Good grief. Imagine being a centrist Democrat (if such a beast exists anymore), and being presented with this list of presidential candidates at the polling booth:
I would demand a pistol with a single cartridge in the chamber, just to avoid making a choice out of that lot.
Too bad that even the most centrist of Democrats hate all guns, so that option wouldn’t be on the table, so to speak.
But for the typical raving loony Democrat voter of today, that list is an embarrassment of riches.
I see that the Socialists’ favorite little mascot has been getting out of control again:
Democrat strategist James Carville spelled out his “fantasy dream” for punishing Trump “collaborators” after the president leaves office in 2029 — he said their heads should be shaved, they should be clad in orange jumpsuits, and then marched down Pennsylvania Avenue while the public spits on them.
The 80-year-old political consultant unleashed the tirade Wednesday on his Politics War Room podcast while discussing the Trump administration’s higher-education reforms with co-host Al Hunt. Trump has moved to reward colleges that commit to ending institutional practices targeting conservative viewpoints.
Carville labeled universities that accept the reforms as “collaborators,” then said his “fantasy dream” is to see them punished when President Donald Trump leaves office in 2029.
“My fantasy dream is that this nightmare ends in 2029. I think we ought to have radical things. I think they all ought to have their heads shaved.”
He went on to paint the scene in graphic terms.
“They should be put in orange pajamas and marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public should be invited to spit on them,” Carville continued. “All of these collaborators should be shaved, pajama-clad, and spat on.”
Ummm okay. One quick question for Gollum, though:
Exactly who is going to shave those heads, who is going to force them into orange jumpsuits, and who is going to round them all up from their home towns and take them to D.C. en masse for your little hate fest to happen? The FBI? Secret Service? Antifa squads? (Okay wait, that last one is no doubt exactly who he’d nominate.)
The old saying is when you scratch a liberal, you’ll find an evil totalitarian lurking underneath the skin. My take is that nowadays, no scratching is necessary.
On the other hand, if we’re going to follow this train of thought, perhaps (in the spirit of pure scientific curiosity of course) we should go further than a little scratching, and skin a few people like Carville alive just to see how true the original proposition is.
And if someone were to turn my question around and ask who I think should do the actual skinning, I’d have to call for volunteers among my Readers (some of whom may well have skinned animals after a hunt, and therefore have the necessary expertise not to say enthusiasm).
All right, you may all go off to that warm and wonderful place and play with your skinning knives while crooning to them: “Soon, soon, my preciousssss.”
And now, a quick poll for you, O My Readers. Here’s a quick selection of knives that would probably serve someone well in the scientific skinning of (say) James Carville. They are (top down): Puma White Hunter, Kershaw Skinner, and Anza Skinner.
Given this selection, which would be your choice? Answers in Comments.
Note to Carville: We all have our little fantasies, Gollum. As for that “spit” thing, mine differs from yours in one crucial area…
It seems as though some people — quite a lot, really — have been Very Naughty and fraudulently voted in more than one election and on more than one occasion in each election.
Ohio Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Tuesday announced that he has referred more than 1,200 criminal cases related to election integrity to the Department of Justice for consideration of federal prosecution.
The state election official’s recommendations include 1,084 noncitizens who appear to have registered to vote unlawfully in Ohio, including 167 noncitizens who appear to have voted in a federal election in the past four election cycles.
LaRose said nearly 100 other people also appeared to have voted in a federal election twice in two separate states, and 16 people who allegedly voted twice in Ohio in the same election.
And if this has happened in Ohio, I’d suggest that it’s happened more often and for a longer time in garden spots like California, Illinois and New York, to name just the most likely suspects off the top of my head.
Of course, voting fraud is an actual felony, but if you think that anyone is going to see the inside of a jail cell for this crime, I would suggest that it’s time for you to go and clean out your unicorn’s stable.
As to which party might have benefited from all this skulduggery… let’s just say that I’m not accepting bets.
From The Divine Sarah:
“Communism is a hot house plant because it originates from intellectual abstraction; because it doesn’t work mathematically; because, contrary to image, its biggest fans are always intellectuals of a certain type; because it can’t survive without leeching off functional systems, and because it can’t survive the free dissemination of information.”
If by “intellectual” she means “of the mind”, then I agree. But a socio-economic theory that cannot stand up to the most basic of questions is the province of the unutterably foolish, not of actual rational intellectual thought.
Well, it finally happened. After just under six decades of faithful service, I finally used the very last one of these:
Now, for New or else Forgetful Readers [Alzheimer’s joke deleted], I discussed this problem in some, possibly lamentable detail back here, so I’m not going to rehash the whole sorry tale of Procter & Gamble’s corporate fuckwittery all over again.
Nope. I have swallowed all that rage, and decided to Move On.
So I tried this variant of NEW Old Spice, because at first sniff, it actually wasn’t that bad — almost (but not quite) as good as the original:
I used it for a few days, but then discovered that while its fragrance isn’t bad, the texture of the deodorant — a sort of stiff paste — is awful. In fact, after a day of wearing the stuff, the next morning’s shower just about requires the use of a Brillo pad to remove the stuff from the old pits, in that it hardens like some kind of ghastly semi-concrete. It’s not a chemical anti-perspirant (which I never use), but I have to feel that the sticky residue performs exactly the same function, simply by clogging up your pores. Sorry, but that just can’t be healthy.
So into the trash it went, leaving me with the same task of finding a decent replacement for my Old Spice Classic Fresh. (Did I mention already how long I’ve been using said deodorant? I did? Yeah, sixty-odd years, without a break, just in case you missed it.)
It seems that most modern deodorants are aimed at girlymen or the LGBTOSTFU Set [some overlap], both in terms of their marketing and their perfume. Needless to say, I am not one of these people.
Thus it was that in my hour of desperation, I happened upon an oldie:
Good grief: do they even still make this stuff? I remember my Dad using the aftershave lotion manifestation, and I was astonished to find the brand was still around. And it doesn’t smell bad, either. When polled, New Wife found it not objectionable, which is factor #2 in its acceptance. Finally, it’s of the same consistency as the traditional roll-on (like Classic Fresh) and doesn’t require a Dremel tool for its removal in the shower.
Clearly, someone at whoever makes English Leather has not made the P&G mistake, and realized that brand loyalty — long-term brand loyalty — should not just be summarily discarded in favor of some New Thing, and kept it going. I hope.
Of course when it comes to business like this, there’s always going to be a fly in the ointment, and therefore it should come as no surprise that the English Leather roll-on deodorant costs nearly three times as much as my Old Faithful. Which I’m just going to have to endure, maybe at the expense of cutting out one range trip a month so as to afford the damn stuff. (I should at this point acknowledge that had the price of Classic Fresh gone up by a similar amount, I would probably have paid the premium — grudgingly, but nevertheless — and continued to use it. So suck on that factoid, you P&G shitforbrains.)
All these ripples came about because some cocksucker [sic] in Marketing / Accounting / Advertising at Procter & Gamble made a decision to end a product that has had a loyal following for many decades, no doubt simply so they can free up the production line for the latest in gayboy scents which will in all likelihood have few long-term customers because that type always goes after the New Thing, and stupid companies like Procter & Fucking Gamble are doomed to follow these tits around in the vain hope that one day these new customers might actually stick with one product variant — kind of like the customers for the Classic Fresh used to do for decades at a time.
I hope that the Old Spice division at P&G goes out of business soon. That, or whoever signed off on the discontinuation of Classic Fresh dies of an unspeakably painful disease, along with his/her entire family.
Yeah, I bet nobody saw this coming:
Walmart confirmed this week that it had paused hiring employees with H-1B visas in the wake of President Donald Trump’s reforms to the program.
“Walmart is committed to hiring and investing in the best talent to serve our customers, while remaining thoughtful about our H-1B hiring approach,” the company confirmed to multiple outlets.
I wonder why… oh yeah:
Trump imposed a $100,000 fee on H-1B applications in September, saying the program “created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor.”
But fear not, Walmart:
Without an extension, the restriction will be lifted 12 months after the effective date of the proclamation, which is September 21, 2025.
…which means that Walmart will start re-importing their slave labor H-1B workers on September 22, 2026.
Anyone care to bet against this happening? No?
Gosh, such cynicism.