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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 6, 2020 16:17:19 GMT -8
Probably a majority these days would answer "Yes," given that she is rich, fairly famous (I'd never heard of her), and has nude shots of herself on the internet. All those are status markers.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 6, 2020 18:21:59 GMT -8
The same thoughts occurred to me, but were she my daughter, I would not let her darken my door.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 7, 2020 10:40:33 GMT -8
A very good article from Jason Whitlock. There are several very funny lines.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 7, 2020 11:46:16 GMT -8
A very good notion in its way. They all say they want to make black lives better, so tax them to do so. It's like Mike Huckabee setting up an official state number in Arkansas so that people who claim to think they should pay more in taxes could do so. (They didn't, of course.)
Actually, there's another way we could defund athletics. Look at all these new, expensive stadiums built for privately-owned franchises at city and state expense. It's been a scandal for decades. The best way to defund sports would be not to build any more of them, at least not at taxpayer expense. Hollyweird makes a lot of movies in other states (e.g., Georgia) because of favorable tax rates. Any subsidies for sports teams should also be confined to that.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 7, 2020 13:28:16 GMT -8
We are in that mode: Making lemonade out of lemons. Although the Democrats and the Left mean to destroy everything tradition, good, or wholesome, their broad brush does cut down a few mixed-metaphor trees that needed pruning.
Professional sports (including professional college sports) is one of those things that could use a good chopping off at the knees so that they can either start over or just go away.
Again, this guy is picking up good scores on the Namby-Pamby Meter (patent pending).
Sounds like he listens to Mark Levin.
Yuck yuck yuck. This guy should run for governor of whatever state he lives in.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 7, 2020 13:38:06 GMT -8
He used to live in South California as he worked for Fox Sports. Since he left them, he has apparently moved to Tennessee (drove there last week) where he has become a part owner in Outkick.com.
If I am representative of his audience, that move was very smart. I had already stopped checking out Fox Sports as that illiterate Shannon Sharpe had started pushing the BLM narrative. Furthermore, I only looked into Outlook.com because of Whitlock.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 8, 2020 7:46:32 GMT -8
Mr. Flu, I think we need to create some kind of walled garden to separate ourselves from this stuff lest we go crazy too. I honestly now relate to my fellow human being as Donald Sutherland did toward the latter part of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. You just assume everyone is a drone and pretend to accept them as normal so that they don’t turn on you.
I wasn’t the most outgoing, sociable fellow to begin with. But the culture now is 100% cuckoo. Why would I want to be sociable with anyone but a few select friends? You can’t explain to crazy people why they are crazy. You just have to adopt (as repulsive at this may sound to some) a somewhat sociopathic attitude. I will treat you with outward respect but I know you are a drone. I know your humanity isn’t anchored any deeper than the next Twitter outburst by someone.
Hey, if you like watching the NFL or MLB, have fun. But to me you are an idiot. You are Kevin Bacon bending over before Doug Neidermeyer getting paddled and yelling, “Thank you, sir, may I have another?” If you have no sense of this world other than stuffing yourself with whatever commercial excess gives you a momentary sense of distraction, then there’s nothing I can say to you. You are a dolt. You are the destroyer of worlds, or at least a participant.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 8, 2020 9:40:58 GMT -8
We're going to need a lot of bricks. Probably need a retractable roof as well.
That said, I am sometimes pleasantly surprised. Last night at our weekly Italian meal, I was having a discussion with the owner of the restaurant who is Albanian. Her business has been hurt by the KFF panic and she has become very sensitive to those people who not only wear masks but demand everyone else wear one.
She recounted a recent case in which some woman opened the front door and looked into the restuarant. The place had no customers and at that moment the owner was not wearing a mask. The women turned around and left. But in a few minutes she called the restaurant and complained about the owner not wearing a mask and following the law. The owner told the woman that she wears her mask 95% of the time, but as there was no body there she took it off. To which the woman said something like, "It doesn't matter, I don't want someone who doesn't wear a mask cooking my food."
Now the stupidity of that woman is monumental. Does anyone believe that if the person cooking your food has the KFF she won't spread it by wearing a mask. That truly is magical thinking.
The restaurant owner told me another story in which there was a family on one side of the restaurant who all wore masks and a single woman on the other side who didn't. Let us say they were about 15 feet apart. It appears the mother of the family kept giving the single woman without a mask dirty looks.
Perhaps the restaurant owner is a bit sensitive, but she has to be careful because in Dallas County she is required to wear a mask as a server. More importantly, she is concerned she will lose some customers because they get upset when they see others not wearing masks.
I know she would by happier if we would wear masks once we are finished eating, but as readers at R&T know, we do not wear masks in my family. I also know that she doesn't quite understand why so many Americans get pissed off about wearing masks.
During our discussion, I told her that there is no way I would allow those female busy bodies dictate my behavior. I also made it clear that while I have no problem with a restaurant requiring customers to wear masks when they are not eating, I also would not frequent such a place.
Finally, I mentioned that wearing masks was un-American and what has been happening during the KFF is against all our history and traditions. I then said that she probably didn't quite get this as she had been born and grew up in Albania, a place which did not have the same traditions of liberty as we did. I then agreed that such was the case in many places around the world like China, Singapore, Taiwan, etc.
By chance, a woman in here thirties had come in to pick up some food and heard me speaking. She turned to us and said I was right. That it might be custom in places like Korea for everyone to wear a mask without question, but not here.
I rhetorically asked, why is is fine for Home Depot to open, but not a mom-and-pop hardware store? Why is it fine for Walmart to open, but not a small general store? Why have they closed up the country and caused more economic damage than a war? The young lady agreed whole heartedly and also added why are they keeping the schools closed?
I closed by repeating my new mantra i.e. the KFF panic is the biggest criminal enterprise of all time.
I must say I was pleased that a relatively young woman agreed with me. Perhaps there is hope.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 8, 2020 10:15:44 GMT -8
The metaphor is apt. These little piggies who wish to stay untainted better not build their house out of straw or sticks. That is to say, getting on Facebook and decrying “I’ll never watch the NFL again…except when my team is on TV or if there’s nothing else to do” is building your house out of straw. And we see a lot of that. If you mean to boycott something then man-up and do it. But virtue-signaling is not only a habit of the Left
At the same time, we do need to let in a little light and air at times. No man is an island. Hell, how can you shop, eat, or fill your car without encountering, or somehow supporting, The Crazy & Insane People? Yes, I have groceries delivered by Walmart. But short of growing my own food, I’m sort of stuck with bad and worse choices.
We all are. What we should not do is back-fill. We should not buy Walmart groceries as a way to avoid the stupid masks and then proclaim “Walmart is one of the good guys.” No, much like Trump, they are a bum and part of the problem.
The challenge is to occasionally lie down with the necessary dogs and then spend some quality time picking the fleas offs. But many call those fleas “good” and proceed down the road of commercial perdition.
What a lunatic woman (another Nervous Karen…sort of a Fascist Karen — same difference) that your Albanian restaurateur encountered. Where did these vicious and stupid people come from? Who or what created them?
This is what I meant when I commented a while ago about the culture seemingly having forgotten germ theory. Most are acting as if it was “mal air” that will get them. I’ve read (as you know) some interesting books on the creation of hospitals and early attempt to deal with infection. Amazing as it may seem to the modern person, but doctors (even fairly recently) did not equate filth with infection. And when we better understood where infection came from, these same doctors (who where killing their patients in droves) fought tooth-and-nail against reformers who had better information and practices.
We see this today. Fauci (and this is completely Trump’s doing) is a fraud. We are surrounded by pseudo-scientists who seem to be living in the pre-germ-theory days.
Magical thinking abounds. Dennis Prager’s idea that religious people tend to be saner because they have an outlet for their non-rational thinking is further confirmed.
Thank you for spreading some Americanism to a seemingly willing ear in that Albanian woman. At least she has an excuse. What is the excuse of people who were born in this country?
There might be a lot of people out there like that. That’s Trump’s biggest failure. Instead of leading and rallying support for American freedom, he immediately caved to the “2 million deaths” baloney. I think his idiot daughter and idiot son-in-law are driving the policy. Trump is a complete failure and I detest the man. Insert the caveat that “He is better than Biden.” At this point, that’s not saying much.
Thanks for the real-world report. This is ten times better than anything in the news where lies are the rule.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 8, 2020 11:17:11 GMT -8
As Donne said, "No man is an island." That is particularly true today given the structure of the economy and huge population. This being the case, about the only people who could completely avoid interacting with the pack, would be a hermit or someone in solitary confinement in a Super Max prison. The rest of us have to build up the antibodies to ward off the pathogens now common in most humans. |
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Post by timothylane on Aug 8, 2020 12:17:15 GMT -8
I think Trump has pretty good instincts, but is also unsure of them, so he's too easily persuaded to drop them by someone (whether it's Jared and Ivana Kushner or somebody else, I don't know). There's a long history of this. Alan Clark in Barbarossa noted that Hitler was actually a brilliant warlord in many ways early in the way, though the ideas weren't always his. (The Sichelschnitt plan for the invasion of France was proposed by Erich von Manstein, but Hitler saw the value in it while Franz Halder and Walter Brauchitsch were proposing a warmed-over Schlieffen Plan against people who were expecting exactly that.) But he often had trouble getting the professionals to go along with him at the time. Later in the war, they were much more slavishly obedient. But by then his touch of brilliance had degenerated into derangement.
To be sure, Hitler had his flaws all along. Letting Goering try to keep the British and French forces at Dunkirk trapped there worked out very badly. He showed emotional instability in both the Norwegian and French campaigns, and even more so in Russia. He was very angry at List's failure to break through to Tuapse, Sukhumi, and Grozny (much less Tiflis and Baku) in the Caucasus, and when Alfred Jodl investigated and came back with a report that List had done what Hitler told him to do he found himself in the doghouse next to List. He screwed up badly in the Stalingrad campaign.
Of course, this isn't meant to compare Trump to Hitler. The latter's crimes are why we abominate him, and they have nothing to do with this interesting pattern. Nor is Hitler the only person to show this; Richard Stoddert Ewell was another person who was smarter than he thought he was.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 8, 2020 21:25:05 GMT -8
While I am not a big fan of Trump, I do recall the full -court press which the news media, Democratic Bolsheviks and RINOs pulled on him. More importantly, I know that no other president in American history has had to put up with the level of animus, or endure the criminality aimed at him. The actions taken by the federal bureaucracy (in general) specifically the internal security apparatus, intelligence community and politicians like John McCain, may he burn eternally in hell, against Trump were not merely crimes against Trump, they were crimes against the Constitution and people of the U.S.A.
The number one reason I hope Trump will win is that if he does, there is a chance the criminals in the deep state will be brought to justice. If he doesn't, there is zero chance the criminals will be brought to justice and that will mean the end of the USA.
The video is a reminder of just how off the predictions where. Everybody laughed at Trump's chances. The question is "did they laugh out of arrogance, or fear?"
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Post by timothylane on Aug 9, 2020 6:49:59 GMT -8
That's an important point, and can be generalized. Because of massive (and growing) synoptic media bias and bureaucratic corruption, any Demagogue is unlikely to face accountability. So even aside from issues or the vile antics of the Obama Gang and the Comey Cabal, anyone who wants accountability in the Behemoth must vote Republican.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 9, 2020 9:18:51 GMT -8
As if by design, I saw this article today. Although it is possible that it is not true, I cannot imagine someone would write this piece unless it were based on fact. There is too much specific information, which would make the writer liable for libel if the things he says are false. I also suspect that all the info, which this article reveals, and more, is in the hands of the DOJ. The timing of the piece also gives me reason to think that the DOJ just might be about to show its hand in this mess. If not, this article will tend to push the DOJ in that direction.
This is a long piece, but it is worth reading if the whole criminal Crossfire Hurricane conspiracy against Trump and Flynn is of interest to you, which it should be.
The writer says there is more to come. I can only advise him to be careful and don't open any packages from FedEx.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 9, 2020 9:27:04 GMT -8
Clearly Trump runs according to his own barometer. I think the only thing you can say about him is that he won’t be as predictably liberal as a Democrat president would be. But as for him tackling the deep state, I seriously doubt he’ll make a dent. Remember all that “Lock her up” baloney. The man is a con artist who, when he instinctively reacts against his opponents, can’t help but look conservative once in a while.
Still, what a bizarre situation where the Democrats are rolling out a candidate who has obvious and serious dementia issues. How bizarre it is that there is serious and reasonable talk of If he is elected, who will replace him?
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 9, 2020 9:38:21 GMT -8
I can't disagree with you. That is why I wrote "there is a chance" the bums will be brought to justice. I am not holding my breath, but am keeping my fingers crossed.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 9, 2020 10:04:06 GMT -8
The link is to a video in which Schrage, the author of the previous article, talks to Maria Bartiromo. You will note his concern that not only is the intelligence community covering up what has happened, but that the Senate and some Republicans are doing their best to keep things from coming to light. I have always thought that fairy Graham is part of the cabal. He was, after all, that bastard John McCain's bosom buddy.
This guy is going public to embarrass those in power thus trying to make them move. He is smart in that he has written a very detailed piece and has gone on TV to make his point. He has made it clear that there is more to come.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 9, 2020 10:37:45 GMT -8
By now, I suspect very few conservatives think anyone in either the Obama Gang or the Comey Cabal will ever face punishment. But there is still a tiny modicum of hope that Durham will finally act on someone, maybe even on someone who was a major player in those criminal conspiracies. Once the Demagogues get in, there will be no hope at all. And note all the local and state prosecutors going after Trump. They'll never go after the Yellow Jester or any other Demagogue.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 9, 2020 10:45:58 GMT -8
This heartens me, in that it confirms people have the right to sue public officials for their neglect in protecting rights. I am more than ever convinced there will be a huge number of law suits lodged against these leftist bastards. This must be done.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 9, 2020 11:09:33 GMT -8
It will be interesting to see what happens with all these ukases that various autocrats (not all of them Demagogues, unfortunately) have issued. The courts give them a lot of leeway, but as the article indicated, it isn't infinite. I would especially like to see these "racism is a public health crisis" emergency ukases targeted and struck down. Unfortunately, at most they'd be overturned. Probably no actual harm will come to the tyrants, which is the only thing that can stop them.
A little salutary sic semper tyrannis, awful though that is to contemplate, may be necessary. But that way lies the Banana Republic of America. Of course, we're too damned close to that already.
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