I’m thinking about ramps, asparagus, morels, and other spring vegetables. And who knows, they could be growing in my back yard. Hard to tell under massive layers of snow. We have had a few days where the temps rose into the 40s, immediately followed by a hard freeze, making walking and driving E-Ticket rides. But don’t worry, when it warms up finally, I’ll kvetch about that as well.
Oh, and my big adventure this week was breaking a toe. It’s a glamorous life.
Birthdays today include an actual white supremacist; my second and third favorite president; a guy with a legacy of stink; perhaps, until Lamar Jackson, the worst negotiator in history; a guy who slept through his 15 minutes of fame; one of the most recognizable voices ever; the undisputed King of Wine; a guy who would work on Saturday; one of the greatest guitarists on the planet; the guy who wrote what should be the National Anthem; and a chick who has handled more pussy than I have.
On to actual Links.
Fans of Stranger In A Strange Land will remember the Crosspatch Decision.
“The last Palestinian presidential election was held in 2005, when Abbas was elected for a four-year term.” Way to bury the lede.
CDC needs to be burned to the ground, the ashes scattered, and the earth salted.
I’m shocked that Riven didn’t link this yesterday.
Look, I know I’ve posted a lot of James McMurtry songs for Old Guy Music, but hey, it’s his birthday and we could always use another.
“Oh, and my big adventure this week was breaking a toe.”
Yikes! Hope you are feeling better.
Limping around a bit, to the great amusement of all who know me here.
Don’t let this be a practice run, OM.
whaddup doh’
L’chaim !
“Fans of Stranger In A Strange Land will remember the Crosspatch Decision. ”
Read both versions. Don’t remember that.
Harshaw is lecturing Kung about why he maaaaaay not want to fuck with the Martians.
Broken toe? That has to be un-handy.
Of all the bones Ive broken, the lesser ones are the most annoying. The nose (3X) for sheer amount of blood.
The hand and tailbone for the amount of constant discomfort.
I’ve broken my nose three times and it never bled. Maybe the first time it did I was 5 and don’t really remember. But the other two times it did not.
Of all the bones I’ve broken, the ribs were the worst. Sneezing, coughing, even laughing was agony, and I couldn’t sleep because laying down put pressure on the rib cage. Broken right hand was inconvenient, but not too painful. Same for broken arm. Broken nose no big deal.
Broken ribs are bullshit.
Any kind of rib damage just fucking sucks.
I’ve never broken my nose, but I’ve had it broken for me.
I have never broken a bone in my life.
Nor have I. ::knocks wood veeeeeery gently::
One thing about Avril Lavigne, I always thought she had a pretty mouth. I guess I have a thing for overly pointy canines or something.
That’s not the real Avril Lavigne.
“CDC needs to be burned to the ground, the ashes scattered, and the earth salted.”
I agree, but after reading several articles, looking at whether people were following lockdowns or how they behaved during covid seems to fall under “Disease Control”.
Via phone survey, sure, but not undisclosed phone tracking!
Surveys aren’t reliable.
Calhoun was an asshole, but his critique of the American System was spot on. It was our first tax/spend policy for social engineering. Ironic that it was the outcome of Democracy.
His assholishness has served as a useful ad hominem argument against decentralization for the Left.
It is highly unlikely that much will come of the move, as the ICC has no powers to arrest suspects without the co-operation of a country’s government.
Russia is not an ICC member country, meaning the court, located in The Hague, has no authority there.
Methinks the ICC was channeling these guys before issuing their
press releasewarrant.They want to give Vlad the Milosevic treatment where he dies in his cell after four years of continuous trial.
We’ve been snowed in 3 times this winter, for 2-3 days at a time. Fortunately we had power all the time. We can live with the snow but it would be a lot tougher without the electric. Even my snow blower needs AC to start the engine. We are still butt hole deep with the snow and more scheduled next week. As Dice Clay would say, “I’ve got your solar panels right here”
“Mother accused of ‘fat shaming’ after asking her stepdaughter, 6, to pick a ‘healthier’ birthday cake – because she’s 20lbs overweight”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11875227/Mother-accused-fat-shaming-asking-stepdaughter-pick-healthier-birthday-cake.html
Fat shaming is good if it works.
Good. It’s time we stop the “healthy at any weight” lie, and stop pretending that obesity is attractive.
Whether it’s attractive isn’t that relevant compared to how bad it is for health.
Of course, if your six-year-old is a fat fuck, you need to ask yourself, who is feeding her fat fuck foods?
Her mummy, who found this to be the perfect excuse to attack the Evil Stepmother.
^^ And low fat ice cream is not the answer anyway. 🙄
Why is this a news story?
Clicks and eyeballs?
“‘Mutilating children for profit.’ California teen sues doctors over breast-removal surgery at age 13 in Kaiser Permanente’s SECOND blockbuster trans lawsuit”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11873443/California-teen-sues-doctors-breast-removal-surgery-13-Kaiser-Permanentes-2nd-lawsuit.html
Good.
Will this lawsuit manage to avoid the Trans People and Their Enablers Can Do No Wrong exception to US law? Only time will tell.
I want criminal charges.
Excellent point, and an excellent way to put it. But it won’t stop those pushing the procedure from spouting some convoluted rationalization.
Of course, many people pushing transitioning for children also want to sexualize (and presumably, bang) children. But it’s a pithy way to maybe get through to some normies.
“So, Ms. Wine-Mom. Your 14 year old says she wants to be a boy, and you want me to begin hormone treatments. However, I don’t think she can make an informed choice until she has had sex in her current, err, form. Does she have an active sex life? Would she like one?”
No, it won’t stop, because their argument is that you’ve got to get ’em before puberty “ruins” them.
The same broken politics that has allowed “trans” activists to hijack so many issues is letting “green” crazies hijack all energy issues.
And various jurisdictions are in a race to see which one can impoverish its subjects first.
I’ve done some reading more about that. Almost all the organizations and publications that are pushing the trans stuff started as gay and/or lesbian. For example the Human Rights Campaign was started in 1980 by a bunch of gay men to advocate for same sex marriage. After they achieved their goal they weren’t going to just pack up their shit and go home. So they moved on to the trans thing. Many such cases.
Ending the grift is hard, man.
The perpetuating organization is the goal. Just like any other organization. “We won the Cold War, we need to do something with all this stuff, it, be a shame if we wasted it. Plus I have 20 years before I can retire and get my pension.”
We regulated all industries for air and water pollution. “ We can’t stop now. We have thousands of inspectors and policymakers on staff and we need to justify their existence.” I don’t want my department shrunk and risk my pension. I’ve got 15 years to go.” Let’s see if we can sharpen the pencil and look at reducing everything possibly dangerous to the PPB and PPT level.”
If there’s one constant in human economic preferences, it’s the resistance to creative destruction. Once people get established, they hate change.
^^^THIS^^^
Yeah, that’s always struck me as odd as conservatives being the champion of economics that has little attachment to tradition. Then again, no thing is everything – and the desire to have a single unified theory of humanity is doomed to failure.
Most people are all in favor of creative destruction “over there” but can’t abide it when it impacts them or those they’re close to.
It is hard for everyone. If I’m laid off in a reorganization I’ll be crushed and bitter…. I’ll get over it eventually, but I should be prepared for these eventualities.
Stoics for the win?
Slippery slopes are slippery.
Nobody will learn. When the same thing happened in Texas, did anybody learn? No. Just a lot of finger pointing and laughing at the stupid Texans and their stand-alone grid. Wind and solar failed, and gas lines froze. Same problem.
Birthday boy Cayce’s greatest accomplishment, followed hard upon by possibly his greatest mistake:
It’s time for the Bugs Bunny hour on METV. 😋
Raaaaaacist
First up is a Yosemite Sam episode – train robbery. 👍
Excellent! I discovered there is no MeTV in Panama City Beach. I would have to work something out to stream it. That would need to be rectified if I moved here.
“Putin charged with war crimes”
I see the pot is calling the kettle black.
Hey, I called for locking people in their houses and forcing vaccines on them from my position of authority, but it’s all cool man, I didn’t really mean it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid-19-vaccines-can-cause-permanent-disabilities-says-german-health-minister
Leave it to a German to set new standards in hypocrisy and lying.
Reinforces my point that they weren’t just wrong, but that they *lied*.
“I was misguided” “I was wrong”
“I’ve always been aware of the numbers (of side effects)”
These weasels need to be held criminally accountable.
The astounding part is that they think that it should just be business as usual now. Of course, where Germans are concerned, it may be. They’re a broken people.
How do I know Ukraine is done?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/60-percent-americans-say-china-bigger-threat-russia-poll
That sound you hear is all the politicians realigning their bullshitpanicometers.
Meh. Majorities of Americans oppose all kinds of shit that is being perpetrated at all levels of government. What’re they gonna do about it?
Politicians are attracted to popular fear like flies to shit.
If they think that they can ride the Yellow Panic to riches more than Putinphobia, then that’s what they will chase.
Tough one, though. The Russians certainly have some of our rulers on their payroll (the big ones we know about are the Clintons, but they are out of power), but the Chinese absolutely have more.
President Biden said that, while the court also held no sway in the US, the issuing of the warrant “makes a very strong point”.
“He’s clearly committed war crimes,” he told reporters.
Virtue. Signaled.
And luckily our war record is spotless…
How many dead in Syria now?
War Crimes all have one thing in common. It’s only a war crime if you lose.
This.
And Russia has every intention of not losing this.
A topless environmental campaigner gatecrashed Avril Lavigne at an awards show — before the singer confronted her up close and told her to “get the f–k off” stage.
She didn’t have to make it so complicated.
Where was security? Aren’t there beefy guys standing around whose one job is to make sure that randos don’t get on the stage?
This thread is great
https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1201705886261170177
ALOL
Epstein: I didn’t kill myself.
FIN
Excellent. Thanks, CP!
And to realize it is 4 years old
The growing list of Trump loyalists weighing congressional runs has Republicans now warning against writing them off as possible GOP nominees once again.
MAGA offers something other than the uniparty. Cry about it.
I’d like MAGA but without Trump.
As long as he is alive, Trump is MAGA.
Nope. MAGA is populist twaddle. Hell, Trump and Bernie had a number of talking points that were interchangeable.
But they piss off people I don’t like. MAGA!
Yep, that’s the depth of contemporary American politics, maybe politics everywhere. Fucking stupid species.
“MAGA is populist twaddle.”
Sure, if you say so.
When did America case to be great (since it needs to be made great again)? When was the era of greatness?
Or, more to the point – “what is the greatness of Rome”?
That’s a literal reading of “MAGA” that misses the point. Trump’s sales pitch was to take pride in America, in it’s economic and cultural dominance, and don’t apologize to the rest of the world. It was a direct repudiation of the Obama era’s public wet ass kissing of foreign leaders.
See, I’d prefer an America that is as humble as it is great. Unconcerned with the problems of the world as those aren’t our problems. Trump could never do that.
“What have the Romans ever done for us?”
Which is what, exactly?
Old Man, sorry about the toe!! For such tiny appendages, they sure can cause a lot of pain.
Heal up!
CDC needs to be burned to the ground, the ashes scattered, and the earth salted.
Along with 99% of the rest of the federal agencies.
Go for it, cuntes.
“This is a huge development.” Final preparations being made to arrest Donald Trump next week. Trump will “be fingerprinted and processed like every other defendant”. The Secret Service will make the decision whether to handcuff the former president or not.
This is all a play for the cameras. Of course he’ll be cuffed. I predict another heavily armed raid to take this dangerous fugitive down.
He’ll look good in an orange jumpsuit.
Yep they want the photo for campaign ads and that is all.
Bragg’s actually going after him over the Stormy Daniels bullshit? Am I reading that wrong?
Wow, they’re getting desperate.
For what with regard to Daniels? The payment? How many former Governors of New York is Bragg going to indict? If this is still an argument about campaign money, that’s an FEC issue, not any NY statute.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/nyregion/trump-potential-criminal-charges-bragg.html
Even the Feds declined to prosecute it. Hell if I know how Bragg has jurisdiction. We’re well into looneytown.
The state AG has been trying to bring down Orange since 2016.
I doubt the county AG will fare any better.
But it is their windmill.
He’s going to rattle that saber right up until he has to face another one in opposition. You bring charges as a DA that you can’t back up, that tends to have consequences. Then again, we’re living in the age of zero consequences for official misbehavior.
“Any stick will do to beat a dog.”
Dumbasses.
Sorry to hear about your broken toe, Old Man. On the plus side, there might be a role for you in the “Gunsmoke” reboot.
Evil cunte.
Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Rachel Levine promised that medically changing kids’ genders will soon be normalized.
Levine praised the “gender-affirming care” at the Pediatric Grand Rounds session at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford. Levine was invited to speak at the event about the Florida Parental Rights in Education law and the political implications of gender reassignment surgery taking place at children’s hospitals.
Levine also said gender-affirming care for minors had the “highest support” of the Biden administration.
“But I’m a positive and optimistic person, and I choose to be positive, optimistic. And I think that the wheels will turn on this,” Levine said.
Keep pushing this shit and see what happens.
The only way it stops is if the Dems lose next year. And even then it might be too late. The left will absolutely never let this go now that their toe is in the door.
Easy. We break their toe.
The thing is – this HAS been going on longer than we typically realize. That’s why we’re getting lawsuits from transitions 6-7 years or more ago.
True, but it wasn’t on anyone’s radar back then.
Biden certainly had a hand in putting it on everyone’s radar.
You mean whoever is running the Biden-bot.
CDC theme song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
War Crimes
I recall something about St. Z bombing the piss out of certain southeastern districts of his own country for a number of years there.
You people are insane and you need to be stopped.
Speakers are outraged over a bill that bans minors from receiving sex-reassignment procedures, restrict medications, and change custody law
One speaker said DeSantis wants trans people “dead” & @Clay_Yarborough has “militarized the Florida GOP into the genital gestapo”
Preventing minor genital mutilation is just like Nazi Germany and trans genocide. Sure. Go with that. We need to genocide your ideology and agenda. And all of you need to be institutionalized.
I’ll settle for the deaths of the mutilators.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/the-week-in-pictures-bank-fun-run-edition.php
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/03/18/asia-pacific/china-russia-ukraine-war-ammunition-u-s/
I don’t understand this story. Why is it a story? You’re telling me Russia doesn’t have enough ammo of their own?
/perplexed
It’s a story because the MIC is about to pivot to China. You have to build the popular will for war.
The United States has confirmed that rounds of Chinese ammunition have been used in battlefields in Ukraine and suspects they were fired by Russian forces, government sources said Friday.
As if jamming wasn’t enough of a problem already.
Whether the ammunition was supplied by China remains unclear, the U.S. administration sources said, while adding Washington is poised to take action if it is verified Beijing made the shipments.
And do what, exactly?
Now he is definitely going to be arrested.
#AGENDA47: President Trump on the difference between the globalist establishment class, and those who are truly committed to stopping the Ukraine war and dismantling the entire neo-con nation-building industrial complex in Washington.
“We need PEACE without delay!”
Plant your bananas.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-expects-be-arrested-tuesday-manhattan-da-case-truth-social-2023-03-18/
“Today, AZ Gov Hobbs signed The CROWN Act. Great job, Arizona, AAMSAZ, & everyone who has fought to get this passed. CROWN stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural hair. This legislation seeks to end centuries of hair discrimination across the U.S. #CROWNAct”
(“The new account for Rachel Doležal, since Twitter refuses to restore my access to my verified account @racheladolezal since May 2020.”)
https://twitter.com/DialloNkechi/status/1636895477445820417
OFFS!!
The important stuff
The texture of her hair is as “natural” as my hair color. 🙄
Passed by a spineless Repub legislature. The Repub rulers in AZ are mostly UniParty. See, e.g., their refusal to make any electoral reforms, leading to their loss (probably permanent) of statewide races. They won’t win another so long as the Maricopa ballot machine is running, and they lost their chance to do anything about it when it took the Governor, AG, and SecState races last year.
When the left uses their ballot machines to take the legislature, we will very likely leave the state.
Maricopa is Cook County with scorpions.
The only things more pathetic than Dolezal are the black women putting up with her lunatic grift.
If there is ever a remake of Tropic Thunder, they have to create a role just for her.
The yearly harassment training I took yesterday has added a “natural hair” skit. (And a tranny skit – which was kind of amusing as the tranny was played by some dudebro.)
Good Morning, Old Man!
Spring is coming, I promise.
The most polite state study is hilarious. There appears to be some overlap with gun ownership. And CA failing doesn’t surprise me at all, I read an article the other day that they rank last in tipping, as well. Lame.
Excellent Old Guy Music today. And video. I do like a busty barkeep!
What’s on the agenda today, people?
Heading up north to see yet another candidate in the Who’s Gonna Snag OMWC? contest. This one has some interesting features… not what you’re thinking.
Ohhhhh, yeah. Good luck!
Here’s a Fun Hint: one of our topics of conversation is Rhywun.
You’re hitting on Rhywun’s mom?
That would be difficult.
https://youtu.be/wGdhc9k07Ms?t=42
It’s totally a penis.
That would be sproing, not spring, in the air.
“Warmer Winters“
Winter weather has been wonky in the United States this year.
Record snowfall has stunned Californians. Destructive storms have raced across the country, bringing tornados, flash floods and bracing winds to parts of the South and Midwest.
In the Northeast, warmer winters are creating a different kind of disruption. Health experts say global warming is having another, destructive effect: Deer tick season has become a year-round event.
In Virginia, deer ticks have been making an early appearance as well, before their typical spring debut. With ticks come the threat of disease for humans and animals.
East coast has been mild the past couple years. Less so before that. I recall the foot of snow in Richmond in 2018. That happened in the middle of December, and was therefor an Autumn storm. It’s almost like we have cycles.
Looks like they caught one of the people who destroyed the pipeline…..
https://twitter.com/mazzenilsson/status/1636676442489516035
LOL
That got a laugh out of me.
Me too.
No, no, no.
The operation was done from a rented 50ft sailboat. And ideal platform for loading and launching deep water divers, all their equipment and the required explosives.
They just dropped some M-80s over the side.
Good thread on Credit Suisse, the ECB, and the Fed.
https://twitter.com/TFL1728/status/1637075239552053250
I Once Admired George Monbiot. but His Grim Trajectory Shows Us Where Politics Is Heading
I think I see your problem.
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/03/17/i-once-admired-george-monbiot-but-his-grim-trajectory-shows-us-where-politics-is-heading/
Truth and reconciliation
Famous naturalist John James Audubon “did despicable things” and supported his work by buying and selling enslaved people — and that’s according to the organization that bears his name. But the National Audubon Society’s board of directors rejected the idea of changing its name this week, setting off resignations amid plans from local groups to rename themselves anyway.
This week’s vote focused on whether the nonprofit should to decide whether to keep Audubon’s name or change it. No new names were considered as possible alternatives.
The organization cited two main reasons for keeping Audubon’s name: it’s grappling with the critical challenge facing birds and other wildlife due to climate change and other pressures; and it believes the name of the group, founded some 50 years after Audubon’s death, “has come to represent so much more than the work of one person.”
Still, it added, “We must reckon with the racist legacy.”
——-
“I think it is disappointing, but not surprising that the National Audubon Society decided to not change their name,” chapter President Tykee James told NPR member station WAMU/DCist. “They don’t listen to their chapter leaders, and I believe that this will divide the network even further.”
Maryland Audubon group changes name due to namesake’s racist past
Some of that division was seen on the national body’s Facebook page, where commenters debated how the group’s history should fit into the reckoning of America’s racist legacy that has taken place in recent years.
“It’s a missed opportunity to move away from an exclusive white male club shotgun ornithology image,” one commenter wrote, “to something more appropriate to the times we live in.”
And besides; just think of all the paperwork.
Let me know when the Black Panthers reckon with their racist legacy.
The average person and person of any prominence, historically, was some form of asshole or other. These cuntes really are trying to erase history and have a “year zero” commie reset.
The headline, JFC:
“Audubon faces a backlash after deciding to keep name that evokes a racist enslaver”
Game changer.
Spanish Minister of Defence Margarita Robles has announced that her country will be providing an additional four Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks to Ukraine, along with more infantry vehicles.
Minister Robles announced that the four new Leopard tanks would be sent to Ukraine following the first batch of six tanks, which are being prepared to be shipped to aid the Ukrainian war effort against Russian forces.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had pledged to send the additional tanks during his second visit to Ukraine since the outbreak of the Russian invasion several weeks prior, with only Germany promising to deliver more Leopards to Ukraine, El Mundo reports.
It’s curious why NATO countries feel the need to slowly diminish their ability to make war while supplying a fascist regime (that is not an ally…) with weapons/systems that will make little/no difference to the outcome of the conflict.
The US is now dangerously low on weapons and ammo. I can only imagine how much worse it is in western Europe now.
“If everyone is a fascist, no one is a fascist.”
Good morning, everyone.
I just awoke from a sweet and wonderful dream in which my dear friend and colleague of many years was softly snoring next to me while subconsciously continuing to stroke my skin and gently massage my breasts.
A very nice dream.
Oh, I should probably add that it wasn’t just a dream. Hayeksplosives scored.
Brunch and a victory lap are on the agenda today. And then maybe some plasma physics whiteboard sessions. I really do think I’m going to have to install a whiteboard at home. We can’t even do pillow talk without physics and calculus involved.
Wooooohoooo! Excelsior!
Congratulations!
For you.
LOL.
That was awesome.
Here I thought you were just throwing some euphemistic raw meat into a pack of starving coyotes.
Congrats, though!
Nicely done!
No NPR involved, either! I had already turned him into a libertarian a few years ago.
Boom!
Yay you!!
You are not a serious person.
Foreign Minister Joly, a senior member of the cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, made her remarks as Canada has enacted new sanctions against the import of Russian aluminium and steel, outright mentioning the proposal of regime change.
“We’re able to see how much we’re isolating the Russian regime right now — because we need to do so economically, politically and diplomatically — and what are the impacts also on society, and how much we’re seeing potential regime change in Russia,” Joly stated, the National Post newspaper reports.
“The goal is definitely to do that, is to weaken Russia’s ability to launch very difficult attacks against Ukraine. We want also to make sure that Putin and his enablers are held to account,” she added.
I don’t know who else is familiar with this goofball, but here’s a rather interesting and different Tesla review.
I have no idea how the economics of youtube video world works.
*start at 5:50 or so if my link didn’t work properly
I just awoke from a sweet and wonderful dream
Woohoo!
Tesla video spoiler alert- the elevator music playing as he makes his passes is a nice touch.
Great talk
https://palisadesradio.ca/tom-luongo-the-war-for-the-dollar-is-already-over/
*Cues on Spotify playlist
I appreciate how you’ve closely followed this, reported here and enabled my lazy but interested approach to this subject
Luongo is a white pill. To some extent, I needed his take on things. I thought he was crazy at first, but with each passing event, he makes more sense.
ZeroHedge is a broken record. They don’t adapt to new information, they just hitting that DOOM button.
I too can only take so much DOOM. At some point you realize running off to the mountains and stockpiling food and ammo didn’t work out any better for the Weavers than TEOTWAWKI would work out for most normies. Better to learn to live in the world as it exists today.
I like the variety of opinions, but the armageddonites are tedious.
Yes
The US is now dangerously low on weapons and ammo. I can only imagine how much worse it is in western Europe now.
It’s part of the plan. When the armies of the world have completely their stockpiles, our alien lizard overlords will reveal themselves and take charge.
“I, for one, welcome our new alien lizard overlords.”
It’s White Devils, all the way down
Few scholars have experienced the fickle nature of fame as dramatically as Ibram X. Kendi in the past three years.
Kendi, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, “How to Be an Antiracist,” became an intellectual celebrity in the summer of 2020 after his books became a go-to source for millions of Americans trying to make sense of the murder of George Floyd. He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” became a sought-after commentator on race and helped add a new word to the way we talk about it: antiracist. The term means to actively fight against racism rather than passively claim to be non-racist.
Then came a backlash. Kendi’s books were banned by some school libraries and he was accused by conservatives of corrupting children and offering a grim view of America that casts everyone as a racist. He also became the central villain in a GOP-led campaign to purge the teaching of systemic racism in American public schools. The campaign took off following the massive wave of racial protests that swept across the country in the wake of Floyd’s death, which drew the support of many White people, including students.
Kendi says the current campaign against what one conservative commentator calls “systemic wokeness” is an effort to halt the antiracist momentum generated by the Floyd protests. When asked what happened to that momentum, Kendi gives a wry chuckle.
“The momentum was just crushed by a pretty well-organized force and movement of people who are seeking to conserve racism,” he says. “Who’ve tried to change the problem from racism to antiracism. And who’ve tried to change the problem from police violence to the people speaking out against police violence.”
Race hustle your way back in front of the cameras, where you belong, race hustler.
Proposal: Anti-racism is just repackaged racial/commie radicalism from the 60’s/70’s, dressed up and made opaque to most people not paying attention through esoteric jargon.
I’ve been listening to Martyr Made’s 9 hour series on Jim Jones and the People’s Temple. It’s eye opening to learn that what is popularly remembered as a religious cult was actually an atheistic, anti-racist, socialist collective conversant with all the other left-wing radicals of the day, Angela Davis radioed in to read propaganda over the Jonestown PA system for fuck sake. Today’s anti-racism is directly downstream from the Black Panthers, the Siambanese Liberation Army and yes, the People’s Temple.
The only difference now being the government/corporate sponsorship
CRT, anti racism, etc. is nothing more or less than Marxism after a search-and-replace “Class” with “Race”. They finally figured out after 100 years that “class struggle” would never get a traction in the US. I think they barely caught their window for “race struggle” – Obama was a godsend on that front, seeing as he set race relations back a generation.
I was sternly told over at TOS that Cultural Marxism was just right-wing paranoia.
Of all the derp over at TOS that drove me away I never expected that a Brian Doughtery article would be the straw that broke the camels back.
Lindsay has been all over it:
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1637105854330667010
That definition of Critical Consciousness could easily have come from the lips of Jim Jones himself……that literally was his entire schtick. I’m still sort of floored (but not really) that he’s portrayed in the media as a “religious nut”.
Most cults depend and thrive on the oppressed/oppressor theme.
Marxism just made it eternal. Viva La Revolucion!
Well, he was. Just not Christianity!
I have that podcast in the queue. Cooper is amazingly good.
It is LONG. Basically an audiobook, but well worth it. I’m curious if he’s taking a break; no new content since his Epstein series.
He drops stuff on his Substack quite often. Did you listen to Whose America?
Nope, but it’s on the list for sure. I visited Blaire Mountain several times when I lived in WV.
His episode “The Anti-Humans” absolutely haunts me.
Well, he was.
Yes and no. It was interesting to learn that all the evangelical preacher stuff was just a front for Marxism. He and his inner circle were very open (in hind sight) that they were using religion as subversion. Their only actual belief was in Marxism. Funny how that gets left out of the narrative.
/Completely agree that in the end, Marxism is religion.
a religious cult was actually
A religious cult – just as every flavor of Marxism (and derivatives thereof) is.
Naturally.Theistic cult probably would have been a more accurate phrasing of what I was getting after.
Ain’t got room for god with Glorious Maximum Leader’s ego!
He and his crowd are pretty open about their racism in favor of black people.
That’s all this is.
But whitey is mostly too afraid to acknowledge it.
^ This right here. Ironically they seem to hellbent on validating the fears of the most unhinged White Supremacists.
Let’s see. Large amounts of smoke and zero visibility. Drive on!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/11tqixj/where_theres_smoke_theres_idiot/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Derp
I remember this from long ago.
https://www.oregonlive.com/data/2015/02/smoky_21-vehicle_pileup_kills.html (Reprint of 1988 article)
Amazes me how many people don’t turn on their lights during rain/fog/snow. I guess “I can see, why do I need lights?”
How challenging has it been for you – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – to constantly talk about this complex issue of racism and to be the object of hate from people who don’t know you?
In many ways it has certainly been difficult, just as it as for a physician who routinely treats people who are sick, to have to continuously diagnose, identify and describe the sickness of racism in our society. But at the same time, like physicians who do this every day, it’s so necessary. And we’re so committed to this work and to healing people and society.
The greatest difficulties are when people try to delegitimize me and my work because they disagree with the evidence. They don’t want to make assessments based on research. They want to make assessments based on their own ideology, or what’s best for their own political faction. Clearly that’s difficult. When people threaten me in all types of ways, of course that’s difficult. But at the same time, I knew what I was getting into. And I’m figuring out ways to get through every day.
You were put on the earth to heal the sinners. How nice for you.
The narcissism of martyrhood
“Get off the cross! Somebody needs the wood.”
Modifying the OG Trailer. Taking out the grey-water tank. It was the source of 5 years of dog hair that never drained and stinking up the place.
Going full libertarian and drain straight to street since all our products are biodegradable.
You’ll need to add a sticker “Not approved for use in California”.
This is news I can use for when I deal with a used trailer.