From Insty:
The purpose of “women’s groups” isn’t to help women. It’s to keep women agitated, suggestible, and submissive to leftist ideology. And leftist ideology is all about getting, retaining, and exercising power.
Women’s groups used to have a proper purpose in Western society. Then, as the wrongs they protested were gradually eliminated, they lost their need to exist, but refused to do so.
It’s like still getting upset about the use of small boys as chimney-sweeps.
Apparently geriatric rocker Mick Jagger has had his memory go bad:
Mick Jagger has called out Paul McCartney for claiming The Beatles were bigger than The Rolling Stones. The singer, 76, hit out at the Hey Jude hitmaker, 77, for suggesting The Rolling Stones copied whatever The Beatles did during their time as music rivals.
‘The big difference, though, is that The Rolling Stones is a big concert band in other decades and other areas when The Beatles never even did an arena tour. They broke up before the touring business started for real… They [The Beatles] did that [Shea] stadium gig [in 1965]. But the Stones went on. We started stadium gigs in the 1970s and are still doing them now. That’s the real big difference between these two bands.’
Of course, ol’ Mick is showing signs of senility — or at best, selective memory. As Paul pointed out:
‘I love the Stones but The Beatles were better. Their stuff is rooted in the blues. Whereas we had a lot more influences.’
Paul’s being kind. The Beatles created influences while the Stones just kept on playing their garage-band versions of blues. And when the Stones didn’t do that, they copied the Beatles, as Paul noted:
Suggesting the Paint It Black hitmakers began to copy the Beatles, Paul added: ‘We started to notice that whatever we did the Stones sort of did it shortly thereafter.
‘We went to America and had huge success, then the Stones went to America. We did Sergeant Pepper and the Stones did a psychedelic album. There was a lot of that.’
As for Mick’s comment:
‘One band is unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums and then the other band doesn’t exist.’
Jagger’s confusing longevity with talent, which is like saying that Leonard Bernstein was a better composer than Mozart because he lived longer.
The Beatles broke up because they had three unbelievably-talented creative musicians who wanted to go their own way; the Stones only ever had Keef as their creative source, so they were never going to break up: since Let It Bleed, their music has always been about making money, not about the music. And Keef, as he’s always admitted, is and always has been a blues musician. Lennon, McCartney and Harrison played pretty much every kind of music — and created their own forms as well. The Stones have never done that, ever.
Stick to prancing around the stage in skintight yoga outfits, Mick. Nobody does it better.
You know, if the filthy hippies had stuck to their communes
…or else just given us cool-looking fashions
…then we’d have been fine. Instead of which, they gave us the pretentiously-named Earth Day, wherein we have to save Mother Gaia RIGHT NOW or else WE’RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!
Of course, as this article suggests, it’s all bullshit. Every single one of their doom-laden prophecies has failed to occur, none are ever likely to occur, and as with all this crap (see: Climate Change OMG), it’s basically cover to end Western civilization and the capitalist system.
Feel free to ignore anything that has “Earth Day” in its title (hence my naming this post “ERF Day”), and you will be the happier for it.
Which can be encapsulated by the standard liberal response:
…even though this whole episode seems to have been triggered by Lockdown Blues.
Just coincidentally, this little advert arrived in my Inbox a couple days back:
Now, leaving aside the wisdom or lack thereof in buying a gun from Century Arms at that price, this merchant of death has a lot to recommend it, i.e.:
So let’s ignore CanuckiPM Pantywaist (as always), and consider the merits of the PSL, in Comments.
Arriving in my Inbox yesterday was this breathless news:
Man, have they ever got me wrong.
In the first place, my NRA membership has long since expired — which just shows you the value of a mailing list (at least to them).
And yeah, I’m so jazzed about winning a fucking sandy-colored Glock, because that screams right there that I’m an “operator” and I really want to be regarded as such.
Even if
were to be replaced by any one of these:
…I still wouldn’t have sent in an entry and renewed my membership.
To the NRA: don’t hold yer breath, you clueless idiots.
The good thing about electronic mail is that it costs almost nothing to send a message. That’s also the bad thing about e-mail.
Several years ago, back when the term “disposable income” meant actual money instead of just a fond dream, I donated some money to a far-off congressman’s reelection campaign fund.
Mistake.
Now I’m still on the Republican National Committee’s sucker donor list, and not a day goes past when I don’t get some plea for money to help some or other hapless Republican congressman, and even to donate to billionaire Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection fund. Here’s my appeal to the RNC:
For fuck’s sake, can you bastards quit begging for money? Considering that I and probably millions of other Americans haven’t been able to work for nearly two months and have had zero income since then, it is the height of stupidity [ergo, the Stupid Party] to ask us to donate towards an election which isn’t due for over six months.
Frankly, when it’s hard to think how we’re going to be able to pay the rent or mortgage, car loans and utilities, health insurance and even groceries, what the fuck makes you think that we would be able to give you money? Even worse, we all know that after the election is over, the elected politician is just going to pocket the unspent cash from the campaign fund, one way or the other, while we’ll still be mired in debt.
Kindly piss off and leave us alone, at least until we can get back to work.
Yours very sincerely,
