Uncouth

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

One of the criticisms against Trump — and frankly anyone who is effective at speaking out against the current mess — is that he’s “uncouth” and “loud” and “vulgar” and generally a troublemaker.

I’m not saying he’s not a troublemaker, just asking who would have left his stable and safe position to get in this fight for the country if he weren’t. Just a thought. Also he’s a New Yorker.

But every congressman and woman who speaks out against the left gets tagged with the same. As do mere bloggers and writers. (I’m only “peculiar” because of my lady like qualiies. Grandma would be proud.) And even “just people.” I’ll remind you they destroyed the life of Joe the Plumber for having the nerve to talk back on camera. And apparently they’re hounding down FDNY firemen who didn’t applaud the mayor of NYC NY Attorney General Leticia James. [Distracted at the wrong time. Sorry]

So it’s not Trump. It’s all of us. “So rude.” “So uncouth.” “So loud.” “Insane.” “Conspiracy theory.”

Meanwhile Stacy (Tank) Abrahams spent years screeching in everyone’s face that she wuz robbed and that was cool, because she was just an empowered girl boss, right?

Or take Hillary “How I really won” Clinton who was never even looked at sideways.

And don’t get me started on AOC. Who straight up offered to fight someone “outside” but you know, nothing wrong. Etc. etc.

Oh, and Elon. Elon Musk went from “So smart, so cool” to the devil himself when he took over twitter and broke their censorship toy. At once. On a dime. And no one seems to be aware of that switch or how lightening fast it was. And how suddenly “he is the devil” was everywhere.

So what is going on here? Double standards, of course but why are most people — including people hurt by it — not even aware of the double standards?

Well… Because they’re not. They’re the standards society has imposed over the last 100 or so years. We’re only aware of their being “double standards” because the information regime of the last 100 years has broken wide. It hasn’t stopped having influence. it’s just split wide.

It’s important to remember that, because a lot of people are really panicking because they think all of it: double standards, cancelling, etc. are new. Instead of being, you know, only visible now.

The problem is not what’s happening now. It’s what happened for the hundred years when the left had control of the highly centralized, tight focus, lockstep information regime.

Because the regime included art, news, political discourse, entertainment, everything, the result is that they got to portrait left-opinions and positions as sane, normal and main stream. And anything that opposed them, no matter how sensible, as unhinged, out there and insane.

No? Think of the token right-wing voices in every single sitcom or TV serial. Not that there seem to be any now, which is by itself a measure of how scared they are, but they used to be in there, in every other show. And they were not right wing, not sane, and usually attached to the most repulsive characters imaginable. (When they made the mistake of not doing that, such as with Family Ties, the character inspired an entire generation.)

Think of what they said about Rush Limbaugh, the things they tried to get to stick to him, let alone a lot of the more minor pundits and voices of earlier times.

In my opinion this is responsible for the turn-coat syndrome, in which someone prominent turns to the left suddenly and stays there. You can only take so much pressure without cracking. (Don’t worry too much about me. If I seem to crack that way, I’m probably buried in the basement and it’s someone else doing this. I cracked in other ways long before I came out of the political closet. This is actually less pressure.) But you know the people from the early oughts who did that. I don’t need to name them. (And don’t need that on me.)

The pressure was always there, but it was mostly unspoken. Because if you were on the right and they knew it, they could take your profession away on some excuse, and no one would ever know how or why. And if they investigated they’d find the kind of “oh, him” that hinted you were guilt of unspeakable crimes and vices.

Now it’s broken wide, so we see the screaming and the attempts at cancelling (Some aren’t even sticking anymore) in the full light of day. And the left is terrified. The hint of how terrified they are is that there are no longer sin-eating-right-wing characters in TV shows and movies.

Oh, I suppose there are some in movies. they more or less immediately get jumped on as “that’s not the right.” And “Are you nuts.”

But even people on the right — at least to an extent — are still falling for the “so uncouth” “making people upset” “trouble maker.” (FYI in Florida DeSantis is called all of that, also. And always was.)

So… Here’s the thing: The discourse and the level of polite discourse in our back brains was set for our entire lives up to about six years ago. It was set at the level and keys and triggers of the left, because they had control of everything. So they set the “You can’t say that in public. People will think you’re nuts” that’s at the back of every one of our brains.

They set the stereotype that when you hear certain things, these are coming from a “bad person” — this was set by those caricatures of right wing characters — and its’ some kind of con or straight up evil.

You have to re-examine anyone that you’re flinching from in that light. No one is saying you SHOULD like them. I’ve said before and will say again, I don’t think I’d have married Donald Trump, if offered, despite all the money. But I don’t want to marry him, or date him. And frankly, I’ve hired people I outright disliked for jobs, provided I didn’t have to see them every day, and I could trust them to do the job I wanted. (Within limits. The job I want is what Milei is doing in Argentina, and I doubt even Trump will do that here.) Heck, I don’t even want to have a drink with Trump. (Though if a miracle happens and he beats the fraud, if I had money I’d pay money to be his White House Press Secretary. What? Oh, dear, it would be the most fun I’ve ever had out of bed. Including sudden “lapses” into “Portuguese” (but really village gutter language.) I’m a brat. Okay?)

But “so uncouth” is bullshit. Straight up? More or less uncouth than Obama giving people the “scratch my face” middle finger like a middle schooler? More or less uncouth than Clinton having women brought to his hotel room? More or less uncouth than Hillary shrilling at the universe? Than Michelle Obama scowling through the flag ceremonies? And that’s without even touching Brandon and his crazy remote control older, who would be spat at in a homeless camp for their behavior. (Or beaten up. Possibly with a live duck.)

So every time you flinch, examine your back brain for the “but you can’t say that,” that cues all the uncouth, crazy and conspiracy theorist feelings. (Besides I think the difference between conspiracy theory and reality is now …. two days?)

You have to, because your social pack instincts were trained by the left.

Also, the sky isn’t falling. What is falling is the information regime set up by the left. They have reason to panic, you don’t.

Just be aware that to an extent their government and organization regime too. NOT what was laid out in the constitution, but the massive bureaucracy and the insane web of power that comes from DC and covers the entire country.

And part of the problem of its falling apart is that it’s just not working, or how it works is bizarre, irrational, and might feel personal, but is not. It’s just the chaos of “it can’t work anymore.” Our insurance problems are apparently mirrored in all our friends’ problems, and it’s the result of their trying to reach for fully socialized medicine with Obama care.

They had plenty of control before, just not full control, and being idiots they didn’t realize the whole thing was already coming apart at the seams, so they pressed for full control…. and —

It doesn’t work. Everyone else seems to be going through this crazy thing where necessary, absolutely vital meds are just being denied, or the insurance pays $10 off the top and leaves you with $900 to pay or something. This is of course the result of sex changes, abortions and contraception being 100% free and treated as vital, while everything else gets pushed out of the way.

Not because the things they prioritize are bad (well, you know my opinions) but because they’re stupid and irrational and held as sacrosanct above everything else. When it was COVID and everything else was “optional” it caused the same kind of mayhem.

When you’re spending a fortune on tiddly wink betting, you don’t have money for food. So insurance, trying to save itself, is denying vital care. The fact the idiots in power want — or pretend they want. It’s difficult to tell because like cats, they say “I meant that” anyway — us all dead is a bonus. The companies are just coming apart at the seams and not just through shortages and supply issues.

And it’s like this for everything, and yes, some of it feels like a targeted attack, and some might try to be, but mostly isn’t. Mostly it’s the Wilson-FDR creation falling apart. And it can’t go back together because it never worked.

They could just pretend it worked by their control of information. Oh, that’s why they want censorship, yes.

But it’s not working, any of it, and anything that they try to do to shore it up makes it fall apart more.

I stand by my image that they’re trying to build the Berlin wall after it’s been pulled down, and while people are driving out through gaping holes in it.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put the Marxist wall up again.

Which is glorious. And also yeah, terrifying, as things fall apart and we don’t yet have replacements ready.

But that’s the way things work. Unless you’re invaded by an invader with a plan (you wouldn’t like those.) the new structure is never ready to go.

In fact having a structure all ready to fall in place should be a danger sign. A big, flashing one.

Is it going to hurt? Hell yes. Are we going to spend some time when mere daily survival will be difficult? Hell yes. Is it possible that by fraud they’ll hold on to the apparent levers of power and make the transition a million times more difficult? Hell yes?

I know you get tired of me saying, but not only do we win and they lose in the end, but it’s already happening.

It’s just that in the middle things will get really really awful and in big turmoil.

Remember every birth means pain and blood. This is not a death. It’s the rebirth of the republic.

Yes, it hurts. Do your best and push hard.

Be uncouth. It’s not “the way”, it’s the only way.

164 thoughts on “Uncouth”

  1. I didn’t watch “All In The Family” that much but I liked Archie Bunker more than I liked the “Meathead” but who was more “uncouth”? Archie or the “Meathead”?

    By the way, I found it interesting how the writer “wrote-out” the “Meathead” in the sequel to “All In The Family” when Archie’s daughter became part of the sequel show.

    She had divorced the “Meathead” for very good reasons. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    1. The writers there fell into the very common danger for writers: they assumed that the characters they didn’t like were intrinsically unlikeable, and the ones they did, intrinsically likeable. Therefore, they did not develop them in a manner to make them likeable or not.

      You may find it odd that a grown man mooching off his father-in-law would be regarded by anyone as intrinsically likeable for his left-wing thoughts, but they did.

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      2. As ever, Rorschach springs to mind. Alan Moore tried his best to make him unlikeable, but instead he gave Rorschach the only consistent moral code in Watchmen, thus making him the one-eyed man in the land of the blind.

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        1. I hated that comic. OMG. DisGUSting.

          And yes, Rorschach was the only one with any -reasonable- moral code. They tried their best to make him the devil, and failed.

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  3. I’m old enough to remember when Charlton Heston was considered a great actor. That was before he became an NRA spokesman…and after, suddenly, he was a hack who’d never had any talent.

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    2. Same thing happened to David Horwitz, when he broke with the left. Went instantly from “wise, insightful thinker” to “hack who should be ignored”.

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    3. Much like the way in which atheist!John C. Wright was a master wordsmith with a flair for genuinely grand language, then converted and became a pulpish hack.

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      1. In my novel Big Blue (basically Kaiju vs. Lovecraftian horror) I had a POV character who was a devout Christian and their Christianity strongly influenced their actions in the story. Had one reviewer criticizing the novel for being “basically an ad for Christianity”.

        One character in a fairly large ensemble cast and suddenly the whole novel becomes…?

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          1. Especially if the “something shown” doesn’t match the reader’s view of the “something”.

            In this case, the reader had an “interesting” view of what Christians are like so since the character didn’t match the reader’s view, the story was “basically an ad for Christianity”.

            My suspicion is that if the Christian was “shown as a character to dislike”, then the reader would have “approved of the book”.

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            1. I have no doubt that the reader who called the story “basically an ad for Christianity” thinks Lovecraftian horrors are preferable to Christians minding their own business.

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  4. We are fast approaching the Find Out episode of this ongoing sh1t show.

    They continue to F Around, and will do so right up until they can’t.

    Hilarity will not ensue.

    As an aside to the “back brain” notion of what constitutes polite discourse, my Hubby has informed me that his customer, formerly known as Conspiracy Steve, is now nicknamed Prophet Steve.

    So the good old guys at the local auto parts store definitely know things have changed.

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      1. Utterly minor and mostly unrelated… a few years back a fellow at work was dropped off by family… waited for them to drive off.. and then turned and walked away rather than enter $WORKPLACE. He had a unique coat, and gait, and yet denied it was him when shown the video. Yes, he did it <i>on camera</i>. A well-known and not-at-all hidden camera.

        I mused that he might keep pretending to work and walk away. I was a bit stunned when <i>that was exactly what he did</i>. His jig would be up when the paychecks stopped… It was <b>eerie</b> to be right about that.

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        1. Oh, so now WP won’t let me use the html directly?

          Hrmm… *test1* **test2**

          Oh, they have they’re own bits for that? On the text box that is almost unreadable when not set to ‘BLINDING’? WPDE!

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          2. WordPress* (Delenda Est) now has Even More Inconsistancy ™. On rare occasions (at least until yesterday afternoon), I’d occasionally get the text box without the header. In that case, HTML coding works.

            I was posting a lot yesterday, and after a while, the stray old-school boxes were refusing to show.

            I miss the <strike> tag.

            ((*)) First attempt, I typed it as WorePress. Hmmm.

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            1. I wouldn’t mind IF I could set/use a Dark Theme (I do this in the browser now) that didn’t have the text-entry go “Super-light grey and hard-white” when I try to NOT STARE INTO A FRELLING LIGHTBULB. Sereiously, I need to find where WP dev live and replace ALL their light for 40-million candlepower searchbeams. Yes, even the fridge bulbs. ESPECIALLY when they are ill and the wimpy 15 W fridge SEEM like 40-million candlepower beams. — them. With chainsaws. Rusty ones. Sideways. Twice on on Sundays.

              And if they keep it up, I might get a wee bit testy and vehement.

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            2. I can reply at least some on Chrome. Outlook defaults to Samsung Internet, which gives me the, “Log in, go to full view in WP, click on the tiny eyeglass icon, then you can reply,” ritual.

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    2. I’ll be honest, these days I follow politics/the news mostly to pull me and mine out of falling timber/raging fire range.
      There’s little else we can do but stay safe and build quietly.

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      1. “They” have no idea how many people are just keeping their heads down and doing their work, minding their own knitting, and waiting for everything to blow over. 

        They are starting to get spooked though because they are looking around and not seeing 100% agreement with their perfect plans. They whack one mole and ten more pop up. Once the preferences start cascading they will be in a world of hurt. I expect them to fight like rabid badgers though so fun times are not in the forecast.

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        1. That started in the oughts, when they started demanding that people affirm whatever craziness they came up with, not just staying quiet. Because they suspected we were just keeping quiet. (We ere.) Hence this.

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      2. Yeah, I *THINK* I’ve reach that stage. Merely taking in the info, trying to see what is around curve, whether a rock slide, bandits or freakin’ Godzilla. In a sane world, I would be fine, having paid everything off, saved up, invested, etc., but the system seems intent on crashing and wiping most of that out, by design.

        Taken a break from Twitter (excuse me, ‘X”) after I was ‘flagged’ for an unspecified reason, although I suspect it might have been due to calling every other person ‘dummy’ (because they deserve it based on their comments), and labeling Mark Hamill an a**hole to his face for making light of Laken Riley’s death.

        All I see there is a barrage of Lefties spewing the same spam talking points and half the positive responses I get are from porn/phishing bots. Might as well be screaming into a hurricane.

        I just don’t see anything changing, no matter WHAT you bring to light, or how well you try to make your point about it. There is no debate going on. The Left has turned up its propaganda to 11, believing they can overpower everyone with sheer force of will and healthy dose of Totalitarian thuggery.

        We are at the ‘Sound and Fury’ stage of things, and there will not be correction until there is catastrophic consequences and people have the scales blown off their eyes.

        My feeling is they are gunning for chaos and instability to both blame the opposition (that be us) and thus justify Totalitarian actions to “save democracy”.

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      1. Ah, I remember seeing the only episode of Turn On, which took Laugh In ‘s schtick and turned it up to 11, or 42 perhaps. I suspect the bit with the Pope being on the pill (about the only specific bit I remember) might have contributed to the show’s termination. (Take in US or UK senses, up to you. :) )

        Wiki has it’s take on the show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-On

        Mel Brooks has noted that Blazing Saddles could never be made again. I find MB’s humor best in small doses, but he’s right. I was laughing halfway into the opening sight gag for Spaceballs, with the absurdly long spacecraft. The bumper sticker at the engines “We brake for nobody” was superfluous, but mildly amusing. I think I have an Odd sense of humor.

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      1. True, but as I recall the men weren’t there solely to be the punching bags (metaphorical or otherwise) for women, who weren’t anywhere near the “girl boss” stereotype you see in much media nowadays.

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          1. Oddly (ODDly?) there was a Redeeming Feature… for all the nonsense of the infighting of the Bundy clan… should someone make the mistake of Truly Attacking one of them… They **FOCUSED**.. ALL OF THEM and the TARGET WAS DESTROYED. Were they “white trash”? Yes. But… they were AMERICANS! Maybe not rifles behind every blade of grass… but… their enemies might have wished they were as kind as that.

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  6. Well, this proves that if the Left didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.

    The moment you step a foot off the reservation, they will do things to you that they claim we do with glee and malice. All while clutching their pearls…and squeezing their knees together so that we don’t know how turned on they are by what they’re doing.

    I can’t talk politics with anyone these days. Forget about it being California, it’s more “we’re scared that if we disagree in any way, the lynch mob will come for us.”

    And it seems to be everywhere. Comedy isn’t funny anymore. You can tell exactly how they’re going to subvert expectations ten minutes into the show, without even setting things up properly. The content of most novels is slightly drier than the paper it’s printed on. And on and on and on.

    Tiring. And I’m almost waiting for the explosion. I’m almost lusting for it, even though I know how much damage it will do. Because far too many of these people need a good punch in the mouth.

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      1. I watched Sydney Watson’s video on Sweet Baby Inc. and by extension Gamergate and it was quite good. Games “journalism” is totally disconnected from modern gamers. It’s further left than anything except maybe Teen Vogue and I don’t know any gamers that take it seriously any more. Kotaku delenda est.

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        1. Gaming “journalism” as it is being practiced on the big websites is in major trouble. They’ve been infested by hordes of “people” with Journalism degrees that viewed working there as a step up to a Real Journalism Job-which they have never gotten. Quite a few of them have worked up the ranks and they have a venue for their opinions-but never the Real Journalism Job they wanted.

          Many of the websites are failing because they lived off of venture capital money and advertising, both of which are significantly down. Enough that places like Kotaku and PC Gamer and such are probably going to be sold off for pennies on the dollar.

          And a lot of these people are seeing the industry falling apart and knowing that if they get a job at Starbucks afterwards, they’re the lucky ones.

          So, turning the whole Sweet Baby, Inc mess into a rerun of Gamergate, right down to the strategically “useful” Wikipedia edits and the highly coordinated articles to generate clicks could be seen as a lifesaver for them.

          The problem is that it shows just how rotten things are to too many people that are voting with their wallets.

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          1. And there’s a good chunk of gamers that don’t pre-order or they wait to see if the game is a sordid mess of woke cut-scenes before purchasing. They tend trust the smaller sites and the Twitch streamers that know how to play well.

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              1. The “AAA” gaming industry is no longer a “gaming” industry-i.e. the creation of a game people can enjoy and make a profit from the sales of the game itself. It’s a mixture of private equity firm, casino (i.e. gacha hells), and carefully curated tax break/money laundering for people at the higher levels of authority.

                Having seen some of the incentives governments give to have gaming companies come in (i.e. Sea of Thieves and what happened with UbiSoft Singapore), I wouldn’t be surprised that actually making a good game is near the bottom of the list of goals.

                Think “Hollywood Accounting” but with even less self-reflection.

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                2. The only way to make a good game nowadays is to build it yourself; either solo, or with a small team with a clear, concise vision and love for their work. A lot like Hank Reardon did by isolating himself for several years to develop Reardon Metal, or like RAH’s Shipstone hiding in his basement for 7 years to develop his power storage device. 

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                  1. I think you could get away with a medium-sized team, as long as you kept everyone firmly on target.
                    In my “dreams after I win the lottery” idea, I’m thinking about doing a medium-team game, with the graphics set at late-’90s anime level, the highest framerate possible, and make up the “lack of realism” with F(YAY)King good storytelling.

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              2. My wife plays free-to-play games and has a lot of fun finding ways to “beat” their system, paying not one cent while getting all the characters she wants to get. It’s not possible with all games, but it’s possible with most of the major ones. For example, Genshin Impact comes out with a new character every six weeks or so, and if you’re free-to-play you’ll make enough in-game currency to get a new character every 3-4 months or so. BUT… if you have your heart set on getting characters A, B, and C then with a bit of planning ahead, you can get character A, then character B a few months later, and then character C by the end of the year. Just have to avoid falling for the Fear Of Missing Out that they do their best to incite in you. Apparently most people aren’t disciplined enough to avoid falling for FOMO, though, because they are raking in the money hand over fist.

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                1. Weirdly, I love to play AFK Arena. One of the worst out there for getting you to pay for in-game loot and characters, etc.

                  I have not paid a single penny. Currently #11 in the Arena of Heroes for my server. I collect my loot every day, I play the events, and I don’t care what happens otherwise.

                  The other game I play is Plants Vs. Zombies. Same story, I’ve built up my level to whale-territory and never paid a dime.

                  These games seem to be able to extract money out of some people. It just doesn’t work on me. I conclude that this is because I’m a little weird. ~:D

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                2. Azure Lane is a mobile gacha that’s specifically designed to let you get all of the characters, so long as you play regularly. The developers make almost all of their money via outfit sales for the various characters.

                  I rather like this approach.

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          2. It’s not even that. The gamer websites pay virtually nothing because they know that there are a lot of unemployed people who would happily work for them. They’re all owned by the same company (formerly Gawker, now io9 I think). And they all enforce a very strict party line about the views that gaming articles will hold. Anyone who doesn’t toe the line gets fired.

            There’s a lot of people to replace the now ex-writer.

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          1. Sweet Baby Inc. is a consulting firm that video game developers hire to bump up their ESG score. In the past, the CEO has also openly stated that she’ll extort companies (“Nice upcoming video game you’ve got here. Be a shame if it got bad reviews due to insufficient diversity…”) – or encourage employees of those companies to extort their bosses – in order to get brought on to consult for a game.

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        3. Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun, etc…, are all owned by the same company. Up until recently, they were all owned by Gawker, iirc. Then when Hulk Hogan made Gawker go bankrupt, they were all snapped up by another outfit – io9, I think?

          Anyway, the important thing to keep in mind is that they are *all* managed as mouthpieces to shift the views of gamers to be more inline with what the woke TPTB want.

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          1. io9 was one of the sites in the “Gawkerplex”, as I call it. I don’t know what the umbrella organization is called now. But if Deadspin couldn’t make it with a theoretical subject that should have had much more appeal, I don’t see the rest holding out much longer.

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      2. /laugh

        The wiki article on it is so Left it’s incomprehensible. And it’s not repairable because the drones will undo any corrections the second they’re posted.

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    2. Non-woke comedy is still fricken hilarious, if not more so since they have more subjects and people to tell the truth about…

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    3. The cancelling and vociferous clamping down on speech is because they’re terrified. They no longer think they’ll win. They’re are just trying to keep us from winning. And they’ll lose.

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      2. I think they are too stupid and too blinded by their lust for power and sound bubbles that they actually think they can win, because they simply are unable to recognize how everything they do comes back to bite them.

        When it fails, they don’t think they are failing because of what they are doing, they think their odious garbage didn’t work because “the rubes are too stupid”, and they just simply double down.

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        1. To be fair, they are right about the rubes being too stupid…. but they fail to account for the fact that they are, in fact, the rubes.

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    4. I was sign waving at the polls on Tuesday and had one guy come up to me, who was in total support over a measure forcing everyone in town into their electrical utility cabal, and declare he was one of those communists I pointed out in the town blog. My replay was, “Yeah, so what?” He had nothing more to say and left. Don’t know if my sidearm was printing through the coat.

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  7. There’s also the reverse. James Comey went from hated (“investigated” the Hillary e-mails on Weiner’s laptop right before the election) to praised (after Trump fired him for talking out of both sides of his mouth) so fast that one of the late night hosts had to tell his audience to stop booing when Comey’s name was mentioned.

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        1. We’re not at war with Russia, either, no matter what the Pretendent says about “In a time of war!”

          Two minor countries on the other side of the world are at war. They are of little importance to us.

          Where is the U.N.? Aren’t they supposed to deal with problems like that? Gee, it’s almost like the U.N. is nothing but a bunch of useless self-important self-righteous windbags. :-P

          ———————————

          The government can mandate stupidity, but they can’t make it not be stupid.

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  8. This is sounding very much like VDHanson’s Savior Generals. Trump is too embarrassing to be seen with you, but you need him to save your *ss. It’s almost a kind of Untouchable class.

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      1. Would ye improve on the McEnany binders? By throwing them at idiots? You could have a giant pile of ‘em that are all different topics, and when a stupid question is presented you could feck the appropriate binder at the gobshite. OR just permanently have a chancla on the podium.

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        1. White House Press Pool and the Chankla of Doom. Oh, I’d love to watch that one! [evil kitty smile, rubs paws with glee]

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  9. Pardon my French, but fuck “couth” with a rusty tetanus-impregnated spork.

    Anybody remember George H.W. Bush? WW II war hero and scion of the Establishment? He was a proto-fascist.

    George W. Bush? Moderate conservative with that aw-shucks hyuk-hyuk manner? ”Bushitler.” ”Chimpy McChimperson.” Assassination fantasies on television.

    John McCain? The epitome of the rusting Republican establishment? Fascist, racist, doddering old fool even though he was twenty times more coherent than Slow Joe.

    Mitt Romney? The most milquetoast, Wonder-bread, creamy-nougat-spined Republican in history? ”Binders full of women,” dead pets on top of cars.

    So by the time we got to Donald Trump, I just quit listening. Because they’ve been lying uncouth jackwads for my entire near-60-year lifetime and probably longer.

    I don’t want couth. I want metaphorical blood. I want network news pundits picking up my garbage. I want Hollywood actors sleeping on the streets. I want Silicon Valley tech executives landscaping lawns in summer heat. I want Chief Diversity Officers washing dishes at a neighborhood diner for $9 an hour. The only reason I don’t want GS-15s mining coal is that I have too much respect for coal miners and that it’s too important an industry. I want treason trials for Mayorkas and his underlings. And if they have to rebuild John Wilkes Booth’s gallows, gee gosh darn, at least it’ll provide some jobs for carpenters.

    I want the bloody flag raised and the el deguello sounded. I don’t want leftism defeated, I want it destroyed. I’m done.

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    1. You made it longer than me. I stopped bothering with the chattering classes and their “news” clear back when Reagan left office (partly because I couldn’t stand listening to GHWB talk). But I’ve recognized the left for what it was and wanted it destroyed since I was in high school.

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    2. Gallows?

      That’s too couth for the top traitors!

      I would settle for Vlad the Impaler and the Haitian Cannibals as the headliners.

      Thantos was a weak act.

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    3. To step back in history, every Republican Presidential candidate since Dewey has been equated with Hitler. Every one, including Dewey. As far as being cough and gentlemanly… The Marquis of Queensbury rules do not apply in a street fight to the death. And that’s what this is.

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        1. My Israeli instructor said “Krav Maga is not a martial art. Properly applied, it’s all martial, no art.”

          Then he told us how they dealt with non-compliant resistance that blocked their way…

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    5. I was staying in a Super8 in Dubuque, and the counter girl made the statement that “His radical rightwing stances scare me!” and I laughed hard. I asked her “You know what they call politicians like Mitt in Texas?” she shook her head no, “Democrats. Mitt is barely a republican, let alone a ‘Rightwing Extremist’. Stop listening to what the screaming leftwing pundits on the news and your dad’s union leaders are saying (she had mentioned them and them disappointing her old man). They provably lie.” While I have doubts I got through to her, she was still nice and pleasant to me during my stay.

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  10. I first was aware of this when I was in college in the 70’s but honestly I saw the beginnings of this when I was in high school in the late 70’s. The start of the leftist PC. Where I lived in Queens, NY there was the excusing of Blacks, but not Hispanic, for not performing up to academic standards. NY has three HS diplomas at that time, Academic, ones going to college, business – ones going to business schools but not college, and general for all others. They had no real expectations for them. We were mostly lower middle class, first/second generation who went through HS. The teachers acted superior because they had college degrees and almost all of us in the academic program would be first generation college students. So at my 50th reunion, I can not tell you how many had PhDs and Masters degrees but that was not expected of us. Or how many had successful businesses.

    It was the something or other of low expectations and that is so common today if you are not one of the leftists/progressives.

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  11. I’ll be honest and upfront, I’m one of those people who (on here, even) referred to Trump as “brash” or “uncouth” in some fashion. But you know what, I voted for him in 2020 and at this point, brash, uncouth, and all, he’s getting my vote this year.

    I do, though, feel I need to keep my own political views under the covers, especially at work, but that’s more fear / concern someone will scream I’m violating the Hatch Act and I’d have to go through the rigamarole to prove otherwise.

    So, I keep my mouth shut

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  12. And apparently they’re hounding down FDNY firemen who didn’t applaud the mayor of NYC.

    They probably would have been more restrained had it been the mayor.
    But it was NY Attorney General Leticia James who, by her actions, earned their disrespect.

    And public opinion has forced FDNY to publicly back down on their plans to “hunt down” those that made their opinion heard.

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    2. The problem is, those Leftist elites running the FDNY are going to still conduct their hunt, under the radar, and star chamber the careers of everyone they identify.

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      1. As Arnold’s character in Running Man noted after they initially got away after beating the last stalker was that Killian and his people would just hunt them down and kill them off screen. NYC as run by Democrats is no different than the the way the USA of Running Man was run. 

        If you want to know how bad NYC is these days, its attitude towards Jews matches Berlin in the early 1930s:

        https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/nyc-doe-moves-jewish-teacher-out-of-hitler-high/

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        1. Anywhere as run by Democrats is no different than the the way the USA of Running Man was run. 

          FTFY.

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  13. I was described with very uncomplimentary terms by some when I was a construction superintendent. I was also described favorably by others. It all boiled down to finishing a project, and little could be done when those not helping were in the way. I wasn’t even close to nice when I had to take care of some problems. It was my job and I wasn’t hired to be anybody’s friend. That’s why I like Trump. I don’t want him to be nice, or be friendly to those that are in the way. I want him to do his job, keep his promises, and go scorch-earthed on traitors.

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      1. Exactly. I’ll take brash, uncouth, effective and non-corrupt over “nice” (they’re not) but corrupt as a 3-holer pit any day.

        I didn’t like Trump (still don’t, as an individual) but I held my nose and voted for him in 2016 since his opponent was garbage. In 2020 I did the same, but without the nose-holding; he was *far* better as president than I’d expected. “Mean tweets” my a**.

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  15. “Uncouth” from people who use obscenities as every part of speech, wouldn’t know good manners if it hit them in the face, and accuse you of killing them if you don’t pay rapt and approving attention to every detail of their sexual escapades, real or imagined.

    “uncouth” indeed.

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  16. Rush used to hire his own video crew when he was interviewed by the MSM. They would stalk out when they found that they could not misrepresent his words.

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      1. Kari Lake, having been in media for years, is always recording, especially the press. She lived in the slime pit, knows how it works.

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  17. Well, now I know that I’m not alone in my confusion over my medical insurance (and I have the gold-plated, NYS civil-service kind). Submitted for your approval: My co-payment at the gynecologist for my annual checkup was $20 in 2023 … and $129 in 2024. WT actual F?

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    2. We have gold plated too. and it makes no sense. Not civil service, but gold plated. And the coverage changes every year and becomes suckier. It is now unbelievably sucky.

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    1. 🦆 Yes the left is Kwacking Up. When they start yelling like they do, it’s just more Kwacking Up. 🦆🦆

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  19. About three years ago, I heard on the radio (and can’t recall the program) someone ask a suburban woman why she was against Trump.

    “Oooooo. He’s a whining bully who calls names.”

    I realized immediately that phrase is the most succinct summary of nearly all Leftist reactions to Trump that I’ve ever heard.

    No reference to his policies (which mostly worked pretty well) or his management or his political acumen. Just insulting him by calling him a name with the most gobstopping lack of irony-self-awareness I’ve seen.

    Without substance. Accusing him of what you’re doing. Perfect summary. Applying it saves a lot of time.

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    1. someone ask a suburban woman why she was against Trump.

      “Oooooo. He’s a whining bully who calls names.”

      We have a neighbor exactly like that. All you can do (neighborhood peace) is stare, shake your head, and walk away. Her daughter and grandson just shrugged. They did not follow her example.

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    2. Trump made mistakes. He’s still making a few. But at least he didn’t go into it wholesale like the Biden Administration. Name one thing, one thing, that Biden has done that actually was of benefit to this country.

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      1. There were none, and that is true dating back to his first term as a Senator.

        Trump’s main problem is trusting the people he picks and what they tell him; you could call it a lack of “gut-level appreciation” of the difference between business and politics. Hopefully he’s learned.

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        1. “he picks”

          And the “honest” FBI allows through background checks, and the RINO filled Senate will confirm, and the Left can’t intimidate into withdrawing…..

          There is an organized and fairly successful effort to disbar ANY lawyer willing to work for Trump or on any kind of election integrity.

          I’ve put up hundreds of examples demonstrating all of these.

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          1. While all of that is essentially accurate, it doesn’t alter the fact that he picked his cabinet and associates in the executive branch, and that he tended to trust them too much; Fauci’s “expertise” is possibly the most egregious example. And he managed to get three USSC nominations, plus several hundred Federal judges, through regardless of the sniping from the left:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump

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  20. Double standards… like having fits because of what Trump told that guy in a locker room, but ignoring a credible rape accusation against Biden, and his decades-long habit of putting unwanted hands on women and underage girls.

    Can go back to Clinton and Ted Kennedy(and his drunk buddy Chris Dodd) abusing women, and the people on the left ignoring it. Hell, someone asked a bigshot with NOW at the time how they could ignore such, and she answered honestly “They vote the right way.”

    Like money from someone rich being ‘dark money’ when it’s on the right, but ‘standard campaign financing’ when it’s on the left.

    Friend of son’s was talking enthusiastically about punching nazis, some other guy chimed in, and it worked out that ‘nazi’ meant “People who don’t believe and think as I say good.” Oh, and saying ‘Free speech has to include people you don’t like and ideas you don’t agree with, or we don’t have free speech’ got me called a nazi enabler…

    Uncouth? I’d vote for Trump just for the entertainment of watching a lot of leftists lose what’s left of their damned little minds over it. And I’d laugh at them.

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    1. We voted for Trump back in 2016 because he was a middle finger to the establishment. Very few people expected him to win…

      The fact that he did win exposed the rotten elite of the entire world, vindicating what we believed in our hearts and had been called “conspiracy theorists” for even noticing.

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  21. A friend of mine who is from the greater NYC area pointed out back when the Trump is an NYC contractor, which means couth depends on the situation. If you are the little old lady who lives next door to the job site, he’s polite and respectful and often patient with reasonable questions. If you’re the guy who just dumped a load of [censored] lumber that’s not worth a [censored] and screwed up the fresh cement in the process, he’s going to tell you to [fill in the rude words and languages here].

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    1. He also nickels and dimes his subcontractors to death. But he gets the job done. NYC tried for five (seven?) years to get the Wohlman skating ring at Rockefeller center working. Trump volunteered to do it on his own dime and had it working in less than six months. My late father said that he didn’t want to work for Trump, but almost salivated at the prospect of having Trump work for him as president.

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  23. “Trump is loud, rude, obnoxious, crude, and socially unacceptable.”

    “I said I was voting for him. Don’t have to keep convincing me.”

    Do I jump into political conversations? No. Does my husband? Yes. He is faster on the quips than I am. Just sit back and watch the show. All I can say about hubby is he is mine. All I can say about Trump is “Don’t want to date him. Just know he is for America first. I am good with that.” Or short version “Trump is America’s Bastard.”

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  24. But even people on the right — at least to an extent — are still falling for the “so uncouth” “making people upset” “trouble maker.”

    Relatives/etc: You’re CAUSING ARGUMENTS!
    Me: They can avoid arguments by not stating political nonsense in a neutral situation.
    Objectors: You can just ignore it!
    Me: So can they. The existence of different views makes them melt, not me.

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  25. I spent two hours on the phone before Christmas talking to my FDR democrat mother, who hates Trump, DeSantis and anyone right of Stalin because the media tells her to.

    Started with the media control of information. 

    Then went into all of Trump’s accomplishments during his presidency. Of which she replied, “Why didn’t the media report this?”

    Then to DeSantis, and, yep, “Why didn’t the media report this?”

    Onward to the “Don’t Say Gay” laws in Florida, which she hated because her granddaughter-in-law is an indoctrinated Teacher’s Union leftist bigot didn’t support them. And got to tell my 95yo mother that they’re teaching kindergarden students about gay sex. Again, “Why didn’t the media report this?”

    And so forth and so on. ”Why didn’t the media report this?”

    I may have gotten to her. I hope.

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  26. Regarding “double standards”, even though I’ve used the phrase myself more than a few times over the decades I don’t think it’s really accurate about the left.

    The left has always one standard that they stick to pretty solidly: Whatever advances The Agenda(tm). If that means saying X one day, then saying !X the next, then so be it, what matters is power, either maintaining or gaining. It’s just become more obvious now that the left doesn’t have quite as much control over the media as they used to have.

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  28. I recall in 2016 all those people saying if Trump won, they’d leave the country. And now I’m seeing the same thing. Why don’t they go?

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    1. Because 1) no one else wants them, and 2) they’d have to work for a living? And 3) they discovered what taxes are like in the rest of the world.

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    2. “Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.”

      “Good Riddance. “

      “Don’t forget to return your passport.”

      Problem is, just like last time, they won’t go like they are promising.

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  29. Sarah, it takes cancer meds to beat cancer. It takes Trump to beat the left.

    PS: On medical care, insurance, risk and return, where shall I send the proper actuarial solution?

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  30. Your blog sent me down a rabbit hole today. The question of how were the pamphlets paid for and distributed in support of the American Colonial Revolution against Great Britain popped into my head. It’s one thing to say that Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, but it’s entirely different to ask: did he write it for money, how or who paid him for it, who did the printing and distribution, and where was the distribution targetted to? Of course the second question is, what did the British authorities do to Paine, and his booklet?

    Doesn’t look like the British government did much to him before or during the Revolutionary War. But apparently the British put out a warrant for his arrest (An indictment for seditious libel followed, for both publisher and author, while government agents followed Paine and instigated mobs, hate meetings, and burnings in effigy – early British version of Antifa and cancel culture? ) for his “Rights of Man”, in the lead up to the French Revolution, so he fled to France. The French Committee of General Security wasn’t happy with him either, and as a pretext to currying favor with the current Ambassador to France, who was a personal adversary of Paine’s, they had him imprisoned.

    Prison didn’t do any favors for Paine, who after his release, pretty much became a critic of just about everyone after that.

    —

    We should do a write in campaign to have Trump make you his Press Secretary. Although I think Karoline Leavitt might be the person most likely to be chosen for that position. (And she’s pretty awesome actually.)

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    Trump is uncouth? Hmmm, more like a combination of gritty, plain spoken, and bombastic. Also inspirational and motivational; which is another reason why the Left hates him and tries to undercut everything about him to get people to stop listening, much less thinking about what he’s saying.

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  31. Don’t worry about being taken out and replaced. They couldn’t find a Field Office of the FBI willing to work as hard as you do.

    Besides, like the Boeing engineer told his friend recentl, “if something happens to me, it wasn’t suicide.”

    John in Indy

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  32. Don’t worry about being taken out and replaced. They couldn’t find a Field Office of the FBI willing to work as hard as you do.

    Besides, like the Boeing engineer told his friend recentl, “if something happens to me, it wasn’t suicide.”

    John in Indy

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  33. Uncouth. Hmm.

    How about this? Metro Toronto Police have (and I’m not kidding, they really did) suggested as part of their new “Auto Theft Prevention Blitz” that people in Toronto keep their car keys next to the front door, so that when armed car thieves kick in the front door they can just take the keys and go, no need to shoot anyone in the home.

    Because there are armed car thieves shooting people in their homes. In Toronto. For real. Every. Week.

    I will now remind all of y’all Americans that foreign-born car thieves are treated to catch-and-release, whereas if you defend yourself (from an armed assailant who kicked in your front door) with a firearm, that’s at least attempted murder. No catch-and-release for you, white home owner. (All home owners/renters are considered to have White Privilege by the courts, btw. Because reasons.)

    Another reminder, the notion of actually fighting back against an attacker is considered rank insanity by the Powers That Be and of course our Cultural Trend Setters. The Canadian airwaves are filled with assurances that “it isn’t worth it,” and “just give the mugger your wallet” and “let the police do their jobs” and “are you really willing to die for your car?”

    In the middle of this, the government’s attention is on Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, which if enacted would make merely talking about defending yourself a criminal offense. (Yes, it really would.)

    There have recently been revelations by -provincial- (as in not federal) politicians that Canada is a crime-tourism destination. Punks come here from other countries specifically to steal sh1t, then if they get arrested they take their accumulated loot and go home. Because catch-and-release, right? Out on bail? Catch a flight back to CrapHole-istan. Easy.

    But merely speaking about the -idea- of fighting back is So Uncouth! How could you?! You RACIST! (But “protesting” [aka: burning sh1t] in support of HamAss terrorism is brave and transgwessive, okay?)

    So yeah. I’m familiar. >:(

    I don’t think its going to last much longer here, tbh. The Normies don’t seem to be buying it anymore. I see rich people erecting iron fences with gates across their driveways in sleepy suburban neighborhoods this year. Previously I was the only freak with a fence and a gate (we pretend it is for Maximum Maxwell the Murder Poodle, but I’ve heard people wonder why The Phantom needs a Hellhound for a family pet) but now the freakosity seems to be proliferating.

    I recall what Sarah said one time about fences in Portugal, how you can tell when the house was built by the size of the fence and if there’s broken bottles stuck in the top or not.

    Canada has growing fences. Razor wire will be along presently, I’m sure. I don’t think the Lefties are going to last much past the razor wire stage. It’s expensive, and the Normies are broke from paying the Carbon Tax.

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      2. Here in Canada we call them “jail bait.”

        Because it is so tempting to 3S them, but if you do the entire weight of the “Justice” Ministry will fall on you like an asteroid and crush your whole family. Nothing will remain.

        For elucidation, it is suggested to the inquiring soul to google Ian Thompson and Peter Khill.

        Welcome to the future, my friends. Where armed robbers kicking in your door and stealing the car out of your driveway are not the biggest problem you have.

        I love Big Brother.

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        1. If Canadians could respond with 3S they’d be okay. Problem is they aren’t getting past the first S. Whole point of 3S is to not get caught. 3S stands for “Shoot. Shovel. Shutup!” The home invaders just disappear. Homeowner gets to go “IDK what happened. The door just imploded. Now I have to fix it.”

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          1. A guy who installed anti-theft bollards on his driveway was in the news the other day, THREE car thefts later the cops have done -nothing- even though the victim tracked the car to a container sitting on a rail car in a siding and had the police attend the scene with him. They wouldn’t even open the f!@#% container when they were standing there, watching the Airtag bleep, and listening to the horn honk when he pushed the button on the key fob. Because Reasons, right?

            Even better, they wouldn’t let the victim open it. Because that would be naughty. Tough sh1t, Citizen. Go talk to the insurance company, you rich b*stard.

            But if you defend yourself and family from an armed attacker? For that they’ll not only find the container, they’ll open it too. Because you lifted your head.

            Reminder to y’all Americans that you can’t 3S in a suburban neighborhood unless the whole block is in it with you. Personally, I’m not that popular a guy.

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    2. “I will now remind all of y’all Americans that foreign-born car thieves are treated to catch-and-release, whereas if you defend yourself (from an armed assailant who kicked in your front door) with a firearm, that’s at least attempted murder. “

      That does vary by jurisdiction; car thieves get DO shot in TX fairly regularly without the owner being charged, or even sued.

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      1. They get shot in Arizona too, or used to when I lived there. Also road-ragers got shot, carjackers got shot, home invaders got shot, and guys molesting women got shot. Usually by the woman they were molesting.

        But I don’t know if that is still the case since Sheriff Joe left office in 2007. I suspect not, given the “irregularities” arising in AZ the last few years.

        Texas, evil-doers get shot quite often according to the news… but do they in super-Lefty Austin? Or is it more that the cops charge the car/house owner for excessively rough play? I’d be interested to know the answer to that.

        The fact that it varies by jurisdiction is the saving feature of the USA compared to Canada. If you think the state government of NY is insane (and they are) then you can LEAVE and go to Arizona. Which I did, btw. Best thing ever.

        Here in Canada, all this stuff is Federal. The feds decide, and you have nowhere to go.

        So the next time you hear some -imbecile- whinging about Strong Federalism, this is what they really mean. They want a nice coercive system where they can MAKE you do it their way, and you have no place to escape to.

        In Canada the Shiny Pony signaled this week that he’s up for sending Scott Moe, the Premiere of Saskatchewan, to jail for not collecting the Carbon Tax in Sask after the Atlantic provinces got a special deal from the Feds.

        And now I’m going out for a bike ride. Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a motorcycle which is basically the same thing. ~:D

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  34. Using the (unreal) boiling frog metaphor, they’ve been turning up the heat for decades. Married with Children was mentioned up-thread. That’s the first “bumbling dad” show that I recall and it had its redeeming features. Then it was commercials. Then it was every show. Then the redeeming features disappeared.

    We’re now at the point where people are noticing that the heat has been turned up to 11.

    To switch to a physics metaphor, the decades long increase in velocity has turned into an increase in acceleration. Trans everything is a good example. Where did that come from? Let alone become a critical issue of our time? Gay everything goes back at least to the 1970s (earlier than that is before my time). Was anyone unaware that Liberace, Paul Lind, Freddie Mercury, and Elton John were gay? From “a few celebrities” to “everywhere, all the time” took 40 years.

    People notice sudden change.

    That applies in both directions. That’s why Trump is such a big deal to the Left. From their perspective, he came out of nowhere. While we don’t see it that way (the symptom vs cause argument), they do.

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  36. I do love how your posts are never sweetness and light – but always, always have a chuckle or two buried in them.

    I’m going to contact the Trump transition team when it is set up to suggest a program of “Press Secretary for a Day.” If they want to reduce the deficit, I’m sure that we could set up a GiveSendGo to raise the necessary for you to take your shot at it.

    Undoubtedly that conference would go viral very quickly.

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  37. If I see one more con bemoaning Trump’s uncouthness I’ll retch.

    Dense as rocks and always ready to attack the wrong thing for the right reason or the right thing but for the wrong reason.

    Conservatives truly are their own worst enemies.

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