97 thoughts on “Who Let The Memes Out?”

  1. Caffeine hadn’t taken effect. I saw the picture of the Maru and asked: “Self, is that from Wrath of Khan or The Usual Suspects? Wiki says “Embrace the healing power of ‘and'”.

    Damn. :)

    Liked by 1 person

      1. on second thought….

        For the Donks, does Kobayashi Maru represent the “no whine scenario”?

        Like

        1. Two dems, deep in a cave somewhere:

          ”You cheated?”

          ”I change the conditions of the election. I don’t believe in the no-whine scenario.”

          Like

  3. One of the few times I sorta agreed with John McCain was when he started singing, “Bomb, bomb,bomb, bomb bomb Iran…”

    Liked by 1 person

    3. During the election season, I was telling people about a joke from my childhood and suggesting topical updates:

      Q: What’s flat and glows in the dark?

      A: Iran, 24 hours after Reagan is inaugurated.

      Liked by 1 person

  8. Tucker Carlson might try to ask Mentor of Arisia how many Eddorians were in existence.

    Mentor could probably answer that question.

    Now, the population of Iran is probably not so inexorable a foe of Civilization as was Eddore.

    Tucker could well be a Zwilnik, but might simply be naturally insane.

    Like

  9. OK, the two jars. Who smuggled that picture out of the workroom at DayJob???

    Also love the Direct Flights from Tel Aviv to Tehran now operating daily.

    Liked by 1 person

    1. More seriously, Ron DeSantis has been organizing rescue flights out of Israel for Americans. Several hundred have made it home so far.

      The escape.es have been routed through Cyprus. There was a message on X this morning that Israeli and Cypriot security had thwarted an attack on escaping Israeli/Americans. I assume this was the Greek side of Cyprus, but who knows?

      Liked by 1 person

      1. I would suspect so, because I have strong doubts about the Turkish half being willing to cooperate with Israel. Doesn’t mean that the Turkish side wasn’t involved, *coughcough*, just not assisting with the airlift.

        Like

    2. The swear jar and the random facts jar, that is my 15-year-old grandson. I now know more about Roblox and what online jokes he finds funny than I ever wanted to know. I have to remind myself to be grateful, he is talking to me.

      Liked by 1 person

  10. The Usains already have an Independence Day to celebrate their divorce from kings.

    Unfortunately, those suffering from TDS have no brains. But at least they are safe from zombies. Although they might be mistaken for zombies, loud zombies.

    Liked by 1 person

    1. In my books Ginny Westland keeps a “No Fortune Cookies” jar for all the ancient sages and aliens who keep showing up in her kitchen. If you say a Zen tautology you have to pay a loonie to the jar.

      Lately there has been a “Fire Safety” jar the dragons have to put a loonie in when they lose their temper.

      Like

    2. One of the reasons I have a blog, is so that I don’t either co-opt other people’s blog comment sections with random facts, or spend all day telling them to my helpless family and co-workers.

      And yet the blog doesn’t sop it all up. Sooooo many random facts.

      Liked by 1 person

  14. “Born too early for war in the Middle East. Born too late …”

    Every generation has a supply of cannon fodder. I’m too old to be part of it, but my younger son in law’s not, and he’s a GI already.

    Let’s be careful how we spend it, huh?

    Liked by 1 person

        1. Since the Israelis snuffed a bunch of folks responsible for multiple mass murders of US peeps, I think we owed the Israelis some sorties.

          Liked by 2 people

        3. Waiting for Judge Boasberg to set an injunction requiring Trump to restore Fordow to full functionality. [Not entirely sarcastic…]

          Liked by 1 person

          1. Trump thanked a lot of world leaders and government types… “and God.”

            Like he has God stopping by for cabinet meetings and coffee, with real estate discussions.

            I mean, yes, getting saved from certain death will do stuff to you; but this was even better than him wishing Our Lady a happy birthday on his social media.

            Liked by 1 person

            1. I misspoke. It was, “And I wanna just thank everybody, and in particular, God — I wanna just say: We love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them.

              “God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel, and God bless America.”

              I found it very touching. Trump has a very direct way of addressing God sometimes.

              Liked by 1 person

    2. You will soon see sat imagery of trucks lined up in the days before the strike at the entrances to Fordow and the other sites, obviously to evacuate the slightly-fizzy bits, nasty chemistry sets, and various machinery elsewhere. Much wailing will ensue as this becomes widely known, which misses the point:

      These sites were the only such the mullahs had that were deep enough that the Israelis could not get at them easily from the air.

      Moved fizzy bits are now in less deep sites.

      The Mossad is very good at its job.

      The fizzy-bit hunt now becomes Israel’s task, and with air supremacy, that is a task which is doable for the IAF.

      Fear not. Things are proceeding.

      Liked by 1 person

      1. Further on the trucks imaged: They appear to mostly be open-top earth mover dump trucks, to move dirt used to cover and fill the entrances, presumably as further hardening against relatively lighter IAF bombs or and commando raid attempts.

        The problem there is they would keep splodey kinetics inside a bit longer, providing no pressure wave venting.

        Finally there’s some discussion indicating that there was a vent, so basically a small exhaust port, which are traditionally located just below the main port, which provided a targetable weak point into one of the facilities. If so, the result is clearly the wages of avoiding the lessons of western culture.

        Like

        2. “Someone” went to great lengths to make sure the Presstitutes all knew and parroted that we were doubtful even the GBU-57 could crack that mountain.

          Which just -might- have induced them to concentrate the HEU stockpile and any other essentials in that “too deep to bomb” bunker.

          …

          We did something similar in Desert Storm. Watched the Iraqis build bunkers too deep for our 2000 pound bunker busters. Then we deployed some -5000- pound bubba-build versions. Boom went the bunkers.

          Kim, Putin, and Xi all are now franticly digging deeper holes in which to shelter. But Orange Yoda may say “No. Another there is. Yuuuuge”

          Liked by 1 person

          1. The French companies made lots of money on those Iraqi not-deep-enough tunneling jobs. I don’t know who supplied the tunneling expertise to the Iranians – French companies would be my bet there too.

            Like

            1. I seem to remember they caught three German companies evading sanctions. And I seem to remember they were involved in Osirak back in the day.

              Liked by 1 person

              1. As John Ringo noted in Ghost, the French build the bunkers and the Germans install the equipment. He was talking about the Aleppo 4 chemical weapons factory Mike found in Syria, but I’m sure they’d just as happily build atomic bomb factories in Iran.

                I just wish those nominally on our side would learn the difference between ‘compromise’, ‘appeasement’ and ‘pandering’.

                Like

    1. Having watched the hostage fiasco in real-time, part of me is screaming “Trump, don’t just poke at them with your fingers, smash them with your fist. Turn the m(HOOONNNNK!)g keys.”

      Liked by 1 person

      1. (switching to decaf tea….)

        Miz Kitty is hiding under the couch. Apparently my “hooah” and “m(HOOONNNNK)g qaplah” were a trifle … loud.

        (yeah, I am a bit … emotional … over this)

        Like

  18. Read the hats and mugs on the Trump “No Malwarts in Iran izzat tru?”

    Make Alderaan Graft Atcat
    Don’t Worry Be Happy
    Make it Happen

    Becomes:

    Make Acea Yoram Cat
    Don’t Wordy Be Happ!
    Hake it Happen

    Got to love AStupid’s interpretation of human language.

    Like

    1. The videos some of them produce are amazing quality, but sometimes apparently at random they decide to add subtitles. Those are similarly textually astonishing, only lightly related to English let alone what is being spoken in the videos.

      Like

      1. If You Tube decides to enable closed captioning (and there may be a way to tell the video “play with subtitles”), an AI text-to-speech app is what’s generating those. The tech isn’t quite there.

        Liked by 1 person

        1. It’s actually generated in the AI-produced video, my guess is as an artifact of the AI training data including cc videos. Another example of current gen AI being a better and better mimic, but not “getting” underlying concepts.

          Like

          1. It’s actually generated in the AI-produced video, my guess is as an artifact of the AI training data including cc videos.

            Or a default rule in the AI that says “Generate Max accessibility”=true.

            Liked by 1 person

            1. The ones I have seen the CC text shows up for a few seconds halfway through a generated clip, sort of phonetically kinda distantly related to the generated audio but not very closely and not in recognizable english, and often then vanishing a second later. From the forums of the people deep into doing AI generated videos it is a glitch and a serious annoyance.

              Like

  22. The strike on Iran had layered deception plans.

    Someone was tasked to “leak” that our bunker buster GBU-57s might not work.

    Odds are, the Mullahs moved anything portable, including much of their stockpile, into that “too deep” bunker.

    Pop! Goes the weasel….

    Hope anyone immediately downwind can relocate. Uranium Oxide is Bad For You.

    Like

  23. In other news… the CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan was attacked this morning by a lone gunman, wearing a tactical vest and carrying both a long gun and handgun.

    He starts coming through the parking lot, and the security guard and staff come toward him. He shoots a staffer in the leg.

    And then one of the churchgoers ran him over with a truck. The gunman tried to shoot the truck, but that didn’t work well for him.

    So while he’s on the ground run over, trying to get up and do some evil, the security guard shoots him and he dies.

    And then the police got there, in time to do some reports and thank the church staff for being proactive.

    Why, yes, I do think that Americans are a little fired up.

    Like

    1. Thanks! We can all do with some good news in these trying times. :-P

      That’s a proper role for the police — cart the stiff away and fill out the paperwork.

      Like

    2. The gunman first tried to ram the church building, but it didn’t work.

      It was a church service connected with their Vacation Bible School, and the kids were going to be in some kind of play or history pageant during the service.

      Like

      1. For some reason, I always get invited to “run the sound board, and help out” during our VBS.

        (Kzin grin)

        Like

        1. I ran tech (soundboard and slides) during my former church’s VBS years ago. I was sick as a dog through the second half of it but I managed to push through. The day after it was over I ended up in the hospital for three days with an abscess inside my neck. So ever since, I’ve told people that a week of “Galactic Starveyors” put me in the hospital.

          Like

    3. One of the local news stories makes its reporting precise by noting the bad guy was run over by the deacon in his FORD F-150 PICKUP TRUCK.

      Like

    4. There was video from inside the church, too– I recognized the decorations. True North vacation bible school.

      The guy was going in while the kids were having “camp.”

      Like

      1. -thought- he was going…

        …

        And now the dingbats want to ban “assault vehicles”, right?

        ….

        Commercial:

        “Ford F-150. Because you cannot effectively run over monsters with a compact hybrid.” ( set to musical part of “Move, B”)

        Like

        1. Though to be fair, at it’s 10,000lb curb weight, one of those new electric GMC Hummers would squish a monster very efficiently.

          Like

          1. Fair.

            Ektualleeeee, (grn) Even the family 1980 Datsun B210 (all 65 HP of it) would do a number on a Goon, with the motor revved way up, some speed on, and the right maniac behind the wheel. (That thing could scoot around curves and corners. Just not much top end.)

            Liked by 1 person

            1. My first car was a ’76 B210, bright lemon yellow (but not the “Honey Bee” stripe variant). 0 to 60 in about 5 minutes, but I guess it’d take down a rioter. Once. Then the Japanese ricepaper-and-tinfoil combo would crumble pretty bad. Reliable and 40 mpg, though.

              Like

        2. Thinking an older F150. Why? Any of the newer, hybrid, electric, or not, vehicles, F150, anti-collision controls probably would have applied the breaks before hitting him. Our Santa Fe’s would have. Override possible? IDK. Never been in a situation where I’d want to override the anti-collision safety. Never been in a situation where it was critical for the anti-collision safety to seriously apply either.

          Like

          1. Fair point.

            Maybe California could mandate an appeal button that sends your desire to run someone over to a three judge panel from the 9th circus.

            Man, I really shouldn’t give Gavin any ideas…

            Like

    5. The advantages of a Southern Baptist church in the South…I know there were no fewer than four people strapped at every service we had, and those are just the ones I knew about. At one point I was the only guy in the tech booth that WASN’T carrying. The worship drummer was carrying. One usher was carrying. So basically there were a couple different ways you could come to Jesus in that church, shall we say. We never had a problem, of course, but I always felt a little better knowing if that one in a billion chance happened, we had some folks ready.

      Like

  24. That ‘climate change’ teacher is definitely a Democrat diversity hire. 4th line in the arithmetic lesson shows 4 x 5 = 24. And I don’t know what that block with 11, 121 and 144 is supposed to be. Those 3 numbers don’t all belong together.

    Like

Comments are closed.