Who wants more fake outrage?
This is my review of Sullivan’s Brewing Co Maltings Red Ale:
Yes I’m going to talk about Sydney two weeks in a row. Why? She creates controversy and quite frankly you want an excuse to talk about her wearing next to nothing. I’m selling clicks here, granted its for free but I am selling them nonetheless.
We are going to do this objectively and start with the ad in question:
Take it in, and ask yourself what is being sold here? Watch it as many times as you need. Also consider how nobody is talking about the follow up video where she asks you to bet responsibly.
What is this ad about? Sports betting.
What is this ad not about? Women’s sports, which incidentally nobody bets on.
Now this has drawn the ire from the usual suspects that look exactly like the overweight British feminist, journo you expect to be offended by this. Its also drew opinions from the blonde basketball player from the meme. You know the one where she is pointing.
Cunningham also recognized why the advertisement produced such a strong reaction within the women’s sports community. Women athletes have spent years fighting to have their performances, accomplishments and personalities promoted without their appearances becoming the primary focus. With the WNBA experiencing significant growth, many fans and players want marketing campaigns to showcase the quality of the competition.
Cunningham acknowledged that seeing an ad like Sweeney’s could initially feel discouraging to women who have worked to earn greater respect for their athletic abilities.
“I can understand when you first see that ad that it could kind of deflate women, because we’ve worked so hard to get a little bit of respect around here,” Cunningham said.
This one actually did bug me a bit. Lady…you are doing the same thing.
To start, yes, I’m calling Sydney Sweeney out for choosing to participate in it. I don’t agree with that choice, and I’m disappointed that she lent her platform to a message I believe is harmful to women. But calling out a decision I disagree with is not the same as tearing her down. I can respect her as a fellow woman, recognize her success, and still be honest about the fact that I think she got this one wrong.
But I do want to make it clear that this post isn’t about tearing down one woman.
It’s about where society keeps teaching women their value lies.Women’s sports have fought for decades to be taken seriously. Female athletes have had to prove, over and over again, that our bodies are capable of extraordinary things. That strength is beautiful. That athleticism is worth watching. That women deserve attention for what we can DO, not just how desirable we can be while doing it.
For those that don’t know, Crossfit actually does have competitions, and it is split by gender. Such competitions actually do draw a lot of attention from standout performers like everything else and have their own social media following. You’ve probably seen a fair number of thirsty videos in your feed if you are a gym going type. Because nothing says stop selling your body to create interest for your sport quite like beefcake pushing the structural limits of your elastic booty shorts.
At least the Irish are still reliably self-aware. This one brings back a fond memory of finding this in a pub in County Kerry and subsequently ordering it before having some fun on the roundabouts in town. This is a bit darker than the typical Alt, Irish Red, or whatever you want to call it. Its not exactly Killian’s if that’s what you are thinking even if its pretty much going for the same market niche without admitting to itself that’s what its doing. Should I offer these guys a bit more grace? Yes, because I did like this one, even if it is no longer available in pints. Stupid EU, and their stupid standardized metric units. Sullivan’s Brewing Co Maltings Red Ale: 3.7/5
The Drinker video was good.
The Drinker always is.
Which one is that?
Probably this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlVovsQQGdk
What is this ad not about? Women’s sports
But I have it on good authority, from EXPERTS, that this ad is a direct insult to every woman who ever ran or jumped or threw a ball. It cancels their grrrrrl pawr essence.
I appreciate MS making this point. Love the ad or hate the ad, it’s not about women’s sports!
Bill Burr on women’s sports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I745Ajeq_B8
Because nothing will cancel wymins sport!
(except dudes in dresses, which most of them have zero problem with)
“a naked Sweeney is seen playing tennis, golf and basketball, apparently unconcerned about health and safety protocol (did her mother or PE teachers never reiterate the importance of wearing a proper sports bra during strenuous physical activity?)”
No, she isn’t.
“The only thing the actress enjoys more than rubbing her God-given cleavage in our faces is insisting that any feminist quick to criticise her gratuitous sex scenes (usually written and directed by men) or naked marketing stunts is jealous or missing the point.”
Citation needed.
“Sweeney, meanwhile, is decidedly unpopular, especially among women, meaning she has no core audience to depend on…. She does not seem like a “girl’s girl”, so women don’t pay to support her.”
Who do you think watched Euphoria?
The legions of Zendya fans.
There has to be at least a dozen of them.
Sweeney, meanwhile, is decidedly unpopular,
Stupid fingers.
So I guess she has tens of millions of social media hate-followers?
Teenage and younger Gen Z girls DO seem to like Zendaya. I find most men indifferent to her. Her acting is kind of blah and same no matter the role. She’s not conventionally hot or anything, but she’s not hideous. So men remain largely apathetic. And while she has flirted with getting political, she’s nowhere near as in your face with her politics as many in her cohort or as she could be so it kind of flies under the radar. Plus she takes the colonizer dick from Tom Holland so she’s pretty non-threatening politically and kind of only ambiguously not white.
But yea, Sweeney is unpopular with a certain shrill, shrieking cohort of feminists online. Those people are fairly muted and quiet in most areas of meat space. Guys like her because she’s attractive, plays on her femininity and nice rack, and seems to be based by female actress standards.
The quiet majority likes Sweeney or actively supports her.
She is being decidedly unpopular all the way to the bank.
JFC are these people even conscious of anything outside their bubble?
“Well, I don’t know anyone who likes her!”
Cunningham did not completely disagree with those concerns. Her first question, however, had more to do with whether Sweeney had an authentic connection to the product.
Leaving aside that whole “equity stake” business, when did it ever matter whether a paid product spokesman had an “authentic connection” (over and above monetary compensation) to the product?
Never
But it’s a new day so there are new rules.
Are you telling me Shaq just might not actually choose to use General car insurance for his personal automobiles?
Shatner definitely had a VIC-20 though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK9VU1aJvTI
I can’t drink reds.
Ok I CAN.
But my GI tract says nope and run to the toilet in about 45 min.
Huh. Interesting as there’s generally no difference between what gives a red its color and what gives a stout its color beyond the amount. Unless you’re drinking stuff that people are using Sinamar, which wouldn’t make much sense.
Stouts are fine.
I like reds quite a bit, but outside of Ginuess, stouts and porters do nothing for me either way.
Nobody can accuse the WNBA of selling female beauty, unless tattooed-lady carnival sideshow freaks is your thing.
NO POLITICS
This cannot be.
Overweight British (redundant?) feminist, with nose ring!
Women buy and wear those sports clothes exclusively for functionality reasons.
I’ve enjoyed criticism of the ad from women cyclists who like posting images of themselves in tight cycling clothes, or in the off-season in bikinis.
“That’s different!”
True. Generally they lack curves.
They only ride straight tracks?
I doubt they go for anything straight.
I’m unclear on how Sweeney doing ads for a betting site is somehow at odds with women’s sports being taken seriously. She wasn’t pitching women’s sports, or even betting on women’s sports. I guess the female athletes taking this line are against any ads for anything using sex appeal? If so, I sure haven’t heard anything from them along those lines.
Is it safe to say there is now a Sweeney Derangement Syndrome, too?
Does anyone remember when Serena and Venus Williams were all but hurt and angry that pretty blond players were getting attention for being pretty blondes? And how they were undermining the sport by using their sex appeal?
They shut-up with a quickness when they were suddenly featured in swimsuit issues of SI and other rags. The left wing sports media just had to tell them you’re pretty Nubian queens, too, and the jealousy was calmed a bit.
That’s the issue they have with it. Jealousy. Women are incredibly petty when it comes to other women and claims to support one another are almost entirely bullshit.
Most female athletes have little boy bodies and no sex appeal.
Potator – I don’t know what lie you think I or anyone else is passing off as “honest skepticism.” If you want to argue over what control Israel does or does not exercise over our foreign policy or any other aspect of policy, we can do that. But if you simply want to dismiss the argument entirely as a lie, then you really can’t claim that you are curious about anything. You may not agree with it, but the perception among many on the right – particularly the youths – is that the Jews/Israel control a lot of what our government does and in particular under Trump 2.0.
Don’t claim you are curious/ask questions if you don’t want the answers.
Substack periodically switches up what I see on my feed. Recently, it has been offering me what is apparently a rich vein of outright anti-Semitism. Not even wearing the “anti-Zionist” lipstick. I’ve been amazed at how many people apparently just really hate the Jews and believe that just about every bad thing that ever happens anywhere is a Jewish plot of some kind. From ultra-processed food to the tranny craze, I mean, you name it, it wuz the Jooz.
Jus’ sayin’.
Depends how far right you go and that shit is increasing in frequency. When people see the Jews as having an outsized influence in general, they start ascribing blame to them for more and more things on a sliding scale as well.
So when people look at the Iran War which is unquestionably about Israel in my view, they are probably going to be more inclined to blame them for other things that make no sense as well.
Jewish influence in a lot of areas is very real. And it doesn’t take a conspiracy of any kind to admit that or recognize it.
Regardless, the real point I was honestly making is that Potato asked why people on the right are critical of Israel. I told him the why, whether anyone agrees with it or not. He just dismissed it as a lie and moved on.
So I don’t really get the sense he’s as curious to understand as he said he was.
Havent you heard about the Rothchilds, the Bilderburgs….!!!?
If you’re looking at an outsized lobby I’d point to the damage the gay race commies have caused since the 80s.
Far smaller percentage of the population compared to Them and having made actual damage to the culture at large measured in lives shattered and slaughtered at planned parenthood.
Jews post a Holocaust are kinda okay to Euros and antisemites. (For a short period of time.) Jews saying, “Alright that is enough of this shit.” and defending themselves is so not okay to the same classes of people.
I posit that if Iran and Hamas get their desires and institutes Holocaust V21c on Israel the same two classes will cluck, “We never thought that Iran and the Pali were speaking the truth about their desires. It is sad, but we can’t let the surviving Jews stay here. THEY always bring trouble.”
Three Door, one of the reasons Jews get blamed for so much degeneracy (not saying it’s all the J00s here) is because they’ve played a fairly active role in all that. There’s a pretty sizable overlap between leftie Jews and all sorts of Marxist fuckery in every aspect of life. Individuals don’t represent a group and it doesn’t make it a conspiracy.
Jew hatred, particularly in Europe, pretty much never went anywhere as I see it. It was just swept under the rug.
I’ve said repeatedly that I couldn’t give two flying fucks about Palestine. Of all the supposed atrocities going on, Palestine wasn’t even up there until they decided to launch a war in the most ridiculously, cartoonishly evil way they could. They have that shit coming to them at this point.
It’s not a coincidence to me that there’s so much fixation on the Jews and Palestine. From being white adjacent/white to their history with Europeans, the Euros can’t let their existence go. But the Palestinians mostly create their own issues and there’s so much terrible shit going on across the globe that the left couldn’t give two flying fucks about that it makes their cries of moral superiority ring pretty hollow.
But when young Republicans who grew up with parents who were staunchly pro-Israel and in some cases batshit Evangelical pastors telling them they were meant to have that land start questioning the narratives, something is probably going on there that you old fucks should pay attention to and not just dismiss as garden variety anti-Semitism.
Even if it is just hate of Jews disguised as political commentary, if you aren’t confronting it with convincing arguments you aren’t going to like where things go.
And I’ll be blunt – Israel’s security isn’t worth it to me to pay $60+ everytime I fill up my tank. Iran was NOT a god damn threat to the US. Give them a hundred nukes tomorrow and I could give two flying fucks to be honest. But I have yet to see ANY convincing evidence that they were any closer to achieving that.
That so many people can buy that this was about defense of US interests when Trump and his band of idiots were telling you months prior what a smashing success the first Iran war was at demolishing their nuclear capabilities is astounding to me.
Propaganda is everywhere and I don’t think the pro-Israel side is even close to immune to it.
So yea, my griping about Israel is more about the general trends I see in politics and dragging us into yet another kinetic action in the Middle East.
What the fuck is the sales pitch to vote Republican at this point? They’re not outright commies like the Dems?
Yay…
Somehow I don’t think a culture that lionizes suicide bombers is going to be worried about the threat of mutually assured destruction if they also had nukes.
I’m baffled how when it comes time to talk about this, you guys resort to platitudes. I can mock Islam as much as the next guy, but their behavior since America decided to start a war with them has shown they’re pretty damn rational. They held back to a high degree in the first attack as we’ve seen. They clearly could have done a lot more damage beyond lobbing a few token missiles.
Iran was quite clearly a more responsible actor and did more to avoid the war than the US (who has frankly been the world’s most belligerent nation throughout the entirety of my lifetime).
If they were all just looking to be martyrs, that was their chance.
But even then, you guys can’t even prove the basic premise that their nuclear program was a threat or imminently about to achieve anything and there’s more than a little bit of reason to doubt it.
When I can play DECADES of predictions from Netanyahu alone saying they were on the verge of getting nukes and it runs counter to America’s own intelligence and basic common sense, I grow tired of hearing the bullshit.
Iran has shown itself to be a more rational and stable actor in many respects than the US.
Is that even “far right”?
The “far left” hates Jews every bit as much as I have been told all my life that the “far right” does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seriously? The whole “Death to America” thing, the body count of Americans their proxies have put up, all that is just “meh”? Not to mention the complete buttfucking they could give everybody in the Mideast and beyond if they were tucked in behind a nuclear umbrella. The Norks at least have China holding their leash. The IRGC has nobody, and from what we have seen, pretty low-level commanders can and will launch attacks on other countries.
Me neither, but they damn sure want them and have invested heavily in it. If not for the periodic interference in their nuke program, I’m pretty sure they would have them by now.
Iran is a dilemma – can’t live with ‘em, can’t do much about ‘em, apparently.
I’m baffled how when it comes time to talk about this, you guys resort to platitudes. I can mock Islam as much as the next guy, but their behavior since America decided to start a war with them has shown they’re pretty damn rational. They held back to a high degree in the first attack as we’ve seen. They clearly could have done a lot more damage beyond lobbing a few token missiles.
Cool, you judge them by their behavior over the last ::checks notes:: four months, and I’ll judge them by their behavior over the last forty years. Were they on the verge of getting nukes? Probably not, but they claimed to have had half a metric ton of uranium enriched beyond any peaceful use AFTER their main site was supposedly flattened a year ago, so it’s clear they were going to continue to try to get nukes. And I don’t even blame them for trying; obviously it gets you clear from being continually fucked with by America (see: Norks)
But the main cultural difference between Norks and islamists is their lionizing of suicide bombers. Iran is more than happy to have people martyr themselves, so I don’t think MAD is going to be a serious deterrent the same way it keeps other nuclear armed adversaries from launching.
Does this make me a cheerleader for the war? No, it was still a stupid move with no end in sight. But the premise that ‘Eh, it’ll be fine if Iran gets nukes’ is nt one I’m in agreement with.
Saddam used suicide bombers. When the Americans came, did he strap a bomb to himself and run at us to martyr himself? No, right? He dressed as a woman and was shuffled around between bunkers in an attempt to prolong his life as much as possible.
The leadership of Iran are wealthy men who have absolute power in their little fiefdom. If you really think that they are all fanatics looking to suicide themselves to fight the great Satan regardless of the ridiculous rhetoric they sell to their base, I have some beads to trade with you. I just want a little bit of land or a bridge or something nice like that in return.
They really haven’t been all that suicidal. They’ve poked us. They’ve unquestionably encouraged the Palestinians to fuck with the Jews. They’ve been general assholes. But they didn’t really do anything by their own math to provoke this war. They have done the usual shit that US presidents may bluster and bitch about.
This entire thing is about Palestine and Israel at this point. That’s the only reason this war is being fought now at this place and time or really even at all.
And I’m now judging the Iranian leadership through two wars going back to last year. We’ve got a pretty good idea of their actual mindset as opposed to rhetoric they use to stir up their base.
Do you want all Americans being judged by the dumb shit our leaders say to rile up their base? I already pointed out the various conservatives who have joked about using nuclear weapons to annihilate Iran. That shit sells here in America. How do you think it sells to conservative goat fucker when the Mullah starts a death to America chant?
At the end of the day the decision makers have plenty to live for and they know it. Only scenario where we’d run into suicidal Iranians is if we invaded them. Which seems to be just about the only real endgame here that produces a victory anyway.
Final point – I’d argue that Sunnis and Saudis have killed more Americans than the Iranians or their proxies. But we still have no problem being buds. The Saudi royal family funded 9/11, yet here we are making them our protectorate.
Iran with nukes would use them.
Concur, Threedoor. Twelverism is a thing. And they would use them not just on Little Satan but Great Satan.
And even if they didn’t, the blackmail potential is unlimited. Criticize a Muslim for advocating ‘Death to America’ and handing out weapons? Better lay off or Philadelphia gets it.
Losers hate Jews, blame Jews/Israel for anything that they are even tangentially related too, think every decision in the middle east is solely at their behest, and so on. Being critical of Israel is one thing, blaming secret Jewish coalitions for everything from gay rights, unions, Iran actions, is something else.
And, yes, more than a few people here are getting anti-Semitic in their statements. Doesn’t mean they hate Jews, but it is what it is.
I need a reminder – how many times have Republicans joked about turning Iran into a sea of glass with nukes? Anyone got a number for me?
Every single argument you guys make on how scary a nuclear armed Iran would be (a premise you, again, CANNOT prove) rests on Iran itself being an irrational actor. We have pretty hard data over the last year and a half now that Iran is in fact fairly rational. We look a whole lot less rational than they do through all this from any sober analysis of the situation for whatever rhetoric may have been used in the past.
People are complaining because we bombed Iran and started a war we can’t win without a scenario that no one wants to even consider and want to complain when they fight back. It’s madness.
I need someone to remind me again…did Trump give a shit about dead US service members during his first term? Because while Iran is responsible for dead Americans, I don’t think you were in Iraq having their proxies chuck EFP’s at you. I was!!
No US politician seemed to care all that much at the time. Or years after the fact.
But I fail to see how this differs much from the US supporting various proxy groups across the globe who do our dirty work for us regardless. Russia and the US both have supported god knows how many war efforts against one another, yet no one would say any of it is worth a war with the other over it. Like Americans and Russians met in Syria in some pretty infamous ways. No war to speak of resulted.
You can say of course Russia is a greater threat than Iran, but here we are fighting and losing a war with the only viable pathways out being escalation or admit defeat. So maybe we should have thought a bit more before launching the attack to begin with? Or am I crazy here?
I’ve been saying this since the start. For whatever principles you want to claim that make this war worth fighting, I doubt you want a ground invasion. What we’re doing isn’t working. SO yea, the practical realities of what you are willing to do to achieve victory matter quite a bit. We clearly aren’t willing (and frankly shouldn’t be willing) to do what’s necessary to actually win…
So how great is the threat really again? This clearly isn’t an existential threat to us. The fact that you yourself would put limits on the lengths you’d go to fight the war proves that.
You can slice this up however you want. You don’t have to agree with my assessment of the Iranian threat to realize that we aren’t winning this thing anyway. So what the fuck are we accomplishing in the mean time? How can you defend starting a war that pretty much every general behind the scenes said was a bad fucking idea?
Yes, if all our forces were amassed against Iran and the full might of the US military was brought down we could destroy the little shithole, but we all know it’s not worth that for the US. Nazi Germany this is not.
I go the opposite route. They’d have them if they wanted them and our actions, if anything, will only increase the chances they say fuck it and go for them.
Again, I think Iran has shown they are pretty fucking rational religion be damned. What they are doing right now is the only response they really have on the table at this time when you threaten the regime itself with destruction. The people calling the shots are facing death so why the fuck wouldn’t they use all their cards at this point?
But yea, the assessments of our own intelligence agencies – not those of Israel – have been pretty consistent based on what’s reported out (and not the bluster of Trump and his minions). Iran probably could have gotten the bomb already if they wanted to, but they don’t seem to be going that route.
Because they’re nowhere near as crazy as they’re made out to be.
They are not irrational as far as the logic of Shia Islam goes.
If your goal is to get the Madi to crawl out of the well and bring on the final
Caliphate then it’s logical to.
The 13yo came in second out of ~1,500 kids at the 5k run. The winner, we know of through other meets, won by ~90 seconds or so, but nephew was in third coming through the chute. I’m glad he found another spark in the last ~20 yards to overtake the kid in second place. If he decides to continue caring about it, this could be his athletic strength. Likely won’t be built for sprinty-er races, but 2mi – marathon? Yep. He’s done a couple 12mi races; I think his first marathon is not too far away.
He played soccer and has the ability, but he’s not into team sports. Very much like his dad, in that regard. And elsewhere. I know SiL’d give me shit if I named my kid Evan Jr. cuz it’d be like ultra patriarchal and all that. So Colin names his firstborn after his own middle name. Like no one would notice! (Oh, I notice, boy-o.) And SiL obv, like totes McGotes thinks that’s, like, empowering or some shit.
(Honestly, I imagine he subtly incepted the idea into her so she thought it was hers all along. He did that shit to me a lot as a kid, particularly with what sort of treats, movies or whatever we got. I was always happy, but he’d always win a bit more.. somehow…)
Fucking Jeff Bezos. I ordered loctite on Amazon. I had no idea what a fucking counterfeit gray market world I was entering.
I got a defaced Indian market only bottle that has a blue liquid inside that may or may not be thread-locker.
Upon investigation it’s a know scam to the point that Henkel has holographic stickers on its product that you can scan to check batches. JFC.
There’s a lot of fake shit on Amazon and people still associate it with being a reputable retailer. I got at least two fake SD cards and they came from supposedly Amazon themselves. So I said no more.
The laptop I purchased seems to be the real deal and no issues, but I was nervous as hell to spend that kind of money with them even when it said Amazon was the seller. Just had no other real options unless I wanted to wait months and months to get what I wanted.
Obviously it’s the Jews that did it.
You know, I was blaming the Pajeets, but it could very well be the Malikai’s pulling the strings there too.
That is wild. I would have never guessed that’s a thing.
It’s totally a thing. With a lot of different stuff. I do a ton of orders through Amazon and I have been bitten enough to never order small expensive things through there.
Probably 80% of the cycling kit on Amazon is counterfeit stuff out of Asia.
RJ – I’m careful with many things there. It depends on what I’m ordering as well as the price.
For example I ordered a Holosun optic for my pistol that was available on Amazon, but I chose a different online seller because I’d read there were issues with repackaged returns and fakes.
OTH, for a PC – I’d oder there as long as Amazon was the seller. You’ve got options for return and chargeback there.
In this case Amazon took it back, but I was hoping not to have to return the product. No such luck, but they are picking up return shipping.
I just bought a throw blanket from Amazon – the name of the company was, I shit you not, “CZQLWW”.
I mean, it’s crocheted acrylic so I wasn’t terribly worried about “counterfeit” but JFC, China. Really?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/tired-of-low-quality-amazon-goods-try-this-extension
This is handy and also shows country of origin.
Neat – appears to work as advertised. My CZQLWW item was highlighted as “no brand at front of listing”.
I only buy my locktite from Kaman/Motion.
Thanks Sensei! Knockoff looks very promising. Easy install in Safari on my iPad.
Not working for me. I see no filtering and I don’t see the icon in the lower right corner
Never mind. Got it.
Worked on my iPad. In settings Safari the extension has to be enabled.
I used it on my PC and didn’t realize there was a Safari version until Beau commented.
I genuinely love the information sharing that happens here. It’s not always relevant to me, some of what I share isn’t relevant to some of y’all. But there’s always an information flow and we all find bits to our benefit. It’s one of the special things about the site and the participants.
Once I went and got a part from a dealer- it was Ford and it was a speed sensor. Paid for it, had a cute little FORD blue oval box, got home and opened it.
DORMAN.
Some cocksucker returned his shitty part after replacing with a quality one, and got his money back. Then I get it.
I suspect at any rate.
Dorman makes a bunch of factory ford parts sold through ford.
The local auto store we used for truck repair parts carried lots of Dorman, among other brands.
Off with his head
Republican nominee Joe Arminio was removed from a forum debate in Wilmington, Del., after misgendering his opponent, Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.).
During the debate between the candidates competing for Delaware’s lone congressional district, Arminio used incorrect pronouns when referring to McBride — who made history in 2024 as the first openly transgender member of Congress.
Incorrect pronouns; just like when Hitler murdered the gypsies.
At least he does a pretty decent job of passing, no stubble or anchor tattoos on the forearms and whatnot. Still a man though.
Never apologize.
An apology is just an admission of guilt and therefore a point of attack to those people.
Even worse, he was right.
Especially to evil freaks.
He may have used impolite pronouns, but he didn’t use “incorrect” pronouns.
Oooh, Med Folk texted me and I uploaded a pic of my Rx for Amphetamines because I tested positive for amphetamines.
See, looky here. I have permission! Well, that’s that part taken care of. I doubt my first day will be Monday, I’m guessing Wed or the Monday after this coming one. (‘Next, next Monday.) I’m also guessing.
More about booty shorts. My booty look gooty in ’em. I’m completely making that up. I’m not sure on the status of my ass’ visual appeal. Kinda bothers me, not knowing. I’m fit, but I’m also small. I don’t think good asses come in S, but I’m not a BIG ass man. I like athletic asses. I don’t understand big ass attraction. Ya can get lost in there.
You may get a visit from the evil grey Buttfuckians from the planet Uranus. They monitor this site.
“I don’t understand big ass attraction…”
Well, you see….oh never mind
For some men, there’s no such thing as too much.
My mom remarked that I have a small ass. Well, I was like 13 at the time. Thanks, mom.
If only she were around to see it now.
Is that really who you want to show it too?
I need a woman with an ass like a dumptruck.
And she haulin’ 20 tons of fuck.
I ordered loctite on Amazon.
You can get loctite almost anywhere. Why order from Amazon?
*even 243
I was ordering other crap so why make a trip for it?
Why DoorDash two Big Mac meals and a coupla chocolate shakes? Convenience my man.
I see little delivery robots running around everywhere and this area is like loaded with restaurants. Including a McDonald’s and a Shake Shack within five minutes. It’s unbelievable how fucking lazy people are.
Yes, it is. In my area there’s a Chic fil A where I get breakfast on the regular and the drive through’s just jammed in the AM. I can and do park and go in and get it to go in half the time but I guess walking thirty feet is just too much for most people nowadays.
Well if everyone wasnt lazy and went inside, then you’d have to use the drive-thru.
Lobby would be too crowded.
Trump’s Iran war has economists aghast
AGHAST!
America and Israel’s ongoing war against Iran has sunk the global economy so deeply in the mire that economists are now seemingly throwing down their pencils in frustration. On Thursday, for the first time since the start of the conflict, analysts at JPMorgan said they don’t have a baseline view of oil markets.
“We simply don’t know how to model the endgame,” Natasha Kaneva, head of the company’s global commodities strategy, said in a note. According to CNBC, analysts at JPMorgan assumed there were some economic red lines the U.S. simply would not cross in the conflict, and that President Donald Trump would eventually be forced to reach a deal with Iran. But close to seven months after the war began, most of those red lines — including oil hitting more than $100 a barrel, gasoline nearing $5 a gallon at the pump or 10-year Treasury yields rising above 5% — have already been crossed, and “the exit strategy is less clear, not more,” in Kaneva’s words.
Save us, Davos Man!
This is all because Strait of Hormuz was closed for awhile.
Maybe all you big brain economists should have pointed out that apparently the entire world economy can be brought to the brink because a narrow strait that has batshit mullahs on one side, and a civil war and a pirate kingdom on the other, and maybe somebody ought to do something about that.
Seemed to be working fine before we poked the hornet’s nest with a stick.
My point is, if the world economy has a single point of failure in a bad neighborhood like that, it is going to fail at some point. And apparently none of these sooper geniuses even realized it was a single point of failure for the entire world economy.
Boots on the ground. It’s the only way!
I mean, this has been the case throughout all of history. Some assholes sit atop valuable trade routes and use it as leverage against everyone else. Reducing reliance on the Middle East was enough for whitey to sail the ocean blue with no fucking clue whether they’d survive or not. Because fuck those guys.
But yea, I do object to the general phrasing of the problem here. Closing the strait was a theoretical threat right up until we decided to launch a war of choice against Iran.
What would you like anyone to do about it at this point, anyway? Seems like the only way out of this is to concede or put boots on the ground as air power has once again shown its limitations. I mean, we could go nuclear on Iran, but I think that’d be worse for the world economy for a little while.
And one point I haven’t made enough, most people haven’t made enough – some wars you have to fight then and there. Time and place aren’t a choice.
That’s not what happened here. We started this war. We miscalculated as to what it would take to win it. Bitching because Iran is fighting back…like are we modern day toddlers who think the world should bend to our will? That reality isn’t reality? We picked a war that we can’t win in the method we’d prefer to fight it.
We’re fucking tards no matter how you slice it. Can we just admit that please? Like whatever anyone thinks of Iran, we aren’t fucking winning. We haven’t been winning since the start of this. We aren’t going to win continuing to do what we’re currently doing.
You are an intelligent person Dean. Too smart to act as if this wasn’t a predictable outcome that people who have been vested into making these sorts of decisions should have (and in many cases, honestly DID) see coming.
It really only should be an issue for the Europoors as it’s their neighborhood.
Shipping costs from there to the U.S. isnt free.
If only we had Joe back to deliver us cheap oil.
I’m actually pretty tired of these media outlets pretending as if the media has some special first amendment rights that the rest of us do not. More than that, it only applies to the media they deem respectable. Cheer when Infowars is sued into oblivion in a kangaroo court or when the Obama admin fucks with Fox News. Cry foul when the Trump admin goes after the AP or MSNBC.
No one has a special right to have access to the White House Press Corps. This is so painfully obvious that you have to wonder what sort of cocktail parties they throw in DC to get a Trump appointee to claim otherwise (even if the appeals court shelved that decision). They obviously wouldn’t extend such a right to various media outlets they deem guilty of wrong think on top of the fact that it’s not even remotely workable in reality. The White House obviously can’t accommodate every media outlet that wants access even if it wanted to.
None of this should have to be said. No case of this type should have been allowed to proceed. For most of our history there wasn’t even a gaggle of reporters following the president around to record his every utterance to begin with. So kindly fuck-off in every which way.
That’s all before we get to the incredible audacity of the left pretending to care about free speech/the first amendment to begin with after the last two decades or so.
It works. I overheard a conversation about this at a baseball game today. The proper amount of outrage was expressed. People have their ideas downloaded into their heads daily, and then go out into the world and bleat at each other about them.
Can we please just neutron bomb the middle east in its entirety? I am sick to death of hearing about that third world tribalist shithole.
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I’ve made it to Nisswa. That is within commuting distance of festivities in Minnesota this weekend. The hotel still using physical keys was unexpected. But whatever, it works.
It’s like a 3rd world country!
Physical keys can not be defeated by picking up a magnet on the floor of the con and placing it in your pocket…
Oh, the humanity
And just last month, Abbott threatened to withhold funding from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport to block plans for ritual washing facilities for Muslim travelers in the airport’s terminals. There’s little difference between French’s attacks and the other politicians’ actions, said Yasir Qadhi, an Islamic scholar at the Islamic center.“It is the same mindset,” he said in an interview. “What we’re witnessing is really an unprecedented and increasingly brazen form of racism. It’s unfiltered, it’s unapologetic, it’s even stripped of even the pretense of political correctness. You know, this is a type of racism we’ve never seen in our lifetimes.”
“I’m sorry you are such a pathetic thin skinned hysterical bitch.”
Muslim isn’t a race and discriminating against someone based on a fucked up belief system is totally valid.
And fuck any craven Republican. Your state has been flooded with a new electorate for the very purpose of moderating you and propelling Democrats forward. And you fuckers are trying to kowtow to them. I see the habit of calling Muslims “Asian” has taken hold here. Learning from the likes of the BBC.
Go back to some ‘stan.
“That’s part of my frustration with the Republican Party altogether: They talk about being Christian, but they get up every morning to talk about who they hate,” said Whitley, who still identifies as Republican but endorsed Talarico for Senate.
Democrats, however, are suffused with the unquenchable spirit of brotherhood and love.