Let’s start the week off right with a nice big cuppa liberal tears. For eight years, liberals dreamed of seeing President Trump in a mugshot. They finally got their wish. They don’t like it. They are so triggered, Roy Rogers should be riding them. The Atlantic whined
Haven't heard from Howdy Doody Dowdy in quite some screech.
Funny how she now pops up once a year, in August... come to think of it, like a virus... pretty soon, they'll name a "vaccine" after her...
At any rate, here we go again with two of my all-time favorite columns...
--- Fred Reed (no relation) on Maureen Dowd (11/22/05)
I read with ashen resignation that Maureen Dowd, the professional spinster of the New York Times, will soon birth a book, no doubt parthenogenetically, called Are Men Necessary?
The problem apparently is that men have not found Maureen necessary. Hell hath…. Clearly there is something wrong with men.
I weary of the self-absorbed clucking of aging poultry.
Why is Maureen hermetically single? For starters, she is not just now your classic hot ticket. She’s not just over the hill, but into the mountains, to Grandmother’s house we go. She probably gets more daily maintenance than a 747, but she still looks as though a vocational school held an injection-molding contest and everyone lost.
That leaves her with only her personality as bait. The prognosis is grim.
*****
--- Is Maureen Dowd Obsolete?
The Evidence Speaks, Loudly
December 22, 2013
"Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing"--Federicius Aurelius Superomnem, 345 B.C.
Oh god, oh god. Death, taxes, migraine, sinus drainage, beriberi, and Maureen Dowd, the resentment columnist at the New York Times.
On the web I find her at some feminist bitch-in, called Are Men Obsolete. She has this to say to men:
[Maureen apparently has the creepy cravings of Joe Biden. Do not admit children of a certain age into her office!]
“So now that women don’t need men to reproduce and refinance, the question is, will we keep you around? And the answer is, ‘You know we need you in the way we need ice cream….you'll be more ornamental.”
I was delighted to think that I might be ornamental, no one having suggested the concept until now. I could have used it in high school.
Maureen herself is beyond being ornamental, having that injection-molded look that follows the seventh face-lift, probably accomplished by the surgical use of a construction crane.
But I will say this to her:
Listen, Corn Flower. Let’s think over this business of obsolete men.
Reflect. You live in New York, in which every building was designed and built by men. You perhaps use the subway, designed, built, and maintained by men.
You travel at in a car, invented, designed, and built by men—a vehicle that you don’t understand (what is a cam lobe?) and couldn’t maintain (have you ever changed a tire? Could you even find the tires?), and you do this on roads designed, built, and maintained by men.
You fly in aircraft designed, built, and maintained by men, which you do not understand (what, Moon Pie, is a high-bypass turbofan?)
In short, as you run from convention to convention, peeing on hydrants, you depend utterly on men to keep you fed (via tractors designed by men, guided by GPS invented, designed, and launched by men, on farms run by men), and comfy (air conditioning invented…but need I repeat myself?)
I do not want to be unjust. It is not in my nature. While men may be obsolete (unless you want to eat) I cannot say, Apple Cheeks, that feminists are obsolete. They are not. Obsoleteness implies having passed through a period of usefulness.
I do get tired of your hissing and fizzing about the noble sex to which I belong. Mercy, I cry. It is not my fault that Michael Douglas didn’t marry you. He didn’t marry me either, but I don’t hate men because of it. (In fact I am grateful to him, and doubtless he to me).
Don’t misunderstand me. I have nothing against ill-bred viragos—feminism has its place, though I’m not sure where.
But let’ me be clear, Buttercup. I don’t want to seem rude—nothing could be more alien to my character—but I do think that you and your littermates might essay a civility exceeding that of menopausing catamounts.
[Continued below]
In fact, Sweet Potato, if it were not for my innate courtesy, I might say that [men] being at once useless and insupportable is stretching things.
A jot—an iota, a tittle, a scintilla—of gratitude might be in order. Should you look around you, you will note that everything that keeps you and the sisterhood from squatting in caves and picking lice from each other’s hair was provided for you by—the horror—men.
Is it not so, Rose Bud? Can you name one thing, with a moving part, that was invented by a feminist?
It seems to me that you gals are like African bushmen, but without their dignity.
A bushman looks at a television (Invented by Men: IBM) in astonishment, and says, “Wah! Bad juju! Spirits inside!” He knows he doesn’t understand it and does not presume. His degree of understanding, I suspect, is exactly yours.
But I suppose the shrewery are so busy honking and blowing about socially-constructed this and gender-roles that and patriarchal the-other-thing that you don’t understand that there is anything to understand. Is it [this] not so?
When you sit at your computer spewing bile like a legged gall-bladder, are you aware of 2500 years of mathematics, chemistry, solid-state physics, engineering, information theory—all invented by men, the bastards—that go into the blinking screen? Your vituperative ingratitude, Sugar Britches, is undignified.
But perhaps, you might say, I am being ungentlemanly—though I would hardly know how. Perhaps, as we said in Alabama, you ain’t got the sense God give a crabapple.
Maybe, Petunia, you and your frothing friends could profitably come to terms with realty.
Women make perfectly good dentists, surgeons, reporters, lawyers, musicians, editors, and all sorts of things. They can do some things better than men can. (Dentistry: smaller hands, better fine-muscle control)
In Latin countries they do these things civilly (consult your dictionary). And I applaud anyone making headway in this world on his, her, or its merits.
Yet as a matter of observable fact (a category apparently having no place in feminism), we men—patriarchal, capitalistic, macho, immature, savage, testosterone- poisoned, et cetera—seem to come up with everything important that comes up. (I won’t touch that one with a pole.) (Wait, I meant….)
For example: The transistor, William Shockley and his group.
Microsoft, Bill Gates. Intel, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce.
Apple, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Dell Computer, Michael Dell.
Public-key encryption, James Ellis, Clifford Cookis, and Malcolm Williamson at GCHQ in England and later Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman of RSA Security.
The World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, a Brit at CERN.
Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Yahoo, Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
The list could go on for another yard or so.
It will stay that way, Lotus Blossom, for the same reason that women will never be offensive linemen in the NFL. They can’t. If they could, they would have. If you disagree, I suggest you apply to the Redskins. They need any talent they can get.
Now, if I were left alone, I would say none of this, having no desire to make women feel bad. But you and yours will not leave me alone, Maureen.
I am perfectly happy in a world of female doctors and techs and what have you. When women act like what used to be called “ladies,” I act like what used to be called “a gentleman.”
It used to be that if at the airport I saw a woman struggling with too much suitcase, I would say, “May I give you a hand?,” and put the suitcase where it needed to be. The woman would say, “Thanks,” to which I would respond, “Happy to help.”
And that would be that. It should have nothing to do with machismo, and much to do with a suitcase. Now, I’m not sure I would do it.
OK, I’m bluffing. I would do it. But, Sweet Pea, I hope you have mastered parthenogenesis. It is your only hope.
“Trump has the power of an innocent man falsely accused of nonsensical crimes with serious penalties for corrupt judges to impose. Americans back him as never before.”
Biblically speaking, has anyone had more false witness borne against him than POTUS DJT?
Et tu, “Christian” Mike Pence?
“The nation should have faith in God, not government. In God we trust not the FBI, CDC or FDA.”
“It is money well spent because we need Trump again to bring down the loathsome, corrupt and fascist people in the federal government who use criminal justice as a blunt instrument.”
@ this point fighting World War II was a complete waste of lives, $$, & time. The Fascism we fought against has taken root here & become modus vevendi of our “ruling class”.
08-28-23: Witness the sad spectacle of Mike Pence, the taxidermist touched-up "Penguin," plagiarized from the Batman TV series (1960s).
His political demise needed no assistance from his turncoat role in the "Who Wants To Be Vice-President in 2025?!" debate (hosted by Meredith Vieira), but he had to go and do it anyway.
Next career move: The driver (if he can fit behind the wheel) in the remake of "Cash Cab" on the Game Show Network, having rehearsed the role in "Cash Grab" in the 2023-24 Republican (they'll take anybody) primaries.
My husband still subscribes to the hard copy and I get annoyed every week when it arrives in the mail. He is GOPe and doesn’t like Trump but will ultimately vote for him. We rarely discuss politics any more.
One of the symptoms of advanced PDJT Derangement Syndrome is the loss of abstract- and critical-thinking skills, along with the ability to engage in reasoned discussion with others, and the ability to respectfully agree to disagree and remain civil.
This condition is almost always terminal, and proves to be fatal to relationships.
Pretty much. Most usually found in lefties but has infected a lot of eGOP and some that arent. Drives the rest of us who like discussions and all insane.
Perfectly summed up. The tragedy is that the victim / perpetrator of this degenerative mental disease imagines that he alone is the most rational person in the room.
It is hardly a new phenomenon. I'm reading Patrick Fermor's Letters*, and this derangement perfectly described both the ranting of the British and the Greeks on the issue of the island of Cypress in the 1950s (both sides horrifying Fermor, whose military service in the 1940s involved surviving a brutal two-year stint as an undercover agent in Crete, assisting the Cretan resistance to the German military occupation, a very dangerous occupation).
*Dashing For The Post, The Letters of Patrick Fermor [1915-2011], selected and edited by Adam Sisman [1954- ]; John Murray (Publishers) [Hachette UK] (2014 hardcover).
That is an interesting question. I believe it is held by those who were classic Bushies. For a while that persona of Republicanism was secure, safe, honorable, noble, pro-wealth. They can’t wrestle with the notion that it has corroded away to rust - and the Bushes aren’t for America - never were. It was a facade.
It’s like trying to hang on to the girlfriend that broke up with you and has moved on - but you can’t.
Bush name, to me, is synonymous with deceit and evil doings. Now as I understand it they're after AG Ken Paxton cuz he's not a Bush adherent nor I suspect will ever be.
08-28-23: Here's the identical flip side: UK humorists --- decades ago, sharp and enviable --- now calcified, auto-mocking a long-extinct "Tory establishment"... and the pathetic results:
It is no coincidence that when Alan Coren --- the funniest man (writer) in the 20th century, as far as I can tell --- left Punch magazine, it did not have long to live, afterwards.
Start with The Essential Alan Coren [1938-2007], Edited and Introduced By Giles [1969- ] and Victoria Coren [Mitchell, 1972- ], with further Introductions by Melvyn Bragg [1939- ], Victoria Wood [1953-2016], Clive James [1939-2019], A.A. [Adrian Anthony] Gill [1954-2016], and Stephen Fry [1957- ]; Canongate Books (paperback 2008-2009).
The Introduction by Giles and Victoria is far superior to anything else written about Coren, and ditto for about 75% of anything I've eve read.
These are additional anthologies, previously published and notably flawed:
1) The Alan Coren Omnibus, Robson Books (1996 paperback);
2) The Best of Alan Coren, Robson Books Ltd. (1980 hardcover).
The problem is that Robson was a schlock outfit that spent next to nothing on quality book materials (paper, etc.).
And of course, if you read Giles and Victoria first, you'll run into the same stories that first appeared in the Omnibus and The Best Of.
Take your time reading them. As they say about rest estate, they're not making any more of it, Alan having passed away, fortunately before he could witness what an ideological successor to Hitler's totalitarianism the UK has become.
He likes Trump’s policies but not his personality - calls him a carnival barker. He also doesn’t like the way Trump has attacked DeSantis, calling it petty and childish. I love Trump but an not crazy about the name calling either.
There is no real answer. They never gave any actual details. The abswer is they are afraid to go against the grain and be socially ostracized. Pinning down a Never Trumper is like trying to hold on to a greased pig.
I hear ya, my hubby doesnt like Trump now either. He has more excuses than Orange Man Bad but I get lectures on how he isnt going to win, not discussion. I am tired of lectures so I quit talking politics. Now this site is the only place I get to discuss it.
Wife got upset with me being poltical but as I weaned her ON to Rush she realized the hows and whys of my viewpoint.Now she is a fervent DJT backer and proud of it.
Who is your hubby supporting now? DeSantis? Sounds like he's listening to the RINO war against Trump :) My hubby crossed over to the Ron! camp for a little while, but he ain't Trump (why listen to the cover band when we still have the real thing?) and now supporting him again. It helps to just give them time, I think it has more to do with 24/7 Trump is Mean coverage and they just got sick of it. We rarely turn on the news anymore.
yeah DeSantis. I am not so sure on DeSantis because of the Jeb!/Ryan group hes listening too and getting donations from.
I have been limiting my news to coffee time and Don, and then a few skims late afternoon to see how stupid it has gotten. Its nuts. And what is sad, is he loves Rush so I hope he comes round.
One thing that they're responsible for, to the good (way back when), and highly recommended if you like "grouchy wit":
"STET, Damnit! The Misanthrope's Corner, 1991 to 2002, The Complete, Unabridged Collection," by Florence King [1936-2016], Jacket and book design by Luba Myts*; National Review Books (2003 hardcover).
A sample:
"Bob Dole's habit of referring to himself in the third person is having such a disconcerting effect on the primaries... the camera pans over Russell, Kansas, following the candidate through his formative years ...
"To his mother: 'Bob Dole's hungry.'
"To his father: 'Can Bob Dole have a quarter?'
"To his teachers: 'Bob Dole didn't do it.'
"To nice girls: 'Would you like to go to the pictures with Bob Dole?'
"To bad girls: 'If you did it with all those other guys, how come you won't do it with Bob Dole?' "
*Someday, this will be the answer to a trick question on an exam:
Not related to "The Kingdom of Luba ... (1585–1889) ... a pre-colonial Central African state that arose in the marshy grasslands of the Upemba Depression in what is now southern Democratic Republic of [The] Congo."
My grandkids laugh every time I pick up a penny on the pavement, usually discolored and nasty. They always ask why. I say because of the lovely message to me on it. Whaat message is their bratty reply. I say, this one: In God we Trust. (I add that if I pick up enough of them, you might get a nice Christmas gift. That draws their interest.)
Good point Joated. All of the above fifth choice needed today although I did vote with the overwhelming majority. Great article today Mr. Surber. The first day of the week is on fire.
There is a quote from Trump that goes something like… they’re re not after me, I’m just in the way.
The libs are really after us. The us who know government doesn’t work well, illegal immigration is wrong and deadly to many and the ones who have power now will do anything to keep it and wipe out any opposition.
No, Trump is in the way and we better keep that in mind. We are the real target. The radical dorks from the 60’s are the ones in charge and they aim to stay in charge at any expense to this country.
There have been at least 4 killed in early morning FBI raids in the last couple months. Only one really hit the news. The others not even the conservative sites are covering much. In one of them, the FBI hit a mom of a disabled vets house. She answered the door and they pulled her out, proceeded to fill it with tear gas and flash bangs. Killed her unarmed 100% disabled son as he was trying to get out. She is asking why like any person would. They told her it was NONE of her business. It was HER house. Her son had PTSD too.
None of the raids have any info on them. They are coming after anyone they think they can get away with.
This is all great, and nobody deserves to to party like we do right guys and gals?
But doesn’t all this seem familiar some how. Like how about 2020 and 2022!
There are 15 more months to go between now and either Victory or abject devastation.
If you think the D-rats haven’t taken stuff like this into account (as well as the failure of their climate scam and pandemic narratives) and are prepared for that you need to give your heads a shake. They started by planning for this the moment that demented old criminal was elected.
It’s going to take more than cool mugshots, car parades in New Hampshire and Boat Parades off the Jersey Shore and in FLA get T across the finish line first and you all know it.
When I see the term "D-rats" I automatically think of D-rations. Though I never had any, or even saw any, I learned about them long ago. I even made some.
I'd be really interested on your thoughts of what the D卐M☭RATs will do to steal 2024. No1 is obviously to promote another "uprising" and probable ban a 2024 presidential election.
I will leave it to Mr. Trump's handlers to run the show. I will make one comment. Over the weekend, I see a small but a poorly informed group of people saying Jesus Christ was a liberal. That comment alone is beyond stupidity. Christ was apolitical, but IF the left is resorting to comments like that--#1) DON'T believe it and #2) Prepare 2-3 arguments (Among many) that will bury them with facts. Liberals are quite stupid and they simply cannot talk for more than a minute unless they have note cards in front of them.
If you actually encounter one of these "Jesus was a liberal" types, smile and tell them you are SO glad they accept Jesus as the Son of God and Lord of the Universe, then invite them to attend church with you next Sunday. You won't hear from them again.
08-29-23: I've seen no evidence of the survival of the one-time dominant types such as the former CT Senator Joe Lieberman, who was thrown on the trash despite his service. The theory is that the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs is one of a string that descend upon us, and the last one wiped out the Democrat "moderates" en masse.
To the extent that this action on Trump wakes up people to the reality that the democrats are fascist thug totalitarians who will come after you for the crime of thinking for yourself, great. That includes all you leftist progressives who think you are safe. To the extent it locks in Trump as the GOP nominee, well, as I have said before, the cheat is still in place, and Trump has done nothing to stop it. Zilch, nada, zero.
This is all theater, and the Fulton County DA is at more risk than Trump actually is, which I do hope she feels with full force the furor she has unleashed. If you are in a purple state, your total job is to fortify your election process, much as RDS did in purple Florida, which is now deep red. He didn't do it by snapping his fingers, he did it by finding like minded people in his state to make it happen. Be one of those in your state. Then find an AG who will start arresting democrat politicians and bureaucrats. Only revoke bail after it is offered, put them in jail, and refuse them any opportunity for release until their trial - scheduled in 2026 or later.
We need a lottery for whichever state puts Fauci in jail. And there should be a long line of states to press charges next. Ruin him and his family. Total war. Time to destroy people, since those are now the rules. Now fill in the blank for the next dem politician. Rinse and repeat.
RINO Governor Brian Kemp has full authority to fire his prosecutors. Unfortunately, Fani Willis is supported by Kemp, especially since Kemp's SecState Raffensperger's staff supported the overthrow of Georgia's state election laws in 2020, Jan 2021, and 2022. Trump did not lose Georgia, ever. The globalist GA republican party did.
Absolutely the best post I have read in years Poca-man and please continue one-upping yourself.America needs you and the deft manner of making sense with ironic humor.Roy Rogers would approve your message!Great post and perfect poll.
They don't see it but they've opened the floodgates on the prosecution of politicians and bureaucrats. One of the state legislatures is going to pass a law that not only allows for the prosecution of bureaucrats themselves but eliminates the statute of limitations for crimes (remember the pound Me Too movement that initiated this?) The watering down of laws to the point where anyone can flimsily indict a former President (aka Senor Brag) has brought us to the edge of the cliff for the Republic. However, before we finally stick a fork in the US, we can at least look forward to people like Fauci going down for negligence (and murder) as well as Comey and, of course, Barack (Mr RICO) Obama himself.
There are a whole lot of Governor's who should be charged with murder as well And you can start with that bitch governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer.
Any Governor who allowed his/her Health officials to place COVID-infected people in nursing and other elder care settings is a murderer. That includes PA, NJ, NY and even MA (Repub Gov but deep Dem legislature and bureaucracy). In PA, our former top Health official (now federal Admiral-in-a-dress) actually pulled his elderly mother out of her elder care facility and placed her in a hotel before infecting those facilities with COVID-infected people. Then he had the audacity to insist it was her decision. My arse!
The communist left will stop at NOTHING to stop Trump. He needs security even better than his assigned secret service agents. If the Hail Mary of court indictments don't find a way to stop him, he will be in a life threatening situation. Assassination will be the only option to stop DJT - and they will use it if they have to. We all know that, I think.
There is no back-up, no plan "B" to the Trump cause. Once Trump is out, liberty - and America - is dead. He is the only thing standing in the way. So much rides on this one man.
Someone once compared the democrat party to the jilted girlfriend who just can't get over it. I am beginning to think that they are more like Glenn Close, who lost her mind with her obseesion with Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction.
Either way Trump's War Chest is now at least 7 million dollars bigger and the democrats are left staring into the abyss. When I look at this mug shot I am reminded of the words that might have been spoken to Trump, "the storm is coming", to which Trump replies "I am the storm".
The takeaway for me, and what interests me the most, is the reaction of black Americans on X (Twitter) and TikTok. It's mostly black men, but some black women, too. From what I saw, and I watched as many as I could find because I was facsinated by their reaction, is that Trump is now one of them. They relate to him, despite his position and his wealth. Trump has been crowned "Gangsta," and "My Ni--ga." Did you see blacks in Atlanta cheering Trump's motorcade? They know it's bullshit and it's not far from the bullshit that some of them have experienced with the two-tiered justice system. The 'hood says it has his back. If they vote, Trump is going to be re-elected. (Even my kids, who live in French Canadian culture, know what's going on. They know it's bullshit. My son, who particularly feels aggrieved for being a young man in our times, and his friends, a number of them are black, are all in on Trump. The Dems do not understand what they have unleashed.)
Good luck with that and prayers that they see reality sooner than later. My Gma was a die hard Dem all her life. The worse arguments between my Dad and her were politics. Of course she thought the Dems had stayed the same as they were way early when they were helping the 'poor'. I came from dirt farmers and coal miners. Dad went to the Navy and saw Vietnam. He saw what the UniParty was doing and became a conservative. All of us kids are conservatives. The rest of the family, cousins and all, are mostly liberals. They drive me nuts but at least a couple of them actually have discussions. Although one never brings up wind farms since I kept poking holes in how 'green' and good it was.
Who should be perp walked?
Barack Hussein Obama
And all his administration’s accomplices.
Amen!
08/02/23: May I nominate Maureen Dowd?
"NYT's Maureen Dowd was unhappy..."
Haven't heard from Howdy Doody Dowdy in quite some screech.
Funny how she now pops up once a year, in August... come to think of it, like a virus... pretty soon, they'll name a "vaccine" after her...
At any rate, here we go again with two of my all-time favorite columns...
--- Fred Reed (no relation) on Maureen Dowd (11/22/05)
I read with ashen resignation that Maureen Dowd, the professional spinster of the New York Times, will soon birth a book, no doubt parthenogenetically, called Are Men Necessary?
The problem apparently is that men have not found Maureen necessary. Hell hath…. Clearly there is something wrong with men.
I weary of the self-absorbed clucking of aging poultry.
Why is Maureen hermetically single? For starters, she is not just now your classic hot ticket. She’s not just over the hill, but into the mountains, to Grandmother’s house we go. She probably gets more daily maintenance than a 747, but she still looks as though a vocational school held an injection-molding contest and everyone lost.
That leaves her with only her personality as bait. The prognosis is grim.
*****
--- Is Maureen Dowd Obsolete?
The Evidence Speaks, Loudly
December 22, 2013
"Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing"--Federicius Aurelius Superomnem, 345 B.C.
Oh god, oh god. Death, taxes, migraine, sinus drainage, beriberi, and Maureen Dowd, the resentment columnist at the New York Times.
On the web I find her at some feminist bitch-in, called Are Men Obsolete. She has this to say to men:
[Maureen apparently has the creepy cravings of Joe Biden. Do not admit children of a certain age into her office!]
“So now that women don’t need men to reproduce and refinance, the question is, will we keep you around? And the answer is, ‘You know we need you in the way we need ice cream….you'll be more ornamental.”
I was delighted to think that I might be ornamental, no one having suggested the concept until now. I could have used it in high school.
Maureen herself is beyond being ornamental, having that injection-molded look that follows the seventh face-lift, probably accomplished by the surgical use of a construction crane.
But I will say this to her:
Listen, Corn Flower. Let’s think over this business of obsolete men.
Reflect. You live in New York, in which every building was designed and built by men. You perhaps use the subway, designed, built, and maintained by men.
You travel at in a car, invented, designed, and built by men—a vehicle that you don’t understand (what is a cam lobe?) and couldn’t maintain (have you ever changed a tire? Could you even find the tires?), and you do this on roads designed, built, and maintained by men.
You fly in aircraft designed, built, and maintained by men, which you do not understand (what, Moon Pie, is a high-bypass turbofan?)
In short, as you run from convention to convention, peeing on hydrants, you depend utterly on men to keep you fed (via tractors designed by men, guided by GPS invented, designed, and launched by men, on farms run by men), and comfy (air conditioning invented…but need I repeat myself?)
I do not want to be unjust. It is not in my nature. While men may be obsolete (unless you want to eat) I cannot say, Apple Cheeks, that feminists are obsolete. They are not. Obsoleteness implies having passed through a period of usefulness.
(continued next box)
(Continued from above)
I do get tired of your hissing and fizzing about the noble sex to which I belong. Mercy, I cry. It is not my fault that Michael Douglas didn’t marry you. He didn’t marry me either, but I don’t hate men because of it. (In fact I am grateful to him, and doubtless he to me).
Don’t misunderstand me. I have nothing against ill-bred viragos—feminism has its place, though I’m not sure where.
But let’ me be clear, Buttercup. I don’t want to seem rude—nothing could be more alien to my character—but I do think that you and your littermates might essay a civility exceeding that of menopausing catamounts.
[Continued below]
In fact, Sweet Potato, if it were not for my innate courtesy, I might say that [men] being at once useless and insupportable is stretching things.
A jot—an iota, a tittle, a scintilla—of gratitude might be in order. Should you look around you, you will note that everything that keeps you and the sisterhood from squatting in caves and picking lice from each other’s hair was provided for you by—the horror—men.
Is it not so, Rose Bud? Can you name one thing, with a moving part, that was invented by a feminist?
It seems to me that you gals are like African bushmen, but without their dignity.
A bushman looks at a television (Invented by Men: IBM) in astonishment, and says, “Wah! Bad juju! Spirits inside!” He knows he doesn’t understand it and does not presume. His degree of understanding, I suspect, is exactly yours.
But I suppose the shrewery are so busy honking and blowing about socially-constructed this and gender-roles that and patriarchal the-other-thing that you don’t understand that there is anything to understand. Is it [this] not so?
When you sit at your computer spewing bile like a legged gall-bladder, are you aware of 2500 years of mathematics, chemistry, solid-state physics, engineering, information theory—all invented by men, the bastards—that go into the blinking screen? Your vituperative ingratitude, Sugar Britches, is undignified.
But perhaps, you might say, I am being ungentlemanly—though I would hardly know how. Perhaps, as we said in Alabama, you ain’t got the sense God give a crabapple.
Maybe, Petunia, you and your frothing friends could profitably come to terms with realty.
Women make perfectly good dentists, surgeons, reporters, lawyers, musicians, editors, and all sorts of things. They can do some things better than men can. (Dentistry: smaller hands, better fine-muscle control)
In Latin countries they do these things civilly (consult your dictionary). And I applaud anyone making headway in this world on his, her, or its merits.
Yet as a matter of observable fact (a category apparently having no place in feminism), we men—patriarchal, capitalistic, macho, immature, savage, testosterone- poisoned, et cetera—seem to come up with everything important that comes up. (I won’t touch that one with a pole.) (Wait, I meant….)
For example: The transistor, William Shockley and his group.
Microsoft, Bill Gates. Intel, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce.
Apple, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Dell Computer, Michael Dell.
Public-key encryption, James Ellis, Clifford Cookis, and Malcolm Williamson at GCHQ in England and later Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman of RSA Security.
The World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, a Brit at CERN.
Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Yahoo, Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
The list could go on for another yard or so.
It will stay that way, Lotus Blossom, for the same reason that women will never be offensive linemen in the NFL. They can’t. If they could, they would have. If you disagree, I suggest you apply to the Redskins. They need any talent they can get.
Now, if I were left alone, I would say none of this, having no desire to make women feel bad. But you and yours will not leave me alone, Maureen.
I am perfectly happy in a world of female doctors and techs and what have you. When women act like what used to be called “ladies,” I act like what used to be called “a gentleman.”
It used to be that if at the airport I saw a woman struggling with too much suitcase, I would say, “May I give you a hand?,” and put the suitcase where it needed to be. The woman would say, “Thanks,” to which I would respond, “Happy to help.”
And that would be that. It should have nothing to do with machismo, and much to do with a suitcase. Now, I’m not sure I would do it.
OK, I’m bluffing. I would do it. But, Sweet Pea, I hope you have mastered parthenogenesis. It is your only hope.
(End. See you next August, Maureen!)
“Trump has the power of an innocent man falsely accused of nonsensical crimes with serious penalties for corrupt judges to impose. Americans back him as never before.”
Biblically speaking, has anyone had more false witness borne against him than POTUS DJT?
Et tu, “Christian” Mike Pence?
“The nation should have faith in God, not government. In God we trust not the FBI, CDC or FDA.”
“It is money well spent because we need Trump again to bring down the loathsome, corrupt and fascist people in the federal government who use criminal justice as a blunt instrument.”
@ this point fighting World War II was a complete waste of lives, $$, & time. The Fascism we fought against has taken root here & become modus vevendi of our “ruling class”.
Et tu, "Christian" Mike Pence? Give yourself a well deserved pat on the back.
08-28-23: Witness the sad spectacle of Mike Pence, the taxidermist touched-up "Penguin," plagiarized from the Batman TV series (1960s).
His political demise needed no assistance from his turncoat role in the "Who Wants To Be Vice-President in 2025?!" debate (hosted by Meredith Vieira), but he had to go and do it anyway.
Next career move: The driver (if he can fit behind the wheel) in the remake of "Cash Cab" on the Game Show Network, having rehearsed the role in "Cash Grab" in the 2023-24 Republican (they'll take anybody) primaries.
To think that I used to read National Review. I hope they go the way of Bill Kristol's phony Weekly Standard. Good riddance. !
My husband still subscribes to the hard copy and I get annoyed every week when it arrives in the mail. He is GOPe and doesn’t like Trump but will ultimately vote for him. We rarely discuss politics any more.
Perhaps your husband can explain why his dislike of Trump. I can never get an answer other than he's a bad man. Thank you brainwashing media.
One of the symptoms of advanced PDJT Derangement Syndrome is the loss of abstract- and critical-thinking skills, along with the ability to engage in reasoned discussion with others, and the ability to respectfully agree to disagree and remain civil.
This condition is almost always terminal, and proves to be fatal to relationships.
Pretty much. Most usually found in lefties but has infected a lot of eGOP and some that arent. Drives the rest of us who like discussions and all insane.
I like it, Thank you NotFromTexas. First time explained to me without blowing up at me. I am an ardent supporter cuz I got my eyes open.
Perfectly summed up. The tragedy is that the victim / perpetrator of this degenerative mental disease imagines that he alone is the most rational person in the room.
It is hardly a new phenomenon. I'm reading Patrick Fermor's Letters*, and this derangement perfectly described both the ranting of the British and the Greeks on the issue of the island of Cypress in the 1950s (both sides horrifying Fermor, whose military service in the 1940s involved surviving a brutal two-year stint as an undercover agent in Crete, assisting the Cretan resistance to the German military occupation, a very dangerous occupation).
*Dashing For The Post, The Letters of Patrick Fermor [1915-2011], selected and edited by Adam Sisman [1954- ]; John Murray (Publishers) [Hachette UK] (2014 hardcover).
That is an interesting question. I believe it is held by those who were classic Bushies. For a while that persona of Republicanism was secure, safe, honorable, noble, pro-wealth. They can’t wrestle with the notion that it has corroded away to rust - and the Bushes aren’t for America - never were. It was a facade.
It’s like trying to hang on to the girlfriend that broke up with you and has moved on - but you can’t.
Bush name, to me, is synonymous with deceit and evil doings. Now as I understand it they're after AG Ken Paxton cuz he's not a Bush adherent nor I suspect will ever be.
08-28-23: Here's the identical flip side: UK humorists --- decades ago, sharp and enviable --- now calcified, auto-mocking a long-extinct "Tory establishment"... and the pathetic results:
https://unherd.com/2019/07/how-private-eye-lost-its-bite/?=refinnar
Interesting read. Brits are (were?) masters of satire.
It is no coincidence that when Alan Coren --- the funniest man (writer) in the 20th century, as far as I can tell --- left Punch magazine, it did not have long to live, afterwards.
Start with The Essential Alan Coren [1938-2007], Edited and Introduced By Giles [1969- ] and Victoria Coren [Mitchell, 1972- ], with further Introductions by Melvyn Bragg [1939- ], Victoria Wood [1953-2016], Clive James [1939-2019], A.A. [Adrian Anthony] Gill [1954-2016], and Stephen Fry [1957- ]; Canongate Books (paperback 2008-2009).
The Introduction by Giles and Victoria is far superior to anything else written about Coren, and ditto for about 75% of anything I've eve read.
These are additional anthologies, previously published and notably flawed:
1) The Alan Coren Omnibus, Robson Books (1996 paperback);
2) The Best of Alan Coren, Robson Books Ltd. (1980 hardcover).
The problem is that Robson was a schlock outfit that spent next to nothing on quality book materials (paper, etc.).
And of course, if you read Giles and Victoria first, you'll run into the same stories that first appeared in the Omnibus and The Best Of.
Take your time reading them. As they say about rest estate, they're not making any more of it, Alan having passed away, fortunately before he could witness what an ideological successor to Hitler's totalitarianism the UK has become.
He likes Trump’s policies but not his personality - calls him a carnival barker. He also doesn’t like the way Trump has attacked DeSantis, calling it petty and childish. I love Trump but an not crazy about the name calling either.
There is no real answer. They never gave any actual details. The abswer is they are afraid to go against the grain and be socially ostracized. Pinning down a Never Trumper is like trying to hold on to a greased pig.
I hear ya, my hubby doesnt like Trump now either. He has more excuses than Orange Man Bad but I get lectures on how he isnt going to win, not discussion. I am tired of lectures so I quit talking politics. Now this site is the only place I get to discuss it.
Wife got upset with me being poltical but as I weaned her ON to Rush she realized the hows and whys of my viewpoint.Now she is a fervent DJT backer and proud of it.
Who is your hubby supporting now? DeSantis? Sounds like he's listening to the RINO war against Trump :) My hubby crossed over to the Ron! camp for a little while, but he ain't Trump (why listen to the cover band when we still have the real thing?) and now supporting him again. It helps to just give them time, I think it has more to do with 24/7 Trump is Mean coverage and they just got sick of it. We rarely turn on the news anymore.
yeah DeSantis. I am not so sure on DeSantis because of the Jeb!/Ryan group hes listening too and getting donations from.
I have been limiting my news to coffee time and Don, and then a few skims late afternoon to see how stupid it has gotten. Its nuts. And what is sad, is he loves Rush so I hope he comes round.
I wish my husband had listened to Rush. I did, for over 30 years but my husband never did.
Yes, he’s a DeSantis guy.
I dropped NR in 2016. I am a bit surprised at Cooke though. He's very solid on 2A,.
Even a blind pig finds a truffle every now and then.
You got me but good this morning. you owe me more monitor wipes, NFT. I swear I have the cleanest monitor in the land. keyboard, not so much
One thing that they're responsible for, to the good (way back when), and highly recommended if you like "grouchy wit":
"STET, Damnit! The Misanthrope's Corner, 1991 to 2002, The Complete, Unabridged Collection," by Florence King [1936-2016], Jacket and book design by Luba Myts*; National Review Books (2003 hardcover).
A sample:
"Bob Dole's habit of referring to himself in the third person is having such a disconcerting effect on the primaries... the camera pans over Russell, Kansas, following the candidate through his formative years ...
"To his mother: 'Bob Dole's hungry.'
"To his father: 'Can Bob Dole have a quarter?'
"To his teachers: 'Bob Dole didn't do it.'
"To nice girls: 'Would you like to go to the pictures with Bob Dole?'
"To bad girls: 'If you did it with all those other guys, how come you won't do it with Bob Dole?' "
*Someday, this will be the answer to a trick question on an exam:
Not related to "The Kingdom of Luba ... (1585–1889) ... a pre-colonial Central African state that arose in the marshy grasslands of the Upemba Depression in what is now southern Democratic Republic of [The] Congo."
Your poll needs a fifth choice: All of the above.
Excellent summation of what now faces our nation. Particularly love "Ah, but mugshots DeLayed help bring about justice."
As for "The nation should have faith in God, not government. In God we trust not the FBI, CDC or FDA." all I can say is Amen!
My grandkids laugh every time I pick up a penny on the pavement, usually discolored and nasty. They always ask why. I say because of the lovely message to me on it. Whaat message is their bratty reply. I say, this one: In God we Trust. (I add that if I pick up enough of them, you might get a nice Christmas gift. That draws their interest.)
Still have the same habit. Attribute to sound understanding of money and wealth
It takes about 6 seconds to p/u. 3600 seconds in an hour - $36.00 an hour, not counting the occasional nickel, or even an more illusive dime….
Good point Joated. All of the above fifth choice needed today although I did vote with the overwhelming majority. Great article today Mr. Surber. The first day of the week is on fire.
There is a quote from Trump that goes something like… they’re re not after me, I’m just in the way.
The libs are really after us. The us who know government doesn’t work well, illegal immigration is wrong and deadly to many and the ones who have power now will do anything to keep it and wipe out any opposition.
No, Trump is in the way and we better keep that in mind. We are the real target. The radical dorks from the 60’s are the ones in charge and they aim to stay in charge at any expense to this country.
There have been at least 4 killed in early morning FBI raids in the last couple months. Only one really hit the news. The others not even the conservative sites are covering much. In one of them, the FBI hit a mom of a disabled vets house. She answered the door and they pulled her out, proceeded to fill it with tear gas and flash bangs. Killed her unarmed 100% disabled son as he was trying to get out. She is asking why like any person would. They told her it was NONE of her business. It was HER house. Her son had PTSD too.
None of the raids have any info on them. They are coming after anyone they think they can get away with.
You're damn right they're after us. To them its all or nothing ideology. with me or you're an enemy Screw em!
This is all great, and nobody deserves to to party like we do right guys and gals?
But doesn’t all this seem familiar some how. Like how about 2020 and 2022!
There are 15 more months to go between now and either Victory or abject devastation.
If you think the D-rats haven’t taken stuff like this into account (as well as the failure of their climate scam and pandemic narratives) and are prepared for that you need to give your heads a shake. They started by planning for this the moment that demented old criminal was elected.
It’s going to take more than cool mugshots, car parades in New Hampshire and Boat Parades off the Jersey Shore and in FLA get T across the finish line first and you all know it.
Let’s stop Hi-5’ing one another and get to work!
And buy ammo while you can!
When I see the term "D-rats" I automatically think of D-rations. Though I never had any, or even saw any, I learned about them long ago. I even made some.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_chocolate_(United_States)
It’s a skill worth having right
Gruesome stuff. I remember that dubious confection from the 1970s as if it were six hours ago.
A-freakin'-men!
I'd be really interested on your thoughts of what the D卐M☭RATs will do to steal 2024. No1 is obviously to promote another "uprising" and probable ban a 2024 presidential election.
I will leave it to Mr. Trump's handlers to run the show. I will make one comment. Over the weekend, I see a small but a poorly informed group of people saying Jesus Christ was a liberal. That comment alone is beyond stupidity. Christ was apolitical, but IF the left is resorting to comments like that--#1) DON'T believe it and #2) Prepare 2-3 arguments (Among many) that will bury them with facts. Liberals are quite stupid and they simply cannot talk for more than a minute unless they have note cards in front of them.
If you actually encounter one of these "Jesus was a liberal" types, smile and tell them you are SO glad they accept Jesus as the Son of God and Lord of the Universe, then invite them to attend church with you next Sunday. You won't hear from them again.
Good un!!
See Vox Day's book "Social Justice Warriors Always Lie" for full explanation of liberals inserting lies for facts. They know it and don't care.
Liberals in America in 2023 are extinct.
I'd like to believe that, but I don't.
08-29-23: I've seen no evidence of the survival of the one-time dominant types such as the former CT Senator Joe Lieberman, who was thrown on the trash despite his service. The theory is that the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs is one of a string that descend upon us, and the last one wiped out the Democrat "moderates" en masse.
Ha ha ha!
I can only hope you are joking.....
A wise judge could stop this nonsense in a heart beat but they are all afraid of Bidencide.
I submit they are not - ideologically, they are as one with the deep state.
either they join the Deep State when they get to DC, or they get blackmailed into shutting up.
The only thing certain is that the next couple of years are going to be bat-shit crazy.
To the extent that this action on Trump wakes up people to the reality that the democrats are fascist thug totalitarians who will come after you for the crime of thinking for yourself, great. That includes all you leftist progressives who think you are safe. To the extent it locks in Trump as the GOP nominee, well, as I have said before, the cheat is still in place, and Trump has done nothing to stop it. Zilch, nada, zero.
This is all theater, and the Fulton County DA is at more risk than Trump actually is, which I do hope she feels with full force the furor she has unleashed. If you are in a purple state, your total job is to fortify your election process, much as RDS did in purple Florida, which is now deep red. He didn't do it by snapping his fingers, he did it by finding like minded people in his state to make it happen. Be one of those in your state. Then find an AG who will start arresting democrat politicians and bureaucrats. Only revoke bail after it is offered, put them in jail, and refuse them any opportunity for release until their trial - scheduled in 2026 or later.
We need a lottery for whichever state puts Fauci in jail. And there should be a long line of states to press charges next. Ruin him and his family. Total war. Time to destroy people, since those are now the rules. Now fill in the blank for the next dem politician. Rinse and repeat.
There's actually some RINO pubes some of us would like removed from society.
RINO Governor Brian Kemp has full authority to fire his prosecutors. Unfortunately, Fani Willis is supported by Kemp, especially since Kemp's SecState Raffensperger's staff supported the overthrow of Georgia's state election laws in 2020, Jan 2021, and 2022. Trump did not lose Georgia, ever. The globalist GA republican party did.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/never-forget-entire-trump-investigation-fani-willis-started/
Kemp is more dangerous than Merrick Garland.
I would say so. He presided over the election takeover of his voting system in 2020. Total globalist.
Absolutely the best post I have read in years Poca-man and please continue one-upping yourself.America needs you and the deft manner of making sense with ironic humor.Roy Rogers would approve your message!Great post and perfect poll.
They don't see it but they've opened the floodgates on the prosecution of politicians and bureaucrats. One of the state legislatures is going to pass a law that not only allows for the prosecution of bureaucrats themselves but eliminates the statute of limitations for crimes (remember the pound Me Too movement that initiated this?) The watering down of laws to the point where anyone can flimsily indict a former President (aka Senor Brag) has brought us to the edge of the cliff for the Republic. However, before we finally stick a fork in the US, we can at least look forward to people like Fauci going down for negligence (and murder) as well as Comey and, of course, Barack (Mr RICO) Obama himself.
There are a whole lot of Governor's who should be charged with murder as well And you can start with that bitch governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer.
Any Governor who allowed his/her Health officials to place COVID-infected people in nursing and other elder care settings is a murderer. That includes PA, NJ, NY and even MA (Repub Gov but deep Dem legislature and bureaucracy). In PA, our former top Health official (now federal Admiral-in-a-dress) actually pulled his elderly mother out of her elder care facility and placed her in a hotel before infecting those facilities with COVID-infected people. Then he had the audacity to insist it was her decision. My arse!
The Repubs won’t lift a finger to pursue that justice. They’ll do nothing -as usual.
Except go along with almost anything the Dems come up with - gun control, taxes, spending. They're basically a bunch of pansies.
The communist left will stop at NOTHING to stop Trump. He needs security even better than his assigned secret service agents. If the Hail Mary of court indictments don't find a way to stop him, he will be in a life threatening situation. Assassination will be the only option to stop DJT - and they will use it if they have to. We all know that, I think.
There is no back-up, no plan "B" to the Trump cause. Once Trump is out, liberty - and America - is dead. He is the only thing standing in the way. So much rides on this one man.
I pray that they have the sense not to go there. It would be the first shot fired in American Civil War 2.0.
…and God forbid he even die from an “accident”, because NO ONE would believe that!
They should be praying for his health and welfare, or it’ll unleash the hounds from hell.
Tucker talked about that in the Trump interview
Someone once compared the democrat party to the jilted girlfriend who just can't get over it. I am beginning to think that they are more like Glenn Close, who lost her mind with her obseesion with Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction.
Either way Trump's War Chest is now at least 7 million dollars bigger and the democrats are left staring into the abyss. When I look at this mug shot I am reminded of the words that might have been spoken to Trump, "the storm is coming", to which Trump replies "I am the storm".
I think of Misery......
The takeaway for me, and what interests me the most, is the reaction of black Americans on X (Twitter) and TikTok. It's mostly black men, but some black women, too. From what I saw, and I watched as many as I could find because I was facsinated by their reaction, is that Trump is now one of them. They relate to him, despite his position and his wealth. Trump has been crowned "Gangsta," and "My Ni--ga." Did you see blacks in Atlanta cheering Trump's motorcade? They know it's bullshit and it's not far from the bullshit that some of them have experienced with the two-tiered justice system. The 'hood says it has his back. If they vote, Trump is going to be re-elected. (Even my kids, who live in French Canadian culture, know what's going on. They know it's bullshit. My son, who particularly feels aggrieved for being a young man in our times, and his friends, a number of them are black, are all in on Trump. The Dems do not understand what they have unleashed.)
My son in law is black and very conservative, but his parents are libs. I’m hoping that this will wake them up.
Good luck with that and prayers that they see reality sooner than later. My Gma was a die hard Dem all her life. The worse arguments between my Dad and her were politics. Of course she thought the Dems had stayed the same as they were way early when they were helping the 'poor'. I came from dirt farmers and coal miners. Dad went to the Navy and saw Vietnam. He saw what the UniParty was doing and became a conservative. All of us kids are conservatives. The rest of the family, cousins and all, are mostly liberals. They drive me nuts but at least a couple of them actually have discussions. Although one never brings up wind farms since I kept poking holes in how 'green' and good it was.