv channels. If I see another medicare commercial I’m going to go postal.
Yeah. Medicare, car warranties and Jasmin talking about identity theft.
It is literally every single commercial now that it’s enrollment season. Ten or fifteen different companies.
I’m trying to watch Kojak here, FFS.
Peacock runs 15 commercials in a row sometimes during Kolchak. Usually the same commercial ten times in a row. Horrible. I have the 7-11 jingle memorized.
And if you happened to live with someone on Medicare, you’d be getting the constant robocalls. ***SIGH!!!*** ?
Can confirm. I live with someone like that. *checks mirror* There he is!
My son is on medicaid. He’s received offers for cell phones.
What about JJ telling you how to get more from Social Security?
Ayo. It’s really killing my enjoyment of the vintage radio channel on the satellite radio…
‘Every great advancement in freedom was first advocated by an asshole. Embrace the asshole not Niskanen.’
[golf clap]
Consider that stolen, sir.
JFC…
For straf.
Maybe posted already?
https://mobile.twitter.com/stevenvoiceover/status/1450437866031616011
Thank you for that. Long night, long week, levity needed.
Lol!
I….thank you
The bird is almost done.
https://pasteboard.co/lLSJw9ELyeIh.jpg
Cauliflower and mushrooms, A light salad on the side…..
Good man, that sounds delicious and Glib-fit approved.
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Lovely. Having an old Moscato and some brownies I made
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/ideas/2021/09/21/three-forces-that-threaten-liberalism-and-how-to-counter-them/
I find this interesting because lately I have been reading a bunch of stuff lately that basically says that liberalism basically came about by accident as a way for Western Europeans to deal with the Reformation and the ensuing Religious wars. And now that the West has changed and is no longer Christian then liberalism is not working anymore. And because of cultural and religious similarities these groups could form a consensus but we can’t do so now.
Why were people suspicious of the state? Because a powerful state would make you follow a certain religion. Catholics, high-church Protestants and low-church Protestants all had turns being the ruler and the ruled so the “what if the shoe was the other foot” arguments really resonated.
Why does liberalism offer no meaning? Because liberalism was predicated on the idea that what really matters is going to your own church.
And thanks to the English and Scottish Reformation Anglo-American liberalism developed a very interesting Dissent and Nonconformist Protestant mindset that was very individualistic, suspicious of the state and supportive of laissez-faire economics. This contrasts to say French liberalism which very quickly adopted a statist centralizing mindset since since how are you going to defeat the Catholic Church?
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/BouncyPlasticBoubou-mobile.mp4
NSFW.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/SlowLightQueenalexandrasbirdwing-mobile.mp4
NSFW.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/SeagreenSourAnteater-mobile.mp4
NSFW.
https://archive.md/4MK5J/ce71cb64415e5fc94db3c89acac018ce36659355.jpg
NSFW.
Winner.